The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1888-11-01
PROSPERITY LETTER.
Mornings cool and crispy.

A large quantity of oat seed is being
soWn.
"'Tater digin' time" ls here and the
little ''nigs" are happy. "PaD sed yis-
terdy the 'tater crap wus net SO good;
! howsumever, he thinks we'll make
enough to sgiz thru wild ef we don
hev tn much cumpny o Sadday nights
an Sundays"
! Our stores now present the busiest OF
scenes. They are crowded with anxious
+ purchasers from "early morn to dewy
eve," and they just carry off loads of
goods. Sell the people goods cheap and
! they will buy them; and they all know
] where to get the most goods for the
least money.
The rains for the latter part Of last
week, have again been damaging to
the already short cotton crop. Much
of it has been beaten out into the
ground and all of it is more or less
stained and blued. There will be very
little more fine cotton picked.
Our cotton market for the past week
has been bouyant and offerings were
good at prices from 8 to 81 on basis for
middling, until yesterday when there
was decline of a full quarter, and the
market closed dull and heavy. Sales
for the week GIG bales against 567 last
week. Total number of bales sold to
date 1888.
Mr.. Aaron Dominick, who resided
about six miles from here in township
9, died very suddenly on Monday morn
ing. Mr.. Dominick was respected
and staunch citizen, and one who was
really admired by all who knew him.
His merry voice and jovial converse
ton will be missed among us all.
To-day, "wednesday. October 3lst,
1881 I am celebrating my semi-cen-
tennial. This is a very important event
in my life, and one that will never oc-
cur again. For fifty years have been
trying to crafty and appease my appe-
tite, and to-day it is as voracious as ever.
| Friends if you want help celebrate my
semi-centennial just send or bring in
your bbls. of flour, hams, fatted calves,
gold rings or what will answer just as
we'll, few twenty dollar gold pieces
and we will all rejoice together, and be
happy and serene in this sublunary
world of ours.
Last week we dined at Birge and
Wise's hotel. Though we had not
dined with these good people in fifteen
years, we found the same substantial
repast served at a we'll supplied table
from the best that this market affords,
and every body who has ever stopped
in Prosperity knows it as good. Some
of the commercial travellers, who stop
at Birge and Wise's house call it "the
old reliable" from the fact that they
can always rely upon getting something
good and plenty oft. These drummers
area jolly set of fellows and they al
ways know where to get good thing
and they get it too. We also are eX-
ceedingly fond of good 'rations." "
Thanks gentlemen, thanks for your
generous kindness. Do likewise
again.
1t has been said that cat has nine
lives an we verify believe it is true in
part. That same old bob-tailed "yal-
Ter" that we advertised long ago is still
alive and on the warpath. We took
a great deal of pains about that cat, and
on two occasions got a nice piece of
tender steak and prepared said steak
with little strychnine in very par
ticular manner, and we had it just
right to cause any quadruped IN the
whole category of animals to hand his
checks, except that old bob-tailed 'yal-
ler,' cat. He ate that steak with a
good relish and is doing we'll on it.
Rough on Rats" and strychnine is
wholesome diet for that abominable
pestiferous cat. The only consolation
we have, is that, if that cat has nine
lives, and that at least, we have relieved
him of two Of them, and we only have
to administer the potal drug seven
times more before we will be happy
and serene concerning that bob-tailed
J 'yaller" cat, but druggist says he only
guarantees one dose Of fstrychnine totake
one life, and that this process must be
repeated nine times to be entirely sue
cessful in ridding our house of this
thriving "yaller" cat. 1t is thought by
the doctors that if dose Of strychnine
were administered hyperdermically
that he could not digest the drug SC
we'll, but the trouble is, none of them
will undertake the job. I believe ]
will try full charge of dynamite and
see if cant blow that,-well, I have
not got the words in my dictionary tc
name that-bob-tailed "yaller' cat
away on the other side of Jordan. I'll
bet red apples that cat is in the dining
room right now. Scat, you mean, ro-
.. guish ''yaller" thing" 1UBE.