The Orangeburg news. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, 1874-04-18
SATURDAY, APRIL Is, 1874.
For THE "ORASGRnunc NEws'l
Interviewing the Orangeburg
News Office.

Mrs. Kitty having had different and
interesting descriptions of the details Of
tyre setting. (and the confession is here
made that they were sometimes little
fabulous,) desires to interview the
News office, consequently our card
"Mrs. *. compliments, aud may she
be admitted to the Mysteries Of the
inner saIctum.
If, aye Please clean the ink from
your ia best stool, hide the Devil be
hind /orn, as is fashionable in high
life, md put the "bcst favored 10 the
fore-EsooET."
The res .,unse was "ayc," anil, whcth
er the conmoLou Which followed was to
overcome the objections of his little
majesty to be hid as in the fashionable
world, or whether it was found diff cult
to decide as 20 the latter request, hns
not tsanspircd AS regards tho last it
is feared We shall have to go to the
Times Office for good looks.
We, that is, Mrs. x escort, an l tie
last one of the little Mol1chs, under
whose svs12 sagautal cars So many John.
nys haVAl Al-ss8latcd themselves (vide
Totterby S!amily) asceudcd the r;cketty
stairway thereto. The first emotion
was, that the two dollar dues might be
promptly met, that the way up might
be bet.cred The next, that tn. o.;u-
pants are in danger Of breaking their
individual necks if this be not done.
But at last the consolation derive ed from
ar old saying which makes it impossible
for 6rcah nech: stcps to do their Office on
certain children Of destiny, is accepted.
Upand inside Mrs x. requests that
as printers are always in want Of copy.
they will insert Moloch with illuminated
lettering, to which the objection is rails.
ed that Molo III is so large and the pipe r
so small. It is decided that ch cory
is not available Now the truth is that
| Moinch is a snub nose, and the editor
has some Of the right s,rt at home,
| (hatchet-faccd, and the foreman think
as did the fox, that the grapes are sour.
'Tis explained to US th,t typ es are set
wrong end up, and they obliginyly set
Mooch up thus-thc type we mean.
We see the News type in waiting
like vnst army under review, each let.
ter soldier, ready to d the bidding o f
the pen and INK dispatches which
courier may bring. We see the work
ings OF the machinery that gives to the
nations the same ideas and thoughts
in only the space of time that the
putting iron horse requires to distribute
the sheets We see the virgin white
paper, before it is soilei by tho dirt and
volcanic mud Of seethiny life. We see
the = the Devil as he emsrges from
behind his form anu is form. ally intro
duccd
''ls he man or hoy,
Or q hobblc-de- hoy"
His to" ensemble says plainly "what
'ee tfHE NEws) don't know aint worth
worth knowing hundred, bu,
owns to only sixteen. yet we must think
better Of the printers dovil, since we
have seen Rileyis open but cute physiog-
nomy.
Various articles Of the trade we're
exhibited. Persons not posted up in
the matter will ho surprised to learn
that they have Bonk, that they occa
sionally make pies, hg up, keep car
r'a9e, are continually just!!iyiny what
they do, right or wrong, have horse
Care often "riding the high horse. )"
I lh.y have composi,,y stick, Which ma,
be supposed very necessary ifany of the
underlings should wish to ride the high
horse-we have one at home. The,
have a shoofiny-stich and coNn. The,
deny any knowledge OF the iattcr, bu
it is we'll known they 60 together. No
wonder the two latter are thought
necessary to tho outfit of aR editor
J when it is known they keep vas