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P. W. HARLEY RELEASED. Preliminary Develops Nothing New in Jeff coat Murder Case. Orangeburg, September 24.?The preliminary hearing in the case against Pink W. Harley was commenced before Magistrate Charles P. Brunson at 11 o'clock this morning. Harley is charged with killing R. A. Jeffcoat on the night of the 21st R. Addison on the night of the 21st of last December, while the deceased was on his way home from the town of Livingston in this county. The details of the tragedy are familiar to many readers of this paper. Jeffcoat was shot down without warning, ? in the dark and on the public highway. The crime was dastardly and cowardly and, so far as the public knows, no motive has been assigned for the deed. Jeffcoat was a prominent and wealthy farmer, which add, ed interest to the affair. Rewards aggregating six hundred dollars were offered for the conviction of the guilty parties. Gov. Ansel sel employed a special detective and the local authorities were actively en gaged in an enon iu soivc mc mj.-jtery. Very little was heard of the matter, so far as solution was concerned, until a few days ago, when Pink W. Harley was arrested and charged with the crime. Harley resides in the neighborhood of the scene of the shoot^ig, is a farmer of moderate means and has been considered harmless, although he has been in the courts before, having been- several times tried in the United States court for violations of the internal revenue laws. The hearing, held in the court house, attracted a large crowd to-day and great interest was manifested in the proceedings. The prosecution was conducted by Solicitor Hildebrand, Wolfe & Berry and L. K. Sturkle, while the defense was represented by Raysor & Summers. There were some spirited passages between opposing counsel. Several witnesses were examined, but the testimony of none did not connect Harley with the murder. The strained relations of the family were pretty well aired at the hearing. Jeffcoat and his wife had been separated for some time. V' Julius Jeffcoat, son of the dead man, was the last witness, after which the case was submitted without argument. The magistrate promptly dismissed the proceedings, deeming the evidence insufficient to hold the accused. Harley was given his liberty and - 4. oon tH6 Killing OI JtV. A. 0 CUUfdl lo oo uwy a mastery as ever. FELL FROM TRAIN. John Graham, of Rosemary, Sustains Serious Injury. ''' w ' f Georgetown, September 23.?This morning, while coming to town on the regular passenger train, John Graham, of Rosemary, fell from the platform of the passenger coach to i the side of the track and received in, juries from which he is not expected to recover. The train was going at the rate of thirty miles per hour at the time of the accident. Another passenger saw the unfortunate man fall and the t?ain was stopped as soon as possible and run back to the spot. Graham was found in an unconscious condition. He was brought to the city and taken to the infirmary, where it was found that he was suffering from a fracture of the skull and concussion of the brain. He is still unconscious. What System. A German canvasser took the fiftystory elevator of a western wholesale house in New York and walked into the office, where one of the proprietors was busy at his desk. The canvasser was told that the house needed nothing in his line, but he persisted in opening his sample bag and making himself the cause of much distress, until finally the en raged proprietor kicked him down the first flight of stairs. An employe, observing the mode of descent, repeated the dose with like effect, and it was dittoed till the unfortunate German found himself on the curb 7- stoned highway. Shaking himself, he looked back over the bourse of events and ejaculated, "Veil, dot ish a great establishment. I don't know delr particular line of peesness, but my! Vat system, vat system!"?TitBits. His Dream of Buried Wealth. For a week past Thomas Wade, a prosperous farmer in Tuckahoe district, Henrico county, dreamed each night of a buried box bulging with gold in ingots and ancient coins. The spot where this treasure was secreted was indicated unvaryingly in his dreams by an old stump, which he recognized as being on his farm. Yesterday, with the assistance of constable I. H. Henly he went to the place indicated in his dream, and after digging for several hours his shovel struck the traditional "hard metallic substance." Believing his dream of wealth realized Wade fainted from emotion, but the constable nursed him back to consciousness and then the box was unearthed and examined. It contained three big copper cents of ancient date and four fishhooks.?Richmond correspondence Washington Post. ^ Spartanburg to Get C. C. & O. Road. Spartanburg, September 23.?There is no longer any doubt about the Car-1 olina, Clinchfield & Ohio railroad coming to Spartanburg. To-day the contract for the construction of the line from Bostick, N. C., to Spartanburg, S. C., a distance of 32 miles, was let to McArthur Bros, of New York and Chicago. The contract provides that the road shall be completed within one year, that is to say, October 1, 1909. The contractors will reach here tomorrow and work will begin at once. While the above statement is un-| official, the information is learned on the best of authority. It is now believed that the road will be continued south, going via Columbia to Charleston. All rights of way in Spartanburg have been practically secured. i A Church of the Mound-Builders. Below is a description of an ancient mound in Ohio. One similar to it in several respects, and doubtless built by the same race of people, was washed away from the Savannah river low grounds a few miles above Old Petersburg during the recent freshet. The one in Ohio is interestingly described by O. J. Fairfield as follows: Near my boyhood home in Ohio are the remains of an ancient church about which I have often speculated. I have wished I might call back to life those who built that sanctuary and joined in its worships that I might find out the thoughts and emotions that stirred within their lives; but, alas! they have passed beyond recall, and no record remains " " *- nn/4 dorft. of their laeais oi wursmp auu uv*v | tion save that which can be read from the few relics that remain. This ancient church is probably older by far than any in New England. When Columbus came to these shores, it was already old and in ruins. Over its circular mounds the vegetation of uncounted summers has accumulated a depth of soil that tells of a great lapse of time. The forest primeval has planted gigantic trees where possibly the priest of this church stood. It Is a church of the mound-builders, a relic of that ancient race that disappeared from the Mississippi Valley so many generations ago that the American Indians had no traditions concerning them. It stands on a bank of the Little Miami river on a natural tableland above the stream. About it is a mound circular in form, some eight feet high, enclosing an acre or more of ground. Within the circle is another mound, square in form, some ten feet high, and large enough *? - rkonnio +n onnereeate lur a uuuui&u w w on its level summit. On one side of this elevated square is a broad passageway leading down from the summit in gradual slope toward an opening in the outer circular wall. This way leads directly eatft, as if to catch and welcome the first rays of the rising sun. Withfn the enclosure there, are also two small burial mounds,! the graves of some chiefs no doubt, j Except for a portion of the square, central mound, the earth and gravel that make the mounds was brought from a near locality or from the bed of the river. Four feet below the surface of the square mound there was found an altar of stones and clay that must have been brought from a, considerable distance, as the stones; and clay are unknown in that portion I of Ohio. What sacred associations I made this clay sacred or from what} holy land it was "brought no one can tell. On this altar sacrifices were offered, and a great festival was held lasting several days, and at its conclusion there was cast into the fire; on the altar a votive offering of per-i sonal adornments in silver and gold, and copper and shells, together with pottery and a few clay images?presumably idols?strangely like those made in the valley of the Nile in Egypt half a world away. And, after the impressive ceremonies were com-i pleted.the altar and the entire square j mound were covered over to the I depth of four feet with gravel from the bed of the stream and the broad; loadway built from the summit toward the first rays of the morning sun in the open distance beyond. So carefully was everything sacred covered up that even the ashes from the altar and the refuse of the feast, charred bones of deer and turkey, were carried a considerable distance away and buried beneath a depth of gravel from the stream. Only the mounds were left to tell to coming ages the story of what this ancient church?for such it was?stood for. It has passed away, together with the people who worshipped there. Another race, stronger in fighting qualities, but inferior in intellectual attainments, took their place ana lived their lives, and they, too, after a time, have passed away. A third race of higher culture than either and restless in the pursuit of their ideals, occupy the land, and on a Sunday morning their church bells disturb the echoes by the silent mounds, as they call the new people to worship in flimsy structures of wood or brick that seem perishable indeed beside the silent mounds of this ancient church that have endured so many years and seem now as permanent as the eternal hills. What did this ancient church stand for? Reasoning from all that we know of the religion of early people, their church stood for outward authority in religion. They feasted together, bringing themselves into one brotherhood, which was good. Thev burnt their sacrifices that the gods might be propitious to them. They offered oblations and gifts, to buy special favors or dispensations. And, as they went away, perhaps under the pressure of the coming red man, they covered up their altar, secure from desecration, feeling that, so long as the sun rose and its first beams pierced the opening in the outer wall and shone on the mound above their! sacred altar, so long would divine favor rest upon their souls. Perhaps it was, after all, a church of the living God, and for that ancient people was the pillar and ground of truth. To Take Pasteur Treatment. Mayesville, September 24.?Dr. C. E. King and" wife and little daughter, Louise, left for Richmond last night, where the latter will be treated at the Pasteur institute in that city. Several days ago, Mis Louise was bitten by a dog showing symptoms of rabies. The dog's head was sent to Richmond for an examination and upon receipt of a telegram stating that the animal had hydrophia Dr. King left I with his daughter for treatment.*The many friends of the little girl and thei family wish her a speedy relief from { the effects of the dog's bite. TWENTY -FIVE INJURED. Bleachers on Roanoke Fair Grounds Collapse With 1,000 People. T-l 1. ~ T7~ OA nuctuunc, v a., oc^lcuiuci ui. | Twenty-five persons were injured on the Roanoke fair grounds to-day when the stand of bleachers collapsed, carrying down with it more than a thousand men, women and chil-; dren. The majority of the victims; suffered sprained ankles, cuts and bruises. The injured were removed to hospitals. Twenty thousand spectators were on the grounds at the time and great excitement prevailed. GUILTY OF ASSAULT. Negro Charged With Serious Crime Given Sentence. Noah Long, colored, who was tried in the court of general sessions on Monday on the charge of criminal assault, in which case a verdict of guilty of aggravated assault and battery was rendered, was yesterday sentenced by Judge Gage to a term of 15 m/vn +"hs nt "hard lahnr in the State penitentiary or a like period on the public works of Richland county. Long was charged with assaulting Sarah Burkhardt, colored, a married woman, living about 12 miles north of Columbia, on Feb. 20 last. The evidence was rather strong against "him. Long's defense was that he was not at Sarah Burkhardt's house on the night in question, but failed to establish his alibi to the satisfaction of the jury. The jury, however, took a very liberal view of the case, in the defendant's favor, and returned a verdict of guilty of aggravated assault and battery. Mr. Robert Moorman of counsel for the defendant, plead earnestly for the mercy of the court when Judge Gage was about to pronounce sentence. He said that Long had pre-| viously borne a good^reputation; that the jury had not believed the full story told by the State's witnesses,! for he had been convicted only of aggravated assault and battery. He said that the defendant had a wife and four children and that it would be quite a hardship if he were sen-! tenced to serve a long term. It was, intimated, also, that money could be raised to meet a light fine if thej court would put the sentence in the; alternative. Judge Gage followed this case very) closely. After listening to the remarks of counsel for Long, he said: "Unless the black woman be defended from the black man's lust," said the court, "it will not be long before the white woman will have to be defended. I think that something must be done to elevate the negro if he can not elevate himself and I am inclined to uphold the jury in their decision and I will not impose a fine nor even a minimum sentence. I dare not turn him loose; in my mind I have no doubt but that this man did assault the woman. She made an! impresiom upon me as an honest,! truth-telling woman and the jury has. convicted this man of not telling the! truth. "It gives me no pleasure to sen-! tence Long," continued the court. | "Especially so since he has a wi/ei and small children, but he should, have stuck to his wife and the trouble j would never have occurred. There i is no alternative. I sentence him to 15 months' hard labor." At this juncture, the wife of Long, who was in the court, raised her hand and, in a sobbing voice, said; "Mister Judge, may I speak a word?" The court calmly replied, "Never mind." There was nothing to do but for the law to take its course. The woman was crying to such an extent she had to be led out of the court room.? Columbia State. Child Born to Murderess. New York, September 25.?A baby boy, weighing 9 pounds, was born today to Sarah Koten, the young woman who has been in prison confinement on Blackwell Island, awaiting trial for the killing of Dr. Samuel Auspitz in 135 street, on June 7. The Blackwell Island's physicians reported mother and boy to be doing well. What the Koten girl will call her little boy she has not yet decided. One thing she has decided, however, is that the boy shall not bear the name of his father, whom she shot after waiting more than twelvfe hours in the hallway to which she lured him. Her trial was postponed by consent of district attorney and David Levy, J the lawyer who volunteered to defend her until after her child should have been born. It is probable that she will now be brought to trial as soon as her condition permits and she is able, accoring to the report of the physicians to bear the strain of thej ordeal. Confident of the Future. Mary, 5-vears-old, ^nd Stella, who was about the same age, were talking; about their future dreams. * i "When I grow up," said Mary, "I'm I going to be a school teacher." "Well, I'm going to be a mother | with four children," said Stella. "Well, when they come to my! school I'm going to whip them, whip, them, whip them!" "You mean thing!" said Stella, asj the tears came into her eyes. "Whatj have my poor children ever done to! you?"?Delineator. j t %f vv-v :^ v Well Say, How is This?1 i $2,000.00 worth of Hamilton-Brown Shoes at a Very Close Profit. A ' e.5 We do not claim to sell them at cost, for they will sell at any @ time. In fact we do not have to sell them at cost, for most @ people are too glad to get them at all. But in order to jjg? introduce this line of shoes in every home in this sec- q Ition of the country, we will divide our profits ra with the consumer. If we ever sell you one ? pair, from them on you are our customer. @ -J A FEW FACTS ABOUT THE HAMILTON-BROWN SHOE j J This shoe is made by the largest shoe makers in the * world, so it is a known fact that they can make shoes X' cheaper than any other factory. @' v ji|| They are in the heart of the leather country, so have, A ,v|f the pick of leather and can also save freight, so of course. jn^glg can make shoes cheaper. _ < v @ They make shoes from No. 0 in baby's shoe to the * y||g largest shoe in man's or lady's, so they can fit anybody, g! I"" o " w V ' W ? ? no matter what size foot they have. ^ In .Buying Shoes One Advantage I You can buy your whole family .their shoes and not & ijsj have to leave our store to do it. - So naturally we can A f'Jffl sell you a bill of shoes at a cheaper rate than one pair. ? - IS Don't take any substitute. We are the only people jg in Bamberg that handles this noted line. X jii FOR HONEST DEALINGS WE ARE NOTED X 1C. R. 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