The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1892-06-08
TRIP TO NORTH CAROLINA AND
BACK.
commencement at ft. Pieasant-Geo. r.
Cromer's Address-Incioents ofthe
Trip.

Commencement at Mt. Pieasant-Geo. r.
Cromer's Address-Incidents ofthe
| Trip.
I do not often bore the readers OF The
Herald and News with accounts OF
travel, but on this occasion l want to
say a word or two Of a trip to the COM
| mencement exercises of the North
Carolina College, Mt. Pleasant, \. G.
And as it will bring in some persons
who are we'll and favorably Known to
the people of Newberry, l hope it Will
not be entirely uninteresting.
Mt. Pleasant is j charming little
country town, located nine miles east
of Concord, noted principally as the
location of North Carolina College aud
Mt. Pleasant Female Seminary.
The commencement exercises began
on Sunday, May 90. The baccalaureate
sermon was preached by DR.. Bowman,
who is favorably aud well-known IN
Newberry.
Geo. B. Cromer, Esq, Of our town.
delivered the Literary address on Tues
day morning, and fine address it was
He seemed At his best, and his speech
made very favorable impression. His
subject was 1.-The Individual and His
relations to other people" "
One old gentleman insisted on my
telling him why South Carolina didn't
make Cromer governer instead of "Old
Tillman," ss be expressed it. Ofcours
could not answer the question fur
ther than to say that I would be glad to
have it as he wished.
The Concord Standard, speaking OF
Mr.. Cromer's speech, says: 1t twas
graceful, able and entertaining.
Mr.. Cromer is a magnetic ora
tor, and the spice of it was the
wit that clinehed the truth every time.
No other speaker has ever held more
closely the attention OF the large audi
ence that cat there for thirty-five mill
utes." The Times says: 1.-The address
was scholarly and classical in an emf
nent degree"
I found some eight or ten South
Carolina boys attending this college.
The President IS the Rev. }. D.
Shirey, for several years the pastor OF
the Beth Eden Lutheran pastorate
in Newberry County. The college seems
to be prospering under his management,
and certainly the commencement was
very creditable.
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We, mean Mr.. Cromer and myself,
spent short time at Concord. This IS
a little town of about 1000 people, but
in fact does not seem to be as large as
Newberry. Laa4y-refer to this here to
saZ shat Concord has daily paper, a
system of water works, an electric
light plant, and the people are de-
lighted with these improvements. The
town has lis 2O-candle-power incandes'
cent street lights for which it pays an
nually about 800. Newberry should
get move on her.
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The only thing Of note on the return
| trip was after we reached Columbia
and only mention it to say that be-
Iieve now that T am heartily in favol
of separate cars for the races and hope
that Gov. Tillman had this necessity
impressed upon him sufficiently by hi
own experience to cause him to recon
mend separate cars in his next annua
message.
The dudes and dudines of Allen Uni
versity were on their way home ant
took complete possession Of the frs
class car. Gov. TilIman and Secretary
of State Tindal boarded the train a
Columbia, but rather late. The Gov
ernor came in the first class car an(
two strapping colored youths, who eacl
had 9 seat to himself, refused to douol'
up and give him one of the seats. The!
quietly reminded the Governor tha
those seats were reserved for theil
friends and the Governor had to tax
passage in the second class car.
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