The Orangeburg news. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, 1874-04-18
SATURDAY, APRIL Is, 1874.
For THE "ORASGr auRa NKws."1
interviewing the Ornngeburg
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,) desircs tn interview the
NEWS office, consequently our card
"Mrs. X s COMPLIMENTS and may she
be admitted to the Mysteries Of the
inner sa;lctum
II, 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 20 the
iore-EsooHT."
The res .,onse was "ayc," AMI, wheth'
er the comn,oLiou which followed was to
overcome the objections Of his little
majesty to be hid as in the fashionable
world, or whether it was found difficult
to decide MS 20 the latter request, hns
not tsanspircd. AS .ragards tho last it
is feared We shall have to go to the
Times Office for good looks.
We, that is, Mrs. X. ;, escort, anil tie
last one of the little Mullchs, under
whose 80; sssgautal cars So many John.
nys haS&sss9Iatcd themselves (vids
Tetterby family ascended the rckesty
stairway thereto. The first emotion
was, that the two dollar dues might be
promptly met, that the way up might
be bettered 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
af old saying which makes i, impossible
for break nech; rteps to do their Off &c on
certain children of destiny, is accepted.
Up aud inside Mrs. X. requests that
as printers are always in want of copy.
they will insert Moloch with illuminated
lettering, to which thu objection is rails
ed that Molo III is 50 large and the pipe
so small 1t is decided that SUI ch cory
is not available. Now the truth is that
Noinch is snub nose, and the editor
has some Of the right s,rt at home,
(hatchet-faced, and the forcman thinks
as did the fox, that the grApes are sour.
'Tis explained to US th,t typ es are set
wrong end up, and they obligingly set
Moloch up thus-thc type We mean.
We see tho News type in waiting
like vnst army under review, each let.
ter soldier, ready to d the bidding Of
the pen ans INK dispatches which
courier may bring. We see tho 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 soilel by the dirt and
volcanic mud Of seethiny life. We see
the - the Devil as he emorges from
behind his form anu is formally intro
duccd
''is he man or hoy,
Or hobblc-de hoy
His fom ensemble says plainly "what
ice (TnE NEws) don't know ant worth
worth knowing looks hundred, but
owns to only sixteen, yet we must think
better Of the printers devil, since We
have seen Riley's open but cute physog-
nomy. h"
Various articles of the tradc were
exhibited. Persons not posted up in
the matter will he surprised to learn
that they have B"nk, that thoy occa-
sionally make pies, hW up, keep car
r'agc, are continually just!Iyiny what
they do, right or wrong, have horse,
(are often "riding the high horse. -,
I lhay have n comlos',ty stick, Which may
be supposed very necessary ifany of the
underfings should wish to ride the high
horse-we have one at homo. They
have shoofiny-stich and coBin. They
deny any knowledge Of the latter, but
it is we'll known they 60 together No
wonder the two latter are thought
necessary to tho outfit Of an editor
J when it is known they keep vas