The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1886-05-27
OUR BREVlTY BASKET.
Filled With Brief Mention of Many Mino

Events of the Week.
We had quite a blow last Monday
evening.
Read Mrs. Laughlan's card in another
column.
Through travel has been resumed on
the South Carolina Railway.
Several of the excursionists were left
in Charleston last Thursday.
Rev. J. L. Stokes has recently lost his
mother. We tender our sympathy to
our friend and farmer paster.
Rev. j. II. Wilson will preach at the
Lutheran Church next Sunday morn
ing and evening at the usual hours.
The fashionable shade of complexion
for young ladies this season will be the
nut brown" combined with the "peach
blow"
If some candidate would develop the
temerity to announce himself the peo-
pie would not forget that this is elec-
tion year.
Changing the guage of the South
Carolina Railway is big job, but we
are SdGlSllCu GlttG IL " Ill NC uoAC Ah WIZ
time specified.
The Baptist Sunday School Of Cam
den will pass our town on the South
Carolina Railway next Wednesday on
their way to Charleston.
The Marion Star. edited and con-
Quoted by w. J. McKerrall, Esq, son of
its former editor, Capt. W. j. McKer-
rail-. deceased, has closed its fortieth
volume.
Mr.. D. A. Shular, of Providence
Township, left very curious egg at
our office last Saturday. 1t has some
thing on the small end that resembles
a figure 6 turned upside down.
When you have money to lend how
the world smiles When you have
money to borrow how the world
frowns; but it is the same world all the
time. only seen from different points.
The patrons and friends of Miss R.
S. Albergotti's school are invited to
attend the "May Festival" of the school
on Friday evening May, %, 1886, at I
o'clock, at the residence of Capt. L. A.
Jeffords.
Our young friends, Gus and Sol Kohn,
and J. r. and J. X. Fairy, students at
the South Carolina College, will please
accept our thanks for invitations to
attend the commencement OF the
College on the 2lst Of June.
Providence Township was visited by
a right sharp blow last week. So far
as we have heard Mr.. j. Griffin was the
only one that suffered much. He had
his fences blown down, and also a
number Of trees in field of cotton.
It was reported here Sunday that the
South Carolina Railway bridge over
the Congaree had been carried away by
the flood. Such was not the case how
ever, we are glad to learn. The bridge
was submerged, but came out all right.
The Columbia Register of Tuesday,
says: congressman Samuel Dibble is
in attendance on the Supreme Court.
He looks rs though his hard service at
Washington for the First District is
healthful to him as it is helpful to
them"
It is likely that the Etiwan Base Ball
Club Of Charleston will come up here
before long to play a match game with
the Aierts. If they do we hope our
boys will give. them genuine old
Orangeburg welcome and a decent
thrashing.
One who knows, says that nearly
every man who goes fishing takes big
bottle of "snake medicine" with him.
On his return, the medicine is missing,
but no snake bite is mentioned. 1t is
presumed that he takes the medicide in
order to be on the safe side.
Those who predicted that our boys
would be completely demolished by the
Etiwan Base Ball Club in Charleston
last week were badly mistaken. Our
boys won the first game and would
have won the second had it not been
for the fact that their pitcher and
catcher were disabled and could not
play, while the Charleston Club sub
stituted new men in these positions.
An exchange remarks that the sup
ply of spring chickens and news items
is considerably short of the demand,
but the deficiency will be more than
made up in the abundant crop OF can
didates, watermelons and blackberries.
1t is peculiarly fortunate that miSfor-
tune don't come in batallions, and that
all the luXuries Of life don't fall short at
the same time.
He GOT AwAY.-Sometime ago two
colored men, named Lee and Hender-
son, employed Ly Mr.. w. A. johnson
on ibis turpentine farm near Jones
Bridge, got into a difficulty. Lee swore
that he intended to kill Henderson, and
the latter went to Trial Justice Ehney
and took OUT a warrant for Lee. Hearing
that a warrant was outfor him, Lee
went to the store Of Mr.. W. y. Johnson
last Saturday week and took double
barreled shot gun from behind the coun-
ter, declaring at the time that heintend-
ed to protect himself. Constable \. +.
who had the warrant for
Lees arrest, went to Johnson'S store
where he learned that Lee had left
with the gun. Soon after this he was
captured however and put in the hands