The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1897-06-23
BILL ARP'S WEEKLY LETTER,
Barlow C0uiI Sage Makes a Visit 10
S.uth Carolina.
HIGHLY ELATED At WHAT Hf SAW.
People and Towns Of Palmetto State
Seem Prosperous-Many Cotton Mills
Attract Attention-Calyin Crozier's
Monument at Newberry.
HIGHLY ELATED At WHAT He SAW,
crest on, embalmed and sainted Dead
Dear as the blood you gave;

No impious footsteps here shall tread,
The heritage OF your grave.
This is one of the verses on beautiful
monument l looked upon with fearful
reverence while walking through Rose
mont 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 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 train left
Colonel Trowbridge sent some OF
the negroes to arrest the man
who did it. They made 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. 1t 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 bis demand
for trial and protest OF Prince Rly-
ers. an officer in Trowhridge'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 wGS
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 Canals Of Newberry, "
an interesting volume written by John
Bolton O'Neall, LII. D.
l 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
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 a his
tory. Such publications could be
cheaply done and would be of inesti'
mable value to the citizens. Mr..
Chapman, a well-preserved veteran, &
cultured scholar, a gentlemen Of the
olden times, is now writing the annals
of Edgefeld. / was informed on goot
authority that this Mr.. Chapman was The
real author of the school history of the
United States that was published IL
Columbia, S. c., as the work Of Alex
II. Stephens. Mr.. Chapman submit
ted his manuscript to Mr.. Stephen
and for the use and prestige OF hi
ri0t1e=ze gave MIN an interest in the royal
ty. There was scarcely a change mad
in it from beginning to end.
Newberry is a gem of a city and it
population is perhaps more cultured
and refined than any city of Soutl
Carolina. The professors of her col
lege and high school, her lawyers ant
doctors and preachers and editors az
all gentlemen, not only in manner
but at heart. The standard of goo
citizenship is high and the inhuenc
of her leading men pervades the entir
community. Mr.. Aull, the editor {
the News-Herald, is perhaps the bes
all round man for his work to b
found. for he is not only man Of hig
culture, but is eminently a practice
newspaper man and is devoted to hi
calling. He has written the histor
of the state, and it is the standard /
the schools. Two of his boys, age
ten and twelve, are at work in tn
printing room, and do good service
Mr.. Aull is not at all reconciled to til
modern system Of grading the school
so that it takes eight years to
through their courses. If four yeal
more are added for college cours
there is no time left for boy to az
quire knowledge of work or habits {
- work. From eight to twenty he is
D on-producer, and when he graduate
3 is fit only for the learned profession
) if fit for anything. But his boys hay
3 to mingle study with labor and alte
, nate the years of each. Mr.. Aull
z the president of the State Press ASS
citation.
s Of course Newbery has large CO.
= ton mill. Almost every Carolina tow
3 has one or more. AS you travel frol
Z place to place they are in sight, an
/ give employment to the poor. Fl,
9 years ago Union had only 1900 il
3 habitants, but during all these di
e tressing years has continued TO gro
: and prosper until now there are 5000
6 One little mill, as they call it, starte
& the boom and encouraged them
e build another-a very large on
) whose four floors cover space equ
2 to six acres. Next came an oil mi
. aud q knitting mill and other indu
Z tries, and now they are boring for a
: tesian water, to supply system of W
= terworks. Neither in the city NJ
9 near it are any people begging Il
3 work for employment is at hand.
( Then 60 to Spartanburg and
= amazed. When I was there a fe
9 years ago there was nothing to nal
g note OF save college, but now the