The Orangeburg democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1879-1881, 1880-05-07
ORANGEETRG, S. c., MAY Z, 1850.
Notes..

II lie iScnatC commute on EloC-
ton frauds find that .bull-dozing was
practiccd to great extent by the
Republicans Of Massachusetts and
Rhode Island III the recent elections.
The Cincinnati Guaettc L strong
Republican paper, says Blaine is nc
better to-day than he was in 1876,
and asks: "Is it not passing str ingc
that the Republican party takes hold
of suct cattle for Presidential cnndi-
dates p
The Supreme Court in The case
from Jasper caunty, Iowa, wherein a
Greenbacl1cr, and anLi-monopolist
agrucd to take Office for less than the
legal salary and return ,hc surplus to
the, county, decides the election was
void, and the proiIer was bribery OF
voters.
"A man in Virginia valued his old
barn at $3.50; but when he learned
.i,at George Washington slept in it
one night y century ago. he immcdia-
tcly raised the price to $4,000. 1t is
said society is being organized to
purchase it and save it from the ruth
less hands Of civilization.
-Erc1 Iiassaurcli, editor cc the
Cincinnati FoHs;lluu has written Il
letter to Emory S. Foster, Secretary
of thc anti-thira Term Convention,
expressing his opposition TO tkc nom .
in,tior of Grant or any other candi-
date fer third term. He says he
docs not even believe President
should he elected for q second term.
"A Down East editor who has
been travelling South went back home
from Dixie with tie statement tha!
the Bills Of fare at the hotels arc
quite elaborate and the cooking good
but "lhc beds are not cleanly and
are full Of uninvitcd guests" We
fear our Down East friend tried to
cconomiZc too much in his selection
Of hotel accommodations.
-At-last accounts the Nicc-Picsi-
dent Of tic United States WAS sitting
on q slippery log somewhere in Della
ware waiting Tor The fish to bite.
This wild and unnaturallv exciting
pursuit differ greatly from The placid,
dreon-likc existence OF European
potentalc WHO is blown up or shot at
only once Il week o: so. Fish are
liable TO bite any minute.
--Puritanic New England is stirred
10 its depths by the announcement
that tho Agassiz Museum at Harvard
College is 10 he opened to visitors
from O'Clock to 8 o'clock on Sunday
afternoons, and that the Peabody
Museum and the Library will probab
ly follow suit. Libcla. New England
is correspondingly pleased. Carry
the news TO Cotton Mather! =
General Scholcld compliments
the West Point cadets upon the man
merlin which ,ncy lave conducted
them selves during tile Whitaker in
vestigation. J. any one is deserving
Of compliments it must he Whitaker,
either for the foi,itude with which he
permitted bis ears TO he clipped by
Others or for Lhe skill with which he
performed that operation himself.
The New York Uerald, discus
sing the probable chances OF Il third
spectacle if the people of the United
States make q great stride toward cen
traliZation and imperialism at u mo-
mcnt when France is becoming more
Republican and when England has
just given such signal evidence of
powerful re actron against imperial
tendcnCics."
The bar-room men in Lancaster
are in q bad fix. Az the last town
election the ono license" advocates
were successful. The new Council
took charge Of Affairs to day and the
bar-rocms will kc closed. The Coun-
ty Commissioners refused 10 grant
licenses for whisky TO be sold any
where in the County, and the question
arises, how will the "old suakcrs"
manage to survivcI
This is The Eution's suggestive
comment on Grants Caro- speech
"a ItSulNS luc soOutnC;ll Whites
themselves they viii probably romem-
her General Grant went inlO the
Presidency with the motto, Let us
haYc peace ) that he wngcd war
against them by means both constitu-
tional and unconstitutional during
eight years, and that they never had
any real peace ill they got rid of him.
Here is one fact for to steady them
selves by, in this day Of Strange par
adoxcs."
Notice Of appeal has been serv-
cd in the cases of Barton, Adams,
Dodson and Bates, four Of the ne
groes sentenced 10 bc hung at Green
vile in June. The grounds are vari-
Gus exceptions 10 the rulings OF Judge
Thomson ant! to the manner in which
the confession of the parties was OBJ
tanned. 1 his action will ensure q
postponcmcnl OF the execution, as The