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PUBLISHED WEEKLY. WIN NSBORO, S. C., WEDNESDAY. APRIL 26.1905.-SALSE 84 Memoirs, Traditons and History of Rocky Mount and Vicinity. (WrUenfor The News and Herald by L. M. Ford.) Ix TRAGIC INCIDENTS AMONG THE WHITES. Robert Robertson, Rocky Mount, stood on the "Round Rock" at the falls and dipped for fish. He left this stand and waded to ward the bank. Before reaching it he was drawn into a swirl or "suck hole." He was never seen or heard of again. This was about 1808. Two Hall brothers and Susan Wall, a negro, made an effort to cross the river at the mouth of Rocky Creek in a boat. All three were drowned. This was 1821. Isaac Meek and Jacob Rock, both of whom were workers on the canal, were drowned from a boat at the public dam in the 20's. The public dam was built above -the falls to divert water into the canal. John Montgomery, a young man of Lancaster county, was -drowned while bathing in thel :river at Rocky Lount ferry in 1832. A young Owens who was play sing leap frog with a companion, ,accidentally pitched into the tcreek and was drowned. This 'occurred in Rocky Creek near tthe mouth of the Hagues branch isometime in the 30's. John Reynolds was killed with is own pistol by Charles Lewis near the mountain gap in the 30's An iifant which had been murdered and thrown into the Rocky creek was caught on Pichttws mill dam in the 30's. Diana Sweat was supposed to oe its mother. Captain Charles Thorn was killed and his body was thrown into the river above the falls by his slave, Bob, in 1835. For this crime Bob was tried, con vietedadeecuted. The bant' ing took place near the residence of the late W. P. McCullough. Bob's head was then cut off and stuck on the end of a pole and Ahe pole stuck in the ground on the roadside near the place of *hanging and remained there until -it was thoroughly decayed. Thomas Pickett was killed by John Sweat with a pocket knife. This ocorred in Link'% tavern on ithe Hill Island ia the 30's LMrs. John Ganthiarpe, while on her Ivay on horseback from preseking at Clatholic Chairoh, wvas kitted by the imb .of a tree falling on ier. A storen was in Sesis at thea time. This was in e 40's. Bobert Guntharpe rode on horsebsek to what is now Qld Rosaville. His horse becanme unmanageable there and ran under a horse rack and Robert was killed. This occurred in the 40's. James Barkley ws rekturning from Camden in a gig. His -horse became frightened and ran 25 He was thrown oat of his~ F ehicle and killed. This was in 1k847. Timothy Connor was killed by .a t'ree falling on him. As he was 'one the ciircumstances attending the acciden~t can only be con 3eetored. HIe eat the tree down that killed him. ERis body was not found for se verdi dai s. 'This ~encrred near Camp W4-. ifare aboutl856. Willie D. Scott, son of Dr. I. S. Scott, was killed by an accidental dischstge of his gun wh~ile hunt ing near .Rocky Mount ferry in Tillman Dixon was drowned w'hile seining in GLxdden's mill poid in leer. Mansel Holls, son of A. A oh',was killed by an acci denta& discharge of his gin while' Iuntiog sear his father's hosse A. young Gregory was killed by an aceidental discharge of his gun in a boat in the ricer near ~the "point of Rocks" about 13.94. John Turner and four of his senis went out ia a boat to fish near the Hill Island. They got' into rough water aind cotakii not manage the boat. They werp thrown out into the water. John Turner and one son were dro wned,1 tbe other three were rescued. 9.'his occurred about 1894. J. Rinaldo Massey was killed fa n aeeldental discharge of his .g'un in a boat near the Hill Island: an 1895. Stark Perry Martia was called to his back door in tde aght and shot by Henry Nettles, ane , in 1900. was drowned while bathing near the "Point of Rocks" in 1903. TRAGIC INCIDENTS AMONG THE BLACKS. Peter Allen rode a horse into the river to fish the traps at Pickett's Ford. The horse went into soae quick sand and Peter dismounted to assist the horse. The horse, relieved of Peter's weight, came out but Peter was unable to extricate himself and conseqrently drowned. Thatthe horse could not be caught for some days was regarded with awe by the superstitious. This oc currence was in the 20's. A man and woman, names not remembered, while walking a log across Rock Creek near its mouth, fell inrto the creek and were drowned. This occurred in the 20's. Joe Adams was shot on his horse aad Pilled near "Stinking Pond" by George Gibson. a white man, in the early 40's. Scipio Doig was crushed to death in the machinery of his owner's (John Doig,) mill at the. head of the falls in 1846. Green Dunn was killed by lightning on the home place of the late Jesse A. Gladden in 1865. George Perry, Peter Perry, and Edith Perry were drowned from a boat at Benson's Landing in 1870. David Tillman, a small boy, was drowned while bathing in the river near Pickett's Islaud in the early 80's. Blount Hagood, an expert swimmer, was drowned in an effort to cross the river at Rocky Mount ferry in 1886. Lewis Mcflwain was killed by the derrick while at work rebuild ing the pillars under the bridge at Gladden's mill in 1889. Joe Watson and John Mc Dowell, a white man, occupied a boat which they allowed to get into rough water. John McDowell jumped into the water and was rescuei. Joe Watson clung to the boat and was -drowned. His body was c-tught s-on Johnston's f1ll trap at Rocky Mount some weeks later. This occurred at the falls about 1892. Allen Tidwell, while walking a log abross Debutary, fell in and was drowned about 1892. (To be continged) Honor Roll The following is the honor roll of Crosby Institute for month begining March 20, 1905 and nding A pril 14, 1905: Ballie Ethel Stone, Lula Banks, argret Coleman, Lizzie Banks, oyt japhs, Sallie Belle Jenkins, arie Credar, I/zzie Crowder, Pierce Stone, BiLby Crowder. Eva Padget, Teaee. A fool and his money are soon pated, when the fool has friends. Hie Kept u.p in the Race. James S. Barroni, Lresident Manchester Cotton Mills, 1hoek sill, S. C., writes: "'In 1883 I painted my residence with L. A M. It looks better Lha r. great many houses pr.inted Lhre0 years ago. Don't pay $15 a galr for~ inseed oil, which you uo in readyto-use paint. Bui oil freeh from the barrel .t 60 cents per gallon, and :nix it with Longman & Martinez L. & . Paint. S.ag:s paint cost about $1 20 per g alio4. Wears and coN'ea i od Every church given a liberal uanity when bought from M c-i Mastr Co,, Winnsboro; C. P./ Wra & Co., Ridgeway; Kennedy Mar. and Ms~ing Co. ,Blackstock. Whatever man has dos ragn an do better.1 Cleared for Action. WI1ep the body is cleared for action, b~y D;-. King's Ne w Life Pills, you can teff s by jhs bioora f ealth on the cheeks; inag brightness of the eyes; the firm r~s of the flesh and muscles; the hag~ncy of the mind. Try the. Ak Mdl~ster Co.'s, Obe'ar Drug Co.'s and joigi; g!. McMas Ea & Co.'s drug stores; 26 ca:t The .amager the man the harder e tries to gek ey'ep. CASTOR IA For Infants and Children. h Kind You Hare Always Bought Maars the / New Books for the Library. Below is printed a list. of the 108 new books which have re centlv been added to the Winns boro Libra.y. A complete set of E the New International Encyclo pedia in 20 volumes has also been added. It will prove a most val uable acquisition. The Library now has 280 volumes of its own r and about 150 volumes which t have been loaned to it, making a I total of 430 volumes. With the I membership fees that are due, 3 about 100 additional books will be purchased within the next thirty days. With the large facili ties now offered by the Library the membership should be largely increased. No family in town should fail to take advantage of these excellent opportunities for p securing the best reading matter at a mere nominal cost. n, Beginning Monday, May 1, the E Library will close at 6 p. m. The S members are requested to note this change in the hours and to comply therewith. LIST OF BOOKS. h b An American with Lord Roberts. b Aristocrats, The. Atherton. M Autobiography of Joseph Le- y, Conte, The. Agassiz, Louis. t, Audubon, John James. ti Adventures of Captain Horn. s Adam Bede. Eliot. t Adventures of Tom Sawyer. ti Adventures of Gil Blas. di Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. At the Mercy of Tiberias. tc Beverly of Graustark. d Burroughs' Birds and Bees, etc. w Brushwood Boy, The. Kipling. tl Bethany. Watson. - ti Beside the Bonnie Briar Bush. ir Bride of the Nile. ti: Barriers Burned Away. 01 Black Rock. Connor. rc Confessions of an Opium Eater. k Colonials, The. c Carolinians. Sloan. Clansman, The. " copies, Pixon. ai Crimson Fairy Book. Count of Monte Cristo, The. Consuelo. sa Charles O'Malley. Lever. ti Cyclopedia of Practical Quota- ti tions. Captains of Industry. 2 vols. Dr. Luke of the Labrador. of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. W David Balfour. w End of n E, The. T Emma. Austen. Forty-one Years in India. C For Love of Countrv. h Fisherman's Luck. Tan Dyke. j fh~ Fairyland of Science, Buckley. ti sod's Good Man.G garden of Allah.D guardian Angel. Holmes. te rraustark. a tl< Eow Zach Came to Colikge. Hypatia. Kingsley. Bound of the Baskervilles, The [f I Were King. m [n the Bisbop's Carriage. w nu the Arena. gi Lu ourpept~qg dolthe e .3Wil-j h.ughby C1igirg. ip John March, South'erger. Jane Esre. F Jungle B3ook. Kipling. [[orip, The. or Light that Pailea, Tb, Life of Sir Walter Scott. e Les Miserables. Hugo. " ongfellow's Poems. aier's Poems. foi a4t Days of Pompeii.b Little Minister, The. Little Pil grimages Among the Te ligte Wbn gaye Writen gr Famous Books. orna Doone. Mfemoirs of M. de Blowitz. 10 Man on the Box, The. gilionaire Baby. The. t Marriage of Filligig ?iste, gg 4r Misissippi Bubble. p Mosses from an Old Manse. er My AutobioDgraphy. Max Muller. st Nancy Stair. wagsThe. Thackeray. N icholas ip1by. Pic'pas, Old Creole D~ays. Cable. Opening a Chestnut Burr. Personal E~eminiscences of Prince Bismarek. s P~sa4y Conducted. Stockton. fo Prodigal Sqn, 99 Cainp. G Prospector, The. Prison Life of Jefferson Dayis. p Frneand tMe gapper, The. r Pastime Staries. Pickwitgh Papers. Diickg, Fere Goriot. Balzac, tl: Rivers Children, The. Stuart. Redi Fairy Book. Red Rock. Page. s Roma. Eliot. 5ea Wolf, The. London on of Royal Langbrith. ecret Woman, The. py, The. euator North. ky Pilot. Connor. ;he Stoops to Conquair. icarlet Letter, The. 'hat Sandhiller. Waring. 'reasure Island. Stevenson. ennvson's Poems. icar of Wakefield. irginians, The. Thackeray. oice of the People. Vandering Jew, The. Vestward Ho! Kingsley. Vake Robin. Burroughs. Will Cure Consumption. A. A. Herren, Finch, Ark., writes Foley's Honey and Tar is the bes reparation for coughs, colds and lunj ouble. I know that it has cured con Lmption in the first stages." Yot ver beard of any one using Foley', :oney and Tar and hot being satisfied ald by McMaster Co. Lack of liow Training. Two of the three contributon ave complained in The Colum ia State recently of the verj arked lack of politness among ung men and boys of that city he State charges this lack o: liteness to defective home -aining-and there is no doubi ie chief trouble lies here chools are expected to do every ling now and to relieve the %rents of all responsibility. ThE y school is expected to educatE ie minds and the Sunday school i save the souls, while parents Alude themselves-or try to ith the idea that they have done ieir duty by their children when ey have sent them to these stitutions. The rest of the me children are allowed to loal i the streets or around the rail >ad stations or the Lord only 2ows where else-the parents rtainly don't. Home training is almost a lost Saved by Dynamite. Sometimes -a- flatecng city is ,ved by dynamiting a space iat the fire can't cross. Some mes, a cough hangs on so long, )a feel as if nothing but dyna ite would cure it. Z. T. Gray, Calhoun, Ga., writes: "My ife had a very aggravated cough, hich kept her awake nights. wo physicians could not hlp r: so she took Dr. King's New iscopry f p r fopsraptiQn, aughs and Colds, wbich eased )r cough, gave her sleep, and lally cured her." Strictly scien lic cure for bronchitis and La rippe. A t McMaster Co.'s, Obear rug Co.'s andJohn H. McMas r & Co.'s drug stores; price 50e. id 1.00; guaranteed. Trial bot Sfoee. Do right, and God's recompense you will be the power of doing ore right. Give, and God's re rd to you will be the spirit of ving more. Love, and God will Lv you~ with the capacity of e pv, for love is heqgen apd e Spirit'pf Qd within yon. W. Robertson. Why Suffer from Rheumatism? Why suffer from rheumatism when e application of Chamiberlain's Pain dnlm .il FeBpvp php pginy Th~e fo jg1 jef whic4 ~iis innrnen t an ikes rest'and sleep possible, and'that e is worth many times its cost. ny who have used it hoping onily Sa short relief from suffering have en happily surprised to find that :er awhile relief became permanent. rs, S. H. Leggett, cf Yurn Yum, nuessee, U. S. A., writes: "I am a eat sufferer from rheumatism, all from i hgg to fpot, and Chamrber ns ajni a. mi is the onl!y thing that i relieve jhe :pain1." For sale by eat Drug Co. Farmers must remember that e time for them to regulate e price of cotton is in April ad May, Il thsy negjlect their 'iyilege then it will be n~o use ying "hear," "trust'' and "Wall reet" in October and November. The State. Traveling is Dangerous. ao aun kep inl plac~E in the body by 1 limte att acunenits. This is the rea n that travelers, tranmuen, street car en, teamsters and all who drive very uch suffer from kidney disease in me formi. Foley's Kidney Cure engthens the kidneys and cures all ms of kidney and bladder disease. so. H. Hausan, locomotive engimer, ma. 0., writes; ."Constant vibration te eogine .auged me a gpeat deal of lie'f untl' I de Foteya Tiidney i. ol4 by c1etster Co. Look before y-ou leap out of te frying pan into the tir e. *m-. The Kind You Have Always Boughlt Little Things. Only a littie shrivelled seed lt might be flower or grass or weed; Only a box of earth on the edge Of a narrow, dusty window ledge; Only a few scant summer showers; Only a few dear shining hours; That was all. Yet God could make Out of these for a sick child's sake, A blossom-wonder as fair and sweet As ever broke at an angel's feet. Only a life of barren pain Wet with sorrowful tears for rain; Warmed somatimes by a wonder ing glean Ofjoy that seemed but a happy dream. A life as common and brown and bare As the box of earth in the win dow there; Yet it bore at least the precious bloom Of a perfect soul in a narrow room Pure as the snowy leaves that fold Over the flower's heart of gold. --Henry Van Dyke. Reminded Him. The best remedy against a lapse of memory is the piece of thread tied about the finger. But there is a well authenticated case of a man whose wife tied a piece of thread around his finger in the morning to remind him to get his hair cut. On his way home to dinner he noticed the piece of thread. "Yes, I remember," he said, and, smiling proudly, entered* the usual shop and sat down before the accustomed artist. "Why, I cut your hair this morning sir!" said the astonished barber.-Ex. Terrific Race With Death. "Death was fast approaching," writes Ralph F. Fernandez, of Tampa, Fla., describing his fear ful race with death, '-as a result of liver trouble and heart dis ease, which bad robbed me of sleep and of all interest in life. 1 had tried many different doc-: tors and several medicines, butI got no benefit, until I began to i use Electric Bitters. So wonder ful was their effect, that in three days I felt like a new man, and to-day I am cured of all my trou bles." Guaranteed at McMaster Co.'s, Obear Drug Co.'s and John H. McMaster & Co.'s drug stores; price 50c. If a woman keeps her husband in hot water he may retaliate by soaking her. jj% to Ward Ott Old Age. The most successful way of warding off the approach of old age is to main tain a vigorous digestion. This can be done by eating only food suitedl to your age and occupation, and when any dis order of the stomach appears take a dose of Chamberlain's Stomach an~l Liver Tablets to correct it, U c have 1 \Ye4lC onamgcl o.g g.e tornb ed wi ii ggstoqn,' yog~ will find these 'llabetstbe just'what you need. For s'ae' by~Obear Drug Co. Conviction is like a mouth-fullI of sound teeth. The ~orae c4 convictionl is the sap of the j i.vs. --.0. Trumbgll Lee. Often The Kidneys Are Weakened by Over-Work. Unhealthy Kidneys Make Impure 319 It used to be egn ec~ed that only pla ~deer roubles were to be "- traced to the kidneys, but now modern -I science proves that nearly all diseases I have'their beginning in the disorder of I .10 these most imlpelt.mi - e.kidneys filter,? *- and -purify the blood e......... that is their work. Therefore, when your kidneys are weak or out of order. vou can understandI how q1uickly your entire body is affected and how ever-y organ seems to fail to do itsg dudyo are sick or u fe .tiy,u begmn tmi j.g mg 4~'gu' ieiedy, Dr. KIjle'. waitifRoot, because as soon Asyour kidneys are well they will help all the other organs to health. A trial will convince anyone. If yon are sick you can make no mis take~ by first doctoring y-our kidneys. The mild and the extraordinary effect of Dr. Kilmier's Swamp-ROOt, the great kidney remedy, is soon realized. It stands the highest for its wonderful eu;m t Lte mnt diani.essing gass and is so6ld hai its.inefits by- alP Il'.pg s' 1.4 i ft, 3:em und one dollay~ Sze . Sav.0 g gniple bottle loine orswatp-Ec~ot. hv mail tree, also a pamphlet telhng you how to find out if you have k'imey or bladder trouble. Mention this paper when writing to Dr. Kilmer & Co.. Eing hamton, N. Y. 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