The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1899-07-05
Harry lesesne Heard from Again.
Editor THE TIES:

I guess as I heard nothing to the
contrary you have published my two
former letters, so presuming upon
that, l shall venture you another
short one. shall probably be home
by the time you publish this, for there
is so much malaria floating around
down here in South Georgia that q
man from our delightfully."- healthy
town would scarely be expected to
stay here any more than he was
obliged to.
Georgia has been all stirred up
with crimes during the past few
weeks. Almost every paper You pick
up is full of double-head-lined artl-
cles about some outrage or murder
or shooting scrape doubt if there
is State in the South that can equal
this State for crime, But there are
well-known reasons for this. Geor-
eia is the largest State, it is claimed,
east of the Mississippi river, and con-
tains about 40 counties. The pro-
portion OF negro population to the
white population is fully as great, il
not greater than in our State, and
many of the negroes down here are
the scum OF the two Carolinas. Lum-
Der and turpentine, of course, are
great interests, and negro labor is
used mostly to work them. Every
winter about January turpentiue and
lumber men 60 from here into the
two Carolinas hunting labor, and the
class they get is usually that class
who are triding and will not work at
home. They come out here and get
pretty good wages at mill or on a
turpentine farm, and when they get a
little money, say fifteen to forty dol
lars ahead, they go crazy and usually
wind up in Il shooting scrape if they
escape being swung TO limb for a
more horrible crime. The world will
never know the heinous details of the
crime committed by Sam Hose, who
was burned to a pine tree, or the
people of that section would not be
so severely condemned. The details
of his crime were too horrible to be
even intimated, much less told. l be-
lieve Sam Hose was a Georgia negro,
and that old preacher Strickland, 1t
is claimed, was in with him and it is
said had bet with Hose that he
could not accomplish what he did.
Sam Perry, who is wanted and will
be lynched when caught for ionlly
numbering one white man and Sc
verely wounding another in a COM
munity about fifty miles west OF Sa-
yannah, is an emigrant from Darling,
ton county, South Carolina.
It is also terribly demoralizing to
negroes to come down here from Car
olina and work a year and then &C
back home. A good per cent of the
assault and battery cases III oul
courts are negroes returned from
Georgia. You take the average negro
from our State or North Carolina and
let him come down here and make a
little money and he gets too big to
contain himself. Let him 60 back
home with fifteen or twenty dollars
after his years experience III Geor-
cia, carrying deck of cards and q
pistol, his hair shaved all around his
ears and long patch on top in the
middle, two leather bands around his
wrists and a ring in one ear, and then
he is just as good for the penitentlary
or the changing as ten cents is for q
drink of whiskey or glass OF beer in
a Charleston restaurant under the
present city government.
have been down here on this trip
two months, but doubt if have been
over more than one-third of the State.
During that time I have seen a good
many kinds of people and stopped at
a good many kinds of hotels. OF
course man never gets any more
than what he pays for, but if he could
always get all that he paid for,
he would fare first rate. a trav-
elling man seems never to be entitled
to any courtesies or favors. Every
body expects him to have plenty Of
money and its pay for everything you
get, even to the smallest favor. This
I guess is the case almost everywhere
In travelling around, man some
times strikes some awful s'ioints'' cal
ling themselves hotels. [ heard
drummer say few days ago that he
stopped at place where the bill of
fare was "pluck, liver and light" you
had to have pluck to eat the liver, OF
light out of the hotel. I have heard
of beef being SO tough that you
couldn't cut the gravy. One might
put up with that, but there are some
things which are worse. [ struck q
place myself few days ago and had
to pay for lodging that made an i'm
preston upon mind and body. Oh
ny! What vivid recollections I have
OF that night, trying to combat with
sleep the attacking myriaas, to all
appearances organized and of6cered
by battallions and regiments. How
wildly I could describe that memor-
able night, but refrain.
Watermelons are plentiful down
here and have been for two or three
weeks. They are being shipped by
the car load, but by the time the cit
ron aeshed Kolb jems reach the north
ern markets after two or three days
on the road, I do not imagine they
are particularly delightful.
Ihave told you that Georgia was a
great State, and so it is, but after all
there are no people in this country
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