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IORICAL SKEICH Of *CLARENDON GOUNT (Continued from page two) ow county was Charles Frederick Leseene, who served from the begin Ing of the new county until the close fthe war. Then the following entlemen filled this position, and in the following order: W. S. Brand, omas N. Broughton, Dr. John I. ngram, Capt. Robert B. Harvin, Dr. . H. Huggins, Joseph Sprett, Jr., and our present effictent County Treasuret, Mr. Samuel J.. Bowman. Of this list we know of only two who re livmg, and these are out towns-. , Messrs. Sprott aid Bowman. e ofce of County Auditor is one of more recent creation, and among its occupants have been. the ollowing gentlemen: B. A. Walker first, then James T. L. Thames, unius E. Scott, D. J. Bradham, and the present incumbent,' Mr. J."Elbert -avis. The office Probate Judge, form 6rly known as ordinary, has been filled from time to time by quite a number, among whom were the fol ,owing: G. S. C. DesChamps, wh -, went to Texas and was, assassinateu in the pulpit, W. R. Burgess, R. M. Thompson, W. I. Ingram, J. D. Alsbrook, and the present incumbent, r. Louis Appelt. The office of School Commissioner rior to 187% was filled principally y negro Republicans, among whom ore Alfred Pack and the noted Peter emon, who was assassinated in the ublic road at a branch a few miles outh of Manning, and which branch iow wears his name. Since 1896, ong those who filled this office. were John C. Bagnal, Samuel J. Bowman, - John J. Conyers, P. G. Benbow, L. L. Wells, L. M. Ragin, then Wells again, and our present Superintendent of Education, W. S. Richbourg. The County Commissioners have been too many to attempt to mention them. Among those who represented this county with honor in the State Sen ate have been John L. Manning, E. E. Dickson, Dr. John I. Ingram, Col. t. L. Benbow, Joseph F. Rhanie, Bsq., Louis H. DesChamps and L. M. 1 agin. There have been others among whom were three gentlemen of color as follows. Sy-hax Milton, Poweli ith and Jared Warley. Clarendoi has had many represen tites in'the lower house of the Leg ilature. I cannot with certainty give tie names of all who served as rep isentatives before 1876, but here 'are sonic of them, and it will be seen bL two or three names which appear, ,t our county was not always rep Isented by her best citizens, black epublicans occasionally filling this h office of honor: Col. H. L. Ben ibw, Col. S. Warren Nelson, John P. chardson, W. J.. McFaddin, Dr. G. len Huggins, James McCauley, aid Gus Collins, colored, and Will lelson, very colored, who fled from 3itice for stealing vegetables from a 4rden. That is probably only a tlal list of our representatives be Ve 1876. It was in 1876 that the bIAck cloud of negro rule was raised .41m our beloved State, and though writer was but a small boy he re mbers vividly the stiring scenes that year, with its big campaign ,,lys and red shirts brigades. He also irembers well the standard bearers, )4 before he scarcely knew what it ,ant he learned to holler "Hurrah fe Hampton!" It was Hampton for 'vernor, and in Clarendon Benbow 1T the Senate and Barron and Peter Rhardson for the House. These, 'xh others who supported them and hi up their hands, carried the day iClarendon and made the way poss A for many other good Democrats. 3he following, then, is submitted arn list of those who have repre sted this county in the House of *lresentatives since 1876: B. Thsley Barren and John Peter Thardson; Joseph F. Rhame and .Tes E. Tindal; W. T1. Lesesne and R i. Gibson; Arthur Harvin and Dr. J1G. Dinkins; E. R. Plowden, Jr., a H. B. Richhrdson; I. M. Woods, 'Tindal, J. M. Richardson, S. A. l ~es. W. D. Kennedy, W. C. Davis, 01. Davis, and T. B. Owen. Thus -till be seen that there have been ny since the creation of Clarendon Qity who were elevated to posi te of public honor, and further ~of this number quite the ma icy have passed away. All of them imade history, sonme goodl andl so bad, but each one serves his N lace in the memory of the past, Don't Delay Xma For *JAMES AL The Halim ~85 King St. Establishe and of such is Clarendon's histor made up. A desire to bring this sketch wit! the bounds of a limited length pri eludes my enlarging upon that peric which . -chaps plays the mest in portant part in the history of ou county and twon. The five yea1 from 1860' to 1865, were importat years, perhaps the most importar that the past, the present, or futui generations for centuries to come wi ever witness, and the result -of them flve years' struggle has since bee: and is today being felt by the pc< ple of the ceuby. Clarendo- Count and the Town of Manning were nc wanting in making history the Many noble sons, inspired by tho patriotism which is only know among Southerners and Carolinian sperificed their all upon the altar c their country, aid gace their lives f< a cause whic hthey cherished. Othi patriotic sons of Clarendon gav noble services to a beloved but lo cause, and through the wisdom of a unerring Providence were spare their liv'es to return and serve the people and their county in places c honor. Clarendon furnished sever gallant companies to the Confederac The Manning Guards, for instanc formed a part of the Hampton L gion, and was captained by that nob young patriot, who was gallant a m6st unto wreckleness-Brow Manning-with G. Allen Huggi and John Haynesworth as first ar second lieutenants. They did splel did service, and upon many batth fields (lid the deeds of this commar reflect the bravery and the patriotisi of their town and county. Let ti sons and daughters of members ( this noble command ever cherb their memory. The -organization known as Keel Company also contained some Clarendon's young men who we willing to volunteer for their country cause, but perhaps the largest con pany which went from Clarendon battle fo rthe cause which was final] lost was Company I., of the 231 Regiment. This gallant command wE usually full to the limit. It was ma< up principally of the sturdy yeoman which is the bone and sinew of tl land itself. Its first captain whe organized for active service was I L. Benbow, with H. H. Lesesne, ] B. Harvin and Thomas N. Slawsor t first, second and third lieutenant respectively. Our townsman, Cap Bradham, was orderly sergeant. B ing In possession of a lot of war r cords, the writer could elaborate up< this command with perhaps. intere but must 'forbear. Many promotio1 were made from its ranks from- tl beginning to the close of the wa At its close Capt. Benbow was C< onel of the regiment; Liuetenai Lesesne was Major of the 23rd, at Lieutenants Harvin and Slawson hq received deserved promotions were transferred to other posts service. Sergeant Bradham havir lost one arm and being disabled I service upon the field, had render< services at home among the reserve On the 9th of April 1865, when tl officers of this command, with tU immortal Lee at Appomottox, gai up their swords and yielded to force only superior in numbers, the were followed by many of Clare don's noble sons. All honor to the bravery! All praise to their nob service! All glory to their chivalry! They had won for Manning, for Cla endon, and for Carolina a noble di tinction, and one which we,- as the sons and their daughters, should ev cherish in hallowed remembrance. The Town of Mannng was nami in honor of Governor John L. Ma ning and its age almost simultaneot with that of the county. It has mu( history. Granny's Hill, near the a graveyard just back of the Tham place at the head of Brooks stree was the home of an old1 woman I the name of Granny Ridgeway, at was a small settlement when ti town was built. It has been tra itionally said that the place was healthy that Granny had to mo away before she wouldl die, andl pc haps this helps to account for t health of our dlelightful town. It also said that many decades ago, colonial times ,an Englishman, who name is not now knowno, made a s< tlemtent near where is now the cex etory. But the oldest house stan ime in town is the Dickson bout This place was cleared up by t Ridgeways, and the house was bu by Capt. Burgess. The two Di IHuggins came here at the beginnii or soon after the town was coi mencedl, andl Dr. Allen Huggins sa tIed what is now the Levi place. A Levi built what was the origir Rigby house, and Dr. Dinkins liv umrmmmttmtta ma s is Drawing Near Watches, Jewelry or Silverware that you can't get at home, write to us. We have a truly wonder ful stock. ' Goods sent on ap provel where satisfac tory references are given. LAN & CO. ark Jewelers CHARLESTON, S. C. di 65 Years. y where Dr. Brockinton new owns. Dr. Herman Huggins built a fine two story residence on the lot now used as the tobacco warehouse lot, nearly r oppsite the Presbyterian church. Dr. -Al len Huggins also built, where Mrs. r Thames lives, and our beautiful trees a stand as a living monument to his I broadminded citizenship. ,Mr. Henry It Kelley settled what is now the Rhame place, and Col. Barron's residence was 11 originally built by Mr. John HIayna ,e worth, a prominent lawyer who came , *hre at the settling of the town. ,! The old court house, a large y brick structure, was built where the It present court house stands, by Capt. 1. Morgan Butler as contractor. A Mr. It Charles Pack had the first store in n Manning, situated about the spot a where our ftiend Jenkinson's store now stands. ir But to prolong this list would make ir my sketch too lengthy. The build e ing and improvement of the town was it rapid, and it might be incidentally n mentioned that one of the ruost prom d inent figures in the immediate vicin ir ity of the town during its early his if tory, was Mr. Charles R. Harvin, it father of our townsmen Messrs. C. R. 7. and W. S. H.rvin. He cared nqught a, for public position, but was a citizen - of great energy, and at the time of e his death had the contract and was I- building a causeway across Black n River leading to Manning. His mill is sawed the lumber for most of the d earlier buildings of the town. I- Among the first lawyers who set - tled here wer Dr. Joseph Galluchat, ,d Moses Benbow, T. C. Coogler, John n Haynesworth, Charles Wolfe, who af e terwards moved to Kingstree, and of Capt. Keels. h Our fellow citizens, Messrs. B. Pressley Barron and Joseph F. s Rhame, located here soon after the if town was settled anu have ever since e been honored members of the bar Pa and- well known in the~State. I- Among Manning's early physicians X) were the Dra. Huggins, Dr. Ingram, Y Dr. Moore, Dr. McCauley, Dr. McLeod d arid Dr. Richardson. Our old friend Mr. Moses Levi was among the first to build a store here in 1856, and has remained in i the mercantile business continuously since. Mir. S. A. Rigby was also Iamong the early merchants, bikin ning business in 1860. s The first newspaper published in a, Manning was "The Clarendon Ban ner" and was published by Robert Machenm. Truly our Town and County have much history which might be written at length. i In regard to the county many his e torical traditions might be given 1 about the passage up the Santee Riv it er, during the revolution, of Lord Ld Cornwallis, whose road of march is d still in many places visible; of Fort Watson, near Scott's Lake; of the old Georgetown road, still easily discern ed at some points near our Manning g depot; of Marion's camping in Black d Rliver, near town, and of this famous IU "Swamp Fox's" recruiting on the ' "High Hills of Santee" near where k is now old Fulton. l Concerning our town's history e much might be written of her strug a gles during the late war, of the ex _ citing times when General Potter r was encamped here with his head quarters in the Hggin's residence, (the one spoken of as being opposite the Presbyterian church); of the kill ing of a Yankee in the street in front r of Mr. John Wilson's house by r Charles Jones, of Sumter, and of his desperate flight to save his life, being pursued by the Yankee soldiers; of -the burning of the court house and the town by General Potter, and h many other recitals. Id - But we are now in a new era. Ou reounty today is by no means t what it was in 1855. Now we have one of the foremost counties in this middle section of the State. Our txbooks show a total of 471,469 -acres of landi and 311 townm lots at a I valuation of $1,.371,215. In personr.-l m property we show 1517 horses, valu- I r- ation $75,000; 5339 cattle, at say $0000; 1708 mules, worth $0,0; e360 sheep, 9988 hogs, and 2412 (dogs, Svalued at 1 ic.W aea couny ppulaionof aout30 thous t and, an town population of aboutt 1350d, and last but greatest of all, we 'have the Manning Social and Literary Circle. Its male membership num- I Ihave no known value, but a few are worth $1.00 per head, according to the county and State's estimate. Its female membership is about tseventeen. Their valuation has never rheen truly estimated, andl is known by us all tobe very high; but if it dwere estimated by a special com mittee consisting of Messrs. A. J. White, J. H. Rigby and A. 1. Barron, I have no doubt but thatt they would place it above the combined worth of the gold mines of California, the dia nmond fields of Cape Colony, the mythical trn "sures of King Solomon's mines an dlthe riches of the Klondike Valley. Thea who says we have not a grout county andl town? And if this is what we have acquired during a history of forty-two years, what must we be in forty-two years imore ? The writer- hopes that forty-two years from now he may be called upon to write the history of the Man ning Social and Literary Circle, and that in (doing so he may be able to chronicle many pleasant happenings, among them the- nuptial ceremonies of his e-steemned fellow- memb-,ers, Messrs. G. L,. Dickson, F. 0. Richardson andl R. B .ILoryea. ADVERTISE IN THE1 TIMES tAtt 0 TiNS Ot.Y ATWUA GR~cmRS 1&XVcomOUS REAl Our Compli anc HART SCHAI KNOX AND S JOHNSON & : MANHATTAI Underwear, H< your choice. Remember, no are giving you real The Bri The Hom Phone 5105. C n the District Court of the United States, For the Eastern District of South Carolina. No. 2195 in Bankruptcy. In the Matter of t 'rinity Mercantile Co., and T. 0. ( Schwartz, doing business as such Ileged bankrupt. Tc Trinity Miercantile Company in I aid District, Greeting: For certain causes offered before the t )istrict Court of the United States of toerica within and for the Eastern )istrict of South Carolina, as a court if bankruptcy, we command and trictly enjoin you, laying all other natters aside. andl notwithstanding ny excuse, that you personally ap scar before our said District Court o be holden at Charleston, in said I )istrict, on the 15th day of December, I t. D. 1920, to answer to a petition iled by Rtittenburg & Co., et al., ini ur saidl court, praying that you mayi ie adjudged a bankrupt; and to do urther and receive that which our aid Di:;trict Court shall consider in his behalf. And this you are in no rise to omit, under the pains andl senalties of what may befall thereon. Witness the Honorable Henry A. MI. mith Judge of said Court, andl the eal thereof, at Charleston, in said 3istrict, this 13th day of November, ~. D). 1920. (SealI of Court) Richard W. hlutson, Cljerk. NOTICE This is to notify the public that no respassing, hunting or fishing will 2e allowed on any of my lands. C. M. DAVIS, 15-6t-p. Sumnmerton, S. C. mummmmmmummrmmn 3 Nev Modern C( Price, 4 DuRe MANNING, V ALI ete Stock of Nev lise of Best Qualit At Cost' 7FNER - MARX CLOTHES. TETSON HATS. MURPHY and THOMPSON I I SHIRTS. >siery, Gloves, Trunks, Bags, 5 old goods made up and marke values. ran Cloth' e of Hart Schaffner & Marx C Dr. Hampton and Main. mum munmumu~n TRESPASS NOTICE ar Cedar Grove Plantation, St. Paul a ownship. All parties are warned against of respasing upon the land-s of the - ,edar Grove Plantation, St. Paul [ownship, Clarendon Comnty, South 'arolina. No hunting is allowed. No be ishing is allowed. The lands are be veil posted along the lines, and all i respassing will be prosecuted to the w" ull extent of the law. w Robert A. Smythe, Manager, 1" Joe H1. King. Local Manager. Ia -- 0 TIROOPS IN TRO)UBL~E ZONIFE tr Williamson, W. Va., NOV. 28.--A irovisiona-l battalion of approximate y 500 men of the United States army amp at Cihillicothe, Ohio arrived here odlay at noon for duty in the coal pi -egion. Col. lierman Ilall, command- it ng, imnmediately took u p his head - ti< luarters at the county court house to and armed guards were thrown out I): Water Works, PLUMBING, P1PELESS FURNACE~ Next Express Offi4 MANNIN4 munune nnunwunwunmn: )R SALE v Bung >nveniences. Bei $2.000.00 to $5,54 E ASY T ERMS rrnt & Ft JES? v Merch IROS., SHOES. uit Cases, take d down. We fg CO. lothes. SUMTER, S. C :und the building. The troops are hero in response request of Governor John J. Co .11, who decided that the disord th' past few weeks had create< ..u ion with which the State a: .mnty oficers could not cope. Officers in charge of the troops v billeted in the court house r enlistei men are being quarte, the city hall ani an old hol ich was recently turned into a h .al. etachnients of soldiers h: eady been sent to Kermit, Bord id and Matewan for guard du ero ha been no disorder since >ep)s arrived. AKE YOUR SICK SKIN WEI. If you suffer from eczema, it rples, etc., give Zemierine a tr. atop. t~he itching, allays the irrb n, and soon your skin is resto a healthy condition. l'or sale ckson Drugr Store. id Heating Co. Lighting Plants, H EATING, ,REPA IRS. ~e. Phone 155 .7, S. C* Ittmtuttnttttt ttml tttttttt tt alos ! t Section. )O.OO. oyd, South Carolina.L