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LICENSE TO PLUNDER ; AND BURN. ] A LETTER DESCRIBING INCIDENTS OF SHERMAN'S RAID 1 IN CAMDEN. s < The following highly interesting letter concerning Sherman's raid was f found on Hobkirk Hill, by an old 1 colored woman jypt after Camden 1 was raided by Sherman. The old 1 colored woman brought this letter * - i_J__ /> 1? ...u? nA?, itt a iaay ai tamueii, ?uu is uuw ( living in Charleston. The pitcher referred to is sup- ? posed to have been taken from Maj \ John M DeSaussure. The letter was written by a Federal officer while in Camden, and is ( printed just as written: ? Feb. 26th, 1S65. 1 Dear Wife:? 1 I have no time for particulars, we s have had a glorious time in this f State. Universal License to burn i and plunder was the order of the ( day. s The chivalry have been stripped 1 of most of their valuables and fine ] gold watches, Silver pitchers. Cups, i Spoons and forks and etc., are as ( common in camp as blackberries, t The valuables procured we esti- ( mate by companies?each company 1 is requested to exhibit the result of e its operation at any given place, one ] fifth and first choice falls to the \ share of the Commander in Chief I and staff, one fifth to field officers s of regiment and three fifths to the S Company. Officers are not allowed avruu)itinnc anthftllt t W JV111 CAyvvii ViVtW ?T i vt?s/?>v % disguising themselves as privates. One of our Captain Commander, ( borrowed a suit of citizens clothes 1 from one of our men and was sue- J cessful in this place, he got a large \ quantity of Silver, among other things an old time Silver milk c pitcher and a very fine gold watch e from a Mr DeSassure at this place, t DeSaasure is one of the F F H of S s C., and was made to fork over < Jiberally. Officers over the rank of Captain ( are not made to put their plunder in the estimate for distribution. This is very unfair and for this reason in order to protect themselves subordinate officers and privates keep back everything that they can ? carry about their persons such as rings, ear-rings, breast-pins?of | ^ which if I ever live to get home. . jl liave about a quart. I am not joking. I have at least a quart of Ijevzelry for you and the girls and Some No. 1 diamond rings, and among them. Gen Sherman has Silver, and gold r ? enough to start a bank his share in goid watches and chains along at * Columbia was Two Hundred and r i Seventy-five, but I said I could not t go into particulars. All the general officers and many pri vates had valuables of every des- . cription even to Ladies Embroidered Handkerchiefs. I have a share of them too. ^ We took gold enough from d t, trebles to have redeemed their in- j ferael currency. When ever we c come across it we burn as we con- 1 aider it entirely worthless. I wish all the jewelry this army t has could be carried to the old bay ; State it would deck her out in s glorious style. <1 It will be scattered all over the * v north and middle States. The d negroes as usual pre- ? fer to stay at home particularly <j after they found out that we only I wanted the able bodied men and to c """ tiMi+k tka vniinofpet nnrl " IrCIl /UU UIC U UUI ^vwuBvv? ^ best looking women. Some times c we take off whole families and plantations of negroes by way of repaying the rebels but the useless part of these we soon manage to C loose sometimes in crossing rivers sometimes in other ways. I shall write to you from Wilmr gton, Goldsboro or some other 8 p'aee in N C., the orders to march s have arrived. r I must close hurriedly. Love to v c Oand mother and aunt Charlotte. ^ Take care of yourselves and the chi'dren. * Do not show this letter out of ft he family. Your affect husband. Thos L Myers. Lieut. ?. S:? I will send this by flag of truse to >e mailed unless I have a chance of sending it to Hilton Head. Tell Sadie I am saving a pearl bracelet ind earrings for her but Lambert ?ot the necklace and breast-pin of :he same set. I am trying to trade iim out of them. These were taken from the Misses Jamison, daughters )f the president of the S. C., Seces- j iion Convention. We found those 1 3n our trip through Ga. 'SOPHS"EDITCOLLEGEMONTHLY Williamsburg Student Contributor to Davidson Journal. Davidson College, Davidson, N 2:?The March issue of the Davidson College magazine is out from ;he press. This issue is devoted ai nost entirely each year to the sophomore class, and it is known is the "sophomore issue". Thisyear's ssue is one of the best ever gotten >ut, and it shows that 1912 has some good writers. Following is the ist of contents: "To 1912" (verse;) ? L S., 12; "The Chambers Buildng," H G B.; "A Night at Bell arove," Jimmy; "The Heroines of he Civil War;" "To a Narcissus" Averse,) P L S., '12; "Odds and 2nds from Charleston," T A Beck:tt, Jr; "The Death of Theodosia *urr," S C F.; "The Dual Victory," VBBrockington; "Mattree"(verse,) r A B., Jr; "Comets," T M Steven?n; "To Spring" (verse), T M Stevenson; "Two Phases of South:rn Progress," "Multiple Personaliy," G H, Jr. Mr T A Beckett, of Charleston, S 1, acted as the exchange editor. _-i.? KM ine ainieuc uuics wcic wui?h uj \ f H Beady and W B Brockington vrote up the "College Happenings." The object in turning this issue >ver to the sophomore class is to (ncourage them to write, in order bat the members of the magazine itaff can select men from the junior :lass as literary editors. Betting Bendy for the Primaries. Columbia, March 28:?State Democratic Chairman Wilie Jones las issued a call for the regular >iennial meeting of the State Demo:ratic executive committee to be held n Columbia on April 6. This meeting will in accordance vith the constitution of the party to ssue a call for the State conven;ion of the Democratic party, which vill be held in Columbia on May 18. The State committee will also islue a call for the clubs in each :ounty to meet on Saturday, April !3, for the purpose of electing delerates to the county conventions, vhich will meet on Monday, May Delegates to the State conven,ion will be elected by the county invention, each county being enitled to double the representation t has in the General Assembly. There is more Catarrh in this secion of the country than all other liseases put together, and uutil the ast few years was supposed to be iucurable. For a great many years docors pronounced it a local disease and irescirbed local remedies, and by censtantlv failing to cure with local reatment, pronounced it incurable, icience has proven catarrh to be a contitutional disease and therefore retires constitutional treatment, fall's Catarrh Cure, manufactured ?y F J Cheney & Co,Toledo, Ohio, is he only constitutional cure on the narket. It is taken internally in loses from 10 drops to a teaspoouful. t acts directly on the blood and musou8 surfaces of the system. They >ffer cue hundred dollars for any ase it fails to cure. Send for circulars and testimonials. Address: F J Cheney & Co., Toledo, 0. Sold by Druggists, ?5c. Take Half's Family Pills for sonstipation. Notice. All parties are hereby warned igainst employing, giving refuge or belter to, or in any way harboring ny son, Jesse Fulmore, a minor, vho ran away from my home on lunday night, March 20, 1910. H B Fulmore, jake City, S. C., March 26, 1910. 3-31-2. Will Close at Seven. We, the undersigned merchants of the town of Kingstree, do hereby agree to close our respective places of businoss at 7 o'clock, from April 1 to September 1, except Saturdays: Wilkins Bargain House. The Farmers Supply Co, By H E Montgomery, Secty &Treas. Jennings Gro Co, L Stackley, Pr L J Stackley, Kingstree Dry Goods Co, J S Eron, People's Mercantile Co, L D Rodgers & Co, Butler Dry Goods Co, J W Coward, B F Patrick, / Kingstree Hardware Co, Per W H Carr, Sol Peres, Jacobs & Scott, Gale & Gale, S Marcus, Edgenott Bros & Co, Jenkinson Bros Co, Carolina Furniture Co, Watts & Watts, 0 H Patrick, Brown & Brown, Andereon, Spring & Co. H D Reddick. Foreign Missions. Watson's Magazine for March, which is the successor to Watson's Jeffersonian Magazine, will contain another editorial on Foreign Missions, and also an eloquent defence of the present system. Every one has been waityig, watching and hoping for another word from Mr Watson on this subject. Tom Watson says:. "Christians of America! The cry of the children of this land rises loudly and bitterly against you. The infant lies at your door. And in a large, national, racial sense, it is your child! And you are leaving it there, to die of criminal neglect, while you rush wildly to Europe, Asia, Africa, Oceanica and Latin America, to save the stranger's child. On c that great day, when the earth and j the sea shall give up their dead, and a men shall troop toward the Great * White Throne, to give an account c of the deeds done in the body, what 1 will you say? Oh, what can you c say, when you are accused by the t little ones for whom you are respon- ? sible, and whom you allowed to go j to Death or the Devil?" Again, he says: "You fetter the J future of your country with the > foul bonds of the Harlot. In your * mad zeal to compel other races to change their religions, you betray Christ in your own country. The Laymen's Movement really means the . world for the Trusts.' With the craftiness of Satan himself, the < 8 wolves of the Trusts are donning ( sheep's clothing. In the name of ? God, they are setting up, through out the heathen world, their own " golden altars." Read about "Little Dora," the negro child that the missionaries want to buy, and then about the little white slaves of Colorado, who y toil from dawn to dark for their Japanese masters. Watson's Magazine is 10 cents a copy at any news-stand, one dollar a year. Subscriptions may be sent I direct to Watson's Magazine, Thornson, Ga., or will be accepted in club t with this paper, both for $1.50. FOREIGN MISSIONS EXPOSED. ^ s Watson's Magazine,12 months, t or The Jeffersonian, 52 weeks, j1 regular price __ $1.00 c The County Record, regular price 1.00 1 Foreign Missions Exposed, 100- i page book, by Thos E Watson, 1 finely illustrated .25 $2.25 1 OUR PRICE FOR ALL $1.75 3-10-tf A ninety rruiecuuu. Everyone knows the after effects of La Grippe are often more danger: ous than the disease. So often it leads to pueuuionia, which a weak heart action makes fatal. La Grippe ^ coughs that strain and weaken the system yield quickly to the strength- , eniug qualities of Foley's Honey and _ Tar. D C Scott. s fole y s Kidney phis ; Fea Backachc Kioncwand Susocp THE ARISTOCRAT OF THE PIANO WORLD ^ "At home in the best ^ homes of the land." " THE STIEFF GRAND are bound to adleaves nothing vu, iently appropriate in the ie . 'tuodest means, or the s .Ion . Opulence. I Stock tinisfces: Rosewood, Walnut, J I uy. Finished to order tomatc i u.ij ^ther wood / - - - . Come in and take a look at this ; magnificent instrument. I I Chas, M. Stieff, Manufacturer of the Artistic Stieff, the Shaw and the Stieff Self Player Pianos. Baltimore, - - Maryland. SOUTHERN VAREROOIt 5 West Trade Street, Charlotte, - - - N. C. C H. WILMOTH, Manager. Clerk's Sale. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, COUlfTY OF WILLIAMSBURG, Court of Common Pleas. F Rhem & Sons, Plaintiffs, vs J W McAllister, Defendant. By virtue of ait ordei to ine directed >utof the court of common pie w in the ibove stated case, dated the 2nd day oc darch, A D 1910, I will sell at publif iuction to the highest bidder for cash >efroe the court house door in Kingsree, S C, during the legal hours of s;ue, >n April 4. 1910,the following described ract ot land, to witAll that certain piece, parcel or tract if land lying, being and situated in Williamsburg county, in the State .foresaid, containing forty-six (46) teres, more or less, and bounded as folows, to wit: On the Northeast by ands of Emma Giliiard; oi, the East by ands of Italy Gillian!; on the South by ,he run of Mill Branch and on the Northwest by lands of W C Hemingway. The said lands beinga portion of ;be tract of the estate of J G Giliiard. Puachaser to pay for papers. H 0 BRITTON. Jlerk* of Court of Common Pleas and General Sessions for Williamsburg county. 3-17-8t Notice to Creditors. All persons having claims against the state of W T'Ham,;deceased, will prelent the same, duIt verified, to the uniersigncd, and all persons owing said ?rate will make payment to Richard Ham, 8-17-4t Administrator. Foreclosure Sale. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, county of williamsburg, Court of Common Plea*. S B Poston, Plaintiff, against (f.'ctoria Gainus (sometimes called Victoria Burgess), Dave Gainus, Dell Gadsden, Allene Speights, Drucilla Harrison, Susan M Rodgers, G L Sauls and R L Montague,Defendants, Pursuant to the order made In the bove entitled cause by hu Honor J C Clngh. presiding Judge, and dated iarch 2, 1910, I will sell at public aucion before the court house in Kingsree. S 0, on salesday in April next, leing the 4th d?y of April, 1910,within he usual hours of sale, "all the undiided right, title, and interest of the aid Victoria Gainus and Dave Gainus, >eing seven-fifteenths (7-15) thereof, in ind to all that piece, parcel or tract of and lying, being and situate in the ounty of Williamsburg, South Caroliia, containing ninety (90) acres, more ir less, and bounded North by lands of ["homas Williams; Eastl by lands of *aul McKnight; South by lands of John kfcCollough and West by lands of Wm ilcClam." Terms cash: purchaser to pay for palere. G J graham, Sheriff of Williamsburg county. 3-17-3t g? < 2Z.Of JP. vJSsLv' Kingstrec Lodge Knights of Pythias w w fiegmar ^ouvcuuuus r.verj 2nd and 4th Wednesday nights Visiting; brethren always welcome, Castle Hall 3rd story Gourd in Building;. (j. D. Jacobs, C. C. j. C. Burgess, K U S & M F By helping us you help your;elf. Buy from the houses who idvertise in The Record and nention the paper. tf Won't You 1 ^HELP 1 Commencement Now, you know commencement se off, and everybody will be in a sweat, all dresses ready in time for commenceme thought of this but have not planned th Now, won't you let us help you a little? We have now in stock a beautiful Hi CHINA SI 27 inches wide, in White, Cream and yard, with dainty Allover and Val. Laces We have now a beautiful line of CANTON fsl w A m A i * A 1 ^ i in stock?White, Cream, Pink, Light B and all the evehing shades, 27 inches w This is certainly an astonishing value, you see this line of Silks at 25c you will daughters' dresses from this selection. Then we have the famous lin3 of WHITE F L A that launder so beautifully. Nothing c< ate for a commencement dress than a W1 a full line of Fiaxons at 20c, 25c and 30 have the superb line of dainty White and 50c the yard,pretty enough and daic daughter of a queen. Dainty Swiss Ei and Ribbons to trim. Then the last and greatest bargain c hand of dainty PERSIAN L 45 inches wide, only 15c the yard. To s Lawn is to buy it, for you can't secure it less than 25c. We defy you to match t anywhere for less than 25c. We bought offer it to our patrons at a bargain. We are sure if you give us a call w ting up the commencement dresses you a Don't wait; get the materials and make you will be rushed out of your wits at th next week. n j UGIIIUIISUII PI I USES 311(1 Nice driving horses All Good work horses mi Combination horses sir Buggies, Surreys an Durham?Jackson G Smith? Wre WAGONS T! Just received two carloads of th known WEBER?COLUMBUS <fe R Harness, Saddles, Roll Horse Blan \ Call and see us befor Yours to pleaf Williamsburg Lit Kingstree, S CnmmemEl Charleston, 5. ( N. E. Corner King and Wenti CAPITAL - - f We conduct; ??$General and Savings I A Q\ allowed in Savings De quarterly, January: Apr OUT-OF-TOWN ACCOUN] TRISTRAM T. HYDE, President. ~ ~ I J. S. PINKUSSOHN, Vice Directors: M. H. LAZARUS, R. ( JULIUS M. VISANSKA, J, S G. B. BUELL, J. A E. MITCHELL SEA BROOK, LEI AUG. R. RUGIIEIMER, A. J W. A. MOORE, R. f T. J. HAMLIN, T. T X < > ? ' 1 ' f ' ' ' A* '.j A . ^et Us I f o ua: i Season? y I ?? ason is not many weeks t in a dead rush to get int. Perhaps you have flfl ie dress or dresses yet. ne of tC/TB I I 1/ C I I It IV ^ Light Blue, at 50c the to trim. ' v I L K S lue, Canary, Old Rose ide, only 25c the yard. We are almost sure if , 1 buy your daughter's or ".1 J iXONS Duld be more appropriate Flaxon. We have c the yard. Then we Flaxons in stock at 40c ity enough to adorn the mbroidery, Val. Laces >f all?a iarge stock on -AWN iee this line of Persian ; in a regular way for his lot of Persian Lawn it at a bargain and we e can assist you in getre now thinking about. . . i t? ..... ?.:i it sutru it juu wait e last moment. More I J os. Co. r ggf sizes of nice, sleek lies in pairs or igle d Runabouts nn and arker Buggies. fAGONS e reliable and well US8ELL Wagons. kofi Whi'nfl anil i 'VWJ ? T U11U H kets. 1 e buying. 1 se, I rz Stock Co. ' ;. c. x trigs 33ank ivorth Streets. $100,000 ii i . ! )epartment.??? partment, computed J i il, July and October. rs sol/cited: j 30URTEHAY OLNEY, Cashier. Jtt Pres. i [ J. RHETT, . PINKUSSOHN, : iLWYN BALL, .AND MOORE, * . BUIST, M. D. 5. WHALEY, HYDE. X . A