Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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TUB "PALMETTO STATE." An Arkansas Traveler, In South Carolina. HE TFLL8 OF THE PROSPECTS. The Oallant Palmetto State Lending The South in Cotton Mills. Thriving Towns And a Happy People. ?i*i aV.ii : 1 : me rouowing letter was written lo The Sunny South by Sir. S. II. Bryau, private secretary of ' "Earnest Wiiiie" ; Editor bunny South: I have been thinking f?,i some lime that I would write you sonn thing about in} trip through South Carolina, but first out idling and then another ha\ .* pi*. c .. . . v. c , i o m doing eo. I d v irrus of telling you tl. \so thing, while they weie fresh in my mind, but there were 110 chance for writing while ! was on the wiug. South Carolina has always been noted for it* superiority in cul tore and intelligence and even this fact has become a knowledge to me away over in my western home, where i? supposed to live superstition and ignorance, consequently my state has been exceedingly felicitous. This reminds me of a fellow that 1 used to know in ouo of tho towns of our state who had been employed by a business house for some time, lie was a capital fellow, and held in high esteem by tho proprietors. But after he had been with them for a number of years begot to thinking that the firm could not get along without him. (>f course this destroyed his usefulness, and he whs no longer needed. You see, he didn't know it all. I think this is the condition of some communities in South Carolina. They don't know it all. Away over in "Arkansaw" I heard of Hen Tillman ; and notwithstanding ho was sometimes erratic in hid public utterances, 1 could not help admiring the man. 1 hold that conditions make men, and I holi#>ve in my heart that there was a cause for a Till man. When I was in tho state I had my eyes open looking for the cause. A leader in the reform movement and a man well known throughout the state hut one who is more cnnservativo than Tillman told mo that the state had been in the hands of the old blue-blood people until Jfhey thought the great masses could not goi along without them. They seemed to think they knew it all. Hut they didn't. The light was hitter, hut it was successful, and ^outli Carolina to-day is marching ahead in thegr - .t upward tideof prosperity and civilization. Kvervwh?-r.. throughout the l'ie 'moo; region tfi?. neoplo joo hoir ? < ?)t'? u to ' O building of cotton rnil'? and t*v * in. titutions of manufacture. ^ towp in this part of tho state ic not i town of atiy proportion:- until tl. y have huilt a cotton mill. There i? (ireonville, Spartanburg, Anderson, Abbeville, < Jreenwood, I,aureus, <' 1 i?iton, Newberry, Lancaster, <'he-' ter, Look Hill. Yorkvillo, < iall'ney, Clifton, I'acolet, I i.ion. I'ol/.er ami Piedmont, all within a small compass of territory, and yet with their mills. An air of prosperity prevades the atmosphere at these places, and yet they lack that energy which marks the people of the West. A People of Extremes. When the crisis of'01 aproached. South Carolina was the first to take up arms. 1 saw the place where the counsel was held. And of late years she was the first to make a movement presumably against the greatest foe which pure morality and civilization has?the whiskey traffic. Imagine my surprise then, when I started to Anderson from (Jreenville, and saw in the same coach with the whites, several big, burly, black negroes, I involutarily 1 drew back, and asked a by-stander if that was the first class coach. I I could hardly believe him when I he replied in the affimative. ' "Have you not a separate coach law in South Carolina?" I asked. | 4'No sir, we have not. It has ! been up before the legislature i several times, but somehow :t ! never passed." Then I went to soliloquizing. ''Ah. and this is in old cultured South Carolina. Why 'Arkansaw' | beats this, for we have separat i coaches Hut then m.iybe wo have ! tlierii because we are ignorant of I the advantage derived from ridJ ing together. Surely South Carolina ought to know." So 1 entered the coach feeling that there ! was something yet to bo learned tin this life. I seated myself just in rear of a large fellow, and enjoyed the sweet and exhilarating odors which How out from tliis peculiar people, and I wished that I was back in "Arkansawd 1 wish to give my endorsement to the separate coach. It had beet so long since I rode in the same | coach with negroes that I die I not know how to appreciate tin luxury of railroad travel in "Ar kanBaw" Anderson is a hustling, bust ling, little city, and I shall always remember my visit to this plac< with pleasure. They are full o vim and enterprise, and itseemer i to me it would be a good plac< I fnr nno tn lien Tlmv hnra mnfor works and electric lights and an preparing to to build a nev court house. It is a large cottoi market, and a fine, prosperous business is theirs. Greenwood reminded me ver} , much of our new towns in tin west. It is a considerable rail road center and everything pos sesses a new and prosperous air I was very much pleased wit! Ililey's hotel at this place. It is by far the best eating house ir that part of the stato. They wer< finishing their second cottoi i mill and were jubilant over hav I . , i irig obtained a now county, ol I which Greenwood will bo the I (lAii nf v oil.. \V 1, i I ? i J I; ' " ,il ' ???..u?. 1 I made a trip to Ninety Six, and I went out to the old fort, of whieli so many boys and girls have r? ;d in their historic. Notwith-tand1 ing a century has ; ?s ed unee the ! momoriable battle between the lied Coats and our people, th> i old fort, with its original ei;;h points, is still visible. I ventured down into tho excavation who h our people made in their attempt to build a subterranean pas-age i to the center of the fort for the purpose of blowing it up. It is thoro to-day almost as perfect as it was then. The old trees of wliich we read are still there, ; little the worse for the passage of years. I was peculiarly impressed with the fact that where , once stood Cambridge there remains not a vestige to show that a community of people wore ever there. Cambridge was a prosperous town, having within its corporate limits some forty stores. Its destruction would not be so miraculous had tho surrounding county been deserted, but it is and has always been pop i ulated, the country being one of the most fertile in the state. It seems to mo that the people could have done nothing prettier than to have named the new county in honor of Cambridge. Pleasures and business. Laurens is an old town built around a square with the court house in the center, as are many of the ante-bellum towns. It is something of a railroad center, too, and like all up-to-date towns in that state, has its cotton mill. From Laurens I went to Columbia, making a short stop at Clinton, one of the oldest Presbyterian communitiet in the state ! Columbia is beautiful! 1 don't know how else to express it. With her wide streets and majestic trold wi'h 4 \o centuries, .down the side ai 1 otor, and the numerous lovelv homes makes it a sight beautiful to behold. I was i busy while there and hu.) time to | visit only one place?the asylum. I it was the lirst tune I li&d ever I been in an asylum, and as a matter of fact I found much to interest me. Looking upon the inmates, unfortunate in their alllie: tion, I gathered some impressions which I will carry with me through life. 1 found the attendants very courteous, and everything kept in systematic order. For cleanliness I have never seen II I anything which surpassed this . I asylum. South Carolina is giving t the mentally infirm of her state charitable attention. L noticed i one thing in Columbia which I I have never seen elsewhere, and that is the extreme favors shown bicyclists. They are permitted to use the sidewalks up to within one block of the principal business street. 1 doubt if such a thing is done at any other place \ in the south. Hut then South f j Carolina is evidently on wheels, and especially Columbia. 1 have never seen the like of wheels as there are 111 South Carolina. Everybody rides, from the tiny ' six-year-old to the old gent and 1 the madam whose locks have ' known a silvery hue for years past. If a fellow is ever to lose j iiis prejudice against women ; riding wheels, he ought to do so i in South Carolina, but I was in the state nearly two months and ' i came away of the same opinion still?that bicycling is strictly a masculine sport. 11 My next stop was at Marion, but you have already heard of this little city over in the eastern i part of the state. 1 like the country around Marion. It is a , very fertile region, and the inJ dications are that the people are ! in a prosperous condition, which i is more than I can say ?>f some of tiie up country. i am partial to the rolling country anyway, and as soon as our train entered this region 1 began to rejoice. It looked more like the black fertile land of old Arkansas than any tiling i hud seen since 1 left home The Cotton Mil! Fever. , From Marion 1 dropped in on Lancaster and i orkviilo, both old towns. I hoy are in the I'iodmont region and this was settled ' years ago. I found theso people talking cotton mill, each oi these places being the posessor of such an institution. Lancaster iias a j warm-hearted people and they ] deserve much prosperity. At I Yorkville I had the pleasure of meeting our old contributor Cyi clo, He is making a fortune I pulling teeth and writing perod; ical verse. He is a tine young man, and extended me many favors whilo there. Sam Jones had just opened his guns upon the sinners of Rock J Hill and surrounding country, so t I weut down to Rock Hill t< spend a day before leaving foi Georgia. I found Rock Hill bj far the most progressive town had seen in the state. It is ful of life and energy, and that spiri of progess which is essential t< sucessful competition in the pres ent age. Rock Hill is thorough ly able to take care of Rock Hill Taking my trip as a whole, had a very pleasant time. I mo friends unseen before and mnd< j many friends among new ac ?|uaintances, and I shall alway retain in my heart a warm plac for them. ! hope that the tide o years will \vaff me among then j again some sweet day by and by j anb tbut I may clasp their hand I knowing that a welcome is mine Eiv.knk Edwards. T1IE STATE CAMPAIGN. A Long And Tiresome Hinerar; ; Decided I pon. <o Begin ai Sum ler. The sub-committee of the Stat | 1 )emocratic Fxeeutive Commit ! tee, appointed to arrange a sohoil I uii? loi the Senatorial primarx have decided upon the followin order: Lancaster, Friday, August llltl Kershaw, Saturday, Augu* 14th. Chesterlield, Monday, Angus Kith. Morlboro, Wednesday, Angus 1 Stli. Darlington, Thursday, Augu; Kith. Marion, Saturday, August 21si Horry, Monday, August 23rd. Georgetown, Wednesday, All gust 25th. Williamsburg, Thursday, Ai gust 2<5th. Manning, Friday, August 27tl Florence, Saturday Augu; 28th. A Itcinarkadlc Cure of Chroni Dinrrhiea. 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M tf?*t l-lth !* Ai?| lie nits must no- he less than age When scholarships are vi"> years of AuifUst 13th they will he aw arded jcated after intf the highest average at this e?> those tnak- K The cost of attendanlncludi'i>"iiation. 4 nished room, tteat. light and wa hoard, fyjj(> 18 M per month nR ^ For further information and a italoguu address President, II. II. Johnaon, y Rock Hill, S. C. y so years' ' experience. TRADE MARKS, Tjmmm OE8ICNS, r- ???' " OOPVRICHT8 Slc. . Anyone sending a sketch nml description may m '" quicklyaaoartain, free, whether an Invention t? P Iprohntdy patentnhlo. Coniniunlcat Ions strictly Confidential. Oldest agency for securing patents In Atncricn. Wn hnvo a Washington office. ' < Patents taken through Mutiu A Co. reculvo . special notice In the J SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, t beautifully Illustrated, largest circulation of IT iinv scientific louriml, week1 v, tortus f.i.io a fnr; Mfl.Vi sit mouths. Specimen copies and Hand iiooK on Patents sent free. 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