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SOME RECOLLECTION We had nothing like a beef mar ket before or after the war, as i now managed. Seldom did the poor ?et rlass have the opportunity to in ..dolee in beef luxury. The wealth: raised cattle on the plantations, an< : slaughtered them when convenient ' or joined what is commonly knowi now as a country market or club killing once or twice each week, a; long as the club continued. I an told a club of the kind mentionec has been in force since before th? Tvar in the Monterey section of th< county, and I believe our fellov tow nsman, Mr. Ed. Calhoun, as wel . as his father, were once members o] this club. Townsfolk could onlj -depend on beef from the public mar fcet. This building stood just abov( the public spring. Soon after the war it was converted into a calaboose and used as such until the presenl one was finished. There, was 2 lanre bell on top of this building anc when rung could be heard throughout the town, as it was not so large as now. You could often procure beef weekly, but most of the time not more than twice a month, especially during the summer season. Parties having it for sale would go to *he market, ring the bell, and those wishing beef would go at once, for they were not long in disposing of it. The best portions were disposed of, but most of the bony or refused parts was thrown away or taken back home, for nothing like a -saw was used as now, the axe being -the principal tool. Steak was worth five to six cents nylile other parts would bring three to four cents. A brick building stood on the corner, now known the the Russell building, next to the Court House, with a large, dry cellar underneath. This cellar was a resort for many poor cegroes during the extreme cold weather of the winters of 1865 and 1S6'6, for they had no other place of refog<i?. I have known as many as fifteen or twenty huddled together at -one time with no covering nor fire. Many of them died from exposure hunger, for just at that time it wat a. problem with many to keep SLhe "wolf from the door." There were few sidewalks on back 3treets, and none around the residence of Dr. C. C. Gambrell. This lot was enclosed with an old fashioned worm or rail fence, made of . spfit timbers ten feet long and built : six feet high in a zig zag kind of >waj- Few of the younger generation ever saw anything like it. They were -split mostly from chestnut and oak, which was plentiful. The legal requirements for these fences were horse high, bull strong and pig tight, as all animals ran at large, and it tool; fences of these requirements to protect the crops. People coming to town would hitch the horses to these fences, for we had no facilities of any kind, such as posts or racks until Mr. H. T. Tusten was elected Intendant some years after the war. He had built six horse racks upon the public square, which .stood for a long time as a monument to his public spirit and usefulness. Every body rode horse back with few exceptions. People from the Savannah side usually tied their animals to the fence around the Gambrell lot?where I lived?very few people owned a vehicle of any land. We were fortunate enough own a second hand carriage, for which we paid Dr. J. W. Marshall seven hundred dollars. You entered by climbing: a flight of stens. and when you pot inside, the doors were closed by the driver, and he trrawlcd up in front over the wheel. Capt. "L. W. White, deceased, was the owner of the last one of the kind we remember, and if in existence, which i think it is, would be a curiosity 'to most young people. It would :secm now as if the driver was on the top of a one story cottage. You lhad to get into the sulkies of that j (now called carts) by leading j . 36. 3421. REPORT OF ( The National Bank c A Khovllla 5*? fhtk r\V C r* viaw ** ? ***%/, &ii v.4A\> utaw; v/i o. V/., tlL Ollt? UIU, RESOt 1. a Loans and discounts (except those sh< Total loans 1. Overdrafts, secured, $855.79; unsecured, .ZU 1*. S. bonds: a U. S. bonds deposited to secure circul Total IJ. S. bonds 5. Stocks, other than Federal Reserve Ban v.. Subscription to stock of Federal Resen a I jess amount unpaid '7. a Value of banking house lit' unencumt Real estate owned other than hanking 1 TO- Net amount due from Federal Reserve ; .^11. a Net amount due from approved reser Chicago, and St. Louis h Net amount due from approved rose serve cities .12. Net amount due from hanks and bankf in in or Hi 15. n Outside checks and other cash items It Fractional eurrencv, nickels, and cenl IG. Notes of other national banks ?S. ('win and certificates 19. Legal-tender notes .. 20. Redemption fund with U. S. Treasurer Total liabi: 24. Capital stock paiil in jiif. r?ni 1111iti ~2y\. Undivided profits Less current expenses, interest, un 21. Circulating notes outstanding :JL Dividends unpaid Ik m: ??<! ?lepoMitM: ;V2. Individual deposits subject. to check. .. ~J3. Certificates of deposit due in less than M. Certified checks - ib. Cashier's checks outstanding Total demand deposits Total .... Stale of South Carolina. County of Ahhevi I, H. G. Smith. Cashier of the :iliove ih>?ve statement is true t<> the l>i-st <>r my Subscribed and sworn to before me thi C.u-reet?Attest: A. M. SMITH. J. S. MOINK. W. M. liAKNWr.LT.. Directors. S OF FIFTY YEARS AGO -' the horse to a block or platform mad s for the purpose, as the vehicles wei'< - very tall. - 1 There were very few men left ii f the county during the war, am i those would only come to town 01 , Salesdays, as that was the day of al 1 days for booze and fighting. N< , knives or pistols were used then, bu 5 everything was on the "muscle.' i Well, as I said, everybody cominj 1 from the Savannah side, would rid* i horse back and hitch to the rai i fence around the Gambrell residence r Now I want to tell you a litth 1 joke on myself and my boy, Friday f alias Duck Alex?so well rememberet r by my old friend, Roche. Then - was an old lady doing some kind o: ; business on the Russell corner men i j tioned, and she sold ginger cake; i for a dollar each. I often longec ; | for those cakes, and how to gel i more tnan i naa tne money to pur I chase, was a problem with me. A1 though only ten years of age, it die s' not take us long to solve it. I saic ! to Duck, you watch the men, anc s when all have gone, change th? . | horses, tying each one in a differenl , place. When the owners returnee i. to go home late in the evening, thej i seldom found the animals where originally tied, often looking around, they would find the horses in a different spot. Just about that time my man would say, "Mister your horse got loose and I caught him for you." Of course some caught on to our little trick. Some would give him something, while others would thank him, and again others would say, why in the hell didn't you let him go. Anyway, as treasurer, I had sufficient cash to feast on ginger cakes for a day or two after salesday. That was teach: ing the young idea how to shoot, ' and if my good father and mother had known of our tricks, we would indeed nave been taugnt now to ! shoot. During the war you were only al1 lowed to plant so many acres of cotI ton for each mule, and pay a toll 'to the government for this; should I you violate this law, you were tried ! as a criminal and if convicted punished. I remember once a very prominent citizen of Cokesbury was tried for this offense. f A bale of cotton weighing 350 pounds was considered a heavy one. They were packed with an old fashioned press, with a lever on each side of a long wooden screw, about twelve inches thick, and about fifteen feet long, this could be forced into the press by hand or mule. Four bales of cotton was considered a good day's ginning, but often not more than 2 or 3, and it took 4 mules with a driver, to pull the gin. I have known six mules hitched to a wagon to pull four bales of cotton to Hamburg, j which was then the best cotton marjket in the State, and only received I three cents per pound, returning [with an annual supply of salt, iron, j coffee and produce, that could not be ! procured here. Hamburg is only ! 60 miles from here, just on this side of Savannah river, opposite Augusta. The toll cotton was taken to the Southern depot as we had only one at that time, and placed on the platform, for which a receipt was given by the agent, and your responsibility ended. After Lee's surrender and just before hostilities ' ended, for fear that the Yankees I would reach Abbeville and burn this j cotton, it was hauled to the gulley, I on the right before you reach the cotton mill, which was much wider and deeper than now, and thrown in, 'completely filling it. I would guess there must have been at least five i hundred bales. After hostilities actually ceased, there was no govern ment and this cotton was taken by Dick, Tom and Harry and concealed in some way until a market was established and sold. Cotton was worth $1.00 per pound during the fall of '65. We had very few streets open un" I CONDITION OF f Abbeville, S. C., se of business on Dec. 31st, 1915. JRCES. jwn on b) $239,206.91 239,206 91 ,#10.00 80.5 79 ation (par value) #18,750.00 18,750 00 ik Stock 500 00 iBank 6,300.0(1 3,150.00 3,150 00 >ered) 5.000.00 5,000 00 lioiisn 6,877 84 Bit nk 6.742 92 ve agents in New York, $16,806.06 rve agents in other re 23.729.15 40,535 21 ?rs (other than included 8,582 99 ? 2,888.14 ts 156.4:4 3,044 58 6,625 00 8,431 00 4.205 00 and due from U. S. Treasurer... 937 50 $353,454 74 LITIES. f 75.000 no 30,000 00 ? 3,504.67 (1 taxes paid 3,504 67 18.750 00 3,00(1 00 106,568 34 30 days 25,805 63 130 00 6% 10 S22-t.-200.07 $353,454 74 ll<>. ss: iimiim-'I hank, ilo solemnly swear that the knowledge ami belief. H. (?. SMITH, Cashier. s 12tli day of Januarv, HMO. W. H. WHITE. Notary Public. "I til long after the war, and the boys ! had to get around the best they I could, climbing and jumping gullies, J and after the town began to recover from the effects of the war, more e streets were opened, and others close ed. There was a public street between the residence of Mrs. J. A. i Harris and Mrs. Rachel Minshall. J This was closed after Mr. C. V. Hami mond purchased the premises. I 1 once lived there. 3 Then* there was another betweeen t the residence of Mr. Henry Hill and ' the opposite lot, and another between r the National Bank and White's block, e where Mr. J. C. Ellis does business. 1 This street led to now the S. A. L. depot. Although not so old I have ? seen the ground broken for every ; building on the public square, with i the exception of the Philson & Henry ? corner ,and of every residence exf cept four, within the limits of the . city. 5 Of the real old citizens, I can only 1 recall the names of four now living, t who resided in Abbeville before the ' - war, Hugh Wilson, R. E. Hill, T. C. - Seal and George White, Mr. White 1 being the only original citizen living , 1 here now that was here during the J [ war. I There were only two residences be- 1 t yond that of Mrs. L. W. White on ; L Greenville street, Mrs. L. W. Per- ] r rin's, formerly the old Jimmie Moore ] residence, and that of Mr. W. P. ] , Kreene, formerly W. H. Parker's. Mr. !H. T. Tusten was the firs* of tVip 1 ! new residences built after the war on that street, and if I make no mis take, the cottage below Mrs. Wm. : Clinkscales, was the first to be built after the war. Greenville street : was in original forest, composed of i oak and chestnut, and many times have I gathered as many as a bushel of chestnuts in half a day, and in fact you could get them and chinquepins by the bushel any direction you could start. There was no end to *rame of every kind in the city limits. I have killed in Klugh's fark, turkeys, coons, 'possums, rabbits, squirrels, fox and birds of all kinds. On one occasion near town during the fall of 1873, James Taggart, with a little negro to climb, with myself, ] killed by three o'clock, one hundred } and four squirrels and a coon. We ] had then exhausted our ammunition, ( leavinf? squirrels jumping from limb A to limb. I j During the war I have seen a very i large covered wagon on the style of } the mountain aDple wagons, filled i with women and children being pull- j ed exclusively by men. We had what is known as speculators, or ?l 4. J a i: mi jjiave Lrauurs, irauing in smves. iney were brought into town like droves' , of cattle, horses and mules, and sold c bartered or exchanged. The women and children rode in these wagons, v while the boys and men walked. ? There were from two to four men at the tongue to guide, while a long ^hain was fastened to the end. as ? there were breast chains, not single trees, as now used, and the men strung out on ei+her sHe of the chain, did the pulling. It was comparatively easy work as there were | a larsre number of men on the chain, and they usually took their time. g There was a grove of oaks between the Episcopal and A. R. P. churches, J an excellent camp for such purposes. | TVi/iir neiiallir -poTnainpH twn fir three 9 weeks, or sufficiently long to sell or exchange those brought for others, and wolud frequently leave with about the same number. If the trade was brisk the time was not so long: If an owner here had a drt,icate slave or an unruly one, or for any other cause, they were taken to the camp to sell or exchange just as is now done on the bone yard. The value of a slave was lessened if it was known they were purchased from a speculator, just as is done with a horse gotten from the bone yard. Children were worth from one to three hundred dollars, women and srirls from three to six, boys and men from six to fifteen hundred, and occasionally a man would bring $2.000. The higher priced men were experts :in the line of shoemakine, -aroentenng, and brick laying. It was sad indeed to witness the narting in many cases, to eternity, of mr>thove -fofVioro Vmohan/lG unvoQ oViilfl. ren, brothers and sisters. Is it any j wonder God freed the slaves. We had no such protection as the [ homestead act, and everybody paid | their debts. Occasionally you would f find a man that could or would not ^ pay them, and he was placed in on<=- | fed on bread and water until ; they were settled in full. The friends I jl such persons would arrange with g he creditors, as is often done now in criminal cases. We had no state I or county prisons as now, so evil- f doers, and law breakers had to lie in jail until sentences were served. Often a prisoner in addition to the jail sentence, was sentenced to be publicly whipped by the sheriff daily or weekly, as his punishment might be. I have seen white men stripped to the waist, strapped to a post in the square and publicly whipped by the sheriff. These whippings were done with a wide leather strap fastened to a handle. It was a very cruel and barbarous custom, and often the whipping was very severe. Before the war and until sometime in the 70's, a married woman could own no property in her own right. The moment she became the wife, her property reverted to the husband. A iifnrfUlnce VincKor?/^ i X. nvx I/Uivoo nuouuiiu vvviiiitg c* li jr a amount, large or small,, before mar- I riage. could marry a woman of j wealth and her property taken for his debts. It is different now, for J the women own all the men, and most j of the property. One more thought and I will close for the present. As J I finish one subject half a dozen oth- | ers occur to my mind, and I j could write indefinitely of things || done and seen by me prior, during,! the war and before reconstruction. j Before and during the war the peace and quiet of the town was looke after by a vigilant committee i composed of the citizens, and called ; patrol ers. They would take turns at jsuch work. Every night at nine o'clock curfew on the market house was sounded. After that hour anyone caught upon the streets had to give a satisfactory account of his presence, or take his medicine. The negroes were whipped while the whites were reprimanded. Negroes had to present papares from owners before being excused, the passes designating the hours to be at home. There are many jokes told of the tricks practiced to run the gauntlet of patrolers, and often the younger boys would black up, and purposely get in the way of the patrolers, to have a race. On one occasion my old friend, Roche and I blacked ourselves completely and went out for a little fun. We knew we were swift of foot, and no patrolers could hem us or outrun us. We stationed ourselves just above the post office, where Mr. McClain live1. Now, Mr. McClain ha a very ferocious bull dog about the first I ever saw. As the patrolers came up the street from the Court House, we sauntered out, and the race was on. They spied us, no wfor the chase?for we were swift of foot. Away we went in a circuitous route, all about the town. At first we gained on the patrolers but towards the last we began to fag, and now it was only strategy that could save us, so we took the risk of jumping into the McClain yard, and beat the dog to the opposite side, thereby gaining sufficient ground to elude the patrolers, and get home for we already had enough. Being in front f f Vl Q fonnA 4-V. vw... 3 ? ?.vM4vu wiiv iciiw) w i ui my menu iust behind. As I struck the ground [ saw the dog make a dive for us. [ cleared the fence, but not so with ny friend, for just as he reached :he top, the dog caught him in the >eat of his trousers, then a commo:ion from dog and boy. The dog shook and growled while my friend nadc some pitiful cries. To cut it short, the patrolers were compelled ;o call Mr. McClain to assist in a separation. They actually had to :ut out ths seat of my friends trousers before he could be extricated, ifou see my friend was on the outside of the fence while the dog was swinging on the inside. When he vas released I heard one of the pa.rolers say. why the name of God, it s Mans's Duck Alex, we will fix him. ! don't know what they did for I leard only one lick and a squall and ! left for home before they discover ;d my friends identity. I knew it vas my turn next. That was the ast and only time we ever tried such i-caper, and my friend to this day, las never told me of the results that 'ollowed. I never broach the subect of patrolers in his presence. M. E. Hollingsworth. It's hard to convince doctors and Iruggists that health is wealth. Fame, from a literary point of iew, consists in having people know rou have written a lot of stuff you laven't read. There isn't a department store on arth large enough to supply everyhing a woman wants. wnftFiFiFipninwnnri j TheRoS 1 DEPj i i 3 THREE STORES 1 ? ? ===== i 1 Be li S Jl ILL UiUCI IU fj will soon arrive, jj Clothing. ? Our stock i |j stylish goods, fi and our special jj worth. U Come in ar fi a few suits. T) ? The qualit" 8 fi fi fi fi fi 1 TheRoS n A ? HIGH SCHOOL DEBATE. ! The Calhoun and Agonian Literarj Societies of the High School, wi! hold joint exercises in the Cour i House Friday night, Jan. 29th, be ! ginning promptly at eight o'clock. The public, all teachers, ant grades seven, eight, nine and ten an invited. PROGRAM. j Recitation __ Mareraret Co> "The Minister's Visit." j Essay __ Ruth Ho\vi< "The European War." | Duet ?Piano? Mary Haigler anc j Mary Milford. Recitation Rebecca Edmonds "The Wreck of the Hespems." | Current Events __ __ Fannie DuPr< I Piano Solo ? Ruth Howit I Recitation Myrtle McLeskcj "Mount Muller." Declamation ? Floyd Graves "Independence Bell." Recitation Elizabeth Jones "Entertaining Sister's Beau." DEBATE. Resolved:?That half of the Appropriation to the State College should go to the High Schools. Affirmative? Calhoun. Edna Bradley, Frank Gary, James Hill. Negative? Agonian. Eugenia Coleman, Lewis Clinkscales, Hubert Cox. Chorus?Thirty boys and girls? "Drink to Me Only With Thine Eyes." DEATH OF MRS KILLINGSWORTH Mrs. Elizabeth Killingsworth died Friday, Jany. 21st, 1916, at two thirty o'clock, at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Fannie Milford, in Fort Pickens. Mrs. Killingsworth was in her seventy-eighth year and her life had been full of good deeds. She was of a bright and cheerful dis position and she will be missed by a In v/va /iivaI a a-f *?nlo+nroe on/1 "fri icixgc v-nwic vi i dcibA v onu xn^au^f She was taken to her home church, Shiloh, and was buried there Saturday. In her last sickness and during her advancing years she has been lovingly cared for by her children end her death to them is a sore bereavement. She is survived by the following children, Mrs. Fannie Milford, of Abbeville, Miss Corrie Killingsworth and Mrs. Seawright, oi Columbia, Mrs. Young of Winder, Ga., and by three sons, Dr. S. L. Ivillingsworth, Dr. Ross Killingsworth, of Columbia, and W. L. Killingrswortn, of Antreville. The family have the sympathy ei their friends. GETTING MARRIED. As we approached the office of M. E. Hollingsworth, Esq., on our retarn from dinner Monday, we noticed that the atmosphere in that vicinity was unusually pious-like. We got by the door of the Judge's office, but something called us back. You have Uo/1 +Viof TxrVion Trnn Irnow | something was about to happen. As we entered the Judge had just ienbergMe \RTMENT STC 'MAN >ys' Clothii make room for Spring , we offer very special p s not a lot of odds and e Our regular prices repre prices give you more tha id let us show you. Let le patterns and styles arc y gives you over value. enberg M( stationed Oliver Stewart and Ann Tate in front of him, had commanc I ed them to join right hands and ws t about to unite them as man an wife. We waited for the ceremon and it was performed with the prop* i amount of sanctity and in a tone o , voice completely solemn. When i ' was over the groom had no troubl tc tell that he was married and th bride seemed satisfied that she wa fixed until death do them part. Th 4 necessary papers had been prepare ' and were soon signed, and in a fen , minutes the whole thing was settled After looking the matter over, w feel inclined to say that we are con 3 vinced that the business of the Judg along this line ought to grow. H [ has several different ceermonies, an i he always uses the one which suit! 7 You can take it with prayer, o without; and in a hurry or tak 5 your time. If in a hurry, you ca arrange to stop by on your wa 5 home and be married in a jiffy, bu if you want a little style it can b had also, but the Judge in sue case wishes to be notified in time b get his decorations in order, but thi ceremony comes a little high, and i not much used. FALLIBILITY OF NEWSPAPERS The time may . come when ther will be perfect newspapers that nvee make mistakes. It is a time that wil come, however, no earlier than per , feet humans who never make mil takes, arrive in the haunts of men. i For newspapers are about the onl things we have among us that are a ' human as humans themselves. The ' are just as good or bad, and nev? ' any better or worse, than the me i wno maKe tnem. Some men therish grudges yea after year adding interest month ai 1 ter month, the whole to be collecte on a day of final reckoning. So d some newspapers. There are men who can't argu with other men without losing thei ' tempers and saying bitter, vindictiv i things. There are newspapers jut i as spiteful, just as vindictive?newi papers that never engage in contrc ' versies without resorting to person - alities and descending to mud-sling ; ing. There are men who fall out witl their neighbors and quit speaking t i them. We have newspapers in Geor gie that do that very thing. A newspaper is an infallible inde: to the character of the men wh make it. It is a thing of wood pttl] and printers' ink, yet it is as full o human failings and human virtues & if it were a thing of bone and blooc and sinew, of hopes and ambitions of doubts, fears and disappointments ^ Some newspapers can no more "for i five flnH forcpt." thnn oan aniVio fnllre while others do not seem to kno\ what it means to be offended?a hu man trait which, while a trifle rar? is yet common enough to make u . sincerely thankful that it still sui vives. The newspaper that isn't huma ' isn't real.?Albany Herald. IHSMaSiKMBfiHfiM irc.Co. | )RES \ Y DEPARTMENTS { ; ng ! Goods, which ; rices on Boys' [ inds, but new, jl sent full values, J 9 n your moneys j the boy try on 19 i correct. [ 9 ;rc.lo. 9