The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1908-12-09

L~aurensville Herald.

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Chance threw us, last Friday, at our former
brief space Of Two hours-sll TOO, orief, but
circumstance forbid q longer stay. II had
only been q little more than sixteen years
since our last visit hz,s, there lsn,ea yet sT;m even anto 1nS.
builder" had wrought many changes. a
feeling Of lonliness crept over us, and lrVlpg,s
noted character OF Rip Van. Wrinkle was call
in the Kaatskills, nor had We left q 'Gretch-
en-" or Dame Var Wrinkle at home 10 whom
we feared 10 return. Yet everything around
the public square looked strange TO ,us. Not
q building was there that we once knew 30
chant or business man OF those days was
there, and strange names, to us, appeared
over store doors; and as we STOOD ana gazeo
at these changes. memory naturally reverted
10 the days, back in the early hfties and later
when the same ground now covered BY these
business houses and occupied by strangers
chants as White & Bullock, John White, ].
Alb Allen, Robert Wardlaw, Branch & Allen,
Wardlsw & Lyon, Henry Kerr. Israel q Rus
sell, Moses T.Owen and. Hiram T.Tusten ,(Jew-
q QuaiL, Cobb d Hunter, John Knox, Wler &
LyLhgo, Wier d Miller, Wilson Il Williams,
and perhaps others we cannot recall OF later
date. -,
and medical profession. or the legal fraler-
%nity-John q. Wilson, (the Nestor OF the Alb
beVille Bari Armistead Burt, Edward Noble,
samuel McGowan. Thomson q Fair, j. Fos-
Cothran, William Henry Parker. Lucius
Lomax, William e. Davis, J. A. Jones-ail Of
these have pleaded their last cause, submitted
their fnal brief, having been mon be
fore q higher Court, some OF them long since
three Of whom were shot dead on the bat.
tie geld-Col.J J. Foster Marshall, Col. James
NJ. Perrin, Capt. VIM. c. Davis.
Thus stands The record regarding the men,
ha-,kt- &ftha laoa1 rrNfopliQn nnnafffnftnr
the Abbevine Bar ,(conceded one OF the ablest
in the State,) at that time and years preced-
ing The beginning OF The war etwee the
dead may be added the name Of the late
Judge David L. Wardlaw, regarded one Of the
~proioundest Of South Cardinals Judiciary OF
the old regime.
nine were in Confederate tervice-Gen. Nc
Gowap, Col. Marshall, Col. Perrin, Col. Thorn
ION, Col. Fair. Capt. Cothran, Capts. Parker,
So also are zone TO the hills of the dead. DR.,
Joe Wardlaw, DR.. Isaac Branch, DR.. A. Paul,
DR.. Joe Marshall, DR.. James Mabry, DR.. Liv-
tnkston.
we knew.-Henry c. Allen, Henry s. Kerr.
DIR. John Henry'Logan, William G. Davis, W..
A. Lee-none are now living.
Not one Of the "ante-bellum" County Oils
ges. Joe Moore, shelifs; Matthew Mcdonald,
Clerk OF Courl; William HILL Ordinary, n
W. II. Parker, Commissions Of Equity, are
now living, SO lar as we know.
So II was, we felt lonesome-as q stranger
in q strange land. or the host OF friends in
Abbeville when We once knew, we met but
three, all, with one exception, that are now
living. One Of these-our lifelong friend and
fellow-veteran OF the Forrth Estate, as also OF
the late war, Mr.. Hugh Wilson, OF the Press
and Banner-we sought and found him In
his comfortable den, and with him sought
and found another Of the ancient tribe, HI
ram Tusten, who. with the 1rosts Of eighty
winters on his head, is we'll preserved, and as
full Of fun and pleasing jocularity as OF yore.
May he SO continue ior many years 10 come:
Of the old set was Bob Hill, r. E., son Of that
fine old Irish gentleman" VIM. Hill, who
held the office OF Ordinary. las 1t was then
body could defeat him. The son himself Is a
County official, we belive, and a chip of the
old block.
During our brief stay in Abbeville we were
Of MI. NickIes, one OF the County officials, to
see, the splendid new Court Honse there-one
OF the finest. best appointed In all its archi-
iectlIa la ass s,o 2 ner rs OF any D s similar !, o ~ 10.
egantly furnished, and absolutely nreProof.
Cost, $4,000. Abbevllle has also a splendid
Opera House., with a seating capacity OF
eleven hundred.
We learned with regret that Gen. r. R.
Hemphill, another veteran editor as we'll as q
gallant Con federate soldier, and for the past
Senate, was seriously sick. Had our limited
time permitted, We should have called to see
him. 1t Is hoped he may speedily recover
his usual health.
We were pleased TO see evidences of busi-
ness thrift and prosperity in our former
home, where we resided for four years imme-
dislely preceding the late "unpleasantness,"
and from which place we went TO the front
with as fine a Company OF men as ever fol-
lowed the plume OF Wade Hampton, and over
which Company we had the honor OF being
chief commanding officer during the last
year of the wal. AS We bade alden to friend
ilson he exacted g promise that we woul
return at an early day, and remain q week,
offering special inducements. We hope TO
make the promise good-later on.