Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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It was established by the families from old Union County, S. C., most of whom I have already spoken and they gave it the name which it still bears and which they airbed to commemorate as their old native home and the Rev. Ambroso Ray was the first pastor. The church is about one mile west of Joncsboro post offic\ but of late years there has grown a beautiful little village close on the west ot the church until now it is really in thd village of Chaybebate Spring. There is also a Methodist church clo?o by but as there was no service at that church while the writer was in this section consc quently he did not learn very much; in fict there was so much rain, hail, fleet and mud that it was next to impossible to get out anywhere most of the time, but the singing at the Union church would certainly bring a large crowd at any and all timo3, regardless of the weather or the mud. It was a great treat to listen to the I singing as they sang many familiar Padgett Creek songs though thoy have different books. Bit it made 1 the writer feel that he was back in ! South Carolina once more. Well, as I have already spoken of the mud j and bad weather and as Sputh Caro- v Una people arc very much accustomed j to such things I will only relate my t firat experience of the' Mississippi ^ weather aa I had said in my list lct^ * ter that the rain began juat aa I lefc j the state line of South'Carolina and t continued all the way to Middleton, a lefc m03t of bag=5;1Se i, fttfltodletown not expecting to stay b While the cloud7were 'very'gelf&Potfy to let us got to Joneaboro without 0 fetting wet as well as muddy. ^ [owever we had only been at our 1 typical South Carolina home a few 8 hours before the fierce storm began"' to appear, though very gentle at ( first, in fact all soemod very moderate c until after dark and then the wind began to howl and the cedars would moan and a chilly brcese would make , us feel like we were sleepy. Well, , what kind of weather there was dur- , ing Sunday night January 2G, 1002 , the writer will nover know. Bijt the next morning was one of those inde* scribable days they have in the sunny south. It had rained during the night, it had sleeted and it had snowed and blown. But it was so ?' '? a.. COKl On ivionuay uuc wu><4 hardly live outside and all day it sleeted and snowed and was almost as dark as night. In fact, wc could not tell when it was time to cat except by looking at the clock. The next day was almost as bad and the third day was still as dark though not so cold. But never a sight of the sun and the fourth, fifth, sixth seventh, eighth and on the ninth day at about 3 p. m. the sun made a shadow of appearance insomuch that the writer could discern that the sun was still in view of the earth during all these dreary days. Those good natured people had been trying to explain that nothing bofore had ever been equil to that one occasion. However we had hoped io to bo true, and were very much inclined to believo that very seldom such things would happen. However wc were very grateful for a great deal of information which wo received fiOm these good peoplo during tbeso dark days. " * .! !_ 1JI f Une acount we mina wduiu uo ui interest to some of our oM friends as it relates to the shrewd less of one of Union county's son3 who l.ai made hit homo in Tippah county ever since th3 war. The story wis told the a writer by no old Miss'siippian who * says that it it impostib'e (o get ahead of a S uth Carolina boy. He says that a South Carolina boy who lost one leg in the lost cau-e aod later moved to Jonesboro, being a lover of bunting ail fnhiog and while out in the woods j ist north of where the ?V Union church stands this youog fd low found a bea tree. (Amy native Oarolinan kn-ivt all abmt baa trees] Well this young fellow told a lot ol th3 3 nail boyi who frcqmuteJ this part of the woi)dj that they mint not /b;tlur the tree rs it was his and he w >ul I let them k:io v when he got ready to cat it in the fall of the yo ir. Taes> b oya were very much like other b>y?, s> they flunked down thjro ono Saturday night before d*-k ail b?gan cutting tho tree. Tne s>uad of their axc-scju d be (We i.ic'.lj beard at th) ho in i of tho S u'.h (J.irolioa soldhr. Tho oM MiasisiippUo siystohim: "I believe s >nnb >dy is cutting jour bee tree, Icu'a go over t-ee wh i it is." S > they started but ai it was about a mil? and over r>ugh hill aidts thoy were quite a while geS tlog there and j nt before tiny got ia sight tho giaut treo in ue duw.i with a crash. S >on they were at tho trei 1 where thoy f >utd in <ro lha i a d. z-n i of tho school boys, all b ire foo'e 1 with i very few clothes oi anl ih?uy <? I them ! a I taken i fl thoir shirts wail i chopping on the great tree. A < 8 k>., < ai tho boyi saw thc?c two mm thoy > all stopped chopping out the houej j and b?guu g z og at the men f ?r . ttiey knew the tree rightly b longed | to the one, but as the S >uth Carolina youug man (as ho was at that time) s?.w his best chance to got even. S) 8 he sai 1 to thi b >ys in a very plensn-.r r tone of voict: "S?y boye, is there 3 m jc'j honey?" Tne biys replied the> j1 were juit getting iuto the honey. S tno S uth Ciroliua man says well 0 hurry up boys and lets have sjine a to eat. S > the boys chipped away 1 again whi e the South C?r:>)iua mau i1 g?t nearer to where the bec3 were, t; By tho lima ho got to where the bee* it were the boys had the log all ch>pped fi ind split so that one couM easily get a '.o a'l the honey as weil as the bee*, u; rhe bo,*s w\ro moving very careful 0 md had smoking r.iga to keep the 0: )eis away from th?m. So this >?u'h Cirolina man say*: "Well p, >nys, I'll show you the best way to r it these he s " S > he hsd all the ^ >)ye give him their smokes, thou he ire the pieces of wotd away throw r' ng the bees in all directions at far as . te could, theu took a brush aud . wept every be3 out a .d threw them Is nto th9 air as high va p sdble, but In ef>re he had all his cxnpleted every au f their voices. S >mo of them were s) w iidly stung that they wero not able at o atteud school f>r sorao time and si 01118 did i t find their ax?a f >r pcveral p [ays, aftd every one of those b ?ys arc he very beot friends to thai S >ulh u Jarolina man to ihu da/ and all ua- vj lerstocd the j ?ko loug bef r they n iould appreciate it. ,1 Mr. 1% litor, in my last letter you ^ livle me say the roads were fuU ot water when it should have bceu the . iv )o3s, NVith be s. wish-.s to oue and ill I will closn with success to The Timej. ' W. G IUiley. ? NFWS AROUND SANTUC. \c "From the friendly moon devoutly shine With radiance sooiliibg, soft benign, ? It's pure light u secret fair betriys. Loving ij ieriei giv:n read aright, a Speakiug eye* in eyes responsive glance, Iland encountered hand, but not by ( chance, < 'Mid a sacred silence of delight." f What's that! The eloquence of silence? It is not everybody who can read his "titles" clear on all things. Miss Fannie Bobo, who visited here last week, has returned home, by way of Union. I hope she had a very pleasant time while in our section. Miss Estello Thomas, properly a . Santuc girl, but now of Charleston, is visiting here a few days. Then she will go to 'the mountains, then her visit will be from the "Soaboard to the mountains." With her genial and very social rainners towards all. Miss Bessie Randolph, (another Santuc gir.) of Lindrum, is viei ing her relatives, the family of Mr. J. W. Gregory. My letter before this took a trip around by Washington, and came near being too late to "get its name in the p>t," but I hopo tun will be willing to stop at home. lt^v. W. II. White preached at the Presbyterian ehurch Sunday. His text was fiotn Is 48.10, and ho gave us a good sermon. lie attend ed the Baptist Stindiy Sehool in the morning and taught the Bible class. Wo may look out f >r another hot wave. It is in the Northwest and is coming East. At Miles City, Mont1, i the temperature was at 100 on the 19th, and away up in 90 at Dodge i City on the 19th. I We sec a smoky condition of the I skies and beneath, whioh tnay bo ' / the drift from tho forest ftreeof Ne England. Tho Weather Bureau no w mts observati ms taken all o?pr th Union, of smoke in June, tb See ho* f >r aud in what direction?tho cxten <>f tho drift?of smoke from tfies fires. " Sunday is a great day for\crowd to be seen going to the river. Som can scarcely take the time to gjjLii the week, though thoy could ?ei more; the men i^ould bo at work aod snq^o go on Sunday becauso the ineh arfe not at work, f have hcarc that among the negroes'it is a veri rougn crowd; and that Sunday's art good days for gambling. Mr. Tcnney has sent down another traction engine, and is now hauling heavy stuff, such as boilers and engines; they run ''double-head trains," There seems to be much trouble and break downs in moving ..no of the big GO h. p. boilers whic'i veighs 17,000 pounds, on a 2,200 sound wagon, and about 3,000 oounds of sills, make quite a load fir >ad.dirt roads. Negroes will "spit things out" ometimes. Sunday cveuing two' iegroe3 pissed our door talking, eominglv trying to keep no secrets, nd one asked? "That such and such ooking oue, what is his name?" and n being told said, "Well he and so n i si (one of our home filks) tried heir best to chca' those fallows, but t was no go." They passed on ilking, and bting strangers I took ; for granted they were negroes 'om the d im, and thoy were talking bout gambling over there, anil that lay bo why sitno people go there n Sundiy. I saw that so-and-so a the way there. Last week I tried it back on the Tin. On the "heels" of a hard tin work was much needed, hands w and crops were rapidly "going ick," 1 had one Hand (myself) and went at it, and I did the best that could, and the result is, our band not behind everybody else. But one way I paid for it, for my face inhumed, and cutting grain my BMLM i??4 ? j I?,liL?. mn . ere full of briars. I guewraosf w of the farmers will know how ich a change of work will effect a eraon. : ii 1-:-~ vjrins urc ucctiaiuuuiiy ummh^ excursion trips" to Neal's Shoals iewing the progress of the work and o doubt enjoy the scenery. They oubtlcss toe many big, strange job*, ladies have not generally tho opporinity to sec and ob3crvo works of be mechanic arts, as have men? ometimes they do not care to?not eing interested, as are men; and ume won't when thoy can, but this lam being built right here gives inbnv f us an opportunity to see a big hing, bigger than any of us thought ;oing on, and it has hardly started. Common farm cattle, with scared iscentionists behind the rn may get >ver the ground pretty fast, but re:ently I was amused at a groundiquirrel trying to outrun itself it teems. I was standing still in a i?rain field and saw one coining and when it got by ray side it began to cut of some heads cf wheat for breakfast; then I moved; and all of the hurry it made turning around and making for a pile of cornstalks about thirty yards off, you scarcely ever see and it was hollering every jump, its Heart must not nave s opped beating till noon, I gqt sorry for the little fellow. I wish you could have seen a bug gy I saw a few diys ago, but perhaps it answered tho purpose, it wai home patched. The sides of th< body were one inch rough edges oak corner pieces scrap pine, nailed witl twenty penny nails, gum bcltin/ uxlc washers; felloe plates for rub locks Clu'ino sack cushions, shaft of crooked sapling or crooked a some folks lives; mackintosh overcoa and capo for full dish and back.?I was a daisy hut the fellow went t Tin inn nnil rami* hae.W with a hriorh red new one hitched on his old on< or the skeleton, and towed it houn perhaps for a relic. ,/rhe condition of cotton is not firi rhte by a great many odds. All i that hoed before the hard rains < the 11th is down, tangled, and lyric towards the four points and interim diato points of the compass, like i whole car load of topers full of fori , red whiskey all in a pile; and plo^ i ing of this, to save it will neoe3?ita much tediousness. and will be altr r-r.,.-1 * w ai|J farthers being in a groat nee< w for work, may lose much patience 01 e it,;1)Ut ttys may bo the tedious am really troublesome time. That par t of the crop not hoed is doing badli c arid is.either promenading with, o: ailttiag In the corner with ruucl ss btick grass?is in such bad company b that it is losing much of ifs one time 1 beauty. Hut I will not tell just how u wooly 8nne has gotten to he, whcthei the* !> >? v-"? 1 1 uuo ucru turned into pasi tures-green, or whether the grass is I -a land Octopus, or the dam business ' is on tfbmc peoples brains too much > t > work their crops. * Hey Denver. r ?: ?- ? . NEWS LETTER From Air. W. Eugene Cooke, si Former Editor of The Times. Journey Through The hiiul of Flowers. Orange Groves. Beautiful hekes. A Pistol huw. Dear Mr. Editor:?I cannot fully express the comfort and pleasure I realized from reading the copy of The.Times that has just reached me.j As stated in my last letter I am moving up through Georgia toward Carolina. I hope to reach home in a very few weeks. I like Georgia pretty well. The section around hero reminds me very much of the "lay of land ' in Union county. The Flint river, which is a navigable stream, winds its way around the western part of the city. It flows towards the gulf of Mexico, and is plied by small steamers between Columbus and Chattahoochee or probably Appilachicola. I aui not sure on the last point. The principal industries here are navaUjitores and lumbering?farming is earned on?to a considerable extent I was amused at the expressions of a gentleman here a few days ago. lie asked me if I had ever visited Suintcr, S. C. I informed him that , I had and lived only 35 miles east t f , the town. Then ho said, "Well, ( Suoiter is the prettiest village I have . overmen in my life; 1 spent frix | yaqothA there very pleasantly. I , tell you ono thing theseTiUUllf'Ouifc ?jlinans will fight it .J?" >??< "ct Rmiaro with them, ana thev will whin 1 \ - ' j r you euro if you don't look careful." Tro gentleman went on to say lie regarded South Carolina as the groatest State in the LTnion, and his opinion was promptly seconded by another gentleman present, and applauded by myself. But I will return to Florida. I spent my first week in that State at j Orlanda and I was completely enpti vated by the } lace. Orlanda is the capital of Orange county, and derives i s name from a Spaniard named Orlanda, who was captured and adopted by the Indians. I was shown the tree beneath which Orlanda was buried. The old land mark is yielding rapidly to the ravages of time and will soon fall in decay. The country around Orlanda is lovely. The orange groves and pine apple pineries are beautiful and appeal very strongly to the aesthetics. An orange grove, well kept, ia nhrmf. nrAtt.v n<i nnv prnnr>rxr I havo ever seen. The lakes in Florida are phenomi nal. At Orlanda there was one in front of the Lake View house where ! I boarded. It was almost circular ' and was perfectly placid except the wavelets uiado by the breezes. Luke ' Lucereno, on the South, was euchant1 ing. It covered several hundred 3 acres and was as round as a dollar. 3 Its banks were fringed with a pretty * and well matured growth of shady 1 trees. In tho oentro was tho arc ? light. A dozen or more pelicans, perfectly turned, played on the sur 8 iaco of the water. Around the lake 8 was a in teadam driveway, ant! I benches were placed at reasonabh ' intervals for tired sirollors. Fishir.j 0 (-macks and nopthas lay around tin II shore. "> At 1 urita tiorda I was completer 8? carried awav with the water scenery Charlotte harbor is enchanting nni an extensive fishing business is car ried on there, principally by Nortl Carolinians. The d>?ily catch amount '8 to several hundred barrels. e~ My next point was Braidentown M the capital of Martha tee county, an from there I went to Tamb on the steamer Manatee. For th tc first time in my 1 ifj I got boyon tv' I sight of land. Ahead of us was tl ? , ; il steamer Plant, and we amused ou? ? r? solves betting in whether the Moua] tee was gaining on the steam* r Plant. 1 The ladies gov enthused and offered |r to bet a plate of ice cream that we r were running down the Plant. I 1 caught the contagion and got on the r affirmative side?and we won by just i missing. Our steamer could not land ahead, but we diilu't know it. Whcu we landed the crowd got scatt< red and the ice cream was ' cut i out." i Those who visit Florida should not fiil to see Silver Springs. 1 stopped there for dinner, hut while the passengers were regaling themselves with substantial edibles, I, with a Northern lady who was as deeply in'crested as myself, went down to the Springs, just a little way. The water is as clear as glas{, and you can sic down to the bottom, s 'mo CO feet deep. There is one place called the "ladies parlor" that is a marvel. The subterranean growth, with the moss coverings, i look somewhat like a furnished par? l.ir, and is indeed very interesting, i Crystal river is also interesting. You < I can see fish five or six feet long at a j (depth of sixty feet. Thi? 5? ??? ^ iU liV lAOU J story." t Crystal river is whore the Faber < and Dixon Pencil Co's Cedar Mills ( are located. 1 was told that these i companies get thiir entire supply of ^ ced.ir at this place. It is very jitter- n ostirg'to sec the numerous little raws <: in operation. I will add, en passant, c that I met Dr. Fant, a cousin of John v A. and P. E. Fant, at Crystal river, s This river is eight miles long and is o fed entirely by springs. The water o is perfectly clear, and flows into the n Gulf of Mexico. . e It might be interesting to say n something in reference to the pistol c law in Florida. A man who carries a pistol in that State must first cxc- L cute a heavy bond; the consequence is there arc not many pistols toted, especially by the negroes. Another o rdmirable thing is, there arc veryJ?^ 'ew saloons in the Stato oqJ^P pities. . WcjU1I will stop. \V. Ern.ESB Cookb. tl Dainbridge, Ga. v ? v Washington Letter. r V (From Our Regular Correspondent,) v Washington, D. C.,June 22. 11)03. f] The publication of the reply ot c Fourth Assistaut Postmaster Gen- c erul iiristow to me luuocn coarges j has been followed by the vociferferous demand, voiced on every side, j for the resignation of General Post f Master Paine. The Tulloch charges and the Bristow reply, at least the ^ inspector's report which accompanies that reply, all referred to conditions ( existing prior to the administration ( of General Postmaster Payne and he cannot be held responsible for those conditions, but in his sta'ement ac* companying the Bristow reply, Mr. Payne was so unfortunate as to say, ' The charge of Mr. Tulloch is in its essence a charge against President McKinley and Post master General Smith." Your correspondent has been assured by the Postmaster General that these words were in tended to explain his reluctance in making public the Bristow reply, which, by the way, sustains the Tulloch charges in even.' detail, hut the public and particularly the repebli can press have constructed Payne's statement to be a defense of himself, and in some instances, it is regarded as an attempt to besmirch the mein! ory of McKinley out of revenge tor , the fact that President McKinley refused to listen to Senator llanna's insistent' demand that he appoint I Payne Postmaster General. This i last assumption is undoubtedly a { great injustice to the Postmaster e General, nevertheless it has placed the President in a very trying posi p lion and it is still by no means cer. tain that he will be able to resist tho tl insistent demand for Payne's resignation. h As a result of the postal investigate tion, glaring violations are being dis covered in various Government do-* i, partments. The custom of filling d pnnll postoffices with superfluous a employees, then oatabli.shing freo dee livery, which by law '-covers all emd ploycfs into tho classified pervice," 10 and then transferring such employees HPi.vu A IJttAK. . g? | to other branches of the service has | becu extensive. In the Pension oilico attention has been called to the case of Mi? Nellie G. Terry, a niece of Henry Clay Evans, who was brought into the service in this way, her employment boing a defoat of the intent if not of the letter of the law and an injustice to thoso who have secured places on the ellegible-list by passing rigid examinations. Commissioner Proctor when interviewed on this subject said, "It is trne that evasions of the civil service regulations are still possiblo and are going on under the law. if the officio ? If UV administer it are inclined to be indulgent. But President Roosevelt has given us a strong moral support and at no timo since my ten years term of service began, has the civil service law been so well observed as at present." The State Department has just determined to make a most interesting exhibit at the Saint Louis Exposition. The exhibit will include many interesting souvenirs of Washington, La Fayette, Napolean, Jeffsrson and other Presidents. Tho sword that Washington received from Br deblock aud carried in all tbe batles of the Revolution will be incluled along with a number of more >rnntc swords presented to him. A jair of quaint eye glasses given to Washington by La Fayette will be imong the exhibits, as will also autojraph letters from nearly all the rowned heads of Europe. Thero rill be many interesting manuscripts hown, but the original Declaration f Independence will not make part f the exhibit as it has been deterlincd that it will not survive further xposurc to the light and air and is ow kept in an air and light proof ase. etter From Grindall Shoals. ? Curious happenings ?rrt " rf?S terfthc destruction on acolet river f saw one of my hens avo what I call fits; then in a day or 1 V" ?"?linr mntlQWI OP m ras I am not able to say. iiut since be destruction on this river I have rondered if those curious things rere the sign of its coming. Few eali/.c what damage the raging vatcr did on its way. The hill sides vhich caught the pressure of the urrent arc washed to the hard clay, rho ilats which the water had a :heck settled an eighth of an inch >r more. The damage is all along ts way. The ford at Mill Creek near here s somewhat dangerous as] the mud is lomething like 4 to 5 feet deep. It ihould be attended to at an early late. The work of getting out cloth and cotton is going on with a rush, a few it ad bodies are found now and then. ' Prepare to meet thy God." This passage of Scripture ought to be riveted to every individual mind for it seems as if God is angry with his people. We live in a state of unreadiness. one moment we arc enjoy * ing ourselves and next moment we are burled into eternity by the power of God. "Work while it is call today for the night cometh when no man can work." D. P. F. Fourth of July Fxctiraons via Southern Railway. The Southern Railway will sell Excursion t ickets to all points east of the Mississippi and south of tbe Ohio and Potomac Rivers at rate of one and one third fares for tho round trip, minimum charge fifty (50) cents. Tic kets on sale July 2nd, 3rd and 4th, with final limit to return July 8th. For full information apply to any agont of the Southern ltailway, or, R. W. Hunt. Division Passenger Agent, Charleston, S. C. Mr. Joseph Pominvillo. of Stillwater, ' Minn., after having spent over $2,000 with the host doctors for stomach trouble, without relief, was advised by his druggist, Mr. Alex. Richard, to try a box of Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets. Ho did so, and is a well man to-day. If troubled with indigesi tion, bad taste in the mouth, lack of appetite or constipation, give these tablets ! a trial and von are certain to he more than pleased with the result. For sale j at 25 cents per box l?y F. C. Duke, i' Druggist.