Orangeburg times. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1872-1875, 1874-07-09
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DuEsLEY GIoucEsrEnsHIRE, ENelAsr
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DUEsLEY WORCESTERSHIRE, ENGLAND.
June 18th, 1874.
Dear Times.
AT my leisure, I have concluded to
give you.a rambling account ofmy jour
ney from South Carlina to New York,
and from there to the shores ofAlerrie
England, l do not know that I shall
interest your readers in doing so.
We left Orangeburg on Tuesday the
18th of May, arrived Mt Columbia at
B o'clock p. M, put up ut Columbia
hotel. Were taken by an Omnibus to
Charlotte, Columbia & Augusta r. r.
to leave at 8 a. .m., here we found all
in darkness, not single lamp to light
up our way, no depot to await in until
arrival of the train, we were obliged
to blunder about in the dark to reach
the platform, I thought it miserable
bad arrangement. Bought through
teckets to New York, cost S25 90, had
baggage checked through, train arrives,
we get aboard and we leave for Char
lotte, where we arrived ut 8 a. m. Of
course it being night wc could SEQ
none of the country through which We
had passed. AT 8 o'clock we changed
cars for Greensboro, N. c., where we
arrived at about 2 m, here we changed
cars and left for Dalton Va, arriving
ut about 6 p. M, awaited about twenty
MINUTES for refreshments and left for
Richmond. The country through
which we had passed appeared to be
very rolling and hilly, there were no
large fields to be seen, it appeared as
if the farmers had selected small
patches OF their best lands for cultiva-
ton, very few fields being over six
acres, in which were planted principal
ly wheat, oats and rye, with some corn
and few patches of cotton, as we ap-
preached beyond the fields were large
and appeared to be prepared and plant
ed in tobacco, the grain crops looking
exceedingly well. We arrived ut
Richmond at 1Ol p. m., changed cars
and left for Washington ut IL p. m.,
here we took tho Pulmancar in order
to have nights rest, they arc arrang-
ed with every comfort for sleep and
rest. think OH the change of bag
gage at Richmond they, the porters
can beat the world as baggage smash
ers. We crossed the Potomac Mt about
n. NJ, and arrived in Washington,
left at 8 n. m. for Baltimore, arriving
at about 8 a. m, changed cars and at
about II n. M, left Philadelphia nrriv-
ing at about p. M, left about 2p. M,
for New York, where we arrived at
5 p. m. After crossing the Potomac
beautiful farms are seen until we reach
New York, OH which are seen fine
fields Of grain, with pasture fields on
which quantities of cattle and sheep
grazing. We saw also fields of indian
corn along tho line, but it appeared
small and backward. We spent the
18th in New York in taking passage
and in getting ready for our Queen
trip. We left OH the 9th in the Steamer
Arragon for Bristol, England. We
had a very disagreable passage, dense
fogs and rain prevailing nearly the
whole journe y, the sea was never rough
or tempestuous. Nothing of interest
occurring during our voyage, only on
the night of the 21st, we passed somc
very large ice burgs one of which was
two miles long and three hundred feet
high, but our cautious captain gave
them wide berth. We made Lundy
Light a: 10 p. M, Goth, and took pilot
at II Up. m., steamed up Bristol channel
and anchored in Kingarads Rhodes
the next morning at 10 n. M, to await
the tide to enable us to enter the river
Avon, OH which Bristol is built, and
which leads to her docks. The tide
rises and falls here from eighteen to
twenty four feet. The Custom House
officers came aboard and ovcrhauled
all passengers baggage, putting all
tobacco over lbs under seal, on which
duty of one dollar per pound ha dto
be paid, and sixty-two cents per gallon