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Our Subscription List cN uoscription List i Thoroughly Covers Warren County Thoroughly Covers Wa-tren County VOL. XX WARRENTON, N. CL, FTUDAY, FEBRUARY 261915 NO. -46 $1.00 A YEAR A Weekly Newspaper Devoted to the Intersts of Warrenton and Warren County. 5c a COPY WARM COUNTY ONE-. HUNDRED YEARS AGO. It has been said. "That the itory of some communities is like a river flowing over an au-vii-rous bed a handful of the material giving particles of gold" During the year 1814 who pass ed or entered the old Court House of minor historical interest; but to a few it is the particle of Gold. The likeness of this Court House is preserved in a val uable painting, owned by the son of the writer, taken in the year 1810 at the instance of Dr. Bre hon, a graduate of Dublin Univer sitv. one of the Charter mem bers of the Academy in 1786 and the donor of its present site. The population of the County in 1814 was about 11,000 the Slave population, ; being in ex cess of the Free. The prepon derence of the negro population then and the much larger now gives the County a distinction among all the counties of the State. It was somewhat singu lar that the slave population was dispersed more freely among other sections of the County than along the Roaroke. It is worthy of note at what an early age the County advanc ed advanced its young men to posts of public trust. Benjamin Hawkiris,a graduate of Princeton and an Aid to General Washing ton at the battle of Monmouth, was chosen a Representative to the Continental Congress, 1781, at the age of 27. Elected to that" Congress for several sessions, he was chosen a member of the U. S. Senate in 1789 at the age of 35 and died in Georgia in 1816 as Indian Agent- age 62. In the first representation of the County in the State Senate, 1780, Nat Macon, then 23 years of age, was chosen one of its members and continued for sever al sessions to 1785 his brother John succeeding him to 1795,Nat having been chosen a member ct the House of Representatives of the U. S. in 1791, being then o4 years of age. He continued in Congress to 1828, being elect ed to the Senate in 1815, and died in 1837 at the age of 80. James Turner elected to the House of Commons in 1798 when 32 years of age and was elected for several terms. Was chosen Governor in 1803, and was a mem ber of the U. S. Senate in 1805 when he wTas 39 years of age, resigning in 1815. He died in 1824 at the age of 58 years. It is evident from the records that both Governor Hawkins and Miller were chosen to official po sitions at an early age. It may he of interest to some to know that at the Gubernatorial Man sion when Hawkins was Gover nor from 1812 to '14 there died the widow of Colonel William Als ton of Revolutionary note. Col onel Alston's horse was shot un der him in a skirmish at Halifax, the ball being in possession of one of his descendents. Mrs. ALstjn was the mother of Gov ernor Hawkins' wife, as also the mother of the wife of William K. Kearney and the mother of a son who married the daughter of Governor Samuel Johnston, one of the first United States Senators, and the father of Ja nes Johnston, well known in the State before the War. Governor Miller served the County for several sessions in the Legislature bofore his elec tion as Governor in 1814. Of his personal history the vr?ter has riot been c;bie to trahi any data. I He was a member of the State 'Legislature in 1821 and 1822. He has been informed from a trustworthy source that he lost his life at Sea, being on his way to fill a U. S. Mission at Guate mala. Weldon N. Edwards was chos en a successor o.f Nat Macon in Congress in 1815, b.mig 27 years of age, and dying in 1837 at the age of 85. D-:ii 1 Turner, a sop of Gov ernor Turner, born in 1796 was member, of the . Statu House of Commons wne-- 23 years of agv a member of Congress when 31 year? of age. The first Lawyer member of the .Legis'ature from the County was Kemp Plummer in 1794, re elected in 1815. . . . The writer trusts the reader will pardpri the following digres sion, he will return to the object of his sketch. It ;c not be- .rd' Wli thaf Jud-o Marshall, t?:v greatest Judge this Country has ever had. visited Warrenton in 181 4. He - J ; t j.:. i whs uuuoiiiLeu iiiex-d usucy OL the Supreme Court ir 1801 and served to 1835. Two years prior to his appointment Judge Iredell, Associate Justice ofthe Courts died, in 1799 the year of Wash- ington'iJ death." - Judge Moore of Wilmington succeeded him,be-ng an Associate Justice of Judge Marshall for several years, until his resignation in 1806, on ac count of ill health. Now the most remarkable trial in which the two eminent North Carolina Judges ever engaged, as the writ er thinks, took place in the wood en Court House in Warrenton. The "very conspic.ious citizenship of the County, the Warrenton A- cademy (the most flourishing in the State), the Mordecai School (for Girls, both schools drawing freely for patronage from Vir ginia; may have well formed mo tived with he Judge in caus ing frequent stops at Warren ton on his ride from Richmond to the sessions of his Court. The late General Matt. Ransom has raid that he sa7 In one clay at the old Hotel inWarrenton,Judge Marshall, Nat Macon and Mr. Gale, the father of the distin guished editor of the National Intelligencer of Washington be fore the War. It is not beyond belief that John Randolph visit ed Warrenton in 1814 In 1799, when 26 years of age, as a mem ber of Congress, he met Nat Ma con. In 1811, as a member of Con gress, he met Henry Clay, who was chosen Speaker of the House at the age of 34, and John C. Calhoun member of Congress at 29 years of age. In 1813 John Randolph was defeated for Con gress, having run on the Anti Mason Ticket. Now, the Thir teenth Congress was as memor able as anyever convened. Tc Henry Clay and John C. Calhoun was added Daniel Webster, chos en at the age of 31. To these was added JudgeGaston,of North Carolina, only inferior to these three of all the members of Con gress, and having no superior in the citizenship of North Caro ina. in impressive personality and in the blending of high qual ities. Now, it is to be remem bered that this great triumviate, born nigh the same time, Cal houn ard Webster in 1782, Clay in 1797: dying near the same time, Calhoun in 1850, Webster and Clay in 1852, as the clouds ;of the impending tempest were j gathering in the political hori zon. They expounded in the Rev olutionary epoch of the Govern-' Iment, from 1789 to 1850 through j their illustrious services the fim jdamental elements of the Go v j eminent. Webster, the exposi tor of the National idea ; Cal houn, of State Rights; Clay, of the ida of political economy i founded upon the national life, j How natural ' that Randolph . should have sought counsel with Macon about this Congress. Why- had Clay resigned the Speaker ship? WThat had the wonderful Calhoun done? What about the new man Daniel Webster? To see him was to never forget him. The writer when, a youth caught a vision of him in a Rail Road Car, and it remains a distinct impression through the long lap se of years. Why should he not have "sought him in his County town ? Surely Randolph would j uavr ii nitic cxii ciiiigiiwtrjurvx (Citizenship! Judge Hail, then ion the Bench tor five v. jars, to be followed for 18 years more of Judicial life ; his son, then in his turn to be made a Judge. Kemp Plummer a. lawyer of note, of marked fidelity to his trust, and then gathering about him a fam ily who wore to become pillars ?f s "?f -. Robert Jones, a descen der, t of Edwpirl Jone and Abi gail Sugan, who settled in the County in 1737 audjhave left be hind a very generous number of distinguished members of socie ty (among them Jat Mav.ou.Sen 2 tor; Matt. Ransom, Senator; General Fob. Hansom; Cvlonel Wharton Green, Congressman ; Judge Cook, member of Supreme Court of the State; W. W. Kit chin,Governor and Congressman ; Claude Kitchin, Congressman ; Robert Jones, Attorney Genera! of the State and a number of other men distinguished in State land Nation, including men prom- inent in life who had married the female descendents of this cou ple, including M. Tw Hawkins, Congressman ; Alstons, Greens and others. Ed.) Robert Jones, Attorney General, defended Mrs. Bragg . in her sad case, gained her speedy acquittal and receiv ed as his Fee the house now oc cupied by Mr. Davis Peck. ' Doctors Brehen and Pope, the latter killed at a later date by being thrown from his carriage. Jacob Mordecai, the "teacher,with j his sons, of a very high order of merit. Marcus. George. Mr. William B. Johnston, of remark able beauty of person and charm of manner and of no mean order of ability, having represented his County several times in the LegV islature. Entering upon a spe culative scheme, he established a relay of horses between Wash ington and Warrenton and gave the first intelligence of Peace,pro fiting in the purchase of tobacco. At a later date, Mr. Johston be came the Napolean of the Turf, having moved to Virginia. Here could be found the Falkners and Somervilles, of no ordinary stamp, as well as many others. The citizens who walked the streets of Warrenton in 1814 were no ordinary citizens. Sen ators Macon and Turner ; Gov ernors Hawkins and Miller ; Weldon- N. Edwards, then 26 years of age, and a member of Con gress the next vear. Daniel Tur ner, M. T. Hawkins, both mem bers of the Legislature in 1819, Turner 23 years of age, Haw kins 29, and both afterwards members of Congress. Space will not allow , me to do more than mention the names of other famed men, . From "Shocco" Mr. Kearney; the three sons of .Whitmel Alston, the brother of Col. William Alston, Edward, Al f red and Nicholas" all men of strong personality. Of the same stamp, some of the Jones, Wil liams and Davis families. In another section,some of the Haw kin's members of the Legisla ture, and gifted m the power of leaderships in the affairs of life. The Eatons of the Roanoke ; the Boyds and Palmers and Thorn tons of the Roanoke, with many others through the County form ing a body of citizenship not sur passed by that of any County, 'Among the boys growing up were j General. Jeff Green and -Nat Green, the first twelve years of age, the -second ten, sons of Solo man Green, a dispatch boy at the age of, 14 in the Revolutionary war, a; .member of the Legisla ture meeting at Fayetteville in 1789 for the ratification of the Federal Constitution, a son of William Green, an ancestor of the late General Matt Ransom, and recognized by him (so the late Colonel Green wrote me) as -one of the brainiest men the State . has ever had; General 'Jeff Green was one of the three authors the County has had ; the two others being Cotton, and Joe Seawell Jones ("Shocco" Jones.) v . . Kat Green built the houses -on-Main street now occupied by the .two representatives of the peo ple now in Raleigh, Dr. Macor. and Mr. Polk. j He was known especially for his fondness for horses, having iSold one for ten thousand dol lars. In 1814, as boys of unusual promise were John Braggr Judge 'and member of Congress from Alabama, who was then seven years of age, and Thomas Bragg, Governor of North Carolina and United States Senator. Says some tired reader, why dwell so long on the Past His tory of the County ? Let it be buried with an epetaph akin to that which Plutarch in his Life of Mark Anthony placed over a grave: "Alas ! I bid the farewell, Ask not my name, but go to h 1." But the writer does not think that County or Town pride is an ignoble attribute. It may give assent to a higher rung on the ladder resting against the sky. " The Yankees, ah the Yankees, we may abuse them as we please, and yet they have some hierits. Enter into many towns in New England and find that some na u'v'e, after an absence of many I years, has returned to his early jhome to spend his last years,and from the financial "fruits of life has left behind some beneficent memorial, a testimony of his life. In reading the report of one of the heads of a Department in Yale University the writer was struck with the sad comment that ONLY six parties had given I aught to the University by Will. one $500,000, and six women, $300,000; 'and. contesting un favorably the number giving to Yale University, their Alma Ma ter, with those of Harvard Uni versity. Let the reader count up the number of donors in Warren county or Warrenton who in the last 135 years have made by Will or otherwise certain distinct, known gifts for public use. The writer can mention only one, and he an Irishman, Dr. Brehen the donor of the site of the 'Aad? my. Another, the nearest to be ing a donor,a Jew, his education al building remaining in town, f The writer would be glad to 1JI I 1 i II 4 see tne past nistory oi the coun ty and Town made a permanent element in the renewal of that history: He Would like to see the remains, with the monument, of General Jethro Sumner brought back from Guilford Bat- tie field; the remains of Colonel William Alston of Revolutionary note; these of P. Hawkins of 1739, a chief Aid of Governor Tyron in his expeditino; the re mains of FIVE United States Senators ; Hawk'no, Macon, Tur- ner, Ransom,Bragg ; the remains of 'Governors Hawkins and Mil ler all gathered up and placed reverently in a corner of the Court House square and enclos ed with an iron railing. A, plain granite shaft erected with their names engraved upon it.. . He OUld;likeVto see the names of all the Revolutionary, Mexican. and Confederate soldiers put in Capital Print upon scrolls upon eases, and that sixtjr per cent of I the interior walls of -the Courh , these are due to gastro-intes-House. He would like to see the tinal diseases, due to improper" office upon the Court Square, of feeding or impure milk, we nat Mr. H. A. Boyd, Attorney, pur-1 urally begin to look fnto (the chased and turned into a Libra ry .and some man or men of the UIk Ui rt nancy uj. raueigu give every farmer can have his imlk an endowment, whose interest' mg done scientifically, but it is would go to the annual purchase possible for him to produce safe of books and for a reading room 'milk for his own use and that forTo.wn and County. He would like to see the Court Square free from all incumbiance, except as ,. r, it illustrated some beneficent pur pose, vvnen xne wmer was young man in Charlotte he was called a "Dreamer"; but out of 1 . . . Thompson Orphanage and St. Pe- V 0 ters Hospital. Will anything . come of his visions as a very old man, soon to lay his bones in the soil of his adopted town? It is not what we do IN the world, but vh?t we d . FOR the world which counts in the long process of time. As the Divine element in man, it goes out of him and becomes a distinct force and mo ves by its inherent impulse. The: best chance to become immortal after life is to become immortal in life. IF YOU WANT TO BE LOVED Don't contradict people, even if you're sure you are right. Don't bo inquicitive about the affairs of even your most inti mate friend. Don.'t underrate anything be cause you don't possess it. Don.'t believe that everybody else is happier than you. , Don't conclude that yiu nevex had any opportunities in your life. Don't believe all the evils you h;"or. "" ' " Don't repeat gossip, even if it Joes interest a crowd. Don't jeer at anybody's re ligious belief Learn to hide your aches and pains under a pleasant smile. Few care whether you have an earache, headache or rheuma tism. Learn to attend to your own business a very important point. s Do not try to be anything else but a gentleman for a gentle woman ; and that means one who has consideration for the whole world, and whose life is governed by the Golden Rule: "Do unto others as you would be done by. Christian World. FIGHTING FOR PURE MILK. By M. M. Carrick, M. D. (Sanitation Expert) So many dramatic disclosures have-been mnde in regard to the rolat'on between dirty milk and the excpssKe death rate among in!ants that farmers are begin ning to realize as never before the necessitv of evoperationwith the muiicipl authorities in th ht or f.ure nilk. Mi'.'k is certainlv h most im portant art'ele of food in the jhuman diet; try and it is also thi! most ccntaminable. It is, there- fore, up to the farmer to see that the milk from his dairy gets to city babies in as reasonable a state of cleanliness as possible. .Not that this is an exclusively baby problem, for all sorts of dis eases are carried through milk. Tuberculosis is an example of this class, and a number of epi demics of diphtheria and scarlet j fever have been traced to the. nlk supply, but when we pause to consider that one-fifth of all the babies born in the United .States die from preventable dis- cause. I realize, of course, that not 0f the public by very simple and inexpensive means. ' t ti0 i, i , Hp Trm V nor. hnvo an nloWofo, dairy outfit, but his cattle can a,LQ, w health with the assistance of a veterinary. It will be to his fi- i 7 ' - nflTIClfl ITlTPl'PQt in tho lorifif win Tar DaBer. whitewash and L! m ,:u tary stabPe at small cost. Then, there should be a cover ed milk pail in place of the old fashioned wide-mouthed pail. This will keep nine-tenths of the dirt out during milking time. All milk htensils may be kept clean by the use of a brush and a so lution of soda followed by a final rinsing in scalding water If ice is not possible for one farmer it is not feasible for several far mers to combine their interest, and secure a supply of ice at som? central place at a reasona ble cost? I hope the readers of this pa per are not superior to germs. If you are, cend for some of the Government literature on the sub ject of the care of miik. A re quest to the Bureau cf Agricul ture will bring a number of bul letins to your door, much to your enlightenment. IT REALLY. DOES RELIEVE RHEUMATISM. Everybody who is afflicted with Rheumatism in any form should by all means keep a bottle of Sloan's Liniment on hand. The minute you feel pain vr soreness in a joint or muscle,bathe it with Sloan's Liniment. Do not rub it. Sloan's penetrates almost imme diately right, to the seat of pain, relieving the hot, tender, swollen feeling and making the part easy and comfortable. Get a bottle (of Sloan's Liniment for 25 cets of any druggist, and have it in the house against Colds, Sore and Swollen Joints, Lumbago, Sci atica and like ailments. Your money back if not satisfied, but it does give almost instant re lief. Buy a bottle today.
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