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A VOICE FROM OLD PICKEN8. Bits of History that wilt Interest the D. A. R. and the Public Generally. Old Picken?, April 6.-Editors Courier : I have been requested by different members of the D. A. It. Chapter of Oconee county to fur nish Buoh matters of historio interest in relation to our Revolutionary an cestors as 1 may have learned from tradition or otherwise, and without re? ' plying separately I take pleasure in furnishing the following faots for publication : - I am informed by Major James L. fB)'*1 and others, among our oldest inhabitants, that the following persons who engaged iu that loug, bloody struggle for our independence are buried in this community at 'the places named : William Smith, near what is now Ebenezer ohurob, in Oeonee county, grave unmarked, but oan be located ; William Hughes, in the family graveyard on Cary placo, grave unmarked, but can be located ; Franklin Neighbors, at Crow Creek, (now Keowee) ohurob, Piukens oounty, grave unmarked, but can be looated ; Whitmire, nour Newry, Oconee county, grave unmarked, but oan bo located ; John Grey, in pri vate graveyard on place now owned by Isaiah Hammond, near' Little River bridge, on Seneca road, in Oco nee county, grave unmarked, but oan be identified ; Johu Wilson, near ( Vhe site of Fort George, on Keowee ?tiver, in Pickens county, gravo en closed by a rock wall. Major Boyd informs me that he was wei} ac quainted with this hero of the Revo lution, who participated in the battle of Fort George, between the British and American forces, and that in the engagement Wilson received a wound in the face from the butt end of a musket whioh greatly disfigured him for life. He did not die from the wound, but lived many years after peace was declared, and by his own request was buried on that gory battle field where th? wound wan in tl ?oled. Major Boyd says Wilson always claimed that five hundred British soldiers and hostile Indians perished in that battle and that all their bodies wore buried underneath one immense mound, near the river, and he says further that the mound was prominent there for years. Capt. Robert Steele now owns and resides on tho plantation where this battle was fought. No evidence of the fort remains, but to this day tomahawks, leaden bullets, beads, arrow heads, Indian trinkets and rude implements are un earthed in the cultivated fields near by. Fort George will bo remem bered as tho point from which the Indian maiden, Cateechee, mado her celebrated walk, or run, of near one hundred miles in one night to Ninety-Six to inform Gen. Greene that the Amerioan forces, stationed iralbo Fort, were completely sur isftnded and absolutely out off from water by the British. It is a histo rical faot that by the intrepidity and daring of the dusky heroine the Americans and their Indian allies, who oooupied the fort, were saved from massaore and enabled to win a great victory. It is said all the streams crossed by this Indian wo man on her perilous journey were named by her Mile Ci eek, Six Milo, #elve Milo, Eighteen, Three and enty, Six and Twonty, etc. These water courses are known by these names to-day. There is a tradition that Cateechoo was in love with a dashing young Amerioan soldier, who afterwards married her, boneo her devotion to our cause. On Keowee River, on the Pickens side, three mike abovo the sight of tho Old Pickens Court House, repose tho remains of John Craig, a Revo lutionary hero on whoso tombstone, nocording to his own directions, wore inscribed the patriotio words, "State Rights, Liberty and Independence," whioh are plainly legible to-day. On the Reid plantation, in Oconee, seven miles north of Seneoa, the grave of Joseph Reid is marked by a beautiful marble slab, on whioh there is tho. following epitaph, "Sa cred to the memory of Joseph Reid, who was born on June 6tb, 1756, died Oot. 10th, 1828. Through the '."/"varied scenes of a long life tho obli gations of duty ..-ero by him sa credly regarded and faithfully per formed. As a soldier ho was brave, active and enterprising ; as a magistrate, prompt, intelligent and upright ; as a neighbor, oonrteous, charitable and obliging ; asa husband and parent) affectionate, tonder and indulgent} as a Christian, humble, sincere and devoted." Several of the ? Revolutionary heroes are rep; ebonted by numerons descendants in Piokens and Oconee counties, and in the war between the North and South gave of their blood and treasury, for what ihey deemed a righteous cause, as freely ns did their ancestors for American independence. Whoever can aid tho noble women, who compose the D A.' R. Chapter of Oconee in their patriot ic efforts to perpetuate the names and valor of our heroic forefathers, will be engag ing in a snored cause. N. B. Cary. The Old Time Way. Our grandmothers gave us powders and teas because they knew nothing of modern medicine aud methods. In this age of progress and discovery, nioely coated, compressed tablets are fast HU pei ceding the old time powders and teas. Rydale's Livor Tablets are com pressed, ohooolate coated tablets, easy to swallow, pleasant io offeot, always re liable. They coutaiu ingredient? that, cannot be used in powders aud teas; in gred: :ts that have an effect upon the livor ihut is never o.nain cd from tbe so called liver powders, etc. A trial will prove tboir morita. Wal India Drug Com pany. The Great Oyama. Grant was only forty-two when bo be oamo lieutenant general of the Union armies, says the Chicago Tribune. But Leo was nine years older wbeu he fought his Hist great battle-at Malvern Hill than Napoleon was whou ho fled from Waterloo. Moltko was sixty-six years old when he overthrew the Austrians at Sadowa and seventy when his genius triumphed in the Franco-Prussian war. Nogl is fifty-four, Kuroki is sixty-two, Oyama is sixty-four. It seems probable that changes in m et Innis of warfare have been a faotor in putting middle-aged and old men in command of modern anni?... Things had changed whon old Moltko, a soldier of books and maps, could sit impassable at tho end of a tele graph wire and direct the conquering movements of more than a half million men according to a plan he bad drawn up months before. Oyama is a cool, long-headed old fellow, who has mastered tho science and tho art of moderu war by long years of study and experience. Future great commanders probably will be a good deal Uko him. Special Order for Miss Lee. A Now Orleans dispatch says the fol lowing special orders have been issued : "Headquarters United Confederate V et crans, New Orleans, La. Special Orders No. 34.-A feeling of sonow, deep and profound, will enter ovory Southern homo when it is loamed that Miss Mildred Lee, 'the youngest child of our im tn rt al chieftain, Hubert ?. Leo, died suddenly in this oity last Wednesday. "Gifted by nat um with a wonderful mind, the liberal oducatiou which her idolizod father gave her, improved and broadened by extensive travel and close observation, sot lier apart as an ideal representative of tho womanhood of tho South, and her queenly and courteous bearing called forth tho admiration of all who wore so fortunato as to know her. she was dovoted to tho old soldiers of tho Confederate armies, and was never so happy as wheu in conversation with ono of them, or talkiug to others of tho glorious deeds of our boys. Her un timely death is a distinct loss to the whole South, and an extreme griof to every Confederate veteran. "By command of "Stephen D. Lee, "General Commanding." Ofiloial: William E. Mickle, Adjt. Gen. and Chief of Staff. Corporation Assessments Increased. A number of increases were mado by the Comptroller General last wook on returns by foreign corporations under the license tax act. Tho return of tho Georgia Chemical Co.. for business done in this Stale was $83,000, and this was raised to $185,702. Tho roturn of the Virginia-Carolina Chemical Co. was $1,118,304, and after going ovor tho figures this was changed to $1,305,051. There aro some furthor ret urns relating to perm.nal property in this st ate and in Now Jorsoy, whore tho company is char tered, that will have to bo straightened out. Tho returu of tho Southern Cotton Oil Co. was raised from $825,000 to $000,000. Th oro aro a uumbor of other concerns yot to be raised. Stanford Will Read in Court. San Joso, Cal., March 31.-Tho will and codical of Mrs; Stanford have been proven and admitted to probate and letters of administration issued. By the terms of tbe will $2,000,000 aro left in trust to Ariel Lathrop and descendent* of D. S. Lathrop, her brothers; $1,000,000 in trust to her nieces, Jennie L. Lawton and Amy L. Hanson, and tho ohlldren of Christine L. Gunning; $1,000,000 to Charles G. Lathrop; $120,000 to various oharitable institutions of San Franoisco and San Jose, and the remainder of her estate to the trustoes of Leland Stanford, Jr., University. It is estimated that the total area for farming purposes in the United States is 841,000,000 aoros-an area larger than England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, Franoe, Germany. Austria, Spain, Japau, and the Transvaal. There|are 14,430,000 persons engaged in agricultural pursuits, while all other industries employ but 18,845,000. Lotter to J. 0. Vernor, Walhalla. Deter Sir: A painter complained that our cans are too full; unhandy; spill. It's a way we have; 'tis hHndier not to be full; but we have a weakness tor full measure. Our gallon contains eight pints: the usual "gallon** is seven. We'll think it over again ; but we Uk? a full can. How much short would you Uko a barrel? Seven ualluns would be the proportion. Sinn i measure Murkest s that th'? short age ia probably uot iu the dimmest in gi odien t. (?ness we'll stick to four quarts to a gallon, sud tit ty gallons a barrel. The name to go by is De voe I ead-and /.inc. Yours truly, 60 F. W. Devoe Ar. Co. P. 8.-J. W. Bell, Walhalla. G. W. Giguilliat, Seneca, and Matheson Hard ware Co., Westminster, sell our paint. How Young Calvin Galloway Was Killed. The following, written by Gen. R. R. Hempbill in his paper, the Abbeville Medium, will be read with interest by the survivors of Orr's Regiment: Cal viu Galloway was one of the best young men who weut to tho war from Due Wost in 1861. Ho was conspicuous for courage aud patriotism sod was al ways at the post of duty and danger. He wont into the battle of Spottsylvania Court House with tho flag of Orr's Bifles and was one of tho color guard. After tho hattie ho was reported missing, his body was not recovered and no word was ovor received from him. Recent ly a communication from Wil liam Turner in a Georgia newspaper, gavo some account of how the flag of Orr's Hilles was saved after being cap tured. It was dividod in four pieces by the color-bearer, .lohn T. McBrydo, Turnor and two others who were taken prisoners. It was brought homo in seo ttOUB. A correspondence bogan between the editor of the Medium and Mr. Turner who now lives at. Rutledge, Georgia. In his first lotter he spoke of seeing a young soldier, McLaughlin, killed, but we in formed him that no man of that name was killed in Orr's Kiries at Spottsylva nia. We wrote him a description of young Galloway, the only member of Company G not accounted for, and his reply convinces us to a moral certainty that he saw our comrade killed. He says: "Now as to the boy that was killed when I was captured. I did not know his name. I only board some of the boys say it was McLaughlin. He andi wei e tho ouly ones of our rogimout that woro in traverse. He was upon his knees shooting. So was I aud my gun was bent in my baud. I saw it wns death to move and so I crouched down as low as I could behind tho works and I told him to got down lower, but be kept on shooting. I was looking in his fuco and I saw tho bolo made over his left eye. I could have put my linger in tho placo be foro bo foll. He fell across my lap and I felt bis quiver and felt the hot blood How ovor my lap. I saw bo was young and had black bair. I am confident that it, wa? Galloway. I felt a ball burn my Deck a little while bofore be was shot and asked him if I was shot and bo shook his hoad.> You can write and tell his peoplo about him for I am confident it was him." A Twice Told Tale. Wo wish to repeat what wo havo said ?nco before in these columns, that El liott's Emulsified Oil Liniment is the best Liniment ever produced for use in the family and ou animals. Best for rheumatism, lameness, stiffness and sore ness of joints or muscles. Best for bruises, contusions, sprains and swell logs. Von get a full half pint for 25c, and get your money back if it does not io all it is recommended to do. Wal halla Drug Company. The United States colors, which floated over Fort Sumter at the time of its sur render in April, 1801, and whioh after ward wore raised ovor that fort at the timo of its recapture by Union forces in April, 1804, woro spread out on tbo floor of tho reoeption room of the Secretary of War recently and were viewed by Secretary Taft and other offloials. Those flags wore recently turned ovor to tho war department under the provision of the will of tho widow of Gen. Anderson, in tho possession of whoso family tho standards havo been since the war. Sec rotary Taft diroctcd that thoy bo placed In a glass case in tho reception room of tho department. A morchant of Kershaw, S. C., re cently purchased a car of homo-grown corn from a noar-by farmor. Such a transaction has never been beard of in this county. Why should not Edgoflold far mei s Bell Kdgofiold merchauts corn ? At the prevailing price, 75 and 80 cents, it does seem that it could be doue at a profit. Long years ago, before the rail roads traversed evory section of tho country, mauy of tho planters in this county, whoso largo log cribs housed hundreds of bushels of corn, used to Roll this cereal, not only to their loss fortunato neighbors, but to the hog and horse drovers from tue wost. How con ditions have changed 1 Noa the west erner sells us our corn, wheat, bacon, horses and mules.-Edgefleld Advertiser, March 20. The next best thing to pushing your town is to knock off one of those fellows who aro hanging on heh ind and digging their toes in the dirt to prevent progress. -The State. John Dow, a negro, of Sulphur Rook, Ark., went to see his wife last Thursday, who was at her father's home, and he oause she refused to return with him he drew a pistol and shot her dead. Then he shot and killed his wife's mother and ..uother negress. His father-in-law so i ' a shotgun and shot D^W, but not fatally, the latter being able to return the fire, killing his father-in-law. DEATH TO MOTHERHOOD. Woman Tried to Kill Horsed to Escape the Latter. A dispatch from Philadelphia sa>s : Dreading additional cares of mother hood, Mrs. Bessie Brandow, 21 y ??ara old, who lived with her husband and two young children in a small alley between Eighth and Ninth streets, in tho rear of Kater, attempted to commit suicide shortly before 9 o'clock this morning by cutting her throat with a butoher knife. The woman is in the Pennsylvania Hos pital in a serious condition. For some time Mrs. Brandow has been complaining of the hardship with which she was burdened, and to neighbors often expressed her de sire to end it all. She was tired of living, she told Rosa Stein, a neigh bor, and death would come as a wel come relief to all her oarcB and sorrows. Her husband never took her seriously, and tried his best to oheer her with stories of brighter days to come, but the young wife would not be consoled. This morning, after the hus' tnd had gone to his work, Mrs. Br.udow provided breakfast for herself and children, and she had just about oon oluded putting away the dishes when a sudden desire for death came upon hor, and in an instant she had snapped up the big table knife. Un hesitatingly she plunged the knife into her neck and ripped her throat from ear to ear. Her thrust, how ever, was not sufficiently strong to sever the jugular vein, and this alone may be the meanB of saving her life. With the blood spurting from an ugly gash, the mother made her way to the front window and tapped on the glass to attract the attention of her neighbors. Ruth, her eldest ohild, followed her, weeping pitifully at the gruesome spectacle her mother presented. Neighbors were quick to respond to the summons for help, and in a few minutes the woman was on her way to the hospital. MURRAY'S IRON MIXTURE. Now is tho time to tako a spring tonio. By far tho host thing to take is Murray's Iron Mixture. It makes puro blood and goto rid of that tired feeling. At all druggists. 600. A BOTTLE. Or direct from THK MURKAY DRUG COMPANY, Columbia, S. C. The sarcophagi of ancient Egyt Beom to have at length given up their great secret, hitherto supposed to have been unfathomable as tho sphinx itself-that of embalming, says the London Globe. Mr. Barthe lot, permanent secretary of the Louvre Museum, as the result of long analytical examination of tho oils and ungents which have resisted the action of time in tombs of the fifth and sixth dynasties, dating back 3,500 years, demonstrated that the oil was simply castor oil as is still used in Egypt to-day, while oxidiza tion has produced effects analogous to those resulting from the action of nitric acid on fatty matters, such as have been observed in oils of tho anoiont monuments of Rheims. FIFTY CENTS IN some conditions the gain from the use of Scott's Emulsion is very rapid. For this reason we put up a fifty-cent size, which is enough for an ordinary cough or cold or useful as a trial for babies and children. In other conditions the gain is slower-health cannot be built up in a day. In such cases Scott's Emulsion must be taken as nourishment i a food rather than a medicine. lt's a food for tired and weak digestions. Send for fr- ??mpU Scott & Bowne, 409-4? Pearl St. chemiet ? New York BO*, ?od $1.00. AildrwffUrte Truths that ? Your grooer is honest and-i you that he knows very little sells you. How can he know, i how it In each package of LION Bound of Pure Coffee. Insis Jon head on every package.) (Bave the lion-heads fe SOLD BY GROCEI w THREE PAPERS A WEEK FOR $1.60. Hy a clubbing a i i angement with tho ( 'baricst on Semi-Weekly Now? and Con rior we aro offering that paper and The Koowoo Courier for $1.50 per year. The Kooweo Courier is recognized not only as tile best papor in Ooouoo county, but it is rated among the best county papers iu South Carolina. The Semi-Weekly Nows and Courier is an excellent jour nal, published on Wednesdays and Satur lays, gi vos the detailed news of So ntl. Carolina as a speoial feature, and carr, IM ia full Associated Press dispatches from all ovor tho world. The combina tion of the two papers at $1.50 gives our j present readers, as well as now sub scribers, au opportunity to secure two of j tho best papers iu the State (throe papers weok) for 50 cents more than tho regu lar price of either. Let us send you two of I the very best papers in South Carolina j for almost the price of one. Tho executors of tho estate of tho late F. G. Staoy, of Gaffney, have brought suit against the Fidelity Casualty company for $5,000, the amount of a policy carried by the deceased in that company. The complaint states that the death of Staoy was due to an acoident, he having struck a man a blow in the face and the teeth of the man en countered the knuckles of tho de ceased, causing blood poison, which was the immediate cause of his ?ath. The contention of tho de fense is that the death was not acci dental, neither sudden nor violent ; that whon tho deceased engaged in the encounter with the follow ho as sumed all personal risk. Changed His Mind. A tramp, dirty and ragged to the last degree, oallod at a house on the door of which was a doctor's sign. A large, rather masculine-looking wo man opened the door. "Souse me, lady," said the tramp, "but 1 j ist oalled to ask if the doctor h id any old clothes he'd let me have. You see, I'm kind o' bad off .fer all kind o' clothes, an' I'd be mueh j obleedged fer any thing the dootor | could let me have, an' I ain't pertick ler as to tho fit." The woman smiled and made re ply : "I am thc dootor !" "Sufferin' Moses !" ejaculated tho tramp as he made a bee-line for thc gate.-December Lippinoott's. For some ? ears there has been on foot a movement all over the country to instill into the publie school pupils a spirit of healthy patriotism, says tho Santo Fo Now Mexican. In many of the States compulsory tlag laws have been enacted, compelling each public school to own and to dis play, during school hours and at des ignated times, an American fi? New Mexico has fallen in line by enacting a compulsory flag law, and requiring a daily salute to the flag. The salute will be in the following form : The pupils stand facing the flag in the attitude of a military salute and reoite in concert: "I pledge allegiance to my flag and to tho republic for which it stands, one nation indivisible, with liberty and justice for all." Ocones County Alliance Meeting. Tho Oconee County Al Han co will meet on Saturday after the second Friday in April, at 10 o'olook a. m., at Fairview school house. W. M. Fennell, Pres. J. K. Pickett, Seo. If ho cares to do no-can teil R ? about the bulk coffee he H where it originally came from. fl waa blended-or With What fl 'hen roasted? If you buy your If. looee by the pound, how can M pect purity andfuniform quality f J| j COFFEE, ?be LEADER OP fl PACKAGE COFFEES, Is ot ally unilorm In quality, Ith and flavor. F-..r OVEB A t OF A CKNTURY, MON COFFEE ?cen thc standar*! coffee In ?na of homes. I COFFEE ?? ?w?nlly ptw.ke? ' factories, ?nd until opened ta om?, hmm no ennnce ol behan naul I, or ot coming la contact witts tiviot, . irma, or unclean anna?. ~. COFFEE you get ono full t upon getting the gi iiuine. tr Y&luable preinfumB.) IS EVERYWHERE | 0OL8ON SPICE CO., Toledo, Ohio. Prohibition In United States. The following is a summary of '.onditi< ns over the United States : Alabama has twenty prohibit ion ' count ion ; Arkansas, forty-four prohi bition counties; California, ono hun dred and seventy-li w prohibition towna and oitios ; Colorado, fifty towns and cities for prohibition ; Connecticutt, ninety-four prohibition towns ; in Delaware half tho State ie prohibition ; Monda, forty-five coun ties prohibition, thirteen counties partial prohibition and only one hun dred and twenty-five saloons in the [ entire State ; Georgia, one hundred and four oounties prohibition ; Illi nois, six hundred and fifty towns and cities prohibition ; Indiana, one hun dred and forty towns prohibition ; Iowa, all the State prohibition with the exception of twenty-five cities ; Kansas, prohibition ; Kentucky, forty seven counties total prohibition, thirty-five counties with ono license town eaoh, nineteen counties with two license towns each ; Louisiana, twenty counties prohibition ; Maine, prohibition ; Maryland, fifteen coun ties prohibition ; Massachusetts, thir teen no-license cities and two hun dred and thirty-seven no-license towns ; Michigan, four hundred towns and cities prohibition ; Minne sota, four hundred towns and cities prohibition ; Mississippi, sixty-five counties prohibition ; Nebraska, two hundred and fifty towns and cities prohibition ; New Hampshire, ono hundred and forty-four towns prohi bition ; New Jersey, two hundred towns and oitios prohibition ; New York, cities have lioense by State law, and of thc nine hundred and thirty-four towns having tho right of local option, two hundred and eighty five have total prohibition ; North Carolina, only twenty counties out of ninety-seven havo saloons ; North Dakota, prohibition ; ohio, one hun dred and forty-five towns under Beal law, and several more under old law ; Pennsylvania, twonty oounties and six hundred towns and cities prohibi tion ; Rhode Island, twenty towns and cities prohibition ; South Caro lina, dispensary law covers tho State ; Tennessee, whole State prohibition , except eight cit ies ; Texas, one hun dred and forty-one counties prohibi tion ; Vermont, ono hundred and thirty-eight towns prohibition and improving ; Virginia, looal option bill passed in spring of 1003, and saloons reduced several hundred ; West Virginia, forty out of fifty three counties prohibition ; Wash ington, fifty towiiB and cities prohi bition ; Wisconsin, throe hundred towns and cities prohibition.-Na tional Advocate. Tuesday, April 4lh, was a favora ble day for Democratic candidates. In Chioago, Kansas City, Leaven worth, Jefferson City and St. Loni* Democratic mayors were eleoted. In Chioago Judge Dunne received the largest vote ever cast for a mayoralty oandidate, while the success of the Democratic ticket in Kansas City and] Leavenworth was a political revolu tion. But experience has taught us better than to repeat that favorite but lately discredited saying about "straws showing wbioh way tho wind blows."-The State. IMEYM?kMAR Out*** Gelant Prev?ate Pneumonia ._