The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1888-07-05
PROSPERITY LETTER.


ing Miss Sallie Wise, and will be her
guest for several weeks.
Miss Ella Bookhart, of Edgefield, is
and will he the guest Of Mrs. W. +.
lLlkin for three or four weeks.
V. y. BooZer has taken charge OF the
Dead Fall school during the college Va
cation. Success t. you, Virgil, in your
new field OF labor.
Mr.. Rufus ID. Boozcr leaves here to-
day for home in Lake City, Fla.
Mrs. NJ. Z. Kohn is visiting relatives
in the Dutch Fork proper, in LeXing-
ton County.
Miss Nora Maffett, after pleasant
stay of ten days with her brothers here.
has returned to her home in LeNing-
ton.
The political cauldron is beginning
to simmer smartly down here, and,
Judging from the amount and kind OF
fuel that is being added, it will not be
very long Before the old kettle will be
FIR above boiling heat. Boys, some Of
you are sure to get left, but be calm and
serene.
\ debating society has been organ
lied by the young men Of the place
with Prof. A. :. SchcetZ as president.
These young men will debate once
month in the room Of the Y. NJ. {. y.
Well, reckon the Chicago conven-
ton did the very best thing they could
do for themselves and for the Demo
crats, too, by nominating Chinese Har-
rison and Monopoly Morton as their
standardbearers. This nomination will
put lots Of money III circulation, ana
still Cleveland and Thurman will be
elected and everybody will be happy
AID serene.
Prof. Schcetz is Il little the bluest
man you ever saw. His good wife is
in Pennsylvania and he is here. lie Is
s. blue that he imagines that he OWNS
a common lead pencil with which he
can write any color, but when he writes
the word it is blue.
"Those whom the gods would destroy,
they first make mad" If that ancient
Grecian was correct in his proposition,
it will not be long before it will be ia,
ia, Republican party, for they are just
a little of the maddest set of fellows
that are now meandering on the face Of
Gods green earth.
The "glorious" Fourth dawned upon
us this morning without the "booming
of cannon, or the flying Of banners" or
even of martial music. Instead OF that
everything is calm and serene. Not one
thing to mar the peace and quiet OF our
town. We have got lots Of peacable
bandannas down here. had notion
this morning, to telegraph Sickles, and
Beaver, and Fairchild and all them
other fellows up at Gettysburg, eX-
pressing my regrets at being unable to
be with them on this grand" occasion;
but then I was reminded that it is just
twenty-five years to-day since left the
same place rather under inauspicious
circumstances. We had been meeting
those same fellews there for three days
previous, and to say the meetings were
warm ones is not saying enough. They
were deathly hot. I have a vivid
recollection Of the terrible fighting on
July End, '63, and the great number of
lives given on the altar Of their c0un-
try. have also vivid recollection of
the great artillery duel on the 3rd, and
the immortal charge of Pickett's Dl-
vision. This artillery duel was proba-
bly, the greatest field duel Of the world.
Every available peice was brought into
action. The earth did not quake, but
it did continuously tremhle in the
truest sense while the great engines OF
death were flying their angry missiles
on every side. I also remember the
night Of the "glorious" Fourth, when
we abandoned this awful scene Of death
and destruction, amid lightnings and
thunders and torrents of rain. 1t was a
good night, for ghouls, and ghosts, and
hob-goblings and such like, but it was
terrible night for poor, hungry, tired,
| wounded and sore soldiers. TO add to
our discontinue, we had just heard OF
the fall OF Viclsburg. This, with the
unsuccessful attempt on Gettysburg S
heights, made US all feel that we had
reached the turning point in the War
When pondered all these, and many
more things in my mind, | concluded
not to send any greetings to those fel
lows up there, but just to let them have
their own way, and let them greet, and
bridge the chasm, and bury the bloody
shirt, for we have done this part of the
programme long ago, and just as soon
as paralytic Fairchild and Co. performs
their part of the agreement, we will al
be reunited, happy and serene.
Mr.. J. E Brown, of Newberry, is in
town organizing a castle of Knights Of
the Golden Rule. He is meeting with
fair success. We advise every man who
desires to leave his wife and children
something at his demise, to see JEFF
before he leaves town.
The latest advices from Jolly Street
are, that it is solid for Cleveland anc
Thurman.
IUBE.
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