Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1878-01-01
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CHESTER. S. c. I
Dec. 10, 1877. J

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Dec. 10, 1877. J
Editor Of the Bristol NescS::
For the last three weeks the wealth
/ er reminds us of May in Virginia.
Although it has been perfectly clear
/ during that time, we have not even
/ had frost.
The condition Of affairs in S. O.. at
present may be sumed up in ''ly" as
follows Atmospherically, lovely
socially, so So financially, well, no
| financially at politically, quiet.
Patterson was bulIdoZed, and the
| people were pleased. Butler was seat
! ed, and they are happy. And now,
after attaining the long wished for
end, in their magnanimity ~ they
are petitioning Gov. Hampton to par
| don all the eX official carpet-baggers
who were recently convicted. Judge
| Mackey, better known as the var
| dering starin the political armament, :"
! is now now in Columbia working for
that purpose.
The press and people Of this State
are raising a considerable cry over
Virginia's proposed 1eadjustment Of
her public debt. They say if Virginia
is what she was before the war-if
there is any honor in her Legislators,
the last dollar Of the debt will be paid.
Now, this is the last State from which
we expected such cry, and, judging
by this, if they had lived in the time
of Christ, they surely would have had
the audacity to fling the first stone at
that poor, accused woman. They
geem to utterly ignore the fact that
they have readjusted their debt, and
in no more honorable q way than Vir-
ginia will readjust hers,
South Carolina has a new name for
Reputation, viz /: Investigation, One
thing is sure, that the committee APP
pointed last summer to examine the
debt has investigated it to less than
half it's former size, and the Legisla-
ture is still at work, and thinks it can
be whitfield down little more. Gov.
Hampton, in a recent message, ad-
vised the payment of the last dollar,
and il the Legislature keeps on the
last dollar and it only will be paid
South Carolina's entire debt is now
about six millions of dollars.
We do not blame the people Of this
State for this reaGjustment. IT could
not be avoided, The debt was SO large
JnSy HGfGt COutu uhFG p2iN ~. ISuL
we do censure them for calling Wiz
GINA diehOuOrRble, when she speaks
OF doing the same thing that S. {. has
done. There is as much inconsistent
cy in this twaddle IS there was in the
Patterson affair. Judge Humphreys
has decided that Patterson is not a fu-
gitive from justice. But we venture
TO say that if he had not voted with
the Democrats that 2 requisition would
lave been made for Honest John.
South CarolinR's real estate is about
az low az her bonds. Last week there
wRs q large sale OF land III this town.
Much OF i! sO1d-gUliies and Rll-at
uinety-fve cents per acre. and buyers
think q dear bargain at that. We
heard one poor unfortunate land-spec-
Ulator say, while suffering from an
overdose of North Carolina corn
ghiskey, that be wanted u. S. sur
veying party TO Investigate" his |
ravines. And his plantation is q fair /!
specimen of the lands in upper S. G.
Chester is the best cotton market in |
the up-cOuntry OF the State. More |
than 1000 bales were shipped from |
here last week. The cotton crop was |
short, and the prices ere shorter. The |
average is about half bale to the acre,
and the price varying from to l03c |
per pound. Y.