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The Orangeburg news. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, 1869-01-23
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The Senate in executive session has con.
6rmed the nomination Of Mr. C. j. Stolbrand
as Superintendent Of the Penitentiary and
Mr.. Reuben Tomlnson as State Auditor of
South Carolina.
gentleman of Plainfcld, n. j. seventy
four years of age is now cutting third set of
teeth. The dentists are not called in to helm
the work forward
y Boston Gentleman, few days ago, dineL
with club. and invited its members to dine
with him. on Tuesday At the time appoint
ed they assembled at his house-not to din
ncr party, but to attend his funeral
The next Senate of the United States, from
indications presented by recent elections of
new members, and the complexion of the
STATE Legislatures yet to make elections. will
stand, politically, just as the present one does.
Bets are already being made about the
length of General Grants inaugural message.
|: is said that it will be the shortest ever de.
livered
General Grant authorizes the statement that
the articles written by an Occasional Cores
Poi' Va VIC A'en IN oTiu, anu pur-
porting to relate conversations or furnish, ooi,.,
ions OF his i'll regard to public matters and
public men, are utterly without foundation.
At Plymouth, Mass, there is cat which
in the summer time, will so to. rook, plunge
in and seize trout swimming along, which she
will bring into the house alive and lay on the
floor, ourring around them, and apparently
claiming praise for her piscatory fcats
In kerosene murder" in New York, ON
Saturday by which girl was killed, the coro-
ncr's jury rendered verdict of ''culpable con-
duct" on the part of tn osc who manufactured
aud sold the kerosene.
Mrs Eliza Garth, of New York, aged
sevcnty-four, has sued Richard Howell, of
Flanders, New Jersy, aged seventy seven, for
$4,000, and got it, for trifing with her virgin
affections and marrying another girl
y Cape Cod yankee has been pedLlin- seal.
ed tin tubes full of corn meal as ca clarifer Of
kerosene oil"
A Christmas goose, sent by a kind friend to-
two prisoners in a Canada Jail, was stuffed with
files and steel saws.
The Springfield Republican says il would
like to sec some of the splendid military
talent of the South" back in the army.
Thieves lately stole the carpet from church
neat Cipcinnstti, aud when il was newly oar
peted brought back the old one aud took tho
nn,V ono
The Orangeburg news. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, 1869-01-23

Mrs. Harriet Beechcr Stowe admits it. In
telling How we kept Thanksgiving at Old
Town, in the Times of $780," she says:
One after another began joining the dance,
which, commencing first with the children
and young people crept gradually upwards
among the elders.
AS it was, grandmother stood with her
pleased face radiant with satisfaction, as the
wave of joyousness crept higher around her,
till the elders who stood keeping time with
their heads and feet, began to tell each other
how they had danced with their sweethearts
in the good old days gone by. And the elder
women began to blush and bride, and to boast
of steps that they could take in their youth.
and into the dance they went =:
well, well {" quoth my grandmother,
"they are all at it 50 hearty, don't see why
shouldn't try it myself" and into the yir
ginia reel she went, amid screams of laughter
from all the younger members of the popula
ton. N-
sts..Rby shouldp,t ], ,dapcs :,' she said. when
she arrived, red and resplenda.3 ne foot 81
the set. Didn't MIR. Dependency, and Miss
Muchafrail, and Mr.. Readytohalt all dance in
the Pilgrims Progress 7"
The Orangeburg news. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, 1869-01-23
'URDAY MORNING, JANUARY %, 1869.

: SIX of brandy lies within foot of him he
fed to reach it, but his arm refused to obey
Is will He tries to call on his comrade, who
fs gone up into the ring above; whisper in
Rat deep silence would sufice-but no sound
Pmcs from his lips-hc is voicelessc The
cersman comes down into the car; he sees
is comradc in swoon, and feels his own
Fnscs failing him.
lie saw at once that life and death hung up
b few moments. He seized, or tried to
Fizc, the valve, in order to open it and let
)it the gas His hands are purple with intense
Pld-they are paralyzed, they will not res
bnd to his will. He seized the valve will,
is teeth, it opened little-once, twice, thrice.
he balloon began to descend. Then the
wooned marksman returned to consciousness,
nd saw the steersman standing before him.
le looked at his instrumont; but now the
arometer was rising rapidly; the balloon was
Brandy was used. They had been
ighcr above the earth than mortal man or
ny living thing had ever been before. One
,inute more of inaction-of compulsory mac
on-on the part of the stcersman, whose
enscs were failing him, and the ir-ship, with
s intensely rarcfcd gas, would have been
outing unattended, with two corpses, in the
'ide realms Of space.
The Orangeburg news. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, 1869-01-23

DRop THAT PArER.-Yes, drop it. Too
niggarsly and mean to subscribe and pay for
your county paper, which is steadily laboring
for the promotion of the welfare of society
for yonr welfarc-you have been sponging on
y@ur ncighbors ever since it was established.
You arc always eager to read it, and frequent
ly, before it reaches the hands of its honorable
owner, it is crumpled aud toru BY your fching
fingers. Drop it Never pick it up and read
it again, unless you can do so with the proud
consciousness that you have the rig ht-a right
secured in a Legitimate way. If you are too
poor to aid in sustaining it, let us know, aud
We will send you the paper gratuitously, But
it is downright meanness in you, when you are
as able as your ncighbor, to send your ehil-
drcn through the and sicet and rain to
borrow it.-Ahom RcueWe
The Orangeburg news. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, 1869-01-23

\ LIVING I1EADLEss CHILD.-The De-
posit (N. W Courirr is responsible for the
following marvellous story:
In the vicinity of Spoon river in Illinois, is
without head Mrs. -, the mother, ia
.hc widow of soldier, formerly living im
Marshall county, who enlisted in the Goth or
Scotch regiment and was killed at the battle
OF Lexington, Missouri. She was standing
beside her husband during an engagement.
when cannon ball carried his head complete
L. away. his body falling into her arms and
covering her with blood. The shock affected
her greatly. When her child was born there
was not the semblancc of head about it. The
limbs are perfectly developed, and the should
crs where the head and neck should be are
smoothly rounded off.
But the NEST surprising thing of all is that
the face is situated in the breast Of course
there being no neck, the power of turning its
head Is wanting, except us the whole body is
moved but this difficulty is overcome by the
singular faculty it possesses of turning its
eyes III their sockets, enabling it to see quite
as we'll on either side as those more perfectly
fsslsed. The upper portion of it's body is
WHtc as tnc-p1i,rs GauS"u:.... fre", .te vvais.
downward is blood red. This strange creature
now an active boy of five years old, as if to
compensate for his detormity, possesses the
most clear and bird like tones ever listened TO-
singing with singular correctness everything i,
may hear. and its voice ut this early age nc,
complishcs two octaves easily
The Orangeburg news. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, 1869-01-23
Why GENERAL GRANT KEEPS ALoo

Why GENERAL GRANT KEEPS ALoor
FROM ANDY JoHEsoN.-It is matter of
surprise to many that General Grant refuses
to hold any intercourse with Presidcut John
son, and in their forgetfulness of not long past
events attribute it with expressions of sur
prise) to political reasons But any such
thought does General Grant injustice He
is doubtless as free from the folly of permit
ting political differences to interfere with social
courtesies as any of us, who find it quite pos
siblc to eat an oyster, smoke n cigar, or drink
a cup of tea with political opponent. Gene
raj Grants antipathy to johnson has better
foundation than this 1t dates back to the
Stanton imbrogio, when johnson substantial
ly accused Gen. Grant Of fslsehood in bis in.
depreciation of some of the phases of tina,
difficulty. This touched the sensitive soldier
upon tender spot. A million men might as
they did, declare him in their opinion unfit
for the~i'res;acncy.- misunderstanding hii
temper or changing the cordiality OF his friend
ly salute. But to be accused of talsehood wa
different matter. Coming from the Presi
dent he could not meet the insult in soldier
ly way, and SO was obliged to treat it as al
offence to be punished by gcntlcn,anly con
tempt. This is why General Grant keeps
aloof from Andy johnson Ercnin,
JournuL
The Orangeburg news. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, 1869-01-23

TIE PALlNDRoME.-Th palindromc is a
line that reads alike backward and forward
One Of the best is Adams first Introduction of
himself to Eve:
"Madam I'm Adm '"
Another is the story that Napoleon, when
at St Helena, being asked by an Engishman
it he could have sacked London, replied
Able was ere | saw Elba"
The latter is the best palindrome, probably
in the language.
The Orangeburg news. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, 1869-01-23

BLOODY TRAGEDY AT Montgomery, TEX
ks-FoUR MEN KILLED-Thc Galveston
|Ncacs, of the 3D. instant, says:
We learn from gentleman who resides q
few miles from the town of Montgomery. in
this State, that bloody tragedy occurred in
that place last week Four men were killed,
and the town for while presented the appear
ancc of battle field on small scale. The
as near as VIC could gather them
frou hasty conversation, are as follows: y
Gently appeared in Montgomery, and ina short
time made himself odious to the citizens by
his quarrelsome disposition. lie gathered
around him. however, several frieuds, who, it
proved, lost their lives in endeavoring to stand
by him in his difficulties, This Desperate WIS
a'su suslcctcn oil passins; 10uhtcrieE m6IIey,
and of having been horse thief
On the day of the tragedy he rode his horse
into the store Of Messrs Smith & Peal, and ON
being ordered out, he drew his pistol, but be-
fore he could fire it lie was fired upon by Mr.
Smith or Peal with Il double barrel shot gun
Although badly wounded, he ran out into the
street, and by some fatality met IL party of citi-
zens who were hunting him for the purpose of
arrcstins linn for passing counterfeit money
He ran in another direction when some one in
the party fired upon him and he fell. 4 Mr
Oliver and two brothers named McGrew (whn
it seems, were in the habit Of associatins with
the desperately ran up to his rescue, with p..~
tolls drawn, when they were fired upon By the
crowd, aud all three killed.
The Orangeburg news. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, 1869-01-23
TRAGIC snoorIxo AFFAIR NEAR CmArrA-

TRAGIC SnooTING AFFAIR NEAR CnArTA
NooGA.-A tragic affair occurred on Salt
Creek, forty miles below here, a few days
since, the particulars of which are as fellows ::
IL seems that Mr. Beane n school teacher, at
tempted to whip a boy named Hutchison, who
resisted and left school n day or two after
ward young Hutchinson, accompanied by his
brother and man named Smith, visited the
school-house for the avowed purpose of cbas-
tisins Beane, and not fading him there, they
proceeded % bis residence B.aaO s.w then;
The Orangeburg news. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, 1869-01-23
Five Miles Above the Earth.

Nuc dull uay in August, just after noon, a
balloon rose in the air at the foot of Cloct
Hills. "n the Western edge of the central
plain of England 1t was inflated with the
liyhtcst of gases which chemical skill could
The Orangeburg news. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, 1869-01-23
PO E T R Y.

From Peters Glcc Hive
If We Knew.
IT We knew when walking thoughtlcss,
Thro' the noisy crowded way,
That some pearl of wondrous whitencss,
Close beside our pathway lay;
We would pause when now we hasten,
We would often look around,
Lest "'r 'hough':rs, feet should trample,
Svu,e rare jewel in the ground
If wc knew when gcnins struggled,
rhro tho weary nights an'l days.
Signing for word of comfort
Little word OF hope and praise;
Bougi,s of balm :nl leaves of lnurel.
We would place within their hands,
Little deeds with pleasant meanings,
Hungry hearts can understand.
sNslfs ,se know .,rhaz.sn;unns sSz-lihssa .ss
Closely press ~ 2-rS '.God bye,
Which among the lips that kiss us,
First yi,a,.ll meath the daiscs lie -
We would throw our arms nroun'l them,
Looking then ,hro' our tears,
Tender words of love eternal.
We would whisper in their cars.
five knew, alas: and do we
Ever care or seek TO know.
:: = !: !: 7 !: :
Whether herbs or bitter roses.
In our ncshb"rs garden grow,
Better far along life's pathway,
Keep this golden rule in view,
..You should always care for others,
As you'd have them care for you
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1869-10-06

Il mean that | passed the first year OF
my married life in just such lonesome way.
You have no 'domesticity. Clubs, drives,
billiard playing, and champagne suppers en-
crossed your whole time. your wife, pined
at home alone.
but why didn't you tell me you were
unhappy
Because you would have laughed at the
idea, and called it woman whim / re-
solved, when we were first married, to frit-
ter away neither time nor breath in idle
complaints. l have not complained; /
have simply followed your example. IF it
was not good one, whose fault was that ?
Not mine surely"
No, Daisy, not yours.
81 don like this kind of life, - went on
Daisy. It's false excitemeat-a hollow
diversion but persisted in it for the same
reason, suppose, that you did-because it
was the fashion. Now tell me, Herbert,
whether you prefer fashionable wife or a
Daisy ?''
. ''Daisy-a thousand times Daisy7'
but Daisy cant get along with theatre
going, club loving husband
Then she shall have husband who finds
his great happiness at his own hearth stone,
whose wife is his dearest treasure-who has
tried the experience of surface and finds it
unsatisfactory. Daisy, shall we begin our
matrimonial career anew ?'
And Daisy whispered answer was Yes ;
''But what must you have thought of me
all this time?" she asked him, after little
while.
II know what think no,o.
.And what is that p
81 think. said Mr.. Ainscourt, with en-
phasis, that you are the best wife in the
world"
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1869-10-06
PARTNER RSHIP.

DR. A NJ HILLS desires to inform his patients
and the pub generally, that he has associated
with him in the pr ractice of Dentistry, s P. SHAW.
d. D S who is graduate Of the Philadelphia
Dental College, and therefore has the highest
attestations Of his Professional skill.
All work done in the ofice will hold myself
personally responsible for being done in the most
satisfactory manner and highest order Of the pro-
fession-
An established practice of twenty two years in
this place enables me to speak to my patrons with
confidence.
Engagements from distance should be msde
by letter few days before the patient designs
coming lCleaIfeld, June 8, 1S6S-iy.
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Select goetrg.
THE DEATH OF SUMMER.

Bv the Tightening twilight hours;
Nv the chill and fragrant showers;
By the fow'rets pale and faded;
Nv the leaves with russet shaded
By the gray and clouded morn;
Ry the dropping ears of corn;
By the meadows overspread.
With the spiders wavy thread
BY the soft and shadOwy sky;
By the thousand tears that lie
On every weeping bough beneath
Summer, we perceive thy death.
Summer, all thy charms are past;
Summer, thou art wasting fast;
Scarcely one of all thy roses
On thy faded brow reposes.
Thrush and nightengale have long
Ceased to WOO thee with their song
And, on every lonely height,
Swallows gather for their fight,
While the Wild winds dreary tone,
Sweeping through the valleys lone,
Sadly sighs, with mournful breath,
Requiems for sweet Summer death
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1869-10-06

A Milwaukee man, who deposited one
hundred dollars in bank and was told the
interest would be five per cent, came at the
end of the year with five dollars in currency
to pay that interest. When told that the
five dollars went the other way, he looked
up in astonishment, and he went away won
dering why man should pay him for being
allowed to take care of his money whole
year. ~ ff
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1869-10-06

The mills of the gods grind slowly, but
justice, though tardy, always comes; and
this is the reason why baggage man at
Cleveland got hole in him while smashing
up a trunk that had a revolver in it.
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1869-10-06

The good must suffer for the evils of the
wicked-sixty churches damaged by the
New England storm, and not even single
saloon unroffed.
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1869-10-06

An Iowa clergyman breaches three times
on Sunday and runs large farm during the
week. Does he get salary?
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~ LEARF FIELD HOU S'E,

FRONT STREET, PHILIPSBURG, PA.
1 will impeach any one who says fail to give
direct and personal attention to all our customers
or fail to cause them to rejoice over we'll fur
nished table. with clean rooms and new beds.
where all may feel at home and rhe weary be at
rest New stabling attached.
Philipsburg, Sep, 2,'6s. JAS. II. GALER.
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z x G II AN G L HOT e l.,
~ Hnnfinrdnn Penn'a

a.
This old establishment having been leased by
J. Morrison, formerly Proprietor of the Morrison
House." has been thoroughly renovated and re-
furnished, and supplied with all the modern i'm
provements and convcniencies necessary to first
class Hotel. The dining room has been removed
to the first floor, and is now spacious and airy
The eh hamber are all well ventilated. and the
Proprietor will endeavor 10 make his guests per
fectly at home. j. MOhhISoN.
Huntingdon June IL 1858. Proprietor.
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SOLDIERS BOUNTIES. recent bill
~ has passed both Houses of Congress, and
signed by the President, giving soldiers who en-
listed prior to I'D July, 1851, served one year or
more and were honorably discharged, bounty
of 500.
WBounties and Pensions collected by me for
those entitled to them.
WALTER BARRETT, Atty at Law,
Aug 18th, 1866. Clearfeld, Pa.
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1869-10-06

THOMAS w. MOORE, Land Surveyor
and Conveyancer. Having recently To-
Gated in the Borough of Lumber City. and resum-
sumed the practice of Land Surveying, respect
fully tenders his professions services to the
ers and spectators in lands in Clearfeld and ad-
joing counties Deeds of Conveyance neatly ex
ecuted. Office and residence one door East of
Kirk d Spencers Store
Lumber City. April IA, 1859 IL.
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nR. J. P. BURCHFIELD-Late Surgeon of the
- SD Reg't Penn'a Vols, having returned
from the army, offers his professional services to
the citizens of Clearfeld and vicinity. Profes-
sional calls promptly ATTENDED to. Office on
South East corner of Sd and Market Streets.
Oct. 4. IS65-6mp.
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SURVEYOR.-The undersigned offers
~ his services to the public, as Surveyor
He may be found at his residence in LawI ence
township. when not engaged addressed by
letter at Clearfeld, Penn'a.
March 9th, lS67.-tf JAMES MITCHELL.
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1869-10-06

T0HN Ii. FULF0RD, Attorney at Law. Clear
- field, Pa. Office Market Street, over
given to the securin gofBounty claims, &cand TO
all legal business. March 27, 1867.
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3usiness 1irector,,.

A W. WALTERS, ATTORNEY AT LAW,
"A. Cloarfeld. Pa. Office in the Court House
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I'D w. GRAHAM, Dealer in Dry C oods Groce
" ries, Hardware, Queensware, Woodenware
Provisions etc, Market Street Clearfeld Pa
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nAVID g. NIVLING Dealer in Dry-Good
u Ladies' Fancy Goods, Hats and Caps, Boo
Shoes, etc Second Street, Clearfeld. Pa sep25
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tVALTER BARRETT, Attorney at Law, Clear
w field, Pa. May l3. 1868.
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NTESTERN HOTEL, Clearfeld Pa This
w we'll known hotel, near the court House, is
worthy the patronage of the public. The table
will be supplied with the best in the market. The
best of liquors kept. JOHN DOUGHERTY.
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MERRELL & BIGLER, Dealers in Hardwa
WI and manufacturers of Tin and Sheet ror
ware, Second Street. CIearfeld, Pa. June 60
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LATE NEWS. ITEMS.

A distracted lover named Andrew Da-
ker, of Green township, Erie county, com
mitted suicide on The 10th inst, by hanging
himself in his barn. His s~ootheaTt refused
to marry him, but attended the funeral.
Grant was very much in favor of the
Tenure of Office straight jacket for President
johnson, but don't like to put it on himself.
The Senate thinks what was sauce for the
goose should be sauce for the gander.
The Okalona (Miss.) Neics tells that
Mr. Hares, of that place, has knocked veloci-
pedes, wagons and locomotives out of exis-
tence by the invention of a self propeller that
runs fifteen miles an hour over ordinary
roads. The machine has been patented.
The jury in the United States Court, at
Richmond, gave ST. 500 damages to Robert
Stevens, South Carolina negro. against the
Richmond and Fredericksburg Railroad, for
putting his wife in a secOnd-ciass car, by
force, after selling her first class ticket.
-Gen- Grants denunciation of CARPET
baggers looks very much like going back on
ones friends. But for the vote of Garnet
baggers and negroes, he would not TODAY be
President elect of these disunited States. But
then there is nothing surprising in feeling a
contempt for ''tools" after using them.
-Westmorelaud county goes for Geary
Covode is the Senatorial delegate, and will
vote for the "humbuggedest." WHY not /?
Didn't Geary refuse to give Henry d. Foster
the certificate as member of Congresst sto
which he is entitled, at the demand of Co
vode Doesn't one good turn deserve an
other.
William Wells Brown, negro lecturer
Claims Hannibal a splendid example Of
the courage and ability of the race. Brown
Is mistaken. Carthage was founded by a
colony of Phenicians, and the implacabIe
enemy of the Romans came from that nolhe
stock. There was no taint of African blood
in his veins. The Cannibals were negroes
but not the Hannibals.
Governor Geary has respited Gerald
Eaton (now under sentence of death for the
murder of Timothy Heenan) upon the re-
commendation Of the prisoners counsel. who
presented an affidavit from a Philadelphian
stating that the accused murderer was in
such position at the time of the murder
that he could not have committed it. His
counsel seems confident Of proving his inno-
cence.
The New York Tribune approves of
General Grants refusal to ride with Presi-
dent johnson in the procession on inauoura-
ton day, on the ground that President John
son once attempted to convict General Grant
OF falsehood. As the incidents connected
with the transaction above referred to are
yet fresh In the memory of the public. the
less said upon the subject the better, we
think for General Grants reputation
Whatever may have been President John
sons intentions, 1t is a we'll known fact that
he was sustained in his allegations by four
or five OF the most distinguished men of the
country.