"The Carolina Spartan" Issue: March 31, 1880 Rev. A.L. MILLER, living near Centre Point, lost his library and furniture by fire last night. The house belonging to Col. T.J. MOORE, was burned. Nothing was saved of any value. James B. McCANTS, Esq., of Winnsboro, died last Saturday night at the age of 66. Charles HAMMETT has had another fire. Last Sunday night a store house not far from his dwelling burned down. A family was living in one part of it at the time. We have not heard what the loss was. FROM THE MOUNTAINS TO THE SEA Some time ago, Mr. G.W. GARNER, owner of the Harris Mill on Lawson's Fork, and his brother, S.L. GARNER, of Union County, accompanied by a colored boy, Smith SPEARS, embarked in a common plank boat 18 feet long and a 3 ½ feet wide at Skull Shoals on Pacolet River, in Union County, and set out for the broad Atlantic. Their equipment consisted of a few simple cooking utensils, a good axe, some guns and ammunition and a few necessary bed clothes. The boat had no sort of covering, and was worked by oars. Quietly they floated down Pacolet to Broad River at Pinckney Ferry, thence down that river by easy stages to Columbia. They camped out at night; stopped in the day time and took a little hunt when they came to an inviting place. They generally kept themselves in game, mostly squirrels and ducks. They spent two or three days in Columbia. Thus far the waters had been familiar to G.W. GARNER, as he had made perhaps several trips to Columbia in cotton boats. After resting in Columbia they started down the Congaree, and then they seemed after a short ride to be hedged in by interminable swamps. They came upon a new kind of tree-the cypress. At Hopkins' Turn Out they stopped awhile, and were there pleasantly entertained by the planter. Here their colored companion came to the conclusion that he was about as far from the hills about Skull Shoals as he desired to be. In fact the appearance of the Congaree swamps was not inviting so he took the train and [cut off] free post Lisa