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Notice.

.NOtlCC.
A IL PERSONSUAEING CLAIMS;
~ against the Estate of Thomas II.
Zimmerman, deceased, will present the
same duly attcstcd to the undersigned, and
all persons indebted to said Estate will
make payment to Moss Il Dantzlcr, Attor-
ncys at Law, Orangcburg. ). &.
IRWIN Ii. ZIMMERMAN,
Qualified Eecutor of Estate of Thomas
II. Zimmerman, deceased. July s-3t
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ITUORUUGUB j Il T. ID J j. RS j. \
L Calves. One ycarling registered Jcr'
scy Bull. Registered Ayrcshirc hcltcrS'
Several grade hciiers as also several Mllcl
f. y. CHISOLM,
Rowesville, S. q.
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For Sale.

NNE TEN HORSE POWER EN-
" CINE and Boiler complete. Also one
Circular Saw Mill. The above can be
bought OH very reasonable terms.
Feb - lIARPIN RIGGS
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Notice.

.NO1lcc.
Y ROADS BELLyILLE AND STATE ROAD.
HAVING BOUGHT TIE RIGHT
L L to sell the AMMON'S PATENT
PLOW GUAGE AND GUIDE in Orange
burg County am prepared to furnish them
and solicit the patronage of all the farmers
the county. NJ. NJ. METIS,
ApriI lj-:5mo st. Matthews, 5. e..
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THE MUSEUM

The quarterly report Of the keeper Of the
museum was then submitted and accepted.
From it is extracted the following matters OF
interest:
The museum now contains relics Of his
torical value as given below:
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-11-11
The Story of a Ring.

There goes a young man who has a
romance, " replied well-known citizen
at st. Paul, as he looked through the
window, as a young man of perhaps
twenty-five passed up First avenue, a
remarkably handsome lady leaning upon
his arm. Tell you about it," Certain
", only I won't give you the name of
the parties for if l did you would pri
it and nearly every one in the city
would recognize in the couple two well
known Minneapolis people.
''Some years ago the young man
worked in one of the big mills and was
looked upon as a good man in his posi-
ton. One day party of ladies visited
the mill among them the lady you saw
him with While looking at the differ
ent things around the mill; this young
lady dropped from her finger into lot of
wheat which was being stored a valua-
BILE diamond ring which she had pre-
sented to her by her mother who had
died some years before.
''Of course, the young lady was near
~ heartb1oken and refused to be COM
forted by her friends. This young man
who was standing near when she
dropped the ring, saw the whole thing
and made up his mind to recover the
rlng. That evening as soon as his work
was done, he went to the bin in which
the wheat had been stored, and there
accompanied by a friend, sifted all the
wheat and placed it in bags. 1t was
nearly morning when he found the ring.
The wheat was then emptied back into
the bin and the young man went home.
When he vert to work again he went
to the head miller and succeeded in be-
ing released for the day His next
move was to dress himself in his best
suit and return the ring to the owner.
''TO her he related how he recovered
it, and by his pleasing manners so cap
tivated her that she invited him to call.
This he did, and the friendship thus be-
gun soon ripened into something
stronger. The young lady's father took
great liking to the young man and
gave his consent to a marriage, arranged
between him and his daughter. When
the marriage took place, the young
man left the mill, and was started in
business by his wife's father. He is now
Y orth about 500, 900, and can lay his
good fortune in recovering the lost
ring
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-11-11
Ling Gin.
THE STORY OF YOUNG CHINESE WOMAN
WHO WAS SLICED INTO THOUSAND
PIECES.
From a Canton Letter.l


The execution ground Yesterday was
the scene of a most horrible tragedy. A
young girl, aged eighteen, was put to
death by the barbaric method of Ling
Chi, or being cut into q thousand pieces.
The girl, who was married some time
ago, lived with her husband, her father
and mother-in-law, in a small village in
the district of Wo Ping, or Peace, in
the department of Wal Chau. One dav
few months ago her husband, father
and mother in-Iaw had gone to their
duties in the field, and the young wife
was left at home TO prepare the meals
and look after the pigs. She prepared
kind Of congee for the pigs, along
with which she boiled root said to be
very good for fattening pigs and sheep
While she went out calling the pigs her
husband, his father and mother, along
with a neighhor, returned home. The
calling of pigs is sight and sound FIRE
Quently met with in travelling through
villages in China, as the po-kers are
allowed to wander along the roads and
villages at will. The party returning
from their work hot and thirsty wished
for something to drink, and seeing the
congee took some and drank it of
The root which had been boiled with
the congee, though good for sheep and
pigs, is bad for man The four persons
gradually developed symptoms of pois-
oning and ultimately died he clans
people Of the deceased took the young
girl to the District Magistrate and G.
ferred a charge of poisoning her hus-
band, father and mother in law and a
female neighbor To make the charge
appear more plausible under the cir
cumstanceS, which were all in her favor,
they intimated that she had poisoned
her relatives because she was afraid Of
being discovered that she had been I'M
faithful to her marriage VOWS The
magistrate made a strict investigation
and no evidence being produced that
she was guilty of intdelity, he decided
to release her. To this the clan objected
most strenuously, so the case was re-
ferred to the Project. The Projects de
cision corroborated that of the District
Magistrate, but the clanspeOple were
bent upon her destruction, so the case
was referred 10 the Provincial Judge
His judgment colresponded with those
of his two subordinates. Still the
clanspeople were not satisfied. So the
case was brought before the tribunal of
His Exceilency the Vlceroy. The Vice
roy decided that the young girl should
be put to death by Ling Chi, and she
was chopped into thousand pieces.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-11-11
The Imgend ng War.

Those who know lest say that one
old mans life is the only barrier TO the
breaking out of what promises to be the
greatest war in the history of the world.
Russia is VIGOROUSLY ready for a march
on ConstantinOple. Germany, Austria,
and Great Britain are intent Oh prevent
ing Russia from reviyiug the Roman
Empire of the East, which she would
surely do if her flag were 10 wave over
tne dome of Saint Sophia. Russia has
nuIlified the treaties OF Paris and Berlin.
She has built mighty fleet on the Black
Sea, and has driven Prince Alexander
of Battenberg from the throne of Bull
garia. She has done enough to provoke
a war, but the armies are held in check
by the desire of the German emperor to
remain at peace for the rest of his nee
cssariiy short life. The aged monarch
was warm personal friend of the
grandfather of the present Gar, and he
Will not consent to take up arms against
the ROmanois. But the war cannot be
long DELAYED. The leading statesmen
and rulers OF Western Europe, with the
sole exception of those of France, are
determined that Russia shall not get
possession of ConstantinOple, for they
believe it would finally lead to the
domination of Russia over all Europe.
+ he Mediterranean, they fear, would
then become a Russia sea. When the
war breaks out France will be the only
country that will probably side with
Russia. This course would be against
the traditions of French History, and
the only reasons for taking it is to re-
cover the lost provinces of Alsace and
Lorraine, and be avenged on Germany
for the humiliation of Sedan and the
surrender of Paris. -D0D1oyest' Monthly
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-11-11
Phil. ArmOur's Dandy.

Millionaire Phil. Armour has a pleas
ant custom of buying a suit of clothes
once a year for each of his office en-
ployees. This year all but one of the
boys visited a certain tailor on the south
side and were measured for suits rang
ing from $50 to $50. The exception
WIS dude, who scorned the selections
m lde by his colleagues. He wanted
something gorgeous and tight-ftting.
After paving over the fashion plates
of the tailor ne finally selected piece of
goods which would cost 1925 to build
INTO garments When the tailor, a few
weeks later, sent his itemized bill to the
big pork packer, the latter made in.
quries for the purpose of finding out
whether this young man with such
aesthetic taste was really so unfortunate
as to have to work
els he at work in any of our depart
ments" Glr. Amour asked, turning to
one of his lieutenants.
YES; he works in the --- room, -"
was the reply.
Eth, eh; has he drawn his money for
this month";
''No, sir; not yet"
Gil, IIleu' 90 get MS salary anu
give it to me, and tell him want to see
him at once"
When the dude tripped up to the
millionaire the latter cleared his throat
and said:
Young man, l like to have my clerks
consider themselves on an equality with
one another. In 10 king over the taIlor's
bill l find that you rate yourself $50
higher than the figures your colleagues
place upon themselves. As l see no
tangible proof of your great worth to
this establishment, it gives me much
sat slaction to present to you your
months salary, together with my esti-
mate of your value-yodr dismissal from
my service. Remember I'm an expert
on hogs and know how to salt them. -
Chicago He,utd.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-11-11
Rabbit killing in Australia,

The experiment of turning cats loose
in Australia to destroy the swarms of
rabbits is reported to have proved emf
nently successful. In one of the worst
infested districts of Victoria $50 cats
bought at Is. head, inclosed for time
in limited space by means of wire net
ting, fed on rabbits and afterward turned
loose in patches, food having been still
supplied In a rough building for any
cats which might not at once support
themselves by hunting. Not a single
cat is known to have found its way TO
its original home, and as to the result
OF the exp eriment, the special reporter
of the Melbourne FIlTHleTS' Gazette saws:
During a thorough inspection of the
sand hummOcks Just a little before twi-
light our party only succeeded in seeing
three rabbits. The cats, on the other
hand, were to be met with everywhere,
and mangled rabbits, some slaughtered
but recently and others dead for weeks,
were come across in all directions. The
cats were evidently the complete mas
tiers of the situation The writer goes
on to express the opinion that there IS
no doubt whatever as to the success of
the experiment, which is, moreover, as
inexpensive as it is successful. -Lond0n
iStdHddrd
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-11-11
THINGS SOLDIERS CARRIED.
Curious and CumbrOus Articles Picked mp
| on the Line of March.

"There were lots of funny things
about the war;" said Col. Frederick
Martin, OF the Brooklyn elevated, to a
Sun reporter the other day, "now that
you think of them when the tears are
dried away, and about the funniest
things l recall were the queer articles
the boys used to pick up on the march
and the eccentric way in which they'd
tote 'em along to finally adorn some
ditch by the wayside. Stragglers were
the worst at this, but all the fellows
were bad enough. Whenever the army
went through a first family residence
the boys would capture what struck each
as most attractive, and some of their
tastes were peculiar. They had great
weakness for cradles. You may ask me
what man treading his way to the front
wanted with a mahogany cradle, and
I'm blest if l know. but they took EN-.
First one man would back cradle and
cart it dozen miles; then he'd begin to
cuss and finally drop it.
Now, you'd suppose that any ordin-
airy idiot would just look at that cradle
as 1t lay in the road and pass on, but
they wouldn't. Some one would be GER
tain to pick it up and lug it few miles
further into the Confederacy.
Il recall one cradle that Travelled 100
miles on blue backs before it went to
increase the blaze of mess fire. Some
how they seemed to think vaguely that
there was chance of getting the infant
soother home, but they never sue
ceeded.
'The funniest thing lever saw carried
was looking glass as high as your head
and two feet wide | saw it first in the
parlor of central Virginian mansion,
and next on soldiers back headed for
Petersburg. Then | lost sight of it for
two days, and found 1t again propped
up against a tree forty miles further
along. The next day | saw it travelling
tenderly on Il strsggler's back. He had
his gun in one hand and had somehow
strapped the glass so he could get along
without holding fast to it.
''Well, this fellow must have got tired,
for the next day third man had it, land
on the next fourth. This chap toted
it into-+he lines at Petersburg. He set
it up against tree, took long regret
fui look at full length of his shabby self,
and turned away with a sigh.
ut was just as well that he did. The
next minute along came a MIME bullet,
buzzing like hornet and hit the glass
square in the centre, and smashed it into
frame full of cracks radiating from
around the hole.
1.-The heavier and the more useless the
things were the more they chung to
them, even combining to escort pianos
into untimely graves in mudhoIes; but
the man who could steal a rocking char
was a white robed angel in his own
mind, and the objaSt of universal envy.
another funny sning was to have the
sutler strike camp loaded up with con-
densed milk. I've seen whole regi,
ment sitting on fence, each man with
a milk can in one hand dipping out the
sweet, thick stuff with his foreinger and
licking it off with an expression of beat
itude that would make a Raphaellte
saint look sick in comparison"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-11-11
Not at Home.

Before Bismarck reconstructed the
map of Europe and made United Ger
many dozen little principalities used
to annoy travellers by stopping them at
their frontiers until they had satisfied
the Custom house demands. A Yankee
once had his carriage stopped at the
frontier of a petty princes country.
The Herr Ober Controller at the Gus
tom-house, came forward, and, much
to his indignation, was received in q
nonchalant way. The Yankee was I'M
2entlemanly enough not to get out of
the carriage or even to take Off his hat.
The Herr ODER sharply demanded the
keys of the tourists trunks, which his
subordinate began handling roughly.
"Here, hands off" shouted the Yankee
Il didn't come from the United States
of America to be controlled by you.
Put those trunks back. I'll not go
through you at all. I'll turn back. I'm
in no hurry, and don't care for losing
a day. You're no country, you're only
spot. I'll go round you.-San Frau
cisco ArgOBaut.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-11-11
What We Pay for Vices.

From the annual report of the Inter
nal Revenue Bureau, it seems that the
consumption of beer and tobacco in
every form except snuff is largely in
creasing. This last is especially true of
the worst form OF tobacco oking, viz,
cigarettes. The number of gallons of
whisky used was 20, 763, O10, or 1.19
gallons per capita, a decrease from 1888
or 1894, when it was respectively 1.41
and 40 gallons per head. The con-
sumption of beer reached the enormous
total of 642, 000, 600 gallons, which gives
0.S3 gallons to every inhabitant of the
country against gallons in 1888.
Considering a large part of the popula-
tion used no beer at all, this makes an
enormous consumption for those who
do This increase in the beer accounts
somewhat for the decrease in spirits,
and then doubtless the prohibition
movement, especially in the south, has
something to do with it. The amount
of smoking and chewing tobacco used
has increased II, 0l0,5 74 pounds in the
present year, making in all 191, 023, G63
pounds, which is considerably in excess
OF the consumption of any previous
year, and which is about double VIII t it
used to be before 1870. There were
500 cigars smoked last year for every
inhabitant, nearly six times as many as
as were used twenty years ago. But
greatest of ali is the increase IN cigarette
smoking, amounting to nearly >, 500,
900, 900 last year alone, and of which
there is no official record before 1866.
1t remains to add that, supposing cigars
to average only five cents each, and
cigarettes twenty cents a package, to
baccO a dollar per pound in retail forms,
beer five cents glass, and spirits five
cents for half a gill, prices which are
certainly not as high as those paid by
most consumers, the cost of these arti-
Giles 10 the people of this country is over
81, 1S9, 600, 600, or $19.82 for every in
habitant From all this it appears that
our countrymen will soon be able to
out smoke if not Out-drink any people
on the earth. -Dem0rest' Monthly.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-11-11
A Divorced NTOman's Ambition,

The Chicago He1'aM says: 1--WE Just
been out in Denver" said an East-bonnd
passenger, land while there | met Mrs.
Tabor, divorced wife Of the Senator.
She has not married again, but Is living
quietly with her son. She has deYel-
opcd very good business tact, ana has
taken such admirable care OF the $780,
0 0 which she got from her husband,
that she is now Il millionaire. Tabor,
on the other hand, has been gradually
going down hill Not long ago he
made Il rather lucky hit in some names
which revived his dropping fortunes a
bit, but the prediction is freely made
that in few years he will tt0ttcn out
into hopeless bankruptcy. Mrs. TABOR
No. |, says that she will yet have to
take care of the old man, and that
when his hour OF adversely comes, as
come it will, he will find himself de-
serted by No. 9, aud then he vii be
glad enough to return 10 his first love
and her million it seems to be the
height Of this 3yoman's ambition to get
her husband back aud to be able to set
him ND again Guarc:aliy.'
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-11-11
Su p sed Or in Of Earthquake

For my own part, I am more dis
posed to sha.e the views expressed by
Dana, that the tie sion and pressure by
which the great oscillations and plica-
tiens OF the earths crust have been pro
duced have not yet wholly ceased, and
that this is generally the most probable
cause of earthquakes. The uplifting of
great continental tracts and mountain
ranges must have always left the lnterio
of the crust In a state of unstable
equilibrium, and any slight slide or set
tlinI along an Old fracture, or IL highly
disturbed and distorted strata, would be
attended by an earthquake shock. In
volcanic areas the removal of the large
volumes of molten rock from the int e.
rior to the surface must produce settle
Iacnts and strains which might also re-
suit in some Of those minor earthquakes
to which volcanic districts are so sub
icct Where we have the two conditions
com ined, IS they are in the Andes OF
south tAmcrica, there earthquake phe-
nomena are, as we should expect, deyel-
oped on the grandest and wiaest scale.
From Professor Pustmiah's "Ge0'ogH. .
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-11-11
ONE YEARS PENSION PAYMENTS.
The Commissioners Report Shows 365,-
1873 Names on the Rolls,

The Commissioner of Pensions has
Just issued his annual report, which
shows that at the close of the fiscal
year there were 365, 1888 pensioner
classified as follows: 2G5, 854 army in
valids, 801G2 army widows, minor chill
dTen and dependent relatives. 1908 sur
vivors of the war of 1912, and IL, 391
widows of those who served in that
war, showing a diminution in survivors
during the year of ,406, and of widows
of 1915. There were added to the
rolls during the year 40, 857 new pen
sioners and 2, 1923 whose pensions had
been previously dropped were restored
to the rolls, making an aggregate OF
43, 086 pensioners added during the
year. During the same period %, OS9
pensioners were dropped from the rolls
for various causes, leaving net increase
to the rolls of 1858.
The average annual value of each pen
sion at the close of the year is shown to
be S122.23, a gain of average annual
value over last year of $11.SS. The
aggregate annual value of all pensions
is S44, 7OS, O27.44, an increase of like
value for the year of Sc, GIT, 041.51. The
amount paid for pensions during the
year was $63, 797, S31.61, decrease over
the previous year of $1,135, 456.5l, a
difference due to the difference in
amounts of ''arrearages" paid. The
difference between the amount paid and
the annual val es is due to first pay
ments, including accrued" and Ear
rears." The amount paid to 81, 1877 new
pensioners during the year upon first
payment was $22, 1877, O54. Is, and there
remained in the hands of the several
pension agents $3.50 of this class I'M
paid at the close of business on June
80, which there was due $2,879, 933. AZ.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-11-11
HOW TO INDORSE A CHECK.
A Little Advice Given by Bank Clerk
the Subject.

Very few otherwise intelligent and
educated people understand how to
properly indorse bank check payable
to their order, and few realize the in
convenience they cause by placing their
in>,orsement in an awkward position.
An observance of the following rules
will enable anybody to place their sig
nature in the proper place:
l. Write across the back not length
wise.
2. The top of the back is the left end
of the face
3. TO deposit check, write 'For de.
posit," and below this your name. A
clerk not having the power of attorney
to 81 n or indOrse checks, can deposit
his firms checks by writing on the top
of the back, For deposit only to credit
of -" and below this write his
own name.
4. Simply writing yGSsr name on the
back of a check signifies that it has
passed through your hands and is pay
able to bearer.
s. Always indorse a check as it APP
pears on the face. For instance, if the
check is payable to &c Read" if to
"Geo. Read, " indorse "Geo. Read" if
to George F. Read" indorse George
F. Read" If the spelling of the name
on the face of the check is wrong, in
dorse first just as the face appears, and
below the proper way. For instance,
if the check is payable on the face to
George Reade," indorse George
Reade," and below this Endorsement
write what it should have been
George Read"
g. II you wish to make the check
payable to some particular person, write
PAY to order of -"
All strangers presenting checks for
payment must be identified by some one
k nown to the bank.