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Orangeburg times. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1872-1875, 1874-09-17

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and Republicans, expect something
very like this from us. Rest assured
that tue Conservatives ofSouth Caro-
lima, Democrats and Republicans, ex-
'pect something very like this from us.
Rest assured, finally, that we have
promised to the world to do something
very like this: that is, if the Radicals
nominated an honest man, he would
have our support, and, ifnot, we would
oppose themin such a way as to
convince the world that ne did not
object to their party. Ifthelast clause
means anything it will not be car.
ried out by the ui S !. Demo-
crat by the nomination Of Gen. Ker-
shaw or any man of our party.
Weare pledged (every Conservative
in the State) 80 taras we have men,
tally endorsed the views Of Democratic
Journals, TO enter this canvas as a par.
ty and under the banner of some hon.
est Republican. Who is cur manY
Judge Green. Judge Maheror Mayor
Cunningham RAMBLER.
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Questions for llr. A. p. Browning
tfO Anavyer

~
1t is currently reported, and as gem
orally believed, that MIR. A. Z. Brown
ing made speech recently, in the
Fork Of Edisto, in which, he advised
the negroes to kill the "Grangers,"
stating, that it was an easy task, and
could be performed any morning before
breakfast. Also that he suggested to
his sable audience the propriety of
using the. sword or club and torch
against the whites.
Will Mr.. A. F. Browning announce
publicly, whether or not, he made such
a speech, either in whole, of:in part,
at the meeting referred to above? Or
whether he ever made speech, at any
time, upon any occasion, in which, he
either, directly, or indirectly, advised
or suggested to the negroes, an incen.
diary OR murderous course towards the
whites?
It Mr.. A. F. Browning is.innocent
of the charges, he would be doing him
self an injustice not to let the public
know it. If he is guilty, it is well
enough for the public to know it any
how. GRANGER.
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Orangeburg times. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1872-1875, 1874-09-17
ORGANIZATION.

The great difficulty with the people
Of South Carolina has been that they
will never pursue one line of political
policy long enough to test its efficacy,
before they become disheartened and
ay off in quest of another. Several
plans have been proposed for our polit-
ical reformation, any one of which, if
heartily and unanimously persisted in,
would in all probability bring us relief.
But it won't do to be wavering or
spasmodic. It is criminal and disas-
trous to advocate one policy to-day,
and because it may happen to be rather
slow in yielding fruit, and cause some
thing of draft upon our time and
: means, to desert both the cause and
our chosen leaders, and lapse into sell
fish apathy tomorrow.
We must settle upon some fixed pol
icy, and then pursue it with that pa
thence, firmness and consistency which
furnishes the only guarantee of success.
We must not organize and then disband
on account of defeat, as ifsuccess and
not principle was our sole aim; but we
must keep organized under all circum.
stances, and at all times. The organ
ization of 1870 should never have been
disbanded. Although beaten at the.
polls, we gained a grand moral victory
in proving to the colored people that
the white people were ready for concil-
,iation, but they were not. In this
action we have fully justifled ourselves,
and furnished an argument in our
favor which is powerful and unanswer-
able. We are therefore not called
upon to make any further advances
towards them, which would be degrad
ing; but we should show that our
attitude is unchanged. by continuing to
act upon a liberal policy. For. this
purpose we should reorganize, and pro.
mulgate platform embodying those
issues which will carry the heart of the
people, and will be broad enough for
every lover of freedom to stand upon.
1t was such q course which saved
Virginia and other Southern States,
and which, ifpersisted in, would ulti-
mately save South Carolina.
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FOR S.A.IE

One Tract ofLand ore mffe below Branch.
vile, on the South Carolina Railroad, cons
tanning 6ye hundred acres more or less.
.. ALSO,
Ore tract five miles above Branchville on
the Columbia branch the South Carolina
Railroad, containing four hundred aeyes,
s ALSO e
4 One tract containing about six hundred
acres in Bamwell county, on Edisto River,
three miles from Branchville. The above
lands are oak and hickory and are No. ! for
cotton or provision. G s.; 80
ALSO IA v
L will sell several lots in the village of
Branchyille well improved. All or any part
OF OF the above property will sell on the most
liberal terms. Apply to the subscriber at
Branchville. I'D. d. FAIREY. S
July % 3m &
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pA47ERsoNs CONVENTION.

This Convention, otherwise called
the Republican State Convention, has
at last done its work, and nominated
d. III. Chamberlain, by small major
ity, for governor. The opposition to
him was very strong and intense, but
che network of the Ring. was too well
laid, and the scheme succeeded.
Speeches were made by Mackey and
Lee exposing Chamberlain's connec-
tion with past corruption, but all to no
avail; greenbacks were more powerful
than eloquence or truth. According
to the published reports, the proceed
ings at many times were simply a
disgrace to any community. outside of
the wilds of Africa, and should bring
to the minds of the sober thinking
people of the North the horrible deg
radiation to which the much boasted
Republicanism has reduced the State.
The Conservatives reiterated that if
the Convention put forward Republi
can who was beyond suspicion, they
world support him; and to give the
matter more weight, the State Tax
Union announced the same fact.
1t is plain that the Republican pro-
fessions Of reform are mere words.
There is no sincerity in them. The
Ring has SO far been partially success
ful with the Convention, but it will
find much harder work with the people.
It's the duty of the Conservatives TO
unite upon an honest man, and with a
fair count and the right kind ofwork,
there is a chance Of electing him. es-
Hecially when we consider the small
Radical majority in the Seymour md
Grant election, probably the only time
we had fair play.
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GcoMMuN1cArEp.1
They Already Begin to Mako Excuse /

They Already Begin to Make Excuse!
MH. EDIToR:-The first Sabbath of
the present month was appoiated by
tho Roy. Mr.. Holman CLntheran) as
the day to make clear exposition of
the word Baptism" and defend rs he
said, "95 per cent of the christian
world" The appointed day came, and
a large concourse ofpersons from vari-
GUS churches assembled, and especially
were the Baptist churches well repre-
sented. The Rev. Mr.. Hartley CBap-
tist) dismissed his congregation at
Antioch on that day and brought many
of them with him to hear that word
defended. The services at Santee
(Bartist) were deferred until the after
noon to hear the truth declared, and
we thank God that we were present.
Greek roots of enormous proper
tions, in respect to length, size and
shade were scattered in such awful
profusion, that the congregation stood
aghast for one hour and fiity,five min
utes, observing the strictest silence and
good behavior. The sermon was we'll
delivered and reminds one most awful.
ly,, of many expressions and phrases of
different writer's that many of us perm:
sed, over and over again; and it's the
knowledge of that fact, that destroyed,
the belief that he was delivering what
he had earned by "hard mid night
lamp trimming"
The whole affair was one of darkness
and confusion to ten elevenths part
of the congregation, as the ground was
dreadfnlly rooty. And inasmuch as it
was said by some of the Lutheran
members, to some of the Baptist mem
bers present on that occasion, that if
the Rev. Mr.. Holman was not replied
to, it would be q fair acknowledgement
of the Baptists, that sprinkling is the
mode of baptism as was instituted by
Christ, which mode, we, as Baptist,
ignore and declare to be the invention
of,man, we will prove, not only that
it is so, but also that Christ was i'm
mersed. We don't pretend Ito un-
church and shut out from Heaven the
Pedobaptist,' but it is our belief, that we
will maintain Gods word, as we under
stand it, that we will uphold, and that
we may be understood, we challenge
the Pedobaptists, especially those who
heard the sermon of the Rev. Mr..
Holman preached, and especially the
Rev. Mr.. Holman himself, to come
out fairly and squarly to santee church
(not in spirit of contention, but to
arrive at the truth) on the 4th Sunday
of September. The Rev. Mr. Hartley
dismissed his congregation once, and is
going to do it.again. Will the Rev.
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Mr.. Holman do likewise? We shall
expect him out.
The Rev. Mr. Cut tfno, who Is now,
and will be holding series of meet
ipgs in Clarendon and Sumter counties
will not be with us until the End Sum
day in October, when he will also
preach from the same subject.
A. B.
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STILES n. MELLICHAMP, Editor.
G.. wv. wv EIITEfIEAD.
PUHLisHER AND BUSINESS MANAeER.z {
sGa- ne are in no wuy responsible fer the
vie,rs or opinions Of our Correspondents.
LATEST.

Dispatches from New Orleans state
chat fight occurred between the Met
ropolitan Police under Gen Longstreet,
Radical, and the citizens under O. B.
Penn :he Lieutenant Governor OH the
McEnery OF peoples ticket. In the
fght some fifty men were killed and
che Metropolitan forces were complete
Iy routed. The city is now in poses
sion of the McEnery forces, and if
Grant will let the citizens alone, good
government will be established, and
traitors and usurpers will be taught a
lesson.
Orangeburg times. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1872-1875, 1874-09-17
THE sPARgAWBURG ENID
AsHEVILLE RAILROADS.
NATURES HIGHWAY Across THE
MOUNTAINS.
Light Grades, Easy Curves, No Tup.i
3 melting. ~
Let II Be BHiSs Speedily.

"A link in the Air Line Road between
the cities of Cincinnati, st. Louis, Ci,.vse.
and Charleston, aeventy.foir GA miiey
long, win ies# than tweaty coy miiest s
heavy work. - - = 20
Shorter than any line from New YorEE.
Philadelphia and Baltimore, TO either of
these cities, and many hung5sed miles nes4ar
/ 70 these centres OF WesteTn Trade tiaazt azyy
existing line to CharlestoH
The road that pSpnsfaes to rnSE- CFyryfes-
ton the market for the. trade of the Great
Northwest, the West Indies, South Amer.
lea ond Europe also an impoFtant enaigrans
station. 81 fS. z. - g
ECONoMICALIN CONSTRUCTION
SAFE In EMANAGEBsENTsA
PROFITARLE 1Ns sRESUETEs
An important enterprise for the sIeYelop-
ment of South Carelina. s.. !. 81
Shares ;Fifty Dollars (55) eaefk payable
in ten (10) instalments. S I. l.l3 s s;f
Every citizen of this State should own as
least one share. - I, SSs35
Charleston with her magnificent IEyfor
and genial climate; her Immense undeyel.
eped back country, containing Fertile soil.
fine pasture grounds and inexha,istible wi,ser
power; her contiguity to the; West Indies
and South America, and her unpara!Iets
iAlropean ocean cnlrse, IL destined. u,tom
the completion of this important Trunk
Lane, 10 emere from her prostrtted cen.
dition and become what nature has intended
she should lie, the grai commercial ;s.efropo-
Us Of the .Southcrn Section ofthe United .Stdtss.
LIMIT OF sTccKHoIDEks, llABlLiTY. s
The following clause in the charter II
published for the Information Of Subscribers.
rs Sec. 4. hat no staakholder of said CONT
pany shall be held liable fi,r the debts, con-
tracts or acts of a,i.l corporation lcronri iho:
amounts actnally subscribed to the Iapjtsl
Stock Of said Company by such ,tockhoider-
t.lt DIREGyrORs:
George sW.5sYiliian,s, Is. i,ellnmnn, Ava
Gage Theodore y. 5sTyev, Theaiore li
Barker, John =: Fairly. Gabriel Cannon.
James + Blaek, Jcha $. Wiley.
Principal. Office and address, aa5 .rosd
street, Charleston, sc s. !;
Z: sG n EaIMlNGER, Prcsidcnt.
a.. c. KAUFMAN, Secretary and ITreaa.-
urer' july l5, 3a,. @
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NEWS ITEMS.

George w. Williams is spoken of as
the Conservative candidate for Gov.
ernor.
A very interesting Tax Union NEE.
ing took place at EdgeReld G. H., ON
Monday the 9Th.
Hon. Ben Hill did not get the
nomination.to Congress from his dis
,trict in Georgia. A new man by the
name of Mcmillan received it.
The Conservatives of Marlboro are
organizing for @ vigorous campaign.
Appointments have been made for the
candidates to speak at all the imgor-
tant points in the county,
The Camden Female School Associ..
alton met at Camden on September.
3rd, and completed its organisation.
Itpromises to be a valuable institution
General j. b. Kershaw Gen. James
Chestnut are prominent in the move
ment. 80
a very enthusiastic Conservative
meeting was held at Curetons Mill in
Kershaw county, at which addresses
were delivered by Col. Boykin, Gen.
Kershaw, Col. Shannon, Judge Zei.ner
and A. P. Lining,
Gel. Trescot, Conservative candidate
for Congress from the third district
made a speech at Anderson G. H., a
few days ago, which was listened to
byta large and appreciativc audience.
He is man of liberal views and rare
ability.
Maj. w. T. Gary made a very sen.
sible speech in Edgefeld county on
the 2sth of August, in which he ad
vises the reduction of the number of
Radical negro voters which we have
been employing. and q determined eff.
fort to supply the deficiency by white
immigration.
Hon. Jefferson Davis, Ex- President
of the Southern Confedracy, 1nadc a
speech recently in Memphis on the
subject Of the late disturbances in that
vicinity, in which occur the foliowina,
noble words But you come to ap-
peal to the moral sense of the world !:
your words are to go abroad to man
kind; let it understand that yon are
not lace of assassins; that you nre
not The men who mask, but stand in
the dignity of your manhood, and the
likeness of your Creator, with eyes open,
and exposed you dare assert your
rights and protect them to the best of
your ability, and to the end of your
lives will go forward with horror, which
never seeks concealmeht, wears no
mask, and nevor blackens its face.n ;.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1874-12-24
AMERICAN HUMOR.
A critic of Aldrich's stMariorte Daw,

A critic of Aldrich's ''Mariorte Daw,
in the Reuue des lHoades, says: 1t is al
ready several years since an Increasing
tendency of American literature toward
humor was pointee out in the Reuue. A
competent Judge was astonished at the
very peculiar taste for the ightest and
most fantastic form of wit in the most
industrious and practical people IN the
world, and he explained it by an error
common to self-love which makes each
of us aspire most particularly to that
success for which nature has not adopt
ed him. Perhaps upon that point he
was wrong. The brave and generous
colon1sts who, preceding the gold-hunt-
ers, went to found upon distant shore
the model of democracies, brought away
from their native land with the manners
and Puritan ideas which still prevail in
New England, the prominently English
quality which made the glory of the
Swifts and Stems and Addisons, and
which, since the death of Charles Lamb,
seems decidedly to have emigrated to
America. It is true that the dissonances
and the incongruities which a severe
taste might see, even in the celebrated
essay of the seventeenth and eighteenth
centuries, are exaggerated upon this
new soil. where 1t seems that all seeds,
from whatsoever source they come, ger
inmate and develop with sort of fury.
In the West, especially, humor, under
the influence of the mixture of races and
of the more energetic than refined dashes
of the mining population, sensibly de-
viates from the English example; it de-
sends often through all the shades,
from the most shameless neulogism to
the most vulgar exaggeration. The wit
ty animation of Mark Twain, the
genius of Bret Harte have succeeded,
nevertheless, in ennobllng this incipient,
still barbarous literature. Of this we
have already given the proof.
With Aldrich one finds himself in en-
tirely different regions, where the air is
more easily respirable for civilized lungs
in the New England where fourishes
quite as characteristic, though perhaps
less original humor, modified by taste,
by traditions borrowed from old Europe,
under the pen of a numerous pleiades Of
writer's, emulators for inlitators of Lo-
well and Wendell Holmes. The latter
has taken care already to explain to us
that the wit of the citizens of New Eng
land, which is the old American, differs
from that of their countrymen of later
origin, as academic Boston itself would
differ from Californian city, provision
ally built of wood and hastily painted.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1874-12-24
ARAB HORSE MAXIMs.

Whose 1aiseth and traineth horse
for the Lord is counted in the number
of those who give aims day and night,ln
private as well as public. All his sins
will be forgiven him, and never will any
fear come over him and dishonor his
heart.
Let your colt be domesticated and
live with you from his tenderest age,
and when horse he viii be simple and
docile. faithful and Injured to hardship
and fatigue.
IF you have your horse 10 serve you
on the day of trial, if you desire him
then to be truthful, make him sober, ac-
c,1stomed to hard work, and inaccessible
to fear.
Do not beat your horse nor speak to
him in loud tone of voice; do not be
angry with them, but kindly reprove
their faults they Will do better there
after, for they understand the language
of man and it's meaning.
If you have long days journey be-
fore you, spare your horse at the start !;
let him walk frequently, to recover his
wind. Continue this until he has sweated
and dried three times, and you may ask
of him whatever you please, he will not
leave you in difficulty.
Use your horse as you do your leath-
ern bottle; if you open it gently and
gradually, you can easily control the
water within, but if you open it sudden
ly the water escapes at once, and moth
ing remains to quench your thirst.
Never let your horse run up or down
hill if you can avoid it. On the contrary,
slacken your pace. Which do you pre-
fer, was asked Of horse, ascent or de-
cent? curse be on their point of meet
ingl was the answer.
Make your horse work and work again.
Inaction and fat are the great perils Of a
horse, and the main cause Of all his vices
and diseases.
Observe your horse when he is drink
ing at brook. If i'll bringing down his
head he remain square, without bending
his limbs, he possess sterling qualities,
and all parts of his body are built sym
critically.
-Four things he must have, broad
front chest, loins and limbs four things
he must have long neck, breast, forearm
and Group; and four things short pas
terms, back, ears and tail.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1874-12-24
CHAIRS.

There is more than one man that can
appreciate what Rev. W. II. Fl. Muir
ray, of Boston, has to say about parlor
chairs in his new lecture: Half the
chairs, he says, made nowadays are SO
frail and weakly that you feel you are
sitting over a precipice whenever you
put your weight upon them. [ have
experience with such chairs, and speak
feeHngly' on the subject. They know
me and I know them. We hate each
other. Whenever I meet such a chair
approach it suspiciously. The four lit
tie legs grin malicious welcome at me
the slender back fairly laughs in i'm
pish anticipation the little seat about
as large as an old-fashioned pancake, de-
fes me; Osho, you great big fellow,you
murderer of my companions, [ know
you. Sit down in PIE if you dare. But
what can I do2 The sofa is occupied, the
piano stool is under the instrument. [
must take my. chances. Covering my
venture as joke, [ sit down tin1idly;
before half my weight is on it, it begins
to crack and threaten. The lady of the
house begins to look alarmed. I get off
another joke and draw my legs up under
me to be ready when the crash comes,
and there I sit like the Irishman's frog,
who sat down when he stood up, and
stood up when he sat down, in deadly
terror lest the pesky thing VIII give out
under me, and no man under heaven can
have chair break down under him in a
parlor, before the lady of the house and
not wish he was dead. It is bad enough
for man of short stature and nimble,
but for long clumsy fellow to have
little chair 60 down under him with
crash is death. There is such a short
distance to fall and so much length of
limb and body 20 dispose of that it is
impossible to do it gracefully, and the
most pitiable sight in the world to me
is to see a long-legged man lumber up
from parlor floor before company, after
such catastrophe"
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1874-12-24
COST OF FENCES.

Taking the returns Of the National
Agricultural Department as our guide,
we find some curious items with regard
to fences and their cost. From these
returns it would seem that the cost. of
our fences is about the same as the
amount of our Understanding national
debt; that for each one hundred dollars
invested in live stock we invest another
hundred in fences, either to keep them
in OF out. The estimated annual cost
of repairs, with interest upon capital in
vested in the fences, is estimated at
5000, 100000. In Pennsylvania the re
turns indicate that each, hundred acres
of inclosed land has an average of 955
rods Of fence at a cost Of $1.20 per rod,
or 81, 146. This, it must be remember
ed, is only an average, and that IN many
portions of the State the amount ismuch
greater. The cost per rod varies from
y cents in Florida to 1920 in Rhode
Island. The amount to each 100 acres
varies from 400 rods in Minnesota,
Nevada and Louisiana to ], 900 in Rhode
Island. In Pennsylvania it would seem
that of the fences 81 per cent. We're
s.Viriginia" worm fence, II post and
rail, 12 of board, and per cent. of 9th
er kinds" In the same State "a per
cent. of the openings are closed by gates
and 76 per cent. by bars, and the aver
age cost of the former is s.. So. The re-
turns state: ''The average proportion
of bars in the whole country is about 50
per cent, of craps 43-leaving 4 per
cent. Of openings for slip-gaps or other
modes of entrance" The report very
truly says with regard to the sum total
of the cost of fences: Experiment has
proven that at least half this expense IS
unnecessary" The report furnishes
material for the careful consideration of
farmers Country Gentleman.