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NEGRO BRUTE SHOT.
Mother Forms Posse and Revenges
her Nine-Year-Old Daughter.
Powder Springs, Ga., Sept 16.?
After forming and heading a posse
to chase Robert Bostick, a negro,
who had attacked her nine-year-old
daughter, Mrs. Sarah Reed, wife of a
prominent citizen, shot the negro full
of bird shot, as soon as he was overtaken.
Bostick was employed at the Reed
home and enticed the little girl into
an outhouse, where he attacked her
and then fled. When the girl told
her mother, Mrs. Reed armed herself
with a shot gun, formed a posse of
neighbors and led them in pursuit of
the negro. After a long chase the
negro was discovered hidden behind
a log in the woods. Mrs. Reed called
on the members of the posse to
stand back, raised her gun and dis
charged both barrels into the negro,
probably fatally wounding him. She
began to reload the gun, when the
sheriff and deputies rode up and took
charge of the negro. Mrs. Reed, sobbing,
begged the sheriff to let her finish
Bostick.
The sheriff hurried the negro to
Marietta to prevent a lynching.
NEGRO KILLED IN MARION.
White Men Fatally Wound Darky in
Effort to Capture Two Robbers.
Marion, Sept. 17.?Ed Godbold, a
negro living on Mr. A. N. Waller's
place, about five miles south of
Mullins, was shot and killed on Tuesday
night, and an inquest was held
yesterday by Magistrate D. J. Oliver,
acting as coroner. From what can
be learned of the affair, it appears
that a party of two or more negroes
had held up and robbed a number of
white men in the vicinity of Mullins
on Tuesday, among the number being
Mr. Henry Brown; that Mr. Henry
Brown, Mr. Burney Brown, Mr. Joe
Brown, Mr. George Waller and sev
eral others were hunting tne nignwaymen
and located them in a negro
house on the plantation of Mr.
A. N. Waller, in which Joe Godbold
and his brother, Ed, the deceased,
lived; that in an effort to capture the
robbers, Ed Godbold was unintentionally
shot. The two robbers whose
names could not be ascertained, were
both captured by the party and taken
to Mullins, where, it is understood,
they are being given a preliminary
trial to-day before Magistrate W. F.
Norton. They will probably be
brought to Marion this afternoon and
lodged in jail to await trial. Dr. E.
B. Utley visited the wounded man
yesterday morning, found him still
alive, but in a hopeless condition.
He died before noon.
The verdict of the jury of inquest
was that death was caused by "a
load of shot from a shotgun fired from
outside of the house, and that Joe
Brown, Henry Brown and Burney
Brown were present, and with the
ccrowd that was hunting the strang'
ere and carried them off."
Magistrate Oliver says that a warrant
will have to he issued charging
Joe, Henry and Burney Brown with
the killing.
NIGHT RIDERS WARN GINNERS.
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Notices Posted on Gins Say Cotton
Must Go to 12 Cents.
Lawrenceville, Ga., Sept. 17.?
Night riders have posted written notices,
painted with red hands on them
in several gins of this county warning
the proprietors that their gins
will be burned to the ground should
, a boll of cotton be ginned before the
price of cotton has reached 12 cents.
It is reported that similar warnings
have been posted on many gins and
oil mills over the county.
Little Girl Outraged and Killed.
Bluefleld, W. Va., Sept. 17.?The
body of Lou Stafford, a ten-year-old
white girl, who has been missing
since Monday night, was found tonight
in a clump of bushes in the
court house yard at Welch, W. Va.
j The child was strangled to death after
having been assaulted. There
are threats of lynching. A white
man is suspected, but no arrests have
been made.
NEAR FIRE AT LEXINGTON.
Bale of Cotton in Middle of 500
Found to be in Flames.
Lexington, Sept. 16.?Lexington'
came near having a serious fire thisi
afternoon. A bale of cotton was dis-;
covered to be on fire in the ware
house of W. P. Roof, where 500 bales
of cotton were stored. A very strange
feature of the fire was the fact that
the bale was in the middle of the
lot and it caught in the middle of the
bale. Evidently a spark must have
fallen in the press while the cotton
was being baled, for in no other manner
could the fire have originated.!
When discovered the bale was in a
blaze, and it was only by the raostj
heroic efforts of those present that,
a serious conflagration was avoided.'
| ITALIAN RUNS AMUCK.
Dago Kills Constable in Florida
Town and is Killed Himself.
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St. Petersburg, Fla., Sept. 16.?
Constable E. A. George was killed
here to-day by an unknown Italian,
who was later killed in a desperate
fight with Policeman Belieker. The
Italian came here from Tampa, and
practically took possession of Capt.
Tuttle's home. The police were notified
and the man was carried to jail,
where he made an attack on Constable
George, who was alone with
the prisoner. It must have been a
fearful struggle, for the constable's
brains were scattered about the floor
of the jail and he was lying in a pool
of blood when found. Shots in the
jail attracted citizens, and when the
police went to the scene they were
attacked by the Italian. Several shots
were fired and finally the fire comnanv
was called out and played a
stream of water 011 the infuriated J
Italian. After two hours of fighting;
and the exchange of a dozen or more
shots, Policeman Belieker succeeded
in shooting down the Italian.
Had His Foot Crushed.
Orangeburg, Sept. 18.?R. M.
Crump, white, was severely injured
this morning while at work on the
Atlantic Coast Line's Santee trestle.
Crump was handling a hoisting engine
and put his foot on the driving
rod instead of the brake. When
signed to put on the power his foot
was caught between the driving rod
and bottom of the friction lever and
so badly masher that it is feared amputation
will be necessary. The injured
man was immediately sent to
Orangeburg on a special and received
prompt medical attention at the
hands of the local Coast Line surgeons,
who are endeavoring to save
the shattered member.
WIXTHROP CONTRACT LET.
J. D. Elliott, of Hickory, N. C., to
Build the New Dormitory.
Rock Hill, Sept. 16.?The building
committee of the Winthrop board
has been in session here two days
considering the score or more bids
submitted for the building of the new
dormitory at the College. The contract
was this afternoon awarded to
J. D. Elliott, of Hickory, N. C. The
figures are not given, hut it is understood
that it is in the neighborhood
of $51,000. Work will begin in
the near future, so that the building
may be complete by the beginning of
the next season.
S. C. University.
More and more the University authorities
are striving to link the institution
to the common schools of
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present faculty have been closely
identified with the common schools?
teaching in the State and county
schools for teachers, addressing
teacher bodies and the public on
school matters. Realizing that the
high school situation .in the State was
far from satisfactory, the board of
trustees a little more than two years
ago established in the University a
chair of secondary education, and
called to it a man who had taught
for nearly twenty years in the common
schools, most of that time in
South Carolina. Prof. Hand began
by giving half of his time to teaching
in the institution, and the other
half to field work over the State.
Within less than a year the demand
for his time was so heavy that from
that time since he has given almost
his entire time to this high school
work over the State. In the meantime
the legislature has appropriated
$50,000 annually to aid the high
schools, and the State board of education
made Prof. Hand its State Inspector,
further linking the Institution
to the schools.
There are now in round numbers
one hundred state aided high schools,
town and rural. These schools are
getting the benefit of his services in
building courses of study, classifying
their work, and urging on the improvement
of these schools. For the
first time in the history of the State
all the colleges and the public at
large have access to detailed tabulated
information as to the actual work
done in all the high schools of the
Statev The volume of correspondence
and the number of bulletins of infor
mation which pass through this office
are heavy, and are growing almost
daily. This department of the
University is devoted to the educational
interests of the State rather
than to the individual interest of this
institution.
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Elliott Green Respited.
Elliott Green will not pay the death
penalty in Barnwell, as decreed by
Judge Aldrich at the last term of
criminal court.
C. A. Best, Green's attorney, went
to Columbia Tuesday to see the governor
in his client's behalf. Late
Tuesday afternoon the governor notified
Sheriff Creech that he had decided
to grant Green a respite until Oct.
16 in order to give himself a chance
to look into the question of commuting
the sentence to life imprisonment.
Greene has been given a new lease
on life for four weeks, and the people
of the county will await with interest
the final disposition of the case.
The case will be referred to the
State pardon board at its November
meeting.
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A BOTTLE OF TEARS.
One of the Most Striking Temperance
Stories Ever Published.
The following story is vouched for
by Rev. J. B. Culpepper of Georgia,
who received it from a man in Virginia
who said he knew the party and
confirmed it in all of its features:
Some years ago a noble young
man of Virginia was happily married
to one of the most beautiful young
women of that grand old State. He
possessed a beautiful mansion and a
26 mule farm. But a bar was near
his home. The bar-keeper became
his personal friend and in time induced
him to drink and gamble. As
the years rolled by his financial interest
failed until his sole possessions
were reduced to a home and a one
mule farm. One night in the gam
bling saloon of the bar-room near by,
he was brutally shot to death. After
being buried by some negroes under
an apple tree in his own garden his
wife received the following note from
the bar-keeper:
"Dear Madam: This will inform
you that I hold a mortgage over your
late husband's mule and farm, also
the farm implements, also the household
and kitchen furniture, also your
household goods including trunks,
wardrobe and wearing apparel. As I
wish possession, will you do me the
kindness to vacate at once. I herewith
send a man to take charge of
the premises, the keys, etc., and represent
me in all things.
"Signed, "
The following is the answer to
this note:
"Sir, you demand the keys. I send
them herewith. The one with a red
string unlocks my wardrobe. In the
right side you will find my wedding
dress. I never wore it but once. It
is yours now, by action of my hus
band, whom I never disobeyed. In
the folds of that dress, you will find
a small phial, with a few tears in it,
the last I had to shed, but they are
historical. They stand for the birth
of a little birl born under a happy
roof?of fifteen joyous, girlhood,
schoolday years, of a short sweet
courtship and marriage, to the bravest,
best man I ever knew, but for
whiskey, of the day we moved into
this palatial and well-kept home, of
the?alas! so short honey-moon spent
here. You will find all of these sweet
sacred pleasures in the bottle of tears.
A change, sharp and sudden, came.
You may read it, sir in the tears I
bequeath to you. They will tell you
of the first time my husband crossed
your villainous threshold; of the first
time I detected liquor on his breath,
and of how he put me gently aside
with a shower of assuring kisses, say
ing that for my sake, he would never
be brought under the hateful effect of
strong drink; of how he became a
constant tippler; of the first time his
step was unsteady; of his rapid decline
in home-keeping and home love;
of the ease with which he would misunderstand
me; of the first time he
spoke a cross word to me; of the first
oath in my presence. You will find
it all in the bottle of tears, sir. You
will find there, too, one rainy, windshaken,
thunder-boomed, lightningtorched
night, in which it looked as if
the building would be demolished. It
was that storm-shocked night that
our first-born, little Mary, came into
this old whiskey-soaked world. You
will also find in the bottle of tears,
the greedgored part you played in my
house that night?for while one physician
was attending me, in an adjoining
room, one stood over my poor
drunken husband, who was the victim
of imaginary serpents, gorillas
and devils. In reality, he was only
your victim. But you will find it, sir,
in the bottle of tears. I saw in the
lightning's glare the storm as it toyed
with the shade trees. I heard the
rain dashing in fury, against the windows;
the room was jarred by angry
thunder. But louder than thunder,
to me, were the groans and screams
and oaths of my erstwhile noble and
manly, but now fallen and cowardly,
husband.
You will find it all, sir, in the bottle
of tears. I heard the low strange
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cry which ordinarily fills a mother
with joy, but which filled me with a
new anguish, as I thought of such a
fit beginning to a career destined to
be one of piercing shame. I at first
prayed that we all three might meet
death in the storm, which now seemed
to be urged forward by all the
furies of Pandemonium. Then I asked
that the little one might live and
win papa back to the path of sobriety,
from which you, for gain, had
led him.
"The next morning, he came and
stood uneasily upon his feet, looked
from bloated eyes upon us, stooped
and kissed me and baby, and vowed
he would never drink again. I believed
him. The peach came back to
my cheek; a girlish lustre kindled.in
my eye; a wife's and mother's pride
began to lay plans for life and
home?but they were soon dashed
and broken, for before I was up from
that bed, he came home drunk again.
My sun went out in sudden, irretrievable
midnight; my heavens, they
could be called, became starless, my
heart petrified. But, sir, you will
find it all, and more, in the bottle
of tears. I need not tell you of the
next few sorrow-laden years, and the
coming of the second girl; of the
flight of luxury, of the desertion of
friends; of the absence of visitors;
of the curtailing of expenses and enforced
economy, in order to meet
your liquor claims; of the loss of my
health; of other efforts to keep the
wolf from the dodor; of the times
I have fled, by night, with frightened
children, from a rum-crazed
husband and father; of a cheerless
hearthstone; of a bare table,
and the birth of the third child,
in the midst of the squalor, to which
only a drunkard's home is familiar;
of my vain efforts to keep the children
clothed and fed; of the deeper
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helpless, husband. One night there
was such a pain in my heart that I
cried out. It awoke Mary, who came
to me and asked what the matter
was. I told her that I was in so much
pain, that I must be dying*?that she
would have to take mamma's place
and care for papa and little sisters?
that papa was a hopeless drunkard,
and that she would soon be the only
bread winner. You will find in the
bottle of tears, how we spent that
night, Mary and I, in praying and
planning; how little Mary took her
seat at dawn, in the doorway, and
watched for her papa's return, how
with the rising of the sun, he came
staggering up the once flower-bordered,
now weed-infested, road, how
Mary ran down, threw her arms
about her father and said?O, my
papa! Our mama came near to
death last night. She said I would
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too. 0, my sweet papa, you won't
drink any more, will you? With an
oath, which might become a demon,
he raised his strong arm, and slapped
the child?a blow that sent her to
the gravelled walk, and left her
bleeding and weeping, while he came
on to curse and beat me. But you
can read it all, sir, in the bottle of
tears, the only thing I had in my
own name and right to leave you, as
a reminder of what the possessions
have cost.
Only three mornings ago four of
your obedient henchmen bore my
precious husband home to me, at
break of day, and laid him dead on
the floor, and hurried back, I sup
pose, to the gambling table, over
which your victim had just been shot.
I found some friendly negroes to dig
the grave?in what I thought was
my garden, and we laid him down,
under his favorite apple tree. I
thought to put flowers there in the
summer and shells in winter, and
teach my girls of how noble he was
before he fell into your clutches. But
it seems I buried him in your garden,
and under your apple tree! Indeed,
he was laid on your floor. It is
marked with your victim's blood.
After some kind colored friends helped
me to shroud him, and while
sitting up with his precious remains
that night, I tried to wash out the
stains of blood, thinking I could not
bear to look at it and walk over it.
But it turns out that it is your floor,
on which he who gave you his vast
property, his manhood, his family,
his very soul, found a cooling board.
You will find it all, sir, in the bottle
of tears. You order me to vacate. I
obey. When you read this note I
will be on my way, down the road
east. I take that route, only because
it leads me away from you and
your den or destruction, i aon i
know where I, with my three girls,
will spend the night. But one thing
I promise you. Whatever there is in
a widow's wail, or an orphan's cry,
if there really be a God, we will meet
you at His judgment bar?there to
tell, and the truth to say, as to how
you came by this home, which we
now leave. You will find it all, sir,
in the bottle of tears."
VERY LOW RATES
To Denver, Colorado and Return via
Southern Railway.
On account of the annual convention,
American Bankers Association,
the Southern Railway announces attractive
low round trip rates to Denver,
Col. Tickets to be sold daily
until September 30th, 1908, good to
return leaving Denver not later than
October 31st, 1908.
For rates, details, schedules, etc.,
apply to Southern Railway ticket
agents, or, J. C. LUSK,
Division Pass. Agt.,
J. L. MEEK, Charleston, S. C.
Asst. Gen. Pass. Agt.,
Atlanta, ua.
Farmers Look to Charleston.
Columbia, Sept. 18.?The Farmer's
Union have determined upon working
out a plan for selling cotton direct
to European buyers through Charleston.
James L. Shipp, of Newberry, has
been apointed chairman of a committee
to elaborate this project, and
he has been in conference with Commissioner
E. J. Watson as to details
for making the idea practical, and
will shortly visit Charleston to take
up the matter there with handlers of
the staple.
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AN OPPO
Fine Farms Will C
One hundred acres, almost in corporate
limits of Bamberg. About
sixty acres in high state of cultivation.
Crops in sight. Corn (not on
Williamson plan) about thirty bushels
per acre. Cotton, with only about
five hundred pounds fertilizer per
acre, very nearly or quite a bale per
acre.
Eighty-five acres; abcut sixty-five
acres in good state of cultivation.
One four-room and one three-room
tenant house; one shallow and two
deep wells of good water. Crops
good. Only about one mile North of
Bamberg.
Thirty-six acres, about twenty-five
open; no Duiiaings. urops m iair
condition. This property lies only
about one mile from Bamberg.
Also very many larger farms, containing
from 250 to 1,500 acres, lying
from two to ten miles from Bamberg,
S. C., in this and Orangeburg
counties. Prices and terms on application.
CITY PROPERTIES FOR SALE.
One seven-room dwelling; barn
and stables and other outbuildings;
all recently built; wired for electric
lights; yard fenced; deep well of
good water. The lot contains about
three acres. We are offering this for
a limited time at only $2,000.00
J. T. O
Real Estate Agent
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Saint Angel;
Aiken, Soul
Select Day and
For Young Lai
This well known institution affords
excellent opportunities for a
thorough, practical, and refined education.
The courses are Primary, Grammar,
Commercial, and Academic,
with additional facilities lor periec-1
The location is Ideal in 1
Academy Opens Sept 14, 19
REV. DIRECTRES
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Grand Fall Opening September
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io At Panic Prices
Also five tenant houses; three with
four rooms each and two with two
rooms; all in fair repair. This lot
contains about four acres. Price only
$1,100.00.
Also two open lots containing two
acres, more or less. Will let these
go for only $250.00.
Also one five-room house on Main
Street, with barn and stables; deep
well of good water. Lot contains one
acre, more or less. All in fair repair
and under fence. Price only..$l,250.
One open lot on New Bridge Street,
measuring 105 feet front by about - ?
300 feet deep, by ninety feet, more
of less, wide on back. Fine site for
a residence, and large enough for a
hotel, as it lies less than one hundred
yards from depot. Price and
terms on application.
Also one open lot on Church Street,
measuring ninety-eight feet front and
back by 53% feet deep. Will go at
a bargain. Price and terms on application.
Also a block of lots on Railroad
Avenue, West, containing ten acres, " ?$!
more or less. About five acres of pe- *Jj|
can trees in bearing. An opportuni- . rj
ty for young men to invest in and de- '[
velop. Only the one chance. Price ;
and terms on application. i '
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