The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1884-06-06
The Egis and Intelligencer.
Bel Air, Md, June 6, 1884.
EXTRACTS FROM A LETTER FROM
col. SAMUEL FORWOOD.
Death Of Charles IL. Hays Slow Travel

Death or Charles IL. HAYS Slow Travel
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The following extracts from II letter written
by col Samuel Forwood, formerly Of Hartford
county, to his son DIR. w. stump Forwood, will
be read with interest by his old friends aud ac-
quaintances:
Gost0,t. ala Nay 25th, 1884.
NEAR SnN. Yullr letter of the 18TH, posted on
IN lin was received ON the .lst only four days
IN transit How different from the time-Sep-
tenber, 1926 when first left my old native coun-
" tthrrord, for Alabama, by land route After
pniirnt and aburous travelling, day after day,
fur fifty days, reached Claiborne, ON December
lGh lSS.J not worstei by fatigue, but more
r"ptl4, ami healthy than when started. Clai-
borne was then thrifty, gay, ana business place.
the merchants, dozen or more Oh mem, were
ceries to the amount of one and ahaif millions
of dollars annually. Contrast that day with the
present. | passed through Claiborne on me lirst
tay of last January, ana gave call on the widow
of my old friend Jacob Goldsmith, not having
seen her for several years. she seemed ,t so Elad
to see me that she was almost iranuc WIN Joy
and pressed me and the boy had III company,
on my way to tine Henderson place, 10 take lunch
and coffee with her. Mrs. Goldsmith, and Ger
man by the name of Ship, are at this time the
managers of the only two houses selling goods in
tn. now old, dilapidated town OF Claiborne
mel Ship ON steamboat, when on my way to
Mobile last December. asked him now many
stores there were ~ Claiborne. ne REPLIED =
One and IL half" His was the one. ana Mrs Gold
smiths the half. found Mrs. Goldsmith to have
neatly hxedup little store, OF four or I'VE nun
ufeu lDilarS Ndlue.
passed my S5th year on the 9TH inst -
Recently feel the effects of age quite percepti-
bly,. | have rheumatism in my left knee aud leg,
winch is sometimes quite painful. My business
requires my personal attention ms much now as
ever before, and that is a stimulus, and buoys me
up, und have but little time for being still. |
have set of hands hired for wages (instead OF ON
shares is is now common here,) not all hardly
second class for work, but full class for lnions.
which keeps me busy in experimenting them. !
am cultiVating for myself about one hundred
acres half in corn, and balance IN cotton, ana
have besides 80 acres in oats, which will he ready
for harvesting in few days: Notwithstanding
the back ward spring, have the finest garden of
assorted vegetables that ever had, viz: Peas,
beans lettuce, onions, cabbage collard, mustard,
suuashes, cucmbcrS, Irish potatoes, corn IN silk,
brpts peppers, Lima beans, tomatoes, ana Two
bowders Of beautiful lowers These attend t"
myself.
/ wrote to James Johnson Ibis nephew, at
Sandy Ho *, Hartford connty,l some time since,
ani received letter IRON him, giving Il general
ncighborhOod history of many persons that |
used to know, and his letters are particularly i'll |
tercsting to me on that account. attend to
keep up correspondence with him. Whose son
was James ForwuOd recently deceasedf
Charles II. Hays died suddenly last week. from
heart disease. took HIM To Maryland in 1898.
He went To school nj Bel Air Academy to Reu- |
ben II. Davis. He became Il midshlpman in the
United States Navy at II years of ngc. Judge |
Stevenson Archer, his uncle, got the appoint |
ment for him..