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PJBLISHED WEEKLY. WVINNSBORO, S. C., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 22, 1905. ESTABLISHED 1844. Memoirs, Traditions a d History of Rocky Mount an .Vicinity. ( Written for The 1e es and Herald by L. M. ord.) HISTORI GRAVES. Col. Senf 's ave is somewhere on what is w known as the "Sweat Place.' The exact spot is known to f w if any white per sons in this c mmunity. In the ear y part of the cen tary Beckh ville was a place of some note and the neighboring men woul congregate there in considera le crowds at.times. On some of ese occasions an officer from th "Establishment" would attend, and while his fife and drum rendered some martial music he would solicit recruits in th crowd. In addition to the othelf uses Mount Dearborn was ea r cruiting station also. 1ardby the old ruins is the ce etery where repose the re ri ains of several privates and one officer. Nothing marks the graves b>f the privates except a common stone at the head and foot. That of the officer is walled over with common stone, but is without in scription. Not even his name is cut on it. Tradition says the last squad left in 1817. It is thought that they joiLed Gen. Jaokson's forces, who were fighting the Indians in Southern Georgia about that -ftime. David Reynolds went off in this squad. Some time after - wards he returned and reported that he was discharged in Florida. :. He spent the remainder of his 1life among the people on Rocky tiJreek, and died quite an old man BOATING. After the completion of the Santee canal in 1800, boating from Rocky Mount to Charleston grew to be of considerable im portance. The farmers' produce was carrled and their supplies were brought back on flat boats. Nattie and Dickie Barnett were the noted boatmen of that day, William Nichols was the boat i builder and one Farrar kept a warehouse near Rocky Mount -ferry. This was before the day .of steamboats and railroads. ROCKY MoUNT CANAL. 'This canal begins above the Lead of the falls and extends some distmnce below Rocky Mount ferry. Several locks were built -on it to lower and raise the boats at the declivities. They are splen 4id specimens of stone masonry, and are well preserved and seem Aingly as firm and tight as when they were first built. I sa indebted to Thomas Caine for the date of the digging of this .eaaai. He left Liverpool, 'Elanod, in 1216 and landed in Charleston in the same year. ?Driggs and Thomas ware the.con traCtors of the Fishing Creek canal, whlehz they began to dig im 1817, andl Thousas Caine came up to do, 'ir sithing. A picnie was given at .BeekkaIVille Jtily the 4th, 1823, to eelebrate jts completion. Shortly after this picnic, Joka, McCullough, conrator, began to dig the Rocky Miount eanal, and completed it in the early thirties, Thomas Caine did ~his smithing S.lso. After this eaural ,was fn ut hed, Thomnas Caine did the ,u'ithing for the farmers 4sjed Bchhamville, as long ~as he va.s aIfe to perform the labor, E~e died -in 1 383, nearly ninety years,c4f age. Abvan a mile below the roaA~ - entering the picnic ground at the falls, a rock house was built for the lock-keeper. The stone walls are in good condition still; the wood part has deecad and dis .appeared. John McCuilLugh, con ~tractor, was the first occupa4k o~f -~this house, Green Roberts the second, and Bluldah Arledge and uiher family wvere the last who lived idt. JJnes Backstrom, the first muli only loek-ieeper, never occu pied it. He restdad on his own Hfarm nearby. * It ja said this canal as d -State three hundred thousand g$300,000) dAllars William Wall, .Beckhamville section, used the ,entire lengthb, and Wuliam Nichols :and ye1rry Gaither below the :ferry, but very few boats awer ~passed through it. Shortly aftet sita completion, the South Caro ilina railroad reached Columbia and the trade of this seetion was .di.verted to that city,.and traiis pertation was carriedl on in 'Whil.e digging the cal.t John JEoCullough,. con tractor, was mar nied to Miss Sallie Kingsbury at tia mackne snom meopied bv the family of the late William Nichols, then by James West brooks. John Guntharpe, Esq., officiated. From this union sprang Miss Sallie McCullougb, of Co lumbia, who produced a sensa tiou as a vocalist in the sixties and seventies. She married Brignoli, an Italian tenor singer. A few vears afterwards a divorce was obtained. His last song in her presence on the stage was "Goodbye, Sweetheart, Goodbye." This was in New York. The last heard of Miss Sallie she was singing in a choir in New York and receiving a handsome salary therefor. This was many years ago. KiG'S3cRY'S FERRY. In the early years of the last century our ferry was known as the Kinsbury ferry from the owner and operator, John Kings bury. He was the father of Mrs. John McCullough and the grand father of Sallie McCullough, the vocalist. His residence was the old rock house at the eastern end of the ferry. It is told of him that he kept his coffin under his bed for some years before his death. He died in 1820, and a costly monument marks his grave on the brow of the hill above his house. WIRE GRASS. Bermuda grass, or wire grass as we call it, was first sown on the banks of the old canal to pro tect them agai.st the washing rains and high river waters. From there it has been scattered by birds, animals and farmers until this whole section is badly in-! Ifested with it. (To b3 continued.) The Colonel's Waterico. Colonel John M. Fuller, of Honey Grove, Texas, nearly met his Watetloo, from Liver and Kidney trouble. In a recent let-1 ter, he says: "I was nearly dead, of these complaints, and, although I tried my family doctor, he did me no good, so 1 got a 50c. bottle of your great Electric Bitters, which cured me. I consider them the best medicine on earth. and thank God who gave you the knowledge to make them." Sold, and guaranteed to cure. Dyspep sia, Biliousness and Kidney Dis ease, by MaMaster Co., Obear Drug Co. and John H. McMaster & Co., druggists, at 50c, a bottle. Columbia Female College. The work on the new buildings of the Columbia Female College, at Hyatt's is getting along sur prisingly well. One of the large dormitorieas is half finished and' by the first of April it will be under roof. The expectation is that by the 1st of April dormi tories to accommodate 175 pupils will be under cover and the work can then be pushed. The con-1 tractors have from 100 to 125 wormen on the building and are ahead c,f their agreement in the progress of ily sor -Columbia Cor. News and Conrieie. Startling flortality. Statistics show startling mor - tality, from a.ppendicitis and peri tonitis. To piennt and cure these awful diseases, these is just one reliable remedy, Dr. KiLg~a New Life Pills. M. Flannery. of 1 Custom House Place, Chicago,~ gvs: "-They have 'no equal for Costj ation and Biliousness.:' .c at .cWggr Co.'s,0bear Drug' o.~'s ,and JQhn W.. gg?iaster & Co.'s dryggist. News and goyder Enterprise. It is understood that the N'ewa and Courier company has closed a contract for a new Hoe press, which will print, when occasion dagpan}s, 24 pages at once, fold ing and nogipg each paper at tho seame time. M4 yepgysitates the purchase of far more sa.tw sive stereotyping outfit, and ifi addition to this the comipany la tearing down the old and build ing a new two-story building to g'gg ore room in the composi-! tro6i ad4 ;pae-up room. Work on tGa by b'yilding be gan this week, anid a o.g with the Hoe Co., was complek.'i Saturday. The press will be ,ipped at once and it is hoped to gg in operation within about 0 o --.. e Florence Times. Pneumonia Folic s aCold but never follows the use of Foleys Hourv and Ta1 J'r. It stops th Icoug~Ih. h s'and stren1gth-.-n s thle lnugsan i.os p)erfect security f'ro'n ani attack of pneuuonia. Refuse substitutes.I Sni by McMaster Co. TIE COUNTY'S INDEBTEDNESS. A Statement from flr. Hood, the Former Supervisor, in Regard to Some of the Expenses of the County During the Four Years He Was in Office. Jr'. Editor: In justice to the people, the county board and my self also, I will ask space in your paper to give a brief review of the work (one by the board dur ing my four years as county super visor, in order that the people may see just how and why the county is so badly in debt. A great many don't seem to under stand why it is that the county has gotten behind at all. Well, I can tell. In the first place, the present. levy is not sufficient to meet the current expenses any year with no accidents or calamities. Up to 1900 the county had an extra levy of 1 mill to pay back indebtedness. That one mill amounted to $3,600 per year; and $3,600 for five years amounts to $18,000. So you see if I had 1 had that $18,000 to place on the county's debts it would have almost wiped it out. The levy had only been off one year when I went into office, and in that short time the county had drifted badly in debt. notwithstanding the county had one of the best financiers in Fairfield for super visor at that time. I speak of Mr. Tennant. I will say without fear of con tradiction that the last four years have been four of the most dis astrous years that the county has ever experienced, and especially on roads and bridLes. The first y ear I went in office (1901) the county lost 24 bridges that spring by the big rains. It cost from $100 to $400 each to place these back, including lumber and labor. This amount was an extra ex pense, not including the regular current expenses. The second year (1902) we had something like a cloudburst in the upper part of the county, that tore 3 or 4 big bridges to pieces on Little River. It cost us about $1,000 to replace these; and so it has been every year since. Last . year the big rains in the lower part of the county washed, away 3 or 4 bridges. Besides I have built quite a number of new bridges. I felt this way about the matter: it was the public money, and they ought to have wha they really pee4ed and asked for. The board lways tried to grant any just demand made by the people. Another thing has been against us, and that is the road tax being put down to $1.00, which has aused a great many to take ad antage and pay off. Last year ver 800 paid their road tax. TIhe oney paid in would only put ap] half the amount of work. Jounting it gt tl;o loed nuber1 f days allowed by law, which~ is' four, the dollar will only put back I wo days. So you see we were sort 1600 datys in the one year. wing to 'ie heavy rains, the oads needed more work than sul, so the money had to comef go qther funids. Then, top, the phaingang e aess'have steadily increasedfl each year. We had a good gang] all last year, ranging from 20 to 27 pI isoners all the year. They Jaye 20 on at present. We eqlippaa tpp gapp with six good I big young mules and all tl;e Mad acfinery necessary to do the ork. Thle county also has 3 ood mules at the "poor house. Now, a few words in regard to h court expenses. 'J hey hav~e si pep 4 heavy. We have $2,000 se a?ige icr thap debt each year, ut the .expese Lr .epeeed tha amogut every ypar. In 19O) the , epnaee were some thing over ~3,00, over 81,30 more than th, mount appropriated for that wrpose. Then. in November, 1903, there was an extra term that cost the county about $800. i There is only $1,200 set asider ~o p4g 14p pgary of mpagistratest md costa.bes. ' It lesn1 o pay them off, so it oaa be seen a there is a shortage here of $47.5 C ch year. The flues collected y them ai e very small now, noth ing like e nough to make up the eficiency. o .1the attention oft 901 and 1902 were the fistyearsI that smallpox made its appear ane in our county. The p)eople were greatly wrought up over the ~tLe gl app)ealE. to me to aLe Op in 9.oGj R. spread of tbis fearful d:eu I tenared he matter to U.r. Jas. Evaus, sec Stary of state board of health, ad he acted so slowly. uutil I too the matter in my own hands and went to work to put an end to that so dreaded disease. In doing this I had to spend four or five hundred dollars of th- coun tv's money in the two years, but I thought It better to do so than to have thec ounty polluted with smallpox. The outside poor fund has more than doubled in three years. It will be recalled in 1901 the farm ers made almost a complete fail ure on their farms, and that fall and the next spring the country was in almost a destitute condi tion. There was a move put on foot to issue bonds to improve the roads, jnst to give the people employment to keep them from starvation. The move, however, fell through, and we pulled through somehow. But during that winter and spring nearly every old person in the country, especially among the colored peo ple, was unloaded on the county for aid. And right here I want to say that the board has never put on a person that did not come with a petition, signed by good white people. Of course, when they are once put on, they stay on until they die off. Now, in conclusion, I wish to say that there is no one who re grets the county's indebtedness any more than I do. But Icould not help it. I had one of two things to do: Either to leave the work undone and let the county go to the dogs, so to speak, or to go ahead and do the work and bring bid Fairfield up in line with the other progressive coun ties by putting her in debt. I deemed it the best business to keep her on foot, and that I have tried to do. I care not who you put in the supervisor's office or on the county board; unless the levy is raised, the county will sink deeper and deepe in debt each year. A. D. Hood. Strikes Hidden Rocks. When your ship of health strikes the hidd-n rocks of Con sumption, Pneumonia, etc., you are lost, if you don't get help from Dr. King's New Discovery for Consumption. J. W. McKin ion, of Tallauega Springs, Ala, writes: "I had been very ill with Pneumonia, under the care of two doctors, but was getting no better when I began to take Dr. King's New Discovery. The first lose gave relief, and one bottle ured me." Sure cure for sore ;hroat, bronchitis, coughs and olds. Guaranteed at McMaster o.'s, Obear Drug Co.'s and fohn H. McMaster & Co.'s drug stores; price 50s. and $1.00. Trial >ottle free. ow Excursion Rates to Havana, Cuba.' On March 20th the Southern Lailway company will operate >ersonally conducted excursion rom pogts in NQrth an4 South Jarolina to Havana, Cuba, and! eturn at the very low rate of one are plus S$2.00 for the round trip, vhich includes meals and berth mn steamer. Tickets will be sold on March 9th to connect with steamer on :he niuht of March 30th (abQut .4.0 p. m.~ Ticees will bs limg ted for return passage on any teamer leaving Havana, Cuba,, itil April 13th, fiQal limit of' ickets to be April 16th. Stop-over on return journey yill be allowed at points iq the onville within findl higit of tick-, For further information as to eservations on steamer, sched Les, etc., address any agent, outheru Railway, or 11. WV. nnt, divisicon passengei qgenj, o4thecrn Itailway, Charlestcin Dangers of Pneumonia. A cold at this time if neglected is abe to cause pneumonia which is so fteni fatal, and even when the patient as~ recovered thlumesIU are weakened, iaking them peculiarly susceptible to h deviopmen~ft of conlsumpltion1. Fq, 'I ocy an(g Tar V3.iil my4f tie a :, ea ug strengthen thie lunrga ud prevont pnleumflOnia. La grippe oghs yield quickly to the wondlerful urative quraltie4 of Foley's Honey nd Tatr. There is nothing else "just s good." Sold by )IeMatster Coi. When you begin to tell your, roubles to a man he negrly ,iys iLG-rupts y'ou for ttze p4i ose of telling you his. A Severe Cold for Three Flonths. The following letter from A. J. Nus >am, of Batesville, Ind(., tells its own tor: "I suffe.redl for three mnonths r: i;: c 7.i. A (4rLggist pre .aCet di'e SImeL Ize<ue(ae, and1 a physVi in prescribe.d f.r me, yet I didi niot m [e then tri;'d Foley's Honey ud Tjar, and eight dloses eured mec." efuse snutirnte.i Sold by McMaster Spring. Spring with that nameless pathos in the air Which dwells with all things fair, Spring, with her golden suns and silver rain, Its with us once again. Out in the lonely woods the jas mine 'ourns Its fragrant lamps, and turns Into a royal court with green festoods The banks of dark lagoons. In the deep heart of every forest tree The blood is all aglee, And there's a look about the leafless bowers As if they dreamed of flowers. Yet still on every side we trace the hand Of Winter in the land, Save where the maple reddens on the lawn, Flushed by season's down; Or where, like those strang sem blances we find That age to d.ildhood bind, The elm puts on, as if in Nature's scorn, The brown of Autumn corn. As yet the turf is dark, although you know That, not a span below, A thousand germs are groping through the gloom, And soon will burst their tomb. Already, here and there, on frailest stems App.ar some azure gems, Small as might deck, upon a gala day, The forehead of a fay. In gardens you may note, amid the dearth, The crocus breaking earth; And near the snowdrop's tender white and green, The violet in its screen. But many gleams and shadowe need must pass . Along the budding grass, And weeks go by, before the . enam ored South Shall kiss the rose's mouth. Still, there's a sense of blossoms yet unborn In the sweet airs of morn; One almost looks to see the very street Grow purple at his feet. At times a fragrant breeze comes floating by, And'brings, you know not why, A feeling as when eager crowds await Before a palace gate Some wondrous pageant; and you scarce would start. If, from a beech's heart, A blue-eyed Dryal, stepping forth, should say, "Behold me! 'I anm May1" Ahl who would couple thoughts of war and crime With such a blessed time! Who in the west wind's aromatic breath Could hear the call of Death! Yet not more su rely shall the Spring awaee The voice of wood and brake, Than she shall rouse, from all her tranquil charms, A million men to arms. There shall be deeper hues upon her planes Than all her siaalit vains3 And~ every gladdening influence around, Can summon from the ground. Oh! standing on this desecrated mould, Methinks that I behold3 Ibiftiing her blqq4y daisies up to Springi i.eling on the sod, And callhng, with the voice of all, her rills, Upon the ancient hills To fall and crush thd tyrants and the slaves Wh' turn her meads to graze. --eary Tirod. lI It !.s a biIious attack take Chain erlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets 10d a qjuick cure is certain. For sale by Obear Drug Co. Nothing worries a proud womaja like the prid! of soo other wo, man. Make your druggist give you Mur rav's Horehound, Mullein and Tar. C'tires your cough. 25c. a bottle. ra.Lxatve ron AVegetablePreparationfo-As simiating teFoodandRUfa tn stoasanBorre or Promotes Digestion.Cheerful nessandRest.Contains neither Op mMorphie nor)wieral. NOT 1(ARC OTIC. Apefect Remedy forConsp e Hon, Sour Stomach,DiamW1iea Worms,Convulsions,Fe'erish ness and LOSS OF SLEEP. FacSimite Signature of NEW YORK. EXACT cOo ERApR. Our Ne Is the sarne old W/ay of goods at the living prices. Therefore, we are not cost. But we will sell FURN] at prices that it will be have bettered in this c< R EPA IR is a great specialty 'i your old Furniture and as new. SR W. P H] Special . We are glad to announce thi than ever before'for doing all.: REPAIR and that we shall be glad to b utay have. When needing an: or phone us in regard to same. All business entrusted to un to. R. T. Matth Have Your HOMEG Cabbage Plants Prices: 1000 @ $1.50; 5000 @ $1.25 Shipped C, 0. D. if desired. P Office in goo WRITE FOR MERC Cabbage, Beans, Sweet Potatoes ai fot shipment of Tomato Plants, Sea Potato Draws should be booked in Jas. Ray Geraty, Express Office: You re a Cold in 0n '0 qulnine Tablets.A CASTORIA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Of For Over Thirty Years OASTUIA w Way~ as the aR i . selling g very -lov e having to sell out at You TURE impossible for you td )unty or elseware. WORK !ith us. Brinig alongI have it made as good [LLIPS. Not ice. Lt we are now better prepared rinds of WOR K a favored with any work you rthing repaired bring it to us will be promptly attended ews & Son. ROWN CABBAGE , All Varieties. per 1000; 10,000 @ $1 per 1000. lants arrive at your Express I condition. HIANTS' PRICES. Ld Turnips in Season. Orders Island Cotton Seed and Sweet advance. Enterprise, S. C. ng's Island, S. C. iDn Tw as