The Orangeburg news. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, 1870-03-26

yer. vs.
A new kind of Intoxicating liquor has
.heen distilled from tea.
The widow of Stonewall Jackson is
about to remarry.
The famous Yerger escaped from
Jackson Miss, recently.
Ex-Secretary Seward says that specie
payment will be resumed in ninety days.
Two organists in New Jersey quar-
relied about fifteen cents-one of them
killed the other.
The Postofice Directory is volume
of 1864 pages, and corsains 1000
Smiths, Smyths and Smythes.
Prince Albert was once described as
can incidental cipher on the left hand
Of a royal digit"
A Georgia newspaper, speaking of
Robert Tooms, says that his MUD sis in
full robustitude."
One saloon keeper in Chicago paid
out $500 in silver last Saturday, as
change, to his customers
The result of the New Hampshire
election on Tuesday, shows Rebublican
loss of 1900 votes.
The Courier-Journal apologies tor
the poor paper on which it is printed,
and promises reform in about two
weeks.
A white man who married negro
woman recently, promenaded Meeting
street, Charleston, Sunday afternoon,
which occasioned considerable disgust.
A man at Lowell, Massachusetts,, has
made provision in his will that he must
be buried in burglar proof safe when
he dies.
Models for the new fifty cent notes
have been completed. We don, think
they will improve upon the model of the
old silver half dollar.
The New Evening Post says that if
letter postage is reducd to one cent, to
ouo SSht, VhCtc VIII NC lWO SeuC Wnere
there is one sent now
A thorough holiday for man of bust
ngss, Punch says, ought not to be mark
ed in his calender as a Red Letter-day,
but as an Unread Lctter-day.
General R. E Lee says he has never
read history of the late civil war. We
should hardly think that style of litera-
ture very amusing.
The evening Past says that the por-
traits of all the Governors of Rhode Is
land are to be painted and hung, if there
is room on the borders of the State.
One hundred and thirty.nine applica-
tions have been made for the position of
hangman in London, made vacant by the
resignation of the famous Calcraft
Frank Senback, of Princeton. Me-,
lately walked one hundred miles four
and half rods in twenty-five hours and
fifty one minutes, for purse of $50
A Baltimore blacksmith is said to have
Invented horse shoe that may be taken
off at night and put on again in the NOR
ming, as readily as a pair of boots.
A Cincinnati paper adverti;es for
"girls for cooking" A cotemporary
replied, "you will like them raw, when
you get accustomed to them"
Hon. w. F. DcSaussure, who has been
i'll for some days, died last Sunday night
ut Columbia. The deceased was, for
several years, an honorcd member of the
Legislature of this State.
Anna Dickens says that she is not
man hatcr, but she declines to be Gre
garded as plaything that smells sweet
like flower, or sounds sweetly like a
flute"
A Cincinnati Judge has decided that
blow from husband inflicted upon a
wife is sufficient ground for a divorce.
Blu: how is it when the wife does the
blowing?
In the matter of the Piegau Indian
massacre, General Sheridan asks a sus-
pension of public opinion, aud public
opinion demands suspension of Gen.
Sheridan
Lake Ontario is reported to have been
frozen over during tho late cold snap
from the American to the Canada sho4e
--an event which has not occurred be-
fore in many years.
A minstrel troupe was organized in
Western city last Tuesday morning; it
played "Wednesday night; Thursday