The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1901-06-05
Swansea Items.

The dry weather Of weeks has been
arrested and the rainfall this week
has been the heaviest for years.
The crop of oats looks well and
The wheat has not the promise Of a
few weeks ago.
Mr.. W. D. Hill has commenced a
pay school here and the reputation
and long experience of this teacher
old in age and experience-foreteiis
success
The Baptist preacher, Rev. F. b.
Postop, received a telegram on Tues
day morning that his aged father IN
North Carolina was critically i'll and
he left on the next train to pay hls
last tribute of love and veneration
to bis eged parent. A telegram re-
ceived the same day announced the
death of his father.
Mrs Cornelia Conuor, of Orange
burg, is paying visit to relatives in
Swansea. She is the eldest child OF
Col. Paul McMichael, we'll known to
the survivors of the Goth regiment
of our Civil War, and is an educated
Christian lady.
The doctors say the health of our
community is fearfully and awfully
good.
Lee Brooker is moving his saw
mill above Swansea about FIVE miles
on lands of Eooch Hammond.
Another little citizen has been
added to our town. A bright little
face row lights up the home of DR..
J. L johnson and family, and old
Brother johnson is again grandpa.
It is said on good authority that
Willie Moore and family will leave
Swansea and go to CASTOR to run the
machinery Of Davis Sphaler. Willie
is good citizen and We regret the
loss of him in our midst, and Mr..
Sphaler has obtained the service OF
a competent machinist.
Mr.. John Martin is building an
addition to the dwelling of ". 81. +.
Rast, and Contractor Smith has CON-
menced the erection of dwelling for
Mally Williams.
Miss Ellen Shumate from Green
vile is spending some tine with her
friend and college classmate, Miss
Belle BROKER.
Mics Ellen Wannamaker, daughter
of our lamented Capt. Wannamaker,
has been prostrated by continued
fever for several weeks, but is now i'm
proving.
Mr.. Way, our agent, has been i'll
several days, but is up again.
Mr.. John j. Youpeiner has the
finest large field of corn and in the
best condition in the community.
The reunion of Confederate Vete-
rams turned out to be largely one of
hero worship. Many poor private
under Lee, Iopgstreet end Jackson
made greater sacrifices than either OF
them for the Confederate cause, and
they are the true heroes of tnat
mighty struggle. They are they that
made all of our chiefteins great One
OF these men lives about five miles
below Swansea. If he had been of
some great family or rank his record
would have been in rhyme and story,
but his position in life was that OF an
humble uneducated farmer who lett
and little children to volunteer and
at the battle Secessionville, when the
day and battle were saved by the 4th
Louisiana regiment, the Yankees were
so near to the gun this hero was load
ing that the dead ones were powder
burned and the clothes of several
were set on fire by the discharge OF
his gun. When the Yankees rose on
the breast works all guns had been
silenced but one ten inch Columbian
cannon, and that one run by two
men, one to shoot and one to load.
His hat and clothing on his exposed
shoulders were riddled by bullets,
but the brave soldier was unhurt.
Did Hobson, or Blue, or Dewey do
more? Did Sergeant Jasper or Marion
excel that? Yet when the brave sur
vivors who stood by him pass away
there is no poem or war song yet
written to tell that William ChaVis
did such gallant things. These are
the ones that make generals great.
They are the ones who should be
lauded and remembered. They are
the ones who were exposed on all oc-
casions to The ravages of rifle and
cannon and all times to the Viclssi-
tudes of rain and snow.
Spectator.
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