Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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GENUINE CASTORIA ALWAYS j Beare the Signature of The KM You toe Always Bought In Use For Over 30 Years. * THC CKNTAUft COMPANY. TT MUAMV WTRCCT. NCW TOP)ll OTrV. HI In the Piedmont Belt of the South ? Anderson County is the HUB of the Piedmont Belt, and and yon can select from the following and let me hear from jon: 3n the City of Anderson : House and Lot on North Main Street. House and Lot cu South Main Street. Vacant Lot on South Main Street. 3n Centerville Township : 155 acres, improved ; also, 67 acres, ii Broadway Township : 51 acre?. 3n Pendleton Township : 77 acres. 3n Fork Township : 104, 900,105 and 52 acre Tracts. 2n Hall Township : 289 acres. ALL MORE OR LESS WELL IMPROVED. In Piokens County I have 285 aerea in one body and 75 aerea in another. In Oconce County I have several Tracts, running 104, 418,75, 385, 136, 309,166-all in Center Township. There are no better lands to produce than I offer you above, and if you awe interested in buying or selling lauds in the city or country, Bes me and 3et me tell you what I have to offer. Yours for building up the country and <ity, JOS. J. FJtETWELL, Anderson, 8. C. .A.. C. STEIC ELAND, *. fifi : ' J. I>ElSrTISTe Office over ParmersIand.M^rehantB Bank, Anderson, S. G. JFRED. G. BROWN, Free and Trew. | B. F. MATJLDIN, Vice President. . A.. 8. FARMER, Secretary. The Anderson Real Estate and investment Co., ' -BUYBRS Al^D SELLERS OF REAL ESTATE, STOCKS & BONDS. J. 0. CUMMINGS, Sales Bep't. WAR S'? Story of the Devastation Wro by a Subalten Thc overmuch discussed march of Kev. Thomas Sherman over thc route followed hy the army of Gen. Sher man in thc inarch through Georgia and thc Carolinas, sends thc mind backwards over that historical event, no feature of which has called forth more discussion and criticism than the burning of Columbia, S. C. It ha? been written up by correspon dents, and historians have told what they allege to have been the facts. Two of tho chief actors have written the story, all coloring it, perhaps, from their sympathies or giving it from their newpoiot. The state- ' meats made by Gen. Sherman upon the ono side and by Gen. Hampton upon the other have differed in many particulars and whioh I will make no attempt to reconcile, but only tell what a subaltern officer saw, aud as he saw it. The remnants of Hood's army had been ordered to tho Carolinas and halted at Augusta to await the ad vance of Sherman, if that city was to be a point in his maroh northward from Charleston. When it was as certained that he was moving out wardly of the city, the Confederate troops, now under the command of Geo. Beauregard, moved across the country to Columbia. Maj. Gen. ! Stevenson's division, to which ? be longed, was in the roar and I was left behind to ooileot ali stragglers, form them into a command and await fur ther orders. Two days afterwards we were ordored forward to Columbia. It was about 2 p. m. of the day we ar rived opposite the city and at the end of the bridge across Broad river. Here we were met by an order to dis band the company and send the men to their respective commands and for md to join Capt. Coleman in a reoon noisaooe of the grounda south of the river. We returned about 7 p. m. and reported to Geo. Stevenson, who wss in immediste command of the city. We were then ordered to take com mand of the pioneer corps of his, Stevenson's, division and rove to a point between the oity and the north end of the bridge across Broad river. The oity procer was about a half a mile back from the river and on a low ridge or elevated ground, but there were several buildings along the road between the oity and the bridge, at the end of whioh there was a two story ootton factory, midway between, j There was a one-story, broad building I around which were guards paoing to I and fro, end opposite it waa a atore ! and some barrels of rosin. Near by, w?re some spreading, trees nader whioh wo lay down and had just fallen asleep ythen we were aroused by a courier with an order from Gen., Stevenson directing that the bridge be burned and that the oity arsenal I be blown up. Thia order had been transmitted to ni? for ess-, oution, We got three b?rrela of rosin j from the store poroh and took them j to the south end of the bridge, where i we emptied them across the floor and split up some pl an ko to assist in the kindling. Just at this moment we heard the clatter of horses* hoofs coming to wards us. Imagining that it was a soouticg party from th? enemy, but that it might bo friends who had been left behind, and we took position for either event. At tho command "Halt!" the voioe Of a negro re sponded: "Boss, doan shoot; dem Linoumnites oominV Frightened and greatly excited, he told of bis ad venture. Hs said that "Dem Lin oumnites' pome to old missuses v in* sarah eb e.: w h ar for her money sn* things. Den da* cotoh mo' en* wer gwins to hang ms sf I doan tell whar da ar. Oos ob dem say you blaok raak al gd git. a rope, we gwins to hang I you sf yon doan tslt. f went ont ob j de baok dors and saw a boss stan din* ,dar, liles* he weiten fur tue. I jump Un 'im sn* I speck da arter mo now. j Boss, fore God, doan keep me he er til da sum;*' We took the carbino that was swinging to hts saddle sud let him pass. Then ( ? man named Pickering, from Selma, AU-, struck> match sud set fire 4o the kindling and in fivo minutes tbs rosin had the end of tbs bridge in flames. Pickering DRIES. ught by Sherman's Army Told burn only one upan at the south bank of the river. But tbe wind was from the south and driving the smoke through tho bridge wo that ii was im possible to tear oh* the roof and oon , trul the Gre and the bridge had to go. Then carno an order to protect the cotton mill at the north end of the bridge. Thc ordor explained that it belonged to Gov, Spraguo (I think it was) of Rhode Island, and that if it shcnld burn it would be construed in to the burning of the proporty of northern people and might provoke the burning of the city. The factory was saved with difficulty. The order to destroy the city arsenal was recall ed through fear of d, ^age to build ings in the city. We were ordered to send the pio neer corps to the ford above the city and for me to report at headquarters. It was now getting daylight, and as we passed the low broad house here tofore mentioned the guards were leaving, and we were told that it was the printing office where "Confederate money was made." On reaohing headquarters, whioh was in an open square. Gen. Stevennon was sitting by an obelisk, against whioh he waa leaning, and jokingly Baid that he was leaning against the solid center of the State of South Carolina. The ex planation was thai it waa toe point from whioh the mileage of ail the roads of the State were measured. Maj. Beeves, of Gen. Stevenson's BtafI, then told me that the city was being evaouated and that the general had directed that an officer be detailed to remain in the oity till after the federal army had taken possession, and after learning all he oould of their condition and probable move ments to follow up the command and report next day if possible and that this service had fallen to me. I traded with a soldier from Rey' nold's brigade, named Barris, who lived at Dublin Depot, Vn., for an old ragged, dirty uniform, and got au old blazed faced sorrel horse from a negro, that was too poor for any cav alryman to covet. I persuaded the old negro to sit on the oorner by the horse and to olaim him if tho ad vance bf Sherman's army carno while I was gone. I then wandered around over the oity to view the situation and learn the roads by whioh I might make my exit. Everywhere I cautioned the people not to congregate on tho streets, but to keep indoors. Toward the lower end of the oity a number of persona had e????i?d os - s> street, looking at the moving columns ox ' Sherman's army as they passed up through an oldfield on the opposite side of the river. I cautioned them to keep indoors, but they seemed too interested to take the warning. * iuDuu?ij ?nu |JI?VVR WA s?Mi.cry stopped, unlimbered and swung into position. There was a puff of smoke I and a shot out its way through the j erowd, killing ? woman and wounding j a little girl. The squad .vanished in J all directions. Three more' shots j were sent up ' the o tree t. Then the battery limbered up and moved ou. I took up the little girl and carried her into a church that stood s> few yards 1 away en? assisted by two boya and a I good woman j we carried the woman in and laid her out on a po w* .>';.! ! On returning to the corner wa ero I j left my horse, it waa thero, hu?, my j friend, the old Ediato field band, waa I gone. ' In the deal with Harris fori hie snit of clothes I thought that it Was to bo on even trade, . bul I found j While standing here thinking over how I should farther proceed that he had i given me boot, ono of whioh I caught I crawling , around my Beek. .'. Having j droided OBJ my future ooorsss, I totk Wy Arabian steed do^nVio w??ro; a I j nsw Stats capitol was being built and after bobbing his tail and cutting I gaps io his mane, for farther oma-] ment, put him under a shed that had 1 been - used ?by *he. stone masons; in [ their work, and wandered ott up towt where ? metthe first of Sherman's J troops, tKer'wei?"- mere 1?tra?gWs that M ^ found tniit^ ated. 8ome. -of v them oeih^ttiro "Johnny, are , ya* tired;"B*o^^ i ?ai* -mwmt* wmmm??m i>r? I %m taem ?Ths II] . ?ju jul VSXJJLU. ll I.lill.?>1UIM know thc canico of the streets.) The soldiers begun to fill this store. The merchant said he was a t 'on man. Ibis created a great ?aug . iud cae of the caen said, "Then you can af foid to contribute something to your friends." At that the men began helping themselves and phoning what they did uot want out into the street to those who were not able to get in. A general destruction began for the mest part, apparently, as a matter of fun, but there seemed a sort of viciousness against the bolts of cot ton cloth. Men would take hold of tho end of a bolt and, running along the street, unwind it. Others would ' trample upon it, saying: "Tho rebels i may Bing about their mothers wearing dresses made oat of cotton cloth, but j they will never wear one made out of I this cloth." The crowd continued to increase and when this store had been demolished ino/ began to break into others. I asked a man near me if i they had orders to pillage tho town, j He said: "No, we need no orders. I Old Shady just turns us loose." Just what he meant I do not know, and did not deem it prudent to make too many inquiries. The street was soon littered with goods from tho stores and furniture from the houses. An offioer came riding down the street and ordered the men to return to their commands. He was answered by de risive yollo. A smoke started up jo ot ROTORS the square from where 1 was standing. In a few minutas a number of fires started at dinVent parts of the town. At sight of tilts the men grew wilder in their excite ment. A battery esme and swung into position looking down a street towards the hew ospitol. A man ran up to the captain and said "They have got the figures of McDuffio on ono aide of ?tho door and that of ?Tonn O. Cal bout- on tue other." The cap tain said: "I have orders to drive these men baok to their commands, but I will take a shot, or two at that d-d old rebel Calhoun first:0 At that he fired five shot? when a man said that the atatue of George Washington stood in tho hollway. The offioer said: "Than that saves the. building," and ordered the firing to osase. By thia tims* the men seemed to beoomo frantio with excitement. Sccjag that no notice was being taken orme I thought it sn opportune mo ment to go. I passed the ospitol as I wont for my horse sud noticed that seither of the figures in bas relief by the door had been injured and that the shots had only made spots on the heavy stone walls. Behind tho building was a metallio palmetto tree erected in honor of the Palmetto regi ment is the Mexican war* The names of all those who lost their lives were on the base of the monument. The letters had been riveted on sud some men wsro breaking them off and pst L ting them on tho front bf their hats as initisl letters of their namer. I Some ladies and children fleeing from j tho burning district were passing. A yon og lady carno up to me, handed me i very BAS ladies' gold watch and said that her name Y??B Mi?? Sallie* Sad dler and that Bho had a brother in a Florida regiment of cavalry and if I could find him to give him the watch (and if not to koop it) aa ? . to ten bim she had put other things where they would not bo found. AaoldUr saw. uo Ul king, and, coming forward, wanted to' know what! we wera talking about. . I told him she was abusing ms for not., being with my oommand. When ns passed on I mounted my relio of former days sud started np through the crowd;/ It was : the foe oioBt experience of my life to ^kr the commente made on the eppearacoc uf myself and horse Ono fellow said that it was "Job's boras! with bis nook slothed jo thunder." Another declared that IaWas the paymaster of tbs ragged rabel? sud handed mi* roll of blank shoots of Confederate money which be said I could fill up *ud psy off the ?dblio debi. ? ssw jkfcat Ubs'prlotiog office waa than in f?ame a. Th e s tree t a so ended slight! y from the pubHo square ]tor> near a half a mile and at the summit there Was a r?sidence surrounded - by . shrub bery ont in the most fantastic forms. .Ns?r ' ttxe, .: streat were ; .eea*r?? trt?ioef ^ the* Were gateposts. By tTie walk dier- outwinded him. They finally got upoD the groupd, eaoh clinging to the pitcher. The soldier got his knee un the breast of the priest sr? wrung the pitohor from his bejsds, then Bprioging up, swung the pitcher over his head end hurrahed for the Fifty-third regiment of Ohio (I think tu?t Waa the Q Umbel Gi iu? r?gi????t.) Tho priest then began to beg the men not to burn the building, said it was a Catholic nunnery and school build ing attached. There were a number of women (I suppose they were) peculiarly clothed running from the baok of the building toward thc woods. Some of the men tried to oaii them back, as suring them that they would not be hurt. The men started ofter thcsal This only frightened them more and they ran shrieking and screaming for mercy. An officer turned to me and shaking his fist at me, ordered me to bring them back, as I "could get up to them on my horse and they woj not be afraid of that d-d ragged rebel uniform," ?nd to tell them tb'at their bouse would not be burnt. I obeyed bis orders promptly and have* | not caught up with them yet, so far as he knows, as I did not return to re? port. On coming up with my oom* nvusd that night I left the "ragged rebel suit" oe the bank of a branoh at the weg^n train and put my bald* faced "ruins of Balbeo" in a farmer's barn lot, although I had no animosity at the farmer and did not even know his name. lu my verbal report I said that "Sherman'* men entered the oity in'| disordered ranks ' and apparently without miiitsry restraint; that there were no orders ironed to burn the city but it waa fired by the lawless element of the army; that a feeble at* tempt was made at one time to re strain them buttha soldiers sent inj for ?hat purpose soon caught the I spirit and Joined in the general de* s traction; that the army had lost its* morale during it? march. t? tho sea, which last statement was fully dem onstrated at the following battle pf Bonton ville, where a Tennessee bri gade under Col. Seroie out its way through the center of Sherman'a lino and marched 'almost 'unmolested around hie left wing. A Welt Story. A red faced man was holding tho attention of a little group with some wonderful recitals, aaye, the Philadel phia Ledger. I -?The moat e xe i ti o g chase I ever had," he said, "happened a few years ago ' in Russia. O?e night when sloshing about ten:' miles from my destination, I discovered to my in tense horror that I was being follow ed by a: pack of wolves. I fired blindly into the pack killing one of the brutea; and to tiny Seitgnpaaw tho others atop to devour it. After doing this, however, they still came on. I kept, oh repeating the doses with the same results and- each,ooon cici: s?ve ?? >a opportunity towhiR; : up tho horses. : Finally there wael on ly one wolf left, yet on it came, with ^:fieroe eyes glairing in anticipation; ?f a good hot supper. ., fM ??? . .:.Her? ifee.5i%n who.had boen sittiog ] || .'the corner burst forth into -a fiWf | : laughter.' ?? j v-i"Why? m?uiH; said be, "by your r :^?y ci reokonlng, that last wolf must r have had the' rest of the pack inside 4 bia!" -<A??* v ?<?hl'*y-?s^^-$ue^r*d f?oed^man*;I without a tremor, "now I remend?"it J - Opportunity knock* Vat avert man's ddor^v hut^ a j?fc pf ?e? ar?e? , $^J?^^M4?^) ^kuQ?ka^^t^m-' - sejvea. that they ??il > to^foiair:" * opp?r? . ^>u-v?erita^Vr.too;' sajeir^. to;be V??parV ; mentod wi th. 5?or her peculiar r\nd dell pmk>? ?^laiei^^?1?Mr;iaeaiel0M': of . t?own? composition and which contain no alco hol, narcotic^brother harmful or h?W? Adrice to Swimmers. Te tba Editor of ihe News sad Cou rier: The foiiowiog suggestions otter ed may lesson c&Bualties to swimmers and bathers: I<iret, bathers should net venture beyond their depth. Good swimming can be had in water breast deep and the refreshment cannot be increased by adventure. Second, every swimmer should re remember snd impress upon his mind when he determines to go beyond his depth" that ', he can float, and that, should he find himself nearing the point of exhaustion, that he will cease to struggle and main tain himself on the eurfaoe by floating uutil help oan reach him. This means of rest will enable him tu ?..'einafij.1 on the surface for hours. Presence of mind is very neoosBary, for it enables one to think and to act advantageously. After the imperilled swimmer exhausts himself in a vain effort to reach the shore it is difficult to float properly, for a little muscular effort in rough water is necessary to keep on the surface, face up, and he should not thoroughly exhaust him self before adopting this plan of safe ty. Vv . / Ladies should be told that tie little rubber oaps they wear, to prevent the wetting of the hair, can be removed from the head in an emergency and brought into tho water in snob a way as to catch and contain enough air to moko them veritable little buoys, Quitt aient to prevent sinking. Manufac turers should pian the formation of these caps to inorease theil utility as u life preserver, and the wearing of them is a fashion which men should not relinquish entirely to ladies, I would urgently suggest to proprie tors of hotels and boarding houses at every sssshere resort that they secure from the United States treasury de partment, with illustrations, direc tions for Motoring apparently drown ed persons, and that these directions be conspicuously placed and the at- ' tent:on of visitors called to them. E. W, Socaven. Charleston, June 26. ' - The queerest thing is how many places, a rooking chair can be in a dark room at once to serape your shins. - The hsrdest w?y to earn a living ii to hunt sn easy job. 1 .. -.Tv- '"-r ?Ay to * .get even" with ; your- II . - 'a, io help> your ; friends. . STATE OV B?VTH. CAROLINA, ? .*'. '" !*MV Cot ?tx CV ANDERS ow. :. .. ?D? elector cf Bssverdaa Schcol trlct. Ko. 5G, ara hereby, not!Qed tba? au eleotion wi 11^ bo held at Beavf-rdam - Chut oh on Thursday, Jnly 19tb, io??, ors the question of levying .a apeciat school tax of four^millson all tho taxable prop erty OiOHlU w?nt??vw- . . : ? ' - . ... ^;v:-;- .R.v^MteiiKrK,.-' ... A. J. BALLARD. .;' JAS. KO?ERff, July4,1908 . '- ;.v,? . 2,t .; University of South. Carolina, Session I9??-i907 . BCiiip. V/g??aaday,