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BOUNTY CORRESPONDENCE. VSWST I I ri I HS FROM OUR SPE? CIE Fi COHHKSPON 1>hZSTS. mm of Interest From ell Parts of H<init?r urn! Adjoining Counties. NOTICF. TO CORRESPONDENTS. Ifsll your letters so that they will vaach this office not later than Mon ttay when Intended for Wednesday'** paper and not later than Thursday for Saturday's issue. This, of course, applies only to regular correspond In case of Items of unusual value, send In Immediately by til. telephone or telegraph. Such stories are acceptable up to the of going to press. Wednesday's ir Is printed Tuesday afternoon Saturday's paper Friday after DAKK CORNER, Dark Corner. Sept, 7.?It surely is and dusty here about this time. Hsvf not had any rain to amount to anything slnee the 27th ef Au? gust. Cotton has Riven up growing. anJ I am fearful that peas will al? most be a failure hereabouts. Some of the Whlfpoorwlll peas have been made, but they are not what they would have been If we had had good ?aeons Corn, potatoes and gardens are suffering for rain. It was my privilege to go to old Calvary church last Sunday, where I saw the pastor. Rev. J. N. Tolar bap? tise eighteen converts. Fifteen of whom'will belong to Calvary and three to Pinewood. After the Bap? tising Rev. Tolar preached a very in? structive sermon on growing in grace, from the first clause of the 18th verse, third chapter, 2nd Peter. That night at 8:30 he preached a flu?.? ?mon at Pinewood on giving from tnd Cor. sth chapter and 7th verse. Mrs. W J. Ardls has been sick for the last eight or ten days, but Is hot? ter to day Miss Idu B. Burke, of Ramsey, visited Mrs. W. T. Kolb last Sunday afternoon and night Miss Nealle Ardis, daughter-of Mr. Joe If. Ardis went to her uncle's. Mr. John F. McLeod's, (who lives m ti Hahn'.....) yesterday morning to see her jrrand mother, who is quite sick. Dud 'Veeks ami Kan Hracy vl at Mr. Joe M Ardls last night. Mr. Editor me to say to that jrounc brother, who said 1 wrote thai a coloi?d man said that whiskey fat? tened twu of his the (colored man's) calves, that I think he had better get htm a new pitlr of specks as there is something sure wrong with his eves n* he cannot tell the difference in cats ' and calves. Miss? Maud Christmas, of Bloom Hill nnd Mr. Ed Lee, of North Caro? lina were murrled one day we k be-j last. Miss Christmas is the sec- | daughter of Mr. J. Helton Chrlst and Mr. Lee is a young man I from North Carolina, who has been working near Bloom Hill for some Miss Eunice Osteen and Miss Mury K?ln returned from their visit to rel? atives and friends at Wlnnshoro, Rldgeway and Columbia last Tuesday, the list. LVNCHBVRO. I?ynchurg. Sept. 7.?Notwithstand? ing this town can boast of three hust? ling physicians, there Is a plenty of work for them all. Every day the atek list Is swelled n<i the disease tea on suddenly and terribly in. kg cases. Ifr. J. Ernest McFaddin has been 111. but U now slowly improving. Miss Julia Mclntosh Is dangerously Ul and recove. y doubtful. Her fath? er. Mr. M. L. Mclntosh Is suffering from some lingering malady, which %afttes the ?kill of the best physi? cians. ? Mr, O. W. Stokes, who has been Watte sick Is reported better. Mr. J. H. Crlbbs. who Is at the Mood Infirmary In Sumter Is still HI. "bat a little Improved. Master VernOO Lewis, also at the tngrmary, Is reported much beter. fa the country around there Is a it deal of fever. .Prof, and Mrs. Brison left today for Rotenburg, ttelr home for the past year or more. He hus been spending his vacation it this place and at F'lor enoe. Mrs. J. O. McDonald, of Suvann th. On . is spending time /icre at Mr. and Mrs. R. E. McElevc?.n. her relatives. Mrs. fjTghggl M iwkins Is reported somo better. Th? ?Irowth Is still ur.brok? n and totton Is seriously Injured Estimated tons la 20 to 25 per cent. though price* are f. ir ?"??tt ?n see I are sell Ing at $30 [er ton. VYI IH.I I ll LD Wedgefleld. gggtf h ?ha long dry ?pell through whuh Wt hav? Just pnnsed will shorten the cotton crop at least 20 per cut In this ??< i;on and unless rain comes toon Ihf i?? ;i crop will also be a failure. Messrs. Krank Melbtt CnJvIn Mc Lnurlu. pgtgf Dwtgni and Kr.tnk Cain left for Clemson College on Tuesday. Messrs. Barney and Lei Thomas left mat week for Davidson College. Mis? es Ammle. Inez and Corinno Well? of Privateer are spending ?6m? time with their ?ister, Mrs. It. H. Ragest y. Mr. .1. F. Spears, of Conway. AM accepted a position with Messrs. .1. H. A?cock & Sons for the fall. The many friends of Mr. X. D II Jordan arc glad to learn he has ?Uf> Mci.?ntly recovered so as t?> leave the hospital at Florence and return tfi his home at Cool Springs. Horry count;/, to regain some strength l>? - in?1 returning to his wmk here The NVedgefleld graded school Will begin Its 100H session on Monday. \W are fcrtunate to have the same teach? ers r-'turn to u?<. Prof. O. H. ."\ 0 Mlllan of Mulllns and Miss Ruth Harrington, of Cheraw. and Miss K. M. Pickens. of Mt. Pleasant. Mr. LeRoy Brohun, of Ashev?l?. N. C, Is spending sometime with his brother, Mr. T. D. Brohun. Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Ramsey ' had a few friends to call on Monday eve? ning In honor of the Misses Wells of Privateer. Mra. R. X. Thompson, of Olanta, Is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. D. Cain. REM BERT. Rembert, Sept. 9.?We have had a very light rain and some cooler weather, which I suppose will help our feelings some, but I don't think It will do the crops very much good. Cotton picking Is In full blast and the darkies are singing a glad song, be? cause they know cheese and crackers await them at night, but this won't last long, for three weeks fair weath? er and the crop will be about through. Gins are humming around us ard the wagon drivers are happy becat se they are going to town and you know the dispensary is running* Remberts is on a boom. There has been several additions made to the post office for the convenience and CC*> commonation of the public, also o nice *tock of goods has been opened up. Remberts is a beautiful plac^ and we hope in the near future to see a good many improvements ad? ded, which will beautify and advance Its projects. If Mr. Rembert would "throw open the gates of admission to the world, there would soon be a beautiful town there, and fine mar? ket Tor the farmers. Mail advan? tages, wholesale opportunities and banking pri\ iU gee would soon open up and Remberts and the surround? ing country would soon come to the front and take Its place among the leaders of progress. The little missionary society at Mi Leod's Chapel will serve Ice cream ?m?1 cake at the Rembert graded school building on Friday. 17th at 6 o'clock p. m. for the benefit & mis? sions. Come one. come all, and as slU In this glorious work for the Master's cause. P Mr. J. M. Reames is having gome repairing done on his residence, short crops does not seem to worry him. The graded school at Remberts will open OH the I 3th. MAX. Max, Sept. 10.?Messrs. W. E. Mc Brlde and A. J. Goodman went to Florence yesterday. Mr. J. C. Truluck went to Tim raonsvllle foday on business. The water in the mill pond near here was turned loose last Monduy and work commenced rebuilding tl; mill. Mr. J. D. Moore has taken a posi? tion with McT^endon & Co., at New town. Immense numbers of people at? tended the protracted meeting ti i Bethel last week. Perfect order pre? vailed. Every sermon was by the pffstor, and was to us wonderful and impressive. The Southeast Missionary Associa? tion convened with *.he W. M. S. of Bethel on Wednesday of last week. Mrs. Boatwright. of Mulllns, a gifted and consecrated worker, made excel? lent talks to the societies at the morning session. Rev. Planl, foreign missionary, preached an exceedingly impressive sermon to the public in the afternoon. Dinner was served on the ground. Farmers are ginning and selling cotton rapidly. Very little rain has fallen here for sometime . Ot lt SV MM FUTON LETTER. Summerton. Sept. 9.?Until yester? days good rain there had been noth? ing more than an occasional shower in this vicinity since the eotton sei son opened; the drought although too continuous for most purposes has en? abled uninterrupted harvesting lot ?everal er eck i, and consequently the ( Otton receipt! have so far been all ? ?ut pi Muomenai. That deterioration i-.iis Iahen place is an unquestionable facti but tiie price received should make up for all deficiencies, Wheth ? i warranted or not the Summcrlon market on Tuesday reached the lnuli point Of II !?! cents, which \\;is. oi course, ihe reaull of sharp oompe* tition. That was not i representative pi h ? and was only paid for 0 * CM few small lots. Bven at 12 cents, j which seems to be the prevailing pries today, our farmers are hurr\lng I their cotton to the gin with a view Of putting it on the market. Yester? day over 90 bales were ginned In town, and about 150 weighed on the local platform. Corresponding strides are being made in all the various business en? terprises in town; and the freight re (eipts are unusually large, Coinci? dent with the arrival of their new fall gOQ^S, the Bummerton Mercantile Co., procured as valuable assets to their ?1 r>- goods bUSinesSi the services of Misses Lucy Mood and Alethea Davis. The Btrauas-Rogan Co., has recently repainted the interior of their build? ing and made such improvements as will the more advantageously show off their full and up todate line ??f goods. As an adjunct to their business; the Summerton Hardware Co. are acting as agents for gasoline engine outfits. In which much interest is be? ing aroused. These engines we un? derstand, may be put to various uses ?from the threshing of oats to the generation of electricity. Rumor has it that Capt. J. A. James of the Sum merton Hardware Co. will soon install one in his home for the purpose of lighting. The runaway accident on Saturday of last week will serve to prove the wisdom of the town ordinance with regard to hitching vehicles on Main street. A horse belonging to Jim Jones, colored, ren a considerable dis? tance down Main St.. kicking the top Off the buggy and throwing the driv? er out. There happened to be only one other buggy on the street, but that one was strwek, "ncurrlng. how? ever no serious damage. We can not help but wonder what might have been the consequences had there been any number of vehicles hitched along tho street. On Thursday night. Sept. 2, Annie, the 3-year-old child of Mr. and Mrs. T. S. Rogan died at this place, aim the funeral services held at 11:30 Friday morning. On Sunday, Sept. 5, Mrs. Isaac Lenoir died in Hender sonville, N. C. where she had been taken some six weeks ago for treat? ment. Mrs. Lenoir was Lou Dingle, whose father is a member of tin well-known Ding! 8 family of tbjl community. On Tuesday night, Bept 7. Misse* Mildred James and Lucy Mood enter? tained a tew IrP nds at the home of Capt. J. A. James, The feature of amusement was games played in pro? gr< bIvs fashion and the ?rst prize, being a tivo pound box of Huylera, was won by Miss Genie Mao Purse. During" the evening ice cream and cake wer? served, Miss Carrie Rodgi rs. of Woodruff ?. C? Is visiting at he home of .Mrs J, C. Lanham, Miss Maud Kiiu bury is the gUfst ?; Mrs. J. A. James. Ml at F?rtha Davis has returned from the mountains ol* North Caro? lina. Mr. J. Fred Lanham has returned from Canton, X. C, and will be em? ployed in the dry goods department of W. R. Coskrey's store. WHITE RAPISTS CONVICTED. Carter8vllle, Ga.. Sept. 7.?At a spe? cial term of the Bartow county su? perior court here Jack Worthington. white, wn* today convicted of crimi? nal assault with recommendation U mercy and was sentenced to 20 year: in the penitentiary. Dink Worthing ton, co-defendant, was acquitted. The case of Will Golden, another white man. charged with criminally as sav.lt!''g r while woman Ii now on rial. Although there was considerable excitement in the northern part of Lartow county following the commis? sion of the assaults and threats of lynching were freely made, the ex? citement was appeased when the special term of court was ordered to try the cases. While the verdict In the Worthington case fails to meet the approval of many of the hun? dreds of citizens from the northern section of the county, who are in at? tendance upon the court, it is not apprehended that there will be any attempt to do either of the Worth? ington any violence. The spectacle of three white men facing trial at the same term of court, charged with criminal assault?a crime heretofore associated almost exclusively with a certain type of the negro?-is unparalleled in the history of American courts. The details of the assaults upon the two young wo? men, as recited by them, were revolt? ing, It |s certain that Judge Kite's or? dering of the Special term of court was all that prevented at least an at? tempt to lynch the three mon. Howard Stakely, a negro. Is in jail and will probably be tried on the charge of criminally assaulting a 7 year-oid negro girl, a verdict In the Golden case is ex pected tomorrow morning, ginm.ks REPORT I88VED. w ashington. I >. <\, Sept. S. The cotton ginners' report issued today was as follows: Total number of bales ginned to sept. ist. i!M?!t. :t77,r?r)2 bales; total number ginned to Sept. 1st, lHOS, I00,t7l hal<8. JAMES T. BACON DEAD. iklgefleld Mourns a Son Whose Life Lent Lustre t<> Her Name and Scat? tered Joy Among Her People. Edgefield, Sept. s.?Col. James T. Bacon died at r?:3<> o'clock this after? noon. The funeral will be from ? Episcopal church Friday at l 1 o'clock a. m. Col. Bacon had been ill Bi hi* home her?- for several weeks. Col. James T. Bacon was the best known and most universally beloved man in the county and his name WAS synonymous with all that is puiv. generous, noble and good. Col. Ba? um had attained his 7Sth year. He was descended from splendid revolu? tionary stock. His ancestors ca from Virginia, where the family had been prominent among the colonists for 'over a century. Falmond Bacon, for many years a brill.ant member of the Edgetieid bar and the "Xed Brace" in Longstreet's Georgia scenes, was his grandfather. Edmund Bacon, although a Georgian by birth, in early life moved to South Caro? lina and he with Col. Arthur Simkins settled the town of Edgefield. He had four children, the second,, Ed mond Speed, being the father of <4.he subject of this sketch, his mother be? ing Sarah Bacon, a cousin to her hus? band, she having married twice, her last husband being the Rev. Arthui Wigfall. The Bacon family "has been closely connected with the county's and State'? history. Col. Bacon had one brother. Hon. John E. Bacon, who was secretary of legation at St. Pe? tersburg when Gov. Pickens was minister, and afterwards minister to Uruguay and Paraguay under Presi? dent Cleveland, and a full sister, Mis. Paker of McClellanville, and two half-sisters. Mrs. Kate W. Cheatharn, of this place, and Mrs. Dr. Tresvam, formerly of Columbia. Col. James !'. Paeon was born liefe and h:s long and useful life was spent amidst the scenes of his nativity. Alter receiving an academic educa? tion at this place he completed I - itudiea in Germany, making a spe? cialty of music, in which he excel] ind which was one of the j >ya of his beautiful life. After his return from icrmany he taught music her< and at Anderson, out it was to journalism that he devoted his splendid talents in which field he w<?n for himself b name and reputation, seldom equal ed in this country. After serving with conspicuous brav? ry in the War Be cween the states he returned home and assumed the editorship of the Edgefield Advertiser and the libs ", that paper will best tell how ably and brilliantly h<' performed the duties of that office. Gentle as a womit?, yet brave ae a lion, he c uld write with all the softness and BWCetness of Washington Irving, hut a hen ne? cessity and duly demanded it with all the boldneae and tiro of Wendell j Phillips. During Reconstruction times. when Federal troops were Station??' here, and the negro and scalawag, hold high carnival. Col. Bacon mint? ed The Advertiser in red letter an I his "leader'' was tili? d with such pa? triotic fire and defiances as to cause offense to the federals. For this he was arrested and carried to Charles ! ton. hut no harm befell him. an?1 lu returned home only to continue the brave fight for Anglo-Saxon suprem? acy. He was again prominent in those days, as he ever was, a game? cock, and never did his red plume lower its crest. After leaving The Advertiser he, with his nephew Mr. L. W. Cheatham, conducted the Edgetteld Chronicle, a paper that is loved and read by every man. woman and child in the county, because back of it has been the brains, wit and elo? quence of "Jim Bacon." His corres? pondence to the Columbia Stat2 and spteial articles to The Sunday News and Courier attest the unique style, versatility and brilliancy of the man. Many of hi-> close friends here have often urged him4 to collect and print his wrtings, but his innate modesty forbade. They would make o volume worthy of his wit and genuis. Col. Bacon was never married, but he was beloved and courted by all for his magnetic personality, social at? tributes and brilliant conversational powers. One beautiful trait of his character was his love and loyalty t ? his immediate family. His veneraid mother, the late Mrs. Wigfall, as W< as other members of his family, would often urge him to seek broad ' fields, where his talent would have won higher distinction and greater pecuniary reward, hut he preferied lo remain with them, and with hit lite long friends, and at the home he loved so well and administer to theii happiness and support. Now that he is cone Bdgl field mourns lor him as never did Bhe sorrow i^r man before. He has left a void that can not be filled. Col. Bacon leaves surviving him his BtStet* Mrs. Kate Wigfall Cheatham; his nephew, Mr. E* W. Cheat ham; his nieces, Mrs. Fred G. Swaffield and Mrs. l). i. Denny, of Columbia, and Mrs. George Sharpton. besides several grand-nephews and niees. Beware of people who apologize everytime they do you a faver. RAILROADS MUST REFUND. iiiM'iMato Cotnnuwoe Qnnnlsaioti I* sans Decree in Central Yellow PUtt Association Overcharge Caw. Washington, Sept. 7.?An order in? volving approximately ? 1.000.000 in reparation was issued today i>y the Interstate Commerce Commission. It included claims In what is known as the Central Yellow Pine Association territory?Louisiana. Mississippi and western Alabama?and involved ,n refunding of amounts paid by a large number of shippers of yellow pine lumber from the territory to points in other States on which an overcharge of 2 cents per 100 pounds was col? lected hy various railroads. The settlement of the cases was j made on the same basis at that ef < fected in the yellow pine lumber cases I in other territories of the South, 67 j per cent, of the provable claims being allowed. TURKEY NEEDS MONEY'. Ottoman Government Trying to Sell Bond* to Amount of $30.00" OOO Washington. Sept. 7.?The Turkish government has invited bids for *30. 800,000 bonds hearing 4 per cent, Ul I tere'st with 1 per cent, for an amor? tisation fund. The Imperial Ottoman embassy in Washington today announced oificial ly that, on the strength Of article 36 of the financial law for the current financial year, the imperial Ol toman minister of finance has dec'd'd to contract a loan of 5.0t00,000 Turkish pounds (approximately $30,800.000), the rate of interest being 4 per o^nt. and the rate of amortisation 1 per cent. The product of this loan will be de? voted to the payment of the debt due to the Oriental railways according to recent arrangements; the payment of . the debts of the deposed sultan- to the establishment of an extraordinary relief fund to be used /or repairing I the damage caused by the recent d!s : turbances at Adana; to the meeting ' of the deficit of the imperial budget j for the current year; to the payment j of indemnities to officials placed on the retired list as a result of the re I organization of the various depart? ments of state, and finally to the meeting of the sxpe isea to be incur-, red by the reorganization of the civil and military pensions service. Gen. Suinlor Memorial Academy. The General Sumter Memorial Academy Will open for the fall ses? sion on Monday. Sept. 13th. BOYLE LIVE STOCK ? COMPANY. ? Our car of Stock has arrived. We have twelve nice mares in this shipment suitable for brood purposes, and several nice Saddle and Harness Horses. Drop in and Have a Look. This is hay season. Our trade on Osborne Mowers and Rakes has been good, but we have another car of Mowers just arrived, we would like to sell. Our Verticle Lift Mower is a wonder. You don't have to use your hands to throw the blade over a stump two feet high. The floating cutter bar allows the blades to cut level with the ground at all times. You can drive along one side of an embankment and cut your grass on the other. Can you do this with the others? You know the Osborne Rake ! It is recognized as the best by all. Double life axles and wheels. Blue Bird and Syracuse Steel Beam Plows. The entire John Deers' line of Plow Goods, Disc Harrows aud Planters. The Mc Worter Broad-cast and Two-row Fertilizer Distributor. Oat planting time is most here. The Farmers' Favorite Grain Drill is now perfect. You regulate both fertilizer and grain feeds with a lever on this year's improved drill. We have a complete line of Buggies, prices right, but we have a special inducement fcr the trade while they last. It is a High Grade, Leather Quarter Top Buggy, with Iron Frame Leather Boot, shipped us without order by the manufacturers. In order to induce us to take them they made us a substantial reduction. This wo pass on to you. Price $65.00. Unloading today a car of One Horse, Steel Axle Wagons. $24.00, Fully Warranted. Car of Hackney One and Two Horse Wagons to arrive next week. Come ami stop at our new barn with us when in town. Just across the street from the old stand. Fifty-three stalls. No charge for hitching.