The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1903-01-09

pany. In it were many of my school
mates who passed away during that
war 1t was always easy to stir up
war feeling in South Carolina.
Much of this was due to the militia
spstem. At the close of the regi-
mental and battalion drills the rule
was to make military speeches; in
these for long time they twisted
the lions tail After the "higher
law" politicians pressed on the South
the speakers twisted their tails.
Again the question of secession or
cooperation aroused the people.
shall never forget the magnificent
and able addresses of Chancellor
Johnstone and Judge Butler at Sill
YER Street; they turned the tide. l
am satisfied they caused me to oppose
the policy (not the right OF seces-
sion in 1860. When South Carolina
seeded | knew it was war. My old
friends and State we're dear to nv
heart and calculated to return and
cast in my lot with them if Texas
did not secede But enough of this.
Some seventy five years ago, in
the late 2Os and early 30s, there lived
and went to school in Newberry
little slender, wiery kid, full of devil.
ment, but not vicious. "He always
was mischief, but there warnt moth.
ing bad erbout that child, just ceptin
when he'd git some devilment in hes
haid." This kid went to Miss Clark.
with whom that excellent man, j. B.
Carwile, had some experiences. The
kid liked her not and marched to the
academy. Mr.. Pressly turned him
back, and he deserted and played tru-
ant for a week. His father learned
it aud as the kid stepped out of the
gate on Monday he heard bee
singing in the air behind him; he
yelled and jumped, his father after
him; he passed that amiable and in
telllgent lady, Mrs. Abigail Caldwell
without speaking to her, and just be.
fore he quit Newberry she said to
him laughingly that he was always
a polite boy, but on that occasion
forgot his manners. Was at school
in the red house opposite the Meth
odist church; got into a fight, with
rocks, with John Johnstone and his
brother Burr; they smote him, and
now he has scar an inch or more
long in his left eyebrow; the wound
was sewed up by DR.. S. Fair. John
made solid man and eminent phy-
slclan in Alabama. Burr, splen-
did little fellow, died coon after.
Mrs. Theresa Gillian, an accom-
plished lady, the wife of that good
man, Wm Gillian, pedagogued him
two days; the second day she konS
him in, and as she went out at one
door he went out at another and has
not since returned He was too
tough a case for ladies' and never
went to another. That learned mathe-
mstician, James Diver, tried his
hand on him. On one occasion the
Kid had on tight pants and a round
about coat. Mr.. D. saw him turned
around looking out of the window;
there was the sound of a hornet in
the air, and when it lit on the kids
seat of honor he jumped into the
middle of the floor and gave Co.
manche yell. Here Priestley Pratt,
Jake Worthington and the kid spent
a great part of the week in fighting,
and On Saturday, in playing together.
Where now is that trio ? That kind and
learned and good man, Henry Sum
mer taught in the old academy; he
was near sighted; of this Silas John
stone, his brother Albert and the kid
took advantage, slipped out and he'd
to Jno. Young's pond at the school
spring, and like ducks, into the water
they went. Chancellor Johnstone
| happened to spy them. In his slid
ing walk, holding his cane by the
top, he advanced upon the trio; they
hustled to enrobe themselves, he
called halt in this proceeding, and
Silas and Albert in "purie natura)i.
bus' received gentle thrashing; the
kid was fleeing, when the Chancello,
seld to him, Pll get you and thrash
you yet The kid knew this would
please his mother. He saw the
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