The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-06-26
WRITES OF CAROLINA.
Bin Arp Returns from a Visit to
the Palmetto Stats
Sees Much to Please Him Town.
show q Wonderful Improvement
and the People Appear
Prosperous.

NO lmplOuS 1O0LSl6HS mere sudA lAGAUp N
The heritage of your grave."
This is one of the verses on a beauti-
fui monument 1 looked upon with tear
full reverence while walking through
Rosemont cemetery At Newberry.
Calvin Crozier was a 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
lawIess negro 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 Col. Trowbridge sent some Of the
negroes to arrest the man who did it.
They made a mistake and seized Mr..
| Jacob Bowers, a railroad employe, and
hurried him away to The c~olonels quar-
tiers. Without trial he was summarily
ordered to be shot. 1t was near mid
night when Crozier was told of Bowers
arrest and condemnation; he promptly
went forward and declared that he him
self was the man who wounded the
negro. Bowers was released and at
sunrise next morning Crozier was shot
to death, Notwithstanding his demand
for q trial and protest of Prince Rivers,
an officer in Trowbridge's command.
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 Newberry to his mem
ory.
Does history record any nobler sacri-
fee?
Damon was the friend of Pythias, but
this man Bowers was a stranger to Gro
zier.
Much more of this pathetic story is
recorded in the ANNALS of Newberry."
an interesting volume written by John
Bolton O'Neall, LID.
1 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 it would make many ponderous vol
umes, but even now it is not too late
for some one of literary taste and fidel-
ity in every county to confer with the
old men and compile such a history.
Such publications could be cheaply
done and would be of inestimable value
to the citizens. Mr.. Chapman, a we'll
preserved veteran, a cultured scholar,
q gentleman Of the olden times, is now
writing the annals Of Edgefeld. I was
informed on good authority that this
MIR. Chapman was the real author Of the
school history of the United States that
was published in Columbia, S. c., as the
work of Alexander II. Stephens. Mr.,
Chapman submitted his manuscript to
Mr.. Stephens, and for the use and pres
tige of his name gave him an interest
in the royalty. There was scarcely a
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 Car
DINA. The professors Of her college
and high school, her lawyers and doc
tors and preachers and editors are all
gentlemen, not only in manners, but at
heart. The standard of good citizen
ship is high and the influence Of her
leading men pervades the entire com
munity. 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 a man of high cul-
ture, but is eminently a practical news
paper man and is devoted to his call.
ing. 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 30 through then
courses. If four years more are added
for a college course there is no time
left for a boy to acquire a knowledge oil
work or habits of work. From eight tc
twenty he is a n%onproducer, and when
he graduates is fit only for the learned
professions, if At for anything. Blu
his boys have to mingle study with la.
Dor and alternate the years Of each
Mr.. Aull is the president Of the State
Press association.
OF course, Newberry has a large cot
ton mill. Almost every Carolina tow
has one or more. AS you travel from
place to place they r in sight, anG
give employment to the poor. Five
years ago Union had only 1900 inhab
itants. but during all these distressing
years has continued to grow and pros
per, until now there are 5000. On,
little mill, as they call it, started tn,
boom and encouraged them to builC
another-a very large one, whose foul
floors V u space equal to six acres
!, Next came an oil mill and q knitting
mill and other industries, and now the,
are boring for artesian water to sup
: ply system of waterworks. Neither ii
the city nor lear it are any people beg
. ging for work, for employment is a
! hand.
) Then go TO Spartansburg and b
: amazed. When / was there a few year
, ago there was nothing to make not
of save a college, but now there arecot