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InE^ales &"langston. ^ ^ ANDERSON, S. c, wednesday MORNING, ^^29^1895. ^ ~ ^ _ ^ volume XXIX.?no. 48 HOT WEATHER GOODS! Itraw hats, In great variety?prices from 10c. up. An excellent Itoe at 50c UMMER COATS and VESTS. 7 A good Alpivco Coat at $1.00. Nice line of Serges, Cheviots, Cecelians and Drabdetetes. GAUZE UNDERWEAR. A good Shirt for 25c.?something better 50c. Nainsook Undershirts 50c. Come in and let us help yon to keep cool. b. o. evans & co., Clothiers and Furniighers Grass Killing Implements Are what you Need for tlie next Sixty Days. We are prepared to folly meet your wants with the Best, ?and at the very Lowest Prices. TTmbach Top Harrows, Terrell Cultivators! If you havent one your neighbor can tell yo? how it saves labor. Something new, but nothing better. Heel Sorapes, Victor Sweeps and Wings, In great abundance. Hoes9 Hoesj Hoes! A, TREMENDOUS STOCK-BEST MAKE. Securely fastened on the handle! ;We can supply you with ANYTHING in the HARDWARE INE at bottom figures. SULLIVAN HARDWARE CO. ? WHY ORDER? PIANOS amo ORGANS -~- From any other Market when ? THE ? A. REED MUSIC HOUSE Cam and w II Save you Money by Buying at Herne. OUR Goods are bought in large lots from the Manufacturers for CASH Our expenses are much lighter than dealers in larger cities, who sell almost exclusively through Sub-Agents, thus adding largely to the prices charged you. And, besides, we have the LARGEST STOCK IN THE STATE to select from, and every Instrument is sold under? A. POSJIXIVES GUARANTEE. Id" We respectfully solicit your patronage, which will b'e highly ap? preciated. Respectfully, ft A. REED MUSIC HOUSE, Anderson, S. 0. FURNITURE 1 FURNITURE!! largest stock, lowest prices, best goods I H9- COFFINS and CASKETS furnished Day or Night. WE have on hand the LARGEST aud BEST-SE LECTED Stock of FURNITURE in South Carolina I bought this Summer when everything struck bottom, and while there was a big cut in^jgights. We have determined to-gif? the People the advantage of our BARGAINS I We will Sell you Furniture at Prices below anything* ever heard of In this Country before ! And prices it is impossible for any one else to buy the same quality of Goods for. When you need anything in the Furniture line give us a call, and? WE WILL SAVE YOU MONEY. ? Prices Lower than Cotton at 5c Yours for business, a R TOLLY & SON, The Leaders of Low Prices* J. P. SULLIVAN * CO., ? Will sell yon the ? Best CofEee, The Cheapest Flour, Crockery, Decorated and Plain, Dinner and Tea Sets, All for Uss Money thia you have been paying. J. P. SULLIVAN & CO? A MARVEL NEAR US. The Pelzer Mills and the Town of Pelzsr. Greenville News. In 1882 a country road led from Williainston, two miles, to Wilson's bridge over the Saluda river which divides Anderson County from Green? ville. Wilson's bridge had in the old times before bridges were built been Wilson's ford, there being a shoal and fall in the river there where the road crosses. It took its name from Henry Wilson who settled at the ?hoals not long after the revolutionary war and who was a member of congress from this Sta te in 1812. His grave is yet on the place. The ioad from Williamston to Wil? son's bridge led through open fields. Down along the river corn and cotton were cultivated, there were three log houses, the population numbered pro? bably 20 and the taxable value amount? ed to a few hundred dollars. A num? ber of gentlemen in Charleston whose attention had been attracted to the possibilities of cotton manufacturing in upper Carolina were seeking a loca? tion/ They had several shoals under consideration but finally determined on Wilson's shoals because they were only half a mile from the track of the Columbia & Greenville railroad. The Pelzer Manufacturing Company was organized with $400,000 capital, 500 acres ot land was bought from Geo. W. Anderson, of Williamston, who then owned it, and in the spring of 1882 Capt. E. A. Smyth, who had been elected president, broke ground along the shoals for tho first building of the town oi: Pelzer. Now in the early summer of 1895, 13 years after, there are at Wilson's bridge, replacing the cultivated and waste fields and thickets and three or four lonely log bouses, three big cotton mills whirring all day' long, their un? ceasing vibrations blending with the steady roar of water falling over a rock dam 25 feet high. There are 1,400 busy people at work, there is a town of 3,500 people with some of the finest stores in the State, two large churches j and all the belongings of a busy and prosperous town. There is a fourth mill nearing com? pletion?a mill which is a wonder, in several respects an innovation, the big? gest this side of the Potomac river. When it is finished, which will be by next fall, the Pelzer Manufacturing Company will employ a total of 3,000 people, the town of Pelzer will have between 6,000 and 7,000 population and will be the' fourth town in South Carolina?a town started, built and established in 13 years?a town repre? senting investments of over a million dollars?a town without a corporation, a municipal government or any politics ?yet a town in which disorder is al? most unknown, in which the people are thrifty, sober, moral and content? ed, in which all the departments, streets, health, police, fire and all, are run without complaint and with thor? ough efficiency. The new mill is the only one in this part of the country built right on top of a hill. The others have had to go down in the valleys close to the streams to get the water power on their wheels. Pelzer mill No. 4 ac? cepts modern improvements and sci? ence and disregards proximity to the stream which will run it. What would mill men of 15 years ago have thought of a 55,000 spindle mill two miles and a half away from its water power? Yet that is just the miracle that is being done at Pel? zer. The dam for mill No. 4 is at Hol? land's shoals, two miles and a half be? low Wilson's shoals. It is a marvel in itself. W. A. Chapman & Co., of Providence, R. I., are building it. It is of stone dug from a quary owned by the Pelzer Company?which, in fact, controls the river on both sides for seven-miles. The work is a revelation to people who are unused to it. Stones weighing 20,000 pounds are cut out, handled and swung into place with as much ease as so many blocks of wood. On each side of the river- is a tower 80 feet high. They are 700 feet apart and wire cables connect them. A big traveler runs from tower to tower with chains depending from it and these chains clasp and swing the blocks or great loads of brick or timber. Porta? ble engines control the movements of the traveler and the man at the engine with a touch of his hand stops a ten ton rock precisely over the spot where it is wanted and drops it into its bed of cement. The dam is being placed to stay. It will give 40 feet fall and will be with wings 700 feet long. It will be 34 feet wide at the base and six feet at the top, all of solid stone and cement. The rolling way will be 325 feet. The Saluda river naturally objects to being monkeyed with by strangers from Providence, Rhode Island, and enters a brawling, swelling protest with an occasional freshet. But the people from Rhode Island have simply shoved the Saluda river out of their way. They built a strong coffer dam, ran the river to one side and went to work in its bed. They found the old river had been playing tricks and that a part of its bottom was of rotton rock unfit to make a foundation for such a dam as is being built there. They had to dig and dig until they got 13 feet below the bed of the river and struck solid rock, and there the foundations were created to remain there until the time when this old world begins its final rocking. When the dam build? ers have their work across the river bed completed they will let the water run back in the course it laid out for itself so many a long years ago and find its way through the waste gates and wheel pits through which it must hereafter go and do the work of run? ning the 55,000 spindles up on the hill two miles and a half away. There will be five wrought steel draft tubes through the dam, each tube ten feet in interior diameter and 52 feet long and discharging into a wheel pit 15 feet wide. Each of the tubes will furnish 1,028 horse power. They represent the suction principle of de? veloping power. The wheels are turn? ed not by the weight of water falling on them, but by the suction of the water passing beneath them and through them. Electric generators will be attached to the shafts of the wheels. The electricity will be car? ried by 18 two 0 wires?which are about the size of a man's little finger ?to the mill. Only three of the draft tubes will be used for the present. 3,084 horse power will be more than enough to run the 55,000 ppindles in mill No. 4 and the 18,000 in No. 3 where steam is now used. The other two of the five will come in when mill No. 5 is built. Captain Smyth has a habit of talking of mill No. 5 as if it was already well on its way to comple? tion, although No. 4 io not yet off his hands and the building of the other is not yet even seriously considered. He believes No. 5 to be inevitable, however, and whether it is built next year or ten years hence has the power ready for it. No. 4 is a monster in size and a beauty in symmetry and arrangement. It was began December 6, 1894, and will be completed this fall. The roof is being put on now. It is 508 feet long by 131 feet wide. 80 feet high, in four stories atone end and five at the other. It will have between six and seven acres of floor space and will be lighted by about 450 windows. Eight-tenths of the wall space will be glass. The mill is built according to modern ideas with the weight and strain all borne by columns reaching from foundation to roof, the walls being merely the casing. Green? ville people can get an idea of the size of this building from the calculation that its length would extend from the door of the County court house to the corner of Main street and McBee ave- j nue, where Humphreys' shoe store stands. Imagine a building the whole length of that long block and twice the height of the stores on it and an idea can be gained of how mill No. 4 looks. There will be a tower 110 feet high at each corner. The building is, of course, of brick ?of which 4,000,000 will be used. Including the warehouses 7,000,000 brick will have been utilized in this little job. The roof will be fiat and of gravel, the towers trimmed with gran- I ite and copper roofed. In th i base? ment there will be the cloth ro ma, re? pair shops and machinery by which I heated air in winter and fresh air in summer will be pumped into each story, so that the temperature in every part of every story will be always the same and the employees will have constant? ly new atmosphese to breath as that already used is driven out. The small engine to drive the fans will be the only one on the place. All the bal? ance of the power will be brought by the wires from the dam below. The heated air will obtain its warmth from steam coils through which it will pass. Two hundred men are now at work on the building and 180 are on the dam. i Elevators aie at work shooting work? men and material up and down. Steam engines are everywhere. There must be 20 of them on the building and dam together. It would make an old time builder open his eyes to see the j elevators at the mill and the cable hoists and huge derricks at the dam carrying up and down, high in the air over the river and around in all directions loads which hundreds of men would require long hours in haul? ing, j I When the fourth mill is completed the Pelzer Company will be making into cloth 45,000 bales of cotton?10, 000 more than are made in the whole County of Greenville. More cotton will be bought here than at any mar? ket in the State outside of Charleston and every pound of it will be used where it is bought. Thirteen years ago there was not even a flag station on the C. & G. road at the point near est Wilson's bridge. Now a spur of the road runs to. the mills and the Pelzer Company pays $100,000 a year freights. With the new mill the an? nual freights will be close to $200,000. The passenger ticket sales at Pelzer are $6,000 a year now and will probably be $12,000 nezt year. One of the biggest, liveliest, busiest towns in the State?a town buying 45,000 bales of cotton and doing a business of a million and a half dol? lars a year?will have been built where there was an undisturbed wilderness on the bank of a quiet river 13 years ago. This town will have the biggest manufacturing plant in the South, a mill building which has few if any equals in the world and one of half a dozen large mills in the world run by electricity developed by water power. The Pelzer Company will not buy 45,000 bales of cotton at Pelzer, but will use that quantity. It is likely that at least 30,000 of these bales of cotton will have to be shipped to Pel? zer; but the business representing them is expected to be there. It is a notable fact that this city and the enormous enterprises and pro? duction it represents has been built from the wilderness quietly and unos? tentatiously so that people within a few miles of it have not known what it means or formed an idea of its im? portance. Nobody in Greenville, for instance, or even in Williamston, which is only two miles away, has un? derstood clearly that the Pelzer'mill is one of the largest manufacturing enterprises in the world. When No. 4 is completed 107,000 spindles will be in operation in the town along the Saluda where the wilderness was 13 years ago, and there are not more than four or five corporations on this globe which can show more spindles working under one management. In Russia, where there is a corporation control? ling 500,000 spindles in many separate buildings, and in Massachusetts where one name includes 400,000 spiudleo the Pelzer mill is eclipsed, but the in? stances are very few; and nowhere else in this world is there a mill as big as Pelzer No. 4 in the State of South Carolina, United States of Am? erica under one roof and run by elec? tricity. We have accomplished a marvel and achieved a miracle here in South Car? olina without the knowledge of people living within a few miles of it. The Pelzer people work quietly. They do business and shun notoriety and ad? vertising, holding to the good* old Charleston ideas against personal or corporation pufiiDg and blowing. Mr. Pelzer, whose money was the chief power in building the town of Pelzer, and who has half a million dollars in? vested there and in other factories in the State, and who could buy a dozen newspapers and have himself puffed by the column every day in the year if he liked, hates to see his name in print and is a good deal more bashful about publications than the average school boy. Captain Smyth, who has developed wonderful returns from Wilson's shoals, under whose manage? ment the one mill has grown to four and the 10,900 spindles with which the mills began have developed to 170,000 and who is the ruler of a young kingdom, particularly requests that in any mention of the Pelzer enterprises he should be omitted?which would be a good deal like arranging a watch and omitting the mainspring. They are modest people at Pelzer. They have been whirring and roaring and bustling and building a city down there on the banks of the Saluda 16 miles below Greenville and saying nothing. They are putting in a won? derful plant and putting up a wonder? ful building with less fuss and adver? tising and hurrah than an Atlanta con? cern would organize a $3,000 enter? prise with. Yet the cloth they are making goes all over the world and it has already gained such fame that not long ago it was found that away out in East Africa a counterfeit of a brand used by the Pelzer Company was be? ing circulated by a mill in Manchester. England. Mr. Pelzer, who is a moral business man, said the counterfeit was an outrage. Captain Smyth, who is a mill man, grinned gleefully, set in motion legal machinery to shut the j Englishmen off and decided that it was not only a compliment but an ad? vertisement to have a Manchester manufacturer stealing the name and brand of the Pelzer Company away up in the hills of South Carolina to sell his goods with in East Africa. In obedienoe to special demands, exhortations and suggestions of sup? pression of names and personal facts I state here that Mr. Pelzer has had nothing to do with Pelzer except to f urniBh a very large share of the money to build it and that Captain Smyth has no connection with Pelzer except the supervision of every wheel in the mills and foot of the lands. He won't say what profits he turns in to the stockholders; but it is a curious and very pretty illustration of the relations of labor and capital. As I understand it, the two, working together in Pelzer mill No. 1 produced No. 2, then came No. 3, then No. 4. So by the com? bined efforts of the two instead of 600 people 3,000 people are employed, in? stead of 30,000 spindles there are 170, 000, instead of 12,000 bales of cotton there will be 45,000 used, and instead of $400,000 somewhere between one and two millions will be employed. Lookwood, Green & Co., of Boston, are the engineers and architects of the wonderful new mill on the hill top. James Stewart, of St. Louis, Mo., is the contractor in charge, and he is doing work which will stand to prove him an honest man and an energetio worker when his great-grandchildren come through this oountry. One of the chief wonders of the wonderful new mill?the mill 150 yards long and on top of a hill with one en? gine or water power near it?will be the Draper automatio looms, the first of their kind in the South. All they do is to automatically shoot off the empty bobbin and replace it with a full one. It merely saves about 40 per cent, of the weaver's time. That is all. And in the back woods, away from sight and sound of the railroads, ad? vertised nowhere, known all over the world, just a few miles below Green? ville but known little of in this city or Anderson or, anywhere near, is the biggest, the finest, the most wonder? ful and advanced and, withal, the most modest manufacturing enterprise this side of the Potomac river. A Han Without a Memory. "A Man without a Memory" is a remarkable tale. It relates with un? usual strength .and delicacy of treat? ment the return to his Southern home of Tom Johnson, who had fought in the Confederate army and who had been wounded in the head. The story opens when Tom is driving along the dusty road toward Sharpsburg, vainly en? deavoring to catch up with his regi? ment. The country is familiar, and yet certain features have a strange ap? pearance. The scenes of the terrible battle are vivid, and Tom Johnson wonders where he has slept since then, fie recalls with a shudder the appealing eyes of the ' wounded boy lying close to the edge of the smoking grass, at whose body the rushing line had parted and closed again. Through the rails of the low fence he saw a shattered gun lim? ber with one mangled horse leaning against the pole, his mates and masters heaped on the ground about him, the whole group cut sharply against the sky. He remembered the first intimation of the attack of the infantry, coming in the form of a thin skirmish fire puff? ing from the crest in front?the balls pattering on the fences?then the dark line rising above the ridge, with flags and glittering bayonets?and then how he and his comrades reserved their fire until the enemy were close upon them ?and how the line withered and broke under that smoking volley, leaving the wounded scattered on the hill, and how they came again and again, only to be called back, covering the hill thicker and thicker with the dead. * * * And then a moment of horror ?a glaring burst of flame?a deafening roar, a benumbing concussion which for an instant made his head fill all space, and along with it a sickening sensation of drowning in the air, and then darkness. In the next instant, as it had seemed to Tom Johnson, his eyes opened dimly on a great field hospital. And now, the following day as he could count, he was driving back toward Sharpsburg to kiss his little Tom, who would be held in his moth? er's arms?and then he would push on to rejoin his regiment. Presently he came creaking and jangling into a village street, and stopped in front of a long tavern. Then he knew he was in Sharpsburg. Seizing his rifle he leaped from the wagon and demanded of the tavern loungers: "When did Gen. Lee leave here ?" They thought he was crazy, but humored him, until finally he was told that a generation had passed since the noble commander had left. For thirty years poor old Tom Johnson had been as one dead, but at last a surgeon had performed upon him the operation of trephining, and his mind took up its line of progression, just where a shell had cut it off back in the days of the war. This phenomenon is by no means a novel one in fiction, but seldom has it been used with better effect than in "A Man without a Memory." The interest of the story does not cease with Tom Johnson's discovery that thirty years had passed over him as would a single night spent in slumber. The story continues, mingled with exquisite tenderness, to tell of the changes the veteran found in his home and in his friends. This is one of the few short stories worth preserving in the library of intelligent readers. ? A horse has 40 teeth, and a mare only 36, wanting the tusks, or so called "wolf teeth." The ox and sheep family have 32, each lacking the eight incisors of the upper jaw. The hog has 44 teeth and the dog 42. Where the dental formula is perfect in all varieties of the human speoies it is found to show 32 teeth. How's This! We offer One Hundred Dollar? Beward for any case of Catarrh that cannot bo cured by HaJ's Catarrh Cure. F. J. CHENEY & CO.. Props., Toledo, 0. We tbe undersigned have known F. J. Cheney for the last 15 years, and believe him perftctly honorable In all business transaction and financi? ally able to carry out any obligation made by their firm. Wkst & Tbuax, Wholesale Drugeist?, Toledo, O. Waldi5o, Kimmah & Mabvir, Wholesale Drug? gists, Toledo, O. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken Internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system, Price 75c. per bottle, Sold by all DroggUU. Teitlmonlali frcoi ANTE BELLUM DAYS. An Interesting Talk , about Old Militia Days In Anderson County. Tuoaloo, S. C, May 25,1895. Editors Anderson Intelligencer : I was looking through some old rub? bish the other day, a thing I like very much to do as opportunity offers, and came across a list of names that in? terested me particularly, but I was unable to determine the age or char? acter of it. Investigation showed it to be a list of men liable in ante helium days to patrol duty in which is now Fork Township of Anderson County, and its age to be at least fifty-five years. In the old militia regime there were two regiments of infantry in An? derson County?the Fourth, whose muster-ground was at Varennes, and the Forty-second, whose parade-ground was first at Minton's Old Field, near Sandy Springs, and later at Craig's, also near Sandy Springs. Each of these regiments was made up of two battalions, and that embracing the Fork held its musters for many years, dating as far back as 1830, at what was known as Harrison's Old Field. This muster-ground was a mile or so east of Seneca River, and nearly opposite Ce? dar Grove Church in the Fork. In the opening years of the century some of the Harrisons and Earles operated an iron foundry at that point on the river, and a large area of land was cleared to get fuel for smelting the ore, much of which was dug from the same land. The land was put into cultivation, and on a wornout portion of it the Second Battalion of the Forty-second Regi? ment S. C. M. had its rendezvous. Later the muster-ground was chang? ed to Bruce's Shop, on the Pendleton road where now stands Mt. Tabor Church, and where it remained until the collapse of the system as a result of the war. I was present at what was no doubt the last battalion muster held there. It was in '62 or '63, when I was a lad of eleven years, and the memory of it is rather vague. My father acted as Adjutant and formed the battalion in dress parade on the road leading out to what is now Gantt's Mills, on Eighteen Mile Creek. The now venerable Col. T. H. Russell was Major. Mounted on a splendid horse, and clad in the glittering uniform of the old-time militiaman, he made to the men as they stood on parade a ringing speech on the issues of the war, and appealing to their patriotism he wound up by calling for volunteers. The first blush of the ardor of the con? flict had worn off by this time, and I do not know but what the half-dozen men who, with firm tread, marched three paces to the front in response to the Major's appeal, exhibited a higher degree of patriotism than did many who were swept into the ranks by the enthusiasm that marked the early days of the war. I wish I knew the names of those men, and I trust that if they are living they may see this ancTwrite me. The Beat Companies were required to drill four times a year, and the Bat? talion met for drill once a year. The General, or regimental muster, oc? curred once a year and lasted two days, the first day being devoted to drilling the officers?commissioned and non? commissioned?in the evolutions to be performed by the full regiment on the second day. The Governor reviewed the regiment once every two years. These muster days, from petit to general muster, were great occasions. It is true many of the men, especially the older ones?the muster age wasfrom eighteen to forty-five?went through the performance in a sort of perfunc? tory way, and returned directly home, but with very many they were gala days, and the "fist and skuller" was in his glory, and always made a day of it. Nobody wore uniforms, except the officers, and the men furnished their own arms, running in style all the way from the three-dollar shot? gun past the London twist double barrel and the long-barrelled rifle that challenged in heftiness an ordinary field-piece, to the old-time government musket with its big smooth bore and flint and steel lock. The law authorized the appointment of a Sutler at these musters, and there was usually considerable competition for the place, but the Sutler's stock never extended beyond a full supply of straight corn liquor, which he serv? ed to the thirsty patriots at a seven pence (12Jc.) a quart from a board ex? temporized between two trees. The vendors of ginger-cakes and cider? usually women?were always out in full force, particularly at Battalion and General Musters, and it was the custom of such of these props of the military renown of their State, as were fathers, to carry to the expectant lit? tle fellows at home one or so of these ginger-cakes tied in his "red ban danner." Long ago a Camp Muster was insti? tuted at Pickensville, within a mile or so of the present town of Easley. The purpose in this Camp Muster, which was held once a year and lasted a week, was the training of the officers of An? derson, Pickens and Greenville Dis? tricts. But the scheme appears to have been unsatisfactory, and was abandoned after a few years. As I have said the old list of names was the patrol list for the Fork Beat. The year was probably 1839, certainly not later than 1843. < The Fork Beat, which was co-extensive with what is now Fork Township, was subdivided into four sections or patrol districts. These districts were in charge of Cap? tains of Patrol, who were appointed by the Captain of the Beat Company to serve three months. These Cap? tains, with the militiamen in their re? spective districts, were charged with the duty of patroling or policing the slaves. They mac1 - regular rounds in their districts, usually at night, and if they caught a slave off his master's premises after night or on Sunday without a written pass a whipping was generally the result. But I am in? formed by a survivor of those times that the punishment inflicted upon prowling slaves was seldom severe or cruel. Unless the culprit was an in? veterate run-about the whipping was a farce, in which the bluster and threatenings of the patrolmen was the prominent feature. Some years ago at Townville, and but a short time before his death, I heard Mr. Jordan Burns, who was full of humor and good cheer to the end of his days, relate an amusing inci? dent that occurred while he as Captain of the patrol squad was on the rounds. The night was bitterly cold, and the patrollers bore down upon a lonely cabin and scooped a strapping darkey I who had no "pass" that would afford I him immunity from a basting. Placing the culprit in durance vile the patrol ' men sat around the cabin fire to thaw out, and as they wanned up Mr. Burns proceeded, in his inimitable way, to prepare the prisoner for the terrible castigation that, to him at least, there seemed no earthly chance of averting. "Well, Jim, you've always been a good nigger, and I'm powerful sorry we've caught you here to-night." "Yes, Mas' Jurdin, I'se mighty sorryjtoo." "Jim, you've always behaved your? self before, and I hate powerful to war you out this cold night." "Yes, Mas' Jurdin, I hates it might ly, too." Then, after a pause : "Jim, I'll swar it's powerful cold for a nigger to pull oh! his shirt this cold night," and the darkey replied as before: "Yes, Mas' Jurdin, it's mighty cold." Thus it went on for some time until the negro was in an agony of expecta? tion, and this mode of punishment was probably more reformatory than the whipping he didn't get. It appears that patrolmen, when not on regular rounds of duty, had au? thority to harness up roving slaves without the necessary pass and ad? minister a flogging, and tradition has it that it was an evil hour for such slaves to fall into the clutches of Jesse Herring, who lived where Gus. Skel ton now resides. Under this old system it is but nat? ural that the slaves should have evolved many tricks and artifices to elude the patroller, not the least of which, by any means, was the darkey's relianoe on the efficacy of his heelfi. Out of this, came the old plantation melody:? "The Digger run, the white man flew, The nigger lost his darned old sine. Ob, run, nigger, run, patroller catch you, Oh, run, nigger, ran, patroller catch you," etc. I should like to write on and tell of the Captains of the old Fork Beat Company, of the two volunteer com? panies that once existed there, of the boundary lines of the four patrol dis? tricts of the Fork Beat, of the old Beat Muster Ground, and of the field officers of the old Forty-second Regi? ment of Militia, but cannot now. I give, however, the old list, which will no doubt interest the people of the Fork, to many of whom some of these names will sound strange. I regret very much that the names of the mi? litiamen residing in patrol district No. 2 do not appear?that part of the old list being torn away : No. I.?Stokes Stribling, A. J. Gra? ham, John Browning, John Cox, John J. King, E. E. Harrison, John Smith, Andrew Pickens, A. Bowman, Zacha riah Felton, Moses Reid, Jesse Ried, Benj. Reid, Solomon King, R. A. King, Obed Coffin, James Carrell, R. M. Brown, Jonathan Pickrell, D. J. Hix, Wm. Dabbs, Daniel Carrell, H. M. Barton, Jacob Carrell, Elisha Webb, Ira Herring. No. 3.?Saml. Swilling, Allen Bai? ley, A. S. Smith. Milton Hix, J. M. Grubbs, Geo. Swilling, G. H. Swill? ing, Charles Bruce, J. R. Fant, Sa laithiel Bradberry, Saml. Brown, Jesse McGee, D. E. Gambrell, J. H. Harris, Berry Hix, Wm. Hix, W. P. King, Jesse Herring, Jas. Bradberry, Jesse Bradberry. S. P. Harris, Bonea Bates, A. Newell, J. W. Rimer, B. Rimer, E. McArn, J. M. Hendrix, Wm. Cox,' Elijah Felton, Ervin Mitchell. No. 4.?Levi Herring, W. Hudson, Dennis Tippens, Saml. Ward, William Meredith, Wm. Bradberry, Robert Holland, Sr., W. W. Holland, Robt. Holland, Jr., E. E. Stanley, A. J. Lowery, Leroy Pullen, Geo. Newell, Larkin Brown, Joseph Mason, Saml. Isbell, Martin McKay, 0. W. Wright, Elisha Herring, B. W. Maret, Levis ton Isbell, Robt. Isbell, G. W. Mc? Kay, Wm. Pullen, Hey Pullen, Hey C. Coffee, Wm. Browning, F. J. Hud? son, Henry Lowery,-League. Of these eighty-six men only two are believed to be living, and these are Jonathan Pickrell at 97, and John M. Hendrix who is 85. It wonld be interesting to know where these men whose names are not familiar to the present generation lived. It is noteworthy that Hey Pullen, who died suddenly in Christmas week of 1852 was the first person to be in? terred in the Baptist graveyard at Townville, and that three?H. M. Barton, Samuel Isbell and R. A. King ?subsequently became preachers of the Gospel. W. A. Dickson. In the Wrong Bed. An unfortunate young man who liv a at a boarding house went home the other night and found a large fat man in his bed. He was amazed and angry. He made some loud noises to wake the sleeping innocent but they did not disturb him in the slightest. He then turned over seven chairs with a loud report. This proving inefficacious he threw down a bookshelf, shaking the foundations of the building. Still the stranger slept on. Growing des? perate, the young man pulled the wardrobe and dresser down with a thunderous crash. Still the unknown sleeper slumbered on, peacefully, tranquilly. Then the enraged boarder grasped the fat man by the shoulders and with a powerful effort yanked him out of bed, landing him in the middle of the floor. The sleeper slowly awoke, rubbed his eyes, glared at the young man^ in an humble way and arose to his feet. The boarder wanted to know why in the thunder he was there and what he meant by it. The fat man commenced making signs on his fingers and gesticulating violently. The regular boarder was frightened and dashed out upon the street and down to the Kimball, where he spent the night. The next morning when he went back to pay his board and tell the landlady why he was going to quit boarding with her, it was explained to him that a deaf and dumb man had found his way into the wrong room.? Atlanta Constitution. ? Persons who sympathize with the afflicted will rejoice with D. E. Carr of 1335 Harrison street, Kansas City. He is an old sufferer from inflamma? tory rheumatism, but has not hereto? fore been troubled in this climate. Last winter he went up into Wiscon? sin, and in consequence has had another attack. "It came upon me again very acute and severe," he said. "My joints swelled and became in? flamed ; sore to touch or almost to look at. Upon the urgent request of my mother-in-law I tried Chamber? lain's Pain Balm to reduce the swell? ing and ease the pain, and to my agree? able surprise, it did both. I have used three fifty-cent bottles and be? lieve it to be the finest thing for rheu? matism, pains and swellings extant." For sale by Hill Bros. ?? You can trade your reputation for a dollar, but you can never trade back, 'Squire Fewell Writes from Another County. Editors Intelligencer: We have now the Evans manifesto and the State Dem? ocratic (?) Executive Committee and Irby edict to draw from. What next we don't know. What we do know is, that all this blarney offered to the Conservatives by the Till man-Irby-E vans Ring is only a catch to lure us into a trap. The negro rule scare and the concessions offered to us to join a primary for delegates to the Convention are like Satan's promises to the Saviour. (See Matthew 4:8-9; Luke 4: 5, 6 and 7.) It is only a scheme to get us to worship them, and to lure us awav from opposing them with a ticket of our own. My opinion is, that if we take any band in the election of delegates to the Convention, we had better put up a full ticket and ask everybody, white and black, who are in favor of a just and equitable Constitution to join us in elect? ing them. This stuff about negro domi? nation and white supremacy is all non? sense. The negro don't want any office, as a general thing?they only want an equal showing before the law with the white man, and that he is entitled to. We are in no danger of carpet-bagism. It is not white supremacy that the King are so anxious about?it's Tillman-Irby Evans and their Ring sunremaoy that they are so anxious about. As to the primary, I do not expect to ever partici? pate in another one, and in this I am not alone, for I have beard a number c f men say they were done voting in a Till man Erimary election. . Thev talk about a emocratio primary. We have no or ganized -Democratic party in thifi State. All who want to be tied np by an Irby primary can do so; as for myself, and I only presume to speak for myself, I do not expect to go into it with them. The wheat crops look better in Spar? tan burg and York Counties than they do at home. Farmers are better up with their work here than In Anderson Coun? ty. They have not had near so much rain as we have bad. We had socae rain here on last Thursday evening, and a little hail with it, but not enough to do any damage, and on Friday evening and night we had a very cold east rain?the coldest rain I remember to have seen at this time of year. There will be an abundant fruit crop in this and adjoining Counties, if it is not destroyed by storm or hail. I have seen peach-trees with more peaches on them, but most; of the trees have as many as they can mature well, and I think we will have a better quality than we would If the trees had more on them. We understand that one of our (?) citi? zens of the Piedmont section lost his pocket-book and all the money he had in Charleston. He went down on Mr. Smith's excursion two weeks ago, and it is thought by some that he was so anx? ious to support his "Noble Leader" and keep up the dispensary system, that he patronized it a little too liberal or im? bibed some of the "chemically pure" too freely, thereby losing his reason?or be? coming non compus menlus, so to speak? and being left without a guardian, he soared away to dream-land, the "chemi? cally pure" being of the dreamy sort? and to his discomfiture, when he awoke, he found that he was minus of the where? withal to pay his night's lodging; his pocket-book and contents thereof, said to have amounted to something like thirty dollars, was no where to bo found. If it had been a "rotten anti" who had happened to such luck, it would have made no difference?it would have been good enough for him?it was no more than he deserved?but it is too bad for one of the faithful, especially when Mr. Cleveland has contracted our currency into such narrow limits, to lose all his cash at one swoop. I reckon he will be more careful next time. He ought to have more respect for his "NobleLeader," anyhow, than to be venturing off that far from home without some one to look after him. I don't see why ho would want to go to a city where the citizens applaud and cheer that gallant and grand old hero, Wade Hampton, like they did a few days ago. Charleston is not a fit place for the extreme and official Till m an ites to visit?it's only good enough for us Conservatives to go to. The cotton mill at thiajplace is nearlng completion, and will be in operation by the middle or last of July. They are building a mammoth rook penstock, and will put in two of Ja*. Leffel's 74-inch Samson Turbine wheelii, and will put in two more when tbe mill is entirely filled with machinery. They bad the misfor? tune to get their mill burned at this place last September, but with the push and energy that the stockholders have they can't afford to let their capital be idle. The capacity of the mill, when com? plete, will be about 6,000 spindles. Mr. J. A. Carrol], of Gaffney City, Is Presi? dent, Mr. R. P. Roberts is Secretary and Treasurer and General Manager, and Mr. J. C. Plonk Superintendent. 'Squire FirwELL. Cherokee Falls, 8 C, May 20,1885. A Reply to One of our Lebanon. Conee pondents. Editors Intelligencer: I see a piece in your paper of May Stb, 189,5, headed from Lebanon, which saddens ray heart, for it was in the old Church house there that I met with Christ, and it in to me a sacred place. While I am not a member there, yet I love the people that make up that Church, and why? because Christ loves them and has commanded us to love one another, and I would say Lord, may my tongue oleave to the roof of my mouth rather than I should wound the feelings of a brother?for whom Christ died?with my unmerciful judgments. Now I know not the author of the piece, neither do I hold to immoral conduct, but I would say, first, if there be such in the Church, as our brother states in his arti? cle, they are not good soldiers in Christ's army. Recall to memory when yon was once purged from your old sins by the blood of Christ. I say begin anew, and do your first work. Stand by Christ In faith, in doctrine, in works, and, above all, walk in the spirit as you go forth con? quering sin and the works of the flesh and honor your father, which is God, and your mother, which is the new Jerusalem, or the Church of Christ. I will say to the author of the piece referred to, whoever you are, I love you and ask you to duly consider yourself and see if j God has placed you judge over his chil? dren and from what standard do you judge? If from the law I will ask you to read Rom. 2-1, and Mat 7-1. Oh, that Christ would fill your soul with his lov? ing spirit so that you could always keep him between you and your fellow man. If so, His glory would show as much on your brother as on yourself, and you would have a tendency to love your brother as yourself. Now, I ask the brother what he terms ungodly men? We find he accuses those brethren of such crimes as the Scriptures point out to sin? ners, for which Christ died for their crimes, is the violation of the law, but the spirit of life in Christ Jesus bath made us free from the law of sin and death. Yours In Christ. [Note?By fault of the printer only a part of tbe above communication appear? ed in the columns of the Intelligencer last, and we reprint the whole article this week injustice to the author.?Editor.] Pine Grove Items. The health of this community is very good at present. The farmers are rushing to catch the grass before it gets too far ahead of them. Fruit la growing fast and some of it is getting ripe. We bad a light frost last week, but it did not do any damage. Mr. Daniel Eay received a letter from his brother, who lives in Texas, and he states they bad a frost out there and it killed all the cotton and they had to re? plant. A crowd of boys and girls went to the river to fish the other day, and from what we heard they enjoyed it very much. Several of us went to the pic nie last Fri? day at Jolley's Spring. We all can say it was the first pic mc we ever went to that we had to make a fire to warm by. Uncle John was there and we enjoyed bis fun very much. He always carries bis fun with him. Mr. Charles Carroll, who went to Don? ald's and stayed a few months with his brother, has returned home. There wasn't any preaching at Salem last second Sunday as our pastor was gone to the Convention. I was glad that"Mollie" read "Old Joe's" items and wrote some. I thank her very much for them. Old Joe. ? When a man has truly tasted of God's grace he hungers for more. ) mnfl-aM All Sorts of Paragrapns. ? God turns from us only when we turn from him. ? A quarter of Scotland is owned by 12 persons. ? How to raise beets?take hold of the tops and pull. ? Wild birds do not sing more than | 8 or 10 weeks in the year. ? There is only one time when you know exactly what a man is : whin he is dead. ? It is said that more money is spent for eggs than for flour in the United States. ? Frank Egerton, of Texas, never had the least sign of a hair en his head, face or body. ? The microscope shows 4,000 cles in a common caterpillar, an<] 000 eyes in a dragon fly. ? Projectiles fired from modern1 high-test guns fly through the air at a speed of 1,968 miles per hour. ? The average man does as he pleases, and then growls because other men expect the same privilege. ? Many men claim to be firm in their principles, when, really they are., only obstinate in their prejudice s. ? The cross word should never be formed by the lips, and the wry face should never be formed by the heart. ? Sun Bpots were first disoovered in the year 1611, and were noted by several astronomers at about the same time. ? The average length of the queen bee's life is four years ; of the drone's four months, and of the worker, six months. _ ? The mean temperature of the whole earth is 50 degrees Fahrenheit, and the average annual rainfall is 30 inches. ? A well-cremated corpse of an average-sized man of 154 pounds weight leaves a residue of but eight ounces. ? Three thousand employees of the Pencoyd Iron Works; at West Mana yunk, Pa., have had their wages ad? vanced 10 per cent. i y ? Veal of the fashionable white hue is made by fattening calves in the dark. Cows kept in the dark yield milk which makes white butter. ? Revise the Holy Bible as she may, the new woman will never be '? able to diverst herself of that extra rib which is her ehief glory over man. ? A boy who could not understand what conscience meant was at last asked : "What is it that gives you an uncomfortable feeling when you have done something wrong?" "Dad's cane," was the reply. ? Sir Benjamin Richardson, a noted English physician,? ? thinks that the | normal period of human life is. about 110 years, and that 7 out of 10 average people ought to live that long, if they took proper care of themselves. ? Applicant: "I ask for the hand of your daughter." Parent: "Have you any prospects for the future ?" "None whatever." "She hasn't any, jj either. Take her,- my boy, and be happy. Bless'you both." .; ..?\ ? The Egyptians believed that the soul lived only as long as the body en- % dured; hence their reason for embalm- t ing the body to make it last as long as_ possible. It is estimated that alto-" gether there are 400,000,000 mummies in Egypt. ?The prohibition campaign has opened in Georgia. They are jgoki>4?<^ make the question an issue in the elec? tion of members to the next legisla? ture. The temperance people demand the Bush bill which will make the State nearly dry. ? A San Francisco girl, disappoint? ed in love years ago, has built a cabin in the woods on the Upper Salmon river, and lives there alone. Sheis'^ an expert hunter, and has raised a pair of grizzly bears, which are very affec? tionate toward her. ? Mr. Edison, the great electrician, receives many amusing letters. Not | long ago he was startled by an epistle from a Western damsel asking him if he could not invent an electrical con? trivance that would enable her to see the face of her future husband. ? The best briar root fromwhipb?? pipes are made comes from the borders of Italy and France. In themoun- . ' tainous districts of these countries - roots are dug out that have grown for | ages, and are sometimes larger than a man s body, weighing hundreds of pounds. For whooping cough Chamberlain's. Cough Remedy is excellent. By us? ing it freely the disease is deprived of all dangerous consequences. There is . no danger in giving the remedy 4^1 babies, as it contains nothing injuri? ous. 25 and 50 cent bottles for sale - by Hill Bros. ? A lady at Tooleys, La., was very sick with bilions colic when M. C. Tisler, a prominent merchant of the town gave, her a bottle of Chamber? lain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea p Remedy. BLe says she was. well in forty minutes, after taking the first dose. For sale by Hill Bros? I ? "Shall I write out Dodson's bill ?" asked the clerk. "No," rej turned the head of the firm, after soi deliberation. "I think you'd bett) have it printed. Get a hundred copies or so. You'll need that number be? fore he pays it, and time and money will be saved in the end." ? John T. Wilkersonwas atruck by lightning in his shop door at Pensa cola, May 14, and was killed. He was standing by a telegraph instru? ment, whioh was disconnected from any wire, but a loose wire was in con? tact with his body. The other end of the wire was fastened to a pine tree about a hundred feet away. When Wilkerson's body was undressed, a perfect picture of the pine tree, from the top to the point at which the wire was tied, was found photographed on each side just under the arms.?New Fork Sun. ? A phenomenon in the way of an old man is Lewis Gilstrap, of White County. He lives two and a half miles from Cleveland and probably has no equal in his way in the State. Mr. Gilstrap is 75 years old, but gets around as spry as a boy. His chief feature is his teeth. They are as sound as steel, and he can put a ten Senny steel nail in his mouth and reak it off or bite it in twain as if it were a piece of candy. Mr. Gilstrap has chewed tobacco ever since he was a boy and believes that if lie were to stop using it his teeth would rot. Mr. Gilstrap gave an exhibition in the Progress office a few days ago by bit? ing a six-penny nail -in half. Mr. Gilstrap's maternal great-grandfather lived to be 107 years and his maternal \ grandfather and grandmother lived to , be over 100 each,?Cleveland, Ga., Progress, ...