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- BARNWELL SOUTH’CAROLINA, THURSDAY, JANUARY J6, IQ q2.
BIH ARP IS AGAINST WAS.
lie Says the Spanish War pis
graced Annals of American His
tory-
Atlanta Conatitution.
Not counting the great civil war of- ^elma for big stealing and put him in
factory Shirting htd out in the country
fot two years, and as soon as we dared
it was brought home and my wife
could exchange a few yards at a lime
fo/ potatoes and chickens; and how
about these times the Confederate de
tectives arrested a quartermaster io
forty years ago, this last year of 1001
was the most bloody and disastrous of
any iu my recollection. Over 40,000
.«f our soldiers died in the Philippines
—most of them in hospital. That’s of
liltle consequence, of course, to the
government, but it brought myriads of
sighs and tears to mothers and wives
and children. The Spanish war, and
what has grown out of it, has eternally
disgraced the annals of the nation’s
history. And it keeps on and will
keep on, no doubt, bringiug misery
and ruin in its train.- Some preachers
say it is the work of the Lord. 1 dou’l
b lieve it. “Offenses must neids come,
but woe uulo them by whom Ahey
come.” Besides all this, the year was
full of disasters on laud and sea. Ex
plosions in the mines, railroad wrecks,
boiler* bursting, fires, floods, murders,
suicides, husbands killing wives and
children, lovers killing sweethearts,
and every other devilish thing. Every
day’s dispa'chea record something new
and horr\bJe, and we are getting so ac
customed to it that it hardly dislurbs
or surprises us. We, too, are getting
hardened to blood and bloody deeds.
This unconcern always follows io the
wake of war.-
After the battle of Malvern hill I re
member heanog one soldier bet an
other that he could walk across the
ridge and step on a dead man at every
step. He tried it for a hundred yard*
and won. Soldiers who had been kind
and gentle at home became hardened
to the eight of blood and death. After
watched ami waited for her Imj to
•ome borne. I»at be never' came, ami
•he died etili wondering how bo wa*
killed and where be was bundd. But
few of hie comrades were left, and they
were widely scattered. The records
were mu kept or were lost to the war
Out of lii.UOO blined at Y'lcksbarg lees
than J,1*KJ have name* u|tnn their
grave*, eo it ia at Salisbury and r'red-
ericksbarg and ail the other*. Of the
Fedkrai* and Confederates ‘■•O per cent
of all lb* dead are unknown and sleep
in unmarked and unrecorded graves.
Am) thi* is war ami as *•coeral Sher
man said, M War ia bed ” There is
enough unwritten grief to fill an 6?*aa.
and many a broken hearted mother let
concealment like a worm in the bud
feed on bar pallid cheek* ami turn her
hair to gray before its lime.
And vet we keep oa lighting ami
railing for more troops—not for de
fense or liberty, imt for cooqoe*!. It
w a war of aggression upon a people
who never did ua barm and beg to be
let atone The eigbt million negroes
h«re at home give us great cnueeru,
but the government wants ten million*
more to mid to the perplexity of the
problem. Ob! the shame of it the
pity of it. It w the same old oocbne
Uan story. “Man’s inbumanily t» man
makes countless thousands mourn.”
Bat I didn’t suit to write an elegy oh
the year that has gone. It is pleasanter
to wish alt a happy new year and to
hope fora better one. A supcrMitioue
friend say* that it will he better be
cause HurJ is divisilde, but I'.Nil was
not.
The times seem prosperous and new
industries ate conlinually being pi tuled
ail over the South. 'War’a'ways bring*
activity in its train. More iron ami
•biiMi and men of war, more
—-‘■ins t —m ir r ~~i - "•**weseam«s*«i
ju-amt*.
i bilhing AtidTixMl fi.r’ilic *..Mu r fs Mu ihc.slv^
jail, and he wasodesperably scared and
wanted to get out and run away, and
there wasn’t a lawyer iu Selma, for
General Mdrgan and Geqeral Pettui
and Dawson and all the rest were in
the army, and a friend of mine advised
him to seifd for me, and he did, aqd I
went down there in an old buggy, for
there was no railroad running then
and I iulerviewed him in»jtil and
agreed to get him out for # 10,000, and it
was deposited, with my friend and l
did get him out on a habeas corpus and
a straw bond, and he ran away and is
running yet, I reckon, and how a little
steam boat came np from Mobile with
some blockade goods and I bought two
pounds of opium for $5,000 and fifty
pair of cotton cards on the leaf with
out backs or handles for $100 a pair,
and that took the rest of, the money,
ami the captain gave me two pounds
of coffee and as much sugar, and I put
the opium in one side- of a little old
the State legislature or in Congress,
Judge O’Neall, in hit biography of
lloliert Stark (Revolutionary soldier,
afterwards Speaker of the,. House of
Bepresenjtatives and State solicitor),
furnishes an interesting episode in
Gen. Tucker’s career.
Iu 1814 the war was pending be
tween the United Stales and Great
Britain aud Tucker was colonel of a
regiment of the 2d brigade of State
militia. Under the orders of the Gov-
erner companies of infantry, cavalry
and art illery were ordered to rendezvous
at Newberry and Col. Tucker put in
command They were mustered into
service by .Brigade Major Thomas
Wright on the 1st, 2d and 3d of March,
1814. Robert Wood and baruuel Can
non were the majors, and Capt; Wil
liam Irby, a holdier of’76, was adju
tant. On the 4th-they took up their
march to Pocotahgo through Lexing
ton, Oraugeburg and Barnwell and, ar-
riving at Pocotaligo, were ordered to
relieve Col. Carter’s regiment. Says
O’Neall, who was a soldier of the regi
ment: “On the way down, the regi-
mept, below Barnwell, %rgKii to meet
the discharged soldiers of Col. Car
ter’s regiment, to the relief of which
we were marching. Those first met
' “l hsteTnfcire rviranV for*~thr v numnw ,
conlenied people than for sll the pomp
rustv valise and the cards in the olher'Hjad been discbaiged on account
side and returned home and formed a of sickness. They were the most
partnership with Bob Hargrove, who ri|ualid, emanated creatures, and were
hail half a b..x of cheap tobacco, ami j hardly able to walk. They depicted
we o|>ened a store and t a»k in a third i u> the soldiers of Col. Tuckar’s regi-
partuer, which was my wife, who sent tuenl the unnecessary hardships to
down Xwa Ih>1U of the shirting, and we which Cot. Youngblood, who had ob-
went to trading for something to live j tained (be command in place of Col.
on - | Carter, had auhj cted them. As
We assessed the cards nl #20(1 a pair might have been expected, it created
a ft#ling of indignation which could
and the opium at #10 in gold for an
ounce and the shirting at #2 a yard. It
was a kind of liepartroeul store. B
clerked on one side ami 1 on the other.
We didn’t take ('onf«deraUMiione. for
anythitnr. fee it wor»e every day,
but we texebanged things-*4n<| «ro sold
the opium to the" t w who needed it
for gold they ha>l hoi away, l Mil store
wa« a sensation, Mr It wes the only
«*ne in town that bail a s'nck of go<»ds.
All the others were emniy. Io April,
I'*•5, a rotnpanv of Mue c<miU came
down in the night ami the next m •ru
ing we wer# all *ur|iM**d to see them.
Mr. Lincoln was kidod tw » dayg tie-
fore. So it Wasfumorrd,but wr didn't
bellev v e it. I»r. King wa« a great big
red headed man and said wLal he
please* I. so he rods up to the c* mi pans
•ml said: “('appen, is iberv *ny truth
in the rv|M»rt that ole Abe Unco'.n is
den.ir’ The raptaoi replied gmittv*
** sir, he’s dea«l and hunrd *’
" Well, I thought if he was deal it
was lueiy that they would bin hint,''
•aid King, and he pul spurs to his
horse and gil'opcd down the street to
tell us the news. Tl#«- ca|*tam aaol
afu rw.irds he came very nearing order-
log Ut* men to ah<M>t mm
And so we ta<k-d over llie ol*l war
time* and the gastd ia*ly and our other
guests listened and Isughcd and won
drr#*l until lied time.
Bil.l. Aki*.
not be allayed." Seeing this stale of
thing' John Toubs, of Edgefield, who
belonged to (’apt. Caldwell’s troop of
cavalry, sai*l to Coi. Ticker: “The
dav yon give up the romraupd of soar
regiment 1 will shoot you.” (They
mo«t ha ~* been a gay aet of iark*)~
At INicoUligu the tegiaent was met
by Ca|>i. Henj|<nin Fraaier, of E*|ge-
field, and he said to Col. Tucker:
** You are marching right iuio h—1.
Ye-lerday an Older waa published re
quiring a detail of two companies to
throw up ^Ictede pool on I’ort Uosal
island, un-b-r the dire<ti*Ni of Co).
Youngbbiod. The objoct is thus by
rompau e« to * y«mr ■'omaMn«l fn>m
you.” I
The ordi r l.< . ..||*( • II. <• III. tele de |
pont (an enrthnork to protocta bridge) .
was |Mil*li*h« d to i o|. Tucker's regi-I
iii- iil. A i >unt il of every ofiicer «»f j
the n ginirut waa bel l and they unaoi-1
m-wiaiy vots-d to i.Mobey tbia order, |
ami fmoi dav to day the work wee j
THE LBM80N OF
8TBADFA8TNBSS.
“ To Be Bight in More Important
Than to be Sncceaafnl ”
■ P-ned. On the 5th of April the,, a
. . | ,r is found iu the fact that no one
rbarge#!, and the ( iov. I
regiment wa« disci
lion. William J. Brvun spoke at the
Jack on Day banquet in WooaUr,
Ohio, In which he m ule an eloquent
appeal to the Democratic party to stand
by its principles. His subject was
“Steadfastness,” and he said in part:
“Among the traits of character
which distinguished Andrew Jackson
no trait was more prominent or more
helpful to his country than his stead
fastness. When he believed u thing
he believed il. NV here duly led be fol
lowed without questioning. When he
decided that anything ought to be don6
he did it and no power could overawe
bira. He did not have in his veins a
single drop of “anything to wiu” blood.
When Nicbol is Biddle declared that
through the national bank he could
make and unmake Congresses Jackson
replied that that was moic power than
any one man ought to have iu this
couutry, and be then l>egan his war
against Biddle and bis bank, which re
sulted in the overthrow of that great
financier and the inautulion which he
so autocratically, controlled Others
were afraid that Bi-ldU’s ii-tlu nee, if
antagonize*!, w.tul i defeat the Dem
cralic psrty, but Juckion saw in it a
menace to bis country, ami he did not
stop In consider what effect an attack
on the bank would have on himaeif or
bis party, and we revere hii name and
celebiate bis day.
“ Benton, in reviewing J tekson's
work, said that, as Cicrni overthrew
the conspiracy of CaUline and saved
Home, so Jackson overthrew ibe hank
and saved America. We shall obseive
this day io vain if we do not gath«-r
from the life of Jackson inspiration
and cm -ptragrinem for 1% work wba b
lies before ui. To day the Ikemorralic
party nerds to leai n I rum the hero ol
New (irlraas the leaeou of siMudfast-
nee*, it oer«l* to learn from him not
only that to he right ts more important
it an to be autccaaful, but that io be
right is the bysl w/iy to insure surtees.
»• A party muat have pnocipl •• or it
can have do claim up* n public enuli
* dencr, and how can it rommemt it*
priaci| le« belter than by alanding by
| mem’/ Who will have- faith iw the
• creed of a party if the party •tan*i •
j ready to barter away ita erred in eg-
I ehuwge f«*e-4h* pwMwtae . pwtTnwe^v
1 A halting, vactiiatiug e**uree n*K only
fail* to invite recruits, but It niicnate*
and drives away veterans.
“ Another raaaoO for stea>ifa*lneee
an i ll
already conferred upon the world a
benefit that cannot be uiuasured by
moneys. Their valor has brought
greater security to all the republics of
the earth; ihe bodies of ilieii dead Lave
built :t bulwark behind which the
friends of liberty will light for cen
turies. The fact that England ha#
been compelied to employ more than
200,000 soldiers to subjugate less than
25,000 meu in arms—the fact that
England has expended more than
$1,000 per Boer—the per capita wealth
of the United states—and has neither
been able to purchase them nor kill
them—these facts are immeasurably
valuable to people everywhere who
want free government for themselves
aml’are content that otheis thould en
joy it al-io.
“ So the.Democratic party, wluther
in power or out of power, is serving
mankind when it Bunds steadfastly
for constitutional government and in
sists that that government ►had be ad
ministered according Ur Ihe Ji ffersoman
maxim, ‘equal rights to all and special
privileges to none.’ ”
FHB GOOD ROADS PROBLBM
«rn#»r the State ordered C‘*d
• rrr*ie«l and ( •■art-mutmlled
digging and eonstrocting the
|M#ot. He was rhargnl with
en< r of
•lilulrd
Willie,
A brain
Tucker
for not
tele de
dieobedi-
order* and the following coo*
Ibe ('null' t'oi. Adam Me-
C«4. Evan Benb «w. Major
Blending, Major Joa Mickle
GENERAL STARLING TUCKER
A Prominent Figure in the Early
Year* of the Nineteenth Cen
tury
1 lie Liurrti* cor rr*|x>iidi ul of the
C barleslow-Sunday News yonfnhule*
the toilowmg ra« y I real sk rtch, in
which is given fart* and incidents re
lating to the life of. Gen. Starling
fucker, who left no dcaceudaot*, but
whoac name is sii'l honored in tb**
county where he lived:
lien. Surltnc Tu. k- r w.»* a i*n> in.
and Maj#rB<nuioe It-lrinson, .laiae*
DilleU, Ju*lg« Advocate. Solicitor
Rotrert Sin k and O'Neall, just admit-
led, 1MI4, to the Bar, riefemUd
er. Ha waa convict'*1 of dieobeilence
of onlrr* and *rntenrcd to be sns-
pen<b*l Ir an his romm'nd for ten
months. O'Neall aaye il.ere were
fourteen charge*—“Moat of them were
not proved.” Then vays O'Neall:
“ Imleed, the whole affair ma*le Hur
ling Tucker subeequeully the brigadier
of the loth brrgade, maj*ir general bf
the.Mh dlvisi<>n and a member of Con-
gres*.” Tucker never. refus'd to
until the attempt is made what oh-
' •laclee ctuitage can overcome. The
. Iiold ao*I fear leas Lriump where the
! timid fail. The vieUNi** whi« h live
and light us on to noble deed* are the
victories anatctied from the jeers of de
feat by intrepid epnita who preferred
death to retreat
“ There la a jindoun ■ philoa-q»hy a*
well aa a relignat* truth in the word*:
* He that aavelh bia life shall I <•* It '
Tm k- i Tb ® lb * 1 b ** 00 higher |rtirpo**
FChi.rv Promiski# a'Ui vi:tx..
Admiral Schley visited the White
House a few days ago, and made a
n quest of President Itooscvell to en
tertain and consider an appeal for a
reversal of the action of S«c r etarv
Iiongaud a disapproval of the majority
judgment of the court of inquiry. The
interview was sattafaclory, the Presi
dent granting the Admiral’s rrquc«l.
Messrs. Raynor and Teague, councel
for Scbky, will as*i*t Admiral Schley
in preparation of the ap|>eai.
- The interview wiMi the Presid -lit
was arrange*! tu advance and Admiral
S*'bley left the White House in a sat
isfied state of mind, ite ha* l*een
given full uppurluoily- to present the
c.tae from hi* stamljKtint and to ac
quaint lli<> Prr-i.lent with many de-
tails hf yvhtch the litter routd
have any knowledge.
Whil# Schb-y w< ubl no make
*lat< m* nt r« ganlitig the mail* r
ruaM-d, it ia under* 1*mhI that
brought to the Presoleat'a alteniMto
many allege*! injuetue* and diarrep-
aurie* of the ll•aJorlty report, of the
court of inquiry.
Sibley's interview with the Presi
dent was the result of his del* rmin.i-
ll<>u Io rxhau-t eveiy mean* iu his
power to ovtrtum the ju-lgno n which
has hern mid*-red agamsi him. Hi*
new app* al will bring out *oitM new
facts which have an iwpitlatil
irg upon the eontru'erey
not
any
die-
hr
Ik
pa*
l.
lor
u
to save its own life will die
cause it deserves to die. if nerd be,
the take of a great eau«e will live
cause ii deserve* to live.
“ Who save that the money p #wer
is o«nni|M>trnt and that the Democratic
party must compromise with it or sur
render to it? Not until human nature
is entirely changed can the financier*
be entrusted with the guardianship of
the producers of Wealth; n- l until greed
, i-l ■ aa tin- m ' 1| ' 1
tnT
lU&i
•*.Tvr
an*l circumstaqce of war. 1 have more
regard for an uneducated h .nest man
than for an educated neb one,
who made bis money by quest! >u-
able schemes. My good old friend
John Jenk'us is dead. He hauled
wood tur me mauy years aud gave
an honest coni. On bis last btd
be sent for his brother Jack aud
whispered, “Jack, I m gwine to die,
they say, aud I’m williu’ to go ; but 1
owe Bob Pertiller a do'lar aud a half,
aud it bothers me mightily.” “Never
miud, John,” said Jack, “I’ll pay Bob
that money when I go io town for the
Cufiin. Now, just turn over and die a.*
easy as you can.” And he did. He
was a Hard Shelled Baptist.
The other night we had a good lady
visitor from the North, and when sttlf
said something about Ihis horrid old
Philippine war, ibo conversation
drifted to the hardships aud sufferings
caused by ovr civil war, and, just to
• k oT T
cl*##«d. -ITT* h >me w«i mar L*nf«»ni** •
station, in this county, among the no
ble hills of the Eu >re«, and there lie
bis remains among the jxople he so
strenuously aud patriotically served hi
the days of our couuuy's yofith. An
intelligent friend of the writer has re
cently visited the spot on Ihe oil
homestead where re|MMe hi' remains
and sends us a copy of the inscription
on the stone which maik' his resting
pi ice. "A granite wall twelve by fif
teen feet encloses this spot and within
vhe enclosure is a monumont with the
following inscription: “ In memory
of Gen. Stall ug Tucker, who departed
this life ihe third day of January, 1834,
iu the 64th year of his age. He was
beloved in life and mourned in death
foe private worth ami public useful
ness as a man and a citizen^the hon
est repreaenta ive of his country for
twenty-eight years in tic Legislature
of South Can Ima and in the Congres#
of the United States. 11 is ft leads in
Lauieus district have caused this mou-
amuse and entertain her, my wife ami ument to be erected to bis memory
I related how when we got back to
Rome with our half-dozen little child-
leu we all had to sleep on the lloor, fot 'who long survived him: “Sacred to
we bad no furniture, and we had no
flour or coffee or sugar, and there was
none to be had, fqr what dttle there
was was kept hidden and couldn’t be
bought with Confederate money; and
how our corn meal was nearly all goue,
and there wasu’t but dne cow iu the
county, and she was kept bid in a cane-
brake, and how I borrowed a horse
and rode twelve miles and bought her
for #3,000 in Confederate money and
drove her home In' the night and kept
her in the b.irn, and she gave just
enough milk to keep our baby from
peiishing; and bow 1 bought ten bush
els of com away down the river at #150
a bmlicl and goy good old Rowland Bry
ant to keep it hid for me at bis home
six miles from town, and once u week
he look a bushel to mill and had it
ground and brought it to town hid
under the seat of hU buggy; and how
the scouts and outlaws robbed every
body who had anything, and these out
laws were a company of cavalry made
np of thieves and deserters from oar
hnU a<
f;
I worth.”
On the obverse side, to. his wife,
the memory of Ijavinin Tucker,’ who
departed this life July 16, 1855, in the
86ib year of her age.”
The burial place is near what is
still known as Tucker’s Mill, now
standing about a century old, and now
the property of Capt J. VV. Lanford.
L’he writer has endeavored to learn
something of the nativity and early
history of Gen. Tucker," but without
.avail. It is most probable,-however,
that as he was 65 years old at the tune
of his death in 1834—his family nnlst
haye been Virginians—and that he
waib.ro on the Eooree during the
IU volution. Ge|j. Tucker left no
children and we.-arc, uiotr advised of
any «oiUleral relatives of die-'name,
ihe •Higgins family, of which Mr.
James Higgins is a member, being
c unacted through either his wife or a
sister of Gen. Tucker. The memory
of G n. Tucker is still fresh and greei
with the many descendants of bis
neighbors, and hit name ia alill vener-
aied and honored among them
Im rr~
While
**
A.
PMI clmcbarg.'d, having lakrli
marefr St NeWWrry Msr;h4.
1 He could not have done otherwise,
every dlth-er iu the regiment suppoit-
! ing him, and,* reaching home, he was
elccled-brigadier, then major general
; (ooe-half the Slate j, and afterward* to
Congress.
For tiKy years the writer ha* heard
tien. Ttickcr spoken of by such men
! a* John Linford, deceased, his neigh
bor, and others, aud ever with the
highest respect for his noble qualities
and tnanhojd. Discipline must pre
vail, hut unless the health of the sol
dier is regarded as by soldiers like
Hnmplon and Kershaw, who were no
“ carpel knights,” there dRll be uo
men to fight on the day of battle ex
cept such scarecrows as the men of
Carter’s regiment met on their march
to Pocotaligo.
Tucker may have been technically at
fault, but sometimes it is right to dis
obey orders. A French detail of five
hundred men was made and a colonel
ordered to take a certain point. The
cotonci suggested reduction to a hun
dred. Asked for his reason he said:
‘AH will be killed, not a man will re
turn; a hundred are enough lo sacri
fice.” The order was revoked.
The regiment was composed, not Of
volunteers as ordinary understood,
but the companies volunteered in their
organized capacity. They were from
Edgefield, Laurens, Newberry, Abbe
ville and other counties. The New
berry company was an artillery organ!
zation ana O’Neall was a private in
that company. On their return
O'Neall 'was made captain and ran
against Col. Tucker for major general
and was defeated. He says of this
that he got what he deserved.
The brigade major, Thos. Wright,
who had the “ mustering in,!’ was of
this, county, and afterwards brigadier
general and Lieutenant Governor oi'
the State. Ilia family are in this
county. The adjutant, Jamea Irby
was father of the late James U. Irby
and grandfather of the late Senator
Irby. Many of the regiment were af
terwards prominent in the State. Gen.
Gillim, a coua n of John C. Calboan,
i»M4 Um- JEdgsfield isnoy,
or th. ni-.Ui-
whtch will be fair to any «A<* els#*. A
U»p fan be balance 1 uj.<M) tb* point
only when it is in rapid motion, and -o
the great financial structure oraiftied
iy*\Vall street for the >•< netii of Wall
street will stand upright ouly so long
as it can he kepi whirling; the collaps#-
will come when the *p« **l is slackened
“ Who says that we cannot afford lo
measu-e slt-englh with the great mono-
wiies which now arrogantly assume to
control the domain of politics us w#li
the field of industry? Not until we
can gather good fruil from an evil tree,
and ti^s from thistles, can we expect a
private monopoly to bring foith public
blessings. The water that bus been
poured into the stocks of our great cor-
po atious has for the most pari been
drawn from the agncuDoral regions
and the drought th.it is fure to follow
will teach the farmer (lie meaning of
the trust system.
“ Must we abandon the self-evident
troth that governments derive their
just powers from the consent of the
governed? Must we accept impelialim
us an accomplished fact and join in
the shout for blood and conquest? - Uur
Republic rests upon solid rock, anil
while ils principles are revealed it
cannot be overthrow from' wi bin
or from wilhout, but if all partie%
joiued together to erect an empire
upon American soil they would build
upon the nand and the edifice could
not eudure. It is a law divine in its
origin, irrisistible m its force and eter
nsl in its duration, that wrong-doing
ultimately destroys the wrong-doer, and
no nation < r combination of nations is
slro g enough to evaije or resist retrib
utive justice.
“ But suppose— what no one should
assume, and what no one can prove—
that steadfast adherence to Democratic
Ni# ARaora Bil l. |'a»«m# thi
>1 *K - Tt##* Ni« aratfiia canal It'll
i-c«l lh« II t*(ise of U* l.rvarulalivaa
•ni Thursday, ttih last , by prsc.irally
a un luitnou* v 4*. (July lw«# a## m-
hrra out #«f Jlu vnt«**l against II.
Mraar*. Flct.hcr, ICrptiM-can, <#l Mio^
nr**Ha, ami laMsilrr, li# > tn*s*rai, of
Virginia, w*rr the Iwo v*4mg in thr
nrgaiivr. The «.p|*#Miii«Mt u# *••<11 mil-
utig tb** govt-rtmirnl In Ib#* NManagua
roots alirmplrd l<> errtirv aai# ii*l>n* nl*
l* 1 Indgr Wilh I be l‘re*ldenl the di*c ra
il tnarv |M.wrr in pu cha*e an*I t-omplale
the I'anatna canal. If it con 11 be pur-
< b*** <1 for $40,IMk|,linil. The Itsl came
tb*- fir*! Vnta, whan the ailvocalra <•(
an alternative inula p‘>lle«l BrJ against
ITO v*4e*. Al aach »ii*-**-a3|ng vqla
Iheir Mranglb <luin*ik«l until Hr. I an-
non. ol llliu«4«, anti* r whoea |ea«lar-
•liip the light a as made, waa unable lo
grt the ay#** and noaa no a motion lo
recox mil. All other amendment* faded
a id the bill |MOUMd exactly a* it canm
fr 'in IIk eonimilUc None id the vote*
prnritir
T
wxvq'nti'y an wm itnwi
bib was a MoiurJ vo # b.
'1 he Ucbale, s^h-Ii |>t#H:«<l«ail the tak
ing’of the final vote wa* made m< mor
•M • by a clanh between Mr Hepburn,
the author of t te h II, and Mr. Cannon,
chairman of the appr< priulions com
miilce. tin several previous occasion*
they hate measured swonfs prer cansl
legislation. Two year* ago a similar
bill was passed by a vote of 224 lo 36
Mayor Tolly Favors Federal Aid as
Suggested la GreeirviUe
The following interesting letter from
Mayor Tolly of AndcrkSn, deserves
the aiteulion of the citizens of this
S ate : ‘ ‘ •
To the Editor of The News and
CourierI have read with some in.
lerest a recent article iu your paper
from Dr. D. A. J. B II, of Farksville,
concerning the G<x d Roads Conven
tion held in Grcenvil'e, aud I would
like to add some words of my own.
I regard the convention held in
Greenville aa having been in many re
spects the most important held in thia
Stale within recent years. It waa im
portant, not so much in point of imme
diate vUible-iesults, but on account of
i's aims and t>urp<»ses and the ultimate
good that will bu accomplished, and on
account of ihe representative class of
men who were in attendance. The Im
portance, the necessity, of good roads
cannot be over-estimated, but has too
long been underestimated by the peo
ple «»f the State, and H is hopeful and
encouraging to see such an awakened
and widespread interest being taken io
the subject. U is veiy gratifying lo
see at Greenville such men as Gen. M.
C. Duller, the Hon. A T. Smyth, of
Charleston, Mr. F. H. Hyatt,of Colum
bia ; Ex-Governor Mauldin and Solici
tor Ansel, of Greenville ; the Hon. D.
C. Heyward, <•) Waltarboro; Congress
man A. C. Intimer, and many county
supervisor* and municipal officer* from
different pans of the Stats—men of all
cla»aes of political opinion* and of all
walk* of life- met together for a com
mon purpose, i say It wa* an eocour-
mg *ign and grraA and lasting gend ta
Im'UikI to rorae out ontL
I think one of the moat important
a*li<>ri<r of (ha ('oBVemion waa the
adoption of a leardntioti a*kmg our
*cuat#M* and U*’prtaealauvea in Coo-
or#-.* to wors for Federal appropria
tions f«*r the improvement of publi#-
highways on the same plan that ap-
prupriatioaa Dow mad* fur u#* im
provement of rivers and barbo s. It
*'atia*4 !•* itaaird that go.*l public
highways are as neersaarj to the wel
fare and growth ol theouDlry aa tm
prwvt-d nver* ai#*l hartx.r*. and (bat a
vastly greater number of petqda will
t#e I <r lie filed thereby.
It may ba argue*l by soma that It
w*aild " i ' /rial an uiMlertakiog for
II.*- gov* i nib# ut to g«# into the baaluuua
of improving lb« puldic roads. Her*
am some fa* is that will romplataiy
aiuwrr this ubjertMMi ; When it was
first prop i*ed, #.>mr leu or fifteen years
ago. I*, give lbs people of lb* country
free mad dvli*ery such aa enj 'y**l by
the people of ibe tilir* ihe idea waa
Lug tied to aooru. It waa «laclarad that
it w- u d bankrupt the government.
Yet lb« rural mail tbrlivrry •yatem la
going mt > operaliua all over Iba coun
try, and wherever It baa bean Irtw!
it ba* been found to W#Nk sue-
tu ifuliy. There ia Iml slight in-
rn-arc in the coat over the old syetam
nt having many u/fiutry poatofilcas,
with ibe star r.Kiie mall riders, and in
s*>me iasea the coat ia aveo lasa aad
the M-nire ia vastly impiovod. Iu
An«Lr*on (l*4iniy there am now aoma.
thing like tareniy daily rural mail
routes. Them is no farmer in the coUb-
try who bves further than two miles
fro a a daily de lively route and be coo
have his mail delivered wherever ba
|.lac*>« bia box, while the majority of
the farmers have iheir mail deliver*#)
every day al Iheir do >r*. 1 have not
ibwui**..' i« inrw si li»l
the town OF WA8HINGT0N.
OeotRl* Has the Oldeat Namesake
of the Father of Bia Country.
Miss E. F. Andrews contribotea the
^17! w? ,1 “ w " hi ^ a
Altb ujh our town is the oldest
namesake of •« the fadier of hia coaiw
«•
aware that 1‘resideot IFasbington one*
made a vbit to Ibis, the first born ot
wLh?n U ?° U * p, 3 eu I ° r geographical
Washingtons—Washingtons big and
Washingtons little, WsshingtoMiural,
uiban and territorial, that have since
done more or less honor to the name.
Yet, such is the fact; the great founder
of the republic once spent a night in
our town, and there are |»eople etui
living in our midst that have seen and
Liked with the veriLblo colonial dame
that entertained him.
It 'was in the year 1790, when
Washington made bis great tour of the
Southern States, embracing Richmond,
Charleston aad Savannah, returning
by AugutL and ibe interior towns of
ihe Carolina* and Virginu. Our little
Washington was on thegrsit highway
between Richmond and AngnaL. and
thus lay along ibe route the praaident
bad so carefully mapped oat for him-
s# If that be never faded to arrive at
each place where he proposed to halt
on the very day he had died There
was living here at that time a Colonel
Alltaon, who had followed the tida of
*migra:tcn that flowed from Virginia,
like m. many of oar early selUer** Ha
waa a brave Rcvo'ulionary officer, a
member of to aahiogtoo’t staff, and a
peraoual friend nod so, when
the great general was passing through
(i. orgta, what more natural I baa that
b« •boolil arrange to stop el Washing
u town aud span*I a night wtlh A'
old fiiead?
C«4» id Alltagp lived In a two story
freoe homy ynla a prateouous build
lag for Ihufiu lima* -that used lo stand
lived
buck of wham Wtmd’s livery
now i*, and waa burned <M#wa in the
greet fir* of INM the! da*troved the
the Kp'eeopal church end many other
buiUii jga oa that block. The writer
r# members it aa e dileptdeted eld
•it sci urn that eaad to be pototed eel,
in ta* day* of her youth, a* the otdeei
house tu towa. Ttiie fact gave * *.
certain inter eat find aaosned te rre
stitule ite only dwttacUoa, as the dr-
# umstaocee that it hod ooco eh* lv
ao illustrious a gweet
•lent of the republic
enough, to have passed euum'y out af
eoougu, io nava paased enure'y out m
miad. The old hotsae gradually went
from bod to won*, and aa the writer
last n
An Emiili.m ok* Lho my.—The
famou* Liberty Ixsll, under the wort
of Mayor A*hhri<lgc mid a delegation
from the 1‘hiladelpbia city couitcil,
arrived in Cbarle*U»n on Thur!*«li»y
morning from Suvannult, Ga. It was
met at the station by the mayor and
hoard of aldermen of Charleston, and
president ami director* of the Exposi
tion company and a detachment of re
gulars fiom the artillery post, and
companteH of marines from the camp
at the Expedition, with a regiment of
nuliiia drawn'up at the atation when
the train beating the bell rolled in.
As the bell was lifted from Ihe fiat
cat, a ffllutc of thirteen guns was fired.
The bell w;i8 placid (Ai a decorated
truck which had been prepared to con
vey it to the Exposition, but after
placing, it was found ibal the truck
would not bear the weight and the
hell had to be replaced on the car ami
taken to the Exposition ground by rail.
In the auditorium at the grounds
Mayor Smythe extended a formal wel
come to Ahe hell and its escort and
MaVor Ashbridge responded. Several
brief addresses were made and patriotic
airs were sung by 2,000 school chil
dren. The hell was priced in the Phil
adelphia bin ding at the cunclusion of
the exercises in the auditorium and the
building was forin;dly confidcdTo the
custody of the Exposition company.
£
principles woul I result iu tepeaUd de
feat, is there-any reason why we should A lump of tallow dipped in sulphur
abandon those principles and adopt and rubbed on the bodies of trees is
others, or have none at all? Thoee! recommended by Mr. M. W. Hubbard,
who prefer prison fare or a servile sub- a Missouri orchardist of note, as a
ject’s lot to the dnugera of the battle- cheap and safe preventive of' barking
field may condemn the Boers for con- ibe trees by rabbits and their pertora-
tiuoing what some describe as a bope- tion by borsrs. He lak»a a lump of
leu struggle for" indejio'pdenc#:, but tallow in one hand and a sma'l box of
those who can mcasuie the mighty in- the sulphur and rubs the trees from
fluence of great deed' know that the the ground as high as br’er tabbit can
atnnij 11 — 1 1 — lK - n
hut the -ysietn t* pm< (t* aliy self
Uitung ami that the free delivery sys-
Tcm, instead' of bring a burden, la
it-ally if anything a saving over the
old method
I do not believe that Federal appro
priations for public road improvements
sill prove at nil burdensome, but that
'n will be the wisest possible expendi
ture of m ney. In addition te the good
it will do in developing the iifterior of
tbe country it will distribute some of
the government appropriations among
a class of people who have never te-
ccived any of the benefit! of it and
wheie il will do the moat good. A
small appropriation could he made for
Federal lo.idbuildmg say jo each coun
ty, and this, supplemented by State
ami county and pouibly even town
ship aid, would in a short time give to
the people of this country such * sys-
lom of public highways as the world
has never seen.
I was greatly impressed with this
scheme when it was proposed at Green
ville .and .1 have thought about it, a
great deai since. The more I think
about il the more hi artily in favor of
it do I become. I believe il willgneet
with the approval of any man who will
give it consideration. I hope The News
ami Courier and the other papers of the
State will take up the question and
agitate it, and I want to see our Sen
ators and Representatives in Congress
comply with the resolution adopted at
Greenville.
I hope there will be a large alien,
dance at the meeting of the Good
Roads Convention which is tb be held
in Charleston on February 3. Every
ode who* was at Greenville should go
to Charleston and so many more as can
po-aibly do so.
Tbe question of good r >ads vitally
coacerns the whole. SLte and if we
wi I continue the good work commenced
at Greenville much practical g->od can
be accomplished. G. F. Tolly
b idal prene it by General ‘
aiMl just befora her death she preeeoted
thia aet, six cap* and sancen, together
wiili tliecoionel’scer iflcaL of member
ship in the Cincinnaii, to Mie. Alexan-
d* r. As the china had been need oa
her table at the time of Washingtoa’s
visit il is certain that he had drunk
fr .in one of the cape, bat as there wee
m> mark by which that particular cup
could be identified, hero-worshiping
tea drinkers who ured any of the six
could flatter themselves with the pos
sibility that they were drinking after
Wanbington. Two cupa and saucer*
of this set are still in existence, one in
the possession of General E. P. Alex
ander, tbe other of Mrs. Cooper Pope,
of this plsce. The caps are wilhout
handles and of the shallow bowl shape
familiar in old china, whUe tbe saucers
are very deep, as it was tbe correct
thing in those days to poor tea or coffee
into Un saucer and drink from it, and
1 have no doubt but Washington took
his that war. What a treasure one of
these old relics would be to the Daugh
ters of tbe Revelation.
Ex-Henator Peffer, of Kansas, is
compiling a topical index of the pro
ceedings of Congress from the first
session down to the prescut time,
which be wants to sell to the govern
ment. He has got as far as 1861 and
■axpacllAo flatab the work in two years.
Jt
bet* it was inhabited by
who swarmed within the dingy
<>l.l anil* *• thick as the popalattoa of
a New Ymk UaeoMni.
Colonel Al iwm wa* asm of Ihe origi
nal Lauder* **f the Order of the da-
cinueU, end hie certificate of member
ship, •igueti with Washington’* ento-
'graith, ia now in tb* pn**e—ion of
Captain J. 11. Aiesaadar, of
II* Lfi a widow who lived te a
*.■*, end a wm, Robert, who we
fii*t bus ham! of Mr*. Barnett, the
m*»i her oar honored ciUsaa*, Dr. Freak
Willieandlhe Host. Home*) Barnett.
Mrs. Altmoo, who** n Mlea anas*
w*s McRae, wa* very food oi the Irak
Mrs. Attain Alexander, and Mr*.
Alexander's daughter, Mrs. Clifford
Hall, rcmembci* when a very Utile
girl having Mam times accompanied
brr mother on her visits to the aged
iff.
The steamer Argyle passed through
unique experience recently, when
orly rail ja off the coast of Mexico.
The sea had been exceptionally smooth
for sqme time, when suddenly it be
came thick with earth of a reddish
color, and was agitated as if some
great submarine lire were heating it
to the boiling point. No damage was
done to the vessel, and five minutes
later the sea was smooth again. The
ennse of the disturbance was a subma
rine earthquake.
I’or the first time in a period oT
twenty-live years Chief Justice Re
iver waa absent from the session of
the supreme court this week having
been detained al home by sickness in
his family.
Dr. A. C. Berger, of Greensboro,
N. C.. a pillar uf the church nod F.p-
worth league leader; seeks to join the
Kn gbu of Pythian. They ini
and find he loss more wives I
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