Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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A TYPICAL SOUTHERN GIRL. Adventures of a Heroine of the Six ties. The daring deeds of a slender blue eyed Southern girl, who lived am loved and fairly terrorized Federa soldiers in Boonsville, Mo., in the stir ing times of the early sixties, still ar made the subject of many a reminis cent story. Mary Carroll, of Boonsville, was a fearless as she was pretty, as detian as she was clever and resourceful She could, says the Kansas City Star i ride a horse as well as any calvary man and she could walk, too, whei the occasion demanded. She smug gled arms and ammunition to Con federate soldiers, right under th very noses of the Federals. Sh aided in the escape of three prison ers who were under senteince a death. Finally she was imprisonei herself, but her ready wit won he release. So it is only natural tha those who were neighbors of thi -dauntless 19-year-old girl should stil have vivid recollections of her. Today Mrs. Mary Carroll Brook lives quietly with her son in Kan sas City at 634 North avenue. Shi is 70 years old, but her mind is aler and her clear eyes have not alto gether lost their laughter. Brother Condemned as Spy. . In the winter of IS63 Dennis Car roll, a brother of Miss Mary, wa arrested by Federal soldiers on th< charge of being a Confederate spy and, together with two other men Mastin Patrick and Lieut. Charle Brownlee, was imprisoned. Col. D W. Ware, in command of the Boon ville post, ordered the three mei shot, but on account of the suddei illness of Patrick the executipn wa deferred four weeks. Carroll and Brownlee were held h prison and when Patrick recovere* he was placed in the same cell witl them. Mary Carroll obtained permissioi from Col. Catherwood, in charge o the post, to take meals to her broth er and his friends and to give hin any sisterly relief she couia. So day after day, morning am evening, Mary visited the Federal jai with a basket of provisions on he arm. Ia was almost dark in the eel when Miss Mary brought the even ing meal. This caused her brothe to devise a plan of escape. "Smug gle me in a file and a crowbar whe: you come tomorrow night," he whis pered in his sister's ear one night "WVll break out the bars on the win dow and escape." Brings Crowbar and File. So the next evening Mary carried i short stout crowbar and a file dan gling from' her waist beneath he hoop skirt. She left them in th dark cell unobserved by the guards But that night the three men wer caught in the act of breaking ou the bars and the work had to b done all over again, unaer greaic difficulties now, for the men wer thrown in chains and placed in cell without windows. For some reason or other Mis Mary was not suspected at the tim of being responsible for the presenc of the crowbar in the cell of th doomed prisoners, and from then o she worked with more assurance. The only hope of escape now wa to obtain a key that would unloc the cell door, and Miss Mary unhes) tatingly set herself the task of pre curing such a key. Being a comely young woman, i was not strange that the Federal sol diers about the prison should pa her marked attentions on her visit to her brother. Sergeant Proposes to Her. Luckily for Miss Mary and he Drother the man who was hardest hi was tne young sergeant in tuaigc u the jail?he who always carried th precious key at his belt. One day, as the execution time wa drawing near, the young sergean asked her if he might accompany he to her home. "Why, no. I wouldn't be seen o the street with a Federal soldier, replied Miss Mary, archly. "Then, may I visit you at you house tonight," persisted the soldiei "Well, perhaps I wouldn't objec to that," she teased* back at hir over her shoulder as she hurrie away. Of course he went to her horn* He was young and he made violen love to Miss Mary, who half encoui aged, half repulsed him, as wome will. He asked her to marry hiir She told him she would consider il provided he helped her to get he brother out of jail. This he sorrow fully explained he could not do. "Well, then, you can at least lc me see that piece of iron danglin from your belt," she laughed. Gets Outline of Key. Unsuspectingly he placed the ke in her hands. Playfully, chatting a] the while, the girl folded back th flyleaf of a book against the cove and with a sharp penknife outline the key on the flyleaf. "There," she said as she tore th flyleaf out, and, tossing the boo TESTING BOTTOMLESS HOLE. : Greene County Has One 2,000 Fe Deep, Anyway. !- Kinston, X. C., Aug. 20.?Yeste 3 day a pound of lead at the end < .1 2,000 feet of stout cord was dropp< into the waters of a pool near Hoo e erton, in Greene County, which h; - for many years been a subject f< curiosity on the part of the people 1 s the whole country because of its u: t known depth. This line was unreel* L to the last inch and hung perfect taut. The "bottomless hole," as it is 1 a cally known, has existed for gener - tions. Not more than 100 yards fro - the banks of Moccasin River, it w; e once thought that a subterranez e stream supplied the pool from tl - river, but this theory was disprov< f when somebody called attention I the fact that the water in it doi r not rise at the times when the rivi t is much "higher than its normal staj s with heavy freshets. The hole 1 about 15 feet in diameter, and not living thing exists in or near it. Tl s water, which is of a light blue colo - is clear for a great distance down, e Experiments are said to have be< t made with fish in the "bottomle - hole," but these invariably died in short time and rose to the surfac A number of traditions of Indi* . times exist concerning the pool, 01 s of which is that it bears a spell pi g upon it by a medicine man when chief who had been his patron w; drowned there. The attempt yeste s day to ascertain the hole's depth w; i. not the first by any means, but mo _ pains were taken and the soundii 2 line was longer than at any previoi 1 effort. S ASKS INVESTIGATION. 2 Charged With Shooting Members M< ^ Spartanburg Policeman Resigns. l Spartanburg, S. C., Aug. 20.?As result of the shooting of Frank E f perly and J. C. Owensby during tl nf +Vio onnntv iail Mond; OlUi U1JLU5 VI WUV V?. J ^ night by a mob bent on lynching W: Fair, a negro prisoner, Lieut. S. ^ Alverson of the city police force vc ^ untarily resigned to-day, with the r quest that an investigation of tl r j shooting be made. Alverson, who has been on tl ' force 10 years and has a good recor is accused of shooting the two me He does not deny the charge, but a serts that he was justified by the ci cumstances. He was trying to he Sheriff W. J. White, he says, and d not fire until members of the m< tried to wrest his pistol from him. The trial of the negro was po* a poned by Governor Blease today the request of Solicitor Albert r Hill, who desires time to get adc 6 tional evidence against Fair. e aside, held u?> the page for his i t spection: "now I have a paper key e the jail. Isn't that terrible?" r With an exclamation the youi e soldier seized the paper from h a hand and tore it into bits. But tl imprint of the key remained on tl s cover of the books and the next d; e and the next and the next, Miss Ma e worked to fashion a key after tl e pattern, first making one of woo v _ a which her brother feared wou break off in the lock, and then one s sheet iron which proved too wea k Finally she began making one of iro t- Four days before the time set f >- ttie execution of the death senten she finished it and smuggled it in t her brother and his friends, togeth - with more files to cut the chair y This time the scheme worked, and t) s next night the three men escaped. Miss Mary and the village blac smith were arrested on suspicio r Miss Mary's ready confession exone t ated the blacksmith. After havii 'f been held ^ prisoner for four week e she was taken before Colonel Cathe wood for trial. Asked how she dari s do such a thing when she was und t the oath of allegiance Miss Mary r r plied airily: wit saves tier, n "I had your permision to ta " my brother food and any sisterly r lief I could." r Her wit won the day and she w \ released. Her brother, however, w :t killed before the close of the war. n Toward the close of the war the j? d was turned over to the town sheri and this man, over zealous in the di i. charge of his duties, threatened t rearrest Miss Mary and hang her - a traitor. She was warned of t n sheriff's intention and. though it w 1. midwinter, she set out with h youngest brother and another litt r boy, whose mother wanted to g - him out of the danger zone, ai walked twelve miles through t! ft snow and ice to Tipton, taking tl g train from there to St. Louis. H ivora crv hoHlv t'rr?7Pn u nr? lili ICCt > ? 1 OV 4* VVAA W k/?J tered that she was unable to wa y for weeks. II The laboriously made key was ke e in the Court House of Boonville as r relic of the war until 25 years ag d when it was sent to Mrs. Brook And she has it still, an enormo e thing, four times the size of the ke k now in use. WML DeLOACH COMMITS SUICIDE. n et Assistant Postmaster at Ninety-Six Jumps in Mill Pond r- Greenwood, Aug. 22.?William Deof Loach, assistant postmaster at Ninejd ty-Six, committed suicide early this k- morning by throwing himself in the as pond of water belonging to the Nineor ty-Six Cotton Mill, located near the ? - * - "? T 3 of mill. It Is reported mat ne nau n- threatened to kill himself earlier in id the night and that his wife had perly suaded him to accompany her to her father's house, near the mill, and o- that while she was waking her father a- up DeLoach slipped off and threw m himself in the pond. Mrs. J. W. Talas bert, postmaster at Ninety-Six, is a in sister of Will DeLoach. ie ^ The Mania for Undressing. t0 What is patent' to the least obseres vant nowadays is that women wear er almost nothing under their gowns, 'e even in the daytime. Petticoats went 1S some time back and were replaced by a tights?or not replaced at all. The le stockings are of such diaphanous 'r' silk as to embarrass the beholder who sees even in the street, so much of m them, and they are not covered by ss any but court shoes. a So much for the foundation. Over e* this is worn a filmy sheath of kalfln transparent material, cut almost as ie low * by day as by night, and with such slashings and liftings in the a skirt as may fully "display the leg as half-way to the knee and which show r" every movement of the limbs?almost as of the muscles. re A story has been going the round 1S of Paris in which it is told that an JS English woman was offered a dress with the following inducement to tempt her "Madame will be satisfied with the robe, for by putting a pink >b ribbon underneath, Madame will appear completely nucTe." As if that were the absolute ambition of every a woman for the moment! Certainly pthere is an orgy of undressing going on, and it shows no sign of abating, .jj And what is to be the end? It is j difficult to see; but obviously, when )j" you have gone on undressing for a certain time, vou come to the end of ewhat there is to take off, and the tie , , only thing to do is to put your clothes ke on again. But no one can foresee ^ when that happy hour of sanity will n' be with us. There are no signs of it ,at present. s~ But it says a great deal for the rjp length of road we have traveled that the old-fashioned people (perhaps ^ there are none left) have not lifted up their voices in the press to re^ buke a generation which would have t made their fathers gasp and stare and E presently resort to prayer t? avert a * thunderbolt. Li The Man Who Struck Oil. J^m * n_ Fifty-four years ago, or to be exact, t? on August 27, J859, oil was struck in Western Pennsylvania at a spot which V.rv nintiirocmio name nf Pith ? o uyic lUC - --? er hole, now a deserted village, but at ae one time the scene of epoch-making activities. *y The man who discovered oil by borr>' ing for it was a picturesque charache ter, of an adventurous disposition, d. but the name of Edwin L. Drake, id widely known under the title of Colonel. He had observed traces of oil on the surface of a stream near n- Titusville and he resolved to sink a or well to secure this commodity in ce larger quantities and to replace the t0 crude methods which the Indians of er Western Pennsylvania employed. IS- They immersed blankets to secure the lle lubricant, more, however, on account of the medicinal qualities of the crude k~ oil than for its commercial value and n- uses. !r" It is proposed by the people of Titusville, Oil City and other cities in :s- the oil regions to erect a monument to !r_ Drake to mark the spot where the 2d first oil well was sunk. A Drake er memorial museum has already been e~ established at Titusville. The history of the early production of oil in the oil regions of Western Pennsylvania reads like a romance, e" and it is, indeed, a romance, founded, however, on the most solid structure as of fact. as it is a fact that the discovery of oil was one of the most vital in the til history of the United States. It ff. seems fitting that some shaft or is- monument should mark the place to v.-here Drake had the prescience to as sink the first oil-well, which increased he so amazingly the wealth of this counas try and added su much to the comer forts of life.?Wall Street Journal. je et MOTHER OF MANY CHILDREN*. id Wisconsin Woman Did Not Believe in he tle Race Suicide. Green Bay, Wis., Aug. 21.?Mrs. J. L. Van Yenroy, mother of 23 cliillv dren, 150 grandchildren and 25 greatgrandchildren, died to-day at her ^ home at the age of 73. Of the 23 o children 11 survive. Mrs. Van Ven' roy came to Brown County from HolS* land in 1852. us T ys Get your Rook cards at The Herald BoBok Store, only 50c.?adv. Bailey Military Institute Formerly the S. C. C. I* of Edgefield) 5* C. A Christian military institution offering instruction in classical, scientific and commercial courses. . Large new brick buildings. Modernly equipped. Steam heat. Electric lights. Hot and cold water in every room. If you want to place your son in a school where his health will be carefully looked after, his mind thoroughly trained, and where he will be taught habits of obedience, punctuality and industry, send him to our institution. Here each cadet is under the close personal control and watchful care of the teachers from the time he reaches the school until he leaves for his honie. For Catalog and ether information, address: BAILEY MILITARY INSITUTE Greenwood, S. C. NOW IS THE TIME When Parents Are Deciding Where to Send Their Boys to School To decide this wisely may determine his success or failure. The following points will Fl \\ doubtless be considered: Loca Wtion, Equipment, Instruction, Moral and Religious Influences. The Furmari Fitting School is ideally located. Campus of 30 acres, Water and Climate unsurpassed. Buildings have all modern equipment. Class and Individual instruction. Moral and Religious Influences good. Next session begins September 17th. For catalogue address R. C. BURTS, Head Master, Greenville, S. C. Helps With the Lessons At night when the children gather around the sitting-room table studying their lessons for the next day, the telephone often rings. A little neighbor a mile down the road wants help from his school-mates. Children as well as grown-ups get pleasure and profit from the farm telephone. Do you know how little this service costs and how valuable it is ? See the nearest Bell Telephone Manager or write for our free booklet A postal will do. FARMERS' LINE DEPARTMENT SOUTHERN BELL TELEPHONE /2\ AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY uJ&J ,S. PRYOR STREET ATLANTA, GA. 1 BEST NOT WEATHER TV, M? MUSS H lit The Old Standard, General Tonic# Drives out Malaria, Enriches the Blood and Builds up the Whole System, FOR GROWN PEOPLE AND CHILDREN. It is a combination of QUININE and IRON in a tasteless form that wonderfully strengthens and fortifies the system to withstand the depressing effect of the hot summer. GRO VE 'S TASTELESS chill TONIC has no equal for Malaria, Chills and Fever, Weakness, general debility and loss of appetite. Gives life and vigor to Nursing Mothers and Pale, Sickly Children. Removes Biliousness without purging. Relieves nervous depression and low spirits. Arouses the liver to action and purifies the blood. A True Tonic and Sure Appetizer. A Complete Strengthener. Guaranteed by your Druggist. We mean it. 50 cents. S. g. mayfield. w. e. free, g? y H-g?$SY?TIS??8 MAYFIELD & FREE Will cure your Rheumatism Attorneys-at-Law Neuralgia, Headaches, Cramps, r.nlio. Snrains. Bruises. Cuts and BAMBERG, S. C. Burns, Old Sores, Stings of Insects Practice in all the Courts, both 'Etc. Antiseptic Anodyne, used inState and Federal. Corporation ! ternally and externally. Price 25c. practice and the winding up of es- ! tates a specialty. Business entrust-! B #* f\ p ted to us will be pron.pt,>: attended Qf Q(j|||S ? fgygf i Prescription No. 666 is prepared especially For Weakness and Loss of Appetite j for MALARIA or CHILLS & FEVER. The Old standard general strengthening tonic Five or six doses will break any case, and 3ROVE'S TASTELESS chill TONIC, drives ou if taken then as a tonic the Fever will not Malaria and builds up the system, a true toni< return. It acta on the liver better than ind sure Appetizer. For adults and children. 50c Calomel and does not gripe or sicken. 25c LODGE MEETING. Bamberg, Lodge, No. 38, Knights of Pythias meets first and fourth Monday nights at 7:30 p. m. Visiting brethren cordially invited. GEO. F. HAIR, Chancellor Commander. A. M. DENBOW, Keeper of Records and Seal. J. F. Carter B. Di Carter CARTER & CARTER Attorneys-at-Law BAMBERG, S. C. Special attention given to settlement of estates and invest! | gation of land titles. j [ \ FRANCIS F. CARROLL Attorney-at-Law Office in Hoffman Building GENERAL PRACTICE. BAMBERG, S. O. jm| PORTABLE AND STATIONARY Engines AND BOILERS Saw, Lath and Shingle Mills, Injectors, Pumps and Fittings, Wood Saws, Splitters, Shafts, Pulleys, Belting, Gasoline Engines LAROESTOCK LOMBARD Foundry, Machine, Boiler Works, Supply Store. AUGUSTA. GA. GRAHAM & BLACK Attorneys-at-Law Will practice in the United States and State Courts in any County in the State. BAMBERG, S. C. FIRE INSURANCE "J Old Line Companies J. F. FOLK, Agt. BAMBERG, S. C. LIFE, FIRE, LIVESTOCK HEALTH and ACCIDENT INSURANCE Agent for Superior Monument Co. Can Save you Money on Tombstones. , W. MAX WALKER EHRHARDT, S. C. j "LOMBARD" ? Cnvir MlllC \ improve!! jam hwu. {VARIABLE FRICTION FEED. ^ and^Reliable Best material and workmanship, light} \ running, requires little power; simple* easy to handle. Are made in severa} sizes and are good, substantial money* making machines down to the smallest^ size. Write for catalog showing En* gines, Boilers and all Saw Mill supplies* Lombard Iron Works & Supply Co.* 0, AUGUSTA, CA. ^ CHICHESTER S PILLS TI1E DIAMOND BRAND. A Ladles! Ask yonr Druggist for /\ Chl-ehes-ter s Diamond BrandyVVx Pills in Red and Gold metallicxXr,/ boxes, sealed with Blue Ribbon. ijy Take no other. Bur of your V Druggist. Ask for CIII-CITeS-TEK 8 DIAMOND BRAND PILLS, for *5 years known as Best, Safest, Always Reliable OLD BY DRUGGISTS EVERYWHERE G. M0YE DICKINSON INSURANCE AGENT / ' Will Write Anything Fire, Tornado, Accident, Lia bility, Casualty, in me strongest and most reliable companies. My Motto: "Buy What I Need in Bamberg, and From Those Who Patronize Me. " 'Phone 10-B, or at CHI Mill BAMBERG, S. C. Kaiser & Walker Plumbing, Heating, Roofing Modern and Sanitary Plumbing. Private Water Systems Installed. Sanitary Septic Tanks Installed. . Bamberg Parties Inquire at The Herald Office. AIKEN, S. C. JOHN D. HADWIN WATCHMAKER AND JEWELER Fine Railroad and Complicated Repairing a Specialty. 35 Years Experience DENMARK, S. C.