Show FROM SOUTH CAROLINA the following interesting letter wa was banded handed us by prof prot smyth monday evening horn from his hi oa now dow oa an a ml million sillon in the southern stat state ridgway 8 U I 1 july 1897 dear sni the again I 1 write to the whole clan to let lot you all know low how ie ilse dogul loli 11 down in the swamp imd rice state ab though vi viry ry little rice Is brrown except within fifty kilell ol 01 the ocean we are now about miles from rom salt salta ai as the coast Is I 1 called here bore 25 miles north of 0 columbia the crop inthia la abr are corn cotton and a little fruit and plenty of ot farden stuff garden stuff of course bai has been la in a 1019 time timo lately we have ben been stuffing ourselves 1 with water mel loco peaches etc it bai has been quite dry ahre of late people are al all hard rt work in the field men mea women anil and chil ireon but in a week or two ther will have a breath log pell poll ae their crop crops will hava have been laid by ua oa the 2nd and 3rd and last conference wai was held hold with this branch 61 the church ten elders about sixty saintes and many friends were present ent ave counties couer tie and that include includes eight catania Indi indian anit from york co cc seven of whom elden elders have been are ro saintie among abern them off and on tor for fifteen or of axten yenn ilio U I 1 gat galop one of them my card he exclaimed boht oh here li to tome some one I 1 know Is I 1 lie saw I 1 wits from fan green and remembered elder wn wm collard from when he hewa was here bore sone of otther them are isto quite and well informed nevii vanlou and the have a mall small state receive a contribution per annum beacons from the flake this bel being cons one of bitne the original thirteen colonie colonies the federal government ha nothing to do with the thol states affairs of that kind at the conference I 1 wal wa chorister and the elder eider spoke very lively 1 fall of snip and vigor and we wear atoo hopeful of 0 a bar test local bider elder jane james A 0 balth of the oeone branch ot of the church will be 12 to we about here to july making brick for or the new church as the tb saint saints naye have decided to put up a brick one unusual la JA south caro something om ething very ilaa laa |