Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1888-03-16

pecially DR.. W.. who made many friends
while stationed theIa during the war as
Assistant Surgeon j. s. A. Like the Wayu
Brothers i'll Staunton, the WestmorelaDd
Brothers of Greenville are drug men,
doing fine business. Theirs is wholesale
as we'll as retail, but it is larger estab-
lishment than any in Staunton. In fact,
Greenville is larger place than Staunton.
There are said TO be 10000 people here,
and it looks like it. There is fine water
pJwer, and several large factories built
upon the stream. A new railroad to
Knoxville, Tenn, is also being built,
which, it is thought, will in few years
double the population.
At Mayesville, in Sumter county, 5 e.,
[ met splendid old gentleman of the old
school type. a lifelong friend of Mrs. DR..
Mcfarland of Staunton. Noshing would
do but l must drive with HIM out in the
county to see the WitherspoOns. Mrs
WitherspooD, the mother OF Mrs. Nc Far
land. resides on her estate, a fine cotton
plantation about SIX miles from Mayes-
vile. In her pleasant home among the
trees and surrounded by evergreens, she
and her family, consisting of a married
daughter and son ia law, the Rev. Mr..
Mccoy, (who is pastor of the Plesby terian
church there), and two single daughters,
dispense genuine South Carolina hospital
iJy with open hands. This Is typic IL
southern home which it is "a privilege for
one to visit.
Then again in Asheville, that booming
mountain city of North Carolina, found
more Stauntonians. Here Mrs. PIumer
Bryan, nee Miss Alice Reid, has found d
delightful home and is thoroughly appre-
ciated by the Ashvillia Rev. Mr.. bryan
is warmly enlisted in his ministerial WORK
mere. HIS church is large and hOurishing
consisting of about 230 members; some
forty or more have been added to its mem
bership since Mr.. B. took charge, twenty
of whom joined the Sunday before | goC
there. His people have just built aud fur
nlshed for him cosy, brick study near
the church and propose building manse
in Ghe near future.
I also met there with young Edmund
Berkeley, eldest son of DR.. Carter
Berkeley. who is winning good opinions
as shipping clerk at the Piedmont AIT
Line Depot, and young George Harper,
another Stanton boy, who Is clerking in
the store of Ills uncle at Asheville.
Considering the severe cold weather,
snow and ice, which lefG IN Virginia
and mole Of which 1 have heard since
leaving there, [ was surprised to know
that there has been no snow in South
Carolina this winter. Toe season has
been unusually mild. You see beds OF
verbenas which have not even been FROST
often, and even punches of early vi0lets
IN full bloom uIon the banks here and
, there, and [ have seen to-day, luxuriant
grass, in some well kept yards in this city,
nigh enough to NOV with scythe. and
loo King ike May with US. The farmers
are b, sy laying off their cotton land, put
ting in their fertilizer and getting ready
for early planting. A favOrlts fertilizer
for cotton, on the principle OF 1.-The hair
of the dog is good for the bite," is cotton
seed, which has been kept in large heaps
until heated and the germ Destroyed
They are then sowed tbickly over the
ground, looking very much like light
tall of snow, and plOughed under and the
land much enriched thereby.
The general aspect of the country here
is so different from that Of the Valley OF
Virginia, so little green to be seen in the
fields, dead cotton stalks, dead corn stalks
and Lue grdv. bare earth, with little other
covering. The residences too, except u
few of the weather. class, are small, I'M
painted and generally sitting il the midst
of a cultivated held with no enclosure
around them. Nearly every one who seems
60 care tor a nice house, has apparently
moved to the towns which are consequent
ly pretty and growing.
The negroes are settled thickly all over
the country, and their log cabins with
mud chimneys and rail pen stables for
the one mule or steer, are to ba seen
all day long as you travel through the
country.
AS to politics, this is the most thor
oughly Democratic population l ever
encountered. 1t is unusual to meet
Republican, whether white Or black, and
the staunchest aud loudest talking Demo
Gratis are negroes. In Laurens county, al
joining this was told that there had not
been a Republican candidate for years.
What happy state of things!
A word about the machinery OF justice
You Cali but notice the superior style OF
che court-houses, so many new, large and
expensive ones, ana such crowds of people,
especially negroes, attending court, where
the chief attraction seems to be pitching
rings for knives and canes. The judges
of the U. s. District Court wear the black
silk gown in South Carolina, while on the
bench, and do not keep the good order in
court that we do in Virginia. In a n orth
Carolina court 1t sounds strange to hear
the Judge on the bench address the law
gers as brother a. or ''Brother B." and
the lawyers don't speak to each other as
Mr.. all say s'B' other" 1t sounds 50 nice
and fraternal, just like prayer meeting.
l would commend the custom to 0ul Au-
gusta bar as worthy of imitation.
T. c. NJ.