The Orangeburg news. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, 1872-11-23
The Country Post-Omce.


ters, with Uncle Sans initiates on the
outward wall
The postmaster usually keeps 'the
store as well and regards the other lit
tie affair as a means Of increasing his
buslness-nothing more. When any
one comes for letter he will be apt to
so away with sugar also. The salary of
the position is not worth an once seeker
struggles, as it is sometime, two dollars
per annum, sometimes four. The letters
are put away in desk or box, if tho
pcst-mastcr is vcrj careful man, if 1t
he hunts them up when inquired
for.
The officer at my post Off Frog
land Station-is currently reported to
have replied to Miss Sabina Smilhs in
quirY for n letter, by shouting iuto the
back room;
4 say, wife warn't that ere letter Ba-
by was chawing, directed to Hiss Sabi-
na Smith,
To which wife replied:
Yes; III fetch it, l allow you'll have
to dry it. Miss Smith, fore you in
read it. He's cha@cd the cnvclorsc clar
through
This, however, is strong case Gen
orally, by going for letter to the Frog,
land Station, one would be apt to get it
with the envelope unbrokcn.
What a gathering place that post
sficc is. Perchcd upon the barrels, or
leaning on the countcLs, one may find
all the iders of the ntigh5orhood; AMI
here, too, about post-hours, youns farm
ers make their appearance, and, while
talking of crops, anxious!y watch the
road down which some y)un5 female
figure is pretty soon to come No
doubt many proposal has been male
oi,;.iSsss wny homo from the post-oiEicc.
Ii not, young, farmers, have no idaa of
what good chance means. A In
quiet road, no mortal in sight: ,rees
waving overhead; II little brook ripping
on one hand, on the 9th 1r side the woods;
the summer afternoon drawing to a
close: all sweet things influence her
budding heart; aud he in his store
clothes aud "bou shtcn hut" look
ings we'll
The question, practically interpreted
would be:
After few months Of courting and
kissing, will yam wash. and scrub, an d
milk, aud cook f,r me umtil you die OF
it,.
But why should the country girl 30
more than her city sisters? They see
bright picture often quite unreal
through the magic circle Of the mar
ringc ring, and So does she of course.
Perhaps i'rogiani Station is not the
place, bu! it might hive beca, W here a
letter directed to "Mothcr;Tand nothing
more, lay SO long mystifyiny the pos,
master, until an old woman hobblcd in
one morning and asked for "a letter
from my son, what's at sea-" when the
cpistIe being handed over, was fund to
have reached its destination
Squire Schcnck claims the big en-
vclope with esquire SUNK" upon it,
rs a matter OF course; and Miss Anna
Matil Morton does not feel surprised
wien an cpistlc is handed to her yi.h
this remarkable word upon it:
Auncrmariah MYrria IL.
y letter is letter when it comes to
aonniry post Office, and it is not ex
poctcd to be clean, or 10 be directed in
any orthodox manner.
Letters addressed, POLY Jenkins,
or any Of ,clr she's away" and
"llclcn Dibbons, forgetting, her mar.
ricd namc,' were received without sur.
prise.
One which bore the supcrscrption,
MIR. Peter Parkins," remainci f1r a
long time unclaimed, until the post
master remembered that that was his
own name. He hld been called Uncle
Pete 50 long, that he Lad forgotten the
fact entirely
Yes, this is queer little post officer
quaint and strange aud simple, and with.
out rules or order; but though it many
message of JOY and sadness had pass.
cd -mapy story of marriage and death
Hearts have beaten wildly on their way
to that frame bnildlng perched, ,reelcss,
on hill; and many poor, quivering
lips had been hardly able to form the
words, "None for me yeti"