The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1873-09-25
The Health, of Anderson.

bar and officers of the Court of Anderson Coun-
ty, addressed to his Honor Judge Cooke, will
explain itself The statements contained there
In are most oppertune, and must 60 far TO ar
rest the misrepresentation and falsehoods
which have been industriously circulated to
the prejudice of our town.
We learn that, since this paper was prepared,
letter has been received from Judge Cooke,
assigning as a reason for not holding the Court
at this place at the regular time, the fact that
he has been ordered by the Chief Justice to
hold Court at Camden for Judge Carpenter,
who is absent from the State. 1t is to say the
least of it, little strange that Judge should
be ordered to leave his own Court, where the
law assigns him to duty, to fill the seat of an
other who chooses to recreate himself abroad,
and the Chief Justice must have been moved
to this latitudinarian construction of his pow
ers by most potential reasons. Would it not
be better to adopt the good old rule Of our
fathers, and prohibit the Judges and Governor
from leaving the State whilst in Office, without
being furnished with a special permit, in the
form of an "Act of the General Assembly,
We would respectfully ask the favor of our
contemporaries, especially in the upper part of
the State, to publish the annexed letter, as a
fair and truthful exposition of the healthful
condition of Anderson, and thus correct the
unwarranted rumors aaoat among our neigh
bors:
ANDERSON, Sept. goth, 1873.
Hon. T. r. Cooke, Judge Eighth Judicial Cir
cult of South Carolina.
DEAR SIR: We have just learned, through q
letter from Mr. Solicitor Blythe to the Clerk,
that you have ordered postponement of the
regular term of the Court, which should con-
convene at this place on Monday next, until
the second Monday in October, on account of
impressions that have been made on your mind
as to the health OF our town.
The undersigned, members of the bar, and
officers of the Court, who are at their posts, in
good health, and entirely conversant with the
facts, beg leave respectfully to assure your
Honor that the rumors which have prevailed
in regard to the health of Anderson are terri
BILE exaggerations, and we affirm that there is
not now, nor has there been at any time during
the season, anything in the sanitary condition
of the town to interfere with the holding Of the
Court.
1t is true that in the neighborhood, from one
to five miles south by west of the town, and
surrounding rice farm Of perhaps one hundred
acres cultivated by irrigation, there has been a
large number Of cases Of bilious remittent and
intermittent fevers, generally of very mild
type. But in the town proper, there has not
been during the season amongst the white
population, exceeding half dozen cases, and
these confined to persons who had been sub
jected to special exposure, either by going out
and nursing the sick, or by residence in the
suburbs, in close proximity to the rice fields.
In the two months last past, four white per-
sons have died within the corporate limits of
the town-one from congestion of the liver, one
from apoplexy, one from typhoid pneumonia,
and one Ia child) from teething and fever COM
bined Amongst the colored people, there has
been perhaps dozen or more cases, and some
fire or six deaths, confined almost entirely,
however, to those who we're subjected to special
exposure. We are not aware that there is at
present, single case of sickness in town, and
have great doubt whether there is a town in
South Carolina of equal population that has
had less sickness during the summer, and thus
far in the fall, than Anderson. We make this
statement for two purposes: First, to show that
there is nothing in the rumors about sickness
that should hinder the sitting of the Court at
the regular time, and hoping, if such rumors
have led to the contemplated postponement
that the correction may induce meeting Of
the Court early next week; and second, to
vindicate our town from the injurious effects of
the grossly exaggerated statements that have
been made concerning its healthfulness, for
which latter purpose we propose to make this
paper public.
If, however, there be other reasons that have
contributed to render it impracticable for your
Honor to hold the Court during the ensuing
week of the regular term, then we request an
extra Court to be called for some day between
the sittings of the Courts of Abbeville and
WalhalIa, as some of us have important pub
lie engagements outside Of the State during the
early part of October. Asking to be excused
for the liberty we take in thus addressing you,
and awaiting your early and favorably reply,
we have the honor to be, respectfully,
Your ob't servants, &c.
J. P. REED,
JOSEPH N. BROWN,
B. F. WHITNER,
J. G. G. FEATHERSTON,
VIM. S. BROWN,
w. w. HUMPHREYS,
JOHN e. BREAZEALE,
JOHN B. MOORE,
T 6 MTJRRAY