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The Orangeburg news. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, 1874-05-30
NEW PATENT.
DR.. pATRICK,s COTTON PRESS

DIR. PATRICK'S COTTON PRESS
The undersigned Agent for Orangeburg
County begs leave to call the attention of
COTTON PLANTERS to the same, and
would advise every one in nosd Of O COT
TON PRESS to pprchase o patent at once.
For CHEAPNEss, SIMPLICITY, and
POWER, it has no equsl.
Any one desirous of seeing the "taedus
,perandi" Of said Press, can do 60 by calling
at the Store of w. Patrick & Co., Russel
Street Orangebarg g. H., g. c., where
model can be seen,t cy address Capt. JEFF
STOKES Gen'l Agent Midway 8. G.
J. W. PATRICK, Agt.
Orangeburg County g. C.
july.26 eis
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Day and Night Trains connect g. Augusta.
with Macon and Augusta Rail Road, Central
Rail Road and Georgia Rail Road. This Is
the quickest and most direct route, and as
comfortable and cheap as my other route to
Louisville, Cincinnati, Chicago, st. Louis.
and all other points West and Northwest.
Columbia Night Train connects with
Grecnvillc and Columbia Railroad, and Day
and Night Trains connect with Charlotte
Road.
Through Tickets on sale, via this route to
all points North.
Camden Train connects at Kingville daily
Except Sundays) with Day Passenger Train,
and runs through to Columbia.
A. l.. TYLER, Vioe-President.
g. b. PicKESs, General Ticket Agent.
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Complete in NIL it's parts, uses tho Straight
Ego Pointed Needle, Self Threading, direct,
upright Positive Motion, New Tension, Self
Feed and Cloth Guider. Operates by Wheel
and on a Table. Light Running, Smooth
and noiseless like all good high priced
machines. Has patent check TO prevent the
wheel being turned tho wrong way. Uses
the thread direct from tho spool. Makes
the Elastic Lcck Stitch (fnest and strongeet
stitch known j firm, durable, close and
rapid. Will do all kinds of work, fino and
coarse, from Cambria to heavy Cloth or
Leather, and uses all descriptions of thread
The best mechanical talent in America
and Europe, has been devoted to improving
and simplifying our Machines, combining
only that which is practicable, and dis.
pensing with all complicated surroundings
generally found in other machines.
Special terms and extra inducements TO
male and female agents, store keepers, &c.,
who will establish agencies through the
country and keep our new mach chimes on OK
hibitioa and sale. County rights given to
smart agents free. Agents complete outfits
furnished without any extra charge.
Samples of sewing, descriptive circulars
containing terms, testimonials, engravings,
&c., sent free
Address. BROOKS SEWING MACHINE
CO.. No. 1929 Brcadw New York.
feb 8 "
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Sore Throat, Pains or Sore
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Liver Complaint, Bleeding
at the Lungs, &c. Wistar's
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Cough, and leave the cause
behind, as is the case with
most preparations, but it
looscns and cleanscs the
lungs, and allays irritation,
thus removing the cause of
the complaint.
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And sold by Druggists and Dealers gcnorally.
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TO THE
Nervous & Debilitated
TO THE
OF BoTU SEXES.

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either in male or female, 40 matter from
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Send for the GUIDE TO HEALTH
Price 1Oc.,
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Physician and Surgeon,
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jan II 1874. 81
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GS TO Gao PER- DSR, Ase,,,a
pO WANTEDl All classes Of wort;ns
people, Of eithcr acx, young or old, mako
more money at work for us in their sparo
moments, or all the timo, than ut anything
else, Particulars free. Address
G9 STINsON & Co.,
sept G-le Portsna, MaiEe.
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SOUTH CAROLINA RAILROAD
C3@I5z1-ra~@-~
GAMr sasa r1ss7 ;7 ;lTEdI IS!l RSSEHsI
4HN-SsyNI " 7IE .i;r iSJl Wv W.

CHARLESTON, S. c. December IA, 1872.
GhN AND AFTER SUNDAY DECEMBER
W "A. the Passenger Train on the South
Carolina Railroad will run as follcws.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1874-03-14
PIucky Pottle.

Miss Frank Pottle is a school teacher in
Fryeburg, Me. Her avoirdupois is ninety
pounds. She is small, but desperate
weak, but determined. In the pursuit of
her honorable but trying calling, she had
cause to animadvert' in severe terms upon
the conduct of one her scholars, who, not
being fully impressed with sense of re-
speet due her position, replied in terms
that were at once objurgatory, discourte-
GUS and insulting. Whereupon, the lean
but undaunted little teacher event for
him. and soon placed him hors da combat.
The result was, that the pugnacious Pottle
was brought up before Justice of the
Peace for whipping scholar. The JUS
tice looked first at the prisoner and then at
the complainant, who happened to be a
strapping, lubberly boy, sixteen years of
age, and almost double her size. He was
impressed with the fragile build OF the Pot
tie, the pugilistic, whose delicate hands,
slim waist, and meagre muscles did not ap-
pear to be a match for the hulking cub
who had provoked her. The Justice, after
moments reflection, quoted scripture to
the following effect g When the strong
oppresseth the weak, then do the people
onash their teeth and cry aloud against the
despoiler: but when the weak turneth from
her path, taketh the strong by the seuH OF
the neck and waistband of the pantaloons,
and hurleth him to the earth, then do the
people marvel, and they are amazed
much.'' He then inquired into the merits
of the case, and finding that the punish.
ment had been well deserved, he expressed
admiration for the plueky Pottle, and dis
charged her from custody. This is as 1t
should be. Whenever weak and down.
trodden woman proves that she is neither
weak nor down-trodden, she deserves and
should receive every encouragement. AS
for the Judge, he is the very prince Of
umpires.
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Nova Scotian Children.

Ell. H., in her /" Bits of Talk, is impress
ed with the children of Nova Scotia, who
are superior in appearance, size, and
health to the children of the New England
and Middle States. There was scarcely a
sickly one among them; such brilliant
checks. such merry eyes, such evident
strength; broad shouldered, straight, and
sturdy, and their faces wore quiet, un-
harrassed expression. The climate has uIi-
doubtedly something to do with this, the
air being moist, and the mercury rarely
rising above SOP or falling below 100.
There are no public schools in Nova Scotia,
and in contrasting the state of the children
with similar class in the United States, III.
I'll. comes to the broad conclusion that it
is better to have no schools at all than to
have such public schools as are now kill
ing off our children. In Massachusetts
more than tw0-fifths of all the children die
before they are twelve years old. In Nova
Scotia the proportion is less than one-third.
In Massachusetts, the mortality from dis
eases of the brain and nervous system is
eleven per cent; in Nova Scotia it is only
eight per cent. So it seems that to have
rosy, ruddy, calm children we must reor-
ganize our schools, and taking Nova Scotia
for an example, no child should be sent to
school under seven years of age, or keptin
school more than six hours a day, with an
hours intermission, and no learning les
sons out of school allowed.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1874-03-14
NUMBER 27.
PITH AND POINT.

THE Indians have invented a new meth
cd of scalping victims, so that now bald
headed man stands no more show than
any one else. This is as it should be.
SIanKINs playfully remarked to his wife
thathe had four fools: beautifoOl, dutifool,
youthfool, and delightfool. s'Poor mef'
said she, 81 have but one.
THERE is always some incentive to the
American youth to study and work. He
may not become President of the United
States, but he may be the Oldest Mason
Daabawy.
A CERTAIN style of prayer now in vogue
was well described by an admiring listener
to the Rev. Mr.. Kirk, of whom he said she
made the best prayer ever addressed to.a
Boston audience"
AN old Milwaukee hummer, when he
read that the women in Ohio were emptying
barrels of whisky into the cutters, patheti-
cally exclaimed, "What happiness to be
an Ohio gutter ~
A QUARREIsoNE couple were discussing
the subject ofepitaphs and tombstones and
the husband said: My dear, what kind
ola stone do you suppose they will give
me when die ?''. ssBrimstone, my love-"
was the affectionate reply.
WE are told that three hundred years
ago ladies combed their hair just as they
do to-day. This won't do i'll civilized
| land and among an observing people.
Three hundred years ago ladies used to
comb their hair on their heads-now they
hang it over the back of a chair to comb
| it.
THE ssFat Contributor offers the fol-
lowing among other valuable hints to Mr..
Bergh for the S. F. Z. P. o. G. L. A.: To
encourage trout to write poetry, for we
have seen some very beautiful trout lines.
10 protect ants from their nephews and
nieces. TO abolish mosquito bars, as they
make the little fellows very irregular at
meals. k
Ar a very successful seance in -Cincin-
natl, the other night, a woman burst into
| tears when the medium described very
accurately tall blue-eyed spirit standing
by him, with light side-whiskers and his
| hair parted in the middle. stDo you know
| bim?'' INQUIRED a man at his side in a
| sympathetic whisper. ''Know him? /
guessI dos replied the unhappy man,
Wiping his eyes. ssHe was engaged to my
wife. IF he hadn't died he. would have
| been her husband instead of me. Oh,
| George. George!'' he murmured, in a
voice ehoked with emotion, "why did you
peg out?''
! JOSH BILLINGS has an entirely bald
| head and it is related of him that once,
when he was at the Geological Gardens in
Paris, the day being warm, he lay down
on one of the benches and went to sleep.
After while he was awakened by Sense
of suffocation, and when he opened his
/ ewes he found that something covered his
face. He began to struggle to release
| himself, and the next moment a gigantic
/ ostrich leaped up and began to prance
down the path. The ostrich had OBJ.
served the top of Josh,s bald head, and
mistaking it for one of its eggs, it had be
1 gun to sit upon it for the purpose of hatch
i ing.
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New Kinks in Society:

Mrs. Stockton gave her son. Mr.. Richard
Stockton, most beautiful German last
evening. There were thirty-eight couples,
and six favor figures We're danced. The
fyors were all very handsome, and most OF
them were of original design. TO the gem.
tlemen g orClersn were given, similar to
those bestowed by foreign courts on those
they wish to honor. A broad ribbon, red,
blue or yellow, was passed over the left
shoulder across the breast and back and
caught at the waist with tiny silver
bell, while silver star glitterJa on the
breast. Tamborines and beautiful fans
were among the favers of the ladies. An
other and most becoming favor for fair
arms was a band of black velvet for the
wrist and one for the upper part of the
arm, united by strap extending along the
arm, studded with small slcigh-bells. Miss
Edith Fish and Mr.. John Davis led the
German; Miss Grant and Mr.. Stockton
were the next couple, and Miss Oldfieid
and her partner the third. Mrs. Stockton's
toilet was magnificent. 1t was rich silk,
the court train of the shade known as
/" frozen moonlight and the petticoat eof
" glaciers blue. TO the uninitiated it
must be explained that s.frozen moonlight
is grayish white; it might be more prop
erly called .morning twilight - suggest
ing the faint gray light of early dawn. The
glacier blue y is green in some lights,and
is choice tint. With this toilet pearls and
diamonds were worn. One of the features
of the refreshment table was punch bowl
made out of solid block of ice clear as
crystal. - Washington StG1, l7th.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1874-03-14
A Victim to Highly Waxed Floors.

In December last young lady in Cam
bridge, Mass, with her betrcthed, went to
ball given in one of the fashionable halls
in Boston. AS is the custom now, the
floor was highly polished or ''waxed." !"
During the evening, while dancing in a
waltz qladrille, the young lady slipped and
fell, and the young man who accompanied
her, in his efforts to save her from falling,
placed his hand on her side, but also
Slipped at the same time. When. the
young lady was placed on her feet she
was unable to stand, and was carried from
the ballroom. It appeared that the young
man in his efforts to save her, pierced her
side with one of his fingers in such man.
per as to cause faintness and intense pain.
She was conveyed home in a carriage,
placed in bed, and a physician sent for,
who pronounced her seriously injured In
ternally. She never rose again from that
bed, and, only few days since, was borne
to her last resting-place in Maiden Gene.
tery. The floors in our ball-rooms now
adays are as slippery as glass, and the
practice of waxing them to such an ex-
tent as to endanger life should be discoun.
tenaneed. Cambridge Press.
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CRIMEs AND CASUALTIES.

Mrs. Elizabeth Brownlee, wife of A. w.
Brownlee, wealthy farmer living near Day.
enport, Iowa,was brutally murdered by some
man unknown, in her house, on the evening
of the 18th. She was shot twice with a
double-barreled shotgun, and died instantly
Her youngest child, four years old, was also
fatally shot. No clue to the murderers, and
their objects are unknown, although it is
thought they were intent on robbery.
A locomotive ran off an embankment sew
enty-fve feet high on the Jefferson Branch of
the Erie Railway, on the 22d, instantly kill
ing Conductor John r. Harding, Engineer
Cramer, Fireman Daniel Cramer, and Brake
man Thomas Rafter.
A dispatch from Bay City, Mich, 23d, says
that at about nine O'Clock in the forenoon of
that day large cake of ice, several miles in
extent, broke off from the shore of Saginaw
Bay at the point east of the lighthouse, at the
mouth of the river, and extending down the
east shore. Upon this floating field of ice
were not less than 800 fishermen and several
teams and sleighs. The men were well sup
piled with shanties, food, fuel and provisions.
When last seen they had drifted several miles
northeast, and strong southwest wind shift
ing to the westward, drifting the ice toward
the east shore of the bay. A report from
Sebewaing the same evening says fifty men
had made landing there, and other reports
from different points say about 200 men had
escaped. Two men are known to have beer
drowned. The ice is solid, and ranges from
twelve to twenty inches in thickness, and moi
easily broken up.
A Wilmington On. o. dispatch of the 23(
says: Steve Lowery, the last survivor o
the notorious band of robbers and county out
laws, was instantly killed in the upper par
of Robson county, by three citizens. He wal
tuning his banjo preparatory to playing fol
some wagoners, when three shots were fret
at him, taking effect in his head, killing hin
instantly.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1874-03-14
CONGRESSIONAL.
property,


FEB. 19.-SeBGte.- Consideration of the
bill to equalize the distribution of the currency
was resumed, the question being the amendment
of Mr.. Cameron to the instructions to the COM
mittee proposed by Mr.. Merrimon. Mr.. Gamer
which limit or may be construed to limit or re-
strain, the entire amount of national bank notes
for circulation, and provides that hereafter asso-
carrying on a business of banking, shall be free
TO establish and organize national banks
with circulation at any place within
the United States upon the terms and
conditions, and subject to all restrictions and
limitations, provided by law, except limitation
upon the amount of circulation, which is hereby
repealed. The amendment was rejected-ayes,
2s; noes, 80. Mr.. Gordon then submitted sub
stitute for Mr.. Merrimon' s amendment, instruct
ing the committee TO report as soon as practicable
. bin for free banking, and providing for the
convertibity of United States treasury notes into
low interest bonds or gold coin at the option OF
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1874-03-14
Puzzles.

There are two things that puzzle me.
One is the amount of misplaced virtue in
the world that is to say, the immense
quantity of downright goodness scattered
around among the eommonest sort OF
people,; among people about whom there
are no social safeguards whatever, and
who would be quite up to the moral stand
ard of their neighbors if they gave a loose
rein to all manner of passion. tell you,
when man has been surrounded with
pure iIfiuences-I do not mean with aus
terity or fanaticism, from which he would
be likely to suffer reaction-wben a man
who has been breathing no atmosphere
but that of moderation and deeorum looks
back upon his own life, and tembles at his
hundred hair-breadth 'scapes from utter
ruin, of one kind or another, he cannot
help wondering what keeps the unpro-
tected classes from going altogether and
utterly to the bad. It was one of the best
saints out of the calendar who declared
himself competent to commit any crime
under the sun of which he had ever heard,
and what it is that keeps the average sim
ner from going straight through the
criminal list, it is hard to tell.
The other puzzle is how the ordinary
human is able to bear up against the enor-
nous weight of suffering imposed upon
him-not Simply the misery of which the
papers tell under startling headlines, or
in little paragraphs that travel the rounds
of the press, and startle you now and then
with their grim and gruesome humor-
not simply the distress which is the sub
ject of charity reports, and governmental
statistics-not simply the obvious exam
pies of quiet endurance, the heroic men
and women whose lives are one long self
sacrifice ce-not simply these. but the abso-
lutte discomfort and pain, physical. moral,
and aesthetic, that is borne by almost every
human being in the world, with such mo-
bility of endurance that the croaker and
complainer is SO much the exception that
he is pointed at with scorn, and summed
by his fellows as an anomaly and nuis-
ance.-ScrSbne1.'s for March.
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of Death, made an unconditional surrender
ats o'clock this afternoon. The women roll
ed out his barrels of whisky and wine and
poured the contents into the gutter. Bottles
were thrown into the street. The bells of1the
city rang out the news. and soon great
crowds rushed to the spot. Praise God
from whom all blessings flow was sung
till it could be heard a mile. The word was
sent to the State Grangers' Convent on
then in session in the City Hall, and eight
hundred farmers welcomed the news with
cheer after cheer. The men on the spot
unanimously passed resolution to sustain
Phillips in any honorable business in which
he might engage. Excitement is greater than
at any time since Sumter was fired on. Sever
bands, are now on the streets every day, and
say they will persevere until the last dram
shop is closed. Ldter.-Three more saloons
have just surrendered. A great praise-meet-
ing is being held tonight
The Georgia Senate has voted-fourteen to
twelve-to abolish the death penalty in that
State.
An Omaha dispatch of the 22d says that no
further trouble from the Indians on the FROM
tier is apprehended, the Indians who commit
ted the recent depredations having gone north
to the Tongue River.
The Iowa Senate has passed bill donating
$4,000 for the relief of destitute homestead
ers, to be distributed by three commissioners,
who give bonds in $4,000 each.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1874-03-14
VOLUME III.
THE UNATTAINABLE.
BY pELEa ARKwRreHr.

iBY PELEG ARRwRIGHT.
Is chaneed tAat'as wandered on my way.
With thoughts that tended unto fancies quaint,
came anear a streamlet running clear,
Like sboy glad what time he flies restraints;
Andon its brink
A contemplative ass had paused to think.
He stood reheotive, gazing far away,
As who should say:
This slumbIous summer noon is nowise dt
For aught of toll its brightness to assoil:
But in the lap of dreamy thoughts to sit
And gather SO
Such peace Of mind as lazy asses know.
Quite lost in contemplation deep was he,-
Nof needed me;
One ear did somewhat drop, as with the weight
Ofportly Ay, which gravely hung thereby,
In seeming comfort and contentment great;
Nor deemed that he
Was otherwhere than erst fly should be.
80 ass, /" said sswhat perfect rest is thine,
What peace benignl
Dost thou not know such leisure cannot last?
Hast thou no fear of blows still due thee here,
AS debts on the page by fate forecast?''
He offered no reply,
But with his hind-foot calmly brushed that fly.
$50 ass, - said, ssthe pleasant hours are few
Thy journey through
Dost thou n5t dread what yet may come to pass?
Methinks herchanee thine utter nonchslanee
May be because, in TRUTH thou art an ass,
Thus l, in brief;
He naught, but used his tongue for handkerchief
so ass. Isaid. "canst thou not teach to me
And full enjoyment of the passing hourq
Without or vain regret, or ceaseless, weary
Toward what future ills may darkly lower?"
He turned his head,
Full-solemn Wink-ed he, but no word said.
Nor have ever learned the potent plan,
From ass or man,
Of how to rest content with present good: