The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1881-04-23
NOTES FROM MONTICELLO.
The Changes That Have Taken Place In tl
pnBt Forty Years.

| ~'o CiihScH lhol lave IRIkGn Place In The
Pnst Forty Years.
hcSS1S. .Edit0rS: After the LAPSE ot
forty-ono years have walked about
Monticello and looked upon the scene
ry with which T was once familiar,
While doing this, memory was busy
III calling up and marslaling around
me habltations and the inhabitants of
Monticello as they were in 1889, wien
| was Il pupil Of Jefferson Academy.
Where is the student that forgets the
teacher, the scf,oolmastcr and the OBJ
serVatlons Of his school days? After
all my ups and downs, after having
shouldcred heavy responsibilities and
taught heavy schools, after being hu-
inflated and having wcathcred the
trials and labors Of the last twenty
years, faithful memory brings up be-
fore nc Monticello as it was durinv
ing, ana DAYS there. The school
nv iSrseif SsceifioS cookies TO give inc aesifs,
house was neat, 5f comE|SaFtaJe E|atifJS Is banIaaSal naaa
ing. and was named in honor Of him
whose brain conceived and whose
fingers penned the Declaration Of
American Independence. lie was not
unmindful Of the honor conferred upon
him, and in turn he encouraged and
gave tangible gifts to his namcsake
and foster child. OF all the buildings
that my eyes then looked upon now
see but two. The dwellings occupied
by the merchant and the doctor are
the only ones that stand like old,
familiar acquaintances. The others
have been either remodellcd or passed
away with the things that were. And
when I take up the interrogation of
the Prophet and ask, "Om lhthcrs.
where arc thcyw silence sends back
the echo, where arc they? Years, OBJ
scrvation and the Bible all say, dust
they were, and unto dust they lave
returned" Then tyrant groy had
stand here, and Of course he labo"ed
to pull down and destroy all that ia
noble and good.
Around this village lived those who
were regarded the elite and wealthy.
Time, the great transformer, has been
busy here. Lands that tbcu seemed to
be perpetual in the names of their
owners have changed. Some Of my
! Old pupils now possess some Of these
/ valuable ltnds that could hardly have
been bought forty years ago. I took
stroll with my old pupil Murray
kirkland. He pointed out places that
had once been spots Of note, where
there is not rose left to show where
the garden had been, and | will add,
no rcstigc left to show where the
house had been. In our stroll we
passed over little rivulet that looked
as clear as the mountain streams of
Virginia, and then wo passed by Il
spring Of as fresh and as pure water
as man need desire. We returned,
and as we ncared the gate my friend
said, "Thcsc," pointing to his horse
block, care the hearth stones Of old
Colonel Davis Thought was busy
Could these mute, silent hearth stones
speak What secrets they could dis
close! What traditionary history
lEcv could tell. How loudly they say
by the position they have and do hold
eve arc answering our end; man
with reason, mind and soul, perform
the work that is assigned yon."
And now q few thoughts about
Monticello as it is now. know of nc
) place whore one could be more ad
: vantagcously situated than in or ncal
Monticello. The lands arc favorable
for improving and easy to cultivate
The merchant and the doctor live il
tho village. The Westinghouse j.
hard by; and last, though not least
there is 81 good school founded on
basis that promises to be permanent
Old Tyrant Grog is rooted ont and i
forbidden 10 set his stand here.
s With all these advantages, | trus
, that my friends will be content, an,
A make their village and surrounding
:, country, by labor and art, what Co
has made it by nature. Let every on
: sec to it that il improves in mind, i
t means, in morals and in picty.
= JEREMIAH MCCARTIIA.
, John Brown had twenty children
Il Eight arc yet living, and tho Rcpnbl