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ATTEMPTED ASSAULT, CHARGED. \ Albert B. Windham Held for Trial in A. Darlington Court. Darlington, June 13.?Albert B. Windham, a well-known young white i farmer of Lamar, after a hearing in S the court of Magistrate Pleasant \ Times Warr to-day, was put under a r bond to appear in the sessions court t Monday to answer an indictment t charging attempted assault on a well- C known young matron of the com- t munity in which he lives. Only the r State's side of the case was heard today, but, of course, the testimony for s the defendant may entirely change ^ the appearance of the prosecution's t case. S Windham is under indictment for r murder, it being alleged that he killed a negro last November or De- ( cember, without provocation. He was tried at the spring term of court r on the charge of murder, but a mis- t trial was ordered, the jury failing to e agree. t r When the Colonel Was a Coward. c t "Kentucky, oh! Kentucky, ^ The land where I was born; , t Where the corn is full of kernels; And the colonels full of corn!" - ... E Unfortunately Kentucky is not tne only place where the colonels, and even the privates fill up sometimes on corn juice. I knew a colonel once who got full to overflowing and at times he reminded me of Scott's sea captain, Nauty Ewart of the Jumping Jenny, never drunk but seldom sober, and yet he was all right other ^ ways, and was as brave as any man. During the four years of the war, he . made a record. Here it is. At Bull q Run he saw the Yankee army shattered into fragments, and he was in .. the thicHest of the fight. At Seven Pines for two days he saw the Union o and Confederate soldiers slain by the thousands. Then at Oak Grove, h Mechanicsville, and Gaines's Mill , t the colonel fought with the fury of a ^ Richard of the Lion Hearted. Then at Savage's Station and Frazier's f Farm the colonel was at the front . from start to finish. Then he took part in the fearful carnage at Maivern Hill. In the mighty charge at this famous battle the colonel took part.* In fact for the seven days in which the above battles were fought the colonel was on duty nearly all the time. At the second battle of Ma- ~ e nassas our colonel was there and tooK ? part in this bloody engagement, fight- o ing like Marshal Ney in his best J days. At Chautilly, a fearful day of a carnage on both sides, he shouted for k joy when a hard earned victory was y won by the boys in grey. Then at o Antietam, when our colonel looked d upon ten thousand "blue coats" dead h upon the field, he was proud to know h * that he was at the front. Then with a Stuart our colonel dashed into nor- c; thern parts and captured Chambers- w burg, flanked the entire Yankee army h and got back safe and sound on v Southern soil again. And at Chan- T cellorsville he took part in Jackson's a famous charge. He took part in the tl fearful field of Gettysburg. He as- h sisted in trying to take both Great "V and Little Round Tops, the very key a to the Union army. And when PicK- h ett, like the Light Brigade at Ba- S laklava, made his famous charge, the o grandest and most awful military a nrtViATTAwinnt ImATT-n fo tho WoctdrTI 1i atiiicvcmcui, auu n u iv vuv .? .k COWARDLY COL. B S GAL NO 2 . . o world?when he went down into w what we may justly name the vale of t< \ death, our colonel was there, and k when the drama was closed, he look- s< ed down upon thirty thousand of his a: Doble comrades cold in death. Then fi at Appomattox when "finis" was written upon the stars and bars, when f; the light of the Confederate cause n went out with a feeble flutter?when the immortal Lee laid down his s< sword, our colonel too exchanged his o own for a parole, buttoned his grey c jacket about him, and started home- T ward, yet in all this time of carnage he had never shown a white feather, a The colonel came home and went about his planting as bravely as he n ever charged Yankee battlements, 1 and in due course of time took unto t] himself a wife and still later on he c learned how to use corn juice. g Sometimes when our own colonel '( would tank up too tight, and fear a ing a matrimonial minuet, he would o walk over to neighbor Jim's till his I convivial moments had passed away, s One very cold, very dark, and very ii rainy night the colonel had took sev- o eral drops too much, and he was u - - * t 1 ?3 - J J. ? ? aware or 11, so ne eonuiuaeu iu ?am v over to Jim's. In going there the fi colonel got lost, and finding out that a he really was lost, he cried out for n help. Jim heard his call, lighted a e lantern, and went out to hunt the F colonel. Now, Jim went in every di- h rection possible, but he could find E no trace of the colonel, so he return- F ed home, and to his amazement he t< heard the colonel's call again, and 0 the second time he went forth to as- o sist the colonel, and to his surprise a nothing could be found or heard of E the colonel. p In the meantime the colonel mis- c took Jim and his lantern for Jack ii and his lantern. He was not afraid IORT S. CH1LDERS ACQUITTED. Lccused of Poisoning Wife, Freed on Third Trial. Americus, Ga., June 12.?The jury n the case of Mort S. Childers, of imithville, charged with causing his rife's death by administering poison, eturned a verdict of acquittal after wenty minutes' deliberation this afernoon. It was the third trial for childers in the last eight months, he other two resulting in hung juies. Childers was accused of placing * ?;v.^ ;n o K/->+ + lo nf mo^ininp hi<3 UI V Uiiililic 1 JUL a UUltlV Vi. mvu4v*?v ? rife "was in the habt of taking, at heir home in a boarding house at imithville. The couple had been uarried only four months. )ther Men's Wives Were There Too. Atlanta, June 15.?A grim visaged nan pacing furtively up and down he sidewalk in front of a Peachtree notion picture show last night with lis hand occasionally traveling back nechanically to his hip-pocket ocasioned fear on the part of the lady icket-seller who went in and held a lurried conference with the proprieor of the place. Anxious not to have his establishnent figure in a police row, the proirietor, instead of calling up the staion house, went out quietly and askd the man what was the matter. "Oh, I have nothing against you, ir, or. your theatre," the man reponded, "but there's a man in there nth my wife, ana wnen ne comes out 'm going to kill him. That's all. 've stood it just as long as I could, nd this evening I followed her." The motion picture man thought uickly. He was still anxious to void any unsavory notoriety, and an aspiration came to him. He went inside his theatre, walked ut on the stage and announced: ''Gentlemen; there's an outraged lusband outside the front door of his theatre waiting with a pistol to ill the man who is in here with his rife. I am anxious to avoid trouble or anybody, so I am going to have he light turned completely out here a the theatre for a couple of minutes nd the guilty man, whoever he is, an escape through this side exit rhicli leads to a back alley." The light went out. Thirty sec-J nds later eighteen men were stam-! eding in the darkness toward the mergency exit. j ?????? ??? ?? j f Jim and his lantern, but as for ack-o-lantern he feared him a thousnd times worse than all the Yanee guns he had ever faced in four ears service. And somehow, the olonel saw not one, but some hunred or more real Jacks pursuing im, and under no condition would e allow one to get near him. Now, s it was, Jim was trying his best to atch the colonel, and the colonel -as doing his best to avoid Jim, for e was sure that Jim with his lantern as really Jack with his lantern, 'his thing was kept up a long time, nd by good luck the colonel found tie way to his own home, and when e did he lost no time in entering, yhen he entered, his good wife of ourse wanted to know what had kept im out so late such an awful night, aid the colonel: ''I started to walk ver to friend Jim's, but got lost, nd the first thing I knew, a jack-omtern got after me, and then anther and another and so on till the 'hole jack-o-lantern tribe was trying i catch me, and I trying my best to eep out of their way. Now, I am as sared as a frightened rabbit, as wet s a drowned rat, as cold as a frozen rog, and as drunk as a biled owl!" "Colonel," said his wife, "whose lult is it that you have come to so rnch grief?" "Yours of course. Why didn't I *e you put on your war-paint, get n the war-path, put on your fighting lothes, and raise the war-whoop? 'hat is why I left." "Oh! no, dear colonel, you imgine all this." "Well, may be I do wife, but I'm ot imagining about those jacks, 'hey were there with the goods on hem, and they wanted me, but you an bet your sweet life they didn't et me to-night. Shakespeare says-: Conscience does make cowards of us11,' but I am willing to bet at great dds that a field of Jacks such as saw to-night will beat concience ten in the game when t comes to making a coward f a fellow. I wish you would get p, make a big fire, boil a pot o? rater, for I feel like I have white eathers all over me. Scald me like chicken, for I want no one to see ay wonderful crop of white feathrs. A plague on the Jacks anyhow! 'our years of war and brave; four ours with Jacks and a coward! [eep this matter, wife, to yourself. >ut it away among the other skeleons in the closet. Tell it not in lath, nor publish it not on the streets f Askalon, else both the daughters nd sons of the Philistines rejoice! [eep, it, dear wife, as you would a riceless talisman. I implore, and onjure you to keep. Keep it, for t won't spoil." A. W. BRABHAM. BULLS ATTACK TRAIN*. Leader Was Killed and Herd Besieg ed Passengers for Hours. At a point on the railway line be tween Miravbel and Canaverei, 01 the Spanish side of the boundary lin< between Miraybel and Canaverei occurred an odd sort of bull fight. A train had just come out on s sweeping curve from the hills an< down upon a little plain whei the engineer saw directly before hin a herd of bulls on the tracks, says th< New York Sun. Bulls are an import ant commodity in Spain, and, more over, some of these were destined fo; the arena. Now these bulls seemed little dis posed to retire from the tracks. Th< engineer slowed down as best h< could, at the same time blowing hi: whistle vigorously. Whereupon al the bulls fled with the exception o one?a great fellow, quite fit for th< arena. This one, with horns lower ed and roaring as if in response t< the shrieked defiance of the engine made straight for the train. It was too late to prevent a col lision. Train and bull came together head on. The bull was, of course, in stantly killed, but his carcass lay un der the wheels of the locomotive s< that it was impossible for the train t< proceed until the track had beei cleared. To clear it was too great < task for the train hands. The con ductor called the male passengers t< his aid and they crowded about th< engine. In the meantime the great herd o bulls, scenting the blood of their dea( leader, came flocking back, pawinj and threatening. The nearer the: came the more infuriated they grew and finally they charged like a whirl wind on the little band of workers. Then all the men abandoned thei: task, and took refuge in the cars The bulls followed them to the ver: steps, bellowing and pawing. Fo quite a time the spectacle was pre sented of a herd of bulls besieging i railway train filled with passengers. Fortunately there were solclieri aboard, and these soon organied i sortie. Finding a spot where the bulla were not in force they picked up i quantity of stones and hurled then at the animals. The bulls recoiled charged again, recoiled once more and for two hours the battle raged victory seeming to be with one sid< and now with the other. At last aa night came on, the bulls withdrev and betook themselves to some dis tant shelter. Then the employee! and passengers were able to setjx work again. The track was clearec and the train proceeded on its way The Gypsies of Spain. The Spanish Gypsy, whether en camped in a sheltered ravine or un der the arches of an aqueduct or ii the shadow of an overhanging cliff is indeed Spanish because born ii CT\oiv? Kn? in oil olco bp is CVTISV. iOya-iLL, uut iii an ? 0- r.? . Time was when Spaniards of the true blue blood called gypsies "Nev Castilians" or "Egyptians" or "Moor ish footpads," but while their traits have undergone no change their name is now definitely gitanos, or gypsies i Between 50,000 and 60,000 is the j number of them now in Spain. Mosl | of them have no fixed abode, but ir some parts, and notably in Andalusia there are several small settlements for towns they can hardly be called where these wanderers have taker possession of caves in the mountainside, whence they sally forth to tell fortunes and to fiilch. Wherever thej are they are inclined to be quarrel[ some among themselves and to enforce their arguments by means oi wicke-d-looking knives, which thej wield with great dexterity. Worth Paying For. A noted lawyer of Tennessee, whe labored under the defects of having a high temper and of being deaf walked into a court room presided over by a younger man, of whom the older practitioner had a small opinion, says the Saturday Evening Post Presently, in the hearing of a mo I tion, there was a clash between the | lawyer and the judge. The judge or J ~ A nc derecl tne lawyer to sn uu?u, aim ?*. the lawyer, being deaf, didn't heai him and went on talking, the judge fined him $10 for contempt. The lawyer leaned toward the clerk and cupped his hand behind his ear "What did he say?" he inquired. "He fined you ?10," explained the ) clerk. The lawyer shot a poisonous look toward the bench and reached a hand into his pocket. "I'll pay it," he said. "It's a just debt." Corrected. A wealthy American girl was attending a social function at a country house in England. "You American girls have not suet healthy complexions as we have,' i said an English duchess to the girl j "I always wonder why our noblemer take a fancy to your white faces." "It isn't our white faces that at! tracts them," responded the American: "its our greenbacks."?Judge. SEED HOUSE DESTROYED. - Fire at Southern Cotton Oil Company's Columbia Plant. Columbia, June 12.?At 11:30 toi night the seed house of the Southern 3 Cotton Oil Company was totally de, stroyed by fire. The efforts of the firemen were devoted to saving the i main building of the plant, in which 1 they were successful. Fortunately i for the Columbia Cotton Compress i the wind was blowing in the opposite 3 direction. The fire was first discovered Dy tne - night watchman, when he saw a r blaze shoot up in the seed house. The main plant and the tanks were un hurt. The fire in the seed heaps, 3 where the seed house stood, will like3 ly burn until to-morrow. 3 The Columbia plant was the largest 1 in this district of the company, and f was also the largest east of the Mis3 sissippi. The plant has been dor mant for a week and this was believ3 ed to have made the loss greater. , Had the plant been in operation there would have been workmen near, who - could have. sent an earliefr alarm , and put out the initial flames. A - large number of freight cars were - destroyed by flames. One fireman 3 was overcome by the heat and smoke 3 and was taken to a physician. The l entire loss is estimated between i $40,000 and $50,000. Mr. C. Fitzsimons, general man3 ager, was early at the scene of the i firo and war hnsv directing his office men in the handling of records, f Half of Columbia was at the fire, I and it was the second largest conflal gration here this year. Y ???^ House-Flies and Disease. . J The house fiy stands convicted as a disseminator of disease and a carrier r of contagion. Ever since the inves tigation of the spread of typhoid fe7 ver in the United States military r camps during the Spanish war of 1898, the evidence has been accumu* lating, until to-day there is no escape from the charges against this tantal3 izing insect. Every far-reaching 1 probe into sanitary problems is liable 3 to disclose conditions hitherto quite 1 unsuspected; and the indictments al1 ready brought against the house-fly ' during the past few years charge re? sponsibility for a long category of in9 fections, including cholera and^vari5 ous forms of dysentery, diptheria, 3 erysipelas, contagious opthalmia, ce7 rebrospinal meningitis, anthrax and possibly small-pox, in addition to ty3 phoid fever. # } Whether all of these charges will * stand in the light >f scientific inves tigation remains to be seen. It is important, not so much in justice to the accused insect as becanse of the hy gienic and preventive measures which . are dependent thereon that the quesi tions here raised be authoritatively , settled. In the case of typhoid, the i evidence appears to be complete. Dr. Torrey, of the Loomis Laboraj tory, of New York, has attempted to i supply facts on this question. He has - examined the flies caught in the 3 densely populated parts of New York > City during a number of months. Both . the bacteria occurring in the intesj tine and those from the surface of the t insects are investigated. The flies exi amined in April and early in June , were comparatively free from dan, gerous bacteria. As the summer sea, son advanced high bacterial counts i began to appear and also an abrupt - change in the character of the bac1 teria. The record counts came at the r end of the two weeks of excessive hea - in July. Some idea of the number of organL* isms that a single insect may carry . r is indicated by the figures 570 to 4,400,000 for the surface contamination, and 16,000 to 28,000,000 for the intestinal bacterial contents-. > Most of the bacteria found were com>r partively harmless. This investiga? tion, however, was carried on in the I crowded city, where sewers would i naturally carry off all of the most i dangerous infective matter. The . Journal of the American Medical 1? + V> o f IVio Virtnsft.flv AbbUCIdUUU DeXJ Q WUCtl* Uii V UVUVV mmj i is an "undesirable citizen" in any event, so that the war of extermina5 tion already begun against it in many quarters deserves encouragement and i support. . SAVED BROTHER'S LIFE. By Giving Blood After He was Accidentally Shot. Macon, Ga., June 11.?The trans. fusion of blood operation performed I at the Macon hospital several days ago has been successful. In one week according to Dr. Elder, Baxter Tidwell, the 13-year-old Walden boy, who was shot by his < brother, Robert Vernon Tidwell, IS years old, will walk from the hospital cured. Following an operation upon Baxt ter, the elder brother laid on the op, erating table and permitted his own 1 1 ? 3 *- - <-Via volno nf tlio I i DIOOQ CO C1UYV liiLU uic i tiuu vi t,uv ' wounded one. Another brother waited at the hospital all night to do a similar act of life saving. Highest prices paid for beef cattle. , H. G. DELK, Bamberg, S. C. 1 & I I To,The Public sIt is sometimes rfrcessary 'toV _ secure information relative to the") financial standing or integrity of business concerns and.individuals' . at distant points.' 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