The Orangeburg news. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, 1875-02-20

country 10 made evident in many ways.
For instance towns and villages are
springing UP in rapid succession all
along tho line Of the Greonvile road,
and what were known ut the close of
the war as simple turn OUTS" in rail.
road parlance, are now growing and
prosperous habitations ofan Industrious
and thriving people We did not pass
place that failed to present evidences
of thrift and prosperity The nany
new buildings we saw going up convin
ccd us at once that there was lii6 in the
old State yet, especially in the upper
portion of her chivalric domain. Most
Of the dwellings and stores that we
caught sight Of presented regular city
appearance, and conspicuously SO were
those at Ninety. Six. This is, apparently /,
a n CIV town, but it is increasing in popu
latio and dimensions SO rapidly that
it would not be too extravagant to pre-
dict for it one day the name and dignl
ty of a city. Indeed there is bill DOW
pending before the General Assembly
to make it a county seat of new coun
ty to be formed from portions of Able.
vile, Elgefield, Laurens and Newbei ?; !.
and to be called the County of Ninety
Six. The popularity of the bill has
caused considerable fu,ter in all the
counties mentioned above, and notably
so in that Of Abbcvile. We don't
know much about the matter but ha vc
heard it whispered that it is more than
probable that the bill will become
law.
We should like to note each town as
We pass along, if time and space per
mittcd, but sas both of these arc crying
out "enouah p we shall content our
selves by saying that the up country, in
the matter of real solid prosperity, is
far ahead ofante Jcllum times.
The good people of these upper
counties have found out that prosperity
and Kukluxism Ado not chime te gethcr
worth cont; that the open aud honest
music of the former does not accord
very we'll with the roar of midnight
guns, or the grim NJ cnaccs oil masked
assassins; that the genius of our institu
tlons smiles bcuc6cently upon labor
spent in the work Of building up the
country, but discountenances and con
demns all exhibitions that would seek
to abridge or deprive any citizen of the
rights guaranteed to him by the law.
w WGS5h-n...glad to note lssssssss-.snana rr,':-.o
that seems t&subsist between all classes
up there. Occupying such relations to
each other, the whole people will be
benefited thereby. Already the
ounty ofNc~berry has, within the last
six years past, doubled its population
nd, as a matter ofcourse business has
increased proportionately.
On board the train we found our
genial friend and successful jur ist,
Judge Thompson II. Cooke, on his way
to his home in Greenville. His many
friends in Orangeburg will be glad to
hear that he has made crowds Of warm
friends in the up country, and has won
golden opinions from veterans in the
law. Judge Cooke has proven himself
one of the bost Judges in the State
We also had the plea. ure of making
the acquaintance of Col Hill, who is
one of the editorial staff o that spicy
paper the Groenvile Daily Ncps. We
found him 10 be genial and affable
gentleman as we'll as ripe scholar.
But we must hurry on In conse
quel ce Of some mishap which bcfell our
iron horse, We did not get to Grcenvile
until late. Once there, and out of the
train, we were driven to the Mansion
House, now owned and kept by
Calnan. And who is it that does not
know this clever and accommo latin.
prince Of hotel keepers? His Glenn
Springs nototriey has made him fam
GUS. He is now hard at work in put
ting all the modern improvements in
his house, and by spring will have a
hotel second to none in the So nth.
On the roof of the Mansion House, in