The Orangeburg news. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, 1871-03-04
THEFIREMENss aELMaRATION

&sEAEEO E1AhsVssS
The ErltOtes sit at tho Fes-
tive Beard OF the X oting
a merieas-B Bright Eyes,
Warm TSearts and warmer
Hculs-gpeeches by Augustus
y. = newIfoia, sas. f. Izlar. H.
Observation-Disclosures M.E. Tsr0wn-
ling, Esqs., and others-The
Rest shEusic iil The state irons
the 0li6s-l'he EIappy Occa4
sion Breaks mp in Brotf,erly
LoseASoft and asIeassant zee.
collections EefE upon the Re-
TINA oreach Kaan,s Memory.
f a week ago last Monday, the hide
pendent Young America Fire Engine
Company celebrated the Seventeenth
Annlgersary CT its o.gaa:zs.;or. Al
day the red and white shirts (for it was
known that the Elliotts were to hold
tEEnXhN.F.-a .N-HH' sa.r.- n-LN.
high places of honor at the reyels of the
evening were busy as bees in and
round about the Engine HHoaasc s@EherS
any number of fair queens were,
from early dawn till dcwy eve, engaged
IN decorating the hiveswith garlauds Of
aowers and evergrcens, in hoaor of the
gallant boys-who. it is said, arc the
frequent causes of certain pleasant and
delightful CONGREGATIONS, against which
there is little remedy and no insurance.
Indeed, we have heard it whispered that
on M of these occasions has the cry
of "fre" ever been raised in the land
o has any of the i~ncendiaiics ever been
manly enough to call in the assistance of
his fellows. EOur figures of bees and
boys, queens and fire-muchincs may pos
sibly have become o little mixed, but the
subjects are altogether too inspiring for
tho p%latonic frigidity of consistency aud
logic. N..B.--Kirk Robinson has a
good supply Of Webster's Unabridged.A
ptbe afternoon there was a lively
race between the two cempanies-the,
Young Ascricas draw itaE tsSaaine
aud The Eifiotts their Truck. TIE re-
suit was e%minently satisfactory to both
parties, for it proved ~conclusively that
each was as good as the other, and no
better-and that if tho FEliietts can run
as fast as the Young Americas, the
Young Americas can carry as much
sslager' rs the Elliotts-aad what reas-
onabt could ask more?
Later in the day, both Companies were
drawnnrp in line before the Engine
Houee, and, in the name of the Company,
Willie Izlar, after a capital Of: hand
speech, presented a beautiful gold head
ed cane to President Moseley, Nh.
Moselcy received the gaming With pleas.
nre, but said he would like to see Willie
'sdc it again"
Atseyen P. II. the Young Americas
had their '.house in ORDER aud were
waiting the coming of their guests, and
within q half hour a large company was
present, all in good spirits and humor,
and determined to remain SO.
AS the guests entered, their cara were
frs. saluted by music of such full rich
ness and beauty that it was useless to
ask by whom it was so sweetly uttered.
For anent such music there can be, to
such a question, in Orangeburg, | one
answer, and that our rcaders-kn = al.
ready, is the ''Uiio BAND Ant ever
and anon between the speeche aud
songs, tie Giles d~isconrsed, tho whole
delightful evening.
Soon our good friend and most excel
lent fireman, Mr.. J. W. Nlosoloy, as
sumed tho seat Of state as President of
the evening, the grooming boards we're
surrounded the foaming cups (flled with
that (which cheers but not inebriates"-
Mullor's laser) began to circle round,