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Q. Frank Johnson, Secretary.
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J. J. MAJOR.
E. P. VANDIVER.
VANDIVER BROS. & MAJOR,
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Yours tiuly,
VANDIVER BROS. & MAJOR.
and Harness!
, Now is a good time to buy a new Buggy and Harness,
and we want you to look at our large stock of the latest and
best up'to-date styles, and it will be no trouble for you to
make a selection. Our work is all sold under guarantee. We
have extra bargains to offer. Give us a trial. Our prices are
\n^r and terms to suit.
THE J. S. FOWLER COMPANY.
P. S.-We have a few last Fall's Jobs to go at Cost.
MASTIC MIXED PAINT.
We Want lo Sell You Your Paint.
Come in to see us, and let us tell you all about it.
We have sold th?B Paint for many years, und all have been pleased who
need it. We have a fine selection of colors, and will gladly give you a card
showing them if you will call in and request same. Also, a full line of
Varnishes, Stains, Floor Paints,
Furniture Polish, Paint Brushes, Etc.
ORR, GRAY & CO.,
Next to Bank of Anderson. Beliable Druggists.
D. S. VA. NDIVER.
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Cotton Seed Meal, Ealnlt and all kinds off F?rtil i z ors
FLOUR, COFFEE. TOBACCO;
Bast grades for least money.
W Tour patronage appreciated.
Vjftv Your truly,
VANDIVER BROS.
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T?te Establishment has been Selling
Wy ANDERSON tot i?ore than forty years. Daring all that time competitors
' have come and gone, but we have remained right here. We have always Bold
Cheaper than any others, and during thoso long years wo have not had one dis
satisfied oustomcr. -Mistakes will sometimes ooour, and if at any time we
fonnd that a customer was dissatisfied we did not rest until we had made him
satisfied. This polioy, rigidly, adhered to, has made us friends, true and last
ing, and wo oan say with pride, but without boasting, that we havo tho conn
. i, dencoof tho people of this section. We havo a larger Stock of Gooda this
season than we have ever had, and wo pledge you our word that we have never
. , sold Furniture at as OIOBC a margin of profit as we aro doing now. Thie le
proven by the faot that wo are 'selling Furniture not only all over Anderson
County but in every Town in the Piedmont section. Come and see tis. Your
ip' ? . . parontB saved money by buying from us, and you and your children can save
jjoney by buying km Ho. Wo carry EVERYTHING in tho Furniture lino,
C F, TOLLY & 8QN, Depot Stout
" $he Old Reliable Furniture Doblero
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A man thinks it ia when the matter of life
inaiirance suggests itselfr-but dreutiastan- -
: <_ .', ces of late have shown how life hangs by. a
thread when war. flood, hurricane and fire
ki& V ^ . . a?dd?aly ovextak.^ yot?, ?md l^o bxiiy Wfay
igfeiCV1 " ' A,v!s' ' ? tobo st?ihit your fhmily is protected ia " "y
. case of cala> lifr overtaking you is to In? ?
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WAR SI
Cradle of Seonssion-(
markable Di?tri
Augusta (
000 of the most remarkable QUI till
areas of country io tho Union io
respect of the large number of dis
tinguished men that has been pro
duced, everything considered, is that
comprised in a circle of about 30
miles radius lying about the city of
Augusta, Ga. The centre of the dis
trict would probably lio a few miles
above Augusta, up the "Savannah
Valley." It is not a congressional
district, embraeing both Georgia and
South Carolina. It l?os among a
splendid a<jseioblf?o of productive
hills, that risc with their granite
foundations, irony red cloy subsoils,
and well watered, grassy sides, above
the monotonous sandy stretches going
out from Augusta to tho sea. Tho
district ic point does not include tho
city of Augusta properly, but is al
most wholly rural;, the largest town in
it today has only 10,000 iobabitants,
and tho next largost 2,000. Formerly
the urban population wao much less,
As we consider it, it is composed
almost wholly of plantations. There
aro thickly populated districts, prob
ably studded with towns of as small
general area in the Union that have
mothered as many tall sons, but it is
doubtful whether any other stretch of
as rural territory eau in such respect
bo compared with this. Here have
arisen men who had an earthquake
tread. It is not intended to debate
whether these mon were right or
wrong, or whether many of them de
serve the permanent title of greatness;
but that upon this little real stage of
life have been enacted scenes of great
national interest, by strong men
scenes whoso areas of interest have
stretched beyond the seas, and whose
afterclaps have shaken (though they
have sometimes shocked) this coun
try cannot be gainsaid,
In this district were born, reared
and hero labored the following men
John O. Calhoun, who twioo became
vice president, twioe secretary of war
once seoretary of State, and for a long
time a senator; widely regarded as the
most robust character that has ever
risen np from the South; William
Harris Crawford, who came nearly
being president in 1816, was once
seoretary of State, onoe minister to
France and for a long time senator;
Alexander H. Stephens, vioe presi
dent of the Confederacy, long time a
member of congress and a man of
singular ability; Robert Toomba, the
"Thunderer,*' who was the leader of
the Soqthern party with Jefferson
Davis during tba per'od j uni, proceed*
tho war and who, following the ?le?
vat ion of Stephens to the vuonnd sta?
tion in the Confederacy, became the
Confederate seoretary of State; Howell
Cobb, who was speaker of congress in
1849, at the ego of 34, secretary of
1 he treasury and president of (he Con
f< derate constitutional congross;
U*.. vga Washington Crawford, seora*
taiy of State Under President Tyler;
Armiatoad Burt, who served as speak
er in 1848, after .the retirement of
Winthrop Preston Brooks, who won
an unsavory national reputation from
his caning of Charles Sumner; Heres?,
ob?i W Johnson, who was . the vice
presidential candidate of tho Doug
las ticket io' 1860, and Henry Grady,
the oratorical saint of the. Sooth)
Bishop George F. Pierce, the most
?loquent man in the Methodist pulpit
in his day, and whose great speech in
the Moth ot) ist Co nfc ronco at B alti
more, in defense of slavery, in 1844,
perhaps caused the separation of th?
Northern and Southern Methodist
Church, also lived in tbls district. It
is the district today - of Tom Watson
and Ben Tillman, who,' whatever else
be said of them,, were, not wi th at and
ing tho two most dramatio and striking
figures in the Southern - political field
during the national campaign of 1896.
Watson and Tillman of tho present
day aro neighbors, one living 28 milos
in a westerly and tho other 23 milos In
a northerly direction from AuguBta.
T.bV home; of Watson ? is within 20
miles of the old home of Alexander
Stephens. The homo of Toomba is
only ; 20 , miles from. .. the homes of
8tophens an<J Wats?u, W, ; ^ Craw
ford and Watson were born in -th's
samo county, though later Crawford
lived higher np the valley and opposite
and almost in sight of Calhoun. Cal
houn and Crawford (two- c?uig.almost,
nco each other's backva-d across the
river,) were''rivals for the presidenoy
iud either ooov. but \fo> ^?t??r^j
might have^attained:.;thc.:??&yf,?
birtnplacebj" Calhoun i^^
from the home.'^
from those of Stopliens' ?ni?^at?on
arj^ 4? from th?t o
aro of a oirole. But was born in Till?:
mso's county, end Priori Brook's
frau* wi thin a few talles^ ^??mafi'ii
i.' B?tttOea th? uoracR o? thoao ann? -
merited, all of whom have undoubted
ORIES
)ne of tlie Most Re
els in .A.merica.
Chronicle.
ly ploughed deep furrow? in their
country'? held, others of secondary
importance or less prominence, but
well known to tho student of history,
who have come from this district aro
Franois Wilkinson Pickens, who was
United States ministor to Russia from
1850 to I860, aud who was conspicu
ous as the war governor of South Car
olina. It was Governor Picken o who
demanded of Major Anderson the sur
render of Fort Sumter and ordered tho
6re upon tho Star of the West; Geo, j
McDuffie, who served in the house and
senate with Clay, Webster and Cal- I
houn-a ?inan of (,reat argumentative |
and oratorical ability; James Henry
Hammond, United States Senator |
from South Carolina, who made n na- ;
tional reputation as "Mud-sill Ham
mond," for his reference in the de-j
bate on the Kansas quostion to the
slaves or negroes as the necessary
"mud-sills" of society; tho Butlers,
who have for three generations served
South Carolina in the national House
and Senate-Major Gen. M. C. But
ler, in the recent Spanish war, lives
in Tillman's county; Major General
Joseph Wheeler, born within five
miles of Augusta on the Georgia side.
Two of the major generals appointed j
from civil life in the recent war |
sprung from this productive soil. I
James Longstreet, the Confederate
lieutenant general, was born BIZ miles
from Augusta, in tho county of Till
man and Butler, and six miles from
the birthplace of Tillman, William
Lowndes Yauoy, who was a powerful
member of congress in ante-bellum
times, a man ci singularly, great ora
torial gifts and well remembered by
tho older part of the present genera
tion for his spec oh es in Cooper
Union. Faoeuil Hall and throughout
the north in the campaign of I860,1
was born and reared near the homes of
Stephens and Watson. Louis ?'rezo
vant Wigfall, United States Senator I
from Texas, and among the expelled
senators in 1861, was born and reared
in the distriot, and he it was who, on
April 13, 1861. upon seeing tho flag
of Sumter descend, rode out to the
fort and made the final demand of
surren dor to Major Anderson. J.h.
M. Curry, United States minister to
Spain in 1884 and director of the
Peabody and Slater educational funds,
came from a county adjoining Wat
son's. Hillary A. Herbert, recent
secretary of the navy, was born in this
district, at Laurens, 3. G.,tbs same
town in which President Andrew
Johnson conducted tailor shop. SH
Whitney, though northern boro, lived
for some years at Augusta, and hero
invented and perl coted his cotton
gin, the greatest achievement eyer
made for the agricultural and commer
cul South.
Peculiarly worthy of observation,
and a fact that has coi bean widely
noted; is that Thomas E. Watson and
Hersohel V. Johnson were frp?i tnis
tho BP mo--district; the two men who,
ona in ;^6^ and the;other in i860, in
similar great convulsions of Bomoorat
ic . party, reee?v?d nominations for the.
v?co;?,'pi??l4?n?y|;.-\?pd thereby, prob*
ab?y; tn both instances defeated the
darling wishes of the Bsmoeratio
party. Jt is remarkable tha^|$$^
country should have g^ne to exi^tt^
tho same jollity, to-wlt, a narrow
a(&rjp'yfs$T
undesighedly so,, for vico/president^
isl oandiidates in;;thoB&ti^crises;^nd;
for tho only two vice presidential oan*
didatos-that have been t ak o n f r o m t h e
Sottth sinoe 1859* : john son. . lived'
within, thirty miles of the homo' of
Waison. /
; This little district has been from
the beginning of the government th?
birthplace bf the
South; it is the New England ortho.
South in this respect, fiore ''NnlUfi^
cation" v and '^>V8?W?jiai:biii",< ^-ii jk4;?-tli?ir ?
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President Davit?, accompanied by
Mr. Benjamin, nooretury ?.f Slate-; Mr.
i ?reekiaridgo, secretary of war; Mr.
Mallory, secretary of the navy, and
Mr, jResgan, secretary of tbs treas
ury, (see Presiden'. Davis' book,) ar
rived at Abbeville on the retreat on
May 3, 1865. That night a meeting
of the cabinet was held in the hoase
of Mr. Bart. The next morning tho
party proceeded toward Washington,
Ga., the home of Toomba. After
oro8sing the S-wtanah river, about 20
miles from Abbeville, hearing cf tho
prc oonoo of Federal troop? in the
neighborhood, and on account of tho
general fatigue, the party divided.
Here says President Davis, Secretar*
ies Benjamin, Breokinridge and Mal
lory ?eft him, and he saw them no
more. Secretary Reagan alono of the
oabinet, accompanied Mr. Davin to
Washington, and Mr. Kuuguu . w?s? j
with bim several days afterward,
when ho was captured a few miles
South of Macon, just without . the
limits of the district under desorip"
tion. Mr. Davis was carried to Au
gusta, where Vico President Stephens
was being held in waiting. This was
the last of the Confederate govern
ment. Mr. Davis and Mr. Stephens
were put aboard a steamer, together,
and eosveyed, enc to tbs Beaton har
bor, and the other to Fortress Mon
roe. Thus died the Confederacy at
tho homo-in the very house-of its
birth.
As the district furnished . the
"isms" before the war, it io worth
noting that it still continuel to coin
them, Mr. Watson started tho first
brandi of the Populist party in the
South in his district in 1890, though
the Populist party bad its birth siz
years before in South Carolina, whon
Senator Tillman started his agrarian
movement, the success of whioh in
spired the general agrarian movement
of tho country, and caused the naming
of a Populist party in Kansas. When
tho Populist party by name reaohed
South Carolina, however, Mr. Till
man skilfully kept his people within
the Demooratio party, so well so, that
South Carolina was the only State in
the Union that did not have a dele
gate at thc St. Louis .Populist conven
tion in 1896. The dispensary system
of State liquor control, now enforced
in South Carolina, and destined to
play a larger part, was born in the
Georgia part of the district, in the
municipality of Athens, and appro*
priated by Senator Tillman. Woman
suffrage has more adherenta in South ;
Carolina than in any Stato of the jj
South, and ita chief'advocates are in
this little district.' Tho district hag
flways dominated pol?tica in South
Carolina and likowiBo in Georgia un
til recant times. ><i
Among men of letters, though ibo
South has been poorly productivo in
this, respect, it ia doubtful whether
any other . locality pf tho South' has
had eooti??ioni?y ' quite so many con
tributors to the higher literature of
theeouiitryas this, Pani; HamUten
Heyne, who competed in the popular
mind with .Sidney jbspisv (himself
born just outside th? district, at Ma
con, Ga.) for the*palm aa the greatest
poet yet produced by the Sou tb,rj^sjfe
within fifteen miles of Augusta, out
; among the Bands and pines.; Riobard.
Henry Wilde; the author of that im
mortal little olassto,| "My Hf a is Li ke
the Summer Rose," waa born and lies
buried in \ Augusta, James ?. Ran*
dall; the anther of the 8bttt^*?XjSS*?:
^rar poemi
and probably her greatest poet (unless
father Abram Ryan be that one) lived
and work?d in . Ahgusta.for > number
of years after the War 'for iSbuthern
Independence, and ^'n<v^ located in
Louisiana, ';.?^,;e^??^/;Iof)V^>?p.^p?r?-.
? Father Ryan'4iyed forV'iquarfcerpf^M
century^ .djiiring hiB prime in Aug?st^
'Tb- e earlies! piece-; of 'wor'tfiii^^uoT?^
mm oenone! ?cf ' the earliest inf. th?
South, VGeorg??; Soen?si" " stiilvia
A Civil War Story.
"J iras ap ia thc northern y ir t of
Maine the other day and heard a story
which was a little oat of the ordinary
line of civil war stories I have read
about," said a Near York drummer
whose territory is in New England.
"I noticed a funeral in the town, the
turnout of which indicated- that the
deceased must have been a prominent
man in Ha life time.
"A citizen said in answer to my
inquiry that the man had retired from
business several years before his
death. The eitisen added: 'His fa?
notai is muoh largor than it would
have been some years ego.' .
"I theo heard the story.
"When Lincoln called for troops
there were few mon in the State of
Maine who opposed coercion of the
South. This man was an exception.
"Although a Now Englander from
a colonial family whose, history goea
back to the colonial wars,
this man was, at the call
of troops, what was known in the
North as a copperhead. He was an
officer in the militia at the time of
Lincoln's election. Every man in
his command esoopt him volunteered
in answer to Lincoln's proclamation.
"Ho not only refused to go out,
but he boldly contended that it was an
outrago to oppose the secession of the
Southern States. He was ostracized
socially and commercially. His busi
ness dwindled away. .
"During the second year of the war
he left the community. Nobody
scorned to care where'he went.
"Two y ear a later he returned. Ho
was a physical wreck. The feeliog
in the community was not quite BO
bitter as in the beginning of the war.
However, the mah was not cordially
received.
"He had not been baok long when
it was heard that, he had been in the
Confederate army and was discharged
on account of bis inability to do duty.
Thia information did not tend to in
crease his popularity.
"Ho carno into possession of con
siderable money after his return.
Meanwhile some of tho shattered rem-,
nant 3 of the Mai no companies began to
drift home. Most of them were bro
ken in health and some were penni
less. .
"This man began contributing to
the relief of the needy. .'" A.;' Majority
of the beneficiaries did'not know tho
Bouro? of their help/
"After the war waa over it leaked
out little by little, that the benefactor
waa the mah who had been ostracized.
To the credit of many he was again
ad coi tie ii to f'-'Howship, ?nd hi* hol
ness ^Vg?q io thrive. He bec* OJO in
dependent.
"A few years later ho waa ejected
to office on the Republican ticket.
The nomination oame to bim an
so?gui. ?Jp to that timo lie Lad
never affiliated with the party that
elected him.
"He served his term of office, but
whenever there was a township or
county election he voted the Demo
cratic ticket. This was understood
to he his right. It was never ques
tioned.
"Before be retired from business
he was on one ocoasion visited by. a
man from the South who had been the
colonel of the Confederate regiment
of which he was a. membor. The ex
Confederate was down at the heel in
every way; ?
"No ono knew what happened dur
ing his visit in Maine, but a few years
ago it beoame known to * few people
in the vioinity that the Maine man
helped bia old commander to recoup
his fortune. That man until 1001
trap a successful broker and banker in
his city, and his silent partner for"
nearly fifteen years was the Maine
Yankee who as a Demo orr, t held a
Bepublioan office.
"I have traveled all over the United
States, and,met all sorts of people but
I have'never heard a civil war story
that was anything like this. My in
formant is at the head of a big indus
try in Maine; ho told me that only a
few persons knew the facts as I have
stated thom."
FOR'S?LE,
One of the moat desirable placea in up
per South Carolina-Tao Old "Sf ax well
Plantation''-on the Seneca River, 6
miles from Pendleton. !4 miles from
Cherry Station, Blue Ridge, B. R., near
Clemson College. 250 acres in good
state ot' cultivation, 100 acres ri vor bot
tom, 100 acres timber land, a portion of
it virgin forest, a nearly new dwelling
house, 7 rooms. Largo barna, stock ana
tool sheds* 7 tenant, houses, all in good
repair. An Ideal Opportunity for the in
vestor. The timber on 100 acres will,
when out and put on the marked, pay
entire coat bf place. .100 acres of the bot
tom land can be sold ot ?50 per acre, and
there ere plenty of rentera at one-third of
everything, .standing ready, to contract
for coming season,
Will sell w.ltb farm 7 mules, one yoke
of nattle? wagons, caris and farm imple
ments, a good saw mill. bogs, vonng
cattle and ised of all kinds for stock for a
yoar. Two publi? roads cross the place.
Good water for house and/ stock, vue
plentiful. Fi?e fishing and hunting on
the plac?. A charm4 og place for a sum
mer residence. ?23.00 per ace. - '
Torma-One-third C*sh-Bilanoo on
easy terms. ; . .
: For farther particulars s-nriv to ;
li. F. T). Pendleton, br
BDW. E. BANKIN, A gent,
Piedmont, 0. P.
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