Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Sam. was careles wi brickbat., he: knocked me down with one (I have zhe scar on my head yet) and fled. Next wa:- Frank Price's little red tinshop. and then another low, long house. In its west end was the office of that odd. eccentric man. Dr. John E. Bobo. who was an early settler. When I irst knew him he did a good practice and was accounted a goou doctor. There is no mention of him either by Carwile or in the Annals. He married and moved to Hilburn's Mill. His religion was of the "no hell" variety. and upon this he loved to discourse. A good citizen called on the doctor for papers to use in a suit. He was so intent .upon con verting his friend to his "no hell" doctrine that he delayed looking for the papers. At last in an old box he found them. to the discomfiture of multitudinous bugs. Bent on hospi tality, he detained his friend for din ner. Fritters were the dessert. to be eaten with molasses or vinegar and sugar. The doctor insisted upon his friend's using vinegar and sugar. but the friend preferred molasses. The doctor viewed him. like the devil did Adam and Eve. -askance with jeal ous leer." and said: "You're the d-ndest man I ever saw; d-n a man who prefers molasses to vinegar and sugar." Notwithstanding his old cranky notions. he was a man oi fine intelligence and correct habits. The main body of this house I only remember as a whiskey den. Andy Wicker used it as much when he was converted. Andy was a "downright upright" man; he believed in fall spg from grace, but, differing from some of his brethren, he never prac ticed it. The souls of men are not the same size, but Andy was a wise soul-wise unto salvation. Andy was emotional, but not like the sister whom every big meeting drew into the church but whose fall was worked by the sound of the fiddle; who shout ed all winter but at every spring pic nic danced out o' grace. He had a son John. As good old lady Blats used to say to Billy, "You, Peely Plats. what makes you so bad?" so Mrs. Wicker might have used the words to John. They were good boys. but when they got some devilment in their heads they were full of mis chief. The next is the millinery store of Mrs. Mary Ann Davidson, a most worthy. industrious. and intelligent lady, who supported a drunken hus band. I have an indistinct recollec tion of him. O'Neall writes: "He loved to play gentleman of elegant leisure and to sharpen his wits by grog." Those that take to drink for comfort "climb a tree to find fish." On the next street north we find the house of James Divver. the teach er. embcwered in a Ine grove. He was a good man. and. like the Irish when they are good, he was so. all over. He wvas a splendi</ mnathema tician: old )latthew Matics could not excel him. nor could anyone else. tun less it might have been W. WV. Ren wick. He wvas greatly esteemed by all of his old pupils. O'Neall pays him a fine tribute. His amiable and industrious wife wvas Sophia Coppock. wvest of his home was the school house, where the jail now stands and near-by the spring. Soon after I was pitched. neck and crop, into his world, to play at leap frog with its joys and sorrows. I went to this school. With my eyes closed I can make a picture of the spot,--thie two story, house; the clear, bubbling spring; the beech tree stan&ing around, carved with the names of the boys' sweethearts. and the lovely girls gazing at them. smiling, laugh-; ing, and teasing each other. In our picture we see: "The little boys. bareiooted, glowing hot. Playing our games on the very spot. As happy as we tnce. to kne'el and draw The challky ring and knuckle down at taw. "Books," rings out, and wve ente, the house with a rush. Mr. Divver is near the master's throne. wvhich leans against the stairway. "Grevae is his look: his forehead wears Thick rows of wrinkles, prints or worrying cares. Uneasy lie the heads of all that rule. His most of all whose kingdom is a school, The staring boys. a face to evexy desk. Bright, dull, pale, blooming, common,. picturesque." In the southwest corner was a bevy of rosy gir, "gla a the sunshine and laughing sky. The books were lurray's horrid old grammar, Peter Parley's geography. Pike's arithmetic. Webster's famous blue-back spelling bm_ok, the fronti-piece of the speller an engraving of the temple of Fame. whose dazzling ,ome represents the ninnacle of human aspiration. Fixed in our memory is the wisdom dis guised in fables giving the flavor of Aesop to its last pages, to-wit; the storv of the milk maid. whose giddy fancy -of the green silk dress shei would buy with the profits of her dairy so unbalanced her head that she dropped her pail, teaching not to count chickens until they are hatch ed. and giving rise to the term. "spilled milk." And there also comes to mind the story of the farmer who took it for granted that the gored ox his neighbor (a lawyer) was telling him about belonged to that neighbor, and who turned so quickly when he learned it was his own: whence the expression. "There's a difference in whose ox is gored." Then the fable of Poor Dog Tray illustrates the dan ger of bad company. It was a great book. Mr. Divver surveys the kids. takes his seat. but arises with greater alac rity than he sat down: that lively lad. Jim Harrington. had located a bent pin in the seat. "Jeems" was very studious. industrious as a bee with his lesson. and looking as solemi and wise as an owl.-he overdid it. Mr. Divver caught him with an eight foot rod, vigorously remonstrated with him over his houlders and coun selled him not to insert his bent pins so as to puncture the epidermis of his (Divver's) seat of honor. Divver was built for thrashing lads. One leg was longer than the other, and when, with rod in hand, he stooa on the long leg and came down on the short one plying his rod the urchins howled. Another "Jeems," surnamed Crosson. for some trick was seated at Divver's side. and. noti knowing how to keep out of mis chief. perpetrated a rough prank. The girls' giggling and laughing caught Mr. Divver's eye tnd he traced the prank to Crosson. Forthwith the rod! descended. and Croson's tears were not "tears of joy~falling into a lake, of glory." Calvin Higgins, a sensible lad, is scroughing Jake Worthington (who fell a victim to the saloon men.) and others off the bench; Divver with an alert eye. catches him, and Hig gins receives the usual penalty. Handsome Priest Pratt is making goo-goo eyes at the girls, but Divver fails to see him. Bob Holman is swapping knives wtih another kid, and as usual. Bob skins him. Many, many others appear in the picttre.l but I can't mention all now. 'Tis 12 o'clock noon and out go the lads and lassies shouting. - The girls go to the spring and, with pleas ed races. look at their names carved on the beech trees. The bare-footed boys play at bull pen or chasing the fox. Yonder's athletic Dave Holman: as the fox. tireless as the sun and tleet as a deer, the youngsters yelling after but never catching him. How happy! "Blessings on thee, little man. Barefoot boy. wiih checks of tan: With thy turned-tup pantaloons And thy merry whistled tunes; With the sunshine on thy face. Through thy torn brim's jaunty grace: From my heart I give thee joy, I was once a barefoot boy." \Ve had no pattern boy (petted by the teacher and hated by the boys) al w~ays cited as a rebuke to our aberra ions. Oh! the years hack of us are tull 't voices-voice' ehluent andl pa thetic: 'The night birds sing and1( tihe stars Tel any a t uch ingz story ); riend(l.ong t~ p a.e to theC ki \\here the soul wvears its mantel of glory." This dr.y we are happy and gay. wife and I: On tihe 19th of April. 1848 wve emnf>arked on the sea of mat rimonv. Sometimes we have shot through the sparkling'foam. like an ocean bird set free. Anon the waves rolled high as we glided over the foaming billows. A squall has never capsized us. Sometimes the sea is calm and sometimes tempest-tossed. WVe have a pilot who will carry us safely ov'er the Harbc.ur Bar into a haven of eter nal rest. Good-bye. Newberry: I'll ,omte to you again 3. U Cr-.w'an GENERAL NEWS NOTES. Items of More or Less Interest Con densed Outside the State. The :-ugar firm of Drewer and lHar vev. at New Orleans. was wrecked by the junior partner. who skipped. ind the frm has filed a petition in bankruptcy. A negro confned in the jail at Austin. Texas.. for the murder tf a young lady has confessed to three ather murders. His trial will take place today. J. P. Paris. a negro. was hanged at eridian. Miss.. on Monday, for mur er. This murder attracted much at ention at the time on account of the uccessful efforts of Governor Varda man to prevent the lynching of the aegro. The Virginiae cases involving the validitv of the suffrage provision or the new Virginia state constitution ave been dismissed by the United States supreme court on the grr..na that no relief was possible. the acts rom which relief was sought having already been committed. Under a decision rendered by the Louisiana supreme court the medical lepartment of Tulane university, New Drlcans, receives the bulk of the es ate of the late A. C. Hutchison. of Louisiana. amounting to about a mil ion dollars. A destructive tornado passed over sections of the Indian Territory on Sunday night. At Fairland consider ble damage was done to property nd seven persons were killed. Dam ige was done in other parts of the [ndian Teritory and damage is also reported from Texas. A movement to have the date of %emorial day in Georgia changed rom April 26 to June 3. the birthday -f Jefferson Davis, was launched by Judge John W. Atkin in his Memor al speech in Atlanta on Tuesday. The collapse of a cage in the Rob nson mine. at Johannesburg, Africa., precipitated 46 natives 2,000 feet to he bottom. All were killed and the ottom of the shaft was made a quag mire of human remains. SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. [tems of More or Less Interest Con densed in the State. The Musical Festival in Spartan burg has opened with a large attend ance. The dispensary at Walhalla was robbed of one case of corn whiskey on Monday night. A new Presbyterian church has been completed in Union a a cost of~ Sig.ooo and wdl be dedicated on the :irst of June. The State Bankers' association met in Spartanburg this week. It was deC :-ided to hold the next meeting in An derson. , Postmaster General Payne spent a lay in Charleston this week, having arrived on -a revenue cutter. He re fused to talk politics. The secretary of state on Wednes lay received more than a thousand lollars from fees for charters to do usiness in the state. M. G. Tucker. an operator jn the :otton mills at Chester. was killed by! collision between two freight trains it that place. Three immigrants. the tirst to ar -ive in this state. came in on Tuesday. h(*y arc all Germans and youit. nlin. They caime from South Africa. ilise R.,ibinM n was stabbed in Ihe weart bv I,aiahi Hazel. at PBeaufort. t'n ruesday mo rning. It is said ho th iad been (drinking beer at a nie.ri lance hall. The DeKalb cotton mill. at Cam len. was sold at auction on Tuesday. rhere ere only two bids, Mr. Morris israel. of Charleston. being the suc :essful bidder at St55-ooo. This is :onsiderably less than half the value >f the property. President Roosevelt has nominated lustice Jeter C Pritchard, of the su >reme court ,f the District of Co unbia. to be United States circuit iudge of the 4th circuit, in succession Sthe late Chas. H-. Simonton. Judge rrtchar-d was fomel republican -eao fro North Carolina. ,,.- r in Columbia was run over by a street car and killed ont TiesdaV. One Ili hi., plavilates shoved him backward,; under the wheels -,f the cars as lie was runmilg acri s the tracks for some ginger cakes which they were :craibling f(r. T,wn Nlarshall J. F. Bornm. oIi C-inway. shot anl instantly killed M. \r:. Porter. a prominent livery man. on Wednesday afternoon. Brnnm had gone to) Porter's stables to secure a negro as witness mn a case when a fuss took 'place between the two men. A report from Laurens states that in Holmes park. that city, there is a flowing artesian well, the property of the Laurens Cotton Mills company. abandoned by them a few weeks ago when at the depth of 5oo feet the character of the water was found un suitable for domestic or general pur poses. Gallons and gallons of the water are being used daily as a min eral water by the Laurens people, who hope it will be developed. A party of fishermen from the El loree section of Orangeburg county found a dead body floating in the San tee river which, from its condition. appeared to have been in the water for about two weeks. The body had a rope around the waist. the other end of the rope being tied to a tree on the bank. Owing to its decomposed con dition, it was impossible to tell wheth er the body was that of a negro or a white man, though it is believed to be a negro. In a fatal quarrel in Monetta on Wednesday B. B.'Burton was killed and his son, L. M. Burton, was wounded by Mr. M. W. Thrailkill and his son Clarence, neighbors of the Burtons. The shooting, it is 16 OUNCES I? n *People frequently ask us hov p pund weight we use in our dr that we only give 12 ounces in c everybody that whenever the: Store they will always get 16 whether it is a pound of pure ny drug cr chemical. MAYES' DRl .*ooooeoeOoo EVER e SENTC 0 : THE NEWBERR * WARRANTE] * If it's not, De S * -Send it fThe Leadiqga Ring up No. 74 for STORE. Orders * ANSWERED 0 + Prescriptions frorr 0 + berry filled at any h O We sell three bo * article for $2.50. 0 + We carry the best * at very lowest prices IWin. E. PELl * Reliable Prescri] * Newberi aid. was the result of a quarrel that began between the two families months ago. when a revolver was bor rowed from Thrailkill by a negro and 'pawned with the elder Burton The shooting began in front of Bur ton's store. The Burtons, unarmed. retreated to a neighboring store. in the d(oor of which the elder Burton fell. riddled with buckshot. The younger Burton was wounded with a revolver. The two Thrailkills have surrendered. He Smiled a Sickly Smile. Tit-Bits. A member of the London Stock Ex change was married a short time ago. and of course the first time he ap peared on 'Change after the honey moon he was subjected to many con gratulations and much good-natured bantering. One of his friends, after congratulating him, suddenly reached over and took a long brown hair from his shoulder. "Looks bad in a married man, Ticker," he exclaimed holding it up to the light. "Oh. that's all right," replied Tick er, smiling. It's my wife's." "No. no: that won't do," responded the friend: "your wife's hair is darker than that." This nade Ticker a trifle angry, and he exclaimed excitedly, "I tell you it's my wife's. I fancy I know my wife's hair when I see it." "Well you certainly ought to," said the friend. "But are you sure?" "Sure? Of course I am. Why do you ask?" "Oh, I thought perhaps, there might be some mistake. You see, I found it on Brown's shoulder, just be fore I saw you." l ONE POUND I many ounces there are in the ug store. Some seem to think * ne pound. We want to assure 7 buy drugs at Mayes' Drug * muces to the pound. no matter ,ream Tartar, Epsom Salts, .or LG STORE. *@@O.O.Oo.e. T JOB e 1UT OF Y SHOE SHOP : D PERFECT, * >n't Grumble, 0 .Back. 0 3. Parmocists i PELHAM'S DRUG 3 over telephone+ PROMPTLY+ any Doctor of New our, day or night.* ttles of any $1.00* miedicines and sell * HAM & SON, tion Druggists,