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You will often H Rave the coat of h Ij "ears' Bubscrip- I Mon to the |f ^ KXTEKPltlSK Mma^ -A. . by consulting its 8 advertisements. Vol. X. I1 . . - "T 1 - ' ?" Sort Willi k Georgia Ex; R. R. CoT SCHEDULE y UMB Eli 4. - In K fleet 12.01 u m . Sutiduy, Dec 21, lsW. % Between Camden, S. C.f and B/acks burg, S. C. ft'.... o?j ' * ~ ' - - - - .. 1 r" " nc,i> w i r. mi m rtratruss KA8TKKN TIMK ;PT7~"~ PUHei>K?r l'nss.'ii.'t-r . UiiOy Daily k Kffcept STATIONS Ext ;t _ Vmd.iy Sunday * p . 'm a M 12 50 Camden i .' 25 1 15 DcK*tt> 12 08 1 87 YVetttvllIo II 60 . 1 *o Kershaw i I '35 2 10 Heath Sprint's II 20 2 15 Pll-iuant Hill . II 15 >11 , Da noils ter '1(155 8 50 ltiveraide 10 (0 .3 00 Sprlnndell . I0'30 I 10 . Catawba Junction id M 3 2o EeV.lo l'? 10 3 40 Hoi k Hill 10 <K) 3 55 . Newport ' 0 35 4 02 Tlrznh 9 30 4 80 York vlllo il 1ft 4 35 . Sharon k 00 4 50 Ilicltory drove 1*8 45 ft 00 Smyrna M 35 ft 20 UlaoKsburg 8 16 P. M A. M Between B/acksburq, S. C., and Marion, N. C. Weal ll i East i"a~ Soc. Class KABTKKN TIMK See Plana Mixed Mixed Daliy I I Jail v Kxccpt I STATIONS Except Sunday ; * Sumlw A. W IP M 8 10j Hhicknburir ??.. - 1 *. n S 30j Earls " ' o 211 40: Patterson MprltiRfi 0 12 9 to Shelby (5 00 . "'0 00| Lntllmoro 1 < M 10 10; Mooresboro I 10 . 10 S61 Henrietta i 2>1 10 IW Forest City 3 50 11 lb; Rutherfordton "25 11 8S Millwood 3 05 11 45 Ooldun Vnlley 2 50 <2 05 ? Thermal City 2 15 '2 2ft Glen wood . 2 20 121 v ? Marlon 2 Oo ' A. m Lf M. |L webt caffney6.vis.on east ? FlrsClas? First CI s lft | is4^KASTKHN T1MK I* ,e . .-?l| $tt > FT AT IOS8 ' ?&? o.*; = a.*5 -\ = ^.1 ~ "W?o?J</)J | & </> 5> /. IV M AMI A M V." M I 00 0 1)5j Ulucksburt; 7 Ml 2 0.) 1 20 0 Sol Cherokee Calls 7 30 2 to 1 40 0 10! Gaffacy 7 10 2 20 P. M A. M | A M. P M Trains No-. 32 nnd 33' onnoct at ltlaeh-< ' with trains on the GafTn'-y Division. Train No. 32 connect* at Cumdcn with the charlosion Division of the S mil.em Kni way tor all points south Train No IIiMTlnt Cftndon at 12.40 ; m. vol tut west, makes connection at Lancaster. S. C., with the I. A C. Ily., at Catawba .lunolon with the S. A 1. . at Kock Kill with the southern Railway Koiii:.' north. Train No. 11 connects at Ulncksbtt-'g with Southern Railway frotn the 1 out'i. At Marion N. C., with Southern Railway .,'r.tntf west iAlTUHUNT, A TRIPP. Prosldenk Superintoudonr. c it r.i'MPiriu 11 o a Or M. A. Simmon ? Liver Medicine Clears tlW Com piss Ion. .{'" > ? Mo-iynncy to tbc.Mlad, inuts li<tula .lie. ii-.j StqBUtch. OoweK T.Ivor. A DVKRTISEM KNT. # Now Den, I)e (ino?t (Moding dot ovwr yi You can find hfcro in Laneast For, ho keeps everyding dot From a fine pair of hose to <J And, do nicest black coal?- to Vot never vas known to give llo will sell you a zuit vot v And, if j'ou vear him always For do tailors vot made him Dot you cant vear hi:n out f( Wo don't euro vol's yaur pet Vot vill blease you no matte * For if you'se a farmer ve'll si To vear in do furrow, or out And dey'll last you and last Him do best zuit of ( lose vot And do lawyer vot wears a j Vill make, for his client, de 4ft And if ho v\il! buy him dnrl Ho vill heat every man vot < But every goot man vot neec j^. I sh ust ask him to come More Do puftiesf coats, for do shei Dot ho over hoard of hefo, in Yell Sir, Sho Our Shoes, Oh ! vot shoos, w Vot vill last you till life in <1 In all sorts of styles and all i And everyding else vot a fin And, if you vears shoos, vot Shust walk in and soo mo an Undergloding? IV And nice undorgloding and I Vot vill voar for two wooks i Vile we've got collars, eravu Vot you ovor saw rnif your t And everyding else vot a ini ^ 80 come in and soe us and It Wiil show you ozackly vote^ And do price? vol! vonover, You will say devs do sheape Tlio Lanoastor Olo R. MI1.RB, PC9^ " lN e as LAN BURNING OF COLUMBIA \ BY GEN. SHERMAN'S ARMY. a . . e Best ruction ol South Carolina's i Capital in February, 1805, Be- t scribed by (Japt. 1>. Augustus s Dickcrt in llis "History ot 0 Kershaw's Brigade."?A Story ot Suffering, Cruelty and Van- ( dalisin Graphically Told. A few days ago the State n DUbli-hod R sUtffTost,inn from Mr t 4 ?OO McDonald Furmanto the teach- r ers of Columbia that they rend ( to their pupils Capt. Dick- { ert's story of tho burning of 1 Columbia. In order that the 1 suggestion may be followed and t on account of the importance of r preserving the true account of ^ tho most important event in t Columbia's history, The State ^ presents the story as it"is found t in (Chapters XLII of the "His- 1 tory <?f Kershaw's Brigade." ' c When Sherman put his mighty ' machine of war in motion Ker- j Shaw's brigade was hurried to Charleston and up to George's station, then to the brigade on 'J the Edisto. Raiding parties were out in every direction, do- T stroying bridges and railroads, and as the Southern army hail ) no pontoon corps nor any me- '' thods of crossing the deep, slug- ^ gish streams in their roar but ? l... U_i 1 U - - 2 t. . ov DiKiges, n can no seen that the outting of one bridge alone ' might be fatal to the army \ Tt was discovered early in the ' march that Sherman did not in- r tend ho continue on a direct line, 1 with Columbia as the centre of * operations. We were removed N from the Edisto back to Charles- * ton, and up the Northwestern railroad to St. Stephen's on the ! Santee. It was feared that a|f raiding part)* from Georgetown would come up die Santee and. 1 out the bridges thereby isolating 1 the army ^lardee had iwColum- (; bin and vicinity: Slowly Sher? It man "dragged his weary length, along." On the 13th of Febru-1 ary the corpse of Gen.Rlaic had i I 1*1 >:l elli?rl tv i n rrvi 11 o .1 I . . V ....... ...V (Win un/?n VU1 2 c Yot's Dot? \ 0 C ou voro, . ? r or at It. Milks Stork, any man vants, l_o -pm liest pants ; 1 go mil your hseeches, ? way in tic Britches. i.l make you fool appy ho vill never get nappy, i __ - / i ^nuhf ii\ mm so kooi, >r he's suc'i a good suit, iznese, ve'll soil you de close, r verovor you goes. Ii el! you do goods " in de woods, { you, till you vill shust swear, a you ever did vear. f ?.iir of my breeches fc purtiesi speeches. , _ f v t von of my coats * j ler is in dot Gourt. x Is any close ? * so to him wo cnn show t ipost cash price, r i his life. a 08 ? Yell, Y08. c o have dom my vrend. li-> cuntry vill end, sorts of shapes? (i shoe store keeps. I know .dot you do \ d I'll show dem to you. r line Guntry, Yes! )o?tiftil shorts, and den not show dort, u, and do purliost ties wo mortal eves. in vants to vear. v onrm or Bikp: rer you liker f any ?no?s you have not ? st dot you ever hot. \ t.hlng 8z Shoo Store., J Proprietor. TEH BEMI-WE CASTER, 8. C.. WEDN] >ic:kets a\Vay from tho bridge b >vor tho Congaree. c On the 15th of February tho t dvanco column of tho Twanti- H th corps?camo in sight of Col- 11 imbia. All tho bridges loading | v lit*ri*pi) wove mimed aiul the }] outhern troops wtihdrawn to j astern side. Frank R)air's f orpse left the road loading to } Columbia at Hopkins, and kept i direct line for Camden. An- ^ dhercorp.se, theFifteenth,cross- j (1 the Rroad at Columbia,while j he 14th and 20th were to ( ross at Freshley's and Alston. )rders had been given toevacu- t ito Charleston, and all the ' ft roops under (ten. McMaws at ?our Hole Swamp and along J1 he coast wero to rendezvous it St. Stephen's on the Santeo md either make a junction with <\ ho western army at Chester, ^ >.C., or if not possible, to con- ( inue to Chesterfield or Cheraw. The plan of the campaign was j iow to concentrate all the force ( ?f Hood's State troops and a lardee's at some point in up- f >er South Carolina or in North ^ Carolina, and make one more lesperato stand, and by united r .ction crush and overthrow ^ Sherman's army, thereby reliev- ( ng Lee. On the morning of February ,j he 10th the enemy, without o iny warning whatever, began j helling the city of Columbia, illed with women and children. tfow it must bo remembered . lint tlii? \vn.i? m?t <lui "vv l,,VJ P"1" n >ose of crossing the river, for >ne of Sherman's corps had uleady crossed below the city nnd wo others above. One shell { >assed through the hotel in vhich (fen. Beauregard was at lie time, others struck the State house, wli'de many fell hroughout the city. Gen fampton withdrew his small n orco of cavalry early on the nornlng of tho 17th, and the nayor of the city met an oflicer >f the federal army under a 1 lag of truce and tendered him 1 l\ he surrender of tho city, and' laimed protection for its i nhahi-1 , ants. This was promised. All during the day thouRand* if the enemy poured into tin ity, General Sherman entering bout midday. Gens Davis' and ( rVillianin' corps crossed the Salu ' la and continued up on the we?t- 1 rn bank of Broad river, one t rossing 10, the other 25, miles hove Columbia. The people of Columbia had hopes of a peaceful iccupation of the city, but during h he day and along towards night ' h all, the threatening attitude ol t he soldiers, their ominous words, 0 hreats of vengeance, wore too v mrtentous for the people to misinderstand or to expect mercy. t rhese signs, throats and mutterngs were hut the prelude to that ' vhich was to follow. li FIHK ALARM. r About y o'clock the alarm of d ire was sounded and the dread n ound ot the fire bells, mingled t nth the hum and roar of ten 0 housand voices and the tread of n a many troops hurrying to and ( ro on their </ursed mission, could ie hoard by the now thoroughly rightened populace. The people I' nth blanched countenances, set " natures, looked in mute silence t nto the faces of each other. All 1< mew and felt, but dared not even fl o themselv.es to whisper, the un p nistakablo truth. Now another { ilarm, another lire bell mingles t ts sound with the general choriiH >f discord, shouts of the soldiery, ho frightened cries of the people -yells of the drunken troops? 11 ill a seething, maddening turbu- ,l ence in the orowdod streets. A f mid glare shoots up above the k lousotops, than the crackling and T oaring of the dread elements r old hut too plainly that the boauiful city was soon to be wrapped n flamda. The sack and pillage n lad begun ! f o LOOT OV TilK YAKLKTS. H Few men being in the city,'til* ,v vomen. with rare heroism, somrht ? n aave Rome little necessity ?f t ife, only to nee it struck to the Jj loor or snatched from their hands ind scattered in the streets. Here ii vonfd he a lone woman hugginK,'1 in infant to her breast, with a " pw strips of clothing hanging j >n her arm* ; helpless orphans ? j* . \ ENTE itlKlAY. ESDAY. FEBRUARY urging an oM trunk or chest, uoi ontaiuing all thoy could cj-1 heir own?thcee would bo take way, broken open, con tents rifle iy the drunken soldier*, or if nc aluabie, trampled under foot. Soldier*, with axe* and ham tiers, rushed from house to Iioum reaking in doors, khen smash in runks, boxes, bureaus and rol, ?ing them of all that was* val table, then leaving the hou*< i lames. Ilelplesi women, screan ng children, babes in the armt nvulids in bed*, jolted and j-<s led against the surging mob? tone to help, none to advise.? hose defenceless sufferers rushet imlessly about, tlieir sole pui io ;e being to avoid I be flame nd seek a place of safety. Th res originated principally in lb anthem section of the city, ani l t ho fi rf? nfi? ile wn v nn tli "I' owling throng followed, drivin ho innocent and helpless ahead As the night wore on, th runkcn soldiers, first made in oxicated by the wine in priv te collars or the liquors in tlv ;overment buildings, now br ame beastly drunk in tlwi loo at tho sight of the dostruot :m they had wrought. Th romen and children follower ho dark background of tha art of the city not yet in flames ho federal officers instead o tiering assistance or a helpinj and to tho ruined and distress d people, added insult to in nry by joining with the priv to soldiers in tho pliiuderini f the city, insulting the wornei nd adding fuel to the flame. All night long did the llame age, leap and lick the cloud .s one block of buildings a fie nother fell?food for the d< ourhig elements. The drunkei rtrie was kent un till tliei raven hearts were fully satis led. A few squares in th northeastern part of the fit ,*ore loft, also several churchend into those the women am hildren were hauled and pack d, and had to remain for day nd some for weeks, almost 01 he verge of starvation. Th federal commander , throujd he houndless dictates t,f hi vmpathetic heart, after dc t'oyir.q all that fire and rapin raid roach, left the starvm ! isands a few rations each o h nltinder ho had robbed o he planters in the country. PKSTITUTION. No vehicles or horses .wer aft in the city's- limits?th ridges burned that led acros ho river to the west. To th a. i Blair's corps was lay in caste to everything in its path cay, while above and beloi ho city, for a distance of f> niles, Sherman had swept 111 ountry as bare as if a bligh lad fallen upon it. How th ?eople of Columbia subsiste luring tlio time they were pen ted in the city churches an he few buildings left, wil ver remain a mystery, and t iono so much as the sufferer hemselves. Grains of cores wr re oa- srl icked up in the street* as : ropped from tbe wagon-, an be wome.iv and child; a of th r>wer class and the negroc locked to ihe deserted camp 0 g .ther up the crumbs Wt b; he soldiers or tho grain rampled under foot of th lorses. Each hoi'!" in a stretch of f> ailes was" entered and insult ml indignities offend the > encele99 women which won' invo shamed the savage Tnrl radios were forced to discing Ht?ry of n Mliuc. To hp bound hand and foot for yem y the chains of disease is tin- won orni of slavery, (teurtfe I). William I .Mariohestrr, Mich., telis how such lave was made free, lie nays: "M rife has been so helpless for live yew bnt she could not turn over in b? lone. After using t wo bott lee of Klo, ric Hitters, she is wonderfully in roved and able to do her own work 'his supreme remedy for female di uses quickly cues nervousness, alee| essness, melancholy, headache, had ohe, fainting and dit?v spells. Th nlracle working medicine is a goi nd fo weak,sickly, rundown peopi Cverv bottle guaranteed. Oply ftf tr>lil by Crawford liros., Druggist. V ^ . *> ^ _ r 13, 1901. v at flic point of pistol or tli I sabre, 1110 hiding place of their II little valuables Some wore " forced to cook meals and wait * itp? n the hell hound*, while they r< giled themselves upon the choice viands or medicinal | wines of the plavkfijsfr*- wives. Hut he it knottii roVMifMr imI mortal honor, that it was only on the most rare occasions that the proud dtimes of the South could, either by threat or hrutul treatment be forced to yield to their insolent demands. With the orders from the sol j diers to "prepare a meal" or "disclose tee whereabouts of their money or valuables," S * came the threat, "We will 0 burn your bouse if you do j not '' Hut almost invariably came the quick response, "Burn it, burn it, you coward1 1)' wretches, and kill mo, if you wish, and all of us, but 1 will never soil my hands by waiting upon a cowardly Yankee, nor tell vr?ll tlin nliwo <if r>nn r?n o 1 ----- - I""v" *v"" mont.?find it if you can. " Tho " soldiers would question tho nopro.es to find if there wore any watches, silver plate, or ft . j money belonging to the household ; if so, they would, by a system of inquisition, attempt 1 to force the women to give it up. but in vain Si A BRAVE WOMAN. A woman, Mrs. Miller, the , wife of \eighbor of mine, had [f her hii/ gild's gold watch-in her :1 bosom, and refused to pive it up When demanded, even when s a cocked pistol was at her head s The vandal struck her a stunr! ninp blow with the butt end of ho ^pistol?all in vain. 'Hie i, >ravo heroine held to the heir,.j loom, nnd stoutlv resisted :ill j entreaties and threats o| Two old people living near v mo, brother and maiden sister, ! namul Loner, both past three j score, were asked to give their _ money. The}' had none. But s one of the ruffians threw a fire u under tlie bed, saying: "I will put it out if you will T tell !mo where you keep your rnoi } , you have it, for I've .. I been so informed.'' o "l et it burn," answered (lie jr old woman. "Do you think to ,f i frighten or intimidate me hv ,f burning my house that I will tell what 1 choose to conceal? I I t*/M? f hi r> lr T An ??<v c /\ tvi n aI i'*? > m.i iiiinrv 1 iiu r mill it for my houso and its bolongv ings? No, no; you mistake e the women of the South. You s will never conquer her people ? by making war upon defenceg loss women. Let the house go ' up in flames, and my ashes 1V min.le with its ashes, but T will ? remain true to myself, my ? country and mv God." d Soon all that was left of the once happy home was a heap of ashes. Will God, in His wisdom, ever hare cause to again '? create such women as thoso of '1 the Southland? Or were there o over conditions in the world's 's history that required the presence of such noble martyrdom >* as was displayed by the women >" of tlie South during the Civil ?1 War? . Hut a Nemesis, in this case, as s in many others, was lurking near ,s Hands of Confederates and scouts v had scattered themselves on the * flanks and rear of the enemy; old men and hoys and disabled vet erans were lying in wait in many " thickets and out of the way places. s ready to pounce upon the unsus pcc'ing freebooters and irivo to them their just deserts. Was i? < any wonder that so many hum ? dreds and thousand", e?f those "" (Jotlis failed to answer to Sherman's last roll call ? Hefore the rs miii was inanyhoura older, after I ho burning of the Loner homo a stea i, the dreaded "bushwhacker' > were on the trail of the vandals .,1 For years afterwards people frotu curiosity, came to h>ok at ? Y. heap of hones in a thicket near <* Ides, hod hy winter's rain am P* .summer's sun, while some of tin older men, pointing to the gho f it- lv relic*, would say, "Those an ^ the remains of Sherman's house a bur.iers." And such were tlu " J/?ij II > ..? lit* VQ '***& 8L.i 5 auything fce ?el| pi I advertise it in JLmmd < Jthi Uotorpibo 1 it a tea roMoiAt BUIo. S. NoTQO scenes from the Saltkhatcliie to I ho (Jape Fear. Who were to blame? ^ Sherman now directs his march towards Wiunsboro and Chester st.ilj in the four great parol*, burning and plundering an they <::? . It 8'iemn that in their march through Georgia they were only whetting their appetites f<?r a lull gorge of vandalism in South Carolina. Alter their carnival of ruin in Columbia, the Federals, 111 e the tiger, which, with the tflf-te of blood, grows more ravenous, became more destructive the more destruction tliev saw. Great clouds of black smoke roRe up over the whole country and darkened the skv overhead,while at night the heavenB were lit, up by the glare of the burning buildings. The railroad tracks were torn up and bridges burned, the * iron being laid across heaps of burning tiep, then when at red hen*, were wrapped arfeund trees and telegraph posts?these last through pure wantonness, as no armv was in their rear that cculd ever use them again. It Is inn roll's Iron IVcrr* | Was the result of his splendid health. Indomitable will and tremendous en Tgy are not found where Stomach, j f.her, Kidneys and Ilowela are out of I order. 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Mrs. Nation's action i? no doubt unlawful, but "not any more so than the action of t!?e sa ooti-kcepcr whose pro petty she dost roys. Will the Kansas authorities protect the violators of iaw who are whiskey men and punish the vh.latt r of law who is a temperance woman ? At bottom it is a question between had men and a good woman, who both are violating the law, the men from the basest of motives and the woman from humanitarian motives. Verily Mrs. Nation is a naughty person to thus vex the grave and philo sophical officers of the law. They say, ''You cannot suppress the saloon ; it is impracticable.1' This is the old dodge. Hut supp< ?e the Kansas women claim immunity on the same principle? Sup pose they compel the officers to say, "It. is impracticable to suppress the fanaticism of these wo men ?" The saloon keepers are exempted from punishment, because they persist in violation of , the law Herhaps the women may decide to do likewise.?Bnp tin Courier. I*r?-a TritKfdj. 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