The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-07-10
At His ExceIIeney Mr.. Gibson's Old
Home An America

ton, visited Anderson, in South Car
| DINA, the old home place Of His Ex-
| cellency Walter NJ Gibson, Premier
Of this Kingdom.
Anderson is fourishing little
town In the upper part of the State,
whose patriotic citizens like to speak
Of a. the "Atlantic Of South Caro-
lima" In its vicinity John c. Cal
houn, Senator Rusk, Admiral Strib-
bling, Speaker James L. Orr, Chief
Justice Langdon Cheyes, Nice-Presi-
dent Pinkuey, Generals Waddy,
Thompson and Wade Hampton, along
with Butler, Prescott, Bee and hest
of other prominent men in American
history, had their homes, and were
intimately connected with its history
and development.
Our Commissioner spent four days
in Anderson, and in his letters to
friends in Honolulu, referring to An
derson, speaks Of most picturesque
country and charming people. that
are whole-souled and hospita BILE, !"
Who gave him abundant reason to
remember them kindly, and who, as
he says, hold their former fellow citi-
zen, Sfr. Gibson, in high esteem. The
Com missioner was the guest Of Mr..
Brock, the banker Of Anderson. This
gentleman drove his guest to
SANDY SPRINGS FARM,
The old home of our Premier. They
met at the old homestead farm house
two elderly ladies, Miss Jane and
Miss Eliza Lewis, the maiden auntS
Of Mrs. F. H. HayseIden of our city.
Doctor Smith, in contemplating this
old-fashioned homestead, situated in
the backwoods of South Carolina, in
dulges in the following reflections:
~ was much impressed as 1 sat in
the parlor of that farmhouse, lonely
ipfhe whirl of the world, and so far
distant from the pulsations and throb
bling centers of the activities Of life,
with the contrast which showed
themselves to my imagination be-
tween it's present occupants and
those who had erstwhile sat within its
domestic walls" Mr.. Gibson had
married here when there were five
bright young girls and four stalwart
young men, every one of whom per-
ished in the late Civil War" The
Doctor, in continuing his reflections,
remarks: "What a beautiful country
it is, in the region of Mr.. Gibson's old
homestead | do not wonder that as
young man, and an enthusiastic
one, his dreams and hopes anchored
right there. a bucOlic paradise is in
that region, and would, at twenty,
have, like him, anchored there too"
He then makes touching mention of
a visit to solitary little cemetery in
the heart of the primal forest of that
back country, in a lonely spot sur
rounded by ancient oaks, hickory,
birch, sassafras and butternut trees,
whose Overhanging limbs Overshadow
a grassy mound, near which is to be
seen a plain white marble slab with
the inscription:
Sacred to the memory of
RACHAEL,
The wife of Walter VI. Gibson.
The dear wife of my youth
our observant Commits
sioner visited the
ANCIENT SCHOOL-HOUSE NEAR PEN
DLETON.
Where young Gibson once admins
cred pedagogic discipline, and the
Doctor speaks humorously of his
meeting with Mr.. Burns, a former
pupil of our Premier, who INDUCED
in Renaissance of a thrashing he
at that school, and Of his
wrathful determination when he
grew up and should be big enough to
get even with that teacher by paying
him back III the same way; but as
the years have passed by, his resolu-
ton has weakened, and he hardly
thinks that he will seek the oppor-
tunity and traverse land and sea to
repay our Premier with the thrash
ing he once contemplated. The Hon.
Commissioner was strongly urged to
deliver an address at Anderson about
the Hawaiian Islands, in which such
q lively interest is felt in all that
country, but when he heard of the
expressed in regard to
public discourses delivered by Mr..
Gibson at that place in 1870 and 1873,
ON that subject, he says he "wisely
determined not to spoil popular re-
but let the Sandwich |
Islands float upon his (Mr. Gibson's) |
past eXertions." The Hon. Com
missioner speaks in glowing terms of
this beautiful country designated as
The Piedmont region of the South |
ern State,' and expresses his pleas
IRE for having been introduced to the |
pleasant region in the South, and a |
class of people who represent the |
side of Southern character |
md Southern social conditions, and |
who, after a lapse of MANY wears |