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GOVERNOR PERRY Served South Carolina as Chief Exec. utive fellowioy ippsaaHox. OPPOSED THE WAR OF SECESSION r' ~ Fought a Duel and Killed a Man Believed to Have Been Set Upon Him By Political Enemies?Beautiful Letters to His Family On Record. Benjamin F. Perry was one of the great men of this state. He could not be called brilliant, but his sound Judgment, safe conclusions, reason from facts, not carried away by zeal or enthusiasm, put him ahead of his contemporaries with the exception of Pctigru O'Keall. J. S. Richardson, Alfred Huger and one or two others. From a sketch of his life written by Mr. A. B- Williams come years ago, editor of the Greenville News, these facts are mostly gathered. Born November 20, 1806, in what was then known as Old Pendleton district, row Oconee county, his father was a native of Massachusetts, hi3 mother, Mies Foster of Virginia, was connected by blood with Commodore Oliver Perry. His father moved to Charleston in 1784. Afterwards to Greenville, S. C., whore he married Miss Foster. Then he moved to Oconee county, went to farming:, where young Perry was born, was sent to school at Asheville, N. C.; at an early age he advocated the election of John C. Calhoun, who was then opposed t^ state rights; went to Greenville in 1824 and studied lu,v under Judge Karle; at the age of 19 years he was chosen orator at a celebration of the 4th of July in Greenville. In 1827 was admitted to the bar atd in 183? began his long and protracted ngm *wr vutprcscrvation of the Union against | great odds. Spartanburg and Greenville counties were .strong for that lime, and Perry who was then editor of the Greenville Mountaineer, led the opposition to nullification and secession dnd his paper was regarded as the leading organ in the up-country. His J political attitude made him many enev mies, but he consistently kept up the fight until his death, although when the state seceded he did all he could to aid the cause of the Confederacy. There was much bitterness between tl-e two parties, espec ally in the upcountry, and Governor Perry was challenged by. Bynum to fight a duel. Bynum was killed, and I have heard was burled in the churchyard of the Old Stone church in Pendleton. It was a cold day wnen me tiuei wus iuu^m somewhere on the banks of the Sc.vnnni.h river. Perry wore an overcoat I'r.ed with red flannel. Looking down ahd seeing $ piece of flannel, he thought he was mortally wcunded. It *yas rumored at the time that Bynum, who was considered a dead sure shot, was brought to Greenville by Perry's many enemies for the purpose of getting rid of hipi. Governor Terry regarded this as one of the unfortunate events of his life and never afterwards alluded to it, although in the legislature he strongly opposed any act to abolish duels. In 18"24, he ran for ingress against Warren R. Davis, and was defeated by only 700 votes out of a total of ever 7,000. In 1836, elected a member of the legislature without opposition. He strongly advocated prison reform and with the cooperation of Prof. Leiber of ti c S. C. college, worked for the estab lishment of a penitentiary. He was moat bitterly opposed to the parish system, a great injustice to the upcountry. He advocated the election of governor and electors by a vote of the people; was defeated in the legislature, but was sustained by the people of his county. In 1S44 was elected to the state senate and was the sole member v/ho voted against the expulsion of Mr. Hoar from the state, a vote for which he was greatl> commended by the Union people and was proud of until the day of his death. Governor Perry boldly proclaimed his opposition to secession and disunion. He was very aggressive in his editorials and addresses and some of his personal friends advised him that if he continued neither his life nor his property would be safe. He always considered his crowning glory was the position that he took at this great crisis. No one living outside of the state tun appreciate the excitement of the people at this dangerous crisis. Governor Perry's courage, patriotism, wisdom and high courtesy won for him the respect and admiration jeven of his opponents. He was again elected to the legislature and he and his two colleagues from Greenville county were the only Union men in that body. Was a member of the state convention in 1S51, and as a member of the committee of 21 appointed to prepare a report, lie submitted an able minority report, dissenting from the resolution prepared and presented by Judge Cheves, which de.'cnded the right of secession. In 1S'>U. \v:is a memDcr 01 ine v.nariesu>n convention of the Democratic body. Tile galleries hissed h;m every time he arose to vote and when he arose to speak, it became so loud and continuous that he could with difficulty proceed. "Let them remain, Mr. Chairman." he said in deep tones and deliberate manner. "I would like them to hear what I have to say." His speech was not without effect, but as one of the results ol the convention, the parties split. Tw< candidates were nominated by the T -mocratic party, which led to the dec.ion of Abraham Lincoln. In 1860, an election was ordered for a convention to declare the Union dissolved. Governor Perry, in his paper, fought this to the bitter end. He predicted the war and defeat of the South and urged tViat it was foliy to secede with NEW PICTURE OF This is the latest photograph i taken from an automobile which former President was taking his Washington. the great preponderance of wealth ami population in the North, with their enormous resources and command of , the sea. The convention was against him, however, but he went down wun j flying colors. Tho candidates from ( Greenville county to tho convention' were all defeated. His friends and staunch supporters were Jas. 1'. Boyce and Chief Justice O'Neall. For the first time in thirty j years he was defeated in his own l county. Being too old for active service, he supported the Confederacy with voice and purse. Served as a j member of the legislature, Confederate | commissioner, district attorney and j district judge. After Appomattox, he was chosen by President Johnson pro- j visional governor of this state. Under his administration the legislature carried out much of the work he had supported for years. Abolished the parish system, and the light to elect governor and presidential electors was given to .the people. The penitentiary was established, the courts of law and equity were combined and the state banking: system was abolished. After the expiration of his (service as governor, he returned to Greenville and was elected United States cenalor, but like other Southern senators was de- j nied a scat. His last prominent service was in 1S76, when at the ag of 71, he went as one of the South Carolina delegates to the St. Louis conven- i tion, by which Tilden and Hendricks were nominated. His law practiee was large and lucrative. Always dignified and courteous, he observed the highest standards of professional ethics. He married in 1837, in the city of Charleston, Miss Elizabeth F. MeCall, daughter of Hext MeCall. and a niece of liobert Y. llnyne. He carefully kept a diary all his life and it is much to he regretted that it j has never been published, lie was not a member of any church, but attended I Christ Episcopal church in (Jreenviile, with his fumily. J'ne inner ran ui n;s isi> \\a.-, ci>i-m , in seclusion at his country home near Greenville, "where ho had one of the best libraries in the state. Gover?.or Perry was one of the finest j looking men I ever saw. According to j his own statement he was six feet two I and a half inches tall, without an ounce of suporflous flosii. He greatly | resembled the English statesman Dis- I NEW JUSTICE OF THE UNITE Justice George H. Sutherland I Justice Clarke of Ohio. EX-PRESIDENT. I sanr^ if ex-President Woodrow Wilson, encountered that in which the afternoon ride in the streets of MERCHANTS KICK. Claim They Are Paying More Than Their Share of Taxes. Resolutions protesting: against the present taxation of mercantile stocks, and calling on the South Carolina tax commission to afford some relief, were adopted at a meeting1 held In Greenwood lust week of merchants from Greenwood and other towns cf the Piedmont section. The resolutions requested ail retail merchants throughout South Carolina to unite in the effort to procure relief. The merchants claim that they are unfairly taxed on their inventories and accounts instead of on the capital invested. The tax system and the laws were explained by F. 11. Grier, Greenwood attorney, who had been invited to address the meeting. Mr. Grier went over the present tax system with the merchants and explained all legal phases. .J. \V. Kirkpatrick of Belk-Kirkpatrick in Greenville, declared that his taxes were 14 per cent of the capital invested and numerous other similar examples were cited. Merchants asserted that the present system of taxing mercantile stocks was ruinous to them, and for three years mercantile stocks have been (axed at a higher rate than any other class of prop erty in, me siaie. 1 ne resolutions passed .state that the tax commission has been asked to equalize and assess this class of property on the same basis as other property is assessed, but has failed to do so. The resolutions urge all merchants to gather and tabulate facts and figures on the true value of mercantile property for the guidance of the commission, and urge merchants to take lip the matter of equalization with the legislature at iis next session, if nothing is done by the tax commission. ? Two prisoners escaped from the Florence county jail Friday night by sawing through the bars. laeli, although to my mind he was a much finer looking man. lie wrote a series of letters to his wife, both before and after marriage, which exhibit In tiie highest degree the love and affection he had for his family, and his great concern about j Iheir welfare. There is also much j which throws light upon the manner I of living at that time. D STATES SUPREME COURT. ok Utah has taken the place of YANKEE DOODLE HOUSE _ Historic Dwelling in Albany is Falling: With Decay. Father and I went down to camp Along with Cap'n Cioodin'; And there we saw the man and boys As thick as hasty puddin'. So wrote Surgeon Dick Schuckburg | of His Majesty's Colonial Army in 1755, j composing what was intended as a | satirical ballad aimed at the American Yankee, but which later became our, first National anthem and was sung by the Yankees when Cornwallis surrendered Yorktown in 1781. The stalwart Dick sat perched on the curb of a wejl in the rear of the old Van Rensselaer mansion, which overlooks the Hudson river at Albany. Round about could be seen the British officers of the general's staff, spick and I span in the brilliant uniform of His Majesty's forces. The old mansion, j the home of Col. Johannes Van Rens- j selaer, had become the headquarters of Gen. Amherst, commander of the | King's Colonial forces. In those days the mansion was a magnificent old place and then, as now, said to have | been the oldest house in America, it having boon erected in 1642.' Round about were encamped the great force of British regulars and Colonials,. happy and unsuspecting the final defeat that was to befall them several yeai-s later at Ticonderoga, where they j were to clash with the forces of the : Frcncli under Montcalm. As the regulars watched the Colonial i soldiers the irrepressible Dick Schr.ck- ! burg of His Majesty's Colonial regulars, a gay blade with a keen mind, I whose bubbling wit and satirical sallies i made him a welcome addition at any gathering! took occasion to write a | merry quip on the ragged, unsoldlerly , appearing Colonial troops whose, frontier garb and rough and ready; ways made them tne subjects of much j merriment. Thus from the pen of the rolllcksome Dick Schuckburg was "Yankee Doodle" I born, a satire on the frontier soldiermen, but borrowed, it must be confessed, from an old song said to have been based on Cromwell's entry into; Oxford. The song swept the king's army like wildfire. Although dashed off as Dick sat on the edge of an old well, no j doubt to the accompaniment of the! laughter of Dick's army friends as ho recited his verses, it was filled with the dash that made the Colonials the best sort of fighting men and with not a little of their quaint manner of expression. And the Yankee soldiers accepted it as their own, ana laier, during the war of the Revolution, flung rFASTEiTiFORTY ~ DAY S, | ^ \ j : i ' I . -'V h .si ; . J&<?8 I L * j -. -. . Mme. Melania Lipinska, noted blind physician, has gone forty days without -iood and thirty days without water. She advises fasting as a cure for many ills, it back at tlfeir enemies. They look the words that had been sung in derision to challenge the British arms. British soldiers resenting this mockery in 1769, sung in Boston harbor: "Yankee Doodle came to town For to buy a firelock? We will tar and feather him, And so we will, John Hancock." The old mansion where Yankee Doodle was written was built by the ' order of Killean Van Rensselaer, who j sent his first ship to the new colony , Ii?? 1C 1 fiSil The inserintion on the! cellar wall of the old brick building: reads: "K. V. R., 1?42 Anno Domini." j One hundred years later there was added a dinning room, larger hall and ; the small building of Col. Johannes Van Rensselaer. The inscription on a brass plate on | i If'vil /^cate\ the side of the historic old mansion ' reads as follows: Supposed to be the OLDEST BUILDING IN THE UNITED STATES and to Have Been Erected in 1C42 as a Manor House and Place of Defense Known as FORT CRALO, Gen'l Abercrombie's Headquarters While Marching to Attack Fort Ticonderoga in 1758. Tiiere It is Said i That at the Cantonment East of This ; House, Near the Old Well, the Army Surgeon, j R. Shuckburg, Composed the Popular i Song of "Yankee Doodle." Today the ancient building is owned by Mrs. Van Rensselaer Strong of Phllud. iphia, a member of the famous old Van Rensselaer family. She has offered to give it to the state of New York for museum purposes, but they do not move very fast, according to Joljn W. I'encueton, 01 a?, biz tuniun, Avenue, Albany, who takes care of the j birthplace of America's first national anthem. At present this massive old brick structure with its hugo rough-hewn beams of oak and low, dark-studded walls is being used to manufacture concrete building blocks, The wonderful old place with its grea. fireplace and its creaking stairs is fa.st falling into decay. Heaps of crumbling plaster fail from the walls. The building is damp and mouldering. The roof is in poor condition and rain creeps into tlje old mansion. HAD BIBLES AND BOOZE Greenville County Preacher Arrested as He Leaves Revival Meeting. What some members of the Green ville police force termed a " nixing oe the word of Cod and the spirit of the Devil" was brought to light Sunday night in the mountains that skirt the upper edge of the county, relates the Creenvilio Piedmont of Thursday. The revealing of this odd 'mixture" came abopt rear Cross Plains church and was due to the accidental meeting of Rev. \V. P. Step, n Baptist ppeacher, with State Constable J. H. Howard and another officer. Rev. Step was rn his way home after having preached at a service of a revival meeting which he was conducting at Durham's School house. The officers were out after a "still." When they met the Rev. Step in the road, however, they turned aside from the quest for the "moonshine factory" long enough to investigate the paper hand- I 1 - ? ? KlnU naannkon nnrvlofl An uu?? which ihv7 j/i culiivi vt*4 i ?vv>. inspection of the contents of the hap: revealed two Bibles and a quart of "moonshine" whisky in a fruit jar. Constable Howard was in Greenville tcday and told the police he would swear out a warrant against the preacher charging violation of the prohibition law. (t was said at police headquarters today that Rev. Step would be given a preliminary hearing before the United States commissioner here tomorrow. In one of the Bibles which the minister carried in his paper bag there was found at police headquarters today a circular letter sent out by a | committee of the state organization of the Anti-Saloon League at Columbia to ministers urging them to exert their efforts and influence toward prohibition enforcement. In the same Bible there was also found a sheet of paper on which sermon notes had been written. Rev. Step is the pastor of the Pleasant Grove Baptist church in the upper section of the county and is well known in the section in which he lives. PRPP4RF TO FIGHT Michigan Women to Oppose Return of Long Skirts. A fight by women for the right to wear skirts at the length they see fit is on in Flint, Michigan. Ten young women, holding that they do not have to abide by the edicts of Dame Fashion, employers and others in dictating whai girls should or should not wear, have formed the "So Longer Skirt Club." The chief purpose of the club is for the survival of the short skirt. The club plans launching a vigorous campaign in which members hope to enlist the aid of every woman in Flint. The following officers have been elected: Mrs. Eva Peck, president; Miss Lulu Vernor, secretary, and Miss Helen Wheeler, treasurer. ? Hayward Nettles, a young man of j Florence, accidentally shot and killed himself while on a hunting and fishing trip on Black river near Kingstree last Friday. The young man was in j the act of putting several guns into j an automobile when lie touched the j trigger of one of them anil the charge j entered his body. Nl\A milGXTsUlj fe f' k"4rV?. 1 fflff W 1 MAMM li! \ ,V) SUPE INCOMPflR ? 1 - - - * | Get Ready HOW! I WITHIN'THE NEXT THIRTY DAYS you t " i $ will have urgent need for your Heating Stoves. 2 X The cool nights and cool mornings have al- ? | ready given you warning. < $ How is your heating apparatus? Are your \ \ & coal and wood heaters in good shape? Is the old stove piping that did service last winter in ser- % i vie cable condition for the coming cool weather ? | Are your stoves in good shape or have they I about run their course? Look 'em over and then see us for what you are ;; | going to need for heating this winter. I Possibly you will want ail air-tight coal heater % | or an air-tight wood burner. X I Whichever you may want we have it and can I put it in for you on short notice. jjt' I If you need new piping or (ithcr heating lix- X I lures let us serve you. % | YORK FURNITURE COMPANY \ V* ' T 1 ' ' " - * ' i i.- A O r *./ u n r* %ir lo ssedure we Have Them } YES, to he sure, we believe that every man and woman and boy and girl in these parts knows that we have the best line of fine Dress Shoes to be had in this section, we also want everybody who wears Shoes to KNOW that we have an exceptionally big stock of High-Grade Medium Priced Shoes?both for Woi'k and for Dress wear. We have Men's Work Shoes at $2.00 to $5.00 a Pair. Men's and Women's Dress and Work Shoes at $2.50 to $5.00 a Pair?All leathers and styles. To be sure we have lots of popular priced shoes. MEN'S SHIRTS? This week we have received a tremendous line of Men's Shirts?almost every conceivable style? the most pleasing patterns. Ask to see the Shirts with the new Reversible French Cuff, and the new Soft Neck Bands. They are new and worth while. Sure, we have Shirts without collars and also ^ with collars attached. | MEN'S AND BOYS' UNDERWEAR? A little warm yet, but we want you to know we have what you want when you want it. HOSIERY FOR EVERYBODY? It is a tremendous line of Hosiery for Men, Women, Gril ls and Boys that we received this weekhave them in silk, lisle and cotton and also in wool. All sizes, and in the wanted colors for all. A full line of Holeproof Hosiery for Ladies, for Men and for Children. Let us show you. HATS FOR MEN It's Fall Hat Time and St roup's is the Fall Hat Store?Here's where you find the latest styles in Stetson and Knox Hats in the newest styles and in the staple blacks and pleasing fancy shades. See St roup's for correct Fall hats. MEN'S AND BOYS' CLOTHING? Did you know that you can buy that Suit you need now at a price that you can well afford to pay and at the same time get really stylish, snappy, quality Clothing?Clothing that you'll be proud to wear. Keep it in mind that we will really save you money on Clothing; but you won't go amiss to make an early selection. Just try us. J. M. STROUP I f . v 1 1 ?? ??? ?? II I? 1 ?mm OTH UVkstpcW SHOW H RB POULTRY DISPLAY K7S ABLEA6RICl|TiJRALEXt1IB!TSfp^e kfJ UT0ra 6? Qgi FIREWORKS ^ RfeJ NIGHTLY