The Orangeburg news. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, 1872-06-29
Our Oldest ,Inhabitants-TwO of
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BY JOSH B1LLINas.

Hollow. Raccoon CO., State ov Iowa.
He IL 1876 years old, aud kan read
fine print by moon light 33 feet oph.
He remembers Gen Washington fust
rate, aud once lent him dollars teu
buy pair ov kuff skin boots with.
He fit in the revoushun, also in the
war ov 1912, likewise in the latc melee,
aud seq he won't take sass now from
emmy man living
He is hard she'll baptiss by religion
and sez he will die for his religion.
He was konverted $50 years ago, aud
thinks the hard-shcll IL the tuffest re-
ligion thare IL for every day wear. He
sez that Que hard shall Laptiss ken do
more hard work ON the same vittles dur
ing u hot Cay than ten episkopalities.
He haz always used plug tobako from
y child, aud sez he lernt how to cheu
bi watching a COW cheu her cud.
He haz never drunk emmy intoxi-
kating Ticker but whiskey, and sez that
no other lioker is healthy. He thinks
3 horns day is enuff for health.
He haz awus voted the dimok ratik
ticsot for the last ITO years, aud
walked, last fall in sloppy weather, Is
miles to vote for Jim Buchanan.
He haint never seen rae road yet,
nor wimmin's right convenshun
His greatest desire, he tells me, IL
teu see Gen. Jackson, and sez that he
shal go next year down teu Tennessee
teu see him.
He fatted hog last year, with his
own hands, that weighed 636 pounds
after it was drrst aud well dried out
He is very cheerful, aud SEE he won Z
dollars on the weight ov this bog. out
Oy one ov the deakins ov the hard shell
church. He declares this teu be one ov
the proudcst acksdcnts ov his life, for
the deakon was known far and near as
u titc kuss.
He tells me that for 80 years he haz
went teu bed ut just II minutes afer 8,
and has arozen at precisely 3 o'clock the
next day.
The fust thing he does in the morn
ing iz teu take short drink, about =
inches, aud then fur an hour before
breakfast he reads the almanax. IL
,siU here sta ha 1t IL "Josh BiUtngs'
Farmers almanac" Mat lie reads
l asked him hiz opinyun ov gin aud
milk az fertilizer. He pronounced it
bogus, AID sed that the good old hard
shell drink, whiskey unadorned wuz the
orly specri,s that never went b4k on IL
man.
Hiz habits are simple. For break
last lie generally etc four slices Wv salt
pork, } billed pertatnze topze and all, II
couple ov sassagis 5 bot blskits, ii dozen
h-rd boiled eggs, 3 kups oil rliyc coffee
a sniatl plate ov slnpjax, sum phew
pickles and cold cabbage and vinegar,
if thare waz emmy left from Yesterday S
dinner.
t His dinner waz little one, and he
seldom ct ennything but some billed
mutton, sum horned beef sam kold ham,
and sum injun puddin teu bop oph with
lliz suppers were mere nothing, and
konsisted simply ov kold horned beef,
LII LII nn!!45 z.4..aa, -.., u.yv !. :. l.y..
while, phew slices ov kold ham, with
mustard and hoss reddish.
/ examined hiz head and found that
he had all the usual bumps in u remark.
able state ov preservashun.
He haz good ear for music, and
whisseled me Yankee duodlo, with
variashuus.
He was born a shoemaker, but hasn't
dun cnnything at the trade for the last
10 years. lie enjoys che best oV
health, but just now he iz tcething,
which he tells me iz hiz 7th sett.
On the subickt ov marriage hiz he'd
seems to be on ded level. He scd
that he had been married Is times,
and proposed ugaiu teu Hannah Camp
bell, lady in the Deighborhood, who
was % years old.
| asked him what he thought hiz
chances were for obtaining the lady s
hand, anu he sed lit lays between him
and one I'heodor Whitney, a travelling
korn doctor" aud added ''if Whitney
don't. look out willeellrge his head
for him"
Upou mi asking him what he attri
butcd his immense life and vigoy to, hs
sed, in clear and distinkt voice
ITO small horns ov whiskey O. day.