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TO THINE OWN ?KL.F BB TRUE AND IT MUST FOLLOW AS THE NIGHT THB~DAY7 BY JAYNE3, SHRLOR, SMITH & STEOK. THOU OAWT NOT THEN Bl* FALSE TO ANY MAN. WALHALLA, SOUTH CAROLINA, JUJLY 1, UM>8. NEW S BR LBS, HO. ?7*,-VOLUME LUI.--NO. S36. IT PAYS TO BUY in faot prioee C. Dr. G, C. Probst, DENTIST, Walhalla, S. C. Office Ov?? vi^tV. Wtchford Co.'si ; : : Store, : : : HOURS : 8.80 A. M. TO 1 p. M. AND 2 TO 6 p. M. Maroh 24. 1898. ? Dr.W. F.Austin, DENTIST, SENECA,.S. C. OFFICE DAYS : MONDAYS, THURS DAYS, FB?DAY8 AND SATURDAYS? January 15. 1901. B. T. JAYNEB. I -/Of J. W. BHEI.OR. J AY NES & SHELOR, ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW, WALHALLA, 8. 0. PROMPT attention given to all busi- ? ness oommitted to their care. WM. J. STIUBLINO. y . ?{ E. L. HEBNDON. Attorneys-At-Law, WALHALLA, S. C. PROMPT ATTENTION GIVEN TO ALL BUSI NESS ENTRUSTED TO THEM. January 6. 1898. Casting Bread on the Water. A short time before the President's Western trip, a lady from Charleston was talking to bim in Washington of his visit to the South Carolina expo sition last summer, and discussing | varions incidents of his stay there. " "Welt, I suppose," said Mr. Rooie velt, "things are about the same as I left them in the old city ?" "Not at all," replied the lady. "We cast our bread on tho water, and it returned to us, a little brown Crum." Bronchitis for Twenty Years. Mrs. Minerva Smith, of Danville, III., writes: "I had lu mir li ii is for twenty years and never got relief until I med Foley's Boney and Tar, which is a sure euro." For sale hy J. W. Bell, Walhalla. Forty years ago a certain man mado some pu redisses from A. E. Root on Sch roon river, Oregon. In figuring up the amount of the pur chases, the storekeeper cheated him self out of 5 cents. Mr. Root now lives at Glen Falls,N.Y., and the Gl? n Falls | correspondent of the New York World says that ho recently received a, letter from his old customer in . whioh the writer recounts tho cir cumstances and says that it has troubled him all these years and that it was tho ono dishonest act of his lifo. He enclosed a money order for 76 cents, being principal and interest. Before the Alabama Bar Association one day last weok Edward M. Sheppard, of Kow York, declared the South ablo to | settle tho negro question. Lord Groy, of tho South African Com pany, rogrots that Bookor Washington has refused to go to Rhodesia. Lord Groy says Washington has found the hey to the raco problem. H ?vs E?vt*n Three < "I was attacked last Ms cUta. As I showed signs of r< and I began to oast around for and as a rosult we fell upon has been a wonderful boon t eaten al mott throo cases. H. ? Few of Our Sp DRY G< Yard-wide best quality Lonsdale Cai Yard-wide Androscoggins Bleaching. Yard-wide Farmers' Friend, an extn I yards Bleaobing... Yard-wide Sheeting, unbleached.... Bent, quality Drills (short lengths) All Calicoes at ..,. 7e also have have a nioe line of Organ ?, we have tho best line of Wash Goode are right. Hands Needed on Farms, Farmers in many sections of the country are beginning to fnoe the usual serious propositon of a scarcity of help in cultivating and harvesting of their orops. Notwithstanding advertisements are run in the oity papers daily asking for hired help, the demand is twioe the supply. Men who are idle in the city seem to have no desire to go to tho farm for work, regardless of the faot that a good home, plenty to eat and reasonable pay awaits them. And a majority of the people lose sight.of the principal reason for this state of affairs. The fault to a great extent lies with the young farmors themselves. As a rule as soon as they attain their majority the first thing they think of is to rush to the cities, where, in the minds of many of them, money is ?lentiful and a gay life awaits them, j 'bis reduces tho foroe on the farms and in itself prevents young men from the overcrowded cities seeking homes in the country. It is hardly to be1 expected that men from the oities will take kindly to farm life when young men who have been reared as farmers rush off to the cities. The remedy lieB with us. Let us make our home life desirable to our young men. Encourage them in their work and offer them every inducement pos sible. The labor of a son is far more profitable to the sire than the labor of inexperienced men from a city. And our young mon have a better opportunity of making a name by remaining at home and using industry and thrift than they have in rushing off to the city and becoming a non entity in a place where there are ten men for every opening. The farm is tho best placo aftor all. ghSj^p^T^^^O^^^ VJ In timo. Sold br druggists. CONSUMPTION Japan possesses a remarkable time piece. It is contained in a frame three feet wide and five feet long, representing a noonday landscape of great beauty. In t,b?^foreground plum and cherry tre^s^Qif^ioVpJants appear in full bloc^p.^J^MliVrenr is seen a hill, gradiiaTMn ascent, front which apparently flows a cascade, admirably imitated in crystalr From this point a thread-like stream mci ti llers encircling rocks and islands iu its windings and finally losing its' y in a faroff stretch of w /dland. In. a miniature ?ky a /golden ^sun turns on a sil ver wire, striking the hours on silver gongs as it passes. Each hour is marked on the frame by a creeping tortoise, wbioh Berves the place of a hand. * A bird of exquisite plumage warbles at the close of each hour, and as the song ceases a mouse sallies forth from a neighboring grotto and, scampering over the hill to the garden, is soon lost to view. Foley's Kidney Cure purifies the blood by straining out impurities and tones up the whole system. Cnres kidney and bladder troubles. For sale by J. YV. BeP. -An exchange says: "Any man yho makes an y pretensions to honesty should i be above reading a paper for three yeats I and thon refuse to pay for it." i ti lim Dumps' physician once fell ill. Said he: ??I'll have no draught or pill." Said Jim: "Ho, ho, you're on the shelf, You who cure others, cure yourself." Thea lim sent up tomi ?? Force " to him, "That's what he needs," quoth '. Sunny Jim." ff j-to- Barre Cereal >ctor I patient SsfcaVJ. y by appondl acorery doctor a suitable dlot ' Fore?,' whloh o rae. I have H. MILLIK." recial Values in 3 O D S. mbrio. . . 10o. . 8?o. ? good value.,. 7?o. . 60/ dies, Lawns, Madras, Cloths, Crashes ; i that we have ever carried. And the ?AUKNIGHT. Justice Jones'? Oat Crop. Lancaster, S. C., J une 27.-Some fine yields of oats this year have been noted rooently in this corres pondence. In this conneotion the result of an experiment t made by Geo. W. Jones, manager Of Judge Ira B. Jones's farms, is well worth mentioning. Judge Jones made a] praotioal test of a theory in regard to oat planting that Col. Redding, of the Georgia experiment station, has been exploiting for several years, a leading feature of which is the non covering of the seed by plowing or harrowing, as is usually done. For the purposes of the experiment Mr. Jones selected ten acres of very ordi narv npland. The ground was first] broken up with plows and then har rowed. The breaking was done diagonally across the terraces and the harrowing parallel with them. Then, with a four-inch grab, furrows eighteen inches apart were run, along witli the terraces, throughout the field. Thus prepared, seventeen bushels of oats were sown broadcast | over the ten acres. Nothing what ever was done to cover tho seed. The preparation of the soil and the sowing were done in the month of Ootober. . Judge JoneB himself was skeptical as to results, but his manager was so confident of success that he volunteered to pay all ex penses in oase the experiment proved to be a failure. Some weeks ago .tho oats wore cut and harvested; and, notwithstanding the . faot that this has been a very unfavorable year for small grain, the yield turned out to be 528 dozen bundles. The total expense, cost of seed, plowing, harrowing and harvesting, was $89.85, leaving, at present' price of oats, a net profit of over ten dollars per acre. No fertilizers of any kind wore used. Similar land planted in the ordinary way did not make a | third as much. One of the advant ages of the furrows referred to was the protection they afforded the oats from the damaging'effects of freezes. Every free/.? \ in fact, Judge Jones says, instead M doing injury, aoted as a ?'working" to the orop. How's This % We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward I , for any case of catarrh that cannot be ] j cured by Hall's CatoYrh Curo. P. J. Choney ?Sk Co., Props., Toledo, O. We, the undersigned, have known P. J. Choney for the last 15 years, and be Hove him porfeotly honorable in all busi I ness transactions and financially able to carry out any obligations made by their firm? Wost & Tmax, Wholosalo Druggists, Toledo, O. , Walding, Kinnan A Marvin, Wholo .sale Druggists, Toledo, O. Hall's Catarrh Curo is takon inter nally, acting directly upon the blood and mneom? surfaces of tho system. Price, 7?0. per bottle. Hold by all druggists. I Testimonials free. Hall's Family Pills aro the best. Northern Mob Burns Brutal Negro. Wilmington, Del., June 25.-A northern mob, led by a Virginian, burned a negro at the stake to-night within a fow miles of Mason and Dixon's lino. The victim was George F. White, a negro, just ont of tho work house, who was accused of hav ing fel oniously assaulted and stabbed to death Miss Helen S. Bishop. The crime waa committed last Monday aftornoon and ever since then there havo been mutterings of lynching tho man. No Fats? Claims. The proprietors of Foley's Honoy and Tar do not advertise this as a "euro oure fer consumption." They do not chum it will cure this dread'complaint in ad vanoed casos, but do positively assort that it will euro in the earlier stages and never fails to give comfort and relief in the worst oases. Foloy's Honey and Tar is Without doubt the greatest throat and lung remedy. Rofuso substitutes. For salo by J. W. Reil, Walhalla. An exchange says : "Mon have vari ons ways of carrying monoy. Bakers, grocers, butchers and millers carry it in a wad. Bankers, >n clean bills laid full length in a pocketbook. Bro kers always fold the bills once, dou bling the money as it were. The young business man carries' it in his vest pocket, while the sport has it in his trousers pocket. Farmers and ? drovers oarry it in their inside pocket whether it be $50 or 15 cents. Edi tors seldom have any to carry, but when they do they keep their hand lon it. A. R. Bass, of Morgftntown, Ind., had to got up len or twelve times in the night, and baa a severe baokaohe and pains in the kidneys. Was cored by Foley's Kld noy Cure. For sale by J. W. Roll. "Old ??7 J?? ?J Pendleton." " The Pendleton Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confede racy in April last requested Prof. Wm. S/Morrison, of Clemson Col lege, to address them and the Con federate veterans on Memorial Day, at Pendleton, on "Old Pendleton." The following address, in compliance* with that request, was ' delivered on the ?ocasi?n named, May 9, 1908: OM) PKNDLKTON. The plow-boy poet of Scotland, in one of his well known songs, with, feeling makes th ig declaration : "Of a' the dirts the winoVoan blow I dearly love the West." Such seem to have been mother nature's feelings toward so much of her vast domains as men to-day oall South Carolina. In its western corner is tte "Alpine Region" of the Palmetto State. Here, a? in Cale donia, "Wild woods grow and rivons row, And manie a hill between." . Here, in Mt. Pinnacle, in Piokens I county, our State reaches its greatest elevation-three thousand six hun dred feet-above old ocean's level. Here the lover of the sublime and the beautifnl in nature finds Table Rook, "rearing a colossal and almost perpendicular wall of solid granite over eleven hundred feet above its base, and striking tho beholder with awe and wonder." Here is seen the vale of Jocassee-"celebrated for its romantic situation, rioh valleys and beautiful water falls-literally shut in on every side by loftv^mountains." This sunset corner of Carolina was, in the days of the Indian, tho home of the Cherokees. About one tenth of tho territory of these dusky j warriors of the mountains was within the present limits of the little seces sion State, i As early as 1780, when I our oolony was but three score years old, the King of England sent Sir j Alexander Cumming three thousand miles across the Atlantic, and from the settlement at Charleston, three I hundred miles into the wilderness to | treat with the chiefs of ?hose tribes. This faot is evidenoe of the estimate placed by England upon the value of | the lands aud the worth of the friend ship of these red men in the strug gle then pending between Briton and Gaul for the possession of tho great j valley-tho very heart of the North ! Anionoan continent. The details of this treaty, made within the limits of Old Pendleton District, at Keowee, an important Indian town whioh stood on land by the side of tho river of the same name, now owned by Mr. Nimmons, are full of interest and may be read in the records of those early dayB. Twenty-five years later-about! 1755-the Colonial Govornor of CS- ' | rolina, .ramos Glenn, made another treaty with tho aborigines, securing vast i rad s of land in tho upper parts of tho State, and permission to erect in tho Indian territory forts for the protection of the back couutry. One of tho most important of these forts was Prince George, on the Keowee, opposite, and within cannon shot of, the Indian village of Keowee, above mentioned. Capt. R. E. Steele, Confederate veteran, now owns the site of this famous fort, and takes I peculiar pleasure in pointing out to the visitor tho spring whioh supplied pure mountain water to the garrison ; a lame mulberry treo whioh grew up On the walls, and tho lines of tho fortification. Much valuable history and many thrilling traditions cluster ground old Fort Prince George Miss M ur free's "Story of Old Fort London" and Dr. J. Walter Daniel's poem, "Cateeoheo of Keowee," are cordially commended to all who are fond of reading the stories of those distant times. Twenty years after Glenn's treaty Grip's Grim Grasp Caused Heart Disease. Could Not Ute On Left Side. Dr.Mhes'He&rt Cure and Nervine Cured Me. - Mrs. H. R. Job?, formerly of Birmingham, Ala., writes from Eldredge, the same state, u follows: "It is with the greatest pleasure that I rec ommend Dr. Miles' Nervine and Heart Cure. 1 only wish that I could tell every sufferer how much good they nave done me. Last winter 1 had a severe attack of La Grippe, which left my heart in a very bad condition. I could not lie down for the smothering spells that would almost over come mt and the feeling of oppression around my heart. I had not been so that I could lie on mydeft side for a long time. I fot your Heart Cure and took three bottles, have no trouble now with my heart and can Ile on my left side as well as my right. Formerly I had suffered for years with nerv ous prostration. I had tried so many rem edies that I had got clear out of hecrt of get ting anything that would help me. The nsrvv? of my heart were so affected that sometimes it would lose beats so it would seem to stop altogether. It was tm the ad vice of a lady friend that I tried your Restor ative Nervine. I felt better after the first few doses add two bottles of Nervine and one of Heart Cure made me feel like a new person. My heart is all right and my nerv ousness is nil gone. I never fail to recom mend lt to others afflicted as I was." All druggists sell and guarantee first bot tle Dr. Miles* Remedies. Send for free book on Nervous and Heart Disease?. Address Dr. Miles Medical Co., Elkhart, Ind. yarmlvtnf lOlttlftllMBIfliBIHfc^ j n Interesting and Instructive Ad- K| ?ss Delivered by Prof. William S, S orrlson before Pendleton Chapter, B nighters of the Confederacy. ^ Sj the War of the Revolution broke out. The Cherokees sided with thr> English. While Parker and Clinton were to attack Charleston the Chero kees were to lay waste the baek country settlements. Britain's plans were well laid. But Moultrie and his men on the sands of Sullivan's Island, and Williamson with his followers, amid the wooded hills of the up-country, furnished another striking illustration of the going "a-glee" of men's best laid schemes. During this campaign-in the sum-, mer of 1770-Williamson threw up fortifications on Eighteen Mile cronk, portions of which may to-day be seen near the brick yards of Mr. J. C. Stribling. About the same time he built Fort Rutledge, on the Se neca, which, with its guns, overawed the Indian vallage called Seneca, one of the most important of the ??lower 'towns" of the Cherokees. This fort was once garrisoned by two inde pendent companies of rang?es. Near it, on the plantation, afterwards owned by Mr. Andrew F. Lewis, Capt. Salvador was slain in battle with tho savages and TorieB. When John C. Calhoun oame into posses sion of the farm, which was his home for the last twenty-five years of his honored life, he called this place ??Fort Hill" in commemoration of Fort Rutledge. Other places within the limits of .?Old Pendleton" olosely associated with Cherokee history aro Hopewell and Tamassee, both homes of Gen. Andrew Piokens. The former near Cherry's Crossing, on the Blue Ridge railroad, where the railroad bridge spans the Seneca river, the latter about eight miles north of Walhalla. The former was the soene of several important treaties, the latter of a hard-fought battle, wherein the old Christian statesman and warrior ren dered most efficient servioe. Gen. Piokens died suddenly at Tamassee while sitting in a ohair under a shade tree--still standing-in bis yard. His remains were brought to the cemetery of Hopewell ohuroh, named in honor of bis former home near by,, popularly known as the Old Stone ohurch, and laid to rest by the side of thc grave of his wife, Rebeooa Calhoun, an aunt of John C. Cal houn, Carolina's most illustrious son. After the Revolution the Chero kees were foroed westward, surren dering their last holdings in South Carolina in 1817. These people, in tho war of 1812, rendered Gen. An drew Jaokson valuable assistance from their homes in Georgia. Foroed later from that State, many of them wore sent beyond the great ?'Father of Waters." Daughters of the Con federacy, at whoso request this ad dress is prepared, may be interested in recalling that the Cherokees, at the outbreak of the war between the States, took the side of the Confede racy, and rendered valiant service in the battles of the W?Bt. In the ??Myths of the Cherokees ono of our government publications --is a store house of good things of the history and tradition of the red men wlfb dwelt where we of ??Old Pendleton" now dwell. For almost one hundred years after the first permanent settlement of our State no courts, save those at Charleston, were held within its bor ders. Consequent lawlessness led to the rule of the ??Regulators." This induced the authorities to provide in 1768-eight years before th? Declara tion of Independence-for seven judicial districts, viz., Charleston, Beaufort, Orangeburg, Georgetown, Camden, Cheraw and Ninety-Six. Tho first six are in the old statutes, accurately defined. The seventh, Ninety-Six Distriot or Preoinot, is therein somewhat vaguely deolared to extend to all other parts of the Province. In 1791-eight years after tho formal close of tue Revolu tion-George Washington's first torm as President being about half out, the year of his tour of the Southern States, Charles Piuokney boing Governor of South Carolina, an act to further rec?late the Cirouit Courts created Pinckney ann* Wash ington District ii-the latter inoludirig tho counties of Greenville and Pen dleton. Piokensville, which stood near Easley, was the county seat of tho Washington Distriot. 8oven years later, Tn 1708, Pen dleton and Greenville wore made separate judicial districts, Pendle ton being the county seat of the former, Greenville of the latter. In 1826, fifty years aftor the Declaration of Independence, the death year of Jefferson and the elder Adams, Pendleton was divided into the judicial dist riots of Anderson and Piokens, the county seat of the former being located at Anderson, the latter at Piokens Court House, now known ns ?'Old Pickons," near the site of old Fort Prince George and I bc Indian village of K cower. In tho 'Constitutional/ Convention of 1806, the year of Lee's surrender, tho long struggle to mnke "Judicial" and "Election" Distrlots, the samo in fact and in name, was nearly ended, Charleston being the sole ex ception. The Constitutional Convention of 1868, military ordered, negro chosen, and in the main ??oarpet-bag," scala wag" and negro composed, changed the name ??District" to ??County," thus bringing South Carolina into conformity with all the other States except Louisiana, divided Piokens county into Oooneo county, with Walhalla its county seat, and Pick eos county with the county seat at tho present Piokens Court House. The members of the convention from the Ooonee county seotion had the boundary lines so arranged as to retain Calhoun's old homo within their territory, and vet named their new county, not after the famous statesman, but after a small "tribe of Cherokee Indians. As there are "sermous in stone" and "books in brooks," so there are histories in names. Pendleton was named in honor of Henry Pendleton, who was born in Culpenper county, Virginia, in 1760, and died in Greenville Distriot, South Carolina, January lOtb, 1789. He was educated in Virginia. He and his brother Nathaniel joined the "Culpepper Minute Men," the first patriotic regiment that was organ ized in the ?South. Both served in our State. Henry Pendleton was oaptured at the taking of Charles ton. Having learned of a plot of a party of Tories to take him from his quarters at night and hang him at the town gate, he counterfeited the signature of a British officer to a j pass, and by its use escaped. Corn wallis wrote Moultrie concerning tbe matter and demanded Pendleton's return. The answer of the hero of the Palmetto log fort was character-1 istio-he was oonoerned with no body's passports bat his own. A'ter tho war Pendleton settled in South Carolina and was eleoted Judge. He was the author of the County Court Act, passed Maroh 17th, ?785, and was one of the three Judges appointed that year to revise the laws of the State. He was one of ' the trustees of the short-lived Colloge of Cambridge, at Ninety Six. Judge Pendleton was a mem ber of the Constitutional Conven tion of 1788. He flied at thirty nine-seven months and twenty days] after his adopted State had ratified the Federal Constitution-three months, and twenty days beforo Washington, the illustrious "Cinoin natus of the West," took, for the first time, the oath of office as Presi dent of the new United States of I America. Suffer your speaker to read you a page from an old book, rare and valuable, whioh contains an article on Pendleton District: ' . ** "The oourt house is located in tho vil lage of Pendleton,-whioh, from this oir-1 oumstauoo, may be considered tho dis triot town. It is pleasantly situated near I the waters of Eightcon Mile creek, a con siderable branch of the Seneca river, whioh empties into the Savannah; and contains, besides a court house, (a new oourt house on an elegant and spaoious j plan will soon be erected here, an appro priation being made for this purposo by the Legislature,! and jail, a Presbyterian and Episcopal church, forty houses, sev eral of thom neat, an academy, printing ofticc (issuing a weekly paper)/ and an agricultural hall for the meeting of a sooiety of this nature. There is every prospect of the village increasing in pop ulation. A very select sooiety is found here and in the neighborhood, where some gentlemen of fortune and nigh re spectability, from the low country, have located themselves and families. A beau tiful view of the mountains is obtained from the village. These hound thc hori zon to tho north. Among tho breaks of theno colossal mounds is discovered tho entrance into the interesting valley of Jooassee, celebrated in song; and off in the distance the eye rest s on t hat. splendid mass of perpendicular rock (tho admira tion of travelers), the Table Mountain, baoked by tho most elevated grounds in tho State, the Sassafras Mountain. "Several settlements, as villages, aro established in various places in the dis triot. The oldest of these is Piokens ville, formerly the seat of justice, but now reduoed to three or four houses. It is situate soven or eight miles west of tho Saluda rlvor. The 17th regiment muster ground is located here. "Rook Mills village lies on Qenorosittoo river, a water of Savannah. Here is the largest merchant's milljn the distriot, belonging to Maverick Sc. Lewis; also a saw mill, spindle factory and distilleries, besides several wagon-makors,' shoe makers, etc. "Centreville was established by E. Earle, Esq., principally for manufactur ing purposes. "A town was laid out by Gon. Ander son, on the Tugaloo or Savannah river, at the junotlon of the Soneoa, called Andersonville. It is situate at the vory point of a peninsula, and is a most romantic spot. The projeot of making it a commercial town failed. In this place two mills and a forgo, otc., were built GIRL WOMEN. The general standard of measurement for womanhood is ?grown-up-ness.? When a girl is emancipated from school and arrives at the dignity Of trailing skirts and elaborate hair dressing she is looked upon as j a young woman. But nature knows nothing of such stand ards. When the womanly func tion is establish ed womanhood is attained ac cording to her standards, and there is need of womanly care and caution. It' is girlish ignor ance or neglect at this critical time which often results in long years of after misery. Mothers who perceive the ?vi dences of func tional derange- < ment in young girls jKiould promptly have them begin theme ot Dr. Pierce's Favorite Pr^riptiasJT It establishes reg. ularity, tranquil^? the nerves md tones up the whole i ?My troobtea^sUrled. during my girlhood," writes Min Mor? !>. Oreer, of io? Mowo Street, Akron, O^but didi'not prove nerton? until iHyj. From tb? Um* i did not see ? well day. I suffered'at every monthly period wilt? terrible headafihe", Irritation of the ?pine and pain? In my heels. I had sorenean through ray hips and ovarle? all the time ?nd constant backache. fdoctor would tell me one ?hin? allis me. iher would nay something altogether dlfler but they only relieved me. r then wrote and followed your advice. I took five bottle? Pleroe'a Favorite Prescription, four of USh Medical Discovery ' and five vials of _ans.' Hdve not had a ?Ingle symptom of k A iii trouble so far. Can sleep good work ? fit ?nd eat solid ?nd substantial food Wtth ?.".f distress.? ?Or. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets cleanse the Vowels and stimulate the sluggish liver. and a manufactory of small arms'ostab lifthod. About one hundred bad actually been made when peace put an end to tho Rohomo. As tbe war contributed to injure it In other respects, and chocked tho spirit of enterprise, the prinotpal persons moved away. At this place there is r* \v a stove, wilie h collects ?Vom tho Indians the spigelia marllandioa (oink root) wbioh is made np into bundles of - about one pound eaob, stem and all', which are pressed into large hogsheads oontaiomg OOO pounds each. This plant brings, in Savannah or Charleston, 25 cents a pound. There are also sent to market from this place about 1,000 pounds of ginseng and several hogsheads of snakeroot, both of the blaok and Soneoa kind. The Savan nah is here about 400 yards wide." The "weekly paper" mentioned in the extract just read, was "The Pendleton Weekly Messenger." It was the first newspaper in WeBtern South Carolina and was perhaps the first paper iu Amerioa published so far toward the west. Ils founder and publisher was John Miller, com monly known as "Printer John," or "Printer Miller," who left England on account of his conneotion with the publication of tho "Junius Let ters. His press was one Gen. Na thaniel Green had used in his cam paigns for publishing military,orders. In an appendix to "Ramsay's His tory of South Carolina," whose pre face date is December 81, 1808, the reader sees thin statement : "Among the attempts to diffuse know ledge may be mentioned a weekly news paper which is very well conduct "d and printed at the village of Pendleton by Mr. Miller. It ls a fact worthy of re cord that In the frontier district, thirty, years ago possesssd by the Indians, the publioation of a newspaper has com menced and is oarried on in a manner worthy of patronage. The yearly sub scription is two dollars and a half." The first Court House was of logs and stood, we learn, near the railroad oui vert, not iar- from the junotion of the two bl anches. Tfie* i>::eoml was of brick and its site was ncr tbe Cresent Farmers' Hall,, which was u:lt of the material of the temple of justice. A friend, learned in the" law, informs us that among the many illustrons names on the rooovds of the Pendleton Courts as practicing thereiu appear those of John C. Cal houn and George MoDuffie, Zacha riah Taliafero, a soldier of the Revo lution ; Warren R. Davis, a member of Congress and a dose friend of Davy Crockett; Joseph Taylor; the brothers Annsted ana Franois Burt, the last named appointed by Presi dent Pierce the first Governor of the territory of Nebraska, died while in office, and was brought baok to Pen dleton and buried in the Episcopal church yard ; and the brothers, Mil ledge L. and James Bonham, the latter an emigrant to Texas and a viotim of the massacre at the Alamo, Benjamin F. Perry, a native of the district, made his maiden speech ' in the Pendleton Court House, and the last speech of his life- was made from a stand ereoted near its site, from which, while sonrcely able to stand from the weakness of age, he ad dressed an immense multitude-Tin Farmers' Sooiety and its and hit many friends. On this occasion, bul a short time before his death, Gov er nor Perry was entertained by h ii life-lonjj; friend, the late John B. Sit ton, who, on hearing tho aged states man express a wish to see once mor? the grave of his father and mother sent him In a carriago on that piou mission. Truly, as the poet priest of tb Confederacy sings in immorto strains, in words which men will no willingly let die : "There is grandeur in gravos, There is glory in gloom; For out of the gloom future brightness i born, As after the night comes the sunrise o morn." The liest, and best known, histor! cal novel that relates to Weston South Carolina is" J. P. I^onnedy' "Horseshoe Robertson." The hero' home was in Pendleton Djstriot, an< he lived here a third of a oenturj His house still stands. Hear th reading of - an extraot from an ol flaper-"Flag of the Union," pu^t ?shed at Tuscaloosa, Ala., date January 17th, 1888 : l(o I CO''-KO I : Ito UK Ul.SON. Who has not read Kennedy's doligh ful novol of this name, and wno that hi read it would not give an half day's rid to seo tho venerable living hero of tl talo of" the "Tory Asoondenoy," the In mortal Horseshoe himself, tue extorm nator of "Jim Curry" and "Hugh H bershaw "? The venerable patriot bea lng tho familiar sobriquet, and whoi name Mr. Kennedy has made as familii in the mouthB of Amorioan youths i household words, was visited by us, company with several friends, ono di la si woek. We found the old gentlemi on bia plantation, about twelve mil from this city, as comfortably situ?t* with respect to this world's goods as ai one could desiru to have him. It w gratifying 'o us to see him In his old n?> after havv ? sorved through the whe war of imti\ adelice, thus soated und his own viney.\d fig tree, with his ohil ron around ti.m and with the partner his early toils and trials still continu to him, enjoying in peace and safety t rieh rowards AI that arduous strugg in the most gloomy and de pondi hour of which he was found as ready, earnest, as zealous, for tho cause ??liberty as when victory perched upon L stannard, mid the star of tho "Tory / comleiioyl' VA* 'or a while dime"ed by ? feat, and' .?in wbioh he a n timi with unshaken faith and d vitim until it sank below tho horizon, nov again to rise. - The old gem icm gave UB a partial history of I revolutionary adventures, oontaini many interesting facts respecting t domination of the Tory party in t South during tho times of tho Bovo tion which Mr. Kennedy hus not record in his book. Hut it will obtefly Inter our rendors, or that portion of thom least, to whom the history of tho i horo's achievements as recorded by 1 Kennedy is familiar, to bo assured tl tho principal inoidents therein port raj are strictly true. That his esoape from Charleston af , the capture of that city, his being trusted with a lotter to Butler, the sci at Wat Adair's, the capturo of Bntiei Oundn.l's Ford, his subsequent escape i 1 rocapturo, tho death of .lohn Hamsay i tho detection of tho party by reason the salute fired over his grave, his cap turing the four mon under thc command of tho younger St. Qormyu, hts attack upon Inez'H camp, and the death of Hugh (Iuborshaw hy his own hand, and finally the doath of Jim Curry, aro all narrated pretty tnuoh ae thoy ocourred, is oortain. In tho old veteran's langnage, "There is a heap of truth in it, though the writer has mightily furnished it up." That the names of Butler, Mildred Liosay, Mary Musgrove, John Ramsay, Hugh Habor shaw, Jim Curry, and iii fact almost evory other used in tho hook, with the exception of. his own, are roal and not Mei it ions. His own name, he informed us, is James ; and that he did not go by tho familiar appellation by whioh lie is now so widely known until after the war, when ho acquired it from tho form of his plantation in tho Horseshoe Bend of the Changa oroek, which was bestowed upon him by the Legislature of South Carolina in oonsequeiice of the services he had renderod during tho war. This estate, wo understood him to say, ho still owned. Ito wa? horn, he says, in 1750, and en tered the army in his seventeenth 'year. Before tho olose of the war, he says ho commanded a troop of horses, so that his military title is that of Capt. Horse shoe. Although in infirm health, he bears evidont marks of having been a man of great personal strength and activity. He is now afflioted with a troublesome cough, wtaioh, in the natu ral course of eventSi, n\ust, in a fow years, wear out his feed frame. Yet, notwithstanding his infirmities and gene ral debility, his eye still sparkles with, the Ore of youth, as' ho recounts tho stirring and thrilling incidents of tho war, aud that sly, quiet humor, so well described by Kennedy, may still bo seen playing around his mouth hs ono calls to his recollect ions any of tho pranks he was wont to play upon any of the "Tory vagrants," as he very properly stylos thom. The old gontleman received us with warm cordiality and hospitality, and after partaking of the bounties of his board aud speuding a night undor his hospitable roof, we took leave of him, sincerely wishing him mau/ years of the Eoacefuf enjoyment of that liberty which e fought so long ' and so bravely to achieve. It will not be uninteresting, wo hope, to remark that tho old hero still considers himself a soldier, though the nature of his'warfare is chauged. Ile is now as zealous a promoter,of the .Redeemer's causo as he once was in seouring the independence of his country. Since the above was in. type we have heard of tho doath of tho aged partner of this venorable patriot. An obituary notice will be found in anothor column Truly in friendship, L Signed: Thomas P. Clinton. Within a few weeks after the visit thus described the old soldier met "tho last enemy that shall be over come." His grave ie near the Blnok Warrior river, a few miles from Tus caloosa, Alabama, and the inscription on the marble marking his last rest ing plaoe is : Major James Robertson, a native of South Carolina, died April 20, 1838, aged 70 years, and was buried here. Well known as Horseshoe Robertson he earned a just fame In the war for in dependence in which he was eminent in courage, patriotism and suffering. He lived fifty-six years with his worthy partner, usoful and respect cd, and died in hopes of a blissful immortality. His ohildren oroot this monument as a tri bute justly due a gone father, husband, neighbor, prtriot and soldier. Name de rived from a bend in a oreek in South Carolina. Anderson and Pickens Districts, comprising the territory of Old Pen dleton, were represented in the Seoession Convention, Columbia Charleston, 1860, 1862, by the fol lowing illustrious, trusted and honored sons: Anderson, J. N. Whitnor, James L. Orr, J. P. Reed, R. F. Simpson and Benjamin Frank lin Mauldin ; Pickens, William Hunter, Andrew F. Lewis, Robert A. Thompson, William S. Grisham and John Maxwell. This conventionN at Charleston, having left Columbia on a special train oh account of smallpox m the the capital oity, on tho 20th day of December, 1860, by a vote of one hundred sixty.nine yeas, nays none, adopted tho Ordinance ot Secession. A fac-similo of this ordinance, signa tures included, the gift to the College of the Hon. William A. Courtenay, neatly framed, may be seen in tho historioal museum of Clemson Col-. lege. Of theso signors from the territory, of Old Pendleton, all have crossed^ over tho river and are sleeping with their fathers, savo ono, Rohort A. Thompson, now living in Walhalla. Two weeks ago to-day your speaker heard him address an educational meeting at Seneoa. His subject was "Memorial Day." Tho venerable [Continued on fourth pago, j DO YOU GET UP WITHALIMEBACK?4* _ Kidney Trouble Makes You Misera* ?. Almost everybody who reads the news papers- ls sure to know of the wonderful cures made by Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root, the great kidney, liver and bladder ren.edy. 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