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< NEW TRIAL REFUSED. Granby Mill Company Dissatisfied 3 With Recent Verdict Against It. Columbia, December 15.?Argument for a new trial in the case of \ O. M. Rhodes against the Granby c Cotton Mills, and a motion that the 1 verdict be set aside on the ground t that it is excessive, was made before 1 Judge Memminger yesterday morn- c ing. The case when tried Friday, r A December 3, resulted in a verdict s for the plaintiff in the sum of $10,000. t Judge Memminger very positively r refused the motion for a new trial, 1 for he exercised great care in the t other trial, and the question of whether or not the verdict was ex- t cessive was- brought up. After ar- \ ? gument on this point the Judge re- I t>iQ oiiirtnnt nf minitivp dam- t UUV^U 'VUV uuivuuv V?. ? ages from. $8,000 to $5,000. The sum of actual damages returned by the jury was fixed at $2,000, the* verdict now standing at $7,-' 000 instead of $10,000. 4 Judge Memminger in ruling said that the jury could possibly have acted in two ways, either giving a large verdict with a view of stamping out further cause for action, or giving a smaller verdict on the ground that this case was in the nature of a first offence. The case when tried created much interest on account of some of the p unusual features presented in it. It was the first case of its kind to be tried in a Richland Court. The plaintiff alleged that he had been prevented from securing employment on account of having been "blacklisted" by the ^defendant company. The amount asked was $15,000, and the jury after deliberating about two hours returned a verdict for $10,000. v ?- ( THE NUDE TREATMENT. J f "Go Naked and You'll Be Strong," c t Miss Duncan Says. ' ^ Philadelphia, Dec. 10.?"Go naked 1 and you will be pure in mind and c strong of body. I would not be sur- 1 prised to see the men and the women i walking hand in hand down Chestnut street wearing nothing but the un- j conscious innocence that clean mind , brings." j This is what Mrs. Raymond Dun- t can, Grecian wife of Raymond Dun- j can, musician and scholar, said. s j Mrs. Duncan and her husband and \ their four-year-old son Menalkas r $ walked the streets followed by a cu- s \ rious crowd. They wore their ancient ? Greek costumes. The temperature c was 30. J ?g Postmasters Seek Reappointment, s Washington, Dec. 18.?Numerous 1 - 2? vacancies in postrnastersmys m ouum Carolina will occur early in the new year. The terms of seven presidential appointees will expire on Janu- E ary 25. These are at Laurens, Un- t ^ ion, Westminister, Winnsboro, Mc- c Coll, Barnwell and Allendale. Capt. j, Capers was to-day asked by the post- e office department to recommend for e these places. This was Mr. Hitch- r cock's reference. What Mr. Taft will ^ do about them depends. Capt. Capers t says that so far as he is concerned ( he will recommend the incumbents t for ail the offices, except Luther McLaurin, at McColl, Mrs. E. A. S. Mix- t son at Barnwell, and J. P. Searson at ? Allendale, There are contests for s ? these offices, and he says he is in- ^ * vestigating. Besides these, there are ^ a number of fourth class postmasters c whose terms expire. P [ . ? j ^ Masons Elect Officers. 6 i a Charleston, Dec. 16.?James R. j Johnson, grand master of Masons of r South Carolina closed the 133rd an- j nual communication of the grand j K lodge, at Masonic temple this morning, and the grand lodge was literal- f ly called away from labor to refresh- ^ ment, for in the afternoon the whole c body of its members were guests of ^ the Charleston lodges aat the Isle of t Palms, where a bountiful oyster roast r *>ao ?vu. a Grand master, James R. Johnson, r of Charleston. c Deputy grand master, George S. c 4 Mower, of Newberry. a Senior grand warden, George T. Bryan, of Greenville. r Junior grand warden, R. -A. Coop- ( < 1 er, of Laurens. t Grand treasurer, Zimmerman Da- t I* vis, of Charleston. p Grand secretary, Jacob T. Barron, a of Columbia. ; E Grand chaplain, Rev. W. P. Smith, ( of Spartanburg. a <} With the exception* of the new s junior grand warden, all of these are ^ either promotions or reelections, the x three senior warrant officers each c proceeding up one station, the grand ^ treasurer, the grand secretary and E the grand chaplain being reelected. There were only two nominees for the grand South, R. A. Cooper, of Lau- 2 4 rens lodge, No. 260, being elected on t rthe first ballot. His is one of the r ' younger lodges of the State, having t \ been chartered about five years ago. ^ V j At the time of his election Mr. Cooper was district deputy grand master for the sixth district. The newly elected officers were in- | stalled according to the ancient cere- ? monies, and with all the ceremonial ? { L. honors of the craft at this mornings' g T session, as were also tne appointive officers, whose nominations were made after the elective officers had taken their stations and places. NIGHT RIDERS ACTIVE. 4 ? Reports of Numerous Raids Made to 4 Governor of Georgia. t Rock mart, Ga., December 15.?Al\ leged night rider raids in this com- ? munity have become so numerous j lately that to-day Governor Brown was sent two telegraphic dispatches that the neighborhood was being terrorized. The burning of a dwelling 5 had been charged to the night riders, 1 threatening letters had been received s by good citizens and signs posted tell- t ing what they proposed doing. t Sheriff John E. Dempsey, at Cedartown, was communicated with by the \ Governor and copies of messages fpr- <e warded, with instructions to investi- i gate the complaints. ] n EXPRESS COMPANY ROBBED. Mysterious Occurrence Which Was 1 Kept a Secret. The Southern Express Company vas the victim of a robbery yester- ? lay morning, the seriousness of which I las not yet been established. Sea- t )oard train No. 66, arriving at Co- 1 umbia at 5.20 a. m., is said to have c arried the express car that was c obbed, although an air of mystery urrounds the whole affair. j The fact that several representa-; I ives of the Southern Express com- I >anv spent the entire evening at po- t ice headquarters would indicate that ? he robbery was a serious one. > W. B. Rogers, route agent, one of i he officials seen at the police station, 1 vent so far as to say that he had t leard nothing of a robbery and if I here had been such he would have 1 mown of it. Later, Mr. Rogers ad- ? nitted.that a robbery had occurred t >ut said that no details of the affair lad been learned and that nobody t mew any of the facts connected with i t, as the train stayed here but a short t vhile, giving no opportunity for a s mrsuit of details. i It is said that the thief jumped 1 rom the express car near the Sea- i >oard ' trestle and made his escape, i >ut how seriously this summary de- t >artur? will effect the Southern Ex- * mess company is probably not even t mown by the men who last night had i neara notnmg 01 a roDDery. The account that the express peo- ] >le didn't tell goes further to say that he man who jumped from the car i vas the messenger's' "helper" and hat several packages had been r >roken Into before he took his sud- ( len leap from the moving train. Two 1 lundred dollars was the only amount t nentioned, but this is not authentic. At midnight when the relief is i :hanged at police headquarters the ( ieuteriant of police read a request or the patrolmen to be on the look- j >ut for a light colored negro wearing i due overalls and a cap, and this may i )e the daring robber, for what this c legro is wanted for could not be as- 1 :ertained at police headquarters last i light.?Columbia State. Rich Men's Gifts Are Poor )eside this: "I want to go on rec>rd as saying that I regard Electric Bitters as. one of the greatest gifts hat God has made to woman," writes drs. O. Rhinevault, of Vestal Center, \. Y., "f can never forget what it ms done for me." This glorious nedicine gives a woman buoyant ipirits, vigor of body and jubilant lealth. It quickly cures nervousness, >leeplessness, melancholy, headache, >ackache, fainting and dizzy spells; ;oon builds up the weak, ailing and ;ickly. Try them. 50c. at Peoples Drug Co., Bamberg, S. C. Millions Wasted by Churches. The Catholics have 16,255 clergynen, 3,000 more than the number of heir churches. The Protestants have >nly 149,472 ministers, or 50,550 ess than the number of their churchs. This number of churches must ither be without pastors or divide a nan's time, says the Rev. Edward ^allmadgs Root, Field Secretary of he Massachusetts Federation of Churches, in The Delineator for Janlary. What can this mean, in the light of he concrete cases studied, but that it least 100,000 churches are too f mall to support a pastor alone? To >e sure, their weakness is not always due to duplication; but, on the ither hand many are enabled to sup>ort a pastor only by receiving Miss- ( onary aid and paying a starvation ( alary. If these be added, we may ( ,llow for those weak because in genu ne missionary fields, and still estiLiate that their very weakness proves * ;hat half of the churches in the 1 Jnited States are superflous. . It is safe to say that the same ( >roportion holds of buildings; for if 1 here are church organizations with- ^ tut houses of worship, on the other ( tand there are buildings, as our cita- < ions show, standing idle. Twice as ] nany churches as are needed seems 1 i high estimate; but the reader will s iote mat some sucn estimate monot- ' inously characterizes our quotations 1 if facts or statistics for city as well ( is country. There is $o00,000,000 sunk in 1 leedless church buildings, and $100, 00,000 a year is needlessly spent in heir maintenance and erection. But his is a small item of waste com>ared with those of which society as 1 i whole is guilty. How petty it teems in comparison with the $2,100,000,000 spent for intoxicants ind tobacco?needless luxuries, to ? lay the least! Or in comparison vith the 200,000,000 tons of coal anmally wasted in improper methods >f mining; with the similar waste of vater-power, forests, and all our relources. There is probably not a dollar more ixpended in church property than is ictually needed somewhere. The rouble is, that it is not expended to neet real needs, that it is wasted *o ar as the real interests of the kinglom of God are concerned. Alone in Saw Mill at Midnight mmindful of dampness, drafts, ;torms or cold, W. J. Atkins worked is night watchman, at Banner springs, Tenn. Such exposure gave lim a severe cold that settled on his ungs. At last he had to give up work. 3e tried many remedies but all failed til he used Dr. King's New Dis- , jovery. "After using one bottle," le wries, "I went back to work as veil as ever." Severe colds, stub)orn coughs, inflamed throats and lore lungs, hemorrhages, croup and \ vhooping cough get quick relief and >rompt cure from tbis glorious medi- * :ine. 50c and $1. Trial bottle free, 1 guaranteed by Feoples Drug Co., 1 3amberg, S. C. Looking One's Best. It's a woman's delight to look her ] jest but pimples, skin eruptions, i ;ores and boils rob life of joy: Lis- ; ;en! Bucklen's Arnica Salve cures 1 ;hera; makes the skin soft, and vel- < rety. It glorifies the face. Cures i jimples, sore eyes, cold sores, crack- i :d lips, ^happed hands. Try j.t.< .In-, i 'ailible for piles. *" 25c at' Peoples i Drug Co., Bamberg, S. C. ' a THE SOLDIERS PUSHED. Lnd thus Got the Santa Fe Train to the Scene of the Indian Fight. El Paso, Tex., Dec. 16.?United States soldiers once pushed a Santa ?e train over the hills in New Mexico ;o get to an Indian fight. Avery Turner, who now rides in a private :ar over the Santa Fe lines, was the :onductor of the train. It was way back in the early SO's, ust after the Santa Fe had built into <ew Mexico, and grizzled old Gen. "orsyth was in command of the roops in northern New Mexico. The Santa Fe in those days was not The vealthy corporation that it is now ind it did not have the powerful ocomotives that draw its trains over he steepest grades without difficulty, t had only a few wheezy little old ocomotives out on its frontier lines md sometimes they pulled and someimes they didn't. Gen. Forsyth got a dispateh that ;he Indians were making trouble up n Southern Colorado and he wanted :o move his troops at once to the scene. Avery Turner was train master at the time and he ;oId the general that with the motive power at his command t would be impossible to move .he number of men desired. In language more picturesque than polite, :he General ordered the train to be nade up. "Your road has a contract to transport soldiers, and by the gods you will transport us or I will know vhy," was his final remark. "That meant get busy," said Mr. rurner in relating the story, "and I lid the best I could. I hitched the ittle locomotive at my command to ;he troop train and we started. "The first hill we encountered the rery thing I knew would happen occurred to us. We stalled. "I asked the general if he would place two hundred and fifty men at ny command. He replied that he vould place the whole bunch at my command if I would only get him tc che scene of the fight instead of stopping on a mountain side to rest. "When the men were ordered out I prdered them to ge1; on either side of ;he train and push. Well, you ought ;o have seen the expressions on the caces of those soldiers. They saw chat I meant what I said, however, md they pushed?and the train went jp the hill. "They all got on again and things vent well until we came to another lill. I repeated my request to the jeneral and got some more real solder language for my trouble, but 1 ;ot the men, and over we went again. "Next time we slowed down the entire command turned out and the engineer actually had to put on the irakes to keep the train from getting lot boxes in making the ascent. We lad no more trouble. The soldiers vere ready every time we got to a nil ana we reacnea tne scene ui aecarkation ahead of time. "Old Gen. Forsyth smiled as he said farewell and said if we needed my more United States assistance in ;he operation of the Santa Fe to call >n him, but we didn't need it. Headjuarters soon sent out some better ocomotives and after that we transjorted soldiers over any hills in New tfexico and they rode all the way." DISASTER AVERTED AT COPE. rimely Rain Saves Town from Serious Conflagration. Cope, December 19.?Fire was discovered this morning at 7.15 o'clock m the cotton platform adjoining the iepot. It was first seen by Julius Johnson, a negro, and in a short while several persons gathered up ind rolled the burning bales off the platform into the street, where they were put out. One had to be loosened up, as the fire had eaten its way pretty deeply into it. The two bales Pad been bought by Green-Brabham Company and had been sold and were iwaiting shipment. . It had been raining nearly all night, and for this reason alone Cope was once more saved from fire, for some fifty oi more bales were distributed over the platform, and it has been so very Iry up to this time that nothing could iiave saved the town had the fire gotten to them. A V TTTTDrr Tiki DTTV?nr?V ?f V/iTiAll IlLIil ill Mrs. John D. Shaw, of Laurens County, Seriously Injureu. Laurens, December 15.?As the result of a runaway accident, which occurred in this city this afternoon Mrs. John D. M. Shaw is reported to he in a precarious condition to-night it her home, near Cold Point, whither she was carried at her request immediately after the wreck. Accompanied by her daughter, Mrs. Thomas Shaw, and little grandson, John D. M. Shaw, Mrs. Shaw was driving intc the city when her horse became frightened and unmanageable and started on a wild run after crashing nto another vehicle and demolishing \ wheel. Almost instantly Mrs, 3haw's party was dashed into the street, but happily the baby and mother escaped injury. The complete wreck of the buggy resulted before the horse was stopped. NEWBERRY PLANTER KILLED. Barkin Berley Accidentally Shoots Himself While Hunting. Newberry, December 15.?Mr. Bar.-in R Rprlov n nlnntpr nf fhp ATmint Pleasant section of the county, accidentally shot himself at 9 o'clock :his morning while out bird hunting, Lhe load penetrating his left leg just below the knee, and producing a hemorrhage from which he died at 3 j'clock this afternoon. Mr, Berley was not far from his home. He had shot a bird and was in the act of picking it up from the ground when his gun became en:angled in some bushes accidentally discharging the loaded barrel. He was alone at the time. He was about 50 years of age and leaves a wife ind eight head of children,, one ot whom is married, being the wife oi L T. Gilliam. QUICK JUSTICE FOR NEGRO. Negro Youth in Richmond to be L Electrocuted. Richmond, Va., Dec. 16.?Hardly more than a month after his trial and conviction, which occupied only an hour and a half, Clifton Breckenridge, a 20-year-old negro boy, who attempted assault 011 a six-year-old girl, will pay the penalty with his life. He is under sentence to be | electrocuted at the prison tomorrow. $ The crime was committed at Staunton, where he was tried. On Nov.. 15. a special grand jury was called at 1 o'clock, and before noon an indictment had been returned and 2 p. m. set for the l*1 tn'nl f a Knorin T5rar>l7? enridge confessed his crime to Chief of Police Lipscomb, to fellow-prisoners ' in the jail and on the witness stand did not deny it. The evidence showed that the crime had been committed about October 28, the victim i being little Dorothy Powell, '6 years old, granddaughter of the jailer, with whom her parents make their home. Breckenridge was serving a com! bination of terms amounting to three years for chicken stealing and had already served about two years of the term. He was a "trusty" and was permitted to go about the premises i cleaning up and keeping the place in order, ana connaence was imposed in him by the jailer and his family. There is more catarrh in this section of the country than all other | diseases put together, and until the | . last few years was supposed to be in- I , curable. For a great many years ? doctors pronounced it a local dfsease =;. > and prescribed local remedies, and by . constantly failing to cure with local ] treatment, pronounced it incurable, j Science has proven catarrh to be a M constitutional disease and therefore ?j ! requires constitutional treatment. ! r Hall's Catarrh Cure, manufactured ( by F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio, . is the only constitutional cure on the market. It is taken internally in w doses from 10 drops to a teaspoonful. ] ' It acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. They m I offer one hundred dollars for any w case it fails to cure. Send for circu- *1 lars and testimonials. Address: M F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, 0. Sold by druggists, 75c. ] i Take Hall's family pills for consti- M . pation. ] Accidental Wound Fatal. Chester, Dec. 17.?Holmes Robertson, a young white man who was the i victim of an accidental shooting at U ! the hands of Bob Burns, colored, ! while out hunting near Chester on Thanksgiving day, died about mid- _J_ i night Wednesday. The result was in ? the nature of a surprise to friends A . and neighbors, as the young man was reported as in favorable condition until a few days before his death. ! The fatal result has brought great I grief to the family and friends. The . young man was 22 years of age and . was much esteemed by all the people of his community. Funeral ser vice, conducted by Rev. J. S. Snyder and Rev. D. M. McLeod, was held at the home yesterday afternoon, burial in Evergreen cemetery. TAX NOTICE. The treasurer's office will be open for the collection of State, coUnty, school and all other taxes from the 15th day of October, 1909, until the 15th day of March, 1910, inclusive. From the first day of January, g : 1910, until the 31st day of January, I ! 1910, a penalty of 1 per cent, will 9 1 be added to all unpaid taxes. From 1 - the 1st day of February, 1910, until ?j ) the 28th day of February, 1910, a ! penalty of 2 per cent, will be added to all unpaid taxes. From the 1st ' day of March, 1910, until the 15th day of March, 1910, a penalty of 7 j 1 per cent, will be added to all unpaid J 1 taxes. 5 THE LEVY. ' For State purposes.... 5% mills [ For county purposes 3 hi mills 5 Constitutional school tax,..3 mills ' Total 11 Ms mills SPECIAL SCHOOL LEVIES. Bamberg, No. 14, 7 mills Binnakers, No. 12, 3 mills Clear Pond, No. 19, 2 mills Colston, No. 18, 2 mills Cuffie Creek, No. 17, : 2 mills Denmark, No. 21, 6 mills Ehrhardt, No. 22, 4 mills Govan, No. 11, 4 mills Hampton, No. 3, 2 mills 'Heyward, No. 24, 2 mills p Hopewell, No. 1 3 mills Hunter's Chapel, No. 16 1 mill , Lees, No. 23, 4 mills > Midway, No. 2,..' 2 mills : Oak Grove, No. 20, 2 mills ' Olar, No. 8, 4 mills - St. Johns, No. 10, 2 mills I All persons between the ages of I ' twenty-one and sixty years, except p Confederat soldiers and sailors, who ? are exempt at fifty years of age, are 5 liable to a poll tax of one dollar. Capitation dog tax, 50 cents. All persons who were 21 years of age on or before the 1st day of Janary, 1909, are liable to a poll tax of one dollar, and all who have not made returns to the Auditor are requested to do so oh or before 1st of [ January, 1910, and thereby save the penalty and costs. I will receive the commutation road tax of two ($2.00) dollars from the 15th day of October, 1909, until the 1st day of March, 1910. i JOHN F. FOLK. Treasurer Bamberg County. Bamberg, S. C., Sept. 30, 1909. AN APPfiDTllNITV I Ail VII Vl\ItiUll = A fine mercantile busi- S L mm* ness, in a hustling town, ! for sale, at reasonable price T and on easy terms. Apply Jquick to 1 J. T. O'NEAL Real Estate Agent, BAMBERG, S. C. ol f li-. A . -A - ^ That Carload of ^ I Horses & Mules! -v M Has arrived. They came in Monday. Come and get them. We v .if#? sure have some good ones in the lot, both horses and mules. We || can suit you, and the prices will be | right. : : . : : W k i Jones Bros. I I , Bamberg, South Carolina j. J f Lei us have your next order for groceries* I ||i j? = x ft We know we can please yon In both quality and price, i ^ [ for we keep right up with the best markets and when ?j * | j* there is anything good in eatables to be had, we get it. * * [f Our stock is always new and fresh, for we are constant- J './*$ ^ ly getting in new goods. No stale groceries are sent ? y' / ' ? ? out of this store. *? T ! OUR TOOTHSOME DELICACIES ;J ? will make you a regular patron of ours if you will try us ? f ? once. Let us have your next order.* You will find us j I r '^.<5 Z prompt and reliable, and if anything we send you does *?! t not prove to be exactly right, let us know. We will be ? f 'v glad to adjust anything to your satisfaction. Won't you 1 : let us have a chance at serving you? i I * f J. W. MeCUE ii "THE QUALITY SHOP." - I . '0% m 'Phone No. 32. Bamberg, S. a r/ v'^$| t:- ii?;I? ii? iI?;I? tl? ii; I? ill Ii ID it)il3 gi ii?^ M j 44Safe as the Safest" J| BANK OF DENMARK, : ; Denmark, S. C. .* , Did you ever stop to think that the substantial wealth of the majority of the' rich people of the world has come through Strict habits of SAVING? After they had worked hard for a DOLLAR '^5 they did not squauder it, nor let it lie idle. They KEPT THE DOLLAR and made it WORK for them. .. , Our SAVINGS DEPARTMENT offers YOU this opportunity. >1*-{;*? M BY SAVING and by keeping every dollar you save AT WORK, earning more dollars, YOU CAN SECURE WEALTH FOR YOUR-. SELF. WE PAY FOUR PER CENT INTEREST ON SAVINGS DE- > ' .J POSITS! Interest computed quarterly. October is the month to begin. Safety, Service and Protection is the pride of our cus = : ==^=====================1 ?_ ^ ^ ' l< Into The Past! Before another issue of this paper can reach your hands the I Christmas of 1909 will have vanished into the past. It is a I fitting time now for us to thank you for the LIBERAL PATRON- | AGE IN THE BEGINNING OF OUR NEW STORE. It is also a I J fitting time for us say that we wish you a VERY, VERY MERRY J CHRISTMAS the merriest one you ever had. S. FINN'S Jewelry Store , Where the Quality is Always Right EHRHARDT, S. C. Pj '01?IOE??10^ ? ? ? t m A nnr^r? mm 17 f\ (OUTHbKIN ^lAibS JurcLi wij. H. L. HARVEY, President. Numbing Supplies OF ALL KINDS 0 to 818 Gervais St. Columbia, South Carolina 1 , . - . . . - . '