The Orangeburg news. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, 1870-12-17


lady physician was called to administer
70 gentleman down with fever. "You
need good nursing," said the lady.
"Nursc me for iife." replied the patient.
~ will," wss che soft answer.
OF the Twelve surviving widows Of
Revolutionary soldiers who are Quo hun
dre6 years Of fago and over, three live in
Maine, their names, residences, and ages
being as follows, Anna Plance, of Port.
land, l0o; Happy Mouse, Of Portland,
400, and Hannah Andrew, Of Lowell,
f01.
Rev. DR. Stone, Of San francisco, Wis.
ited all the brothers in the city one
nightto get items for sermon. Among
q other items, he obtained black eye, and
had to pay for sixteen bottles OF wine,
which che girls ordered at his expense.
lie took up collection for the brethren
TO pay for the wine.
The Lafayette, Indiana, Journal
makes the following announcement
IA well-known gentleman, at the top of
th" ladder in the Judiciary of the State,
went to church Sunday, for the FIRST
time In thirty-seven years. DR.. Carver
was the minister honored with his pre-
sence"
A Kentucky woman has spilled for q
! DsAd that her husband
10 most dead with the consumption, and
don't amount to shucks any way. Here
is.a chance for moralizing, but we havn't
got time to do the subject justice ;
besides, we don't swear
We wonder what kind of shucks she
ment?
The New York Sun, of Monday, says:
"General Beauregard was among the
passengers by the Vile de Paris, Which
left this port for Brcst on tho 2sth ult.
He goes abroad in compliance with an
anvisation from tho present French
Government. They have offered him
the post of q General of division in the
French army. He has accepted it, and
now goes to enter upon its duties"
A brother editor wants an ALMANAC
that will tell him when next month
expires. The cause of this want the
editer says is because he has number
OF accounts, the payment of which was
promised next month, and as the promi-
ses were made in February last, he wants
the aImahac to ascertain when he may
I expect tho ful6lment of said promise,
sou know. We should like one of these
almanacs.
A party OF hleters in Styria, Austria,
fund asiwhoic falaily of wild men con.
J SaaIea ,ssEea lnopptaip caxs dt consisted
. Silhsl, 6slIah and thfse ciilscs : |,
wh6g we're utterly naked, but covered
With dease hair. They could not speak,
but only uttered uninteligible sounds
The cave they inhabited was in an al
most inaccessible part of the mountain
and they must have lived there many
years. They were taken to neighbor-
ing to~n, and efforts arc being made to
improve their condition.
A charming girl out west has two
devoted lovers. Each pressed her name
the "happy day" The charming girl
was in terrible quandnry. She could't
make up her mind which to make happy.
She dreaded to make either miserable
What would she do? She retired to
the Businesses of her chamber to think
the matter over. She thunk. She hit
upon q novel expedient. She would
marry one in the morning of day, to
be early named, and elope with the other
in the afternoon! 1t was an original
idea, and would have been conceived
nowwhcre but in the great west. She
carried out the programme to the letter.
That's how she took the two lovers out
Of a dilemma.
Maine sends bear story. which must
be given verbatim. 1t runs thus: Mr.
Samuel Kimball, Of Patten, finding an
old pine log in tho woods, cut into it to
seeif it was sound. He found that it
was not sound, but lie henrd a sound
inside and had hardly time to get to the
end of the log before he saw an old She
bear just coming out. He gave her blow
on the head with his axe, and was about
pulling her out when he was SURPRISED