Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1879-11-27

pruis vnv att granting US the i'oof, OF
until the courts shall order Us to sur 4
render the convicts. -. II
We are the more resolved on this
course, because medical committee, 7
consisting of three well-known and
skillful physicians of Edge6eid' to
wit: Hon. H. A. Shaw, now mem
ber of the legislature, E. M. Burk-
halter and q. S. Meriwether, have
this day reported after careful ], lnves-
tieation, that the health OF all our |
eonvicts n has much improved of late,
and that the whole Of them are ca
pable Of performing the ordinary la.
Dor required of the ordinary laoorsr'
except six who are resting in the
vard-not one in the hospital and
only one death during the last MONTH
from heart disease, OF a convict for
merly injured on the Edgeheld and
Treptcn railroad, whence he was re-
turned to the Penitentiary as worth.
less, but was deenad good enQz !
he sent to our road. We7fs
dent that the narrowing y #
we have acquired will prever
having any more scurv5 among
convicts. oLora.s
which have been preferred against.
ether US or our agents in the public, !.
T, nr;n,s. we say boldly once and for alt
5hat we invite impartial investlga-
t;on taA by.the courts or by committee
W .lott h. ~ legislature. Our self.respect
as as men, to say nothing of our pride
~ ~ character as citizens, would have
NJ prevented US from intentionally
pnr,noipp or permitting the convlcts
to be wronged. MoSssr, we have
! lad and still have 9 esH direct
!. personal and pecunisry interest In
: pa,.G; sast;na the convictss SO as to
u sfeaVins ad comnlss s.Spr these
+ ge1 ous . ;mst lssrttsSS would
: reas1ns 81 . ,arrf4s NOR
sninn 1!a 'n anong aently
Gal.Sy a anr bar
e distressed QUE 5ssescs
y raised our e!
: making US the 10 yS,s sl.
and undeserved ags 8
= More convicts diedE eniten,
: !. tiary last year than dis5h the arssn, 2,
;. wood WOO and Augusta railroad, ana aooo' y
= ss %'u m.nvdied in the Penitentlary TN d,
le as nAli u d;.1 nm onr road. w
= %sve sS, a also been reliably informed tAa T.
y y n1,e tbe general symptoms Of the dlsesaa'
"a - which vde has provenso fatal to the cpn r,
W Wis., ";ots On nh both the railroad end in p,
- = Penitens;ary during the two as as
he h wears have been identlcally the san
"a "a General debility, eruptions e,
40 ~ drens;es Of the lower extremi,ies,al
,se se ternating terra with chronic diarrhn.
~ ~ which are T attendant symptoms {
no no seuryy, @ aocordingto to all the medLc' dLc'
ee. books. =. s.,
ny no IN the penitentiary this year h ;,
re' r. ia been exceptionally good and asltt II
~, peolth Ieen Of our conyicts has bes
Fly ny wretch wretched, especially that Of thela =
ii; Ii lot Of aeventy-Gve we received yit
ISL lU ont medical examination in Apl
: Of last, the public can draw W its owf e11i !
mi. i ference as to how the mopsalltyIee
,n. NJ, ID "a so suddenly in the Penitentla
- a. and why i, broke out 50 aiaranine
n.C' sane -. yo.a Immediately afterMar
y;sta at q When SO rn@ny cedvlcts dled .8 3n ;. :
NV NV Psnitentiary last year, no ciamGr 8. =
j i ~, of raised in aily quarter y2nc erning
,,,;,. - Int hut when only about the same NJ
~. a.o her her have died this year on our t' re
ssn. ;,,re anil died too of diseases colltrae
If lin all probability to a large. eSten '.al,
n 1T It the Penitel:tiary, or IN the )alls lis I.
'ani lore sent to us, a great hue ana
of;ce flee is heard allioyer the land.