Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Tho election will be ovor when., this is read and wo will have a long rest then. The thoroughly soaking rain last week put a stop to all kinds of plow ing, and grain sowing is put off for awhile. ^ We have had more frost with temperature to 32, but no general killing frost yet. Too mueh wind for that. Cotton and cotton seed have gono down, A negro boy, a son of Dawkins A Tucker, stole $25 out of Mr.,L. B. * Jeter's store one day last week, but was soon caught up with and the money gotten back, t A small box house was burned here Saturday night, and one negro boy about grown burned .to death, and another badly burned. Strange to say nobody knew of it until daylight Sunday morning. It is said the boys were drunk Saturday night. The house was heated by a stove with no pipe leading outside. I 4 TAKES IN THE FAIR. Well the State Fair has come and gone again, twelve months since the last one, that "we" had twelve month ago. Ain't I correct? And I went though I did not give it much forethonght, and therefore went almost on the "spur of tho moment." I went on Thursday and was treated, badl^y The train was behind and persisted in going slow, and wo did arrive on the Fair Grounds until after 12 o'clock, which, as an old 1 -12- T J: J _ .i. vi v. negro acre says, x uiu not hko a lit^ tie bit. We happened to get ou a scroeky, bumping coach,*and one young man of the party said he thought to get a box of axle grease when we got to Carlisle to grcaso it, but forgot to do so. There wore several to get on at.this place, and at all 'stations along till we got to Alston. ' The worst thing I saw on the train going down was some young fellows practicing to be fools, and the big?eat fool I ever saw is a man-boy runk and practicing to be a fool, i But I saw a worse thing coming up . that night, especially when girls would persist in being mixed in it. 5.(f In going to the station that morning we walked there, putting on big overalls to keep off the dew, and we were contemplating putting one young man in a side show to get our I' money back, be looked so unique f with his overalls so much too big, but he would not agree to it, so wo ?had to pay expenses straight. \ When we got to the Union'Station in the city, a packed and jammed crowd was soon scuflling for street cars and other means of transportation, and our individual little party of three packed oursolves or others packed us in a car, and had to scuttle to see who was the "survival rof the fittest," and I could not tell jwho was fitting the tightest in that car. We were so jammed that we had to breathe one another's breath almost, and after that 1 depended on my "mammy's ponies" to get about, j TUB AGRICULTURAL BUILDING. After arriving on the grounds I risked another jam, not a sweet blackberry jam that wo all liko, but one in the Agricultural llall, but I managed to see tho agricultural exhibits, which I think wero fine. I never saw finer. Permit mo hero to say that I have seen more of everything there, but peoplo and poultry, but none finer, except in the sheep department, which 1 think was poor. In the Agricultural department there wero as fine potatoes as I ever saw and as many exhibits, and one could not help thiuking what a fine dish they would make with 'possum added. Sugar cane, sorghum cane, oats, wheat, corn, every variety of peas that grows, I reckon, cabbago, great I1 big pumpkins, beets, the finest turnips I most ever saw, rice, cotton, bay, etc., and the biggest gourd that looked as if it was intended for a regimental "hand gourd" was on exhibition. Preserves, canned fruits, I saw but did not tarry there as they S| ~ t wero too whct'ing on tho appetite. In that building wero hardware exhibits beautifully arranged; fertilizers booths, electricil booths, and things numerous, but people was in tny "light," so I light(ed) out fur the MACHINERY HALL. 01 the way I encountered three j>ram drills and a self-binding reaper hut ns these wcro not the things 1 was looking for I kept moving. On moviug I passed a noise, a mighty one, and looking up saw a man trying to ruin his throat hollering, saw an ad. "She cats them alive," and noticed it wasl eating snake3. As I could see buzzards eating them around home, my dime rested in my pocket and 1 entered the hall, paid my respects to sorno fine engines, Baw the best machine, I thought, cleaning all sorts of foreiga substances out of grain. A machine with which a man could "make money out of wind" so I foil in love with it aud would liko to own one. I saw a "Jeems Dandy" corn and cotton seed planter and fertilizer distributor, and fell heels over head in love with that, and am thinking of gcttiug one' as a "good" part in farming. I saw a nice little cultivator and pocketed a descriptive circular and was told to read it when I had the time. As I have not yet had the time I have not read it, but will, and then show it to my neighbors if they wish it. I examined then the State Farm exhibit which I think was fine. Two of the biggest hams I ever saw were there. I bet old Phil Armour nor Swift never smoked bigger ones with corn cobs and sold as "justly celebrated" in all their lives unless it was a horse's ham. Everything here was up-to-dato or a lit'le beyond. I passed by the buggy and carriage department and wont to whore I knew from the noise that sorno geese were acting the "goose," TIIE rOULTltY HOUSE, and found it even so. The geese were tho. ficat^bPtbe poultry 1 saw, and thero wore so many, and they I ll tl A. * .11 I ' ? seciiicu 10 do wying 10 "cueer everybody, and some of them may be dead now with sore throat. They were past noisy, and every variety I reckon, in the world, even .to the wild goose, that can be distinguished among a thousand, by ear, from its peculiar voice. There were some tine large ones sure. Ducks, tho old ugly muscovc and all other kinds I reckon, big turkeys, doves, and about every variety of chickens that exists. If there are any other varioty I can not conceive of any idea how they would look, unless it was just simply looking out of their eyes, if they were not the eyeless kind. Thero were "powerful" nasty looking ones, those old gawky, musky looking, holloweyed, buzzard-headed, feather-footed, scaly-legged things some people call fine Brabmas and Coachins, that appears to me were piade only for [ Chinamen to eat, but that is none of my business, only they are the heathen chicken and the contractor and spreader of poultry diseases. The games were the neatest and plumpest L saw, then tho intermediate breed.* that rose or fell, according to my opinion, as they approached either of the extremes, the lowest the Asiatics, or the highest the ganics. I ran afoul an old frizzly rooster that I thought must have been the chicken fattened on an Aultman .& Tavlor gtraw stack. No doubt you have heard of it. I saw a "broken-hearted" rooster, and I pitied him. Ho was in a pon with ducks and he had no chicken to talk to, and he looked dejected. It was evident he did not like such company. I saw some chickons with combs and gills large enough to make a Lilliputian blacksmith's apron, but I admired the food bone anu muscle in their neoks. went then to the STOCK PENS, and if I am not an "export" on all kinds of stock, I know what I think ia finA niAA nr on.l T mil *o iiuv) u*w v* j/? wwjr 9 wuu x o(? rv an this except I never saw a pretty jackass, even if somo are fine animals. I saw good looking jacks, mules, horses, and even cute little Shotland ponies. < I saw many fine hog3, and very flno I think, many fine cattle, but not as large specimens as I have seen; one goat and pens oi sheep that I thought was much below the average, and some thin in flesh?dogs must have been running them?and very dirty. A few dogs were on exhibition and some very pretty ones. I saw some fine Uoking hounds that I thought was on show. There were many rabbits that I think amused the small hoys. There were some largo ones. I am myself fond [of them, and can cr?j ?y their pranks. After this I went around to seo what [ could see. I saw miny vacant spots where sido show tents were last year, nnd do you believe it, t heard the band play thh year. I didn't last year. And I saw the i >: ? vow ivua, rt-m 11 vo ones, ana il is no measly thing to see one either, as the Lord did not put them in our country at the creation we do not see them only now and then. A negro at a side show said "ain't I cu'is," and like he, the or.trich is "cu'is." I nave not decided in my mind whether it is bird or animal, or a "mixtry", or is first cousin to a cooter. If a bird it don't look like it was finished. It has no feathers, only a pretense of wings and tail, that must have been especially desired to grow plumes for the pleasure of tho ladies. The Qthcr part of the body is covered with down. They havo the ugliest foot onto them I ever saw. A peacock ought to be ashamed to bo ashamed of his and would bo if he was not such a fustidious (over the left) dudo. I caa't tell what its head or mouth looks like, but its bill favors that of a goose, and it looks as if it had been mashed in between tho eyes with a hammer. It is very ugly. Will hold a monkey a close second, and if it wa9 twice as ugly it would be as ugly as a dromedary. It is strong too. I saw some men harnessing one to drive to a pneumatic tired little buggy and it took three men to hitch it up. xiiey caugtit a Dig gobbler, or rooster, or cock, or buck. 1 do not know which to say, blindfolded it to keep it fiom biting and after hitching it up the three meu tried to back it but could not, but they got in the arena where a hurae sale in progreaa and a big crowd around, and with the big crowd that followed, the arena waa full. They got the tstrich started and after going half round it began to '-buck" like a mule, rau right into the crowd and all the scrambling I ever saw those people had it getting out of the way. The thiug was gotten straight again aud started and it trottod to tho other fid j, "flew the track" again and bucked iuto the crowd where a lot of ladies were, then another big scramble and the ladies did not seem to care who they ran over. The man then tried to ride its back, took the buggy loose and mounted it, and it trotted around twice as satisfactorially as one might expect then began "bucking" right into the crowd. I enjoyed that scene more than any other I saw. Seldom oue ever hears such cheering, the foot ball game cou'd not beat it. The ostrich is a good trotter and no flae horse I saw could got around that ring faiter, but it seems to go as rough as a would-be-pacer goes. I wai well pleased with seeing this. It was our ' big show." Wo left the Fair Ground} and walked over a part of the city after this. Went to the old park site, now the Seaboard Air Liae yards, looked at some of the big magnificent locomotives, to several places on Main street, attending to some business, then to the State H >use. That is now iV beautiful house* Brine unfinished work I saw hut year I could not make out what it was for but this time I could me it completed, and we*felt a pride in it. ft hss no back now, all is front, Both s'd-s are exactly alike. We wantel to go up on the cupola b it up there it was not finished and the approach was dark and risky, so we let the "trip" go over. . I went to the United States Weather Bureau office but at that hour it was closed, so I failed to see some of the instruments and the director. I saw s >me people I knew but it was ouly by bhanos as wj were all prseing to and fro through the sergiog crowd. J only siw three ladies that I kuew. I met a girl friend in the agricultural building face to face aud only bed an opportunity to shnke l.a ids when the tide following each pressed oh on and I never saw her again. Many of us wore disappointed when we got to the passenger depot, | which is way around almost on the 1 other side of the oily, and found that we oould not start out on schedule [ time and had to loaf at the depot on$ hour, and uncertain as to when ' the train would start, but at Is*; we i got unier way, and at times had fun ; on our way home. No acoidents except a broken down "frame" for I was i tired, the railroad knooked us oat of rauc'i, Hovreror, I eepyel the day and could toll a groat deal more but havo raa<l) this already too long, and will close hero, wishing to hfar from sotti ) oae who can toll it better than I. Did any other Times correspoudonts go? Hey Desner. our goshen'"hiu letter. First Ohe in a l,onfl Time. It has been a long tiuao since I wrote a letter for my county paper and I hardly dare now to ask for a place in its columns, for last week if. p.nmn In n<? an full nf ni.m />rl! I - .w www.*-*# %?v *#v vi uivw cuitvi laiOj interesting letters, pretty advertisements and funny jokes that it seems 1 prcsumptous for me to hope for a ] hearing. Since my last writing I have had a delightful visit to Greenville and ' it was "joy upon joy" to meet my childron and ramble and walk and laugh and talk with little brown ' eyed Joe and bluo eyed Katie. I I took in tho reunion and enjoyed seeing the veterans, the sons of tho ' veterans, the lovely sponsors and oh ' how many memories were stirred, ' some sweet, some sad when I heard ( the strains of Dixie and Bonnie * Bluo Flag. My veteran was there ' and how much I did enjoy seeing 1 him meet with his oi l comralcs and 1 tell how they fought f >r Southern * rights under the Confederate flag, ( and then they would tell each other ' how they had fought since then to I keep the "wolf from the door." Tho ( only souvenir that I^brought horns 1 from the reunion was a little yellow hound that followed us from the park. I thought it might be the pet of an old veteran and when I could not find its owner I did not ^have the . heart to drive it away, so I named 1 him "veteran" and brought it on homo. Oh! how I enjoyed the salu- 1 brious mountain air, the delightful (. scenery of Faris mountain, the 1 society of friends of former days and 1 seeing the fine dresses and "turn- 1 outs" of city folks, and above all 1 the sweet Sabbath church going, . v>?~ ?* . i*uatiu? luc uuc Burmuus uua nsieuing to the grand songs of the groat congregation. But city folks don't ! appreciate these services as they should, and in my heart I would 1 ask "how can they stay away," "God has given one day in seven in which to learn the way to heaven." 1 Yet Sabbath after Sabbath is idled away, spent as a day of recreation. ' This we lament to see is a growing evil in the land. Strange that the ' people do not honor his day more for the Lord has given such precious promises to those who keep the Sabbath holy. I was glad to get homo and meet a welcome from so many friends and it gave me down right pleasure to | hear them say "we have missed you 1 so much." Bight here I would say > I missed ray county paper so much i while I was away. 1 We have had delightful weather for a long while which furthered very much the gathering of the crops and added much to the increase of cotton, peas and potatoes, and the gardens are full even now of lino vegetables, beans, cabbage, turnips, roasting ears, etc. The fruit crop was shorter | than I ever knew it, while the wild fruit is almost a failuro. Mr. K. S. Aughtry has movod back to his home near Goshen Ilill muoh to the delight of his many friends. I Am *r L ? ? - T ? uu uijr icvuui uuuiu 1 was sorry < to hear that Mrs. Sam JDuckett had i "passed over the river." She was ( a devout christian woman and will ? be much missod by the church and < family and friends. I Theyith (juarterly meeting of this < l circuit was held at Whitmire recently. 1 The next conference will send us a i j new pastor and presiding elder as they have been with us lour years. ( I hope they will bo appreciated wherever they go. They are minis- i tors of ability and power. < The schools of this .neighborhood have opened and are being taught by i Miss Mamie 8mith, Miss McBride 1 and Miss. McCarley, 1 wish them j very mucn success ja-thoir ^efforts to "teach ,the?young ideas how to shoot." ^ The many friends of Miss Nettio Moore will be glad to hear that she is able to be up after a long spell of scarlet fever. Mr. and Mrs, J. E. Cofield has had a reunion at their home, Mr. | and Mrs. S. A. Jeter and family, Mr. W. T. Cofiold and little daughter Corinnc, ol Newberry, ami Mr. and Mrs. C. S. Ilowic, ol Greenville, have nllpiid a visit to the "parental rojf." Mr. J. D. Epps, Jr., Mr. Dave McCrncken, Rev. Biercy, Mm. J. 0. Hunter. Mr. and Mrs. S. B. Sims and Gu3 Justcrs have, visited Mr. J. E. Cofield's family recently. Oar neighbor city, Whitraire, is on a boom. The factory has began work and fnnilies are coining in from all directions. The cry is " still they come and more houses needed." We hear that Mr. S. M. ltice, of Union, has been down "turkey hunting on Flint IIill?can't tell you the number of turkeys that he carried back home with him. Dr. K. C. Carlisle has been over to the old homestead. The many friends of Mr3. R. II. McAuley will be delighted to learn that she is up again after a spell of fever. The last sad ritc3 over the remains if Will Nance took place last Monlay when his mortal remains were laid to rest in the cemetery of Ebcnjzer church near Maybioton. A ;hro:ig of sympathizing relatives, friends and neighbors had gathered :o pay a tribute of respect to tho wemory ot the dead. The burial 'ervices were read by llcv. 1'iercy, if the Baptist church of Whitmire. Many iloral offerings were laid on his jrave. Many a fervent prayer was iffered for God's blessings upon his widow and the fatherless children. "Oh! the lost the unforgotten, Though the world be all forgot, Oh! the shrouded and tho lonely In our licurts they perish not." Truly, "in tho midst of life we are ,n death." Only two days before ais death he was at work and active, today he is cold in death. hi? u-afL >n earth finished. He is laid away n his narrow homo and his spirit is with the merciful lledeemcr who *avc him tho victory over death and the grave. His sisters, Mrs. Johns, of Union; Mrs. McGowan, of Carlisle; Mrs. Harris, of Union, and Mrs. Stokes, sf Columbia, wore all present at his ourial, also Mr. Charlie Willard's family, of Black llock, and Mr. Drate Willard's family, of Whitmire, besides numerous friends from Carlisle. I have trespassed upon your space, Excuse me this time for it has been a long time siuco I wrote you anything, Adieu. Ivy Green, THE MILKY WAY. 4 System Which Giyes us a Vii?uc Idea of the Eternity of Space. The Milky Way, the grandest feature of the "firmament which Dends above us," the hazy path which so majestically bands the whole fabric of the skies together, is now kuown to be composed of a grand iggregation of nt least 18,000,000 mns, each as large as or larger than that which makes vegetables * and inimal life an oarthly possibility. One is apt when allowing the mind to revert to the contemplatation of these misty a*ul indistinct astronomical subjects to measure their moglitude or attempt to measuro it by making terrestrial comparisons. )Lt-its obvious, however, upon more mature relleetion that such companions are worse than "odious." The bulk of our sun exceeds that of the ;arth 1,200,000 times, being 600 times greater than that of the bulk A his whole train of planets taken jollcctively. This being the case, what baeis can we use for calculating the' magnitude of 18,000,000 suns, ?adh, as I have said beforo, probably larger than that which gives us heat inuHght? The Infinite number of suns which, taken together, make up the Milky Way are not set at a uniform distance from onr earth or even from our sun. In fact, they aDDear to work altogether independently of dither this mundane sphere or our "glorious orb or day." The majority'of them are planted at a distance too remote to be even imperfectly rrieasured or understood. Some of them are so near (?) that light, which traVels at the rato of 185,000 miles per second, would cross the distance between ns and them in the period of about an even ten years. Others, however, are so remote that it would take a full thousand years for their ligbt to reach us, HERE AND THERE. ( nappitiingF, Incidents nnd Commeats of Afore or Lets late rest. BELLE MEADE FA KM SOLD. Dcllo Meade farm, of Nashville, Tenn., famous as a nursery for thoroughbred runners, remains as it has been for many decades. W. II. Jackson. Jr., is tho purchaser of the cream of tho sires and matrons that have been put under the hammer during the last few days, and will herealfr manage this historic stud. During the sale 243 head were auctioned off for :t grand total of $17 2, r>65, an average that approximates #700. A U TOM OK l LIST PUNISHED. Six months' imprisonment in the Kings county penitentiary was tho sentenced pronounced by Judge Kellogg, of Yonkcrs. N. YM upon W. B. Raymond, tho automobilist who was arrested after his machine bad bcea in collision with a trolley car en Sunday. The accident caused injuries to twenty-two persons who were on the car. The occupants of the automobilo escaped unhurt. That auto must have been & tough customer. It reminds us of the negro \yho the train knocked off the track. Ho asked the conductor when he got to him if the engine had been injured. A TOU<iII PROBLEM* President Roosevelt is a political puzzle. In one breath ho takes the broad ground that all men are equally independent and have a right to exercise their individual judgment in political matters. In the next breath he declares that, he has no we lor any man who cares more about the defeat of a member of his own party who belongs to another faction than ho (bes lor the defeat of the common enemy, the Democrats. A FIRE IN SALUDA. The Saluda, N. C., High School building, a well arranged two-story brick structure, was burned to the ground at 11 p. m, Oct. 29. The building and furniture was Yalued at about two thousand dollars. There was no insurance. In addition to this the members of the Masonic Order, whose meetings were held in the hall on the second floor, lost all their regalia and paraphernalia, yalued at two hundred doilars. No insurance. CLEVELAND FAVORS TARIFF LEGISLATION. Ex-Prcsident Cleveland says: "I am especially pleased to learn that tariff reform has been made the principal issue in the canvass you have in hand. Never within my observation or experience has there bocn a time when this should be more earnestly, persistently and honestly pressed upon the attention of our wuuti j mtm vuaii UU\T THURSDAY AT THE FAIR. Thirty thousand people are a lot of folks to get into one comparatively small enclosure, but it is not so difficult when every one is on pleasure bent and is disposed to accept with good grace any amount of pushing and shoving and too pinching?-justto keep things in a good humor. ? Lockhart Junction News. The cold breath of winter came in upon us sinco my last letter, making fire and heavy clothing feel comfortable. The harvest is about over and the summer is ended and the crops are all gathered; and what next, are we all saved? They have at our depot a very strango clock as little as you might think about it. It is self-winding. I setting and run by electricity. The agent has nothing to do with it, he never has to wind it, it does its own Sork and keeps correct time. This >oka like the next thing to perpetual motion. This is U, S. observatory time. j Mrs. Etta Kelly, who had an operation performed on her eye, by Dr. Ileintish, of Spartanburg, some few weeks ago, is going around again all. rfeht. , * I In answer to Mr. Vox's math*iqathical question about the olotik, I will Ray at no time between 6 and 6 o'clock tho hands will be at right angles to each other, it haa to be at directly 5 o'clock before they will be at right angles to eaoh other. k Moxy* . - ? T i. ? - . . T*