Orangeburg times. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1872-1875, 1874-06-04
GENERAL NEWS.

s congress mas agreed to adlourn sine die,
on the 22nd of June.
The wife of Stokes, the murderer of!
Fisk has been granted n divorce. iss
A Missouri Judge has decided TINT n
woman is not an old maid until she is 35.
Governor seymore, ofNew York, posi-
lively refuses to be a candidate for any
office in the gift Of the people.
Ex.Governor Washburn, of Wisconsin
has erected a -four mill costing $Ez55JG,15l151,-
at Minneapolis, MINI. rcd
The probabilities are strong that a new
form ofgovernment will be instituted in
the District of Columbia. 80
.a. "A wild man has been at Kissimmee
Bay, Florida. He is said to be entirely
covered with hair, and wild and as fleet
as n buck.
g The petition of Mr.. Alice Mason Sum
ner divorced wife of. Clias. Sumner to-
change her name to Alice Mason has
been granted. {sa "a
Tie House has passed an enabling act
to admit New Mexico as state Of the
Union. Her population is only 15O 900,
Ignorant poor and turbulent.
The surgeons of the Confederate army
and navy met in Atlanta last week. and
organized an association to preserve the
medical history ofthe late war. j
The Fleetwood murder trial at Scy-
5mour, Ind, resulted in verdict of muir
der in the first degree; also, that both the
Fleetwood brothers be imprisoned in the
Penitentiary for life.
Hon. w. W. Eaton, staunch and
uncompromising Democrat, has been
elected United States Senator from Con
necticut. Ifc was once IL citizen of Colum-
bia, S. g., and las always been true
friend of the South. l
Miss Sherman the gentle and amiable
daughter of the General, will be married
early III juno to Lieutcnant Fitch, who
will resign his position in the navy and
enter OH the pursuit of some lucrative
business in ST. Louis.
AT Wnrrensburg, New York the other
day, David Mead picked up intha street
what he supposed was stone UPON
throwing it from limit exploded, iniur.
ing him fatally. It was a ni,ra;gl ycerine
eSFoder used in mining. tE.3-s.
Lord Randolph Spencer Churchill,
Member of Parliament, and son of the
Duke of Marlborough, was married il,
Paris, on the 18th Of April, to Miss Jea-
nette Jerome, the rccond daughter of Nj,
Leonard jerome, of New York.
AT Frankfort, Ky, young man named
John Fry Walcut. returning home in II
state of intoxication, qnarreled with his
mother, whom he struck in the head with
a hatchet, breaking the skull. The un-
fortunate lady is reported dying. Il,
A mob of 10000 men, arose a few day.
ago i'll Austria because of raise in the
price of beer, and half destryed an en-
tcnsive brewery. They were quelled only
by the assurance Of che proprietors that
beer would be sold at the old prices.
Col. II. G. Smart, of Beaufort County
Sc, has entered the gospel ministry as
Baptist preacher. Col. Smart was a
distinguished politician before the war
ranked high in official and mili.a-y cir
cles during the war, and has ever beel
! regarded ms one Of Carolina's purcst ant
noblest SONS.
Among the freshest of political ON DIT;
waited from Washington, is one to til,
effect that the Democratic leaders are in
| tr!gningg to make President Grant theil
candidate for II third term. Gcorri,
Tooms and Virginia Mosby are said to b,
conspicuous in their advocacy of the move
programme.
Forty-three ladies were arrested in Gin
cinnati on Saturday while praying il
front Of q saloon. They were marched
to the station house, where, after the;l
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