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.;: ' ' ^ ! r Personal Mention. ?Rev. P. E. Monroe, of Ehrhardt, was in the city Friday. V ?Mr. J. R. Owens, of Denmark, was in the city last Saturday. ?Mrs. A. McB. Speaks returned-last Friday from a business trip to Atlanta. ?Mr. T. S. Rice, of Richlarid county, spent several days in the city this week. , ?Mrs. Frank Utsey, of Grover, Dorchester county, is visiting Mrs. H. G. Sheridan. ' ... 1 HTCno Mnmia Homcnri VlQ.Cl 51/*- I iuioo iiiauii^ ixujl x luvi* &'mv ww cepted a position at Roylston, Ga., where she will be this season. ?Miss Sadie Johnson has gone to Spray, N. C., where she has accepted a position as milliner for the season. ' ?Mr. J. Izlar Sims, of The Orangeburg Times and Democrat, visited the family of Prof. H. G. Sheridan Sunday. , # i ?Miss Lizzie Sheridan, of Orange- , burg, spent Sunday in the city on a , visit to the family of her brother, Mr. H. G. Sheridan. ? " 1 ^ j - v A ?uaaei ^iyae lungue rciumcu Monday to resume his studies at the Carlisle Fitting School, after visiting several days at home in Barnwell. ?Rev. T. G. Herbert returned home last Saturday, bringing with ( him Mrs. Herbert and the children, who have been /visiting relatives in Sumter. _ ( \ ?Mr. E. D. Suioak, who has been visiting friends and relatives in this and Colleton counties for some weeks, left last week for his home in Spartanburg county. After a week's stay , ; at home he will leave for a visit of about two months to his daughter in Tennessee, and from there will go to visit his two sons in Roanoke, Va. j Surprise Marriage. < Mr. J. Harry Murphy and Miss Blanche Garland surprised their many friends by ; x getting married last Sunday afternoon. ' The ceremony was performed by Rev. J. . B. Traywick at his residence in Denmark. V These young people had been keeping company for some time, but the news of their union was certainly a great sur' v prise, as none of their friends knew that . they contemplated such a step. How- : ever, without notifying aiiybody, they ; drove to Denmark and were quietly , married.- i Mr. Murphy is the second son of Post- ; master J. P. Murphy, and has been as- < sistant postmaster hereforseveralyears. i The bride is the only daughter of Mr. G. W. Garland, and has for a year or two ! been the efficient day operator at the ; telephone exchange. She is possessed of , AW/) A ATTTAA4- /)IO_ UlVdt giautuuo uiaiuicio aiiu aovv^v uw i position, and she numbers her friends < among old and young. Everybody who 1 uses a telephone is under many obliga- i tions to her for kindnesses rendered. ] ? 1 Always sweet tempered and obliging, J we have heard it said many a time by our business and professional men that . she was the finest operator they had ever known. The young couple are residing for the i present at the home of the father of the ^ groom. The Herald in common with their j very many friends, extends congratula- j tions, and wishes for them a long life of J happiness and prosperity. But we who 1 have to use the 'phone so often can hard- } ly forgive Harry for robbing^us of such 1 fino nrumfnr ' a uiiv vyvxuwA ( ] St. John's News. I-v . -vc St. John's, March 23.?Some of our i farmers have been planting corn this 1 week, quite an early start. j Mr. J. C. Folk went to Olar Thursday ' on business. , Miss Clara Copeland has been visiting Mrs. J. J. Copeland for the past week. A pindar shelling was given at Mr. Jesse Copeland's, also one at Mr. H. C. Bishop's last Saturday night, which < were enjoyed. ( The committee of the River's bridge ' memorial met last Saturday, the 14th, ! and appointed the 1st of May for mem- . orial day. Messrs. Bernard and George Kearse ? and family, of Bayard, Florida, have re- 1 turned to their home in our neighbor- < hood. We are glad to have them back with us again. j We are sorry to say our school will be out the 27th of this month, but we are# expecting to have an entertainment at j the close. Our teacher, Miss Bailey, < will uc iiiUKWU vcrjf rnucxi vy ueir uieuiy ] ' friends. Bradley Hiers. ( St. John's graded school. 1 1 t Negro Killed Near Denmark. : Orangeburg, March 23.?News has i reached this city of a killing which oc- j curred near Denmark on Saturday night. ] Govan Salley, a negro, was the victim, ( and he was killed by another negro whose name cannot be learned. It seems that the negro who did the shooting, upon reaching his home on Saturday night, found his wife and Salley together, and ' without any preliminaries he fired. There ^ were four bullet holes in the body. ] Salley was 28 or 30 years old, and was a son of C. D. Salley, a well-known and j respectable colored minister, who lives i near this place. The dead man was married ana, with his wife, lived on the < place of Sheriff John H. Dukes, just j outside of Orangeburg. At intervals, it seems, he would leave home ostensibly in search of work. His reputation was not very good and he had been repeated- ] y warned that his mode of living would eventually be the means of his undoing, i * BIG FIRE IN BISHOPVILLE. Two Stores Burned Resulting In Loss of Thirty Thousand Dollars. Bishopville, March 20.?Thursday night about 2 o'clock fire was discovered in the rear of the stores of the Bishopville Dry Goods company, which was soon in full force. The volunteer fire department responded to the fire alarm and it was not long before they had the flames under control, although the wind was very high. The fire was kept confined to these two buildings, which prevented the loss of a whole block. TVip <sfnr?k nf o-nnris of this com Dan V was completely destroyed by fire and water. These buildings were adjoining the stores of Mr. J. B. Kelley and Mrs. L. C. Dj^on, which were also brick. For a while it looked as if the fire department would not be able to control the flames. The loss sustained by the dry goods, company is estimated at about $20,-' 000 with $18,000 insurance, while the damage to the stores, which are owned by Mr. George M. Stuckey, is estimated at about $5,000 with $4,000. Mr. Kelley, Mrs. Dixon, Mr. Moore and Mr. A. B. DuRant also sustained considerable loss in that their stocks - ?- -* ? ?- ^ l were uajimgeu vy uemg muvcu num the stores out into the street. The origin of the fire is unknown, but from all appearances it first : caught near the door on the side of the building near the rear. Beaten Again. A despairing debt collector decided the other day to corner his quarry at the bar of a city hotel in the presence of a number of his friends, thinking that by this ruse he would so embarrass his man that he would either get his money right away or a promise of early payment. Advancing gently, he tapped the debtor on the shoulder, and said: "Pardon me, Mr. . When are you gofing to pay that small amount you owe my firm?" The debtor spun around on his heel. and glared. i "I'm no prophet!" he roared. And the debt collector vanished. ' Queer Accident at Laurens. Laurens, March 22.?Mr. Allen ! Barksdale, a young son of Mr. Downs j Barksdale, of this city, met with a very peculiar accident here last night as the result of which he is to-day suffering from concussion and is in a precarious condition. Among oth- ( ers Mr. Barksdale happened to be at the drug store when a negro woman was brought in from the street to have dressed an extremely ugly gaping wound, which had been inflicted with a knife across her jaw. The ( sight of the wound and blood caused , young Barksdale to faint. He was standing near the steps leading to the basement, and when he collapsed he ' fell backward down these steps. He , received prompt medical aid, but at ! noon to-day he was still in a stupor. Trousseau Gowns. ' 'Trousseau gowns are lovelier than j Bver," says the fashion editor of the \ Woman's Home Companion, "but as : they have increased in beauty, they * V _ TT ^ 1 Have lessened in numoer. very iew brides of to-day, no matter how ] fashionable they may be, order a trousseau consisting of a great num- 1 ber of costumes. The reason for this i is that fashions change so that it is necessary every little while to have i i new-style gown if one is to keep pace with the capricious modes. ] "The bridal princess gown is a i style which will be- in fashion for a 1 iong time to come. One can wear it 1 is long as the material lasts by mere- i y changing the sleeves to meet the ; requirements of the prevailing fash- < on." 1 i Homicide Cases at Barnwell. ] Barnwell, March 21.?At the opening of court this morning a seal- ; *d verdict in the case of the State igainst.W. M. Childs, charged yith ; nurder, was read, it being not guilty. rhe jury in the case of the State ( igainst Fred Braxton, Bob Creech, Holmes Moody and Jim Moody was ] still under lock and key and had been i for twenty hours when a mistrial was ] ordered. The motion for a new trial made by 1 jr. M. Greeme, Esq., in the case of J. B. Ross upon the grounds of after j iiscovered evidence was argued and ( refused and Ross was sentenced to 1 five years in the State penitentiary ; it hard labor. The motion for new < trial in the case of State against John ] 3ook, Julia Cook and Breeland Cook j vas refused and Jno. Cook was sen- j tenced to two years in the peniteni- j iry at such labor as he is able to per- < form. Julia Cook, his wife, to two years i in the penitentiary at hard labor. 1 Breeland Cook, his son, on the county ] ihain gang hard labor for two years. < . ] Used to Roughing It. A father and mother, with six J children, spent their Easter holidays 1 at the seaside. Immediately on ar- i rival they set about looking for cheap i iodgings. J At length they came to a notice of 1 a "furnished room to let" and made ] inquiries. < "Oh, yes," said the landlady in an- t swer to the father's question; "it's ] lere the room is to let, but there's i mly one bed in it." 1 "Oh, that's all right," replied the 1 father; "we're used to roughing it. 1 fhe wife and bairns will sleep on the s loor."?TheTatler. ] I NEGRO OR INDIAN BLOOD? TEACHER OF LESTER SCHOOL REFUSES TO TEACH GIRL. \ Question of Color Before State Board of Education?Supt. flartin Threatens to Resign. There was a warm discussion at the meeting of the State board of education yesterday morning in the case of Floyd Swett against the Lester school district of Marlboro county, and incidentally there were some interesting facts on the status of the Croatans, one of the race having demanded admission in the public schools of that prmntv The case came up on an appeal from a decision of the Marlboro county board and the Pee Dee Advocate gives the following account of the case in that county: "Floyd Swett removed the first of the year to Capt. P. L. Breeden's place, in Adamsville, and soon afterward started his only child, a 10-yearold girl, to the Lester school, which is taught by Miss Courtney Atkinson of Sumter and Miss Vaughan Gritton of Laurens. The teachers board at the home of Thos. A. Huckabee, chairman of the board of trustees. On the evening of the day the Swett girl entered school Miss Gritton reported the fact to Mr. Huckabee and said she would refuse to teach her on account of her color. "The next morning Mr. Huckabee noll/v^ e maotini* Af +V?o VkrtQT/1 trilfi. C* VA WtlV WMJLVi VA v? V?M tees to consider the matter. They met at the school house, heard the teacher's statement, looked at the child and decided to dismiss her. The other trustees are T. K. Adams and W. A. Breeden. "Mr. Swett went to see the trustees about it, but failing to get his daughter reinstated in the school, employed Livingston & MueJJer to represent him and appealed" to the county, board of education. "Judge Hudson and Capt. Breeden testified that the Swett family had always enjoyed the political and civil rights of white citizens, before and since the war, and that they were faithful soldiers, Jifdge Hudson, T. S. Evans and Fioyd Swett, himself, said that the Swetts were reputed to have Indian blood in their veins, but no rjegro blood?Swett traced his ancestry back for several generations and said he was descended from the Swetts of the Revolution, mentioned in Gregg's History of the^Old Cheraws. ? "He said that his child had gone to the white school at Brownsville/without objection, but admitted that the teacher at Kollock resigned last year because the trustees there refused to expel his daughter. Hi? wife was Nannie Brigman. v "Mrs. Swett testified as to her ancestry, and said that her grandmother came from the old country. She said they always atttended white schools and churches. When asked to what denomination she belonged, she said she was a Baptist. Judge Townsend, who represented the trustees, asked her of what church she was a member and she said St. John's near Gibson. In answer to further questions, she said he was not certain whether St. John's was a Baptist or a Methodist church. (As a matter of fact, it is Methodist.) "The trustees claimed that it would have injured the school if the girl had been allowed to attend, and that they were doing what they thought best for the school when they dismissed her. "The county board dismissed the appeal and refused to interfere with ? il i A _ _ TTTT. *1 i. tne action 01 tne trustees. wmienoi passing upon the color or race of the child, the board took the ground that the law allows trustees a wide latitude in the management of schools, and that it is unwise and impracticable to interfere with their actions except in cases of grave violations of the law." When the case came up in the State board there were several arguments made on each side and the briefs filed would probably have resulted in a reversal of the decision of the county board, but finally Superintendent Martin made a personal statement which caused a postponement of the case. Superintendent Martin became very much excited and threatened to resign, whereupon the board agreed upon a compromise position.?Columbia State, March 22nd. Dispensary Trouble in Williamsburg. The county dispensaries arealready getting into trouble. In Williamsburg county there is a lively row on between the clerk of the county board and the board. It appears that the cleric suspected that some whiskey houses were paying commissions to members of the board on liquors bought, and he wrote the houses to find out what commissions they were paying. He was discharged from his position, and his side of the case is that he had reported the mat? -L- A?Jij. TXT A cer 01 commissions to Auuitor rvtaa prior to his discharge, and that his dismissal was due to the fact that he bad given out the information. The board says he was discharged because be was trying to get commissions from liquor dealers on goods bought by the board. So there you are. The matter has been investigated, a hear-* ingbeing held at Kingstree last week, it which Auditor West and the solicitor of that circuit were present. A lot of testimony was taken and turnid over to the governor, but the result of the investigation had not been made public at the time of this writing. All the members of the county board and the clerk testified at the learing. There seems to be no question as to the books of the clerk being straight, but whether anybody was paid commissions. . .. . * FASHIONS IN ADVANCE. Some Wraps and Costumes That Will Be Popular Soon. Time was when the possession of a fur garipent made ^for comfort was sufficient without any trimming, it was deemed like painting the lily and adorning the rose t;o add anything, even the fastening not being allowed to show. But we have changed all that, and now the question seems to be how much can we get on the garment as embellishment. There Is always a contingent of sensible women.. but the other kind are in the majority. A glance at the illustration will prove this, as it would seem impossible to add to this small coat The name of this garment Is a sealskin kimono coatee. The sleeves are but to the elbow, and there are cuffs of delft blue velvet with gold galloon* cord and a gold button ou each. Above this cuff is another of seal, with a band of ermine without the black tail. The front is so arranged that it can lap over surplice fashion or be turned back in two large revers, which hav6 ttheir widest part at the bottom. The whole garment is lined with white satin, and this has a flat line of rich lace along the edge. Beneath the fur is a vest of the blue velvet, with a cord and button. In the ba?k it is a simple, plain Eton. A handsome motif of lace is laid along the back of the neck. It goes without saying that the wearer of such a coatee will experience such a glow of satisfaction that she will not feel the cold about her waist or neck, or if she does it is easy to wear an undervest of chamois, which is what most women do. Seal is a fur so rieh that it should be worn only with very fine gowns; otherwise it will cheapen them. \ ",l? ?1-3 miw KIha nAi*r?oloir> JLUC UiU-ue w guucuu utuct i^vtwiuui and faience blues are shown as among the best new shades of blue, but we also may see peacock and robin's egg blue. Such bright shades look better on millinery than as dress material. Peacock breasts are seen on many of the richest hats, while the pretty "eyes" are used indiscriminately. Purple in one or the other of its many shades will be the favorite, the only danger being in the fact that cheap goods of all kinds will be offered, so that the fancy for a really beautiful color will become so common that the lady who owns one gown or suit in any of the shades will feel like despair. That is very bad. The velutina in the purple shades is particularly rich and SEALSKIN KIMONO COATEE. beautiful, especially the dark damson and wine, while the delicate amethyst as well as lilac and mauve is lovely for evening. A little good lace, taste in the making, and the lady has a grown of beauty. Velutina is plain and ribbed as well as figured in bright dots and other designs in silver and gilt The ribbed makes up oti elegant street costume with the addition of a band of fur around the sleeves and waist and such other trimming as the wearer likes best It is much liked for children's wear, beiag so handsome and durable at so little cost With the advent of winter evening dress becomes a question that must be considered. Lace and embroidery over silk are still the favorite, and indeed nothing can look richer or more elegant A ?Own on exhibition last week was exceptionally beautiful. It was ecru colored lace over a mauve silk' slip. All along the front of the princess shape was a design in daisies, the ox eyed kind, and these were wrought very high above the lace, each with a dark center. The dress was cut me 'oftmftnrho+ In n nnmnfldonr ILLULLI lUVt , ovuivnuut u v* j>v?r~._ form, with the superimposed daisies all along the front and out on the shoulders. The sleeves were short puffs. Another evening dress, this one for a young girl, was of white dotted net over a pink slip. This, too, was princess shape, and the skirt was laid in three sets of narrow tucks which did not meet in front The front breadth was entirely plain save for the flat border of heavy cluny lace down the seams. Between the tucks and at the foot were two scalloped and bound rufiles of the pink taffeta. The square neck was outlined by four of the ruffles of taffeta with lace between. The sleeves were short and puffed. .1 have mentioned these two in detail because they were really representative gowns and can be copied in any material The princess shape Is always . in fashion for those whose figures are so perfect that they dare indulge. Hats grow more and more aggressive and top heavy every day. Velvet laid on the frame straight is one of the newest styles. One of these had a high crown covered smoothly and the brim done in the same way. The color was a dark purple, with an immense bunch of short willow tips in bright green, with e. white aigret set in their center. The hat was to tip sharply to the right side, and under the brim on the left was an enormous bunch of velvet violets with leaves. And all around the edge of the brim was a fall of open embroidery in white batiste. OLIVE HABPEB1 V | Ready-to-wear Hats and Sailors jjj eg. is complete, also can suit you to a jl eg. nice line of Dress Novelties, Silks, eg. Laces, etc. Will tell you next week 1* eg. the date of our Spring Display >|? 13 oi rauern nats. * ^ | Mrs. K. I. Shuck & Co. |j| i|, Bamberg, ' South Carolina* 1Y0U ARE LOSING MONEY ||j If You are INot Buying Your Goods of Ua a , We have one of the best and most up-to-date lines of v Dry Goods; Notions, Shoes, Hats, ?.^f I Caps, Clothing, Groceries, Etc., a Ever brought to this town and at prices to suit you. A Come See Us and be Convinced That What We Say is True J. W. PEARLSTINE CO. 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