The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, July 25, 1895, Image 1

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pw. VOL. 5.---NO. 28. PICKENS, S. C., THURSDAY, JULY 25 895- ONE DOL:AR A YEAR The Negro Johnson For feits His Life. THE IAILER IS OVERPOWERED And the Sheriff is Kept at Bay. A Quiet Capt ure of t Ie Fated Prisoner and Speedy Work or the Mob Nung to a Sapling and Riddled With Shot.. On Monday morning at two o'clock the officers of the law found a mob of sixty men within two bloAs of the jail. They were hunting Ira Johnson, the negro who shot LFrank Langford at Piedmont a week ago. There was not the least intimation of their preoence until olicer Gunnells discovered them on Brown street. It was hoped inas much as the time for court was so near at hand 'that no trouble would ensue, and the machinery of justice would be allowed to do that which has been delegated to It. Sergeant Gunnells, on discovering the presence of the mob, immediately notified Sheriff Gilreath, who joined him and together they went towards the jail. On the corner of Main and Broad streets they were halted by a strong guard, who with cocked weapons warned them at the peril of their lives not to come one step nearer. It was needless for them to go further, as ,Johnson was already in the possession of the mob. Sheriff Gilreath, believing that all danger has passed, turnea over the keys to the jailer on Saturday night, havinig kept them in his office safe or at his house up to that time since .Johnson was lodged in jail. So far as can be known now the party was made up from around the home of Langford nearl Marietta on Saturday night and Sunday. All their plans were carefully made and well executed. The police report that the city showed all the discipline of a military company. It seems that they agreed to r endezvous in the wood just beyond Mr. S. M. Snider's, on the Buncombe road, two miles northwest of the city. Here they stopped before coming in the city, tied their horses and fed them. Then a detachment on foot came into the city by back streets, and were not disbovered until they were right in the heart of the city. On arriving at the jail they de manded the keys of the jailor, Homer L. Story, who refused them. Then they sent off for tools, but in the mean time the keys, which had been hid in the parlor, were found by some of the party who were searching for them. Jailor Story iefused to unlock the doors after the keys were found, although his life was threatened. The mo) managed to open the doors, and the priboner was soon secured. Without stir or bustle they marched back with the victim of their ven geance, returning by back streets as they came, and the solemn procession did not d isturb the peace of the city with noise or tumult, only an oc casihnal word of positive command reaching the ears of those who were lookinr with wonder and amazement from closed blinds upon the curious spectacle. The prisoner was taken to the place of r'endezvous not far from Mr. Snider's, and as the first gray streaks of dawn came stealing up friom the East, a volley of half a hundred guns ended the life of Ira Johnson. Many heard the shots, and it was thoughs .,hat it was a battle between ' the blockaders and the dispensary constables. Johnson may have been hung, but the inference is from what can be gathered that he was tied 'up to the tree and shot. It was a small tree on the left of the read leading to the Sans Souci race-track and about one hundred yards from the Buncombe road. His feet were a few inches fr'om the gr'ound. Many of the mob were met by early comers to the city, and one man said all he saw had ther faces blackened. Trhey scattered in d iff'erent directions, leaving their victim for' the coroner. T~HE CORONER'S INQUEST. Coroner Meeks, as soon as he hoard of the lynching, went to the scene of the tr'ouble and cut the body down and brought it to town. A jury was em panel led with Amos McCurry as fore man. The rest of the jurors were : F. M. Langley, S. T. Lineberger, Jef Har'rison, J. R. Bower', D. D. Dixon, W. M. Knight, J. H. Taylor, Joseph Parks, G. W. Manly and M. M. Garrett. The first witness was Homer L. Story, the county jailer, who testified as follows: On Monday morning about 2 o'clock my mother, who was sick and unable to sleep, looked out of the window of the jailer's residence and saw the yard full of men. She came to my bed and woke me up, and told me the yard was full of men. 'I got down to the door as quick as I could. They were knocking on the door with an axe. I told them not to break down the door, as I would un lock it for them. They said to hurry up about it. As soon as the door Was unlocked the mob cr'owded in and asked for the keys. I told them 1 didn't have the keys. They said they wanted Ira Johnson. I tol d them he was upstairs. They went up stairs and examined the doors. They came back and wantedi to know wher'e the keys were. I told them that since Monday the sheriff had been locking up at night and taking the keys with him. They 'pulled their pistols onm and said thW didn't believe me. The said I had them and had to give them up. I told them I couldn't give the what I didn't have. The-' leader said they would get tools and break* in. Some went off for tools and while they were gone, fifteen or twenty of them searched for the keys. Those why had gone for tools came back in about O fifteen or twenty minutes. As they came back with tools, one of the mno .found the keys. They then turned os me, drew pistols and said T had t dinlock the door. I told them 1 wouldn't do it. They wont up stalm to try it themselves. They unlocke one 103k and hung the. keys in th second look. They came back afte me and said I had to unlock it fo them. Three men carried me upstair and the leader of the crowd ordered m to unlock the door. I told them would see them dead and in hell befor, I would do it. They said they wouli compel me to do it. I told them I was a poor set of Inca that couldn' unlock a door with the keys in then hands. By that time, they had tet look undone. About fifteen men weni in the hall. One man stepped behiiu the door and unwound the cells. H( seemed to be well acquainted with the place. They were gone in there aboul three minutes and came back with irU Johnson. One man stayed to see me lock up. He said he would see that none of the prisone"s got away. While I was locking up, the mob left. On cross examination, Mr. Story said ho didn't recognise any of the mob, that they were all masked. Policeman Dan Henderson was next sworn. He said: I had been to meet the train and had come down to the Mansion House in the 'bus. I started from the Mansion House to the guard house and met Sheriff Gilreath. He told me a mob was going to the jail and for me to go there with him. We went, sometimes running and some times walking fast. When we got to Heldman's old stable, we saw the crowd. The sheriff said. " They are there." The mob told us to halt, but we kept on and they told us again to halt. They said they would shout hell out of us if we went further. I heard the guns cook. We stood there about two minutes, when I heard one of the mob say, " Everything's easy. God damn him, we've got him.' The crowd then marched olf across Broad street from the jail. On cross examination : They kept saying halt. Sheriff Gilreath said, " I'm going down there." I said, " Hold on. There's no sense in that." He advanced a couple of steps. I told him to stop or they would shoot him. He said, ' They Won't shoot me." I said, "They don't know you in the dark." By this time the mo11 had gotten nearly across Broad street. The sheriff and J went to the jail and met Story at the gate. He told us they had got the prisoner and gone. They had the prisoner before they halted us. There was no one on Broad street except the mob, Sheriff Gilreath and myself. Before we got to the jail, the sheritY said, " They have never gotten a prisoner from me and I hope we can save him." I didn't recognize any one. We were abou forty yards from the mob. It was about fifteen minutes of three. There were at least one hundred men on Broad street, all armed. I believe they would have shot as If we had gone on. They cocked their guns right on us. There were thirty or forty guns. They talked like they were talking through masks. I don't know whether they were disguised Policeman 0. S. Gunnells was sworn and said: Between two. and three o'clock Monday morning. I was on Finlay's corner with Officer McCarrell. We saw a large body of men going down Brown street. I told McCarrell to wake up the chief. I ran to the sheriff's house for him. I woke him up and told him a mob was going to. wards the jail. I then ran back to wards the chief's. I waited for him, but he didn't come, and I went down Main street as fast as I could. I heard the mob turning up Court street. I advanced on them pretty fast. I got within thirty-five yards of them. Some one in the crowd said, " Turn to the right." They told me to halt and faced towards me with guns in position to shoot. The outer line presented ou me and paused as If marking time while the rest passed through in rear of the Greenville News oflice. Tlhen the line fell in behind the mob. I came back to Main street and met Sherifi Gilreath and Officer Henderson. I didn't see any more of the mob. Sheriff Gireath was sworn and said: A bout half past two o'clock, I was awakened by Sergeant Gunnells. He told me a mob was going towards the jail. I told him to go to the jail and tell the jailer to hold till I got there I dressed and started for the jail at soon as possible. I met Officer lHon. derson and told him about it and asked him to go with mae. We got to Held man's old store and foun.J that the mob had possession of the jail. About twenty-five or thirty guns were point ed at us and we were ordered to halt. I kept on but was stopped by Hender. son. My purpose was to get betweer the mob and the jail, and with Stor3 and Henderson keep the mob off. If I I had got there they would have had to walked over me to get to the prison. er. While I was parleylng with Hen. derson I heard some say, " We've gel him." The crowd then moved off. D)r. W. E. Wright was sworn, and testified as follows: I examined the dead body of Ira Johnson, assisted by Doctors Pack and Goodiett. We found a 1 inch rope around his neck, and that he was shot from the ankles to the tolp of his head. Thie shot ranged in size from bird shot to pistol shots of 38 calibre. All the shot seemed tc enter from the back. Fifteen or twenty shots that seemed to be 32s or 38s went in the back, through the lungs in the direction of the heart, Four or five went through the surface of the skin. Any of these would have caused death. His neck was not broken. I judge that there were about flye hundred shots in his body, including the bird shot. His hands were tied behin~d his back with a home-made handkerchief. Dr. Wright was the last witness, and after his testimony the jury retired and in a few minutos returnedl with this verdict : " We, the jury, find tha'. Ira Johnson camne to his death by the use of a rope around his neck and gun and1 pistol shots tired fromii the hands of unknown parties." There were three negroes on the jury and one of them asked a goor many questions of the witnesses. The body of the dead man was her ribly mutilated, being literally per forated with bullet holes. Many o the trees around the scene of th< lynehing where hit hy, the bullets, an< the tree~ to which Johnson waq tiec was scarred from the ground to height of* seven feet. Many peo0p) visited the spot during the day an ence no signs of the -lynch ers coui About the first mnan to get to) th 1s body was a colored boy who works for I S. M. Snider. The body was tied to o the tree and it seems that no attempt r at hanging was made, but that the r negro was at once shot to death. Mr. s Snider says he was awaken by the 3 shots about ten minutes after four. [ He thought It was probably a fight 3 between blockaders and constables and I he didn't get up. He heard them coming back, and got up and went to the wineow. le saw several vehicles, t one of these seemed to be a hack. The hack was full of men and there were also two men on one horse, and three walking, two together and the other by himself. Those walking seemed to be trying to catch up with the hack. It was bright moonlight. Some of the crowd came on towards town ana some went out the Buncombe road. There is nb man who deplores the lynching more than Sheriff Gilreath. He said Monday that he was not ex pecting anything of the kind, as he had been told Ibriday by responsible parties that the people around Lang ford's home had agreed to let the law take its course and let a jury pass on the case. The Sheriff said that if he had had thirty minutes' notice, the mob would have never gotten the prisoner. No blame can be placed on Sheriff Gileath. He is too well known as a 'brave officer who will do his duty at all hazards. Young Story also acted the part of a bravo man in refusing to unlock the door when ordered to do so with pistols pointed at his head. The coroner procured a coiln and the body of the dead man was taken by his relatives to Piedmont on Mon day afternoon. TH110, GIRLS' SIATE COLLEGE. The Buildings Have Been Completed and the Faculty Has Been uhosen. On the 3d of October the doors of the Winthrop Normal and industrial College will be thrown open +. the women of the State. The buildings are in readiness for the opening and the faculty, which is believed to be a strong one, has been completed and will be on hand ready for the work. The board of trustees at their last meeting rounded otf the preliminary details of the opening of the College. At the last meeting quite a number of vacancies were filled, and the faculty of the College as completed is made up as follows: President, D. B. Johnson. Pedagogics, ethics and psychology, Prof. 14. P. Moses, Raleigh, N. C. English languag-> and literature, Prof. J. P. Kinard, Newberry, S. C. Assistant, Miss Wicker, Virginia. Mathematics, phybics and astronomy. Prof. W. E. lreazeale, New Bruns wick, N. J. Assistant, Miss Mary G. Pope, Green ville. Music department, Wade R. Brown, Greenville. INSTRUCTORS. Chemistry and biology, Miss M. W. Woodrow, Columbia, S. U. Latin and modern languages, Miss Hortense Roberts, Nashville. Free hand and Industrial drawing, Miss Ella MacD Alford, Sellers, S. C. Sewing, dressmaking and millinery, Miss Lucy Dallett, Philadelphia, Pa. Cooking and domestic economy, Miss Laura P. Hutinson, Philadelphia, Pa. Physical culture, physiology and hygiene, Miss Ada Wolfe, Manchester, Iowa. Stenography and typewriting, Miss E. R. Hughes, Philadelphia, Pa. Vocal music, Misa M. M. Southot, M assauch usetts. Iustrumental music, Misa Rozelle Waddil, Greenville. Matron, Mrs. V. r. Simpson, Roper's, S. C. Practice department, Miss Mamie F. Wicklitfe, Autr'eville, S. C., and Miss Russell, Anderson. The board of trustees passed a re solution authorizing President John son to employ his executive btaff, the names and salaries to be submitted and alproved to the board at its next meeting. According to law there will be an admission fee of $40, which will be remitted in cases where it is shown that the parties are not able to 'pa the fee. An incidental foe of $ will lbe placed in deposit every year with the authorities, and if after the close of the year there is no breakage charged to the student the $5 will be returned. A medical fee of $5 per year will be charged, and the book fee will be $5 per annum. Instrumental music and art, which will be entirely optional, will be charged for-at the rate of $3 per month. The require menits for admission arc that appli cants shall be 15 years of age, of souna morals and with good health, and shall already have an elementary knowledge of the I~nglish branches. 'ro test this knowledge an elementary entrance examination will be held. Arrangements have been made for one year's work in the preparatory department. it is, however, intended that this preparatory department should only be used in cases where after a year In the preparatory depart ment the girl can enter the regular college course. Board, fuel lights and w ash ing wvill o supplied at actual cost, which, it is estimated, will be about $8.50 a month. BAPTIST YOUNG PEOPLE'S UNION. The Fifl ih A nnual Conveotllon ini Bale i more-Grat iy'i ng Achievemientgs or I he Organization. The international conventioh of the Baptist Young People's Union of America was held in Baltimore last week. TIhe attendence was very large from all parts of the United States and Canada, and the reception com mittees were, kept busy in meeting delegates at the depots and wharves. The report of the board of managers read at the opening session says : Trhe spirit of the annual reports fom' the past three conventions has been " Progress." rhis report brings the samte cheering sentiment as its key . note. No enterprise ever launched by the BaplItists has seen such a pheno menal development. There were nine organized States represented at our first historic convention at Chicago. i There are thirty-one States organized a to-dIay, and we have with us representa 1 tiveis oif the two unions of Canada, that j of the maritime provinces and that of Ontario andI Quebec. Four years ago o the wisdom of the special organization of the young people was a matter under discussion. To-day the denomi nation Is practically a unit In favor of both the local organization of the young people and the fraternal union of their organization for the study and emphasis of this particular order of church work. A great achievement in our denomi national history was won when, in 1891, this Baptist Young People's Union of America was organized. The last year has been emphatically the best of the four which the union has seen. Enthusiasm for the movement was greatly kindled by the Toronto convention. The whole year has - re corded the new impetus given to the movement. There has been great growth of confidence in the working of the yaung people's society as a local method. Quiet, steady work by thousands of our Baptist young peopie in their several societics is satisfying all thoughtful people of the working value of these societies. Progress has been made in the spirit of federation. Our Canadian and Southern brethren were introduced to each other last year at Toronto. This year North and South, East and West have come together in notable ways for Baptist fellowship and co-opera tion. The Fortress Monroe conference concerning home mission interests in the South was " a patch of new sky." The conference on young peeple's or ganization in the South, which met at Washington, May 9th, was charactoriz ed by generous words of appreciation for the B. Y. P. U. A. It is quite certain that this great home gathering of our American Baptist Young People to sing, to pray and to confer togetber of our common fath and work was neve- more widely approved than at this time. When we consider that nearly one-third of American evangelical Chiisten-Jom are Baptists, it is surely a grand and worthy order that we have once a year on such a gathering. While cherishing the kindest of sentiments towards the comliprehensive iL'vement of the Christian Endeavor in its Afforts to include all denomina tions in each meeting, we may never theless believe that the proper develop ment of our Baptist millions im peratively demando these conventions of more denominadlonal sentiment and purpose. [I holding such meetings, we believe that we arp planing most intelligently for the future of the cause of Christ as its dostines 1l within our responsibility. RULES OF THIE PilMARY. Tihe Regulations Governing the Nomi nation of Delegat es to 1 he Coast itiu tional Convention. In view of the fact that the lrimualry election 's soon to take place the fol lowing rules governing the election of delegates, which were adopted by the State Democratic l0xecutiva Com mittee will prove of general interest: A primary election is hereby ordered to be held in every county in this State on the 30th day of July next, at which every white voter in this State shall be entitled to vote, who shall make pledge to the managers conducting the election that he will support the nominees of such election on the day of the election to be held on the third Tuesday in August for delegates to the State constitutional convention. Each County E4xeeuti ve Committee shall appoint three managers and one clerk to hold such election ; two of the managers shall be Reformers and one manager and the clork shall bo Con servatives, or vice versa. The polls shall be open from 8 a. in. to 4 p. in. Eadh candidate for the constitu tional convcntion shall at least ten days before the said priamary eletion file his pledge with the Chairman or Secretary of the County D~emnocratic Executive Committee that he wvill abide by the result of the election and support, the nominees of the party, and not vote for- any candidate who has failed to sign such pledige shall be counted. To prevent the single popping of candidates no vote for delegates abal1 be counted which does not contain the names of the delegates who have signed the pledge of the same nunmber as the delegates to which said county Is entitled under the Act, calling the convention. The second primary shall b& held 0n August 13, If necessary, accordIng to the rules of the par-ty, and the same managers shall servo. All existing rules of this committee heretofore adopted are hereby reatlirmed, when not in-consistent wi th the foregoing. The. State Democratic Executive Committee, recognizing the fact that there are factional diff'erences existing In the Democratic party, earnestly suggests to the Democr-ats of the State to square such factional digferences in the election of delegates to the con stitutional convention and let each candidate stand on lis merits. J1. L. M. IRIJY, Chairman State De-mocratic Execivei' Committee. D. H. TOMPKCINS, Secretary. THE LART r 01"n'm SmA1SON.-" I see," said the grocer, thoughtlessly, for he had forgotten that the man with the ginger board was sitting behind the stove, " I see that the temperature dropped 20 degrees in 15 minutes down in Texas the other' day." "I don't call that nothing," said the man with the ginger beard. " I re member when they was a party a campin' up in the Black H-ills that the temperatureo dropped so sudden that one of the mules in the outfit, which was in the act of kickin', was caught an' froze that way, an' stood with his heels In the alir two days. We had a thermometer along, bnut the cussed thing went back on us so I crn't ezzactly say jist how mucli of a drap it was." "Oh, yes," saId the schoolteacher, "it is a well-known fact that a temn perature of about 410 dlegrees below zero the mercur y freev'.es, and hence cannot register." " That wasn't It at u,ll, young man," said the man with the ginger beard, with line scorn. " TLbe durn mercury dr'apped so quick that the friction made It red-hot and busted the glass." The man from Potato Creek began to snicker, hut the man, with the gin ger beard stopped lis ir'rth with a stny sar. AARON BURR'S DAUGHTER. Aa till THE MYSTERY OF' HE=i DEATIL. the d I-(, The Beautitul Theodosla Alston Lostir Her Li'o at Hea-The Confession of a Dying Sailor. r.es The story of how Aaron Burr's only ma child, beautiful young Theodosia, met to her death at the hands of ocean pirates ovc years ago, and how that fact was only MA recently established by the discovery Ing of a portrait of hert, rescued from the 3ta schooner from whence she was thrown oth into the sea, is told in print herewith bec for the first time, says the N0lkton, Md., aft, correspondent of The Philadel phia visi Record. Involving, as it does, the say deathbed confession of one of the pi- gru rates who drowned the young woman. he the tale scoms more like fiction than one verifled history but there are norsons off living hereabouts who have "erilled it we in detail and who will vouch for its to accuracy. sel Theodosi a Burr, a young womaxin tf unusual mental attainments, w as mll ar- f11 ried to the son of Judge Alston. of wh South Carolina, a relative of Washing- lI ton Ailston, the colobrated historical iny painter. Mr. and Mrs. Alston resided tht on their plantation near Charleston. thr When Aaron Burr contowplated re- bei turning from the extended visit lie wil made to Eu" po after his trial he he wrote Mrs. .ston, to whom he was eyl devotedly at' ched, asking her to meet ma, him in New 'ork on his arrival thcre. tht Mr. Alston, engrossed with the busi- thi ness of his plantation, found it inpossi- he sible to accompany4 his wife. Trore to being no railroads in those (lays, Mr. lit1 Alston, deeming that a summor tri) ed from Charleston to Now York by sea ha would be loss Irksome to lis wife than am a stage journey by land, chartered a thlc coasting schooner. In this Mrs. Al- to ston set out. She took with her, as a ant present to her father, a beautiful sah painting of herself. But sio neve, fte reached New York, and down to the and present date the fato of Aaron Burr's at ri only child has been a matter of specu- his lation among historians, some contend N ing that the vessel and all on board sail were lost at sea, others asserting that een Mrs. Alston fell into the hands of some Iui of the pirates who in those days infest- to I ed the Atlantic coast. ext But the mystcr3 has at last boen ace cleared up. Its accuracy is vouched ine for by the former rector of Trinity iee Episcopal church, Elkton, a clergynil A h well known throughout Maryland and tht the middle States. d(4 About flve years ago this clergyman it' was visiting his native state, North of I Carolina, and for several days was the sus guest of the widow of Dr. Willitm ilng 'ole. near Elizabeth City. Above the madic'picceo in Mrs. Poole's parlor was an old-fashinedl painting, exquisite lyexecuted, of a bonatiful young wo- 'll man, dressed in white. It 3o greatly, n terested the clergyman that he asked Mrs. Poole whom it was intended to Th, represent. She gave the following 4 storv of it : S " night ycars previously," she said, 'l "Dr. Pooee had taken his family to Cot pass the summer at the little coast of town of Nag's Head, N. C., where the ian United States ian-of-war Huron came whi to grief. The place is largely popa- cou lated by 'bankors '-generally a rough yet class of men, who mainly oarn a liveli- gre hood by picking up all species of hlot- pile sam and jetsam along the cos:. One w it of those 'bankers,' however. was a very visi respectable old tellow, named Mann, visi His wife was sulforing from a coili- fo' cation of diseases, and )r. Poole took Goi great interost in her case. Under his ma treatment sho recovered, and as a Cal token of gratitude to the doctor, pres- lile anted him with the painting which su for, greatly interested the clergyman. res Mrs. Mann said her husband had re- thlr covered it from t wreck. When qitte 'Ih a young man, he was walking along cot the shore one morning, llis attention kun< was then called to a coasting schooner 11n4 under full sail, bearing swiftly dlowni rat upon the dangerous bar, whieb, in chi later years, occasioned the loss of the ye H-uron. With other ' bankers ' Mann we put out to her assistance. li " They boarded the schooner, but he found that the only living thing Cai aboard was a little black and tan (log, pa Careful inspection of the schloonor tr( provyed no)thmlg as to her antecedents. nia Even her name was not ascertalnale. frn But one of thle cabins had evidently on1 been very recently occup~ied by a we- als man, andl in this cabin was thle paint- phi Ing which Mrs. Mann gave Dr. Poole, and which D~r. Mann appropriated as wat hlis share of the salvage. The schoon- lia er shortly afterward wont to pileces." lisa Dr.' Poole was an enthusiastic stu- mc dent (of national miatters. He felt c'or- ravI tain that the picture had a very valua- old ble4 history, and forimd a suspicion lii that it might have represented the lio mysteriously lost dlaughiter- of Aaron noez Burrn. H~e put himself in comnmunica- wit tion with several historical socIeties owi onl the matter, but his theory found Cai little weight, in spite of a family like ness being admitted. As the ergy- abi man upon whose athorlty this story is 9.) given was returning from a recnt his visit to Mrs. Poole, while driving his fromu that lady's house to 1Elizabeth frae Cityv to take the cars home, he met a tio young man, whom he knew to be very lbe bashfuil and much afraidl of the gentle Ca sex, driving a strange woman in a bug- 'r gy toward Mrs. Poole's residene. nT a letter written to Mrs. lPoole shortly im afterward lhe goodl-naturedly referred we to the incident and to the young foi- wmi low's evident embar-rassment. tie T.ihis brought from Mrs. Poole an- ot1 other chapter in the story of the beau- th< tiful pilcture. Tlhe strange woman was a descendant of the Burr famIly, ter who resides in D~etroit, Mich. 11er his name has tempjorarily escaped the he clergyman's memory. Shlo had boon abIi visiting at Virginia iteach, Vs., wvit where she i.ad hoard of Mras. Po'ole's pil mny sterious p)ainting from a North Car- evt oilla gentleman. Hecr visit to 10liza- abc beth City was solely for. the putrpose of seeling the painting and no sooner had in she set eyes on It tihan she olfored Mrs. wht Poole $3(0 spIot cash for the same, ho- Ian sides any otheor additional sum she he might require. Mrs. IPoolo refused to ha part with the treasure. She told time eli visitor that thlere was a strong family Ge likeness between the latter and the sub- old1 ject of the'picture, w hoover that subject Chi might have 'been, and further inform- 1ie ed her of the facts already given here dim as to how the painting camne Into her tre possession. . Jol This ,elicited from the Detroit thi woman another remarkable remninis- A3 conce, and one which, taken in con- it nection with the foregoing facts, wa proves that. t~he pnting s that. of ed ron urr's dauightor- the 0110 dob. Lid ats It present t.0 her. fathier-anid t, h(1 11 fi JW438021 Y11 WX10' 11 f Wtli)--~its ,t the unfortunate young wamuan wvas wvned by pirates. This, in tub I1O, is the Detrolt WOmIn' story : Vith her mother In Detroit formerly ided hur mother's aged aint, al hl no wom,an. who gave up Iluch time visiting the poor and sick. Ono ning, In (Io of the WLids of the rino hospitall of that Cit3, was a dy sailor, who seemed terribly ,tied as the aint, in company witi 011, Iprlonchl1ed his bedside. ie k(onod hersi to him, however, and t*r hogging thitt she alone of the tors might hir what Ile had to -1, request, which the others uted by retiring to thb next ward 4ated thtt, as a yoiung man lie had -sullliL bteen oil it pirate vessel the North Carolin, coatst. He( then it (0 to s:ay thal1t lie hattl then helped over-hall a not h v hound coltsting cotillr i tIe voSsel was a beautiful youig linline pasngrtde-nda in to. te haid Ihsisted in dItgging frot hor eihin, ill whichI wats liang Ilp a, pinting (if herself. \Vh1ilo liunt's wereC enigilged inl throwing C'ew OVeboaId h1e noted that th-s utiftful young lady plcled the deck h1 Iaigniticent, courago and dignity, anliids folded oil her breast, and her 'S ised to heaven. She tado no re Ustranceo whateOver, Ildil he steadled p1lak upon which she walked to vesel's side, tlienc to ho plunge(I idlong; into the ocein. Ho wILUted lake away hle r lpicture and her dog-al 0lo bilacik and tan follow-but drea(d to touchl cither. After the piraItes 1 plundered the schooier of tmonmey I otlher treasairos thoy abanldoned vessel, having set It under full sail, drift to its doom with the pictutre the dozeabuird. Tho dying sailor I that, tho Young woiln's sweet > had Iaunted hinm throughout life, his Sonifessit ont wats prompted by at kicng rLseiblanco between her aid elderly listener. rs. 'ooln's Visitor stiated that the or's story had beeni for yelrs a eur t traIlition of tha desceidants of 'r's family, though they lid hither muid Ver 1little aention to it. I ts r-aord inary -YCor roboraItion by the idental meeting of these two wo mn appqlears to setttle forever t'le re t imlystery its to tie death of Mrs. toll. The Iotroit, woml:anI says that soubject, of th patintzing is beyond lit Aaron Itrr's dsaught'--a state lit cor-roboraIted by otitber picturesi ha11t, uinlforltnliato wolaliln in her po sionI, ats also hy still others belong to the Alston family. THE OATAWBA INIVANS. E, S'TORtY OlIt A idllKA aC RCACKC 3 ('iataiiw lisi Itemerviii lon in York oitl it y-Speclimen Sketles o*'ti nirvivors. 'o the Editor of The News aid itrier: Washeidl by h(le e~i hllov watter's the Catawba , tiver is at pieco of d less than eight hundred acres, leh tmay rightly bocal led the 11n41an 111y of Sotth CILIollint, for thero linger Ps Oil it a remnnant of 0lie once aLt CItiblia nation. I hail th x.simu'- of splend itig 'Jue.sday, July 2, hi tboso people. It wi i y second t to them, land ,be objubt, of the t was 1in1intly to gathur mateorial writing ai at11icle about, Iilly wg0, Who is Ia VerY IomalLrialel 'ed in. I spent the previous night at ,wbia .1uitiol, ld fouid thse peo hospitible and friendly. T he noxt, noon I wliked to the Cltiwba Lr'atIion, th e il i les d istitit, ough a hilly ii-tresqu country. I first, ldiat i Imt was hoeing n1. 110 proVe(d to ho ilty ILLIrris, iw n as " low legs," whose strong ian) featuros shIIoed plainlly to what, o i he blontged. 110 Is aL formler ei (if the naztion, and1( wast horn 391 i's iag rit whereo i muet him rkn.igot, himiti go1~i w itht im to ly G eor'gi's, ori " Unioe lilly,'" as is cal led. ie is the oldest of the tawbhas and1( manyli yea~rs ago, in com-11 niy w ih other3P Indians1, sined a Ity wvithl Sotth CJaroli na. T1heo old ,n1's enbi)n is bilt of hewna logs ;in lit is a h ill, at, tho bac1k is a1 gairdIon; botlh sidles (of t.hu( hnoutse and gardonei, 1) in fr'ont of tlibe formoirt, (corn 1s Ve found I~iielei Iilly alone. llo s sittIng ini his shirt, sluoeves, with hat, Onl and1 a1 hanzdkeI chif arouindl neck. I boullght thbo latteir as a r, it, raine some 2)11, and1( I sat w Itli the matn aL long tim b10Iy a SmilI tiroC. ly lIarrP1is stalyed w'Iih us for' a whIiile. wY stranlge it wats for' m11 to he sitt,ing P an)11( nian) who1( signed aL treaty h miy Staite; this mani, t oo, wvas at his Shouse, on Indiamn iland~, in South Olina ! I, is not known how old thiis venera o Cataw baL is ; probably about 85 or Ago Is unmt~istakabhly stampiJed on face. lio is no~t a1 tiali mann, and1( stronigly martLked Intdian12 face is 11ree m1 heard~l. Sucih Is a brief dessri p ni of Hilly Geoorgo, who to-day mayiL (ca1lhd thei mtost remarltkab1le3 of (lie Law has. his house Is dividod inito two r'ooms. e onec in which I SIat waIs sae ide. Nomeo pailEper and picturi I' re1 paist40d on thie walI: in) one( iornert s IL lpress, 41n (lie mantitolpic a)1 0 0lok ked, aL few neait, chirsiP and1 some1( Ior articles maiido upl the contenits of Jtielo4 1Hilly talked oni variouis ma~t s, I {o seemsl to fool tho dlecsline of natt~iOni. I c(( 110 ( imett some'times1 3oLI1u't 81(oop he was study13ing so lit hi is peUople(. I talked a good d oal bi the ol man11 abouit, himself, and( dI a1 secondl( visit to his hiou~so In (lie ning, gatherIng thie following fatcts ut him: les was born't among~iL thu whlite people1 Vorkl County. about live miles fr'omn emro I tock lull no1w Is. In the I ni an guatige Ils namei( wats C'olnchee, but (10es mnot know whmat it moans. He I had(1 four wive's and1( hams three living| 'dren, one <-f whon,, Lucy .Jano irge', is a ilttlS girl abhoIat 9 years8 .llo is aL membiieri of the Mormon urch, int(0 whuIch he was baptized. recollect'i that the following In .ns hiostdes h1imusel f, signed the itty :.1 ac(o'I .\yr'os, .1 im Kogg, in, .100, ar..i Saz Scott. lHe also nks i1 at, another one0 namned Billy 'res signe'd it t< 0. H~e said he signedt as "IL witness, or somehow that y," andl also that " they say~ he sign. It a ant nore." Uncle Billy may rightly be cqnsider ed a remarkable person in the Indian history of South Carolina, and we May hope that his declining years will always he froo from want and trouble. Ationg the other houses I called at was "Aunt Rhodo " Harris's, whose husband, Allen Harris, was prominent is chief and died a number of years agI.O. Without any suggestion On ly pit, dimn, r was given me here, and no pay would be taken for it. Aunt ltliodos household appears to b" the most thrifty anong the Catawbas. h'lhe ilinner given ile would have been very oreditable to any boar'ding house. Jim Iarris, the ellf, was absent. I mot him, however, last year. That ovoning I was seated on a bench under an oiak tree near his house in company with two other Catawbas, Billy Harris and .oha Sankers. The latter talked to m carneostly, almost eloquently. He wants the Logislature to add two hundtitlrOd dollars to the annunity which the Catawbas receive now, so that they canl build a echool house and have i school. If we need anything," he exclitimed, " we need uducition." He thinks the State might give them this additional money, for, h1e said, lie does not think the Cataw bus have ever wor ried South Carolina. 'That night I got the Indians to have ia tincle for me. It occurred at San Blu's-a member of the tribe. There appeared to be two dstinct dances, one of which was called the Indian dunce and the other the wild goose chase. P'rom what I could learn, those dances are probably borrowed froi the Chorokees-oven the words sung with the dance scems to be unknown to the Cataw Las. It seems that only two In'lians know much about these dinces-Bily Harris and Uncle Tom Stevens, who is i jolly old red man. irik Canty. an Indian lad, took part with those two in tile dances. In the flest dance one of tile women, Hotsy Canty, took part for a while, aid imother num, Lewis Gordon, took pirt in the wild goose chase. Two words used in the second dance sounded like C-ho and un-'o. I believe that Uncl Toml and iarris were the only oneti who tang. I would like to give a description of these dances, about wihlll there are no objectionable feaIt.ires, hut that would bo difficult, so I will not attempt it. It was a stratge sight, South Carolina Indians engagedi in Indian dances, a sight long to Ibe rmibored. Ilthb Harris an, intelligent membet of the tribe, went around with mne a gootd deal, and that night lie walked back part of the way to Catawba .lunction with mile. Considering his limited chances, he is above the in telligence and speaks of sometimes sending.items about i4 )eollte to the papers8. And now with a few observations I will close this already long ietter. Citizens of South Carolina ! When we consider the past Iistory of this once stron'g- ?ii ._tig.cousIder Lna great ness of One of its o'd.v chief, King Hagler, (to w hose mem-)ry lit V h1as never donO justice,) consider how i Oatawbas have fought for the people of oir State, d:J. it not seem as if we ouglt to show some Interest in the feeble remnant ? I hope the L4egisla ture will make some provision for giving them ia school, and I feel sure that If our Governors wou)d sometimes visit the reservation their visits would ho giratly appreciated by tile Cataw. bas15. McDONALD F'URMAN. WV i C ,AIA A1 COMM ENCEMENT. Ju n1 is com metinoielt month with all the colleges and high schools in South Carolina. No doubt some have won dered aild asked w.hy the closing of colleges and schools is called the com mlienicemflenit, when in fact it is the eninilg. The term commllencemecnt does not apply, or did not in the beginning, to to college or school, but to the gradluates. it. did not refer to the closing exercise of thle college, but to thle comlmeninig of tile graduates upon hlis nlew degree. lhe Celltury'3 Dictioinai'y tS deflies " Coimmnencoment " -In its secondaiy "in thbo Uniiversity of Cambridge, England, the day when the masteir of arits, doctor's anld bachelors receive thoir degrees ; so called from the fact that the candidate ciommniced to master, doctor, icentiate, etc., on thlat day. in American colleges, the annual ceremionies with which thle members of the graduating class are made bachelors (of arts, scececs, engineer ing, etc.,) and the degree of master of arts, and various honor'ary degrees are conferr'ed. TIhie termi is also applied b~y extension to the graduating ex ercises of academies and schools of lower' gradle." It will be seen from thlis, as stated above, that the comnmencomnent re ferredl not1 to the school but to the graduate. Th'ose who took degrees were called comnmencors, and grad uatlly the day on1 whichl the degrees were taken camne to h)0 known as comn imeincemient daiy, and after a while it was aplplied to the closing exercises of the loweir schools also. in the " Records of the Corporation of I farvard College,"' 16913, occurs the following :"Th~e corporation having been Informed that the custom for the cOltlommecers to hlave plum cake is dis hlonoraible to the college and charge ableCsto the coilmmencers, do therefore put tin enad to the custom." And in Piiee's 11istory of Harvard Unive! - sity, it Is stated : " The corporation wihlh the tutors shall visit the cham bers of tile comnmencers to see that this law be well observed." The reason the term commencement seems In opposition to the closing ex ercises is because it is thought of with referenlce to the school instead of the scho(larI. It is the close of the school year, but It is the commfeneement of the graduate's life in his new flel:1 as a master of arts, or bachelt r of solenpes, instead of pupil. .We have thgught that this explana tion of the term "commencement " as aplihed tetmolleges and schools would not be inappropriate just at this time. A. Goldon, Drugglet, Birmingham, Ala., writes:. " Please publish some of the testimonials I have sent you for Japanese Pile Cure."- Sold by Car' ponter Bros., Greenville, S. C. It will astonish you how quick John son's Miagnetie Oil will kill all pains. Sold by Carpenter Bros., (Iroenville, S.CO.