The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1897-05-13
BILL ARP'S WEEKLY Letter.
BARLOW SAGE MAKES A VISIT TO
SOUTH CAROLINA.
HIGHLY ELATED At WHAT He SAW.
People and Towns Of Palmetto State
Seem Prosperous-Many Cotton
Mills Attract Attention.

crest on, embalmed and sainted dead,
Dear as the blood you gave;
No impious footsteps here shall tread,
The herbage Of your grave"
This is one of the verses on beautiful
monument I looked upon with fearful
reverence while walking through Rose
mont cemetery, at Newberry.
Calvin Crozier was o Texas confed-
crate soldier, who shortly after the close
Of the war, was going home and had
some ladies in his charge. When the
train arrived at Newberry some lawless
negro soldiers who were in camp near
BY went into the car and grossly in
suited the ladies. Crozier and some
others defended the ladies and in the
melee one of the negroes was slightly
wounded. Before the tyln left
Colonel Trowbridge sent iome OF
the negroes to arrest the man
who did it. They made a mistake
and seized Mr.. Jacob Bowers, a rail-
road employee, and hurried him away
to the colonel's quarters. Without
trial he was summarily ordered to be
shot. It was near midnight when
Crozier was told of Bowers arrest and
condemnation; he promptly went for
ward and declared that he himself was
the man who wounded the negro.
Bowers was released and at sunrise
next morning Crozier was shot to
death, Notwithstanding his demand
for trial and protest Of Prince Riv-
ers, an officer in Trowbridge's COM
mand. The negro soldiers danced
with fiendish delight upon and around
the shallow grave where they had laid
him. Long after the war his bones
were removed and this monument was
erected by the good people of New
berry to his memory.
Does history record any nobler sac
rifce?
Damon was the friend of Pythias,
but this man Bowers was stranger to
Crozier.
Much more of this pathetic story is
recorded in the "Annals of Newberry," !"
an interesting volume written by John
Beltou O'Neall, LII. D.
I was pleased to learn that other
counties in Carolina were having their
annals written and published in book
form. How else can we hand down
to posterity the good deeds of our an
cestors? State histories cannot do it,
for il would make many ponderous
volumes, but even now it is not too
(. late for someone OF literary taste and
fidelity in every county to confer with
the old men and compile such q his
tory. Such publications could be
cheaply done and would be of inesti-
mable value to the citizens. Mr..
Chapman, q well-preserved veteran, q
cultured scholar, gentlemen OF the
olden times, is now writing the annals
of Edgefeld. I was informed on good
authority that this Mr.. Chapman was the
real author of the school history of the
United States that was published in
Columbia, 8. c., as the work Of Alex.
b. Stephens. Mr.. Chapman submit
ted his manuscript to Mr.. Stephens
and for the use and prestige of his
name gave him an interest in the royal
ty. There was scarcely a change made
in it from beginning to end.
Newberry is gem Of city and its
population is perhaps more cultured
and refined than any city OF South
Carolina. The professors Of her col
lege and high school, her lawyers and
doctors and preachers apd editors are
all gentlemen, not only in manners
but at heart. The standard of good
citizenship is high and the influence
of her leading men pervades the entire
community. Mr.. Aull, the editor of
the News-Herald, is perhaps the best
all round man for his work to be
found, for he is not only. Q man of high!
culture, but is emlnentiy prsctlcai
newspaper man and is devoted to his
calling. he has written the history
of the state, and it is the standard In
the schools. Two of his boys, aged
ten and twelve, are at work IN the
printing room, and do good service.
Mr.. Aull is not at all reconciled to the
modern system of grading the schools
so that it takes eight years to go
through their courses. If four years
more are added for a college course
there is no time left for boy to ac-
quire q knowledge of work or habits OF
work. From eight to twenty he is q
non-produeer, and when he graduates
is fit only for the learned professions,
if fit for anything. But his boys have
to mingle study with labor and alter
nate the years of each. Mr.. Aull is
the president of the State Press Asso-
citation.
OF course Newberry has large cot
ton mill. Almost every Carolina town
has one or more. As you travel from
place to place they are in sight, and
give employment to the poor. Five
years ago Union had only 1,S00 in
habitants, but during all these dis
tressing years has continued to grow
and prosper until now there are 1000
One little mill, as they call it, started
the boom and encouraged them to
build another-a very large one,
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