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UUnsCIUPTION RATKS:
TRAVELLERS' GUIDE.
SOUTH CAROLINA RAILROAD.
Charleston, S. C7, Oct. 13, 1872.
On and alter SUNDAY* Oct. 19, the
passenger trains on the South Carolina
Railroad will run as follows":
for augusta*
Leave Charleston ? ??
Arrive at Augusta -
rait Columbia.
L*Ry> Cii&rl&ittiH
Arrive *t Cohtmbftt;
Laave Ang^ftf. ? -
j'.tivo v' '.umhia' -
Airir? at\ ':ij*iesWH -
AUfil'STA nioiW fcii;irw**:
(^Sundnya xX';ep!t;fl.)
K jva-* t? Ch a ri ??*'. or>
^Arrive at Augusta -
U fvt AuguMa -
Ar.-iy? at t'iiarlfston
COl.UHUIA NUJHT EXPRESS
B:00 a m
5:00 p m
9:00 a m
5:00 p m
8:20 a m
4:20 pjn
?:4?"a hi
4:20 p m
f?:?O p Hi
7:00 n in
(i:0i) p ni
5:4(3 a in
(S Uli a ays excepted.)
I.-?avo Charleston
Arrive at Columbia
J?Yfl t olumbia
Arrivo at Charleston
7:10 p ifc
G:30 a m
7:15 p ra
0:45 a m
a year> !n advance?$1 for ri*Pr^iontbj2?!
JOli PRINTING in ita all uf[Wtme*rT^j
neatly execuredt Give us a cajl.
81.MMEKV1U.E TRAIN.
7:25 a m
8:40 a m
3:10 p m
4:30 p in
0:50 am
11:50 a m
1;50 p.in
3:35 p in
Laave Summerville
Arrive at Charleston
Leave Charleston
Arrive at Summcrville at ?
CAMDEN BRANCH.
leave Cam den
Irrive at Culumbia
L?|Ve Columbia
Arrive at Camden
Day and Night Trains connect at Au
gusta with Macon and Augusta Railroad
and Georgia Railroads. This is the
quickest and most direct route, and as
comfortable and cheap as any other route
to Louisville, Cincinnati, Chicago, St.
Louis aud all other points West aud
Northwest.
Columbia Night Trains connect with
Greenville and Columbia Railroad, and
Day and Night Trains connect with Char
lotte Road.
Through Tickets on sale, via this route
to all points North.
Camdeif Train connects at Kingville
daily (except Sundays) with Day Passen
ger Train, and runs through to Columbia
A. L. TYLER, Vice-President.
S. B. Pic'xens General Ticket. Agent.
Sep 27
H
H. O. STOI.Ii. Agt..
"Wholesale and Retail Dealers in
Dry Goods,
JLT Tili.' oll> btand,
28? KING STREET.
AVING made arrangements to continue
_ the business latciy conducted hy the firm
of 8TOLL, WEBB &Co., I respccJfuly inform
my friends and customers of Orangeburg
county that I have now in store a large assort
ment of goods, bought for cash, during the
Panic, which 1 am offering as low as any
House in the city. Thanking my friends and
.customers for the patronage fo liberally bc
.Btowcd upon the old firm. I hope hy strict at
tention to business to merit a continuance of
the flftine. / will adhere ttrictiy to the one price
m/itcm. Respectful ly, ?
?T " ? ?TOLL. Agent,
n. o. ~*_
Successor to Stoll, Webb ? Co., 2bi
SUeot, Charleston, SC. ' I
? ' Nov. 13, 1873 39 ?iu. I
W. J. BeTreville,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
Office at Court House Square,*
Orangeburg, S. ?.
tnchl3-lyr
IZLAE & DIBBLE,
attorneys at law,
RUSSELL STREET,
Orangeburg, S. C.
JA8. F. fyLAR. S. DlBBI/e.
inch 0-13t
i>r. thomas legare,
LATZ RESIDENT rnYStdAV TO THE ROPER
AND CITY HOSl'lTAL OF CHARLESTON,
OFFERS his pretcssional services to the
community of Orangeburg and to the pub
lic at large
Office Hours?From 8 to 9 a. m., 1 to 2,
and 7 to 9 at night.
Office, Market Street, over store of Jno. A.
Hamilton.
aug. 14 1873 20 ? Cm
MOSES M. BROWN,
BABJBE3R-.
JlARKET STREET, ' ORANGEBURG, S. C,
(next door to Straus & Street's mill.)
HAVING permanently located in the town,
would respectfully solicit the patronage of
the citizens* Every ctibrt will bo used to give
satisfaction.
June 18. 1873 18 ly
THE HOME SHUTTLE
SEWING MACHINE,
T? RF.ST, Because it is perfect in its work
Because it has the endorsement of bo
many ladies who use it; because it is simple,
and because it can be bought complete on table
for only $37,00.
&z&r?r?1?Jff/LV A, H-LWrrfr?^
Agent for If." S. 8. Machine,
iharcii 1873 tf
Kir& Robinson'1
DEALER IN
HjOns; Mitsic ami Stationery, and Fancy
Articles,
bit?kcir street,
ORANGEBURG, C. Hi, S. C.
mch (>
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Geo. S? Hacker
Doors Sasli$ Blind
Factory
CHARLESTOxV.
IIIS IS AS LARGE AND COMPLETE,
a factory as there is in the Month. All work
manufactured at the Factory in this city. The
only bouse owned and managed by a Carolin
an in this cltv. Send for price list. Address
OEO. S. HACKER, i
Po?toffiee Rox 170, Cbarlcston, S. C
Factory and VVarerooiv.s on King ?treel oppo
?itc Cannon street, on line of City Railway,
Oct. 30 iy
yy ANTED, TO KENT.
A FARM, with about 100 acres cleared land
under fence.
Dec. 4, 1873 42 tf
For sale;
A FARM, in the Fork of Edisto. Comfor
table dwelling. Price reasonable.
Dec. 4, 1S73 42 tf
vick's floral guide
!FOIi 1874.
200 Pages; f)00 Engravings, and Col
ored Plate. Published Quarterly, at 2.r>
cents a year. First No. lor 1874 just
issued. ? German edition at same price,
Address, James Vice, Rochester, N. Y.
Nov. 27,1873 41 tf
cow lam g raveley.
DIRECT IMPORTER OF
HARDWARE, CUTLERY, GUNS
AND AGRICULTURAL IMPLE
MENTS.
No. 52, East Ray, .South of t' c old Post
Office, Charleston, S. C.
AGENT for the sale of the Magnolia Cotton
Gins. At the Fairs held at Savannah, Ga.
last month, the "Magnolia" cotton Gin ginned
l?Olbs seed cotton in three, minutes and fortv
live seconds, taking the premium, and also the
prize of One Hundred Dollars offered by the
Roard of Trade for the best GIN. Several
have been sold this season which gin a bale an
hour. The same gin alto took the premium at
?'->? States Fair at Aui?u?i?? ? ' '
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POETHY.
THE JUN?FKAU.
BY J. II* MOK8K, . !
A world of.watcTB lies between
Me and a picture I have seen.
It was Rfnid the icy flW
Of ?ivor.; from the Alpine snotr.
Ail upland field of vernal ground,
Where the far echoes, i round and round,
Of Alpine horns, rang musical,
Blending with sounding waterfall.
There, uncouth shepherds Bcrgamasque
Plied lazily their day-long task,
And heard nil day amid the della
The music of a thousand bells.
While from the mountains, dense or thin,
The rainless clouds poured swiftly in,
And left the pastures all aglow,
Ere they sank down the vales below.
There, late and weary of the way?
Ne'er will my heart forget that day?
The mist* ran low, and inlnndcd,
1 saw the Jungfrau's lofty head.
Snow-crowned, and dazzling in the light,
?Piercing the blue with virgin white,
More like a sun-ciff thrown aslant
On Earth's most Bolid adamant;
More like a broken planet burled
One part athwart our steadfast world,
And from its black path through the night
Plunged suddenly into the light.
There standing, all at once a sound
Came to me from the far profound,
Which left the noise of waterfalls,
From inaccessible high walls,
>;Like a low murmur heard behind
The roaring of an autumn wind?
So deep and jarring^ind, ere long,
As it came near, so loud and strong.
It was an avalanche unseen
That, issuing two high crags between,
Flowed thundering down the mountain steep
Into a chasm black and deep.
The clouds uplifted, and a gleam
Of sunshine shot athwart the stream,
Which, twisting in thegoldcn thread,
, k^>c'] "i",1 fr-'1-?
The cattle, feeding to tho edge
Of that sweet plain, stood on tho ledge,
And for a moment, unconcerned,
Toward Jungfrau's unveiled bosom turned?
Then grazed again, and I could hear
Their tinkling bells sound sweet and near;
But I could see, for miles and miles,
The Obei land break into smiles.
Some of its Fruits.
Imtil twenty-seven yenrs ago, there
was not a State in the Union where tho
olliee of judge was fi'.lcd by direct popu
lar election; and it is a striking coinci
dence that up to that date, tho word
judge in this country was a venerable
word?gathering into itself in the minds
of the people all those ideas of purity,
ability, learning, calmness, firmness and
impartiality, on which the confidence of
the people might perfectly repose. Prior
to 184G, in all our annals, there had sel
dom been known the instance of a judge
to whom we could have uttered Shake
speare's sad censure:
Your dishonor
Mflnglcfl true judgement, and bereaves the State,
Of that integrity which cl'.Ouid become it.
The old system of selecting judges by
appointment had given us invariable an
experience of good judges that we per
haps ceased to appreciate the the possi
bility of ever having bad ones.
But just twenty-scvon years ago, New
York held a convention for the revision
of its Constitution. It was a period of
unbounded self-confidence, political rash
ness and innovation. Without nny real
discussion of the subject, for no assigned
cause, without the least pretence that the
people desired such a measure, and
ngainst the votes of the ablest men in the
Convention?Charles P. Kirkland,
Charles O' Conor, Henry Nicoll, Henry
C. Murphy, Samuel J. Tilden, and oth
ers?tho convention set aside our ancient
system of judicial selection, and made the
office of a judge a merely political one,
to be set ambled for and held by the
lowest tie vices of ollico seeking and par
tisan trickery.
b'or twenty-scvon years we have tried
this system of selecting our judges by tho
ordinary competitions of partisan politics.
Certainly, we have given the system a
fair trial. What are we to think of it?
What have been its fruits ? Have they
not been such as to justify tho warning
sounded by John Stuart Mill, in his
"Considerations on Representative Gov
ernments," when ho declared: "The
practice introduced by some of tho new
.-..^w. KjiMio constitutionsot Amo^tOtt
of submitting judicial offices to periodical
popular reelection, will be found, I npprc
hend,fto be one of tho most dangerous
error&jever yet committed by democracy."
AH men must see that the experiment
whichj Lave been trying has brought
upon ,tts almost every form of social ca
lamity and flhaine?the judicinl office da
grsdejd, tho popular mind misled and de
bauched, the great legal profession lower
ed an^ discouraged, justice made a thing
of barter, and the law itself a laughing
stock^ It is a system which has within
receBVye^rs put upon the bench in this
StateS^ges who were as ruffianly and as
infaitfoiis as Jeflreyr and, Scroggs. Under
this t^stem, according to the testimony of
an honored.member of the New York
bar, '^murders, manslaughters, abortions,
and oilier startling crimes have become
'so much more frequent as to send a thrill
of horror and alarm through the com
muning
TKs greater boldness, frequency and
success.;' with which the insidious and
BUSpiL'ious defense of insnnity has been
interposed, and the newly developed art
of excluding nearly all men of strong
character and definite opinions from the
jury-box in all cases of the higher crimes,
have not escaped general attention. The
more frequent conflicts of jurisdiction,
the discreditable disputes about injunc
tions and receiverships, and the multi
plicd-nppeals and the increasing rumors
of political influence nil over the .State
of late years, none but the most dull and
indifl -rent have failed to observe. The
more crowded condition of our prisons,
without crime being more repressed ; tho
increasing habit on the part of district
a,ltorfreys of delaying or altogether omit
ting ?he, trial of those indicted; while
Vjurora have been brought more
ninTaore under those pnrtisau influen
i'C^jghjh enfeeble the sense of duty, are ,
bar has proclaimed its deep-felt dissatis
faction. In the higher literature of the
country, and everywhere in the public
press of the State, the infidelities of our
judicial offices havebeeu proclaimed, so
that in every part of the civilized world,
for years past, the administration of jus
tice in the State of New York has been
made the subject of disparaging and h?
railiatiuo comment. With open procla
mation of a sense of peril, the owucrs of
property have fled from our borders to
seek the protection of purer judiciary ;
and in every monarchy of Europe New
York lawyers and merchants have hung
their heads in shumc at the mention of
our courts."
Every word of this awful testimony is
true. The case, is not overstated. In
deed, it might be made stronger, and still
be within the truth. These, then, arc
the fruits of tho syatetn of ninh:?ng the
office of judge one of &0 ordinary spoils
of politico. \Vhateaa be plainer than
that it is our duty, at the election which
is soon to take place, to cast such ballots
as will rescue us from the longer endur
ance, and the still more costly calamity,
of a bad system, which we v/odded in
haste and have had bitter reason to repent
of at leisure ? The judge differs from nil
other officers, in that ho does not rcpre
seut a constituency?that ho is elected to
carry out no policy, that he is of side, of
no party. lie is removed from all temp
tations of passion and partisanihip, that
he may determine law and equity with
nbsolute impartiality. Is it likely that
a people can, during violent political
controversies, seleet such an officer wisely?
Lightning.
Lightning is tho sudden discharge of]
electricity from tho clouds to the earth,
or from cloud to cloud.lt has various ap
pearances. Sometimes it is a zigzag
flash, makeing appnrantly n continuous
lino of light, bent sharply in two or
more places. Again, flashes of light
ning illumiuate a large portion of the hea
vens with a broad diffused light accout
red with thuuder. On warm sum
mer nights, the phenomenon called sheet
or heat lightning often appears in dif
fused flashes generally faint, and unac
companicd by thunder. Lastly, the
name of lightning is applied to certain
luminous meteors, sometimes known as
fireballs, concerning which many incred
ible stories are told. According to tHn.
""r,"?'?*nn. tho duration
ie*pWWW??? "2!!rVYc*a fl***1 tVlC
0"f'vhcVignMv?$ fln ?
thousandth part of n second. The fire
ball-?, on tho contrary, arc said to last for
At least several seconds.
We are indebted to art article'iir'Rotik
Well's Dictionary'of Science for the fol
lowing information concerning the ap
pearances and properties of the various
kinds . of lightning - above .mentioned.
The first kind, namely, the zigzag flash,
is seen frequently,"though not so com
monly as tho scdond and third kinds.
What is seen is simply the line in which
the spark travels. It is often of great
length, and is generally composed of a
number of straight lines of fire, forming
with each other one continous line, hav
ing several acute angles in it.; This zig
zag appearance may be observed on a
small scale in taking long sparks from
tho prime conductor of a good electric
machine. The spark follows the lino of
least resistance, which is not generally
straight. In the second kind of lignt
ningmentioned, tho light is spreftd overa
large surface, instead of being concentra
ted on a single lino. This kind is inost
frequently seen. It is probable due to
the light of a spark which is diffused
around and reflected, while the line of
the spark itself is concealed. Heat
lightning, which is unaccompanied by
thunder, generally consists of pale flash
es near the. horizon; and is often seen
even when no definite clouds arc visible.
In sonic cases, it isdiio to distant storms,
too far off for the thunder to be heard ;
the light of the flashes reaching the ob
server by reflect ion from clouds or mists.
In some cases the light has.been seen in
the zenith, and cannot be tints accounted
for. Possibly these phen?riienk are du ?
l.o discharges in the- atmoBphero.at^very
jrcrit heights. Concerning the fireballs, j
little seems to be known, They, fall slow
ly from the clouds to the earth, the de
:!\c,nt pHj?Ku:&; J-M} or more, .ipenrd.?( nod ?
are said often to rebound once or tvice
upon the ground, and afterwards to ox
ylode with great violence: It is .difficult
to account for such properties according
to any known electric laws.
It is not easy, to account for the for-.
niation of lightning. It is generally
supposed that the small parti?les ?f aqu
eous vapor which leave the earth, and
which are afterwards condensed to form
clouds, arc electrified at the time of va
porization, and perhaps in consequence
of its occurrence. These particles car ry
their electricity away with them. When
the cloud is formed they unite and form
molecules' the union of which produces
drop.'.. The latter arc thus in a state of
considerable electrification. It is pro
bable that the interior particles, by
means of internal discharges, throw a
portjqn of their . electricity into the
periphery of the cloud; and when the
outside of the cloud has become very
powerfully electrified, a dischargo takes
place toward the earth, or toward an
adjacent and opposite-electrified .cloud.
The external Inyqr of the c!oud having
thus relieved itself, the little globules ol
water again begin to discharge iutD each
other, their size, and tho electric strain
nt their external surfaces, all the time
increasing; for it is well known that, in
an electrified conductor, tho electricity
is disposed in a fine layer at tho exteri
or. Again, by a series of internal dis
charge.-*, the periphery of the cloud is
charged, and a second flash occurs. Cer
taiu clectroscopio experiments seem to
show that what has just been described
actually takes place, and that, for some
time previously to the flash, discharges
are occurring from part to part within
the cloud.
Lightning possesses tho same proper- j
ties as the ordinary olectric spark, exhib
iting them with a power propo: tioual to
the enormous quantity of electricity which
is expended in the production of a flash.
Its physiological (fleets arc too frequent
ly recognised. When it strikes an ani
mal It usually, though not always, pro
duces death. Generally tho spark pas
ses through the body, tearing and burn
ing it at the places where it enters and
loaves, .frequently setting firo to the
clothes, and nearly always burning up
the hair on all parts of tho body. When
death does not follow, doafnes.4, loss of
sight, dilation and loss of con credibility
of tho pupil of tho eye arc frequently
Itemporarily produced. Instances are
known, on the other hand, in which weak
strokes of lightning have cured disease.
Kentucky Tragedy, n *}rl ??
^arrod9BUKo,Kv, November 2T.
Our town- is in a terrible state of ex
citement, caused by tbe difficulty which
happened' in the Court House- yesterday
afternoon and1 which resulted irt the?ikiUcBX?
ing of three men and tbe- wounding o&em
three others. The parties engaged in ^#Ii
affray wore Phil B. Thoavpsony $nyi*Pr
old and dietinguised lawyer of otrrloft^
and brother ; of ex.Senator & B. Thomp^
son,.and hi& three sons, viz: D.: IuVTpmjp/*,,
aon,.PhilC,; {Thompson, Jy.r Common'
wealth's Attorney for,this district^ .sad '
J. B. Thnmpgnn-^.fr- rnnnty A
against Theodore ^,-.,Da.yis, Esq,, ancl~~
his three sons, Theodore, Jr., Laruff atftl
Cnldwelj. Circuit GouH nas beehitfr'eB^
si on for several days, arid was at the foikwn
tlio shooting occurred, with1 Judge Wicfcfu?
liffe on the bench, .fib* pptft[ j^,fcf!<$?f/
just retired for a few minutes, when of A
Budden a?piatol,shot was hej^J?^wecT^
by twenty-five or thirty others simultane'
ously inside of the house, which wa*
crowded at tlie time. The excitement.
waS intense. Men tumbled headlong out'
of the windows and doors, r Doctors, J&jfcK*
yers, citizens,- and the Judge himsej^j
rushed for a place of safety, pileingooe.
upon top of the other, secreting under ana
behind benches and pillars."' Ihe's'to'tftf'S
and Court House walls were Hterally^rhJ^
died : with bullets, while two? men lay. ?
dead on the floor; one other mortally aift} a
three others slightly wounded, Theed^rj^^
Davis, Sr., wa3 shot through the .heart .
died immediately, and his ' son,'Tiarin??
Davis, after reccving four builds in hi, "
body, fell and died in a few minutes* v
?Theodore Davis, Jr., was snot..through'?
jhe body and :ni8Q.ip the righ^hand^H^
lived unt^H tins .mpr^g ; andre^niredf
about ten o'clock. He walked from tlie*1
Court House to the Adam's Expre? .
.office.after ho" was shot; and did net at
tho time think he was seriously hurt*
Phil B. Thoropsen, Sr, was shot through*;,
tho right thigh J. Be and his brothejfy.
P.,B., Sr., were wounded slightly and;
several had shots through theirjclothing..
D. M., another brother, also had -ins*
clothes perforated with bullets. Oft'eH
hall passed through his hat. The fight>;
though sudden, \;as not wholly unexpect
ed, 1'or it was.-gcuerally known that both
parties were armed* and Judge Wickli?b
had the day previous ordered the sheriff*'
to arm himself and deputies, and be ready
to quell nuy disturbance that might arise,,
and to "nip it in the bud" at all hazardsr
However, when the difficulty did h*gi^
tbe danger was thought to have been.
8
ovcr, and the sheriff, with the Judge'
permission, had gone home. The lGtb
of December has been set for the examin
ing trial, and until then no further gar"
ticulars will bo brought , to light. 'The*
cause of the fight was about a suit which
had been brought by oue Mcux against
Theodoro Davis for $2,500. Davis swore;
that ho had the money, and produced;
the note as evidence, tind M., Thumpson,.
Sr., contended that tho note had not been'
paid, and that it hud been surreptitiously
obtained from his desk. Such, I am in
formed, was in substance the origin- of"
the difficulty which terminated $o seri
ously. A father and the three sons were
arrayed against a father and three sonsy,
and whilst I write a father and two sons
lie dead-in ono house while a father and
two sons lio wounded in another. Both*
families live on .the same street, not far
apart. The battle, for such it may bo
called, was short, fierce and decisfVci
Thcre was no nickering. All tho parties
were cool and determined, and not :r shod
ans fired at random or.without earn. The
dead will be buried in one grave to-mor
row, and Wednesday, the 26th of No
vember, 1873, will hereafter be known as
the "Bloody "Wednesday" 'in the history
of Harrodsburg.
An Encounter.? A ferocious bull
dog "went fur" tho Junior ot this she*
bang last Tuesday. The owner of said
purp was endeavoring te-tie a tin-box to*
the brute's tail, when ho mado his eseaps
and tridc to cat up an editor- Bto evi
deutly mistook tbe quill-driver for a
bone. This occurrence should awaken a
deep sympathy in the henrti of every
delinquent on our books. If members;
of this firm aro getting lean enough, toi
bo taken for a bone, it is time that somot
paying ny was done, so a fellow can getl
oat meal enough to at least make ? ?V
I cent shadow,--North Georgian.
