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The Orangeburg news. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, 1869-01-23
GOD AND QUIZ COUNTRY. Isl. ..
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 a whisper in
(at deep silence would suffice-bat noisound
Imes from his lips-hc is voicelessS The
|cersman comes down into the car; lie 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
Fize, 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
pnd to his will. He seized the valve with
lis 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.
Ie looked at his instrument; but now the
arometer was rising rapidly; the balloon was
ecending Brandy was used. They had been
ighcr above the earth than mortailman or
ny living thing had ever been before. One
minute more of inaction-of compulsory mac
ion-on the part of the steersman, whose
enses were failing him, and the air-shp, with
IS intensely rarefed gas, would have been
oating unattended, with two corpses, 10 the
ride realms of space.
The Orangeburg news. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, 1869-01-23
WHY GEsEnAL GRANT KEEPS ALoo

Why GENERAL GRANT KEEPS ALoor
FseM ANDY JoHNsoN.-It is o matter Of
surprise to many that General Grant refuses
to hold any intercourse with President John
son, and in their forgetfulness of not long pas,
events attribute it with expressions of sur
prise) to political reasons. But any such
thought docs 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
sible to eat an oyster, smoke cigar, or drink
a cup of tea with political opponent. Gene
raj Grants antipathy to johnson has better
foundation than this. It dates back to the
Stanton imbroglio, when johnson Substantial
ly accused Cen. Grant Of falsehnnd in his in.
depreciation Of some of the phases of that
difficulty. This touched the sensitive soldier
upon tender spot. A million men might, as
they did, declare him in their opinion unfit
for :cncy.- misunderstanding, hiA
temper or changing the cordalty of his friend
ly salute. But to be accused of falsehood wa.
different matter. Coming from the Pres
dent he could not meet the insult in soldier.
ly way, and SO was obliged to treat it as an
offence to be punished by gcntlen,anly con
tempt. This is why General Grant keeps
aloof from Andy Johnson.-AtBany Ercnin1
Journal.
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with tremendous velocity. Four miles above
earth pigeon was let loose; it dropped down
through the air as il it had been stone The
air was too thin to enable it to fy 1t was as
Ii;SatAn bark laden to the deck were to pass from
the heavy waters of the sea into an inland
unsaline lake the bark would sink at once in
the thinner water. Up, up, still higher. What
silence profound. The heights of the sky
were as still as the deepest depths of the occau,
where, as was found during the search for the
lost Atlantic cable, the fine mud lies as un-
stirred from year to year as the dust which
imperccptibly gathers on the furniture of a
deserted house. No sound, no life, only the
bright sunshine falling through sky which
it could not warm.
Up-fve miles above the earth higher
than the inaccessible summit of Chimborazo
or Dawangiri. Dosrite the sun-shinc, every
thing freezes The air grows too thin to sup
port life, even for few minutes, Two men
only arc in that adventurous balloon--the one
steering the air.ship the other watching the
scientific Instruments and recording them
with rapidity bread of long practice. Sud-
denly as the latter looks at his instruments,
his sight grows dim; he takes leans to help
his sight, and only marks from the falling
barometer that they arc testing RAPIDLY a
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coming, and anticipating the GRAND, armed
himself, as also did Mr.. Moore, who happened
TO be at his house. On their arrival Hutchin-
son said they intended giving Bcaue a thrash
ing. Moore demonstrated, when Smith drew
pistol and shot him dead. This was n signal
forsall to produce pistols ,Beane shot andin-
.tantly killed Cyrus HuseA;nson, brother Of
the school-boy. lie had scarcely fred, when
Smith, who had killed Moore; fired another
barrcl at Beane j the ball stsuck but failed 70
Immediately disable him. Beane then turned
oRSmith and lodged balls in his bod,, iuaict-
ing wounds which resulted smortally in few
-sniautes. Twenty minutes after the affair com.
meuced, Moore, Cyrus Hutchinson and Smith
lay dead on the ground within few feet Of
each other. Hutchinson's brother was. the
OILY person who escaped unhurt.-Kentucks
Ee.
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TRAGIC SHOOTING AFFAIR NEAR Chart,

NooaA.-A tragic affair occurred ON Salt
Creek forty miles below here, few days
since, the particulars of which are as follows
1t seems that Mr. Beane, n school teacher, at
tempted to whip a boy named Hutchison who
resisted aud left school. A day or two after
ward young Hutchinson, accompanied by his
brother and man named Smith, visited the
school-house for the avowed purpose OF chas-
tisiny Beaoe, and not finding hin, there, tAey
proceeded to his residence Beane saw them
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Five Miles Above the Earth.

Z Que dull uay in August, just after noon,
balloon rose in the air at the foot of Cloet
Hills on the Western edge of the central
plain Of England. 1t was inflated with the
liyhtest of gases which chemical skill could
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P O E T R Y.


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From Peters Glec Hive
If We Knew.
IL we knew when walking thougltless,
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 our though,:rss feet should tramplc,
Some rare jewel in the ground.
1f we know when genius struggled.
Thro tho weary nights an'l days
Signing for some word of comfort,
Little word OF hope AMI praise;
sBonglis of. balai ;tn.l leaves of laurel.
We would place within their hands,
Little deeds with pleasant n,canings
u Hungry hearts can understand.
Closely press 10 My '.God bye,
Which among the lips that kiss ms,
First. sho,,,i meath the daiscs lie -
Nc would throw our arms around them,
Looking on then thro our tears,
Tender words of love eternal
Ne would whisper in their ears.
five knew, alas and do we
Ever cnre or seek to know.
whether herbs or bitter roses,
In our neighbours garden grow,
Better far along life's pathway,
Keep this golden rale in view,
s.You should always care for others,
As you'd have them care for you"
The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1869-07-29
sPEcxAL NOTICES
The World GroRs WIser.

The human stomach has been a shame
fully prosecuted organ. There was n time
when Tor every dereIIction Of duty il was
punished with huge doses Of the most dis
gushing and nauseOus drugs. In vain it
rejected them, and QiteraEyl returned
them upon the hands of those who ad-
min1Stered them. They were forced upon
it again and again, until its solvent power
was thoroughly drenched out of ft,
The world is wiser now than it was in
that drastic era, when furious purration
mus Ward would have called the imam
holt" of the faculty In cases OF dyspepsia
and liver complaint.
The great modern remedy for indiges-
ton and b1liousness is HOSTETTER'S
STOMACH BIT Frs, a preparation
which has the merit OF combining n pal
atable flavor with such tonic, aperient, and
anti-bilious properties as was never here
tofOre united in any medicine.
II has been discovered, ct last, that sick
people are not like the tabled Tttans, who
found proStrat1on so refreshing that, When
knocked down, they rose from the earth
valid is Frustrated by powerful depicting
drugs, he IS apt TO stay Frustrated; land
the debliltated. being aware OF The taet,
prefer the building 45p to the knocking
CI0lOIl system OF treatment.
bOSTETTER'S BITTERS meets the re-
Quirements of the rational medical phil
perfectly pure vegetable remedy, en-
bracing the three important properties OF
a preventive, a tonic, and an Alternative.
It fort11es the body against disease, in
Vigorates and re-VitaliZes the torpid sLom-
ach and liver, and effects a most salutary
change IN the entire system, when in a
morbid condition.
In summer, when the enfeebiing tenn
| perature renders the human organization
| particularly susceptible to unwholesome
| atmospheric influences, the BitteIs should
| be taken as protection against epidemic
| disease.
The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1869-07-29
Indiana Items.

THE State Sentinel reports over half
a million dollars capital invested in
brewing beer in that city.
THE Secretary of State is now send
ing the acts Of the regular and special
sessions of the Legislature to the
various counties. Those for Wander
burgh County were sent on Saturday.
Gov. BAKER and a number of the
State officers attended the funeral of
Hon. Albert Lange, at Terre Haute
on Tuesday. The State Offices were
closed, and draped in mourning.
INDIANAPOLIS is being surveyed by
company of engineers from other
cities, to ascertain if she can ever
have a good system of sewerage. They
will report soon.
THE indianapolis Journal sums
up the whole matter as to the condi-
ton of the corn crop, is follows: The
crop in the centre and south part of
the State, off the river bottoms, looks
fine. On the high lands it IS not very
bad either north or south, but IN the
north it is generally bad, and on low
lands utterly ruined.
THE Madison Courier. says little
German boy, about eight years old, In
crossing the railroad bridge south of
Vernon, accidentally fell through to
the bed of the creek below, a distance
of seventy eight feet. The attending
physician said every bone in his
body was broken except his neck"
No hopes are entertained of his re-
coVery.
Four prisoners made their escape
from the Jail of Covington, Fountain
County, last Wednesday, by tunnell-
ing under the wall. Remster, the
murderer, 1t IS said, would have es-
capped but for another prisoner, who
remained on purpose to keep him
from getting out.
A LAD of five years of age, by the
name of Sherman, was drowned in his
fathers cistern a few days ago. This
makes the third or fourth case of
children being drowned in cisterns in
this State within week, or little
more.
THE Boone County Pioneer says
that two young ladies of TOWNSVILLE,
Montgomery County, were drowned
on Tuesday, last week, while trying
to cross Sugar Greek in a skiff Their
bodies were recovered, one soon after,
the other next day.
THE st. Joseph Register says that
the recent freshets have carried away
every bridge in Liberty Township of
that county. Nearly all the bridges
in the county were carried off or In
jured.
Mr.. AUGUSTUS CHAMBERLAIN, one
of the Oldest residents of Terre Haute,
died in that city on Tuesday after
noon. He located there in 1888.
The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1869-07-29

the Vincennes and Cairo Road Will
give our business interests fatal
stab is evident to everybody unless we
manage. by the construction of a
road to Carmi or GRANVILLE, to make
# a glorious feeder to our prosperity.
So. to. of the Henderson and Nash
Vile Road. The man who says the
completion of that road will confer
no benefit upon our city, has outlived
his usefulness as we'll as his common
sense. He belongs to the pod-augur
age, when new inventions were re-
garded as the work of the evil one.
and improvements of every character
were discarded. We need the Nash
Vile Road We must have railroad
into Southern Illinois, aud we can
only get them by paying for them.
The Directors Of the proposed road
into our neighboring State are COM
posed of our most substantial bust
ness men. We have confidence In
their good intentions and their integ-
rity, notwithstanding We may not al
ways coincide with their judgment.
We trust they will be found willing
to dispose of the funds placed in their
hands by the people for the
people, and that they will
cheerfully listen TO suggestions
and opinions, and give the same the
consideration their Importance de-
mands. Had new Directory to be
selected, we doubt whether better
men would be chosen, and if the rail-
road is built at all, money must be
placed In the hands Of some Directo-
ry to do it. The question, therefore,
of confidence in the officers Of the
road must, of necessity, also enter
into the election on the fifth proxi-
mo, and those who have not unlimited
confidence in the present officers
| of the road will have to de-
eide for themselves whether,
under ordinary circumstances, better
men would be selected to carry on
an enterprise Of that character. Fur.
thermore, little can be done during
the present year. except in the way Of
preliminaries, and if the stockholders
think the interests of the city are be
ing sacrificed by the present Direc-
tory, they may make a change at the
next election. It seems to US that the
all-absorbing necessity of the road
swallows up multitude of objections
as to details-of which, with others
we are in possession of large mum.
ber-and that the true interests Of
the city will be best consulted BY
voting the aid to the road asked for
under the pledge, on the part of the
Directors, that the friends of the en-
terprise shall be fully consulted il
fixing the line of the road, and de
Gliding the manner of its construc
ton Any other policy on the par
of the Directors will be folly. because
the dissatisfaction that would sure.
ly follow could only result in &
second Straight Line catastrophe
from which may the city be ever pre-.
served
The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1869-07-29

SECRETARY BOUTWELL's manage
ment of our national finances is
rapidly improving our credit in
Europe. It has been the Secretary's
policy to so improve national credit
that the Indebtedness might be fund
ed at low rate Of interest. Already
a German house Ia Frankport pro-
poses, as We learn from a Washington
correspondent, to loan the Govern
ment three million dollars at five per
cent, which the Secretary has, of
course, been obliged to decline. His
view is that we may, within a year,
borrow ali the money we want at four
per cent, or certainly at four and a
half per cent, and the present indica-
tions seem to be that he will next
winter advise such a loan, for the
purpose of paying off the fve-twenties
due now, or whenever the Govern
ment chooses to so consider them.
A private letter, not to the Secretary
from a well.advised source in Eng
land, expresses the opinion that a
bond at four and a quarter per cent
can easily be negotiated in Europe
within six or eight months.
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We were charitable enough to sup
pose that when the editor of the
Courier copied half and three-qua
ter column editorials from the Louis
vile Coarier-JOurnaI, that the failure
to give the latter paper proper credit
was accidental rather than inten-
tionaI. We see, however, by the fol-
lowing paragraph from the Courier
of yesterday. that our charitableness
was misplaced:
The correspondent of the JoUR-
NAL must be mistaken, otherwise it
affords the most marvellous instance
on record OF two Democratic editors
thinking alike and expressing their
ideas IN the same language! The
like never occurred at the JOURNAL
Ohce. Who ever heard of their
having an idea in that establishment
that agreed with a man of sense in
Louisville or anywhere else?
The article referred to was in the
Louisville Courier Journal of Friday.
and copied l1ithout credit into the
Courie- of Sunday. It may be a case
of two Democratic editors thinking
alike, and expressing their ideas in
tbs same language, but it looks more
to US like one Democratic editor ap.
propriating the thoughts and language
of another, in violation of terse lit
tie commandment in the Good Book
We thank the editor Of tba To,,,.,,,
for his compliment that such in.
stances never occur in the journal
office. We viii endeavor to prove
worthy of the compliment, and should
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[Fron the Evan sville Union.J

No class of people are SO deeply in
terested in the construction of rail-
roads as the working classes. The
railroad makes a demand for labor,
and a demand for labor is the secret
of flush times. The war was not the
cause of the abundance of money dur.
ing its existence. But 1T was the de-
mand for labor which produced it.
The demand for the labor came in
this way. In the armies, on both
sides, during the war, there was a
demand for the services of a mil
lion and q half, or more than that
number, of men. This was really a
demand for the services or labor
of that number of men who had to be
paid. Behind these at home there
was q larger number employed In
supplying these men In the army.
Those at home were men, women and
children, for all of whose labor there
was a demand. The men were in the
blacksmith shops, wagon shops, foun-
dries, &c. The women, and some
times the children, were IN those
shops which made the clothing,
and furnished supplies of that class.
These were employed in sustaining
the army and carrying on the war.
Besides these, there were others
making money rapidly by supplying
the wants of those who, by their en-
ployment by the Government and its
contractors, were furnished with
money to crafty their wants. In
those times of war everybody had
plenty of money: and although taxes
and prices were then very high, they
all had plenty of money to pay with
But since the war there has been a
change felt most severely by the
working classes, and constantly
getting worse.
Something must be done. What
shall it be? We cannot have
another war, but in railroads
we may have another labor
demanding power. The Evansville,
Carmi and Paducah Road, when built,
will be equal to two ordinary roads
with its two branches-one to- st.
Louis and one to Paducah. To be
sure it will be a long time before the
st. Louis branch will be com
menced Immediately. The road is
under the control of some of the
most energetic business men In the
city, and they will put it through as
soon as it can possibly be done
When commenced the labor Of con-
struction, and when done the labor
required in running it win give en-
ployment to hundreds of hands. This
employment the people of Evansville
have a right to expect for the reason
that no man has any interest in the
road in any way but Evansville men.
The road is to be built for Evansville
and to be located and run In the in
terest of Evansville and Vanderburgh
County alone.
But. this is not the chief induce
ment. The business brought to the
city by it will stimulate all branches
of trade. The demand for labor will
be increased, and greater prosperity
will prevail. And if our tax is in
creased for two years (the longest
time for which it can be increased),
we will be the more able to pay, just
as we did during the war, because of
the increase in the demand FOR labor,
and the consequent increase of money
In the hands of the working people.
Ought we not tovote for all railroads
The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1869-07-29

MERCANTILE IMPECUNIOSITY.-
of the most prosperous wholesale
firms on Meridian Street canvassed
the city last week for bids on a job Of
less than $50 worth of blank books,
and finally gave their order to the
agent of an Eastern house. This is
very liberal on the part Of firm that
has received from the city papers at
least 800 il gratuitous puffs in the
last month. The said firm does not
fill single order but what New York
runners would gladly duplicate at
lower rates, even at a loss, and what a
hue and cry the individual members
would raise if the city papers should
hint such a thing to the country mer-
chants.--iState Sentinel.
To our certain knowledge such
firms are notconfned to indianapolis.
This city is afflicted with a few of
them.
The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1869-07-29

THE Utah Daily Reporter says a
number of distinguished statesmen
will visit the Pacific coast some time
during the month of August. Among
the number are Charles Sumner, Vice
President Schuyler Colfax, President
ULYSSES S. Grant and Gen. Sherman.
TIE coming one will be Vice Presi-
dent CoIfax's second trip, and he says
he only wishes to make a quiet little
tour, in which he will be able to make
observations and draw conclusions it
was impossible for him to do on his
former trip. The Vice President
evidently intends to get acquainted
with the people.
The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1869-07-29

was spoken on the goth of April some
one hundred and fifty miles from
Sandy Hook, we begin to think that
all hope must be abandoned. The
conclusion is now irresistible that the
Inflated vessel, with her unfortunate
passengers and crew, has gone down,
and that the hungry waves have
closed over all the agony with which
her last moments must have been
connected. How the London went
down some years ago we know; how
the HibeTnia, Of this same Anchor
line, went down last year we also
know. In both those cases survivors
remained to. tell the sad story. In
this last case, however, it Is
only reasonable to conclude
that every voice has been hushed
in the silent depths Of the great
waters. Such disasters at sea must,
we suppose, be looked for. Science has
not yet rendered them impossible. Sci
| ence, however, has done so much that
such disasters are rendered greatly
less excusable than in times that We
| have known. 1t is said that the uni
| ted Kingdom was not in a fit cOndi-
| ton for the risks Of q transatlantic
trip. til said thather condition had
become so bad that she was taken off
the line thatruns from Glasgow to New
York. and put on the easier waters of
the Mediterranean. For what reason
she was called upon again to make an
| Atlantic voyage We know not. 1t has
| reached our ears, however, that the
captain who had long had her in
charge refused to make this last trip.
If it be found that this vessel was re-
ally unfit for a transatlantic voyage,
and that this was known to her own
ers, the loss of this ship must prove a
serious injury indeed to the Messrs.
Henderson, the proprietors of the
Anchor line.-N 7. Herald