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- Is also the Branch Office at Spartanburg S. C., for the FAMOUSGLENNSPRINGS The Western llnion TelegraphOfficeislocated 'in same building up stairs SPARTANBURG S C. : T. J. TR IMMIER. Propriet or Trimmier's Printing OfficeandBook Store,

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' The season of 1877, at Glenn purpose of visiting this portion of i Springs, S. C., was unusually bril- the country. H e haJ been sent out : liant The gloom which had over- by companies of manufacturers and miners to investigate and report up- shadowed the State while under on its capabilities in these respects; Carpet-bagr ule, bad just been dis- but he was aswilling to impart as to pelled, and the gallant H ampton was receive information. He was entire- INTRODUCTION. ' firmly seated in the guber natonal ly familiar with the Geological re- chair. New life was infused among ports of the Stateby Profs. Tourney all classes. Hopes which had been and Leiber, and could designate In presentingthis little volume, it is w ith the hope lhal it will not find its way almost dead, was revived, and many, more accurately than I could, the directly lo the waste basket-as such pamphlets too often do without their me rits very many, had resor ted to this cele- various points of interest, which he being known--but thatit will be read by everyone into whose handsit may fall. brated watering place, and fountain desired to examane, in this wonder- of health, for rest and recreation to ful Piedmont region. Of course, If youaresuffering with Dyspepsia, Liver Complaint, Chronic H eptatitis, Jaun- enable them to meet more energet- the first thing which attracted his dice, Torpor of Liver, and General D ebility following upon Malarial Diseases ically the hopes and expectations of attention, was the wonderful Springs. Dropsy, Diarrhoea Dysentery, Constipation, H e morrhoids, Uterine Renal and the future. There was there the He soondiscovered that their ingre- 'I Cystic Diseases l:-Jaematuria, R heumat ism, Catamenial Derangement, and other grave and dignified judge-the as- dients were Sulphur, Magnesia and Female Complaints, you will find here the means of a sure and speedy relief. Or if tute lawyer, the laborious planter, Lime, combined in such proportions you expect to leave home for the summeryou will find here inte resting descriptions ' the enterprising merchant and the and such intimacv, as to mock the of South Carolina's favorite resort. pious divine, with their wives and efforts of the most skilful Pharma- daughters Wit, mirthand hilarity ceutist; and his opinion as to their Or if youare neither sicknor expect to leave home for the summeryou will find ' abounded. All seemed to feel that remedial efficacy, corresponded fully this a n interesting little volume, containing a romance of the discovery of G lenn they were again free. with the experience of the many Springsin the time of t:1e Indians ; its re-discovery by the white m an. and its !, Among the many visitors, how- gratefulvisitors who have been bene- history, with personal sketches of some of South Carolina's distinguished men, who ever, who gave tone and character, fi tted by them. were constant visitors at this fountain of health ; and other description of Glenn and interest to this distinguished as- He next turned his attention to Springs as a SummerResort and accounts cf the wonderful results from the useof ' semblage, none attracted more atten- the mining capabilities of the coun- this water.. tion than a young English gentle- try. II SIMPSON& SIMPSON man, who had justarrived from the He was aware of the location of Proprr EToR s. old country He was apparently the Fair Forest gold mines in the about twenty-fiveor thirty years of vicinity of Glenn Springs, and we age. His manners wasas genial and visitedthem. Coming as he did from as unaffected as a child's, and his a country where mining is prosecu- learning was accurate and profound. ted as a systematic industry, and up- i H e had devoted himself to the study on scientific principles, he was of of the physical sciences, especially course struck with the slovenly and Geology, Mineralogy and Mining. inefficient manner which had been Whilemodest and unassuming in his adopted in developing these mines, scientific acquirements, yet, Le was but his practiced and scientific eye ready and willing to share his great soon discovered their great value, storewith others. To me, who had and he predicted thatat some future just begun to turn attention to these day the mines of this region would studi es, he was altogether indispen- be more important and remunerative sable, and he was as kind as indis- than those of ( 'alifornia and Colo- pensable. H e made no secretof his rado.

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They had never been worked lower shine as it dances over the broken many quaint and curious volumes of it wasto me again exceedingly in- than the water level, ,and none of edges of the rock, and again hiding "forgottten lore," as Poe, the po- teresting. and I am sure it will be them had yet reached the granite, itself in the deep shadows of the et of America, has it, and many man- to vou. where he believed with Profs. Tou- vine clad trees." At Musgroves, uscripts containing incidents of the Pleaseaccept my grateful recol- meyand Lieber, that the most as- Van Pattons and numerous other personal history of my ancestors, lections of your kindness to me tonishing results would be obtained. placeson this noble st.ream the falls which had been kept up for genera- while at Glenn Springs, and the as- From these interesting mines we areequally as interesting, and it is tions Among these, was one con- surance of my highest regard. went to the iron region of the county, impossible to examine them without taining the adventures of my great- Verytruly, and he was more astonished at the rich being struck with the great facilities grand-father, subsequently the Duke George LANCAS'fER. field here opened for remunerative which they afford at small cost, for of Lancaster in the province of South industry, than with the mines of the manufacturing purposes. At Trough Carolina about the year 1760 Some NARRATIVE. Shoals, on the Pacolet, this magnifi- more precious metals. Said he, look- of the incidents I remember, distinct- I "th tbe custom ing at the group of rocks, containing cent stream rushes through a crevice ly, but not enough to give you now n accordance ance wi I the magnetic ore of iron, the redand in the rock, only eight feet wide, at t d t f th Th and injunctions of mv ancestors, brown hematites, the limestone and an inclination of twenty feet in sixty a clotnndec e accountt th . ey proceed to give some of the most flexible quartz for fluxing, "herewe chains crashing like pipe stems the corare ale , andasd t oetihev~d? e iscovery is p1oefcethoi·s important. and striking incidents of have iron ore of nearly every species toughest, and the most obstinate wonde1ful Spring. When I go my hfe- f fif and of the very best quality, with timber thrown in to impede its pro- h I ill d 0 f the I am now an old man, and or ty rocks for firestone and fluxing, all on gress. ome ~1t :en .J~u ~cohy d and years or more my life has been a the banks of a noble stream capable 'Ihose were some of the natural manuscript o .w i?n . a u. e, . t hum-drum affair. I can recall noth- whichI am surewillbe an interest- . o- d ·i all this Ion time that is of affording abundant water power. and almost undeveloped resources mg chapter in your local history. mo ur ng . g of the region of country, which im- Theresources of your country, sir, p this · 0 i 1 ·th the worthy of mention or remembrance. are illimitable." pressed Mr. Lancaster, the English tlbace is. piece h. coral '~t1 1 During the winter I have generally gentleman, of whom we have spoken o er specimens w ic w1 e_ave, pent my time in town and the rest With Profs. Tourney and Lieber, as a neucleous for the Glenn Sprrngs sf th t t and for he was also much interested in the with wonder and amazement. C b" t " o e year on my es at e, itacolumite, or flexible quartz to be A few mornings, about the close of a me · this part of my life, this is all I the season, before he left, he rushed In a few days after this, to the have to say. Whether this indiffer- found in this region, and identified regret of every visitor at the Springs, ence to placing a higher estimate it at once, with the Brazillian and into my room before I had made my Ural Mountain formation and was toilet with amazement and delight be left for his home, and I heard no upon this portion of my life results depicted upon his ingenious face, more from him, until a few days ago, from old age, ( which is said to be astonished that so few diamonds had when J received the following letter : oblivious to recent and passing been found as they were the sure exclaiming "seewhat I have found," and certain con-committants of this at the same time holding out to me BIRMINGHAM, ENG., Nov. 1, 1877. events,) I do not know, but I do rock what seemed to be the fragment of MY DEAR SIR : I arrived at home know that the incidents of my boy- a white coral, but now muchdefaced safely, after leaving your pleasant hood and early manhood pass before We next Tisited some of the many locality some weeks ago. I have me as vividly as if they had occur- shoals, formed by the gneiss rock, and disfigured by exposure and time. "Oh!" said I, "acoral, you have mademy report of its manufactur- red but yesterday. I remember my intersecting at right angles, the ing and mining resources. to. the boyhood home, my boyhood sports, many beautiful and magnificent found evidences of the submergence of this locality." parties who sent me out, whichisso my boyhood strifes, sorrows. and streams, which flowin parallel direc- satisfactory that they are makmg troubles, with distinct vividness. tions through this country-the "No,"he eloquently replied, "this arrangementsto invest in these in- They are now passing before me, as Enoree, the Tyger, Fair Forest, is a primary formation of the Cam- uustries I congratulate you, and steadily and as connectedly as the Pacolet and Broad Rivers. At Moun brian period, and has not been un- the country upon the brilliant pros- rolling canvass of the panorama. tain Shoals, on the Enoree, there is .der the water since the fiat of the pects which are in store for you.. It I remember mymother, pale, fragile, a fall of seventy feet in a distance of Almighty Architect of the universe is possible that some length of time and sickly. I remember her death two hundred yards. At this point, went forth. Let the water under may elapse before these arrange- and burial, and the greatest sorrow the gneiss is much contorted, and af- the Heaven be gathered together in ments are consummated, and it is of my life. I remember my brother, fords a natural dam Prof. Tourney, one place, and the dry land appear, highly probable that I may see you myeldest and only brother, who in- in speaking of it says: "It iis an ex- and so it was. No, this pieceof again the next seas_on. Inthe mean he.cited the constitution, but not the ceedingly beautiful spot, standingon coral wasbrought from the sea cost. time, however, as [ promised, I send temper and disposition of our moth- one of the little islets at the foot of by the Indiansand 'thereby hangs a you the manuscript of the adven- er. He was weak in constitution the falls, and looking upward, the tale' which is now being dimly tures of my great-grand-father, m and petulant, irascible and exacting noble river is seen as if emerging brought to mind. When I was a your region of country in 1760 in his temper. He was not lovable, from an arcade of green foliage, now boy, I was much devoted to reading, Having seen many of the places yet, I loved him. His weak and foaming and sparkling in the sun- and in my father's library were which be describes in his narrative, delicate constitution prevented him 6 THE LOSTAMULET THE LOST AMULET 7 from being sent from home to warriors (returning from assisting nest.a, a favorite chief with the burning with fury. When we ar- school, while I, being rather more the English in Canada by the whites Corane the raven, Sinnawa, rived at the Congaree, the lndians able andstout, was sent off, so we people of Virginia, as they were the hawk's head. OwastaYorhalehe, were made prisoners, and put under spent but little of our boyhood and passing through that Province Yahoma of Keowee, and Canachugh a captain"s guard. My sense of manhood together. After my school After they bad been making war for the head beloved Medicine man, right as well as of expediency, was days were over, I came back to our the whites, they regarded this as a whose striking appearance rivited shocked by this course of the Gov- home, fully resolved to offer all the great wrong, and being unable or my attention at once, and who will ernor.and I was irresistably drawn to tenderness of my heart to my suffer- unwilling to discriminate, they were be one of the chief personages of them. The manner, appearance and ing brother, I did so, but it was not revengingthemselves on the people this narrative. The conference was bearing of Canacugh, the great med- accepted in the spirit in which it was of South Carolina. Alreadv num- opened by the Governor in a rude icine man, attracted me more than offered. Onone occasion, he spuru- bers of families, men, women and and dictatorial manner. He stated any one of the others. He was an ed my offer and charged me with children had been massacred in the to the Indians that he was aware of old man, and straight as an arrow. hypocracy, with secretly desiring bis most revolting manner, and the fort all the acts of hostility of which He was attired with remarkable death that I might inherit from our itself was most seriously threatened their people had been guilty and care and taste. His only appear- father his estate. I had never The commandant seemed to have no likewise those which theywere con- ance of ornament was a small buck thought of such an idea and was doubt that a terrible Indian war templating. enumerating some of skin pouch suspended upou bis left immeasurably shocked. But how was brewing. Governor Lyttleton them, and added that he would soon breast,and ornamented with tastily strange and mysterious arethe work- had ordered all the troops under be in their country with his army, assortedbeads, and gold trinkets in ings of the human heart. The un- his command to rendezvous at the when he would let them know his the most exquisite manner, and natural thought took root in my Congaree. The more peaceable and commands, and the satisfaction which seemed to contain some un- mind, and I reasoned why should rightminded of the Indians, hear- which he required, and which he yielding substance about the size of one brother inherit the wealth, ing of these preparations, and de- would certainly take, if it was re- one's hand. Canachugh seemed to titles and position of the common precating the conduct of their more fused. As they bad come to Char- have attracted also the notice of the father, and the other be cast off to furious warriors were anxious, if leston to treat with him, they might soldiers, or more probably the beau- make his fortune as he could? I possible, to avert a war, and thirty go home in safety, and not a hair of tiful ornament which he wore, and was shocked that it had entered my or more of their chiefs and wise men, their beads should be touched, but many were the surmises as t o its mind, but I could not banish it. It beaded by Attakullakulla, the chief as he bad many warriors in arms in contents. Many inquiries were had effected a lodgement there. l of all the Cherokees, bad just arriv- different parts of the province, he made with regard to it . but he had just arrived at my majority. ed in ( harleston to have a council. would not be answerable for what treated them all with sublime in- Being the youngest child, my Being upou intimate terms with the should happen to them, unless they difference. mother had bequeathed to me her Governor and bis household, I was kept with him. After this speech little patrimony, and my father, who fortunately pe1 mitted to be present was endeed, Oconostota, who was Onthe first day's march from the was my trustee, had proffered to at this inter\'iew. They were the distinguished by the name of the Congaree, one of his guards, who turn it over to me. I resolved to first Indians I had ever seen. They great warrior of the Cherokees, be- could no louger repress his curiosi- accept it and leave Englaud forever. were dressedin buck skin lmnting gan to speak, but the Governor ty, stealthily stepping up behind shirts, leggings and moccasins, fan- rudely waved him back, declaring the medicine man; grasped the pen- My chum at Cambridge was Wil- cifully embroidered with beads, with that he would have no talk in vindi- dent pouch and adroitly lifted it liam Henry Lyttleton, the son of the nicely dressed buffalo robes thrown cation of his people, nor any pro- from his person. In the twinkling Governor of the Province of South over their shoulders, no two, how- posal with regard to peace. I saw of an eye, Canacbugh unsheathing Carolinaand since his return to his ever, b.eing decorated alike, but indignation fl.ash from the eyes of his scalping knife, turned around, home he had repeatedly invited me each in remarkable taste and well every chieftain in the chamber, and and was in the act of plunging it to visit him, and I resolved to do so, adapted to bis form. They were simultaneously drawing themselves iu the breast of the fool-hardv tress- little caring where I might go, so I all most remarkable, and in many to their full height, and wrapping passer. I was standing by the sol- left England. Bidding an affection- respects a noble looking set of men. their robes around them, one by one, dier when the assault was commit- ate farewell to my brother, whom I Tall, straight and athletic, and pos- they gracefully strode away lrom the ted, and realizing at once the danger never expected to see again I sailed sessing all the grace and ease of council chamber. in which be stood,grasping with one for the town of Charleston. Upon motion of the most accomplished hand the abstracted pouch, and with my arrival I found the place all astir courtiers. Even at this length of A few days after the conference, the other burling him beyond the with military preparations. A. mes- time, I remember distinctly their the Governor set out for th e Con- reach of the medicine man's gleam- senger had just reached the Govern- appearance, and can recall some of garee, his place of rendesvous, and ing knife, I held out to him his am- er from the commandant of Fort. at his request I gladly accompanied ulet and said : "Let the medicine their beautiful and euphonious Prince George, in the Cherokee him. With the command of the man think. ' In a moment his knife nation, that the Indians were en- names. 'rbere were A.ttakullakulla, Governor the Cherokees marched, was sheathed, and with a look of raged by the killing of some of their the great chief, Oconostota, Skiag- apparently contented, but in fact the tenderest affection, he accepted 8 THE LOST AMULET. THE LOST AMULET. 9 the pouch from my bands, and ernor had so rudely treated at the stotastanding with a bridle in his warn I saw from the preparations placed it again upon his breast. conference in Charleston, and (at hand, apparently composed, and un· they were making that I was to be After this the closest intimacy my solicitation,) Canachugh, the ooncemed. Some colloquy t ook subjected to the torture. The young sprang up between us which con- medicine man. When they were place between the Indian and the Indians all had their bows, and the tinued until bis death. leaving I approached Canachugh who oommandant, about the former going squaws ligaments for binding me. I with the intuition of the Indian, re- to Charlestown to intercede for the was taken out of the lodge and se- From the Congaree, our route lay cognized the agency which I had in liberation of the imprisoned curelv bound to a tree T he Indians through the most beautiful country procuring his freedom. Upon his chiefs, Occonostota asking for then ;.epaired to a point, some twen- I had ever seen- a country whose departure he took my profered hand this purpose a horse and a ty or thirty yards distant, and were landscape was neither rugged with and said: guide. As the commandant was re- preparing their bows and arrows for mountains, nor monotonously tame "While fire burns or water runs, plying to him. Occonostota rapidly the sport. I felt that I was at with unbroken plains, but a succes- Canachugh will be the friend of his whirled the bridle around his head, death's door and the incidents of my sion of elevated ranges, undulating pale face son, he has now no one to and at that signal the Indians de- life were passing in review before hills and flowery vales. From the love but him." livered a murderous fire from the me. I, however, had but little time Congaree, it was a successinn of to think before an arrow came At the time, 1 did not realize the ambuscade. All the party fell to war-like hills, and beautiful valleys, theground. I was wounded, but at whistling towards me, and was bur- and as we approached Fort P rince strengthof his attachment, nor did ied in the tree a littl e above my I suppose that I wo_uld ever need bis once regained an erect position, and George the bills rose up to towering stood paralyzed more from astonish- head. Then another , and another, mountains, whose blue tops, like friendship. ment than fear. While thus stand- and another, all missing me but by giant embattlements against the After this hastily patched up treaty ing two Indians from the ambuscade a hair's breadth, and exciting among northern sky, imparting at a glance of peace, Gov. Lylleton marched his advanced rapidly upon me, seized the young marksmen the greatest ' the lesson of the geologists, that army back to their homes. Desiring me and hurried me off while others hilarity and sport. At this moment some mighty eruption of nature had to see more of frontier life, I remain· were scalping my prostrate compan- I saw approaching us a tall and elevated this romantic region, ed in the fort, little dreaming of any ions. comQlanding looking Indian, and and had drive11 the incumbent adventure of more importance than My captors pl'Oceeded with me heard him give some authoritative waters far to the South to occupy ordinai.'y fort life. No sooner, how- command to the party engaged in ever, was the army well out of bear- with a rapidity which defied pursuit. their present bed. Without further As we went along I heard the drums my torture. T hey at once desisted, incident, in a few days march ing, than the indications were, that of the fort, and an occasional volley and as he came nearer I recognized through this wonderful region, we the Indians were far from being sat- of fire arms, but knew nothing of Canachugb, the medicine man. H e reached F ort Prince George on t he isfied with the terms of the peace, came to the tree where I was bound, which Attakullakulla had made, the result It was in the afternoon Keoweea tributary of the Isagunda, when we were attacked, a little while cut the thongs, and I felt that I was or Savannah River. When we ar- which was that, twenty-six of their before the setting of the sun I was safe. He immediately led me to his rived at the fort, the I ndians were warriors should be delivered up for wigwam, bound up my wound, punishment, instead of the impris- carried in a northeasterly direction, shut up in a hut, scarcely sufficient and as night fell upon us I saw by placed me upon a pallet of buffalo for the accommodation of six sol - oned chiefs The Indians soon sow the moon and the stars that we were robes. He spoke and understood diers, and securely guarded. Upon that they could make no ·impression atill going in the same direction, the E nglish language, with tolera- bis arrival, the Governor at once upon the fort by direct assault, and, ble facility, and I soon made him ac- t herefore, resorted to this strategem. and we continued in the same course fonnd that be had not only been until the night was far advanced. quainted with the circumstances of impolitic in his conduct towards the Occonnostota, one of the liberated Not a word was spoken by my cap- my capture. H e deprecated them, Indians, but too hurried in his prep- chiefs, placed in a secluded thicket and predicted a terrible war. Dur- on the banks of the Keowee, an am· tors or myself. La'te in the night, arations for the campaign. 'I'be I saw before us the glimmering of ing the day the Indians returned buscade, and sent a well known In- army was not only poorly armed lights, and heard the barking of from the fort with the scalps of my and disciplined, but was disconten- dian to the fort to request the com· dogs, and I knew that we were ap- slain companions, and were received ted and mutinous, and he saw that mandant to meet him, represe11ting proaching some human habitation. with the greatest exultation. A the only course left him was to make be had important intelligence to To me it was an inexpressible relief, council of war was held al'Ound the the terms which, at Charleston, he communicate. When the messenger as I was sick and sore. As I ex- fire in the centre of the village, which reached the fort, I was presentin had refused. He therefore sent for pected, we directlycame to an Indian seemed io be, as well as I could Attakullakulla, and proposed terms the quarters of the captain, when village. I was hurried into a wig- gather from the lodge ia which I was which he accepted, and released him he sent back his reply that be would wam scarcely bound, and as improb- placed, all for war. The scalps were with several of his chiefs and wise meet him. Summouiug those around able as it may seem, we soon were in elevated. in their midst and the war- men, to assist in carrying out the him consisting of myself and a profoundq slumber. riors and squaws were dancing terms which they had made, among two or three of bis officers we went them was Occonostota, the powerful at once to the point designated. As In the morning I was awoke by around them with the greatest exul and influentialchief, which the Gov- we neared the spot, we saw Occon- the young Indians around the wig- tation. I again trembled for my IO THE LOSTAMULET. THE LOST AMULET. 11 safety, but I was assnred again by he sat down by me and said no lead."' He then threw over me an- out a ham of dried venison, and from the medicine man that he would be but I saw the workings of a migb additiona\ buffalo robe, and laid him. another, some dried corn, and rapid- my friend as "long as water runs or spirit within him. self downn upon his own couch to ly kindling a fire with two flints and fire burns." He assured me that his Of his friendship and protection, sleep some rotten wood, called spunck, we lodge was a sacred place, and could could not doubt, but was utterly In the darkness of the night, I soon bad a most savory and refresh- not be invaded even by the chief of able to understand. I had d was aroused from a most refreshing ing meal. Before letting me eat, all the nation. From the wound nothing which may be calculated sleepby the stealthy touch of Cana- however, be brought some water which I had received, and the excite- produce much devotion, and yet chugh, "arise my son,' said .he, "the from the spring in a cup made ment through which I had passed, a bad had the . most substantial moon has nid her face, the lights of from a large green leaf, croupled up fever ensued and for days and days dences of its reality. He had alre all the lodges are ollt, and it is time to bold it, and drawing from a pouch I knew nothing more. given me the most signal proofs for us to be on our journey." Rob- a white looking powder, dropped a When I awoke to consciousness, his regard, and 1 saw be intended ing me, and lifting me up as easily little of it in the improvised cup, Canachugh was sitting by my bed- give me others. Strong and un . and tenderly as an infant, he placed (and which be continued to repeat side gazing upon me witha look tivated _minds often ca.rry t.h. me on a little pony standing at the before each meal) until we arrived at of the most intense mterest and fnendsh1ps as well as their enmtti door of his lodge, and we stole away our destination, and bade me drink. affection. H e saw at once that con- to an astonishing pitch and in while all the vilfa()'e was in a profound With the most implicit reliance I quaf- sciousness had returned and he re- case of Canachugh, be had alr slumber We continuedthe journey fed it down. After our breakfast, marked : surpassed civilization itself in silently and stealthily along a beaten Canach.ugh made me down a pallet of buffalo robes, and l was soon asleep. "My son, the pale face, has been practice of the most self-dein trail (which seemed to be wellnown When I awoke, the sun was high up near the land of spirits." and noblest duties of the fne to Canachugb) without noise or inci- in the.heavens, and Canachugb said: I was too weak to reply, but to Rousing himself from the reverie_i dent, except the bowling of wolves. show him my g ratitude, reached out to which be had fallen, and looki which made night hideous. Iu Cana- "My pale face son sleeps well, we my hand, which he gently pressed intently into my face he said: chngh, they excited no alarm. Up- can now continue our journey." . and said : The white man and the red on my asking him what they were, Loading up Chotie again, and plac- "Canacaugh wauts his son to have both angered the Great ~piri he simply replied, Wolf! Mus.ogee ing me upon his broad back, we took sleep." my son, and I will take you deep· Coward! As the sun was nsrng, we up the line of our march, Canachugh And I closed my eyes as if in gen- the woods where you and I can com- were ascending a high bill and when in the front, and Chotie and I con- tleslumber. Canacaugh supposing mune with each other alone. I know we re .. ched the top, there burst upon veniently behind. As we went along, mesleeping, gently stole away from a spot where vour health a our view one of the most beautiful I noticed that the little streams we the lodge and in a short time re- strength, now greatly broken, and sublime prospects which I had crossed were running in an opposite turned with a bowl of the most deli- be regained, and a medicine con- ever seen. A.way off in the north, direction from those at the fort. and cious and nourishing liquid that I tained in a bubbling spring, which the blue top of the distant mountains I knew that we bad crossed the water ever had tasted. He then gave me will infuse new life into your emaci- gleamed in the sun, being yet cover- shed of two important streams, and a running account of the occurrences ated frame, which no pale face ed here and there with snow, and in I asked Canachugh what river was which had taken place since my cap- ever seen, but which I will disco the foreground there loomed up a before us, and he said the Saluta, ture. He told me, to my inepressi- to you. In the distant future I "'Toweriog cliff whose awful form," which I recognized as the Saluda of Rose midway the sky to ineet the storm." ble horror and detestation, that all the .,time when the pale faces will the Provincial maps. In the after- the chiefs confined in the fort had crowd it with their sick. It is a We involuntarily stopped, and noon we reached this beautiful been unhumanly butchered, and their wonderful spring, and is far away gazed upon the scene, with admira- streamand we rested again, and for bodies cast out to be snrfeited upon .towards the rising sun, and placing tion and delight. As we descended the night, on its banks. Upon our by the birds and beasts of prey, and his band upon the beautiful pouch the hill we came to a bubbling spring. arrival, Canachugh arranged me as drawing himself up to bis full height hanging upon hisleft breast, he con at its base, and then for the first time be had done in the morning, turning remarked: tinued, "andis associated in my mind since we leit the village, we rested. out C botie to nip the succulent "The anger of the Great Spirit with the Joss of a daughter, the love- Little Chotie, on which I rode, was grass, upon its banks. Canachugb, will fall heavily upon the murderers ly Enoree, the Muscadineand no a wonderful pack horse. After help- then took up bis bow and quiver, of my people." I could make no re- ing butthe finding of a son, and his ing me off, and laying me down upon andwent down the stream a little ply, as my thoughts were in unison restoration to health, can reconcile the young grass, l anachugh com- distance to a broad and shallow shoal with his own. me to seeing it again. We will start menced unloading Chotie. First and soon came back with two of the "I have tried," said he, "tobe the at the going down of the moon, and came buffalo robes, then deer skin most beautiful fish I ever saw, they white man's friend,. but he will not before the rising of five suns, we will sacks then implements of cooking were about eighteen inches long and let me." drink its healing waters." and soforths until he bad almost weighing several pounds. With the "Looking him in the face, I said, "Canachug h," J replied, deposited a wagon load. From skill of an accomplished cook they "C'anacaugh, I am your friend .. , And low you wherever your footsteps may one of the many sacks be brought were soon broiling upon the coals, 12 THE LOST AMULET. THE LOST AMULET. 13 and sending out the most delicious down as we could see it was f thoroughly and completely restored, and appetising odor. Drawing from. tooned with clamberingvmes, and even from the maladv which I had his pouch, a white compactsubstance it rolled and frolicked. and danced inherited from my mother, the watch- which proved to be the dried breast over a series of beautifulcascades ful care of Canachugh over me was of the wild turkey, for bread, we and as the spray which was thro medicine man watched the not so necessary, and he imparted to made our evening meal. After we up glistened in the rays of the d progress of my cure with the most me his intention to go back to the had eaten I could not resist the curi- ing sun, I thought I had never intense interest and satisfaction. frontier of his people to learn their osity to go with Canachugh to the anything so beautiful, and r · · Day by day the same curative agency fate. Accordingly Chotie was again shoals, where he had taken the fish, my hands with speechless ad ' was employed, and day by day my brought into requisition, and he and there I saw schools of thousands, tion and delight, Canachugh health and vigorwas being restored turned bis face to the west, bidding gamboling and sporting in the limpid claimed "theEn.oree, ., .and rela It was not long until my health me an affectionate farewell and prom - water and gleamingsunshine. _Cana- intoa reverie which Idid not ua permitted me to go with Canuchugh ising to return by the full of the chugh informed me that at this sea- stand, and from which I dared upon bunting expeditions and to as- moon, which was just visible in its son of the year, the fish came up the arouse him : and which lasted un sisthim in planting and cultivating crescent shape in the west. large streams and their tributaries we arrived at our destination. Late a smallparcel of ground (which had for spawning and at the falling of in the evening of the succe been cleared at some former time) in The time of his absence hung the leaves the' little fry went down day, after crossi.ng the Enoree, o maize. a kind of corn onl y known to heavily upon my hands. I was in to the sea until the next spawning trail led us across other w the Indians, and pumpkins and the midst of a most profound and season. With his bow and arrow, courses until we arrived at ano squashes This patch afforded us impressive solitude. I did not know he secured enough for our morning water shed, and here upon a com- abundant vegetables and the fish and but that 1 was the only human being meal, and we returned to our camp. manding eminence, fromwhich could wild game supplied us with meat. in this vast and extensive territory.· be seen miles and miles of und We had seen no one else since we The day wasa counterpart of the ting hills, stretching off towards t In one of our hunting excursions arrived. I longed for. the full of the rest of om: JOUrney. The country sou.th and east, with the beautifo Canachugb carried me to a hill some moon, and watched its every phase. throughwhich. we passedwasbeau- blue tops of the distant mountains few miles east of the medicine spring, About the time it was to occur I tifullyundulating . The Indian.s for bordering the northern view. was the where there was a vein of quartz took my bow and arrow, having by observations were m the habit of lodge of Canachugh. the great med- rock, protruding through the slate this time become expert in its use, burnmg off the leavesand but little icine man of the Ch.erokees. Ith on the side of the hill, with frag- and followed its trail to the west, undergrowth. survivedthese periodi- been previously an extensive viii ments scattered along the course of hoping to meet my friend and father calfires, but m its placethere was a but as the Indians bad gradu the vein, and upon breaking some of at the Enoree, the only crossing wilderness of perenmal grasses. In t rd only one todge place. When l got to the river he . l t t th 'Id b k gone wes wa ' . &hese we picked out some particles of t hissucculenten pas u.re e wild uc - habitable, and that was the lodge pure gold, which seemed to be abun- was not t here, and being tired and and his doe would fht across the path C ·h h Upon our· arrival our fatigued, I laid down on a beautiful with· "t ·t t th anac ug · dant, but which would require more w1 impunityy, as it was no e sea- vade mecum little Chotie, was un- machinery than we could improvise tuft of grass under a spreading tree, son for killmg them .. Then we would packed, the lodge somewhat re · to extract it. But it satisfied me as near the ford of the ri\'er, and fell come across,_ ma . d.g mficent flockI to f an d our. p Iun de. r stowed awavv , to the source of the many trinkets fast asleep. How long I slept I did wild. t urkeys m igenous alone ~ne o then Canachugh led me down andoroaments of gold which adorned not know, but I was awakened by this new world Then agam, we hill to the spring, which bubbled u the dusky maidens and warriors of the sharp crack of a rifle, and the wouldsee rovingbefore us or on our at its base and bade me drink. Ris- the t.ribe. falling of a heavy body almost di- rightor left immense herds of buffa- · f mbent positi'oa rectly upon me, and was startled to . · · f d ingup .rom my recu 1 l oes. The meddicine man m orme be bade me drink again. He then Thus our time quietly and peace- see a full grown American lion. or me that this region of country, unbound my inflamed and festering fully glided away. Canacbugh would panther, the terror ol these woods. stretchmg _down to the Congaree wound and bathed it with the cool often tell me of marvelous Indian As soon as Isaw the danger through was a huntingground for the Chero- and sparkling water. He t exploits, and I in my turn would re- which I bad passed, I knew my de- kees, Catawba.s and the Muskogees. scooped up from the little branch count to him the splendors and more liverer could only be Canachugh, I asked now if it was n.o t also the w hic" h ran f rom the springa d peaceful pursuits of civilized life. It and I saw him approaching me battle ground of these tribes, andhe colored and sulphurous odored de- was, however. a mystery to me that trembling wit.h emotion. told me that some. of the fiercest osit and bound it upon my wound. he never referred to bis own history, As he came he said : and the most sungmnary battles had He then bade me drink again, and I would not press an inquiry "There is danger when the pale occurred here. . we started to the lodge at the top o which be seemed to avoid. As the face sleeps." On the evenmg of the fourth day the. hill. From the water which I Autumn was closing and that beau- we arrived upon the banks of one of . . tiful .season known in the province Of course J was overjoyed to see the most beautiful streams which we bad drunk, or the exertion which I as the Indian Summer was approach- him. bad yet crossed. As far up and had made in reaching the hill top, a ing, and as my health had become Jn a rapid way he narrated to me 14 THE LOST AMULET. THE LOST Al\IULET• 15

the news which he had gathered. our meal, and Canachugh had the lodge for the frontier, and I and which I want buried with me, Warwas then raging between the his pipe with tobacco, with which only waiting for the Great Spirit but I cast as far as I could send it, whites and the Cherokees. and the had supplied himself on bis visit take me away. But I was still rest- the arrow of the Muskogee, wolf, latter had been driven far towards the frontier, and which is a n and yearned to see my home coward, robber. and my heart was the west. failing source of comfort to the · and when I arrived at the place barren until I found my pale face We then turned up the stream, dian as well as to the white man, ree, my Jost child, was quietly son .., gathering as we went the luscious resumed the conversation. . tchingfor me I was overpowered Canachugh then relapsed into his fell upon her neck. The Great fruit hanging from the luxuriant "Enoree," said he, "was a gr accustomed reverie. Not wishing 't had guided m ':l She was vines. Canachugh stopped and mur- comfort to me after the death of to disturb him, I stole away and mured, Enoree ! Enoree ! in thethe ten· · ted and pale, and trembled wrapping my robe around me sur- mother. She assisted me in the emotion, and was well nigh derest and most plaintive tones. der and arrangement of my I rendered myself to sleep. In the ''The vines which you see." said he, me, and for a long time morning I was aroused by him. He and the preparation of my medi in ered between life and death, "now hanging with brawn and pur- She was my constant companion looked as if though he had not closed ple fruit, was once the delight of my the Great Spirit restoretl her, his eyes, but he said: and often have we traveled the I was happy a2ain. I did not life. Many years ago l had a lodge which I have just followed. ;'Let Canachugh show his pale upon this beautiful stream. My wife, her, nor did she allude to her face son the grave of his . mother. . , summers ago we were at the I ee, I was too happy she had re- who was then alive, and my little and at the medicine spring I He then lead me to a mound of daughter, whom I named Enoree, • But my happiness did not stones near bv, and after we had her now," said he, intently gazing long. When four moons had the muscadine, were living with me. the volume of curling smoke rising· with conjugal·and filial reverence, My wife sickened and died, I moved e and gone, and when the leaves placed upon it some additional stones, from his pipe, "busying herself u falling like the mist of the with my little Enoree back upon the my departure on a short hunting we silently left, to make preparation hills, where my lodge now is. She y morning she melted away again for continuing our journey. cursion. I took leave of her tender I could not tell where she bad grew up to be as agile and as grace- and dived into the woods where When we reached the lodge, we ful as the fawn, and as luscious and e until I discovered in the lodge had seen a noble buck grazing u beautiful amulet, which I have found that I had not been provident as sweet as the full ripe muscadine a neighboring hill. He was as in securing game as Canachugh had My happiness was again restored. I since worn next to my heart. ning as a Muskogee, and it was eyes but mine have everseen been in the custom of doing, and had found a secret for health in the long time before I could get · earley the next morning he went medicine spring which had restored sinceit was found, but l will show Finally I was successful, but I the pale face brother the frozen down to the spring where the deer it to you. Shortly after I had found gone longer than I intended. plac were in the habit of resorting, to the spring' I accidentally discovered of his lost sister," at the same ing him on my shoulder i started e holding out to me the pouch slake their thirst, and where many that by boiling down the water a the lodge, and when I got there an antlered buck had fallen at his deposit was left. It was a white had so constantly worn. I took ree could nowhere be found. from his hand and opened it, it hands. He soon met with an oppor- powder. I tasted it, and it tasted called for her, but no answer tunity. A magnificent monarch like the water. I tried it and it a beautiful piece of white coral, back, but the howl of the cowa in its whiteness· and purity it stealthily approached the spriag. I acted like a charm. I had found the wolf, Muskogee Then night heard the sharp crack of the rifle life of the water. With my tribe I ! ed, indeed, like the congealed but no Enoree, and in all probabilf th of innocence. Handing it and on going to the place saw in the became a great. medicine man. In I had lost the opportunity of find' distance a struggle between the In- all cases of sickness among my peo- k to him to replace it upon its her. I did not know whether ting place he resumed his narra- dian and the deer. He was only ple the medicine of Canachugh was wounded, but Canachugh had left his a specific." had gone towards the rising or e. setting of the sun. and I could hunting knife, and could only worry "But," said he, "I will take you to nothing until morning. Long bef "Ifound it," said he, ''in the mid- without dispatching the buck. It my old lodge near by and will relate the sun was up I arose and c of the lodge, upon it was an was a terrific struggle. When at to you that portion of my history menced the search at the door of ow head of the Muskogee! wolf! bay, the buck is no mean antagonist, which I have never referred, even to lodge, circling around it, ma · ! robber! and a full ripe mus- and it called into play all the you.'· each circle wider and wider until . e. I read the history as clearly strength and agility of the Indian. Leading me along the banks of the had passed over every foot of t the white man can the letters up- At length I came to his assistance stream, we soon came to a gentle ground. I continued the search n his paper. Enoree had gone to and we dispatched him, and Cana- eminence, which bore marks of an til the evening star appeared, Muskogees, wolves, cowards, chugh placed him upon his shoul- ancient lodge now entirely gone. At then hope died within me. I loo bbers. She had deserted her ders and carried him to the lodge. the foot of the hill there burst out upon my Enoree as lost, and I i try and her tribe. My child As he threw him down upon the from the rocks a bold and pleasant as if I were an old tree which forever lost to me. r searched ground I saw that the beautiful amu- spring, and we made preparations clinging vine had supported and her no more I kept this trinket let which he had so constantly worn for the night. After we had taken held and was now ready to fall ut me as the life of my daughter, and of which he had given me the THE LOST AMULET. '.rHE LOST AMULET. 17 history was gone. I said to him: dle of the lodge, with a bright r mity, but the same old story of the his way with a party of Muskogees "My father bas lost his amulet glowing from -the rekindling of one wooing and the other repelling to their nation, and I heard from him smouldering fire. The vision had fled pointing to the place where 1t bad occurred between them. It was over no more. LANCASTER. hung. He placed his hands upon but he could sleep no more." againthe case of Hunchback and his bis breast to satisfy himself that it Said be "We must go to eousin Annie, abhorrence, tolerance In the year 1837, the present im- was gone, and immediately started edge of the sea, and we will meet and love, a sequence not uncommon provements at Glenn Springs were to the theatre of the struggle with our Enoree.. , orunnatural. commenced, and in the next year the deer, but failed to find it. The His-impressions were so strong "Viceis a monster of so frightful mien, this celebrated watering. place was deer demanding our attention, we re and being myself nothing ave Asto be hated, needs butto be seen, thrown open to the public, and hun- Yetseen too oft, we becornP familiar with her face turned to the lodge, and after dress- to mingling again in civilized life, Wefirstendure, then pitty, then embrace." dreds and hundreds have availed ing it and placing its hams over a themselves of its healing waters, threw no obstacle in his way. Pack- This was the consumation. But fire to dry, we again resumed our iog up ( hotie again, we commenced thus fulfilling the predictions of search for the lost treasure, but the our march, and in due time withoout after a time Enoree sickened and Canachugh, the medicine man of the pined to see her home, and • drink leaves were rapidly falling, and every accident apart from the new preceding narrative. moment lessened the chanches of its from the spring of her childhood. wonderful country through which we Osceolaaccompanied her as far as he During the time of. the busy hum recovery. As night approached we passed, we reached the town . of preparation at Glenn Springs. a returned ·again to the lodge dared, and making promises to meet Charlestown. There I found atthe high shoals on the Enoree at frightful Indian war was raging in In the morning Canachugh waked patches awaiting me which inform the full moon, when· the leaves were Florida. A brave and gallant Indian me up from my sleep and said : "Can- me that my father and brother Chief had defied all the efforts of the both dead, and that my affairs falling, be left her to find her way to achugh bas had a vision. ' native lodge. The subsequent government of the United States to manded attention, answers to which her "He thought he was at the door eventsCanachugh bas detailed. remove his little band beyond the bad been returned that I was sup- Mississippi. He resolved not to of bis lodge, lookingoff towards the posed to be deador in the bands of And now I have but little else to leave the graves of his fathers. Af- Muskogee country. Everything the savages. No time, therefore. I. We reached England after a ter all efforts bad been exhausted the looked as black as night Gradually was to be lost, and while I was con- arming voyage. I built a lodge officer in command sent to the chief a ray of light appeared in the direc- sidering what I should do, Cana; my Indians in the deep recesses a flag of truce to summon him to a tion in which he was looking. be- It chugh burst into my apartmentlead. or a beautiful park on my estate, as conference. He .met the United came brighter and brighter, while ing by the hand a most beautifulIn their mode of life required. In the States by its officers in council, un- on each side the darkness appeared dian woman, and she, a little ln course of time both Eooree and Os- der a flag of truce, and while under the more profound. Far down in boy, apparently about three or four ceoladied, leaving Canachugh and its folds he was most treacherously this vista he could see tho trees and years of age, and behind them hisgrand-son Osceola all alone. As captured and sent to Fort Moultrie the hill tops gradually becoming was a noble looking Muskogee, time passed the Great Spirit sum- in Charleston harbor, and there con- more distinct, but as they became husband. moned the medicine man, and when fined. His proud spirit chafed at plain they seemed to melt away as saw that his end was nigh, he The thought flashed into my m' he this treachery and confinement, and others far in advance came into view called Osceola to his bedside, and it wore his life away. to melt away in their turn until he that they shorild go with me to E wavingall others from the lodge, be lancl. 1 broke it to Canachugh, could see far away in the distance wasalone with him for a long time, Near a sally port in·the rear of the the edge of the sea. He looked with after some conference with his new and when he left him his great spirit fort is a simple marble slab enclosed wandering and admiringgaze on this found family, it was agreed to, and in departed. What occurred be- with a neat iron railing, bearing the a short time we all, with little (' hoti bad strange vision, and it seemed as if he tween the two ·no one ever knew, but following inscription, which the read- could even bear the roar of the ocean. were on the bosom of the ocean from the restless desire of Osceola ers of this narrative will recognize While he was looking he saw a wo- our way to the old world. to return to the new world I sup- as a tribute to Osceola, the great- man standing upon the edge of the During the voyage I learned posed this was the subject of their grand-son of Canachugh, the great sea looking far away intoits bosom. the Indians that Osceola. her h eooference. Failing to prevail upon medicine man of the Cherokees. He She then turned suddenly around, band. had captured her in one of his Osceola to remain in England and is the patriot warrior whose remains faciug the vista through which he marauding expeditions among the adopt the habits of civilization, I are thus marked : was looking, and he recognized the Cherokees and being so profoun ed him with arms and other neces- OSCEOLA; form and features of his lost Enoree. impressed with her beauty and lo sitiesof Indian life, and presenting The recognition was mutual, and liness, resolved if possible to m him with Chotie sent them to PATRIOT AND WARRIOR, holding up in one of her hands the her his wife. Escaping all d Charlestown. When the vessel re- DIED AT FORT MOULTRIE lost coral, with the other she beck- of recapture be carried her to his turned my correspondent informed oned him to her, and in bis struggle tribe and his home on the coast me that in a few hours after Osceola January 30th, 1838. to go he was awakened and found Florida. He had to contend again reached the city he dropped the ha- himself standing upright in the mid- prejudice of tribe, and hereditary 'ments of civilized life and was on ( THE END.) THE HIGH APPRECIATION OF NATURAL MINERAL WATERS --BY THE-- HISTORY - OF- MEDICAL PROFESSION. GLENN SPRINGS FROM ITS DISCOVERY ;

Wit!t P ersonal Sketches of its Habitues. To show the high appreciation of mineral waters by the medical profes· sion, we copy from the Congressional Record an extract from a petition for the free transportation of natural mineral waters, signed by Dr. Gross, BY MRS. T. SUMTER MEANS. Dr. Toner, Dr. Bowditch, and 920 other physicians of the country. "The cygnet finds the water, but the man " During the last few years the attention of the medical profession m gen· Is born in ignorance of his element, eralhas been directed to the examination of natural mineral waters, and it And feels out blind at first, disorganized Bysin i' the blood,-his spirit-insight dulled has been universally recognized that they are extremely valuable and in And crossed by his sensations. Presently many cases necessary as medicinal agents. He feelsit quicken in the dark sometimes; Then mark, be reverent, be obedicnt,- "For it is well k nown that artificial mineral waters do not answer the For such dumb motions of imperfect life same purpose as the natural mineral waters. In support of this view we Are oracles of vital Deity Attesting the Hereafter." could bring many authorities, but we think it sufficient to quote Sir Henry It is an idea of some French writer that the constitution of Mineral Thompson, one of the leading medical men of England, who, in one of his Waters is analogous to that of the serum of the blood. Such a specu- lectures, says: lation is authorized, if not sustained by watching the reviving effects of "Youwill therefore readily understand how essential to our end it is to mineral waters on the human svstem. To draw a strict line of demarca- employ the natural mineral waters. since what are called 'artificial waters,' • between ordinary and mineral waters is scarcely possible. The ex- ..ssof mineral constituents or temperature are often so undefined, that however admirably prepared, are simply pharmaceutical products, and are it isis only by the therapeutic action, they can at all be classified. destitute of the very quality which distinguishes the remedies they are de The water of GLENN SPRINGS is as pronounced in its effects on the signed to imitate." body as that of any Spa in the United States, and the appropriate sphere ofthis water in the treatment of chronic diseases, and its tonic proper- ties in nervous prostration, &c., are thoroughly recognized by the Medi- .almen of SouthCarolina, and the adjoining States. Its local r eputation .as long been established, and, despite the fact of its lying far in the in! teriorof the State and off of the direct line of railroads, it is every year increasingin popularity and patronage. The late Dr. John Darby, in ·a 'vate letter written whilst he was Professor in the Univerity of New ork, said: Iuse it frequently in my private practice here, by sending specialorders for it. If it were on draught or in bottles in the city, as other · era! waters are, I would introduce it to general notice. In cert.ain dis- erders it is invaluable.'' Its therapeutic action in cases of dyspepsia, diabetes, gravel, infl.am a- tion of the bladder, dropsy, jaundice, ancemia after fevers, from enlarge- ment of the spleen, etc., chronic diarrhcea, diseases of the skin, nervous affectionsand a whole category of female complaints, is markedly benefi- • ; in mauy instances sufferers having been through the useof the wa- ter, restored to perfect health. The climate is good, the country undulating, and the county town of Spartanburg only twelve miles distant ; the State Asylum for Mutes and EPISCOPAL CHURCH, GLENN SPRINGS, S. C. Blind; the pretty gorge of Golightly Falls, are all pleasant drives to re- 1ieve the visit ;rs from monotony. PERSONAL SKETCHES, ETC. 21 20 PERSONAL SKETCHES, ETC. henefits received from its use. Those persons who are in the advanced stages of phthisic find the The tract of land, then comprising a tboqsand acres, on which the water fatal ; it accelerates the course of the disease by acting specifically ing is situated, was sold early in this century for three hundred dol- on the bowels, the patient becomes rapidly exhausted. Whenever a con- . An old Baptist preacher, Mr. Johnson, was considered, in getting firmed consumptive chances to visit GLENN's SPRING the proprietors ad- t price, to have made a fine sale. Somewhere between 1815-20 a Mr. vise them not to taste the water. es P. Means built a two-storied frame house on a hill near the mineral It has been an interesting task to trace the history of this spring back 'ng. Strange to say, part of this house is still in use. The water was to its discovery. The first settlers of this portion of the backwoods of fticiently known as a curative agency to create a demand for a boardmg South Carolina found the spot a quagmire, 'and known to the Indians as ae in the neighborhood. a.nd he ho.d at all times under his roof some a "deerlick." It was soon noticeable to them1 too, that thecows loved to 'tors using the water for their health's sake. Mr. Means sold the place browse around it, and lap the water that settled here and there amid the 1825-26 to Mr. John B. Glenn. The tract of land belonging to the black mud in little pools From the peculiar smell pervading the mud, ingwas now reduced"to less than five hundred acres for which he paid it came to be designated as the "Sulphur Swamp. ' ht hundred dollars. Up to this time it had been called "the This section then belonged to North Carolina, and was in Mecklenburg owder Spring," the odor of the water, from the presence of sulphur- county. For many years after the State lines were established it was hydrogen, being similar to that of water which had been used to wash known as the "New Acquisition." We find it constantly so called in the t a gun. Now, that its use bad grown into popular favor, Mr. Glenn Documentary History of the Revolution. Later on it took the name of ged his 'house. and opened a regular inn for the travelling pub- Ninety-Six District, but finally the quagmire fell into the lower edge of a He was a man much beloved bv all who knew him, and finally the county laid off and named Spartanburg. mineral spring took his name, andhas ever since been definitely known The curative qualities of the spot were revealed by a commonplace ac- GLENN'S SPRING. cident. During the Revolutionary war, from the unavoidable filth of The capacity of his hotel did not at all meet the demands of the public, camp life, scabbies, or as it is vulgarly termed, "the itch," was the plague d Mr. Glenn built a number of log cabins on the hillside, leading to of the rank and file of the American army. After the warthe irritating e spring, to rent to families. Gentlemen, from the adjoining districts, disease "stuck closer than a brother," and returning soldiers infected their permission, built cabins for their own use, and GLENN'S SPRING came families. A man living in the neighborhood of the "Sulphur Swamp,' 'with be the summer resort of many prominent up-country families. a round dozen "quivers in his bow," had every one broken out with scabbies Let us make a seeming digression, to say something of these people One day the cows did not come at milking time, one of the boys of o first hrought GLENN's SPRING into general and permanent populanty: this family going out to look them up, found them in the quagmire. In For many years the stamp of their individuality was recognizable on getting them out, he fell in, and came home covered up to the neck with the companywho congregated there. Among these early ltabitues of the black ill-smelling mud. It was a lucky :souse, for in a few days he GLENN's SPRING were the Sims and Sheltons, representative fox-hunting found himself entirely well of the hateful "itch The father must have squires such as Fielding painted. Farnandis and Norris. sparkling wits, been a man who thought, for he took the cue, marched the whole family evenif it was scimitar edged at times, its very brilliancy restored good up to the swamp for a mud bath, and the result was they were all heal- humor; Dr. Maurice A. Moore; a Sir Roger de Coverly, who clung to the ed. True, some of them, had to dip more than once, but finally all were ruffle-shirt and courtly bows of an old schoolgentleman;Gist Nuckolls, cured. Of course such good luck was told from one to another, and the Vlowney, Rogers, consecutively Representatives from the 1st district m place was resorted to by the country folks for miles around, and usedfor Congress; Williams of Laurens ; Rice of Union ; the Smiths and mud baths, by those affected with skin diseases Bobos of Spartanburg; Irvine of Greenville; Moorman,. Pierson A. long dry spell of weather in 1800, or thereabouts, dried up the "Sul- and Mc Lmore of Newberry, are the names of the first dnnkers of phur Swamp," and revealed at its edge a clear, running spring. Manyfree the "medicine waters. '-Shadows flit.ting acrossthe face of the camera, stone fountains were dried up at their sources, and a family living near soghost-like, we cannot print their pictures here. Enough to say : they the spring were glad to use the water. It had a queer taste, and curdled were men and women of the old Sou th. when soap was put in it, yet they felt assured that it was good to drink, It wasin the summer of 1835, that fifteen gentlemen, then at GLENN and soon grew to like the peculiar flavor belonging to it. Other Springs,conceived the idea of forming a stock company to buy the prop- water, after drinkingfrom the new spring, seemed to lack seasoning. It erty of Mr. Glenn, and to build a fine hotel. . . came to pass, therefore, even after the drought was broken, and other It was during also this year that Dr. McMahon, of UnionCounty, qmte a springs were convenient, the family would often prefer the water of this young man, fell into ill health. His father was a man of wealth, and the , spring. A dropsical old kinsman visited them, and it was suggested sonat once consulted the best physicians in tbe State. Finding himself that the queer tasting water might help him. Its action on kidneys growingsteadilyworse, he went to New York and Philadelphia, and had and skin was unmistakable, and in a few weeks he was convinced that the theopinion of the most eminent medical men in the Uaited States .All use of the water had benefitted him. He continued to drink it, until he gave the same diagnosis. His heart was incurably diseased, and they was restored to health. advised him to return home and accept the mev1table. His father, to From this, the first cure made by GLENN SPRINGS Water, until now, soothe the declining days of the young man, put servant, horses, and each year individual cases, have shown conclusively the recuperative carriageat his commaad The invalid went to Limestone Spring, then properties belonging lo it. And many sufferers gratefully acknowledge PERSONAL SKETCHES, ETC. 23 22 PERSONAL SKETCHES, ETC. 'l t th . some one ad vised him to go to first-rate people are naturally attracted to a health resort over which they a popular summer resort. Wh. ilst ere f . his case. The drowning preside. Their gentlemanly demeanor and honorable dealings compel Lhe GLENN 8PRING, and try the mineralwater for to GLENN SPRINGS, and be- respect of all who sojourn under their roof. In hurrying over the out- man catches at a straw; he wentimmeddiately tohe was more comfortable lines of the history of our Spa, we have omitted individual sketches, with- gan to drink the water In ten ays ed elta month he could walk several out which the story of the old watering place would be incomplete. than he had been inmonths.At tt el endhis father see his improvement, There were from the opening season of 1838 up to the war in 1860, hundred yards. He went . ome o e . d steadily drinking the water many men, frequenters of GLENN s SPRING, who made the history of South but returned in a short while,andremainedfelt himselfperfectly restored Carolina. ln ante bcllum day.s the constitution of the State did not allow for five mouths. At the en of . is .me doctor and continued its Chief Executive during his term of office to leave the State, and the to heatlh; he enteredon the active life ofa country doof the disease that Governor was glad to fix for several weeks each summer, and often for in this career until an advanced age,wi out death the whole season, his headquarters at GLENN'S SPRING. .Judges, U. S. had so seriously menaced himwithanearlythe idea of a stock company Senators and Representatives, congregated there, and some important It was this notable cure, w ic ormu d . 1836 under the name of decisions of the Supreme Court were written out in its precincts, and into a reality The charter wasobtained inA. Moore, President. They more than one State paperof importance drafted in the shadow of its walls. "THE GLENN s SPRING COMPANY; r. llars for the property, and at once Slowly walking up and down the campus, in the times of which we gave Mr. Glenn fifteen thousand 'fido t' lled for the best heart pme, speak, summer after summer.was to be seen the tall, wasted form of Chan- got a plan for a hotel. Thespecif ca ions cal cellor Harper, the beautiful integrity of whose private life adorned the post oak and poplar materials. office which be filled. Every one recognized Judge Harper as a truly "You have heard of the won.derful one-hoss shay' great man. His . legal opinions were quoted in English and European That was built in such a logicalway courts; and it was bis strong intellect that coined from the inalienable lt ran a hundred years to the day.' sovereignty of the States, the doctrine of, the right of secession. Calhoun It was on its plan that the GLENN·s SPRING HoTEr, was built. grasped the idea, and became the earnest apostle of the new political - "The strongest oak. creed, thereby forfeiting all hope of national honors. That couldn't he split, nor bent nor broke Col. William C. Preston, the silver-tongued orator, was a brother-in- The floor was just as strongas the sills ,. law of Harpers, and always a strong Union man After leaving the U. S. And the panels just as strong asthefloor. . Senate he was made President ofthe South Caroliana College. Healways The main body of the house was to be sixty feetquarethreestories spent a part of his summers at GLENN s SPRING. Heused to say, that in spite of his partiality for bis native Virginia, he was forced to admitthat and a half highceilings twelve andten feetf in height. Three wings, drawing-roomand no waters of the Old Dominion built uo bis broken down nerve force stories in height, fifty eet in. engt . a notable landscape gardener, as surely as the water of GLENN'S SPRING. ball-room, fifty feet eact. h I.. Murrayset out forest trees. The old was employed to lay ou t e groun s . dl that they were Judges But.ler, Huger, Cheves, DeSaussure, the Johnsons, both Chan- cellor and Judge, Elmore, Seabrook, Hayne, Laborde, Barnwell, Pickens, man laid nut. the moneyhalfthe company so y But the beautiful fain to stop him before e d. the cottages and walks. were 0 Neale, men of all shades of thought and l profession, came to drink and trees now growingin thecampusshading furniture was ordered from be healed. "Ah! gentlemen!" said Col Preston. "Think you not Ponce planted under his supervision au d rooms A fine meat and de Leon made a mistake in his bearings; had he come up higher he might New York for parlor, dunng-room and card I l . d The company have found here the waters for which he searched?'' astr cook was secured, and a stnng ban emplooye .h ld be io fine lt was in 1847 that the survivors of the Palmetto Regiment, heroes of determinedthat all the auspices of the establishment shouldshowed its Monterey and Resaca de la Palma, came to recruit from wounds and the style. July, 1838. ~he ne_w ~otel ~as Travelling was then done OD effects of the hardships of the Mexican War. Gladden, Eves, Cary appreciation bygiving a liberalpatronage.constantlyrolled up to the Styles, Brooks and others, carried off the honors, petted and admired by all; dirt rQa s; privatee s July August, and any civilian was thrown over mercilessly to give a dance to one of the door bringing loads ol visitorsto GLENN I:! PRING d d ' The season Mexican Volunteers. , , b h h was full and often c1ow e s , part of Septem er, t e ouse b enditureshad been too lavishtor pe- C ol. Brooksused to tell a good thing on himself. It occurred that however. was too shortandbt . e.penbrilliant social seasonsat the Spa, aarumer. We all know that invalids claim a sort of heroism from their cuniary success, an ah er al ou . 11 nighinsolvent, and the property was weakness, and the common ran of sick men, give them half a chance, the company found t emse veswe c- bn C Zimmerman. The will tell the minutiae of their case to any listener. C'ol. Brooks bought by Mr. Murph aud hisnephew' Mr. Johsuccesfulproprietor of said that he rode up to the Spring one day, a young man who stood by, latter gentlemanwas for yearsthe popularthen it has changed hands sprang forward, assisted him out of his carriage, helped him into the GLENN s SPRING · . . ht b the resent owners These gent!• pavilion, handed him water, and kindly remarked, "You seem very feeble, several times, until it was boug y P d b'J'ty in the manage- 11 nt of energy an a i 1 sir!" Somuch interest from a stranger opened the flood-gates, and Col. men have shown no sma . amouG . ' SPRING has fallen into their ha Brooks incontineotly entered on the history of his case. For a while a ment of the place, and, smce LENNs - ular and ple respectful sympathotic interest was lent, but the recital grew exhaustive. old standard as have done much to restoreitttho its and influentialfamily "--it, sir! youare used up generallyI' interjected the gentle stranger. summer resort. Belonging emse v 24 PERSONAL SKETCHES, ETC. PERSONAL SKETCHES, ETC. 25

The diagnosis was a trueone ; Col. Brooks b ought a summer place near A goodstringband discoursed music every evening for the accommo- the GLENN'S SPRING, and bis fragile form for years pointed the tale, when be told it Beneaththeshadowthe oakshearts werec...e:n...n...d.b. .il.ee.. No story is complete without a woman, and the annals of GLENN SPRINGS have two, Mrs. Bacon anrl Mrs. F amandis; any sketch of writ.e....rseu!.:;1.f effusionsa now and then Here are some verses the place would be very faulty were they not introduced. Mrs. Ba- con was the widow of Judge Longstreet's famous delineation Ned "THE NIGHT WHEN FIRST WE MET." Brace. In 1840 she was brought on a bed to GLENN SPRINGS. "0, wilt thou, when thou'rt far away When on life's stormy ocean tossed Her stomach was intolerant of all food, to such a degree was she reduced, WheAt thineth own hp eaceful, beauteous home Wh en a 11 isis dark a nd drear as nigh' t that she was fearfully weak and emaciated. At first, a teaspoonful of . ou art appy, bright and gay Thy prayers will save him almost lost ' water was as much as she could retai.n . For days a larger dose would ThinkWith ofnot the one lonely darksome poet-boy, hou r of gloom, A n d ma k e hislonely pathwaybright' . nauseate her intensely, but by the end of a month, she could quaff off, Then, Mary, wilt thou think o f me' Who never, never will forget A d M ' aad retain two or more tumblersfull in succession. Bv the end of the Thatbnghtest hour ofgreatestJ"oy - n • a ry, canst thou e'er forget The night when first we met. That brightest hour of all to me season she could walk up and down the steep bill to the Spring, and eat The nigh t when first we met!'; what she chose For the rest of her life, thirty years, (she lived to be ninety) she kept well; she came, however, every summer for a month to "Mary" was a beautiful blonde th0 h Willr GLENN SPRINGS, drinking the water, she said, to insure herself against a thefirst martyr of the Confederate 'war. He diedfrom illnessincurred return of Dyspepsia. m camp hfe, the first Southern soldier who lost his life He and "M .' Mrs Farnandis, "Aunt Sally,'' as she was long called, was one of the be1ong to the land of shadows. · ary landmarks of GLENN'S SPRING. The first summer the hotel was opened knThe seasonof 1860 was. the most brilliant that GLENN'S SPRING ever she was there the whole season, and came unfailingly every year after- knew. There wasatone timethatsummertabernacledin hotel cottages ward until the opening of our civil war Soon afterher marriage, whilst f ' visitors rivinggames and dancmg ga still a young, pretty woman, she bad a fall, from which she received in- pastimeto pleasureseekers,as freely as the springran water for the in- ternal injuries which never healed. GLENN'SSPRING water, whilst it could h e e young and gay how many would fall in battle; not cure, made her very much more comfortable. Warm hearted and gener- how soonsorrow and suspense was to throw a pall over the bright pano'. ous-natured, entering into the joys and sorrows of all around, untiring in kindness, cheerful in nftliction, she was for years a central figure at the Since the war. in spite of the fact that GLENN·s SPRING is not on a rail- watering place. road,and ht as only a country market to rely upon, the old resort has still No one of the therapeutic effects of the water is more valuable than pa ronage. the tonic properties, that ·enable the steady drinker of alcoholic liquors A newfeatureof the place is the - "Bottling House." This is estab to give up his accustomed stimulant without letting down bis nervous ing and it . spring The demand for the water is steadily increas- system. Men whose condition, when away from the effectsof the water, g is s ippe in cases of one a.nd two dozen quart bottles east seems to demand the moderate use of stimulants, can, while drinking the and west.Thewater is also kept on draught in many of the principal GLENN'S SPRING water. not feel at all the need of their toddy. 1t is said that the economy of the universe supplies for every curse a blessing; for One word in. conclusionto those who drink GLENN'S SPRING water . every poison an antidote. It is certain that any man who desires to quit "Betemperate in all things may apply even to water drinking . Take one or the habitual use of stimulants may do so by spending a summer at ere u .e ore breakfast, not more. After breakfast if ou GLENN'S SPRING, and drinking freely of the mineral water. able, goto the springsit in the pavilion, and drink as much as youcon- There is quite a little village around the spring. Soon after the hotel te y can. Durmg the afternoon and night drink moderately of the was built in 1838, some of the stockholders built summer houses. A store fut .ationst e endofd three.weeks for a few days, drink less, then resume and post-office were opened, some personswho liked the climate for sum- . .* is a vice is based on the observation of ears b a med 1cal man of the first order of talent . d 1it is fi y ' y mer, concluded to become permanent residents. A male academy was medical t f S ; an is con rmed by two opened, and yeal' after yeal' there have been now and then additions. In pr ioners o partanbnrg, who have been familiar with the effects or' thewa r romboyhood and have for years watched its therapeutic ae- 1850 an Episcopal cbul'ch was builtand it is a great pleasure to Church on rom a sc1eat1fic standpoint. folks to find a pretty little consecrated house of prayer. with semi-monthly

services, in which they may refresh their souls by the way. NOTE ar THE PROPRIETORS -.This gentlem D . resident of GLENN' S SPRING and w• s man Dr. MauriceA. Moore was for nearly for ty years a . Within the last few years the Presbyterians, too, have built a neat andwasitsPresident . F or years after , bis b . ll1;ll who m augurated the stock compa ny 1 11 house of worship, which is regularly supplied with preaching. In the livelysocial intercourse withthe visitors encouraging r: ithehpr opcrty was giTen up, he re- =D rmkrng the wat er His fund of n d t 1 . . a1 tng elf.rte to keep up, and perse- old days, before theseplaces of prayel' were built, visiting clergymen patby securingthe confidence of the anecdotesheering their depressed spirits and his unfailing sympattonly perhaps in worse condition who finally' e graphic accountsof a cheering case to each pa· often preached in the hotel parlor; it was there t.hat Dr. Thornwell, when ••ton at GLENH's SPAG He was a' entlema r overe , was or years a cheering i nfluence to the quite a young man, preached for the first time bis celebrated sermon on ... enoual appearance, elegant maners an: go!iepdeFnt fort une! of fi ne order of t alents, band- LllM a i!Pen10. w i · o r many years he was the oruament of "The Judgment,'' knocking the candle out of the candle-stick in one of • tDn. T. i'lumtor Mean• a nit J N ott M bis fervid gestures. efCIL111N's SPRING, and consta ntly send Pr!:'o;: :lnS:'a:· are originally from the vicinity _ _ I i- FAVORITE CLIPPINGS. 27

Since last s ummer a bottling establish- water and applying the mineral mud to ment has been built near the spring, from the limb for only one month, he was e n- - -:o:- - - whi ch the wate r is shipped to all parts of tirely cured. So t his water and substance the country. Bottles, ornamented with a are beneficial as an external remedy also. monogram designed by one of the propri- While speaking of the water and mud as days the health giving waters, to be found etors, are prepared specially for this pur- an external medicine, I will relate an inci- LETTER FROM THE NEWS AND COURIER. here only, returned home with elastic pose and are all hermetically sealed, so dent ir. the early history of this spring and limbs, strengthened bodies and sparkling that the gasses of the water may not es- before it was known as a mineral spring. eyes, betokening their return to life and its By ii.• R egttlm· Correspondent. cape. During the Revolutionory war a n irritable e njoyments. J\ lready during the present Nothing can be added to the many skin disease prevailed throughout the GLENNSPRINGS, July 10 th, 1883.-For seasonthe register contains the names of words already s poken as to the cure of the e ntire country. A family of twelve in more than half a centurv numberless an- scores who have come for health or recrea- special diseases for which the water is a number living near this place, Sulphur nua l pilgrimages have been made to this tion, and the number is daily increasing. specific. A host of Ii vingwitnesses voice Swamp it was called then. were Mecca of health and pleasure, a nd h un- Just now thereare here representativesof its praises, and li ves prolo nged and con- t roubled with this skin affection. dreds who have come here enfeebled by three States and o f thirteen counties in stitutions restored speak loudly in its be lt was the custom to send some of the disease and wearied with the cares and this State, among them Charleston, half. Physicians in all parts o f the State children out in the range evenings to duties of life have. after drinking for a few Georgetown, Darlington and Colleton. have sent and a re sending their patients drive up the cows, and as the cattle were here that they may find the health that mostlr found near o r in this swamp, the medicine and treatment have failed to sup- childrenwould go there to look for them. pll', and wretched dyspeptics and worn- On one occasion, while driving the cows out men of business have sought and found out of this swamp, one of the children step- for themselves restored strength in these ped in a mirey place, and before the oth- life-giving waters, and others continue to ers could gel him out, sank up to his ears do so year by y ear. .J · H. B. in the mud. In a few days it was discov- e red that the chap was entirely well of the skin trouble. The father, it is stated, seemed to take in at once the cause of his LETTER FROM W. H. GAINES, child's relief, and therefore applied the mud Of the Augusta Chronicle. to the entire familv, ancl the result. was that they were all c ured. When this re- GLEKN°S SPRING, S. C .. July 30, 1885.- markable cure was noised abroad, the peo - This spring is certainly one among the ple fro m a ll o ver this section came to try finest on the continent for people troubled the mud for their skin troubles, and in like with dropsical or kidney affection and manner were cured. The above men- many other complamts, suc h a s malarial tioued incident is a bout the first that was poisons, dyspepsia, liver troubles, etc., etc. known of this water as containing medici- People overworked in sedentary a\'ocation or continued travelling, find G le nn's nal o r healing properties. A few years after this there was a severe drouth in the Spring the place to recuperate. This wa- lane!, and all streams dried up, but in the ter acts at once on the kidners. a nd then centre of this s wamp there was a beauti - mildlr on the digestive o rgans, causing re- ful suppl\' of water from a fountain. action to fake p lace throughout t he whole It svstem. P arties that ha ve visited Glenn's was put in proper conditio n to supply the neighbors with water, and soon after this Spring for years testify to the wonderful curativequalities of' the water. l will take a n old man whohad been affected with dropsy drank of the water, began to im- the liberty of g iving the name of one gen- prove. and was in a short time relieved of tleman, Hon. R. Doz ie r, of Georgetown, his trouble. My object in stating the S. C .. who came here on the 26th of J une, above facts is to show that Glenn's Spring 188,in a very low state. being afflicted was not hunted up by scientific men. bnt with dropsy so badlythat he could not lie NORTH COTTAGE, GLENN SPRINGS. was first discovered by parties undo ubt- down. After using the water for two edly ignorant of the m edical propensities weeks the effusion began to pass off, and Of course on rising in the morning the billiards, bagatelle, chess, c roquet. &c. it contained, and that 1t was found by ac- first thing in order is a visit to the s pring, in one month he was able to lie in any po- Pistol and rifle shooting. fancy work and cident. So much for the discovery and whe re an unlimited amount of water is sition Mr. Dozier. since 1883. has visited swinging are also indulged in. and every first notice of the healing q ualities of this the spring regularly, and is hereeat present, drank, a nd an hour or more is passed in one doesjust what he or she may feel like truly great blessing to suffering huma nity. pleasant conversation The n a ll a wait and seem s to be enjoying good health. doing. I n the evening dancing is in or- One hundred years have rolled by and There a re a number of cases that have bre akfast wi1h a comforting sense of duty der. and quadrilles, waltzes. &c .. follow many changes have occurred, but the val- done, and all, even including theconfirmed each other in quick successio n. There is come unaer my obser vation since my ar- uable properties of this natural blessing 1 rival tha: have been cured by the use of dyspeptics, a re ready to es pend to the also much instrume ntal and vocal music have never changed . The hotel here is call of the bell take their places at the this mineral water-some with d yspepsia, which is g reatly enjoved. . beautifully located on an elevated platea u, table, and indulge their ne wly acquired The weatheris delightful, a nd mountain others with kidneyand li ver troubles, etc. surrounded by lovely shade tree of vari All certify to having been cured by the a ppetites. A tempting bill of fare is breezes (the mo untains themselves are in ous kinds, mainly oak, mulberry, loc ust offered a nd none are able to resist. sight of the hotel ) a re o ur constant visi· useof this water. One gentleman says, The day is spent in strolling, reading, ta n ts. Abundant rains have just fallen after suffering for months from the effects and sycamore, and the enclosure is cov- con versation, and playing ten-pins, cards . and all a nimated nature seems to rejoice. of a scalded limb, and after drinking the e red with green s ward. I n co nnectio n 28 FAVORITE CLIPPINGS. FAVORITE CLIPPINGS. 29 with the hotel there are a number of nice spot made famous by its health-restoring generously abunda nt but well prepared little cottages for the special use of visi- water . h urt, no m atter how much you drink , the and served . The young proprietors are more the better. T his water is shipped tors. At present there are near two hun- Three years have come and gone since I reaping golden opinions for the close at- dred people using the water here. Besides, last had the pleasure ot abiding at this I SL ppose to every county in the State, to te ntion paid to their g uests, as w ell as for B alumore, Philadelphia, N ew York, A la- the water is being shipped in bottles to all fountain of health, and it is gratifying to say their intelligent kind ness a nd uniform parts of the country, and is sold by drug- that there are a bout one hundred and bama. Georg ia, M ississippi, N ew O rleans, urbanity .-We conclude this letter by say- T ennessee, K e ntuck y , N orth C arolin a, gists The object of the proprietors is to seventy-five persons here, besides myself, ing that we a re highly pleased w ith the introducethis valuable natural medicine who have come variouslyfor the recovery F lorida, Washing ton, Virg inia, and over treatment received at Gle nn's, anp its fl a t - the J eep to Fra nce a nd G ermany. throughout the entire country, so that of both health, recreation from business tering rise into po pula r favor. L ong may suffering humanity everywhere may be and the ambition of telling to less favored (When I fi rst landed here this season its wa te rs co ntinue to be drank, and im- the number of visitors was not g reat, but able to procure and drink this mineral mortals that I have enjoyed a delightful part health, stre neth aud ha ppiness to ou~ water. two-weeks or a month at Glenn Springs, for the last two weeks g reat numbers h ave people. AN OLD COME R. come in, the guests am ounting to about after a return home. It would be singular if this large and increasing c rowd did not 2 50 of all sorts, old and young, and m a n y predominate with 'God's best giftto man,' distinguished gen tle men and ladies of th is LETTER FROMCOL. THOS. F. GRENEKER -lovely woman, and her y ounger sisters, a nd othe r States. I will not attempt to TO C O L. T. B . CREWS. the Misses of sweet sixteen and under. Letter from Maj. John P. Kinard, name leading gentlemen of the State. I Of N ewberry, S. C., to find all guests both gentlemen and ladies Of the Laurens ville Herald. THE SOCIETY IS CHARMING, The N e w berry H eral d. so perfect in t heir manners and deport- CoL. '1'. B. CREws:-Agreeably to the as it e ver is, when composed of so many of ment, I can't make any distinction. The promise made you, after enjoying your the faire r sex. I am glad to see this grow- G LENN S PRI NGS, S. C., old and young come here for the be nefit hospitality a few nights ago, I now sit ing interest and love for this he al th resort, Au ~. 27, 1884. of the water, but this wdter soon m akes down to give you and your readers a brief after its passage through a decade of years MR. E DITOR : I a rrived here about two visitors have life, and they m ust have account of my visit to Glenn Springs, a of neglect and indiffe re nce. I cannot hut weeks ago to drink this powerful and g reat amusements, cutting the fantastic, throw - wate r ; bu t I fi nd the water does not have ing nine pins, playing billiards, a nd all repeat the ad- the . d a y s of the effect on me as in former years. 1t is kinds of games of cards for amusement. vice so often ple nty and ease not the fault of the water, t hough, but old Some games a re very exciting a nd closely given, away was the great- age. Y et I begin to feel that i ~ is taking contested. Some con tend t he fastest on hack yonder in est patron of efiect on my stubborn liver, a nd stiff lirr.bs record, equal to Maud S. making it in one, and joints. 'When I say "powerful water" the past,-f o r the Spring, and n ine and half seconds. The gam e of P e- this is my fif- although not I mean what l say. I have been coming dro is commo n. I wish for my friend s in teenth s e a s on now the first. is ' to this spring since th e year of 1842, miss- Newberry county to take a hancl in the here,and I hope certainly not ing very few .summers, for 43 years. l game. The young ladies a nd gentlemen that it will not the least. Now have wit nessed some remarkable cu res of d ress well and make a fine appearance, ex- be the last-- I think the diseases t he hu man family is subject to, celling anything in the way of style in the that e very af- pa 1 m may be both males and females, and particularly ball room I ever saw, except at b alls in flicted son or g iven to Char· fe males. The women should not stay Newberrv. away trom this remarkable water; no mat· daughter of l e s t o 11, next This '~ater is remarkable to give any Adam, who ca n Sumter, a n d ter what mai• be their disease, old or young person a n appetite ; man, woman or child possibly come then Newber· it i> certain to cure by drinking freely 'of will eat about four times as much as at here, will do so ry. Now, from it. In my past long life I ha ve ,·isited the home. T he propr ietors g ive good fare, by all means. the'first-named greater portion of the watering places in a nd p len ty o f it, and good servants ; but Newberry, in city there are at the United States, France a nd G'ermany, the great t rouble is four cooks, though ex- but I have found none equal to Glenn's perts, cannot prepare food fast enough. As water for all diseases. This water has a PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, GLENN SPRINGS, S. C. soon as the bell rings the guests come to powerfu l re putation from the fact that it the table like swarms of black birds o n a is shipped pretty much all over the United least registered as present guests. fifty to tion which adds beautifully to the scene.- fie ld of barley, and so hungry it is a hard States. (The shipments h ave become matter for them to wait on the waiters. sixty of that thrifty and intellige nt class of A new and la rge T en Pin Alley has been great, amounting to from $ro;ooo to $15,- our fellow-citizens known as Germans, e rec ted near the Spring house, where the These 250 water drinkers eat as much as 000 per annum at ~4 per case of 24 quart with their hearty and healthy looking "'uests are at liberty to display their skill 1 ,000 persons who have r.ot access to the ~nd bottles. The "ater is shipped in winter water. K. P . wives a nd d aug hters, but fe w of whom muscle in m aking ten strikes. These equal to sum mer. By shipping in kegs or present the appearance of having any of strikes, I am happy to say. when made by barrels it comes cheaper than by case.) If the water has failed in its effects on those " ills" some others of us are heir " to." the you ng ladies, strike. the young men. The proprietors have erected a good new the body of our veteran, it seem s to have with the liveliest admirat10n, and many ol Many improvements have bee n made in house nt the spring for bottling and putting stirred up his imaginative powers wonder- the three years spoken of in the first lines of the most impressiona ble are STRICK RN BE· up the water for shipment. T he arrange- fu lly while la rgely increasing his appetite. this le tter. The cottages have undergone YOND RKD F. MPTION. ments ar'! complete a nd scientific, that T hink of his drinking ten gallons per day, tho rough repair and are now the most de- The n the walks have been finely graded, none of the medical properties of the wa- and eating four times as m uch as while at sirable resting places on the grounds. An the a ngula rities and deformities removecitv of the Spartans, be- Spartanburg from her suburban and health told. The "low country" people "swear same yesterday, to day and forever. More ing only about twelve miles distant, and is rest_ori~1g res~rt. Octo~er tints were just by" Glenn Springs. They come here for than a hundred years ago these properties reached from Spartar.burg by a first-class hegin!1mg to tip the luxmarant foliage with healt.1, rest, recreation. Some have come were known; in the year of grace 1886 daily hack line. Owing to this fact there promise of .deeper and richer coloring ; who never expected to leave other than as they ·are better and more widely known is constant social intercourse between the from summits of hills broad and inviting a corpse ; others have been benefitted to a than ever before. The information rela- two places, and the liveliness of the season landscapes were at view upon either hand; g reater or less degree, andaily mail and is connected with Spartan- miles. don t entirely revel in the water cf the • the water is very palatable. It's astonish- burg by telephone. A railroad is now in The Hirn ALO reporter did not visit the springs, but occasionally reflect that there ing, too, how the taste for it grows on one. course of construction from Columbia, via sp~ings as an invalid, nor does he give are halls and billiards; there are bo.vling One of the Messrs. Simpson told us there Glenn Springs, to Spartanburg, and it is voice to an invalid's rhapsodies in this ar- alleys and beautiful promenades; there are was a boy there this summer that drank hoped will be coropleted in less than two ticle. He was instructed to acquaint him- beaux and belles; there are good things fifty gallons a day. [Mr. 8impson says he summers. This little town takes i~s name 32 FAVORITE CLIPPINGS. H. S. SIJ\lPSON. }'. L. Slll~--111 - -... ~ - from the famous mineral springs, whose Glenn Springs is a delig1!tful place to go. waters are known throughout the South There are offered there a cheerful home, for their wonderful curative powers in all telephone communication with Spartan- diseases oi the liver, kidneys, stomach and burg, and all that Messrs. Simpson & skin, for dyspepsia and all female com- Simpson can do, which is a great deal, to plaints. The water is bottled in quart bot- make a brief or p rotracted stay at the tles and packed-two dozen bottles m a ;;prings a pleasant recollection. case- and is being shipped far and near. i

The hotel is embowered in a leafy grove 0rdcrs direct to tho proprietors also prom(ltly filled. of native oaks on one of the hundred and " one hills in its immediate vicinity. In front of the spacions piazza is a well kept -0- I:::wu e:xtending castwm·d, anu which is fl.an ked on either side by a row of neat cottages. SUGGRSTIONS TO PERSONS ORDERING GLENN Descending a large grove towards the north at a distance of about th1·eP. hundn:d yards the famous spring is reach ed in a SPRINGS MINERAL WATER, cool and shady ravine. Down this slope l)J·etty walks wind about around the hill- sides am! over ravine; by rustic bridges. I. We kee(l no wrsols on band •xce(lt bottles. The hotel proper i!J a large, cool and Persons \Vishing tho water shipped in other vessels roomy building, with sixty sleeping apartments, a hand$omely furnished par- will plel\SO send their own vessels, dirticted to tho lor and a large dancing ha.ll. The week I y hops are features of life at the Springs. proprietors and marked. from whom sllippcd, l\nd and are given on every Friday night. The with the freight prepaid. It hotel furnishes a tempting table. ancl pc1haps the best thing that ean be said in 2. We will allow 75 cents per dozen for empty ~~i~r;;,,,~,,~;~,;;;~ ,, ;~~ iST, ·1 favor of the mimagement is to say that the guests express nothing· but fla ttering Glo11n Springs water bottles returned, tho froighton opinions of t.heir hosts. The gnc~ts are which must in all cnscs lJ(' prepaid to Spartanburg, a_bout as well contented as any '"congrega- tion" ot health seekers could well be. a11d and wnst bA ·marked on the box from whom sent. l, find no 1ack of entertainment and am11se- ment in all games usually found at first- 3. In ordering please Rtnto whethor to be •hipped class wate1-ing places, in novel reading, by express or by freight. water drinking, leisu1·ely strolls in shady retreats, i·eading the uoings of the world 4. Unless n.rrn.ngcmonts haYo been made to tho .$Iffi1\SOil+&+.$Iffil?.$011, in the newspapers, and the interchange of social, political and ap111tory sentiment, contrary, persons must accompany th("ir orders ,~· ith very lai·gely the latter. tho price of wMer. PROPRIETORS. --~

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