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Andersen County is the HUB of the Piedmont Belt, and
?od you can select, from the following and let me hear from
groa:
Ca ??ie City ?A Anderson :
House and Lot on North Main Street
House and Lot on South Main Street.
Vacant Lot on South Main Street.
Sk Center ville Township:
155 acres, improved ; also, 67 acres.
tar BM _ ? rr*_t_i_ .
- ui DCOSKAwmy ivKiump :
. 51 acres.
i?a Peadleton Township :
77 aores.
Sin ITork Township :
104,900,105 and 52 acre Tracts.
Ea Hall Township :
289 acres.
ALL MORE OR LESS WELL IMPROVED.
Ku Ptckens County I have 285 acres in one body and 75 acres in another.
In Ooonee County I have several Tracts, running 104, 418,75,385, 138,
e?,.ie6~all in Center Township,
Tifcere aro no better lands to produce than' J. offer you above, and if you
interested m buying or soiling lands in tho city or country, Lee me and
ne tell you what I nave to oner.
Yours for building up the country and city,
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WAR Si
The Privai
Newberry Her
Books without number have been
written upon the civil war. So much
HO, that all the great historical facts
and thc biography und reminiscences
of our great leaders have been told j
over and over again.
Thcso who have read Lee or Jack- j
HOII'S ''Memoirs," J>avis' "History of j
thc Confederacy," or Tin' Lust Days 1
<>f the Confederacy, by fien. Gordon, j
no doubt what 1 shall tell will appear j
tame and insipid, fur 1 shall deal
mostly with the private soldiers, tho
unknown and unrecorded hero of ?he
rank and file of tho Southern Confed
erate army. But after all, should not
their deeds of valor appeal to us just
as muob? lt seems to me, he who
stands the brunt of battle does not get
the credit of being the hero that he is.
Think of the brave boys of 61-65, who
often with bare and bleeding feet, in
ragged jaoket, and with empty haver
osoko, bore our battered flag to the
front of a hundred viotorioua fieldaj
and wrote on brightest pagea of Amer
ioan hiatory the names that will never
die. We know what they were by
what they aooompliahed against over
whelming numbera and resources. I
would not pluck one flower from toe
laurel wreath of Jefferson Davis, sol
dier, patriot, orator and Christian gen
tleman; not from K. E. Lee, the peer
less soldier and model man of all the
centuries nor from StonewallJaokson,
the very thunderbolt of war; nor from
J. E. B. Stuart, dashing, glorious
..Job," the flower of cavaliers; nor
from G. T. Beauregard, kind and fear
less, the idol of his moo, and many
other worthy comrades of these. But
is not the honor great and glorious
enough to be shared by leader and
follower? If they were here to speak
today, I oan hear them say, "yea, a
thousand times yea."
At one time when John B. Gordon
. was being enthusiastically cheered at
a banquet in N. x ., he sprang to his
feet and said, "Comrades, you are
cheering the wrong man, you should
cheer the men, the private soldier who
made Gordon." In the limited time
given mo, I did not have opportunity
of talking with many of the old sol
diers. One thing, however, surprised
me from what I did see-that though
true to the Stars and Stripes, and will
now hold that banner high, they are
as faithful to the Lost Cause as
though its battles had been fought
yesterday, unconquered in spirit.
I asked one what be thought of the
idea, being advocated by some of our
Northern friends, that the result of
the war was but the accomplishments,
by human agencies, the will of the
Divine. We kuow Ijwo cot fl cting
civilizations carno into existenoe with
the establishment of the Ameri
can Union. As one of the first states
men of the South has truly said, the
seed of the oivil war were planted some
fifty yeara before they were born who
lougut nor uattiob, vu* tu ?uta, tu? viv
soldier quickly replied, the result ia
but another truth of the maxim of the
great Napoleon, "The Almighty ia
on the aide of the greatest cannon."
I am indebted to A. J. Livingston
for the following inoident: There
lived in Sparenburg county a poor
and bumble family by the name of
Bailey. They bad one son, Austin,
who waa conscripted and sent to Com
pany B, 3rd 8. 0. Regiment, thoa en
camped near Riohmond, Va. He,
with several others, came marching
into oamp, Bailey lagging behind, be
ing an awkward boy, dressed ia bark*
dyed cl o th tug, straw hst and stitched
down shoes. The boys at once began
to guy him, telling him to come down
out of that hat, etc Bailey said,
"boys, let up and give me a trial ia
bettie," and I tell you he pot a good
many of the noisy boys to shame, for
he was one of the bravest and coolest
boya in battle that I ever saw. This
poor, brave fellow marched and fought
with the old 3rd regiment through all
the battles we were engaged in until
the battle of the Wilderness, where I
waa knocked out. I lost a leg there
andi never saw my friend again.
Sometime after the war I met Capt.
Nane?, and in talking about some of
oar brave boys, I happened to mention
the name of Bailey. The Captain's
eyes flashed as he said, "wno, Bailey
of your regiment ? " ' "I saw that brave
boy af ter hs seaaivett the death wound.
Oar regiment was fighting abrigado of
yankees below Richmond. ' The. Una
was formed in an elbow shape, yoe?,
company occupying the crook of f this
io the sink of an old road. The ene
my esme in BU cb numbers th at eh ey
drove back a little of bur part of the
line, but dared nea .come over the
elbow. Some of my men wore wound
ed, Slid Capt. Nance, and in looking
thom up, I came upon BaUey,lyiog in
mm i^^H^^i^p
you 'wounl?edr, I .saw be atm
ha4 bis gun gripped in bis baals.
Lensing over the banV, be said, ?Cr?*.e.
JLJI ?Ai.1 J 'JS-JJLM UV/i* J i' J Hil
to Soldier.
sid sod News.
I want to get ooe more crack at the
yankees, and if they oome this way,
I'll finish ono more." Capt. Nance
said ho was shot through the lungs
and bleeding profusely while talking
io him. Died where he fell, and if
buried at all, buried by the enemy
Another incident in Waich tobacco
plays an important part, given me by
our ex-sheri ff, \V. W. Kiser.
After a certain battle, our men had
stretched themselves behind an old
fence trying to pet a little sleep, when
unexpectedly from the enemy's side,
came a whizzing six pound ball, whioh
lodged in a craok of thc fence. The
fuse was about to explode, a little
smoke and blaze just visible, when a
young man (we could not find out bis
name) deliberately raised himself on
his elbow and spit it out. A risky
thing, for had he missed the fuse, his
head would surely have been blown off
and the lives of many of his oomradea
lost. Mr. W. W. Riser says he has
used this argument in talking to tho
preaohers in ? favor of the use cf to
baooo.
There are two marked traita of the
American soldier, be he from the
North or South. The one is oatiefy
ing the inner man, and the other, the
disposition to see the oomio side of
things. No amount of hardships, no
deprivations oan destroy that love of
fun whioh ia inborn, as he merrily
laughs at ("anger and jokes almost in
the very presence of death. This re
minds me of a story I beard Mr. W.
C. Sligh tell the other day, in whioh
he he and his comrades took quite a
longing for aa old Virginia farmer's
honey. They first tried to buy a gum,
tho old man would not sell. Provi
sions were scarce aod they had not
tasted honey for months. The long
ing took suoh strong hold on them,
that they deoided it was really neces
sary to have some honey to mako them
good soldiers. Feeling this way and
easing their consciences wita ino
thought that tho yankees would take
it if they didn't, they proceeded, un
! der the cover of darkness, to bear a
I gam to the camp. Thrusting ? rail
! through the oap of the guiq, so aa to
! be easily carried by two. Ohl hor
rors, tbe bees oame swarming out in
I great numbera, and Mr. Sligh says, he
I would rather fight the yankees any
time tbas bees. But not onoe did
they think of giving up the dear
bought trophy. They B mack ed their
lips in anticipation cf how good the
honey would bo, fought bees; laughed,
and trudged along. Knowing how
muoh Oaptain Nanoo enjoyed eating
and so as to avoid being reported, they
divided with him. Sure enough the
next day the old farmer came nosing
around. Of course Captain didn't
know anything of the missing gum,
The old ' man said he could find out,
for they were obliged to be stung, but
strange to say, not one cf them were
siuug) ??v6ji,L'.I. ujigu, wiro asppanea
to get a live bee in his. month while
eating the boney. Suoh a time as the
boys bsd getting bim to bed for a bsd
toothache, and the old farmer ?ss
none the wiser, and never knew who
got his gum, which Mr. Sligh was a
witness to.. '. '..''' j
One more incident I would like to
give as it brings-ont the love of brav
ery of bosh loader and follower. At
the Second bettie of the Wilderness
General Lae, seeing bis army over
powereden (J failing baok in a demor
alising condition, thought ibo battle
was lost, bat just at this t?as Long*
street's corps, after a fit? days marob,
oame up jost in time to turn tbs tide
of battle. Lea seeing Longstreet,
said to the )>lye, "ooma follow ms and
we will drive them baokAt th at
command, there weat up a multitude
of voices from the bsit? Hos: "No,
no, y on shill opt lead, bat wo will do
?hst yon oo m m and." Alibis time,
about ?wonty soldiers caught bis horse
by she brille and said, "General," you
must go (r? tho rear." As thoy led
him backt he wept like a ohild. The
boys, af te ? putting Lee in tho rear,
mads a dasperate charge on the Fed
erals and drove them to tbe river,
capturing four or fi va thousand pris
doers ead a small quantity of arma.
If' nightfJia^tobV lhr**4
hoars the whole Federal army would
bave basa o^ured.:^';-^
. ? 'fael lhat shy rtminiacencsi of the
B?v? 'war' WP?**' % iu^i^^mm
a tribute to th* Bojern snola^
Uko the privater soldiers, their names '.
are unknown, eave within t? limited :
Woman, who ; ^v;at?n?mB?iT?s^wuoiiy v
Tor the love of their cherished 'South' H
land. Young and old; tba e^kalr*-* ?
matron, the ^tto* mo?h?r? ?ttbt^ \
sra,' tb whomihe'sweet Wsm'a^^s|| j
er had never been lisped by baby lips, 1
all alike, enlisted under thiev*s*t*d; j
banner. Their first work was macing j
lbs un if or m s o r their brave defenders,
nett came oureing the sick, fer sswurt
ujjiuj&rjfjjfjr.
of our mi?t), UDUBe^. to the hardships
of o&mp life, wtie soot home to be
nm sed back to health, or laid to rest.
I. cannot express the surprise and anx
iety to which they were subjected.
No one who did not pass through
those fearful days eas imagine ihv
sorrow of friends loft behind, longing
as they did for news from the front.
And where aro those Southern moth
ers? Nearly all have entered into
rest. The few who remain, grand
mothers'now, with faltering step and
gray hair, will soon join their sisters
in a land of peace
To their daughters, they have a leg
acy to bequeath the Confederate me
morial. To them they commit tho sa
cred trust of keeping green the mem
ory of the men and women who lived
and suffered through those trying
years.
The South hus a history to preserve,
a history they are proud to give to thc
world, aud tho names of Davis, Lee,
Jackson and bootu of others should
never pass into oblivion, but should
be handed down from nother to
daughter for generations to oomo.
"We may scourge from the spirit all
thought of ill,
'in the midnight of grief held fast,
And yet, oh sisters, be loyal still,
To the sacred and stainless psst."
Brave Soldier.
The bravest man I ever saw at the
reoent meeting of Confederate survi
vivors at New Orleans, a resolution
was psssed thst medsls he presented
to those who hsd shown the greatest
J 'alor on battlefields. It recalled to
; my mind a picture that I witnessed in
I General Joseph Johnston's army in
1861. At the bsttle of Kennesaw
Mountain forty of the Oglethorpes,
Company A, were ordered to charge
across an open field, and recapture
some rifle pits at the edge of a piece
of woods occupied by the yankees, out
of which our men had been driven
about a half hour before. The Ogle
thorpes oaptured the rifle pits, and
occupied them, but they found that
instead of a . picket line, they were
fighting Logan's army corps, at close
quarters. One of our men was bayo
netted as an evidence of the closeness
of the fighting. Of the forty men
making the oharge, and taking the rifle
pits, the majority, as I recollect, were
killed, wounded, or oaptured. But to
come to the description of the ideal
soldier. When we were in the rifle
pits protecting ourselves as' best we
could, and fighting this overwhelming
force, just a few feet in front, as I
turned in the pit to reload my enfield
muzzle loader, my attention was st
traoted to a ?tranger, not one of our
Oglethorpes, a tall, slender soldier in
gray, apparently abc;.!- 22 years old
sunding up at full height in the open
field, a few feet in front of Logan's
army corps. He was bleeding from a
wound in the temple, and from an
other io the leg, but he stood ereotsll
alone, snd as fast ss ho could losd his
rifle, would deliberately fire, and give
the Confederate yell. Wo called to
him to oome in the rifle pits, but the
spirit of wsr was on him, as the ex
pression of his eyes showed, and ha
stood and fought, paying no attention
to the oalls, tn the confusion RB tho
fighting progressed, I lost sight of
him. but inquired of a fellow soldier,
who told me that he thought a third
bullet knooked him down, but did not
kill him. I never -knew his. nome, or
where ho came from, but nave often
wished I did, and wondered if bo is
still living. If alive, be' should wess
ons ol tho medals; ' j ? *;W? Ht Eve.
; ; Btjrton, 8. fr* April 35, \m? "/if
if '^^^^gl?0^? .ooo loj?siiy. ]
mound on tba northern slope over i
whioh waves this morning a flag of J
red, white end blue. ?? Ibis grat^ |
lie! beautiful wreaths of laure! and |
hnno>'ts/?f.';.wbtto''ros?s.;.' '-What' flossj j
that flag, tell? It tells that hors, un- j
der Southern sides, ; sleeps a soldier, j
who, iiko our own, was that faithful, |
loyal aud trds |0 ?U convictions of J
duty. jlewas a UnionaoJwerv^V;.-:' ?". \
Ovet each Confederate gravo there j
wsvs? a tiny Confederate flag, which 1
was pissed there to mstk these giaves \
for decoration day. Having th? tree j
spirit of patriotism the committee in ?
ch argo did. not place the Stars and
Bars on this grave; but instead tho
Star Spangitd Banner; under whioh )i
thia hero fought, b?od and died. And $
wiib th* wt; of .'sif^t?tw-?i;^ %
marked by loving h sada. That tiny 1
that the ??ra have Hugh* ns that the \
principles of tho #ny;;iad:^#?^
wsr>:toi?^;;on^ a?o ^ a?fe
forent viewpoint, and that today al ?
and wherever he sleeps, and that ow g J
??Mrhi-: .. !?- *'-j.;?-, '.V.. "MM
Tho faithless aro usually the i
? 4-3vwf j-'?hoald be no pUo?liU
ismis^^tf
itis>ou>:fsalt.; :;_;/., ;';-|Hr
*tt takes a wis,o wo?sn to' soase si
aerrs50--;-v. /'LX'^ ;
Hayed bf a Flog of Tobacco.
Austin, Texae, Ma? 12.-There waa
muoh lawlessness in Toras daring tbs
civil vf sr and tbs Reconstruction I
period following. Major W. M.
Spsc.ee, editor of the Austin Daily
Tribune, waa a member of one of the
Banger oompaniea in those dsya and
had many narrow escapes from death.
The tightest plaoe he was ever in was
wheo he spent tbs night in the camp
of the notorious Willis brothers, who
were accused of many murders and
other crimes. Five of them were af
terward oaptured and were lynched ia
Austin.
"The only thing that saved roe from
being killed by the Willis brothers'
gang was a plug of tobacco," Major
Spenco said the other day: "I was
out on a scouting expedition and was j
alone.
"A cold norther, accompanied by a
dismal rain, set in, and I soon became
chilled through and througb. I rode
on until I saw a light shining through
the trees. I approached the spot cau
tiously. When I got near I saw a
small log cabin and adjoining it waa an
arbor built of limbs of treen.
"Under this arbor a fire was burn
ing and seated eloBe to the fire were
an old man and a woman. I rode op
and made my coif known to thom.
The old man asksd me to dismount.
I waa glad to do so, and when they
offered me a oap of coffee made ont of
parched corn meal you may be sure I
felt grateful for the hospitality of tba
old couple.
"I drank three or four cupa of oof
fee and then drew forth a big plug of
tobaooo abd took a chew. The old
man and the woman fastened their
eyes upon the tobaooo and naked mo
give them aome of it.
"I oomplied with their re quo st and
they filled their pipss with it and sat
dona by the fire and smoked. *I never
Baw more pontentment expressed upon
the face of a human hoing than that
shown by those two old people while
they sat there smoking, with the cold
norther blowing around them. '
"An hour or so after my arrival a
big strapping young fellow entered
tho sheck and I was introduced to
him as the old oouplo's soc, A little
later on another young fellow came in
and I was told that be was also their
son.
"By this time my suspicious were
becoming aroused, but I did not say
anything to indioate that I was alarm
ed. Both of the young men asked me
for some tobaooo. I gave them liberal !
ohewa and some in addition to smoke j
in their pipos, and they seemed to ap
preciate the favor very muoh.
"I had been Bitting there talking to
th; old oouple and these two' mon for
to heur T i **o when ? heard the
strain? ?.f ? violin. I looked in the
direo;i"u ?hoaae the sound oame and
Baw a 1 i ii n i -bining through the1 trees.
The Cjd ZimU i?rF m? giauC? ?u.diz?
?iid:- I . .. h A J $ ll
t *|*The other boya live over there;
you'll have to sleep'with them to
night.* s
v '*Wben the time esme tb retire I
went over to tho spot whare the other
light waa shining. I found eleven
moa and two women ia a Utile log
sabin, . Banka were arranged "around
tba room for the??'^?abmtood?t?bttjt
"I did not i?^?yO^ Milv^-^^^J
greeting from them, but when they
focad that I had a good supply of t^
baoeo their, v/waicd ap to me consid
arably. The men sat \ around and
shewed and smoked un< nearly mid
night. Twas not molested and neal
iM'Kot long a!4WKve oftoelv^
brothers showed ap et old maa lUp
?non's, on the Colorado River, ?jbak
wara captured at that pisco fend
brought back;j$-iAM^^
cUood io thc' guard hausa hefe and ?
vont around td .baye a look aa j&tPBj.
told nv? that they had intended ktH
?|"!nie,'; wM|e I' was i^^m0M
Hi cedar brakea, but that I treated
loam so wejr^ofc^^
lided to 1st mo orL They had beoo
)sfof tobaooo ;fot^?yei?V.?S?^i>?j?;
heir cravings for tho wood ts^R aluioai
lobearable, they said. I relieved
.heir suffering in that particular, tem
ftt?riUr. at. least, ;.1;aa4 "tney:/ebo#e'd;
After years of patient siudyaud ex- j
?riment, bad given ina world a pre
ci?? *Mob is au abso?ntevj|?f
it care for every form of rhean
Monuments to the Living.
The newspapers of the 8tate have
contained recent!; e carious bit of
neera about Mr. and Mrs. Joel Coving
ton of Hebron, Marlboro county. It
related to tho dedication of the tombs
of this couple, with an address by a
man and memorial essays by two yonog
women.
This ia not a new idea altogether.
The address and dedication part may
be; but the other part is not. Num
bera of people have been known to
preparo their cwn tombs in which they' -
were to be buried. The writer remem
bers well visiting when a boy at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. Foster Wells,
ucar Chappells, this county, and see?
irig their tombs or graves ia the fami
ly graveyard insight of ?he home.
The graves had been cut into solid
rook about as deep as the ordinary
grave. The rook was on the surface
of the earth. Another rook was there
to fit down into this, leaving space for
the coffin. Our recollection ia 4ba&
the graves were .noe made on tho ?pot,
but at a distanoe and transporter there.
They remained in the graveyard several
years before they, were needed. The
burial consisted in placing the coffin
io thc took, thoo fitting tho other
? rock over it and sealing it up.
: Gol. Glint Ward of Wards: Edgefield
oounty, had his monument and that of
his wife prepared end erected in their
family burying ground years before his
death. They were handsome marble
monuments,'his being eurmousted by
a marble statue of himself that was a
striking likeness.--Newberry Obsery
er. . ' j|-u
! -- A knowing man can size op the
I love of a woman by her signs.
--In telling a man of his failings
nee a long-diatance telephone.
Births, ->^Tfet Mi* m Ump fogg
, can easily ba raised with
re?TJiar. even B&mdo, anJ
of tbs very beat grade,foi: which the
highest prices can he fatten st your
warehouse, or f???a? tssssse bsyers if
you Triai, ? Um woektt before planting,
liberally-nae
tree them i "'
i S?holaif?^
Examination.
lege jmd 'for, the t^ieston of new*
etSdents bo held afc the County
o^n
^43*W' ,?5? cat?o?ae.;fc
addret? Pres D. B. Johnson, Bock
