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SPUBLISHED SEMI \VEEKLY.' WINNSBORO, S. C., TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 919019I~- ,ETBLSE ~ DATID R. EVAN5- RiCHARD R. WINN (From Ederington's History.) David R. Evans was the firs: law er in Winnsboro. Ile <ame to Witinboro in 1784 He said that there were only three or four bousea in the ie tlement; one, Sen. Winm's, near wbc-e George McMastei's house now staendi, the other a Itg coilege on Monnt Zion Hiil, Baker's taverin, and p:erhaps one or two otherp. He was theo 14 years of age. His fa!her came to this country from England probabin one or two years before they moved to this place. Tney lived in a house behind the one Jas. R. Aikin recently lived in. He joined the MI. Z-on Society, and was secretary and treasurer for several yeart. H.. ,.ln, D. R Evans, rac ceded him in ith-it tffice. Mrs. Evans bad tier old Erg ish iden% as to manrers and was unpopular on that account. She was knos n to order a visitor to clean his shoes nefore en tering her houie. I knew very little ofthe early life ot D. R. Evans, Jr. He married firt a daughter of Gen. Winn. .She died in 1806. aid was buied behit.d the house in : be garden. The tomb is stil there as v ell as the grava of two of Dr. Bratton's children, be having also married a daughter of Gen. Winn. D. R. Evans' see nd wife was a daughter of Parson T. W. Youngue. There were no children by eitner mar riage. His second wife is buried at Jackson Creek. He died about 1845. and was buried behind the Aiken onse. ..whereia mother and father were buried. He had only one brother and one sister. Joseph, the father of a large family, of whom otiy Mrs. R. A. Herron, survives. John Evans hav ing recently died. Joseph's wife was a sister of Col. Jesse Harris. An incident worth mentioning, is as follows: About the latter part of the * et century, a man n'tmed Baker bad several wagons running, probably to Camden, which was then it consider able town. Baker got into a lawsnit and employed D. R. Evans. The other y employed a lawyer of Camden d-Brown; Baker lost the case and was offended at something Brown aid, and on his passing out of the - bag awyer " rown og a small man could not figat Baker, t but o goiug to his tavern he wrote ' Baker a challenge, whieh was referred I by him to Evans for advice. Evans told him be would have to retreat or e give Brown the batisfaction he de. a manded. Baker would have preferred a "fist fight," but finally accepted the E challeuge. The duel took place at 0 Rock Creek Springe. Both were killed I at the irst fire. Baker was brought d up and buried on his farm, two miles r from Winnsboro. Brown was buried 8 in Camden. David R. Evans was a member of a Congress in 1813-14. Cipt. Hgh Mil- L ling took chartce of his affairs and I physiced his negroes when sick. The 1 old Captain was severe on Generals Hampton and Wilkinson and oih!rs in regard to their conduct of the war 1 with the British, saying that they tD could speculate in tobacco better than ti command armies D. R. Evans was a venerable, gray-haired man. I think a be was about 75 years old, as 1 remnemn ber him, when he died. His only sieter married Minor Winn, who was a son of Col. John Winn. [is was an ur.-" principled man and Mr. Bvas induced hiq sister to separate froma~ )im. Mtrs. Winn and her daughter taught school for some ytears oni the Gen. Winn lot, r then owned by Mt. Evans. He at that n time lived on his plantation where t< lirs. Dr. Furman now lives-.t Winnsb ro was named fotr ..ol. John r and Gen. Richard Winn'. C;ol. John~ y Winn was a high-toned, honorab e man. Col. John Winn owned most of t' the land aront d Winnsboro and lived t at the south er.d ef the town where Dr. Banaha, now livas. Gen. Winnt j moved to Ducktown, Tenn'., and Cu!. a Winn and family, I think moved to t, Georgia. Gen., Winn's family were , not considered smart. Mrr. Winn's ~ maiden name was Blocker, an Eige- a Sold tamily. One of their daughtersy caused slome 'merrimniit among her y young lady acquainta' ess ivbo asktd b her w Lere she got a~fine shell c >mb she , was wearii~g, by* replying thamt "hier t< fathett boubght it in Cong ress." ** Gen. Richaid Winn held the rank r as coOlef-in the Revo~ntiotn. Mills in t< his statisties of South Carolina, in bi writing of eminent men of Fait field, r says: "Gen. Richard Winn was also y a native of Virginia. At the begin- t. Ding of theiRevolutionar y struggle, he y entered into the regular set vice of uh a c State. Hlaving acquite t glory it' the lb battle oif For t Montiti-, he was senit to the Georgia frontier, aid c .mmnauded a a company at Fort St. l:1e. The -ervice - was a most pei-ilou t'ie and he was c * sel1ected for it 'on'0 :count of his su- f perior merit as an office'r. Siiortiy r after his arrival at the fort he was at tacked by a strong body of unians and 11 Tories. These he beat off for t wo suc- C needing days; on the third he surr en- t dered with honorable terms to Major a Geners.l P evost, at thle hrewt 'f a con- c esrable regular force, 'tupe r ed by c his allie'. Gew. Winn returned to a FAirfie d after his defeat, if it c in be property caled Cne, an I to the com e mand of a regiment er refugee militia I Be was in several battles, and th suc- a cess of the 'ffairs of Hook's defeat in t York, sudfi. flanging Rock in Lan- t caater, great i. deper.ded on his hyroic c the greal and go.d G -nerai Dvi who commanded a regiment of cavalrr when the firirg ir '- me pretty warm Winn turned and paid, "Is not tha glorious: lie wat wounded here and borne off the field about the tm, the ene my tff-cted bis retreat. On h; recovery, Go:. Winn continued n afford Gen. Sumter his able suppor aid cean(d not to serve his countr: whilst a red-coat coud be found i Caroling. He was a true patriot, aw perhaps fought a& matv battles in th Revolutionary war, atid with as firm heart as :- ni iiving or derd. H filled % seat in the Congress of th United States for miny Years. 1 was a perfec'ly bonorab:e and bore mai. He remcved to Tennessee ii 1812, and died a shoi t time after. "Winnsbora is remarkable for bay ing been the headquarters of Lori Coruwallis in the Revolunlor:ary war after the eefeat of Ferguson at King Mountain, where he retreated fron Charlot te." I v as shown that pat t o the house iii whieb Cornwallis wa quartered by Mr. John McMaster, hi was then the owner of it. I was tol by my friend, Dr. G. B. Pearson, man: years itice, that some of the m's eminent men oi Soutb Carolina, gradu ated at Mount Zion College. RBEUMATISM, ROUGH ROADS, ANJ RAILROADS. Oakland, S. C., Feb. 9th, 1901. My Dear Herald: We are havinJ some miierably gloomy weather, a] nature seems to be in the clutches of winitry spel'. My old enemy (rheutna ti4m) has a firm grip on me, I am a] twisted up with pain, fit f r nothing feel more like gnawing a file than any thing elqe. My friend, Major Woud wa d, met one of my boys sometim ago, and asked him how the old mai was gelting on? My son replied "Father has rheumatism." The Major says, well, you tell your ' daddy" the "I am glad. be has got it, for then h will know how to sympathize wit me;" in that my old friend is mistaken for a man, firmly in the grasp of tha hydra headed monster, is in no condi tion to sympathize with anything o anybody ; IM41r nothi ably to brood youth. I was time ago, and V Ie iere was any, cure for it, except to rear it out, or let it wear you out." know that itis a wearing-out process, t atoge ther a one-sideri affair. How ver, it is not my intention to give you distertation on rheumatisw. After leaving your town a few eve gs ago, floundering along in the d trying to make my way home rards, I began to ruminate over the ifferent modes of traveling and of ,ilroads, particularli ; and I want to k you something about the proposed innsboro and Camden road. You ave "sorter" gotten that enterprise ang up for the present, baven't you? occurs to me that I heard my old Lwyer friend, Alex Douglass, had een pitching some enunks in the way. Vel; he ought not to have done that, e is too late; he should have com ecd about sixty years ago, with his ebnicaliies, and gotten an injunction ainst building any railroad at all, d then I would have subscribed erally towards a shaft to his memory high, well, as high as the "Tower of ab~e," but he is too late. The saddest word of tongue or pen, s not what we are, but what we might have been I " The contry has already gone to sin with its railroads, and a few tore, or lets, will not make any ma rial difference. Though Iam anxious see the Winnsboro and Camden iad built, I want to see a whole ring of towns all along the Dutch ian Creek valley, for, if there i4 any ng a railroad is fir for, it is to build My Dear Herald, there is somnething woud like to w bispe r in your ear, ud I do so with a diffidence aim ist to tar and trembling It is 'hi-, I am orally, essentialfly arnd constitutionally pposed to railroads. Now, my diffi in e in telling you i', is, that in our town there is a friend, an old and a d friend, in t act, one of my ver, eat friends, a man whbom I love, one hom I venerate, a man wlho is sound the cole on every sutgj s: you cant ientin except ot:e thing, and trat i. silroad', and just as soon as y ou ci n that, there is a liia e se 'W ini as hadgear that gets loose, (a rail a crew.) and then every drop of rarm "Scotch'' b'ood in his body gets )pu'sing at a territle rate. T did tot ant to antagonize this friend, but the at is otut of the bag now, and I will ae t > make the beet of it. Yes. I am opposed to railroads tooth md toe usil, and I will assert, be) ond C shadow of a doubt, or the fear of untradiction, (unless by my old iei,) and I can prove it, that rail xds have been and are still, the aest turge, our cout.ry has ever tiown; the very tap-toot of all our ifficultier. Now, you bear a great s and cry troum our "quill drivers" tut it e general prosperity 01 our u'tri . Has anyone seetn it, or felt it ntside of the railroad towns? It is n,: g the country people, t be farmers, vho are the bed-rt ck of all prosre ity', specially in an agricultural counttri ke ou s? I say no, I have t ravelt d II over this county, have made it may usiess to it quire. There is one par cular atction that has the reputation fbeing in a pro-perc'us calndition, io t woulds.eem to a superficial obseiver, but the fact i4, that nearly , verv farmer in that c.)mmullnity is in debt, And there is scarcely a man there t that is able to le.d his neighbor a hundred dollars f-,r twtlve monthsi without havin-g to borrow himself, and, i it is wcise in other scction. Now , what is tine of this c)unty, would be t true of the whole State; what is true of r this 6iae would be applicable to the i whole South. L-. I New compare this conditi,- with a the days when re bad no rail pad or i when they were few and far between I remember the time in my section when it took our farmers a who~e week to take a load-of cotton off and g uet back, at d :hose were happy times t Ioo. S t:e hailf duzn neighbors would gel 'eether with fifteen or twenty - wtgo.s ib good covers on them, a I g.o i tent. and a plenty of provisionw, a Oddle e' b .nj., and they would make s a r.gular frolic of it. They would i bring 6ack 'l of the price of their cot t tot, i x(, pt hat they paid out tor salt, i sugar, e ffe a .1 iton. Thue men lived a h. *, ard boarded at the i same p a .. a our men wou!d be do ing the muni -. t t)day it it were not Ior the r i r A. When a farmer wanted money he didn't have to go to town and mortgage (ver) thing he had te get it; he simply taddled his horse, and -ode over to a neighbor's hon-. and got it, generally by giving a plain note of hand. He could do the same today, if it were not for the railroad. r When the me:c'ant wanted money he I hired a horse and went to the farmer for It; he would be doing the same to day if it were not for the railroads. The merchant in that day was a small I potato, but thanks to the railroad the bottom ra I has gotten on top. Had it not been for the railroads we would have worn ourselves ont whipping the ' Yankees, and the negroes would have h been niggers today. Just think what i we wonid have been. . It is said that there is some good, * along with every evil. Now railroads I are good tI.ings to build up corpora L tions, encourage monopolies, foster ) trusts, and to breed tramps, I do not I believe I would have ever had rheuw tism had it not been for the railr ' and I heartily wish I did t within a thousand milesaf o - Well, My Dear Hera r on 'ad libitum," br' say, I bsve made .;ary. ur. You N. B.-Tbe tre wards centralization. A few are be. coming multi-millionaires, the masses at are growir.g poorer; the railroad is th one of its greatest factorr. 0. F. VA ....... * - C The most sobthing, healing and an- Ni tiseptic application ever devised is t: DWitt's Witch Hazel Salve. It re- th lieves at once and cures piles, sores, in eczema and skin disesbes. Beware of imitations. McMaster Co. SUPREME COURT BETEIgES BENET Decision in the Neal Case Was Filed Yes- m terday W The State. it The State supreme court yesterday is rendered a decision in one of the Im- w portant Neal cases, &nd the attorney in general has won a noteworthy victory. o I' There is another case pending, how ever, just as interesting. The opinion an is a unanimons one, being written by Associate Justice Gary. In October, 1899, W. A. Neal, who had been superintendent of the State penitentiary from November, 1892, until March, 1899, was indicted, as 10o such superintendent, for collecting by , virtue of his office, and failing to turn over to his sa~cessor, D. J. Griffith, et $1,544 The case came up before the te Hn. W. C. Benet, presidir'g judge th during the April term of 1900 for Ribland county, and a mtotiomn was made by P. [H. Nelson, E-q., defend- st< ant's c >unset, to quash the indictment - upon the ground that the sum so re-. ceived was for envict hire, which the ifi superintendent was not charged with receiving or disbursing by virtue ofD his office. The motion was .trenuonsly oppod by Attorney General G. Dun- st ein Baltinzer, but was granted by his Honor upon the grounds stated in the 1 motion. Thetenpon the attornsy gem eral appealed to the supreme court ' and the caue was heard during the 0' November term, and the following opinion has just been fled: "'The deteucdant was indictcd under ct ion 304 of the Criminal Code which tw contains the fellowieg provision: 'It T shall be the duty of every sheriff, judge bi o probate, clerk of the c urt of com mon leas, county treasurer, or any We other Stare or county officer entrusted Sc wit h funds by virtue of his .ffice, upon ne retiring from office, to turn over to his successor elIinmoneysreceired by him at as sneh officer, andi remaining in his ora iands, as such cfficer, within thirty days from the time when his successer. shall have entered upon the dutics of nj his office,' et c. ati "Tihe filth exckp ion was abar.doned ti( "It will not be necessary to consider the exceptions seriatim as the appel lant's attrnet s c >rrectl, state that the co practical ques io:i presented by them wi is: 'Was Ne't!, at the said dates, as di. superintendent of the State peniten , tiary, and by virtue of his offict as euch, charged by la~w with the recipt of ai d entrusted with money s at ising *1 from co)tvict labor?" re: "The office of superintendent of the eieitiary does not exist at comi miin la w. We must, tLeiefore, look to o 'e laws of our State to ascertain big powers, duties and isabi. i: ie,. "By sectin 551 of the criminal code P0 it s adetle dtyof hesupinend P tnt of the penitentiary 'to receive aid pay out all moneys granted by the general apsembly, or in any other way accruing for the support of the prisor tnd carrying on the work.' "Section 3 of the -act of 1899, page 154 to wbich reference is made in the )rder of bis honor the presiding judge; 3ontains the following provision, to wit:* "That the board of directors of he State penitentiary are hereby di rected to pay the. treasury of the State tt the end of each three months 01 witbin fye days thereafter all amounts received by theta from the hire of con ricto - and from - other sources, after paving the nee-ssary expenses of the ad in-tution a: all ottier disburse Vents allowed by law, the sid amounts t be paid into the treasury te be,held subject : tlro warrants of the 3osptroller general. to pay the Imounts appropria'ed by the general esembly in the same mannir s other runds in the treasury. ' The am unts received from the hire Af cnvicts were not to be paid inte he treasury until the necessary ex penses of the said institution and all Aber disbursemenws allowed by law were deduced therefros'. "The moneys received trom the hire )f convicts were primarily applicable to said expenses and dinbarsements nd it was only the balancs remaining fter the payment of said expenses and isbursements that waaito be paid Into he tressury. "Section 3, act of 1899, m not, there fore, be construed as intending that noneys received from the hire of son rietp are to be regarded as accruing ror the support of the prison and car. rying n th3 work. "Under the provision of the statute making it the duty of the superintend nt'of the penitentiary so receive al moneys accruing for the support of the prison and carrying on the work he had the right. by virtue of his oNcee as superintendent, and it was his duty o receive moneys arising from the Hire of convicts. His honor the circul judge was, therefore, in error in ml that he did not receive the fandi rom the hire of convicts by 9o1ee as superihtendent. veral other statutory d in the argument at less i Interest id Importanc U that in e suit of The Carolina National bank . W. A. Neal the State of South rolina, upon notes discounted by Bal at the bank while he was superin ndent. Judge Klugh ruled exactly a reverse of the ruling of the judge the Neal case. For Over Fllty Yeas. MRs. WntsLow's SOOTMG STaur 3 been used for over fifty years by illions of mothers for their children bile teething, with perfect success. soothes the child, softens the gums, lays all pain, cares wind colic, and the best remedy for diarrhoea. it ill relieve the poor little sufferer imcdiately. Sold by druggists in 'ery part of the world. Twenty-ve nts a bottle. Be sure and ask for r. Winslow'" Soothing Syrup," d take ne ath- kind. 1-1-17 THU LEGleLAT UEE THURSDAY Third Beading Bills inathe House To amend an Aet relating to land c d and tenan'. To pi iri'le for the establishment of rain e i. incorporated cities, ,we uages situated in counties at ha ., county chain gangs. To re - stg the issuance of preferred >ck b e rporationv. Declaring the legal status of shires manufacuring corporations. To exempt a certain portion of rchester county from the general ck law during certain months. ro provide for the, erection of a jail Oconee, and for the repar and re deling of the cousty court house for :or~ee county. FalDAT. rhe senate met at 11 o'clock and in o hours had cleared the calendar. ere were only third reading house l to be acted on and most of them ift through without discussion; me had amendtments and these were at to he house for concurrence, and, d tbose without amendments were dered erirolle.l for ratiscation. Nir. McMaster's hill to extend the hts and remedies of railrojad copor one, as prev'ded under the constitu n, to employees of street railway and etile mill corporations, and telegraph mpanies, was the special order and L given its final reading witharit scuson. These also piused third reading: re bill to increase pensions to 50.000 was taken up and given third ading without debate. br. Cosgreve's bill relating to uity chaingangs. Mr. C. E. Robinson's bill to incor_ rate Clemson College for the pur A Good New Year' inS E !r Resolution YOU couldn't make a better one. Why? Because It embodies - Comfort, Satisfacti. -- A Success. ComorrT.-Because S.F ---- Selz Shoes fit well. .W.'ll all wear SELZ SHO thIs 74W." SATISACTON. - Because Selz Shoes= weW welt. Sucea.-Because Selz Shoes preserve your health, save you money and enabe you te pursue your daily duties with ease and fredom. We sell them. All styles, a3 iMas, *I prices. Come and see. ALSO STEP IN AND SEE SOME OF OUR NEW SPRING OFFERINGS IN J. 1. I I .L LC). .Oe IF YOU WANT TO ENJOY THE FULL PUR. CHASING POWER OF YOUR DOLLAR SPEND IT WITH D. V. Walker & Co. some discussion over -the proposition having some debate on the qusesien of to w the magistrate as Calhoun, in- concurrence in the bouse m m on over a part of to Senator Dean's bill in relation to to ofho en a. Agood a former 31 MY " e- bate ran into a redlsc pealed the of the town of C. whole bill. The yeas ad i _es - hoon. demanded on the motion thattheenste Mr.- W. J. Thomas' bill relating to concur in the house anendment. The umastrates. vote was 20 to 11, and the senate en Mr. Seabrook's bill abolishing Ili- curred in the amendments, and the ceases to traffic in cotton seed in bill was ordered enrolled for ratifca. Carleston county. tien Mr. Thomas' bill to regulate fees $15W,000 FoE PENsos. and commissions of public officers. The house bill to Increase the amount Mr. Prince's bill to allow man- of the appropriation for Confederate slaughter eonvicts to be worked on the pensions to $209,000 was resobed and cbaingangs. taken up for its second reading. Senator Mower moved to strik, out Mr. Sinkler's bill relating to attor- the en acting words of the bill, and, as neys' costs in the supreme court. chairman of the inance committee, The medical committee's bill ex- made a statement of the State'sIacce. ending the powers of local boards of The appropriation bill now carries health. about $1,000,000-an eress of come Mr. Rucker's bill relating to chattel *5,000 of $50,000 aver layear. If mortgages. this increase In pensions Is allowed it Mr. Vincent's bill to regulate the will simply require an ineress I. the price of gr. tax levy at let one-half mill, and he Mr. Croft's bill to require county did not tbink it woud be-wise to do treasurers to keep a record of fines this at this time. Again, be doubled collected.if the needy pensioners would be a colleted.tonially benefitted, as our experdeuc Mr. Saunders' resolution to pay the would show that the more mone sheriff of Spartanburg for -pturing a have the more pensoners there would fugitive. be, and the real needy ones would not The bill to authorize the sale of the bw materially benefitted. jail lot in Ker...aw and purchase of a Senator Henderson hoped the ap new site. propriation would not be killed, but The bill as to the admission of ox- that the extra sum of *e0,000 be given, emplified copies of wills In evidence. as Capt. Brooks intended it when be Mr. Bacot's bill as to the charter of introdmced it i the house. The comp cities of over 5,060 inhabitants. troller general says this will not In Mr. Patterson's bill relatidg to crease the tax led b this year, but magistrates in Bartwell county. whatherit did ornot hewould vote Mr. Livington's bill to incorporate for it. I the State is to help the old the Marlboro Educational society. soldiers it should do so In proper 31r Lockwood's bill to amend sec- shape. tion 149 of the rerioed statutes. b nator Sharpe said he wanted to bblaborers see i y the senate, In view of havig inther. waeb's. bilted extravadt appropriations for proriaiobeirdnotbeaigedb. Mr. Backer's bill to aend the act the exposition and the colleges, woul r.Patingtesons bfmilore n tnoet vote to help the needy solder rLing sttes oil m inorporate forIe SatrHesonelpreold The ate did a big days work yes-ty. fold Stol d s i proper terday, getti tig ready for the adjourn- sit ion to give $.0,000 extra Instead of m rnt. Morning, afternoon and night -100,000, because he felt this ough to messions were held. The senate ree ie the eae, hai ofoe ox r. We' biou o aproat aor oeof travagant appropriations, but he *200 ther p e asionsto thought this ought to be given. rlleli to ese boi to Heofavored Senator Henderson then offeredos iin tho nate ilda or in iendm to ake the0 ext ra iton terdayfactoies; pareado the adjonrn- 10,000, whichas adopted thanogh te read ring,ile afteroon blsanda- tiht edng.Heawyhdopod - redsions we h teld The enertravaataporainbth due h os ppropriationaI y h i of Ire\( .J c s n co0,0fore owi pee oted a1000 thso ugtti-uhtt egv kil edhorse bilfuomepoin aom Conatordro a n Buflerdhi mis.o to. Tianstcourse cid theo U in mnmntteadteaprpito taeet enfatore; an seud uphe "me-l$500 hc a dpe n h ersaing; ie actio of bieek andor a thill geaing. tenin o bille t ot re-al e the la obdigepnework ltion enorsrming ilroad porsuesr.tran ~ ldf A BIG DAY's WOnK. SATIsFhACrION GUA RANTED. The senate started the day's work by 1.18tflreb15