The Orangeburg news. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, 1869-10-02
NUMBER 33.
Josh Billings at Long Branch.

The best description of tbiSfashiopable
bathing place, is that of Josh Billings.
In his letter he says: ....,.A..
ARRIVE here just in time tew see khe
Atlantik Oscan, which is now on exhi-
bishun and dowing a gond buzziness tew
full houses. Took Il bath 'onst, and was
astohished to find the water so salturous;
inquired the kause of an intelligent
natiff and he informed me he, didn't care;
think the cuss lied There is about
one hundred and sixty thousand human
beings and other folks here now, az near
az | kan git at it; kounted till got
tired, and then / estimated n 1t is
perfectly heart renting tcw, see, the
females here in search ov natural pro-
tcctors. kountcd Is yesterday in one
pile, they all sighed az | past by them,
with downcast eyes. / felt sorry for
them but couldn't help them, for Isam
thoroughly married and intend toremain
50. There IL tew breezes' here, q sea
breeze and ierzce bre re, and advise
awl persons to use the sea breeze, for, the
other is so used up before trenches Here
that it soon uses up everybody after. gets
here. Shoddy and Petroleum are both
here and excite az much notice an a
patent. shurn, warranted to make butter
in ten minutes from skim milk, but, they
say they shaut remain long bekause the
air smells SO much like old brine. Yester.
day l went out krabbing aud keEched
a peck of them they bite sideways, sand
hang,on like a dead hoss shoe, shey make
good Sittels enug, but they ant profitable
to eat if you kount your time worth
ennything, They have a singular bug
here, which they call the nusketow,
they roam about in herds and are fsineh
respected by the Inhabitants; Lscaut toae
day before yesterday, sticking something
sharp into me, and carried the bug into
mi room, and smashed him on the sli
The bathing iz luxurious and the bathers
resemble mermaids half men an d half
women and they dress inathe ckoctgw
knstom, und when they emerge from the
water. you. cant tell which is who unless
you ask them After bathing you feel
4 kind of lackness Of limberness. for
whicl was advised tobathe In IwhisKe.
tcok one ;mmershun about q tunibler,
aud never Fl 50 stout in p,i life. / tho't
| could lift an acher of land, but himeby,
after licter let go, l felt as though
could follow an angel worm into his hole
and hadn't strength, ennff to ask dog
to foller me-if ever drink sum more
OF jersee whiske, it will be after I am
died and gone. There is one churoh
here, but it would hold so few that
nobody never 20 out of politencss. There
is u hotels, and they are princiipaily
built out ov doorsc, tcw give the guess
az mach brinabueous- air asn poesibh.
Tho lodging rooms are small, but handy.
each one haz door to them aud look
ing glass on the wall, and two wash -bolc.
aud lowell. Dinner is served ut two
o'clock, opens with soup; aud shuts up
with huckieburry. The servants an
generally b!ak, but many oy them hare
lived so long among the whitesthat,t they
begin to adopt our kuller The beach,
by moonlight, is worthy of a philosopher.
Lovers met here from aul parts ofthe
kuntry tew vow aad sware and maDs
a naru eun.s here tpif and goes hqn1g
smashed, and bleeding at every poas.
But the grand attracshpn iz the Atlautik
Ocean great hemiopheer oy liquid life
and power, blue water everywhere the
eye can reach az gentle az a SUMMER
cycni' g Mil pond, and then again "A
awful az Il water earthquake Up6niske
whole, Long Branch liz a sensiblstplaey
to visit /; | think there is az little nonsenE
there generally az the same number of
| visitors are capable ov. e~