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The Orangeburg news. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, 1872-11-23
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Hints to :Tl,,yeIers,


Eat Contributor gives the following
excellent rules to be observed By railroad
passengers a. bas
Always attend to checking yo4rselG
If you feelilike swearing at the baggage
master, cheek, yourself. If you havn't .
trunk full of cieah clothes 70 check,
you at least should be adequate 10 4
check shirt. I.a1 & eriVpet !
moment, feave plug hat m The seat,
some one will come along and ait down
on it, thereby preventing your hat from
being stolen. N tt'11-''''
Passengers cannot lay over for another
train without making arrangements with
the conductor. Ifa man has been on
train for a week or So, no conductor
should allow him to lay over for another
on any account.
Ladies without escort in travelling
should Be very particular with whom !.
they become acquainted. They Hesaan' needn't 8 i
be so particular with those With wboR
they are una,quaintcd.
Keep your head aud arms inside the
car windows, if you would keep yqyf
head aud carry arms aa
Never talk on politics, it encourage
some 'nimskul' to take vote Of the pas
scnsers.
No gentleman will occupy more than
one seat at time, unless he be twins.
A gentleman should not spit tobacco
juice III the cars where there are ladies'.
lie can let drive out Of the car EindoE
while the train is ata station, is tho Hi.s.
form is crowded.
Always show your ticket whenever
the conductor asks for it. IF you get
out of humor about it, don't show it. siii q
Never smoke in car where tIsre are
ladies'. Get the conductors teatn.p the
ladies out before lighting your cigar.
Never use profane language isshs
car. Go out on the platform. Pro.
family is never thrown away on i brake.
man. t,i2
If you cannot sleep yourself do not
distuyb the 'sleepsrs.'
Lookout. .tor,pick pockets. Pickpoekets
arc never in the cars, you know, ss yog
have to look ont for them. ~ Z
Provide yourself with sleeping bsrths
before starting. Nc careful man wiz
start on journey without good supply
of sleeping berths. IN. B.-Those puk
up in fat bottles are the best, as thoy
are easily carried in the pocketl
Always be at the railrssd statiea in
good time to take the trqip. Better be
an hour too early than minute too late,
unless you are on your way to be hanged.
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handsome face and 6gnreG
IT,, :,
him and noarer I,a c.e,,,5 49, 49,
Two wero INST n,;dno aaoe,,u, A., sh:,
handsome. Cecil uonls ~ tho npt,inos
of a splendid figure, and soc . tht beauti,
full face, with its creany r :; e5nlsxon 5aa ns&u,
velvet brown eve, o,a nrona n,o,,,.
and ovor oil tbo
brown hair
Asburv,s arm inst tbon wa. a. ho,
chair and sbs was sm;lb,s ;sb;s 9. 90
and holding his sleeve n bor ;owo,lo,
hand 7
WHO is she p asked Cecil
sAsburv Kni.bs,s wiGa
sHis wiier
Yes. Thev were m,ry;sd I,s, f,,,
and have lust returned froo, tbair br;l =
tonr,
She had heard everv word. but como
how the theatre and ia aazz,ioe, l;sh,
moved a!ar Off the mp.ic sounded f,int
and suldue J. md s,s went mocl,nr;o,,,,
h,ck "a bor no.;,;o, rnn,hosaa
Jazo, ~
~,
moo, .hono ~ ro,x,, .;,o .;n,as .
,ua roo;, o,,,a c,n,h 49,, a.l- =
o,; ,,,,.,so -, 10 a&
yoor ,na
To- o.o, ,,,uo, .u
.ho c..;i;,nt 49,,
o,n+. ;,,, -, :,
sbr hoc,n .,d s,no,
IfAsburv kn:gb. had a,r.a to ,;s,0n
he would hnv. unlorstooa oh ,ha ,oar.
dimmed so many eyes when she had
oo,o,,,J,1 "a a., ~; q,
"'J "'' s''u'
'Oh, ASbury it is like vail from n
breakinp bca.ta' DID von e,o, b.or INV
thing SO sad and sweet
But Ceci! did not forget herself. She
went on with her past untik The act
was tinlshci without d s ~ sss,s5,A=k ness.
ihen, us the caitain rome siogiy up
and she came forward there Eka hush
her ia:e was strangely sai and beau
' Il.
1Ao orehcster began, but she stepped
forward ana "aVod her hahn, saying
soh'cthihS IN n low voice.
hch shc 5. sppcu oacS pace or two,
ana al "''h'' peg IN '"a' sau' sweet, o'i
'au' 'hcer 'i' ba'sles.
licr Eo''c was sweet 1Fh an c!a'r =;
'u' mere was " s''n'"c[ O! tears within
Hcr eyes anu So''e'hihS bitterly SAD and
h'p''eSS "oo"' me pretty mouth.
And so It's hcttcr we lived rs We did,
,n, ne ,s'', s',''"eF "I love ,; iogIfnrr,
rest, ~ y
Ere the coming Of wintery wcahe".'
Asbury wondered and shudLered for
her great burning eyes we're turned to-
ward him, and her whole voice fraueht
with a s,rln.e. and at that moment IN
unl:.thoma5le meanius.
This soon ended, and without smile
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An old eolored m;n;s,or :, s, : 80. !. Z. ),

An old colored minister, in q sermon
on He'll victqred it as a region ofice
aud snow, where the damned frose
through eternity. When priyately ask
ed his purpose in representing Gehenps
~ this way, he said, i don't dare 80 tell
them people nothing else. Why, ifI
were to say that hell was warm some OF
them old rhematio niggaa would Be wan
ting to start down there the very first,
frost"
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Here, you young rasca J, walk up and
give an account of yourself. Where
have you been 2 After the girls,
father Did you know me 70 d,
SO when l was boyp No, sir; but
mother did
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a Leavenworth editor sat down in a
reserved scat already occupied by hor-
net. He stands up when scissoring his
editorials now.
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Two editors ia Montana have theip
print shops on the elcctioa.:: ,e3 60
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master at most but these maF break
hearts, ar ell them with untold joy
Mary Kyle DaVas.
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Death OF Thomas buchanan Read.

Deutu Oh THOMAS huen1nan hebus .
From the New York Evening Post.l ,..6g i
Very many persons on both sides Of
the Atlantic will learn with regret the
death of Thomas Buchanan Read, which
took place at the Astor House in this
city on Saturday night, May llth. Mr..
Read had returned to the United States
but fortnight ago, after an absence OF
several years, during which he had lived
continuously in Rome. The Roman CHI
mate had greatly impaired his health,
and predisposed him to fall ready
victim to pneumonia, the consequence
of severe cold contracted in England
while awaiting the departure of the
Scotia, which brought him to these
shores. He suffered much on the yoy-
age, and upon his arrival here was taken
to the Astor House, where he gradually
sank away. Mr.. Read had just passed
the fftieth year of his age. i,.rl #,
Yariously gifted, he held an enyiable
rank both among the poets and the
painters of his time. Of his pictures,
1.-THE Lost Pleiad and Undine were
perhaps the best His painting of "Sher-
idan and his Horse has, however, at
tanned much higher popularity, while
one of his earlier paintings, in which
the fairies are represented as coming
upon a human skull, has been lost sight
of altogether. Nothing could be more
daintily conceived or more gracefully
executed than Puck, wearing morning
glory for cap, looking in wonderment
at this ghastly relic of mortality. In
literature, Mr. Reads New Pastoral I"
was his longest poem, aud the story of
the removal Of Pennsylvanian family
to the prairies of the West, with all its
episodes of Christmas-tide and Harvest
home and Fourth of July, was well told (;
but it was in tender lyrics that he ex-
celled. The exquisite verses, begin
ming
"The maid that binds the warrior's sash, -
and the musical stanzas in which he de-
scribes the "Vesuvian Bay" entitled
Drifting have been learned by note
by many who are ignorant OF their au-
thorship. But in poetry, as in painting,
his most popular effort was not his best.
The song of Sheridan's Ride" struck a
chord in the bosom of the nation, and
gave him in day a wider reputation
than he had previously won by years Of
consistent and conscientious devotion to
art. % naa5 l. t
Years ago, when he lived in Florence,
and more recently, in Rome, his house
was the gathering point of the American
and English sojourners in these capitals,
and his death will make void in the
fora;1n ooo;afv of Roma of which .ha
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The Prussinn NeedIe.Gun.

A correspondent of the Cologne Ga
zette complains of the delay of the mill
tary authorities at Berlin in adopting a
new breach-loader for the German army.
He saws that the War Office still unfor-
tunately preserves its attachment for the
old needle gun, and that the order issued
at the beginning of this year for con-
tinuing the alterations in that gun which
were commenced before the Franco
German war, shows that the prepara-
tions for introducing the new rifle are
very much behindhand, and that mean
while the Government is disposed to re-
tain the present weapon. The corre-
spondent thinks it would have been better
to arm the troops with the Chassepot
hundreds Of thousands Of these rifles
being at this moment in the German
artillery stores) until new rifle is de-
cided upon. The German army would
then in any case have had a better
weapon than the patched up needle
gum The faults Of this rifle were
recognized so long ago as l860-6l. 1t is
too heavy, has too great calibre, and
fires too slowly, The first alterations in
the gun were made in those years, but
unfortunately the same defects re-
mained. In 1865. when the Jagers re-
quired a new rife, they we're supplied
with a needle-gun, which, however, con-
tained the old defects. After the Aus
trian war of 1866 the needle-gun obtained
high reputation, but for a short time
only. In the spring of 1861. France
adopted the Chassepot, and it very soon
became known at Berlin that this rifle
possessed considerable advantages over
the needle gun. Notwithstanding this,
the authorities could not make up their
minds to adopt a new weapon. But it
was necessary to do something in the
matter, which grew more pressing every
day; and the War Office accordingly
adopted the new alterations known as
Becks, whose completion was inter-
rupted by the outbreak of the French
war. During the war the defects of the
needle gun became evident to all, if they
had not been so already, and a commit
tee was to have been appointed at Yer
sailles to deliberate on the adoption of
new weapon for the infantry. But even
now no conclusion has been arrived at
on the subject, which is the more sur
prising since the French succeeded, in
a twelve month after the Austrian war,
in constructing and arming the troops
with the Chassepot, rifle which in many
respects is better than the needle gun.
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ABOVE THE CLOUDS.
An interesting Narrative.

Mr.. Robert J. Bell, an Assistant OBJ
server at the United States Signal sta
ton on the summit of Mount Washing
ton, writes to the Philadelphia Bulletin
an account of his everyday experience
above the clouds. He was detailed to
take the place of William Stevens, who
died at the station in mid-winter with no
friend near him save his solitary com
panion, Sergeant Hearne. A party of
stalwart mountaineers climbed to the
summit and took the body down for
burial. They placed it in box fitted
to runners, which was permitted to run
down the mountain side, the men hold
ing on to ropes attached to the rear to
regulate the motion and direct the
course. Mr.. Bell says:
1--WE occupy the depot of the Noun
tain railroad, in which we have two
rooms partitioned off (ten by twelve),
securely chained to the rocks, so that
the wind may not blow us away One
we use as a kitchen and dining-room,
and the other as parlor, bed and dress
room We also occupy the latter as
our Office in which we keep our barom-
eter and telegraphic instruments, the
wire connecting with Littleton, N H.,
by which we are not wholly excluded
from civilization, although must admit
that visitors are very few--not one since
my glorious ascent, tfi Via .Js.ts.s
1--WE generally supply ourselves in
September with canned provisions sutli-
cient to last throughout the winter,
reckoning at the same time to give our
visitors square meal when they come.
Our time we must occupy chiefly by
reading and studying, for our outdoor
amusements are very scarce. In case
we do have the pleasure of going outside
to ramble amid the snow and ice on the
rocks, we are obliged to take advantage
of the same, and exercise ourselves by
hauling ice,frost-work and snow, so that
we may procure the water necessary for
our cooking and drinking purposes, as
the weather is very severe on the summit,
the thermometer since my arrival having
been most of the time below zero, and
the wind at a hurricane.
II will give you small idea of how
we felt, the thermometer standing forty
nine degrees below zero, and the wind
raging at hundred and twenty miles
per hour. The cold weather which |
have reference to occurred on the 9TH OF
March, and the mode we adopted to
keep ourselves warm was to bring all
the coats and overcoats into requisition
during the day, with two large coal fires
continually burning At night we took
advantage of our "little bed " (which is
not bad one), with covering enough to
suffocate any man in ordinary winter
weather, and then l must confess we
suffered with the cold. 1t was the cold
est time that my comrade and ] ever ex.
perienced We do not mind during the
day the thermometer standing ten below
zero, if the wind does not blow too hard
for then we can have little holiday by
going outside. But at night, unless the
wind is blowing at least Sixty miles an
hour, we cannot sleep well, for we are
accustomed to hurricanes. +" $500
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4 PARLIAMENTARY LAW.
samples from Atterbury. aud Pit

samples from Atterbury. aud Pitt.
From Temple Bari
OF the wit that can convey reproof
with the keenest sting, and yet without
giving, ofense, unless he who takes it
makes it, there are numerous examples
in both houses. The very best, or GER
tainly among the very best of those
specimens came in the lords, from Bishop
Atterbury; in the commons, from Pitt.
The former example is well-known, but
it will bear recalling to the memory of
those who may have let it slip from their
me morabilia. Atterbury had observed,
of some bin before the lords, that he had
in previous session, prophesied that an
attempt would be made to bring in this
BILL and he regretted that his prophecy
had come true. On this, ever buster
inG and laundering Coningsby started to
his feet and .ridiculed the prelate for
llikening himself to q prophet. " But,
for my part" said Coningsby, Con
know what prophet to liken him to, un-
less it be that furious prophet Balaam,
who was reproved by his own ass" To
this, ever cool and selfpossessed, After
bury replied:f "Since the noble lord
has discovered in our manners such a
similitude, / am well content to be COM
pared with the prophet Balaam. But,
my lords, | am at loss how to make
out the other part of the parallel. am
sure that / have been reproved by no.
body but his lordshipl''1i leHo .rfI (
The elder Pitt was as brilliant in the
commons as he afterwards became, when
Earl of Chatham, in the lords. In both
houses, he gave many instances, We take
Al characteristic one from the commons.
| In debate Mr.. Moreton happened to
say, King, lords and commons" add
ing, as he looked at Pitt, :" or, as the
honorable gentleman would prefer to put
| it, commons, lords and king. Pitt
arose; he had often, he told the house,
been surprised; now his blood ran cold.
He moved that the words be taken down
The clerk of the house obeyed, and al
| the words of Pitt, solemnly uttered,
" bring them to mel" Mr.. Moreton fell
into such fright that he appealed to
THE speaker, protesting that he had
really meant nothing. King, lords
eommonsl Lords, king, commonsl Com
mons, lords, king Iria junctO in uno
meant nothing; indeed | meant moth
ing!' He looked at Pitt, and Pitt grave
ly rejoined: II don't wish to push the
1 matter further The moment man ac
knowledges his error, he ceases to b'
guilty. I have great regard for the
honorable member, and, as an instance
of that regard, l give him this advice
Whenever that member means nothing
/ recommend him to say nothing ~
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snlI Anecdote Of, MaIiDran.

From Finley's Magazine
The wear and tear of the rehearsals
of the Maid of Artois had also wea-
ried her; for, being determined that it
should succeed, she threw her whole
heart and soul into the wearying work,
and really "stage-managed every
scene and would not let anything pass
until she was thoroughly assured that
all danger of failure, or even Of cold
reception, had vanished. AT the end of
the first act, those who were most inti-
mately acquainted with her perceived
that she was becoming exhausted, and
were hOrrifed at finding the audience,
as most audiences generally are, dis
nosed to be more than usually exacting
in demanding encores after the greatest
efforts to please them, without any COM
mon sense-if it ever could be exer-
cised-being allowed the slightest op-
portunity of exerting itself. Sointense
was Malibrans "pluck," which is the
only word that can describe her energy
ariGht. that she would not give way,
hut went through the second act with a
determination that said, Beaten Will
not be!n She, however, remembered
that an immense trial awaited her in
the finale Of the third acts and finding
her strength giving way she sent for Mr..
Balfe and Mr.. Bum, and told them that
unless they did as they were bid, after
all the previous success. the end might
result in failure; but she said; Manage
10 let me have pot of porter somehow
or ether before have to sing, and Will
eet you an eneere which will bring down
the house. How TO manage this was
difficult, for the scene was 50 set that 1t
seemed scarcely possible to hand her
nm '1th Z pewter without its being wit
messed by the audience, and thus the
one step from the sublime to the ridicu-
lious being realized nAIter much con-
sultation. Malibran having been assured
that her wish should be tnlhned, 4 was
arranged that the pot Of porter should
be handed up. to her through trap. in
the stage at the moment when Jules
had thrown himself upon her body,
supposing that life had fed and Mr..
Templeton was drilled into the manner
In which be should 50 manage 70 conceal
the necessary arrangement that the
audience would never suspect what was
going on. At the right moment q
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friendly hand put the foaming pewter
through the stage to be swallowed at a
draft, and success was wonl Well might
the writer above quoted have said that
the finale must have been heard. No
power OF language man can use can
ever describe how it was delivered. Mali.
bran however, had not kover. estimated
her own strength. She knew 1t wanted
but this flip to carry her through. She
had resolved to ohave an encore,
and she had it in such a fashion
as made the groofs of s"0ld Drury"
ring as lit had never rung before.
On the repetition Of the opera, and
afterward, n a different s arrangement
Of the stage was made, andsa property
calabush, containing pot of por.er,
was used; but, although the result was
constantly won, Malibran always said it
was not half as mice" nor did her any
thingJike the good it would have done
if she could onlyhave it out of the pew
ter tN .a F.tf A s.s f
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AneedOte of the Empress Maria
fTharRaa

In 1857, in the month of July, the
Empress Maria Theresa was walking
alone in the park of Schonbrun, reading,
as it was her wont, a bundle of papers
she carried under her arm She hap
pened to pass by an old cavalier of the
guard stationed there to watch the ave-
nue.. She noticed the good man was
snoring. She called him several times,
and succeeded in waking him only by
shaking her papers. She then told him
to try and overcome sleep, in order to
avoid the punishment inflicted on drowsy
sentinels. The OLD reister having
thanked her his very best, she asked him
if he knew the empress by sight. He
answered that fifteen or sixteen years
ago he had seen her at Inspruck, but
that ever since he had not had the hap
piness to lay his eyes on her. Wellp
said she, II am the empress; do you
recognize me2" "Whatl is that you "
replied the old grey bearded reister..
would never have suspected it. oh,
how fat you have grown, When ] saw
you at Inspruck you were, on nay honor,
pretty; but now truly you are very much
changed. ." At this undoubtedly candid
answer, the great woman took no um-
brage; on the contrary she burst out
Laughing, aud paid the sincerity of the
good lout with shining ducats; and re-
turning to the castle she told how, for
certain this time, she had talked with a
man who did not dissemble truth.
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Beggars on Horseback - A s0uti
ii American Scene. .U.- aF

Beggars on Horseback - A south
POI American Scene. s3i
Rev. Thomas Carter writes to the
Methodist from Buenos Ayres: WI
Everything is said to be done here on
horseback. The shepherd watches his
sheep on horseback, and when his sheep
are quiet there he sleeps. His wife and
children visit their neighbors on horse
back. Living miles apart, there Is no
other mode. tits a common thing. TO
meet beggar on horseback, smoking
his paper cigar. He lifts your knoeker
without dismounting, and waits, still
mounted, to receive that charity which
is twice blessed. You go or send to the
door, and he waits upon his steed until
he receives what you wish to give. You
must never expect him to dismount. A
friend of mine offered one Of these beg
gars ON horseback some food.
" No quierO, ,SeRor."
What do you want, then2
" Plata para segarillaS, por Ell amor
de "a Virgea," m
The independent rogue had bread
enough and to spare. He wanted, for
the love of the Virgin, some money to
buy his cigars. But, after all, beggar
on horseback in South America is not
so ridiculous as it seems. The gaucho
has never been accustomed to walk any
distance, and an old horse is worth SO
little, and SO easily finds scanty living,
winter and summer, by grazing in the
outskirts of the town, that the posses
sion of one is not considered any dimin-
ution of claim to poverty.