The Easley messenger. (Easley, S.C.) 1883-1891, September 12, 1884, Image 2
J. H R. OO, ErOR.
(Editorial C4rrespondenee.}
NEW Yong 'Sept, 8th, Ig
DEAR MEs8ENGER? This isa bu.
sy world of ours. Not too busy,
however, to stop by the way
side for awhile, in order to pen
a few linesto one of the many ob
jects of our affection. The Mzs
EERwoa has just been perused. It
was traly a message, gladly wel
comed trokn our dear Southern
home, while we are far away in
the North. We came for sight
seeing, but the MEsSENGER was
received with a delight which
makes us fully realize the interest
that we feel in it, whether we are
at the place of its publication, or
hundreds of miles therefrom, where
the bustle aiil hurricane of life is
greatest.
Well, perhaps ourf readers will
not object to reading something of
Air trip North.
We left Easley on Wednesday
afternoon the 6th instant, in coM
)aDY with Mr. W. M. Hagood, who
annually'pays some of the North
ern cities a visit. Coming with
one so fully acquainted with these
cities, we could have nothing les
than enjoyment. Coming in the
capacity that lie does, the oppor
tunity of seeing in much part all,
is nieely afforded us. At Spartan
burg we were joined by other
friends which made our visit all
the more pleasant. On-board the
train it was our pleasure to, meet
the highly cultured: Congressman,
Mr. Jno. J. Hemphill, of the 5th
district; a man entertaining and
agreeable in the extreme; one re
abiing the responsibility of the
high position which he holds and
unot ulnappreciati ve of its great hon
ors. .Ability is depicted uxpon his
countenance, and accommodattion,
and geniality are manifest in his
ma~nners.
We reached the Grand Central
Hotel the following af ternoon, af
ter our departure, at about six
o)'clo~ck. We are. comfdortably
quiarter'ed :there,. surr'ound1ed and
well-lookied rafter by friends and
acquaint cs many of whom
work to our enjoyument. We shkall1
never fiorget Messrs. Poe, Fgstert
..Mc~%Ahaa (the brother of our goo~
citizens, T.. H. &.ET A..McMah an),
Herrings, Farrow,.Mauldin, Gage,
Ligon, Harrison, Maxwell and Jor.
dan.; T'he interest .*Jbey evinced
wdl live in gur memor es long af
ter our trip has been counted ss
one of "the things that wer'e/"
We have "been on tlie.go" ever
since our arrival. There is always
something to do and see. Fri-ay
was spent, in looking at one or two
of the great wholesale hiouses and
in. yisiting. It ha beepi our pleas
ure, to meet. while here, Col. Jno H.
Evins, the able Congressman from
the Fourth S. C, District, and his
entertaining and charming a..
ter,. 9SS .amie. Col. Evins i
in fe lyq e Jtlgi '
itin some rgriniq
and oher placs. I t~
his tip, and we w
portilim, well. Sat, ay, t
invitation of Mr. Charles D. Far
row, of Union, S. C., we went ove
on Long Island to -the Race .an,(
from there to Manhattan Beach
whdre thousandal of people'had'%i
sembled to listen to fine mubio ant
to witness the inest Ore works ih
America It woulkt take, a pe
more facile than our& to graphical
ly describe these latter scenes. Th
"Bnrning of Pekin" compose(
the fire works.' Thousands of vim
itors'thronged to.see it. Sight
were offered to us such as were new
er seen before. It is almost wort]
the trip to New York, to, see themu
The ingenuity with which they ar<
gotten up will surely challeng
comparison with that of any rae
of people which inhabits this Globe
We returned to the city about 1:
o'clock. About the midnight hou
we retired. Sunday morning foun<
us ready to enjoy the scenes of th
day. We learned that Dr. Tal
mage would preach in the Brook
lyn Tabernacle.. Joining Mr. an(
Mrs. Ligon. ~fron Auiderson,. w
proceeded to make our way int
the presence of this great divine
A congregation ol 3,000.or mor
has assembled to hear this won
derful man. We suggest to ou
readers. the idea of procuring th
"Atlanta Constitution," which ih
a Sunday or two will contain thi
extraordinarily fine ditcourse, al
though his subject was that of or
dinary Women and Men. 0! tha
our people could have heard it. I
perhaps would have done our ac
complished Southern girls good
He remarked that people educate,
the girls in Music,Astronony, &c.
but then they were not educate
unless they were educated i
dough. Let Willie R., Mac B.
and others of our town, take warn
ing when they go to make their se
lection. Let them select those wh<
can fill the ordinary as well as th
extr'aorInmary spheres of life.
From the Tabernacle we visite<
Greenwood Cemetery, the "City o
the Dead." liever in our life be
fore has our eyes caught sight o
such a scene. Hundreds of acre
are emlployed1 in the intermnento
thpse who pass away in the grea
'ities of N. Y. .and. Brooklyn. Oi
an average. sixty are buriesd a
Greenwood'-insa dayv. Now thinl
of' thousands of graves carefulli
car e fior, uponm which stands con
spicuously, a. elegant monument
r'earing their lofty; heads towar<
Heaven, or upon which 'are firmula
fixed the slabs that mark the d~
partme of' thoseahose-~souls hav
taken flight.. After visiting this W
rettuned to New York. Sunda'
night we went to. the "Church o
the Strangers,"~ where we hear
the very reputable D)r. Deems.. H
is one of the most, if not the moset
popular preachers in New York
flis sermnon was fine. We shool
his hand because it was our pleas
ure to welcome him at Spartanburg
once during our cQllege dmys.
Glad you al4 are getting klopi
so nicely. Shall visit soon one o
two of the large printing mate..
s e li p ints and erhaps will b
I make a t r ov
our pap x '
bV overtax n
E ythe '1mig *6xm
"Keowee Courie,!Written by W,
H. D. Gaillard, with informatio.
foliowing, kindly furnished us by
'Squire J.1 G,, which; will be of t
some interest to a great many of
our reader.:
Ocome. Rendiniseepces.
1 Emrtona KOWEEs. (ouRIu--Des I
. Sirs: In your issue of Antut 28th, giv
ing the early history of Cdet Coim
tv. you say you have been 14)ld that the.
- rat licensed physician who setiled. hi
Pickenm District wa Dr. Robert ax.
well, who livedi on .eaverdamu aiid
enmmeneed prctice In 1848.
Dr. Maxwell commenced breticing
Onl Beaverdam in the fall of 1811, but.
he was not the first licensed physician
who lived and practiced in that. Dis
I triet. Dr. ,John Robnson moved from
r Greeinville And settled at O'd Pickeisi 4
ville in 1823,'bfore the District of Pen
dietou was divided. and lived there at.
3 ter it was divided, he hving mnoved to
- Pendleton jn .1828, where hle lived a
- few years ild moved back to Piekpus
Sville. where he lived and praCtild iII 1
1835. 1 know, hAvIng stayed at his
hon*e, in tht year.
Yon are no doubt aware that Pick- 1
ensville was once the Cowrt House of
0 WashinlgltonI County. which coistedI
. of Penldieton and Greenville. That.
r was before 1800, as the first eomuts uf
ter Wasihington County was divided
was held Pendletou and Greenville in
i 180f.
Another ineident was that nearly all
. thc storeit at Pickensville were burned
and the merchanit )6Tost nearly all of I
t heir good,. and a lottery was gotten I
11p for their relief, I send you a ticket.
t for said lottery as soinething euiriots.
- [The following is a copy of tihe lottery
ticket:)
CH ARITA BLE RELIEF LOTTERY
(By authority of the State of Sont b
.Carolina.)
No. 4860.
Thts Ticket will entitle the ho)-:
der to such prize as may be drawn:
:agaiimt its )irmber, in a lottery to:
.be trwi at Pendleton Court bonse:
3 S. C., for the relief .of shuferers by:
:tire at Pickensville, S. C., if de-:
:manded wit hin 12 months a fter the:'
:drawing~ is completed, subject to a:
:deduction) of lifteen) per' cemt.:
-: Prize paRyable sixty days after the:
drlawinig is thnished!.
fJA MES (.. GR IFFIN, Manager.:
.PBNDLETON, S. C., 1817. {
L do (1not think thast the merchants ev
er got any benefit fromt the same,
1 (do not write this to be pnublished,
but you can, if you wI.,b, make such ex
Stracts as yon desire.
Yours very3 respectfully,
W.IH. D.4GA11LA RD.
H e alludes to Dr. John Robin
I S0op as being the first practicing
Sphysician that settled in Pickens
Coumnty. Mr. Gaillardi is cotrect.
Sin his statament, and siinoe Dr,.
Robinson as thie first physician
in the County, and an early settler
of' the same, sorne of our older cit
~izens who may have known D~r.
Robinson, would -relish a short
sketcltof his life, &c. He wasa
- nativs of Virginia, bornedt and rais- t
ed in the County in which the fIrst
and second battles of Manassas,in
r the late war, was fought. His
I mother was buried at the '*Mudley"
)r "Stone Chure nej that bat
d A a Sg eon in the
8 Agny fit 12. Some
et the close 6t the war he
AOied t the tkIiAjWSal village of
areenville, S. C., and entered up
n the praotice of his profession,
wiAh wis isdccessful. About the
aine mentioned by Mr., Qaillard,
ie cam to. P1ikens and bo4ght
i,600 apres of land. from Jack
Archerl, incluIg. Old YPike4is
rille,' which survey includes the
preater portion of our now beautiti
ul-and thriving -town o di.asley.,
le built and lived,in the house in
>ld ! Pickensville, in .whbich Mr.
klfred Neal now lives, - and settled
lown at that place, and commen
red the practice of his profession.
kbout this time he married the
laughter of Gen. Blassingame , of
4reenville County. He raised
inite a large aifiy ofchildren, Mr.
W.-W. Robinson, one of our pree
(t old an I esteEme3d citizens, be-.
ng a son, andMrs. James R Ha..
rood and Mrs. W. F. Holeombe,
eing two of his daughters. He
was the grand.father of the Edi.
'or of the MESSENoEJR. In the
luel fought in.1832 between Hon.
3. F. Perry, of Greenville, and
Wr. Bynuin, Dr. Robinson was sur
,eon to Mr. Bynum, and assisted
n burying him, he )eiug
tilled by Perry. lie lived twice t
old Pickensville' and finally left
here some time prior to the year
1841, (the year in which he died),
md went to old Pendleton'. He
vas buried in a church yard near'
>1 Pendleton, the same in Wvhich'
kIr. Bynum was buried.
He had the reputation of being
n his day and time, a first clas*
>hysician and a true gentleman of
e~ olden time.
There are some tradition in our
sounty conifrmning the burning of.
>ld Pickensville, as stated in Mr.s
a aillard's letter, and it is said ftha t
hat part of the. town burnt exten.
led from Mrs. Oat's residence
lown in the direction of Mr. Nealt
louse.
insuranee .tkense.
ExECUTIVE DEP'r'N'r
Off1ce of CmtolrGnrl
[ ertify, That ifessrs. Jludgenis &;
Bowen,, of tasley, Agenits of TilF
JRESCENT F1JRE INS. CO., Inc(r
>OratedI by the state of Lornisiana, hs
ompl1ied with the regniisitions~ of the
et of the General Assembly entitle d
'An Aet to reguae the Ageneles of
Iasurance~ Compnies not in orporated
the State of Soiuth Carolina,'" andr.
hyereby 11cense thie said Messrs. Hud..
enhs 4 fowen, Agents aifores~aid, to
ake ik anbd tranisact all busines~s of
nann)ftnee* in tbis Stade, fu the (?ounty
4f Pkckens, for and~. ini behralf of sanI
Ulnh1pany.
Expirea March, 311at, 1885p.
WY. EC. S oNy,
Spt. 12 2t.. Cointollcr G,.tt