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THURSDAY, at l>liAKGE??BG,'C.Rn?OtJTH CAROLINA ?RAHGEBURG TI13ES GOfiPAWY. TERtfS OF eVBB?SJ$TX&U year, - .. - $2.00 u - She Month*, ... 1.00 BATES OF ADVERTISING. space. 1 In sertion 12 In sertion 24 In sertion Us In* jaertion 1 Binare, - 1 squares, - % KtlUrirCJ, - i squares, - Icolumn, column, I 50 3 00 4 00 6 00 5 50 8 50 6 00 11 00 15 00 18 00 20 50 33 00 10 00 18 00 25 00 30 00 S3 00 00 00 12 00 27 00 37 00 45 00 57 00 75 00 ?lwao, - - i 13 OOl 55 00| 83 00[125 00 ADVERTISEMENTS will bo Inserted at !h? rat? of one dollar and a half per aqnare f?r the first Insertion, and one dollar pep s%oara far each eoJawquefet bastion. Liberal terms m*4o with those wfco dcaip? Ja eshrcrtiae for al/ee, six sr twelve mon&s. Marrhtgo notices aa? Obituaries not ! one Square, inaartod free. glover & glover. ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Office opposite Court House Square. Orangeburg, s- c? Tiios. W. Glover, Mortimer Glover, Julius Glover. Feb. 13 tf W. J. DeTreville, A T T O R NEY AT LA W. Office at Court House Square* Ornngrhurg, S. V. tnch 13. lyr IZLAK DIBBLE, aTTOKN KYS AT LAW, RUSSELL STREET, Orangeburg, S. C. JM. K. IZI.AU. S. DIBM.K. juch 6-lyr' Kirk Robinson Bxdts, Mm ic and Stationery, and Fancy Articles, CHURCH STREET, ORANGEBURG, C. H., & C. mch 0 J. Ha Mathewt BABBER, ORANGEBURG, 8o. Ca. Shop in rear of Bettuon's Building. .Apr. 2 tf Fresh and genuine GARDEN SEEDS and ONION SETS, Jusi reeeiv?d from D. Landrcth A Son, and for sale, by E. EZEKIEL> Sign of the Big watch NOTICE. Members of the different Granges will be sup plied at Grange prices. S< 22ZX2KXBL M.r. 13,187~ .;. ??? If MOSES M. BROWN, BARBER. MARKET STRBET, ORANGEBURG, 8. C, (vr.xT door to Straus a Street's mill.) HAVING permanently located in the town, would respectfully solicit the patronage of the citizens* Every effort will be used to give satisfaction. June 18, 1873 18 ly COTTON GINS. FHMIE UNDEBSIONFD IS AGENT FOR JL the celebrated Prize-Medal Taylor (Jin, of which he has sold 25 in this county. Algo, the Neblett & Goodrich Gin, highly recommended by Col. D. W. Aiken ana others. On hand. One 50 Saw, and One 45 Saw TAYLOR GIN. AjOne 42 Saw, NEBLETT ?fc GOODRICH GIN. RUBBER BELTING urnished at Agent's prices. J. A. HAMILTON. July 10, 1873 21 tf Again desires to return his Grateful Thanh, to the public for the magnanimous and liberal Support given him. By assiduous efforts and faithful performances of the Responsible duties devolving upon htm as dispenser of Medicine*; he hopes ever to maintain thier confidence and patronage. nl2-tf DR. X G. WAHNAMAHER & Od., I Respectfully call the public's attention to their mi CStASS DRUG ftTORE, on RuMeil Street, next door to MoMssUr's Brick Building, where can be found a well se lected clock of Medicines, Paints, Oils,Soaps and Fancy Toilet Articles. A kind and gener ous patronage is earnestly solicited. Da. J. O. WANNIMAKER AGO. MARKET STREET STORE, OEFEBS AT LOWEST MARK KT RATES Dried Salt Sides 8moked Sides, and Shoulder, Tobacco, 8ugar,Coflee, Molasses, Family Flour, Kerosene Oil, Lye. Train, Lard and Machine " KalK Sardines, Salmon, Lobsters, Broma, Gelatine, Flavoring Extracts. Raisins. Citron, Currents, ? Crockery, Lamps and Matures, &C, <?'e., AH of which are to bo SOLD LOW [for Cash, or ih exchange Ctcdcary Ac^Ac. U for Produce. JOHN A. HAMILTON. May 29, 1873 16 tf ORANGEBURG ACADEMY AT THE NEW FAIR BUILDING. TERMS PER MONTUJ Primary Department.$1.50 Intermediate.$2.00 English.....'..$8.00 English with classics.$1.00 ALSO ANIGHT SCHOOL, over ?toro of Cap;. Hamilton. Same terms. Hoars from 8 to 10 p. m. JAMES 8. HEY WARD, Principal. Jan 8 1874 tf LIBERAL TERMS!~ Wo are offering our Glianos for this season on the following liberal tenm: PHOS?!* GUANO, Per Ton of 2,000 lb* $57,50. WILCOX, GIHBS & CO.'.S MANIPULATED GUANO per Ton of 2,000 lbs, $70.00 ($1.00 per ton drayage lo be added.) On credit until lRt November. 1874, with Option of paying in Middling Cotton, deliver cd at Bayers' nearest depot at 15c per lb. A discount ol $10.00 per ton will be allowed for Cash. Our Agents throughout tue State sell at same prices and on same terms as ourselves. Hand in your orders to nearest agents, at once. WILCOX, GIBBS Si CO. CH ARLESTON, S. C. Feb. 5 3m The recant test of Fire-Proof 8afos by tha English Government proved tho superiority of Alum Filling. No other Safes filled with Alum and Plaster-of-Paiig. 865 ?roadway, H. Y.v ' ??l Chestnut St., Phila. GO TO TEXAS VIA 1 HE LONE STAR ROUTE! (International and Great Northern U.R.) Pnsnengcrs going to Texas via Memphis and Little Rock, or via Shreveport, strike this line at Longview, the Best Route to Palestine. Heame, Waco, Austin, Huntsville, Houston, Galveston and all points in Western, Central, Eastern and and Southern Texas. Passengers via New Orleans will bid it the Best Route to Tyler, Mineoln, Dallas, Overton, Crockett, Longview and all points in Eastern and Northeastern Texas. This line is well built, thoroughly equipped with every modern improvement, including New and Elegant Day Coaches, Pullman Pal ace Sleeping Cars, Westinghouse Air Brakes, Miller's Patent Bafty Platforms and Couplers; and nowhere else can the prssenger so complete ly depend on a speedy safe and comfortable journey. The Long Star Route has admirably answer ed the query: **How to to go to Texas?" by tho publication of an interesting and truthful docu ment, containing a valuable and correct map. which can be obtained, free of charge, by ad dressing the General Ticket Agent, Internation al ana Great Northern Railroad, Houston, Texas* District E.] Feb. 1? 1874 Jy ? THHTU?WILLING BRIDE. . l\ ?i p ? ?; i?. A very few persons who ever knew Ruth Mcllwain could easily forget her. When I first mot her, she was sixten. The mother of Ruth Mcllwain died while she was au infant, and her father remained a widower for ten years, and then married a lady who had a daughter by her former husband. The second Mrs. Mcllwain was a woman: of plausible man ners, but of a selfish and artful disposition and her daughter Ellen resembled her exactly. Jonas Mcllwain was one of those every day persons who have nothing marked in their character, if we except only a great portion of obstinacy. One day when Ruth had just entered her seventeenth year, a gentleman whom she had never aeon before, came to tea with the family. He was a widower, about forty years of age, of good figure and fine manners, but plain eveu to ugli ness. He was silent and reserved. Ruth paid little attention to hirn, and would have thought no more about him had not her father said to her when he was gone, "Well, Ruth, what do think of Mr Walker?" "I think he is extremely ugly," replied his daughter. "Humph!" responded h^r father, "thnt is unlucky, for ho is to be your husband.' "My husband, father?" said Ruth, raising her blue eyes and gazing at her parent with a look of astonishment. "Oh! yon are jesting; that is impossible." "Not at all," answered Air. Mcllwain. "You will find it very true. I assure you I am serious." "I will never marry him,' replied Ruth "and I scarcely think he will desire an unwilling bride." ; "But you will not be an unwilling bride," prostat***) be*rftr.tlier. 1 "Don't mistate me father," continued Ruth firmly, but kindly. "In this matter I must consult my feelings, cannot com mit so great a sin.'' "Well, we shal? see," cooly responded Mr. Mcllwain, and the conversation dropped. Caleb Walker was a man of immense weath. In early life he had emigrated to Louisiana, When the city of New Or leans was scarcely more than a village, and by judiciously investing the means he po8ie8sed, he amassed greath wealth. No man had a kinder or more sympathiz ing nature than Caled Walker. He was very charitable, but as he shrunk from observation, and was so unobtrusive, the knowledge .of Iiis benevolence was almost invariably confined to himself and the recipients of his bounty. Mr. Walker continued his visits to the Mcllwains, and Ruth made it a point to keep out of his way as much as possible. She had little difficulty in doing this, ns he paid no particular attention to her. ! She perceived, however, that her step | mother and sister were frequently closet ed together, and that their minds seemed always occupied with something that she* could not discover. They sometimes looked at her in a peculiar manner. One day, when she was alone with Ellen, sho said: "What is it that occupies you and mother so much ?" Her step-sister answered with great deliberation. "The preparation for your marriage, my dear." "My marriage, sister! with whom?" "Your father certainly has informed you that you aro to marry Mr. Walker," replied Ellen, looking fixedly into Ruth's face. "Oh, yes, he said so," replied Ruth, "but I cannot believo he means it." "Why not?" asked Ellen, elevating her eyebrows. "Because," replied Ruth, "it's a vory summary way of disposing of my affec tions, and I think I am entitled to a saj in the matter." Ellen laid her hand on Ruth's shoul der. "My dear,' she said, 'don't bo silly. You certainly will marry Mr. Caleb Walker. He is a gentleman of immense wealth, and will mako you an cxccllont husband. Besides, ho is fond of you, though you will not give him a cbnnco of making you sensible of the fact. There is not a girl in the community but what would dance at your chance. I am sure I would." 'Then take him," said Ruth. "But I can't take him," replied Ellen ; 'he don't want me. Besides, my dear, everything is settled in y?ur case; even you wedding wardrobe is purchased." Ruth took her step-sister by the hand. "Is this true V Bhe asked solemnly. "It is true 1' replied the other. tMr. Mcllwain, was absent in tho coun-1 try. Ruth, therefore, went to her step-1 mother, who listened to her supplications with a countenance as immovable as stone. VI am surprised at this nonsense," she cried. 'I expected to find you a reasona ble girl. Are you going mad ? Do your really know what you are refusing? This is preposterous. There is scarcely a young lady in the country who would refuse Mr. Walker. What arc your ob jections to him, pray ?" I "I don't love him," sobbed Ruth. "Well, who said you did?" cried her Mtepmother. 'But you can do so; you will have plenty of time, and he Ua kind man ' and-will teach you to do so." j *'I will be committing a sin if I marry j bun. [ won't marry a man that I scarcely know and do not love,' said Ruth. 'You may alter your opinion,' replied Mr. Mcllwain. 'It is to your father you must say that.' 'Will you not appeal to him for mo?' sobbed Ruth. 'No,' replied h*r step-mother sternly, as she went o*.tof the room. Several day elapsed without Ruth see ing either her father or Mr. Walker, when one bright morning, as she wns re clining upon her bed, her futher entered the chamber, and commanded her to prepare herself instnntly to inarry Caleb Walker. 'All is prepared,' he said harshly; 'get up instantly and dress yoursely. Let me hear wj'murmuiY ? tj) *?|| At that moment a couple of servants entered the apartment, bearing a number of boxes, whilst Mr. Mcllwain placed a magnificicut necklack of pearls upon the dressing-case. 'There,' snid he, 'is present from your future husband.' Half fctupified, Ruth attempted to re monstrate. 'Don't speak,' snid her father; 'marry Caleb Walker or leave my house ' lie turned on his heel as bespoke,and quitted his daughter's presence. Overwhelmed with grief and dispair, the unhappy girl could not maintain the resolution sue expected to command in the moment, of her need. Passively sub mitting to the fate that had overtaken her she was docile under tho nands of the 1 waiting inaids, who began to array her for the bridal. During the performance of tho cere mony she appeared more dead than alive, and it was only when Walker saluted her as his bride, that she started as if from a dream. They proceeded direct from I he church to the house of the bridegroom, I where a splendid dinner awaited them. Ruth desired to be conducted to her chamber, and locking herself in, left Coleb Wnlkcr to cntortain the bridal party us best os ho could. In vain did her step-mother and sister solicit admis sion. She refused to sufier them to come into her presence. Sudden indisposition served as a pretext for he leaving the company, and her husband had presence of mind enough to put the best face upon the matter. When the guest had departed, On leb Walker ascended the stairs with a slow step and thoughtful mein, and tapped at his wife's door. 'Let me in,' he said, in a low tone, 'I have something to suy to you that will not displease you.' Ruth opened the door, but averted her eyes. Her husband divined what was passing through her mind. Seating him self near her, he spoke in the tone of a ! man whose soul is penetrated with sor sow. 'Do not luako yourself unhappy,' he said. 'Hear mo patiently. If I tell you that I repent having married you, you will not pei haps believe me; yet it is true. I was made to believe by your father and step-mother, that your affections wero disengaged, and that you had no aversion to me?that you would dispense with those attentions customary from a lover to his bclhrothed, but which the differ ence ot oui ages, and my coiiciousness thnt nature'hacl dealt hardly with me, rendered' mo 'averse from offering. Too late I have discovered the cruel deception your father has practiced upon me. Still it ib in my power to render your fate less wretched than you anticipate. . Bear the name of my wife, command iu my house, I dispose of me and my fortuno as you I please. Bofore Heaven, I promise you solemnly to live with only as a brother, until you can receive me as the husband of your choice.' He ceased speaking, and sat gazing at her, awaiting her reply. The force of truth is al\vay3 irresistible. Ruth dried her tears, and extended her hand to him. 'I accept your offer,' abe said, !nud thank you for your generosity; I will try and repay your kindncs. You have & daughter; that child shall be my care. But from this hour I will see my father's face no more, I forgive him the wrong he has done me, but I can never willingly behold his face. As to my step-mother nnd her daughter, as your wife, 1 forbid their presence for an instant under this roof.' 'Your wishes shall be the Idw of my house,' returned her husband; 'fear not, you sboll be implicitly obeyed. Good night,' and without shaking hands with her, 01 even looking at her, Caleb Walk er left his young wife a one, and descend I ed the stairs. The foliotving day she met him with a cheerful countenance; and a few day later his daughter, und interesting child about four years old, was brought home; Ruth was naturally a very affectionate woman. Estranged from her nearest connections by the base deception they had practiced upon her,.she needed an objet Upon which to lavish her tenderness, and soon found h in uitio h-trie, who became passionately fond of her. Time flew by, and Caleb Walker kept bis word strictly with his beautiful wife. He did more; he incessant in his endea vors to render her happy. Two years passed away, with scarcely any change in bis domestic relations, except perhaps that Ruth was more confidential with him and at limes evinced more tenderness to wards him than she had hitherto done* Efiie was he darling, nnd she appeared to love the child with so strong and passion ate an attachment, that Mr. Walker often marveled at it. One day, early in the spring, Caleb Walker informed Ruth that lie had taken a country house for the summer. This I was welcome news to Ruth, and she be gan to prepare for their removal.- 0 Three weoks later, they were comfortably instal led in their country residence. It was a moderately-sized farm house, having an abundance of shade trees and fruit?sur rounding it, nnd Ruth began to. busy herself among the plnnts and flowers us soon as the weather permitted. The place was near enough to the. city to allow Caleb Walker to make daily visits thereto, if he had occasion to do so. It was in the month of July, the weath er wos intensely warm, when one morning Caleb Walker set out for the city, to be absent all day. Late in the afternoon Ruth took Effieby the hand and wan dored into the adjacent wood to seek *for some roots she desired, ?o intent was she upon the object of her serch, that she did not observe the heavens growing overcast until the storm wat nearly upon them. Then it was that she, catching the child by the hand, hurried onward, hoping to reach the house before the rain fell. She was yet a half mile distant when the storm burst upon them in nil its fury and tho rain, desec .ng in torrents, her and the child to the skin. She nad passed beyond all shelter, nnd could find no place nearer than her homo where she could gain a refuge. It thoreforo became a matter of sheer ucoessity to go forward. When she arrived at her'house, as might have been expected, sho was in a very exhausted condition; but Effio did not seem to be much the wores of the acci dent, snvo her wet clothing. Tho first Mrs. Walker did was to attend to tho child, and it wos not until her step daughter had her clothing changed, that Ruth pulled off her drenched garments. The following morning Ruth was so ill that she could not leave her bed, aud her husband immediately sinamoqcd a .phy sician. Two.or three day? ,raor<kft*ud ? Ruth lay prostrate ia bed with typhoid fever. Days and nights Caleb Walker sat * by the bedside of his wife, who lay uncon scious, her mend wandering, and a raging fever raekiflg he? fsyne. He would not be satisfied with the attention of her nurees, but watched every movement tdie made. For a long time n was' doubtful wheather she would recover. But1 at last the discaSotook a frvorablfe turnjand she . gradually began to mend. But what a wreck she presented, when con tinued with her former eelfl Her first inquiries were for Effie, and when !tho child was brought to hea slio tuggod'hor) /. passionately to her emaciated form, 1 ? ? During the progress of her recovery, she 'was one' day lying on n co?ch: b fesid o her husband, who had been reading to amuse her. Effie was seated near and prattling a great deal. Mr. Walker laid . down his book and gazed at his vVifeh. . Effie began to talk again. "Mamma," she said, "you. love- mo ? very ranch, don't yon ?" 'Certainly," replied Ruth; " why do you ask?" "I don't know,*' answered the child, "except that it makes mo very happy to know that yon l?ve mo so dearly." Ruth pressed the little enc nearer to her heart. '?You love me better than any one in the wor,ld?" conti nuen the child. Ruth did not reply; tho color faded ane came to her cheeks as She looked in quiriugly into the child's face. "Is it not so, mammal' continued Effie. "You love me better than, you do papa, don't you?" and . sho took her..^step mother^ hand and looked into he eyes. Caleb Walker sat by breathless and racojm-W*' Kuth hesitated for a moment only, ?ud and then she answered in alow. bat dis tinct tone-^- .. m "No. Effie, I do not." ? The next instant Caleb whs on his knees beside his wife. "My own, ray darlingl" he eVcTalmcd, "now I feel that yoU ore roinevOWh in deed;" and he fervently kissedttfaeib pale brow." ^;v, And so, in truth she was. His cease less tenderness and unwearied attentions had won her heart, unknown even to herself. From that time forward a' new I joy entered the hearts of Rath and- her ! husband. . t ? ?; Tennessee detectives look so much like horse-thieves that constables are contin ual!/arresting them. Mankind should learn1 tentpe ranee from this moon?-the fuller aherig?*s the shorter bar horns become, M) When does a man -die for his Ilove? Only when he turns his red .whiskers brown. A Danbury young man, in. the ardor of his affection, promised to cherish a young lady with a love that would sur vive an army overcoat. We hear of a man in Atlanta who has a stone that Washington threw at a wood pecker in his father's cherry Wee, just before the hatchet affair. A Brooklyn paper commends {tie Illi nois woman who. when her husbaftu was bitten hy a mad dog, drew a pistol and promptly shot the man. . ? In a suit for breach of promise in Georgia, the jury, held that the ^young man was justified in breaking the engage ment if she persisted iu eating onions. A Mississippi paper needs the services of a new editor. The last one went out ? with a revolver to uphold an ecitorial, and he returned in a wheelbarrow with a blanket tied around him. An editor describing the effects of a squall upon a canual-boat, says, '"When Ithe gale was at its highest, the unfortu nate ciaft keeled to lardoard, and tho captain and another cask of whiskey rolled ovorboard." A Brooklyn sea-eapthin, just.' returned from a tour of the Holy Land, -expressed himself disgusted with Jerusalem. "It is the meanest pace I ever viriteiH thero is not a drop of liquor in the old, town fit to drink."