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

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tJR the sick at each stockade. Clean
Illness of person, quarters, night-tuos,
etc.. has been studiously observed.
| Ain abundance Of medicine, shoes
clothing, blankets, etc. have beer
| kept on hand, except once or twle'
in summer when we have been a lit
tie short of clothing and shoes, bu
during the present year each OF GU
~conyicts has had three suits OF cIothes
The convicts may have been pres
OF somewhat hard at times to fms
particular jobs OF work, but ordinarl
fv thew have not been overworked
md have oftener worked less than ten
!, hours a day than they have workedth the
!. full ten hours. AS a rule they have
never had less than an hour for din
, mar and rest in winter, and from two
/ 70 four hours in the summer accord
ING to the length of the day, or the
hest Of the weather. The auperin-
tendent, overseers and guards have
never abused the convicts h~abitually
> or even in particular instances to our
y Elective or individual knowledge
and some one or more of the direct
ora. who reside at short intervals all
aiong the line of the road have al
m ,st daily and frequently severa
It times a day, either visited the stock
va uhere the convicts were kept fol
e the time or the railroad where the!
" were at work. No one but the sup
il srintendent or head overseer ha
baen permitted to infict punishmen
:. and they only with a strap, and
sc,rs are to be. found ON the heads
nsrsons Of any of the %convicts "
lave had in charge las is alleged b
some of the news papers, We unqual
ly fedly deny they have been lnllLcte
ry by Jul employees, except psrhsp
,st !; ~ ono ar two instances for an a
i'm tempt to revolt or escape. Yet a
ra- though such has been our genef
,ot trestment, the sickness and morta
ess W. 90 before stated, has been We
rly c,est. especially during Lost SUNNI n,
olt and GI spring. That scurvy was u
1ly a most' fatal disease hardly admits
the NUS and although we had the be
Of doug anu ]a+tsntion in the neighbc
his Hnoa Of each stockade and althon
n q numerous uJ country physicians visit
at nun If the srockades No. 8, 4 anu
zen where nearly al! the deaths aca nave
we ourrel, yet we were not INFORMS, sat;I
Ten. tba nresence Of the scurvy until
5 5ost pl Anaust last, when it was disc
ered in most Of the conxiolS ~ Z
med;cal committee consisting o. =
Ts9 q Maxwell, G. NJ. Burkhal
o. onS y; 3 G. Merriwether. That 1t
that suu w which produced IN most ftct Of :
nary mortality is proven BY the n.sr lat tres
lnds. 80 soon as the prisoners were Urea
T be- a asS s0 d;ated for scurvy there was am
Mess and ols'eu aneou change for the be ,
5 the and only one death has osou 1nT;n q
rma- tbs disease at this stockade auria !
S. 1ast Month and only two other de-
. the iasS n ors informed have happe
n s aot AZ OF . the :. tT We sSe psni Se@tisss
con. . .ar eG,b ~ september, nearly all W
the twenty-five were rapidly snyr fonsI for
mary ~ the time Of their departure ~
is not ..,L;o
n will -, .,,rvv of course was gr
ortant anr lated during the past SUI
ag6lnt universal aud protr'
Die in ny "'I IN this part OF the State
arousns rs from supplying the
veu"'5 fresh vegetablesthey '
, Yeo- Vic's %erwise received. On I'll
day Of April last st.. our nauv vHai fro
, uenitsnLiary sOahoM any a., mdd IL
ton on ina;nu on by or surgeon "'''' Ut