The Orangeburg news. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, 1868-03-14
SELECTED STORY.
[from the Chambers Journal, reprinted in the
Eclectic magazine !,
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Few of the babi.ual dwcllers in, London have
occasion to visit the city less frequently that
haze, | hayepevcr seti foot inside the nla6sion
Aof the Old Lady Of Thrcadnccdlc street, in nv
life. YTo.melthc Stock, Exchange is complete
te,yft inc,sp.ito, a OF the thonsand-and. .onc DIFF
fereent methods Of coiningsinoney. us practiscd
by merchants, baukcrs, brokers, andtlrnt count;
less army. which focks ocityward every week.
day morning from niiic till eleven, l know abb.
ssolutely nothing Ncithcr,-to best Of my be-
licf, has the Mouey Article of the 73aes ever
been read by mo from begiuing to end Yet,
notwithstanding nll ythis,iit has SO happened
tina, on certain rarc. occasions, have been
compelled, by urgent private affairs, to join
the throng, of city bees fora few hours aud
wing my away. eastward Eithstlfc swarm. sAt
Iyli7times; dShasc 'gcperally chosen to SURVEY.
||hahkind from the box scat Of nm omnibus, rs
ron. a ';coign of vautnge" not to be surpassed,
9Rand hardly cquallcd, for any one who Iov.. /,
fatcA the wonderful evcr-shihing panorama o.!
#ondyn life. /! f~T
s. ~ ono Gsuehg occasion -nolg several years
|s the morning. was so ihtolerasly rainy
hat Iswas::obligedsto give up NIL Thought Of my
evorito perch aloft with the driver, and oon-
|aent myself with the humber position Of an
aside. iAf that time I was only thrcc-aud.
Ssenty years old, and had been iu London
bout couple Of years, ,hasing33bccn sent up
ON my iar26fI home, In one Of the northern
sRunties, to attend the Classes Of, and to study
zeder, q certain then famous analytical chem
isl. HVon the morning to which have Just re-
ferred, after waiting twenty. minutes in the
tain, 4 was glad tosfnd aavacant place inside
one of thc numerous city buses that passed.
the end Of the street in which my rooms were,
situated. After having squeezed into my
place, and been well scowled at for my pains,
1 proceeded to tHkc stock Of my companions III
misery. We were eleven men and one woman
All OF US, men were more or less moist and
each Of Us had very damp umbrella. We
had all put on our severe business mir, and we
were 81! more or less suspicious Of the company
in which we found ourselves and in conse-
quence, perhaps, Of the badness of the wealth
er7-we we're all more than usually inclined to
bully tho conductor, and to poke him viciously
in tho ribatawith the ferrulcs Of our umbrel-
las l5a s >r'4".t' 'A' ''<2' Il
But the twelfth inside; Well, she was lady,
Young and nico-looking into the bargain and
enyolon,,s with the prettiest air of unconscious
ness that she No M1as in.the company of. eleven
blocks of wood, rather than in that OF as many
beings Of flesh and blood, not quito unsuscepti-
bic, let US hope to, the charms of female loveii.
ness. / have no doubt in my own mind, that
if she had travelled any length Of time in our
company, the mere fact of her presence would
have softened our manners, aud have weaned
us in some measure from that touch -ne-not
boorshness with which, ss g rule, all passen-
gcrs by omnibus love to cloak themselves. But
Fortunately or unfortunately, as the case may
be, journeys by omnibus are Of short duration,
and our young lady asked to BIO set down'at the
corneraof Chcapside. Previously 70 this, how
ever, We have stopped some half.dozen times to
let down and take up other passengers, all Of
them of, the amusculine gender, SO that j was
beginning to look upon myself quite ii the
light of an old acquaintance, when our young
lady got up to leave US, Il was sitting next the
door, aslsho alighted, and L could not holp no
eticing how pale she seemed all at Once to have
become Without needing the rain that still
kept falling, she began to feel for her purse in