The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1889-10-24
PROSPERITY LETTER.


every body is happy and serene-not
quite all, but nearly all.
To-day, "Wednesday, is Alliance day
in Prosperity, but judging from the de-
pressed market, the offerings Will be
light ifany.
The cotton market closed yesterday
evening fiat. Buyers We're offering
9 $40, sales limited. The prospects
point to Il further decline. 92l bales
have been sold here since September
lst.
Tomorrow, Thursday, the Associate
Reformed Presbyterian Synod South
will convene here. This is a large
ecclesiastical body, being composed of
members aud delegates from nearly
every Southern State. This is big
thing for Prosperity, and extensive
preparations have been made to enter
tain them. The new A. R. P. Church
has been newly painted and the
grounds adjacent have been beautlted,
and everything looks cheerful and IN
vitiug.
The Young Mems Christian Associa-
ton here viii! observe the week OF
PRAYER, beginning on Sunday evening
November 10th. A committee, consist
ing of [. B. Whites, Rev. J. D. Hugglns
and Prof. +. J. Browne, has .been ap-
pointed to make detailed arrangement
to carry the programme into effect.
Select speakers will be engaged for each
evening. The services will be neld IN
the different churches in town. The
following is the topic for each evening:
Sunday, November 10, "Nlet on the
Way" Acts xxi: Gil.
Monday, November II, strangers
made Citizens.n Eph. ii: l2-l9.
Tuesday, November II, "How to get
Rlch.n Matt. vi: -, ~; Rev. iii: Is.
Wednesday, November Is, "One
thing that is Everything" Mark x:
17-z2.
Thursday, November IA, An open
ibg to Great Advantages. John X: 7-9.
Friday, November Is, THE Best
Waik.n. Gen. Y: 2l-24; Heb. xi: 5.
Saturday. November IL, 1.-Two things
that must 60 Together" Rom. X: SIS.
The Farmers Alliance put 429 bales
of cotton on the market last Wednes-
day. They We're offered &c, which as a
body they refused. Individual! members
afterwards sold probably lou bales at
81. Some dissatisfaction manifested 1t"
self among the Alliance men-they
thinking that the buyers had intentlon,,
ally put down the market. This could
not be, we think. The market was then
weak had been weakening for several
days, and has continued to weaken
ever sinc-. We feel satisfied that the
offering of cotton in large bulks at TINS
season of the year is a mistake. Later
it will be good idea. We are just as
| sorry as the farmers that cotton has
declined, but it is thing that cannot
be helped, and never will until the far
mers of the all the cotton States are
| able'to hold their cotton as long as they
please When they get in this condition.
Then New York, and Liverpool can De
controlled, and not until then. 10 90
this will require the intended efforts OF
all the cotton States, and we verify
| believe that this condition VIII even
tually be arrived at.
A glorious rain last night has settled
the almost unsufterable dust.
FOUND DEAD IN THE FIELD.
On last Sunday afternoon Trial
Justice 3. B. Hair was called upon tc
90 about twelve miles below Prosperity
to hold an inquest over the body OF A
B. Miller. The coroner residing too far
the Justice was inside of the law in act
ing as coroner. The circumstances
attending Mr.. Miller's death are about
as follows: He was bachelor living
entirely alone, not even having a coos
or tenant on his premises. He was
found dead on Sunday morning IN
cotton "patch" about forty yards from
his dwelling. On Wednesday previous
Walter Epting saw the deceased at hi:
home. He told Mr.. Epting that he
had been so sick the night before thai
he did not know where he was. He
was not seen any more until Friday
morning when young colored mai
came to pick cotton for him. He tolC
the boy he did not want any cotton
picked that he was sick. He was sit
ting by the fire in mis- night clothes
and said that he was chilly. After this
he was not seen any more until on Sun
day morning when Mr., Walter Wicke,
went to see him and found him deac
in his cotton field. He was dressed
only in shis night clothes and it Il
evident from all the attending
circumstances, that in his dilemma be
went to pick cotton. He had picked cot
ton and put in his drawers legs, evi
dently imagining that it was cotton
clap" He no doubt picked until be
fell. After falling it was some time
before he died, judging from the marks
made on the ground by his hands and
feet. He probably died late on Friday
night or early Saturday morning
There is no suspicion of foul play
Neither his money nor anything else
in his house was disturbed. There were
no marks of violence on any part of his
body. None Of his neighbors suspected
that he was seriously i'll. He lived
where there was but little passing, and
being somewhat of a hermit, he was
nearly all the time entirely alone. A
jury was empannelled, and after view
ing the body and hearing the evidence,
| and DR.. J. K. Chapman's post mortem,
returned the following verdict
"That,in our opinion, A. B, Miller came
to his death from natu 81 CAUSES" The
deceased was an old soldier from the
beginning of the war, being member
of Company "H," Third Regiment,
South Carolina Volunteers. He was
probably about 4S years old.