The Orangeburg news. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, 1871-07-08

A|laFgo shady tressl dotted ali about over
llher face; arstsclass hotels; Gno livery
Ilstables; an:a n:accolmodating post master; ;
l|three fire companies; d debating society
Lin full blast; i ssuipofapca sooiss5 % =ps
examples for tho iminoral and intonpe.
4 rate; some men noted for theiir virtues,
aud some noted fcs their knack =. tell-
ing all sarts Of tales, (stories), whilo a
small minority IS Distinguished all over
the County for their 5oriag propensities.t
In short, q littlegood and q little bad,
i little Wisdom apdga;littls fools-upon
lsthc wkple, msterial sun aicnt fofa Lord
BSroastosm make up a picture OF .'hells in
training. from. We have che best
newspaper in The County. But sssr
having all these, il is becoming i serious
lSqucstion whether or not L will do to live
in 0fangeburg any longer The fact of
tits, the feas and the Yer j hot weather,
together with several other prominent
hnisanccs. are SO annoying that it is i'm.
lipossible to live here Gin peace aud good
Twill toward ALL a meeting is therefore
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to be called same time next week for the
,pufposeof taking,into consideration these
matters. Something must be done.
There's no living here as It is. We
4rnst our citizens will be governed with
prudnece in the matter, and not act
hastily or rashiy.
LA speaking Of The end Of the race
between the s"Young Americas" aud
the sElliott Hook. aud Ladders" the
Charleston Courier tried to ! be smart.
] !!s',,ca;:ss @ :s.s former Company succeeded
in bearing off tho palm, the Courier
II 4 5a - ~ - 49,
must needs stoop so low rs to say It's
Engine observed to ke crows ned with G
gourd wiue." Now our contemporary,
when it got off that ,contemptuous fling
alta respectable Company, no doubt
shook its name and laughed a broad,
bland, aud hollow laugh, and thought
that it could no longer be said that it was
| sleepy aud ante .diluyian in its ideas, for
it had insulted a real live, and up to-the
times, Fire Company. But our boys all
regard it in q different light. Thry
think it departure" frnm honorable
journalism to thus attempt, without a
cause, to leliberatrly Insult nearly. a
| hundred of our best citizens Others.
! who kuow: more of the excentric aud
| a1aIat old lsoarisr, saystbat iszwrs some.
thing like the jaeknsss Kick Mt The lion.
Any how wciliink it wis uncallei FOR,
! aud we. would suggest that the same
advice it-gave few days ago to Horace
Grcely about his young mon, it would
profit by applying tn its own-eiiher
discharge them or school then, Into bet
ter ways, II would not do for the fellow
that penbed that smart paragraph about
the Young Amcricas".to visit Orange
burg IF be did, we doubt if he would
be SO fond IF crowning things with
/ ''gplrd wines" thereafter. 90
- few days ago we were RECALLED
with an extraordinary story about the
size. flonnder,nss and awful appearance
of "slimy eel" Our informant said
| that he was in company with gentle.
man of Orangcburg, who while fishing
with an angling line in dead river not
Tar from Town, got a bite and pulled
We were informed that the boat the
party was in, was a large and steady af-
fair that three men could sit on one
edge of it and it would not have turned
over but that this eel, CHS hideous eel
of huge dimensions. when hooked,
foundered aud pulled SO hard that at
one time the boat came near capsiziug ;
that in his runs he showed "A small por.
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