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MISCELLANY.


Columbia correspondence Of tho Southern
Patriot - ftst.
Believing that everything pertaining to
the education Of our youth will be interest
ing to yourself and your readers, take
pleasure in informing you that the executor
Of the late John Blair, Of York, has recently
put into the Treasury Office in Columbia,
thirty shares in tho stock of the S. w. R.
RI and Bank, and four hundred and fifty
dollars and eleven cents, in cash, (making
together $32O4 IL, to be added to the free
school fund Of York, according to the last
will aud testament Of the said John Blair,
and so accepted by the General Assembly
of the State at its last session. -
AS the philanthropistmay desire to know
something moro of this good and generous
man, will endeavor to crafty his reasona-
Bile desire. 3.
John Blair was an Irishman, and emigra-
ted to this country several years ago. He
was not the possessor of wealth at the time
of his emigration, but he was the possessor
of ga little learning" Of which he made
good Use. He taught school for some time,
after which he embarked the product of his
honorable and honest labors in mercantile
pursuits, in which he was SO successful rs to
leave behind him handsome fortune, which
heSbequeathed to objects worthy the patri-
= OF and the christian.
In addition to several legacies to his rela-
tives and friends, (he had no children.) on
both sides of the house, he appropriated a
considerable sum for the permanent educa-
ton of not less than twelve young men in
bis native town, any Of whom evincing Sill
perior talents are to be taken to higher
schools, and prepared for the christian min
istry. Nor did he forget the land of his
adoption. Together with the amount be-
queathed to the free school fund, noticed a.
bove, he made provision for the erection Of
q Presbyterian church in Yorkville, as we'll
as for the gratuitous distribution of large
number of New Testaments to the poor and
needy.
Such is the brief account of John Blair,
and the disposition he has made of his
property, which have received at the lips
of one of his particular friends.
to my mind Others Of a. similar character,
made in the expansive spirit of christian
philanthropy, by some Of those who have
gone to their rest, as we'll as those who still
remain amongst us as bright and shining
lights in this our dark and portentous night
Of intolerance and bigotry.
Under the last will and testament of Rev.
Richard Ludlam, bearing date 18th Octo-
ber, 1928, the testator "devises and be-
queaths jail his estate. both real and
personal, whether in South. Carolina or
elsewhere, to the honorable the society for
proPagating the gospel in foreign parts, and
to their successors forever, upon trust and
confidence that, at their discretion and un-
der their directions, school for the instruc.
ton of poor children shall be erected in the
Parish Of St James Goose Greek, out Of
the monies which shall arise out of the sale
OF bis real and personal estate"
DEssJ John De LaHowe, Of Abbeville,
made a most liberal, provision for the edu-
cation of the poor, in his last will :. to carry
: out which, ,tthe Legislature Of 1920 appoint
ed board Of trustees, composed: Of some
Of the most prominent citizens of this dis
ZtYict. ~: s
:. Thomas w adsworth, late of Charleston,
animated by similar spirit, directed in his
last will that sundry tracts of land should
be conveyed by his. Executors to certain
trustees for the purpose of establishing
free school in the lower Saluda Battalion.
Laurenss District, and out of the monies
from the sale of these lands, considerable
sum il still believed to be in the hands of
2 the trustees and annually applied, according
TO the will of the deceased: Indeed, like tie
sacred fire in: the temple, whether as a colo.
ny or as an Independent State, the flame of
christian benevolence and christian tolerance
9 has ever animated the great heart Of South
Carolina; that it still warmssand animates
her people We. have: abundant testimony
wherever We turn four eyes. Witness the
annual appropriation of $14, 400 for free
schools, and g. 900 fogthe South Carolina
College, to be expended: without preference
kof: get o. party. s Witness that, monument
:os christian hberality, the Orphan Hbhse
IN Chsrlestof, where, from an hundred to
q a!is sbupdred and 6ftF Orphans are constantly
clothed, bearded and educated without any
! ssgardzto the conhtr or tho creed of their
ssascsased PARENTS !. Witness fhs NUMEROUS
mp fH ouE cellSaes apd literarv Is.
sssstns I'D Stots wealthy and sHIled
ytte sf'sss ,ds WitdiSsss too.
med by.ssSnr 'nu-
slsfns beasgol ia throaai hon. the
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