The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1898-07-22
&$0S&& NEWBERRY, S. O., FRIDAY, JULY a. lS98

cemetery-has little white head
pieces telling where about 10000
more are sleeping. On one corner,
whore two streets meet, you can
stand and count forty. one bar rooms
here, and this fact is explained by
adding that 100000 pension money
is paid quarterly to the occupants of
the Soldlers' H R~me. This money is
greedily waited for by these whiskey
sellers, but let us hope that most of
it goes elsewhere. At Fortress
Monroe some of us saw, for the first
time, one Of the saddest sights that
can anywhere be seen. This was
the landing Of hundreds Of our brave
soldiers boys who wore wounded
while fighting for their country.
Here our pleasant party separated,
some going to Norfolk, Richmond,
Virginia Beach, back to Washington
and some werc homeward bound.
q SPECIAL MENTION.
President Anil and Secretary
Langston are capital workers, and
they need no thanks here, because
these were rendered in person by
every member of the Assoc,ation.
All Of the officers were re-elected at
Greenville, and this is President
AulPs fifth successive occupancy of
this Office. At Paris Mountain he
and Secretary Langston were again
presented with testimonials showing
the esteem in which they are held by
their bretkern.
a feature OF the meeting which
hus not received proper attention
was the remarkably fine address of
President Geo. b. Cromer, of New
berry College. Mr. Cromer's sub
ject was "fhe Personal Pronoun,
First Person Singular" and his re-.
marks were Of tho highest order of
excellence. The speaker ia a man
OF scholarly thought and Of graceful
aid foToibie expression; his style is
cultivated and finished, and best of
all, he is manly and strong and pure.
We are indebted TO him Tor an nd
dress which I have seldom heard
equalled, and which was listened to
with marked attention.
have been frequently and ur.
gently requested by my brethern to
make, in thoir behalf, some aoknow-
ledgment of the many courtesies
shown the Association by Harris,
of Harria's Lithia Springs" He
showed us more attention than any
other ono individual, and this was
done cordially and pleasantly. He
has secured every association in the
State to meet at his springs-medi-
cal, dental, eduoational-all, and by
urgent invitation the South Carolina
State Press Association is added to
this number for next year.
The railroads were most obliging,
the Southern Railway particularly.
We left Greenville on the famous
Southwestern limited of this road,
occupying special Pullman car.
Returning we were on their "ll.
mited" again, with our own special
Pullman car. The Baltimore and
Ohio Road gave lib transportation on
their famous "Cannon Ball Express,
of tho Royal Blue line" Messrs.
s. II. Hardwlck, A. G. Lewis, e. j.
Chism and Il. III. Pannill, Of the
various railroad and steamship limos,
will accept again our sincere thanks
for polite attentions Especial mon
ton must also be made OF tho gen-
uinely courteous attentions. which
were bestowed on our party by Mr.
A. A. Brantley, former Carolinian,
now resident of Washington.
Messrs. j. A. Hoyt, A. j. s. Thomas,
]. r.. Richar1aOn. A q 1Cnrn,on
and II. j. Haynesworth, OF Green
vile, were most attentive to us and
gave us much pleasure by what they
did.
"EDITORIAL BREvITIRs."
Wo were all sorry that our good
friend, Major j. r. Bacon, of tho