The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-05-28

Reports of Good Speechcs--.PleaS
ant Gathcring---BOun Dinner
-.-Notcs of the Trip.-.MOntercy and
its AsSociationS---Peace and lIar'
mony Ruled Supreme. and all Re
turned Home Happy.
Seeing President Blake and Purchasing
Agent X. +. McCaSlan on their way to l,nwn
drSville last Friday to attend an All lance
meeting at that place, and having nothing
| special interest TO keep us nj home, the ed toi
of the Press and Banner concluded 10 attend
the meeting. Starting away about five o'clock
| in company with Colonel III. Il. Wardaw, We
| set out for the home of Mr.. l.. Calhoun, some
eleven miles west OF Abbeville.
| In due time We pulled up i'm front OF the
hospitable mansion in which we spent q
pleasant night with the good people that we
| had set out to see.
All sorts of current news were talked Of
while the Tilman "suggeStion" received {;
share OF attention. Mr.. Calhoun is an anti
| Tilman man, and takes considerable interest
in politics. He could tel the political opin
ions Of many men in his community. In
| Magnolia, we are led TO believe that a major
| ty of the people arc anti-Tillman, with n Ger
talnty that the voters are much divided in
| opinion.
| NOTES ABOUT MONTERREY.
This Monterey neighborhood has produced
some OF the best citizens Of Ebbevillc county
|
der Hunter. Esquire Andrew Giles and his
sou w. a. Giles, now OF Granitcvilc, Esquire
William Speer, who was man OF great intel.
! iigence. and remarkable for his tenacious
memory. His father and mother, both ol
whom arc buried at.Rocky River grave yard
had passed ninety years of age, and the
Squire and his wife had long passed the
allotted time Of life when they were called
! hence. Rocky River grave yard, we venture
to say, contains the remains OF more young
people, and is the last resting place OF more
old people, than any cemetery OF it size In the
! county.
Esquire Giles was man of great prohiiy OF
character and conspicuous honesty. He ac'
| cumulatcd competency, and he IL was who
bestowed the name of Monterey to the com
muniiy In honor of the conspicuous bravely
Of the soldiers from that section in the wal
| with Mexico.
Here also old Jacob Martin, lived and reared
Il large family of children--John jacob Mar
tin, Yanccy Martin and James NJ. Martin
were all Sons of his.
This neighborho0d was the home of the
C1vingtonS, McCaws, Yarhronghs, Tilmans,
Spccrs, Powers, Gibcrts. Clinlsscales, Cal
huuns and others who shed lustre on the
| fame Of South Carolina, and whose descend
"mtS have taken promI,,nent part in the poll.
county and State.
| The old Power homestead was near Mon
| tcrcy, and from it went out preachers,
One OF the old and remarkable instl-
tuition of the Monterey vicinity is its beei
| market, which was organized perhaps fiity or
sixty years ago. and which has been kept up
unintrrruptedly from the dale OF the organi-
| zation. It's quite Il matter TO become mem.
ber of it. It's membership is limited, and
whenever from any cause Il vacancy occurs
preference is a ways given to descendent OF
| some OF the original members
Old Bull Town Fort had quite reputation
| in the days OF the Revolution. The remains Of
! the Fort are still TO be seen; and here Judge
t,,n NafN
this man-child was born into the world, with
humble surroundings, that he would become
| so eminent as Jurist, statesmen and finan,
cier, and be the intimate companion and
| friend Of Lowndcs, Pinckncy, and others who
| surrounded 10y wealth, and influential family
influences and educational advantages, never
ovcrmatched him In point Of ability. or out
stripped him in political prefcrment. This
little episode Of that especial locality should
! inspire other boys to emulate the example OF
the great man, and while it may not be
vouchsafcd 10 them to fill such exalted posi-.
tons as he occupied, they have before them q
world with the same ambitions, emulations
and careers.
The grave of Judge Chcycs's mother is sur
rounded by q neat paling which Mrs. Hask ell
had placed there some years since This is on
| !he old Wardlaw place, and very near II rests
Captain Tllman and his Wife Capt. Tilman
and beside him lays his wife. Their
graves are distinctly marked by head stones,
and through the Kindness and thoughtlulness
Of Mr.. John Clinkseales: who now lives ON
good order and free from weeds ana bricrs
| Mr.. James Clinkscales owns part of this plan
| tation. He has recently built Il new home
| with broad piaZZies, handsome bay windows,
and other surroundings which impress a
passcr by, as the home Of culture, refinement
and thrift. 1t is not surprising that from the
stock from which these people sprung VIC
| Of their ancestry. They arc all descendants
OF the old Scotch Irish settlers and intensely
Presbyterian In their faith. devoted to their
church and true to It's PRINCIPLES, us is attest
cd by the fact that old Rocky River church
has undergone 4 complete renovation recent
ly, and through successive years they have
faith, handed down by the fathers, should con-
tinuc pure and undcfied They are Il neigh.
borly and cOlnpanlonnble people, minister.
ing 10 each other in time OF sickness, and re-
| lievinS one another In time of want They
! live lives Of honestly, industry and peace, IN
homes OF solid comfort, and all these inhu.
ences combine to make them citizens from
whom the State could not lightly part.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edwin Calhoun are descend
cnis Of as good families us ever shed lusrc on
q peoples fame, or made glorious the annals
Of cnuntry's history. They live In
the ancestral home where she WIS
! born, and where her parents and grand par.
cnts lived and died, honored by all In their
children they have Il wealth Which is more Ia
Il parents heart !han the go!,l OF the world
Their sons are exemplary young men. who
will preserve their Noble heritage, while the
daughters, for gcntlcncSs, and sweetness in
| wunanly grace and character, are all that
could excite admiration from the outside
world, the oldest of whom having gone 10
shine in the heart and home OF another.
| WONDERFUL GROWTH OF LOwNDESrILL
| Leaving Mr.. Calhoun's early on Saturday
morning, we went directly To LOwnlesville,
putting ourselves under the care of McsSrS
James NJ. Baker and his brother Mr.. Charles
iiakcr TO whom we were greatly ebtec
! for kindly attention. Mr.. Charles Baker
carried us through the town in his cart, which
was drawn by Il lightning-gning horse. Not
being used TO riding in cart, drawn by such
Il swift trottcr, we were busy holding on Ia
the seat. If we had let go our hold, We verify
believe that the cart would have slipped from
| under Us.
| The town has grown wonderfully since we
saw IL last, some ten or fourteen years ago.
The fact Is, SO many new houses have gone up
and so many Of the Old ones have been re.
modelled. that we would scarcely know the
| old place which has been made new, and is
now fun of houses Of modern architecture.
! Evidences Of thrift and growth are every
| where 10 rc seen, and the historic old town
| has taken 4 new prosperity which VIII lcad on
and on to. VIC know not where.
! On the way to LowndeSriile, we spoke ia
nearly every one whom we SAW, and pnQuired
about the pic mic. Very few seemed TO know
anything ahcut IL, and we saw but one buggy
going In that direction, with the OCCUPANTS Ol
| which we had some talk. They had heard
| that there was to be Il pic mic, ana some speak
pic mic was to be and only knew the name OF
one Sprakrr-the big gun-(itn Il. Ii. Hemp
hill. They said that there were To be several
other speakers of less note, but he did not
know who they were.