The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1901-02-20

i rOU1 Oih OyuhSJ3 AZ WHO 5SoSC1 CUulc6
thrilling story of romance, tragedy,
and prospective marriage, arising out
Of the illicit distillation Of whiskcy
and blockade stilling."
In the town of Tryon City, Polk
County, adjoining Rutherfordton,
named for Lord Tryon, who camped
for sometime with his army during the
revolutionary war on the site of the
town, there lives family by the name
Of Paris. One Of the.memoers of this
typical mountain family was beauti-
full daughter of about seventeen sum-
me.s. She was the belle of the town
and her only deficiency was the lack of
education. Her youth had been spent
in making the farm and helping her
mother with the house, wifery. Her
parents had considered schooling a,
luxury not to be thought Of, and
she could barely, read. and write her
name.
About four miles from Tryon City
is The Paris Farm. HoTo the daugh-
ter, whose name is Louise, was raised
until she was sixteen years old, when
the family moved to Tryon City to run
aprivate boarding house for the sum-
mer patronage, for which this. noun
tain town is noted. Adjoining the
Paris farm was homestead of q fami-
ly by the name Of Redmond, being
near relatives Of .ae famed outlaw and
moonshiner Of South Carolina. The
son, Ralph Redmond. was a few years
younger than Louise Paris, and they
saw much of each other as they grew
up. The little schooling received by.
Lou was at the log cabin with Ralph.
AS they became older their intimacy
ripcned into q warmer feeling, and
when the Paris family changed their
residence to Tryon City, Ralph and
Lou were engaged to be married.
Ralph was moonshiner, but he had
religiously kept this fact from his
sweetheart. AS soon as the family
took up their abode at Tryon City,
Louise blossomed into the acknow-
lodged belle of the town, and young
man by the name Of William johnson
became desperately smitten with this
rustic beauty. The attention of the
town beau was something new and
novel to Louise, and her woman's wit
soon developed those coquettish man
aers which most women possess, and
she led the Tryon City boys
merry dance for some months, but re-
maincd as true as steel to Ralph Red
mond
After some months Of general asso-
citation Of this kind, the young men of
the town gave way to Johnson who
pushed his suit to the test, and was
quietly, but firmly, rejected. This
was dreadful blow to him. He be-
came fearfully jealous Of any young
man whom Louise permitted to pay
4 her any attention. But as one after
another was politely refused, it began
to be suspected that Ralph Redmond,
|ho came now aud then to see Miss
Lou, might be the happy man.
4 johnson knew that it was reported
that Redmond was a moonshiner, and
little effort brought forth positive
evidence that Ralph had been running
mocashine distillery for several
. years, but his plant was so we'll hid
4 den in the Tryon mountains that the
4 revenue officers had never heen able
q to detect him. The necessary infor-
nation was furnished special officer,
and this officer laid his plans so we'll
that he caught Ralph Redmond and
i several of his helpers red-handed,
blast.
They were all put IN Columbus Jail,
but with the assistance from their
'rlends on the outside they all soon
escaped and went to the mountains.
l'edmonds enforced absence gave
johnson clear field, and he renewed
dis suit. Miss Lou treated him as
'Oough he had not addressed her there
8 'oioIe. In the meantime the friends
~ Kedmond hnd not been idle, and
{ 'hey had satisfied Themselves that
: - johnson had furnished the informa-
n0n to the revenue officers on which
Nedmond and friepds hods been ar
81 rested and the distillery seized and
q broken up. Miss Paris was informed
0' this fact and she was fearfully
q wrought up, and when johnson made
us next visit he was charged with
:, 'eachery to Redmond, aud was shown
'ae door and was advised to not return
kfS unless he waasonnk Far TN :, :, =,