The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-05-09

crest on. embalmed and sainted dead,
Dear rs the blood you gave;
No impious footsteps here shall tread.
The heritage of your grave"
This is one of the verses on n beautiful
monument ! looked upon with fearful
reverence while walking through Rose
mont cemetery at Newberry.
Calvin Crozier was a Texas Confedcr-
ate soldier. who, shortly after the close
Of the war, was going home and had
some ladies in his charge. When the
train arrived ut Newberry some lawless
soldiers. who were in camp near by, went
into the car and grossly insulted the
ladies. Crozier and some others defended
the ladies and in the melee one Of the
negroes was slightly wounded. Before
the train left Colonel Trowbridge sent
some of the negroes to arrest the man
who did it. They made a mistake and
seized Mr.. Jacob Bowers, n railroad en-
ployee. and hurried him away to the
Colonel's quarters. Without trial he was
Summarily ordered to be shot 1t was
near midnight when Crozer was told OF
Bowerss arrest and condemnation; he
promptly went forward and declared that
the negro. Bowers was released and at
sunrise next morning CrOZier was shot
to death. notwithstanding his demand
for a trial and protest of Prince Rivers,
an officer i'll Trowbridge's command.
negro soldiers danced with fendish de-
light upon and around the shallow grave
where they had laid him. Long after
the war was erected by the good people
Of Newberry to his memory.
Does history record any nobler sacri-
flee?
Damon was the friend of Pythias. but
this man Bowers was Il stranger to
Crozier
Much more Of this pathetic story is re-
corded in the ANNALS of Newberry," an
interesting volume. written by John Bel
ton O'Neall. IL. ID.
| was pleased to learn that other coun-
ties 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 ancestors? State
history cannot do it for it would make
many pOnderous volumes. but even now
it is not too late for some one of literary
taste and fidelity in every county to con-
fer with the old men and compile such
ia history. Such publications could be
cheaply done and would be of inestimablc
value to the citizens. Mr. Chapman, a
well-preserved veteran. 4 cultured schOl
ar. gentleman of the olden times, is
now writing the annals Of Edgefeld. l
was informed on good authority that this
Mr.. Chapman was good authority
Mr.. Chapman was the real author Of
the school history of the United States
that was published in Columbia, S. c.,
as the work Of Alex. III. Stevens. Mr..
Chapman submitted his manuscript to
Mr. Stephens and for the use and prestige
of his name gave him an interest in the
royalty. This was scarcely a
royalty. There was scarcely y change
made in it from beginning to end.
Newberry is a gem of a city and its
population is perhaps more cultured and
refined than any city Of South Carolina.
The professors of her college and high
school, her lawyers and doctors and
preachers and 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 edi-
tor of The News-Herald, is perhaps the
best all round man for his work to be
found for he is not only a man of high
culture, but is eminently practical news
paper 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 re-
concled 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 acquire Il
knowledge of work or habits Of work.
From eight to twenty he is non-pro-
Queer, and when he graduates is fit only
for the learned professions, IF fit for any
thing. But his boys have to mingle
study with labor and alternate the years
each. Mr. Aull is the president of the
State Press Association.
OF course Newberry has large cotton
mill. Almost every Carolina town has one
or more. AS you travel from place to
place they are in sight, and give employ
ment to the poor. Five years ago Union
had only ] 800 inhabitants, but during all
these distressing years has continued to
grow and prosper until now there are
5000 One little mill. as they call 1T,
started the boom and encouraged them
to build another-a very large one, whose
four floors cover a space equal to SIX
acres. Next came an oil mill and knit
ting mill and Ohter industries, and now
they are boring for artesian water, to
supply a system of water works. Meth
err in the city nor near it are any people
begging for work, for employment is at
hand.
Then go to Spartanburg and be amaz-
ed. When / was there a few years
ago there was nothing to make note of
save a college, but now there are cotton
mills near by that manufacture 100000
bales annually, and it is claimed that no
one county in the United States consumes
as much. Not an acre of suburban land
can be bought for less than $40. Every
thing prospers and everybody seems hap
by. The taxable property has increased
four-fold whiting eight years. and the
population has more tn IN doubled.
Where did all the money come from, /
inquired.
From a small beginning from one lit
tie mill, and it did so well that others
soon followed Northern manufacturers
of machinery We're attracted there and
took one third of the stock and paid for
it in spindles and looms-and have made
money and are content. Some Charles
ton money is there, too. These mills
have made from 10 to 20 per cent. for sew
eral years, and keep ON making it. and