The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1883-12-20
News of the Week.

attention from the Dloody SnlrL organs
) We don't suppose Mr.. Davis is losinE
any sleep over the result of the bill.
, There is a clergyman in Tennessee
J called the satisfying preacher" 1t
congregation is discontented he is sen
for, and so atraciously bad is he tina
after hearing Lin once or twice TIT
/, congregation is entirely satisfied tt
keep the pastor it has.
It is stated that the Hon. Samuel j
:. Tilden will make gift of his Gramerc!
Park residence, library and collection
of fpictures to the city Of New Nork fo'
public, library, which he proposes tx
endow iberally- The property, books
pictures, etc, are valued at $1,OOOOOo.
Queen Victoria is said to be passion
arely fond of walnuts, and has to have
dish of them by her side constantly
A great many other people would bt
ford of walnuts ii they didn't have tt
! pick out the meats. The Queen Of Eng
land and Empress Of India has some one
to do it for her.
Fifty surgeons probed Intellectually
for the bullet that entered the hip Of
George Fl. Fredericks, of Fort Wayne
in the battle of Okolona, Miss, twenty
one years ago. The other day ne felt
sharp pain just above the right knee
joint. He worked the flesh with his
finger and out came the bail.
Col. Tom Henry, Democratic Clerk
. of the Kentucky Court Of Appeals, re-
plies, in an interview, to the charge
that he had ber on drunk for nine
days. He says it's a big lie, he was only
drunk seven days. Such slandefs OF
official character should be stopped
a seven days drunk is small matter
in kentucky.
/ The Fort Mill correspondent OF the
Rock Hill Herald says: "Mr. l.. ID
johnson, who left for the Lone Star
State about twelve months ago, return.
ed few days since to his old tramping
grounds thoroughly disgusted with
| Texas. he says that hencefOrth and
forever South Carolina will be- good
enough for him."
A wealthy young man of Natick
Massachusetts,, while much the worse
for drink, hired horse. He fell asleep
lin the vehicle while the stablers were
Harvesting the horse, and they let him
sleep in the stable. When he awoke he
said he had used the quadruped we'll
and fed him at Newton Little Falls
He paid S3 for his drive and went OF
satisfied.
The fears entertained as to the open.
ing of the public debt question in Vlr-
ginia in consequence of the incoming
of a Democratic administration have
been set aside by the adoption by the
new Legislature of joint resolution
accepting the Act Of February, 1882
known as the "Riddleberger bill, as an
ultimate and unalterable settlement OF
the debt issue Of the State.
Governor Pattison, Of Pennsylvania,
has vetoed the bill providing for the
pay of the Legislature for the extra ses-
sion, on the grouud that the Legislature
did not attend to the business for which
it convened. This establishes a prece-
dent dangerous to men who make a liv-
ing out Of politics. If legislative
bodies are to be paid only when they
have done their duty, how few would
ever get cent!
Galveston has vigilance committee
that threatens to make the climate OF
Texas warm for gamblers. The gam
blers of Dallas meantime, are making
as strong fight as has been made by
those Of st. Louis, where they haye dis
placed the chief of police, who was not
their vassal. The Dallas gamblers are
demanding a change of venue, on the
plea that they cannot have a fair trial
in Dallas County.
A dispatch from Paola, Kansas, says
that George Orr, a youth OF seventeen
years of age, went Thursday afternoon
to the house of Monroe Trumble, an
old blind man living near there, and
after a short conversation shot and
killed him and brutally beat old Mrs.
Trumble about her head and face, and
then fled after robbing the house of $50.
A posse of twenty-five citizens are
searching for the murderer.
a special from Monterey, Mexico,
SAYS: "Senator Quintana Mayor of New
Laredo, was to-day ordered to be arrest
red as one of the principals in recent
train robbery on the Mexican National
Railway. The authorities Of Tamauli-
pas refused to surrender him. Other
prominent officials are involved, and
the affair is assuming &! serious national
aspect. Several of the robbers escaped
through the delay and indiscretion of
the officials"
Man born OF woman is Of few days
and no teeth. And, indeed, it would be
money in his pocket sometimes II he
had less of either. AS for his days, he
wasted one-third of them, and as for
his teeth, he has convulsions when he
cuts them, and as the last one comes
through, 10! the dentist is twisting the
first one out, and the last end OF that
mans Jaw is worse than the first, being
full of porcelain and roof-plate built
to hold blackberry seeds.
While some workmen were engaged
in cleaning out the river Joann, one of
the small streams Of Rio, in Brazil, they
found very old cedar chest buried in
the mud. When opened they found it
to contain many valuable articles, such
as lamps, swords, works in gold and
diamonds. Those articles were taken
at once to the museum. They are sup
posed to have belonged to the Jesuits,
who threw them in the stream when
pressed in their flight from Rio.
A Bostonian was recently rescued
from drowning, and with difficulty re-
susciated. Without thanking his res
cuers, or referring in any manner to his
narrow escape, he pulled out some bank
notes from an inside pocket. With a
look of despair he exclaimed: "Oh, my
God! my money is spoiled" Not until
one of his friends had demonstrated to
him beyond doubt that his bills would
not shrink in value on account OF soak
ing did the terrified man recover calm
ness.
In York County Me-, recently, man
died who had one doctor treating him for
py9emia and another for Bright's dis
ease. Each determined to settle the
question of disease by a post mortem
without letting the other know it. Just
as the kidney doctor had uncovered the
coffin the blood-poison man drove into
the graveyard with his assistants, and
the two disputed 50 long over the ques-
tion of possession that they were sur
prised and nearly captured by a party
from the village who had been attract.
ed by the light of the moving lanterns
How much to "wave the bloody
Shirt" Or as Mr.. Frank Hatton phrases
it, "how high to elevate the ensanguin.
ed garment" was the subject of a pro-
l0nged discussion at a late cabinet meet
ing. General Arthur was the inquirer
after information to use in preparation
of his message. Chandler, Teller and
Brewster were known to be in favor OF
the highest attitude, while Lincoln was