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The Orangeburg democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1879-1881, 1880-04-02
Notice..

N Office Is hereby given that the un-
ders!!gned, with such persons as may
be associated with them will after tho
expiration Of thirty days from the date
hereof, under the provision of the Act of
the General Assembly of the State of
south Carolina, approved February Goth
1871, and the amendment thereofcntitle,i
IAN Act to provide for certain Charters ~
apply to George Boliver, ESQ, Clerk of
the Court of Common Pleas for Orunpe-
burg County. to grant them a Charter
Tor Incorporation, TO be located In the
town of Orangcburg, $. G.. and to be
known ms the Patrons and Farmers Mu-
tual Aid Association"
The Orangeburg democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1879-1881, 1880-04-02

NAMES ..r
WN. S. BARTON, j. IT. FE1Drp
w. i. ROBINSON, Ell. GKAMIINc
KIRK ROBINSON, JAMES STOKES
". + BARTON, a. II, FEI,nrp
T.. w. BRANrLEY, JAMES NJ. Moss
J.J. FAlREY, II. y. BARToN
PAUL T. GRAMLING, w. W. CIJIL.R
Il. II. GHAMLiNG, w. T.. llADLEY.
j ID. SALLEY, JR.. JOHN c. HOLMAN.
w. II. MULLER, III. RIGGS.
w. a. MACKAr.
Mar 10, 1850 at
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-02-29
Nursing the Sick.

Some sensible person, who has evil
lently had experience in a.lendingsto
invalids, thus speaks of the importance
of decision and quietness in the sick
room:
Consult your patients wants, but
consult him as little as possible.
Your decision need not be very obvious
and positive; you will be most decisive
if no one suspects that you are so at all.
It is the triumph of supremacy to be-
come unconsciollsly supreme. Nowhere
is this decision more blessed than in
sick-room. Where it exists in it's genu-
ineness the sufferer isnever contradicted,
never coerced; all little victories are
assumed. The decisive nurse is never
peremptory, never loud. She is distinct,
it is true-there is nothing more aggra-
waiting to sick person than whisper
but she is not loud. Though quiet, how
ever, she never walks tlp-toe; she never
makes gestures; all is open and above
board. She knows no diplomacy or
f9aesse, and, of course, her shoes never
creak. Her touch is steady and en-
couraging. She does not potter. She
never looks at you sideways. You
never catch her watching. She never
slams the door, but she never shuts it
slowly, as if she were cracking nut in
the hinge. She never talks behind it.
She never peeps. She pokes the fire
skillfully, with firm, judicious penetra-
ton. She earesses one kind of patient
with genuine sympathy, she talks to
another as if he were we'll. She is never
in hurry. She is worth her weight in
gold, and has healthy prejudice
against physic, which, however, she
knows at the ight time how to conceal"
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-02-29
John Smith and Gen. Jackson.

John L. Smith, in the early days of
Gen. jackson, was regarded as the
most dangerous man in the Miss
issippi valley. He had killed so many
men that in the latter part Of his life
he and his negro body-guards always
went loaded down with rifles, pistols,
bowie knifes and blunderbuses, the
latter being used as walking canes. Hav-
ing been offended by Gen. Jackson,
Smith cnce rode from Arkansas to
Nashville andsent the hero achallenge to
fight duel. It was on Sunday morn
ing that he joined the congregation at
church in which Jackson worshiped,
prepared to pluck his enemy's beard at
the end of the service. But, unfort-
unately, soon after Jackson's arrival q
pistol exploded in some ones pocket,
and as Smith was accused of treachery
then and there he was obliged to leave.
Smith waited for Jackson to accept the
challenge, and as no answer came the
bloodthirsty old fellow followed Jackson
into the Creek country, where hostilities
were expected. While riding around
Jackson's army, being ina bride path
through a pine forest. Smith saw an
officer in his shirt sleeves practicing at
a target. This man proved to be
Col. Carroll, an enemy of Jackson.
Carroll had challenged Col. Coppec,
and with bis second, Capt. Douglass,
was cutting the eye out of the target at
every crack. Smith, Carroll and Doug
lass sat on pinelog and arranged mag
niticent dueling programme. Smith
was to challenge Gen. Jackson, Carroll
was to challenge Col. Coppec, and
Douglass was to fight third officer just
for the fun of it. The challenges were
sent that afternoon, but before daylight
on the next morning the army was
marching rapidly into the enemy's
ool1ntrc
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-02-29
Wall Street, New York.

Across the island OF New York, in
1856, wall made of stone and earth,
and cannon mounted, was built to keep
off the savages. Along by that wall a
street was laid out, and, as the street
followed the line of the wall, it was ap-
propriately called Wall street. It is
narrow, it is short, it is unarchitectural,
and yet its history is unique. Except
ing Lombard street, London, it is the
mightiest street on this planet. There
the Government of the United States
was born. There Washington held his
levees. There Mrs. Adams and Cald-
well and Knox and other brilliant wom-
en- of the Revolution displayed their
charms. There Witherspoon and Jona-
than Edwards and George Whitefeld
sometimes preached. There DR.. Mason
chided Alexander Hamilton for writing
the constitution Of the United States
without any God in it. There negroes
were sold in the slave mart. There
criminals were halnessed to wheelbar-
rows and, like beasts OF burden, COM
PEELED to draw, or were lashed through
the street behind carts to which they
were fastened. There fortunes have
come to coronation or burial since the
day when reckless spectators, in pow
dered hair and silver shoe-buckies,
lodged Dugan, the Governor General
of his Majesty, clear down to yesterday
at o'clock. The history of Wall street
is, to certain extent, the financial,
commercial, agricultural, mining, liter
airy, artistic, moral and religious history
Of this country. Only few blocks
long, it has reached from the Canadas
to the Gulf of Mexico, from San Fran
cisco to Bangor. There are the best
men in this country, and there are the
worst-eve1ything, from answering
integrity to tip-top scoundrelism-ev-
erything, from heaven-born charity to
bloodless Shylockism.-Dr. Tatzaage.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-02-29
The Fatal Shirt.ButtOn.

DR.. Sander, physician OF Elber6eld,
Germany, died from the effects of
singular accident, which conveys it's
own lesson. One morning in 1874,
while dressing, he contrived in some
way to get a shirt-bNtton between his
teeth. Unconsciously, while laughing,
the button slipped into the back OF his
mouth, and thence into the larynx. ALI
the exertions of his surgical friends to
remove it were vain.
It was ascertained that it sank into
the right lung, which soon became irri-
tated. Splitting blood ensued, and he
was himself looking forward to his
death as not very remote.
He removed to a villa he had near
Frankfort on-the- Main to pass his last
days in quiet. Here he was surprised
by violent fit of coughing, accompa-
MED by splitting of blood, in paroxysm
of which the button was elected.
His health rapidly improved, and in
few months, regarding himself as
quite cured, he resumed his profession
al work and endeavored to gather up
the threads of his former practice.
But ere long unmistakable symptoms
manifested themselves that the lung
had not fully recovered from the pres
ence in its substance OF foreign body
for several months, and he gradually
wasted away and died.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-02-29
Tie Voice.

Socrates OWNED the quantity OF q
mans voice, mind or soul by the tone
of his voice, ami all students remem-
ber his expression: "Speail, that [
may see you" DR.. Durant explains
character by voice, and tells Us these
facts:
We perceive in a sufferer one that
IS easily enraged, and as easily paci-
Ged; vain, oticious, incopstant and
ordinarily quick. \ person whose ut
.erance is thick and coarse is ma
licious, cunning and disdainful.
4 coarse voice indicates a robust
physique, 3 great taiker, quick-tem-
pered, though conspicuously discreet.
A piercing, fine, or weak voice is in
dicative Of simidity, cunning, and gen.
orally of quick Wit.
In attractive and clear voice ex-
presses man who is prudent, sincere
and ingenious, but proud and incredu
lous; whereas, a firm voice, without
harshness, denotes a person who Is
robust, intelligent, circumspect and
benevolent.
A man possessing q trembling and
nesitating voice is timid, weak, vain
and sometimes jealous.
A voice combining great sound and
firmness indicates man who is strong,
audacious, rash, obstinate and self-im-
portant.
A sharp and rude voice, in singing as
well as in conversation, denotes a
coarse mind, inferior judgment and
strong appetites.
A hoarse voice, seemingly the effect
of cold, signifies person more simple
than wise, credulous and truthful, vain
and incmstant.
A full and sweet voice denotes man
who is peaceful, inclined to timidity,
discreet and self-willed.
A voice at first grave and then sharp
and piercing denotes the quick temper
of an impudent man.
A soft, sweet voice is found in per.
son OF peaceable and suitable char
acter.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-02-29
An Unpleasant Accident.

ALondon belle, renowned not only for
her charming figure and exquisite taste
in dress, but also for her grace and
skill as a skater, was fascinating host
OF admirers and maddening with jeal-
ousy host of rivals by her feats upon
the ice, when she suddenly stumbled
and fell. 4 score of chivalrous gallants
sped to the rescue, but before one of
them could reach her she had regained
her feet. She was wearing Canadian
skating costume. It unfortunately hap
pened in this case that, in endeavoring
to save herself the lady ripped her
stocking with the point of her skate.
She was not, however, aware Of the mis-
hap, and glided away from her rescuers
with her usual graceful rapidity. AS
she sped along in conscious triumph q
strange sound reached her ear, omin-
ously ike suppressed laughter. She
cast quick glance back, and I leave
You % imagine her feelings when she
saw that her course was marked by a
long trail of sawdust. The shapely
limb to which the wounded stocking
belo 1ged was fast losir its symmetry,
and the secret of its shapeliness stood
revealed. Enough; we draw the veil
over her bushes.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-02-29
Josh Billings Philosophy.

The CRATE herd ov mankind are like
oxen; they kno how to eat, and drink,
and chaw the kud, and that liz all they
do kno.
[ don't care how honest a man may
be in his own estimashun, or the opin-
Jun OF others, if he il very great talk
er he haz got to lie, more or less.
Mi youthful Joseph, would yu i'm
prove yure intelekts, read but little, lis
ten, and refekt mulch, and talk less.
1t IL the rarest ov all things to find
luv unadulterated with self-luv.
The most fastidious people that /
meet hav the least to be fastidious
about.
There are certain qualifkashuns
among mankind that would be just as
proper to praze az the spred ov pc
kok's tale.
If yu kant trust man entirely let
him skip; this trieing to get an aver
age on honesty haz alwuss been fail
ure.
kno plenty ov people who. if they
should lay aside their dignity, would
be az badly demoralized az a stifly
starched shirt collar in thunderstorm.
Yu kant beat the slate; if the figures
won't work, rub them out and make sum
that will.
Thare is only one kind ov person who
kan keep sekret, and he il the one
who refuses to take it at emmy price.
It IL better to be unknown than to
hav pedigree that IL too much for us,
just so it is better for a pekok to be
bobtailed. than to hav one too big to
spred.
When We visit an insane asylum We
are filed with profound pity and hor-
ror; but, after all, thare IL only about
Is per cent. difference between those
who are confined thare and the rest ov
the world outside.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-02-29
4 Bear Fight in Maine.

Ayoung man named Oliver, OF Ocono,
Me-, had a notable experience with a
huge black bear. Oliver, who had never
before seen bear, was passing through
the woods, when he came to large
tree, in the trunk of which there was a
large hole. Thinking it might be the
den of some animal, he thrust his ak
into the hole, and was surprised when
it struck some soft substance. He i'm
Aediately cut long pole and repeated
the experiment, when, without any DIAL
living, huge black head appeared at
the outer edge of the hole. 1t proved
to be that of bear of enormous size.
AS bruin poked out his head and the
fore part of his body, young Oliver
struck him clip with his ak, taking of
three of his toe nails. This surgical
operation so enraged the bear that he
made an angry plunge at Oliver, and
nearly succeeded in getting him with
his ak into the den. The young man
had by this time concluded that it was
either himself or the bear, so he dotted
his coat and mittens, and, bracing him
self, struck the old fellow q terrible
blow on the head. This seemed only
to enrage him the more, and, as his eyes
flashed fire, his ears stood erect, and his
breast protruded: aid he made another
dash at his intended victim. But young
Oliver was prepared for him, and dealt
him such blow as split open his head
from the base Of the brain to a point
even with his nose. This finished the
bear. who snorted few times, and
rolled dead at the feet of Oliver. He
was a black bear, apparently what is
known as an cold ranger" measured
nine feet from the tip of his nose to the
hind paws, and weighed over $50
pounds. After he had killed the mon
ster, young Oliver became frightened,
and, standing there gazing upon his
carcass, he said he could feel his own
hair rise upon end.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-02-29
"Hazins" in the British Army.

A few years ago man named ROyd
joined regiment, and on his first even
ing among his new comrades was
drawn" That is to say, he was visited
in his room during the small hours of
the morning and ordered to go down
into the ante-room for court-martial,
the charge against him being that he
had risen from the dinner-table while
an officer senior to him remained sit
ting. Royd, being of huge stature and
gigantic strength. stoutly resisted, and
eventually picked up the 'rgest man in
the room, carried him out to the land
ing, and dropped him over the baluster
onto the tagged passage below. The
effect was magical, in an instant all the
hubbub was hushed, and the injured
man was raised. Fortunately the re-
suit was nothing more than a sprained
ankle and severely bruised hip. He
took it very quietly, and merely looked
up at Royd, who was standing near, and
said coolly: I'll have you out for
this" Very possibly the newcomer
did not think much of the threat, but
his career was virtually over; at every
hour of the day and night did he have
cause to repent that hasty action, and
during the autumn maneuvers of that
year the climax came. It was in this
wise: On a pouring wet day, or night
rather, he had to visit the picKets, and
as, for some reason, he had no horse,
was compelled to do the rounds on
foot. On coming in after tramp of
some miles, thoroughly soaked and
tired out, he was ordered to visit yet
another outlying picket six or seven
miles away. Then was his tormentor's
opportunity; he would not permit him
to take troop horse, though he him
self was riding. Tired, cold and wet,
this young subaltern reached the
picket; something went wrong, as did
his temper, and he swore at one of the
men. His fate was sealed. His senior
Immediately put him under arrest, and
he was told by the Colonel that he
must send in his papers, or undergo
trial by court-martial. Of course, he
left the regiment.-Lo1ldo1o Society.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-02-29
sis 1t Il Queer Cure9"
We find in our exchanges this

We find in our exchanges this para
graph going the rounds:
"A child in Auburn, i'll of diphtheria,
whose life WAS despaired of, was cured
by Stacking lime. Small Jumps Of lime
were kept constantly Stacking near it's
mouth for more than day and a half,
until more than a barrel of lime was
thus Stacked The child was thought
to be dying before this remedy was en-
ployed. 1t breathed the fumes OF the
limo constantly until cured" Bangor
(Ne.) Whig.
This may sound queer" but it is
not only cure-if properly used-for
diphtheria, but in connection with hot
steam it positively cures membranous
Group. That dread scourge of SO many
households, whose light and JOY of life
has gone out With the loss of loved
children, is no longer an unmanageable
disease. The method Of using steam
mingled with the fumes of Stacked lime
is very successful in both diphtheria
and "old-fashioned Group" The bed
is covered over and made as close a tent
as possible. Into this close tent, where
the little patient lies, and must be kept,
pipe is introduced which leads from
boiling water near the bedside. Into a
par of warm water Jumps of unslacked
lime are occasionally dropped; the
Stacking makes, of course, hot fer
ment aud bubbling, and the imy per-
fumes pretty well fill the tent and are
breathed by the child. 1t may or may
not require nurse or parent to stay
much of the time in the tent, on the
bed with the child, to keep it quiet and
contented. Sometimes it takes two or
three days-the boiling water and lime
being duly renewed as often as they
fail, and the hot air and steam in the
little tent kept up night and day. One
little boy on Trumbul street, in this
city, lay for six days without change,
while suffering from membranous Group,
which threatened death--but, at last,
when all the doctors began to despair,
the Group yielded, and the little fel
lows life was saved. The remedy, we
think, works equally well in diphtheria,
and the time required, either in diph-
liberia or Group, is not often more than
two days. But in the case of diphthe-
ria, burning sulphur is G very important
additional advantage, which must not
be omitted. The sulphur may be burned
on hot fre-shovel, held under the
tent.-Hdrtford Times.
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brought this upon them, but could not

brought this upon them, but could not
withstand his pleadings Tor pardon.
The boys owned each his fault to the
other, and they made up. Tom offered
to perform Johns work while he was laid
up with his arm; and, though Mrs. Hollis
and John were not quite willing at first,
Mrs. Gayle said:
"Let him do 1t. 1t IS only right that
he should. His hasty temper has wrought
trouble to you. Let him, so far as he can,
atone for it,
And so 1T was arranged.
And that night Tom said: "You are
right, mother q think you're always
right about Boosting, you know. If
I'd listened a minute, John would have
explained how I'd played wrong. He
didn't mean cheating; only 1 couldn't
wait, but must fly off in one of my mad
fits I've learned one lesson, anyway"
The lesson lasted q long time. A bro
ken arm is not always very serious af-
fair; but John was delicate and little
fever set in, and he was kept in the house
q long time.
Tom kept his word and took upon him
self the care of Widow Hollis garden.
1t throve under his hands. He kept the
weeds down and the fences up; and 1t set
him to thinking Of another garden, which
it was his duty to tend, and little by lit
tie that garden also grew in beauty. He
worked at the weeds Of impotence and
fretfulness and anger, and tried his best
to keep up the fences against tempta-
tons. Itwas, after all, what he called,
in his emphatic boy fashion, ga good
summer" 1t was just the lesson he need
ed, and, though he had still an occasion
al fit of anger, he had made start to-
ward ruling his spirit, and that IS often
as hare work as lite holds.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-02-29
Strange Tastes in The Butter.

The principal causes why butter is
found to lie badly off flavor" are, first,
browse aud weeds in the pastures, or in
the nay, or coarse roots and other I'M
suitable feed III the stable; second, bad
water, or too little OF it; third, heating
The cows blood by running or abuse;
Iourta, uncleaniY milking; fifth, setting
the milk il open pans which are ex-
posed To the funA of cooking or to
Si0yo-sntoke or t0bacco-smoke. or to
coid yi~Gais set near; sixth, to keeping
the cream in uncleansed vessels, or too
7png before churnimg; seventh, the use
81 impure salt; eighth, putting down the
butter IN unsuitable or ill-prepared tubs
O. other packages; ninth, storing it in
dirty cellars, Or beside kerosene, salt or
anoke'; meat, Or fish, or any ether
strong odored thing. Butter is the
most susceptible of faint of any article
d food, and when tainted, even
slightly, has lost half IFS value. A per-
son mag have every other qualification
for the business that can be thought of,
yet, ii lacking IN scrupulous nestness, is
utterly unfit to be employed in butter
making. \ farmer, whose wife is Stat
tern, y ~ sHcceed in sheep or hogs, but
never rs oairyman. Yet let every man
remember that at least half of our bad
butter wss made before the milk left
the Examiner.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-02-29
Washington as a Fireman.

In 1774 the Friendship Fire Com
pany, which still exists, was organized.
It at first consisted of citizens who, out
of mutual friendship" agreed to carry
to every fire "two leathern buckets and
one great bag of oznaburg or wider
iinnen." Washington was made an nom
orary member, and when he went as 8
delegate to the Congress of 1774, at
Philadelphia, he examined the fire en-
gines in use there. On his return to
Philadelphia to the Continental Con-
gress in ITS, he bought from one Gibbs
q small fourth-class engine for ESQ los,
and just before he set out for Boston
heights to become COMMANDMENT Chief
he dispatched this little engine to the
Friendship Company. When in Alex
andria in his younger days he always
attended at fires, and assisted to extin-
guish them. In the last year of his
life a fire occurred near the market.
He was riding down King street, fol-
lowed by his servant, also on horseback,
and he saw the Friendship engine poor
ly manned. Riding up to group of
well-dressed gentlemen near by, he
called out: "Why are you idle there,
gentlemen? It is your business to lead
in these matters" And, throwing the
bride of his horse to his servant, he
leaped off and seized the brakes, fol-
lowed by crowd that gave the engine
such shaking up" as it never knew
afterward.-Harper's Magazine.