The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, September 26, 1889, Image 1
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VOL IV.
Till: bANPAIGN IN VIRGINIA.
M'i hour's Plans for Cttrryins I lit- Old
Dominion.
. [Front the Baltimore Sun.|
v w asii i soton , September 17.?
Although the Virginia Stato eleelion
is almost two months off, the
varying phases of the political situation
in that State are already the
subject of interested study from this
centre. It is regarded as assured
that Gen. Muhono will have behind
i.! ? i f 1 i re . e - i a*
iniit me inn eireci or ine active sympathy
and aid of iho Administration
and of tho National Republican com^
mittee. Tkis was fore-shadowed
weeks since, and all the developments
since Imve tended to confirm
it. On the very date that the agree
iin*111 between Mahono and the Republican
committee was finally consummated
the strength of such a
coalition was pictured in this correspondence,
weile at the same time
well founded doubts were expressed
as to the permanence of the nominal
hui niony said to have been assured.
These doubts have been more than
confirmed, for one after another of
the young Kopublican mimagers and
speakers who nseil to stand hy Mahone
law announced that they will
oppose him on the stump and at the
polls. Hut in spite of this Mahone
will make a big fight, and, although
tho Democratic poliricians of Virgin-j
in are quite confident that ho is destin
* to inglorious defeat, the shrewdest
of them concede that he will before
the campaign is over make it
one of the most lively ano exciting1
?r n
that has ever taken place in tho Stato.
The very fact by itself that understood
to have tho Federal patronage
at his disposal gives him a lever of
great force, and will hold for him
many of tho "Hessians" who might
otherwise range themselves under
the banner of tho leaders of tho revolt.
These will, however, not fight
hint with less determination and bitternnss
in consequence. Virginia
~~i:.i.??i.
ijuu iiuiuun ui uuui aiu IIUID
ovory day and discuss with much animation
all the moves present and
prospective in the campaign.
'I'llK DRIIT <JUKSTION.
There is a feeling on both sides
that (ion. Mahone has some new
scheme in regard to tho debt question
which he expects in certiau contingencies
to bring forward with the
hope that it will be of material assistance
to him, It is reported that
the features of this scheme have been
Jisoussed by lnm with several lie^pnhlican
Senators and with members
of the national committee, but
110 one seems as yet to know anything
of the details. From the tern
per of public sentiment in Virginia,
and bearing in mind that Virginians
hold only the merest fraction of the
bonds of the State, there is little season
to believe that any proposition
to/increase the present obligations
would meet with the favor of tho voters.
However tho influence of the
debt question upon the politics of
Virginia, if it is to be discussed and
measured when definite propositions
are advanced.
MA HONK'S CALCULATIONS.
Mahone counts much upon tho
strength of his own name in his campaign.
Personnally he has tho closeviCVrolutions
with many of tho most
prominent and influential Northern
Republicans in public lifo, and all
of these will bo quite ready to aid
hi in l*y any means in their powerDon
Cameron, for instance, would
not hesitate to give him at any time
a check for a generous amount to be
used for political purposes. So far
as the Republican voters of Virginia
a^ concerned, it is said by Clou. Mahone's
friends that the disaffection toward
him i? confined to the whites
almost entirely, and among them to
those whose personal ambitions have
not been gratified. John M. Langston
is said to be the only colored
Republican of note not friendly disposed
toward Mahone, and according
tfr to reports, as is well known, matter
between Mahone and Langston have
been fixed. As to this, some doubts
might reasonably be entertained from
certain expressions of Langston, who
was here to-day, making arrangements
for his projeetod, speech-making
tour in Kentucky and Ohio. He
denied pointblauk the statement recently
telegraphed froin Petersburg
purporting to give particulars cf Iiih
fill
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allowed deal. Ho was r\ot in the
I least reticent in intimating his concontinued
dislike and distrust of Cloni
oral Mahono, ami if his words (bean
I anything, no other conclusion can ho
reached than that ho has no idea of
undertaking to effect a bargain. He
| insists t'ut lie is a Republican, and
I will at all times do everything in his
power to advance the interests of his
part y.
In reply to the question as to what
is the present outlook in Virginia
Mr. I.augston says he sinceroly believes
that Virginia is now a Republican
State, provided all the factions
in the party are united; otherwise
there is little hope for success. IIo
predicts that Mahone will bo terrii
bly slaughtered unless he uses great
wisdom in conducting Ins campaign
and unites all the elements of the
party.
Tin1 Family of I,ft*.
The oMest, perhaps, and most distinguished
family in the United
States, is that of Loo, of Virginia.
The pedigree of the family is deduced
from Launeelot Lee, of Loudon,
in France, who migrated to Fngland
; at the time of the Norman Conquest,
and was rewarded for his valor at the
hattlo of bastings l>y a grant of land
in Fssex.
Lionel Lee, the next member of
the family of whom mention is made
douriselxl in the timo of liicluird 1.
lie seems to have been bitten by the
then fashionable craze for crusading,
for in 1 192 he is found raising a company
of gentlemen, and marching at
their head to the Holy Land, and the
armor which lie wore at tho siege ot
Saint .lean d1 .Acre may l>e seen to
this day in the Horse Armory in tho
Tower of London. ()n his return to
England he was created Karl of
Litchfield, and received a grant of
the manor of'Ditchloy, after which
the Lees called their estate in Virginia.
Hichurd Lee accompanied tho Karl
of <Nurroy in his expedition across
tho Scottish border in 1542, and his
decendant Henry Leo, of Ditchloy,
was installed a Knight of the Gartor
in too reign of Elizabeth, being tho
second of tho family to receive that
honor.
liichard Leo (1), seventh son of
Sir Ivobert Lee, of Hullcott, and
younger brother of Sir Henry Lee,
of Ditchloy, above mentioned, omi..mtn.l
A I? :.l
^uivoii iw /iiiimicu Willi ll 11'I IlltJI'OllS
household, in the roign of Charles 1.,
and settled in the country lying between
the Rappahanook and Potomac
rivers, lie was an ardent Royalist
and during the Protectorate of Cromwell.
was mainly instrumental in inducing
the cf>lony of Virginia to assume
a semi-independent attitude,
llis son, Richard Lee (2), was-also a
prominent man in the colony. On
his tombstone, in Westmoreland
county, is a latin inscription as follows:
"Here lieth the body of Richard
.Lee, born in Virginia, sou of Richard
Lee, gentleman, descended of an
old family of Morton-Regis, in Shropshire.
"While ho exercised the cftico of
a magistrate, he was a zealous promoter
of the public: good.
"Ho was well versed in Greek and
Latin literature, and othor branches
of polite learning.
"To God, whom ho always adored
with the greatest reverence, ho tranquilly
resigned his soul on the J2th
day of March, 1714, in the 08 year of
Ins ago."
II? loft fivo sons, of whom the eldest,
Richard (8), was father of
George Leo (4), who married tlio widow
of Lawrence Washington, and
was father of Henry, bettor known
as "Light Horse Harry" Lee (5) who
was born in Virginia, "0th of January,
1751), and died at Cumberland
Island, Georgia 20th March,
1818. lie married lirst his second,
cousin Mathilda, oldest daughter of
Philip Ludwell Lee (oldest son of
Thomas Loo, president of the colonial
council and great-grandson of
Richard Lee, the first of the family
who settled in Virginia), and secondly
in 1708, Anne, daughter of Charles
Carter bv whom ho had besides other
issue.
Robert lid ward Lee (0), "The
Groat Captain," born at Stratford^
Virginia, 10th January, 1807, having
married in 1882, Mary, daughter of
George Washington Cuntis and adop*
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"Be Time to You,
NWAY, S. C. T
toil grand-daughter and heiress of
George Washington, with whom ho
acquired the Arlington estate and
, the well-known white house on the
; Pamunkov- He left five sons and
three daughters.
Stratford, the old homestead of
tho Lees, on the left Imnk of the Poi
tomnc, was originally erected by
Uichunll.ee, the lirs,. of the name
who settled in Virginia. It was completely
destroyed by fire about the
beginning of the last century, but
subsequently rebuilt in much tho
same, style, tho bricks, wainscotting
and furniture being brought over
from Knndand. If the Knglish law
n n
of primogeniture, which secures the
landed estuto to the eldest son, prevailed
in tho United States, tho I.res
might still be seated at Stratford,
which has passed into other hands.
! The permanence of Knglish society
I is attributable mainly to this national
law of Primogeniture, In corroboration
of this assertion, I may observe
that there is a small estate on
the border of Now Korost which
originally belonged to Purkis the
lime-burner, who picked up tlm body
of William Rufus and carried the
royal corpse in his humble cart to
Winchester, and which has descended
through an unbroken male line of
ancestry to a worthy yeoman of the
same name, now resident on tho
same farm near Stonoy Cross, on the
Ringwood Road, some eight miles
from I Jo.nsev.? 7'ex(/s Shiftinya.
Tltr Iron llnke.
A new set of stories about the
Duko of Wellington includes these:
"The duke being asked how it was
that lie had succeeded in beating
Napoleon's marshals, one after the
^1.1. ii ...;n ?..n ...... 'ci
w?.aiv/a ) uua\i l >? I I IUU JUU, I I IVT |
planned their campaigns just as you
might make a splonded set of harness.
If looks very well and answers very
well until it gets broken and then
you are done for. Now 1 made my
campaigns of ropes. If anything
went wrong 1 tied a knot and went
on.' When asked what was tho best
test of a great general, he replied:
'To know when to retreat and to claro
to do it.' The duke used to say that
ho attributed his success, in some
measure, to always being a quarter
of an hour earlier than ho was oxpocted,
and that the wise course is to
attack your enemy at the moment ho
is preparing to attack you. Tlio
duke detested being lielpoJ. One
day a gentleman nearly as old as
hiinsolf made some demonstrations of
assisting him to cross Piccadilly when
crowded. When the duke reached
the gato of Apsley House ho touched
his hftt and said, 'I thank you, sir.1
The stranger took oft his hat and
said: 'My lord, I have passed a long
and not uneventful life, but never
did L hope to reach the day when 1
might bo of the slightest assistance
to the greatest man that ever lived.'
The duke looked at him calmly and
replied,'Don't boa fool?' and
walked into Apsley House."
The Philadelphia Press says: "The
failure of a largo cotton mill in
Rhode Island yesterday will no
boubt bo good news for the free traders.
They relish this sort of thing."
If our highly esteemed contemporary
refers to the Democratic party it is
ill-natured. The Democratic party
does not wish any sort of disaster.
Rut if half the failures and reductions
of wages that have occurred since
the Tth of .March had occurred last
year The Philadelphia Press would
have found in them proof as strong
as holy writ of the damaging effects
of President Cleveland's message
and the Mills bill. Does not the
Journal of Commerce state the exact
truth when itsayfc: "If Clovoland and
his tariff reform had won the
our ears would have been stunned
with the charge that this policy has
already stopped hundreds of looms,
thrown thousands of workmen into
hopoless poverty and wasted millions
of capital. With what huge head
lines the journals advocating the
doctrine of protection would have
announced these successive disasters,
and with what pathetic language
j they would have called upon tne peo|
pie to witness the truth of their predictions!
Kach successive failure
would have been pointed at as a further
illustration of what foreign competition,
encouraged by the heartless
and unpatriotic support of the free
traders on this side ot the water, was
doing to ruin the fair fabric of American
industry." Is it not a fact,
Philadelphia Press, that you deplore
theso commercial misfortunes principally
because they give the lie to the
rot you habitually publish??National
Dnnorraf.
V.
v word ar)dYour woe
II11?SAY, SEP
HIOYONI> Till: OATKS.
Soniestimes in dreams 1 see it,
! This city fair ami grand;
, Its doors of jasper brightness
ruutui iortn on eiuier tuitui.
'Twas hero the pilgrim tarried,
And hero good cheer awaits
The weary one who enters
i At the opening of the gates.
Much window is an opal
i With lines Iwrn of the noon,
Through which rich perfumes wander,
Caught from the air . .June.
A v.l here are sandals waiting
In which the weary feet
Now shod in royal splendor,
May roam the shilling street.
! Oh City of the Hoavtiful,
i 1'ou d waking heart forget
I The gardens where the lilies
; Like crystral llakes were set?
i "Whore heaven's doves in sunshine
Like rainbows went and came?
' Where the sun woke swathed in azure,
And died 011 fields of Maine?
Hero too, are fountains playing
To cheer this heart of thine,
And meadows finish with violets
i Amis winds as rich as wine,
j While each thing glad and beautiful
The loving sonl awaits,
I When Once the veil is rendod.
And we stand within the gates.
i Dear ('ity of the Holy,
For the walks of palm I long;
For the love that maketh lovely;
Fo. the faith that maketh strong.
For thy green and growing cedars,
I Thy lakes of silvery calm,
: For thy peac? past comprehension
i That .floods thine iles of balm,
id J y
Take Thou my hand, my Savior,
The way is dark and wild,
Far off, a star the city shines
It beckons on Thy child,
i Joy! Joy! they come, the beautiful;
A myraid host awaits,
And heaven refulgent floods my soul
I At the widening of the gates.
Harriet Mabel Spalding.
is itIroxoiii::
X Remarkable i)i|HiMl Discovrml Near
?>il Nil \ Iv 11II 111 I.CMII-MIIII I (Ml III > .
*
13y tho kindness of Mr. A. W.
Coigor of Lexington County there
! was brought to the /?\ (/i.sfi r ollico
yesterday a reinurkablo sample of
rock or ore found on the land of Mr.
A. II. Wolf, near Sandy Ivun, some
I sixteen miles from this city. The
' pieceof rook is but a fragrant from
! an immense deposit at the spot
I whence it is taken, a blulT alongside
1 a branch on Mr. Wolf's land. More
i than one hundred acres abound in
such specimens, it is said, and the
side of tho hank above the branch
shows that tho deposit extends to a
considerable depth. Samples were
sent to the Agricultural Department
some time ago, but as yet have not
have not been analyzed. Tho rock
is of a riohj brown color on the outi
side and is deeply Indented all over
i with impressions of fossil shells,
showing that once it was beneath the
salt wator. When brokon tho interior
of tho rock is just tho color of
iron ore. Its weight, while considerable,
is hardly as heavy as pure
iron ore would bo expected to be.
Mr. Geiger has shown tho sample
to Dr. Woodrow, by whom it was
pronounced to be iron ore, mixed
with some other substunco in about
i the proportion of one to three. Capt.
i George A. Shields, to whom tho
| sample was also shown, was of tho
opinion that it was phosphate rock.
It would certainly seem a matter
well worthy investigation, as the discovery
of an iron ore bed or ii phos* j
phate deposit in the Cicinity of Co*'.
Inrnbia would sure bo somethiui? not I
to ho sneezed at.-?Coivttibin inter.
Ht* Miislrr ami Not Mustered.
It is not by regretting what is irreparable
that, true work is to bo
done, but by making the best of
what we are; it is not by complaining
t hat we have not the right tools*
but by using well the tools we have.
Where, we are and what we are is*
God's providential arrangement, tprd'j
the wise way is to look our disnd- '
vant ages in the face and see what
can be made of them, tl.ifo, like
| war, is a series, fit Mistakes, and he
is not the .best Christian nor the
best general who makes the
fewest false.steps?poor mediocrity
may do that-but he is tho best who
wins tho most splendid victories by j
tho rotrioval of mistake Forgot
mistakes; organize victory out of!
mistakes.
Governor Francis, of Missouri, Jias
signed the bill which makes it ni
misdemeanor for any saloonist
keep a piano or other musical instrument,
of a billiard-table, pool-table,
or bowling-alley in connection
with his placo, or to permit boxing
or wrestling therein. This action
deprives many resorts of their chief
attractions.
!( and Your ('oui)lri/, "
TKM15KI! 2(>, 1>
11 MtuisoN wii iiis niMiinvrs <
Are Not Surli as Can lie Conscientiously 1
('onlinemini lo Hip Iminitntinii of <
Von lis Men. i
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Columbia Register. I
The New York '/Vm<s in an arli- t
ele commenting on Mr. Harrison's '
example to the young men of the it
country, says: i
4*\Vo to not mean to jtnlge the,,
President's motives harshly, or even1,
ungenerously, hut it is impossible t
not to draw some inference as to his .
motiyes from his acts, and tliis^i*
constantly and neccsarily being done
by the American people. We must ,
estimate him, subject to correction j
as they must largely, in the first (
place, by the men whom he takes in- |
to his confidence and whoso advice (
he receives and mostly follows. In |
different matters of his udministra- |
tion these are ox-Senator IMatt of
this State, Senator Quay of IVnn- ,
sylvunia, (ieneral Mahone of Virgin- i
ia. Dr. Clarkson of Iowa. Ho must ,
know the general reputation and the j.
actual character of these men. DoesL
lie think t lint, it is likolv I. > 1?.? w..ll
for tin* you# nion of the country to ,
be encouraged to imitate their ((iial-i?
i lies to achieve their success? lie I,
knows all of them save (Markson .
have been justly denounced in pub- j
: lie by men and journals of bis own j
party for actions inconsistent with t
personal honor and public morality, f
and he must know (hat their pros- f
cut motives are neither unselfish nor ^
pure. ,
"As to Clarkson he must know |
his course in connection with the
outrage on the Prohibitionist organ
in this city, and his absolute recklessness
of decency, of respect for
public or private rights, in his management
of his present office. Does
he think that the young men of the
republic are likely, by studying the
these men, to seek proferment
through fidelity and excellence of
service or through intrigue, chicane
and partisan plotting?"
And the 7'imcs continues mildly
| to remind our pious Presidont that
people must judge a man's motives .
by a comparison of his profession
and practice. When, says our contemporary,
Mr. Harrison assured the .
people, whilst seeking their support,
t lad in his belief: "In appointments
to ant/ t/rade ini>f t/e/utrtnu ntJitness
mil/ not jifii't// service should be the
csst ntiitl discriminating/ test, tint/Jldelihj
ttntl efficiency the, only sure ,
tenure of office. On/;/-the in.'? rests
of the /ii'hlic service should mn/t/est ;
reinoridsft'om office-" he either gave
the country a grave public assur- r
anco of his policy as to the .disposi- ,
lion of the offices or he dealt "do- .
ceitfully with the people on a grave j
public question and of unquestioned
exigency in the conduct of atfairs i
by the Executive of the country.
Now asks the Times'. "Was it .
'fitness and not party service' that j
secured Tanner's appointment? Was s
j it'only the interest of the public ser|
vice'that suggested the removal of s
Mr. Pearson from the New York
I postoffice, and Mr. Hurt from the
naval office? Were fidelity and efli"
ciency a sure tenure of office in these
cases, and in that of the 15,000 or j
10,000 postmasters whom Mr. Harrison
lias removed in six months?"
"If Mr. Piatt," says the Times,
'had been chosen President of the
ulined states, no fine would have t
^expected him (o do any bettor Llian
Mr. Harrison has done; and had he j
SVthdc the same promises no one
'u'dtild have been deceived by them.
But, Mr. Harrison is a professedly
pious and Christian man. He has
voluntarily assumed the responsibility
of living up, not merely to the b
standard of ordinary honesty, but to
ti
that of the Christian Church and j
the Bible commandments.',
Lakf Mislnxsinl. s<
I c
l liea Observer. ! s'
QT lie unknown portions of the mirth j b
aro becoming extremely few in num-! w
bor and small in area, and only those | e:
parts of the earth most difficult of ir
access are still partiully umlescrihed n
by tho geographer. Those terrac b
incognita are painfully scarco in this s<
continent, and are one less now than w
a few weeks ago. in
Profossor W. J. Lot no.v, of tho ei
I ^diversity of Toronto, and Mr. ir
389.
il'.iiliK S.V S I?I"I ! ; I. I? M \? HON AM), o
Montreal, during tin? past suminoi
undo a voyage of exploration in t|u
lirection of Labrador, ftnd the
ici'iint of their trip i? an interesting
me. The main object which the}
nad in view was the discovery of tlie
Lrue character of I .ake Mistassini,
This Ims hithorto been rogardofl at
i vast body of water, the si/oof I .ak?
superior, laying between the lower
extremity of Hudson Lay and Lahrn
lor. It has been looked upon iis a
nystery for saveral reasons. Thorc
ire many strange superstitions cur
rent among the natives, the region if
i sterile one, utterly destitute ol
. ftlue except for its fur trallic, and
here many stories, frequently true, ol
he privations and death by famine ol
meters who have gone up there tc
rap. It has been visited
>y several travelers, but none of thorn
las succeeded in fully exploring and
Inscribing it, so these men determined
o make the trip. They started out
rem (Quebec, duly 111, and made
heir way by eanoe, through ri\ers
md lakes, and by carries past falls
ill they reached a little loo station
?f the Hudson's Ibiy Company at
L.% e r i .? \ I .
iiu linn in i jIiko .uisiassmi, August
, having traveled over four hundred
11 i Ios from Quoboc. Tho place was
i perfect I v desolate 0110. As Proessor
Loudon snvs:
What mystery there is about Misassini
can bo (explained by those
uvful tales of death. It is a region
io devoid of animal life in some
tarts, so inhospitable and so bleak
uul dreary that most of the Indians
iave comn to look upon it as a mysery,
and naturally have cotnmuniea:od
their ideas to the sottlomonts at
Lake St. John, from which placo all
lie storms about tho lake appear in
.lie past to Imvo come. Tlio temperitune
ranges from zero to fifty below
luring January, February and March,
snow often falls in September, and
Jiov have frost, almost every month
n the year?evidently no country
'or farming. Fish is the stnblo af$do
of food, and witolmt it they could
tot exist. Mr. Miller, as Charley
utd told us, had been raising pota,oes
for several years, but the soil is
,'ory poor, and he has no moans ol
onewing the seed. He had sevoral
iines sown other seeds, but not with
my groat success. There was no
rrass of any kind lit to keep any
my kind of cattle alive.
They paddled up the lake and
ixplored it thoroughly. They found
hat it was only about one hundred
niies long, and that it Contained an
mmenso number of islands, lying in
l great chain up the centre. They
cturuod. and Lake Mistassini wn?
i<> longer u mystery. This is the
no.st successful trip over made to this
aiko. Previous to it there hud been
light different expeditions to* the
nke, but all had failed, wholly or
nirtially, either through the want of
)rovisions or some otlier misfortune,
tl closing I ' n'?:ount Prof. hot i>o.n
ays?So
much for .Mr. Hignell's inland
ea. As tr> its mysterious character,
ho only mystery wo found wasawful
utrronnesH of a most unohristiaulike
ountry, and although here and there
n oasis occasionally appeared in tho
iarren desert of rock ami water we
vore quite sat'sfied tiiat the region
ad always boen a inysfory simply
n account of the absence' of anyliing
in the shape of ar.imakdife (e>r
eptinjjfthe fish in the lakn?) to keep
person alive.
(irfliin \ Itrml.
10very energetic man desires to
et abend. ]f his work in tlio world
< to amount to anything, lie must
ry to make it nioro excellent than it
as over lieen made, and so to disineo
all competitors. There may ho
jme kind of work of the best qualiy
dono in solitude and with no such
timulus; hut most of the world's laor
is performed hy men and women
ho stand sido hy side, and whoso
fTorts afford strong and equitable
icentivo each to each. As in the
tco the energy of each runner is
rought out hy that of his competitor,
>, in the manifold exertions of the
orld, the powers and faculties of
ion and women are constantly sharpning
and strengthening each other
? honorable contest. 1
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f1 (.'KIEL \S IRISH KTICTIM*.
> Srltlrrs Driven Off Railroad Inn<ln After
> kMiranrr* of Good Title.
HiiAiM.uit, Minn., September 15.
1 S'.l'Vt'pn li:?pi 1 jIi11 ml ! >?"
- . -- ...?| wiimii/o J V/OO HOT C
been inflicted upon many settlers
? who hud months ago taken and im
! proved land in the reservation about
1 to be opened, conforming, as they
understood, to all tho government
i regulations. This is especially true
? throughout tho Northern Pacific indemnity
Ian Is, particularly in h belt
< ton miles wido and fortv miles North
f of the track, which is mostly rich
I farming lands, interspersed with pine
r lumber forests. Tho settlers had a
' uniform system, built snug houses,
i .dealings of many acres, cut roads
I connecting themselves with each other,
all joining the main government
I road. Hut after all this expenditure,
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aim |?ii> mi mi, uk) nrniimiii
decided tlmt tho property belonged
i to tlio railroad company, and these
i settlors, with their families, stock,
i implements and belongings, were
driven away, no one knows where.
Si* roughly wore those evictions
forced that many neatly built homos
oven to-day contain articles of household
furniture, children's garments
and rude toys just as they were hastily
abandoned. ()vor a long stretch
of territory can be found theso silent
tokens of over four hundred half
stripped cabin homes. Some of those
1 clearings are about fifteen or more
acres in extent, partly fenced with /
l| windows of timber on the cleared /
ground. Homes are built near the
: ends on ouarter sections in heiuhbor- /
1 " I
j ing proximity. Those are mere than /
! cabins, having shingled roofs, hewn
! slah and log floors, planed, partition*
; od room, sash and glass - windows,
teamed seventy miles and canoed
and carried beyond yet further. There
I wore also sheds and wells, all of
i which wore proot of the settlers
plans, Harden spots also give evidences
of prolific yield.
I In space of sixteen miles our party
passed 12 of these claims from which
the owners were driven away with
1 baggage, wives and children. They
took the risk of settling these landv^
bocauso the Land Oflico iuvariah-<r
1 assured them that they would be al*
1 lowed to prove up. Hut now these
improved claims are in the posession
of tho railroad, which will reap all
the benefit of the unforunato and
wronged settlors' tpils, perils anu ex*
ponditures. . 'v < ^
Tin* \Ilimi'V in Clarendon. * ?
Mas mm., September 10.?d?he
largest crowd that has boon in
for tho last year grooted, Col ,Tetig!L
hero to-day. Tho crowd was
orderly, and notwi thstanding the jA?fl"
in tiio Court llonso the speaker *f??L
not interrupted a single Jimt. 1??
speech was on tho Farmers' Alliance
and he gave some good advice^which
if taken will surely benefit the
farmers.
Tho Alliai.ce is a growing organization
in this county and already its
influence for good can be felt. ;
The*bank of Manning is now open
ami it doing a good business.
Wo are going to have another railroad
hero certain. If tho Kutawville
Company will not build a lino from
.1 i ; 11 A
More to HiriKO meir line, we win gei
tho Georgetown and Western, iv5ich
has already advertised to extend their
lino fr4>m LaneV^to jtp^i^the
Firta'wvilh^ at some .* ptyHr ii^ Gk|r-??
endorf GouftfcfcV* come fffrp. **
Cottoni pi A 7^
great deal of\41 nfr#^^^cd^^M^to11
Opened next
Grove h^ehool. The principal
ho elected next Wednesday;
school will open with shout |iive
hundred scholars, and by the tiup)tte
I new building is completed, whfch "
i will ho iSovemfher 15, it will fiavf; at *
J least one hundred and fifty.
Forming your judgment from
what you read in the <lleading daily
newspaper," youmight think that this
world was going hell ward head*
long. Forming your judgment from
what you see and hear in the best
religious circles, you would think
just tho country?and be nearer
right. The devil will never foreclose
a mortgage on this planet for Jesua
reigns and grace abounds.?Chrittain
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