The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1898-06-08
Swansea Dojngs.
To the Editor of the Dispatch:

Inc small pOA rage Aas aoo"' 'oo
sided. One case here was reported
as small pox but no one else so far,
has taken it. The colored man who
runs the railroad pump here, known
as John Peg Leg, was the victim,
and is said to have gotten it from
Columbia. Medical opinion in this
county, in Columbia and Orangeburg
have disagreed very much as to
whether it is genuine small pox.
Parties near here and in Orangeburg
who had it before and during the
war, have gone and examined some
cases in Orangeburg and they say 1t
is not the kind of small pox 1--WE had e.
Many citizens have their arms in
sings and no one now likes the
remedy for it any longer. Whether
or not it is small pox will be ques-
ton of the future, but if it is genuine
it has certainly lost its deathly sting
for statistics show that as many have
died from vaccination as from the
disease and for once the remedy
seems to be at least the equal of the
disease.
- Our town has about rectifed mat,
ters from the ravages of the storm
two weeks ago.
Mrs. W. H. F. Rast has been quite
ill but is much better and her
physician thinks she will be we'll soon.
Two others besides those already
mentioned who have enlisted are from
old Lexington blood, now in Orange
burg county, viz: NJ. K. Kuotts and
Haskell Gartman from Knott's Mill
section. are in the Edisto Rifles from
Orangeburg.
Prof. Jas. Y. Smith leaves a pros
porous school and enters into his
country's defence. All Of those from
this section are not tramps nor idlers
but all are industrious, active men,
and two of them, viz: Virgil Rucker
and Lawrence Jacobs leave families
to enter the army. The rest are all
single who have entered. Mr.. West
Hartley, who's failure to enter on ac-
count of defective eye, is also a
young man of family.
Lexington's gallant sons are much
divided. Some in the heavy artillery,
some in the Governors Guards, some
in the Richland Volunteers, some in
the Newberry company, and some in
the Bsmburg company.
The State convention has ended
and that leaves the road now open to
candidates, and there will be many
anxious to serve the dear people.
The State convention has refused
to notice the request Of the Prohl-
bitionists but did not fail to recon-
mend the dispensary. We are in a
day of revolutions and these revolu-
tions will break into politics as we'll
as into Cuba. The political fort
resses need to be captured as badly
as Habana and Porto Rico and will
be silenced IS completely as was
Manila. A moral revolution is upon
US and we had as we'll meet the issues
squarely.
The prohibitory question is only
one of the many issues of the future
1t is only aimed at one of the fortiG
cations of hell, the Anelo-Saxon will
down in his onward march to a bet
ter day.
The French government at one
time would license men to steal Of
rob, and as he did a big or small
business his rating in dollars was
assessed. It it said man will stea
and the only way to manage him is tt
make him pay we'll for it, but alas
who pays for it at last! Licensing
barrooms and running dispensalie'
''for profit" viii! some day be consid
cred as brutal in us, as we CLAIM
that it was in the French.
For the State to run dram shol
and reconcile the matter by giving
the sclear money" to educate ou
boys and girls is sad example TO
the end of the 18th century. e
turn "the blood money ofits citizen
into the educational fund Of it's treas
ury, is bright picture of our gree
of a way to get money and ''but ia
the people for it."
On last Sunday illness prevente
Mrs. Harman from being the organ
ist for the Baptist Sunday schoo
but Lula, the thirteen yearold daugl
ter Of II. r. Goodwin, filled he
place at the organ and did her pal
we'll.
Mrs. G. S Roof has been quite j
for several days, bat not seriously s.