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4w B PUBLISHED WEEKLY. WTINNSBORO, S. C., WEDNES AY, JULY ig. 1905.ESALHD184 HISTORY OF MT. ZION SOCIETY, And the College Established Under its Auspices in Winnsboro, S. C. (BV, D. B. 3c6Creight, Published i The Kews <md Herald in 1S6~.) V. Having organized the Society the next step was to have it in corporated; and the early date of this act after the first, shows the energy of the advocates of educational pruogress in the early: history of Stbuth Carolina. It was but litte over a month after the rules were adopted in Charles ton, when, application was made to the General Assembly for an act of incorporation. This was' granted )n ths 13th day of Feb-, ruary, 1:777, "by his excellency John Rutledge, Esquire, Presi dent and Commander-in-Chief in' and over the State of South Carolina, by the Honorable the Legislature Council and General Assembly of the said State &c." It is worthy of notice that the Mount Zion Society was born with the * Republican form of government in this State. John Rutledge was the first Republican Gove.rnor ever elected in South Carolina. Up, to the date of its incorpora 4ion the following names were added to the list of members of the Society, besides the first I twelve already given, viz: Robt. I Alston, John Buchanan, Joseph I Brojwn, William Brown, Sr., Win. Denany, Thomas Gordon, William Given, William Hill, Robert Knox, i Riihard Ham, Alexander Love, I Eiward McCrady, Hugh Mc Xeown, Andrew Thempson, Ben 'amine Waller, William Wayne. ,An all sixteen more. As will appear in the sequel, I there is no record of any proceed- I ings of the Society for several I years after the date of its incor- i poration, except in the accession < of new members, all of whose I names will be given in their proper order. It is remarkable that "Old i Moant Zion," as it is so familiarly < called, has passed through two I mighty revolutions, and in both lost valuable records of her I career. It will be interesting to go out I of the immediate track of this history, to take a view of some I of the lives of the eminent persons 1 who lent their energies to build i up this Society. Their talents i and virtues clothe its early < existence with a halo of honor t that contemporary supporters of the Mount Zion Society ought not let grow dim. Among the chief of these fathers of the Institution, which 1 has for fourscore years been the p ride and boast of Fairfield District, was Colonel John Winn.. Nor was this military title un deservadly given him. Coming I to the Carolinas while they were I colonies, and bearing in his bosom that noble but modest patriotism which has characterized so many I of Virginia's "Noblemen by Nature," he threw himself early into the struggle for independence.I His worth was too conspicuous to allow him to be kept by anN Appreciative people in the back ground. Accordingly he was one amsong the chosen to represent < wbhat s now Fairfield in the Pro yinial dogress which assem- 1 *bled first in Charleston and on I the eleventh day ollhngry, 1775.i He was also one of ?hs Com mittee for the District between Broad and Catawba rivers, whose duty it was to carry "into execut- 1 tio the Continential Association, ,g for receiving and determining spon apations relative to law proees.,-S3 ' John Winan oe to e Cooneley in the Revolution. I gd Minor Winn were prisoners of Lord Cornwallis while the latter had his winter quarters in Winns boro, and were under sentence of death at the time. But Col. Winn ned before this cast bread upon; tim waters, and now it was to, returP me !~i'. Col. Phillips, of -." Jistdes . remained *loyal rto the British tGr:owfn hel4d asommnission in his Majesty-a army, and was once captured by the AmerleaLn troops and im pisoned ie CAmdeu, With the reputation among his captors of the severity he exhibited towards: his captives, it may be readily inferred that no time would be lost in fixing his doom. Though Col. Phillips had no mean reputa tion of magnanimity, he never forgot a kind act done him; he was equally implacable when aroused. Well, it happened that ,te good and noble Col. Winn plead in balf of Col. Phillips, whereupon the latter was released. So Col. Phillips, true to his nature, h&stened to throw him self between his benefactor and death-which he did do, and secured the release of both Col. Winn and his brother, Minor. Col. Winn was three months a prisoner, during which time his area for exercise was very con tracted. At the extreme end of his daily walk there was a thick grove of shrubbery, but that well guarded. He said after the war he often, during his captivity, retired for prayer beneath its inviting shelier. That spot was near where Mt. Zion College now lies in ruins. Truly the Mt. Zion Society had for its first president a great and good man in the person o-, Col. John Winn. Gen. William Strother and Capt. Robert Ellison were the irst Wardens of the Society, as already stated. Of these there is little upon record. They were both in the army, the former once being car tured and kept for some ime by the enemy, while the latter SErved in the expedition against St. Augustine in the sum mer of 1776. VI. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. Having given some incidents n the lives of three of the riginal founders of the Society, he history of others will now be )riefly touched upon, 'viz: that of Dol. Thomas Taylor. Col. Taylor also, asCol. Winn lid, represented the District be ween the Broad and Catawba ivers in the first Provincial Con ress. And when the Rev. Mr. 'ennant and William Henry Drayton were sent from Charles :on up the country "to explain he cause of their resistance to he British authorities, and induce he inhabitants to unite in the tssociati on, Col. Taylor was re inested to join them and promote ;he object." He was made Col. >f a regiment, finding that the eople of the up country were iot embraced in the capitulation of Charleston, he after consulting is friends, moved with them to suwter's camp in North Caro ina. He took part in the battle >f Mobley's Meeting House, Ausgrove's Mill, Rocky Mount, and Hanging Roch. He, with iis brother James, was captured )y the British in the surprise of smter's eamp at Fishdam, and narched off to Camden under barge of a detachment of Tarle on's dragoons. He however, ~ffected his escape, as well as s brother's. He did gallant ~ervice at Blackstocks, and sur ived the war and became one of he founders of Mount Zion Society. Capt. Thomas Wood vard, like his distinguished con :emporaries already alluded to, illed high positions in the early istory of our withdrawal from he British Empire. He was ept associated by his con tituency with Col. Winn in be Provincial Congress as well bs in tha.t important committee ihose fanation~e haye already >een briefly giveIn. On the3 fifth day of the first ~ession of the Provincial Con ~ress, it was determined among ts memb~ers to raise a regiment f cavalry rangers. Two regi nents of infantry had already een officered. For the rangers ,be very best material, it was ;hought, could be found in the 'bacK country", as the country stween this and Charleston was ;hen alled. It was to be com 3osed of nine omppanies, and the ommand of one of tiet was ven to captain Thornas Woodl ard. The regiment was under ;he command of Col. William 'hompson, of Orangeburg, who ifterwards also became a member i th~e Mount Zion Society. .This agmn d excellent service at :he battle of lFor Nottrie. June he 2th 1778. An important series of events in .he life, of Capt. Woodward is n his connection with what as called the "Regulation," a self ~onstituted tribunal for the trial and punishment of outlawry. WTjly~ the principle of Lynch Law is to b;pemned, in it-J elf, yet it is a smuggla; (get that his "Regulation," of which daip ain Woodward was one of the ojiders, led eventually to the stablshment of county courts: ~nder the act of 11Th@. le had then been in the Caroling.s about four years, having emigrated from Virginia withi a large fa.mily in 1763. About fourteen years after Captain Woodward united with eleven other patriots to establish a MScet, theobjhect of which was to build up knowledge upc the basis of indepeudence, he fe a victim to a gang of thieves wh had "made a lodgement on Ceda Creek." Determined to brin them to justice, lie, with a part of his neighbors, went in pursui of them, when they fired upo his party and mortally woundei Captain Woodward. Robert Buchanan, another c the original twelve, was a citize of Charleston. He was one o the unfortunate p.-.triots wh died upon the prison ship. It i said of him that he could easil have secured his release if he ha< appealed to Col. Phillips, hi own uncle; but being an nocom promising enemy of Great Britain he chose death upon a pris6 ship rather than a release tha could be obtained in that wa only. John Buchanan, a brother o Robert, performed importan services in the Revolutionar War, and.died at a good old ag about the year 1823. He was 2 gentleman of the old school, ani never gave up his knee breeches shoe buckles and long stockings VII. From the 13th of February 1777, the date of its incorpora tion, to the end of the same year the Society received quite ai accession to its ranks, there be ing no less than fifty three (53 new members. It is a mattei for much regret that the proceed ings of the Society for this year as well as several subsequent t( it, are all lost. For, enjoying a, the people of the State during part of that period did, com parative noninterference on th< part of the invading foe, thE meetings must have been regulai In this same year an academ3 was chartered in Charlotte, Norti Carolina, under the name oJ Liberty Hall Academy. This was done in April 1777. An im portant connection between this Academy and the Mount Zior College will appear before much further prugress has been madE in this history. These names of the members as above alluded to are as fol. lows, together with a notice oJ the position each one filled it the War for Independence, as fai as any such thing can be found: John Armstrong, John Alston William Arthur, who partly re presented in the first Provincial Congress the District of Saxb Gotha; James Brickin, Nicholas Boden, William Boyd, James Brown, Jonas Beard,--who was a colleague of William~ Arthur Alexander Boyce, James Barnes ugh Crawford, Al. Clapperton Richard Ellis, William Elsse am Eastlake, Richard Estes, homas Eliot,-who was a lieut eant in the first regiment raised for the defense of the colony ii 775. William Gray, John Gowen, ohn Grant, James Graves Jos reely, Robert Goodwin-also a ember of the first Provincial ongress; James Gray, Thomas arret, John Hamilton, Wm. [iffenan, James Hart, Henry ynea nmember of the Pro incial DJoggress, William Kirk and, JTohn L~ah1m Thorgs Lin ng, Peter MJeirfet, 1Rev. C. F. ~oreau. In Johnson's Traditions of the Revolution are two anecdoreds o. his divine which are here in erted. "The Rev. Charles Frederick Moreau was rector oj St. Helena's Church, but removed o CharlestonL in 1776. There he ecame assistant minister of St. Phillips Church, and in that ex iting period of revolu tionary pyements, was r eading the pray. r fromx &n English edition of the prayer-book. Being a little onfused at this first appearance before the congregation. when he ame to the prayer for th'e roya] amily, he was going on with the words before him, but recollect ig hig~1;sple stammb'red out the works' krunwCongkmg~ (1u ress,' and then proceeded witl the American version of tha prayer. "Another anecdote was tokc of him. He once ascended the pulpit and announced his text ir the 16 chapter of John, 16 verse A little while ye shall see me is litge v.l;iie and ye shal] ot see me, whien ash tb4nhlg moment, his foot slipped frg the bench on whis~h he was elevated, and he saddenly dis appeared frm the sight of hi audienc. To continute the names-Johr Pearson-who is no donbt Gen John Pearson who died in this District in 1818. He rose to the rank of Major in the Revolution. Sstrugle, anel was honoree in by his fellow citizens, : ter the 11 war, with many civil offices, o which he filled with e edit to .r himself and benefit to hi' - coun g try. Andrew Rutledge. Villiau v llankia Alexander Rodge s, John t Robinson, Andrew EIedmond, n John Sansum, Thoma Stack, I ~John Saunders, Nichohis Smith, Samuel Taylor. .T. R. follman. f John Wilson, Edgar Wells, And n rew Wilson, Jeremiah Tiuckly, f J. G. Williams, and ; Richard D Winn. s As the town of Winnslooro was y so called in honor of GOn. Rich i ard Winn, it is fit tpat some s record should be made of him in - the history of the Society, of which he was once the president. 2 Gen. Winn was a ;native of t Virginia; was appointedj and com 7 missioned first lientenuant in the Rangers, June, 1775. . Ie served f under Col. Thompson in Rich t ardson's expedition against the F Tories, in tie winter o that year. 3 He did gallant service under the L same colonel in the; attack on Sullivan's Island. Gen. Winn must have been cool atid collected in battle, and like harles X I been a little fond of ii; for Gen. Davis who fought byj the side-of, Winn until he was wounded, in :he battle of Hanginga Rock, Cayq that when the firiing became warm, Winn turned 5to him and exclaimed, "Is not this glorious?" General Winn moved to Ten nessee in 1812, arid. lied shortly after he left South Cdrolina. (To be continged.) Forced to Starve. B. F. Leek, of Qoncord, Ky., says; "For 20 yeais I suffered agonies, with a sore jon my upper; .ip, so painful, sometimes, that I could not eat. After vainly try ing everything els4, I cured it, with Bucklen's Ainica Salve." It's great for buins, cuts and wounds. At Mcaster Co.'s, Obear Drug Co.'s and John H. McMaster & Co.'s drug stores; only 25C. Bucket Shops. J. C. Woodwa Atlanta, vetoed thg , mayor of ordinance, becauso anti-gambling 3d in favor of the! it discriminat As to betting on f big gamblers. "If we are to intures he says: , caution to pre;ake such pre among the little gveut gambling city-those that damblers of our pardonable sin o-onnit the un cents or dollars c: betting a few or baseball gamen a horse race I not give a lii-why should we thought to the lttle law-inaking hg--hoehoi gamblers in shpfutures? rIindulge in bucket people an dgaim ~'hat is a class oft *more to ruin oujiling that is doing~ women and c. people and bring through the thinaildrenl to want trust officials t very of bank and bling houses of. an all the gamn gether. Yet thaall kinds put to of high financepse gilded places nized even by d that are patro and the wealtgburch dignitare country, are ary people of the disturbied. Islilowed to go un worse ganablinjit any more or any horse race tha* to bet $1.0 on a one of these j it is to go into bet $500 that jbaicket shops and or down? I ,botton will go up entire cotton idare say that tho every clay idrop is gambledof these gambli~ the yearthog and yet not ~g hells in futures, delivered, bale of cotton is said of railrot he same may be Bee, prkc.d and other stocks. the other nedrn, lard, wheat and shinning ma essaries of life are gamblers . ks for this class of created and Fictitious prices are/ our people lithus the masses of *ci4ss t g v to suffer, This more men .bling has brought pauperism, i to bankriuptcy aLnd and more w jo poison and suicide, want than ~men and children to gambling 11i other agencies ofI class of bigjombined. Yet this ~pcn as a V tinanciers is looke d men. Thligl;rad ot busmer~s gamblers kr should be classedI as made and aind laws should be close up enforced that would action youI11 such places. Any see fit to tr honorable body may will recei Jake looking to that end "I woulie my hearty approval. taking si'd not be understood as. anklig ,U es with any formo ren1yo'4 lyit jo mla4 suc1 blers to c ud allowing the gang iua a leg arry on their busine~c me to be :lizeod manner seems d swallowi straining at a guat ait the whol g not only a camel, I e menagerie. When V- - - that is ea ou w-ai a pleatsaist laxa*et, I use' Cham v to take and certatin to ver tablets. {berlain's Stomach and F-~ 1 'or sale by Obear Drug ( Jenkinsville Jottings. We have had plenty of r- in aid everything looks much in re flou rishIg :\iiss fda Gillmnore left ast Veek LO visit her sister and br< th er at W~ashling iton. Prob- bly1 Mliss May Helen Gillmore vill accomnpanyv her horne. Mrs. C. B. Douglas, Jr. , an( boys are visiting at Lyke -land and Colimb'a. Mr. B. Hf. Yarborough and family and Mr. J. S. Sv ygert were il the capital city last wet-k. Mrs. W. P. Glenn am Miss Kitty Glenn will spend a fe y dt ys at Chappell's. Mr. Ernest Holley s now spending a while with his r arents. His many friends are gla d to see him again. Mr. F. H. McEachern Vill soon commence drumining a- n. Miss Sallie Hayne 3 .clerkin of Monticello visited t .. Misses Chappell last week. Mr. W. B. Yarborong has had his wheat ground into owe very nice flour. Home-rais >d flour is quite a rare thing in this com munitv. Mr. Yarbo ough has some very fine oats, which can be compar-d to any. Mrs. S. S. Curry an- daughter, Miss Lucile, are cont mplating a trip to the "city by ti e sea." Dr. J. D. McMeekJ n has been practicing dentistry at Chapiu's for the last few days' The chaiogang is -hanging the Alston road somew/hat, and by the change the distauce will be the same, but a leigthy hill will be avoided. Miss Leila McEijchern is visit ing at Eastover. Mrs. Carrie Ga.llowav, accom panied by her niece, Miss Sara Lou Wallace is vi ing Mrs. Ell Wallace. "Miss ara has been away for quite a inmber of months with her aunt in Atlanta attend ing school, and her friends are glad to see her again. Miss Susie Yarborough is at tending the summer school at Clemson. Society has about guieted until lfar iin e :lown; .PsTrppos ,ummer. Yarborough is ex Rev. J. H. . visit his mother. pected soon tc5. Y. July 15, 199 - - Her Double. Bent one, for four weeks, "I knew no sick with typhoid 7;hen 1 was-ouble," writes Mrs. nd kianey tir, of Pittsburg, Pa., nnie Huntc got better, although 'and when If the best doctors I [ had one o was bent double, and ,ould get, It my hands on my iad to res I walked. From this mnees wihentiction I was rescued errible afb~ Bitters, which re y Electri health and strength, ntored mnycain walk as straight as nnow by are simply wonder ~ver. Thiranteeed to cure stom ul." Gu and kidney disorders; I ich, liver.ter Co.'s, Obear Drug t McMat John H. McMaster &< Do.'s aumg stores; price 50e. ilo.'s dri .... .t of An E~gret Plume. Co --I iRownsley, on saint Mar Canoter doscribing good Saint ;in's, a; added: MIartin~e of you, my friends, fol "Soi of the gentle Christ, domie owersship, nay, annei' to' su/J)J~er of :o wo~rd/, wearing 'e'1/ret' plumes )'ri L~preys' in your bats an d >r 'ots. Do you realize that onnegret' plume grows en the :hbis a back only at the time of Jird'ng, and thatt to obtain one aest feather involves the cruel suelh not only of the beautifu;l iea~e mother heron, but of the wvhi!e niestfini of its n early-fiedg wh>sp rii& What a price to ady' for the leiasure of an egret pa~mes What a travesty of re plion to be able to comne into .inreb dLeked with an~ cere: .h'ther and sing iin thz w.ards: of - thea ai. /u/v.xx y, the? 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