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Englishmen first settled along the Ashley River in 1670, ten years later moved their government to the rich peninsula between the Ashley and the Cooper. Rice and cotton gave prosperity. Cavalier second sons, high-born French Huguenots, gave aristocracy. Great names- Pinckney, Rutledge, Lewis, Calhoun, Gadsden, Ravenel, Laurens, Petigru-rose and fell. The St. Cecilia society balls dazzled Northern visitors. To see the magnolia gardens, men crossed the sea. In St. Andrew's hall on Dec. 20, 1860, South Carolina voted itself out of the Union. Last big Charleston event: the $5,000,000 earthquake...
There is Charles Cotesworth Pinckney's terse announcement: "Millions for defense, but not one cent for tribute...
Miss Alice Brown, writer of realistic New England stories, of Children of Earth (the $10,000 Winthrop Ames prize play), of several other long and short plays of beauty and dramatic value, is a kindly lady, born in New Hampshire, living on Pinckney Street, Boston, whose sense of humor is constantly present. Gray-haired, with great dignity, with a constant smile, this woman who gives place to few others in the field of the American short story arrived at a "literary party" recently with a catnip mouse for the cat of the household, "Napoleon...
...President created five new National Monuments, making 35 in all. The penstroke took place some time ago, but publicity was just achieved. The five new monuments are: 1) Fort Wood on Bechloe's Island in New York Harbor, the base on which stands the Statue of Liberty; 2) Castle Pinckney on Shutes' Folly Island, a mile from Charleston, S.C., close to Fort Sumter and close to the spot where the first vessel was ever sunk by a submarine (in the Civil War) ; 3) Fort Pulaski, Ga., at the entrance of the Savannah River, taken during the Civil War by Union...
Engaged. Miss Beatrice M. Beck,, daughter of the Solicitor General of the U. S., to one Pinckney Tuck; in Washington...