| Show DOWS dom IN SOUTH CAROLINA B S C J july u ly 27 1895 few words from this part vt of the lord lordi i vineyard would be inter eating to tibe the readers of the NEWS we will proceed to rive give a partial besalu ties of he country io in which wo are laboring and a short sketch of our labors as wolf crell we were assigned to labor to in this coester county on the of august 1894 and about the fifth of september we began a house to house canvas which of course tailed called austo all parts of the county and in u fact to every house bouse where white people lived we speak of the white people because the colored race are largely in the maj ma rity rily iz in this at as well an ais all other parts of this state we are told the coutu 4 gives them majority in the elate mr awas roof band and his hie kind and charitable wife were the first ja io the county to make us u welcome at their home they are living in n the central par part of the county seven streater Ct reater etty city this the people in this bla part are generally in better financial circumstances cum curn stances than in many other parts in the state and where the ebo is often deplorable cotton a the chief product ot the soil and the farmer goes to the me in the spring and gives a 6 mortgage on bis big land as well as b his in crop and all ail other personal property for his bis summer supplies consisting of bacon flour weal meal coalee tobacco and a few household goods goode at exorbitant prices and in marky many oases cases the crop will not PRY pay the bill the merchant swipes the whole thing and the poor cotton raiser is compelled to rent the same place or work for a part of the crop in this thin way thousands of women and girla are compelled to earn their bilvin z in the fiela fiel J and the land of this a auntry iu to Is fast going into the hands of land lords we know of some who own as much as aa acres who have obtained it in this way the land here is rolling very few acres of level land to be lou lot ivd 1 no vegetation whatever is allowed to grow among abe cotton and roots not at being sufficient to bold the lani from washing waa hinn la in thib rolling condition the hard rains wash it into the streams m tills way the land has bus beco become very poor a rule and the farmer laii ia under the necessity of using a fertilizer for almost evry loot of land under fulti vatious where this is not used the so if it would hardly pay for planting so you see planting is up bill hilt business a bood farm hand can be hired here toe for five ave dollars per month lewill say this ibis is a timbered country and a species of pine prows grows luxuriant here lu in many oases the laiu la 10 has been cleared and cultivated cultivate 4 until worn ou out then abandoned for or a length of time for nature to redeem it then than it 11 i is cleared of its heavy cat calof of plim pine and worn out the second time tiam this can aidy easily be accounted fr when we say we saw a land grant that was gaea I 1 io u 1761 tb this Is is the oldest onceco onre oord in ID oo 00 county bwy tho the people boft cje aro are owhy the tb of biere at anally d wei we win say my chator th ator for generosity and they baa no DO equal with few out ave been of a pleasant character atteno it tolbo 1 nger to miton to the southern othera So states slates with the exception of some attacks maddon made oo 00 us by hireling priests and hypocrites we have bave had bad no DO la in one or two of ahse sees mobs have bave been raised but too toe prayers of the elders have bave reached the ears earn of him who holds bold ti tae destinies of men and nadone naton and the would be ungodly sets aota of the crato have ably stated assisted us u in spreading the gospel we have bave about finished our labors in this ibis county we have baptized lour fourteen teen honest boneet sauls including the above mentioned hoof family who have constantly made us welcome at their house bouse both night and day since our arrival here we also have other applications for baptism we will also mention the names of C J aud and joseph keiser kaiser who teave have embraced the gospel in this county these families as well an many others have sheltered us when we were cold and fed us when we this thin should be remembered by bv the be saints if they ever emigrate to MOO we have bave j from a trip in I 1 a be ae east end of the me county where we w spent ent a few days very pleasantly including the 2403 our pleasure con dialed in ashing in the groat great catawba falls on the catawba river also alao of vial visiting king tine the hestorio his torii torio it garrison arrison mount derbon or of 1812 which has baa been dep destroyed troyed by fire nothing left standing stun ding but the huge brick walls which are almost bid from view by the heavy growth of timber has sprung up of lat tois old structure is overlooking over looking the river which at this point in ia almost a foaming torrent owing to EO its great fall which is full of granite rocks of almost every size these rocks are covered with a k ki id d of green mose moos and flab dongre gate here in great numbers to eat it our party caught about three buu buti red rea dob aph in eight hours which served to satisfy the inner man while there we will leave here on july fur for our new fiela which is newberry county where we weba ba a friends awaiting our arrival we will here say that the NEWS is a wel welcome coppe vi altor both to the elders and the saints and friends it ii mark wherever gire ivr it is read we will close ever for the welfare of the who labor in the establish ait nt of 01 the cause of truth G ALgY 0 H SHUMWAY |
