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PERSONAL MENTION. People Visiting in This City and at Other Points. ?Mr. D. K. Ray, of Denmark, was in the city yesterday. ?Rev. F. M. Hauser, of Denmark, was in the city Tuesday. ?Mr. F. M. Moye, of Columbia, spent Sunday in the city. ?Mrs. J. W. Price spent Sunday in Denmark with relatives. ?Mr. S. S. Williams, of the Govan section, was in the city Tuesday. ?Mr. J. N. Kinsey, of the Smoaks section, was in the city last Satur day. ?Mr. W. D. Rhoad returned last * Friday from a business trip to New York. ?Miss Camile Price spent Sunday afternoon in Denmark with her brother. ?Mr. J. F. Kearse, Sr., of the Kearse section, was in the city last \ Friday. ?Mr. Frank Folk, of Branchville, c. 7 has accepted a position in the postoffice here. ?Messrs. E. P. Copeland and J. Frank Chassereau, of Ehrhardt, were in the city last Friday. ?Prof, and Mrs. T. C. Smoak, of Govan, spent Sunday in the city with J Mr. and Mrs. R. M. Bruce. ?Miss Alice Smoak returned to her home Sunday after a two weeks' visit to her sister, at Kearse. ?Miss Beulah Grimes returned Tuesday evening from Blackville, where she spent several days with relatives. | 1 County Wants to be Abolished. It's an unusual thing for a county to want to go out of business, but ? - 1 ?~ u rtoy./3 nnnntv will I vreurgia. ua& uuc, n&aiu wuuv^ likely petition the next session of the legislature to be abolished. The k movement is a culmination of a growing sentiment of several years J standing against what is claimed to he an excessive tax rate. Citizens of Heard county, will through the representatives, ask that the county be abolished and its three parts restored to Coweta, Carroll and Troup counties, from which it was originally drawn in about 1832. Heard county is one of the few ; counties in the State which has no railroad running within its borders, the nearest connection being at Hogansville, in Troup county, which is about three miles from the line heir tween the two counties and a distance of 16 miles from Franklin, the site of Heard county. There are only two corporations doing business in the county which are subject to taxation, and as a result the revenue from such is excessively low. The county is profusely cut by waterways, the Chattahoochee river running almost diagonally through . the center and a heavy expense is brought upon the authorities in keeping the bridges over these in repair. In order to meet these expenses the tax rate has been placed at $30 per thousand, which is considerably in excess of the rate of Coweta, Carroll and Troup counties, where it ranges from about $12.50 to $16 per thousand. * ? - j-i* .nkA1i:/vn V.OO A grUWlUg Spillt UL 1UUC111VU uao , heen manifested by citizens of the eounty for the past two or three years, but it was not until last November that the feeling began to take any formidable shape, when a mass meeting of all the citizens was called to meet at Franklin on the first Tuesday of the following month. This meeting while attended by a great many was not as successful as was desired, so the matter is being allowed to hang over until the first week in March, when another meeting will be held during the regular term of the superior court, and a larger attendance is expected. Market in Better Shape. New York, Feb. 26.?The cotton goods market has been easier in the gray goods division during the past week. Trading continues in a conservative way, retailers buying steadily but in moderate quantities for early and prompt shipment. ReJk tailers' operations in print, ginghams, wash goods, dress goods and domestic departments have been larger than in ready-to-wear or in notions, laces or hosiery. It is inferred from this fact that retailers' stocks of staple merchandise are in very snug shape and any increase in buying at the counters will be quickly reflected in the primary markets. Values on branded cottons have held fairly steady. Fall River sold about 90,000 pieces of print cloths, of which half were for spot delivery. There has been a better demand for made-up sheets and pillow cases and other staple domestics in the jobbing * houses, but the demand is not broad enough to force jobbers into the primary* markets, hence the mills are gradually increasing the volume of curtailment. The yarn markets are easier and / prices have become very irregular. Legal blanks and blank books for sale by The Herald Book Store, Bamberg, S. C. - ^ .*.-t ir-v-^ { Bamberg County Cor Subscriptions to Monument. We publish below the amount ? subscribed so far to th'e fund for the, erection of the Confederate monu-; 1 ment here and the names of the sub- j scribers. If you haven't contributed! yet you will be called on no doubt, I but if you want to contribute to the. cause, don't wait to be called on. The j Herald will receive and acknowledge j subscriptions,- or you may send it to | Mrs. G. Frank Bamberg. But givej quickly, so that the work of erecting; the monument may be begun: Amount collected by Ladies' i Auxiliary to Monument Association .. $155.42 Camp Johnson Hagood 5.v,Jj J. B. White & Co., Augusta, Ga 5.00 Estate of R. M. Hays ' 25.00 Pringle Bros., Charleston.... 10.00 Heyward Linah, Charleston.... 5.00 Estate of F. M. Bamberg 250.00 J. R. Reid & Co., Charleston 3.00 Estate of Maj. E. R. Hays.... 100.00 Idis Brabham, Ellenton, S. C. 10.00 Dr. C. R. Brabham, Ellenton, S. C 3.00 J. D. Quattlebaum, Prosperity, S. C 1.00 W. Gilmore Simms, Barnwell, S. C 5.00 M. S. Spann, Alabama 5.00 H. F. Spann, Fountain, Fla.... 10.00 Mrs. E. M. Rice, Georgia 5.00 N. R. Hays, Florida 50.00 A. M. Barnes 2.00 J. L. Lancaster, Georgia 1.00 Kite Folk ^ 1.00 J. Morris 5.00 W. P. Riley 5.00 J. K. Risher .'. 1.00 Carlton Sawyer, Columbia.... 1.00 Burton, Taylor, Wise & Co., Augusta, Ga 10.00 H. S. Hartzog, Arkansas 3.00 G. C. Chandler, Florence 2.50 Kaufman & Co., Richmond Va 5.00 Andrews Bros., Augusta, Ga.. 5.00 G. C. Varn, Savannah, Ga 5.00 Cash from Columbia, through Mrs. Hunter 1.00 Cash through Mrs. E. R. Hays 2.00 Mrs. Lucy C. Huiet, Charleston 5.00 William Schweigert & Co., Augusta 5.00 S. T. Westberry, Columbia.... 5.00 Dr. L. V. Bonner, Blackville 5.00 C. D. C. Adams, Walterboro.. 5.00 T. R. Kohn Co., Orangeburg 5.00 Dr. J. J. Cleckley 5.00 Mrs. M. J. Cope 1.00 Mrs. M. E. Cope 1.00 J. W. Jenny & Co., Jennys.... 25.00 J. W. Barr 10.00 Mrs. F. M. Bamberg 100.00 Dr. George F. Hair 10.00 J. F. Jones 10.00 W. E. Free 200 C. W. &entz 5.00 M. A. Moye 2.00 Cash .50 1 Joseph McCormack 1.00 G. O. Simmons 1.00 G. A. Jennings .50 A. S. Easterlin .50 A. McB. Speaks 1.00 I S. W. Pearlstine 2.00 J. Ruben and C. Peskin 2.00 E. C. Bruce 1.00 L. P. McMillan 2.00 I. B. Felder 2.50 H. L. Kearse 2.00 A. B. Ayer 2.00 - ': " ' ' ... i* 7 % : ' * ' V - " . . ' - >- ' , ->- ' ~ ...i-'-' .vi.' . lfederate Monument J. M. Kinard 1-00 J. W. McCue 5.00 J. G. Smoak 1.00 B. W. Miley 5.00 E. A. Hooton 1.00 J. Felder Hunter 2.00 N. P. Smoak 2.00 Paul Arndt 5.00 T. J. Crider 1.00 F. L. Smoak .25 Cash : 50 J. A. J. Rice : 1.00 Cash .50 M. J. Black 5.00 W. C. Zeigler 1.00 Cash .50 G. A. Ducker 1.00 A. P. Beard .50 J. T. O'Neal 5.00 F. W. Free 5.00 M. E. Ayer 1.00 H. J. Brabham 25.00 Capt. W. Russell Wright 2.00 E. H. Henderson 5.00 S. Yetrakis 1.00 J. Cameros 1.00 ? ? r a A Dr. E. KirKiana u.w G. W. Eaves 1.00 John Cooner 2.00 H. J. Brabham, Jr 5.00 Dr. H. F. Hoover 5.00 E. P. Allen 2.00 J. D. Felder 10.00 C. J. S. Brooker 5.00 S. G. Mayfield , 5.00 J. B. Hunter 20.00 G. Frank Bamberg 50.00 Jones A. Williams 50.00 J. A. Wyman..... i 50.00 C. B. Free.; 10.00 J. Caldwell Guilds 5.00 W. C. Duncan 2.00 D. L. Betts 2.00 H. D. Free 2.00 D. J. Delk 2.00 B. D. Carter 2.00 Henry F. Bamberg 25.00 L. C. Rice 5.00 C. A. Calhoun 1.00 C. W. Garris 5.00 W. L. McPhail 5.00 A. L. Pearlstin 50 J. W. Baxter - 1.00 J. P. Blackwell 1.00 P. C. Baxter 1.00 Thos. Black 5.00 ? t 1AA u. J. Baxter J-.W P. B. Murphy 5.00 J. P. Murphy 5.00 J. M. Grimes 5.00 G. P. Harmon 2.00 J. Q. Adams 1.00 D. O. Hunter 1.00 S. P. Reiitz, M. D 5.00 D. M. Smith 5.00 D. P. Smith. 2.50 S. W. Copeland 5.00 W. H. Carter 1.00 W. L. Mitchum 1.00 J. H. Roberts, M. D 5.00 W. D. Bennett 1.00 W. C. Hughes 2.00 H. A. Hughes 2.00 J. L. Copeland, M. D 5.00 J. M. Dannelly 5.00 W. B. Moore.. 1.00 Geo. J. Hiers 1.00 Jacob Ehrhardt 5.00 W. Max Walker 1.00 J. L. Hiers 25 H. Karesh 1.00 Hackney Wagon Co., Wilson, N. C 10.00 Geo. P. Bent Co., Chicago.... 25.00 New Home Sewing Machine Co., Massachusetts 10.00 Benjamin P. Crump & Co., Richmond, Va 10.00 Camp Micah Jenkins 7.00 , ? FIRST SUBMARINE. The American Turtle Was Tried Out at New York in 1776. The American Turtle deserved a better fate. It was the first submarine war vessel of the United States. It was tried out in 1776 in New York harbor. Its inventor and builder was David Bushnell, of Connecticut, of whom little is known. The man who went under water with it and in New York bay tried to blow up the British frigate Asia, under General Washington's orders, was Col. Ezra Lee. The Turtle was built at Saybrook, Conn. After its vissitudes of being captured, sunk and resting for years at the bottom of the East river it was raised and taken back to its birthplace. There, after more years, it was taken to pieces. Its metal went into grand-father's clocks, which are still in the hallway of New York and New England homes. Its oaken, pitch smeared timbers were put to structural uses and all trace of them lost. Bushnell did not get even a tardy reward for his inventiveness. The council of safety of Connecticut in 1777 directed that he be paid 200 pounds for his services in "annoying ships," but there is no record that he ever got the money. Here is the story of the American Turtle's first exploit as it is told in the quaint phraseology of the yellowing manuscript where it was set down long ago: "When the British fleet lay in the North river, opposite the city of New York, and while General Washington had possession of the city he was very anxious to be rid of such neighbors. David Bushnell, of Saybrook, invented a submarine curiosity called the American Turtle which received General Washington's approval for that purpose. A brother of the inventor was to operate the machine, but on trial he declined to hazard his service. Colonel, Lee, distinguished for his courage and patriotism, volunteered his service, and after practicing with the machine to discover its powers a night was fixed upon for iuc a. l icrnjji,. "General Washington and his associates in the secret took their stations upon the roof of a house on Broadway, anxiously awaiting the result. Morning came, but no intelligence of the bold navigator. While the anxious spectators were about to give him up as lost several barges were seen to start suddenly from Governor's Island, then in possession of the British, and move toward some object near the Asia, ship of the line, and as suddenly they were seen to put about and steer for the island with springing oars. In two or three minutes an explosion took place from the surface of the water, resembling a water spout, which aroused the whole city. The enemy's ships took the alarm, cut their cables and proceeded to the Hook with all possible dispatch, sweeping their bottoms with chains and with difficulty preventing their affrightened crews from leaping overboard. "Colonel Lee. coming to the sur-. face during this scene of consternation, was obliged again to descend to avoid the enemy's shot from the island. After forcing his machine against a strong current .under water he landed safe at the battery amid a great crowd. General Washington expressing himself as much pleased that the object was affected without the loss of life. "Colonel Lee had been under the Asia more than two hours endeavoring to penetrate her bottom, which, being sheathed with copper, resisted all attempts to attafch the magazine to the ship." Apparently the American Turtle made one more attempt to "annoy the enemy's shipping" before she ended her career. Another old diary preserved by a Connecticut family J '' J i-a a. Ti. mentions tms inciutsut. it sccmo muw the Turtle, manned by some nameless hero, perhaps again by Colonel Lee, though the chronicler does not state, made an attempt to blow up a British ship in the East river. By this time the British appear to have discovered what nature of craft it was that had essayed to destroy the Asia and I so were on the lookout for anything suspicious that disturbed the surface of the water. At any rate, the American submarine was discovered before she had made any progress on her second mission of destruction. The British boats gave chase. Considereing that the maximum speed of the Turtle was three miles an hour, * * * ^ ^n I the pursuit couia not nave u^u a, very long one. At any rate, an American vessal, probably some small schooner, was waiting for the submarine and the Turtle fled thither for protection. Hastily the odd looking craft was hoisted aboard, sail was set, and the American boat tried to show a clean pair of heels to her pursuer, but it was in vain. She was sunk by the English guns. For a long time the Turtle lay in ithe submerged vessel's hold. After the war was over, however, the ship was raised and the Turtle was recovered and carried back to Saybrook. If I r.V. 4 , . =/: ' HORRY CITIZENS INDIGNANT Blease Gets Large Share of Their Censure. i Conway, Feb. 28.?Court was called this morning it being escertained that no judge had yet arrived was j adjourned sine die. All jurors, witnesses and the solicitor and stenographer were on hand yesterday but consented to remain over until to-day in the hope i that a presiding judge might reach here during the night. Indignant Crowd. It was a large crowd of indignant people that met here yesterday, many of them having left work of importance at home, when it was learned 1 that no court would be held and that they would probably be called back . at a time when they could ill afford to leave their farm work. Governor Blease came in for a great share of censure and this afternoon there was talk of an indignation meeting being held. This, however, was quieted down. It is estimated that the failure to hold court at this time has cost the county $500 to say nothing of the expense incurred by a number of citizens who appeared as prosecutors and as defendant's witnesses. Costly Delay. The clerk of court, W. L. Bryan, to-day issued pay warrants to jurors and bailiffs aggregating $325. The many State's witnesses present were not paid. The jail here is crowded and has been for several months, bond having been refused a number of persons held in two murder cases. Twenty principals and witnesses are in jail and a number out on bond. The urgent necessity of court here is apparent to every one. The solicitor, Mr. Wells, yesterday before reaching Conway wired the clerk to hold the jury and after reaching here made every effort to ! secure a judge but to no avail. WJUfc He Was More Modest. Tramp?Kin I get a bite to eat here? Woman?Yes, if you saw that pile of wood. Tramp (sizing up the job)?I ain't akin' for no $10-a-plate banquet, lady.?Boston Transcript. every one else had forgotten her and her achievements by that time the people of her inventor's native town still held the Turtle in affectionate remembrance.?Thaddeus S. Dayton in Boston Post. /" BUI DELIVERED FULLY SPECIFICATIO] Body?Wood, runabout type. Color?Body black, running gear red. Seats?Two persons. Wheel Base?79 inches. Wheel Tread?56 or 60 inches. Tires?30x3 inches. Brakes?Two, internal expanding in rear wheel hubs. ~ * frnnt full p]. springs?Dtjiiii-ciiipu^ itvu?i _liptic rear. Frame?Pressed steel. Steering Gear?Pinion and sector type. Horse Power?Sixteen (A. L. A. M.) Cylinders?Two, horizontally arranged under hood. Bore 4 % inches, stroke 4 inches. Cooling?Water, circulated by thermosyphon system. ~ Radiator?Vertical tube type. Ignition?Jump spark. Current Supply?Low tension magneto and dry cells. Carburetor?Schebler. The Buick Model 14, illus which are given above, is des mand on the part of the pubi senger runabout combining si to-date lines. A glance at eii tions will suffice to prove thai J X' ied in its constructions, ana t j As a light runabout it stands We ehartily recommend it ing need of a two passenger li ance that we would offer any L BENNETT i ORANGEBI v-| Mr. Brabham on Taxes. : m Editor Bamberg Herald:?If yon had been as fair in all of your editorials to me as in the last, much less would have been written. You yourself must know, and so admit that taxation is out of whack somewhere and somehow. But when you say that land is being assessed at one-tenth of it* value, then I must take issue with you. Perhaps there are a few small places that would command $50.00 per acre, but even then that is beyond its real value. In the last 11 years I have sold 1,500 acres of land?800 acres in Bamberg and 700 acres in Colleton. One hundred and fifty-one acres have been reserved and when you can find a purchaser that will give me ten times its assessed value, it too, will T? tho oolo nf thk 1.R0A AT 1*68 ftV/. 1U VU^ UU>1V V4. VMM ^ WW very little, sold at private sales, much beyond its assessed value, and much of this land sold is still under bond and mortgage, and may never be paid for. j|a| Fourteen cents cotton has placed a superficial value on nearly alt Southern values, and when cotton 'jM falls, and just as sure as the sun t??oqo it will foil annnar nr la tor and the buyer of high priced land will be like a man whom I know invested in an automobile. His machine soon . failed to work, and of it said: "Only two classes buy automobiles; mil- r.^|8 lionaires and darn fools. I belong to the latter!" The man buying the average land of Bamberg at ten times its assessed value will surely stand in the latter class. ..JgM Of the problem of taxation, much thought is necessary. Public money Jjl is being sown broadcast as chaff. i|| Never in the history of this country were taxes higher, and none of the 3 State's debts are being paid. A halt ;vj]8 must be had. New methods must be adopted and less money must be spent^ -jjiig on public affairs, or the people will '?||| rise up in the ~ might as in '76. ? A. W. BRABHAM. < Olar, S. C. Falls Heir to Fortune. :J The News and Courier, says L. H. Adams, a yeoman in Uncle Sam's ser vice at the local naval plant, has ^ been informed that he had fallen heir >|9g to a fortune of $27,000, left him through the death of a distant rela- ; ? tive. Yeoman Adams' home is in Benton Harbor, Michigan. He has been in Charleston about nine M months. A g^MPaKmiviri CK EQUIPPED $600.00. ):M MB MODEL 14. - 1 Lubrication?Mechancial force feed oiler, gear driven. Motor Control?Spark and throttle " "v^lfgj levers on top of steering wheel. Clutch?Disc, hardened' steel on bronze. Transmission?Selective type, two speeds forward and reverse. '-$31 Control?Pedals for service brake and clutch; side levers for ?vll change gear and emergency brake. Drive?Direct to jack shaft; double chain from jack shaft to rear wheels. Price?$600.00. This price includes -..zM rubber top, glass front, oil lhmps, tail lamp, generator, gas headlight, horn and repair outfit Extras?Speedometer at maunfaoturer's list. zSjjSt Prest-O-Lite equipment will be furnished instead of gas generator, as an extra, if desired. tration and specifications of igned to meet a growing de-. %? ic for a low priced, two pas- 'jjm mplicity, durability and upther the car or its specifics- -S?| i all these points are embodhat it is cheap in price only, peer of its class, to those of our patrons havght car with the same assurof our other models. i|l k CO., Agents m JRG, S. c. -m