Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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THE AilObRSO? 1 HIE LL? 6 Elf C E R Founded Auguttt 14, 1860 I? Horth Mala Mml AHDEBSOir, 8. 0. WILLIAM BANKS - - Bdltorl W. W 8MOAK - BoslntM Manager Sahn ml ?ccor?iug tc Act ot Can ema aa Second Claas Mall Matter at Es Postoffice at B. C. PaWlshed Evoir Morning ?leapt Monday Jaard-Weekiy Edition on Taasahy and Friday Mornings ti, . -i ?tail-Weekly Edition-fl 50 per Tear. Dally Edition-$5.00 per annum; 13.69 for Six Months; $i.2o for Whree Months. IN ADVANC1 ri- 11 Member of the Associated Press and Receiving Complete Dally Telegraphic Sendee ????ni ..i.. - A large circulation than any other raw*paper in thia Congressional Dis erte*_ nLBPHOIIIBl Edltortal ?..?... 1S7 Bsa lassa Office.Ml Job Printing ----- -aft-L Local News. tS7 Society News ..... 821 The Intelligencer la flelivered hy carrtera la the etty. If yon fall to gal your paper regularly pisase notify aa. Opposite your name on label of your paper ls printed data to which your paper ls pals. All cheeks and drafts shoals ba drawn to The Ander son Intelligencer. sj-'i1 1 - The Weather. ^Washington, May 25-Fair Tuesday and Wednesday. - Tho vetoraiiH lore the sponsors for tho sponsors love tho vets. .''Decorate your stores with buntings. Ortt*H7I_nt yr.Y.T l~.wlit.-n W lill rm mun. . Vea can- make old soldiers happy without filling them up with happy wWSftV i Do wo want Anderson to he a city? Ms not, then let things alone. 'If we i-. i ... --,.. -"i "?- r- - -'- ?. -Q '?? Mayor Grace of Charleston writes that he cannot "speak without compla ^ri'?y" of the State Convention. After the mediators got their Niag ara peace plans to going, the rebels ; are saucy enough to give them the horte-laugh.;. J Dr. HoWrfrd Lee Junes ls a big man br?V ho goes to a big institution. Hue%! aueeess to Coker college under hlaadmln latratlon. ff jj -"O- ' ; Jost for the sake of sowing our verBataifty. We shall hereafter chron icle .the classic ditty. "It is Yellow Jacket Time in Carolina." . ^?~c? i Some of the members of congress, while not reputed to be overly Indus-1 tripus. are calculated to build long j swags' of fences this summer. ''We"SstIcc cemmoacemont news in the,Columbia napers from all the lo cal institutions ot learning except ! ?o jmouaten nowt ] -o > Ftoattclat-Aunt Hetty Oreen cele brated her forty-eleven tb um pt y birth day by shearing sixteen tamba in, three minutes and making $200 a lamb. ' . ' Weather reports indicate that there is no min In sight. It Furman Smith will put on the fireworks after the1 reunion la over, we can stsnd for a deluge. .**el:*fr> .,. -o ' And a certain aedate. hus smiling fat'map. .who stu. in the shade up about New Havan la walting to kick that'hat of Teddy's clear serosa the| Androscoggao. Again, Welcome, You Veterans faith, and ?nay we live long and proa peasand If you don't see ali yo want, aalt-for lt, and tts yours to have and io ?ib?d forever. -o-? ?."Jap? enter protest" reada a head line tn the esteemed Columbia State, and it reminds ur that the Jana are nf*Uy nearly as brisk at protesting .Bryan himself. now thoroughly understand whit the novelist meant when he ex claimed "See Venice and diet"-Just ?JjfhBifltnjft the word "sponsor" for Venice and you have (he correct translation to date. . The roods in Anderson county are repor'-d to be in excellent condition. Now ls a good time to be making split log drags, for the roads will a^irrthem.later on. jJLflf?Q&F* * co^tU?ti?a?i de nouncer. At the State Press \ssoci ' allon ..loceting M year ago, he . denoun ced the governor, and now he is de njisjMlaa, the State convention. Jawn is *h'ot a bad rellow, but some things gWtireiome. C??SFEI)/ RATH VETS BA Bf Nr oilier ? miry but our? has the [beautiful f .??toni of annually ?l< < 01 at - lng the Knives of those who laid their liven on tho altar of patriotism. Sin? ? the War Between the States thor?? hus boon a day dedicated to placing th?: Karl amis of memory on thc graves of those whoso unstilllsh sacrifice of life aroused the aiiniiratlor1. of the whole world. It was fitting that this custom has originated in the South. The .South was the battle ground; and when the sounds of strife had ?bril out of tha lami in the silence of denotation there was a time of memory ano tears. Few were the homes without the vacant chair; the new made graves were raw wounds in the bosom of the Southland und there was mourning for those who came not back from war. What won ?1er then, that the sorely stricken mo thers, wives, daughters, sisters turned to the graves of heir warrior dead and took comfort In keeping their memory green ? And it was the memory of a little child that brought the idea of a Gen eral Memorial day, to a sad mother's heart. The wife, of Maj. Charles W. I Williams, who died In 1802, and ber little girl visited his grave every day and often comforted themselves with wreathing it in flowers; then while the I mother sat abstractly thinking of the loved and lost one the child would ?decorate the other graves near by and call them her soldier's graves. After awile the dear little girl was'summon, ed to Join her fainer and the hor&aved motlier took charge of these graves of the unknown for the child's sake. As she cared for them she thought of tho thousands nf patriot's graves through. ?out the South far away from home and kindred and in this way the plan was suggested to ber of setting apart ono day in each year that love might pay tributo to valor throughout the Southern States." So In MaTch, 1866, she published an appeal for the people or the South to Join in setting apart a certain day to be handed down though time as a religious custom of the South to wreathe the graves of cur martyred d??? with nowera," and she proposed the 26th of April as tho day. Beady response was given and Mrs. Williams lived to see the day when her plan was adopted all over the South and in 1868 -throughout the United SUtes. She died in 1874 and on each recurring Memorial Day the Columbus (Ga) military company now ?march around her grave, and each of the men deposits a floral offering. . The beauty and pathos of this cus tom so Impressed Mrs. John A. Lo gan, while on a visit to the South that through her Influence it was adopted by the North, It was long known up there as a ?d?coration day, but of late years lt has beer, called Memorial Day, and lt is observed by that sec tion everywhere on May 30. While the South hes the crbdU for originating this beautiful custom, no special day has yet been adopted by the diff?rent states of the South, dif ferent dates being observed as seem most appropriate for the States. In Georgia where the custom orig inated, the legislature in 1866 set apart the 26th of April as a legal hol iday and that day has since been ob served in the State as memorial day. The same date is observed in Alaba ma, Mississippi and Florida and Tex as except that in Texas, lt hss been made a state holiday. In North Caro lina th- 10th of May was established in 1886 as Memorial Day for that [State In honor of Stonewall Jackson, and it was made a legal holiday In 1891 ?and South Carolina also observes the 'same date by legal enactment. Tho Sunday nearest the 10th of May. June 3, and other dates, optional with tho Chapters V. D. C. are observed tn Arkansas. Virginia observes differ ent 4)ates in 'Tay as does West Vir ginia, as most appropriate for the dlf ? ferent communities. June 3. the birth. I day of President Davis, baa been since ?adopted by other states-Kentucky, ?Oklahoma. Louisiana and Tennessee. I and tn the last two has been made a legal holiday. Missouri liss no me morial day for the South. If these states could decido upon one special day for the general observance throughout the -milli aa Memorial Day. lt would make it of stronger ef fect. Some day tn the early part ot May Is suggested as the time most suitable for the South generally. To know that all over the Southern coun try the sama day was being observed tn honor of our soldiers would make the day of greater significance to the generations to come. "And the graves of the dead with the grass overgrown, May yet form th*> footstool of lib erty's throne." "The vice-President and Mrs. Marshall have returned from. South Carolina and other pointa In the South," wires the New York Tribune's Washington correspondent, and now look out for another set of M yt ben burg declarations. ?0000eo0cjv00000v0*000 O A o SPECIAL o ? - o o The Reception committee |M <? o asked t? meei the 1:2.*? fruin o o today and assist In Kitting; the o o veterans to their bornes' from o o the (humber of Commerce o o About ?(Ht veterans will arrive o o on this special train from Kock o o lilli and other points In East? o o ern Carolina. Be on hand and o ?? fii-i;> #he g:;ou norn. o o The Central Committee, o ? o ooooooooooeoooooooeoo Tin- Issue of The Intelligencer to day ti? not a complete history of the War of Secession, nor is lt even a history of tho part ?hat Anderson county bore in the tremendous strug gle. Hut we have been able to collect and present soma things that will re vive memories in the hearts of the ?allant few who survive those days ol' titanic combat ami perchance some (jf the young who realize all to Ut ile the significance of those times, when heroes were as numerous us muster rolls of the army-may get a gllmpwe ?>f the grandeur of the strug gle und from reading will seek for deeper ami broader Information about the War of Secession. This Is all wo claim for thia Issue, an effort to stimulate the people of today to study the records of the men who served In the greatest army I hat ever responded to reveille. The issue today does not carry all the wur stories that we have tried to collect, und later in the week we will have a splendid account of the ser vice of the local company-The Pal metto Riflemen-prepared by one of the survivors who 1B gifted In the art of narration and expression. We have ulso other articles about the war which will appear in Wednes day's and Thursday's paper. We have endeavored to distribute the reading matter and thc advertis ing equally and there ls not in these columns one liquor advertisement or other discreditable matter. The little talks with the old soldiers by "The Old Country Lady," Mrs. C??e???F?, form but the beginning, we hope, for future reminiscence* nf the same bind. It waa impossible to get ?AirtnlMnff ?aar?vn AI.AW?. -Q?d?Cr - " ?-??^ county in one issue, and later on in the aummer we hope to carry another collection of interviewa and sketches and reminiscences. The style and presentation of those that we have is very Interesting". It> we mistake not. this ls from a mechanical standpoint, "the biggest" paper ever turned out in the city cf Anderson, although we will admit that some years ago Messrs. Clink scales and Langston did. issue a re markably complete aurvey of the county in an illustrated number that waa a genuine hand-book of tho coun ty. The number we iasue today has boen put out without in any way de tracting from the service of our reg ular dally paper, which, itself we are isfo.'Uicd by the u?W?paper world I? quite an achievement, for a city the site Of Anderson. This issue today could not have been -given to the public but for the faithful and Interested and loyal co operation, of the men behind the guns, and tho paper feels keenly the kind spirit of all its employes. With the wish that thia paper may bring 'pleasure to our visitors and wltb the hope that some one may here and now be Inspired to take up and finish tho work of mcking a com pletes history of the Anderson and neighboring soldiery in the War of Secession, we extend the best wishes of the people of Anderson to every survivor who will visit this city this week, and wo hopo that because the capture of the "Electric City"" baa been bloodless and without resistence, tho veterana will none tho less relish their Investing of this community, and will leave, each and every one, saying "Anderson Is My Town." LOSSES IN BOTH A RUCIES Tho subjugation of tho Confedera*1 cy cost , the United Statea more than one-third of a million Uvea, and now them are practically a nv ?"lon pet> slnnera. with ns many applications pending- Tho statistics show tho fol lowing as the Federal loss In men du ring thc war Killed and mortally wounded 110.070 Died of Disease. 199.720 Died tn Confederate Prisons . 24.868 Death from all other cannes ... 24,872 Total ...?. 869,528 While these are the figures from the official reports, lt ls ovtdent that they are lesa than the actual number, for many died of disease and wounds af ter having boon discharged for dis ability On tho Confederate side the records Show only the following deaths: Killed.. 62,694 Died of Wounds . 21,570 Died of Disease ._ 59.897 Total .^ 189.881 These figur?e are from the records at 'Washington and are too small be cause of the lack of Confederate re ports. T WITVI PtltDO.\ABLE PRIDE. ooooooooooooooj o oj o R. E. Lee Chapter o o o oooooooooooooo Tho Robert E. Lee chapter, organ Iced in October. 1896. is tho oldest I?. 1). C. organization In Anderson. The work of chapter has, always been three fold-patriotic, benevolent, and literary. It liss been a strong factor In the development of the wom en of Anderson. To Riv?? tile details of the work ac complished by the faithful band of representative women would necessi tate writing a book. We have pr?s entai r?verai hundred crosses pf hon or and have bad filled out. perhaps, an evon lurger number of honor rollB. Tills chapter has ever since lt was organised provided for . appropriate Memorial Day exercises. An eloquent speech and stirring patriotic songs have on each occasion gladdened the hearts of the large number o" .eterana who invariably attend. Arter the ex ercises in the court house, evergreen wreaths und bright flowers aro placed on the graves of all Confederate sol diers burled In the cemeteries of our city. All veterans of Anderson county who respond to our general Invita tion ure served turkey dinner on th?; birthduy of that greatest of Southern chieftain? whose name tho chapter so prouddly bears. Financial aid has been gi von to very many needy vet erans, and to other veterans in sick ness and trouble we have given those little attentions one delights to be stow on the cherished friend?. Some time back a committee' of cl apter piembers visited a veteran at one <>j Ute mills, on his one hun dredth birthday, they carried a boun tiful dinner of subKtantial? and a hit thday? cake. January 1904, thc regular monthly meeting vif the chapter came on New Year'B dby. The president entertain ed at a4receptlon in honor of Camp Stephen ft). Lee. Her home was made aa attractive as possible. The camp asECMiuiMU ai tile wurt minne lum marched* in a body to the reception. The hostess was assisted by her en tire chaster. It is Bur annual custom on June 3rd, theTblrthday of President Davis, to entertain all the women of the Confederacy in the city of Anderson ?tt sn afternoon reception in tuc uODic of someftnember of the chapter. The "stunts'* on these occasion are done by the helles or tne sixties. Yema ago the city council deeded' us ec lot In Silver Brook cemetery. It ls in tended fbr Confederate veterans who otherwise would be burled tn potter's field. The chapter has preesented books on Southern history te the librarians of the college, ii; schools and some of the mill schools. Patrulle pJtfitjjrM. Jhave also been given several Bcecols. In the corridors of the court house ls a table to the memory of that peerless South Carolina general. Wade Hampton t We have canirl iitied to. a!l ?he monuments erected by. the daughter.-?, and tu a number of ca**.? -ve luivg responded to appeals from weak chapters for aid in erecting local monuments. l or ,? nun!u2? of- y.???rs"':s;c ????v* sr.-1 r. large box of evergreen wreaths tn d v.Mth Confederate colo's to (hi Itouurt S- Loe chip?Tr c? tjr'itxn Ohio, Jo^be placed "on the ?JKVWS v.-'-S'StrcmattS uCSw-;T.Cv?in5. 'fl ?cuC-r?f - prison. For Quite a while we arrenred for] Su:i.;ay .afternoon services lu the chapel at the county home, tho ii'fei-:J cut ministers of the city very gf?j^ c*om,iy gave their services and mein lfcta of the chapter furnished the mu sic ! 1 A Christmas gift to each-of the lu nules of the county home ia an an nuli custom. We remember all pike? bu l: white and colored. Whon the hospital was built we were among the very first to offer to furnish a room. We contributed one hundred dollars for this purpose-. ? Another annual custom is t'._ pres entation of a gold medal tc :hu pupil ot the high school who writes the best, essay ion a Confederate subject, se lected ny a committee appointed from the chapter., The medal is presented the night of the closing exercises of the school. We annually contribute to scholar ship finds. The 'literary work of the chapter la one" of the strongest ' features of our work At our monthly meetings we generally harp two or more origi nal papers, usually of a historical na ture, though at times we have origi nal stories, poems and songs. Wo have had a number of articles accept ed by the State historical committee vjf tho U. D. C. The beautiful loving cup offered hy Mrs. White of Mississippi, for the best essay on Women ol the Confederacy was wbn by a member ot the Robert EL Lee chapter. A strong bond of fellowship unites the members of this chapter. We are bound together in a common Interest and effort. We ail believe,thai we are better and broader women'because ot our loyalty to the old soldiers who so gallantly fought for our Bonnie Blue Flag and so unselfishly sacrific ed for the cause dear to the Southern heart. ? , :_ I have refrained from mentioning names because we-.bav? an many members who are true and faithful, hut my article would Indeed be in complete ir I failed to make spacial ra on lion L of our iiajhwed^jfra parker. Mrs. s. Bleekley, af queen among women. Always our Inspiration. N that ill health deprives us of I companionship with sincere affect wo remember her, wlthqlOf-s we rcmrmtwf h mr .rrapjoUS CerSOOS ?ty. ?n?. K. C. WEBB. Historian. Robert E. Lee Chapter U. P. C> When General Oreen . starts his campaign down a cotton row. it means hurtling for the man with tba hoe. j JOHN CALDWELL CALHOUN, STATESMAN I Saee of Pendleton and the Great Exoounder and ProDunder of the Doctrine of 3t ? " * This ts ? Picture of the marble Statue in the Hall of Fame at Washington, F. Wellington Ruck stuhl, Author 'State's Rights" fir3 J Homer nul lu spent a few. hours in Oreen ville yesterday ou business".' C. M. McClure, one of Anderson's aldermen, and a we'll known traveling salesman spent yesterday in the city. R. NM Hammond of Willtamston spent Sunday m the city, a g4\(V?U*?i the Chiquola hotel. . v, Qeoige R. Starnes of edenville was In tho city -yesterday for a- tow houri: on business. Ii.V. Bostick qr Rendjeton. was om? of the visitors to tho city yestccday. Miss Lissie Stribllng spent tho week-PR'.! !? I'?'?'.iieto'.: -villi her pa rents. Prue LW;on spent Sunday. is Spar tanburg, where she was the gue?;t of rel Ht Vc::. f* tl> . -<*-.jL -1 el-__.v \*. ... i i iv. r\mn. .v vi? unu Boleman spent Sunday in Greenville. James A. Bailey ?pent a Cow..hours in Greenville Sunday with froliiilM. James H. Prto*/: of Greenville. a well known young criminal lawyer, was in the elli yesterday on profes sional burines*. John D. Cade of tho, Mount Carmel section, was in the r.ity yeaterdnv.' . . . ~ v Alec Kidd and Thomas Mathison nt Hartwell. Ga,, spont Sunftay in '.ho etty with friends. . t r .. -- Carey Kidd o? Hartwell, ?a....wan' among the visitors x? speed .-part (of .r???fu?y iii IN? City ? - now closed her school 19 her hume i H Bradley and returned Miss Nelle Moseley of Anderson R. F. D., was shopping in the city yes?. terday. Miss Ruby Harpen.Ww.ho ba*y.fceen.yJ^SJI; J"?C* ?'. Martin town teaching school at Iva. Was In the city \?lZ^LUn ln ih? Clty yesterday en route to? become Uv Sani ff ra?Y ?" business. tUU' "*~^.:Rn82eil Sparks, aurait known An m ' derson traveling man ls spending a AT^S?S?* Kav of B*Jt0n ?im<>ng few daya with Ms family in this city, the visitors to spend ,yesterd?Jn Uta _I 1 ' c,ty- _? M". R. Johnson of Bowersvllle. Ga,, spent a fow hours tn the cltv R. G. Brownlee has returned to his yesterday OK business. home in Due West ?#|^a?sr||^^ ; ^ - - ?- f, in Anderson. 4 *n\v> Edwin Holland of Hartwell. Ga., -sw?'iaw tfiaismus. ?sassfrasnong'the visitors tec'spend the -Mrs, Maude Moora?at?gd-lataiasi ea.yi4s . the;city./reats?a*y. shopping in the city yesterday.. ............ / " .. -- . .. c , W. H .^Whittaker of. the Flat Rook Dr. Burton of Iva,' spent ^a'few section wnaJn the %% yesterday, hours in the city yestorduy on hus- -:_ ? Inea9- _ P. L. GuUr.and family.of Lnvonls. T ? ^ -B"V lOa.. are rpcndlng the .week in tim R. L. Anderson of Autun was one city'wit?wtriends. of the visitors to spend yesterday in .-^?">.-**??**-_ U?e c\ly. ??. , Miss Sara William? ?nd-Mar!? ?... ? -V\. , .'.'..'Williams have returnedito their homo Wulter Busby, a woil known, plan- in'Greenville, Tinn., after , a nhor! vit ter., spent a few hoqrB in the city on |t, here, yosterday. ' T-y^- . pert of yesterday in the city on bus B. M. Latham or iva. ? WUH among the visitors to spect: yesterday in the city. W. C. King and R. H. PrlcV of Townyille, waa in tho city yesterday on business. Marlon Smith of tho Lebanon sec tion was in the city yesterday for u lew boure. .Mrs. Ralph Watkins of Pendleton, was shopping, in the etty yesterday. <h J. D. Sm!.1' of the Lebanon section was among the visitors to spend yes terday in Anderson. lt. L. Shirley of the Long- Branch Boctlon wa? In tho city yesterday - for a short stsy. 8. G. Murdock, a well known cl tl .teas anent vosterduv tn ihn Hiv. Claude Sorrell of Hartwell,!.. Ga'.; was in the city Sunday for pert, of the day, Miss Josephine Ken, who' HsfT^ieelt' teaching ocb'ool in this cousins* ??iTcrr?;rci Ttouinson a* An?r.jV???r?. waa in Ute city yesterday for a few boura. J. T. Cann of Pendleton. Was In the elly for a Tew hours yosterday. W. D. Ballard of .Pendleton spent W. H.^hlttakor of. the Flat-Rock section waii^n the city yesterday. :"_.?' .'? , '"" . : 4 \ : P. L. Gully.and funnily.o? livonia. Qa., are rpcnding tho week in. the eity'wjAj^fj^ds. / Miss'Sark William* nnd-Mhs? Marlt\ Williams have returned lo their homo in Greenville, Tenn , after a nhorl vis M Here. Lafayeto rearman ' of Cleveland. Misa., ls spending'a f?st.daya.in ?he etty^ the guest of her brother. 8. N. rvariiittii. . Miss Florence Nugent haj* returned. to her. home in Atlanta n'tor snood in? a week in the city with relatives.; Tig. Pres? Gang, rf' Washington, May 2r..-PreAld?nt [.Wilson wil resume lila semi-weekly ?ybnference with tho Wcistiinf?toS eor respondenls^ Thursflsy. It wa*?^?f nouneed today nt tho While lions-, however thal the .president W?tV 1.01 discuss the Mexican m?diation^Tb* oouferenees' were abandsneU a month ago.- . Work af Yeggs; Norfolk. Va. May ?ftw-The postof fice -j. Windsor. Va., waa entefs* Incl night and robbed of *8f.n m stamps sad $400 cash. There la no flue to the robbers.