The Orangeburg news. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, 1873-08-02


soulod, persevering, practical mon, who,
by tho "swoat of their brow" labored
to build up thoir trade in tho place.
The most prominent among these were
Sylvester Beach, Sanders Glover,
William Pooser, John Tyler and Billy
Murrow.' Their stores wero mostly
after the order Of little country stores
IN general, dry goods, groceries, field
implements, country produce, frnits of
tic town aud Of the garden placed pro.
miscuously together with more regard
to their effect IN attraoting custom, than
to ncatness and order. Then too there
in the doorway stood the proprietor him :
himself, with coat of and shirt. sleeve
rolled up, rcaty 10 signal out his friends
coming in from the country around
aud ever on the alert to strike 700 |
bargain.
One of the most thorough 70 ahead
wide awake of these business men was
Sylvester Beach. A few years before hc
had come from New England, aud halt
inS at last i'll the little Village of
oranscburg, there started out as Il
pcddler OF t'inkcts, clocks and otb or
wares: lie had queer, old fashioned
carryall, with an ancient, solemn. faced
horse attached, and with tl.csc. in all
kinds OF weather, he might be seen
driving over the country round abou,
bargaining for the sale of his wares
lie was sharp, quick wi;tcd. pcrsevcrinS,
ready to drive trudc, and as may be
supposed, succeeded we'll a few years
OF hard work, and Industry, f-dcnial,
and Sylvester had saved enough 10 start
cut in the store-kcepins business, pur
chasing good lo,k ont" in one corner
of OranScburg, he settled down rs a
resident mcrchaut Here his rcm,rka
bic business tact did not desert him. and
rs The years rolled on he soon came to
be recngnlz ID as one of the wcalthicst
"nd mos. influential men in the place
Vt all hours Of the day the gentleman.
ly, and :obiging proprietor mi. ht he
lUund at bis store, ready to wait upon
.ia listeners, among whom nc wac a
-rcat i4vor:te. 81
Of Sanders Glover, the genial whole.
souled, jovial gentleman. when ever,
body knew hut to like, any one living
in OrangcLurr III those days can tell
Saudets WAS full OF his jokes, aud not
only ever ready TO have them at other
'v'AF' expense, bu' b'rc i, quite amiably
ana good hnmeycdly when the tables
were turned" upon himself. Que os
the most p,cmincnt traits of .Lis churac
ter WAS his h.bi. of .suoriuy. JUDGED
sonc h"d gone sa far IS t. assc,, t. at
he WAS he greatest snurcr in the place
and Il "ind mill was nothing To be com.
pared with him Numerous wcrc the
Jokes ut lis expense that this gave rise
TO. tEc OF these we remember to have
heard. BY some chance Il number of
the glass in the windows Of his sleeping
apartment became cracked, which some
wagsish yuunS fellows observing, went
and reported II over abe Village tha, San
dcrs snoring bad developed itself to
such An alarming extent IN to shartcr
the glass in his windows. This, San.
dcrs hearing. he rec ivcd it with the
utmost sung .fio'd, declaring that if he
cracked the glass lie guessed lie could buy
more, aud went Oh snoring us hard as
ever.
Jast-en-thc cornrr whrrc Mr.. ITu-
h'y's store is now, there stood ono ktpt
10y Billy Murrow." like Sanders
q lover, BILLY" too, was a hole suulcd,
gcn'a! man, brave, irapulsivc aud gcncr
Gus To Il fault. "None krcw hiss sr,s
to love him, none named him but 20
praisc." No "ia.sc bala.cc" was ever
~, u Il out By his hand indeed he would
sooner have robbed himself before
dealing unjustly with another. He was
BILLY Murrow" TO everybody. Even
the little children, from hearing their
fathers repeat the name SO often, had
grown familiar with it. No one scarce
ly cvGs Thought Of misteri"g him "Mr
lJurrow' was n sound his ear had not
grown accnst omcd So.
The principal products of Orangebuss
IN those dhy was butter, chickens and
eggs These would be brought into