The Watchman And Southron

To Dundee and Back.
To Dundee, S. C., not Scotland. Why it was so named I am unable to say, but surely not because of an abundant Scotch population, there being but two families of them about. Possibly it was so named with a view to colonizing. However that may be, few people in the country, even in South Carolina, know where Dundee, S. C., is. Well, it is in West Kershaw, down on the wire road twelve miles from Camden. "What is in a name?" "Better kill a dog than give him a bad name." Lafayette passing up or down this road; I know not which, said some things that were not in compliment of the contiguous country and though they never appeared in print, I believe yet to this day as tradition, they continue to be handed down wielding an influence most truthful, for there are scores and scores of people who can not conceive of any good being found there while in reality some of the best lands and finest crop in Kershaw county are here, cotton that will make all the way from half to one bale per acre and that with only two hundred pounds fertilizer and corn, some without fertilizer, that will make from ten to fifty bushels per acre. This goodly land, convenient to railroad, the S. A. L., producing abundant crops of apples and peaches is free from malaria and mosquitoes. To my sceptical reader I say, "Don't judge by appearances; a little investigation will prove the great bugaboo of the famous Marquis to be a thing of naught."
The crops on either side of the river are promising, and show little signs of the severe drought. We were away just two weeks and returning joined company with Chas. and Julian Sanders on their way home from the exposition, about which they had nothing but words of praise. Just as we stepped off the train at Hagood whom should we meet on their way to the exposition but E. E. Rembert and wife.
On every hand, I hear reports of good crops. The rains of late may have been harmful, but the writer has repeatedly noticed that where well fertilized cotton did not cast its fruit.
Would you believe it that there are sections in South Carolina yet where red liquor continues to flow at the campaign meetings, that under its influence men wallow in the dirt, quarrel and fight.
Let me tell some of the campaign managers how to make a little pocket change. Write all the candidates you are going to have a big dinner and assess each one so much. Pocket what you want, pay the balance to some other fellow to get the dinner up. When the candidates send their friends around let him charge each one a quarter or more for his dinner. I hear it has been done in South Carolina, and what has been may be again, but I hope we are improving.
Hagood.