Orangeburg news and times. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1875-1877, 1875-11-27

is now known rs Broughton street
Remote from this street lived Henry
Dana Ward, Peter ana jacob Rowe
while over the. branch stood the Les
targcl'c house. Hinkcl, whcclright,
resided near the Methodist graveyard.
John Bone lived on the left side of
Broughton street, and Samuel p.
Jones, Commissioner in Equity, on
the corner Of Amelia md Broughton.
On the Southwest corner Of Brough-
ton and Amelia stood the store Of
Vineyard and Glover. Where the
Clark house stands lived Mrs. Mary
| Wilson, next to which was the court
house, now known :is the Marchant
| place On Windsor street, towards
the river, wns the Bruce housc, on the
one side and the Rickcnbskor house
on she other,; and close by stood the
house Of John Dick. Nm. Ott, car-
pcnter, lived near the river and was
the toll gathcrer. Timothy Barton
Che father Of Col. d. II. Rarton) was
the sheriff at that time.
The Judge here dwclt ulton the pro-
grcss that the town had made since
the days Of his boyhood, and fcelingly
touched upon tho scenes ..nd faces
Of that day.
The old Jail was important in Rcvo-
lutionary times So was the Bruce
house. ln.1777 Gov.!Ru;lcdgc deliv-
cred q 18th Of July spcccl, near it. It
was upon The old jail, com mandcd
By Fischer, that Sumter made an at
tack and captured about eighty men,
y ball from one Of his cannon struck
the Bruce house, and cmpticd the old
iadys wine, who complain Cd Of the
circumstance very much. He got
this from AhraIn Fielder and Rickcn-
baker. Thus stood things in those
days when Tie population of Orange
burg did not exceed forty in number.
From his:rccollection of the village it
was very sickly. The branch, viii ch
extends from The Fair Grounds, was
supposed to have been the main cause
In 1916 the population Of Orange
burg was about five hundred From
this fact we could judge Of our increase
i'll population and wealth.
| Ihc.vencrab Judge hero conclud-
cd his interesting narrative, which wc
regret to say is but fccbly outlined in
this report. lie alluded fcolngly:to
The days that were gone and would
come 10 more. and hoped that our
new court house, rAcn finished, would
be dedicated 10 justice, and that in
IT'S walls, the law would be executed
without favor or reward.
After IL beautiful air--which VAS
discorrscC by the choir in itsssswcetost
stylc-had died away, Maj Knowlton
was introduced and made the follow
ing excellent address. For beauty
i"f'c1pre:sion, and fallltlessncss of die
ton, it's seldom surpassed. We con.
graduate ourselves upon being able TO
prcscnt it to our readers in full:
Brothcrs and Friends!
The peculiar and impressive core.
monies in which we arc to-day Gu
gagged imply Masonic approval of
the purposes t,r Which this building
is crccted-this new Court House Of
our own fair County Of Orangcburg-
and | declare to you, us n Mason,
thatll know ornp structure liv mor,al
hands whose corner or foundation
stone may btmo appropriately laid
1 by free and accepted Aasnns than one
whose purpose is to provide for .hc
administration Of Justicc-that virtue
which is the boundary Of right"
which cuablcs us to give to every
man his''just due" which ''in great
measure constitutes real goodness,
and is therefore represented as the
perpetual study Of an accomplished
Mason, and without the exercise Of
which universal confusion would en-
sue, lawless irrcc might overcome
the principles Of equity. and social
intercourse no longer exist"
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