The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1886-06-10
OUR BREVlTY BASKET.
Filled With Brief Mention OF Many Minor
Events of the Week.

Filled With Brief Mention Of Many Minor
Events of the Week.
1t is great pity that all the wise
men in the county who want office
can't get it.
We have no personal fight to make
against any one. That is not the mis-
sion Of this paper.
Who wants to be dog catcher? The
position won't pay much, but there Will
be lots of fun in it.
So far, we believe, every section of
our county has been visited by timely
and refreshing showers.
Opportunities are opportunities.
They are like flowers that fade at night;
seize them, therefore, while they last.
Scorn not thy fellow creature; there
is some spark of good yet left in every
man, even though he be lying in the
verieSt mire.
While we do not want an Office our
self, we are ready to assist any one
that does. Our charge is only 50. Send
in your card.
If you want to take cheap trip to
Charleston call at Lowman and Dukes
and buy a ticket for the grand eXcur-
sion on the 23rd instant.
l. is pretty cheeky in man who has
been a standing candidate for forty
years or more to question the right of
any one to run for Office.
Miss r. S. Albergotti requests her
pupils to meet her at the house former
ly occupied by Judge Glover, Monday
morning, June 18th. at nine o'clock.
The people will be called upon next
Fall to elect five Representatives, Pro-
bate Judge, School Commissioner, three
County Commissioners and Coroner.
We tender our thanks to Mr.. L. W.
Collier, of Middle St. Matthews, for a
box of delicious peaches. They were
the first we have seen this season and
were enjoyed.
Superintendent Rounds, Of the Orange
Mills, who has been quite sick, we are
pleased to say has been much improv-
ed by a trip off. We hope he will soon
be himself again.
We had the honor Of visit last Mon
day from the veteran editor OF the
Christian Neighbour the Rev. s. i II.
Brown. We were pleased to see our
old friend looking 50 well.
The man who says we want an office
is mistaken. As we know him to be an
old chronic Office seeker we publish this
paragraph to assue him that so far as
we are concerned he has Il clear field.
We had the pleasure Of meeting in
town last Saturday, j. l.. Weber, Esq,
of the News and Courier staff. Mr..
Weber is Il talented young journalist,
and we predict for him brilliant
future.
DR.. O. II. OFT, Of Branchville, is
spoken of for the Legislature by his
friends. DR.. OFT is one of our most
honored citizeus and TIE TINES AND
DEMOCRAT would he glad to see him
elected.
The farmer who expects to succeed
at all this year, mas no time now to de-
vote to politics. Grass and crops will
absorb his undivided attention for sey-
eral weeks to come. Abundant success
to them all.
Our young friends, B. f. Keller and
W. G. Wolfe, students at WoiIord Col
lege, will please accept our thanks for
an invitation to attend the commence
ment exercises of that institution on
the 18th instant.
1t is now June, and the fight for the
mastery between the small boy and the
green apple, will soon begin. The
green apple is much smaller than the
boy, but it generally manages to "get
thar" all the same.
We know a few men that we would
like to see in the Legislature. They
belong to a certain class of individuals
that will learn only by experience, and
we are very anxious that they should
have the opportunity.
Sink or swim, live or die, survive or
perish, TIE TINES AND DEMOCRAT is
Democratic to the core. It has its po-
Iicical opinions and expects to stand by
them, allowing however, every one the
same blessed privilege.
A sentimental writer says "a baby is
a link which binds it's mother to hea-
ven." Pretty often it is link which
binds her to the house when she is
almost dying" to go out making calls
or to do little shopping.
lie TIMES AND DEMOCRAT feel
complimented by the additions that has
been made to its subscription list since
last January. If the rate Of increase
continues, by next January we will
have at least two thousand subscribers.
A city's growth depends in every
case upon the devotion of it's people to
its interests, and that devotion can be
shown in no me :" satisfactory and sub
stantial way than Ly patronizing home
home industry, home talent
and home enterprise.
Information is wanted by Mrs. Nc
Cullen OF the whereabouts of her hus-
band, B. +. McCullen, printer, who
she mourns as dead. Any information
of him will be thankfully received by
his troubled wife. Any information
of his whereabouts may be sent to
Mrs. B. F. McCullen, Beaufort, Y. G.