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_ THE_NEW
~WINNSBORO. S. C.THU
LeJ- XX-No 37.
- RANDON RWiJ%LLITIONS'
OF AIFI~JDCOUNTY
'(BY,W. J. ELTOTT.)
Fairfield county had .two men
as citiiens whose main character
istics were their courage. They
could always be cotnted on in
any energeney during the Recon
struction period-and never fail
ed. They vere brothets, one
naied Jack and the other John.
A great many people thought
Jack was- zamed John- but his
realname was Jackson. They
were sons o -oldman' Bob Me
Carley who was a decided char
acter himself.:. My maternal
rand mother, who was born in
where most
ftheSote Irish in Faiffield
carge from, told me that Robert
M6Carley's father was sheriff i
reland and owned a gieat many
horses ard hounds which, Ishe
said, accounted for the sporting
blood in the McCarleys in Fair
field 'She told me that the sheriff
ha Robert plaiting potatoes in
Irelandin some very long rows,
ing.veary of such com
it ,d planted
'to the en.d
t the basket down on th
tund. The sheriff looked fo
Robert to come back in a certair
time, but the., next he heard:o
~Rbert was by letter 'from Amer
:awhere he"had'one and fron
whene he never returned. Dur
ing tie: CivilN,'aroRobert Me
Carey ept a pack of bloo
he-nds with which he chase
-anaway negroes, -and i Siomf
st:ances Yankee soldiers. Jus
jPre ions to-the war he and on
o* s"brotheits, Hugh, "Ithihk
in D 'McCadey. once tok
out-a wagon togo t<
They zot the wagor
'st finished but did not
~fQO'~OWD a, Juio. D.
ttcoine t
he said, the3
sey(thrXh1
. eidi th.e hj
eni Robert-for
k:dont drive sc
fynaefed esewt.-men,
Carleys were goOd
*-s gn lBr ttrot
dareeiahead Iuge
d thsgenet emarkHugh
ntlofhi fine aue a
dchureaIKwld Roet fo
sayo were dai drver sc
analy in theas on,
eselrthersCagoeng were groom
innsor tgeter wreo wroe
'r e' og we one remark fe
te ofhr: "Ine qualitest-se
der epl was burid ye't Con
ovehuic, wit woe"ud ot doe
buggy, yond were aon. er.ia
on DMcCarley thwas oner
een tobein the ary. Two of
esearotieat oinontelloms
bor aopniohn ne reakedm
mand wither John the besd my
yarne mae itherd ie rsin."
face wasl s, and y jes
exploit, wiat hye" anud not twear
a:~t- e hato was th suboest.I
a dwn on theyast, in the
abgys ald et, tho pope.a
eJon D.eCarltey food the sold
y un ffering thedwar. so Mc
Martle o Mti ello neasly
- brved Comnin the am cadom
mandec with Johdg aond mayt
yan hae occurd him Join Mc
2 efac was s ad,ly ou byet
h ion tha hegeoand ot show
rivthad' bt wear a bonnet.'l
etow sonthe noasw seyil
aysi caeed it hfule ha
aren nocked al the oorhe ad
saley was Martcomienearly
hav ve"nting we handohin
mesielc with ao hnity sarud,i
give e satidg Bior yu get
womn thshedigtt ae and tso
hasolwmen nol sre.g thisl
art oeen fithfully inc
caught :'okd atshe doo ndl
sted.Wit fork fof butaze
mentand eclamfocng ofwur
prie Well agpoo, eopsai, ys
Joh, if cant hav nohinwho
has willoed heor husanin oure
woausnuf. She st bae and
haf'orcilvde all hugh This
cameepig with e a camuhp
ofe"Ho and Jx~~on f bacon
i we 1 cand noan wo
said they put it in a "bull rus
basket and he trotted out to fill
up his old womans haversack,
keeping Bill Martin hid behind
the hedges. As he returned to
the house .with the basket he
told Bill to move, on behind the
hedge. _So, Bill Martin's' sun
bonnet served a double purpose.
Martin was a daring soldier as
any in the army. I've been told
that to escape capture when the
chances were against our men he
grabbed Geieral Forrests' horse
around the neck and locking his
legs over the saddle, and this
while the horse was running
away, safely effeeted his escape
from capture. Martins people
were also Scotch Irish.
Jno. McCarley could tell a story
different ,from most men. He
told me that while in Savannah
he "wanted. to visit Anie," :but
having no decent pants thought
he would try to borrow a pair.
No one could help him out. So
waiting till General Forrest went
to sleep he quietly slipped to the
edge of his tent and stole the
generals pants. They were, he
saidi ten inches too long. Know
Jing that there was a broad axe
in camp he searched till he found
.it and in 'his haste and excite
m&tt the slope on one leg
different trb:'the otherrc e.
was short in froiht'an a fie other
short'-in the heel-but in this
garb he went to see the present
J Mrs. Annie McCarley. Another
visit to Miss. Annie lead:to his
" capture. He was visiting or
I living at Blackstock when Sher
t nan came through and he tarried
too long, was cut off by the
"Yankees in Duffy's Woods near
'the Shannon iace and taken to
,"Laurens to jai. The first night
Ion the way tihecaptured Con
federates were .lac d in Tom
Perry's screwpit.while two Yan
kees marched ar-und the pit all
night. John, said there. was 'a
sow and 8 or 10 pigs in the pit
and.that he kept the boys awake
and enlivened by hunking them
with pigs-that as. soon as asol
dier would get to sIeep' he would
Sehunk a pig-n s breasand
ake him up,
:The'seriouspart of the capture
dered-17 of these meni, perhaps
Ithese.re tobe shot They
ere-lined un, against the yard
all and John. says his father
was caling out, won't some good
man.pray for. these poRr boys,
for God saket, some one utter a
Iod'df-prayer-them. McCarley
told -he that he heard the clatter
a horses hoof at a high rate of
Ideed ounding nearer every min
jnte. The tension was at the
busting point-the arrangements
were about complete. The rider
arried .a couriers flag in his bat,
he darted up to the wall and
handed a note to the officeer in
charge. It read thus.
"Headquarters in the field,
Feb. 27, 1865.
Maj. Gen. W. T.-Sherman,
I U. S. Army.
General: Your communication
ofthe 24th reached me to da~y.
In it you state it has been offi
cially reported that your foraging
parties were "murdered" after
capture, and yonr go on to say
that you have- ordered a number
of Confederates to be so "mur
dered.
nYou characterized your order
iproper term, .for the public
voice, even in your own country,
where it seldom dares to express
in vindication of truth, honor or
justice, will surely agree with you
in' pronouncing you guilty of
murder if your order is carried
out.
Before discussing this portion
of your letter I beg to assure for
every soldier of mine murdered
byyuIshall hage executed at
ince two of yours, giving in all
cases preference to officers who
may be in my hands.
In reference to the statement
you raake regarding the death of
your foragers, I have only to say
that I know nothing of it: that
no order given by me author
izes the killing of prisoners after
capture., and that I do not believe
my men killed any of yours, ex
Icept under circumstances in
Iwhich it was perfectly legitimate
and proper they should be killed.
It is a part of the system of the
thieves whom you designate as
your foragers to fire dwellings of
those citizens whom they have
jrobbed.
To check this inhuman system,
which is fully execrated by every
civilized nation, 1 have directed
my men to shoot down all of your
men who are caught burning
houses. This order shall remain
i force as long as you disgrace
the profession of arms by allow
ing your men to destroy private
dwellings.
You say I cannot, of course,
mmestin yao rio-ht to foages on
the country. It is a right as old
as history. I do not, sir, ques
tion this right. But there is a
right older. even than this one,
and one inalienable. The right
that every man has to defend his
house and protect those whd are
dependant on him; and from my
heart I wish that every old man
and boy in my country who cani
fire'a gun -would shoot down, as
he would a wild beast, the men
who are burning their houses,
desolating their country and in
suiting their women. You are
particular in defining war rights.
May I. ask if you enumerate
among them the right to fire upon
a defenseless city without notice,!
to burn that city to the ground
after it had been surrounded by
the authorities who claimed,
though in vain, that protection
which is always accorded in
civilized warfare to. non-:cornbat
ants, fire the dwelling houses of
citizens after -robbing them..and
perpetrate even darker crinies
than these crimes, too black to I
mention.
You have permitted, if not or
dered,. the commission of these
outrages against humanity and
'the rules - of war; 4ou fired into
the city of Columbia. without.a.
word of warning, after its sur
rendet by the mayor,' who de
mrimtd protection. of private
propery>"ou laid waste the
whole city p asheq,leaving amid
its ruins th usa- ld 'men
and helressVo en and cIfah'
who are like io perish of stdr
vation and exposure.
Your line can be traced by the
lurid light of burning houses, and
in more than one of these house
holds there is au agony far more
bitter than death.
The Indian. sealped hisvictimn
regardless'. of sex or age -but
.with all his barbarity, ie always
respected the persons of his fe
male captives. Your soldiers,
more savage thAn the Indians,
insult those whose natualpro-,
tectors:are absent.
In conclusion, I have only_to
.request that when you have any
of mI men disposed of. or "mur
dered," for the terms- Npe4r to
be synonyms with
ri
itake ih the matter.
In the mea'time I shaI hold
fifty-sixof your men as )iastages
for those whomiyou'h( raered
to be executed.
I am, yours truly,
Wade Hamptn
Lieut. Gen.
'This is to my mind the most
excoriating letter one nan ever
penned'to. another, and when
Sherman got it, he, ae the old
negro preacher said of the Prodi
gal Son, "come to heis self."
None of the men werer shot.
Sherman carried them with him
to Bentonville, N. 'C., .where
Hampton charged his rear to re
lieve these men and McCarley
escaped unhur-t in the fight.
Jno. D. McCarley passed to his
reward a few years ago, his fun
eral was said to have been the
largest ever attended in Winns
boro.
Rion Y. M. C. A. Notes.
IThe next number on the Rion
Greenbrier Lecture and Enter
tainmentCourse will be on Fri
day night Feb. 1?. at 8 o'clock at
the Rion Y. M. C. A. building.!
A musical and literary treat is in
store. In addition to the Caro-d
lina Male Quartette of Columbia,
which is the musical attraction
secured for 'this number, Mrs.
S. C. Byrd of Chicora' College,
wife of President Byrd. will ac-e
company the quartette with read
ings and recitations. Madame!
Byrd is a charming entertainer
and with the superb 'music by
the quartette an excellent pro
gram is assured. A piano has
been placed in -the Y. M. C. A.
for the occasion. Admission,
adults 2.5c, children under twelve
Two afternoons each week has
been arranged so that the free
use of the hot and cold shower
baths and other games is turned.
over to the ladies of the comn
munity. A married lady will
chaperone the gatherings and no,
men or boys will be allowed in:
the building on these afternoons.
The afternoons are Tuesdays and:
P$days from 2:30 to 5:30. The
f.-'ial opening will be Friday
Feuary 11. All ladies of the
community invited free.
A half dozen or more young~
people were entertained by Mrs.
L. D. Adams in her charmingly
original manner last Friday even
ing. After enjoying a course'
dinner, the guests were invited
to go to the - picture theatre.
where the rest of the evening
a e igohtfully spent.
ROCKtFE
An OrganizatioAn-,
be'i'All Sk
Editor iNews an
The fkst societ
ganize4in the
is the Rock Cr
Societ of Sch
13," a d the ladI
mmit "are toi
gettin up an
useful and bene
neigh -hood at
meet te'a monh,
ent ho ses .of th6"
it will- seen b
societ .s const'
low tbt their, a
and e hoype that th
more speieties otJ *e:
lishe-d in i;he rnraL,
'Tts purposes.,:;
womenof'the .
come to know 0ne
may hivearich
may-wrk ge
termerito'
families andA ..
help n k
center z
and beai
will esp
gether, suchd s
school en e
s_chools ' peI-,e n,
'st'dy
economes
day's-?5r
ing thrm ..
sire for
To
order t-,
all our .eoVl
inffuencef
ment;
plied wt1
fluencea
all hav
velop
oca
v610p
re<
ava
blessing
Guest
inexaberit '
lub. Ti~
shall be'
adserni~i
dent.to.Iresid
and to call exte
treasurer ShaT0"
the orders of the~
account afsame
ly reports '.f dU
The duties of'ti$
shal] be to idii
of the president t
of meetings and keda
of members. The'Ma
are the amount of each
age,s as their birthday c"
penny for each year.
The present officers are
W. B. Pearson, presid
May Blackwell, vicep
Miss Estelle Lyles, treasur
The organization is to be
mnded and 'we hope that
live and prosper* and reathli
ends for which it~aims
Well Known Confeder~a
Veteran Answers FinalW
Summons.
Mr. D. W. Tidewell die'at-lhis
home in the Longtown sectiorn o
Tuesday and his remains wer
laid to rest in the Presbyterian
cemeagof that place on W
nesdy-?attended by a -
numbesftfriends and relative
'The deceased was an excell
citizen and. ieighbor and as
a soldier as ever went to ~the.
front for the Confederate cause.
He was one of the first to enlist
from this county and was at the
battles of Manassus* .and Gettys
burg. He is sur,vged by his
wife and six song -and one
daughter.
Capt. John W. Lyles, Sheriff
Macfie noid D. H. Robertson- at- -
tended the funeral from Winns
boro.
WAill Sand the Streets..
Mayor Robinson informs the
News and [Herald man that he1
has made a contract'with 'parties'
at Smaliwood and Blythewood to
load on cars and furnish to the i
town a sufficient quantity of sand*
to put our streets in fine condie
tion. This is the best news yet.
With more cement walk than any.
other town in the State of its
zize, with a newly installed water
and sewerage syztem and lee-*
tric current and now first class'
roads in prospect, with the best
citizens in the world, and a cli
mate unsurpassed in winter and
summer, we can all look to a'
brig-hter davy
NE MAN 1IILLEOP
ANOTHERVOINDED
eodore Upton Runs Amuck
-on Greer Road.
Spartanburg, Teb. 7..-Theo
)re H. Upton, an employe of the
.ppalachia mill, near Greer, whc
in amuck on the highway lead
ig from Greer to the mill early
nday morning, killing Lafoy
[ims of Greenville county anc
ounding A. B. Waddell ol
reer, is in jail here awaiting at
ivestigation of his strange con
uct. Upton is a married. mat
nd is said to have several chil.
ren residing at Apvalachia
unday night he appered on th(
i-hway leading out from Greer
(ith a gun in his hand, demand
ig of those whom he met wha
ight they had on the road. H(
st encountered A. B. Waddell
kainst whose. stomach he thrus
#5*,gurz. which Waddell wrench
m his hand, but later re
, ed it to Unton.. to have him
- gain covered, and this tim
edin the shoulder. Fright
Waddell put off for an o
tibefore he had gone fa
...came upon three men, La
nis? John Walker ind Clii
n He demanded of thes
1they throw up their hands
ioh they did, but in spite o
disposition to surrender Ui
-fired upon Mims, shootin
trough the -heart and kil
iin'stantly*
W. faras has been develope
rpolie Upton had nothim
st Minisand it is possib]
edid not know him. Afte
- gUpton.remained at ti
thrown his gu
'timet and wi
- sam~e i
e o r
harge.
est held today faile
ny light upon the m
..The case is,r1
o of the strangestJ
s1affairs of he count:
Swept DoN
adtheCity i
freighters'on the Coi
er broke fr;om the
at Granby landing ye
and left for-an unschedu
i5iney down the swolle
!The Ruth II, the lar<
dhe finer of the two,. was ri
Hdufdand,late yesterday afte
Aqi,about 30 miles south of tj
limgand a party will go to h<
BKhis moruing. The City,(
bia is drifting soniewhei
nthe raging river, or in ti
nps below Columbia.
cables fastened the mis:
7 Cboai and several gasolirs
ches to a large tree. But ti
rose higher' than was e:
and pulling -the tree t
dIy-the boati became fre<
Tjhr arr~ and Henry Shai
MI atchmen, with two hell
s& ere aboard, and they crie
d&id. The crew of the goveri
~tdredge, which, was tie
~on. the side of the rivel
d the appeal, and Gax
adi the engineer, and a helpe
t to the rescue. They.oeve
kthe Ruth II and put t1
ur .occupants safely in the go'
nment life boat, but while c
eir way to a landing place, tk
e boat capsized and the si
e thrown into the watei
ey clung to trees until da
k came and governmei
ts rescued them.-The Stat<
eat Falls to Have, Moder
School Building.
The following is from a recee
sue of the Anderson Intell
~encer:.
SWe understand Great Fal
w-ill construct one of the moi
~nodern school buildings in uppe
south Carolina.
jSupt. T. B. Felton has receive
letter from Mr. George I
3own, state supervisor of ruri
Ichs, stating that he and M1
SMebane, president of th
I at Great Falls, S. C. woul
X& nderson early Tuesda
rning for the purpose of vil
the new school building i
ite Plains.
Mr. Mebane wishes to yis
White Plains school in orde
ecome more familiar with th
ls of its construction, wit
view of building one at Gret
ls like it, except of brick,
te Mr. Brown.
his is just another instan<
t shows how Andersce count
king the lead in the buildin
to-date and modern scho'
dings, which are so convei
,and so much like the
-iud be, that other people het
~hem and come to see thei
the object of building al
er like them.
SEVERAL IHOUSAND
PERSONS HO rELESS'E
Breaks In Arkansas River Le
vees Disastrous to Large1
Section.
Little Rock, Feb. 6.-The a
rapidly widening lake in south- ]
eastern Arkansas, fPrmed by the ti
flood Waters of the Arkansas C
River pouring through breaks-in d
the levees, had engulfed a score
of towns tonight, leaving several b
thousand persons homeless. Six- a
teen lives have been lost in the l
last few days. and damage that -
will probably run into hundreds IE
of thousands of dollars has re
sulted in the rich, farming tern
tory.
Still greater damage is feared t
if the Mississippi continues to b
rise as in the last few days. Pre
dieated stages at Arkansas City t
would endanger the levees there'q,
and a break in' the Mississippi
levees would precipate a serious
' situation in the river valley
All day the 700 men who re
mained in. Arkansas .City toiled
in an effort to strengthen the
levees against the fast rising I
F waters and tonight they were
hopeful that the levees would
hold and the town be saved. The
narrow strip of levee is the only"
land in sight there. On one side
9 is the river, swollen untl its sur
face is 15 feet above the level of
the town. On the othe side of
the levee is the-great f-od JakeP
.nearly 40 miles'long and 20 miles
ewide. From it only the upper
stories of buildings in ArIansas
e City protrude. At the levee are
n three steanboats, one. of w
- . is ready to carry the worke
> :safety should they lose their a
. te with the frood.' They arelv
n the second stories ofthr
in box cars on he]
Ihomes
leSee- rose twe te,t
n Today the t a
r of a foott s.
sas City and s'stil
jly tonigb.
4t h e ff Weood.
of aritoday. At Games Land
r- ing, four miles north o k4e
erVillage, 400 persons we& on the,j
- levee tonight with'out sh.iter.
- IResidents of Lake Village went !
n in boats t &-e court house to
day whete they planned to send
- a rescue fleet of rowboats to
7- Gaines Landing.
e In Clarendon, on the White
e River, where the levee broke
f last night water tbday is six feet
e in the -highest portionsa of the
e town. The river had attained a
stage of -37.4 feet and still is ris
~-ing. Little is known of conidi
'tions in the rural distriets of the
e flooded area, but there seems lit
a tIe doubt,that many who reftised
to leave their homes in face of
. repeated warnings have perished.
- Fred J. Henry of Washingtbn,
- meteorologist in charge of the
river and flood division .of the
- United States Weather Bureau,
who is in Little .Rock, declared
,that a condition. similar to that
which now exists in Arkansas
has never before occurred in the
- history of the Weather Bureau.
e "Heavy snow followed by thaw
-and heavy rains in Illinois and
i other Northern States has caused
e a rise in the upper Mississippi
River," he said. "The Ohio was
-flooded in its lower course and
general rains in the valleys of
it the Arkansas, Red.. White and
. other tributaries of the Mississ
ippi have flooded the latter river
i until it will require nearly a I
month for the water to run out.
The swollen condition of the
t Mississippi has made the Arkan
i- sas River flood much' more dis
astrous than it otherwise would
have been."
Cadet William Dixon of Clem
son College spent the week end!
with his parents .here, en routeI
tYokto stand the examination.I
for West Point.
dMr. W. F. Stevenson,' candidate for
congress, states that be is, still for road
;- improvement by the Uuited States Gov
it enent: First, because it uses our
roads to carry the mails; second, be-!
t cause it benefits practically everybody;
Er third, because our states 'sd counties
e in 1914 spent $249,075,067.0' on public
h roads and the United Stat s Govern
it ment used 1,220,579 miles oIf thenm in
'I crrying the mails, and spent nothing.
Or states, counties, and townships willi
:e be loaded down with debt scon to build
Y and maintain roads for the national
government to use. Congress spent
50,000 on an experimental road or t'wo
1- in 1914; and fourth, because the 'United;
States Government has spent 3475,000,
Lr 000.00 on river work to make water
1l transportation. Now help the -ir tand
1- jfarmer by fixing his road a little.
piscopal Pastor
Parish Workt
(From The N .
Ready tobei -
gainst the.
ev. Dr. Jame" , - -',
rcently - oi
hurche
ay morning t
'ices of the
ict of the- -t L
:perinted
Lfl clergynia!i,
trge salary to
mount in. the'
ption in11,ti
ived hun-.
flegriamsof
is arrival iit~;-;
He is the fir4
serve as.sue
sagueand as:",
eived into tha<
aith'in. this,
ecessors were
he league re
comnunikatiol
'edeikorp
he. Churh e
.nEpiscopaan~
ector emeritise f<2
Mhurch.. Te
ear-til congrt
n
nave
Mia X)
ntellhgent<
sen
-hey are
Erohibition
they nrsai
"M n m ii
peakIn. the,
week~ nd inproly
aen of afasiirs
md some
New York Jity hei
will stand sqar*f h
who vote in -aoo
them to settl e j7
ion inm errptv
ioods. I il e-y
elp in thiese b ~ 1
.. hTave oeeygk&
n the lhquertflrd
vising them to.gt(U2
~etting lisgoodkiK
we arep
iational-poiit~-y
in orgamiai* n~~
m publihe tiet
ional rhhtd
bif as a seii ,
no onbt im-~y~x
than half tearea
Greater New Yorklk~
election- distrieti'o
part ofBrkyn) b .
apper part .o .M~
some neighbom*oods int.
sections of tAl ity& wR
this featurd'
The new .supermn
ready has niani' ~
speak in Episoalt
well as those o oerK '
nations.
Mr. E. R.Licas,we
Mr. T. K. Elliottas ai~
the Fairfield' Cotton
live in.Chester where
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