The Charlotte Observer from Charlotte, North Carolina • 12

Anomforowqmewoovomarm tardwasaDaws ors 10117011taUlat AMto wet alsuommembmwmamenovommtsvmrokahwirmasiis2400111nEw iimill I CIIMILOVITI DAILY OBSEIIVEN JANUARY 9 1898 andesnommao rudvms valommovik 414 4 i 1 1 1 IS COI loll UM Ai ho Ivith racy upturtil vlont4 sit th )44pr1l twrsonal ahuut I tii 1n lI)Il lly or tho outtho w(411111 ir 4100141a I I 1 I vvr as an int-r-41tito coin gy I ht trick la firttly of our ri'clgilit at1 ItiII rkaUy owt to hat 1)0441 tt" tu 11111a litt in our name or ulin 111184i1 11 India riltawr tor yet he could ha ve stoo Still Mill committed from can folly pro pared manuscript a few Yell-chosen 1lailis touching the past the presetit and the future of the 'possum T11 hist toMSIIS stistaininK Previoos tomiiitions slioNved that South Carosirved (141 111'110144Y a Vn -tat This fact together Mth the albitrary arrangement or nollthiti divisionaftiolig gp(grflpilital linvS So UM to arroganil)' thiscontilionv-Pli of coons 1) oi Carolina North Caro awl fleorgia tit glance deterrent of it twrfeet union heRveen these two States on tho plisstatt plank common to the platform of both But tho ttrotrUsion and (darn slim of South Carolina may not prevent an interchange of courtesies hy tho way of western North Carolina where the territory of our legitimate cora whiskey distillers touches delicately on the "moonshine" district of Czeorgia While It is hinted that tlov Russell holeott lilt NS then tIotit Into flivi tinction log a tioloitry leto otht it llH rti tritole to the vrelltics4 Ststotivtoti ih1 rankc41 hint tir4 env th 11 th 4111'1 I II: it1411CLiti Ivy to ictory trot ill tI sirtig414' ri (Ictice 11 hi tiiti iiiiiiittv (lowIlk first I til4 vx111t if ths iii til II i ttiI ktitchtl tho loran! rothiough thy struggling period ter the ftI licit th goveroiciont vtas trecti1 hy Congress itiohr thy Artichs Court (Ittation Oh zonions ititorst iolocitted the ittlohtion or the I onstitutloti was iitenwor th hill!) that prointilgateit thy constitution ninny 1141 provisions aro oIng to hill (Mtn dcitherations attlI nottutcI itelg1111-111 ri veti Hs first tolotittistration tool toiss11 hen Ito decided to hilY his Itilt to thy wThose 1111110 haft liytn tittriotic during' the lotion: Two II ginientm if North car" lina soldiers calm to his rt sotto ii t1 itIii (Well 1P4 11141Y I artor Valley Vog' other Southern 1-ta1es had hoon equally Tho war hail croVil eight Nears lo fore 1791 owl this was tie tirt opportunity for thy yootniiiiry 1 ti ut! the pall-Ills hi) feint hi 'with hint through yven long years before they tmtililisheil their rrloot taly Inonage to their illustrious (Idol The onthuslostic volothtp tiitul the to to moot and grout him will not lwrinit tip I' it more dytaile(t account or this historlY vhilt NVitshingion but thy renders or the tiliservor III be tlily intorosteit In knowing took place iii eharlotty for he stopped here on his Nvity North after having boyti received with such demonstrations (It Joy III the cities ttrtiter Foul Chitrlotto which Ily thy vity VaS Minted itt hetitIr wire or (fot-Kt iti Elitth11111 Wttli hell it small village of aliont thirty It UM I hell a DIM I he ownty seat of Nlockletiburg county which tlerivod its name from tho IIratolltuchy or Nit cklonhurg tlerniany whorl thy Queen VHS 1111111 It vas perfortly natural that the people torthlit ctitinty who had IlisidaYed unceasing devotion to the it of independency anti Wh(iSe Th Ft hrt tit 1114 Country Slopped nit II hi Southern Tour to the tiorort tie Wee A askloolt to htesit the eigners of the liteeklentottrg 1Jetl Afloat I he Cdthi tI the Village l'unOrred I heir flair It lilt bit l'of bids 14eittittiztom tot tile be Groorel Cerilettlerly With the Noteibere tot A ij'a nu of the titoou at is hull to beri1011 houtellting of the II ttory ii the I IMF hitt(' Veople Ito ilevelved iist titerteined the I iret t'st lied awl Colleted by it Stranger AVithin title (Otte' The tf the Fit St lotgress adjourned uti Idarch I 191 l'hilailelphia which was then the capital cif the lilted States Allow Iwo Weuke 0110 ton wilite to Latayirte iii France "In a few 41134 I ll begin a Journey southward visitilig ail the SiottliCOI btattS" The vet brct lulls he hail made it tricsnpliallt tour lir the New Etatiand btates find HS I'Vti'VA hert at'Utallia litTIM id Joy This brought ittartit 411141rf till the pact (lit pclide of the i-iotith tu diivn hide in order to show Min highly they honored Ole h'irst Executive Of tho nation NVashingtlin during his presidency three vehicles in hich hi post chaise icr carriage for traveling a family clutch in hi went (hunt and a chariot fur state occasions Ali vvere cream-colored with ligitres in their panels ilim servants wiie white livery trimmed scarlet or (irange Ile I ravylled in (in all ()evasions and before lie elitrted from l'hiltulelphia on his Jour- through the South made special preparation litivid Clark his coach Inakr in the tapital city repaired and repainted his chariot for the trill On March he started southward und diti not return until July having been absent from the seat government Ti tlays The chariot ho titittitt tt)11111kt iu11 111::11 4 Is' 11tibiry has faith in the talismanic virtue of tin black coon and that he WitS highly lintiriSlied hy litHial diet Of coon during the campaign front which Iio emerged as Governor-elect yet kvhen we disregard his political appetite and without partizan feeling calmly reflect Ori his preferences Mg-len chunking grub into his digestive apparatus We feel lissured that he is afte ail Ivith the balance of North Carolina and the whole of Oeorgia with both feet on the 'possum plank of the respective accordant platforms But why Ile Ilia Mit g0 to the supper of the ristocra I lc Coweta Clu Newran and gnaw 'possutn bones with GOV Atkinson will ever remain a deep mystery to ail Inter-State diplomats jO1lN MORRIS A SKETCH OF ANDREW BALFOUR fie 'Was Fanning's First Victim Caine from Edinburg to America About Four Years Before the Declaration of of Ills Descendants Good and Loyal People To the Editor Of the Observer: him through the heal Am an old gen fl Chatham county who in Ids young daYs orlon hvord this deed Inetithinei remarked: -It was Mr Trior act 41' cruel atrocity" Col Ilaitou was malting arrangements to go to Rhode Wend and fetch his good wifo and thiltirt whom he had 1101 11111 I'M 140 VH-31 Y11111' 1 hh North Inoue Ills sister Islargitret and daughter Tibloy hi1 never seen them Had he been living in seetion which wits his home In the year 1775 there no doubt but that he would have taken a journey up to Charlotte abnut the nth nf May jubilee and perhats amid have been appcintt'd op the eommutee on resolutions any witt 1 think he would have beep th Alld when I think or this good rmin who really gave his life in defense of his country It makes me feel somrhow a little glad that I have his Hood atilt he hellrOlt keOpti me all the time from voting in any way that wm1111 be inimical to the interests of the ()hi North State tit) I SkP it I)avid Panning the traitor met an infamous and degraded und in one of the I iII sb Provinces where he lied about the close of the Revolution After a life in his OW11 State that made him It scourge to Immanity----A scourge to humanity Nvhilo living and a byord and a name of reproach Wheil (load" FrOiltTiCk Smith of the county of Cumberland one of the murderers or vol nalfour Nvas apprehended tried and convicted under a bill of indictment drawn by Alfred ''sloore Attorney tleneral at the April term 17ti3 of the Hillsboro Court of Law and Equity Miss Alargaret Balfour who toi witness M'I'itOS OM follows: crime a proved so plainly that not one lavver spoke a word in his favor though he had three of them ettmloyed My story was so affecting that the court was willing to give me Pv (TY satisfaction in their power and in order to do this they broke a little through their USUil course for they had the villain tried condemned and hung all in the snace the court While the judge was giving the jury the charge 1 hoard several gentlemen I If my brother's acquaintance xvishing to God the jury would not bring him in guilty that they might have the pleasure Of putting the rascal to death with their OWn hands: and if they had not brought him in guilty 1 am sure would have killed the xvretch he got out of the house" There are folks in NorthCarolina 110V carry in their veins the blood of the I men comoosed that eourt and jury which sat at old Hillsboro in the year 1783 making short and summary work of Frederick Smith the traitor tilXt (:11 kIKI oN SELL 4 titirkITYr eer arid deleted Ihe where th extitive Ho' 1111-AMINti EN'ttool the poldo hatlings shoot' pion1 on north through Fredr- 1 it find Lanctistir vphriliding thotraer41for Not Inm -111g enos koala each or iIiliH Itio Sword gall 1ssit oItt000di ii he handed an l011 tiii otnitilit Slippyr Ihrurgla- liel0111m rs -t I ai not los elution' to 1411111k Too thriost srtor4et lallillit11 hero These 1111tcs "0T" Piltdished itt the nod Atkillou 'tooth modlitisr heal news' 44 the day Ile help hvyA re Apart Ita111 slog Coon Mlat 01 11 celehrith' Poitticallyt Hut Itostitat IiswtirIly American itelepiadeticc July 4 1791 Mouth Caroling's Arraiont Attitude Ile- Laneaster vheri he told his hot Iota tiicortin aunt taroilsm public reception of I thia Southern tour -lie arrh1 to Philadelphia on July To the Editor of the ihrervcr: thho" says the Philadelphia azette "ia tiov Atkinson 4r Grolgia invited perfect health nn his approach to the our otAti Gov Russell to 10 present st city yam annonte 't bY the tiring or a '1wswil 440141' the cannon owl tbe ringing of hells" Club of NcWilan I 11101111 Poik with whom eat -toissum with sop and tillers- to ashinThen dined tti the day of his ar- be served th honor or tti rIa owv HI ju chariolle vas a distinguished ernor and tither Geolglatis ointlai soldier or tho waN the rank on the With itt1 if it 1( 'Pont jllI1L 1111d NV IS hUrl fl miles down the isftctory to- Russell failed to attend et awry near Pinevilia in Niccklenburg court Gen Thowns Polk was born regret that Gov Russell Ui and was exactlY the saute age dill not strain a point and accept the prehi tvhintoon 114 Ithes Invitation to 5 With the arts-tors 45ltlI( III Ni latiti coming tvith hieratic Cevela Clun of Newnan! II Scoi Intrih emigration from the nowt sf Ieliind I 1h4 father William it oula have 'wen as beneficial as Polk as a rusidto tir southern Penn- the retaxation of a slimmer outing hail rytvanli In 17-3 Thomas Polk when (toy -Russell put a shawl-strap around just years old left his parents in his intellect awl lifted it from its ten-Pennsylvania and traveling through dency to gravitate towlird the North Marylanil litmlr his homy rirl4ina lIt ut I1v4o P114I thr mutt-In (minty By his enter- thins of the railway cotnmissian and se and energy hi aequired a large supplemenlay to his aldretne thing his tract of land V111(11 (glabilli Will to live whitie intellectual toosiveness on "'pos- it' considerable style and uninY Eni ilf! Kiln supper with atin and Utters" pH lieges vhich till a Minim' He the vas my esteemed friend Com- ScothIrlsh settiors in 71ecklenburg erai Andy comes? why did the hero or fail at this critical moment'? ocr oi -roeinical xvnere wile did not Adjutant General i7are1 a charter for the establish- before taking charge as receiver of the iii'Ut In tile t'lwa e' burst 'Alorganton bank anti before goChatiotte It as subsequently railed ing far away to Hassle Athens as "UhertY minister resident to Greece and before In 1 was a taking Pritchard's place in the United if the States Senate viten Pritchard shall took tin active part in the movement 11 succeeded Judge Dick throw himWhitil iMiliti itl till Revolution In self into the attitude of a soldier and delegisateil tuItil ssule It stand with drawn sword as dill Napo- col: for the tAletk i "avtL ee a-t Icon at Then Ihe little thile "8 hi his ePialea the eell- Gin exclaimed "This way leads to res Brussels" and Hien all the dra- Wut i in Lau en atio pteo olt Feat' matte majesty of Napoleon show to them from the steps of the court housel taw Russell wav lea to New- t() the people A few months later ue his ds was appointed colonel (P1 he second of no In at Iona ano still on until warned by the at-wending incense th tVl to hat taiilltIS minute men in west- of baked 'possum that the moment had ern Nor Carolina Soon afterward arrived to shut "IIaltl" the South Carolina Tories attacked -illiamson at Ninety-Six They The aphorism tha history repeats it- yore defeated with the assistance self Is made tense Ivith fresh injection 7a0 militia from North Carolina under of truth when we rellect that Napoleon Col Thomas Polk and Col Rutherford failed to reach Brussels and that more In 1776 Polk WaS made colonel of the than three-quarters of a century later Pourth Reghnent Nvhkh formed part Adjutant General Andy Cowles failed of a force under Gen Nash which joined the army under NVashington in to load Rursell to NtWrIati's 'possum the New York Pennsylvania ami ler- suldtcr sey campaigns In 1779 these North Carolina troops were sent to reinforce Perhaps my good friend General th Southern army and Gen Lincoln Cowles thought that he was both too at Charleston After the fall of little anti to young to undertake such Chtaleston Gen Gates of Saratoga a stupendous movement as was in- font who then was In command of volved iii leading Russell anywhere the Army of the South offered Col Himvever had General Cowles reflected Polk the office of commissary general his memory Wont(' have been historic-of North Carolina and commissary of ally and biographically refreshed by purchase for the army Those posi- the example of Godfrey de Bouillon tions he accepted After the action at who while both little anti cowan's Ford Gen Nathaniel Greene the age of fighting for Henry who succeeded Gates in command of- Iv of Germany won the battle of El fered the command of the militia of ster (A losaI over Ittllitallh Salisbury distriet to Gen yolk which Swabia the rival for Henry's throne position he held until 1781 For a wile and further before he reached mattir( In lived in a mansion east of Char- manhood had captured Jerusalem hate near the site of the Lutheran from the Saracens and was dead from WA'S ATM Ni)N AND RussELL l'phrattling I Ito triber41 lor NM Drit1Ing null Iltqi Its word 1ewthig moo to ht) 'noun' tos ppc to I wuricon Too torat orriori4at tatoilles- 1 11 re R1104111 stuImikiiiou initt 11 011111111pro tivyAro Apart iltnsoll 1 Nina Coon Moot 1'0111 irony Hut 10ton Inwardly 111th Carolina" Attitude Ire I wven tcor4la and arollna tho Editor of tho td'cot ilov Atkinson 4r caagia Invited li 1" a 'possum sataer he piVi11 "IJI) I') itt a alutm to in honor ur ((n4la owv (I-nor mot ithor Cletglans rank on the fir Vith 4XctISP Inoth lTllIiL 1111(1 isfartotY 0v 1u4s11 rail" til tlid the 'portitit lioNv all thot (01v 'toss" did not strain a Polot '11111 11(11P1 th" Invitation to at 'possum itli the aris- tot ratic Coleta Iti) Ncwitatil It t1141 havo 1ii 1114 114 the relaxation of a slimmer outing hail tlov Itussll put a shawl-strap around his intellect awl lifted it from its ton- dency to gravitate towlird the North Carolina ttailioad 14 and the mutt- tions of the raiRvav commission and Perhaps my good friend General Cowles thought that he was both too little and too young to undertake stub a stupendous movement as was involved in leading Russell anywhere However had General Cowles reflected his memory WOnlit have been historically and biographically refreshed by the example of Godfrey de Bouillon who while both little and the age of fighting for Henry IV of GermanY won the battle of El 'ter (A Pisa) over nuttolph Of Swabia the rival for Henry's throne and further before Ile reachea math re wanhood had rapt ured Jerusalem from the Saracens and was dead from un this isTasbill was "elegant re- s-Cordy sons had fought withbero-le gal- quite ornamental and attract- 'miry under Washington itt Brandyed mueli attention everywitere he wm laolown in the Jersey cam-went 'The body and wheels wore vitigii with hmi at tho stir- cream-colored with gilt tlitathilligs render or cornwallis should turn out tiislY wit" en mass' to greet the Illustrious sob-leather straps resteu 111" was now the tirst citizen of springs There were green Venetian the land and the chief executive Of a blinds arid DathilL deSt i fled tO 1)0 the greatest govwhich could be raised so as to minit ptinnnt in the history of the wnrii and for ventilation The Winds was nil the return of this tourthrough afforded shelter in case of storms The Sf alth at a demonstration In his etlach Iva" lined imible with bright honor at Lancaster Pa on the 4th ur black leather and the drivPr8 July' following that a local Journal trimmed with the same material thpre mils the first desigtiat hint order to get a good view ur th -The Pather of nig Oihntry" "He was country washlogtim says In his dthout children" said the enthuslitsdiary: "I sat In the driver's scat and lie writer "so that the entire nation AN hen the driver gut sick while might call in father" passing up through WeStern North On this eventful Saturday of May Carolina I held the reins myself for 28 1791 crowds of renpie on foot on distance of wnty miles or more" norseback and the better order id this little memorandum book tir peasantry in vehicles came to this lit- is still in existence among tio village a oThiloott too (nth a archives at the national capital glimpse of Washington a shington It th 'Washington made the fidlowing entry and only time that many of them had March 1 the day he started for I hi! SeCh th0 tall and dignified form of the man who will idways be ranked as the "LeTt Philadelphia at II o'clock mi- greatest American 'Phu street and ad- effinParlitqlbY Jarib' r111': Joining roads Were hiled with Men wo- secretary my equipage aim to- men and children hours before even the tendants consisted of a chariot drawn oily before his arrival for it NVITIS four riS a certainty known vite he would baggage Avagon and Iwo horses filur It'a(11 here saddle horses beside a led horse for Captain Charles Caldwell a young myself: and five persons my Valli two school teacher was in command of a footmen coachman and postillion" troop of cavalry al this lime and to Ile came South by way of liming- dim his young dragoons was as I do not think that Col Andrew Bal-UlliA1114eU 111 LIB! matter sm four of colonial day fame was a great of man simply because he happened to ni patrioti so much since then: and well if that wise court should convone nOW Nvould recogniz1 lie kin to me and had something to the dear old town doing business 4 do indirectly with giving me the start great the same place and inhabited by a people as true loyal and devoted to s7n and a th rsTy- the State as that which they knew to a large degree In Caruthers over Sketches of North State Characters one hundred years ago We read: "Among those who fell a PerhaPs you would like to know sacrifice to the cause of freedom and lint became of Tibby and her stellwho for their self-devotion and their mother Mrs Balfour and her children patriotic services deserve to be re- Tibby Nvith her Aunt Margaret went to membered was Andrew Balfour reside in Salisbury where with some Though a foreigner by birth he had industry and economy they lived commade this his adopted country and fertably on the rent of tile land and showed himself from the first a warm the hill of the nogroes Towards the and decided advocate for the rights of close of the year 1784 Mrs Balfour man Ile was a native of Edinburgh with her two little children came from In Scotland and came over to America Rhode island to 'Wilmington by about four years before the Declara- water and thence by way of Fayette-thin of Independence Like many oth- yule where they were treated with ('vs he was an adventurer to the New great Civility and thence to Salisbury World but proved to be of kindred George Lucas sent his carriage to the sPirit with those who resolved to be Yadkin river for her and brought her free or die" Ile WilA first married in to the latter town just in time to eat Scotland to a Miss Janet McCormick a good Christmas dinner with him She died there leaving him one child She was soon given the postoffice in Tibby Ilk wife was well educated that historic old town The profits and accustomed to move in the best yielded her a comfortable support The society In about a year after her office went in the name of her son An-death he married Miss Elizabeth Day- drew: but he held it for her benefit ton of Newport in Rhode Island An She kept it until 1825 some twenty-estimable young lady and of a very five or thirty years She gave perfect respectable family By her he had Saisfaction to patrons and to the De-two children a daughter whom he partment She had been many years named Margaret for his mother and in office when the Postmaster General sister and a son whom he called An- wrote back after receiving a report drew for himself and hi ti father that he had at length detected in her "'rhe first notice we have of Colonel account a mistake of half a cent She Balfour in North Carolina is in a let- was a business woman from away ter to his tvife dated SOlisbury back in little Rhody ter to his tvife dated Snlisbury Things are not changed in the matter of patriotism so much since then and Hillsboro well if that wise court should convene tIONV it Would recogniz1 the dear old town doing business 114 the same place and inhabited by a people as true loyal and devoted to the State as that which they knew over one hundred years ago College But during the time of Wash-loating poisoned fruit from the hand of ington's visit he lived In princely style he Emir of Caesarea at the age of 3S for those days in a colonial mansion on tit" course General CONOOS had this exEat Trade street it was here that ample With all its detail at his linger's he entertained Washington on the end for Is he not himself the Godfrey evening of May 2Sth 1791 Ile died in de Bouillon of Gov Russell's' adminisCharlotte in the autumn of the same tratton? 1 1 i 1 1 i i i 1 i II 1 I 'i I 1 1 I i I I 1 I i 1 i '1 i 1 i i 1 I i 1 I 1 11 11 I 1 11 11 1 I 1 i I' I 11 I 1 I I 1 I i 11 11 if i i i 1 1 1 I' I 1 i I 1 I I i 1141 l000l till bta Wit bre the cur ho( ceu hat a ing to car: I hr 14( a sty sta ne3 prt 11111 a 6 ()I us hit ed we ere Th lea sp 1 1)11 art cot '(va 3n cot opt pa! I Ca a di a lir on col tar tel by ba sal m3 Ior I tor ba ri stc bo It no! La rile bo: In T11( An nu sal cot ba: du sal Ge hel le Su! (IF( Lt I ap for dra co' se So of sel an co I lo: ly 3( re no Cl 1 sa ho ed th: 43X Sa So no rir ou th de Tni IL 'ye or ei SW T1 cf at Sc to of ga rit St de 1 I 3-4 I a to iVith the how hail a to three style ney 6 of "8" hide The light was 3n once it 3n diary the on tary by Ion trip boat It -We not Inc In the A says: bay here 'I tice drew for seat sell and lose Iy ed quet a at of do had The trinitarlan life of GeneralCowles as receiver of the Morganton bank minister resident to Greece and United States Senator will be haunted by his failure to lead Russell to Newnan's 'possum the agony of his remorse will be hut poorly doctoreo by the reflection that to preserve his sWord from destroying rust posterity may solemnly arise and grease its blade Nv i th mutton suet However the martial derelictkm of General Cowles in nowise relieves Gov Russell of the infraction of an inter-State amenity lie could have used his free pass as he had often done and thus transported without cost he then operating' on the gratuitous basis of the invitation might have gnawed 'possum bones without a cent of expense to North Carolina Great jupitPr what an opportunity for Russell! Then too he would have met Gov incarnation of a gubernatorial dream: an exquisite poem in executive attire There is a singular parallel in the history of Russell and Atkinson: After the death of Judge Seymour of the FeJeral district of eastern North Carolina Russell wanted to go on the Federal bench But assuming that it would please Col A Andrews of the Southern Railway to witness the neutralization of gubernatorial potentiality by running all its hot stuff into the dreamy bliss of Judicial calm and quiet he Russell then arose and swore that he 'would not be dreamy nor calm nor quiet and swore too with such tempestuosit as to imperil his Sunday school record While he swore a Purnellian era dawned over eastern North Carolina Tom Purnell sat trn the Federal bench Now Atkinson the same extant Georgia Governor who invited Russell to gnaw 'possum bones and absorb 'possum sop with taters wanted to go to the United States Senate A large senatorial ambition screamed from Atkinson's thin breast and for a long time kept on screaming But one day he found that many members of the Georgia 'egislature were voting for other caldidates: so from spite just as vinegary as Russell's he arose and withdrew his candidacy and after the ballotingwas done the Legislature at a later (late adjourned in great sorrow But Steve Clay sat wrapped in a senatorial toga Then in contrast there are points (f 4if heant7 and shape: al) respective mannerisms in oratory In Mitch fimsell may be singularlY differentiated from Atkinson: In on stm-nach is convex bulged so to speak: Atkinson's is concave dished so to speak Russell i eti-g-shaperi and stiff A tkinson is arrowy but willowy Russell's hair floes not fall abundantly nor witchingly and flowingly over his shoulders Atkinson's sweeps backward and trembles radiantly especially While he enjoys his own oratory A pair of plow lines long enough for both rein and headstall would barely go armind Russell and admit of beim( tied in a bow-knot in front While Atkinson speaks he spans his own lithe ast with his own white tapering fingers Thus pirthed With his hands he pressing against his hips holds his legs steady With his thumbs he works his body backward until his mowing hair almost sw eeps the rostrum Thum with legs and body forming a right angle and withal body legs hair and plank In floor of rostrum a perfect Nev Caat lalaware' at signe'd-the elutjy hgaiing'clo'W) tbe'ro(1 Roek Ilall on the Chesapeake ent- to meet the distinguished guest This barked for Annapolis aryland he young ho a er a rd became was made th-iwn the bay and up the noted physician mentiomed hereafthe Severn river by night tind Wash-tor in this article had prepated a speech ington encountered an equinoctial which he intended to make when they storm while on the boat for he sttys: first met Wt-ishington Pad as the ran aground On Severn river at ident stepped out Of his carriage CaldGreenbury Point The pilot of the well's emotions overcame hltn and he Could not keep in the thannel wag unable to deliver his address was very dark and there Was a Washington recognizing his embarfrightful and terrific thunderstorne 1asinont walked forward and began a remained on the boat till morning cenversation in such an easy and knowing Ns' ha might happen graceful manner that the young cap-Laid all night in my great coat and tam WaS SOna pat at his ease boots in a berth not long enough for The President then mounted Ids (Washington was six feet two inch height) was much cramped: boat White horse and rode side by side with Capt Cald 'ell and so they entered the moved on finally and one mile from and upon town Of Charlotte Annapolis it became light knowledge of (tun firrival at An- "Are the signers of the Mecklenburg napolis fifteen guns were fired" Declaration still living and Will I see local chronicler at Annapolis them?" said the President to his youth "The President was A-ery much fal cinalianhal concerned about the safety of his tine "Some of them are dead but ynu horses which were on a barge will be entertained at dinner soon after during the stortn but they arrived our arrival by Col Polk You will also Safely at Annapolis in good time" meet Abraham Alexander the presi The presidential party reached dent of the convention: John MeKnitt Georgetown March 2Sth and Alexander the secretary" he makes the following entry: "I shall be p'eased to meet them" met Thomas Johnson Chief Jus- replied Washit-Tton and how is Col of Maryland David Stuart and PollCs Samuel Carroll commissioners An- "Fairly good sir His residence is just Elliot surveyor and Major beyond the court house We will stop L'Enfant civil engineer who had been rieht in front of his home" And then appointed to lay off ten miles square they passed around the old court house the Federal seat and to make a which stood On 6 high pillars In Indedraft of the district" pendenee Square lind they desiredthey One of the objects of this trip was to could have rode underneath this his-complete arrangetnenas for the new tonic building for it was mounted high of government on the Potomac enough for that purpose The mansion Some of the owners of the present site of (lot Polk had been the headquarof Washington City did not want to tors of Lord Cornwallis for a brief their land at a reasonable price time during the year 17Sla and was sit here be stops to enter in his diary: uated on East Trade street near the "I told them that while they were square Put it will be interesting to contending for the shadow they might know just Nv ha Washington enters in the substance They then mutual- his diary in relation to his visit to agreed to surrender their land for Charlotte Ile made only a brief note public purposes" of the most important demonstrations Two days later he wrote to Thomas and his brief remarks are given below Jefferson Secretary of State: "I have It 'ill be noticed that he NV aS early reconciled the contending interests so riser as that was his custom through-that the work can go On You A'ill Out the entire tour The following are therefore publish the proclamation an- his words taken from the original reeflouncing the lines of the District of ord: Columbia" I "May 1791--Set off from Craw-Having cotnpleted this work to his fords at 4 o'clock in the morning and satisfaction Washington went to his breakfasted at Mr Harrison's eighhome at alount Vermin where he re- teen la i CS from Crawford's Got into mained one week "riditigs over my Charlotte thirteen miles further north plantation every day" lie then start- before 3 o'clock In I (lined at Col on his eventful tour going throueh Thomas Polk's with a small party in-the eastern part of North Carolina and vited by him at a table prepared for extending his journey Os far south as the purpose Charlotte is a small place Savannah Ga Ilisapproach to all the though the court of Mecklenburg is Southern towns and cities was an- held in It There is a college (Liberty flounced by salvos of artillery am! the Hall) at which at times there have ringing of bells A recepthm and ban- been it or 60 young men- were given him at most towns "Sunday May 29--Left t'harlotte through Nvhich he passed and he was about 7 oadock and dined at Colonel everywhere received with the greatest Smith's fifteen miles off Lodged at demonstrations of )(iy Ills achieveIMajor Philen's seven miles further on" ments as a soldier and his as After the dinner and receptien at Col statesman and President Vt10 Uni- P1 Ili's he repaired to cook's Inn a versally recognized two-story building- (In West Trade At Charleston he makes the following' street where he doubtless retired ear-entry on May 4th: IY for that was his custom The at Charleston with the So- lowing morning Mrs Elizabeth Cook ciety of Cincinnati and in the evening found in the room AA-here he slept a box went to a daneing assembly at the Ea- I of powder and apulf Avhich he had for-change at which there Wt-re 276 tie- gotten to take with him It kas the gantly dresaed and handseme ladies custom of that day for all the well-toThe following evening I went to a eon- de people to wear wigs and aqueue on cert at the Exehango at which there noted occasions and this puff had no least 400 ladies the number and el'- doubt served an important purpose to gant appearance of which extelletai General Washington when he was in everythinz of the kind I have eve! the Southern cities 7IrsElizabth Cook seen and at the Governor's ball Which mk it and powdered the hair of a followed there was a -select coMpany number of young- ladies of village and ladles of culture and refinement" vieinity and in the meantime remark-The Masonie fraternity military or- ea: "You young maidens can say yoll ganizatians State assemblies 'and A-a- have Leen powdered with the puff of the rious organizations in all the Southern President of the United States" This Stater vied with aaeh other to ends the story of the first and only him honor to entertain visit of Washington to this sectian with the mast enthusiastic interest arrivea at Mt Vernon June 13th when their diatinguished guest Washington he says: then reached the zenith of his "I spent two weeks visiting ray sevfame and was aceepted not only in this eral farms anol entertaining my country but thrt tighout Burma- Na- friends On the 27th 1 met the coin year General Polk's son William born In 1758 was a noted patriot entered the ''array as a you while a student of Queen's College in Charlotte In 1776 he was major of the Ninth North Carolina Regimnt participated in the battles of Urandywine and' Germantown Ile was wonnded in the latter engagement being then major of his regiment lie was afterward in the battle of Camden and Soon' afterward was made lieutenant colonel of the Powly-sixth S'ou'th Carolina CavalrY a ttached to the command of Gen Sumter and (lid heroic service in the In ttle of Eutaw Springs Ile held many rositions after the ivar including the presidency of the State Bank of North Carolina lie owned 100000 acres of land in Tennessee During the war of 1S12 President Madison made him a brigadier general in the regular army but as he was a Federalist he declined the position being opppsed to the N't'ar In 1824 he vas one of the commissioners to receive (len Lafayette in behalf Of his native State Ile was the immediate personal friend of Andrew Jackson and did important service to advance the interests of the Hero of New Orleans Ile Was one of the persons who helped to receive Washington while in Charlotte He died in Raleigh in 1834 Leonidas Polk his son was a Protestant Episcopal bishop of North Carolina it graduate of West Point a distinguished officer in the civil war Captain Charles Caldwell AVIto COMMrilided the troop of cavalry that went ten miles south of Charlotte to meet Wcshington in 1791 was then a young man 19 years of age Ile was born in Caswell county this State in 1772 He was the son of an officer of the Revolution and was teaching in Charlotte in 1791 The following year he went to Philadelphia and graduated in mediire froln the University of Pennsylvania Ile served as brigadier surgeon of Gen Lees command in the whiskey Insurrection of 1791 lie was professor of natural history in the University of Pennsylvania and succeeded the famous Nicholas Biddle as editor of the Portfolio in 114 Five years later he locatne profess(or of medicine in Transylvania University Lexington Re ntueky and in IS37 founded the Medical Institute at Louisville lie was a volumimais writer on scientific and meth( al subjects and in 1S19 published the "Life and Campaigns of General Nathaniel Greene" His own autobiography is an exceedingly interesting work Ito died in Louisville In 153 at the age of Si GEORGE PROWELL Dr Folkes It A Gant and Tackett all of Mississippi the commission Of experts sent by Gov Laurin of of Mississippi to investigate tht yellow fever in Cuba have returned and say that they found the condition of affairs in the island far vorso than they expectA with hundreds of thou-'antis of Persms starving ta 'loath and fulTering from all the diseases pcullar to ttarvation The Hickory Times Dt i1ie4lalie has publicittn and been absoriled by the Atercury SALVE The best salve in the world for cuts bruises sores ulcers salt theura fever sores letter chapped hands ehilidans corns and nil skin eruptions and pfSItivply eures riles or no pay required It i5 guaranteed to give perrt satisfaction or nionPy refunded Price adds per box For sale by 11ursvel1 Dunn Co July 1778 in which he tells her that he was sometimes there and sometimes at his plantation He did remove to it and tvith the intention of making such improvements as would render it a comfortable home for his' family It ultimately became their residence but the Sovereign Disposer of all things did not permit him to enjoy it with them" This farm corn-prised in the original grant about 1050 acres hut when it came to be re-surveyed it ran out 1900 acres It lies in Randolph county and is I think about 30 or 35 miles from Salisbury In the year 1779 Itandolph county was formed and Colonel Balt( ur WaS chosen one of the first representatives of that now great and prosperous county His name stands on the records of the State as a member of the Assembly for 1780 "That he determined to risk his life in the military defense of the country we are informed by a letter from Mrs Balfour dated June 1st 1779 After noticing other things in this letter she says 'I have been anxious about the enemy's being in Georgia ever since heard they were there: but your resolution of exposing yourself raises a thousand melancholy thoughts I can only say I am unhappy and shall be so until I see you' 'lie became' very obnoxious to the Tories In the fall of 17S0 he and Jacob Shepherd father of the Hon Augustine II Shepherd who was also a prominent Whig were captured by a party of Tories from the Pee Dee under the command of Col Coulson who were carrying' them as prisoners to the British at Cheraw but were attacked by Captain Childs front Montgomery who completely dispersed them and set their prisoners at liberty to return home On their return Shepherd left the neighborhood and went into one of more security but Balfour remained and met an untimely fate 1 1 As Colonel Balfour was the most prominent and influential man lit that region Fanning In a murderous excursion up the river made hint the first victim and accompanied the act with almost every degree of barbarity that was possible' He was atrociously murdered by this ever to be despised Fanning on Sunday morning March Pith 17S2 In the narrative of Judge Murphy furnished for the University Magazine by Governor Swain we have an account of the disgraceful affair In one of his predatory and murderous excursions he (Fanning) went to the house of Andrew Balfour which he had plundered three years before Stephen Cole ono of Balfour's neighbers hearing of his approach and apprised of his intentions rode at full speed' to Balfour's house and g-tve hint notice Of the danger that threatened him Balfour had scareely stepped out of the house when he saw Fanning galloping up One of Fan-fling's 'arty fired at him with his rifle and broke his ttrm lie returned to the house and his daughter (first wife's) and sister clung to him in de-spilt (Tibby was only eleven years fr age at the time) Fanning and his men immediately entered and tore away the women threw them on the floor and held them under their feet till they shot Balfour Ile foil on the floor and Fanning taking a pistol shot Abont the year 1790 Tibby Balfour married John Troy an Irishman and citizen of Salisbury brother of Matthew Troy who was one Of the early representatives in the General Assembly from Rowan Tibby was about When she married There were three Balfour Troy who became an honored citizen of Randolph: Margaret and Rachel The former daughter died in 1S13: the latter married Lewis Beard of Lexington but afterwards went to Mississippi After the death Of her husband John Troy Tihby went to IVO with her son Jno Troy Esq in Randolph who was well known there and in the adjoining counties as one Of the most upright and useful citizens He died in 1864 true to God and to his country Tibby become a Methodist and died in the faith of the Gospel Tier tors of of course were Piesbyterians Scotch Eno Troy Tibby'sr son married Nancy Lane There were many children It will be getting too close home for me to say mta'h of them Nancy Lane was the daughter of Isaae Lane high sheriff of Randolph lie captured Jonathan Lewis in Indiana where he had fled ofter drownlYor beautiful Naomie Wise whom he had previously seduced The IN aortll a OS Manufacturing Company Randleman is named in honor of the unfortunate girl- and is built near the point On Deep river whereTher faithless lover is supposed to have drowned her My own little sister Tibby Balfour married a few weeks ago a son of Col Hardin of Morganton 'We are all eight of us married now excelit one and he says that he is done getting into scrapes He will be all right N11 the descendants of the patriot Col Balfour are fairly nice people and especially is this true shoe the writer jidned the church Some of them used to call him the "black: sheep" but he's white now and doing all he can for his country his friends and his God and they are doing good by him I am indebted to the late Rev Mr Caruthers for all matter contained in this article which I didn't write mystd I thank you ladies and gentlemen' fir your kind attention Some 20th of IMay it may be I Will make you a lit-tie speeeh on the "Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence" which Was really the first shot that started old Pluribus Unum that has rolled on and on gathering strength power and influence and that bids fair to keep rolling "until" as my old friend Jno Sawyer used to say in the Philanthropic Hall at Chapel Hill the vibrating pendulum of time shall cease to vibrate" At the oil da ntation in Itambdph in the cemetery OD Betty McGee's creek the remains of the patriotie tho heroic the generous hearted but unfortunate Andrew Balfour with inan3 of his descendants aro quietly waiting the sound of Gabriel's trump TROJAN Jonesboro Jan 1 I I TO CITHE A COLD IN ONE DAY Take Laxative Drum() Quinine Tab letm All druggists refund the mime' It it fails to cure 25e a Fro c-mopaimr' top Artv- ar-0 1106 --ALL --oo-411trotrig --aoolViiloaL'- -toO42O 51-000000-ro 7.