The Greenville enterprise. [volume] (Greenville, S.C.) 1870-1873, 1871-09-27

shVtuVaJ diop5 Can save q man
soul from erernal perdition. Ex
perience has shown us that the poll.
tician has boon very often mistak.
EN-, and We hope the religionist may
find himself equally in error here
alter in another world.
In the early history of Green.
vile, there will be found a grea,
many lawless acts. We will men
tion one whicl'occufred long after
the close of the Revolutionary
war. A man by the name OF
Bates, was arrested on charge
Of horse stealing, and lodged in
Greenville Jail for trial. Motley
heard of the arrest, ani detcrmin-
ed to revenge the mnrder, of his
father and mother, who had been
basely killed by Bates in the Rev.
olutionary war. With two or
three companions, Motley present.
cd himself at the Jail one day, and
demanded Bates, telling the iailor
that his purpose was to kill him.
The jailor insisted that the law
should take IFS course and refused
to give mp his prisoner, till a pis.
tol was presented at his lead and
he saw That his own life would be
taken. Motley took Bates out of
Jail and shot him down in the yard.
10 was then buried on tile lot
now peiv"s,;;ng to the Estate Of Col.
Hokc. No one ever thought Of
arres.ing Motley, and he returned
home, where lie quietly lived in
the upper part of lhe District for
many years. There were Ku Klux
in those days, but they were not
disguised.
Greenville is now, quite liter
airy city, with iis University, The.
illogical Seminary, Female COL
lege, Academies, Schools and
learned professors. There are Lit.
erary Clubs, Public Libraries,
Reading rooms, and almost every
one has a fine private library
Some Of these private libraries
contain threc or fnr thousand vol
umes Of we'll selected standard
works. In 1923 / do not think
there was citizen in the village,
who had more than fifteen or TWEEN.
ty volumes of books in his house.
Many of them had none except a
Bible and an Almanac. The law.
yers may have had a few law
books. Judge Earle's library,
which was considered y large one,
contained about q hundred vol.
umes. 1t is due to say, however,
that afterwards, he increased it
very largely, aud at his death,
twenty years afterwards,) } lie had
q very fine miscellaneous library.
1t would astonish any one now, to
be told how few persons took news
paper of any description in those
times. In the country, there were
hundreds of sensible, prosperous
farmers who never thought of sub.
scribing for a newspaper. The c..
adjustment of the Grecnville Re.
publican by Young and Jimmy
began to produce q change in this
respect. Now there is scarcely O.
house without a newspaper, no
matter how poor the owner may
be. In 1926 there was organized
a Female Library Society. The
members paid two dollars and had
the use Of the books. The selec.
tion was very good. In those
times novel reading was not quite
80 fashionable as it is at the pres.
ent day. But it is better to read
a novel than not to read at all =
This society continued to flourish
for n number of years. 1t met
p,nese n q month at the house of some
very pleasant meeffihhga.l these were
Riding excursions to Paris
Mountain were very frequent. On
one occasion professor Mort accom-.
panied ns, and we carried lunch.
Tie professor drew fire from IIcav-
en and kindled a brush Leap, over
which some of the ladies made a
cup OF tea for each one of the par.
ty, which we drank with great zest.
One or two excursions to the Table
Rock, We had every summer
Governor Wilson celebrated the
4th OF July on top of the Table
Rock during his administration,
and there was a large concourse of
persons at it from Greenville. A
cannon was carried up, and gave
a salute to each one of the original
thirteen States. Governor Taylor
made mp a large party, and visit.
ed the Rock whilst he was Gov.
ernor. His daughter, Miss Sallie,
his niece, Miss Maria Taylor. and
the daughters of General Earle
were Of the party. 1 remember well
whilst escortiDg some of the ladies
at tho haaa of tha ,,,nnnt.,;n koll;