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GREENWOOD LETTER.

Greenwood, >. o., Aug. lo, lSoz'
The art exhibit by the New Home Company
attracted large crowds of ladies' during last
week. Mr.. D. G. DuPre will be in charge OF
their business in this territory. Par,ies
wanting sewing machine should see the
! New Home. ,
Miss Sue Bond, OF Charleston, Is visiting
her sister Mrs. Beaudrot.
Mr. A. Rosenberg left for New York Friday.
| Miss Hudgens is spending few days win
her relatives Mr.. and Mrs. &. A. Barksdale.
Mr.. F. NJ. Allen is preparing TO move DIS
stock Gf furniture into the vacant store ol
the city bank.
Mr. Russell Speghts, of Atlanta, is visiting
relatives here.
And Major Murray, one Of lhe bra
men and staunchest Democrats In Anderson
county was actually mobhed by citiZens OF
his own county and his own blood. Where
will Two years more of Tillam ism land us.
Since our Tillman friends have allowed II
] few office seer.ers and holders AT aoDeVlile 10
| sd wv The Ines for them, we the ConserVa-
tiveS Ought by all means TO have candlonte
for County Treasurer, who IS above this petty
demagogery. If he alone with every other
candidate we have Is defeated, II Will be con-
soling to know that IT Is more honorable TO
be a defeated Conservative than an elected
Tillmanite by such pernicious methods
take the liberty therefore OF calling on iroi.
| VIM. Hood to make the raceIwholiy on MS
merit, his ability. and his record Tor quarter
of a century before the people OF this county.
| II he will consent to run, can only promise
G THe Goe ony eg, sefe Hundred %
Mr.. w. X. Blake Is still improving his
spring and has just completed coinnno-
dous bath house htted up with tubs conVen-
| lent for bathing. might 60 on ana compare
| 1t TO the pool OF SLOAN, etc. but enough mas
heen said to atone for my impertinence last
week.
the CORRESPONDENT at Street. A little gratui-
tious advice from one Of more experience
may not be ont Of place. 1t Is that ~ pc a
| little more guarded In his statements, ot incts
1 l. . hot nI1r
| He Is evidently, a well read gentleman, put
| from his statements Judge him to be Woeful'
ly ignorant Of the political caste OF MS COM
munity. happen TO know that IN an area Oh
five miles around Street the Conservatives
have two to one, every one Of whom Is wholly
solvent and not one Of them Is being leo by Il
ring in the nose" In the shape OF a lien or
mortgage held by men at Bradley's or else
| where.
Just rs might have been expected EX-Gov.
Richardson has completely eXonerated MIN,
self of Gov. TllIman's sIanderous charge ana
IL looks now very much like some one con-
nected with Tillm"n's administration VIII oe
called on to produce those missing vouchers
rs soon as the campaign Is over.
place had quite an exciting experience with
a mad dog recently. 1t attacked him In the
field. and but for sufficiently high stump
hard by might have bit him, from ms iolty
perch. Mr.. Boyle gave the alarm. and some
| neishb0r came and shot the rabbi dog and
four others he had bitten.
Rev. q. H. Carter, OF Mississippi. our
former paster, preached In the Baptist churcn
Miss Mccall, of Bennettsville, is visiting
Miss Annie Knte Watson:
To our Tlllmanite friends who enjoy q good
smoke most harily recommend the 5. & U.
ci:ar. for sale at W. II. Bailey's drug store
| When Gov Sheppard at Walhalla, forced
Gov. Tillmnn to eXcaim, "if new conslltn-
! ton is submitted back 10 the people and we
have q maturity OF 10000 negroes, how ~
Gods name are you going TO get IL ratified y
The take of was so complete that Sheppard
was cheered 10 the echo even the champion,
Mr. Benet onea IN IstS WIFI Tmsn neV
er has intended to submit his three dollar
poll tax, and qualified suffrage back 10 the
people. If he gets the convention II becomes
| law without ratification, Mr. beneI 10 Ine
contrary notwithstanding.
| Mr.. Benet says the So poll tax Is not an issue
| in this campaign, Gov. Tillman says IL IS
Mr.. Renet says the antfs are responsible lot
| II must say Benet has made mistake tnat
in some cases there had been great disorder
where the TillmuniteS had big majority
very contradictory statements these.
The corresl ondent from Street says " the
| Antis boy colt q. p. McFerrln he will I've on
roasting ears. There Is no danger In the
world that he will have to resort 10 such nm
emergency as the Ants know no such word
| as boycott, but Mr.. McFerrlns IN nd doubt
less runs back through the vista OF quarter
OF a century, 10 one dreary night around
camp fire near by an OLD Iirginia co,nne,d
hungry comrades-n-arms placed himself on
the outside OF fourteen ears OF the roasting
variety. BY little refreshing of his memory
| he will also remember how his longing, wist-
full hungry cumpan Ions aiterward tossed him
a bundle or fodder AS desert. ,
or all the unkinG, hard things Gov. TIL
man has said, his declaration at SparanDurg
that she would not pardon Turner" was the
hardest OF ALL Resting as Turner IL under
condemnation from the highest majesty OF
the law, he nor his family should snffer any
tartiliz,tIon during his few remaining days
Having occasion to visit Troy last Friday
1t was my happy privilege to parlake OF u
bountiful picnic dinner with our A. II. 7.
friends, who Us congregation, had agreed 10
their beautiful grove. The day WAS most
pleasantly and profitably spent by all. The
youth were all agog with buoyancy as they
chartered among themselves, or IKE llttie
lambs skipped to end fro over the green
sward. The young men and maidens-the
beauty and chivalry-sPent the day IN groups
Of two "looking love 10 eyes that spake again
and whispering sweet nothings 10 hearts
atune. The middle aged contented themselves
In dispensing cream and lemonaue ior lne
Masters cause, while the more elderly looked
after the sweet little red headed tois-Whlch
seemed to abound In great prolussionInno
discussed the condition of the egg, chicken,
fruit and vegetable crop. The only require
ment necessary to free access 10 the grounds
was tEat no politics pe ulscusseu, thlS oI
course ruled Col. Dave and Capt. George OFT
the premises until dinner WAS announced
In the afternoon the crowd was treated to
some fine open air selections sung by the
choir of the church under whose auspices the
gathering was, after which their pastor ReV.
MIR. Sloan offered beautiful prayer appro-
pirate 10 the OCCASION. and were dismissed.
Some awfully wicked being supposed to be
human. broke into the larder OF the Orphan
age last Saturday night and took therefrom
about all the provisions In STOCK.
am informed that The good women ana
some of the campaign meetings have been
very lavish In the bestowal OF flowers on Con-
servative candidate klugh. AS he IL Just hs
modest as he Is handsome, take occasion toi
say-lest misapprehension-that he has
noble wife and several bright and Interesting
little children at home. but he has brother
who Is quite as fine looking and In oonforta.
BILE circumstances, whom we call Joe, on
whom 1t might not be amlss to bestoW floral
Misunderstanding of course an arrangement of
which this scribe may be ignorant. D.
CHESTER, S. c., Aug. 6, 1892.
Dear Slr-Complying with instruc-
tions ontained therein, I send you a
copy of the resolutions below, passed