The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1922-03-28

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open the door and shoot up the train
for pure devilment.'
The terror-smitten old gentleman,
whose only knowledge OF the South
was cleaned from sensational North
ern pap.ss excitedly passed The IN
formation down to his feiiow-tra5 vel
ers; many faces Dlanched !:;:::h tear
and there was a tremor of sensation
al excitement throughout the whole
company of tourists.
The whistle blew and the train
slowed down for the depot at
Johnston. The usual crowd OF peo-
ole gathered about the train and
among them well-to-do farmer who
had ridden into the town Oh business.
His heels were strapped with spurs
and down his bootleg was thrust a
Colts revolver, then carried by all
men. His wide-brimmed slouch hat
also awoke an association with daring
outlaws. 1t was warm day and he
had left his coat at home. In this
garb, therefore, he stepped on the
platform of the passenger coach, op-
ened the door with the intention OF
getting a drink of water from the
tank, but just as his tall form appear
ed in the doorway every head went
down between the seats with sup
pressed exclamations, for they all an
ticipated tragedy. 1t is needless to
say that the thirsty countryman was
abashed and turned away and walk
ed out of the door, but not head
arose from it's hiding place till the
old train was we'll on its way from
the station.
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To have heard the old governor re-
late his practical joke was prlVll-
ege never to be forgotten.
Behethland Foote Butler had half
sister, a Miss Mayson, who married
Marlborough from whom descended
the Marlborough family of Edgefield
and Saluda counties. The late Rev.
William Marlborough, very success
full evangelist of the Methodist
church, descended from this family.
Doctor William Butler, a son of
Behethland Foote Moore and of whom
7 have already written as surgeon
in the United States navy, lived at
one time in Greenville county, South
Carolina, where General William Cal
braith Butler was born. Doctor Will
liam Butler married a sister of Com
modore Oliver H. Perry, so that the
distinguished son, Gen. NJ. c. Butler,
descended from both Northern and
Southern ancestry. His father died
at an army post in Arkansas. Soon
after his death Commodore Mat
thew C. Perry, one Of NJ. c. Buffers
uncles, and Judge Andrew Pickens
Butler both offered at about the same
time to defray the expense of young
NJ. C. Buffers education. The young
man accepted the offer of his uncle,
Judge Andrew Pickens Butler and,
therefore, was saved. to the Southern
side, in all probability, in the great
Civil war. Had the beam turned the
other way and Commodore Matthew
C. Perry become his foster father and
adviser, his superb military genius and
brilliant talents might have passed to
the aid of our enemies in that bloody
conflict. 1t was fortunate for Gen.
NJ. c.. Butler that he was reared under
the influence of his grandmother,
Behethland Foote Moore, that superb
bearing which distinguished him in
any crowd, that soul of politeness,
that generous, frank disposition and
his great talents were heritages from
'The Heroine of the Saluda.'
The body of this noble woman
sleeps at Butler Methodist church,
about six miles from the county seat
of Saluda and on the road from that
town to Newberry. The church now
occupies the site of the old Butler
home, the spot to which General WI
liam Butler led his young bride, Be-
hethland Foote Moore, in the long
ago. 1t is one of those undersigned
things that suggests the providentlaI,
What more beftting monument should
mark the site of a thrice honorable
Carolina home, especially one conse-
Grated by the memory of Behethland
Foote Butler, than an edifice dedi-
Gated to the service of the living God
whose gospel of peace and goodwill
has made South Carolina and her SIS
ter states great? The old family
b,Irvinp ground of the Butler family