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LAST BATTLli "VVilliam.stoii Townslii lias the Honor ol' Stru Oreen vi I lr ,1 Where did this contest take place? Several accounts of thc event have ! been going tho rounds of the press, all of them being of interest, but som; of | them varying as to the locality. I ?cern- \ ing thc matter to be of .some import i ance in a historical sense, we have j been to some pains to get at the true facts in the case, with thc following result. In the first place, the fact that sev eral localities have been named may I bc accounted for in this manner. The ! participants in the fight were men who were not residents of this section, 1 and the descriptions they give of the place would easily fit a number of 1" cations hereaboutfe. The general ap- j pcarance of the country has changed a good deal in thirty-five year.-, but few houses or farms appear now as they did then. Kuowing that some of the old settlers were still living, and that such an event as a battle would make an impression on their minds and would bc talked about a good deal in after years, wc have in terviewed a number oi our old citizens and find that they are practically a unit as to the spot where thc fight took place, and that they have thc most vivid recollections of many of the scenes connected therewith. On the strength of the testimonies of these old residents it can bc set down, without the shadow of a doubt, that the last conflict of thc civil war cast of the Mississippi river occurred on tho first day of May, 1864, in Wil liamston Township, Anderson County, S. C., some two and one-half miles from Piedmont, on the road between the farm houso now owned by Mr. John B. King and thc house now owned and occupied by Wm. E. !<oog. A score or more of men and womeu in the prime of life say they saw portions of the conflict and have often visited the spot in their childhood days, and they can show one the trees where bullets ploughed their way through the bark of the trunks and clipped oft' the boughs and small limbs. Some of ' the women living tell of being terror stricken at the firing of musketry and shouting of voices which rahg out above the thunders of war, while the men tell of how they took tho stock i o? down inte the canebrakes and wood land thickets (especially the horses,) , for the bluo ?oats seemed to know a 11 good animal when they saw one, and they were not bashful about borowing ono that they took a fancy to or were not over particular about returning it cither. It Beems from the account given by one of the soldiers that a mixed lot of Confederates, composed of local mili tia and Citadel cadets from Charles toDjfstarted out from Greenville, and carno down the Greenville road as far as Grove Station, where they turned off to the right into the Grove road and crossed the Saluda river on the old Grove Station bridge, a structure that has long since gone to decay and tumbled to pieces, though even at the present day the weather boaten but tresses may be discerned on cither side of the river, monuments and relics of the days when our grandfathers and grandmothers were young. After crossing this bridge the troops marohed forward and crossed Brushy Creek at what was known i n those days as "Holland's Ford," and not a great way from this the Grove road came Out where Bud Elrod now lives. The old road ts an entirety has passed away, but one ean easily trace its out lines even now. Passing by the Elrods, the soldiers came into the Greenville road at the fork between Wm. E. Ling's and King's, where they got water, and in a grove of trees stopped for rest and refreshment by the side of the big road. The men were pretty well tired out, most of them had lain down on the sward in ? free and eaay sort of a way, and had not even taken the precaution to put out a guard for protection against sur prise. The guns had been thrown down in the road and no one dreamed of immediate danger, to say the least. Suddenly aome one shouted, "Hero comes the Yankees," and sure enough a squad of Federals were riding down upon them at a rapid pace, firing and yelling aa they came. ? A.-. ?._At-. A .1 w? lu.viuiiuu PUJ?O mai IUC SSIOD ished Confed's sprang to. the ir feet. A goodly number of them, and especially the cadets, in large numbers made tracks for th* woods and underbrush, leaving their guns in the road behind them. The rest, however, stood their ground, snatched up their muskets and without fermi og any line cf battle faced themuoio and returned the fire I1 pt the enemy with such telling effect they halted. There was no need to stop and load, os all we had to do was to pick up the guns that had been 1:11 in the road loaded. The warm recep OF CIVIL WAR. Lp, Anderson County, Closing the Great Mountaineer. lion wc gave thc Yankees had a good effect, and concluding, we presume, it was too hot for then!, they switched oil" ?a another direction and wont out toward the White I Mai ns settlement, leaving at least one badly wounded tuan behind them This disabled sol dier had been shot through the body, and thc Confeds. would have made short work of him liad it ont been for soine of thu kind hearted ladies who came on the scene and begged for Iiis life. The man was taken to thc house of\Mr. .Moori;, now Mr. hong's, and u?vcu all the care ami attention that generous hospitality could render and a generous foe could devise. Strange to relate, in a few weeks, without hav ing had thc aid of a doctor, he had so far recovered as to bc ablo to go to Greenville to the hospital at that town which had now fallen into the hands of thc Federal troops. lt seems that this band of Northern raiders were on their way to destroy thc railroad bridge that crosses thc Saluda river just below Piedmont, and that w -rk would probably have been accomplished had it not been for this little scrimmage which diverted thom from thc task. This event took place sometime after the surrender at Appo matox, and only a few days beforo the capturo of Jefferson Davis. Butler Dyer, of Piedmont, who was ono of tho participants, says that Mr. Paul Allan, of Charleston, who was one of the Citabel oadets, and who was the man who tired thc first shot of the war on the steamer "Star of the West," was also a member of this company of cadets, and fired the last shot at the enemy on this occasion, thus having , the somewhat remarkable experi ence and distinction of having inaugu rated and finished tho sanguinary con flict of '61 to '65, so far as armod and organized hostilities were concerned. Tho elderly residents of this section i have the most vivid recollections of tho affair, and aro full -of interesting i reminiscences concerning it .Mr. Sion . T. Rishardson, who was one of thc i prominent pladters about hero at that time, used to tell of how when ho heard tho firing ho undertook to hide a sack of gold that ho was fortunato , enough to have ou hand at that time. Ho had so idea of letting thc raiders j get their dutches on it, so ho took it > down into a piece of woods near Hur ricane creek to hide it, and hero he found a safe retreat at a spot where a cyclone bad passed along sometime be- t fore. Scooping out a bolo he placed the bag in it, and looking about him t to sec if anyono was watching, he saw . to his astonishment aman only a short r vay off looking right at him. Tho : stranger remarked, "I sec you are hid ng some treasure." Uncle Sion ac knowledged it and enquired who the 1 speaker was. He proved to be one bf e ;he cadets who had run into tho woods f ind had got lost. Uncle Sion showed 1 lim the way to the road and then pro- i seeded to hide his treasure. i Aunt Hannah King, an octogena- i rip.n, and who is very sprightly for her c ige, teils how thoBoboys, meaning the i jadets, oame running down to her I tiouse one mile away, to tell her hus- a land, Col. King, the news. Two of ier sons had just come heme from the mr ron der, and tho boys said the raid- * irs were after them and what horses bey could find. Aunt Hannah urged c he boys to go and hide themselves 1 jut these young war veterans had no ^ dea of hiding; instead, they leaped on c their horses, and sped to tbs scene of { the conflict as fast as possible, only to Ind that the raiders had taken leg bail 1 ind had left for part| unknown. We ? could m?ltiply inoidents without nam- i ber, but have only thrown in these ( two as part of the evidence to fix the ] looality of the fight, which we think j wo have done without a shadow of a reasonable doubt. The faot that this wss the last fight of the great civil war should not bo ?Ion t sight of, or the exaot looality of where it took placo, ] should not be allowed , to be lost sight < of when the actors of the drama shall j havo fallen into the last long sleep of j death. ; A number of the participants are i still living within a dosen miles of the , place, ana it strikes the writer that it , would be a nice thing for them to do , if, at some time in tho near future, they, with the numerous old Confederate I veterans who aro hereabouts, would havo a field day, and go to this inter uaiiug spot, whore iney contd hold ap propriate exercises, have addresses and speeches, and make arrangements to have the placo marked so that ita identity would be unquestioned in the future. If the occasion could come off about the time water-melons and peaohes are ripe, we are sure the good people in the vicinity of the spot and . of Shiloah church, as well as the camps of Confederate veterans of Pelzer and Piedmont, would help make it a suocess, and every one would be willing to contribute some small amount to put un a suitable monu ment to keep tho placo in perpetual re membrance. . Yours truly, - ObP COINS. W, 0. T. U. DEPARTMENT. Conducted by tho ladies of the W.O. T. U. of Anderson, S. C. A Shocking Story. From New York comes the shocking story of thc arrest, conviction, and sentence for thc crime of drunkenness of a woman who, at one time, was-quitc a prominent member of fashionable society. She ?B the daughter of a well known general who died of a broken heart because of her pitiful, shameful life. Divorced from her husband f onie years ago, her life, during these latter years, has been a swift, downward rush to thc drunkard's inevitable end. What an example of the power of evil habit! What a lesson to those who idly prate of thc harmlessness of strong drink, when taken in modera tion! Can we suppose that this petted child of fashion and wealth started in her awful downward course in any other way than as a moderate drinker of the lightest and least in toxicating wines? In the mad whirl of balls, parties, and midnight din ners, her strength was taxed to the utmost. How easy to renew her fail ing energies; to revive her drooping spirits by indulging in a moderate drink of wine! Other? of lier set found it helpful and harmless; why should not she have thc same experi ence? She conformed to thc habits of society; became its slave, and the result is shown in thc newspaper re ports of her awful degradation. Her onoo comely features bruised in her fall on thc pitiless pavement; her trembling fenn scarcely covered by tho tattered garments that have taken tho place of the splendid raiment with whioh she was wont to adorn herself; the woman who once was a member of the inner circle of society at the nation's capitol, goes, in all probabil ity, to end her days in a prison cell. But the wine flows on, and the tread mill of fashion still finds thousands of willing slaves.-liam's Horn. -mm m mt. One Cause of Poverty. In order to learn some definite facts which would bear upon the question as to what oauses poverty, one of the ?gents of Municipal Beform League of New York was stationed to watch in entrance of a tenomeat on lower Broadway on the evening of .June 7 'rom seven to eleven o'clook. He saw nineteen men go in with buckets of seer, and seven girls from ten to twelve years of ago with buckets of beer; three women also oarried bottles )f whiskey. Forty buckets of beer ind three bottles of whiskey in ooo evening oarried into a building in which the average weekly earnings per family will not exceed three dol lars seems to furnish a suggestion of ;he cause of poverty. On the evening )f the 10th the same agent took ob lervatioo on a tenement of a better slass. Between half-past seven sad en o'olook he saw ten boys from light to fourteen years old carry in mokets of beer: Tho better class enement had fewer buckets of beer. Che more beer the worse home. Exchange. - Tho late George F. Clark, of ?Veat Aotion, Mass., left by his will a >um of money-saved, as he said, rom his small salary, "with tho io po" that he might "some time be nstrumental in the providence of God n preventing the mora) and iatelleot lal wreok of some gifted young man >r woman"-to be used toward fosnd ng at Berea College a professorship br teaching the dangers of the alcohol md tobacco habits. - "Papa," said little Percy, "why loesn't mamma travel with a circus?" 'Why," Mr. Henpeck asked, "what lould she do in ? cirons?" "She night be the strong woman. I heard 1er telling grandma tho other day that ihe oould wind yon around her little inger just as easy as nothing." - "Where ia the island of Java situated?" asked a school teaoher of a miall, rather forlorn-locking boy.. "I Innno, sir." "Don't youir.nowwhere lonee comes from?" "YOB, sir; we borrows it from the neat door neigh bor." Blood Petsoa Carta by B.B.B.-Bettie Free to Sufferers. Deep-seated, obstinate oases, the kind that have resisted doctors, hot springs and . patent medicine treat ment, quickly yield to B.B.B. (Botan ic Blood Balm), thoroughly tested for 30 years. Have yow muouous patches in tho month, sore threat, eruption?, Batiog sotes, bone pains, itching skin, swollen f lands, stitt joints, eoppfcr Bolored spots, Chancres, ulceration on the body, hair and eyebrows fall ont V lathe skin a massof boils, pimplos and ulcers? Then this wonderful B.B.B, spooile will completely chango tho whole body into a olean, perfect condition, free from eruptions, and akin smooth with the glow of perfect health. B. B. B. drains tho poison ont of the system so the symptoms cannot return. At same time B.B.B, builds up tho broken down constitu tion and improves the digestion. So sufferers may test B.B.B, a trial bot tle will be given away free of uharge. B.B.B, for salo by druggists and Hill Orr Drug Co. and Wilhite & Wilhite, at $1 per larao bottle, or 6 large bot tles (full treatment) $5. Complete di rections with coon bottle. For trial bottle address .Blood Balm Co., 880 Mitchell St., Atlanta, Ga. Describe trouble and Free micheal advice given. Courtship of Forty Yearn. After an engagement that lasted for thirty-nine years and uevcr waned, John Smith, of Culpepcr County, Vir gicia, and Miss Lucy Howard, liv ing near Fredricktown, O., have been married. He is <>2 years of agc aod ?bc is Cl. When thc civil war began Smith was in the North on business per taing to a large tannery operated on ria father's plantation. While in this country he was taken ill and was cared for at the homo of Thomas How ard, near Fredricktown. For six months ho was desperately ill, and during all this time was faith fully watched over and nursed by Miss Lucy, thc youug daughter of tho household. Their friendship so rip ened that when young Smith returned to his Southern homo he carried thc promise of Miss Howard to bc his wife. Smith entered the Confederate ser vice and became a conspicuous and daring subaltern. Ho was captured, and was taken to Missouri, whore he remained until thc close of thc war. Ile then returned to his old homo, which had been devastated. His for tunes were ruined, but together with his father ho set about to recover them. In a few years his father died and made a last request that the son remain on thc old plantation and caro for his mother. Smith wrote to his Ohio sweetheart and informed her of thc barrier that his fsthcr had raised to their probable marriage, but promised that should she be unmarried after his mother's death he would claim her as his bride. Miss Howard promised to remain un married till Smith should be ic a po sition to marry her. About a year ago Smith's mother died, and the arrangements for the marriage were made. During all the thirty-nine years that the lovers had waited their love never waned. They kept up a constant correspondence, and often visited each other's homes. During those years Smith has pros pered, and is now considered a wealthy man._. - The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at a time. - The most unreasonable thing we jan undertake to do is to avenge our selves. - When you aro tempted to use larsh language, stop and think whether it may or not be better to iold your peace. It ia just as easy to drift into danger os to drive into it. The progress is slower but the end is eanally sore. It is the gradual progress of drifting which blinds to the danger. Men and women drift into ill-health in such a way. There ia a Little feeling of oppression after eating. After a time it passes away. Some day Lt returns and bringa another symptom headache, perhaps. Something is done to relieve the headache, bnt nothing to relieve the canse. So one more victim goes drifting on to the tocks of disease. Young women who are teaching or studying are very apt to become victima af disease of the stomach. They eat in judiciously, in some caaes, and in gen eral the brain ia too occupied to allow the stomach the blood necessary to carry >n its functions. Hence in time the regans of digestion and nubicion are ?tally deranged, and the young grada rte goes home a chronic invandT. The timely ase of Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery will avert rack a con Ution ; the faithful nae of it in chronic &ses will effect a complete cure. "I waa troubled with very frequent headaches, rffeio ?cooa? pa ol ed by severe vomiting-," writes gist Mary nelle Bummer? r*? of Ssa Diego. Eta val 3a. Tresa*. " Bowel? were lr^aruiar ead my stomach ead tiver a.-cmed cou tonally cst ci ?der. Often X coule, cot almost rothlaff, aaa ?me tim ea absolutely uotblop, fat tweatj-foor loora at a time. Iwss entirely unfit for work,, ayt my whols eyatem ss9ta?d co ra u down th&t; ! nsiw a ssr?ra SHh? ?pt?? aaa stav very uawca i Uacocreged. I waa advised to try j Solden Medical Discovery, and belora fioUMaa I tea third bottl? S waa abfe to ucdertafce tb?da . I lea of public echoolll fe, *ndcop:L->cttd todeeo." I Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets cleanse she complexion and sweeten the breath. Notice to Teachers. rBB next regular examination for Teachers wlfi be hold on June 16tb. Ill those who wish to take the examina tion are urged to be bera promptly at 9 ?r. m., so that no timo email bo lost lo be* ?iDhiDg the work. " . The beamer Normal for the County* ?i? begin on Juno llth. The teacher* ta ibarge will be Professors Thoa O. Wal lon, Jl 8. Motaos?, and Mles Virginia Brodie. !. Every effort will be Blade to give the reaohere vtho atbmd practical iostinctioja -something that will hoof salo* to theta In their sobaco ooo* ?erk. I bo Sicto is 701 og to considerable expanse ba holding thea* Normals, andi nope tba Teaobora will avail tbsmtelwa of Urta opportoolty to Improve their work* Ibo division of work and the dally programs have not Bssseetfullv. H.?.yiogobaow. ??nthr?|iCo?ega8i*?lar??i!pB k?iP4?? oiled afterJniy 2?ththey will be award ed to those making the> highest average at this examination. ? Tbs oast oraUsnd ance, ^ncltt^ng^boaid, furg^ed^room, n^nthl8hFor fiitborDfufo?ma?oo anS^a catalogue address Pres. ?. B. Johnson, Rockhill, S. C. , May 23? 1600 48 getting a " Wicl Blue 1 Oil SI It bums the cheapest fuel same oil you burn in your 1 If your dealer does not h STANDARD OIL COI SPECIAL ?ALE OF PIANOSANDORGANS. FOR THE NEXT THIRTY DAYS THE C. A. REED MUSIC HOUSE Will sall any of tho following High Grade PIANOS and ORGANS at pri?es aa low as aan bo obtained. from the Manufactu re rs direct : KNABE, WEBER, IVEItS & POND. CROWN, WHEELOCK, LAKE SIDE and RICHMOND. Also, TOB * BOVI, ESTEY and F?iSBAB? ?t VOTEY OBGAHS. Prospective purchasers will find lt to their Interest to call and inspect my Stock or writ? for prices. We also represent the loading makes Sewing Machines At Rook Bottom figures. Respectfully, THE C. A. REED MUSK HOUSE. BLOOD TELLS. Yea. lt ls the lades ta health. If roa bave bad:blood-yoe are likely to loara that voa have Bheacutlna, ono of the most horrible 4l?***t# to v*i?h ?ssahiad Io heir, if thu dises? hw ?ott brgaa ii? work, or if rsa have been sflHoeea for yean, you ehould et onoa tafeo the wonderful ?ev core, RHEUMAGIDE. Thousands have becu cured. TfeeSpriogla tho best Ume to take a rheumatic remedy. Nature ?Ul then aid the medicine- la effeo Ung s pennon snt, co naUtatlonal eura. Peo Ke ?Ith bad blood are subject to catarrh, digestion, ead men/ other diseases. To be healthy the blood mast be pure RS EU* M ACIDE le the Prince of blood purifiera. nft^^t??^a?a'?VANS PHAR MACY. Pri?e tl 00. D. S. VAKDIVRB. E. P; VAiiOryaB. J. J. MAJOR. Y?N9IVBR BROS. & H?J OB DEALERS IN line Buggies, Bfessisss, Surreys, Wagons Harness Lap]Bobes and Whips, High Grade Fertilisers, Bagginglwd Tlaa. OH ti hundred fine new Buggies jost received. Ooma and look through them. They erojbsautlee, and we will treat you right if you need one. Car load ?Sir?aeU? wagons on hand the beat Wa^ouB bout. Ctr White Hiokory Warona to arrive aeon. Your?, for vehicles, YAffprVBR;&aO&*MAJOR. I have a eonsMerabte num ber of small unpaid Accounts on my books. I am notifying each ono of amount duo? and unless paid lam going to place them in officer's band for coi lfiQx?ftT?. Jen 3, fOOO ? : ? f\tX BBAIi ESTATE. Lon? time If swuwwi??y ??sys?a* . iroim ABDSBSOW. 8. 'Ol May 1< l??a% rpAKE NOTICE that the Annual Moat* (loth), ?ooo, at 12 o'oloek m;. for toe par p?se of electing Officers and attendmgto any other business ?ist may coat? before them. Pleas* be present in pei son or by proxy. 8. M. ORB, Pyealdent, Miiy 16,1900 47 0 . No Soot on Your Pans Cleanliness is one virtue 'of the Wickless Blue Flame OU Stove that good housekeepers appreciate. Perfect safety is another. Convenience and cool cooking are others. E you're figuring on g money on fuel ramer, figure on kless P?ame you can buy-the amps. No odor, ave them, write to ?PANY. A Few Things Necessary to make a . . . GOOD COTTON HOE. A PERFECT HOE should have a straight, well-eea oned handle, made of the best grade selected timber. The . blade should be made of a high qi al i ty of steel, perfectly tempered and properly sharpened. The shanks should be of the same high quality of steel, and so fitted into the handles as to make their pulling out, from ordinary usage, impossible.. All Hoes should be set to exactly suit the purpose for which they are intended. To find av Hoe that fully meeta all of the&e requirements we invite you ito come and inspect our line. Men, women and children will here find a Hoe to suit them. All weights and sizes are com prised in Our mammoth stock. kW* Please bear in miad that weare the only dealers in this section who buy their Goods in solid car lots, and hence are in a position to name such prices as cannot fail to make it to your interest to favor us with your pa tronage. Sullivan Hardware Co. WE WANT tO BUILD And BO do you. Build right by getting the best material. LJIQON AL I^J^i^BLi=Uf/JL * JL VfcU?R SELL THE S?st? Oorr^oirxt,, T ?iccx&9 cSco., On the market. Haye sold several of the Cotton Mills their supply of Lime. This, of cou ree, means the best and lowest price. Still SeDlogvGroceries Wholesale, And don't break packages for anybody. This means Ire sell cheap. Come and see us. HOON &XEDB?TTEB, WHOLESALE GROCERS. ??T The largest stock of TOBACCO in the up-country. All first-lass brands Cn hand. Eesnemher -when yon go to get you? Seed to get freoh ones. As this ia our first year in tho Seed business we have no seed e&riied over from last ye&r. Tours, F. s. If oar the Post Off?ee. tv PAYS ?NTKRBST ON BEPOS??TS* tit* No deposit too small to receive careful and courteous attention. Children's deposits especially invited. '. ' ??"..!"".,,. t i i II' ii II rv.i. n I# you Wut a^4PERPB0r^i^?NQ. STOVE, and never burn On tbe bottom. Tfc??r? v&St&n oa th? market thal canequal it ft* debility and even baking on top and bottom. AJto/^lhie of And at prices to heat the fa lad. iTour trade solicited, JGHK T. BUEKISS.