The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1886-07-22
OUR BREVITY BASKET.

Events OF tne W eek.
One Dollar and Fifty Cents will Sc
cure this paper whole year.
During this month plant snap beans,
also Irish potatoes for fall crop.
Don't whisper in church, young folks;
it is annoying, and it is disrespectful.
Major McSweeney's marriage is
another awful warning to Brother
Holmes.
You always hear Of the man who
draws the big prize in lottery, but
you never meet him.
We are to bear one another's burdens
because of the burdens, and not be-
cause we expect return.
The new street from Russell to Ame-
liza Street has been named Lowman, in
honor of DR.. j. w. Lowman.
Our base ball club will play in Co.
lumbia tomorrow and the next day.
Boys, you know your duty-do it.
Mr.. J. H. Pearson, who lives on the
Dukes place near town, left at our
Office last Saturday twin cucumber.
Those who have sons and daughters
to educate should consider the healthy
location of our town and the qualifica-
tions of our teachers.
Pooser, McKeown & Cos. Machine
Shop will be in operation after the 9th.
They will be prepared to do all kinds of
engine and gin repairs.
We are in receipt of a copy of the
~, W. oF ha 6rcf onn1,o1 D7opfinCr nf
the South Carolina Bar Association,
which met last December in Columbia.
The Jamison and Rowesville base
ball clubs played game i'll our town
last Thursday. The score at the close
stood nine to fifteen in favor of Rowes-
vile.
For more than a week past the street
hands have been busy cutting down
the weeds and bushes that have grown
up on the back streets and in public
squares.
To he healthy this weather, you
must not feed grossly nor indulge in
strong fluids. Use chloride Of lime
freely and avoid draughts of air when
perspiring.
The Association Of Graduates of the
Citadel Academy have our thanks for
an invitation to attend the anniversary
supper at the Charleston Hotel on the
2Sth instant.
Our young friend, Cadet Geo. H.
Cornelson, Jr., will accept our thanks
for an invitation to attend the COM
mencement exercises of the South Caro-
lima Military Institute.
A fashion journal says that the "short
hair craze" is over. Alas, for those
young ladies who have just had their
hair amputated. What misery must
they endure for a time!
The bravest are not always the ten
derest, as the poets sing. There is the
red game rooster, for instance; he will
fight bird of double his weight, but
he cuts up tough in a pot pie.
Cadet Geo. H. Cornelson, Jr., has our
thanks for an invitation to attend the
Graduation Hop of the Corps of Cadets
of the Citadel Academy at New Brigh-
ton Hotel on the 23d instant.
Mr.. r. o. Smith, who has been engag-
ed in the rice milling business in our
town for sometime, has returned to
Charleston. We regret to lose him and
his excellent family as residents of our
town.
Mr.. A. R. Phillips left at our Office
last Friday a curiosity in the shape of
a corn silk that grew in place OF the
ear Of corn: 1t was about eighteen
inches long and full of little undeyelop-
ed ears of corn.
The Town Council of NeWberry are
enforcing the law against vagrancy,
and, as a consequence, the lazy loafers
who have heretofore infested the town
have left for other parts. If the same
law could be enforSed in this place we
think it would have wholesome ef-
feet here, too.
The Charleston News and Courier
ran special train from Charleston to
n. c.. yesterday. The train
left Charleston at 3 y. NJ, arrived at
Columbia at COS a. NJ; at Union, $50;
Spartanburg. 1890; Asheville, n. c., 2
L. NJ. ~ tllP lloiii elC oCoooolu w eiS
in II hours.
The Wateree Messenger says: On
Thursday evening match game was
played in Camden between the Olios Of
and the Kershaws. The
Camden club won the game by score
of seventeen to sixteen. Not content
with their defeat the Orangeburg club
played here again on Friday morning,
when the Kershaws only let them make
one score while they made seven. The
games were witnessed by quite large
crowd.
Going to Missouri.
The Rev. J. d. Andrews, who has
been preaching for some time ut For
reston, S. c., has received Il call from