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PAGE EIGHT. THE GA8TOXIA GAZETTE. GASTOXIA IS A BUST TOWIf. FRIDAY, XOYEMBEIt 2S, IMS. 3r 1TZZ1L JUST RECEIVED A T MORRIS BROS. New lot ' ' Ambach" Suits for the tasty man and boy; New Coats and Suits for the p acular Lady and Miss; New Under wear for all. New ' 'Star Brand" Shoes for those who appreciate good honest, solid leather Shoes at lowest possible prices. Our store is just teeming with season- 1able goods at attractive prices in every department. .vOur Scotch Woolen Mills Suits made-to-measure and guaranteed to fit 'are the sensation of the season. MORRIS BROS. WARMING LAND POSTED! All persons are hereby warned not to walk, ride, drive, hunt or other wise trespass on this tract of land. The law will be duly enforced against disregard of this notice. This. day of- 19. The above shows that the form and size of our land-posted notices. Price, 1 dozen, 15 cents; 2 dozen, 2 5 cents; 50 for SO cents; 100 for 0 cento. Three cento per dozen additi onal by mail. All mail orders hare prompt attention. Gazette Ihiblishln g Company, Gastonia, X. C. Safl Robbed. - Some time Tuesday night or eariy Wednesday morning the safe ot lix-J Peoples Furniture Company on West Alain avenue was robbed of $29 In cash and something over $20U m notes. The safe was closed but not locked and the thief UHed a screw driver and & pair of plyers to tear out the cash drawer. This drawer, together with another small one, were taken out of the safe and car Tied away Ion? with their contents. The tools used la committing tne robbery were left lying on a desk sear the safe. The store was not broken into and it is believed that the theft was. .committed early Wed-jie8day,-crorn!ng after the store had been opened. No arrests have been made but the officers have a clew which may result in the culprit be ing landed behind the bars at an early date. Dr. and Mrs. I. McPhn nr tt let, .Mr. and Mrs. J. Linwood Koomi- son, or Lowell, and Mrs. V. to lligg'ihu, ot Spartanburg, are '.pend ing the Thanksgiving holidays witn Mr. and Mrs. V. E. Long. Mrs. W. W. Clary and children left' Wednesday night for Spartan burg. S. C, to spend the Thanksgiv ing holidays with Mrs. Clary's par ents. Rev. and Mrs. W. H. Waters. They expect to return next Moncay night. A REVOLUTIONARY HERO. Robert Kilpatric, Ancestor of Bin. W. M. Wilson, Barely Escaped Death at Hands of Tories Three Times A Hitherto Unpublished Sketch by Late Dr. Latham. The sketch given below of Robert Kilpatric, a Revolutionary hero, was found among the papers of the late Rev. Robert Latham, D. D., who died a few years ago at Chester, S. C. Dr. Latham was a brother of Mrs. J. B. Wylie and an uncle of Mrs. W. M. Wilson, of this city. This sketch has never before been prim ed and will be of interest to many Gazette readers. Dr. Latham, tne writer of it, was the autnor of "A History of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church" and "A His tory of Hopewell Church, Chester County, South Carolina." In the cemetery at the last named place rest the remains of Robert Kilpat ric. Sallie, a daughter of Kilpatric, married Robert Patterson. Her daughter, Martha, married Samuel Martin I-atham, father of Dr. Robert Latham and Mrs. J. B. Wylie and grandfather of Mrs. Wilson. The" family was a long-lived one. James Latham, father of Samuel Martin Latham, is buried in County Entrain, Ireland, having lived to be about loo years old. Samuel Martin Latham lived to be 93 years old and is bur ied in Hopewell cemetery. Martha Patterson Latham lived to be 81 and is also buried at Hopewell. Robert Patterson, her father, lived to be 83 and is buried in Illinois. Sallie Pat terson lived to be 82 and is also bur ied in Illinois. Another daughter or Robert Kilpatric married James Dunn, who is burled in the cemetery at Old Pisgah in this county. Following is the sketch of Kilpat ric: The names of many of those who sacrificed their all in the struggle for American Independence nave never, as yet, been insribed on the page of history. The family name of many of them has died out or the country. Not even in many instan ces a rude stone marks the place where they were burled. They were humble sons of toil. They came to America that they might be free; and having been oppressed by the mother country, they threw off the yoke and fought and suffered that their children might be Tree. So Fooii as liberty was gained they re turned to their humble homes to en gage in the various pursuits of lire. They grew old and died and now the multitudes of those who enjoy tne fruits of their toils and sacrtflec do not even know that such men ever lived. Robert Kilpatric, or as he waa fa miliarly called. Bob Kilpatric, be longed to this class. He came to America some years before the breaking out of the Revolutionary War. The precise time is not cer tainly known, perhans it was In 1775 and settled in Fairfield county. South Carolina, near the headwaters of Wateree Creek, afterwards moved to Chester county. South Carolina, and settled on the road from Chester ville to Winnsboro, within a few yards of the spot on which Hope well Church now stands. He was an Irishman and the tradition is that he was forced to fly from his native country on account of a rebellion In to which he and some others naa en tered against some of the King's officers. He and his party had met one night that they might concert plans for action, when, to their utter sur prise, the house In which they were, was surrounded bv the KlneH troons Kilnrje and his party was seated at j ) table, on which a single candle was i burning. One of their number was writing and the rest were making sueeestions. Without a moments warnine. the door was broken open and the narty were In the hands or j an ar"id band of soldiers. The door was guarded, and after an ex amination of the comnany by the pold'ers. It was deeded to hang the whole of them on the spot. Ropes were put around their necks, and death by the halter began to stare ; tho rebels fair In the face. The house, 1t seems was small, and the soldier having rushed in stood on the aide next to the door, whilst Kilpatric saw it was but death anyway, and he determined to es cape or die in the aTempt. Being a very large man, and also a man of great strength?-he first blew out tne light and then made a plunge amongst the King's troops, running over some and knocking others down, be opened a path to the door and leaped out into the darkness. The rest of the party followed, and all. in the confusion and darkness es caped. For a considerable time Kilpatric kept himself concealed. Finally he determined to come to America. W hat little money he had was put li. to a belt, and fastened around the person of his wife beneath her .lot he. This was done from the fear that he might be captured Dy the government officers and lose botn Mj money anJ life. By prudent management, Kilpatric and his faint ly were enabled to get away frou Ireland. Still, he was in continua' read during the passage of eiglit weoks, 'lest he should be seized, put :n irons and 3eni back to Ireland io be tried, condemned and executed With a heart full of Joy he set his feet upon the shores of America in the city of Charleston. When in -Revolutionary War broke out, he, without a moments hesitation es poused with all of his heart the a use of the Whigs. The care cf !he family was committed wholly tJ wife. I'nfortunately ror nei t'u'ir home, btvi in Fairfield and i'iitbter, was hard by a nest of To ries. These were a class of persons 1 who could not be said to be frienas of the British government, but a set "f heartless monsters, who banded together to plunder the Whig wonuii !ii he absence oi their husband Vrs. Kilpatric spent a kind of migra tory lfe. The plantations owned by her husband were, perhaps, less than tt-ii miles apart. Whenever thTo rko made it dangerous to be on tne plantation in Chi bier coauty sne would take her children and go to the one in Fuirfi.Jd. During th? j.ar 1780 aftcv the l'ali of Charleston and the nia..n of die British through the up country, these Tories became desperate. The houses of the Whigs were watched almost constantly and it was at tne i peril of his life that a Whig soldier visited hi& family. Mothers were forced to keep the whereabouts or their husbands a profound secret from their children. After the rout of Sumter at Fishing Creek many of the Whigs of Chester, York and Fairfield were forced to hide- them- selves, as best they could, and depend upon supplies carried to them I by their wives, during the darkness of the night. Whenever a band or Tories entered a house the first thing that they asked, was, "where is the man of the house?" whatever his j name was. The Whig women were as plucky as the men. When they ( were present and the Tories would 1 come and threaten to kill them ir I they did not tell where their hus- ' bands were hid, they were told that ! If they did kill them. Sumter would j hang the last one of them. Mrs. Kilpatric always charged her children, when she left the house to tell anyone who might vtslt tnem during her absence inquiring Tor their father, that he had gone to mill. The children knew not, but this was the fact, but the Tories un- derstood it. Some time during the dlsorganlz-' ed condition of the Whig forces, Robert Kilpatric learjied that his children were all down with the smallpox. He left his hiding place and ventured to go to his house that ' he might look upon the faces of his ! little ones, perhaps for the last time. I Ptealthly he entered his own hum- ble dwelling, and found his tnree j little girls covered with the loatn-1 some disease. In the house there i was not a mouthful of bread and the only edible they had was the head of : his milch cow the Tories had killed ! and carried off a short time before, j leaving the head to the afflicted fam-! lly. The heart of the strong man j was filled with grief and in awful si lence sat down and rested his heal upon his hands. He had not entered his house un- its j Ml? mm ' a 1 TJ i Tt ' -.Wf III f I III I - VSmS7 W Iff ,11 III TO a nr na a. . aa a m a i an jr - aw-i-i w mfl t 'II itrrui I' I M w WW peimfessp If you should die today and leave a distressed wife behind, would you leave her the additional distress of having to worry about money matters? .Start a bank account row. It will grow ae the weeks slip by, and you will poon be so interested th at you will see that it DOES grow. In the event of YOUR DEATH you then have YOUR WIFE safe from the storms of adversity. Do YOUR banking with U.S. Citizens National Bank Officers: ANDREW E. MOORE, Pres. A. G. MYERS (Active) VIce-Pres. V W. H. ADAMS, Cashier. Depositary United States State of North Carolina. Gaston County. City of Gastonia. 5 PERCENT INTEREST PAID ON CERTIFICATES OF DEPOSIT. seen; nor was he permitted long to Indulge in the distressing scene which lay before his eyes. The To ries saw him when he entered, and like so many furies rushed upon him. The entreaties of his wife, the screams of his Bick children were of no avail. He was seized by a band of ruffians, dragged from the house and a halter placed around his neck. What could he do? He was over powered. A few moments and all 'would be over. He would not beg. Just as the awful moment approacn ed when he was to be hanged be cause he was a Rebel, a horse neigh ed on the opposite side of the house and as all the Tories were as lazy as they were cruel, the whole band rushed out each anxious to secure for himself the horse and Bob Kil patric pulled the rope from his necK and dashed Into the woods, leaving both the Tories and his sick chil dren. It was not until some time in 1781, about a year after tne oc currence Just related, that he dared visit his family. The Tories were made more furious by his escape and swore vengeance against him if they ever put their hands upon him again. The next time that he came Into the neighborhood it became known and strict watch was ' ent Tor him. By some means or other he was surprised, not In his own nome, but some place near Hopewell Creek. As before the rope was fas tened around his neck and all kinds of Insults were heaped upon him. He was curped and abused for mak ing his escane on the previous occas ion and told that they were deter mined that they would hang him this time. He seems to have come to tne firm conclusion, himself, that hts days were Boon to come to fin end. The place, where he was captured, was a kind of glade and no tree be ing convenient it was necessary to go a few rods to find a limb upon which the unfortunate Whig might be hanged. The party were In earn est, so soon as the woods were reached they commenced the searcn for a suitable limb. One man wita a loaded musket was left in charge of the prisoner, whilst the others scattered about some few steps from him in search for a limb. Whilst the party was hunting for a gallous, the puppy who stood guard over him picked up a piece of dry cow manure that lay near by and placing it to the nose of Kilpatric, asked him if he did not want to smell old Ireland. This was to great an insult for Robert Kilpatric to bear although being led to the gal lous. He drew his heavy arm and with one blow laid the vile rascal senseless upon the ground and again took to the woods. The Tories shot at him but he escaped untouched. The'Tories never put their hands upon Robert Kilpatric again. He lived to see his country free and the names of the Tories who attempted to hang him covered with lasting disgrace. Three times he had the rope around his neck to be hanged yet he died in his own bed and we think at the advaned age of 115 years. When the War of 1812 broke out he sent two of his sons to help in driving the British from the coun try. A plain slab marks his last resting place In Hopewell graveyard, in Chester county. South Carolina. --Col. G. H. Marvin has put on the market an attractive new post card printed in colors. The decora tion, a representation of Father Time with his scythe and hour glass, is the work of Mr. drover C. Pae, the well-known local pen artist. The verses entitled "When the Reaper Checks Us In" are by Mr. Marvin and appeared originally in The Gazette some months ago. The card is copy righted. 4jf ' We want every dealer in Gas tonia to be. supplied with the German Silver Hard Rubber Special Notice to Dealers: Cigarette Holders. ad vertised on page 6. All dealers who have not secured a supply of these cigarette holders can do so at "Omar" headquarters at Falls House. E. J. Relihan, phone 19 from 4 to 6 p. m. to-day. The American Tobacco Company Last Call For Copy- t Copy for all advertisements intended for The Gazette's Holiday Trade Edition, to appear Tuesday, December 9th, must be in our ! hands by to-morrow, Saturday night. We cannot handle it later than that. Please let us have your copy at once and r-'i us '.'lis way to get out a good paper. Gazette Publishing Jm 111. ,-,, if. ... . - r JiirJiii 11 1 .lififcfls .
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