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_ THE_NEW ~WINNSBORO. S. C.THU LeJ- XX-No 37. - RANDON RWiJ%LLITIONS' OF AIFI~JDCOUNTY '(BY,W. J. ELTOTT.) Fairfield county had .two men as citiiens whose main character istics were their courage. They could always be cotnted on in any energeney during the Recon struction period-and never fail ed. They vere brothets, one naied Jack and the other John. A great many people thought Jack was- zamed John- but his realname was Jackson. They were sons o -oldman' Bob Me Carley who was a decided char acter himself.:. My maternal rand mother, who was born in where most ftheSote Irish in Faiffield carge from, told me that Robert M6Carley's father was sheriff i reland and owned a gieat many horses ard hounds which, Ishe said, accounted for the sporting blood in the McCarleys in Fair field 'She told me that the sheriff ha Robert plaiting potatoes in Irelandin some very long rows, ing.veary of such com it ,d planted 'to the en.d t the basket down on th tund. The sheriff looked fo Robert to come back in a certair time, but the., next he heard:o ~Rbert was by letter 'from Amer :awhere he"had'one and fron whene he never returned. Dur ing tie: CivilN,'aroRobert Me Carey ept a pack of bloo he-nds with which he chase -anaway negroes, -and i Siomf st:ances Yankee soldiers. Jus jPre ions to-the war he and on o* s"brotheits, Hugh, "Ithihk in D 'McCadey. once tok out-a wagon togo t< They zot the wagor 'st finished but did not ~fQO'~OWD a, Juio. D. ttcoine t he said, the3 sey(thrXh1 . eidi th.e hj eni Robert-for k:dont drive sc fynaefed esewt.-men, Carleys were goOd *-s gn lBr ttrot dareeiahead Iuge d thsgenet emarkHugh ntlofhi fine aue a dchureaIKwld Roet fo sayo were dai drver sc analy in theas on, eselrthersCagoeng were groom innsor tgeter wreo wroe 'r e' og we one remark fe te ofhr: "Ine qualitest-se der epl was burid ye't Con ovehuic, wit woe"ud ot doe buggy, yond were aon. er.ia on DMcCarley thwas oner een tobein the ary. Two of esearotieat oinontelloms bor aopniohn ne reakedm mand wither John the besd my yarne mae itherd ie rsin." face wasl s, and y jes exploit, wiat hye" anud not twear a:~t- e hato was th suboest.I a dwn on theyast, in the abgys ald et, tho pope.a eJon D.eCarltey food the sold y un ffering thedwar. so Mc Martle o Mti ello neasly - brved Comnin the am cadom mandec with Johdg aond mayt yan hae occurd him Join Mc 2 efac was s ad,ly ou byet h ion tha hegeoand ot show rivthad' bt wear a bonnet.'l etow sonthe noasw seyil aysi caeed it hfule ha aren nocked al the oorhe ad saley was Martcomienearly hav ve"nting we handohin mesielc with ao hnity sarud,i give e satidg Bior yu get womn thshedigtt ae and tso hasolwmen nol sre.g thisl art oeen fithfully inc caught :'okd atshe doo ndl sted.Wit fork fof butaze mentand eclamfocng ofwur prie Well agpoo, eopsai, ys Joh, if cant hav nohinwho has willoed heor husanin oure woausnuf. She st bae and haf'orcilvde all hugh This cameepig with e a camuhp ofe"Ho and Jx~~on f bacon i we 1 cand noan wo said they put it in a "bull rus basket and he trotted out to fill up his old womans haversack, keeping Bill Martin hid behind the hedges. As he returned to the house .with the basket he told Bill to move, on behind the hedge. _So, Bill Martin's' sun bonnet served a double purpose. Martin was a daring soldier as any in the army. I've been told that to escape capture when the chances were against our men he grabbed Geieral Forrests' horse around the neck and locking his legs over the saddle, and this while the horse was running away, safely effeeted his escape from capture. Martins people were also Scotch Irish. Jno. McCarley could tell a story different ,from most men. He told me that while in Savannah he "wanted. to visit Anie," :but having no decent pants thought he would try to borrow a pair. No one could help him out. So waiting till General Forrest went to sleep he quietly slipped to the edge of his tent and stole the generals pants. They were, he saidi ten inches too long. Know Jing that there was a broad axe in camp he searched till he found .it and in 'his haste and excite m&tt the slope on one leg different trb:'the otherrc e. was short in froiht'an a fie other short'-in the heel-but in this garb he went to see the present J Mrs. Annie McCarley. Another visit to Miss. Annie lead:to his " capture. He was visiting or I living at Blackstock when Sher t nan came through and he tarried too long, was cut off by the "Yankees in Duffy's Woods near 'the Shannon iace and taken to ,"Laurens to jai. The first night Ion the way tihecaptured Con federates were .lac d in Tom Perry's screwpit.while two Yan kees marched ar-und the pit all night. John, said there. was 'a sow and 8 or 10 pigs in the pit and.that he kept the boys awake and enlivened by hunking them with pigs-that as. soon as asol dier would get to sIeep' he would Sehunk a pig-n s breasand ake him up, :The'seriouspart of the capture dered-17 of these meni, perhaps Ithese.re tobe shot They ere-lined un, against the yard all and John. says his father was caling out, won't some good man.pray for. these poRr boys, for God saket, some one utter a Iod'df-prayer-them. McCarley told -he that he heard the clatter a horses hoof at a high rate of Ideed ounding nearer every min jnte. The tension was at the busting point-the arrangements were about complete. The rider arried .a couriers flag in his bat, he darted up to the wall and handed a note to the officeer in charge. It read thus. "Headquarters in the field, Feb. 27, 1865. Maj. Gen. W. T.-Sherman, I U. S. Army. General: Your communication ofthe 24th reached me to da~y. In it you state it has been offi cially reported that your foraging parties were "murdered" after capture, and yonr go on to say that you have- ordered a number of Confederates to be so "mur dered. nYou characterized your order iproper term, .for the public voice, even in your own country, where it seldom dares to express in vindication of truth, honor or justice, will surely agree with you in' pronouncing you guilty of murder if your order is carried out. Before discussing this portion of your letter I beg to assure for every soldier of mine murdered byyuIshall hage executed at ince two of yours, giving in all cases preference to officers who may be in my hands. In reference to the statement you raake regarding the death of your foragers, I have only to say that I know nothing of it: that no order given by me author izes the killing of prisoners after capture., and that I do not believe my men killed any of yours, ex Icept under circumstances in Iwhich it was perfectly legitimate and proper they should be killed. It is a part of the system of the thieves whom you designate as your foragers to fire dwellings of those citizens whom they have jrobbed. To check this inhuman system, which is fully execrated by every civilized nation, 1 have directed my men to shoot down all of your men who are caught burning houses. This order shall remain i force as long as you disgrace the profession of arms by allow ing your men to destroy private dwellings. You say I cannot, of course, mmestin yao rio-ht to foages on the country. It is a right as old as history. I do not, sir, ques tion this right. But there is a right older. even than this one, and one inalienable. The right that every man has to defend his house and protect those whd are dependant on him; and from my heart I wish that every old man and boy in my country who cani fire'a gun -would shoot down, as he would a wild beast, the men who are burning their houses, desolating their country and in suiting their women. You are particular in defining war rights. May I. ask if you enumerate among them the right to fire upon a defenseless city without notice,! to burn that city to the ground after it had been surrounded by the authorities who claimed, though in vain, that protection which is always accorded in civilized warfare to. non-:cornbat ants, fire the dwelling houses of citizens after -robbing them..and perpetrate even darker crinies than these crimes, too black to I mention. You have permitted, if not or dered,. the commission of these outrages against humanity and 'the rules - of war; 4ou fired into the city of Columbia. without.a. word of warning, after its sur rendet by the mayor,' who de mrimtd protection. of private propery>"ou laid waste the whole city p asheq,leaving amid its ruins th usa- ld 'men and helressVo en and cIfah' who are like io perish of stdr vation and exposure. Your line can be traced by the lurid light of burning houses, and in more than one of these house holds there is au agony far more bitter than death. The Indian. sealped hisvictimn regardless'. of sex or age -but .with all his barbarity, ie always respected the persons of his fe male captives. Your soldiers, more savage thAn the Indians, insult those whose natualpro-, tectors:are absent. In conclusion, I have only_to .request that when you have any of mI men disposed of. or "mur dered," for the terms- Npe4r to be synonyms with ri itake ih the matter. In the mea'time I shaI hold fifty-sixof your men as )iastages for those whomiyou'h( raered to be executed. I am, yours truly, Wade Hamptn Lieut. Gen. 'This is to my mind the most excoriating letter one nan ever penned'to. another, and when Sherman got it, he, ae the old negro preacher said of the Prodi gal Son, "come to heis self." None of the men werer shot. Sherman carried them with him to Bentonville, N. 'C., .where Hampton charged his rear to re lieve these men and McCarley escaped unhur-t in the fight. Jno. D. McCarley passed to his reward a few years ago, his fun eral was said to have been the largest ever attended in Winns boro. Rion Y. M. C. A. Notes. IThe next number on the Rion Greenbrier Lecture and Enter tainmentCourse will be on Fri day night Feb. 1?. at 8 o'clock at the Rion Y. M. C. A. building.! A musical and literary treat is in store. In addition to the Caro-d lina Male Quartette of Columbia, which is the musical attraction secured for 'this number, Mrs. S. C. Byrd of Chicora' College, wife of President Byrd. will ac-e company the quartette with read ings and recitations. Madame! Byrd is a charming entertainer and with the superb 'music by the quartette an excellent pro gram is assured. A piano has been placed in -the Y. M. C. A. for the occasion. Admission, adults 2.5c, children under twelve Two afternoons each week has been arranged so that the free use of the hot and cold shower baths and other games is turned. over to the ladies of the comn munity. A married lady will chaperone the gatherings and no, men or boys will be allowed in: the building on these afternoons. The afternoons are Tuesdays and: P$days from 2:30 to 5:30. The f.-'ial opening will be Friday Feuary 11. All ladies of the community invited free. A half dozen or more young~ people were entertained by Mrs. L. D. Adams in her charmingly original manner last Friday even ing. After enjoying a course' dinner, the guests were invited to go to the - picture theatre. where the rest of the evening a e igohtfully spent. ROCKtFE An OrganizatioAn-, be'i'All Sk Editor iNews an The fkst societ ganize4in the is the Rock Cr Societ of Sch 13," a d the ladI mmit "are toi gettin up an useful and bene neigh -hood at meet te'a monh, ent ho ses .of th6" it will- seen b societ .s const' low tbt their, a and e hoype that th more speieties otJ *e: lishe-d in i;he rnraL, 'Tts purposes.,:; womenof'the . come to know 0ne may hivearich may-wrk ge termerito' families andA .. help n k center z and beai will esp gether, suchd s school en e s_chools ' peI-,e n, 'st'dy economes day's-?5r ing thrm .. sire for To order t-, all our .eoVl inffuencef ment; plied wt1 fluencea all hav velop oca v610p re< ava blessing Guest inexaberit ' lub. Ti~ shall be' adserni~i dent.to.Iresid and to call exte treasurer ShaT0" the orders of the~ account afsame ly reports '.f dU The duties of'ti$ shal] be to idii of the president t of meetings and keda of members. The'Ma are the amount of each age,s as their birthday c" penny for each year. The present officers are W. B. Pearson, presid May Blackwell, vicep Miss Estelle Lyles, treasur The organization is to be mnded and 'we hope that live and prosper* and reathli ends for which it~aims Well Known Confeder~a Veteran Answers FinalW Summons. Mr. D. W. Tidewell die'at-lhis home in the Longtown sectiorn o Tuesday and his remains wer laid to rest in the Presbyterian cemeagof that place on W nesdy-?attended by a - numbesftfriends and relative 'The deceased was an excell citizen and. ieighbor and as a soldier as ever went to ~the. front for the Confederate cause. He was one of the first to enlist from this county and was at the battles of Manassus* .and Gettys burg. He is sur,vged by his wife and six song -and one daughter. Capt. John W. Lyles, Sheriff Macfie noid D. H. Robertson- at- - tended the funeral from Winns boro. WAill Sand the Streets.. Mayor Robinson informs the News and [Herald man that he1 has made a contract'with 'parties' at Smaliwood and Blythewood to load on cars and furnish to the i town a sufficient quantity of sand* to put our streets in fine condie tion. This is the best news yet. With more cement walk than any. other town in the State of its zize, with a newly installed water and sewerage syztem and lee-* tric current and now first class' roads in prospect, with the best citizens in the world, and a cli mate unsurpassed in winter and summer, we can all look to a' brig-hter davy NE MAN 1IILLEOP ANOTHERVOINDED eodore Upton Runs Amuck -on Greer Road. Spartanburg, Teb. 7..-Theo )re H. Upton, an employe of the .ppalachia mill, near Greer, whc in amuck on the highway lead ig from Greer to the mill early nday morning, killing Lafoy [ims of Greenville county anc ounding A. B. Waddell ol reer, is in jail here awaiting at ivestigation of his strange con uct. Upton is a married. mat nd is said to have several chil. ren residing at Apvalachia unday night he appered on th( i-hway leading out from Greer (ith a gun in his hand, demand ig of those whom he met wha ight they had on the road. H( st encountered A. B. Waddell kainst whose. stomach he thrus #5*,gurz. which Waddell wrench m his hand, but later re , ed it to Unton.. to have him - gain covered, and this tim edin the shoulder. Fright Waddell put off for an o tibefore he had gone fa ...came upon three men, La nis? John Walker ind Clii n He demanded of thes 1they throw up their hands ioh they did, but in spite o disposition to surrender Ui -fired upon Mims, shootin trough the -heart and kil iin'stantly* W. faras has been develope rpolie Upton had nothim st Minisand it is possib] edid not know him. Afte - gUpton.remained at ti thrown his gu 'timet and wi - sam~e i e o r harge. est held today faile ny light upon the m ..The case is,r1 o of the strangestJ s1affairs of he count: Swept DoN adtheCity i freighters'on the Coi er broke fr;om the at Granby landing ye and left for-an unschedu i5iney down the swolle !The Ruth II, the lar< dhe finer of the two,. was ri Hdufdand,late yesterday afte Aqi,about 30 miles south of tj limgand a party will go to h< BKhis moruing. The City,( bia is drifting soniewhei nthe raging river, or in ti nps below Columbia. cables fastened the mis: 7 Cboai and several gasolirs ches to a large tree. But ti rose higher' than was e: and pulling -the tree t dIy-the boati became fre< Tjhr arr~ and Henry Shai MI atchmen, with two hell s& ere aboard, and they crie d&id. The crew of the goveri ~tdredge, which, was tie ~on. the side of the rivel d the appeal, and Gax adi the engineer, and a helpe t to the rescue. They.oeve kthe Ruth II and put t1 ur .occupants safely in the go' nment life boat, but while c eir way to a landing place, tk e boat capsized and the si e thrown into the watei ey clung to trees until da k came and governmei ts rescued them.-The Stat< eat Falls to Have, Moder School Building. The following is from a recee sue of the Anderson Intell ~encer:. SWe understand Great Fal w-ill construct one of the moi ~nodern school buildings in uppe south Carolina. jSupt. T. B. Felton has receive letter from Mr. George I 3own, state supervisor of ruri Ichs, stating that he and M1 SMebane, president of th I at Great Falls, S. C. woul X& nderson early Tuesda rning for the purpose of vil the new school building i ite Plains. Mr. Mebane wishes to yis White Plains school in orde ecome more familiar with th ls of its construction, wit view of building one at Gret ls like it, except of brick, te Mr. Brown. his is just another instan< t shows how Andersce count king the lead in the buildin to-date and modern scho' dings, which are so convei ,and so much like the -iud be, that other people het ~hem and come to see thei the object of building al er like them. SEVERAL IHOUSAND PERSONS HO rELESS'E Breaks In Arkansas River Le vees Disastrous to Large1 Section. Little Rock, Feb. 6.-The a rapidly widening lake in south- ] eastern Arkansas, fPrmed by the ti flood Waters of the Arkansas C River pouring through breaks-in d the levees, had engulfed a score of towns tonight, leaving several b thousand persons homeless. Six- a teen lives have been lost in the l last few days. and damage that - will probably run into hundreds IE of thousands of dollars has re sulted in the rich, farming tern tory. Still greater damage is feared t if the Mississippi continues to b rise as in the last few days. Pre dieated stages at Arkansas City t would endanger the levees there'q, and a break in' the Mississippi levees would precipate a serious ' situation in the river valley All day the 700 men who re mained in. Arkansas .City toiled in an effort to strengthen the levees against the fast rising I F waters and tonight they were hopeful that the levees would hold and the town be saved. The narrow strip of levee is the only" land in sight there. On one side 9 is the river, swollen untl its sur face is 15 feet above the level of the town. On the othe side of the levee is the-great f-od JakeP .nearly 40 miles'long and 20 miles ewide. From it only the upper stories of buildings in ArIansas e City protrude. At the levee are n three steanboats, one. of w - . is ready to carry the worke > :safety should they lose their a . te with the frood.' They arelv n the second stories ofthr in box cars on he] Ihomes leSee- rose twe te,t n Today the t a r of a foott s. sas City and s'stil jly tonigb. 4t h e ff Weood. of aritoday. At Games Land r- ing, four miles north o k4e erVillage, 400 persons we& on the,j - levee tonight with'out sh.iter. - IResidents of Lake Village went ! n in boats t &-e court house to day whete they planned to send - a rescue fleet of rowboats to 7- Gaines Landing. e In Clarendon, on the White e River, where the levee broke f last night water tbday is six feet e in the -highest portionsa of the e town. The river had attained a stage of -37.4 feet and still is ris ~-ing. Little is known of conidi 'tions in the rural distriets of the e flooded area, but there seems lit a tIe doubt,that many who reftised to leave their homes in face of . repeated warnings have perished. - Fred J. Henry of Washingtbn, - meteorologist in charge of the river and flood division .of the - United States Weather Bureau, who is in Little .Rock, declared ,that a condition. similar to that which now exists in Arkansas has never before occurred in the - history of the Weather Bureau. e "Heavy snow followed by thaw -and heavy rains in Illinois and i other Northern States has caused e a rise in the upper Mississippi River," he said. "The Ohio was -flooded in its lower course and general rains in the valleys of it the Arkansas, Red.. White and . other tributaries of the Mississ ippi have flooded the latter river i until it will require nearly a I month for the water to run out. The swollen condition of the t Mississippi has made the Arkan i- sas River flood much' more dis astrous than it otherwise would have been." Cadet William Dixon of Clem son College spent the week end! with his parents .here, en routeI tYokto stand the examination.I for West Point. dMr. W. F. Stevenson,' candidate for congress, states that be is, still for road ;- improvement by the Uuited States Gov it enent: First, because it uses our roads to carry the mails; second, be-! t cause it benefits practically everybody; Er third, because our states 'sd counties e in 1914 spent $249,075,067.0' on public h roads and the United Stat s Govern it ment used 1,220,579 miles oIf thenm in 'I crrying the mails, and spent nothing. Or states, counties, and townships willi :e be loaded down with debt scon to build Y and maintain roads for the national government to use. Congress spent 50,000 on an experimental road or t'wo 1- in 1914; and fourth, because the 'United; States Government has spent 3475,000, Lr 000.00 on river work to make water 1l transportation. Now help the -ir tand 1- jfarmer by fixing his road a little. piscopal Pastor Parish Workt (From The N . Ready tobei - gainst the. ev. Dr. Jame" , - -', rcently - oi hurche ay morning t 'ices of the ict of the- -t L :perinted Lfl clergynia!i, trge salary to mount in. the' ption in11,ti ived hun-. flegriamsof is arrival iit~;-; He is the fir4 serve as.sue sagueand as:", eived into tha< aith'in. this, ecessors were he league re comnunikatiol 'edeikorp he. Churh e .nEpiscopaan~ ector emeritise f<2 Mhurch.. Te ear-til congrt n nave Mia X) ntellhgent< sen -hey are Erohibition they nrsai "M n m ii peakIn. the, week~ nd inproly aen of afasiirs md some New York Jity hei will stand sqar*f h who vote in -aoo them to settl e j7 ion inm errptv ioods. I il e-y elp in thiese b ~ 1 .. hTave oeeygk& n the lhquertflrd vising them to.gt(U2 ~etting lisgoodkiK we arep iational-poiit~-y in orgamiai* n~~ m publihe tiet ional rhhtd bif as a seii , no onbt im-~y~x than half tearea Greater New Yorklk~ election- distrieti'o part ofBrkyn) b . apper part .o .M~ some neighbom*oods int. sections of tAl ity& wR this featurd' The new .supermn ready has niani' ~ speak in Episoalt well as those o oerK ' nations. Mr. E. R.Licas,we Mr. T. K. Elliottas ai~ the Fairfield' Cotton live in.Chester where manager, of tiej)Wyi spendmng twoi more< ysa week here. M.Lu sw d have made his hme e the fa-cttacid~ suit as-wellto lve thi the line-as atCl' ' Lucas nubrried ' Mss Susie Arnette, and related t coanty1