The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1886-02-18
OUR BREVlTY BASKET.
Filled Will, Erief Mention of Many Minor
Events Of the Week.

been scattered around during the past
week.
EX-Sheriff John II. Livingston, OF
this county, is now land agent at
Ocola, Fla.
Several of our farmers contemplate
experimenting with a small crop OF to-
bacco this year.
Col. AID. Frederick offers some val
liable real estate for sale. See his al
vertisement in another column.
The Post Master reports a pair OF
shoes left in his Office which the owner
can have by calling for and proving
property.
\ young lady should not allow her
head to be turned by tlattery, but II q
new bonnet passes her on the street she
may turn it just little.
!; DR.. A: S..Salley has been confined to
the house from a severe cough TOR
several days. We hope soon to see his
genial face on the street again.
Mr.. w. +. Phillips, of the Fork, on a
fourth of an acre of land made cane
enough to yield him 1855 gallons OF
fine syrup. This beats cotton. .
Learned men tell us that in Latin the
word editor means "to eat" In South
Carolina dialect it means to scratch
around like blazes to get something to
eat.
WE. Robinson, who left us about
two weeks ago te make his home in
Florida, is now at Ocala. We hope our
young friend will do well in his new
home. ,...F..l,.,;
An! An exchange says: at is said that
people talk less in February than in
any month in the year. Why is this? ??
Because it is the shortest. Give us a
hard one.
Emlyn, editor of the Columbia Re
cord, is married man. Hear what he
says: "Tight lacing is rs fatal as rum,
but neither high license or prohibition
can reach it,"
ReF. Wilson Ashley, of IAbbeNille, has
in his career married six hundred. and
sixty couples. We shudder when we
think of the.troublc that this good man
has caused in this world.
An Edgefelh brother says: "The
Moses who will do most to lead the
farmers out of the wilderness Is ne
who will do the most to lead them
from the cotton to the corn field
IF ice is not cheap the coming sum,
.mer, it won't be the fault of the signal
service man. FTe has certainly spread
zero over as wide an extent OF this con-
tinent as could have been expected.
There is letter in the postoflice ad-:
dressed to the "Handsomest'Y oung Man
in Orangeburg." Who is he? If it had
been to the handsomest young lady we
could name her without any trouble.
We were mistaken in the statement
that Mr.. E. L. Arthur ran for the Legs
lature on the Greenback ticket in 1883.
While Mr.. Arthur was an active Green
backer he did not stand for the LegislR-
ture.
An exchange says it is good time
now to trim your grape vines and fruit
trees. Also, draw the top dirt from
around the peach trees and scrape out
the worms and borers that can be easily
seen n6w:s - - = .
It has been said that ladies' have gen
orally great fear Of lightning. and this
has been specifically ascribed to their
natural timidity; but the truth is that
it arises from their consciousness OF
being attractive.
A Chicago girl fell out of third
story window and killed a dog which
her brother had fired at four times with
Flobert rifle and failed to hit. If q
Chicago girl comes down feet first from
anywhere, she can hit almost anything.
The Camden Journal says the priority
clause in the lien law does not seem to
effect the lien business much in that
section. In many cases the landlord
has assigned away his prior claim TOR
rent. and thus the tenant finds but lit
tie difficulty in securing advances.
The odor of the morning breeze in
dicates that the guan0 season is upon
lis again. The man who said last sum-
nier that.guano didn't pay will soon be
seen vending his way homeWard with
about ten sacks, the last, he ever eX-
poets to use-until the next season.
Eighteen tramps-fve of them ne
groeS-were arrested in an Old building
in the suburbs of Charleston and sent
to Jail on the charge of yagrancy. The
great increase of crime in the city
renders such proceedings necessary, be-
sides, we know Of no better way Of dis
posing of the gentry.
SOCIETY is never wholly idle. Busi-
ness may be dull; war. pestilence and
famine may sweep this country and
dynamite the old countries, but there
will continue to be marrying and CIV
ing in marriage, fiddling, fling, dane
ing, eating. skating, cycurting, and be-
ing merry in dozens of different ways.
The Churchman, the organ of the
Protestant. Episcopal church in the
United States, dcnounccs the costumes
Of the modern society bellies. 1t pro-
noilnccs the dccolettc style of attire
''insolcnt indcccncy." This assault on
the costumes Of the feminine world Of
fashion is not aimed at ANY, one section,
and can manifcstly be applied to all. O.
bio Lewis SAYS an EngliShman,With