The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1886-11-03

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was not present at scch trial.
Sd. n. CHANDLER.
Sworn to before me. this. 2sth day Of o.
sober, 1886.
5om s. Wueea. ::
Trial Justice Of G!sreSdon 90. y
IA Complaint Against CetsoR Factors.
The Farmers Convention appealed
to for Redress.
Account sales of seven bales Of cot
ton are before me that have been sold
in Charleston. These bales were
picked dry, ginned dry, packed dry;
weighed at the gin, weighed at time
of shipment, weighed in Charleston;
and there is difference between the
,ceigM here and there Of seventy (7A
four pounds!
/ Where have these seventy-foar
pounds gone? Gone to swell the
grand aggregate loss to the poor suf-
fering farmers! And yet-we farm
ers have received no kindly word of
sympathy from the President, nor aid
from Hampton and Butler! It is true,
perhaps, that as we had sent no pres
ent to the Presidents bride, we had
no right to expect any sympathy from
that quarter-but-even. if we had
sent gift in the fulness of our pros
perity, I hope we should have failed
to remind him of it in the hour of our
calamity!!
It is impossible that the earthquake
,cau have caused this discrepancy in
the scales, for the same shocks have
visited this section. and the six yards
of bagging and the six ties were not
thrown of, OF their weight diminish.
ed or increased here. The annual
trade report for the City OF Charles
ton claims for sale and shipment at
that port, 495, ,547 bales. Now allow
ing, say, a loss Of ten pounds, only, to
the bale, Cess by four-sevenths lbs.
than these account sales before me,
and much less than my neighbor, who
has lost, to the bale, l6 lbs the .abso-
lutte irretrievable loss amounts to
A,955,470 lbs, equal to 9,911 bales,
which, at $500 per bale, estimated
value by above report, gives $455, ,995
-Qcst-gone where the "a lbs. will
} join them y and which, I think, would
give enough to pay both Charleston's
State and municipal taxes-or if con-
verted into silver currency and hurl.
ed upon her, would bury her as deep
as Sodom and Gomorah. but is bal.
, last in cotton enough to buy up still,
this shameful evil of false weights
| We do not ask or demand an extra
session of the Legislature. to repair
losses-heavy as they have been-bu,
would be delighted TO know that its
} meeting and action would insure hon.
: esty, help for the needy, and the prop.
: er balance of the scales of justice
, These scales are balanced now, in ev.
, erybody's thoughts in favor o1
, Charleston and charity, but Let US
not forget that this kindly, greatest
; christian element, begins at home
, where faith and hope in cotton profits
: are we'll nigh dead, without any more
} loss by Charleston-weights.
) Cannot the convention devise some
means of having our cotton weighed
; honestly, if need be, to do away with
the public weights, that the facto,
may be alone held responsible by the
. shipper. and that the poor farmer may
! find out who the thief is+whethe,
} weighes, factor, Of wharf rat.
, Do not imagine for . moment thai
, I would deprive the dear old City o.
one cent Of profit On her- Legitimate
] trade, or would curtail thssstrade ,ene
/ iota by.word or deed, but
i Nor that we farmers begrudge he,
, one dollar of the thousands that are
, being so generously lavished upoI
| her, but-let her remember that mis-.
, fortune does not confer Che right te
absorb all profit on the hard earned
, staple, and that now is 3 good time
for her honest commission merchants
to step forward and remedy this evi
) that has existed 80 long, and which
; since the earthquake, seems 10 be or
: the increase.
: Has anyone else in this State OF
!. District suffered I? MIR. Editor, please
ask the press of the State to keep this
, matter before our farmer friends
W. must, we aoM stop it, "thougt
: Charleston falls" FARMER