The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1875-07-16
Death Of Mrs. Jsne rweedy Batler.

She had been prostrated for several months from
ass ,%i,ss, ,,as Mrs, sads, Butler vi was the
cfsiTillA lAh Nptleg, of revolutionary fame, ard
brother q Judk8 Mckens Butler and GovetneR
Pierce N{BptlVk< nhe was the youngest daugh-
ter of Con- dotS Ohsiseepher Raymond Perry,
Of the United - ND, and the sister of
ry, and Of Commodore Calbreth Perry, of the
United States navy. She was the mother Of our
own South Carolina Confederate General, M.
!. Calbreth Butler, and Of Colonel VIM. Butler and
Captain o. n. Butler; who distinguished shem-
selves in the late war, and Of DIR. p. p. Butler,
o much respected Physician of Union County.
Mrs. Butler was remarkable woman in many
respects. She was not only connected by blood
and marriage with the chivalric Buffers of
South Carolina, but she also daughter of
family Of Rhode Island, -renowned for it's he
roic name, that will ever live imperishable in
the history of the United States.
She wn. born in Newport, Rhode Island, in
December, 1871. In July, 1919, she married
DR.. William Butler. Of this State, then surgeon
in the United States navy, at Brooklyn, New
York. From the marriage was born sixteen
children, most Of whom lived to grow to matu-
rity. Five sons and four daughters survive her,
whose grief is now shared by many sympathi-
sing friends.
Mrs. Butler in her more youthful days was
remarkable also for her heauty, and she was
fine looking lady to thcIasfa She possessed 6ne
Intelligence, and was always sprightly, pleasant
and entertaining in the society Of her friends.
As wife and mother, she was unexcelled in de-
votion to her duties. She possessed the encr-
getic and heroic spirit that certainly distin-
gushed her family. A CHARACTERISTIC anecdote
about her is familiar to the people Of Greenville.
When the yankee raid, after the surrender,
swooped down on Greenville, some of the SOL
diers robbed her Of n horse. She called on the
commanding officer for redress, and was intro
duced as Mrs. Butler sister Of the distinguished
curry favor on that ground, and Immediately
said "I had much rather be known rs the
mother Of General Calbreth Butler" The Off
Ger, however, was magnanimous enough to order
restitution.
Mrs. Butler was a resident of GreenviIle for
about forty five years, with the exception of
short interval, when with her husband she resi-
ded in the Indian reserve. in Arkansas, whilst
he was holding the Office Of Indian agent, dur
ing President Tylers administration. DR.. But
Ter once represented the district of Pendleton
and Greenville in Congress, succeeding General
T1mpson in 1910. He distinguished for
hikintegrity and honorable and manly qualities.
We believe Mrs. Butler was the last survivor of
her fathers children. Her memory will be ever
venerated by her descendants, and by all who
appreciate true worth and high and noble quail
ties in man or woman, who may be acquainted
with her name.-Greenville Ns,cs.
The PARKER JURY.-One of the greatest mis-
fortunes likely to befall the Parker jury, after
they shall have been discharged from the lofty
labors to which they have been called, is the un-
fitness with which they will return to their or
dinary humble duties. Men who have been for
weeks handling hundreds Of thousands and con-
templating millions, and sitting in Judgment on
State officers, the object and the envy of their
fellow-men, cannot return to the obscurity of
private life without pang. Already it is ru-
mored that some of them propose going into the
brokerage business, on the financial knowledge
acquired in the pending trial their principal
capital. The attention they give to the case is
unexayipled, just as the trial itself is. No ar
SS.a s9aRtfisfsi;; Hiisn +; u iuGmined the manly
full line Of conYied hin ~ 81 Shen the-Attor
nor the self.assurcd anr yo,oVV BOND, with
-L,.h l.. ...-.noi tho trash over t8' .lpspeGtion
another intelligent juror and train hand on
the Greenville railroad, who, in turn, transferred
them, as August Belmont might be supposed to
DO, to Tom Carter, worthy policeman, who
knows nothing about diamonds. Of such is the
kingdom of earth.- Union-LeraM.
The master of the British brigantine Forum
ate, now in dock at Liverpool, reports that while
on his passage from the Rio Grande his ship was
struck by large fish, which made the vessel
shake very much. Thinking his ship had been
merely struck by the tail Of some sea monster
he took no further notice of the matter; but af.
ter discharging cargo at Runcorn, and coming
into the Canads dock, he fonnd one Of the plank
ends of the stern split, and on closer examina-
tion he discovered that sword fish had driven
his sword completely through plank, four inch
es in thickness, leaving the point of the sword
nearly eight inches through the plank. The fish
in its struggle broke the sword off at the outside
of the vessel, and by its attack upon the ship
lost nearly q foot in length of the very danger
GUS weapon with which it was armed.
..s.- .-
:, GEORGE APpLEwAIrE A PRIsoNER.--we learn
from special telegram sent US last night, that
George Applewaite, a negro, and the last or the
Lowry Gang, is now prisoner in the custody
of the Sheriff of Wayne County. From what
we can learn, Applewaite was arrested on suspi-