The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1867-08-07


how the fire occurred.
I SAD.-Scarcely one of the business
community in this our beloved town,
but misses some Of the familiar forms and
faces of those who were wont to patron
ize, them in the easy, PROSPEROUS dayssof
book accounts, and later of memorandums
on promise. The places. which knew
them then, now know them not, but we
trust not forever, for without the fond
hope that they are only lost to sight,
+ a large portion of this eouimuaity would
be thrown into mourning We tooshave
not been exempt, and suffer from hope
deferred in the absence of many in whom
CENT cred our highest hope. Did these
! DEAR ones realize the anxiety. their ab-
sence, their neglect and broken promises
gHe, as week after week, and month
after month they have been waited for,
|. they would no doubt hasten to the gene
| raj relief. A spirit of heavincss perSades
the community, hearts are full Of grief,
and pockets of emptiness. Sad, sad our
fate. The sight ofone of these old sweet
scented, PROMISING deluders, prepared to
do the right. and clean thing, would
throw us into ecstacies of joy. Turn
sinner, turnl where are YEP. -
Harry Day. -Eubracing.a long wish
ed for opportunity, free, ride, and an
invitation of nearly two years stahding,
and repeated at intervals of about once
Ia month during that fine, to enjoy D
piscatorialfrolic, and partake of fish
dinner, in the vicinity of. New Chapel
Church, We went through. the entire
programme on Thursday last, viz: the
opportunity, ride, invitation: dinner, and
fish, in fact very wuch of the twe latter.
The enjoyment was huge, and in proper
/ ton 70 the means at our disposal, anu
the happy, choice company assembled to
dc us so high an honor. Leaving out the
long tramp to the creek, 10 which OUT
| legs suffered to an extent not cootem-
plated, we would ike to give a full des-
eription of the time, the place, the jovial
spirits assembled, the fun and f, ,olic, the
number of fish caught, the ccldness Of
the creek water, the blue gills Of the
working party, the cooking, the dinner,
and the enormous feeding capacity of the
whole company, but the number of other
fish to fry" deny that pleasure. Suf-
fceit to say, it was such a rare old tipe'
that the very creek took livelier motion,
and the 'skeetcrs sang in unison while
putting in their bills, to the merry tale
and laugh, and that little smile of I. AS
nearly upset old natures gravity. The
dinner was thoroughly tishy in its charac-
ter, with the exception of q yellow looking
compound which may have been better
to the palate than the eye, but We doubt
ed it's adaptability to our stomach and
gave it wide berth outside. with the
disappearance of the dinner, appeared a
shower of rain, the only dampor on this
occasion, when the party took the return
tramp to the hospitable new mansion OF
DR.. C.'s to wind up on melons, Some OF
the party that night dreamed of being
in the whale fishery, and that they were
murdered and wrecked, and sold for
slaves, besides meeting on dry land with
watery graves, superinduced by the in.
PRODUCTION Of that yellow cong!omeration
aforesaid, which coming into contact
with the fish caused such violent sto-
machic convulsion as to give these unfor-
tunates an attack of fish on the brain.
"Tbere is a tide in the affairs of men,
Which taken at the food, leads on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
Is bound in shadows and miserics.
On such full sea are VIC now af1oat,