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THE CAMESVILL t ESTABLISHED 1875. Children’s Corner, BRIGHT BITS OF CEOR CIA HISTORY, Distinguished Men of Our Commonwealth HINTS FOR OUR YOUTHFUL READERS. “t love thee n»xt to lunven above- Land of my fathers ! thee I love ! And r>il thy slanderers as they will, With ail thy faults, I loro thee still.” Probably no man has ever been reared on Georgia soil, who could ut¬ ter the above words with more sin¬ cerity than the ono whose life is sketched below. And is such pa¬ triotism dying out in the risin ; gen¬ eration. ? Have the boys of Georgia, the boys of Franklin, forgotten to love the hills and valleys of native land—Georgia’s past and future, and the grand men and women who h we made her history ? The marked emigration of the younger men of this section of the state, to the west, during the past few years seems to indicate that patriotism is being su¬ perceded by a love of gold. 1 wouldn’t forsake Georgia for all the glaring inducements of the west. I would thank heaven that 1 claimed as my native laud a state that has mothered so many great men, that was first in tho Union to opon her doors to higher education for women, that has risen so glori¬ ous and prosperous from the ravages of war, that occupies the proud place of “Empire State of the South’, and I wouldn’t resign hor interests to alien hands. Don’t leave the south, boys. The fair land that stretches from the Potomac to the Rio Grande is destined to bo the richest country on the globe. GEORGE M. TROUP* Was born in September 1780, at McIntosh Bluff, on the Tombigbee, nwhiA was then the| territory of Georgia, now Alabama. He graduated with distinction from Princeton Coliege and return¬ ing to Savannah commenced the study of law. In 1800 he declined an invitation to represent the repub¬ licans of Chatham county in the because of h’.s minority. He represented his county in the legislature in 1801, 2 and3. He was elected to congress in 1806 where bo remained until 1815, wli«n ho re¬ tired to private life. He was distin¬ guished for opposition to tho com- promise made by the fedeial legisla¬ ture with the Yazoo speculators. GeorgeM. Troup was a scrupu- lously honorable man. No man has ever occupied the executive chair of Georgia who entertained higher ideas of honor. Such a man was one to command respect, and wield mighty influence in the affairs of slate. Ills whole heart was given to hia beloved Georgia, All the ener- gies of his clear, logical forcible mind were expended in the interests of his state. The remarkable devotion •of a life-time and the distinguished services rendered his people, have placed his name high in the annals o{ Georgia. He was truly called the ‘•Apo^ tle of State EightV’ the cham¬ pion of - stale Sovereignty.” lie serv^ his people two terms in the United State* Senate, Laving elected in though much his wishe d over Hr Bibb, a distinguished Georg* an * I 11 he was maJe Governor of Georgia. Tho legislature of 1823 r^gnirecl the Governor elect “to use his ^xertiem to obtain from the United Slat Ts the of Indian title to all our remaining territory.” Gov- Troup oh mined from the gov-! commissions for two dis- Georgians to treat with the CreCk Indians. The famous Lafayette visited America during Gov. Troup a ad* ministration. In 1S25, on the Ihufi *of Savannah, Gov. Troup welcomed the distinguished guest to Georgia i» the following words: “Welcome Lafayette ! General, ,tis little more than ninety years since the founder of thi§ state first *et£foot upon the ground upou which you now stand. Now, four buedreifthousand people open their F RAN KLIN COUNTY, 6A., WEDNESDAY, FEB, ii, 1891. i arms to receive you. Thanks to a kind Providence, it called you to the standard of independence in the helplessness of our revolution. It has preserved you, that in your lat¬ ter days the glory of a great empire might he reflected back upon you, amid the acclamation of millions. Thc-scenes which are to come will be for you comparatively trauquil and placid. Thsre will he no more more of dungeons, no more f# 3 rs of tyrants. Oh sir, what a consola¬ tion for a man who has passed through sea3 of trouble, that the miliums of bayonets which guard tne blessings we enjoy, stand be¬ tween you and them. But enough. Welcome, General ! Thrice wel¬ come to the btate of Georgia.” Governor Troup retired from the Chief Magistracy of Georgia in 1827 and was re-elected to the United estates Senate in 1828. Ill health caused him to accept this last trust of bis people with great re¬ luctance, and the same cause led to his resignation in 1834. In 1833 being under tho impression that the lights of his state were imper¬ illed, he declared that “he would have been carried on his death-bed to the Capitol, rather than not have given hi* vote against the Force Bill.” The zeal with which Goorg e M Troup guarded the rights of his state, has placed hi* name on an enduring niche in the history of, Georgia, and forover linked it with: all that Georgia holds most sacred, ' ARCH DUKE, JOHN OF TUS¬ CANY IN HIDING. Archduke John wanted to travel and bo eonuthiiig like a common man and called himself John Orth, and John Orth eooa bcca.ce known to the world as an eccentric nobleman and was recieved everywhere with marked attention- He Las probably changed bis name, and has disappeared completely. This U what the Fall Mall Gszetts saye cf bim. ‘ John Orth” And his Mother. The grand Duchess ofjTuscany has not gone into mourning lor her missing son “John Orlh.” or Archduke Jcdm and at the Austrian court there is a suspicion that this eccentric prince is merely in hiding. He did not secure to himself all the obscurity he wished when he assum¬ ed the same of John Orth, for by name he was known to the whole world and everybody persisted la treating im like an archduke traveling incognito. John Orth’s mends say ihut this worried him considerably, and they think it bifeh'y probable that be Iris now assum¬ ed another name and is living in A uth America. 8ombsa!so think that liio mother is awaie of this and has ccmmu ideated the ta«t privately to ihe emperor but that the secret will be kept so far as the public is* concerned.—Fall Mall Gazette. MERIT WINS. We desire to say to our citizens, thrd for years we have been selling Dr. King’s New Discovery for Con¬ sumption, Dr. Kings New Life Fills, Buclden’s Arnica Salve and Elec¬ tric Bitters, and have never handled remedies that sell as well, or that have given such universal satisfac - lion. We do not hesitate to guaran¬ tee them every time, and eland resd- r to refund the purchase price if sat¬ isfactory results do not follow their use. These remedies Lave won their great popularity purely on their merits, H. M. Freeman, drug- HAPPY IIOOS1KRS. Wm Timmons, Postmaster of Ida^ viile, Ind., writes: Electric Bitters has d *ne more Ur me than ail other medicines combined, for that bad feeling arising from Liver and Kid- uev trouble.” John Leslie, farmer and stockman, of same place, writes: Find Electric Bitters to be the best Kidney aud Liver medicine, made me feel like a now manT J. W. Gardner, hardware merchant, same town, says: Electric Bitters is just the thing for a man who is ah ran down and don’t care whether he lives or dies; he found nc-w strength, good appetite and feels just like he had a new lease on life. Only 50cts a bot¬ tle at H. M. Freeman’s drug store. CATHOLICITY AS IT IS KNOWN IN NORTH GEORGIA* A FEW ERRORS BRIEFLY TOLD. It has been asserted that the Cath¬ olic church is the enemy of civil and religious liberty. No student of history has ever made this charge, without the full consciousness that he is violating the commandment which says, “Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.” History will bear me out m the assertion that eivil and rehgiou* liberty has never had a more zealous defender than the Roman Catholic church. I have uot forgot¬ ten the Spanish Inquisition—the kill¬ ing of Bruno—the outrages against Galileo, etc. etc., and will speak o|J that later on. Whenever there have been encro*chments upon the sacred rights of men, cither civii or religious, by professed believers in the Catho¬ lic faith, it has been In direct viola¬ tion of the te ichicgs of the church. The church has always taught that there can be no reconciliation between coercion and conversion; that man must voluntarily return to the grace from which he voluntarily fell. In every conflict between church and the church has battled for con¬ and justice against arbitrary and despotic lulers. It has held it a sacred duty to guard, as much as lay within its power, the inalienable rights of men. Listen to the last words ol Pope Gregory VII., driven into exile because he opposed the arbitrary measures of Henry IV. Emperor of Germany: “I have loved ■justice and hated iniquity, therefor.- I die in exile.” What church has suffered more for epascience’ sake than the Catholic ? Can we ever forget the horrors of three hundred years of persecution, when blood was poured out like wa¬ ter for the sake of conscience ? The cruelties inflicted upon Catholics, commencing with Nero in the G4th year after Christ, when Rome was mistress ot the greater part of the world, and ending with Diocletian m 313 A. D., have no parallel in his¬ tory. There are numberless histor¬ ical events that corroborate the as¬ sertion that the Roman church has always defended religious liberty, we only have space for a few. The Spanish have been handed down to history as intolerant and fanatical beyond all other people. The fourth council of Toledo, com¬ posed of all the Bishops of Spain, and assembled at a time when the the church had almost unlimited sway, said that no one should be compelled against his will to make a profession of religious faith. An old manual of church historv says of St. Augustine, who baptized Ethelbert, King of England,—Ethel- bert became most zealous zealous for the spread of the gospel, and St. Au¬ gustine was obliged to curb his im¬ petuosity, by reminding him that the service of the Lord must fre* and un const! ained. Michael, King of the Bulgarians, was warned by Pope Nicholas I., against using coercion in the aonver- sion of idolaters* Fenelon, Archbishop of Cambry, in a letter to the son of King James II. 'ofEngland, shows the spirit of the church when he says: “Above all nevei for e your subjects t* change their religion, no human power can re: c » the impenetrable recesses of the 'ree will of the heart. Violence can never perguade men; it serves omy to roaka hypocrites. Grant civ¬ il liberty to all. not in approving ev¬ erything as indifferent, but in tolera¬ ting w llh patience whatever Aimight y God tolerates, and endeavoring to convert men by mild persuasion.” The church has held to such doe- t\ ines m every age and country. But let ns come to a later day and nearer home, and see ii the Roman church has been the enemy of civil liberty. Every school boy knows why Runnymede will be forever hal¬ lowed ground, and 1215 a memora¬ ble year. On the plains of Eunny- mede in 12 J 5, King John signed the famous Magna Charter, the founda¬ tion of constitutional government, civil liberty. Some of our readers aay not know that the Magna Char¬ ter was framed by Archbiehop Lang- ton of Canterbury and the Catholic Barons of England, and that they compelled King John to sign it. What part has the Catholic ohurch played in the history of our own new world—the land of the free and brave. Of the tbirteea original American colonies, Maryland was the only one that was settled by-Catholics Ban¬ croft, the historian, and a protestant clergyman, speaking of the settle¬ ment of Maryland by.the Catholics, says: 'fbe Catholics little took quiet possession of the place, and religious liberty obtained a home, its only home in the wide world, at the humble village which bore tlie name of St. Mary’s The foundation of the colony of Maryland was peacefully and happily laid, Within six months it had advanced more than Virginia had done in as many years, But far more memorable was the character of Maryland institutions, Ev¬ ery other colony in the world had persecuting laws; but through the benign administration of the government of that province, no person pro¬ fessing to believe in Jesus Chrirt was permitted to bo molested on account of religion, Umiej the munificence and superintending mildness of Lord Baltimore, a dreary wilderness was soon swarming with life and activity of prosperous settlements; the Roman Catholics who were op¬ pressed by tho laws of England were sure to find a peaceful settlements in the quiet harbors of the Chesapeake; and there, too, Protestants were sheltered against Protoetant intolerance. Such were the beautiful auspices under which Maryland started into being., The colonists enjoyed freedom of conscience, not less than freedom of person and estate, as amply as ever any people ip. any place of the world. The disfranchised friends of Prelacy from Massachusetts and the Puritans from Vir¬ ginia were welcomed to equal liberty of con- science and political rights In the Roman Cath¬ ode province of Maryland., Did the Catholic church nurture antagonists to civil liberty during the struggle for American Independ¬ ence ? No. Who will ever forget Charles Car- roll, of Carrollton, eigner of the Dec¬ laration of Independence, Lafayette, Koskiusco, Pulaski and countless oth¬ er brave Catholie patriots who labor¬ ed so gloriously in the cause of American independence ? We ail remember the generous words addressed by Georgo^Yash- ingtoir, to American CatholioC»hort- iy after victory had twined her gar¬ lands about the banners of Fran c e aud America: “I presume your fel¬ low-citizens will not forget the pa¬ triotic part which you took in the accomplishment of their revolution, and the establishment of their gov- emment; or the important assistance they received from a nation in which the Koman Catholic faith is profess¬ ed.” History abounds with evidences the fealty of the church of Rome liberty in its broadest and sense. But despite all thi«, ignorance and malice have he unded it down as the church of civil and religious intoler¬ ance. SPECIMEN CASES. S. H. Clifford, New Cassel, Wis., was troubled with Neuralgia aDd Rheumatism, his stomach was dis¬ ordered, his liver was affected to an alarming degree, appetite fell away, and he was terribly reduced m flesh and strength. Three bottles of Elec¬ tric Bitters cured him. Edward Shepherd, Harrisburg, III. had a running sore on his leg of eight years standing. Used three bottles of Electric Bitters and seven boxes of Bncklen’s Arnica salve, and leg is sound and welL John Speak- Catawba, O., had five laige fever sores on his leg, doctors said he was incurable. One bottle Electric Bit¬ ters and one box Bucklen’e Arnica Salve cured him entirely. Sold by II. M. Freeman’s drug store. When men undertake to do lin- practicable and impossible things and fail, they should not be deterred from undertaking the practicable, possible and useful. Tbe outlook tor education in this county is better than at any time since the war. The schools are bet¬ ter attended and more interest is be¬ ing manifested. The County School Commissioner’s report to the next grand jury will be a surprise to many : It will show an advancement m im¬ provement of baiidings, the erection of new buildings, famishing school houses, belt c-r scholarship in teachers, better attendance, and in everything of material benefit, that is unsurpass¬ ed by any county in the state. isfori ii* NAMES WHICH BELQNG TO OUR COUNTY AND MAKE ITS H1SRORY. J • C, McConnell, • Being desirous of giving a sketch of the ont-going as well as the incoming officers, I devote the sketch for this week to J. C. Mc¬ Connell, former sheriff. J. C. Mc- ConneH’R great gandfather and grandmother on his fathers side ware bath Iron the old country. His ancestors on his mothers side were Irish, all of these being among the earliest settlers of Newbury county S. C. His grand-father on his mothers side was a school teacher by profession, and never followed any other business. Thomas McConnell, the father of the McConnells of this county was bort in Newbury county S. C. 12tb of June 1813, moved to Anderson county [all district then] with his parents when about 12 years old and remaiued until his majority. He began lile for himself as an overseer, which business he followed there for ieveral years. He mar¬ ried Frances C. Feton in Anderson county S. C. moved to Ga. and over¬ seed for Ben Sloon three years, then to this county to the place where M. A. Herndon now* lives and oveiseed for J. J. M. Bagwell who owned lh§" place. Aftei remaining there two years, he bought and mov^il to the Hedrick Toney place eight miies w*eet of Carnesville where he died of fever on 15th day of September 1864. While dying at home, he was in the Confederate service, being on leave of abgconee at the time. His widow Mrs. Francis C. Mc¬ Connell was born in Anderson S. C. in the year 1821. She is a hale woman lor her age and is living near th«. old home place with A. D. Stephenson who married her young¬ est Mr. and Mrs. McConnell raised children, five ot whom were boys living in this county, the oldest sight of the old homos tead and rest in Carnesville. J. C. McConnell the subject ol s keth, was born on the Ben Sloan place on Ttigalo river on the 29th day of April 1849. He was too young to enier the'army in the late unpleasantness, but his father and elder brother being in the service and later, on the death of his father, left upon his young shoulders the heavy burden and responsibility of looking after the iarrn and the care of his mother and the large family of younger children. He was a sort of business man for the neighborhood in those days, did the milling and shopping for the neighbors and hauled their, titles to Carnesville. Hew*aa frequently seen splashing about on the streets with his big bare rusty splay feet and conspicuous yellow freckles, when hese on business tor the community, la the fall 1865 he went to Texas in a wagon, and remained two years aDd rode home oa horseback. What money he made in Texas was nearly all spent, in sickness on the way home in the Mississippi swamp, lie was married to Miry A. Brawner, daughter of Jefferson Brawner of this coumty on Dec. 29th 1868. After his re- turn from Texas be engaged in fanxing with splendid success, hav¬ ing bought and paid for a splendid farm in a few i*ears. His success as a farmer was far above the average but not equal to what almost any one might attain. The explanation in four words is, “He stuck to business’ There are plenty of farmers who waste more time in one year than he did in fifteen. A farmers life should not be one of slavery, but if he succ¬ eeds he must stick to business like the merchant, the book-keeper, tho rail¬ road man, the druggist, the telegraph operator, and others. Suppose the railroad president, the depot agents the telegraph operator, book- 1 ***'* VOLUME. XVI.------NO. 5. merchant or engineer went off neglected his business as often and on as slight pretexts as the does, how long would they hold position. Iu January 1885 he was elected sheriff aud held the office continuously until January 1891, a period of six years. He moved to Carnesville a short time before his election and has lived here ever since. While he has been interested m the mercantile business for several years, he gavo his whole time to the business of the office, was always ready for business, would start to the remotest part of the county at sundow or at midnight if asked to do so; to execute a paper. Giving his whole time to offical duty he was never behind, and hence be¬ come very popular as an officer. No public officer of the county has bem popular or recieved more general approval. J. C. McConnell is a man of good judgment and tireless energy and wid succed where most men would fail. J. S. D. SOMETHING SAD. There is indeed something 3 ad in the sight of a bright, intelligent looking litile ten-year old daughter, thinly clau in rags, though with the beautiful flash of youth upon her cbeekt, leading a staggering, drunken father of forty-five with a crimsom flush on his face and a brfl’Unt nose, not from youth, but from— Strong drink. Every morning about 7 o’clock this litile daughter can be seen going from dive to dive along Og'othorpe street, and at every door, with a sweet bat pi i* ful voice, she cries:—• ‘ Is father he e?” Finaly, she finds her father, if he can be called such. She finds him in a drunken stupor, and aftsr much trouble al e succeeds in getting him aOuie. Only a few years ago he was a reapeted commercial man in tbia city in moderate circumstances. He was earning for liis little wife, who is a refined lady, and his I children, a respectable living and had a home as neat and cozy as there was in the city. What is he to-day? A financial wreck, a physical wreck and a moral wreck. He is from sun to sun in the low dives of this oity, and is really no more than a brute, and for a year past he has not given his family the least support, but has disgraced them in a most shameful manner. What was a home of happiness, with a smiling mother and cheerful children waiting in the evening for the return of ‘'father’’ from his work, is now a dark room filled with half clothed mother and children, who, had it not been for their kind friends, would have starved long ago. It will be but a few years, possibly but a few months, beiore this miserable father will die the death of a drunkard and beneath the sighing oaks of the cemetery, with nothing but the breezes end little birds to sing his reqoeim, be will be laid to rest. A board will bo placed over his grave bearing. “Born died Nothing more. When looked upon by relatives, or those who knew this man in <1*3 a gone by, those simple words will biing Bor¬ row to their hearts, ar-d they will view the grave and remark, “He was born a good child, but died a drunkard— a dis¬ grace to hiraself, hie family and country,” Indeed, it is sad to think of this change, and it was all brought about by strong drink. Ex. We have frequently suggested the erection of iron bridges in this eoun- ty. Notwithstanding all the hue' and cry to the contrary, "would our people are growing rich, and hardly miss ne( j. I. Hi TER FROM BOWERSVILLE. Ed i toe Tribune —Allow me space te say something about our school. -• We have the fiuest school, the best teachers, the most refined and cult¬ ured society to be found in this sec¬ tion of the*state. These are not ex- travegant assestions, if you don’t be¬ lieve me, come find teachers see usjand be always con¬ vinced* Our are glad to welcome visitors. A yankey visited this school not esting long since, and among it other the inter¬ fin¬ things, he said was the est school he had seen south of Appalachian chain, and that he did not expect to see anything like it till he went north again;, that jhe wanted to sell us some charts; the children up north w*alk miles to see them. Cosmopolite. J < A VVflO Stf*UCk | Billy Paterson” A FAMOUS MYTH William Palterson’s Will, AN t TORESTING rOCUMENT, Willism Patterson was a wealthy citizen of Baltimore who, at the time of his death, owned property in this county and his will fs recorded here. The original will bears date Aug. 20th 1827. The last codicil bears date Feb. 6th 1835. Ho die 1 within a weok after signing the list codicil* The will reads as fol’ows; “Preliminary introduction % t > will. Wm Patterson.having lived beyond the common period allotted to man, being now in the seventy-fifth year of my age, and having seen much of the world, it may bo gratifying to some, and useful to others of my descendants to give them some ac¬ count of myself, as well as to notice some cursory remark that has struck me in the course of my life, aid I have thhrefore thought it not incon¬ sistent or improper to commence this my last Will and Testament with the following sketch; My family was of the Episcopal church, the established religion ot Ireland, In which I was born and brought up with groat cars and at¬ tention, and from the religious im¬ pressions which I then received, I am under the guidance of a divine and kind providence, indebted for my fu¬ ture conduct and success in life. My father was a farmer in the country, with a large family; his name was iVilliam^my mothers name was Eiiz abeth./Her maiden name was P/o- plosrj They w # rc both descended from a mixture of English and Scotch families, who had sett’cl in Ireland after the eonqited of that country. I was born on the first of her, old style/at the place called Faust, in the county of Donegal, Ire¬ land, and wae sent by my family at at the early age of fourteen years, to Philadelphia, tor the purpose of be¬ ing bi ought up to the mercantile pursuits, where I arrived in the month of April 1766, and was placed in the counting house of M. Samuel Jackson, an Irish merchant, who was pretty extensively concerned m the shipping business, and who, in com¬ pany with aJSwUolf his friend s usual¬ ly built a new ship or vessel almost every year. This gave pie an early knowledge aud attachment to that business, a passion that has followed me through life* And although I may be said to have been fortunate, I would not advise my young friends to engage in or follow the shipping business withoct great eaution, and in a limited degree to gain experience without which it will .be impossible succeed. Commerce in the ship* line is one of the most danger*- pursuits that he e»_ gaged in. I have known the trade of this country for upwards of sixty years, and I am puvsuadcd that in* that time not one in fifty shipping merchants have succeeded cither iu New York, Philadelphia or Balti¬ more. This is a lamentab’e conclu¬ sion, but I belie ycj no less tine. I became interested, in sea vessels in Philadelphia as far back as 1873 & 4 aQ d have continued very largely in ^ic business ever since wifi varying success. I have lived and transacted^- atey d iff e ren t g< ,v- namely the British at Philadelphia before the revolution, the Dutch at St. Enstatia and the French at Martinique, both in the early paitof the revolution, and late¬ ly at Baltimore from the time of my arnval in 1778 to the present time. When the American revolution ccm- mencad, in which I took great inler- cs t, it appeared to me that the great¬ est difficulties tje should experience was in tLe lack of powder and aims, in consequence of the great precau¬ tion taken by the British to prevent their being brought to this county from other (to be continued) •v