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Hamburg 2f?ralb j ft- - Established 1891 BAMBERG, S. C, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1910. One Dollar a Year p COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS |r SOME INTERESTING HAPPENINGS IN VARIOUS SECTIONS. Ik-'. " News Items Gathered All Around the 1 County and Elsewhere. * News from Kearse. 1 ?P?^:"' Kearse, December 19.?Somebody 1 jjfc said, "The sun do move." I say the 1 people "do move" around Kearse. ^ We still have our Sunday-school and J |s|' our day school and our skating rink, - and what if the young folks, after ||^ the skating is over, do "trip it light- ' |g?-' ly" for awhile, the old folks don't J ^K. care, and as somebody that I know 1 Sp" would express it, "Dat is dey beezgp': ness" anyhow. I For the older folks, some of them 1 8V when their turn comes pick up the 8jfeT- violin and gives us perhaps "The 1 Midnight Hour," or "Ole Miss Bfe Creech," or the banjo join in with < gfe "The Raccoon on the Rail," or "The Bill Blue Tail Fly," and thus it is "we do BUI: Move." Ev:- The chain gang is here, and has ] opened up a new road commencing at Mr. J. B. Ritter's, and intersectthe Olar road at Mr L. A. Brabham's. This will give the people of ! the Saltkehatchie valley a short route tp the very thriving town of iOlar. The gang have improved other roads* for us also, which was badly Aoeded, and which we appreciate. We all make mistakes sometimes. Mr. Angus Kearse thinks that even 1 the government makes mistakes, for 1 he says if the census enumerator had have come around now instead of a 1 lifew months ago he could have reported one more in population than 1*? did renort. at his house. II':'. Well, Santa Claus is coming and ' the little tots are full of expectancy, glfealthough money is scarce. Sp$y Paper is scarce also, and here my 1 ||p sheet gives out, but, like Christmas, 1 I may come again. OBSERVER. iff-: Country Correspondence. Having been silent for a protracted period, I fear we are somewhat IK forgotten by The Herald's readers, hot we want to wish everyone a very ^^E^ierry Xmaa, and happy new year. 1?;f The old year is standing grizzly and I gray, ragged and poor, but its close I marks such a beginning! That of [ & Christ's birth, and when we make our Rev Christmas offerings to our friends sad -loved ones we can realize it is a |p*;V commemoration of the presents to C the little babe as*He lay in the IBpB&gaMMEer. a^' We were sorry to lose from our i" . 'midst last week the family of the yg; late J. B. Gillam. # Truly a good, jkindly family has left us to take !?? abode at Lees. || college, is at home for the holidays. ||v college is at home for the holidays. ES|?;.'." Hampton school will discontinue I |p| Wednesday for the holidays. Thej I children are expecting a great big old time, some to go to "grand ma's" and some to entertain tbe older brothers and sisters, from college and school, and last but not least, all all of them to get more tokens from Santa Claus than ever. How unbiased, pure and unprejudiced is hap$y? -forgetful careless childhood! W|th its" freedom to look forward to all that's bright and gay, with never * thought of the pros and cons that greet the ihore substantial side of Matrimony seems to be akin to a contagion. The Herald has several to relate each week. Cupid has certainly cast his arrows broadcast and, blind as ever, has hit many. At the home of the bride on Sunday afternoon at 0:30 Miss Maybelle Crider, third daughter of Mr. T. J. , : Crider, was united in marriage to llr. Clinton. Herndon, Rev. S. P. ' Chisolm officiating. Miss Maude Crider, maid or nonor, witn Mr. jasPadgett, and Miss Nora Herndon, Ep&< with Mr. Oscar Crider,. Miss Shellie ^ v Smoak, of Edisto, rendered the wed; 5; ding march. The bride was attired M5F 111 a cream cloth dress while her maids wore white. The groom and ' groomsmep wore regulation suits. They will be entertained at the I home of the groom's father till they fc ~ can build. This youthful couple (still m in their teens) 'start out on life's journey with a bright future, for it can be truthfully said, Maybelle is a I good girl and Clinton is a good boy. Just two years ago the writer was I their instructor and association with such as these at school make the K teacher's work go along so smooth1 ly. The groom is the only son of Mr. | H. W. Herndon, and both families I ? are glad to know the young couple I will remain in their childhood neighW^: borhood, Spring Branch. It is indeed sad to have to chron \ icle a death, ano ioubly so one of as much sadness as occurred at Clear Pond last Wednesday night at eight - SUICIDE AT LODGE* J Mannie Carter Attempts to Kill Wife and then Kills Himself. ? After shooting at his wife and evidently believing her dead, young S Alanine uarxer, running a tew uuu3red yards from the scene of the shooting, and placing the muzzle of bis gun at chest, ended his Me. The killing took place on the farm of R. Bennett Tuesday, December 6th, at j ibout noon. It seems that young Carter and his wife had not been getting on i: very well. Although they had been 0 married only about four months, c they had separated two or three times. e Young Carter had threatened on a several occasions to kill his wife and j then himself, but no one thought that he was in earnest. Tuesday morning he borrowed a single barrel ^ oVi cni n from flPOTCP Cook and ^ Buvrv0~*?. v? bought five shells, claiming that he was going squirrel hunting. His v wife, who was working for Mrs. Benaett, believed that he had gone to j hunt for squirrels, but about noon t he returned and calling her told her r that he had .something to tell her a and insisted on her coming to the \ fence where he was. She, at first, t refused to go, but finally yielded to t his entreaties and went. Youg Car- t ter cautiously brought the gun around to where he thought he would kill his wife, but she divining bis purpose, caughth the muzzle and ^ shoved it to one side just as he fired, with the result that only one shot took effect in her finger. The load was lodged in the side of the house within a few inches of where Mrs. 1 Bennett was standing by the win- 1 dow. ^ Mrs. Garter, Mrs. Bennett, and her * two daughters-in-law, who were all T dresent, began screaming, and Car- * ter, evidently believing that be had * killed his wife, ran across the field, d about 400 yards from the house a 1 report of a gun was heard and a c searching party finally located him 1 dead between two cotton rows.? Walterboro Press and Standard. ' * m C PRESENTS MORSE'S PETITION. ^ t Wife of Banker Writes Remarkable t Paper to President. f * Charles W. Morse's petition for t pardon has been formally presented c to the department of justice in Wash- a ton. ( Mrs. Morse has made anotner peti- I tion for ^ her husband, and this has i been presented to President Taft by s Senator Hale. The president sent it t at once to Attorney General Wicker- g sham, who turned it over to the at- i torney in charge of pardons. I Mrs. Morse's personal petition e came in the form of a letter address- i ed to the president It was type- J r written and covered about two pages t of note paper. In it Mrs. Morse made t a simple, business-like plea for the c release of her husband, calling the c president's attention to what she said t was an "immense popular interest" e in the case., She declared that the c general sentiment of the many thous- t ands of peole who had signed the petition was that, the sentence imposed upon her husband was "outrageous;" that he had no intention of wronging the National Bank of 1 North America; that no depositor ( had lost a dollar, and that at most i he had only been found guilty of f technical violation of the national bank law. t Her letter is generally conceded to c be one of the most remarkable of its t - * * ? i?-- J A * t Kina ever receivea at me uepdnmcuu v Approximately 50,000 names are signed to the petition. \ o'clock, when the angel of death entered the home of Mr. Frank Zeigler and took the wife and mother. She had been sick only a few days of pleurisy and pneumonia, and it was such a shock to the mjany friends. Her daughter, Miss Llewellyn, who was in Lexington teaching, just did reach her mother's bedside. She was about fifty-four years old and was the mother of twelve children, eight of whom are living. She was c a consistent member of Bethesda , Baptist church, and her church, neighborhood and acquaintances knew how to rely, on "Mrs. Blake," . "Aunt Blake," and Cousin Blake," ^ * j v ~ ? in sadness or giaaness, aim ui uei j home she was the magnet around g which the entire family revolved. t Her's was a happy home noted for its true, warm hospitality, and' no one could appreciate and solicit ^ friends and companions more than ^ Cousin Blake. Yes, we'll all miss her, but none so much as her hus- T band and children. She leaves one ' brother, Mr. J. A. J. Rice, one sister, Mrs. W. M. McCue, besides a large ( number of dear relatives, to mourn t her untimely logs. 1 * J i ' 'r" y. ' '> *.*' k ,:k; ' \ * N THE PALMETTO STAT] OME OCCURRENCES OF VARIOU KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA. tatc News Boiled Down for Qnic Reading?Paragraphs About Men and Happenings. Three grown negroes were burne o death in a burning house on Beec sland, Aiken county, on Friday. The steamer Kentuckian arrive n Charleston on Saturday with 50 00 cans of salmon from the Pacifl oast. The town of Timmonsville, in Floi nee county, has let the contract fc , system of water works. Those Pe )ee towns are hustling these days. A four-year-old daughter of Mi Vilson, of Pinewood, was burned t leath on Thursday, her clothing ha^ ng caught fire from matches wit irhich she was playing. The fifteen-year-old son of Mr. an Irs. T. Bissell Anderson, of Charlei on, died last Friday from injurie eceived from the premature expl( ion of a toy cannon. The buck she rith which the cannon was loade ore a great hole In the right leg c he boy, and he died before the do< ore dared undertake an operation. BROWN IN FAIRFIELD. JAIL. / ?ViU Answer for Killing of Negi Ferryman at Shelton. A. Brown, a white man, who o ast Saturday cut a negro named . CI more Richardson, the ferryman, t Ihelton, Broad river, who died i Chester on Monday afternoon as esult of his injuries, came to the ja his morning off the early mon ng train from Columbia and surrei Lered himself to the sheriff. Brow ras placed in jail, but gives no ax ount of the difficulty and seema vet tdverse to talk about it. ' From what can be learned aboi he affair, it seems that Brown wa in the Newberry side of the river an tished to be ferried across to She on on the Fairfield/ side, and failin o find the negro Richardson at th erry flat, called for some time*fc Lim. Receiving no response he pr< ured a rowboat. and rowed himse .cross, and when he had crosse ound the negro and admonishe dm for not being at the ferry. Th tegro became very insolent and use everal oaths and, it is saidy was i he act of getting a rock from th ground with the intention of stril ng the white man, when he pulle lis pocket knife and slashed him sei iral times across the abdomen. Th legro was badly cut and in a prea ious condition when he was hurrie o the Magadalene hospital in Chei er, for medical attention, where t lied Monday. Unless bond is s< ured Brown will remain in jail ui il the February term of court of gei jral sessions, when he will be trie >n the charge of murder.?Winm ?oro special to News and Courier. She Suspected That He Was. t F. C. Bentley, who used to practk aw in Kansas and who is now a loyi 2hicagoan, tells this story as a llustration of the wit of the Murdoc amily of Wichita: "In the early '80s a play was give >y local talent in Wichita, and all s< :ial events of the town date froi hat performance. "Tiger Bill Campbell, judge of the district cour ras the star, and the play was 'Ti Jnion Spy.' The principal climax ( he play occurs when the Souther >lanter, who is a Union sympathize s killed by Confederates. - Judg iValker, a celebrated justice of tt >eace on the frontier and the poi lessor of a stomach that was by U he most prominent part of him, w? he planter. All the young girls i he town . were supposed to kne< iround his body and weep?tableau "John Fisher, who was the sheri it Wichita and a great wag, on tfc ;econd night of the play put a bit < imburger cheese in one of the plan jr's spacious pockets just before t vent upon the stage to be killed. A er the Confederates had shot hi] lown, and the girls, with their hanc cercbiefs ready for use, had kne tround the portly body, 'Tiger Bill he Union spy, entered, saying: " 'Is he dead V " 'Whew!' cried Katie Murdocl Congressman 'Vic's' sister, 'I shoul hink so from the way he smells!' "The entire town joined in th nourning tfiat followed." C. F. Rizer at Olar receives tw :ar loads of horses and mules, an ;hey were selected in the West I dr. Rizer personally. ; - ^ g MARRIAGE IS VOID. Judge Sease Sets Aside Wedding o S Man Who Said He Was Drunk. "For want of consent on the par k of the plaintiff," Ernest Brook Walker, of Greenville, formerly ticket agent at the Southern statio in Spartanburg, Judge T. S. Seas( ^ sitting in chambers, has annulled th ~ marriage contracted Detween m: k Walker and Miss Ida Jordan, a prett telephone operator of this city, o d August 20th last. ,- In his complaint Mr. Walker d< c clared he was so drunk when th marriage ceremony was performe that he had no recollection of it an ' did not know he was married unt ^ he woke up in the Argyle Hotel th following morning and found Mis Jordan with him and she told hi r. she was his wife. In her answer t o his suit Miss Jordan admitted all hi r~ allegations. h Rev.., W. M. Whitesides, pastor c the Grden Street Baptist Church, wh g married the couple, said last evenin j_ that wen they came to him it ws ;B evident that Mr. Walker had bee drinking but he was In perfect con )t mand of all his senses. d "Sweethearts Two Years." >f "I talked to them both for som > time," said Mr. Whitesides, "tellin them what an important step it wa that ttafey were taking and askin them i^they had fully made up thei mihds.;- Mr. Walker said he an Mice Jordan had been sweethearts fc o j two years and were determined to t married." In asking for the annullment M n Walker said that on August 20, an the day preceeding, he and othe lt young men had been drinking to ei D cess at the Salla Hotel in Greenvilh a He was drank that evening and whil 11 in that condition went to Spartanbur l" arriving about nine o'clock. l~ Became Unconscious. 11 . ' He entered a hack at the statioi > bought a pint of whiskey from tl y hackman and took a big drink, "an soon became oblivious to all tram 1 piling events and unconscious < L? what he was doing." . He has learned that some tine ~ during-the night he went or was cai g ried to Miss Jordan's home and thi e about two o'clock of the same nigl >r he and Miss Jordan went to Rev. M Whitesfdes' house and Were marries He remained unconscious, he sai< until the next morning when t found himself in a room at the A gyle with Miss Jordan. She told hi] they had been married. He at on< n left the hotel, he said, and returne ie to Greenville, and has not seen Mil c" Jordan since nor written her, nor r< celved a letter from her. e iTheir Ages. ^ Mr. Walker is twenty-three yeai . old and Miss Jordan twenty-one. St ^ - - - - % _ _ A 3 _ ? jfis the daugnter or unaries a. juruaj a carpenter of No. 137 Allen stree and recently, it is said, has been en ployed by the Geer Drug Company. Mr. Whitesides, in talking of tl ^ ceremony, mentioned that Mr. Wall 3_ er told him he had no money. Tl minister replied that he would n< hesitate to perform the ceremony o that account, but wished to be ce tain that the couple were, sincere i their desire to be married. The :e j earnestly replied that they were. "As they were both of age ar k there was no seeming objection," sai Mr. Whitesides, "I married them." He added that the ceremony occui red about eleven o'clock at night. Mr. Walker is a native of Greei ? ville and has spent most of his lil t there, but worked in Spartanburg fc ^ a while. His attorney in the actio ^ was B. M. Shuman, of Greenvill ^ Judge Sease directed Mr. Walker t pay the costs in the case.?Spaitai ' burg Herald. te " 3_ Deer's Race With Trolley, ir That a deer can run 40 miles a hour and need take no dust from trolley car was demonstrated here t< day between a car and fully grofr # buck on the Winnipaugh division. ^ For balf a mile the deer easil maintained his place at the side c ^ the car, although Motorman Free ? erick W. F. Andrews shoved the coi ie troller over to the fourth notch in a effort to outstrip the animal. j_ Then, with a shake of his hea and a twist of his little tail, the buc , vaulted a six foot fence at the sid of the road and disappeared in th woods. He was seemingly unwinde . and acted as though he had enjoye ^ the race as much as had the score c passengers who gathered on the pla; forms and at the windows and shoui ed encouragement to the deer. Deer are frequently seen in th: o neighborhood, but this is the fin d one that ever raced with a trolley.iy South Norwalk, Conn., dispatch t New York World. RAILWAY MERGER UPHELD if V VERDICT BY JURY FAVORS THE SOUTHERN RAILWAY. t 8 Against State on All Counts?-Jurors . a Qnick to Return Verdict in Q the Case. * 'f 1 e Columbia, Dec. 20.?The merger p* of the Southern railway is valid, y That is the verdict of the Jury that n has been hearing the evidence, arguments and judge's, charge in the dkse of the State of South Carolina e against the Southern Railway Comd peting. d pany in the court of common pleas. ^ The case was given to the jury 0 iVI. nMavnnnm nn4 tha 4l1VAN Qt AflAA LUIS ai let uuuu auu wv jui ;s asked for dinner, postponing their ^ deliberation for a little while. ? The verdict was in favor of the 8 railroad on all five counts, the State losing all its contentions that the. absorbed lines were parallel and com0 penting. 8 The merger-case has been attract18 ing unusual attention, being of vital n importance to the Southern Railway. l" The president and other high officers of the company have been here throughout the trial, Mr. Finley bee ing one of the witnesses for the deS fense. Final arguments and the is judge's charge were delivered to-day. g ? [r WILL PUSH EDISTO MATTER, d >r Levpr Announces Plans for Carrying Fight "Even to the President." ^ r. Washington, December 19.?Rep a ;r resentative Lever to-day announced that the following members of^a ^ committee from Orangeburg and ^ Branchville interested in the Edisto River development from Charleston to Orangeburg would come to Washington January 3, and appear before the river and harbor boatd of the lf war department: Messrs. Samuel Dibble, W. L. Glover, M. O. Dantzler, R. H. Jennings, J. P. Matheney. ** These gentlemen will ask the board to affirm the ? report of Engineer Adams recently made to the effect 16 that the -river between Charleston r" and Orangeburg is worthy of derelopment lt It will be remembered that the r' board turned down Capt. Adams's ' recommendation and an effort will ' now be made to have this decision 16 reversed. . r "We are prepared to take the fight 11 all the way up to the Secretary of ' War, and the President, if necessary," said Representative Lever to58 day. "And we will make every pos^ sible effort to show that when the board took the position that commerce on the river did not justify rs the river's development, it erred." ie Mr. Legare will also bring on a a? delegation if he finds it necessary to do so in the interest of the proposi-| 1_ tion. le U. D. C. Chapter Meeting. ie >t Notwithstanding the inclement m weather, quite a number of the memr bers of the U. D. C. Chapter met with n Mrs. H. W. Beard on last Tuesday >y afternoon. A pen picture of the Confederate monument was exhibited ed and final suggestions made cond ceming it. But the most enjoyable ' part of the program for the afterr noon was the splendid report by Mrs. Jno. W. McCue of the convention rei cently held in Georgetown and which !e she attended as a delegate from the >r Francis Marioji Bamberg Chapter, n The next meeting of the chapter q. will be held on the 19th of January, ;o this being the anniversary of Lee's i- birthday. Mrs. C. J. S. Brooker will be the hostess on this occasion, and all of the old soldiers of the county are invited to attend as guests of the chapter. Crosses of honor will be n awarded to the veterans wh6 have a applied for them on this occasion, >. and a suitable program will be given n appropriate to the day. The two meetings of the chapter I V.1J mUli U(ao! y Deiore tms msc, were ueiu mm imoo >f Annie Lou Byrd and Mrs. Thos. 1- Black. Both proved most delightful hostesses and about thirty memn bers were present at each meeting. d Denmark Hotel Sold. k 4 e Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Owens have sold e the Denmark Hotel to Mr. Henry d Walker, and they will retire from the d hotel business. Mr. Walker will >f take charge next week. Mr. and t- Mrs. Owens made a fine success of t- the business, but they decided to retire on account of the arduous work te of running a hotel. Their many it friends hope they will decide to live - in Bamberg, and they will be gladly o welcomed should they decide to make this city their home. M3MS KILLED AT SUMTER. Car Inspector Crushed Beneath En* gine Dies After Operation. Sumter, Dec. 19.?John J. Mims, white, car inspector on the Atlantic ^ Coast Line Railroad yard, lies dead at the $umter Hospital from shock, . f an operation being necessary to am- /:j8 putate his legs, which were terribly mangled by an engine driven by En* "flf _I_ a T> glUCCi O. ?>. UTY1UC. '-rim The accident occurred at the railroad crossing on Harvin street at Jj8 10:35 o'clock this morning, There 'i|j are many different versions of the * .||j details of the accident, but the story ||| that is given most credence is told by Engineer Devine. He says that , ":j|| Mima was sitting on the rod of an- }||H other engine to the right of the one '~vjR he was running, and that as the two .'119 engines came nearly opposite one :p8 another that Mims jumped off the .^K engine upon which he was riding and };^a| attempted to cross in front of .him. He saw that he had no time in which to stop*, hut as a precautionary messure blew his whistle to warn Mims. \:#3a ' -wEm He saw the engine strike Mims, |H-;: and the last wheels pass over his v . jBS legs. He was running about eight miles an hour, and it was impossible for him to bring his engine to a stop gSm in time to avoid the accident ' The story of the colored porter on 'Jij9J| the Gibson train tallies exactly with ;/?'| that of Engineer Devine, except that ^Sj|| he is of the opinion that the engine was tunning faster. \|| Aliuiucr uecuuui ie givcu uj a uinu who is quite well known and very ' reliable. He states that Devine was '\|?[ mnnning his engine about fifteen - :^K miles an hour, and that he had just . |lt|| remarked about running too fast Jgj J when the person to whom he was |99 talking exclaimed, "My God, look "JIB there." He looked and saw Mims, - ^ who seemed to 'be getting off the j||^H steps of his engine, fall and the en- '^^fta| fine run over him, dragging his bddy some distance.' >He immediately ran to the station, 'phoned for a doctor, and sent bystanders in search of oth~ er physicians. Dr. Clifton, of Orangeburg, was- the first physician to '9 reach the wounded man and assisted in putting him en a wagon to be hur* ^ S ried to the Sumter Hospital. Other % doctors arrived just as the wagon -yiM started off and accompanied Mims, giving him all the temporary relief S||j possible. Mims bled freely while lying on ^j| the ground, and all the time was cry-' '-ffijMgM out out, "Lord, look what a fix I'm in now?can't some one get a doc- |JM tor?" At one time he said: V4! tgJM thought I could pass in front of that engine." He was deathly white, and, was suffering terribly from his man- S gled Jimbs. One leg was crushed at the hip, and the other between the vIS hip and the knee. Handkerchiefs / were tied tightly above the wounds ySgj to keep the man from bleeding to death before medical aid could reach A hasty examination at the. Hos- M pital revealed, a most terribly mangled condition of the limbs, and It was decided to operate at once. Both legs were removed successfully, but the patient could not survive the shock of the operation, and breathed Jgg his last at a little after 1 o'clock, just thirty minutes after being removed from the operating table. ,j-?r The death of Mr. Miins is particularly sad, because of the fact that he leaves a wife! and five little children.' all of whom were entirely dependent fM upon his labors. The funeral service and internment will be at the -fTs -JS cemetery to-morrow. J C. H. Hunter Seriously Injured. .-.Sat I Mr. Chesley D. Hunter met with a -?iof' Vi<a hnmo |BCnUUB aV/UU^UI. av uw wvwv miles southwest of Newberry yester- -^^3j day morning at 10 o'clock. While at- Sp tending to his gin he got caught in a '-'jfS; belt in some way and was so badly ^jf| hurt that up to a late hour yesterday afternoon he had not regained con- , ;:g|B sciousness. His arm was broken in three places; his shoulder was crush- =-'j| ed, and he received serious Injury to \ his head, the blood oozing from his . mouth and ears. The physicians who ' were called in did not give much hope jSl of his recovery. When the accident ~fWi happened one of his brothers was in SS town and received a phone message calling him home. Mr. Hunter Is about 45 years of age and is unmar ried. He is one of the county's best ~ citizens.?Newberry Observer. We seriously object to the Bamberg Herald classing Allendale, Brunson and Brancbville together. Brother Knight should know better ^ than to place Allfcndale along with such measly" towns as Branch- S v!lle*and Brunson.?Allendale Her