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11YRNK8 FOR THK SENATE. I Will Oppoae Nat H. Dial in Campaign Thin Bummer. Washington, Fe|S$.~-There U qttlttt a buz* of Interest among members Ipf the South Carolina delegation in Con gress at tlu* now# that Congressman James K. Hyrnes would in* a candi date against Senator Dial for the Democratic nomination for the senate. That Senator Dial will be a candidate for denomination haa been understood for sometime, and thin means that there will be a warm contest between the Aiken representative and the Ijauren? senator. Both have warm supporters and there in promised a lively campaign. The statement of Congressman Byrnes as to his candi dacy isHUed today readH an follows: "In the approaching primary elec tion it is my intention to be a candi date for the Democratic nomination for the United States Senate from South Carolina. "With my experience of more than thirteen years as a member of Cop*. ' gress, ami my intimate acquaintance with many members of the Senate, with whom I served for years in the House, it is my hope that if elected to the Senate, 1 can be of real .service to our state." A biographical .sketch ^ives the fol lowing information as to Mr. Byrnes: Representative James . F.. Byrnes resides at Aiken, S. C. At the age of fifteen, in order to contribute to the support of his mother, he left night school and entered a law office as \0f fice hoy. At night he studied short hand and Inter served ns stenographer in the same office. In 1900 he. entered a competitive examination and won the appointment as court stenogra pher of the second circuit. While serving in this capacity, he studied law. In 1908 ho was elected solicitor ar\d after serving two years was elect ed to Congress. In the House he first served on the banking and currency committee and took an active part in framing the federal reserve act, offering the -pro vision in the House bill granting the privilege to rediscount agricultural paper. He was one of a committee of five that framed the first bill to pass the House granting federal aid in the construction of roads. During recent years he has been a member of tho appropriations committee and has been active in framing legislation reported by that committee and in the debates on tho floor of the House. Mr. Hyrnes was a delegate at largo to tho last Democratic national con vention, and represents South Caroli na on tho Democratic congressional committee. Ho in a member of tho K j) i sco pa I church, is a thirty-second degree Mason and a member of other fraternal organizations. Mrw. Shuford Dead. Mrs, Mary A. Shuford. widow of the late Rev. Jacob L. Shuford of tho South Carolina conference, paused to her reward Febi-uary 12, 1924, in the Mini year of her ago. Her funeral aer vices conducted in the Hishopville Methodist church by her pastor, Rev. M. l<. Hanks and Rev. W. V. Dibble, of Sumter. Her body was laid to rest by the side of her husband in the ceme tery at Summerton, and her grave was coyered with beautiful flowers. hiving here years ago as a pastor's wife she made many devoted and loyial friends who rejoiced to have her re- 1 turn, after her husband's death to spend tho remaining years in their Tho Woman's Missionary Society has lost a beloved and honored mem ber. Her church and her community are deeply grateful to God for her long life tilled with so many Christian virtues. Mrs. Shuford is survived by the fol lowing children, all of whom woro with her in her last illness. W Mrs. J. C. Uaskin, Miss Jessie Shu ford, J. I,. Shuford, of Bishopvillo; Mrs. H. W. Scarborough, of Florence; Mrs. S. 1>. Hope, Jr., of Norfolk, "Va., It. P. Shuford of Georgetown, Mrs. 11. A. Richbourg of Summerton. and also two step-children, Mrs. Chcwn ing of Summerton and W. II. Shuford of Florida; eighteen grandchildren and one great-grandchild. ? Hishop villo Messenger. N. J. Hammond, supervisor of tracks IvOclc ^ " ?a Mu r?A?? r? f ? Ko Charleston division of tho Southern Railroad, died at his home at Blacks burg, last Sunday night at 11:30 o'clock after a lingering illness of that dreaded malady tuberculosis. Ho was a nativo of Branchville, S. C.( and had lived here only five months. Be fore his health failed three years ago, ho .was roadmaster of this same divi sion. He was 52* years old and left a wife and four children. Since her marriage Hope Hampton movie star, has come to the conclu sion that she can appear in the spoken drama to a better advantage. A car load of sweet potatoes re cently shipped by J, C. Terrell, G. A. Sherrell and R. J. Little, of Chester field, brought them the tidy sum of $1,030. A carload was shipped last week from Morvcn, bought by the South Carolina Sweet Potato Growers association. This association has bought three carloads from Nor^h Carolina recently. In this connection Mr. Tiller, Chesterfield, county, dem onstration agent, states that had Pageland and Mt. C.roghan grown potatoes this year for shipping they could have sold out at $2 per bushel. A. W. Love, popularly known among his many friends throughout the Carolines as "Ix>x" Love is dead at his home at Oakland, Cal., where he has lived for somo timo. Mr. Love was a former secretary of the South Caro lina Fair Association and was a grad uate of the University of South Caro lina. Decision was made at a meeting of the Mariqp County Poultry Associa tion Friday night to undertake to ship a carload of poultry out of Marion Monday, March 8. - . The John Wilkes Booth Mystery. (Greenville Piedmont) Was John Wilkes Booth, the assas sin of President Lincoln, shot and kill ed by Boston Corbett, a union soldier 12 days after the historic tragedy, or did hp escape and live for many years under an assumed name? An absorbingly interesting article upon this mystery appears in the January number of the "Scrap Book" published by Miss Mildred Rutherford, historian of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, who for 29 years has been gathering data about Booth's escape. The information she has col lected raises some doubt as to the trulb~of~tHe generally accepted ver sion that Booth was captured and killed in Virginia. In 1 8'J-l Miss KutherfOrd received a letter from Gen. James Gordon, of Mississippi, who met and knew Booth in Canada during the war between the states. General. Gordon said that five years after the assassination of Lin coln he visited Memphis and there met a friend -who was also an intimate friend of Booth. He showed Gordon a letter from a mutual friend who had been absent since the close of the war and who was then in the Rocky Moun tains trapping and hunting. "He said in his letter that his companion and friend could not send his name, for he bore a dead name, yet sent h?m his photograph to let him know that the original wan Ht ill alive, and sent hi? kindly remembrances to him and to myself. This, photo was a true likeness of John Wilkes Booth," Gordon de clared. r Miss Rutherford says that Booth'* motive for killing Lincoln was not be cuu.se the slayer was a sympathizer with the south, but because ho was h warm friend and college roommate of John Yates Beall, who was captured in the north, tried as aspy am 1 hang ed. Some evidence is offered by Miss Rutherford to show that. Booth plead ed with Lincoln to save Bcall's life, that Lincoln promised to do so, but later upon objection of Secretary Ste ward, declined to interfere, with the result that Be?U was hanged. Lewis Payne, who was also a strong friend of Beall's attempted to kill Seward at the aame time that Booth shot Lin coln. Miss Rutherford says she has discovered that Booth and Payne took an oath to kil) Lincoln and Seward because of their responsibility for the execution of Beall. Prom her ac count it appears that, up to the time that he refused to save Beall, Lincoln was friendly to Booth, while the latter I admired him. Beall was an officer in the Confederate navy who seized a ! steamboat on Lake Erie, converted it into a war vessel, captured and sunk a boat, attempted to release the Con federate prisoners at Johnson's Is land, produced a panic in many of the cities on the lakes, especially at Buf falo and terrorized commerce. He whs betrayed, captured, denied a just ! trial, and, although he was not a spy, 1 ho was tried, convicted, condemned to death and executed just 44 days be fore the assassination of Lincoln.* When the supposed body of John Wilkes Booth was carried to Wash ington, no one who saw the corpse had ever seen Booth in life. rr~was~se cretly buried. Why? Reports and testimony vary as to the burial place. One account has it that the body was buried under a brick pavement in a Washington prison and that it was later transferred to the Booth bury ing ground in Baltimore. Another re port is that the corpse was buried on an island in the Potomac river. A third is that it was buried in the Navy Yard. A fifth is that the body was taken at night froih a warship in the Philadelphia Navy Yard ard its disposition never divulged. Did Booth escape to the west ? If so he must have used several assumed names, among them John St. Ilelenj and David E. George. Pictures of a PURE PERUVIAN GUANO. ? V . ... ? . ? It has recently come to my attention that parties have stated that there was no such thing as genuine Peruvian Guano. Being the representative of the Nitrate Agencies Company, of Wilmington, who are distributors of Genu ine Peruvian Guano, 1 feel called upon to correct this statement and offer below the following certificate from the Treasury Department United States Custom Service at Wilmington, N. C. ; TKKABUHY DEPARTMENT United States Customs Service . Wilmington, N. C. October 17, 1923. TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: This letter will certify that the Finnish Bark, PENANG, now discharging a full cargo of Peruvian Guano 'at this port, csmo here direct from the Pegwian Islands with this i cargo, snd that , according to her papers and documents, her cargo is the Genuine Peruvian Guano, as advertised by the Consignees, the Nitrate Agencies Company. (Signed) WILMINGTON CUSTOMS HOUSE Per A,? L. McCaskill, Collector of Customs. I am prepared to sell you genuine Peruvian and genu ine Peruvian Mixtures, and will meet all prices. W. R. HOUGH, Agent Camden , S.C. I" . . . ... . J., ... .J man going by this name were recog nized as likenesses of him by personal friends and relatives, Miss . Ruther ford assorts, adding that Gen. Albert Pike recognized (lim in a hotel when he was under the name of David E. George and that Joseph Jefferson, the actor, recognized him in a picture of John St. Helen, as did his nephew, Junius Biutus Booth. David E. George committed suicide at Enid, Okla., in 190o\ declaring on his death bed th^t he was John Wilkes* Booth, a confession he had previously made twice. A Washington investigator wroto Mine Rutherford that, after making an extended inquiry, he could find noth ing to prove that any money at all ? : J i . it. a. ? r ?* UO puiu IW CUU tujnui O V/l Jl/VV bl* SJ supposed dead body, but that some years after the assassination of Lin coln, the congress asked Secretary of War Stanton to report what had been done by him to reward the cap tors of Booth and ho ,sent in a non committal report which was laid on the table and never considered by the congress. Miss Rutherford : adds "Over ?100,000 was offered for Booth alone. It as never paid." Why? One of the pallbearers who served when the siyiposed body of Booth was bur ied in the family plot in Baltimore had known Booth and said that the \ corpse did not resemble him. Finally, Miss Rutherford produces what purports to be Booth's own ac count of his escape. It was received from one of her friends in Memphis who "asked that neither her name nor that of the friend who gave it to her should be used as it had been giveu in confidence." A most singular cir. cumstancc is that this account, al though believed to have been writtea by Booth, was signed with an assumed name which was neither of the two aliases mentioned above. As this ac count- lacked corroboration, Miss Rutherford at first paid little heed to it, but later she found other 8tate-~ ments which tended to verify it. In his narrative Booth gave the circum otuHCGu of his escape in rnuch Hotojj and asserted that he made his way to the Indian Territory and remained there a year and a half, later going to Texas. Miss - Rutherford's conclusion is: "There can no longer be any doubt that John Wilkes Booth lived Ion# after the man was killed at Garrett Farm, April 26, 1865." Nevertheless, the evidence as pub lished by her \s not convincing proof that Booth escaped. 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