Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1896-03-06

Dr. L. w. CampDell mas Deen having
chills. He is also suffering with very
sore hand. Mrs. Campbell has been
quite unwell with pain in her foot.
Billy Campbell is still confined to his
bed. He bears his long confinement like
a hero. Billy is truly a noble boy, and it
is to be hoped that he will be speedily
restored to health and spared to along
life of usefulness.
Mrs. DR.. Bigger has recovered from the
measles; but the doctor informs me that
their baby boy is now quite sick with
catarrh Of the stomach.
Mr.. Jasper Anderson, while fixing a
wagon bed, had the misfortune to break
one of his ribs or knock it off from the
breast bone. He has suffered great
deal with it; but still keeps going. Jas is
one of the kind that never says die.'
DR.. Bigger says that there is not case
of measles now among the whites in his
practice. There are few cases still among
the Negroes.
Mr.. John Timberlake has been quite
ill for two weeks. He is still very feeble.
One Of our most popular young men has
shaved of his moustache, and some of the
girls are taking on good deal about it.
People are asking every day whether
Mr.. Wallace Is going to fix up his mineral
spring. Ibelieve 1t would be quite re-
sort this summer, and hope Mr.. Wallace
will have the matter attended to.
In a corner of DR.. T. w. CampbelPs
orchard may be seen some rude stones,
such as our grandfathers used to build
chimneys of. There is nothing remark
able about this pile Of rocks to attract
ones notice, and the passing stranger
would note them, if he noticed them at
all, to simply remark that at some time a
cabin had stood here. Little would he
think as he sat watching the lazy Lizards
that the warm sunshine had coaxed from
their winters nap, and that now lay bask-
ing on the top Of fiat rock, that he was
gazing on historic ground, and that per-
haps on that very stone, upon which the
Lizards are lying, one Of the most illus
trious men ever born in South Carolina
once sat, while he puzzled his brain over
some mathematical problem, propounded
by some stern old pedagogue who welded
the birch in the schoolhouse that more
than 100 years ago, stood on this identical
spot, and of which those rocks formed
part of the chimney. I say that he would
not dream that he was at the spot where
Andrew Jackson, the hero of New Or
leans and the iron willed president of the
United States went to school. Yet such
is the fact. DR.. Campbell says that his
father told him, and he got it from those
who lived at that time and went to school
with "Old Hickory" that Jackson once
went to school there. He boarded with
Colonel Howe, brave Revolutionary
soldier, and whose house was about half a
mile from DR.. Campbell's present resi-
dence. The teachers name was William
Dobson. Many of his family still live in
York county. He was man of thorough
education and famous teacher in his day,
famed alike for his learning and for the
unsparing manner that he used the birch.
He had, I am told, been captain in the
American army, and think commanded
a company at the battle of Kings Noun
tain. He had lost an eye; but whether in
the army or in some other way. am un-
able to say. The men called him zone
Eyed Bill Dobson."r The boys, behind his
back; called him "Old Dobson." 1t mat
ters not how he was called, he had the
tact of teaching his scholars, and years
after "Old Hickory" had gone to school to
him, DR.. Campbell's father studied sur
veying under him.
It's pity that we are unable to gather
more of Jackson than the mere
fact that he went to school here. At that
time he was nothing but rough Irish
boy with perhaps nothing remarkable
about him to distinguish him from his
school fellows, all of whom have passed
away, with regulations that did not ex-
tend beyond the neighborhood, while the
Irish boy lives in history as an immortal
of earth, and statues Of marble and brass
his greatness.
No doubt, at that day, Colonel Howe
and Captain Dobson were considered great
men by the side of the freckled face boy
who would have felt honored by their
smile of approval. They, alas for fame,
have passed away and the green moss has
for years grown over unpretentious the
slabs that mark their graves.
can't quit this theme without telling
the tale, as told to me by DR.. Campbell, of
how the boys barred "Old Dobson" out
DR.. Campbell says he got it from some of
the old people long since dead. The
school house was built of logs notched in,
the top logs extending out about three
feet on either side. Well, the boys on the
last day of school wanted Old Dobson to
treat. The treat in that day and time was
q gallon Of whisky. This he positively
refused to do, so they caught him and tied
his hands and feet and hung him over one
of the logs at the end of the schoolhouse
until he was nearly dead. Still he would
not give up. So they carried him to the
creek and tied him hard and fast to sap
ling, and then bent it oyer and ducked
the old fellow in the freezing water till at
last he gave up and gave them the money
to send after a jug of whisky. Then they
all got merry and the whilholm victim
was the hero. x.
ROCK HILL HAPPENINGS.
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