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LOWNDESVILLE.
Cold Weather RecOrd-Denfh OF j. IL.
Latimer- igraiiOn Agents and
their Bad Work.
Lowndesville. 5. c.. Feb. l3,

IOwndeSville. >. u. FeO. 10, 1873.
For the benefit of the readers oi tne PreS
and Banner. at q distance. the weather 70
the past week Is below given. Inc weAthe
for sometime has been bad enough as all o
the home readers know, TO their cost, bu
for the past week, 1t has been worse ana more
of II.
Sunday was a bright warm day Monday
and Tuesday, rain upon rain, when put ou
streams higher than they have been ior some
time Wednesday. Thursday and Friday
ras colder nd more disagreeable than 1t hal
be fore been this winter. Saturday IL snowet
and sleeted all day.
Mr.. B. Bolin Allen has bought DR.. B. A
Henry's house and lot In this place, gets pos
session imn ediately, but owing TO his busi
ness arrangements, will not move I'LL Inc
latter part OF summit or the eginnlng OF iall
Dr. B. A. Henry will next week go 10 Ne"
York. 10 further fit himself for the practice d
medicine, and will later on. locate either al
Anderson, or some other live progressive city
DR.. Henry came here from + oeTton q ie"
years ago and began his life work. BY his
intelligence and pleasing manners he soon
became very popular with all OF our people
and by his success IN Il physician soon bu1ll
up a large practice, which was alao renumera,
tive 10 him, enabling him, to galher around
him O right pretty property. Under these
circumstances our people are united in the
regret that his interests call for removal "a
another field OF labor. His place Will be hard
TO fill 10 this section. The best wishes OF this
people will att nd him wherever he may go.
MIR. ]. Ii. Bell brought In few "drove hogs''
Saturday evening. 1t has been good long
while since anything OF this kind was seen
here. He proposes 10 sell them 4Rc.
Word came to Us that Mr.. J; II. Latimer, OF
day, He was born near this place about fifty
years ago. His ooyhood and young manhood
DAYS were spent In this section. His Interests
then called him elsewhere. During mis- lie,
as a boy and man, while In our midst, be
conducted himself In such way as that he
gained the esteem OF all who knew him. He
realized at very early day, that human
beings were erected for nigher aho noDier
Being actualed by such impulses, and feeling
that the advantages OF a correct lie cou d
best be secured aud only secured as a chris
tan, at an early age united himseIi WIN tpe
fuI member. His many friends In this, bis
old home section, extend 10 his family their
sipcereSt sy pathies In their great attliction,
and deplore his comparatively early death
having barely crossed the meridian OF life.
These reflections are called forth from bis
long time friend. as q slight token OF the
warm feelings, so long felt by the writer, leaV.
ing 10 an abler pen, to tell of his worth more
in detail.
Owing to the continuous snowfall yesterday
from early, very early morn, till "dewey eve"
there were no services in any our churches,
and 1t was very quiet day. not Mt Tor any
thing but TO sit by warm hre.
What about the guano trade. Last year at
this date hundreds of tons had been hauled
from this place. This year 10 date. not q sack
of It, so far as known TO this writer, has been
taken out.
For sometime there has been an irresistible
spirit of emigration among the negroes 10 t9e
West, or somewhere else, on both sides OF the
Savannah River, below here. This Ia not TO
be wondered at, when the inducements Of
fered are considered. Forty acres and
mule" was hing 10 compare to those now
presented. Those of today are perfect
bonanza. From what can be learned, The
emigrant agents have been freely circulating
among the negroes the most tempting
beautiful handbIlis, Just such as would strike
the fancy Of the Ignorant. First, a peaceful,
quiet HON esteAd, most perfect In all OF LIS ap-
pointments. In nearby lot are seen, horses,
cows sheep and hogs, In the highest perfec
ticn. SO sleek and fat, that they were too lazy
to move. and then the poultry. all OF the
most approved. up-to-date strains, as happy
as heart could wish, then fine top buggy ~
which was hitched 4 thouroughbred, set OH
good pleasure of the lordy proprietor OF SO
much magnificence, who In his "otiumcum
dignitate," IL seated In caneseat rocking
chair In the piazza. as happy as halfstarved
COW in barley lot. In addition they are
given money 10 burn" Oh! my, let us all
go. ,
Some of those who have gone could be well
spared, others again who failed to pay out
last year, and perhaps for two or three years
another year, could not be blamed for going
still again others who had arranged for
home, and supplies, we're TO blame In going.
The going of the last, has seriously crippled
the planting interests upon many places. On
many farms. there Is not hand left, and the
owners will be seriously injured, and 1t is TO
be feared, that the end is not yet. Troupe.