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The Fort Mill Times. DEMOCRATIC. Published Thursday Morn ins*. B. W. and W. K. Bkadtobd PublishRRu. B. W. Bjlaoford .... Editor and Manackr. SrnscRiraoN Rater: One Year............ .... .' 11 00 On application to the publisher, advertlsms rates are made known to those interested. The Time* invites contxibutiona on live subjects. | but does not nstrce to publish more than 200 words on any one subject. The richt is reserved to edit every communication submitted for publi-' cation. FORT,. Mil.I,. 8. C.. SEITEMBKR 9. t-?-I J-1-1--. - _U-_. Credit Where Credit i* Due. There are none so blind as those who won't see. It is high time for the few South Carolina and many Virginia newspapers which habitually deny the North i Carolina troops credit for their gallantry at Gettysburg to read up on the history of the war. j Wherever there was fighting to ! be done and sons of the Old North State were available for the conflict, General Lee and the other great captains of the Confederacy did not hesitate to send the Tarheels into the thick of the fight, and it is with poor grace that any Southern newspaper tries to take the laurelsj won by the North Carolinians1 and give them to the soldiers of another State. All the soldiers of the South fought well and except in isolated instances did their duty, and there is therefore glory for all. But when we come to consider the efforts of the soldiers of any particular Commonwealth at Gettysburg, the lion's share for bravery and desperate courage, such as has seldom been seen and never surpassed, must be given to the North Carolinians. "First at Bethel, farthest at Gettysburg and last at Appomattox." The Virginia papers, reinforced by one or two South Carolina papers, deny the accuracy of the quotation, which is graven on the North Carolina monument at Appomattox, but they are unable to prove the inaccuracy of it, while the "Rebellion War Records," the Federal government's history of the war, substantiates every claim set up in the inscription. As to the claim of the North Carolinians that their troops went farthest at Gettysburg, there is positive proof that not one of the 15 Virginia regiments in Pickett's charge penetrated the Yankee lines as far as did the Twentysixth North Carolina. Further more adding tne Killed and wounded of Pettigrew's North Carolina brigade on the third day at Gettysburg, viz 300, to its killed and wounded on the first day's light, viz 1,105, it makes a total of 1,405 killed and j wounded from these four regi- ! ments, which is within 33 of the loss in killed and wounded sustained by the 15 Virginia regiments of Pickett's division. The newspapers which refuse to give the North Carolina troops credit for what they did at Gettysburg are flying their prejudice in the face of facts. Not the Stewart Law. A Fort Mill subscriber to the Rock Hill Herald has called the attention of The Times to an error which appeared in Saturday's issue of that paper in which York county's (Stewart) road law is made to appear anything but what it really is. The Herald copies an item from a recent issue of the Chester Reporter telling of Chester's township road committee recommending that a road law for that county be fashioned after the present York county law, and puts a scare head over the article which reads: "York's Road Law Copied." In the item from The Reporter we find this sentence: "That there be a township supervisor appointed on recominenda tion of the Legislative delegation who will work the roads by paid overseers and by contract system with commutation tax labor and ; by hired labor." Farther down we find: "We recommend that! the commutation tax be placed at $3 per capita, or in lieu thereof six days' work on road." Evidently neither The Herald, c The Reporter nor the Chester township board is familiar with the Stewart Law, for it has no provision calling for working the mads by contract system any more than it has a provision calling for six days' labor in lieu of the commutation tax, and The Herald certainly hit wide of the ?:.i "v?n i 11mi iv vviicii ii> aaiu iuj a e> ivuau Law Copied/' In our mind Chester county could not do better than to adopt the York plan of road work, but there seems little excuse for the Reporter and The Herald getting matters jumbled in this fashion. Let's keep the record straight. The seven banks in Chesterfield county are live institutions and are continually pulling for new business which is evinced by the fact that each institution is liberally patronizing the advertising columns of the Chesterfield Advertiser. York county has eight banks, if we are not mistaken, and all of these, with one exception, also use printer's ink cjuite freely. The fact that advertising is just as essential to successful banking as it is to any other line of business needs no argument, and most of the bankers have grasped the idea. Signs at Cross Roads. There is one law in South Carolina that is being sadly neglected, it is said. The law is of great importance just at the Cresent time and is destined to ecome very important in the future and more essential than ever before. The law referred to is the one requiring the pub lie roads to be posted with sign boards at all forks or crossings. It is very clear, but few of the counties enforce it. Now that a good roads movement is sweeping over the State, the enforcement of the Sign Board Act, together with the improvement of the highways, would be of great benefit to all classes, especially to strangers passing through strange communities and over unknown roads. Any person who is found guilty of destroying one of the mile posts stands liable to a fine of ten dollars. The fine of ten dollars will be placed upon the person who shall willfully demolish, throw down, alter or deface any guide post. The county board of commissioners neglecting to cause the public highways in their county to be posted and numbered and to have pointers erecetd at each fork of highways, are subjact to a fine of ten dollars for every negject. The Civil Code of South Carolina has also a section bearing upon this which gives the county commissioner authority to erect such sign boards and charge the r?Aof tb A TU/v -11 vuov tu tnc V.UUIIIJ'. JIIIC 1UIIUW" ing is the section of the Act: Section 1,33". "Each road overseer within his district may erect and keep up, at the expense of the county, at forks or cross roads, a post and guide board, or finger board, containing an inscription in legible letters, directing the way and distance to the town or towns, or to public place or places, situated on each road respectively.'' August a Cool Month. The monthly meteorological summary for the month of August issued by the Charlotte weather bureau shows some 1 very interesting features of the ; weather condition, perhaps the 1 most striking being the corres| pondingly low temperature of the summer. The mean tem1 perature has been 76 degrees for August, which is usually considered the hottest month in the year. The absolute maximum for August for 31 fears, was 100 , degrees, and the average daily deficiency of this month as com' pared with mean of 31 years is ; .9 degrees. | The precipitation has been : 5.16 inches, the greatest in 24 ! hours being 1.88 inches on the ! 1st and 2nd. The total precipita; tion for the month last year was 114.61, which will be remembered as the heavy rainfalls that did j so much damage to the crops 1 throughout the South. August this year as compared with tho ' precipitation for the month of I August for the last 31 years, has a deficiency of .66 inches. August had a noticeable num; ber of totally clear days, being ' 13 in the 31 days. There were 11 partly cloudy and 7 cloudy days, and 11 days on which .01 inch or more of precipitation occurred. Peniel Won, 49 to 1. A correspondent of the Walterboro Press and Standard writes that paper that the "Peniel baseball nine played the Pine Grove nine last Saturday on the Pine Grove diamond. Score 49 to 1." The errors were not given for the reason perhaps that the correspondent ran shy of figures. ^North "Cmro^km ?t^ Crttyi^'g^ ^ The announcement that Col. A. H. Boy den, of Salisbury, N. C., has in preparation a history of the North Carolina troops at the battle of Gettysburg doubtless will prove of interest to many in this section. A number of North Carolina veterans who participated in this great battle have lived in this neighborhood *u 1 ii I 0111V.C luc win uuu to tnose wno survive as well as their descendI ants and the descendants of the : Old North State's soldiers gener; ally the intention of Col. Boyden is certain to be gratifying news. In a letter to a gentleman in this [ place some days ago, Col. Boyden i states that he will be thankful | for any information relative to j the North Carolina troops at Gettysburg. It is the purpose of Col. Boyden, as he states, to make the foundation of his history the work of the Twenty, sixth North Carolina infantry, at , Gettysburg. No other regiment on either side during the entire war suf1 fered as did the Twenty-sixth at Gettysburg. On June 30, 18G3, the day before the battle began at Gettysburg, the muster rolls of the Twenty-sixth North Carolina infantry made the aggregate i present for duty, enlisted men, 1885. Allowing 10 per cent, for extra duty and details, about 800 muskets were taken into Gettysburg on the first day, July 1, 1863. Of this number 708 were killed, wounded or missing at the end of the third day's fighting on July 3, making a total loss of over 88 per cent. Thirty-four of ' the 38 officers who entered the fight on the first day were killed or wounded and at the end of the third day's fighting the regiment, the pitiful remnant of it that was left, was commanded by a lieutenant. Three veterans of the Twentysixth North Carolina infantry have lived in Fort Mill since the war? Capt. N. G. Bradford, Capt. T. J. Cureton and Private S. L. Laney. Capt. Cureton, as I gallant a soldier as went to the | front for the South's riirhts I during the four years' struggle, ! participated in tnat sanguinary i battle. Mr. Laney lost his right leg at the Reames Station fight, incapacitating him to enter the i battle of Gettysburg. Capt. Bradford was at Gettysburg, , where he was desperately wounded at the head of his company, I, in Pettigrew's heroic charge. Captured at Gettysburg, Capt. Bradford was held in Northern prisons until some time after Appomattox, meanwhile being taken to Morris Island, this State, as one of the 600 Confederate officers who were placed on the Federal breastworks to be shot at by their comrades. It is the purpose of a grandson of Capt. Bradford to write a sketch I 4^ I I Announc !The purpose ol people of this opened a First and to solicit tl^ best of everytb (opening what stock of Heavy to Fort Mill an< article in our st I and if fair deal patronage, we ; I a success. It v best goods at t longer be excus | to order grocer I places to make his table at reai is 1 5 and our |J We will sell fc j Stev f: w. j. stc ? of his grandfather's services to 1 the Confederacy for publication J in Col. Boyden's history. 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