The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1895-05-29

out, and as they warmed up MIR. Burns
proceeded, in his inimitable way, to
prepare the prisoner for the terrible
castigation that, to him at least, there
seemed no earthly chance Of averting.
''Well, Jim, you've always been 3
good niger, and I'm powerful sorry
we've caught you here tonight.
eyes, Mas Jurdin, Use mighty
sorry, too
"Jim, you've always behaved your
self before, and I hate powerful to
war you out this cold night"
eyes, Mas Jurdin, I hatesit might
ly, too"
Then, after pause:
"Jim, I'll swar it's powerful cold
for a niger to pull off his shirt this
cold night" and the darkey replied as
before:
Eyes, Mas Jurdin, it's mighty
cold.''
Thus it went on for some time until
the negro was in an agony Of expecta-
tion, and this mode Of punishment
was probably more reformatory than
the whipping he didn't get.
It appears that patrolmen, when not
on regular rounds Of duty, had au-
thority to harness up rowing slaves
without the necessary pass and ad-
minister a hogging, and tradition has
it that it was an evil hour for such
slaves to fall into the clutches Of Jesse
Herring, who lived where Gus. Skel-
ton now resides.
Under this old system it is but nat
ural that the slaves should. have
evolved many tricks and articles to
elude the patroller, not the least Of
which, by any means, was the darkeys 8
reliance on the efficacy Of his heels.
Out of this came the old plantation
melody
''The niger run, the white man few,
The Niger lost his burned old shoe.
oh, run, nigger, run, patroller catch you.
Oh, run, Niger, run, patroller catch you," etc.
I should like to write on and tell Of
the Captains Of the old Fork Beat
Company, of the two volunteer conf
panies that once existed there, Of the
boundary lines of the four patrol dis
tricts Of the Fork Beat, Of the old
Beat Muster Ground, and Of the field
officers Of the old Forty-second Regi-
ment of Militia, but cannot now. l
give, however, the old list, which will
no doubt interest the people of the
Fork, to many Of whom some Of these
names will sound strange. l regret
very much that the names Of the mi
litiamen residing in patrol district No.
2 do not appear-that part OF the old
list being torn away:
No. 1.IStokes Stribling, A. j. Gra-
ham, John Browning, john Cox, John
j. King, E. E. Harrison, John Smith,
Andrew Pickens, A. Bowman, Zacha-
riah FELTON,, Moses Reid, Jesse Ried,
Benz. Reid, Solomon King, r. A.
King, Obed Coffin, James Carrell, R.
NJ. Brown, Jonathan Pickrell, D. j.
Hix, VIM. Dabbs, Daniel Carroll, q.
NJ. Barton, Jacob Carroll, Elisha
Webb, Ira Herring.
No. 3.-Saml. Swilling, Allen Bal
ley, A. S. Smith. Milton Hix, ]. N.
Grubbs, Geo. Swilling, G.. q. Swill-
ing, Charles Bruce, ]. R. Fant, Sa-
laithiel Bradberry, Saml. Brown, Jesse
McGee, D. E. Gambrell, ]. H. Harris,
Berry Hix, VIM. Hix, ". P. King,
Jesse Herring, Jas. Bradberry, Jesse
Bradberry, s. P. Harris, Bonea Bates,
A. Newell, J. W. Rimer, B. Rimer,
E. McArn, j. NJ. Hendrix, VIM. Cox,
Elijah FELTON,, Erwin Mitchell:
No. 4.-Levi Herring, W. Hudson,
Dennis Tippens, Saml. Ward, William
Meredith, VIM. Bradberry, Robert
Holland, ST., W. W. Holland, Robt.
Holland, Jr., E. 3. Stanley, A. J..
Lowery, Leroy Pullen, Geo. Newell,
Larkin Brown, Joseph Mason, Saml.
Isbell, Martin Mckay, 0. W. Wright,
Elisha Herring, B. W. Maret, Lewis
ton Isbell, Robt. Isbell, G. W. Nc
Kay, VIM. Pullen, Hey Pullen, LEY
G. Coffee, VIM. Browning, F. j. Hud-
son, Henry Lowery, - League.
Of these eighty-si1 men only two
are believed to be living, and these
are Jonathan Pickrell at 81, and John
NJ. Hendrix who is 85.
It would be interesting to know
where these men whose names are not
familiar to the present generation
lived.
It is noteworthy that LEY Pullen,
who died suddenly in Christmas week
Of 1852 was the first person to be in
TERED in the Baptist graveyard at
Townville, and that three-H: NJ.
Barton, Samuel Isbell and R. A. King
subsequently became preachers OF
the Gospel.
w. A. DICKSON.