The Lancaster news. (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, December 15, 1906, Image 1
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VOL. 2. NO. 20. SEMI-WEI
War Reminiscences.
Interesting Incidents that Oc
curred in Lancaster during
the Civil "War, as Relate<
by Daughters of the Con
federacy.
<
Reported lor The News.
Tlio Hi?'on?n "i theLaMCfist^
Chapter, Mrs. .1. M. Riddle, rea<
. a very interesting piece on th
imprisonment in the Lancacte
jail of eighteen brave Confederat
soldiers, among t hem her nephew
Mr. Geo. W. Williams, wh
were captured by the Yankees
and condemned to be shot b;
Gen. Kilpa'rick, but who wer
afterwards exchanged- The da;
before they were to he shot die;
agreed to ov rpower the gu ird
and make their escape, with th
exception of onewbo wasa Mason
and he thought that would sav<
his life. Next morning at the an
pointed lima as the door opene<
ili?* brave lender put bio fo ?t ii
the crack of 'he door, so that i
Could no' be closed. The guar*
comprehending what 'his meant
smilingly remarked?4'There's n<
use of that, boys; you are to b<
exchanged man for man," audi
was said bv the one in front
44Thathe would never hear sweet
er music 'his side o? Heaven thai
the wor Is, "Exchanged man f >
man." Our historian also gav<
us a thrilling bit of war history
of seeing ooe < f Wheeler's mei
capture a Yankee in front of hei
mother's home, where Mr. W. B
DI..U. w_i ?'
i ij ioi 13 UWW living. Miss oiew
mm, she was then, was standing
on the front piazza and she sav
the man arrested and taken off
The following letter written t<
Mrs. Riddle was then read by tlx
^ secretary :
To Mrs. Rhoda Riddle, nee Stew
man.
Compliments of W. J. Keller
the scout who captured the Yan
kee in front of your rno'her'i
house near the close of the war
and at which capture you wer?
piesent or witnessed, it ever J
have an opportunity I will be ai
proud to see you as any of tlx
brave daughters of our South
land.
W. J. Keller,
Shelton, S. C.,
R. F. 1). No. 1.
Oct. 12, 100G
Col. Jordan and his staff, o!
Gen. Sherman's army, took uj
their headquarters in the home
of Mrs. Riddle's mother. Mrs
Stewman, only a few hours aftei
the above incident took place ?
Col. Lewie, of Lexington, S. C
of the Confederate armv was als<
held a prisoner in the house by
Col. Jordan during their stay o:
tour days in Lancas'er
In Mrs. J. N. Crockett's parlor,
where our Chapter holds its
monthly meetings, Col. Stowe
and staff hail th?*ir headquarters
during the four days Gen. Kil
patriek was in Lancaster. Mrs
(/rockett says the flooring is the
original one that they walked
over. The soldiers asked Miss
Harry Price, she was during the
w?r, to play for them. She complied,
went to the piano md ren*
i LAN(
LEDGER J 852 ]
EKLV. LANCASTE
. I
!der^d the anthem of the Conted- Mrs.
eracy?"God Save the South."
When st.e had liuished, ouo < f ,,
Ive
y I lie soldiers made the remark?
s State
1 '*It wruld take ten Go's to save . .
elder
- the South." Ol Stowe was a ,
... . ... home
riesbyterian preacher and asked,
i town
Mrs Crockett to go to hear him
. . . i . .. was
preach and. sue to.d him ''she . .
. , , , . , . *.. hand
woul no' believe a word tie said , ,
cloth
ar,d did not co. The yankees t, .(i
* rode the:r hor-o-- in the l'resby (jlecj
B terian church, and fed them from
r troughs made by turning the __
e pews together, and when they ?
' went there to preach they turn
0 ed the horses out. They also car- Mo
'? ried off part o* the Communion Ohsei
v Service, which was of solid sii younj
e vei. traie
v Mrs. M. II. McCardcll told of the cliarg
experience of Oapt Williem Stew- Mart
' art, an uncle ol her husband. who sticx
e was captured by the Northern I'ucki
army ami was condemned to the r
death and the black cap was e n
drawn over his laco, when it was drive
j '
learned that he was a member ol 'he i<
' the grand otder ot Masonry, anti ingon
1 this fact saved his life. side c
* Apropo oi the 18 soldiers who at he
' were locked up in the Lancaster htr ii
1 jail, one was Mr. John McCarley, Shi
J ot Winndj'>ro,\a> here the past, bnt \>
t sufiimer, visiting his niece, Mrs. Iiohii
' T. C. Hicks. Mr. McCarley refuto
went to the old jail where over bio'h
1 40 years ago he was a prisoner in th
r It has b:en related by an eye- stiike
3 witness that Mr. McCarley was tied.
' fearlessly brjive and told the en- costs,
1 etny just what he thought of them Al
r face to lace. One of the soldiers worki
' remarked?<4You are my man, 1
have spotted you.-Meaning to Youi
~ kill him the day the soldiers were ? Co
to be idiot, but lor the exchange. ?r<
TIia iail woo ~^ '
JU.. ?uo UUIIIQU <VI1U n IUI Ul VJOI
' cotton. Geu. Joseph Wheeler serve
3 did Lancaster inestimable service lacke
by rou'ing Ki! pat rick's ^costing l?t-i v,
parly that came back alter the at a 1
main army left to pillage and negro
> burn the town. Wheeler with a conta
lew men charged on them, kill- for th
*
ing some and taking others pris when
? oners, and the rest ran for dear put u
l life. D. O. gles r
1 Lancaster, S. C., Dec. 11,1906. ol hei
?- ? men,
The I'orter Tecan Orchard. Gray,
Mrs. Julia Porte^ is beginning is 11\?
to realize something from the l^lou8
pecan orchard started years ago s^1()l>!
^ near Heath Springs by her la- l)ect J
mented husband, tlie late W. S. ?
) ' Itazui
L. Porter. Sne has alreadv nb.
> - J - pjl(
tained Miis season sixteen busheb ,
, , shaw
of pecans and there are more .
1 , the m
nuts on the trees yei to be ga'hJ
seats
lered. M'S. Porter is readily
' selling the nuts, which are of a .
>1 ' bazaa
large, fine variety,at 11> 2-3 cents . ,,,
f J1 anil 1
f ,he P?u,,d- mittei
are m
. BiiHket Supper at White Hlu/f. for tli
\ There will be a basket supper
i at White Bluff next Friday night, Hank*
? 21st instant. The public is cor- Th?
(1 ally invited to attend. The girls munii
, are expected to take baskets with next'
? them. We are requested to an- schoo
I nounce that should there be any the si
i drinking or misconduct of any mon
t kind, the guilty parties will be addre
. punished to the full extent ol the invite
. law. " order
IASTEF
REVIEW \%"6 EN1ERPRIS]
R. S. C., DECEMBER 15. 1906
Harriet Jones Dies of Mr. Mac
Burns. merly c
. , .... i . ! now Li
rshaw special m lhursday* ^ i
j to be i
: Mrs. Harriet Jones, an day
ly la?ly, died at her country j
? today, a tew miles out from ' ^r"
. A tew davs ago while she ! wel1 k,,own
out in the fi?1*1 where the ] y?u,1!- ^ in
s were burning b: ush her '' ' *st'N e"
in>? caught fir<> an 1 she suj-1 11
d injuries from which she | !l'ec^ a v
married tie:
'instant, to
ro Fined in Monroe for ot.
W ilcox, o! 1
Striking a Lady. mony will
nroe special in Charlotte o'clock in t
rver : Usury Robinson, a home of tin
s negro, was before Magis- parents
M. L. Flow this morning Mr. Thon
ed with having struck Mr*. | and Mrs. J
nn Tucker with a hickory i Riverside, I
last Saturday evening. Mrs many irietn
Br said she was driving on he re-id* d !
oad south of town, when going to Al
"let two wag ins a? d h: <1 to|
down in! o t ie ditch beside j The Garr
Dad to pass them, ai d it?>l> gep
, who was walking along. Partridr
if the sec ?ud wagon, struck
r with 'he hickory, hitting Hr. J. E
1 the back. appointed u
e was not hurt, she said, caster coon
ras considerably frightened, following 1?
ison pleaded not guilty,but General Ra
3d to go on the stand. Ilis explains ilc
er Will, however, who was Ior i"fo
e first wagon, saw him ,lc.
) Mrs. Tucker and so testi- Dr. J. E.
Henry was lined $50 and Gair,
which were paid by Mr.
Fletcher, for whom he Dear Si
s. Ep. 116,11*
^ee that it i
ig Lady Attacked in person to s<
lumbia by Unknown Ne- partridges c
D. this law aj
lumbia special in the Ob- keepers, as
r: An unknown negro at- andfhatan
d Miss Elizabeth Yopp on exP?"e:> a
ay iiome in Laup-1 street w,in a sign
ate hour last night. The lOJiSl is lii
t got away with her purse un(^or iniug
$3,a part of her wages Now, as t
e week at t he ten cen's store hunters to
? she sold candy. Miss Yopp l'ia* '*e
p a game fight, her s'ruu- ol *acts 1,1 *
: - -1 ? * T? ? "
csiii mi ft 111 111 ' joss 01 much a' " u,",c"
r apparel. Two n?gro hack ter ?hells ar
Charles English and Jim lo promise
have been arrested, and it birds killed,
ught that, sufficient evidence own table,?
h it is not partictiiarlv would be at:
r, has been secured to con however,
hem with the affair. were to fur
. ? ^ pot-hunter.
ir in Kershaw. such, I thin
t ladies ot the town of Ker- a principal
have undertaken to raise would be amney
necessary to purchase hunter,
for the school auditorium, Yc
)r thv:t purpose will have a
r next, week, on Wednesday Assb
hursday. The various com
OQ ll n VToll .k 4 - -1 -1 ' * *
D.i vu4"ccu ti^puimeu and M*a.tnei ">u/>)
ow hard at work preparing There wil
e event. and Christir
school hou
?/ Supper at Antioch, Dec 24, 1 9(
? ladies ot the Am inch com- Let every
tv will tdve a basket supper and young.
Thursday night at Antioch boys, come
1 house. Immediately after coeds will I
ipper the Rev. R.J. Black furnish the
will make an educational Misses Oi
ss. The public is cordially Funderburk
d to attend. The best of burk ; Mea
will be kept. and Bundv
' NO
& 18?)
PRICE?FIVE CEN
k Thompson, for- Dr. Grego
)f Lancaster, but Chester!
ving in Alabama,; jefle,.soll s
Married Wednes-1 Bm| (,fturier.
ory's gold m
McRas lhoinpson, a closed down
i and highly esteemed .ACC, w t o]
castrian who is kuc- reopened ms
gaged in business in },fis |.een w
\ which si ate ho i hundred .vim
f vears ago, is to belin? u;.. i-?
. i.c ' if, '' v\
>ct Wednesday, 19tli to the est-t
Miss Annie Wilcox, tor Hearst, o
Mr. and Mrs. James the hydrauli
L'ipt, Ala. The cer USed at preat
he performed at 4 tions are pay
he afternoon at the ?_
? pio3pective bride s |-jQ)-vie Joi
ment's '
ipson is a son ot Mr. Says Fij
. U. Thompson, o' Advice tl
his oounty, and h s ton.
Is in L nearer, v.l.ese A;lan ,t G
fur some time bef re vje Jordan,
abnma. I Southern Oo
? an interview
ie Law--Unlawful cent iroverni
or offerfor Sale,[i"? ?ho crop
,. -i at p.net'cull
yes or Uuail.
' ni Ht<>n bales
. llu< ledge, recently -The hold
lame warden tor Lan- ,|ie South s
ty, his leceived the ^ ,nichy over
etter from Attorney 0fthebureai
y,of Columbia, which nj tjie heav
,elt an lis published jovve<l in t
rmation ot the pub- changes o(
enormous de
Rutledge, ton by the
ie Warden, will absorb e
Lancaster, S. C. can cotton ]
r *. By reterence to ^etore auoth<
7, 24 Stats., you will vegted. Ther
s unlawtul tor any co^^on in ih
>11, or offer 'or sale, and gin a"* w
>r quail, and I think hence tl
>plies to restaurant never reach
well as any other, ^ we should
estaurant keeper who afler Dec. 1,
bunch of partridges (liti from the
attached?"Quail on j tjie total cro|
nui~ : 1
vs
TS PER COPY.
ry's Gold Mine in i
field Reopened.
?]jr>ci ?1 i11 tlie News
Dr. (i \V. Gregine,
which has been
i tor some time on
a?? injunction, was
t week. "Phis mine
rkcd for about ?>no
is n'l is just abore
*er mil e. belonging
e nf the late SenaI
California. Only
c process is being
rnt and the opera
'ing handsomely.
rdan on GovernCrop
Estimate?
?ures too High-?
5 -tiolders of Cota
, D -c I *2.?II arpresideat
of the
tton Association, in
today upon the renent
estimate plieoi
the current. year
y twelve and a h ?lf
5, said:
crs of spot cotton in
should not become
tlie recent e9tim tte
.1 of com on statistics
v slump which toliiR
speculative extile
country. The
mand for spot cotmills
of the world
very b ile ot Atneri
produced tins year
er crop can be hare
is not now as much
e South to gather
a? tiie case one year
ie present crop will
12,000,000 bales,
gin as much cotton
this season, as we
big crop of 1901,
p would not exceed
ales. Everyone acith
the situation
here is no late cot,
lie case in 1904, as
this year was killed
Uy early frost,grant.'
85 per cent, of the
T\ 1 "*
..cw no ivcc-emuer i, ^
ii would not. exceed
bales. The bureau ^
lated tbe yield this ?
s it underestimate^
ear ago. The pe'
1 to hold their a
r iiood prices''
<rket can be 9
for the
o Stop at?
d unction; J
ard Air Lii A
railroad 0019
ains will sh^
slop at
is is in con>
ous requests^
parties.?N?ws\
\
ey-Truesdel.
Ira: Mr. H. E. Kirkr.
T. K. K.rhley, and
rueadel, daughter ot
lesdel, wore married
yterian manse last
evening by Hey. J.
lie relatives of 1 ho
parties being pres
nu.o t'? puuisnment 12,200,000 b
Vet quainted wi
o furnishing shells to knows that t
kill birds, I think t0lli as wa, tl
pend upon the state (0p cr0p
ach particular ease, by ail Unusua
were to give a hun- jng tbat only
id that hunter were cr0p wa8 Rjn
him a part of the the total yiel
to be used on his u,700,000
-L vlo not think that |ia3 overestin
ly violation of law. as badly a
, a restaurant keeper the cop a >
nish cartridges to a pie are in get
, . u ton firmly foi
knowing Mm to be ^ spot m.
k he would become maintaine<l
in misdemeanor and j tlie season.M
; :gutlty as the pot _
All Trains t
inrs truly, ba
D. C. Ii ivi | 1 he iseaboi
itaut Attorney Gen. j formed the
. . ? - that aii its ti
ter at Tabertutcle. j required to
I be a basket supper Junction. Tit
ria ? with numeri
las tree at 1 abernacle . .
. . i interested )
se on Monday night, ^ ,nrier.
)t>. I
body come, both old Kirkl
Girls,brii g baskets;! Kershaw h
to 1 "
i<> uuy uitjiii. Am-i iey, son <?I M
je used to repair or Alias Ella I
school building ^r- ^ ' r"
le*sa I'lyler, Myrtle ^ V *h
J ' , Wednesday <
, Flonnie * under- T I)midy* ,
isrs. Duncan Howell contracting
Plyler, Committee.