Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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i HE OLD AIKE .A. Quaint Spot off Co Mrs. (Hire (funby, in the AY Jehossce Island is a little barony oil the South Carolina coast, set round with palmottocs and great roaches of cane rush and marsh, which can neither be stepped upon nor sailed upon. The birds know the place. It is set down in italics in all the guide books for bird travellers going South, and there is bound to be more than one loot note as to the quality of the food to be got there and the points of interest most worth a visit. The wild duck and wild goose legations always patronize Jchosscc. The wild turkey dotes on it. And the marsh hens, I'oor Joes, the garnets, cranes and other delicate steppers with a taste for fish like the locality so well that they keep lodgings there all the year round. As to the rest of the world, the island is of importance be cause of the fine quality rice it grows, and the long fibre cotton, first cousin to silk, that is coveted by European manufacturers, there being also a handful of people who know the place as an old Governor's property, famous for the beauty of its grounds and the admirable management which kept 900 slaves together there in comforta ble temper and condition, yet so well trained and habituated to system that the fertile lands were made to yield to the utmost. You can't take Jehosscc by surprise and walk in on her whensoever you will, as you may walk in upon New York or the National Capital or other places betrayed to greatness. No tickets arc to be got having Jehosscc stamped as destination and guaran teeing to land you there. The way is in cipher, known only to the initiated, and the visitor must make sure he is wanted and have his camping prepared for. Thence, once under the agent's care, landed safe on a snudy little bluff among the rushes, where a stout horse and buggy wait in charge of a negro who will pilot the way, a unique experience is in store. There is this about the rice field horse to begin with: "Hold her sort of tight, sah," the man cautions as he turns over the reins. "Rico field horse does move quick less'n he bog. Highland horse now will slow up for a place, but dis here kind will step off faster the worse he find the road." And sure enough the powerful, willing creature strides over the ground quite reckless of cons?quence, no mat ter how dubious the way. The road through the woods is tor tuous, soggy, doubling itself to avoid ?fallen trees and quagmires; then it is explained that this is the back en trance to the plantation proper, and that the roads used commonly for hauling the stores and provisions for the planter lie on the othor side of the island. "Dis here oook-kitchen woods and dey is powerful tcarcd up from de storm," the guide observes. "Foro freedom the blaok people was feteh out here to camp whenever there was sickness breed 'mongst 'em. Den dcrc was good clearin' made And de road keep de right course, but nobody come through here much now 'ccptin* to hunt." The cook-kitchen woods are stocked thick ^ith palmetto, laurel and hay trees, great, sinewy cypress knees and ,keen-bladed Spanish bayonets glisten ing over ground black and productive, ibut so stiff and sticky that it is no ^vendor the Uorsc steps gingerly and gets ever it as fast as possible. The palmettos shoot upward as tall as the pines, their trunks tough and resist ent, their shooky crests well aloft to catoh the light. The last turn in this most shut in of forest ways brings the bouse placo into view, and the horse, certain now of footing, trots free and clear over a level roadway winding be tweeu well-tended eotton fields and past cabin doors where shy-eyed pick aninies look out and timid hens mar shaling the year's brood take alarm at the vehicle and scurry for shelter. Tt takes years on years and good stock and laying out at the start to give a place the look of these Jehos see grounds. Tho island is all one patrimony of 4,000 acres. It has never been divided up into ten and twenty aore lots and parcelled out to negroes, as was the ease with a neigh ?.AOTB.#a : n 1 n Twl nl.Offl ll n irofinim ????? ?o ????, "- - - ?- - ? - estates were confiscated. And it has never gone into the trucking busineso and had ft bridge run over on it to connect it with a railroad system. When its sister communities are both ering about the blemish on oabhsgeB and the drought on tomatoes and other problems of the market gardeners, JcLosseo goes on thinking solely and sufficiently o? its big rice and ootton clops, being controlled by one firm of plantera and tilled just as it was tilled : in tho old days ;ond by the ohildren and grandchildren of the selfsame blacks that Worked for the Governor and his grandfather. N HOMESTEAD. the South Carolina ast. M* Yuri, Vonnncreutl Advertiser. I The present leaseholders are pro ; grossive planters, with to-day, not j yesterday, in mind. Rice successfully grown yields a handsome profit. Solid cash, way up in the thousands, is re quired to run a plantation like this t for a year, aud everything about the overseer's premises and the farm lots betoken intelligent supervision. To drive from tho sunny openness and , activity of the fields and laborers' quarters in under the oaks of tho old I family place is to come face to face with the past. There are acres of these great live oaks, originally planted and trimmed at the will of a master gardener, who loved his task. And the royal trees have kept their trust. Not one has given way or grown rough or scraggly. Their interlaced boughs have made a shade too impervious for grass to grow in, so tho carefully planned walks arc as orderly and trim to-day as their origintaor could wish. The place is eloquent. The romance and tenderness of generations of fami ly happenings seem garnered there, and time has flung a soft veil over it all, a misty, gray filmed veil of the trailing moss, and stolen off about other business. It docs not nocd the stone urns and massivo ornaments at the gate, the marble steps and circling carriage drive to tell that this was a proud place once and a home that stood for refinement as much as substantial ncBB, and with a care for the amuse ments as well. The billiard room, a stanch little building to itself, far enough off from tho dwelling to have escaped the conflagration, testifies to this; also the big stables and dog kennel, where a pack of hounds was kept, the ample accommodations for the house servants, and everywhere provision for a large-hearted hospi tality. Driving round on the further side of the grounds one comes upon tho quaint little church built for the slaves to worship in and for the ladies of the family to hold their Sunday School classes. There are things to prove tho degree of integrity that these landowners of the old school managed to instill into thoir working poople. When the wrench came after the civil war that bo materially altered tho planter's fortune, Jehossee, along with many other estates whoso very vastness crippled them, was left to the mercy of its black population. The family had retired to their town house in Charleston, and the island's tillage was conducted by fits and starts. The house on Jehossee was left just is it was, the family plate, china, paintings and housekeeping appoint ments all in tho several plaoes where they habitually stood. It had never )een the custom to lock up things in ,hat house. The house was not origi nally designed with any burglar's de onces, and the widowed mistress bought it not worth while to have >olts and bars affixed, doubtless partly jecauBo having lost bo muoh she had ittle heart to look after smaller mat ers. Besides, moving things was ex )cnsive and nobody had spare money. To the praise of those hundreds of dack folks be it recorded that noth ng was touched or taken out of the louse. Things to cat, now, might iavc been tampered with, but certain rusty souls formed a volunteer guard vor "Old Miss's tings" and had any laring spirits elected io make a raid hey would have found difficulty. Tho house was destroyed by an acci lenta! fire only a year or two ago, iftcr thirty-five years' disuse. For several years after the emanci pation odiot no whito person set foot jn Jehosseo savo the administrator who went occasionally to see after affairs, and the few sportsmen whc| pained permission to take thoir autumn or Christmas shooting there. They, too, could walk in and out of the un locked house and sec the treasures. They marked the state of things, the trustworthiness of those troops of ex slaves and marvelled, and came away and talked about it. The sportsmen, with an eye to the picturesque, talked about another thing?the wonder ful services and scenes enaotcd in the old plantation church and the mourn ? ?l ? . _ _!_a? V _ 1 lUliy UUdULllUI Diugtue W 1SV there. Services free from all conven tion, conducted after an emotional ritual improvised by the participa tors and punctuated by individual seances with the spirit and by sermons the like of which no whito man's fanoy had conceived nor ear heard. Theso discourses were in strict imitation of the preaohing of the white pastor who had oh arge of the flock during the period before tho war. The negro imitator conld not read, bnt he could remember parts of the aeoustomed dis courses and pieoe them ont with his own ingenious imaginings. What the theme lacked in sense was made Up in fervor and the white men were treated to an entertainment never to be for gotten for its droli impressions. .Some of these discourses were written down by apt listeners and preserved as memorials of Jehossee lingo. It is related of this famous old plantation that the owner always dis claimed any ambition to make money. If he could keep his lands in a high state of cultivation, his slaves all sleek and hearty, his stock of the best, and realize <*> per cent on the investment he was content. There was no strain in his working gear; the bands worked hard when they worked, doing their regular task each day, then had the rest of the time for themselves, whether they completed that task at 10 a. m. or at 2 p. m. They were then free to go with their cast nets after shrimps or crabs, angle for the fish that were plentiful, work in their little garden plats or doze at will in the shade. To-day they manage their own time and have fresh problems to conquer; problems that will develop another side of their nature. There is a school house put up and each year there is a quandary as to who is best able to board the teacher and who will furnish a horse and buggy for her to get back and forth to her desk. Down through the rice fields to the ferry! Verily, it is a drive worth the driving, although the rank grass in some plaoes is up to the horse's belly and the wheels run dangerously near the edges of the narrow causeway. Rice is too expensive a crop, the ground too hard to prepare to allow of overmuch margin for a road. Jerry riding up from the back indicates the lay of the land and inspires confi dence. Occasionally some negroes are seen Tar out on a grass-covered bank, seem ingly doing nothing, but their idleness is significant. They are the trunk minders, deliberating as to the state jf the water that b?? been turned in )ver certain portions of the riee. This seing a tide swamp plantation, where the water performs a good share of the ivork, the trunk minders, versed in running it on and off, are not the least mportant factors in the crop*3 suc cess. The bird minders arc another sepa -ate squad, their mission being to fire jlank charges of gunpowder over the ields to scare away the birds that issemble in considerable numbers eer ,ain months in t ie year. The bird nindcrs are strong, mature fellows, lober going and watchful, who will be ipt to take their occupation seriously ind not trifle. Only the acclimated oan risk being m the rice reserves after nightfall in nid-summer. The river mists and lubmerged acres give rise to condi ionB the reverse of wholesome, so unset bringB the drive baek from the dd ferry along the dikes, past the tegro quarter, where the supper fires re being kindled; past the o'i man ion site where the veiled oaks keep rystr through np?and cotton grounds o the rough roadway of Coek-kitehen, nd a? on to the particular saudy knoll meng the rushes, where btmek Jerry eswraes charge of bis teem and we ome beck in the little row boat for he hospitable shore opposite, where nother sea island1 planter has ht? ome. - m m ta.? res Mw? Core?As Offer Pr?vis* Fatt* to SnfEbrerst I? your blood pure ?' Are you> stare vitt Do outs or scratches- heal alow 7 ? ?06B your akin itch or burn ? lave you pimples, eruptions, aching ones or back, eczema, old seres,, beilsy srofula* rheumatism* foul breath, ea ?rrh t Are you pale ?' If so- purify our blood at onoe with B. Si R. (Bo inio Blood BalmO It makes the lood pure and rich, heals every sere nd gives a clear-, snioobh, healthy kin. Deep-seated-oases like uleevs, ?Peer, eatiug sores, painihsl swellings, lood poison are- qniokly. caved by B. t. B?, made espeoially fsa ail obsti ato blood and. s&in troubles. RRB. } different from, other no me dies be auee B.B.B, drains the poise* and tumors out of the blood ana entire sy a ?>m and cannot return. Intelligencer aaders are adivieed bs.give B.B.B, a liai. It euros whea all else fails, 'horoughly tested far 30 years. Sold .t drug stoaes and Hill-Qrr Drug Co. Vilhite & Wilhito and Kvans Phar macy at one dollar ($1.00) per large lOttle, $f> large bottles (full treatment) &. So sufferers may test it a trial lOttle given away absolutely free. Vrite for it. Address Blood Balm Jo., 380 Mitchell St., Atlanta, Ga. Vrite to-day. Describe the trouble tod free medical udvieo given. ? * 'We'll either have to get a new ;irl or a new iooman, Goorge." "Let t be a new iooman, then. What's the trouble?" "This iooman is so good looking that he makes Maggio ner vous. Yesterday morning she got so mixed up that she tried to get him to put theios in the stove oven." When you want a pleasant physio try the new remedy. Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets. They are easy to take and pleasant in effect. Price, 25c. Samples free at Hill-Orr Drug Co'a. store. ? Soubrette?"I'll never speak to Cholly again as long as I live." Inge nue? "Why not?" Subrette?"He asked mo if I was going to dine any where to-night, and whonj told him I wasn't the mean thing said: 'How hungry you'll be to-morrow morn iagl* " Strange Fulogy by Ingalls. The death of Senator Ingalls recalls a speech made by him in the senate in August, 181)0, on the death of Senator Beck, of Kentucky. It was probably the strangest eulogy ever delivered in that body. Rich, almost faultless, in rhetoric, as his speeches always were, it also revealed some of the inner workings of his mind?thoughts, spec ulations, vagaries, if you will?which men seldom express, even if enter tained. Senator Ingalls never indul ged in long prefaces, and he plunged into this subject with almost startling abruptness. He said : "Mr. President: Rugged, robust and indomitable, the incarnation of physi cal force and intellectual energy, Sen ator Beck seemed a part of nature, in separable from life, and exempt from infiimity. I recall the emotion with which I saw him stand painfully in his place and announoc with strange pathos that for the first time in twenty years he found himself unablo to par ticipate in debate. He lingered awhile, as the prostrate oak retains its verdure for a brief interval after its fall, or as the flame flickers when the candle is burned out; but his work was done. It was the end. "The rig it to live is, in human es timation, t ie most sacred, the most inviolable, the most inalienable. The joy of living in such a splendid and luminous day as this is inconceivable. To exist is exultation. To live for ever is our sublimcst hope. Toknow, to love, to achieve, to triumph is rap ture; and yet we are all under sentence of death. Without trial or opportu nity for defense, with no knowledge of the accuser or the nature and cause of the accusation; without being con fronted with the witnesses against us, we have been summoned to the bar of life and condemned to death. There is neither exculpation nor appeal. The tender mother cries passionately for her first-born, but there is no clemen cy. The craven felon sullen'.;' prays for a moment in which to be aneled, , but there is no reprieve. The soul helplessly beats its wings against the ( the bars, shudders and disappears. "Humanity itself is destined to ex- [ tinetion. Sooner or later, it is the in- ] struetion of soience that the energy ] [>f the earth will be expended and it , will become incapable of supporting j life. A group of feeble and palid j survivors in some sheltered valley in f bhe tropics will behold the son sink below the horizon and the pitiless stars glitter in the midnight sky. The , last man will* perish and the sun will rise upon an earth without an inhab itant. Its atmosph?re, its- seas, its i life and heat will vanish, and the j planet will be at* idle cinder oseleusly ) spinning on its orbit. i "If the only object of creation ra i lestruction, if infinity is the theater < )f an uninterrupted series of inepar- j ible calamities, if the final oavee of . ife is death, then-time is-an inespli- < table tragedy, and eternity an illogical I tnd indefensible-catastrophe; "But no, Mr. President, this-eudbgy \ s for the quiet and' not for the dead, j [t is not an inconsolable lamentation. < [t is a strain of' triumph. It is-an. affirmation to those wfco- survive, that is our departed associate? oontempkt- 1 og at the close of bio-life tho moou- * sent of good deeds- be has erected-, 1 sight exclaim with tbe-Roman poet,.. J Nob omni? moriar.' So, turning: to ho silent acd unVnewo future-, ho- t wold reply witn jvsfeand: reasonable \ -en?donce upon that aaost impressive ] ,?? momentous- assurance ever de- j ivarod to the human race:: 'Ho that < >e?eveth in Me. though he were dead,. < ret shall be live;, and whosoevea liv tin and believeth inMie shall never i lie.'" Of course, I bave only quoted a part ? the speech, though in its entirety ' t was very briof.? Gilbert A. PUrcey 1 n Chicago Time&T&?r.ald._< The Deerii ?w +rj www mmqvi.m ?.? v wmm*m gest in output, sales and sis in every civilised seat first to introduce the Bearings to Agrioul now famous t! Gail be operated by a child. Perfect steel under* clean era. High-carbon an?lo-stcol axle. Can be damped by hand or foot. Oil-temperea steel teeth of finest qt Ninety-five per. cent of material fin Simplest dumping mechanism on ei Shouldered steel spokes in wheels, 1 Suspended Animation. A case of temporarily suspended animation occurred in this city last night, which illustrates the fact, long urged by scientists, that death should be determined unmistakably before burial takes place. In this case nothiDg so horrible as a prema ture bu ial occurred, but there was a probability that it would, but whioh was fortunately avoided. A family of white people, diving on Arsenal hill, went through an unusual experience last, night. One of the children had been ill for two weeks. It gradually grew worse until last night at 10:30 its pulse seemed to cease to beat. There were some other signs of apparent death, and the child was pronounced dead and the body was prepared for burial. About an hour afterward, while the sorrowing family were sitting around the supposed dead child, it suddenly arose in the bed and asked for a drink of water. The feelings of those pres ent can probably be better imagined than described. The parents were naturally carried away with joy over the return of the "dead" loved one to life. Of oourec every possible atfca tion was given the child and it grew stronger. The child was still living this morn ing and the battle for life may yet end in its favor.?Columbia Record. Quick Justice in Ohio. Cleveland, Ohio, August 24.? Louis Peck, the colored man, who, last Monday evening, assaulted four year-old Christina Maas, at Akron, and whose orhne is responsible for the fearful rioting that occurred at Akron Wednesday night and Thursday morn ing, was this afternoon taken from the jail at Cleveland, where he had been removed for safety, rushed to Akron, taken to the Court House, and within five minute? after his arrival in Akron, was convreted of the crime and sentenced to the penitintiary for life at hard labor. He had been in dicted by a special grand jury, whioh bad been impanelled during the after noon. Judge Nye, of Elyria, pro nounoed the sentence. Within two minutes after the sentence had been pronounced Peck had beea placed on board a Cleveland, Akrea and Co lumbus train, and, in charge of the sheriff and an assistant, ho- was- taken to Columbus. Cared ef Chronic DIarrhoea-?affcw Thir ty Years of Suffering; "I suffered for thirty years with-di- . trrhoea and thought I was -past being tared," says John S. Hallows?, of Preach Camp, Miss. "I had-spent so much time and money and suffered! so mach that I had given up all'hopes of recovery. I was so feeble fronvbhe sflfestoo? the diarrhoea that HoonlcDdo? 10 kind of labor, could not even travel, . Mit by accident I was permitted'toflod' ? bst*l? of Cfes berhttVs Colle; CSol- j )ra &ad IMarrhoea Remedy, and- after :aking several bottles I am entirely : sure?of that trouble. I am so pleas- . ;d with, the mult that I am anx?eus- ' .hat is be-in reach of all who suffer*as j E harav" For sale by Bill-OrrDfrugz i 3o-. _ ___ I ? "W?rnern eaght not to be allomdi ! :o belong to ?loba or discuss things till they can make their shirt waists uid; fch? tops el th*ir skirts stay- to* 'ether. Chinese are dangerous enemieafor 1 .hey are treatberous. That's whs all jountarf*eits. ef DeWitt'a Witch Hncel j Suive are dangerous. They look like De Witt's, bat instead of the all-honi ng wkob baatel they contain ingredi- . 3nts- liable to irritate the skin, and; ?aase blood poisoning. For piles, in juries and skin diseases use the origi nal Dewitt's Witoh Hazel Salve. Ryans' Pharmacy, ? Every great crime was committed ht a moment when he who oemmitted it forgot that he was onoe a little ohild. ig M?wers takes. Waj^j I? wAvlil ?. Via? 1*rw le of plant They are sold Lou of the globe. The Bioycle and Roller tarai Implements is world over. lality. est high-carbon steel. trtb?-not ? cog or pinion of any kind lot-pressed at malleable bub and rim ROCK BROS. Promotes DigestioaCheerfur nessandRestContains neither Opium.Mofpiuiie nor>Uueral. Not Narc otic'. teape of OU nr. SAMUEL PITCHED R**pl?n Seed AbcSmuim, * RoJ?tUsStdU AamSm*. t A perfect Remedy f or Constipa tion, Sour StomsdbDiarfitoea Worms .Convulsions ,Fc veri sh ness and Loss oft7 S&eep. Facsimile Signature of NEW YDHK. exact copy of wrapper CASTORM For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought In Use For Over Jhirty Years "DEAN'S PATENT FLOUR ECLIPSES ALL OTHERS!" THIS u tfte message flashed through the great telescope which we got from Lack Observatory to observe the great eclipse. r7ekn,ew that, however, several years ago: We originated that brand and advertised it too long ago for the fresh inhabitants of a foreign planet to presome now to claim the hon m of it Thb we cat* prove by the thousands of pleased' customers we bave made on that brand' act* held them over all competition throughout the eight years we've been prescribing it as a balm for all .the woes- weak stomachs are a prey to. We wish'only to* pat the eating public on notice that there is then but one genuine and'original DEIN'S PATENT FLOUR, and that is sold by us. All other imitatiose are spurious, do . matter where they eome from. It is nevertheless a noteworthy fact that DEAN'S PATENT doeB totally eclipse all other floura?a feat admitted by all, but first proven by its great merits wherever tried side by side whb others. The facts in the case ans-that we are just eclipsing all competition, if we rver had any. That's another big eclipse. Just watch the? FLOUR, MEM, CORN and TOBACCOS To> say nothing of the? SHOES, ZETA TS and iF-AJSPTS doiBg l?Jts* we load at our front door, and j/a4ge ?0? yourself what we th?se dall daytv No, no, we're not asleep?5k*a the other fellow.. Hate's np now, must go to weak. So long ? WE WANT TO BUILD ! Assise do yon. Build mgkfc By getting the best material. SELL THE Best ?D&2Dl&&xx% Ijim.?f.e5co.f Oia tike market. Have sold several of the Cotton Mills their<aanply of Lime. Th?*? of course, means the best and lowest price. Still Sellli? Groceries Wholesale* And don't break packages for anybody. This means we selb aheap. ? Come and see us. LIGON & LEBBBTTEE. WHOLESALE. GROCERS. ?0- The largest stock of TOBACCO in the up-country. All first-class brands on band. ^ GARDEN SEED. Buist and IFNsrry's. ????i?i .MP? Remember when yon go to get your Seed to get fresh ones. As this is our first year in the Seed business we have no seed carried over from last year. Yours, F. B. GRAYTON & CO. Near the Post Office. Afteff Tec Tease Premiums bave been Paid In. the M0T??L BENEFIT LIFE 'INSURANCE CO. Dl New Ark, N* J?. YOUR POLICY HAS? 1. Loan Value. 2. Caah Value. 8. Ffiid-up loon ranee. 4. Extended Insurance that works automatically. 5. Is Non-forfeUable. ?. WU1 bo reinstated If arrears be paid, within one month while yon arc living, or within Um? years after iacao, upon satlsfSsctory evldanoe of insurability smd par* moot of arrears with Interest. 7. 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