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is' * ' \ " '* ' ' ' - . : * i , X . * - ' * ' . \ * ^vnn"v y- , / Stye lambenj Si^ralb Established 1891 BAMBERG, S. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 9, 1906 One Dollar a Year : Electric Lights. The following persons have had their ^ residences or places of business wired for electric lights. Their names, whether residence or store, and number of lights follows: Jones A. Williams (residence) 70 A. W. Knight (residence) 17 Methodist Church 100 W. A. Klauber (store) 10 N. B. Felder (store) 7 J. A. Spann (store and bakery) 16 J. A. Spann (residence) 10 E. C. Hays (residence) 17 Jno. R. Bellinger (residence) 15 R. M. Bruce (residence) 8 Bamberg Herald (office) 13 TT T 'DvaKKom frp?id#?riOe^ 14 XX. O JJittVuuu. , . Jno. H. Cope (residence) 17 Bamberg Hotel 20 Dr. Geo. F. Hair (residence) 20 W. M. Brabham (residence) 13 J. D. Felder (residence) 10 Methodist Parsonage 11 J. M. Jennings (residence) 9 Telephone Exchange 6 S. A. Kinard (residence) 9 k J. A. Byrd (store) 10 Mrs. L. E. Livingston (residence) 9 J. A. Byrd (residence) 12 H. W. Beard (market) 6 F. M. Moye (store, electro fan, 4 lights) 10 J. A. Nimmons (barber shop) 5 J. P. Murphy (post office) 4 < H. J. Brabham, Jr. (residence) 15 DrHF Hoover (drug store) 10 C. R.'Brabham & Sons (store)......... 10 Dr J J Cleckley (residence) 10 GM Dickinson (residence) 10 H F Bamberg (residence) is D J Delk (store and residence) 10 'i Peoples Bank 9 * H C Folk (store, four 105 c. p.) 30 ( H C Folk (residence) 15 , J. Felder Hunter (residence) 12 , Geo. F. Hair (cottage) 10 Cotton mill (office) 8 . Carlisle Fitting SchoolMain building 22 Beys' ball 25 J Girls' hall 12 Cottage 1 7 ' Cottage 2 7 "Cottage 3 6 5 Headmaster's residence 9 J. D. Copeland (store) 21 ' W.D.Rhoad (store) 11 1 pp . " C. W. Rentz (residence) 9 J Mrs. K. I. Shuck & Co (store) 5 1 E C Hays (store) 4 ' &' J D Copeland (residence) 10 1 W A Riley (residence) 10 E C Bruce (residence) 8 I J AMurdaugh (residence). 7 < Johnson's Hotel 34 < Armstrong-Johnson-Brabham Co 18 J W Pearlstine Co. (store) 10 J A Nimmons (residence) 10 "W E Spann (residence) 14 fe.- Colored Baptist church 15 ] Matthew Stewart (res) 8 , ?B?Y F. W. Free (res) 12 \ W. D. Rhoad (res) .' 12 ] ? '' Colored Methodist Church 12 < D F Hooton (residence) 17 i Heyward Johnson (residence) 10 ; * Aary Jirannam (residence) 4 Mrs A P Johnson (residence) 17 . J F Folk (three cottages) 25 j ? G. Frank Bamberg (stables) 25 i Town hall 11 ( A. Kirsch (residence) ....12 ? C. R Brabham (residence) 25 . Jno. P. Folk (residence) 24 j Mrs. S. fl. Counts (residence) 13 E. O. Kirsch (store) 12 Mrs. J. C. Lewis (res.) 12 W. A. Klauber (res.) 12 ] L. C. Price (store) 10 ' , i Total 1182 i ? Politics in Cherokee. s There was a sort of free fight and row at a county campaign meeting in Cherokee one day last week. The trouble started over a man in the crowd asking questions of J. C. Otts, a candidate for ( State Senator. The friends of Otts reiV . < ' sented the nature of a question and < ; . knives were drawn and a general fight , .Arnlfo/1 T* n.l M t Vl A .A*lt A .AITAIWA. oV.At xoouivw. x/unug bug ivn a iCTV/ngi ouv/b ^ was fired, but no one was bit. Nobody was injured and things quieted down in a short while. The next day in Gaffney ! there was a fight between Mayor Little ' and chief of police Tom Lockhart, in ' which two of Little's sons and two police- ' men took part. This was a general fisti- j cuff and no weapons were used. It all , j grew out of county politics. The mayor 3 fined himself five dollars and preferred charges against the policemen. : Why Jefferson Girls do Dancing Stunts. If you see a Jefferson girl stop and exe- 1 cute a hornpipe dance, she is neither prac- i ticing for vaudeville nor going crazy; she 1 is just trying to stop the chiggers from bit- < ing. The girl who has been out in the j / country for a day's outing and didn't col- . lect a bunch of the microscopic devils is yet to be found. They all get them, no matter wh^it they say.?Carolina Citizen. < IN SELF DEFENSE Major Hamm, editor and manager of the 1 Constitutionalist, Eminence, Ky., when 1 /* ? i _ s He was nerceiy attacaea, iour years ago, < by piles, bought a box of Bucklen's Ar- 1 nica Salve, of which he says: "It cured \ me in ten days and no trouble since." j Quickest healer of burns, sores, cuts and < wounds. 25c at Hoover's drug store and ' t, J. B. Black's. ] 'v > ^ Wt: IN THE PALMETTO STATE. INTERESTING OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA. State News Boiled Down for Quick Reading Pungent Paragraphs About Men and Happenings. A new cotton mill, to cost $400,000, is to be built by Anderson business men at Calhoun Falls, Abbeville county. The mill is to have 25,000 spindles. The people of Hartsville are much surprised at the arrest of D. L. English for complicity in the murder of Mose Hughes at Union. Thev believe he will be com pletely vindicated. Frank Buffington, who escaped from the Sumter jail last week, has been recaptured. Munn and Collins who escaped at the same time, were recaptured the night following their escape. W. P. Pollock has withdrawn from the race for congress in the Fifth district on account of prolonged illness. This leaves the contest between Congressman Finley and ex-Congressman Strait. Senator Tillman stated at Johnston that he understood that Lanahan's agent, whose name was not allowed to be given by Mr. Parker in the investigation last spring, is a member of the investigating committee. Jacob Burch, a well known tobacco buyer from Durham, N. C., committed suicide at Lake City last Saturday morning by taking laudanum. He had gotten into financial trouble with a tobacco house which he represented. Three negro girls were convicted Defore the mayor of of Greenville on Tuesday of pushing small, white children off the sidewalk and throwing rocks at them, and each was sentenced to pay a fine of $20 or serve 80 days on the chaingang. The committee of the Lutheran synod have bought a lot and building on Main street, Columbia, for $14,000 for the Lutheran Publication Society. Plans are on foot for making the building a three itory one; the cost of the plant is to be ibout $30,000. "William A. Marcus, white, was hung in Charleston last Friday for the murder of his unlawful wife, Maggie Stone, on Sullivan's Island last April. He stabbed her forty-two times with an ice pick. Marcus admitted that he had another wife and five children in Cincinnati. Governor Heyward has issued a pardon to Emma Holloway, the Edgefield negro woman who struck a young negro man [>n the bead with a pitcher and killed him. rhe negro had assaulted her daughter. The pardon was recommended by Judge D. E. Hydrick, who tried the case. Ftank Harris, an old negro, claims to have been poisoned by "Dr. Staub" of Aiken, who drove into the country with the negro in the tatter's buggy. After poisoning the negro and leaving him unconscious Staub took the horse and buggy tft A it on onr) trior) t n a oil it TTo Viaa r> nt pet been located. W. J. Whitner, white, shot and killed a negro named Minge Armstrong at Fishing Creek in York county last Friday. The negro attacked Whitner with a shovel, and was told to stop but would not. Whitner surrendered to the sheriff. The jury of inquest rendered a verdict of justifiable homicide. The State campaigners are on their rounds again, and the first meeting this week was held Monday at Winnsboro. Nothing new or sensational developed, and the candidates made about their usual speeches. There is no increase in the attendance, about 250 being present at the Winnsboro meeting. Hoyt Hayes, the Oconee white man who was recently pardoned by Governor Heyward, is now at a business college at Poughkeepsie, N. Y., taking a business course. Hayes was convicted of murdering his wife and sentenced to be hanged. The governor first commuted his sentence to life imprisonment and later pardoned him. Chief of police, Howard, of Aiken, received a letter last week from Mrs. P. Kirkland, of Glenville, Ga., saying that Ll _ 4 A .tJ V r.. ~ ? *1 tne lz-year-oiu uuy iouuu uu me sireeis of Aiken about two weeks ago was her son. The boy ran away from home about four weeks ago, and she had heard nothing from him until she received Chief Howard's letter week before last. Mr. Wm. Toney was shot by a negro near Johnston one day last week and wounded in one of his arms. The negroes were in the road with a vehicle aud would not turn out to let Mr. Toney pass. Their buggy wheels locked and Mr. Toney cut one of the negroes with his buggy whip ind the negro shot him. Both negroes skipped out but were captured in Aiken. T 4.1 O 4. _ a. ~ r tl in me oiate uuspiiai iur me insane in Columbia last Monday morning a negro inmate, Drayton Jones, was beaten and kicked to death by another negro patient named Barksdale.. The two negroes were confined in one cell, and their hands were fastened. The night watchman heard a noise in the cell and on going to investigate found Jones on the floor with Barksdale standing over him. The two men were put in the same cell on account of a lack of room. \ The Work of the Southern Cotton Association. The value of the Southern Cotton Association to the cotton planters of the South is apparent from the following statement. In the two years ending September 1st, 1906, two crops of cotton, aggregating practically 25,000,000 bales, will have been marketed at an average price to Southern producers of nearly 10? cents per pound. In the two years ending September 1st, 1898,22,500,000 bales of cotton were produced and marketed at an average price of 6i cents. This increase in price is an aggregate of about $550,000,000, and is very largely the work of the Southern Cotton Association. In comparison with such an achievement the cost of maintaining its organization is but infinitesimal, and it enters upon the coming cotton season with the greatest confidence in the ultimate realization of its purpose, namely: fair prices for the product of Southern labor; the avoidance of over-production of cotton; and the protection of the South in its God-given privilege of furnishing the world with the cheapest clothing ever known at prices which will repay the Southern farmers for their arduous toil and the trained intelligence employed in producing it. The Southern Cotton Association has made its mistakes and has had its enemies to fight. The mistakes have not, however, been important, as shown by theresuit, and its enemies have for the most part admitted its power and have been forced ultimately to align themselves with its purposes. The 1st of September, 1906, will find the world absolutely bare of cotton. The visible supply will be the smallest on record. The 25,000,000 bales of cotton with which the South has supplied civilization during the past two years are all consumed. The United States Department of Agriculture estimates that it will require 42,000,000 bales of cotton to adequately clothe the world's population, and the progress of civilization is rapidly advancing the world's population to a point f TT7Vi5/?h if trill ror?nirp tA hfi adenn&telv aw " "*v" *w " ?' ""1?- ? -X * clothed. Whatever the size of the coming cotton crop, there is no reason why it should be sold at anything less than the average price obtained for the last crop, through the efforts of the Southern Cotton Association, namely; 11$ cents and 12 cents a pound. Interested and self-constituted authorities have of late been endeavoring to stampede Southern holders and producers of cotton into the belief that the coming crop was likely to be an abnormally large one, produced from an acreage very much in excess of any previously planted. This disposition seems to have penetrated even into the Crop Estimating Board of the United States Government, who apparently have not as yet fully emancipated themselves from the maladroit influences which resdlted in the scandal which the efforts of the Southern Cotton Association last year disclosed. That the cotton crop for the season of 1906-7 is likely to be superabundant, or even a large one, the Southern Cotton Association does not believe. Its reports from its thousands of members and correspondents thoughout the entire cotton belt indicate that the increase in acreage over last year is only 2.52 per cent., and the scarcity of labor; the lateness of development; the excessive rains in many sections and drought in the region west of the Mississippi Valley foreshadow anything but a full yield for the season commencing September 1st next. The published opinion of 150 members of the N ew York, Liverpool and Southern Cotton Exchanges is that a crop of about 11,000,000 bales will be worth during the coming season 13.37 cents per pound, and those producers who part with their product for less than this figure are needlessly curtailing the hard-earned profits of their toil and depreciating the value of their fellow-producer's crop. It is not the purpose of the Southern Cotton Association to advance cotton to an exorbitant price, nor one not justified by conditions. It is its purpose to keep its constituency in the South fully informed as to the outlook and crop prospects, and to the end that it may have the best possible information upon this subject, for the purpose of more intelligently reaching a correct conclusion and to be accurately informed as to conditions at the Association meeting to be held at Hot Springs, Ark., Sept. 5th, 1906, it requests every Southern cotton planter to whose eye this may come to fill out at once, detach the accompanying blank and enclose it in an envelop and mail to the Southern Cotton Association, Atlanta, Ga. The undersigned harvested for the season ending September 1st, 1906. . bales of cotton from acres. The undersigned expects to harvest for the season ending September 1st, 1907, ... .bales of cotton from acres planted. Name Business Post office County State Date Malaria and ague, chills and fever, always bring down those of low vitality? keep up your vitality with SHAW'S MALT. For sale at the Dispensary. COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS. SOME INTERESTING HAPPENINGS IN TARIOUS SECTIONS. News Items Gathered All Around the County and Elsewhere. Ehrhardt Etchings. Ehrhabdt, August 6.?Farmers are busy pulling fodder in this section. Some say their fodder is very poor. Seems to be bleached out from thi rains. It is reported that we are to have a new firm in town soon. Can't give the name 1 of firm as yet, but understand they have ! arranged for the renting of a building. 1 It is reported that a certain young man i in town went seven or eight miles to see 1 his best girl. They had it understood < that they were to meet at a certain chureh, < where a several days meeting was going ' on. She came and he went all right enough, but she came with another fellow 1 and the young man from town and his fine candies could not get a showing. In- ' stead of a ring this time the young man i is arranging to procure a nine shot ham- ? merless Colt revolver. Don't take it so 1 hard, young man. "There is as good fish I in the sea as were ever caught out," and they love fine candy also. ] The Doctors are very busy in this section. Seems to be plenty fever all around, i Mr. Elmore Kinard sent in two bolls of open cotton, this years growth, on the 31st of July. Very few in the fields up to ' now and the crop will be thirty days late to what it was last year. Mr. Reuben Miller has gone North to hunt up bargains * his many customers. The candidates h*. a lively time here : on the first. They wei;1 all smiles and < were jovial as they could be trying to show the dear people why they should vote for them. The day passed off without a row. All had dinner and went home feeling the effects of the heat of the < Hat i Col. Jno. F. Folk and his three daughters spent last Tuesday night and Wednesday in town with C. Ehrhardt. Mr. John H. A. Hartz has gone on a visit to Jacksonville, Tampa, and Fernandina, Fla. Mr. Raymond Ehrhardt, who has accepted a position with Messrs. Gibbs & Co., of Columbia, has gone on a business trip to Florida for the house. Honors for Congressman Patterson. Headquarters Democratic Congressional Committee, Munsey Building, Washington, D. C., June 27,1906. Hon. James 0. Patterson, House of Representatives, Washington, D. C.? I My dear Mr. Patterson:?We want to make up our speakers' list for the coming campaign as soon as practicable. Will you please write me if we can count on your assistance on the stump during the campaign, and if so how much time yon can give us and when it will best suit your convenience. We do not know yet whether the committee will be able to defray the expenses, but it usually is the case that the local committee asks for ! speakers to look after the program, and we will communicate with you later on < the point. Sincerely yours, Chas. A. Edwards, Secretary, Headquarters Bryan Reception under auspices Commercial Travelers' Anti- , Trust League. Room 100, Hotel Victor- , ia, Broadway and 27th St., New York. Hon. J. O. Patterson, Barnwell, S. C.? T Iiom tliii hnnnr infnrm XSCai Ull. A UOIV VUV UUUVA WW ^ you that at a meeting of the plan and i scope committe to arrrange for a reception to the Hon. William Jennings Brv- ; an you were appointed a member of the : committee of reception of which Got- : ernor Folk of Missouri, is chairman. i Very truly yours, Lewis Nixon, Chairman Plan and Scope Committee. 1 Luke Gray, the Aiken negro, who kill ed Mr. Clifford Woodward at that place in February, 1905, and who was sentenced to be bung Friday, has been granted a respite of 30 days by Governor Heyward. Southern Hallway Changes. Mr. J. A. Heether, who has for the past four years been in charge of the Charles- | ton division of the Southern Railway, yesterday received notice that on August 12 . he would be transferred to be superintendent of the Norfolk division. While i this is in the nature of a promotion as the i Norfolk division is in the section of heav- ] ier traffic and the salary is larger, Mr. Heether said yesterday that he was sorry i to leave Charleston, where he had made so i many friends. ( During his'stay in Charleston and in j charge of the Charleston division Mr. , Heether has done a great deal to improve < the physical condition of the Southern J Railway roadbeds, rolling stock and ter- > minals. His service to the company and . the public has been all that could be desired. Mr. A. Gordon Jones, who will come to Charleston within the next few days and will take charge of the Charleston division August 12, was here in the same capacity a few years ago and is a capable and efficient railroad man. He ft pleas antly remembered and will be greeted by his old friends and made welcome.?News and Courier. j Old maids would be scarce and hard to find i Could they be made to see, < How grace and beauty is combined . j By using Rocky Mountain Tea. H. F. i Hoover. i WIFE'S BODY FOUND IN WELL 1 Awful Discovery Made by Mr. Whit Hamilton Near Dillon. DiLLoy, Aug. 5.?At an early hour this morning the dead body of Mrs. Whit Hamilton was found in the lot well on their premises, where it had been since 1 last Tuesday morning. i On that day Mr. Whit Hamilton, a < farmer living about two miles from Dil- ' Ion, came into Dillon bringing with him his little daughter, the only child, leaving 1 the wife and mother alone. She had ex- i pressed some opposition to having the I child accompany the father, fearing as she said that the horse might become 1 frightened at the automobiles and the child be injured, and even said if the fath- ! er persisted in carrying the little girl she would leave home. Mr. Hamilton play- ] fully and banteringly offered her ten dol- ' lars, saying he bet she wouldn't leave. i When he returned home, a few hours ? later there was no trace of his wife. He < saw that she had evidently changed her clothing and he fopnd the $10Jsticking in j the fob pocket of the pair of pants he had laid aside that morning. i By having changed her dress the im- 1 pression was made that she had left home, but the most diligent search failed to give i the slightest clue to her whereabouts. Last evening after dark Lot Jackson, a i white laborer on the place, in watering the stock, detected an unusual odor at the ; well, which he attributed to the hog wal- i low, and it also occurred to him that the ! bucket was harder to sink and fill than i usual. Without the remotest suspicion, ] however, as to the true cause of both con- < ditions?he went home. < Very early this morning the distracted husband, who since the mysterious disap- ' pearance of his wife, wh ile not away hunt- i ing for her, has been staying at his father's only about 400 yards away, walked over to his home. Mechanically perhaps going to the well to water his stocfc, the gruesome spectacle of tl*e dead body of his wife floating on the top of the water, met his horrified gaze, dead nearly one week. Injured by Lire Electric Wire. Sumter, Aug. 2.?Mr. J. J. Harby was shocked very much by a live electric wire Tuesday evening, and Mr. Eugene Moses met with a similar accident in trying to relieve Mr. Harby. Two wires were crossed in rear of Mr. C. F. McFaddin's yard cansing a jclaze. Mr. Harby was investigating the trouble when he noticed a wire on the ground in an adjacent yard, and believing it was dead he grasped it to remove it, when the current whizzed all over him, throwing him to the ground, and he could not turn loose. Mr. Moses attempted to knock with a stick the wire loose from Mr. Harby's hand, when he was knocked helpless himself. Mr. Harby was severely burned about the hands, legs and back. Holes as large as a dollar were burned in his clothing. Fortunately it was not from a direct current, but from the transformer, else both of them would have met death. Called Candidate a Liar. Spartanburg, Aug. 6.?The county campaign is warming up somewhat. At the Tacapau mill saturcay evening Mr [rby, candidate for Congress, was making bis usual speech, showing how corporations and trusts robbed the people when be stated that cotton mills were oppressing the employees and robbing them, Alfred Moore, brother of the president of the mill, called him down by using some sensational epithets. He stated to the candidate that he was telling a? lie. That was very plain talk. It is probable that there will be no trouble after this. Jesse James's Son Jesse James was the most noted outlaw in his day, and the story of his wild deeds, together with the account of his murder, has been read by millions of yougsters. At Kansas City a few days ago, the son of the bandit, bearing the same name, won first honors in a class of 37, and he is now a lawyer, a quiet, orderly young man, with no bad or vicious habits, and with the one desire of being looked upon as an upright and honorable citizen. He was highly complimented and commended for . his excellent examination in law before the State board, and in the court he won the first case in which he appeared. He defended a prisoner charged with burglary. The story of the spn's achievement ought to be printed for the benefit of the youngsters. It might show them what the son of a dishonored father can do when he is actuated by the right motives and principles. Expansive. At sweet eighteen Fair Angeline Was truly slim and willowy. But age brings fat? < We all know that? And now she's rather pillowy. A MYSTERY SOLVED. "How to keep off periodic attacks of bil- ! iousness and habitual constipation was a ' mystery that Dr. King's New Life Pills i 3olved for me," writes John N. Pleasant, : of Magnolia, Ind. The only pills that are guaranteed to give satisfaction to ev- ' erybody or money refunded. Only 25c < at Hoover's-drug store and J. B. Black's. ? "... ' > ''i . ' - ' - .- v .. ,-.v LAN DRAM-BAILEY. President of South Carolina Co-Educational Institute Married at Smithland, Ky. Smithland, Ky., August 3.?At the beautiful Kentucky home of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. W. Landram, .' j Col. F. N. K. Bailey, of South Carolina and Miss Ora Evelyn Landram were united in marriage Wednesday morning at 7:30 o'clock. " Mendelssohn's wedding march was beautifully rendered by Miss Edna Presnall, of Smithland. Capt. R. B. Cain, of Sumter, the groom's best man, entered with the bride's maid of honor, Miss Dave Co wper, of Smithland, followed by Mr. C. E. Landram, brother of the bride, with Miss Emma Shemwell, of Birdsville, Ey. After the attendants had taken their places, the bride and groom entered and were in a short, simple ceremony united in the holy bonds of wedlock by the Key. J. S. Conway, pastor of the Baptist church. The bride was dressed in a beautiful grey silk traveling dress. The groom was attired in an English grey walking :;? suit. The parlor was decorated with beantifnl ferns and hot house plants. Immediately after the ceremony, Col. and Mrs. Bailey left for an extended tour North. The bride is one of the most attractive and popular young ladies of western Kentucky. For the past two years she has been at the head of the music department of the South Carolina CoEnucational Institute of Edgefield, where she has a host of friends. Col. Bailey is president of the South Carolina Co-Educational Institute and one of the leading educators of that section of the country. The happy couple took the steamer "Royal" for Paducah, where they boarded the train for a tour of the Northern and \ Eastern cities. . -'|j A host of friends accompanied them to .. Paducah, where they showered rice, con- ; gratulations and best wishes. Changes at the Citadel. Columbia, July 31.?A meeting of the Citadel board was held today to fill va- .J cancies caused by resignations or changes ordered in the faculty of that institution ,. ,'ijj some time ago. * ?.;.\'0 Maj. P., B. Wilson, of Elberton, Ga., .j fcas elected to succeed Maj. J. T. Coleman in the department of physics; Mr. Lehre j Dantzler, of Orangeburg to succeed CoL J. Colton Lynes in chemistry and geology, and Maj. Charles Walker, of Knoxville, Tenn., to take the place of Maj. P. P. Mazyck in the department of lan- . | guages. The board went over the list of scholar- | ships awarded each county and found ' that satisfactory examinations had been *'/J ordered in all of them except Beaufort which has two vacancies and Georgetown which has one vacancy. In Newberry there is only one applicant for the vacancy. The board is much encouraged over $ the prospects for a successful year and the indications for a much larger attendance. ~ Excursion. M Reduced rates to Old Point Comfort, Ocean View and Virginia Beach, Va., on August 15th via Seaboard Air Line: Tickets on sale for regular trains August 15th good until August 31st. $10 50 is the rate from Denmark and Fairfax. W. L. Burroughs, T. P. A., Columbia, 8. C. His Sublime Nerve. 41 'Excuse me fur arskin' ye, ma'am," said Tuff old Enutt, removing his tattered rem- * nant of a once glorious hat, and making hia hpfit hrtw Mhnf. hftc va hppn awav nn yer summer vacation yit?" "No" answered the woman of the _ _ house. "What do yon want to know that for?" ? 'Cause, ma'am," he rejoined, stiffening np and bringing to view the dejected remains of a shirt collar, "w'en ye do go away fur de summer ye'll want somebody of good mor'l charackter to take keer o' yer house, an' I'd like to apply fur de job." ? Were Eager to See Hanging. GEpRGETOwn, August 3.?Quite a number of people from different sections of this county came to town today expecting to witness the execution of William Gibbes, colored, who was tried at last term of court, and sentenced tp hang today. They were disappointed when notified by Sheriff Scurry that the Governor had commuted the sentence to life imprisonment. * When Deputy Sheriff Haddock notified Gibbes what the Governor had done he fell in his cell to the floor and remained in that position for about a minute, and in rising wanted to shake hands with Mr. ' Haddock and wanted to express his thanks to all who had done anything towards saving his life. THE END OF THE WORLD of troubles that robbed E. H. Wolfe, of Bear Grove, la., of all usefulness, came when he began taking Electric Bitters. He writes: "Two years ago kidney troubl e caused me great suffering, which I would never hare survived had I not taken Electric Bitters. They also cured me of general debility." 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