Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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A WESTERN AND ATLANTIC RAILROADS 0 AND f d Nashville. Chattanooga aid St. Louis Ry. ri TO b sI. -.o TsTT C a, and all points West and Northwest. a THREE SOLID TRAINS DAILY, 1E With Pullman Palace Sleeping Cars. Atlanta to St. Louis without change. e Only through car service. Atlanta to Chicazo. without chanre. r ilway Close connections made at Atlanta with the Seaboard AirLine Railway,a Central of Georgia Railway and the Southern Railway trains. a For map folders or other information write to C THOS. R. JONES, T. P. A., C No. 1 'North Pryor St., Atlanta, Ga. H. F. SMITH, CHAS. E. HARMAN, Traffic Manager. Gen. Pass. Agent. ti a] p, a M p -it SAE OR DOLLARS.!, This you can do by seeing and buying from our large stock of pi ar Buggies, Wagons mi and Harness, " fa of all 'styles and best quality. We have a house full of them and w. must make room for our fall stock. 01 If it is A NICE BUGGY you want at a right price we have tv it. If it is a serviceable FARM WAGON, we can supply you and wl g,uarantee prices and quality. d In HARNESS we bought the best assortment ever shown m here and have the di th, Prices to Suit You. to Gz We make good all we say, so you cannot afford to stay away pr if in need of anything in our line. We have of to A Host of Satisfied Customers, t and will make one of you if you but give us.a chance. fa Come to see us whether you buy or not, you will feel better. th W. P. HIAWKINS & CO. ~ hi $19.86 Vid co P'AYS THE FAFRE % FROM l MANNING, S. C., . TO THE m World's Fair, St. Louis, On June 14th,.15th, 21st, 23rd, 25th and 30th, xgo4, the tu ATLANTIC COAST LINE n Will oerate Coach Excursions to St. Louis, Mo.. at the above rate, for tickets to limited to ten days including date of sale, endorsed "Not good in Parlor or fo atets for Sason. Sixty-Day and Fifteen-Day Tickets and any other informa- f tion as to schedules, 'sleeping car rates, etc., will be furnished with pleasure by t any Ticket A gent or the undersigned. H. M. EMMERSON, W. J. CRAIG, bE Traffic Manager. Gen'1 Pass. Ag't. C Wilmington, N. C.G - ---~st di GLENN SPRINGS . w] MINERAL WATER hi gi Nature's Greatest Remedy us 01 FOR DISEASES OF THE be Liver, Kidneys, Stomach N and Skin. Physicians Prescribe it, p Patients Depend on it, and Everybody Praises it. ar FOR SALE BY BRING YOUR S Job Wcorl~ TO THE TINES OFFICE.2 ISTORIC PLACES IN CLARENDON COUNTY .n Essay by Miss Mattie Appelt, Written for the Moses Levi Memorial lustitute. [Published by request of Committee.] It is indeed difficult to locate ccurately the historic places in bIis county, so meagre the infor iation obtainable. Clarendon, not unlike many ther counties in the South, suf redless of property and rec rds by the invasion of the foe uring the war between the tates, in the sixties, and what .cords had been preserved'prior > them, were either consumed y the torch, in the hands of the f the enemy, or stolen by them nd carried away. Hence we re solely dependent upon our aniors for information. This county was named for the |arl of Clarendon, an English sayist and diplomat, who held igh place in the mother country d fnally fell a victim to politi A1 dissension. Before the legislature made larendon an independent coun 7. it was one of three counties, laremont, Salem and Clarendon 1e sub-divisions, comprising umter district, and the separa on, it is said, did not have together for its motive the ople's convenience, s u c h having the court house ore centrally located, shorten t of distances and general ogress, etc., but we are told was largely attributable to a agedy which was enacted in e Sand Hills, or Fulton sec ns in the early fifties. There lived at Fulton a young chelor by the name of Richard anning Dyson, a lawyer by ofession, handsome, highly nnected and a social favorite, iother, by the name of Kit ayle, who was of moderate eans, and possessed of a large pendent family. Gayle had siness transactions with the ther of Dyson,who by the way, is the founder of a cotton mill erated by water power about -o miles south of Fulton, and ich is now obsolete. Gayle manded of the elder Dyson :ey which he claimed was e him, and the younger Dyson oud and high-strung, regarded e manner of Gayle's conduct wards his father insulting, mt to the humble home of tyle and shot him down in the esence of his family. Dyson was related to the most malthy and influential families Sumter district, who naturally save their kinsmen from an 3ominous punishment, and ereby cast a shadow upon their nily pride, employed the whole imter Bar for Dyson's defence. mter at that time had one of e strongest if not the strongest r in South Carolina. .Politi 1 and social influence combied those days w'as not different >m the present~ and Dyson was quitted.1 The lawyers who defended m, on account of the refusal of ison's friends to pay the fees manded, brought suit in the urts for payment, and this ac m on their part so angered son's friends that they deter ned to sever their political re-1 ons with Sumter, and in 1855 ey succeeded in obtaining from e General Assembly, an act king Clarendon an indepen ut county. Dyson, it is said came an aimless wanderer r the country, burdened down .th a sorrow brought upon m by taking from his fellow rn tiat which he could not re n, and while tramping his way m'eward, sickened and died ar the brick church in Salem. It is not our intention to refer these unpleasant traditions r the purpose of harrowing the elings of any who are related the parties referred to, but our ference is only for the purpose oointing out what are said to the incidents connected with arendon's birth. Near the spot where the Dyson syle tragedy was enacted, an her blood curdling circum ance is embedded in silent tra tion. Pinckney Stark. a highly .ucated man, a surveyor by ofession, and a hign reputation an orator, became so reduced rexcessive drinking, while azed with liquor, murdered his Lfe and children, and then at mpted suicide. While in the ;t of striking with an ax the fferent members of his family, s youngest child, a beautiful r about two years old, think g her papa was playing, ran > to him with her tiny hands tstretched towards him, ex aimed in lisping accents "me o papa," and she too was felled fore the sound 'f her baby ords had died away. Stark as tried in Sumter, convicted id hanged. On the gallows he ood unflinchingly looking down >on a-vast multitude, and there a delivered a most eloquent and Lthetic address, many things Lat he said still linger in the emories of men who heard him id in closing his admonition rainst the evils of drink in a anner which strongly indicated Lat "out of the fulness of the aart the mouth speaketh," lie Ad "Intemperance has been the Luse of my imbruing my hands .the blood of those dearer to e than life." But let us turn away from this rwsome picture, and go twen rmiles south of Manning, near rright's Bluff on the banks of cott's lake where we find the mmains of Fort Watson, built mud and poles by the British iing the Revolutionary war. his is a beautiful lake, where riters of romance and poetry an find inspiration, and plenty the choicest -fish. The ,ke is overshadowed by stately ines and majestic oaks whose canches are mirrowed upon its )om of spaklin waters it is frequented by pleasure seek ers. When Fort Watson was built, this lake was a navigable stream, vessels came and went to it from Santee River, and which river was the main source of commercial transportation. The fort was captured from the British under Cornwallis by Col. Horry of General Marion's com mand. Under the cover of night Horry marched his. followers through the dense fastnesses of Santee swamp, until he reached a point within one hundred yards, there halted and waited until i early dawn, when he opened tire and sprang upon the enemy, af ter a fierce engagement which lasted several hours, the enemy was routed, and the fort captured for the colonial government. There is in existence a book 1 which tells the whole story of i Fort Watson in interesting de- < tail but we have not been able to ] see it. There is a road skirting the Santee through Wyboo swamp, which General Cornwallis built on his march from the coast to the Santee river, and when he was constructing this road, Gen eral Marion hindered his opera tions and impeded his progress by giving him several battles; even here in our town there are t marks of Marion and his men as t they marched throughClarendon I they cut what was known as the Georgetown road, crossed Black river just four miles west of t Manning, at what is now called Harvin's ford. This band of pa triots followed closely the swamp: Marion brought his men out by what is now known as the "Clark Place" over "Granny's r Hill," so called because of an old woman living alone in a house >n this knoll, and who was very nuch annoyed by the fear that he soldiers would rob her bee ives and steal her chickens: 1 but a few yards from the top of bhis knoll now stands Manning's pride and future hope, the Aoses Levi Memorial institute. Nlarion operated up and down ' C Black river, crossed over to the a Santee, making his winter quar- s ers at Boiling Spring near a summerton. We should not leave the San ee without noting Susie's Lake, c nade historic by the following tory. In St. Mark's township 0 Lt the old Qonnor home in the arly forties there lived Rev. amuel Leard, . Methodist cir- 1 uit rider, the father of Mrs. G. r I. Huggins of this town. He had L daughter by a former marriage, hose name was Susan, and who ecame the wife of Rev. Thomas taysor; when Susan was about C our years old, she with a negro G irl about the same age were e laying in the yard while an old 1 auma was doing the family ~ vashing. the little children wan- c ered down a path which led to a he woods, and no longer hear- g g their prattle about her, mau a looked up from her work,and a ~ould not see them. she followed n down the path and when she ~eached the woods, still not c earing them, she began calling .~ nd searching as she went, but be little girls made no response o her now alarmed cries, man a ran back to tbe house and re orted the loss of the children. n a short while the news scat-e ered, and the whole country urned out and were formed into earching parties-hundreds of en took up the cry "Lost chil ren;" the search was kept up ight and day for three days, nd when hope of finding the ittle ones was almost despaired f, late in the afternoon of thet ~hird day the little negro child ~vas found cold in death; then nother alarm struck the search rs when Susan's body was notr ound by her, it was feared that usan. had been devoured by ~vild beasts, but the search was. ept up, and as the -sun had al nost disappeared behind the ~rees, William Tobias, one of the arty who had never lost hope, ode off from the group thatr vere meditating around the body f the dead child, and after go- d ng some distance he saw some hing in a pond, going nearer he ~aw it was on -a tussock, and ~earing his eyes were deceiving c iim, he stood still to assure iimself, and then he cautiously d prayerfully approached, im- g gine his feelings when he got t ear enough, and saw it was Snu an sitting on a tussock. one shoe ~ p ff, her little bare foot toying in ti he water, and with her tb.umb i nu her month. Tobias rushed -. orward, took her into his u rms, and she looked in- ap o his face and feebly said 1 Pease man take me to grand- c na" The little child was al- Il ost exhausted, the thumb vhich she had in her mouth was i( ~ucked dry, and it is thought. ~ hat it is what sustained her life. f course Mr. Tobias joyfully nade known his find, and the ery welkin rang with the shouts o f glad hearts, and for miles v Susie's found" was the glad ti-a ings. Some wanted to take the - hild from Mr. Tobias, but with I ears of joy streaming down his ronzed face he bade the crowds o stand back, and with his pre ious burden he did not stop un til he placed it in "grandma's" lap. This pond of water has ver since been known as Susie's Lake. There is a spring in Clarendon ade historic, by the pen of John a. Witherspoon Ervin,it is ten miles e east of Manning know as Brew.- u ngton. Nature has made lovely ( this historic spot, and by the r story of "The Accursed Foun- 11 a," it is saved from oblivion. t1 The plot of the novel, in easy graceful prose related the t1 story of an Indian maiden, who g being disappointed in a love af- 1 fair with a pale face youth, in- ti yoke a curs upon all pale face r maidens who shall drink fro this spring. When our Southland was cal ed to arms in 1861 to resist ii vasion from a foe, Juneville, fi miles southwest of Manning, b came the rendezvous for Claret don's soldiery, and it was thei the Sprott guards, named fc that grand old gentleman, tl late Joseph Sprott, was orgar ized, this company went throug the war as Company I, 23rd Re iment, commanded by Col. Her ry L. Benbow, who now reside near Davis Station. In 186 when the clash of arms ha nea.rly ceased, the town of Mai ing was entered by Potte1 Laiders, an infamous crew, wh burned our court house, and pi aged the homes and pestere he citizens: while this was g< ng on, Charles Jones, a confed rate soldier at home ou a ful .ough, almost in front of wher iow resides Hon. John S. Wi son, killed a federal soldier wh as trying to force Jones to sui :ender. Jones made his escap >y riding at breakneck spee tround the corner where ou chool stands, and on down th he road, turning out throug he Clark place and into th ;wamp. This killing incense he dead soldier's comrades, wh ook the body, placed it in th arlor of a Mr. Blakeley in ouse where now stands Mr. t J. Bradhain's home, and afte orturing Mr. and Mrs. Blakele; .n aged couple, they buried th an in the garden. About the close of the war, o: he "Covert Place." now W. H xaillard's place in the Fork, fiy tegroes were tried by two mag strates on the charge of insur ection, convicted and hange( >y Captain D. J. Bradham wh( as then sheriff. The bodies o hese five negroes were wrappet a blankets and buried togethe a one grave beneath the gal :ws. Clarendon, after the war, lik( ter sister counties was under th< teel of the ignorant horde of ne roes and unscrupulous whites ome of them camp-followers nd others traitors to their peo le, men who sold their bIrth ights for gold, but in 1876,ther< ame a bugle blast from the tem le of patriotism-it was a ram'S .orn calling upon. the childrer f men to assemble and drive thE astard from our borders, an6 trike the shackles from out .mbs. Clarendon responded glo iously, and in a beautiful grov< f pines, near where stands thE anning Hosiery Mill Genera ade Hampton, with his noblE and of compatriots, Simpson onnor, Leaphart, Sims, Moise 'ibbes, O'Connor and others, ir loquent oratory, such as can on i spring from sincere hearth rought the message of good beer, and gave strength to th< rms of our men in their battlh r freedom. The pines have been felled nd a mill which provides breac r toilers marks the spot; pas ers by point it out to theia ildren as an historic spot here the great and glorious [ampton stood, and proclaimet By the eternal God I will be our Governor." At Milford near Fulton stands ae Mansion of Gov. John Laur ns Manning, who belonged to imily which furnished to Souti 'arolina five Governors, Unitec tates Senators, and Congress ian. It was in Governor Man ing's mansion, great men anc romen have been entertained ien of letters, poetry and song, tates.men and divines--the aris cracy of America and th obility of Europe. This man ion was constru~cted after th< ishion of the homes of Englisi obility, and it was recentll old to a Mrs Thompson wh( till use it as a winter resort. Thus we have attempted tc oint out our historic places uch as we could gather, witi beir stories and traditions: an< -hile we realize it is but frag ientary, yet we feel, we havE und and recorded importan ata which would have probabl3 een lost. ares Blood and Skin Diseases, Itching Ho mors, Eczema, Scrofula, Etc. Send no money-simply write and try. Bopmli lood Balm at our expense. A personal trial cm lod Balm is better than a thousand printel stimonials, so don't hesitate to write for fou sufer from ulcers, eczema. scrofula bood Poison, cancer, eating sores. itching skin mples. boils, bone pains. swellings. rheuma sn. catarrh. or any blood or skin disease. wi ivise you to take Botanic Blood Balm (B. B .). Epecially recommended for old. obsti ite. deep-seated cases of malignarnt blood o in diseases. because Botanic Blood Balm (B .1.) kills the poison in the blood, cures whern .1 else fails, heals every sore, makes the bloo< re and rich. gives the skin the rich glow o malth. B. B. B.. the most perfect blood puri r made. Thoroughly tested for 30 years asts $ per large bo'tle at drug stores. Ti ,ove it cures, sample of Bllood Balm sent -fre, writing Blood Balm Co.. Atlanlta. Ga. Dc rb trouble and free medical advice sent il aled letter. ;; This is an honest oler-med in sent at once. prepaid. For sale hy Th B. Loryen Drug store. A Polite Man. A man was hurrying along a stree1 ne night when another man, .also ii ilent haste, rushed out .of an 1alley d the two collided with great-force he second man looked mad, whileathE olite man, taking off his hat, said My dear sir, I don't know which o: is is to blame for this violent encoun er, but I am in too great a hurryytt yestigate. If I ran into you I bel -our pardon; if you ran into meidon' nention it," and he tore away attre loubled speed. A Strong Heart assured by perfect digestion. Indi estion swells ]he stomsch and puffs p against the .heart. This cause aortness of breath, palpitation of thi cart and general weakness. Kodo syspepia Cure cures indigestion. re eves the stomach. takes the strain oi 2 heart and restores it to a ftull per rmance or its function naturally. Ko 1 increases the strength by cnablin: e stomach and digestive organs to di est, assimilate and appropriate to thi lood and tissues all of the food nutri ient' Tones the stomach and diges xe organs. Sold by The Rl. B. Lorye; She Had Pierced His. Miss Skremer-Papa says if I give up my singing lessons he'll give me a . pair of diamond earrings. Miss Sharpe e -You've never worn earrings, have you? Miss Skremer-No; I'll have to have my ears pierced. Miss Sharpe 1- Oh, I see his idea! He wants to pay e you back in your own coin.-Philadel r phia Press. t- Triumphs of Modern Surgerv. h Wonderful things are done for the human body by surgery. Organs are i- taken out and scraped and polished and S put back, or they may be removed en tirely: bones are spliced; pipes take the rlace of diseased sections of the d veins: antiseptic dressings are applied t- to wounps, bruises, burns and like in s juries before inflammation sets in,which causes them to heal without maturation 0 and in one-third the time required by the old treatment. Chamberlain's d Pain Balm acts on this same principle. It is an antiseptic and when applied to such injuries, causes them to heal very quickly. It also allays the pain and - soreness. Keep a bottle of Pain Balm e in your home and ii will save you time - and money. not to mention the incon venience and suffering which such in juries entail. For sale by The R. B. Loryea Drug Store, Isaac M. Loryea, e Prop. r Using an Income. e No one can use an income with true , economy who does not exert his best judgment and put forth all the wis dom he possesses to make it fulfill the highest ends of which it is capa ble in his peculiar circumstances. If it does not make some lives better, fuller and happier; if it does not de velop the body and educate the mind; r If it does not promote industry, hon esty and good will; if, in fact, it does nothing to elevate and improve man kind, then waste and not economy is shown in its management Sued by His Doctor. - "A doctor here has sued me for $12.50 which I claimed was excessive for a case of cholera morbus," says R. White of Coachella, Cal. "At the trial he 3 praised his medical skill and medicine. E I asked him if it was not Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy E he used as I had good reason to believe - it was, and he would not say under oath that it was not." No doctor could use a better remedy than this in a case of cholera morbus, it never fails. Sold by The R. B. Loryea Drug Store, Isaac M. Loryea, Prop. A Grig. "What is a grig?" asks a correspond ent who has been worried by the phrase "as happy as a grig." The grig shares with Mark Tapley the honor of being proverbially happy. But a lonely ad jective does not define a substantive. t In Yorkshire, we are told, a. grig is a young child, happy, we may hope. In Staffordshire it is a bantam. But in -Dutch the "kriek" is a cricket, or grass hopper, a really merry fowl. In Web ster a grig is the provincial English for an eel. But we cannot accept an eel as the embodiment of mirth, and we put our money on the Dutchman's "kriek."-London Chronicle. Beas the AThe Kind You Have Always Bought Signature. of How Rocks Grow. Rocks do not grow in the. sense that a plant grows. They mayi increase by I accretion, and they may undergo chem Ical change. The old sea bed, being lIft -ed up, becomes sandstone and lime stone. The volcanic ash and lava strewn over the plains become tufa, hard enough for building stone. The pebbly shore of a river becomes conglomerate. Tfhe simple mineral does grow, how ever, when it takes a crystal form. The sparkling prism of quartz increases from an atom to a crystal asalargetas a forearm by a process'ofdadditiolanld assimilation, wonderfully slow, but of ice 'formion the'window: pane. An Alann Clock for 25c. If you want to get up early and feel good all day take a Little Early Riser or two at bed time. These famous lit tle pills rlax the nerves, give quiet rest andrfehn sleep, with a gentle movement of the bowels about break fast time. W. H. Howell, Houston, Tex., says "Early Risers are the best pill made for constipation, sick head ache, biliousness, etc." Sold by The R. B. Loryea Drug Store. ODD BATTLE PLACESt Men Hlave Mlade War on Ice and Un.. der the Earth's Smrface. Battles have been fought in many cu rious places, ranging from mountsinl peaks to' sewers, from ice fields to des ert sands. At the battle of Monterey, in the Mexican war, the Americans were able to command the streets of the city with their ax illery, but they had difficul-ty in dislouging the Mexicans from the hcuses; so, the city being built of stone or adobe in solid blocks of houses, the Yankees broke through the wails from cne house to another, fighting and driv ing out the enemy, so that the battle of Monterey was largely fought in doors. In one of the battles of the wars of William the Silent for the independence of the Netherlands the Spanish. ships were frozen in on the Zuyder Zee. The Dutch came out on horseback over the ice and~attacked them. This is proba bly the only battle in which cavalry was ever' used directly against ships. Several other combats were fought be tween troops on the ice in these wars, and on one occasion 'the infantry Is said to have worn skates.a The battle of Austerlitz was partly fought on a frozen lake, and when the allies were retreating across It the shot from the French artillery, plunging In-r to the ice and breaking it up, caused the death of thousands of Russians and Austrians. Of the many underground battles which have taken place In history the r fiercest was probably that of the siege of Haarlem in the Dutch wars. The Spaniards mined and the Dutch coun termined with equal industry, and be low-'the ground a fierce conflict raged. When the Versailles troops took Par isafter the commune, they chased some of the communist troops to the greatf sewers of the' French capital, where some desperate struggles took place. Washington Post. Very Likely. 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