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The Orangeburg news. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, 1871-03-11
NOTICE.
OFFICE OF COUNTY TREASURER,
ORAEGEDUnG CouSTY

oraEgcburg, S. C. March S, 1871.
THE TINE ct 0rangeburg C. H. is Ex-
tendol 20 tie 10th inst.
will be at the following places:
j. Harp Folders Store on the 18th
instant.
At Club House on the 18th instant.
At Wilkes Sawyer's Store on the Goth,
2lst and 22d instant.
7. X. SASPORTAs,
hitf lift County Treasurer.
The Orangeburg news. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, 1871-03-11

After q brief and clear charge from
Judge Graham, the jury returned to
their room. They remained in consul
tation for several hours, when they re-
turned and their verdict was published.
1t was, Guilty of mapslaughtcr." The
sentence Of the Court, two years in the
ponitentiary, was pronounced the same
day, it being the last day of the term.
We are informed that the jury, upon
retiring, stood three for 'not guilty." the
rest Gorthe verdict MS brought in. Before
the aefendant was sentenced, Mr.. Knowl-
ton moved in arrest Of Judgment, on the
ground that the indictment, when for
mally presented by the grand jury, pur-
ported to have been found by the ju-
rurI Of Charleston and hat the word
.tOrnngeburg" had been aftefward sub.
stituted for Charleston, The bar are
almost unanimously of the opinion that
the whole proceeding will be set aside
anon this Ground,
The Orangeburg news. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, 1871-03-11

charges Of disturbing the peace ana
quiet of the Corporation. Evidence Of
a positive nature being brought forward
to confirm the charges, Council passed
the following sentences:
Adam thomson, for resisting the
Town Marshal, fued Sic Oh 20 days in
Jail.
Adriana Thomson, IS or 10 days in
Jail.
Joseph McBcth, (of McBeth's Hall
notoricty,) only So or 10 days in Jail.
Charity McBcthh, Tor losing der tenn
per, aud attempting to play the banjo, by
humping it on the Marshal's head, was
fined $40 or 20 days in jail.
And last, but not least, was Sallic
Davis, who, showing mitigating circum-
stances, was permitted to move off to the
tune of So.
Next in order was a letter from j.
Folder Meyer, Esq, Chairman b ard
County Commissioners rs follows:
W5ereas, anrlication has hecn made
INTO us by the Town Council of Or,nge-
burg, that the County Commissioners Of
The Donaldsonville chief., 1871-12-02

On SPRINGING Our OF BED.-Dr.
Hall does not approve of the old-fash-
ioned doctrine which was formerly in
stilled into the minds of children
that they should spring out of bed the
instant they awoke in the morning.
He says that cup to eighteen years
every child should be alIosued ten
hours sleep, but time should be allowed
to rest in bed, after the sleep is over,
until they feel as if they had rather
get up than not. 1t is very great
and mischievous mistake for persons,
old or yOung-especially children and
feeble or sedentary persons-to be-
come out of bed the moment they
wake up; all our instincts shrink
from it, and fiercely kick against it.
Fifteen or twenty minutes spent i'm
gradually waking up, after the eyes
are opened, and in turning over and
stretching the limbs, do as much good
as sound sleep, because these oper-
ations set the blood in motion by de-
grees, tending to equalize the circula-
ton; for during sleep the blood tends
to stagnation. the heart beats feebly
and slow, and to shock the system by
bouncing up in an instant and send
ing the blood in overwhelming guam
titles to the heart, causing it 10 as
same gallop, when the instant be-
fore it was in creep, is the greatest
absurdity. This instantaneous boun-
cling out of the bed as soon as the eyes
are open viii be followed by weariness
long before noon."
The Donaldsonville chief., 1871-12-02

Old Rowe keeps hotel in the
northern part of this State, which he
boosted was the best in them parts,
where, as he used TO say, that you
could get everything that was made
to eat. One day, in comes Yankee,
sends his horse round to the stable,
and stepping up to the bar asked old
Rowe what he could give him for
dinner. Anything from an elephant
to a canary birds tongue" "Wam."
said the Yankee, eyeing old Rowe,
:" guess I'll take a piece of picked
elephant Out hustled old Rowe
into the dining room, leaving the
Yankee nonplussed at his gravity.
Presently he came back again. "Weil,
sir, we've got 'em all right, right here
in the house, but you'll have to take
a whole one, cause we never cut 'em. >
The Yankee thought he would take
some Goldfish and potatoes.
The Donaldsonville chief., 1871-12-02
The Politician of the Period.

! What an instructive political life is
that of A. O. Hall! First we find
him figuring in politics as Wing.
Second, he cequettes with the Know
Nothings, and is found parading his
" American sentiments as opposed
to persons of foreign birth and the
Catholic faith. Next we find him in
the Republican ranks long enough to
be elected District Attorney of the
county. In this position he cleverly
engineers some municipal bills through
the State Legislature for the govern
ment of this metropolis, under q Com
missioners," instead of by popular
choice. Subsequent, ON or about the
time of the capture of New Orleans by
the Union forces, the versatile Oakley
begins to make wry faces at the Ad-
ministration of Abraham Lincoln.
And when Gen. Butler liberated some
slaves (said to belong to a near re-
lation of the Halls, and which he hoped
some day to inherit, should slavery
not be abolished), he threw off the
mask and went body and boots into
the arms of Tammany, where he has
been literally rewarded for his treach-
cry to party he once professed to
serve with fidelity.
This is the consistent politician,
who, as Mayor, would not allow his
old supporters, the orangemen, to
parade on the 18th of July, for fear of
displeasing his new allies, before whom
The Donaldsonville chief., 1871-12-02

The New York Tribune wittily says
We read wonderful things of the talk
ing machine of Prof. Faber, lately
exhibited in Philadelphia. You see a
highly ornamented table, and up
on it is a lifeless head which pro-
nounces all the letters and elementary
sounds of the English language, with
phrases of six and eight words in
French, German and English. Sew
eral years ago we advocated in these
columns the adoption of one or more
machines to do the talking in the ma
tional Congress, and now, just as we
were eongratulating ourselves upon a
device which appeared, at first blush,
to meet the case exactly, we are told,
to our bitter disappointment, that the
Faber contrivance is defective in its
sounding of the letter +" l." This is
fatal (unless it can be improved) to its
use by our representatives, who would
be nothing If not capable of sounding
the personal pronoun III a rotund and
fOrtissimo way. AS the machine
speaks with fine German accent, it
might be found useful on the stump
in Pennsylvania, and we do not see
why, for city purposes, it might not
be arranged to discourse with a beau
tifnl brOgue.
The Donaldsonville chief., 1871-12-02

he parades in a full suit of green
cloth, just as though that garb were
his former red, white, blue and black.
And now A. O. Hall, appoints almost
all our city officers including members
of the Educational Board of School
Trustees of the several wards
OF them for term of years more than
double that of his official existence
unless in the meantime he shall be re-
elected, which, from present indica-
tlons, is by no means likely. Who
will say, with these facts before him,
that the Democratic party is not par
ty of principle, and that Oakley Hall,
its great high priest, is not the chief
among ten thousand.
The Donaldsonville chief., 1871-12-02
CuriOsities of Memory.

JOhn hemDlo used to say that lie
could learn a whole number of the
Morning Post in four days; and Gen
eral Christie made similar assertion
but it is not known how far either OF
them verified their statement. Rob-
ert Dillon could repeat in the morn
ing six columns OF a newspaper he
had read over night. During the
Repeal debates in the House of Com
mons, thirty seven years ago, one of
the members wrote out his speech,
sent it to the newspapers and repeated
it to the House in the evening. 1t
was found to be the same UerbGtine as
that which he had written out. John
Fuller, land agent in Norfolk, could
remember every word of a sermon,
and write it out correctly after going
home. This was tested by comparing
his written account with the clergy
mans manuscript. Scaliger could re-
peat hundred verses or more, after
having read them single time. SEN
eca could repeat two thousand words
on hearing them. Magliabecchia,
who had prodigious memory, was
once put to q severe task. A gentle
man lent him manuscript which was
read and returned. The owner, some
time. afterward, pretending he had
lost it, begged Magliabecchia to write
out as much as he could remember !;
whereupon the latter, appealing to
his memory, wrote out the whole
essay. Cyrus, if some Of the old his
torians are to be credited, could re-
member the name of every soldier in
his immense army. There was a
Corsican boy who could rehearse forty
thousand words, whether sense or
nonsense, as they were dictated, and
then repeat them ON the reversed
order, without making single mis-
take. A physician of Massachusetts,,
about a half a century ago, could
repeat the whole of " Paradise Lost
without mistake, although he had not
read it for twenty years. Euler, the
great mathematician, when he became
blind, could say the whole of VirgiPs
" Eneid,n and could remember the
first line and last line on every page
of the particular edition which he
had been accustomed to read before
he became blind.
One kind of retentive memory may
be considered as the result of sheer
hard work, determination toward
one particular achievement, without
reference either to cultivation OF to
memory ON other subjects. This lis
frequently shown by persons in hum
BILE life in regard to the bible. An
old beggarman at Stirling, known
some forty years ago as Blind Aleck,
afforded an instance of this. He
knew the whole of the bible by heart;
insomuch that, if sentence were
read to him, he could name book,
chapter and verse or, if the book,
chapter and verse were named, he
could give the exact words. A gem
tleman to test him, repeated verse,
purposely making one verbal inaccur-
acy; Aleck hesitated, named the
place where the passage is to be
found, but at the same time pointed
out the error. The same gentleman
asked him to repeat the ninetieth
verse of the seventh chapter of the
book of Numbers. Aleck almost in
stantly replied: "There is no such
verse; that chapter has only eighty
nine verseS1
The Donaldsonville chief., 1871-12-02

A man of seventy years, living
near Newport, Ind, quarreled with
his wife, and taking down his shot
gun, annunced that he would commit
suicide forthwith. He went into the
yard, lay down on the ground where
he could be seen from front window,
fired the gun off in the air, and re-
manned motionless for an hour, during
which time he slyly watched the door
and window for the appearance of his
grief-striken wife. But he was sad
ly mistaken" says the old gentleman's
home paper. "They did not come
cut to see whether he had blown the
top of his head off or not. This was
more than the old man could stand !;
he rose up, went into the house, and
made things hot for the old woman
and the children for while. He'd
show them whether they wouldn't
come out when he had killed himself" )"
The Donaldsonville chief., 1871-12-02

We mentioned couple of weeks
since that Hon. H. C. Dibble, Judge OF
the Eighth District Court of New Or
leans, had entered suit for libel against
Mr.. j. M. West, publisher of the New
Orleans Patriot. The matter having
been brought before the Grand Jury,
that body found true bill against the
ascused, and an order has been issued
for his arrest.
The Donaldsonville chief., 1871-12-02

We learn from the Houma PatriO,
that the Banner, of that town, LAS
been suspended for the past threef or
four weeks, but may soon be issied
again, as large lot of Tax Collectors
advertisements win be ready for phb-
ication in short time. When she
funny man of the Iberville PioneeE is
again driven to desperation for want
of something to write about, and has
to get off that pap Sheet joke of his
for the twentieth time, let him make
the Banner the objective point of This
witless wittieism.
The Donaldsonville chief., 1871-12-02

And now some Democratic jourrI Ials
are proposing the name of Thomas A.
Scott, the Delaware railroad autoctat.
as an available candidate for the L.ext
Presidency because he can bring INTO
the contest the influence of some of
the largest railroad and other cofpo-
rations in the country. We fear Mr..
Scott's ideas of the way in which this
country should be governed are of too
narrow gauge to suit a majority of the
people. But there is no denying he
would make good President-ofan
railroad company in the country.
The Donaldsonville chief., 1871-12-02

The telegraph few days since
brought the heart-rending intelligent ie
that the Prince of Wales had passed a
sleepless night. Countless thousands
await with trembling anxiety to learn
the cause of this fearful catastrophe.
Perhaps the Prince was up all night
playing draw poker.n
The Donaldsonville chief., 1871-12-02

No doubt the author of "Write me,
a letter from home" was expecting q
remittance from the old folks, and
wrote that pathetic ballad to remind
them of it.
The Donaldsonville chief., 1871-12-02

We have received for the first time
a copy of the Louisiana Farmer, pub
ished at Arcadia, in this State, but it
is SO badly printed we are unable to
read it. If the publishers expect us
to exchange they must send US reada-
BILE numbers of their journal.
The Donaldsonville chief., 1871-12-02

The latest instance of editorial cour-
tesy is that of one of our southelfl
Louisiana contemporaries calling am
other sore-headed lunatic."
The Donaldsonville chief., 1871-12-02

Mr.. Daniel Dennett, for twenty-five
years editor of the New Iberia Plan
ters' Banner, has retired from that
journal, and it now passes into tia
hands of Messrs. w. L. Smylie and !.
A. bennett, the latter son of the re-,
tiring editor.
The Donaldsonville chief., 1871-12-02

Terrebonne calls the present termit
nus of its new branch railroad WhisAi
key Point. No doubt very popular
name among the denizens Of that par
ish, but we don't admire it.
The Donaldsonville chief., 1871-12-02

State Senator Wilbur F. BlackmaI
of Claiborne, is spoken of as the prob
able Democratic candidate for Covert
nor next year. +
The Donaldsonville chief., 1871-12-02

A Cairo Coroner's Jury brought in
a verdict that deceased had stultifed
himself with green trash" 1t seems
the man had been reading the Demd-
cratic papers previous to the recent
elections, and after returns came in
the stuff went back on him.
The Donaldsonville chief., 1871-12-02

A young Republican candidate for
Office, in Greene county, New York,
took his defeat so much to heart that
he went on drunken debauch to
drown his sorrow, and died in week.
Before his nomination he had never
tasted drop of liquor.
The Donaldsonville chief., 1871-12-02

A Missouri paper has published the
names of the physicians who have had
bad luck with their patients.
The Donaldsonville chief., 1871-12-02

Large pantaloons threaten to be
stylish again.
The Donaldsonville chief., 1871-12-02

Transient advertisements. 81 per square frEt
insertion; rs cts. each subsequent insertio&.
Communications may be addressed simply
CHIEF, Donaldsonville, La" or to the eda-
tor and proprietor personally.
The States and Union. [volume] (Ashland, Ohio) 1868-1872, 1871-11-01
Mormonism.

The Cleveland Leader is putting
itself forward as the champion Nor.
mon prosecutor. 1t asserts a silly
falsehood when it charges the Demo
cratic party with being friendly to the
Mormon heresy. We r inclined
to think if the harem of Brigham
Young could be transferred TO the city
of Cleveland under an other name, it
might receive the friendly patronage
of the fellow who is believing on the
track of the Saints. The organized
iniquity Of which he complains, has
been very tenderly nursed by the
Republican leaders for the last ten
years. We have no doubt such re
formers would gladly hail the dissolu-
ton of the Mormon social evil, that it
might be transported to the cities and
patronized by the Saints of other
creeds: Go on, gentlemen.
The States and Union. [volume] (Ashland, Ohio) 1868-1872, 1871-11-01
Chicago Letter.

The foil wing letter, received by
Mr.. John Springer, from his brother
residing in Chicago, giving quite a de
tailed account of his experience in the
great fire, has been kindly handed to
us for publication
CHICAGO, Oct. %, 1871.
BROTHER JOHN = was duly
received and I am much obliged for
the interest you took in us. 1 have
not had time for enough sleep since the
fire and it has been next 10 impossible
to write before to-day; but will try to
give you a sketch of my experience
during and after the fire.
1 enclose a rude map showing some
outlines and localities.
The square west of the South Branch
marked burned Saturday night show
where six entire blocks were burned
over. We all thought that a terrible
fire and 1 felt more secure OH Sunday
night because such a large fire had
occurred the night before, and also be-
cause the open space which had been
burned over, and the South Branch
of the river lay between us and the
fire. We heard the alarm and saw
the light about ten o'clock Sunday
night and watched till near eleven,
when we retired-knowing there had
been a very great fire but never once
dreaming hat the flames would cross
the South Branch. We saw that the
fire had made considerable progress
to the eastward, but at the distance
from which we saw it (three miles,,
we did not get any adequate idea of
the horrible speed with which it was
sweeping on toward the heart of the
city.
At half past three in the morning
Maggie walked ma remarking that the
fire had grown much brighter, and
that she could hear such an awful
roaring-like the waves of the sea-
The sight of the wrathful element at
this time gave me the idea of a gener-
al confagration.
We sa. watching for about half an
hour undecided what to do, and not
knowing what danger to fear for our
selves. About this time we learned
that the fire had reached the North
side, and soon after, that the Water
Works had been burned.
We had heard loud explosions for
two hours or more, which led us to
think that efforts were being made to
stay the progress Of the flames by
blowing up a line of buildings; but
on hearing that the Water Works had
gone we felt rather hopeless and began
to pack up our goods, after u hasty
breakfast, which Maggie insisted we
should have as there was n pre- spect OF
not having another meal that day
Soon after daylight I went down half
a mile toward the fire that I might be
sur it was coming in oar direction.
The States and Union. [volume] (Ashland, Ohio) 1868-1872, 1871-11-01

mate branches of the Government de-
ponds upon the impeachment and re-
moval of President Grant. That he
intends to usurp the war and treaty
making power, not only as regards
foreign nations, but matters pertain
ing to the home government, "a NO
longer be doubted. One or two more
steps in the direction of supreme pow
or, and he will dispense Congress with
his bayonets whenever it dares to act
in contravention of his imperial will
He has already construed the Ku-
Klux bill to suit his own purposes.
His proclamation Of martial law is in
defiance of the letter and spirit of the
law, and could be applied to Alleghe-
ny county, Pennsylvania, with as
much propriety, as to Marion county,
South Carolina, where the people
awoke a week ago to the fact that they
had no one under the sun to appeal
to except an absolute military despot,
who despises both law and justice and
tramples liberty under bis feet with as
much contempt as though he was the
Sutton of Turkey and not the Presi-
dent of the United States. If peace
able citizens in one part of the coun-
try are to be placed under the opera
lions of martial law, what is to protect
them from the same fate in others ?
Nothing absolutely nothing. Under
the construction placed by the Presi-
dent upon the Ku Klux bill, every
citizen Of the United States is liable
to seizure, imprisonment or death, in
defiance of law and Constitution, if
Ulysses S. Grant, the military tyrant
and upstart despot, wills it. In this
condition he has placed the people OF
Marion county, South Carolina, who,
according to every iota of authority,
wer, the most ~peaceable and law abb
ding people in the State. Notwith-
standing they are American citizens,
guilty of no crime whatever, they are
deprived of protection, law and liberty
and have a lease upon their lives,
Ringing only upon the uncertain tenure
of the whims of an irresponsible despot
working through his tools, whose fiat Of
death is carried into execution by the
drum top and the crack of the rife.
What an extraordinary spectacle is this
to behold in this country of boosted
liberty and representative government!
With all this before it, can Congress
hesitate a moment to impeaeh and
depose Ulysses S. Grant?
The States and Union. [volume] (Ashland, Ohio) 1868-1872, 1871-11-01

and with scanty clothing. I wanted
to go home again. I could not tell
why, but / went. Perhaps you wont
understand me; but L felt rour7n and
rich before l got home this time (al-
though the chances were that I hadn't
a dollar in the world except a little
ready money in my pocket.
There was my wife alive and we'll,
and she had ~telegraphed me that Dot
was well.
She had become afraid that her
strength would fail and that the
bridges would be blocked by the crowd,
she dropped her burden, except a few
light articles, and after walking some
distance had taken n hack and made
her way to the house of a friend on
the west side.
We now engaged a couhtrymaD,
with his wagon, who had come TO the
| city for some of his friends hut could
not find them, exhumed our goods and
soon landed them safely at u friends,
snd after getting together the one
large trunk, (the other had been stolen
during the night and our bed clothes,
we commenced boarding.
We are keeping house now, but 1
can't tell you about that now. We
have had money enough for all press
ing needs. 1t is not a pressing neces-
sity to have a,ehange of underclothing
or more furniture than a table and a
chair for each person in the family, if
one has a floor to sleep on and some
thing between one and the floor to
soften it q little. =.
Our money IN the Bank is safe, and
we will be able to draw some of it
this week. My occupation is not
gone, as is hat of thousands who are
poorer. Our health is good, and
we have many reasons to thank
God. We are located on the West
Van Buren, ST., 3rd door east of
Marshfield Avenue. The house is new
and has no number on it.
We will probably have our rooms
comfortably furnished in two or three
weeks.
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