The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1888-09-20
PROSPERITY LETTER.
Cotton Receipts-A Child Painfully Burned
The Farmers Alliance and the
Far1ners-Give Col. SchuInPert
aGood Send-Of on Tues
day Next.


Miss Emily Lovelace, of Newberry,
is visiting friends and relatives i'll
town.
G. B. Cromer, Esq, and Harry II.
Blease Esq, We're i'll town on tuesday
on professional business.
Miss Matte Caldwell, and Miss Sal
lie Lane are in town.
The number of bales cotton sold here
since Sept. 1st is lO5. Price to day u"
81 cents. A raftsman would call the
most of the cotton now on the market,
water begged.
The bridge which was washed away
at the Croft place was under contract
to be built by Mr.. J. l.. Aull, the work
to be completed by the 18th. This is
an important highway to Prosperity,
and her merchants taking in the sltua-
ton, supplemented Mr.. Aull's bid with
$4,000 as an inducement for him to
begin work ut once. He has consented
and promises to complete the bridge
next week. Prosperity's merchants
won't be left.
The friends and relatives of Mrs.
Latimer w. Long will be exceedingly
glad to learn that she has been returned
to her beloved husband safe and sound
in mind. It will be remembered that
a. little more than a month ago she was
adjudged by a board Of physicians 4
lunatic and was sent to the Asylum for
the insane at Columbia. After remain
ing there only three days, it seemed
that all of her mental powers returned
to her, in their wonted condition and
she now seems entirely free from any
mental alteration at all. 1t is indeed
wonderful, that so great change was
wrought in 50 short "A time. We hearth
ly congratulate Mr.. and Mrs. Long and
family on the happy turn Mrs. Longs
case has assumed.
\ two year old child of Mr.. George
S. Merchant accidentally fell into the
fire last Friday, and is painfully burned
about the hands and face. The little
sufferer was not doing we'll on Monday,
though it is hoped that while the burn
is extremely painful it is not dangerous,
further than distiguration.
Prosperity is suffering from therecent
railroad wash )ut. The'Old Reliable is
the only train We have and she failed
US for two days. Bacon gave out
on Saturday. Lard and meal and sugar
are nearly out. Notwithstanding the
scarcity of these articles and the GER
tainty that none could be had, be it
said to the credit Of our merchants, they
did not raise the price on Il single arti-
Gle. The last box of bacon was sold at
the same regular price, as if there had
been a thousand boxes on the market.
The District Conference of the Y. NJ;
c. 4. for Newberry County will con-
vene at st. Luke's church on Thursday
and Friday before the Sd Sunday (tlc
10th of September.) a full representa-
ton is earnestly desired. St. Luke'S
will not fail to entertain in a generous.
and hospitable manner.
Mr.. Rob't Jeffaries, the district or,
ganizer Of the Farmers Alliance, was
here on Monday, but the farmers did
not ally worth a cent. The truth ot
the matter is, that while the alliance is
good thing, and is likely to work a
great revolution among the farmers,
vet just at this particular time the far
mers are in no mood for an alliance OF
anything else, on account of the intense
anxiety to save what little is left from
the great floods. Their losses are un-
precedented, and no one can blame
them for the gloomy mood in which we
find them. Mr.. Jeftaries left an ap,
pointment for the -, to meet with
the farmers and consult as to their best
interests. 1t seems to us that in view
of the peculiar disasters which have. be-
fallen US, and with so much devastation
staring US souarely in the face, that
now would be very OpporIune time
for a thorough organization of this
character. In unity there is strength
and safety, and we hope that there is q
time not far distant when the sturdy
yeonanry of our land will be a unit in
everything that pertains to their best
interests and welfare.
The past week has been gloomy
one for the farmer and tenant, in fact
for every class of people, for all are de-
pendent upon the farmer for susie
nance. The rains aud floods have
never, in any recorded or traditional
history Of our country, been so disaS-
trous to the crops. On all the bottom
lands on the various rivers the crops
are total loss. The waters in Saluda
and Bush river have registered from
three to five feet higher than ever be-
fore, even of the great floods of 1852 and
of 1856, which are the highest upon
record. The waters have been over the
corn SO long that all hope of saving any
is now abandoned. Ten days ago the
crop prospects on the rivers were never
better; now at one full swoop of the
waters they are all gone. How transit
tory is man, and that with which he
has to do. We have heard Of no loss of
life, but bridges, boats, canoes, flats, etc,
have all been borne away on the bosom
of the turbulent waters. The lands in
many places have also been torn into
great holes and swept away. All along
the rivers, where only Il few days ago
there was promise of an abundant
harvest, there is nothing but ruin and
desolation to meet the gaze. In adGi-
ton 10 the destruction Of the low land
crops, the continuous rains are still in
tlicting incalculable injury to the up
land cotton; beating out and into the
earth the open cotton, and rotting that
which is not fully open. Very little
picking can be done, and what is picked
is poor grade, and when placed ON the
market as some is, onlp bring about
cents per pound. Upon the whole the
outlook is indeed distressing for all
classes, but more especially the farmer.
The year 1889 will be hard one to pass
through.
TURN OUT AND VOTE FOR scHUMPERT.
We are not investing much, neither
are we taking much stock in elections
nowadays, but we would be glad to
see everybody turn out on next Tues
day, the 18th instant, and give Col. o.
l.. Schumpert rousing. solid vote for
Solicitor Of the 7th Judicial Circuit.
Wo all love home enterprises and home
industries, and we love to taik about
them and to patronize them, and with
pride We love to sit and mediate, and
laud, and point our children and friends