The Orangeburg news. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, 1871-07-08
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liargc ahady trees dotted al about over
|lher face; frst,class hotels fne livery
||stables; an accommodating post master;
|lthree fire companies; debating society
il fall blast; temperance soe;ety.o set
examples for the immoral and inteppe-
rate; some. men noted for their virtues,
aud some noted for their knack at tell
ing all sarss of5tales, (stories), while a
small minority is distinguished all over.
the County fortheir Joriag propensitios.i
In short, a little good and little bad,
|sa little wisdom and q little fools-upop
the whole, msterial sasi sient for Iiord
Byron ltosnake ups picture Of ''hells in
training" froms We have the best
newspaper in tho County. But after
having all these, it is becoming . serious
question whether or not it will do to live
in Orangeburg any longer. The fact of
II is, the fleas and tue very hot weather,
together with several other prominent
puisanccs, are SO annoying that it is i'm.
possible to live here GIN pence aud good
Twill toward ALL a meeting is therefore
to be called some time next week for the
,pufposeof taking. into consideration these
matters. Something must be done.
There's no living here as it is. We
trnst our citizens will be governed with
prudnece in the matter, and not act
hastily or rashly.
Iu speaking of the iof the race
between the "Young Americas" aud
the "Elliott Hook aud Ladders" the
Charleston Courier tried to be smart.
B:.caase the former Company succeeded
in bearing off the palm, the Courier
| must needs stoop so low rs to say its
Engine observed to be crowned with
gourd wine" Now our contemporary,
when it got off that contemptuous fling
ata respectable Company, no doubt
sllook its name and laughed n broad
bland, aud hollow laugh, aud thought
that it could no longer be said that it was
sleepy aud ante diluvian in its ideas for
it had insulted real live, and up to-the
times, Fire Company. But our boys a!,
regard it in different light They
think it a departure" from honorable
journalism to thus attempt, without a
Cause, tn deliberately insult uearly n
hundred Of our best citizens. Others.
who know more of the 'excentric aud
quaint. old Courier, saystbat il yps some.
thing. like the .jacknss' Kick at thc lion
Any how we think it wins uncaIlei for.
| aud VIC would suggest that the same
advice it gave few days ago to Horace
Grcely about his young men," it would
profit by applying to its own-eilher
discharge them or school them Into bet.
ter ways. II would not do for the f How
that penned that smart paragraph about
the Young America" to visit Orange
burg. If he did, we doubt if he would
be SO fond IF crowning things with
''guurd wines" thereafter.
- few days ago we were RECALLED
with an extraordinary story about the
size. fiounderin2s 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
far from Town, got bite and pulled
/ We Nero 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 aud it would no have turned
over but that this eel, this hideous eel
of huge dimensions when hooked,
Aoundered and pulled so hard that at
one time the boat came near capsizing /;
that in his runs he showed small por.
] ton Of his tai. that it was nine CO