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The Orangeburg news. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, 1873-12-06
Curiosities of ysoyunrnlalisns lon l avr
,s They Read Newspapers

Uncle Ned first. hunts up q faany
thing, then laughs With a will. A
Aunt Sue first reads the stories, tlieD
turns to che marriages, births and deaths.
1.-THE laborer looks only at the ssaanisss
hoping so fud o better opening fh his
business. 30 e ,iiGGrr n ehae ]
Miss Flora seeks out the new adssr-
tisements to ascertain the newest inapoe.
tations of bonuets ndpkids. fli /" q
aq Mr., Pleasure Seeker surns 10 chs
a,nuseme mt columns and decides Thieh
entertainment will afford him theI gssssq
est enjoyment 9lii 4iii . ,S'q''J lefs,'fasf
Miss Prim drops tear--frpt, oses
the marriages, then over the deathse
'sfor," says She, tona is as bad asthe
other" " iaonH ga psiE les-',}' - isitish
Mr.. slowly examines thD
editorials, its rhetoricss ssyntax and lsaios
then glances at the correspondence final
ly returns to his Latin and quickly fos
getslwhat he has read. ..9h',9 ~
Mr.. Politician commences with she
editorials, then scans qthe telegraph, 50
ding his perusal with the speeches quo
ted. .tctsGaIi sa1fG sgh aItsl tlei4sai
stMr. Marvellous looks for accidents,
murders, inqucsts aud deaths, reads slts
county record, and ends with the stories
in search Of something sensational. g q
| But why extend the lists? Each ip
diyidual reads forhinisslff Nif each
does not,6nd aicolu.nnior tnoTa To- hia
particular taS 9, the paper is insipid, tftc,
editor, lazy and deserving ofi'csnsuFa. e Z
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1873-07-11
DE FACTO AND DEFUNCTO.

r. When Gen. Ames was first appointed
Provisional Governor of Mississippi,
Gov Ben. Humphreys, who had been
recently elected and installed in Office,
was exercising the executive functions.
Gov. Charles Clark, however, who had
had been taken from the capital pris-
oner to Fort Pulaski, while trying to
exercise the functions of the Office in a
way which time and experience have
since proven to be the best way to
speedy and successful reconstruction,
claimed to be the Governor de .jure, and
used to tell his warm personal friend
Humphreys as much, when the latter
would reply to Clark in a friendly way,
We'll, you mny be Governor dc i,tre,
but I'm Governor dc .facto. After
awhile came the appointment OF Ames,
and in due time the latter, with bayo-
nets at his back, oustel Humphreys
from the Governors mansion, and him
self became Governor dc fdctO. Some
days after Humphreys was pushed
out Clark and humphreys met, when
the following conversation cnsued
Humphreys--Wel Clark, how about
it now, old fellow? Some time ago you
claimed to be Governor dc jure, and ]
was Governor de .fdcto. Now Ames is
Governor dc .tacto, and if you are Gov
ernor dc .jure, then what am 1
Clark-Well, Ben, you're Governor de
ftinct!
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1873-07-11
"A YANISHED ILLUSION.

One is almost sure to be disappointed
when he first enters the interior of Jeru-
salem. However carefully he may be
preparedagainst surprise, he will scarce
ly escape it in more directions than one.
The filth of the city will surprise and
annoy him. One who comes to Jeru-
salem from Egypt can endure great
deal in this direction, but even he will
have attained to high degree of equa-
nimity if hedoes not occasionally lose his
temper amidst the superabounding filth
of the city. And what is worse, it seems
to gather most about the most sacred
places. You cannot: with any comfort,
approach through the old bazaar of the
cotton merchant what was doubtless
the Beautiful Gate" of the temple
without holding your breath. The Mo
hammedans, while guarding with the
keencst vigilance the sacred inclosure
from the pollution of infidel feet, seem
quite regardless of the intrusion of filth,
and it often gives one relief, when trav-
cling these dirty streets, to think that
the Jerusalem of the Bible lies half
hundred feet or more beneath the pres
ent surface.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1873-07-11
CANS.

A New York letter-writer furnishes
some very interesting gossip about
Astor, Vanderbilt and Stewart, the three
richest men in America. Astor's wealth
is mainly in real estate and revenues !;
Vanderbilt's in railway stocks and divi-
dends; Stewards in goods, houses,
stores, factories, lands and stocks. The
aggregate wealth of them all is supposed
to be between seventy-five and one hun
dred millions. Astor lives plainly; Van
derbilt occupies three-story brick
house on third-class street; Stewart
lives in marble palace on Fifth avenue,
one of the finest residences in the world.
Astor is native of New York, and q
large, heavy man of 20, with strong
features, and rubicund face. He is
an Independent Methodist. The Com
modore, alb a native of New York, is a
tall, slim, handsome, proud-looking man
of nearly so, straight as an arrow.
Stewart, a native of the North Ireland,
is a medium-sized man, rather slender
and tall, with a face like parchment,
which gives the impression of being
hard up. Astor has heirs Vanderbilt,
children Stewart is childless. Astor
gave couple of hundred thousand dol
lars to the Astor library, and two golden
candlesticks, nine feet high, to Trinity
Church. The other two are inclined to
be close-fisted. Stewart is the scholarly
man; Vanderbilt the shrewd man ;
Astor the man of the world. Such are
the three wealthiest men in America.
Are they the happiest?
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1873-07-11
4 TERRIBLE PUNISHMENT.


Mr.. James Greenwood has published a
frightful account of the silent system,
which is in operation mt the Holloway
Model Prison, in London:
II is an offense for prisoner to speak
one word, and he is never addressed ex-
cept in whispers, so that he may be in
prison two years without hearing the
natural sound of the human voice. The
effects of all this is so terrible ON the
mind that the prisoners will speak out
in desperation, at the risk of any pun
ishment, rather than endure that horri-
BILE silence. t'
The prisoners never see one another,
but remain in perpetual solitude. One
poor wretch, driven to desperation by
nine months of solitude and silence,
recklessly broke out in Mr.. GreenwoOd's
presence:
"For Gods sake, Governor, put me
in another cell. Put me somewhere
else. I've counted the bricks in the cell
1 am in till my eyes ache" .....
The request of the tortured wretch was
refused.
There is fine hole in each cell, and,
as the wardens wear shoes with India
rubber soles, the prisoner can never be
sure of being alone. -.-a..v
Those condemned to the treadmill
have to ascend 1, 200 steps every alter
nate twenty minutes for six hours. And
this in place so hot and close that
prisoners often lose in perspiration
three stones III as many months.
Every day the prisoners are taken to
a chapel so arranged that they can see
no one save the chaplain, and him only
through an iron grating. And thus is
the order of devotion observed. War
dens are constantly on the watch lest for
a single instant they, through the whole
of the service, depart from the rule of
"eyes right" They must look stea d.
itS'iy ae oHe Pieitchef HuSo i"ioo ahu
lower their prayer-book with the elbows
squared, and all at once, like soldiers at
drill. They may not scrape their feet
without having afterwards to explain
the movement. They scarcely wink an
eye or sigh without danger, or rebuke,
or punishment. God help them, poor
wrotches
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1873-07-11
EFFECTS OF RAILROADS ON THE
.. VALUE OF LdNDS

Gen. w. s. Rosecrans contributes an
original article to Van Nostrand's En-,
gincering Magazine for June, on the
Effects of Railroads on tho Value of
Lands" Gen. Rosecrans believes that
these effects, like all others, must be
ruled by fixed laws. These he expresses
in mathematical formulae, from which he
deduces rules for calculating the cash
value of an acre of land for any kind of
crop; for finding the greatest distance
from market for which any product will
pay; for finding at what distance from
market the acre ceases to have any
value and for the solution of similar
problems. As specimen of his con-
illusions, we quote these sentences:
A single line of 400 miles of railroad
proceeding from general market at the
averages assumed, adds $685., ,592, ,32O to
the value of the lands alone; which is
an average of $685., 1856 per mile Of road.
Were we to consider the first 200 miles
only, the gross gain to property would
TIE THREE WEALTLiIEST AWERL-
be $342, 1892, 100; tho average per acre
$45.36; and the average per mile Of
road SILL, 1858. And for road 100
miles long from the market, the gross
gain to the lands would be $220, 992, 729,
or s., ,200, ,927 per mile of road.
Should any reader be filed with sur
prise and amazement at these enormous
sums, let him observe the careful steps
and moderate averages used in obtain
ing them, and he will see that they are
the expression of an incontrovertible
law. Nor will its verify be materially
affected by local variations from our
averages. No one, perhaps, dies exactly
at the time computed for him by the
tables Of morality, yet the average per
son of his class never outlives the time
computed by the tables. .s aor p.
The immense gains to landowners
thus shown will be participated i'll by
the State, which gains to its taxable
property the same sum, $393, 592 800.
This, yielding from taxation net of
s1perhundred, would produce 81, 935, 923,
equal to a capital Of S65, sos, TT, bear
ing 6 per cent per amum in perletuo; !;
or Sl53, 996 per mile of road.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1873-07-11
CASTELAR,.

Emilio CASTELAR,, the Spanish orator,
has made history his special study, and
it is of immense assistance 10 him in his
speeches. He has travelled much,
though never yet outsiou OF Europe.
Rome, Berlin, Paris and London are
as familiar to him as Madrid. Writes
World correspondent 4" He often
speaks of New York, with its great
newspapers and its great Publishing
houses, such rs the Messrs. Harper,
with whom he is under contract. Their
enterprise and iberality, so different to
that of Spanish houses. has secured biz
cooperation in their Monthly on terms
highly remunerative to him. Between
his engagement with them and the cor
respondence of two South American
journals who pay him $50 each for a BIZ
weekly letter. he was adding some
thing like $13,O year to the 81, 500
he received for his professorship of his
story in the University Of Madrid. All
literary work he has had to lay aside
since he entered office, and drop down TO
the miserable pittance Of $1,000 year
the salary attached to the Spanish
Ministry OF State"
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1873-07-11
A TEXAS WEDDING.

Glove laughs at locksmiths," is q
saw as true rs it is old. But We do not
remember ever having read of more
forcible Illustration Of its truth than is
conveyed in the following extract
from a letter from Bonham, Texas !:
"On Sunday, the Sth inst, a couple
Mr.. Igo and Miss Tefteiler--ag re-
spectiyeIy 10 and 13, who had eloped
from schoolat Paris, Texas, went. to a
preacher near the Red river, in this
(Fannin) county, and requested the
man of God to unite them in the holy
bonds of wedlock. The minister, OBJ
serving the youthfulness of the twain,
declined to tie the knot. The young
couple, not to be foilcd in their pur-
pose, proposed to the minister to cross
the river and perform the ceremony in
the Indian Territory. To this he as
sented but, there being no boat OBJ
tainable, they were again balked. How
ever, where there's a win there's a
way and, at the suggestion of the
young lady, large cottonwood hog was
rolled into the stream, which the deter
mined lovers mounted and drifted out
into the river. The minister stepped
upon a stump which stood in the waters
edge, and, reciting the marriage cere-
mony, pronounced the twain one flesh.
Mr., Igo then returned to Texas with his
baby bride, and they Immediately EN-
bsrked for Mckinney, Collin county,
where they intend making their future
home. Altogether, it was the most ex-
traordinary wedding that ever took
plsce in these parts, and has been q
fruitful source Of gossip ever SINCE"
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1873-07-11
CURRENT ITEMS.

MAcMAHoN's Cabinet contains five
journalists. Y.ia s1
NEW YORK has more than ], 600 un-
derground residences. ~
THERE are $3.50. notaries public in
the State of Michigan.
ALLIGATOR skin travelling bags are
among the latest novelties.
The census shows that there are
81, ,814 more men than women in Wis
collsin.
FROM 100000 to 10000, 900 sheep
are boiled down annually for their tai
low in Buenos Ayres. --@-
A MoUNTEBANK at Vienna is exhibit
ing q piece of leather which he vouches
for as the work of President Grant.
EVERY Indian band is ready to raise
the war-whoop, and, should a war be
probable, every red man will be ready
to hatch-it. TYf,f q ,t.ss1 0i ,..i s,
The European marine budgets for
1873 amount to $35, 5,256, 1870 for
France, s26, 56s, ,215.9O for Russia, and
IS, 479, ,912. so for Germany.
T THE present population of the princi-
pal cities of Great Britain is as follows:
London, 1856, ,O72 Liverpool, sos, ,274
Glasgow, 49s, 462; Manchester, 354, ,O57;
Dublin, 314,666; Edinburgh, 20S, ,553.
THERE are 100000 dwellings, in the
United States. Admitting that on
the average they cost 81 600 each, which
is very low estimate, we have 81, 600,
OOO, 900 invested in the dwellings Of the
people. sft .i I'D :
TIE cotton belt Of the South en-
braces an area of three hundred millions
of acres capable of raising cotton
enough to make shirt for the globe.
England uses a Thousand millions OF
pounds q year. std5I {rtssrz
SECRETARY RICHARDSON has given no.
tice that the $50 bonds of 1862, cou-
pons registered, evil be paid on and
after the 9th day of September, 1873,
and that the interest on said bonds will
cease on that day." The total amount
is so, 900, 900.
UNTIL recently it was supposed that
water had little motion below fifty
fathoms. 1t is now known, however,
that in certain localities there is motion
in the water at depth of 500 fathoms,
and this motion has proved serious
source of injury to submarine cables.
THE Russian Lnvalide of a very re-
cent date publishes long, descriptive,
and statistical article on Khiva. 1t esti-
mates the number of inhabitants at
$40, 900, and of the capital at 20, 600.
The citadel in the center of the city was
mounted with twenty cannon at thecom-
mencement of the war. The Khan can
muster 5000 soldiers in uniform, and
armed with percussion rifles, but quite
untrustworthy. He relied chiefly on the
inaccessibility of the capital from the
Russian side.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1873-07-11
VARIETIES.

The first man ionized-Dsniei m Ia
den.
A SCHOOL for vocalists- Sing Sing
Academy.
A FOWL farmer must find his business
pleasant is a source Of such eggs-t-
see.
IF Cuba should throw out bait for
annexation, would Secretary Fish bite
at it?
YouNa men should practice riaing
calves before they try the yeal-oci-
pede. egest,s st
The "redingote is the new style of
dress in readiness for ladies who intend
to go it. ra s e
The highest Office in the gift Of the
people-The weather-signa station at
Pixies Peak.
PRAY, Jack, why did you marry
such a wife?" Why" said he, Il
thought You should have known, that Of
all evils we should choose the least"
WHAT is the difference between good
dog-show and bad one 2 When it il q q
good one the dogs go to the show,
but if bad one, the show goes to the
dogs. eso hF4 'si, ~
IT Is sad, but true, that the initials of
Sons of Temperance spell "s-o-t," and
that those of the Independent Order Of
Good Templars stand for 81 once got
tight" 9t.a 80 ~ ys,f
cir man bequeathed you ten dol
lars, would you pray for him ?" said
Sunday school teacher to pupil
"No, said he, would pray for an
other like him."
"THERE's one kind of ship Ialways
steer clear Of" said an old bachelor sea-
captain, and that's courtship cause
on that ship there's always two mates
and no captain"
IT augurs well for the esprit of our
army that Gen. Augur has issued an or
der complimenting Mackenzie and his
command for kicking up such an excite
ment among the Kickapoos.
A, LADY residing in Lansingburg
hailed passing car with her little son,
the other morning, to see him safely on
the horse-car- for q trip to Troy. He
stepped ON board and scrambled for the
front of the car. As he was going, his
mother said: "Why, aren't you going
to kiss your mother before you go ?"
The little fellow was so delighted at the
prospect of a ride, and in such hurry,
that he hastily rejoined, looking back
excitedly "Mr. Conductor, won't you
kiss mother for me?" And of course
the passengers couldn't keep from smil-
iup
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1873-07-11

In truth, all literary men who have
bias in favor of living must live by other
means than pure literature. To earn
81, 600 year is the maximum for the
best of them, and this requires wear Of
nerves and brain that may not be long
endured.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1873-07-11

By recent act of the Cortes, Spain
is to be divided up into q confederation
of States, which will .-bes entitled to
elective representatives, something after
the manner Of this country. The
foreign policy Of the country is to be
the same as heretofore. The discipline
of the army is to be rigid. Slavery is
to be abolished in all her possessions.
Martial law will be Immediately pro-
claimed against the Carlist insurgents.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1873-07-11
OLD KILBORNES WILL.


OLD KILBORNE'S WILL.
Old Walter Kilborne died, and left a
fortune that aggregated nearly million.
The gloomy old house which had been
the family residence for many year,
stood in one of the down town streets
that had once been the site of the FASH
ionable residence of New York city. But
the wealthy had long ago removed the
avenues, leaving the perverse millionaire
to hold his own among the growing
business of the once aristocratic thor
oughfare. A bunch of black Grape still
hung on the bell knob, four days after
the funeral, when a bent, willy looking
man pulled it. Being admitted, he was
shown into the sdingy room which Mr..
KiIborne had in his life r,sed as an office.
This bent and willy looking man was
Lawyer Whittemore. .psqg7 .e)9sdsT q,
"Good morning, y said the lawyer, as
Robert, grandchild of the dead mill
ionaire, a young man who showed plainly
enough the marks of rough social usage,
entered and extended his hand rather
istlessly,
"Good morning" was the reply.
"Weli 2" laF~ al z.rz s1F.
"Well ?" echoed the lawyer. g .
"You got my note p
"Asking me to meet you here Yes
what do you want ?"
"You drew my grandfather's will 2"
81 did, two days before he died"
"What were its contents p Al
81 have no right to tell you,'' and
Mr.. Whittemore tried to look severe
at is with the surrogate now. and You
will know its contents on Thursday,
when it wal be officially opened
couldn't think Of violating my Off
cial--s = Esss
"Not unless you are paid for it, " in
terrupted the young man. /" I under
stand that perfectly well, and will be
plain and brief with you. As you arr
aware, myself and my cousin Myra are
the only living relatives of my grand.
father. We have been brought up here
in this house together, and each hates
the other as much as possible. Now,
I've no idea how the property is left,
and 1 want to know. ] am willing to
pay for the knowledge in advance of tine
opening of the will, and You have it te
sell"
The lawyer assented with cool noe
OF his head. .a-sE ,ars2 :. ~ ssra
"Then name your pr'ce, continued u :
Robert. .5sE.,, -. r., =. So ..f-
"One thousand dollars. a'a=aea z
"11havent SO much. p -
GA note for month will 90. DO, -
The document was quickly writer
out, signed by the young man, AM
transposed to the lawyers pocket. e
The WILL 5tlen sa'o VI. " h''e
mors Na strange gone-as strange .
the man who made it-but be woul'
listen to no advice, and l had nothing
to do but carry out his wishes. III
leaves all his property to Myra XII
borne. - -, = p. : - = - 80
Oh him, Missed Robert.
Hold" said the lawyer, until yo'
hear the conditions. He leaves all hi
property to Myra, as I said before, OF
condition that SHE shall immediatel..
sign an agreement ITO, within year
become your wife. If she shall deciln
to fulfill this rcondition, the propert.
belongs to yon. The only other poin
is that in case MUa is married to any
body before the will is opened, she get
the properly Sie same as il she marrie
you. But that provision, Of course, !
OF no consequence, as she b not ikel.
to marry before day aftsr to=morrow
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1873-07-11

A MASSACHUSETTS man has pair of
horses forty years old. They are now
running against time.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1873-07-11
THE Danbury man has returned home

The Danbury man has returned home
from his Western trip. BE says: "I
come beck to New England stronger in
my Affection for il, frmer in my faith
in it, and prepared 70 lie q ahsrse's hind
leg straight IN its behalf necessary. y :
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1873-07-11
PREVENTToN OF SUNsTRokE.

We are now in the midst of the heated
term, and the dangers of sunstroke are
again imminent, and cannot be to care
fully guarded against. Below is given
what is said to be specific against sun
stroke, which may prove useful in the
communities in which this paper cir
eulates: "About a yeal since I saw in
q newspaper an account of d case of
sunstroke, written by the party him
self. After suffering q long time from
the attack, and having to considerable
degree recovered, he experienced suffer
ing even from the rays of the moon.
This led him to the reflection that it was
not altogether the heat of the sun that
produced prostration. After much re-
search he discovered that the injury
came from the chemical and not from
the heated ray. He was guided to this,
by observing the fact that a photograph
could not be taken through a hollow
glass. Accordingly he lined his hat with
two linings-one of orange yellow to
arrest the chemical ray, and one of green
to arrest the heat ray. Thus prepared
he went where the rays of the sun were
most intense with impnnity. It is well
known that the negro is seldom or never
sunstruck. The color of his skin over
the skull being of the orange yellow may
assist in accounting for the fact. l
practiced upon this suggestion all last
summer, lined my hat with green and
orange yellow paper. and had confidence
enough in the truth of the theory to
neglect my umbrella, which l had never
done before. 1 mentioned it to many,
who tried it also, and i'll many cases that
came under my observation they uni
fornIy asserted that the oppressive heat
Of the sun upon the head was much
relieved"
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1873-07-11

ONE of the most remarkable banking
enterprises that ever came under our
notice was that of the Farmers Bank,
which collapsed in this city some two
weeks ago. Ats meeting Of the credit
orsI Of the institution the astounding
fact was developed that the proprietors,
two brothers named Ten Eyck, com
meaced business cithout a dollar Of
capital, mot even enough to pay foE fit
ting M their bank, or TO pay their rent
Nevertheless, they succeeded in secur-
ing deposits of six or seven thousand
dollars, which they loaned out, and ON
the interest Of which they lived in good
style. l.s4s Is ssg q ses- sss.3 y