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VARIED OPINIONS.
Some Say Tillman Fell Down, While
^Others Think Otherwise.
Washington, Jan. 11.?There are
two widely divergent opinions in
Washington as to whether Tillman
made good in his defense to-day.
That he did not greatly help his case
is believed by the larger number, perhaps,
and some of his friends who
don't believe he has been guilty of
any wrongdoing or dishonor express
the belief that he did not make as
good a defense as the facts in his
favor really warrant. Others, and
these regardless of political alinement
or past opinion of Tillman, insist
that Tillman has been caught
with the goods; that touching the
fundamental point of using his influence
as senator to foster his private
gain, his speech was an admission.
It was noticeable that while, after
Tillman sat down, most of the Democratic
senators went up and shook
/ hands with him, not one Republican
Vim Qnnn aftPrwardfi
ttpyiVClV/lIUU UlXU. ywu , _
the senate went into executive session.
Several rumors as to further
proceedings are going the rounds tonight.
One is that Senators Culberson,
Bacon and Clay have been asked
to draft and present a resolution for
an investigation of Tillman, which
Tillman in his speech "demanded."
Tillman did speak to several of his
friends about this, it is understood,
but some of the Republican leaders
have been heard to declare that any
investigation would be opposed on
the ground that the senate has already
before it all the facts in the
case. Senator Clay is already on the
appropriations subcommittee to look
into the president's use of the secret
service.
It has been many a day since there
has been as great an interest in any
congressional speech as this one.
Only about one-third of the crowd
that went to the capitol were able to
get into the chamber, although every
available space, aisles and all, was
packed.
Tillman has been'at work on the
^ speech for several days and for
about the first time since he has been
here he shut out all visitors from his
office several hours before he entered
the senate. Since it was announced
that he was to speak a number of
telegrams have come to him from all
parts of the country. Among them
were the following:
Athens, Ga.?"Monday is the day
of your life. Give them the best
i you've got, what we call H. in South
* Carolina."?J, Jti. uuaiey.
Athens, Ga.?"Somebody, sent u*
Republican literature in official envelopes.
Yon didn't."?W. H. Shelton.
Utica, N. Y.?"Anybody who attacks
your character is a key hole
spy."?Gaffney.
Columbia, S. C.?"Take the hide
i off."?E. M. Rucker.
Spokane, Wash.?"At your service.
Hope you give them hell tomorrow."?Shepherd.
London, England?"Cable 500
words your ^pinion of Roosevelt We
will pay tejis."?London Telegraph.
ZACH McGHEE.
I Prohibition Pays Savannah.
Savannah, Ga., Jan. 5.?Despite
* prohibition that has caused the police
records in other Georgia cities to
fall off during 1908, Savannah's
record shows an increase. The total
number of arrests, 8,495, is an increase
of 415 over 1907. Fifteen
murder cases were docketed?an increase
of one.
The fact that the police court fines
increased to $35,000 from $18,000
for the year before is accounted for
by Savannah's system of dealing with
blind tigers. In each case when the
alleged tiger operator failed to appear
his bond of $100 was forfeited.
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About ?16,000 was ooiameu m tuts
way.
Cotton Ginned Baring 1908.
Washington, D. C., Jan. 9.?The
census bureau today reported 12,470,226
bales of cotton ginned from
the growth of 1908 to January 17,
'( last, against 9,951,505 a year ago
and 27,386 ginneries operated
against 27,276 a year ago.
The percentage of the whole crop
ginned to January 1st is 90 per cent,
for 1909 and 90.4 for 1908.
The report includes 231,821
round bales and 86,016 sea-island
bales for 1909. It counts round
bales as half bales and excludes lint^
: era. The cotton ginned to January
1st, 1907, and 1906, were 11,741,039
and 9,725,426 respectively. The
total crop of 1907 was 11,557,822, of
which 92.7 per cent, was ginned to
January 1st. Crops of 1906 and 1905
were 12,983,201 and 10,495,106 re,
spectively. The running bales by
* States for States named ginned to
January first last and ginneries, re'
spectively, follows:
Alabama, 1,304,324 and 3,467 gin"EMnririn
fifi 808 and 255:
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Georgia, 1,933,956 and 4,453; Louisiana,
456,188 and 1,691; Mississippi,
1,518,707 and 3,465; Missouri,
53,92& and 78; North Carolina 646,731
and 2,741; South Carolina, 1,176,743
and 3,219; Tennessee, 317,343
and 646; Virginia, 12,143 and
114 ginneries.
There were 179,694 round bales
and 73,425 sea-island bales for 1908
and 255,566 round bales and 54,275
sea island bales for 1907.
Distribution of sea island cotton
for 1909 follows:
Florida, 32,798; Georgia, 41,037;
South Carolina, 12,181.
Corrected statistics of the quantity
of cotton ginned to December
13, last, are 11,904,269 bales.
Mr. J. W. Stokes has gone to Columbia,
Tenn., to buy another fine
carload of mules for G. Frank Bam.
berg.
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NIGHT RIDERS ARE GUILTY
SIX TO BE HANGED AND TWO
GET TWENTY YEARS.
Friday, February 19th is Date Set for
Execution?Appeal
Taken.
Union City, Tenn., Jan. 9.?Death
to six convicted night riders, twenty
years' imprisonment for two and an
emphatic denial for a new trial is the
mandate of Judge Jones in a sentence
handed down here shortly
after noon to-day.
Friday, February 19, 1909, is the
date set for the execution.
Sentenced to death: Garrett Johnson,
Samuel Applewhite, Tld Burton,
Roy Ransom, Arthur Cloar, Fred
Pinion.
Twenty years' imprisonment: Bud
Morris, Bob Huffman.
Court convened early today to hear
the argument for a new trial. Counsel
for the defense introduced several
witnesses to substantiate the various
grounds of their motion. Judge Jones
listened attentively to the testimony.
The question of the competency of
the juror, Dahnke, was withdrawn
by counsel for the defendants.
Judge's Scathing Words.
The court said it was firmly of the
opinion that all evidence introduced
at the trial was competent. Judge
Jones continued:
"I said some time ago to the
grand jury that it was a sad, sad day
when these men left their quiet
homes; that their wives had not
taken them around the neck and
pleaded with them for God Almighty's
sake to stop and not band
themselves together for such unholy
acts; that the evidence iiig this case
is bristing with perjury, and the jury
has returned into this court a verdict
against Bud Morris and Bob Huffman
of murder in the second degree
and which must stand.
"The jury has also returned a verdict
in the first degree against six of
these defendants and in view of the
m, iner in which the life of Quentin
Rankin was taken I can see no mitigating
circumstances in this crime.
It was not done in the heat of passion,
and has none of the elements of
mitigating circumstances, and that
part of the verdict will be disregarded."
Given Twenty Years.
After a moment's breathless silence,
the court said:
"Bud Morris, you will stand up.
"It is the opinion that you be incarcerated
in the penitentiary for
twenty years and be deprived of your
rights of franchise."
Bob Huffman next received the
same sentence.
Judge Jones, after a pause, continued:
"Garrett Johnson, you have been
tried on a charge of murder in the
first degree. A motion for a new trial
is overruled by the court. It is considered
.and the judgment of the
court is that you will be remanded
to jail until Friday, the 19th day of
February. 1909, when you will, by
the sheriff of this county, be hung by
the neck until you are dead, and may
God Almighty have mercy on your
soul."
The same judgment was pronounced
on the remaining five defendants,
convicted of first degree murder.
Counsel for defendants asked for
a writ of error and gave notice of an
appeal to the State supreme dourt.
Perfect silence prevailed in the
court room during the pronouncing
of the sentences. The defendants,
each in turn, arose, pale and worn,
and received the words of Judge
Jones.
The court then directed the sheriff
to see that the defendants be
carefully looked after and a proper
guard be supplied.
Court then adjourned.
Grounds of Motion.
The motion for a new trial for the
eight night riders convicted of the
murder of Captain Rankin, at Walnut
Log, was heard here to-day by
Judge Jones.
The defense attacked the competency
of Jurors McKinney and
Dahnke, asserting that they had expressed
opinions as to the guilt ol
the parties on trial and that Dahnke
was a resident of the State of Kentucky.
Witnesses were introduced tc
prove these facts. It was also theii
claim that Juror Rosson, who wag
ill, was thus incompetent to judge ag
to the guilt or innocence of the accused,
After having heard the testimony
of three witnesses introduced by the
defense in their effort to prove thai
Juror McKinney had expressed ar
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opinion as 10 me gum ^?i iue uuuvicted
men, the State proved by the
members of the jury that he insisted
on mitigating circumstances being included
in the verdict.
The contention in regard to Jurors
Rosson and Dahnke were withdrawn
and the motion for a new trial was
overruled.
Carolina's Bumper Crops.
Columbia, Jan. 6.?Advance proofs
from Commissioner Watson's reporl
to the legislature, out to-day, shou
that the year just closed brought
bumper crops to the Staie in cotton
corn and tobacco.
The corn yield is 29,250,000 bushels,
which is 3,500,000 ahead ot
1907, which itself, was 6,250,000
ahead of best previous yields.
The tobacco yield is put down at
slightly over 25,000,000 pounds
while cotton is placed at 1,124,00C
bales.
The value of all farm oroducts is
$118,000,000, exclusive of cotton and
live stock, and live stock products.
J. W. Stokes has gone to market
to buy mules for G. Frank Bamberg
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Further Details of the Crime in I
1 Florence County.
Scranton, Jan. 11.?Mr. Willie
Price, a prominent and reliable
farmer from Hyman, Florence coun- 51
ty, was here to-day just from the
scene of the brutal murder of Arthur
Davis, and informed the News and
Courier correspondent that the young
negro was taken from his house last t
Friday morning by a few masked c
white men, who after beating him in ^
! a brutal manner, shot him to death.
' The negro, for the past year, had been
living on the farm of Mr. Bigham, a ^
son of the late ex-Senator L. S. Big- c
f ham, from Florence county, and dur- a
ing the latter part of the year was t
' accused by Mr. Bigham of wilfully
knocking his mule's eye out. When a
he reprimanded the negro severely, t
the latter became offended at the t
charge, and neighbors corroborate ^
the negro's statement in saying that a
tie is not guilty, xnis is Denevea 10 i
be the cause of the brutal crime. E
About this time the negro decided
to move to the farm of Mr. W. J. Hy- g
1 man for the year, being a day labor- t
er," and was living there5 when the t
crime was committed. Mr. J. W. Hy- a
man, hearing the alarm from the ne- t
gro house, hastened to the scene, and 4
on his arrival at once recognized the i
men now accused, and also their
horses and buggy. The parties at once a
1 ran off a short distance from the ^
buggy into the woods, firing a pistol, j.
by the light of which Mr. Hyman ^
easily recognized their faces. ^
The mother of the dead negro can t
identify the men, as their masks ac
cidentally dropped off during the j
scuffle with the negro while he was j,
being taken from his house by the
men. The* old woman says they
| were all white men and live in the ?
Hyman section. *
The inquest will be continued to- '
morrow and further evidence obtain- 8
ed, and, in all probability arrests J
will be made. The negro bears an r
excellent reputation in that section J
for honesty, industry and obedience. 1
The people of the Hyman section and a
lower part of Florence county are 8
greatly incensed at the crime. r
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T. B. BUTLER MESSENGER. J
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Will Take Returns to Washington for a
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Presidential Election. g
A short and formal session of the
State Board of Canvassers was held 8
yesterday for the purpose of organiz- 1
ing, casting the vote of South Car- J
oltna for William J. Bryan and elect- 1
lag a messenger to take the returns
to Washington in March. Aftter the
nine electors were sworn in, T. B.
Crews, of Laurens, was elected chair- (
man and T. B. Butler, of ^Cherokee,
secretary. The ballot was then
taken and T. B. Butler was elected
messenger to take the returns to a
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A PROHIBITION LAW. t
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Anti-Saloon League Adopts a Meas- ^
to Introduce. t
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Spartanburg, Jan. 9.?The Anti- i
Saloon League of South Carolina met
here yesterday afternoon, elected offi- g
cers and discussed a prohibition bill g
that is to be introduced at the com- c
ing session of the general assembly. a
The Rev. J. L. Harley was re-elected a
superintendent and all the old offi- r
1 cers of the State organization were
I re-elected.
The meeting was held in the Ep>
worth League room of the Central
! Methodist Church. The attendance 1
was large and much enthusiasm was
- manifested by those present. The
' committee, which was appointed
' sometime ago to draft a prohibition c
bill, submitted several bills and they 1
a 1_ J! _ J 3 ? *
were ireeiy uisuusaeu a,uu a ucuunc *
decision was reached as to the nature ?
? of the bill to be introduced, though
! nothing was given out concerning the
! measure.
The Anti-Saloon League has determined
to make a vigorous fight for
. prohibition when the legislature con[
venes. Superintendent Harley will
. move his headquarters to Columbia
j and will be in the thickest of the
> battle when the prohibition gun is
. fired. There are 21 counties in the
State where liquor cannot be sold
, legally and it is the opinion of many
. members of the Anti-Saloon League
j that the legislature will pass a State
} wide prohibition bill.
Action Postponed.
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, ' The State board of pardons has
J postponed action on the case of Her[
bert Boyles from this county, for
. WLLUIL1 it yaiUUii is aon^u. iuv ivnv > ,
ing statement of the case was given \
I out by the secretary of the board: t
"Ex Parte, Herbert Boyles, Bam- (
berg county?Among the papers fur- j
5 nished the board in this case we
L found only excerpts from the testi- j
. mony taken from the trial, which \
tended to prove an alibi in favor of
the petitioner. The board, however,
was desirous of having all of the testimony
taken upon the trial, and .
. therefore the case was continued un- *
'T til the next meeting of the board, and
we would now respectfully ask that
your excellency will furnish the board
' with the entire testimony upon which j
the appeal was heard before the j
I supreme court. With this informa- '
I tion, I trust that the board will be *
enabled to take some final action at c
h their next meeting." 1
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> The Cotton Market.
The price of cotton has gone up i
' some since last week, and the staple 1
1 is bringing 9*4 cents the pound in <
Bamberg to-day. The receipts for the <
past week were two hundred bales, \
: which brings the total receipts for the <
. season up to about 11,000 bales. i
IN THE PALMETTO STATE
IOMK OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS
KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA.
>tii te News Boiled Down for Quick
Reading?Paragraphs About
Meu and Happenings.
John H. Earle, of Greenville, has
een elected chairman of the railroad
:ommi8sion. F. C. Caughman has
>een the chairman.
Will Foster, a negro, who was'convicted
some months ago in Spartan>urg
for the murder of John Young,
in aged white man, has for the third
ime been sentenced to be hanged.
3. S. Tyar, president of the Law
ma- Order League at Pacolet, was
ridd in Spartanburg last week for
he' killing of Edward Kirby. He
Kailound guilty of manslaughter
ind sentenced to imprisonment of
wcfc years in the penitentiary. Ap>eat
was taken.
^Tilliam B. King was sworn in as
hefiff of Anderson county. He has
?eeh chief of police of the city hereof0re.
King is called "Big King,"
ind is said to be the largest officer in
he-World. He weighs 430 pounds, is
r 1 vears old, and is six feet three
nches in height.
A short session of the general asenibly,
which met in Columbia Tueslayjj
is looked for this year, as members
do not now get pay by the day.
?h *y are now paid $200 a session,
whether it be long or short, and for
his-, reason a short session is expectid.
A good deal of the useless wranging
will be done away with, which
s welL
A negro was lynched in Lexington
ounty one night last week. The
rute attempted to assault a Mrs.
Vingard in her own yard.^ut she
creamed and her husband and son
ame to her rescue and the negro
led. The sheriff pursued him alQost
immediately, and on finding
he criminal near a swamp he turned
md fired on the sheriff, inflicting a
light wound in the groin. The sheriff
eturned the fire with buckshot, and
aw the negro fall. Thinking he had
:illed him, the sheriff returned
tome at once to have his wound at
ended to. But the news had gotten
broad, and a posse who was out
earchingrfor the negro came on the
cene soon after the sheriff's departire,
and the negro has not been seen
ince. Nobody will talk, so no inforaation
as to what was done with the
tegro can be gotten, but it is certain
hakhe was lynched. - '
LOOKS GOOD FOR COFFIN MEN.
Census Takers to Ask People if They
Have Negro Blood in Their Veins.
Washington, Jan. 9.?The coffin
nd undertaking business in the
louth will be greatly benefited, in all
trobability, during the next few years
>y an amendment'offered to the cenus
bill by Senator Clay, of Georgia.
-Vhen the bill was taken up for conideration
he offered an amendment
hat the census enumerators ask all
>ersons whether there is any negro
>lood in their veins.
The amendment was adopted and
Southern senators are having a contiderable
amount of fun with their
olleague from Georgia over the prob
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isked. It looks good for the coffin
nen.
FAVORS PROHIBITION BILLS.
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louse and Senate Will Pass Statewide
Anti-liquor Laws.
Nashville, Tenn., Jan. 11.?Advosates
of State-wide prohibition in
Tennessee are freely predicting tolight
that such legislation will be enicted
by both houses of the legislaure
to-morrow. Prohibition bills
lave passed second reading in both
louses and to-night the two commitees
on liquor traffic, after a most exsiting
and largely attended joint
learing of arguments for and against,
roted to report favorably the bills be!ore
them. The bills are counterlarts.
The day has been one of sensations
n legislative circles. Charges were
nade at a meeting of Methodist minsters
that not only was money being
lsed in large sums in an effort to de!eat
anti-whiskey legislation, but
;hat "beautiful fallen women" had
ieen brought here for the same purpose.
In the senate to-morrow, if mem)ers
vote as they did in the crganiza;ion
of that body, the measure's passage
is assured, 17 votes being necessary.
In the house enough members
lave committed themselves on paper
;o assure its passage there. The governor,
it is conceded, will veto the
neasure, when the fight will he on
igain, with renewed vigor. Only a
najority is required to pass a measlre
over the governor's veto.
NIGHT RIDERS "BURN COTTON.
500 Bales of the Fleecy Staple Destroyed
at Russellville.
Little Rock, Jan. 8.?Night riders
ire charged with setting fire to the
arge cotton warehouse of Wilson
Brothers, Russellville, which burned
;his morning with a loss of 500 bales
>f cotton, valued at $22,000. Oil was
poured on the bales before the match
vas applied and entire building was
i mass of flames when discovered.
Bucket brigades prevented the fire
:rom spreading to adjoining warelouses,
where several thousand bales
)f cotton were stored. One hundred
)f the bales lost belonged to individlal
farmers, who were holding their
;otton for better prices and had no
nsurance.
LEGISLATURE MEETS.
Doings of the First Day's Session of
Honse and Senate.
The general assembly met in Columbia
last Tuesday morning, and
the first day was devoted to organizing.
There are a number of new
members in the house this year.
Richard S. Whaley, of Charleston,
was re-elected speaker of the house,
he having no opposition.
D. L. Smith, of Colleton, and J. E.
Smith, of Saluda, were the candidates
for reading clerk. J. E. Smith was
elected.
J. S. Wilson, of Lancaster, was reelected
sergeant-at-arms without opposition.
Rev: R. N. Pratt was elected chap1-!
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jam uvei xvev. ruusci.
Jas. A. Hoyt and J. Wilson Gibbes,
both of Columbia, were the candidates
for clerk of the house. Mr.
Hoyt was elected, although the vote
was close, 68 to 56.
In the senate W. L. Mauldin, of
Greenville, was elected president pro
tem over Senator T. Y. Williams, of
Lancaster. i
There were three candidates for
clerk of the senate: E. H. Aull, of
Newberry; Marion M. Mann, of St.
Matthews; and Ed. H. DeCamp, of
Gaffney, but Mr. DeCamp's name was
withdrawn before the final vote was
taken, here were 12 ballots, and Mann
was elected, the last ballot standing:
Aull, 13; Mann, 25.
Rev. A. N. Brunson was elected
chaplain over Rev. S. R. Bass, ,the
vote standing 30 votes for Brunson
to eight for Bass.
A resolution was passed by the
Senate expressing confidence in the
integrity and honesty of Senator Tillman.
A similar resolution was passed
by the house.
G. E. Moore, of Anderson, was appointed
journal clerk; W. K. Bradford,
of York, bill clerk; H. S. Baskin,
Lee, secretary to the president; pages,
Frank DeChamps, Lee, and Harry
Earle, Oconee; doorkeepers, W.* E.
McDonald, T. C. Scott and I. C.
Brown; laborers, Albert Nance, Jim
Richard and Stephen McCants.
TILLMAN MAKES REPLY.
Charges Roosevelt With Deliberate
Falsehood.
Washington, January 11.?Great
crowds filled the senate galleries today
for the purpose of hearing Senator
Tillman's reply to the accusations
made in President Roosevelt's com- '
municatlon to Senator Hale, which,
was published Saturday, but which
did not reach the senate officially until
to-day.
No more serious araignment of a 1
public-official has ever been heard in '
the senate than Senator Tillman's
speech. It was listened to with the
closest attention by the members and
visitors.
Senator Tillman accused Roosevelt
of "cunning advertising," "cowardice,"
"bold and "outrageous falsehood,"
"personal malice," "hatred,"
and of purposely withholding the
facts in his possession and of deliberately
misrepresenting conditions for
the purpose of putting the senator in
a bad light before the world, while at
the same time having shown gross
disrespect to Senator Hale's committee
as well as extreme discourtesy in
having made the letter to Senator
Hale public before it could be read in
the senate and referred to the committee.
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Senator Tillman says the president
makes two charges against him. He
first promotes him to membership in
the Annanias club and second that he
exerted his official influence for his
personal benefit.
The senator gives his story of the
Oregon land transaction. He says he
had a right to buy the land, but he
never attempted to deceive anybody,
told no falsehood, broke no law, ha4
been guilty of no immoral conduct.
It is easy for those who are vulnerable
to convict others on flimsy evidence.
The president seems to work
on that theory. He demands the
most searching investigation and is
willing to compare his private life
and public work with that of Roose
velt. <
Fire Last Monday.
Last Monday morning about half
past eleven o'clock, the handsome
country home of Mr. Chas. McGeiver,
a few miles from town, was destroyed
by fire. Mr. McGeiver and his wife
were both away, he having come to
Bamberg and she going to Denmark.
Neither knew of the fire until that afternoon.
Mr. McGeiver was informed
of the fact just before leaving town
that afternoon, a gentleman coming
in town telling him of it.
It is not known how the fire originated,
as the house was locked up
and everybody had been away from
home an hour or two before the%
flames broke out. Some negroes on
the plantation saved a few articles,
but even these were badly broken.
There was some insurance, but we
do not know definitely the amount.
He places his loss as $3,000 on the
onH nne on furniture, and it
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is certain that the insurance will not
near coyer the loss. This is a heavy
loss to Mr. McGeiver, and his many
friends sympathize with him.
Child Burned to Death.
A little negro child was burned to
death in the house in rear of the
Methodist church last Friday. The
child was about three years old, and
its mother, Ella Grimes, cooks for
Rev. T. G. Herbert. She went over
in the parsonage yard to attend to
some matter, leaving her child by the
fire, and a few moments afterwards
she heard it scream, and on returning
to it she found it enveloped in flames.
The child was so badly burned that
it died Sunday morning.
COUNTRY NEVS LETTEIS ||
SOME INTERESTING HAPPENINGS
IN VARIOUS SECTIONS.
News Items Gathered All Arovftdl .S
' the County and Elsewhere.
Ehrhardt Etchings.
Ehrhardt, Jan. 11.?The cold warn
reached us in good shape the latter ixWm
part of last week. We were all'glad '
to see it, and hope it will conttna*$
long enough for the farmers to our* i . ''iM
their bacon for this year. Up to thla *
time we have not had enough coft'
weather to suit this portion of
business A ;
Fires are frequent in this section. v^?|
Mr. John M. Bishop lost his cotton Vy. -visj
house, ip which he had a quantity tf? :?jp
cotton seed and a darky's hoas**::
hold goods. Then Mr. B. H. Carter 3
lost his dwelling, smoke house and Cj
some other buildings, in fact all that -M
he had in his yard, by fire last week. ^
Last night Mrs. Frank Morris lost v ??8?B
her dwelling by fire. All of those v ^
parties are to be pitied, as none Of y - |
them are in circumstances that thty ; I
can help themselves to any extent to - ^
replace their loss. ; ^
Mr. John M. Bishop loaded fct*:
household goods on the train heft -V./i
last week and shipped them to Wal- j?j
terboro, where he has bought the ' cl|
Dunk Padgett plantation and will
farm on it himself this year. Says jl f
his plantation here was too small jfor
his family's needs. - "j
Booze caused an arrest S&turdaar 'WBm.
afternoon, which will no 'doubt help V ^
th etown in a fine when the council : %
passes on the case. ||
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Several of our farmers are having
a hog killing time to-day. Would
have done so last week, .but the eoi$|3|9M
wave reached them too late in tht ;week,
and the superstition concern* p?
ing starting any work on Friday* ^
they never will complete the job t?v r "I
they don't complete the same
held some of them off^ ' y
And still the cotton seed comas. * "v> ' *
Where from we can't say, but tbsy ^ J
keep on coming.
Rev. D. B. Groseclose gave thO y
Woodmen a talk in their hall last rfl
week, and will address the Knights nl' ^
their installation of officers Wednes* ' J yday
night in their hall. The Kniahta
want to have another speaker also. > ;-.r;
Some few bales of cotton cams to ?
town last week, but most of the hold*
ere want 9 cents here for good mid- Cy y
Some few parties are asking for ,'
liens for 1909. Rather early to start > 3
??* v-i *Va #?wmAM hawa oXnnf
UUl, UUl tuc laiuicis lutiv uuvw? ?jtfjtsm
hausted their means and have nothing
to pay their hands withMiss
Frankie Folk and her friend.
Miss Byrd, are spending some tint w?
with her grandmother, Mrs. Conrad * '
Ehrhardt . JEE. 5
Colston Items.
Colston, Jan. 11.?Well, Christmas -Jl
is about over. Everybody around ^jjs
here seemed to enjoy it very much, ^
going to the parties we had. One at vf
Mr. Abner Fender's last Wednesday ~
night, and it was enjoyed very much.
Mr. Gordon Beard and Miss .Mia* >'
nie Besinger, who _ got married Jf*
Christmas, seem to be^enjoying married
life very much.
Miss Mary Polk, of Islandton, has
been spending some time at Mr. C. C.
Fender's. She and her sister, Misa M
Mattie, spent Friday night ^with Miss
Lelia Padgett.
Mr. Joe McMillan, from Colleton, ; ^6
spent last Sunday at Mr. J. C. BishMr.
Abner Fender went to Bam*
berg last Monday, and Mr. J. C. Bish- .v:;if8g
op and W. H. Folk went Thursday. ^
Mrs. Mamie Sue Morris's honaa * f ^
was burned down last Saturday night
about midnight. - v . f ^
Mr. Frank Kirkland spe^t Sunday i
at Mr. W. H. Folk's.
Miss Irene Beard is spending a few JSw
days at Mr. B. D. Bishop's. ?
Mr. Havelock Clayton and mother
spent Saturday night and Sunday In ' fyao
Orangeburg. G. C. P.
Dispensary Profits. ^
At the annual meeting of the coun- vS
ty dispensary board, held last Moq? -\day,
the business for the year waa / ^
footed up by Bookkeeper E. L. Price,
and the following is the showing
made:
General expense account....$9,549.87
Expense of dispensaries 4,586.39
The net profits disbursed to the va? ;) P.
rious towns and the county for th?
year are as follows:
Bamberg county.... $9,113.39
Schools 4,556.74
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camuerg
Denmark _ 2,391.71
Olar.... 1,148.77
Ehrhardt 1,461.79
New Grocery Store.
Mr. J. A. Bates has gone in busi- ,
ness in our town under the firm i
name of J. A. Bates & Co. He has a I
good line of choice groceries, and J
will guarantee satisfaction to his M
He has associated with him Mr. -M
Eugene Howell, who will be glad to fl
serve you at Kinard's old stand.
Stop in and see their fine line of ^M
fancy goods, or 'phone No. 32, "thl Mm
one KM