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""" J THE PLAE TO BIY I GROCERIES is where you can |fet I prompt delivery. Sometimes the | Madam wants to make a little extra | preparation for dinner and site H needs a few articles in the grocery m line at once. Saleeby delivers or S ders over the phone just as soon J m as it is possible to get the g<MKls J S wrapped and on the way to the 1 S * H house. Xo ortlers too large and ? * _ X. t none too small. Deliveries made 01 i BH anytime during business hours. IB pay i CHARLIE SALEEBY, S Hon | i Dillon, S. C. he ! 5 p| - _ L_ lost % B t X V HI the I V v \/? i g | Virginia 4 Z $ B ; D- i.l? r A A * a t uy ine | By To the market pati * S x we aic now >n positio p V the bes* stall feed Vi I ? be bought. We are JJ you satisfactory servi A additional help which y order properly cut a vis s$: Phone No. 116. || DILLOI gf MAI C. ? J. N. STEWART, HI ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ | ~"r ' i" HOW A l>AU(iHTKR'8 BARING I SAVKB OL.D FLANTKR'H L.IFK. Dicey l4Ui|(!t(on, a Spirited South r Carolina Girt, Who More Than j Once Fnml l>eath bjr Brit- I: tiah Bullets and the v Cause of ln?le- , 1 peiMlenoe. c Charleston News and Courier. ? There was a black eyed girl baby U: born on a South Carolina plantation j in the year 1760, who was to grow 1 up with far more of guile and fear j of man in her heart, and who was i to do deeds of daring during the 11 war for independence that would j i send her name down in history \ along with those of Sumter and 1 Markm, Pickens and Moulthe, and t the other chavalrous souls of the! i Southland. 4 t The little maid. Dicey Langston, t was the daughter of Solomon Lang- ' < ston, an elderly planter, living in 11 the Laurens district, on the Enoree < river, a section overrun by the i t British soldiers, Tories, and out- ^ laws, who trained with the Tories 11 during the latter days of the Revo- i lutlon, writes Mary and Harry t Green in an exchange. Her mother < died during her childhood, a period t of which she grew up with her j j brothers, her part in their boyish i Bports. Naturally she became a bold and reckless rider and an ex- j pert shot along with her more lady :1 like accomplishments, and was a j j proud, imperious, high-spirited 1 } young woman rather below the med-jt ium height but graceful and attrac- : ^ I tive in face and manner. Of course , i I She became an enmeat and mitannlr. . i ~ ? ? w ? J en patriot, as were her brothers though they had relatives In their own neighborhood who were strong sympathizers with the policy of King George. Royalists Numerous. Old Solomon Langston as an ar-. dent Whig,and though incapacitated by age and infirmities from active participation in the struggle, he was always ready with purse and influence to aid the cause of independence. Both the sons were In the' field and had been since the break- j ing out of hostilities, in some capacity or other. In order to save the family from annoyance they did not live at home, nor visit the home except surrepttiously at rare intervals, but were in constant communication with their sister. Living as she did in a community where she was surrounded with Royalists, some of whom were her own relatives, the girl found it easy to learn what was going on, the movements and plans of the enemy, and how it was likely to affect their friends, and she did not hesl tate to secure and use thts information by communicating to her < brother, who encamped with a lit- 1 tie band of Whigs alo^ig the oppo- i site shore of the river, some miles i away. After a time there began to i < arise questions as to how certain * information could have come to the i ears of the rebels, and the suspi- < cion of their Tory neighbors were i turned toward Solomon Langston t and his high spirited and outspok- t en daughter. Mr. Langston was waited upon by some of these same < Tories and told if there was any more information carried he would be held responsible personally for 1 hie daughter's conduct. Mr. Lang- I ston was an old man, and not only 1 hib own safety but that of his t daughter and his property depend- 1 ed upon these same neighbors, so t I he administered a stern rebuke to 1 Miss Dicey, and warned her nf \ danger In which they Btood. The 1 meekness with \fhich the young 8 woman received the admonitions of 1 her esteemed parent may be imag- ' hied, also the mental reservation 1 ' witli which she promised to carry t c . f : l Cattle I i * i "ar Loads. $ * ons we will say that >n to fui-nish you with V t rain* _ n v?u? mai can also in position to give ? ! ce as we have put on ? * enables us to get your 1 nd promptly deliverd. Jil MMEAT |! IKET. |i Prop. Dillon, S.C. f; 10 more news to the Whig cam pi The Bloody Scouts. P*or u time she obeyed the con nands of her father, but the prol bilities are that it was because sh tad nothing worth teliing. A fe "eeks later, however, it came t ier ears accidentally that a ban >f Tory outlaws called "Blood )coul8," because of their ruthlei nuelty in wantonly killing an Sundering of defenseless familk mown to be sympathizers with th >atriots w^re next day to attac lttle Eden settlement near whei ier brother and his little band la n hiding. She knew that the ban var especially incensed at lu >rother and that if captured li uiu an ms band would be put t tenth. Orders or no orders she d< ermlned to warn her brother an he people of little Eden setth lient. Yet how, was the questioi The slightest suspicion fallin >u her father's family woul iring down on their heads th viath of the "Bloody Scouts," a vady looking for an excuse to ha; y the man and plunder his prope She had no one to send, n >ne whom she could trust even 1 ake with her. No she must g ilone at night and on foot if sli vould avoid suspicion. Across Country. That was a journey long to be r< nembered. Starting late at nigh ifter the ^family and servants ha ;one to bod, she walked many mil< hrough ftie woods, across marsl is and creeks, over which thei vas no bridges and often no fo< ogs, and finally came to the Tyge i stream where the only shance < Mossing lay in wading a ford, lad rained and the stream wi ?wollen, yet there was no other wa han wading through, and she wai ?d. Deeper and deeper the wat< became and stronger grew the cu -ent with each forward step. Net .ne miaaie or the stream, in figh ng to retain her footing against tb ;urrent, with the rushing water u '.o her shoulders, she fell, an becoming bewildered, "turn? iround," as she expressed it in li :er years and could not tell for tb ife of her, from which bank sb lad come and toward which ban the wanted to go. For some tins ?how long she never could tellihe plunged and struggled out i :he stream, falling and regainin ler footing only to fall again, unt the finally dragged herself out o ;he bank and lay, half drowne ind water-soaked, until she had r? covered. She found the path agaii leciding she was on the right sld< tnd after a short time she was wit ler brother and his little party. In a few words she told of tb :oming attack and of the peril c he little settlement and urged tha ic delay be made in sending tb varning to every settler. The so liers had just returned from a Ion md tiresome ovcnmUn ? ? .1 ci.il u wei worn out, wet and hungry. Ther same complaint that the men wer aint from lack of food, thong ired, wet and shivering herself, th ;irl at once said: "'Build me a fire and get m sorn meal or flour." The Quary Flown. It was short work to pull down ew boards from the roof of thei lovel and start a fire and in a fcs r.inutes a hoe-cake lay baking i he embers. This browned an >r&fcen into pieces, was thrust int ho oho* 1? o.iui. ijoucnes or toe men s hat they took warning. So wei roung Langston and his party dl heir work that when morning ca|p ind the "Bloody Scouts" descende lpon the settlement of Little Ede t was as empty of human occupa ion as waB that other Eden afte he Angel of the I^ord had drive >ut Adam and Eve. And the de nure Miss Dicey, fresh and daintj sat with her family at breakfas ind made irrevalent replies to th sonversation until they rallied he tpon her absent-mindedness. An t was many weeks before the cuew of that twenty and more mil rtmp through the woods and mo asses in the darkness of the nighi The failure of the *"Blood kouts" to find the settlers of Lit le Eden only added to the enmit; >f the band townrd the few patriot r the Laurens district, and thougl bey could not trace the carrying o he warnin?r * ?? * * B ,?w me l^angsion ram 1)', the growing hate and suapicioi oward the old man markde him fo i victim. After a sortie, which i >arty of VVhiga of which his ?oi vkb a member made on the Toric t was decided that the old mai liust die, and the band went to hi louse to kill him and plunder hi >clonglngs. Mr. l^angston, toe in irm to escape or even attempt t< llde, and too proud to ask for mei >.y, faced them boldly and denle< hat he was in any way taking par n the struggle. "You lie, you old rebel'" angril; ihouted the leader, pointing a pis ol at the old man's breast. Th |trl sprang between her father ant Km maddened Tory. "You set out of the way or 1*1 aiiiiiifif-ftkffnddH . put a bullet through your heart," he snarled. ?- "You Owwi'd." >- "He's an old man, you coward," e said the girl almost beside herself w with terror, but only clasping her o father the closer and still keeping d herself between him and his wouldy ! be assassin. Her fearless devotion is j must have touched another of the d i4 Bloody Scouts," for he interfered >8 and the old man was spared. ie l At another time when coming k home from a Whig settlement. Miss e Langston was met by a company of y loyalists who ordered her to tell d | them the news amone the rehela jr "I have seen no rebels and 1 ie know no news," she said trying to ,o evade further parley, as the leader 9- was a lawless character who had d been a renegrade from justice beb fore he won the protection of the a. British by taking up arms against ig hie neighbors. id "Yes you nave, too. Now tell or ie 1 ll shoot you," at the same time 1- drawing his pistol, r- "I'll tell you nothing," was her r- spirited reply. io "Tell, d you, or you'll die in .o your tracks." ;o "Shoot if you dare, 1 have nothle ing to tell." The outlaw would have carried out his threat had not a young man e- of the command struck up the bart, rel of his pistol and the bullet was id wasted in the air. In the alterca;s tion which ensued between the U- guerrillas the girl, who was mount e ed on a fleet horse, made her es>t cape. r, It is told of her that at one time >f her brother, James Langston, had It left a rifle in keeping with the unis derstandlng that he would send a ly man for it who would give a cer1 tain countersign. A company of ?r men came to the house one day and r- one of them said that her brother ir had told him to bring his gun back f wrUk *k?m ?? - ? v- n i>u uucui. i ut-u an at once sne ie chanced to think that they might ip be Tories. So she refused to give id up the gun until they had given >d her the countersign, i-1 "You're too late. Mistress L>angleston," replied the ledaer, a big ie ; hundsome, happy-go-lucky sort of a k j fellow, "both you and the gun are ie now in our possession." ? "Oh, we are," she said quick as i In a flash turning the gun point blank M ig at his head and cocking it' "then 11 come and get us." n She was so deeply in earnest that d the young man lost no time in giv- r s- ing the countersign, and that very a i, respectfully, while his companions b, laughed long and loud. This was h the young man. it is said, who came back after the war was over ,e and then kept on coming until one >f day he carried her away with him, tt for better or for worse. ic A Narrow Escape. 1- On one occasion Mistress Dicey fl| 4 g came near setting into trouble from Sj e trying to carry water 011 both e , shoulders. A party of Whigs stope 1 ped at her father's house for reh fresh ments and in the conversation e said that they were on their way I to visit a Tory neighborhood of the e Lnngstons and take away Ills I horst3. As the neighbor was in I the main, a peaceable citizen an d a I a good neighbor, the girl determi ned I r to save him his horses. She filip- | v ped out and going to the neight *or's I n house, warned him that his JPP d had been marked for a chai^B^'7 o her consternation to hear^fl o j ally, just before leaving 11 that the neighborhood,ffi ' d ger to a band of ToB' | e about in the neighbo^n 2 |B d ture the unsuspectingBtS I n hurried back in time flj l- Whigs, and so in one d<Jl r ed the property of a ToB r> and probably the livesH f- Whig friends. I Dicey Langston vJk I it shortly after the warg I e Springfield, off Gt^^M f I r where she lived u, ~ ' d a very old nge. y large and prosjfl' ^8 i j e was wont to b<M mam ^ i- that she had M m J H giandsons ah.Jf ^ <- | y defence of th M in the old tm p and her Staw s her honor, m I I I Dillon cA J j | 1 ivorw