The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1894-06-13
Letter From Guv.


q Letter From GUY.
We had though: the extraordinary strin-
gency of the times would have developed
much crime of various sorts, but in this COM
Emunity abe Interpretations have been confined
to petty pilfering; though there has been a
great deal of taking of live stock by masrs-
ing, Though, come to think, this doa's come
vtt65n he.eriminsl code. Anyway, for :
shestspesiod, some lime back, IBIS thing Of
nsstsaseshreasenedst 10 become afagingasepF
demis attacking, alike, male and female in
exactly the Same proportions. The crisis has,
however. been reached, and the epidemic SUBJ
sided somewhat. though we hear of several
Who indicate strong symptoms of an attack.
We hope they may weather through. There
have been no fatalities thus far, and the older
scasess are slowly sconxalescing. -@@Ne great
change 81 thess morss recent cases, andswM
not be until the moon changes-shs honey
moor sob, What will the harvest be'"' il
the question now agitatiug the community.
Well; this is a wonderful land of ours.
Here, after a most disastrous crop eeason, in
the midstsof the most stringent and long-
s,ntinaea financial psnic that fhe scoantlr.y'
has ever experienced, With a terrible depres.
sion 10 every branch of industry and with
spirits as low as as the price of cotton.
We closed the old year and begun the new
with scarcely a hope of straiuing things so
as to make buckle and tosgue meet and hold
together sufficiently to start another year, yet
here we are very much about as usual. The
matin songs Of the plowman may not be
quite so joyous as once, the. gee-well the
gees do we'll enough, but the cachinatory
haw hawsl are weak and seem to need a
tonic. There's a great lack Of confidence,
seemingly, in everything just now, especially
the weather. The weather has been great 10
promise, but mighty small in performance;
bu, we shouldn't be hard on the weather for
that failing: A fellow-feeling should make US
wondrous charitable. We come very near
having our cotton put to a 'sdead stand''
Every dead stoo) this year, without any cost
or bother ofsboe hands. Ta1isswas owing to
the weather freak ofssthe 18th aud goth ul..
Cottoa locked as sboagh it had scald head,
yaller jaunders aud scrofala combined. Blue
pills wasn't administered, but it got some
mighty blue looks. 1t is convslesciog, and
without q relapse will recover it's lost health /;
but not it's lost time. 1t will be two weeks
behind schedule time at the other end of the
line. Crops are generally clean and worked
70 date. I've never saw less crab grass and
are somewhat uneasy about the CROP and
are in E healthy growing state, bat cotton
will not do much until the nights are hot
enough for the Kstherine-dids to commence
their scr-a-a-p-e, and We can sleep eomforta-
| bly, en- disha6lze, reduced to our tunic mar
rative.
Corn is looking 6ne and much of it is able
to give . pleassns craekle as the breeze
sweeps through it. Wish there was some of
it ready to eraekle in tho grist mill. The
grain has bscome wonderfully scarce and pro-
por.ionatsly precious but it Is most general.
y sometimes always similar accord,a' 1t this
time Of year when we're oeed'n Of it the
worst.
It ID ssid that "oae.haif The world don't
know bow the other half lives" We'll, we
belong to the ''o,her helf' right nsw, and
really We are not able to ealighten @ene.balf
the world - to just how We do live, Cor dog
goned if We know ourseif. Though we've
no doubt we'll be mere enlightened later in
the year. We went TO church yesterday, and
the preacher put it to rs Why Ne lived At al,
and for what purpose. Now all tbis 10 dad
D. is sorter hard on q fellow, not to koow
just where he's at. Well, well, we'll ne
doubt receive enlightenment hence, and cur
belief is that all will be surprised, and some
will be sstonished, and some amazed and
many confounded.
At this writing we are thirsty, that is the
earth and crops are. bitches and streams
are dry and gardens suffering. We have also
to state that the people CT our section have
greatly increased the consumption of drink.
The habit has become widespread and con-
6ned 10 neither SEX, age, color or condition.
We have any number of drinking resorts,
and they are much more frequented now than
a few moaths since, before the Dispensary
was closed. These places are located all over
the country, and very open and public, and
have taken out no license, either State, Coun-
ty nor Revenue. They are 80 far unmolested
by any officials or Prohibbyhobbyists, and