The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1886-05-20
RED SPRINGS.
HAT OUR FOLKS ARE DOING
DOW On THE BORDER.
The Robe>on Count, CroatausNo,:n
and South Carolina Meet and Make
Merry Picnic Occasion

/ RED SPRINGS. y G. May Il. 1856 This
/ Is q new station on the c. I. x s L K
I Before this end of the line was extended
! and while second handed engines piled
/ between Fayetteville and Egypt, near this
/ place was the home of the Croatan ludl-
| ans, Henry Berry ioWery and his gang
/ OF bandits, who detled law. resisted its
/ officials and made II exceedingly uncom-
/ fortdble for any man or set OF men who
sought To suppress them This was only
/ a few years ago aud the daring deeds oil
the Lowery bandits are fresh in the mem
ory Of many a school boy not yet III his
/ teens But a new era has dawned the
! Croatans still live, many of them al least,
but instead Of being lawlesS and murder
Gus they are becoming civilized What
their history Is We don't know They are
neither white nor black, and they seem TO
have no distinct nationality \ member
OF the Legislature from a Cape Fear coun-
ty, III voting on an educational bill, who
was himself IA Scotchman, spoke of them
as cross between a Scotchman and a ne
gro But II | was Scotchman this Is a
| little more than | would submit to-
Major Geo. H. Hall who is, by the way,
the leading genius in this countrys new
| development, says they are ''the lost sheep
of the house of Israel There are three
thousand Of them in Robson county, and
1t isn't fair to infer that they were all or
nearly all sympathizers with the Lowery
| outlaws. Lowery was full blooded Croa-
| tan but he was black sheep and his fol-
lowers We're like him The better element
of the Croatans own land and stock They
have schools and churches. They are
honest and law abiding. The men are in
| dustrlous, and among the females are
specimens Of rare rustic beauty. Scott
sang of the maiden
at whose airy tread
The hair bell raised its fairie head, :
but neither Scottish nor Asiatic beauties are
more entitled to the name than are these
Croatan maidens, '''Tis beauty unadored, =
we'll rounded forms, olive complexions,
eyes as black as jet and as bright as dla
monds and glossy locks that breezes fan
into careless rlnglets of loyeliness. Pol
ished and educated these rustic gems
would sparkle IN the galaxy of feminine
loveliness like diamonds among pearls.
Before the CroatanS were ever thought
of, even before this grand piney country
was dotted over with settlements of good
honest hard working liberal healthy Macs,
Indians of the olden time drank of the
water that bubbled up from these springs
| and received benefit therefrom. They are
called Red Springs, not because the water
redden everything it touches from clear
cut glass goblet to the pallid cheek of u
| visiting invalid. The surrounding pines
no longer shelter the heads of a gang Of
| outlaws, but are cut up into lumber and
are used to build up new country Tor
new people. There are two hotels here,
one kept by Mr.. VIM. Prior, formerly of
Fayetteville, n. c., the other by Mr.. r.
I. Covington. They are not furnished
| with steam elevators and electric bells, but
! they offer good old fashioned home-like
comfort to any who may wish to spend Il
IA week or a month at this "resort among
the pines" The spring is said to be al
most bottomless. 1t is bubbling sand and
water through which bullet to line will
sink down nearly a hundred feet 1t is
far from being warm spring, for the hot
| ter the weather the colder the water.
| 1t has a mineral taste and is said to be
splendid specific for all ills except con
sumption. The spring itself and many
acres of the land surrounding it is owned
| by a company, and it is the boast of those
who are interested that no person comes
here without being benefited.
Red Springs is twenty-five miles from
Fayetteville, and about the 4ane distance
! from Bennettsville, S. c., and here the
people of each place frequently meet on
pic mic occasions. ''North Carolina says
| unto South Carolina" not that is long
| time between drinks, but that it is time
| for a day of recreation and pleasure.
On Friday last had the pleasure of at
| tending pic-ni excursion from Fayettc
| vile to Red Springs. The Sunday school
connected with the Hay Street Methodist
| church of Fayetteville, together with a
number of young people and old people
not members of the school, but all friends
of each other, boarded the early morning
train on the G. F. Il Y. V. r. r., and an
hours ride landed them at Red Springs.
A half hour later an excursion train
brough about four hundred gay young
| folks from over the line. Bennettsville
mingled its beauty and gallantry with the
beauty and gallantry from the old Cape
Fear Metropolis and gala day was the
result. A long table groaned under the
weight of good edibles from both places
Over the green lawns the children romped
and chattered and hundreds of happy
couples exchanged sweet glances and pretty
| speeches while shadows and bree4es played
about them. | have heard people (only a
few say that such gatherings are boring.
These must be dyspeptics for whom life has
| lost its sweetness. +. B. \.
What Female Schools Ought to Teach.
Especial Cor. STATE CHRoNICLE.I
STATEsvILLE, n c., May 15-After
reading in your excellent paper the letter
from "a Lover of Home and Our Girls, :
l remember having had the privilege of
| seeing a draft of Miss Everett's new cata-
logue, now in the hands of the printer,
and thought it might be of interest to your
readers to know that the Statesville Col
lege has already taken the initiative III the
suggested movement
| copy from it the following item to
show that this rising college of the West
is ever alive TO the interests of our girls
as ''homekeepers:" The boarding pupils
Will be thoroughly instructed IN cooking,
housekeeping, and all the practical duties
of eyeryday-life under the direction Of the
Principal, who believes that every young
lady should at least know how to make
good bread and coffee before completing
her school course. There will be no extra
charge, but every boarder viii be required
to take her share III these duties The
college has firmly resolved that the young
ladies educated in it shall know how to
fill. with delicate viands, the exquisitel!
painted china for which it has been 81
justly noted.
"ANOTHER LOVER OF HOME
AND OUR GIRLS"
Three Hours Equal a Whole Day.
1t Is a common idea among those VIII,
1 labor with thair hands that n, al work /