The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1895-09-10
STROTHER NEWS.
An Inter- sting Letter From Our CORES.
pondent.

plicity of duties, cares, and real
spell of sickness must be the excuse OF
your Strother correspondent for such
long silence.
The distressing and prolonged
drought has been broken, and the
copious rains will surely prove bene-
ficial to late corn, potatoes &c. We
fear the cotton crop IS sadly cut OF,
yet hope better price will be the re-
suit. Yet poor little South Carolina
is a minor consideration if other cotton
growing provinces give a good yield.
Surely this has been most unusual
summer, for we Lave hardly had a
pleasant night. save the past three.
Yonr little correspondents first
letter renewed memories of when the
war began. The writer "a little girl
who lived in Alexandria Va.,) was
sent from our family to attend an
elder sister. Our father, most sue
cessful physician, had few years
previous been laid in the family lot
by mothers side. The dear elder
brother, vino so nobly and ably filed
fathers place to five orphaned sisters,
the eldest being barely seventeen, had
gone to Manassas with his regiment,
the gallant 18th Virginia. Dear noble
brother fell the day before the sur
render at Appomatox c. H., and by
that fa'l his sisters were deprived Of
every stay, save innocence and heaven.
They subsequently became happy
wives, and their case is only another
proof that God gives all strength for
all the burdens laid upon them.
Mr.. Jackson Wss proprietor of the
Marshall House and was an ardent
secessionist. AS soon as Virginia Sc
ceded, he hOisted tbatifag swearing he
down. Cof: Ellswath went up 70 tear
down the Confederate and hoist the
U. S. Flag, Mr.. Jackson protesting.
AS soon as Col. E. reached the hall on
his return, Mr.. j. shot him through
the heart. This created a frenzy
against J. Of course the poor man
was martyr, and was not only shot,
but pinned to the floor by eleven
bayoDets.
Excuse this sad recital. We only
intend to say the date was the oath OF
May, not the 4th.
Our lamentably dull norhood will
soon lose two young ladies for an
indefinite period. Misses Matte Blair
and Lima Pearson will take pleasure
trip, the former goes to Texas, the
latter to Virginia, West Virginia,
Washington, Harper's ferry, and
other points of interest.
A new and fashionable amusement
is popular in The Old Dominion, viz,
a hay ride. A four-horse wagon with
most commodious Dody and partially
filled with fresh sweetly moWn hay.
Ten or twelve lassies and as many
ladies constitute the happy party.
They 60 upon jaunt of miles visiting
the home of Oen. Roonv Lee, the
house in which sien. Fitz Hugh was
born, the former residence Of our
own Commodore Forrest, and all resi-
Gences look more beautiful in the
moonlight which bides any defect.
Pohich Church is a place of 5reat
historic interest, and the sexton is
very polite and ever eager to point out
Gen. Washington's pew.
What could be more invigoratipg
and improving. Yet we fear that
many around here would regard such
9 proceeding as very questionable.
How sad that so many are prone to
construe innocent amusement into
something to be cenSured. Nothing
is more detrimental to one than the |
covert smile, shake of the head and
~ hear" which is the very foundation |
of a shameless SANDER. Do we forget |
the commandment of God which says:
"Thou shalt not bear false witness |
a. ainst thy neighbor?' All! Surely |
the angels veil their faces with their |
wings when pure young girls char
acter is assailed, and woe to the tra-
ducer! Vengeance is mine saith the
Lord, I will repay. We fear that the
man or woman who would encourage |
and rejoice over one breath against |!
any girl high or low, rich or poor,
must have sad cause for being sus-
picieus. When woman deviates one
iota from the straight and narrow
path Git is 80 easy to follow there is
ever indisputable proof Of her fall.
A man is weak enough to deny his
quilt, but the poor woman has not the
opportunity if she wished it. OF the
'epentant sinner our dear loving
saviour said:
"Neitbez 90 I condemn thee, 60 in
,eace and sin no more.
The world says:
"If a woman once errs, kick her
|oIn, though misfortune may be hers
lick her down." SC.
Many poor repentant sinner has
allen again because she was never
,iven an opportunity to 90 in peace
nd sin no more. Cast off by rela
nns and friends their story follows,
. here they seek honest employment.
nd through sheer despair they fall
gain. Not only do the guilty suffer,
ut too often girls whose lives have
ten blameless are foullv slandered.
would b, we'll t. tv,.r remember the
lage, "Honi salt qui NAL q fense, i
hi5h expresses 50 muel.
c. l. L.