The Orangeburg news. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, 1869-05-01

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Never set yourself up for musician
just because you have got drum in
your ear; nor believe you are cut out for
u school teacher merely becaus you have
a pupil in your eye.
Logical.--A butcher let sailor have
shoulder Of mutton on trust; but find
day or two after that he had gone to
foreign land, said, "My word but ifI
had known he never intended paying,
would have charged penny pound
more for itv'
The New Orleans Crescent, which for
many years has been one of the leading
journals of the Southwest, has ceased
publication. 1t was purchased by G. A.
Weed, for some time the real, though not
nominal, proprietor of the New Orleans
Times. and the Crecscnt has been merged
in the Times. The A ugusta, Ca, Dai-
ly Press has also collapsed for want of
support.
The Virginia Commissioner of Imm-
grafton advertises for bodies of unim-
proved land, ranging from fifty to one
hundred thousand acres, at cheap rates
with view to the immediate colonial
;;on Of respectable and industrious emf
grants from Great Britain, which land,
he says, the agents in London inform
the board can be sold there if they be fur
nisheda a once with plats, accurate descrip-
tions and low est price of the land"
The Savannah Republican says, very
valuable horse was placed on board the
steamer Fannie at Baltimore for trans.
portation to that city on her last trip, aud
that on the way the animal jumped over
the railing into the sea. The engine was
stopped, and by the energy and skill of
the officers and crew the horse was Sc
cured and lifted on board the steamer
againwithout having received the slight
est injury by the adventure
The Irish blunder is si yeacrix; I; and
it is not only of class by itself, but it
is of the best class. 1t always puzzles
which mere clownishness docs not; but
it always amuses by it's oddity, its nov
city, and it's humour. OF this order
was the exclamtion of the Irish gentle
man who, on getting n tcn-pound prize
in the lottery, and finding that the prize
was less than the money he. had paid for
it, cried out, "What luck it was that
l did not get the twenty thousand pound:
[ must have been ruined"
A countryman not very famed for clas-
sic lore was one day walking with friend
down Regent street in quest of present
for his lady-loye. Ina jeweler window
his eye fell upon ring with the letters
ga. i. L." engraved thereon. After
puzzling his brain as to their purport, he
at last cried, "Look there, Jim the very
thing want. That means "An En-
gagged Individual -
Swallowing a Bullct-A lad swallow
ed a small leaden bullet. His friends
were very much alarmed about it. A
doctor was found, heard tie dismal tale,
and, with as much unconcern as he would
manifest in case of common headache.
wrote the following laconic note to the
lads father:-"Sir, Don't alarm your
self. If, after three weeks, the bullet is
not removed, give the boy charge of
powder. Yours &c.-P. s. Don't shoot
the boy at anybody"
The STATE LAND COMMISSIONER
Mr.C. P. Leslie, recently appointed Land
Commissioner for the State of South Car
olina, in pursuance of law, filed his bond
yesterday, qualified and entered upon the
discharge of the duties of his office. The
Office will be opened forthwith at Colum-
bia, S. q. All official communications re-
lative to the sale or purchase of lands
may be addressed to C. p Leslie, Land
Commissioner, Columbia, S. C.-Daiy
Ne,cs 25.
Four PERSONS BURNED TO DEATH.
A shocking accident took place in St
Pauls Parish, near New Road Station,
on the Savannah and Charleston Rail.
road, on the night of the 18th instant,
by which colored man, his wife, his
wife's sister, and baby fourteen months
old, met horrible death Nothing was
known to be wrong until the morning
of the 18th, when some persons who
lived in the neighborhood were passing
by and found that the house of the de-
ceased had been burned IInnn exnm