The Lancaster ledger. (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, May 17, 1905, Image 2
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IIIOJIOW S. CARTER.
EDITOR AND MANAGER.
isHIII.lt \VKI?.N KS1?A Y ANI) SATIIKDAY
suusujuttion i-.aorkw yismi
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Lancaster S. C., May 17th, 19v?5.
Col. springs-Strong Press
ure baing Brought to Bear
on Him to Run for Governor.
Lancaster cor. I'he News and
Courier : The recent reference
in this correspondence to Col.
Leroy Springs's eminent fitness
for the office of Governor and to
the fact that ho was being urged
to enter the race next year has
caused the Colonel's mail of late
to be deluged with fresh requests
to take a favorable view of the
matter. Manv of the letters are
from representative business
and professional aien, public
officials and prominent State
politicians, men in close louch
with the people, aud, therefore,
know what <ho latter waut.
Of course, Laucaster would
give the Colonel solid and enthusiastic
support should he he
induced to become a Gubernstorial
candidate.
Your correspondent heard a
responsible party say yesterday
that he would wager $500 on the
Colonel's election, so confident
is be of that gentleman's success
if he makes up his mind to be
tho next Governor of South Carolina.
Another prominent citizen,
who, by tho way, is a shrewd
observer of State politics, in
commenting on tiie article in
The News and Courier referred
to remarked to tho writer:
"Yo9, Springs would make an
ideal'Governor and I believe he
could be elected, but the chief
opposition to him would come
from tho alleged dispensary
graftors?from tho men generally
supposed to be enriching
themselves at the State's expense.
Why? Because everybody
who knows Springs knows
that he has a way of going right
down to tho bottom of things
and if ho were Governor it would
only be a quostion of time, and
a short time at that, before he
would have tho whole dispensary
business at his fingers' ends and
any rottenness 01 rascality found
in its management would be
promptly exposed and checked."
There is no doubt about it, so
far as the Governor's duties relate
to the dispensary, wore Col.
Springs in the office every requirement
of the law would
have to bo strictly carried out
and the institution run on the
line of recognized business
principles, and thi9 is said without
any intention whatever of
reflecting on the present able
and efficient Chief Executive or
any of his predecessors.
Springs has a way of his own
of "doing things," and there's
got to be "something doing,"
too, when he is about. He's a
hustler himself and every mm
under his control must get a
"move" on him or seek another
job. There are no drones in his
many business hives His thousands
of employees seem to he
infected with Col Springs's progressive
spirit and they work as
uuu iu:m ior me aavanceraent oi
his interests.
Though strict and exactiug,
making every man do nis full
duty, Col. Springs is exceedingly
popular and mo9t highly esteemed
by all on hi3 pay rolls,
as well as by the public generally.
The fact that ho is fair and
square in his dealings accounts
largoly for his popularity with
hie men.
Some time ago a skilled oie
chnnio, a white man of unusual
intelligence, ?elatert to your correspondent
?n incident that occurred
in Iim experience i*li
Col. Springs. Ho eaid he presented
to the Colonel an itemized
account foe h lot of work he had
done on one of Springs's planta
tions. After noting each item
carefully the Colouel said to the
mechanic : "You have not
charged me enough for that
worK," and turniug to his desk
wrote and gave the party a
check for ten dollars moie than
the account amount to.
Col. Springs has often been
known to raise the salaries of
young men in his employ without
any request to do so, so
keen is his sense of justice and
appreciation of real worth and
meritorious service.
It is alto a fact, though known
to but few, chat number# of
poor boys and girls have been
enabled to acquire a collegiate
education or busiuess training
through tbe Colonel's liberality.
Col. Springs may never enter
politics?the probabilities are
that he will not?but occupying
as he does a most prominent
place in the eyes of the public,
what has been said of the man
and his characteristic in this
correspondence may not be without
interest to many who have
heard of his varied and marvellously
successful business activities.
White Citizens
Were Acquitted.
Eutuwville Lynching Ended in
Verdict of Not Guilty.?Jury
Was Out Only Fifteen
Minutes.
Special to Greenville News.
Charleston, May 12.?After
being out fifteen minutes, the jury j
at Orangeburg sworn to try the
case against four whito citizens
who wore charged with the murder
of Keitt Bookhart, colored, at
Eutawville, brought in a verdict
of not guilty today. The defense
this morning put lip witnesses to
proye that Edwards, the principal
witness for tho State, was at Penny
Martin's house and was too drunk
on the night of tno killing to
leave. The arguments were ox
haustive. l'he defense made
much of the fact that a detective
had been employed to work up
evidence against tho accused, and
that fuct was impressed upon tho
minds of the jury.
The trial has attracted unusual
interest and while the evidence in
places was strong it did not convince
Ihe jury beyond a reasonable
doubt that the prisoners had
lynched Bookhart. Many wit
nesscs were put on the stand to
prove an alibi for the defendants,
their wives being sworn in their
behalf Edwards made a strong
witness for the prosecution and
on the cross examination the attorney
s failed to shake him. The
jurv, however, was of one mind
and its verdict was rendered more
quickly than the solicitor had expected.
The friends of the do
fendants are naturally jubilant.
The detective was not employed
by Gov. Heywaid until all other
agencies of the law had failed to
A ? .? -ll ?
?|i|n (juuiiu nit) miuiy.
Dr. Millard is Released.
Orangeburg, S C May 13. Dr
Kenyon V. Millard, of Indianapolis,
who bus been held in jail here
for several weeks on the churee of
bigamy, *?as released from custody
this afternoon, the evidence being,
insufficient to hold him.
Dr Millard stated today that he '
ind Miss Kenyon will bo re-inir
riod next December, at the ex? 1
[liration of the time wot in the
nterlocutory divorce. In the
meantime he will continue on the
ecturo platform, appearing in i
Jrangobnrg Monday night.
Additional Fc>cts in Rotation
to the Distinguished, but
Eccentric Dr. Bartlett J jnes
Lancaster cor. Tne News and
Courier : Since the recent publication
in The News and Courier
of askotch of the distinguished,
but eccentric Dr. Bartlett
Jones, whose remains, after resting
for over 74 years in a lone
gravo on the lot upon which
Col. Leroy Spring* is preparing
to erect his hotel and eleven
"tore rooms, were removed last
Saturday to the Presbyterian
Cemetery, your correspondent
has succeeded iu obtaining some
additional facts of interest in relation
to the doctor's life and
character.
Dr. Jones was the son of Benjamin
and Elizabeth R. Jones, of
Piinco William Connty,Va.,and,
as stated in the sketch referrod
to, was horn December 27, 1787.
He was graduated from a Philadelphia
Medical College and
came to Lancaster to practice
li i u nrnfoQuinn in
...? K. V..V.3U1UU ?u viio cm ly purr.
of tho last century, About the
year 1800. Two years later, in
1S08, he built what is now the
oldest house in Lanoaster, the
present residence of one of his
grand sons, Capt B. J. Witherspoon.
Though lacking but
three years of being one hundred
years old, the building?a
two-story structure?is well preserved.
It is located at the
southeast corner of Main and
Arch streets?just South of Col.
Spring's lot referred to.
HIS MARRIAGE.
In 1810 Dr. Jones married
Miss Eliza Jano Dunlap, then a
young lady of one of Lancaster's
influential families. Six children
blessed their union, all of whom,
except the eldest, Miss Mary
Elizabeth, who married the late
Col. James H. Witherspoon, the
father of Capt. Witherspoon,
Dr. J. H. Witherspoon and Mre.
Johta D Wylie, moved to Montgomery,
Ala., after the death of
their father, their mother accompanying
them. Three of the
children were sons, all of whom
became prominent physicians in
Alabama.
It is a remarkable fact that
Dr. Jones was a Master Mason,
and a leading member of that
ancient fraternity, notwithstanding
that he had been a
cripple from childhood. The
significance of this fact will be
especially appreciated by alh
M ason3.
Dr. Jones's iufirraity was due
to the carelessness of his nurse
when he was a child. She had
placed him on her shoulder, and
as the little fellow sprang rff
she seized him by the foot, dislocating
his hip. On account
of this accideut he was ever afterward
obliged to walk with a
crutch and a stick. During his
career as a practicing physician
he usually travelled the country
in a gig, always accompanied by
his body servant, a faithful' negro
named Cupid.
Dr. Jones was not only an eminent
physician, hut a surgeon
of unusual skill as well. He
was the first surgeon who ever
successfully performed the op
eration for calculus. His lame
as one learned in his profession
and singularly successful in the
treatment of his craes extended
over botli Worth and South Car
olina, and it not infrequently
happened that he was called as
far aw?y from home as Salisbury,
N. C., and Columbia, this
State, to treat important cases
?a most remarkable fact when
the primitive means of communication
and transportation
of those days are considered.
HIS PtIHTJC LIFK.
Though the greater part of his
time was taken up with the arduous
and exacting duties of
his pro'ession, Dr. Jones dis
played n?? h'.mvh root in the
general welfare of the country
and wis tnorn than once elected
to the Legislature, making n
j useful and influential member,
j The doctor was comparatively
a young man ? ahbflt forty-three
yearn ol.i?when ho died, and it
was thought at the time that his
life was shortened by a personal
encounter ho on one occasion
had with William McKenna,
who afterwards beoarae the
wealthiest citizen of the county,
in which difficulty Dr, Jones re*
celved a dagger thrust. Shortly
afterward Mr. McKenna was
taken ill and he at once sent for
Dr. Jones ti treat him, thereby
showing his confidence in the
doctor, both as a man and physician..
Dr. Jones had a great aversion
to being buried in the ordinary
way. He strenuously objected
to both the coffin and the cemetery.
It was, therefore, in accordance
with his imperative
order, made shortly before his
death, that his body was laid
to rest in onn of V?ic nmn i
?. t?isj wnm 1UIB,
nod in a bedstead instead of a
coffin. The bodv, also pursuant
to hia direction, was dressed ju9t
na he was accustomed to appear
in evervday life.
The bedstead was made especially
for the purpose. It was
patterned after the style of beds
of that day, with the exception
that the posts were but half the
heighth of, the unusually high
bedsposts of the then prevailing
fashion. Around the bed black
cambric curtains were suspended,
which, on the day of the
funeral, were looped back to enable
the immense crowds of the
doctor's friends, who came to
Lancaster from all parts of the
country, many of them North
Carolinians, to vi >w the body
and to witness the most unique
burial that has ever occurred in
this country, either before or
since that time.
?
Meeting of Gotton Growers
Assoc'ation N9Xt Saturday.
Mr. Editor: It is the desire
of the cotton association that we
have a called meeting o* the association
during the month of
May. We therefore annouuce
that we will have a ma9s meet
ing on Saturday, the 20th inst.
As there is much at this time to
come before the people, we trust
that all classes of our people will
feel interest enough to turn out
and let us have a general consensus
of opinion on all matters
then to be considered. We want
every association to send in
statements of reduction in acreage
and fertilizers s-o that we
c lii tabulate a report to the state
association. The committee on
warehouses will, we hope, be
ready to report whatever pro
it.. 1 *
gross moy nave m ids ; and tile
executive committee will also report.
We also want the people
to discuss and pass upon the proposition
of using cotton bugging
and cotton cloth for bags
for every purpose for which it
(cotton) can bo u?ed. The indorsement
of the people is necessary
to give these matters a good
base and is in line with their interest
in every wav. We believe
in the ultimate result of our organization.
The stupendous
work of the cotton association
.. . - i
cuuui noc D'j accomplished in a
few months . The work has already
reached far beyond what
its mo9t sanguine supporters expected,
and has gained so stronj.
a hold upon the people of the ^
South that nothing hut success
can ho ihe answer to all our
work. Our cause is just and our ,
success is sure.
T. J. Strait, Pre-.
Geo. W. Jones, Sec'y.
?Pay for 1 he Ledger. I
Happenings in (lie Stale,
Chronicled :?Y the A'i't't Cor
respondents <?f the Co'umtun
SlHto an<! the Charleston
News ami Courier.
(S( ?eiaV i ? The S':.te )
Lived Mom rii.in a Crutuiy.
Edgefield,. M a v 1 ."5 ?Old
"Mamma ^aneua" Henderson,
105 \ oars of aye, died at her
home on tho Pickens' estate a few
days ago. She was a servant o*
Gov t'icker.s and belonged always
to his family, to whom she was
loyal to the end.
Death of Maj E E Sill.
Camden, May VZ ?Ma] E E
Sill died hero yesterday morning
ut 5 o'clock in the 75th \ car of
his apjo. lie tilled the oflice of
sheriff of Kershaw county for
three terms, twice before and
once after the war. Ho was id
ways a staunch Democrat and was
appointed auditor of this county
by Gov Wade Hampton when the
latter overthrow the carpetbag
I IIIV
Two Deaths From Lightning.
Bot.netlsvillc, May 13. ? Two
persons were killed l>v lightning
in this eour.ty during the ilunuh rstor
11 Thursday aftorn urn.
Charley Sawyer, mi estimable
young man of tho Brownsville
section was plowing in his farm
when he was struck. The mule
ho was plowing was also killed.
A liitle -later tho sau.o afternoon,
lightning struck tho homo
of .loo Watkins, colored on the
Spears place, near Clio. One of
Watkina' children was killed. He
and his little baby wore both badly
shocked and burned and may
not recover.
Greers' Men Acquitted of Fosters
Mut der.
Greenville, May 13.?Walt
Nobles und Boyce St< n , two
while men, and George Downes,
colored, were ueqn/tted this afternoon
at 3 o'clock of the charge of
murdering Policeman Foster at
Groom.
Police Officer William S Foster
of Greers was shot and instantly
kilied while uti duty in the town
of Greers on the night of July 2,
1904, between 9 and 10 o'clock.
Rubles, Stone and Downers wore
in town the night of the tragedy,
and on account of their being ?een
running from tho place where the
shooting occurred and their previous
ro:ord us whiskey dealers,
they were ut on-.-o counted d with
tho crime and euhseqnently arrested.
The evidence at the trial was
wholly circumstantial
The llorrihlo Death of Cupt.
David E. Wells
Sumter, May 13.?Tho murder
of Cupt. Wells is the most brutal
and horrible butchery ever commuted
in Sumler county. Twenty
times the negro slashed him.
Dr C P Osteon, who held ihe
postmortem, says any one of
eight of the wounds would bay?
caused death.
The coroner's jury returned a
veidict that "David E Wells came
lo hi* ('e.)Ui by knife wounds in
the hands of Colelounh Stukes."
Tho evidenco at the coroner's iir
rjnest t/oes to show that the murdor
wtiv dulhemtoly planned and
premeditated.
Stukes is in jail, lo a statement
ho says he regrets tho unfortunate
oecurrenco. He says
Lhjit Capt Wells was ^oiu?* t ? en>!
bin) to the chaining to ?et rid of
him tn ftitif K o 1*2-. ?*-* '
u?/ uv V'MIHI ' I * # IJin 12(111 I ?
ly as he pleased.
At the time of tragedy Capt,
Wills was senUmI in a eha?r in the
lallwny smoking a pipe, talking
:o the negro, who was sauted on a
lieh shelf for water buckets.
Stokes1 wifo and another nogro
%
jv.cje i re- -i< I.: wit:ig*< the bloody
I l.iCl k t .
o ..*? - - ? -Mull
it-> x- \ t-ufvlj aiyc Eolev'e
Ii?>in n n?>?l*r?i? in their childten for
<v?u^h> and c ?lde, for it contnina
11 > )}>i;s'"* or other poiaotiH. Sold
i?\ Cundcrbur* l'liurmacv .
Notice of Ejection.
N ' ce h fi i oby trivou that by
onl. r o the County Board of Ed.
icatnni of Luiuuhtor county, Stale
of S. C., an election will be held
at TradesvilU on Tuesday the
30t!i (lav of May, 1005 to determine
whether or not a special tax
: c / i\ - -in ?
<u imir nuns snail he levied
<>n :ill real and perforin] property
mi Tradetiville School District No.
12 for school purposes.
At which election only such
electirs as retnrii real or personal
property fo?* .taxation and
wh i exhibit their tax rr.ciipt and
rrgi-lration eertilicato as required
in (ieneral Klections shall ho allowed
to vote.
H M Polk,
.1 B Funderhtirk,
A' A Fuuberhirrk,
Board of Trustees.
Winthrop College Scholarship
and Entrance Examination.
I' e fx unin itiou for the award of
vat'uat sclit) arahlps to Winltiiop Colle
i' and far tha a {mission of now stu(1?
11 s wih no li Id the county Court
Himiui Ft i-'ay, July 7tli at 5) a. m.
\ ppiimtiits >>. ilsl not iio ler.s than lif
fccii ,\itiis lit age. Wlion Muholaishlps
aie vacated after July 7th. they will
he awarded to those making the high
e?t average i.t this ex -.initiation provided
they meet tl.e conditions governing
the award, Applicants for svhoU
arehiiiH should write to President
Johnson l?efo:e toe examination for
cello'u ship exainii a'.ion lilanks.
Scholarships are worth $100 and
free full ion The next session will
open Seph tuber 20 lint") For further
information and catalogue address
Pre.. I), it. Johnson,
Rock llill, S C.
Notice?Lancaster Graded
Schools.
To nil whom It may Concern:
Take notice thai pursuant to a petition
signed by tou voters and freeholders resident
in 1 .iiucaster School l>i>triot, we, tho
undersigned. Trustees of said District, do
hereby call a public moetiug to be com- ' ?
posed of a'l those voters who are resident
in and return lor taxation in said District
real or personal property of the value ot
not less than one hundred dollar*, to asseinhle
in tho i'ouit House .it Lancaster,
S. i1 , on Friday the 20th day of May, 1905,
at 1 o'clock, p. in., for the purpose of electing
a chairman and soeretury of.said meeting,
five trustees of sud school district
uud of determining what special tax, if
any. not to exceed live nulls, shall bo levied,
as lh?.'majority present s' all decide,
on all real and personal prop?rly within
said School Dis'ricl for the maintenance cf
the public s hools of said District. This
tf ... ??? - <*. ~
jiiiy 'in ii'' O.
Iil'.ltOY fcPUINGS,
W. J. (MINN'INGHAM,
\V. T GHKGOUY,
T. S. OAKTKR.
(HI \S T. Or iN NOUS,
l'rustins i.ainnMitr MC.ord District.
State of South Carolina.
COUNTY OK Ij\ NO ASTER,
l.'Y .1 I'-Sriwnift'i, 10-?j. Probate
J udge
WHERE-VS, T, 0 !,iiz Mil?y made
-uit to me, to erant him letters of a<l
tniul>fration ?>f the estate of and ef
feels of John A Jlil'er
TH KSK AUK 'I'll KRUh'ORB to
Che and seimoutsh nil and singular the
kindred and creditors of said John A
Miller, dece..tse<l, that, they be and ap
pea- before me,'in lire Court of Pro
bate, to lie he'd at latn'ai.i r, H (J on
Wednesday, iMiy24th m xt after pub
ileal ion tlier of, at 11 o'clock in the
fore.toon, to show cause, it any they
have, why said administration should
not b? granted,
(liven under my Hand this 9th day
of May, Anno Domini, 190V
.1 If ? ? ? ,
Probate J udge
iip ? <h m ha ~u ? ? i m i. a
Bridge to Let.
1 will let out n contract to build
u now bridge over Twelve Milo
crook on too "Steele Creek road,
ne:ir Csceola, to the lowest responsible
bidder on I'm s lay, tho
Gth day of dune, 1905, at 10
o'clock a in Also one to build a
new or repair tho old ono over
Six Mile creek, nearby, the lame
day, just after I got through with
t lie above one
Also one over Hear Crook on
the rotter road, near Mr liusf?el
Barton's on Friday the 9th follow
ing at 9 o'clock a*m. Tho specifications
of all to tie made known
at time of lotting, reserving the
right to reject any and all bids.
M C Gardner,
Co Supervisor.
May 15, 1905.