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Fulton Letter. FULTOS, S. C., Maj 8, 1894. Times sr? tight, whiskey is free, and we are oa a single gold standard, mach to oar dislike. Crops are promising, ' especial!j core. Partial showers.tim we are now having, will benefit oats, and finish bringing np late cot? ton. Ben C. W. Creighton has chao ged bis ap? pointments at'St. James to every second and fourth Sunday Sj instead of first and third, as heretofore-alternat?^ morning and evening service. Rev. J. S. Hansell, after a loar year's stay, preached his farewell sermora at St. Mark's last Sabbath.? We were pleased to welcome Mr. C. C. Manning of your city, among ua last week. The marriage of Mr. B. W. DesCham ps to Miss Lissie Fairy, took place last Wednesday at Pari?la. We hear that the Panola and Pinewood base ball.dabs will cross bats next Saturday evening, on the grounds of the latter. S. E. W. G. -; PM i i mm - Ionia Items. Ioma, S. C., May 4, 1894. We are having some nice, wea the - for farm work now. Chopping cotton is the order of the day. The oat crop. is . very sorry this year. The fanners are very busy with their crops. Mr J. A. Galloway is superintending aad rebuilding Mri H.Sarby 's M ill oear fainter. Mr. L. V. Brown gave us. a pleasant visit last week. Mr. Lee Barnes and Mr. Davis were sporting near hear last week. Mrs. S. R. Matthews, lost a fine turkey gobbler last Sunday. We are glad to hear that Mr. W. M. McCaskill is inproving j also Utile John lee . Davis. Mr. Darling Davis is very ill. Mr. John Galloway, of Stokes Bridge, waa visiting in this neighborhood this week. Gardens are very sorry. There was a Military Club organized at Red HiH laat^Satnrday evening wiih 51 mem? bers. Mr. Eddie Shed captais. There a pic-nic at the Tal Davis school boose, lisle Saturday. Ateo .one at 'Cedar Creek last Friday. ' LETLB FARMEB. Letter From Wedgefield, ? * - WEDGEFESLO, S. C., May 8, 1894. Some one entered the store of Mr. F. E. Thomas, by breaking in through a back win? dow, on the night of the 4th inst. The prin? cipal articles stolen were shoes, hats and clothing. It wa? evidently some one who was well acquainted with the stock, as they seemed to know exactly where to go to get the best of everything. No evidence so far has been adduced that would implicate any one. Mrs. S. E. Harvin, one of Wedgefield:s old landmarks, who moved to Texas last year, broke her arm a short time sic ce. We all sympathize with the old lady very much, for everybody here respected her very highly. A peculiar coio^jdeoce-coonecied with the acci? dent iSv&at she . had jost: reco ?ered from a componed fracture of theTorerarm when she left here, having .feilen ou her way from church at night, ano now it is the same arm, in the same place, and broken nader indenti cally the same circumstances. We hope for our old friend aa good a recovery as she made here. Mr. Larapley is reported very much im? proved by. bis trip to Glenn Spriggs, so m neb so that his congregations are expecting bim back very soon with health restored. Mr. B. G. Wheeler who has faithfully served the railroad-and tts- patrons here for four years, resigned his position as railroad agent and telegraph operator a few days ago, and Mr. J. W. Lane, of Faison, N. C., has been appointed in his place. Mr.. Lane has already made a very favorable impression on oar people, and we can only hope that be will serve us as well as has his predecessor, abd we feel quite sure that be will. Mr. Wheeler is farming pretty extensively which demands his entire attention. Mrs. J. C. Singleton and Mrs. W. W An? derson are in Columbia attending the Woman's Auxiliary. Dr. W. W. Anderson and Mr. J. T. Frier son left to-day for Columbia to attend Diocesan Convention, which commences there to-mor? row, y Mr. and Mrs: E. B. Feld?, of Sn mm er too, spent several days in town last week. Mrs. Richard I. Manning bas been critically ill, bot am glad to report ber very much better. The ladies of tb? Methodist Church had ice cream served hist Saturday, p. m., and they will continue to have it every Saturday for some time for the benefit of their chnrcb. It is a worthy cause, and we hope the good ladies will reap an abuodact harvest. Miss Mattie DuPont's many friends are glad to welcome her home again ; she looks well and seems in-line spirits Mr. John C. Singleton left, for Charleston last Sunday, p. m., where he will serve as a United States juror for the coming two weeks. Letter From Clarendon. CLABKHDON, May 3, 1894. I was in Manning on yesterday, and beard from almost all parts of the county. I have seen also many growing crops of cotton and corn. One can scarcely judge of the future prospect of crops from their present condition, when we take into consideration that cool nights and cutworms always at this season of the year, keep them somewhat backward. From what I have seen and beard crops are as forward, as they can be expected to be in springtime. Planting is nearing its end, and ploughs and boes are used with busy hands. I notice that tbe more elevated (not hilly) the soil is, the better do the crops and gar? dens look. Imagine my surprise, when at Packsville the other day, I saw men gathering to form and train a military company in that quiet and peaceful place. What South Carolina wants with military companies so numeious at this present juncture of time, is more than amazing to me. I asked them if Eng? land bad declared war against the United States? My anxietv was relieved by their negative answer. What in the world can be the object of such unnecessary gatherings? What does it mean ? Surely the "indignant wrath of the people," is not about to decend upon the devoted heads of the people. Past history is full of that sort of thing. I am sure that we have a protecting central gov? ernment. That is cheering, indeed. Does it require the entire force of one party to keep the people of good old Darlington County in subjection ? I have lived among their fathers in former days, and I know that tbe voice of a child in the name of the law, can al way s command their respect and obedience. They are a brave, law-abiding and gentle minded people. Have they or their friends, ever made any threats against "majesty of the law," or the dignity of the State ? Who would dare to utter such a slanderous false? hood against so noble a people? I very much fear, that the President of this country will be forced agaiost his will, to interfere io behalf of the peace and safety of our State. The "dispensary law"-that unconstitutional devil !-is toe real disturber of the peace of our State. When that law was pending in tbe Legislature, I wrote one of the reform? ed members of the House, that if passed, it would end in serious trouble. Where is the difference between a father administering ardent spirits to bis children day by day and that of South Carolina dealing it out daily to ber citizeos ? Would it be just for tbe father to punish bis children for what be bad taught them tc do? If so, then it would oe equally as lawful for the State to do likewise. "Law is a rule of right." "Two negatives io English are equivalent to an affirmative." That is also true ic law. To prohib?; generally and not to prohibit gener? al! v, are she two. negatives which make up the "dispensary law." The affirmative is io favor of prohibition, because prohibition was the pretext for the dispensary law. The counter negative in favor of the State, is nothing more than a free license to the State to violate ber own prohibitory. law. Prohibition, .therefore, as declared by the Supreme Court, is the law of the land. "Birds of a feather will flock together." Yet, political anomalies, have sprung from the very best of families. But such monsters can ouly receive the applause bf the unpatri? otic and the vicions. I do not allude to the people. When one is complimented by a known political scoundrel, and the adulation from such a source pleases bim, we know positively, that he is of the same;featber. If we all knew more about our past political history than we do, we would see that our President is doing exactly what Mr. Calhoun has advocated again and again. .; JVBBISSIME. Convicts-What to do With Them. SALEM, BLACK RXVSB, Hay 5, 1894. Editor the Watchman and Southron: For several months I have been intending to pro? pound a few questions to the public through your valuable journal, upon the convict farm system, and,.in the same connection the pub? lic road system. I think the present time, just atter the Supreme Court has declared the Dispensary Law unconstitutional upon the ground that the State cannot engage in trade j in competition with, or to the exclusion of, its citizens, a very opportune one to discuss the constitutionality of the convict system which puts the State in competition with its honest farmers in the production of cotton especial? ly, and of all crops growo on the State farm. New York several years ago had trouble over the competition of convict labor with honest labor in its factories, Tenaessee two years j ago had a small war on account of the com? petition of convicts with honest men in the coal mines. .The question is being agitated in Alaban?, and the Birmingham district is now, or has recently been, the seat of riotous demonstrations which it will try the good sense and conservatism of her Governor and best citizens to their utmost to quell without bloodshed It surprised meto hear the labor? ing men ont there so outspoken against the convict lease system, and. give good reasons why it should be discontinued, and with the same breath say, "put them to work on farms and let them support themselves." "But," I said, "farmers do not want con? vict competition anymore than you do, and if it is not right for convicts to compete with miners and other laboring men, no more is it righi; for them to compete with farmers and farm laborers." "But," they would say, "just let the con? victs support themselves." I answer, even if that were done they would then be competing with honest farmers to the extent of the food products they produce, and as they must of necessity be clothed, they must grow some j money crop to buy. those clothes with, br compete with manufacturers in tbe,productioo -of their'awn clothes. On the ose hand they compeite with farmers, on the other with fac? tory operatives. Anyway you Took at it, it is competition with honest labor, and in tbis State it is with the farmer and farm labor. The advocates of this system tell us it can not be avoided without increasing taxes. Well, then I say, increase the taxes, le^every man contribute his share toward tbe feeding and clothing of tbe convicts, and not lay the burden altogether upon one class of citizens. But it will be said, "what will you do with the convicts? let them live in idleness? By no manner of means 1 I would make them work, and work at bard labor too, and under such conditions that it would be a wholesome lesson te evil doers everywhere, an object lesson, SQ plain that be that ran might read. I would put them to work upon the public roads, and I would bave a stockade io every township in the State, and if there were too few convicts from a township to pay to guard and superintend, I would pro? vide for combining the convicts of several adjacent townships, and keeping them in the different stockades - by tarns, so as to give each township its proportion of tbe labor on its roads. There would be no romance about the penitentiary then, and every evil disposed person could see-tbe punishment for crime meted out to the criminal. I would pro? vide that all convicts sent up for more than ten years should be placed in the penitentiary to be worked on inter-county jobs or State river improvement and such work. Now, Mr. Editor, sucb, hastily sketched, is my plan. What about some of its results? I think it is the solution, the right solution of the much vexed convict question. Tbey would certainly be doing the lowest kind of manual labor, and doing it where it would compete with no man, but where it would benefit every man and every occupation in tbe State. Gen. Edward McCrady said several years ago in a committee room of the Legislature, that what this State needed more than any? thing else was a good system of public high? ways. And be spoke the truth. It would do more to build up the railroads, the towns and cities, the manufacturing and farming interests of tbe State than any other one thing, or several that can be done. I do not mean to say that the convict force would be sufficient to give us such a system, j but I do think it is the only proper way to ! work them, and they would do a large part toward making good roads. To supplement this force, I would have a poll tax levied on all able-bodied males between 21 and 50 years ; of age, and a property tax of one or two j mills-the amount of poll tax and the num J ber of mills property tax to be adjusted upon j an equitable basis and fixed at a minimum and maximum rate between which to work. I think it is an outrage to put all tbe burden of keeping up the roads upon labor while property reaps as much good as labor does. Tbe two go hand in band in the benefits de? rived from good road?, and in the loss at? tendant upon bad roads-with perhaps the greater gain and greater loss on the side of property. : But Mr. Editor, I must close without more { than touching upon the subject. It is one of j great importaoce, and I hope will receive the ! consideration which it deserves; I am aware : that most of tbe changes I propose can ooly j be by a change in the Constitution. But j even under the Constitution as it stands I j would like to sbow that tbe State has oo right I to buy farms and iun them in competition i with its citizens-not even under tbe much talked of police powers. When I have more leisure I will try to write out some of the details and answer someot the objections that are sure to arise. _ E. W. PABBS. Letter From Elliott. ! ELLIOTT, S. C., May 8, 1894. ! Early last Saturday morning Louis Cost?n, j a suspicious looking negro, and filling tbe de ! scription pretty well of a negro wanted in ! Georgia for murder, was seen loafing around j the C. S. & N. R. K , depot. Messrs. E. D. Law and W. W. McKagen being ou the look? out promptly arrested him, and held him un? til they could telegraph parties in Charleston whom he named as knowing him well. Late in the afternoon a message was received j stating that the man was well known in ; Charleston and was not the negro wanted, j So be was immediately released and bas not j been seen since. I We have bad fine rains for tbe past few j days, and crops are growing nicely, j Rev. Dr. Darby preached to a large and at i tentive congregation here last Sunday night. We understand Rev. J. W. Daniel, of Sumter, will preach here on Thursday night of this week. Dr. H. A. Durant is attending the rneetiug of the State Dental Associatif in Charleston, this week. Mr. Louie W. DesCham ps spent several days in Sumter last week. Mrs. J. McD. Law has been quite sick for several days. We regret to learn that Mr. McDonald Green is extremely ill with typhoid fever. Mr. J. S. Brown went to Columbia on Monday. Mr. W. P. Newman is getting to be quite a bicyclist. Mr. John T. Green, of Samter, spent last Sunday with the family of bis father, Dr. C. H. Green. A party of gentlemen from Atkins and Elliott enjoyed a fish fry at Law's pond one night last week. S. W. Bishopville News. BISHOPVILLE, S. C., May 8, 1894. For several reasons your letter did not get off in time for the last two weeks, but will try and be more punctual hereafter. Bishopville bas been unusually lively for the last week or two. On Friday the Bishop? ville High School celebrated tbe closing exer? cises of the school, with an entertainment at the Opera House in the evening, consisting of recitations, charades, <fec, that were well ren? dered by the little girls and boys. After the entertainment they ali, along with invited guests, repaired to Monumental Grove and enjoyed a basket picnic. Miss A. Willis, of Charleston, is the prin? cipal of the school, and is held in bigb esteem both by parents and scholars. The last meeting of the Literary Society was held at tbe residence of Mr. 0. C. Scan borough, on Friday night, and the exercises were unusually interesting. Tbe meetings of tbis society are always looked forward to by the young folks of the community. The next meeting will be held at tbe residence of Rev. T. W. Scruggs, of tbe Baptist Church. "Under Two Flags" will be presented at the Opera House on Wednesday night, and judging froUJ tbe great interest manifested will be a good play. Capt. W. S. James aod Orderly Sergeant S. H. Kilgore bave ordered the members of the Bishopville Guards to turn in guns and uniforms at once to Mr. H. A. McLeod. We suppose that they are acting under instruc? tions from the Adjutant and Inspector General. Mr. James baa made a good Captain of tbe Guards, and bas been very conservative all along. When called upon to go to Dar? lington be did not hesitate to comply. It is to be boped that tbe company will not be disbanded ; bu : still it looks tbat way. Tbe good rains of last week bave brought out the crops wonderfully, 8nd the gardens are growiog beautifully. About sunset this afternoon we witnessed somewhat of a storm here. A very dark and angry cloud made up in the southwest, and for a little while many were fearful that a cyclone bad struck ns. The wind blew very hard, interspersed with rain and electricity, but as yet have been unable to learn of any damage being ddne. The heavy rain of Saturday night has in terfered considerably with fishing frolics, and now voa CHR find our amateurs talking base ball and politics tinder the shade of Bishop ville oaks. Dr. J. E. McLure has sold bis drug business aod also the good-will of his practice to Dr. J. M. Woodham, of Stokes' Ridge. Miss Tizzie Durant and Mr. Robbie Reid, visited Sumter last week. Rev. T. W. Scruggs, letton Friday even? ing for a visit to Texas. Miss A. Willis, the principal of the school, will leave for ber home in Charleston, Fri? day. Mrs. T. E. Davis has been quite ill, but is now some better. The editor of the Banner still wants a pig fora years subscription. He must intend to follow the example of the Bishop vii !e people and make bis own meat. Y. M. C. A. Uotil farther notice, the Reading Room of the Y. M. C. A. will be open daily from 8.30 to 10 P. M. 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