The Orangeburg democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1879-1881, 1880-05-28

lrfSlHentth nominee Will SUPPORT
him and carry Massaclhusc for
hin." Field must have been guilty
.oi some mean trick We know not OF.
About onc-halr of the Rrpub!i-
can delegates from SCulherr States
10 the Republican National Convcn-
ton, at Chicago, on the ID OF June,
will be negro men. And very little
Southern sentiment or properly will
they represent.
Apparently the general confer
cnce was unable TO see Brother New
mans eminent ftrcss for The cpiscc-
pal bench even after i: had been
pointed out by Grant. He got ST.
votes out Of 800 on The first ballot,
sc on the second, "a ON the third and
last.
General Phil Sheridan is quoted
MS saying that he had seen Grant in
tighter places than the present, but
he always managed to pull through.
No doubt other friends Of the Gcner-
III have seen him SO tight in many
places that he had 10 be pulled
through.
The Niek sburg (Miss.) Herald
s,ys that Senator Wade Hampton, by
bravcly placing in his recent speech,
the interests ol the South above the
welfare Of any patty, has put thous-
ands of Southern people 10 thinking
who before never did anything but
follow their leaders.
People who have = general idea
ofthe size of Colorado may yet be
surprised hy The statement OF the
Denver NwS, that it is the fourth
Sta,c in the Union in this respect,
and that it is larger than New Hamp-
shire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Con-
ncclicut, Rhode Island, New York,
New Jersey, Delaware and Mary
land combined.
A Moscow correspondent OF the
Cologne Gazette pcscrihcs the misery
and starvution prevailing in the Sou til
and the Southeast of Russia us un-
known in the memory Of man. No
food is to lie got for the horses and
cattle for any money, and the aui-
mails are consequently dying every
where Of Starvation in the Trais-tra!
Stcppcs and the Don Sicppcs.
The Philadelphia Times says
that Senator Mcpherson, OF New
Jtlscy, b licres in handing the good
,hiuus around. lie declines 10 be Il
candidate for delegate ut large t.
Cincinnati, on the ground that Scna-
,ols and member OF Congress should
not "monopolZe the honols which
more properly belong to others" ;"
This is what some people might cali
patriotism.
"A wild duck was killed near Gin
ton, In a few days ago, that had 4
lea,hcr l0clict fastened about its neck
In the luckcL was found Il neatly writ.
ten note. in which the writer said.
tn: t while walking along the shores
of Scnoul!l lake in v ashingtnn lcl-
litor., she found duck hch had
Accn seized hy a mud turtle that held
it hy its foot. The duck WAS rescued,
anu lnlS HOtc l.ASlch'tt iD'Ht us HcCh.
"A Milwaukee correspondent,
writing To Chicago, says: The Re
publican National Convention can
rot afford TO ignore the political situ-
alton in Wisconsin. There are facts
and figures to prove thai. in the even,
of Grants nomination for President
l,y thc Republicans. and in The !u1lh-
rr event of the nomination -! either
Davis. SeymHlr, Bay:i.l or Hancock,
ut Cincinnati, this STATE will go Dem.
ocratic.'
In the church yard OF IIcydcn
Suffolk, England, there is a stone TIA,
hcais this inscriptions: Here licth the
body Of William Strutton, OF Pad
limyton, buried may Is, 1874, who
had ly his first wife lwcnty.cight
chiIlrer, and by his second wife sew
rntccn, own father TO forly-livc.
grandfather to eighiy-six, great
grandfather to nil cty-scvcn, and
grrnt-el cat grandfather to twenty
thrce--in all Pol.
Senator Blaine used TO wear an
amulet, which his dJ ing Roman Cath
olic mother h"d PLACED around his
neck, and which !e half seriously
spoke Of rs his protection against
evil. -Four years ago lie was snn-
struck ON The steps Of the Capitol.
lie was carried home UNCONSCIOUS
and half un,lrcsscG. Vixen he came
TO himself The amulet was gone, and
he. in spite Of constant efforts, has
never been able TO recover it.
"A San Francisco man went into
the country to avoid predicted
earthquake, and on his journey was
run away with in II stogc-coacli, and
being thrown out, fell into the creek,
and harcly escaped GrOWBno. On