The Orangeburg democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1879-1881, 1879-01-03
Chips.

A young lady who has n young
man excepting company" with her
who is employed in telegraph office
calls him "the electric spark"
The wife of Gen. Hood is sister.
In, law Of Senator Wade Hampton,
and The happy mother of half a dozen
twins in three biennial installments.
Some rash fellow says that the
giving the ballot to women would no,
amount TO much, for none of then,
would admit that they were old
enough to vote until they were too
old to take any interest in politics.
Not long ago, in an English court.
q female wtGess. on~tttfG oath being
...et ,ycatcdly kissed the
elelll inst eead of the book. 1t was
some time before she was made to
understand the proper-or at leas,
the leeal-thing to do.
DAVID Shepherd promised to mar.
~ bridgeport wiGow, who was
much his senior, on condition tha,
she would release him from a deb, OF
Sl5P rol board hut he refused after
getting receir e bill. and she sued
MN for breach OF promise.
Over bridge at Athens, Ga, is
the following: "Any person driving
over this bridge a. a faster pace than
a walk shall, if white person, be
!; fined So, and if Il negro, receive
twenty-five laslcs-half he penalty
TO he given TO the inloflncr.
George IIuntson and Joseph Full
ton. two young men of Salem, n. c.,
quarrellcd On last Friday night, had
q meeting, and took shot each other
according TO the code. The result
was, Fulton taken home a corpse and
IIunton is fugitive from justice.
He was inclined to he Cacetious.
after the manner Of the Yale Fresh
men. "What quantities of dried
grasses you keep here, Miss Stebbins.
Nice room for donkey to get into"
"AIake yourself at home,'' she re-
spondcd with sweet gravity.
n Texas family attended the circus
ut Sherman the other day. The hus-
band sold II load Of wood fo~ 81. and
he wife jar OF butter for S1.25, then
they were 75 cents short, but the
father pawncd his boots and bare foot
led the way 10 the splendors of the
nrena.
II is related Of Judge Walter r.
Colquitt, an oldtimc justice of the
Georgia supreme court, that lie once
condemned a man to he hanged,
preached sermon, reviewed the
militia, married two couples at night,
and then conducted an animated
prayer mce:ing--all in one day.
'>Can q man belong to brass
Band, and he Christian Z" asks an
exchange. We sc no impeachment
in the way. But if he is member
o. IL brass hand, and is given to prac.
1!cing on his cornct or trombone at
home, it is an utter impossbility for
lllc man living next door to be a
Christian.
The first telegraph wires were
posted between Washington and
baltimore in 1847, and the first mes.
snge transmitted was, "Ehat hath
G"d wrought?' a .oung lady OF
Hartford, Conn, having sent The
message, the Governor of that State
had it engraved in letters Of gold and
placed in the rooms Of the Historical
Society Of Connecticut.
The drunkenness of Edgar Allen
Foe was under discussion by Rich
mond Icml .craEcc society. A speak
tr dwtlt on the poets disgrace
ful death. DR.. Mason, who al
tended him in his last illness, replied
"lle died like pe, tlcman. For
days efoEe lis death he utterly re.
fused stin:ulapts OF all kinds To niluy
his nervous excitement, and died a
sober mar, huly reniLent for his
llust caiCcr."