The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1894-01-24
OUR PROSPERITY LETTER.
, A Batch of Interesting News from our
Sister City.
CCorrespondence Herald and News

Correspondence Herald and News.j
PROSPERITY, Junuary, 222.-Mr. H.
G. Moseley has returned from Florida,
whittier he had gone On business
trip.
4. H. Kohn ought to have the yellow
flag raised over his residence. He, his
wife, mother, aunt and three children
are in bed with grip. Mrs. K. has been
quite i'll. 1t is hoped that nothing
serious may result.
The Prosperity Stock Company have
received another carload Of fine mules
and brood mares. Messrs. Kohn and
Birge have Just about closed out their
carload of mules which they received
only week ago. 1t is ali stuff to cry
:;hard times and no money" To sell
three carloads of mules in as many
weeks, don't look like hard times and
no money to this pilgrim. Business
seems to be improving in town. Con-
fidence in monetary circles is being
restored and the outlook seems brighter.
Our people are all in good circum-
stances, and no body is going to suffer
on these coasts.
Last week some black knight Of
darkness, entered the Post Office by
means of a false key, and relieved the
cash drawer ofits little change, amount
ing to about five or six dollars, and
then went his way rejoicing. No clue
to this knight of the night.
AS yet, we have no Dispensary estab-
lished along our coasts, but we have no
guarantee that things will remain so.
Our town was "dry" by Statute and
by charter, but by the last June bug"
Legislature, at the Instance Of man
of superior Judgment" the dry
Statute and charter was perfectly an
nihilated, and the way made broad and
easy to establish State liquor saloon
in our midst. Now what are the people
of Prosperity and township number
nine going to do about it. Are We going
to stultify ourselves by voting for a
State liquor saloon cow, when in the
last election majority of US voted for
prohibition? We cannot say. Other
towns and places have established pre-
cedents. Newberry might have been,
under the first State liquor saloon bill,
dry town had not some Of her best
church members, and church officers,
and probibitionists recommended GER
tain good men for State barroom
keepers, just like it was any more
sinful for the State, the great State of
South Carolina, to sell liquor than Dau
Ward, and jim Dunbar or any body
else. The inevitable results are the
same, it makes no difference under
what conditions Whiskey is sold. I only
mention Newberry as an illustration,
because there are many other places in
the State in the same condition. Good
men, church men, prohibitionists, and
even some ministers of the gospel sane
ton these State liquor saloOns-tbey
are nothing else. Now it is lament
able fact that the endorsement by such
men as above mentioned. gives tone
and character to liquor selling by the
State and many young men who would
have hlushed with shame to have
entered an old time barroom, do not
now hesitate to enter a State saloon,
because of the lone and character given
it under the sanction of law endorsed
by the best men in the church and in
the prohibition party. Now, our people
here are no better than the citizens of
Newberry or any other place where
whiskey is sold, and We may have
real live State barroom in Prosperity.
I don't know. We dry town people,
and whiskey people, and church people,
and prohibition people are getting
badly mixed and tangled.
Our condition reminds 1ne of GER
tain little boy in our town, who, on a
certain occasion, had the misfortune to
get one of his trouser legs reversed.
When be tried to put his pants on
again he easily got one leg in the prop
er place, but the other leg could not
gain an entrance. The little fellow
tried and cried, and tried and cried,
when, finally, he spied CapS. B. COM
ing down street; ne picked up himself
and his pants and came running out
on he street with his cheeks streaming
with tears, and said, in crying voice,
"Cap-n, ca ca-cau y-you tell a-a-a fell
Ter h-h-how to un-uH-uptangle lis
brich- briches?" The Captain kindly
"untangled" the little fellows "brich-
es" and he went on bis way happy and
serene. Now it seems to me that We
have got our prohibitionwhiskey-
church "briches" badly tangled, try
ing to get a prohibition leg and
church leg into reversed whiskey legs,
and the three won't work. We need
good Samaritan to come along and
"uutangle" our "briches."
IC-BE.