The Orangeburg news. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, 1869-03-27

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'ih Caiada.isd sssTsoTq s>ei1.iseY 20 ti1irs ,.i,
Sioax Indians call General Sherman
General Walk-a1heap."' j.. s..a,,....
r Strawberriss nave appeared in london, and
are sold at three shillings an ounce. "'hf ,.,S
sevcnty ty.visht proninens Americans .hAve
beer suggested fet siisfitarA6l lEnglana,9 % {,
silsassia has just sxilea sboys forty, treasury,
S&'iais to Siberia sSF robSiRg gsI :ao sovssz4,
ment.
Boston is in in luck. Over 6s 900 boxes of
oranges have arrived there during the past
week. aaia;,so si'jrg .sss os!. sgi!..j
A Brooklyn elergynan was robbed OF Men
day night of a carpet-bag full of sermons.
The heirs of Noah Webster are said to re.
ceive s25, 900 annually from the sale Of his
dictionary. :! ''' '"f 'fi' K.
In order to dispose of polygamy at short
notice, it is proposed TO give the right of
suffrage to the women Of Utah. ,,.r, ,,s. .,...
Kentucky has 3 stern parent who keep. his
daughter chained TO log, in order to prevent
her marrying contrary to his wishes. - =
It is said that the Indians of the plains will
not take scalps from heads of negro soldiers
killed in battle, Iia es. EdI}f..a y.ys
Amoug the bills reported to the Michigan
Legislature is one to prevent tho shooting of
any person lin sport"
Spring opened in Northern New Hampshire
with the thermometer thirty-four degrees be
low zero. -.iF III sNf,..ag,,
A company at Lexington, Ill, consumes
forty-nine tons of bccts daily in the manufac-
ture of sugar.
Concord, N. H., has had eighty three days
of uninterrupted slcighing up 20 last Monday
Nearly six feet has fallen this winter. a,i
Texas has agrced to pay S100 and to give
forty acres of land 10 a company for every i'm
migrant it brings into the State.
In Texas the wheat crop promises we'll, aad
In some parts Of the State corn is rising in
price and is now worth City cents. ii4 8 -is7
The Louisiana Legislature has passed a bill
authorizing the licensing of gambling houses,
the price Of the licensebeiug faxed at 90, 900.
4 story comes from BsIgiain of two soldiers
who played game of cards. One stakcd his
life; lost; aud hanged himself in the morn
ing.
The New York Telegram wants to know
why actors who are engaged for general utili-
ty" always embraces the part of Hamlet
A three year old child. temporarily left in
charge of its infant brother in Columbus, Ohio,
last Saturday evening" got angry with it and
killed it by beating it over the head with the
nursing bottle.
The New York Times says: "If California
is such splendid place for making money.
why is it that there is such nsh of Office
seekers frop, there to Wash .Ag.on? Is it
easier to make money in public Office than any,
where else
There arc 660 American students at the
various German universities, and over 1000
male and female American pupils at first class
German boardng-schools. ts iaf
The Danvillc Register tells of negro well
digger who was buried in well seven hours
Us its caving in, and covering him to the
depth of twenty feet with stones, &C., and who
not fatally injured.
Senator Schurz boldly protested against the
appointments for Missouri as proposed by the
President, and for his trouble received the
consoling reply, 81 know the people of Mis-
souri, better than you do"
Petitions, numerously signed by Republi-
cans. are said 70 be prepared for presentation
to the new Governor of Tennessee, (Mr SEN
tcr), asking him to withdraw the militia from
some of the counties now under martial law.
4 scientific lecturer at Sheffield recently told
his audience that when the star fish, which
live principally upon young oysters, finds one
too large to be swallowed, it turns its stomach
inside out, and then envelopes the oyster.
Mr.. Catlin, the prairie traveller, eommuni-
Gates to Trubner's American and Oriental
Literary Record the curious statement that
great -!vss, ,'larger tL..n .he Mississippi"
aows under The Rocky Mountains! Mr. Cat
lin is about to publish the evidence which he
has collected in favor of this startling hy-
pothess.
An officer who had lost his hand by grape
shot, was in company with young lady, who
remarked that it was a cruel ball which de-
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