Orangeburg times. [volume] (Orangeburg Court House [S.C.]) 1877-1881, 1879-02-21

Bruce are ris: g young merchants
and succeed we'll individinx the
trade of their seniors. The town
boasts also of two we'll appointed drug
stores, o couple of hotels, and one
private. boarding house. The streets
have been improved and are lined on
either side with aou rishing young
Elm trees. The unsightly bitches
which fer SO many years disgraced the
appearance of the place, ha We been
filled up and other outlet 8 II 1t 80 con-
spicu GUS, have been made to take off
the water. The Hon. w. II. Reddish
has held the position of Iutendant 70
five terms, and is identified with al
most every improvement made here
since the war.
Within the incorporate limits are
two steam mills and one water mill {;
Il fine Baptist Church for whites;
a Church for colorcd Bapti st, and
one also for those who belong,.to the
A. M. M. E. Church. From what 1
can learn the peoplo.attend "mee.-
ing" as it is called, very generally,
which speaks we'll for the society of
tho place.
There ARE three physicians here,
a nd n dentist; two lawyers and n
Trial Justice, Mr.. Reddish combining
a Justice and a disciple of Blackstone
i'll himself. The four oldest iphabi.
tants ofthe pla &C are,s'J. .. D. Fairy,
NJ. A. I homas, Jas. B. Berry and w.
II. Reddish.
One of the most,noted features of
B ranchville, and without which the
own would re minus of its strongest
claims to antiquity is to be found in
the stands of the old cake women.
Since the day when the whistle of the
first engine frightened the rabbits
then h~ereabouts, the.s old, cake wo-
men have been found vending their
W ny to each passenger train stopping
at Branchville. Two Of them ar 9
now living, who sold "hard billed
eggs" vel. thirty years. ago. But for
every onethat old age drives from the
business, there are generally one?or
two younger ones to fill up the
vacuum. Winter and summer,
throu gh sunshine or r al n, in slect or
snow, the p assenger hating at this
place is ever destined to hear the
familiar cry, "H ere's yer hot cofto
and hard billed aigs."
Politicians may forget thsir pledges
TO their constituents: Hayes may
have become ob%livious.. Of the fact
that he stole the Presidency from
Tilden; and tho Whangdoodle to
M ourn for its first born, but the cake
sellers of Branchville will never for
get to offer to the travelling public
billed eggs two weeks old; chicken
fried over three or four times, with
otnor things too nice to mention.
There are, some two hundred thous
and dollars, and over, of goods sold
here annually; and last year nearly
two thousand bales Of cotton wore
shipped from here to Charleston, be-
sldcs great quantities of small grain.
Mr.. Loryea alone sent oftwo thous
and bushels of rough rice. This will
give you an idea Of the business done
here. indeed, Branchville claims to
be a place of no mean Importance,
and having now passed entirely into
the. hands OF Democrats, upwa ri and
onward will be her future career. If
the people here would just permit
themselves to forget politics for n
while, and devote their time and
energies to the material development
Of the town it would not be long be-
fore q greater prosperity than that
now observable would dawn upon her
citizens.
While other towns of greater pre-
tensions arc dist nguished for dilapi-
dation and the lack of thrift and
go-a-headitivoness, Branchville is i'm
proving daily. Mr.. D. D. Meyers
has now in process of construction a
fine dwelling, while Mr.. B D. Meyers
is improving and beautifying his