The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1886-08-05
OUR BREViTY BASKET.
Filled With Brief Mention of Many Minor
Events of the Week.


Every part of our county has been
visited bv splendid rains in the last ten
days.
Mr.. D. Epstin, of the New York
Store, has gone North to buy his Fall
Stock.
The weather for the past two or
three weeks has been splendid for the
growing cotton.
Our greatest. ambition is to give
Orangeburg County the best county
paper in the State.
Rev. y. w. Stephens, of Colleton,
filled the pulpit of the Methodist Church
last Sunday morning.
The effort of one of our City Fathers
to make water run up hill has proved
a disastrous failure.
MIR. NJ. 3. Randle and wife, of Union
Springs, Ala. have taken up their resi-
dence in our town.
We want to run our circulation up
to 1000. A few hundred more will 10
it. Can't we get them.
Mr.. L. w. Gleaton has been put out
IOC CUuuUS oAASA 49, SANSo
ed will make good one.
Candidates can have their tickets for
the primary election printed at THE
TINES AND DEMOCRAT office.
We believe that the crops in Orange.
burg County are better than in most OF
the other counties of the State.
An intelligent reader Of THE TIMES
AND DEMOCTAT says he would not do
without the paper for five dollars.
One of the County Commissioners
should come from the Fork. Let
the voters in making up their tickets
this fact.
Won't our friends I'LL over the county
assist us in extending the circulation
Of our paper by calling the attention of
their friends who do not subscribe to
it.
y writer says that woman is Il
silent power in the land. 10 this a
cynical old bachelor editor responds ::
1T will be news to thousands OF hls-
bands"
Bv order of Master Of Transporta-
tion Averill, the. trains on the South
Carolina Railway while passing
through Orangeburg will in future run
very slow.
You can't expect everything to ap-
pear in the paper to agree with your
ideas, and the editor has long since
learned that he also does not expect
that it will. either.
Col. y. r. Barton announces himself
in this issue rs Il candidate for County
Commissioner. He was for many years
County Auditor. and filled the Office
efficiently and we'll
Every man has right to run for
Office before the primary. 1t is a kind
of scrub race, Dutithen the people have
Il right to set down on a candidate II
they don't want him.
Ages will come and go, but woman
will not he perfectly happy until she
can have eyes attached to her shoulders,
so that she may look up and criticlse
her own back hair.
TO any person getting up a club OF
five or more cash subscribers we VIII
send the THE TIMES AND DEMOCRAT
free for one year. The money must
accompany the order.
In another column appears the card
of Probate Judge Izlar announcing
himself a candidate for reelection. lie
has made most excellent officer, and
will continue to do so if reelected. .
The editor of the Sumter Advance
says he is enjoying the heated term.
We can't say we are enjoying the heat
to any great extent, but we are making
the best of it under the circumstances.
Brother Holmes. the handsome editor
of the People represented the farmers
wing Of the late Barnwell County Con-
vention, by wearing the first open cot
ton boil of the season as a button-hole
boQuet,
The School Commissioner ably and
zealously backed in the County Teach
ers' Institute by the other worthy
members of the County Board of Ex-
aminers, Hon. 3. z. Izlar and Prof. w.
J. DeTreville.
Our colored base ball club played a
game with the st. Matthews colored
club last Thursday. In the expressive
language OF one Of the Orangeburg
nine it was a complete walk over for
the home team.
Capt. Jno. D. Livingston, Of the
Fork, is announced in this issue'as a
candidate for County Commissioner.
Capt. Livingston is thorough and
successful business man, and would
make good officer.
The reason why you should announce
yourself in TIE TINES AND DEMOCRAT
IS that you will show our readers that
you appreciate their suffrage. Unless
you do this our subscribers do not
know whether You solicit their help or
not.
Cholera has not yet appeared in this
but it probably will later on.
The hest way to prevent its appear
lncc or check its -avages is cleanliness
Of person and premises. Filth is said
to produce and nouriSh it. Avoid dirt
in all things.
TIE TINES AND DEMoCl:AT has II
,taunch friend in Mr.. B. o. Evans, Of
Pine Grove. In the lust few months