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THE PICKENS SENTINERNA. Entered April 23, 1903 at Pickens, S. C. as second class matter, under act of Congrexn of liarch 3, 1879 39th Year PICKENS. S. C. JUNE, 24,1909. Number 12 State News I 411 th~ Late Nws ftom bo A park for colored people has been opened in Columbia. Forty-five boys in Florence county have entered the state corn contest. Nine voting ladies graduated from the Confederate Home Col lege in Charleston this week. E. Robert James, a well known citizen of Darlington, is dead af ter a few minutes illness from heart failure. The Manning board of trade is to establish a tobacco experi mIent farm for the benefit of the farmers of that section. The Furman trustees conferr ed the degree of Doctor of Divini ty upon Rev. R. W. Lide, of Dar lington, and Rev. Rufus Ford of Marion. In the court of sessions in Char leston this week three negroes were tried on charges of criminal assault. The victims in each c ise were colored.: The' town of Brookland, in LexingtoigeifV, has issued $10,000 'bonds for erecting a uilding. The bonds cago firm for The Arcadia cott(" mill at Spartanburg. of whicaDr. H. A. Ligon is president, is to be en larged by the addition bf 10,000 snindles and 260 looms' making the total evuipment 55,1_00 spin dles and 600 looms. Belton Goff, a well known young white man, 22 years of age and unmarried, whose home was about seven miles from Camden was killed by lightning. He was going from his barn to the house when struck. At a congregational meeting 1 of the Newberry A. R. P. church on Sunday, a call was extended to Rev. W. B. Lindsay, of Mem phis. Tenn., to become the pastor of the church. It is not known whether he will accept. A shock of oats in a field on Mr. John Black's plantation near Greenwood was struck by lightning Monday afternoon. It was set on fire and burned un til consumed, although a heavy] rain was falling at the time. Twenty-five negro laborers, employed on a sewerage exten sion in Spartanburg, have gone on a strike for higher wages. They were getting $1 a day, and the contractor says he can get plenlty of others at that price. The state board of assessors of South Carolina will meet in Co lumbia Thursday. Mr. H. P. Gadsden of Charleston, is chair man of the board, and the vari ouis textile and other manufact uring concerns will be passed. Narris Johnson, a negro in Barnw'ell county, had a mule to die several days ago. In its death agonies the mule seized the negro by the leg and bit it severely. The leg will have to be amiputated, the doctors say. The trustees of Furman Uni versitv conferred the degree of LL. D., upon Professor Noah K. Davis. formerly of the Universi ty of Virginia, and upon Prof. W.T J. McGlothlin, of the South ern Baptist Theological Semina ry. Dr. Win. E. Hatcher of Vir gina has just closed a successful revival at Batesburg. Dr. Hatch er is now over 75 years 0old and has been an active nminister for 53~ years. He is still remarkably active, and frequently preaches three sermons a day. Jack Riley's house at Calhoun, was stru~ck by lightning, set on tire and burned last Tuesday ev ening. The electric storm around Clemson, Mr. W. G. Mauldin says, who was there, was the most terrific that he has ever seen, and he is 57 years old. 3aragraphed. y oction of Soth Cailina. Extensions are being made to Sumter's water works system. Messrs. Albert Anderson and W. G. Childs were in Laurens this week and submitted to the chamber of commerce drawings of the proposed new depot for Laurens. They have asked, however, that an eighteen months' extension of time' be given. Dr. W. J. Westmoreland, a leading physician of Greer, died Saturday in a hos pital in Philadelphia where he had gone for treatment for a stomach trouble. He was prom inent in the days of the old Far mers' Alliance and is well known throughout the state. The Clarendon county grand jury i-eturned "no bill" in the case of the state vs. D. 0. Rhame charged with violation of the dispensary law. This is the case of the Summerton druggist against whom a case was recent ly made for selling Jamaica gin ger. While the many friends f Dr. Rhame, who is mayor of Summerton, are glad that he Is not forced to face a trial, still there are others who regret that 'he case was not allowed to Lo >n in order to test the law. A broken telephone wire which had fallen over an elec bric light wire, came near caus ing a serious accident near the Atlantic Coast Line freight de pot in Sumter yesterday morn ng. Mr. C. W. Smith, while -iding horse-back, came in con ;act with the wire, which struck ;he horse on the leg, throwing 1ini to the ground and hurling qr. Smith over the horse's head. rhe horse fell clear of the wire )ut in rising touched the wire tgain and was again thrown. rhis time however, he fell tway from the wire and wasl1 iot seriously hurt. Fortunate y Mr. Smith did not come in;. ~ontact with the wire, and suf ~ered only a bad shaking up by hiis fall. Citizens of Greenville who tre interested in the plan of is suing bonds for the,. paving of Hiain and Washington streets and the building of a new bridge at the foot of Main street, will meet in the board of trade rooms cn Thursday evening at 8 o'clock. It is the purpose of those who have considered the matter at some length to pave the twothoroughfares with vitri fied brick and to is'sue bonds in sum of $300,000 for this purpose.' The plan suggested for con sideration contemplates the ray mnent by the property owners of >ne-half of the cost, the Trac bion company such proportion as it may be responsible for and the city the remainder. One half of the cost of the bridge will be paid by the Traction company and the other half by the city. A reward has been offered by Governor Ansel for Melvin Wat son, colored, who waylaid and shot John Watson, at Green Sea,Horry county, Wednesday. The amount of reward is $100, and Governor Ansel states: "I was shocked to hear of this as-' sassination. I hope that he may be apprehended and brought to justice." The letter to Gov ernor Ansel from Mr. J. P. Derham, former comptroller general, whose boy was on the wagon when Mr. Watson was shot, states that the killing was "a case of murder, pure and simple a col d-blooded and delib erate unprovoked murder. Our: people have been scouring the country for the murderer." The: escaped negro is described as be-* ing a ginger cake mulatto, gray eyes, about 25 years old, 145 pounds in weight, 5 feet, 9, inches tall, with his right arm -f and of sullen disontiom The new Methodist church at Fort Lawn -as dedicated Sun lav. Spartanburg will ask for the reunion of Confederate veterans In 1910. The State Epworth League will meet at St. George, June 22, 2.3 and 24. The annual convention of the State Funeral Directors' associ ation will be held in Charleston, June 22-23. Crops in Chester county have been badly damaged by hail. They were almost destroyed in sonie places. The South Carolina Cotton Seed Crushers' association is holding its annual meeting in Charleston this week. Dr. T. M. McCetchen and fam Jy of Seneca left last week to mnake their future home in Dil ton, in the lower part of the state. A five-room house belonging to G. W. Buchanan at Green wood was struck by lightning Friday afternoon and destroyed b)y fire. The court of sessions of Rich and county adjourned on Satur .ay, af ter a long and busy term. Dut of the 70 cases on the dock ,t only six were continued. It is announced that the Ban .ia mills of Goldville will double .ts capacity, to do which $75,000 )f preferred stock will be issued. Practically all this amount has ilready been subscribed. Mr. 3eorge M. Wright, president of -his mill, has been in charge nlv two years, during which ime he has developed the prop rty wonderfully and given the mnterprise a well deserved stand ng in the industrial world. That Olanta is going to be the ;eat of a new county in the near uture seems very probably. rhe proposed territory cuts cor 1ers from Florence, Sumter, Jlarendon and Williamsburg ounties. The area and amount f taxable property included in he survey have been found to ,omply with the constitutional ~equirements for the formation >f new counties, and at the same ;ime do not infringe upon the ights of the old counties con :erned. Prof. Clarence Boyd, who was >ffered the position of assistant [Latin professor at Wofford Col lege, has refused, owing to the Fact that he had just accepted the chair of Latin and Greek in the Tallahassee (Fla.) Fe rnale college when the offer Erom Wofford was extended hinm. Prof. Clarence Boyd graduated from Wofford several years ago. For a year or two he taught Latin in Central Col lege, Missouri. This year he takes his Ph. D. degree at the University of Wisconsin. Mr J. E. Barton of Easley, a member of the graduating class of Furman this year, has made a remarkable record in two re spects which deserve special mention. He has been present it every chapel service for the past four years; and for three years he has served as bell ring er. The faculty can recall only one instance in the three years when the bell was rung off time, and then only a few minutes off. You may set your watch by Mr. Jerry Easley Barton-so says the presid1ent of Furm an. Governior Ansel has offered a reward of $50 for the apprehen sion and conviction of a certain party or parties who shot and killed four cows belonging to Mr. W. P. Wideman, of Abbe ville county, who lives on the rural route from Troy. Several petitions were presented to the governor in reference to the matter. Mr. Wideman in his letter states that he has had four fine Jersey cows shot down in his pasture in the past several weeks, and that he believed that if the governor would offer a re ward the guilty person or pesns would be apprehended. The women's clubs of Rock Hill have opened a public Lib rary. J. C. Cox has been appointed United States commissioner at Abbeville to succeed H. T. Ward law, deceased. Monroe Gantt, white, was tried at Aiken for killing a negro at a negro dance several weeks ago and acquited. Mr. E. W. Gaillard has moved his family from North Carolina to Westminster, and it is said, will establish a newspaper. The city of Chester has gone out of the electric lighting busi ness and has granted the fran chise to the Southern Power company. The Farmers Bank and Trust company of Sumter will open branch banks at Pinewood and Summerton, small towns in Sumter county. Ed O'Neil, a Charleston young man, attempted to commit sui cide at Aiken by drinking lauda num. The quick presence of a physician saved his life. The Beaumont cotton mills at Spartanburg will be enlarged in the near future by the addition of 25,000 spindles and 600 looms. The, work of construction has begun. Rev. A. A. James, an aged Presbyterian minister of Spar. tanburg county, was thrown 'from his buggy and painfully hurt. His horse became fright ened at an automobile. Dr. B. L. Wiggins, vice chan cellor of the university of the South at Suwanee, Tenn., is dead. He was a native of South Carolina, having been born in the lower part of the state. Out of 13 applicants for teach ers' certificates at the recent ex amination held in Lancaster county only one passed, Miss Connie Porter. Miss Porter was awarded a first grade certificate. Officers Harbin, Merrick and Gaines captured an illicit distil. lery on Ramsay's creek, eight miles from Walhalla, last Satur day night. One man was cap tured at the still and lodged in jail. The Progress reports a chicken shown by Mr. H. H. Robinson, of Union, that has four legs, four wings, two backs and two necks, but only one head. It lived only a short while after being hatch ed. The Columbia State of Tues day says: Quite a little excite ment was created on Gervais street yesterday morning by the biting of a little girl, little Miss Naomi McCarthey, by a baby leopard. The child was more 'frightened than hurt, the teeth of the leopard not 'penetrating very deeply into the skin, al. though the stocking of the lit. tie girl was badly torn and the wearer of the stocking badly frightened. The leopard is a well known curiosity having the Congaree house as its place of abode, where it can be seen playing most of the time." Columbia Record: The comp troller general's office has just completed the checking up of the accounts of the late County Treasurer H. A. D. INeely of York, who held that position for 28 consecutive years. He had on hand at the time of his death a balance of $40,073, which was on deposit in the var ious banks of the county. As was always the case his books were in splendid condition and the comptroller general's office had no difficulty in checking him up. He was one of the few treasurers of the state who got his monthly report in promply each month. In brief he was just about the best county treas urer this state has ever had ai any point. In his 28 years work he handled funds amount ing to over three and a half mil lion dollars, an average o: about $130,000 a year, for whici work he was paid $900 a yar. Frank Dukes, a merchant of Orangeburg, has been adjudged a bankrupt. Considerable interest is felt in Greenville in the approaching municipal primary. The three candidates already out for mayor are G. Hayward Mahon, the incumbent, Alderman J. C. Milford and Mr. John B. Mar shall. The race promises to be warm and the outcome will de: pend largely on the issues pre sented. Requisition papers have been issued from the office of gover nor Ansel, for the arrest of Yancy Fuller, who is now in Atlanta. He is being held for the authorities in Laurens coun ty. Fuller is accused of optain ing goods under false pretense. The prosecuting witness is L. B. Dillard. The arrest is to be made by J. D. Owings, agent for this state. The eight year old son of Mr. Tom Nickels of Abbeville was bitten by a dog that has since been pronounced mad by the Pasteur Institute in Atlanta. Dr. C. C. Gambrell will get the virus fresh every day and treat the boy at home. Early in April the South Carolina state be 'd of health authorized the establishment of a Pasteur institute in Columbia, but it seems they are not in position yet to treat patients. The board of railroad asses sors will meet in Columbia in the office of the comptroller general on June 24. This board consists of the following: R. H. Jennings, state treasurer: R. M. McCown, secretary of state; J. F. Lyon, attorney general; J. P. H. Earle, chairman of the railroad commission, and A. W. Jones, chairman. It assesses the following property Rail roads, telegraph companies, telephone companies, palace car and express companies. Governor Ansel and Commis sioner Watson are working on a scheme to get the next Nation al Irrigation congress on the Atlantic Seaboard. The idea is to have a delegation represent ing the two Carolinas, Georgia and Florida, headed by the four governors to attend the Spokane meeting in August in a special car and extend the invitation. Charleston has a good chance for the convention. It is desired for its affect on the solution of the drainage problem. Anderson Babb a negro escap ed from the Lexington chain gang some time Saturday mor Ining. He was a trusty and had been the cook for the gang for several months. He carried a suit of clothes and a double bar relled shotgun. Babb was one of the prisoners from the peni tentiary and his time would have expired in July. He was sent up from Greenville county for a term of seven years. This makes about seven prisoners to escape from the Lexington chaingang during the last six months. Mr. W. V. Hegler, of the Primus section of Lancaster county, had a unique experience last Wednesday. He went to his blacksmith shop to do some work, and on undertaking to op erate the bellows he found that it wouldn't work. While try ing to ascertain the cause of the ~trouble a snake stuck its head Iout of the hole. Hegler se cured a pair of tongs and with drew the reptile and killed it. It was a large chicken snake, about six feet long. Returning to his bellows Mr. Heglar found Ithat it still wouldnt work. and while examiaing it, another snake's head was thrust out of the hole. The astonished far mer pulled it out also with his tongs and killed it. The snakes were both of the same kind and size. There is row a very of fensive odor about the bellows, and Mr. Hegler thinks that there is one or more dead snakes in it. The physicians of Saluda county have started an active anti-tuberculosis campaign. William H. Miller, an R. F. D. carrier of Ninty-Six, was thrown. from his buggy and his leg broken. John Kirby an*Dr. H. A. Ed wards of Dillon had a shooting scrape. Dr. Edwards Was pain fully hurt and Kirby dangerous ly shot. Kirby was drunk, it is said. According to the prospectus received in Laurens this week from Architect Sirrine of Green ville, the proposed trolley line from Laurens to Clinton r'1 cost $180,000. The estimates have been sent to the Clinton business league, and a joint meeting will be held af an early date. A letter has been received at the governor's office from a Florence lady asking advice con cerning the offering of the re ward for her son who disappear ed on June 1 from the Broad oaks Sanitarium at Morganton, N. C. It seems that the young man was carried to the sanita rium the latter part of May. On the evening of June 1 he left the place and has not been ,heard of since. There is good reason to believe that the movement which has been on for some time to have the mail from Colon and prob ably other Central and South American counties sent through the port of Charleston, is about to bear results. It is known that Charleston is considered the "convenient port" at Washing ton, and information has been received that in a few days an official announcement on the subject is likely to be-made. During the electrical and rain storm Monday afternoon a son of Dr. R. A. Turner and a son of J. F. Turner, were badly shocked by lightening, while hitching their horse to a tree on Main street at Clifton. The horse was killed. The boys were caught in the rain and drove up under a tree for shelter. While they were in the act of tieing the horse a bolt of lightning struck and they were knocked down. At first it was thought they were killed, but in a few minutes they came around al right and at last reports were doing well. The horse was instantly killed. The tree un der which they sought shelter was nst barked in any place. One afternooni last week Mr. John Perry of Newberry turned his cow in his front yard to eat grass. While the cow was graz ing Mr. Perry's little girl Mil dred, aged three or four years, was playing in the yard. The cow being a gentle one there was no thoughts of danger. Suddenly the cow made a dash at the little girl, caught her up on its horns and threw her some distance, then rushed at her again. Mr. Perry, being near by, rushed at the cow and gave it a tremendous kick in time to save the child. The child was right badly bruised, the horns of the cow tearing her clothing entirely off and making an ugly mark nearly the length of the body. But for the fact that the horn of the cow had been broken off and was consequent ly blunt, the child would likely have been gored to death before the father could have interfer ed. Mr. Perry in kicking the cow severely spraindd his hip, and was laid up a day or two at home, and is still quite lame. CASTORIA For Infants and Chidren. ThKlad Y.HavusAtsueaght f~ntur. of PARKR'S HAIR BASAM LONG YALE MASCOT. RECENT PEATH OF HANNIBAL REGRETTED BY ALL. Quaint Old Negro Candy Man Had an interesting Career-Said to Have Been More Than a Cen tury Old. The death of Hannibal, the negro candy man, has left Yale with no mas cot but "Pop" Warner, the cross-eyed' eapressman, whose auto truck now takes an official crowd to all the ath letic games. "Pop" has just made his debut, and It will be years before he attains the fame of "Pep" Smith, "Davy, the candy man," "Murray, the hackman," and Hannibal. In many respects Hannibal was the most remarkable of the long list of Yale favorites. He was gifted with a versatility granted to few men, black or white. He was one of the campus favorites in 1869, when G. F. Woods wrote in "Four Years at Yale:" "Candy Sam's chief rival is a crafty black man named Hanniba., v hose en trance into the room is always ac companied by some such formula as: 'Not wishing to disturb the gentlemen in their studies I call to see if either of the gentlemen would like to Invest in purchasing from me some packages of superior old-fashioned home-made molasses candy.' This rigmarole, like the rest of Hannibal's speeches, is de livered with the greatest appearance of gravity and without pause or in flection of any sort." Hannibal's age was in dispute. He was said to have crossed the century mark. One of his original sayings when asked how old he was used to be that he had a faint recollection of the first thunderstorm in Connecticut. The mock orations he delivered will live in the memory of Yale men as long as they cherish a recollection of the university, and hardly an alumnus will read of his death without re calling some anecdote of the old negro who sold candy, gave boxing lessons, sleight of band exhibitions, sang and danced and made speeches on all occasions. Early in life he was an instructor in boxing in the Yale gymnasium. He was one of the quickest pugilists In action who ever struck a blow, and he met George Dixon in several bouts without the former negro world's champion getting the decision. He was thrown into a room with John L. Sullivan when that champion was at the height of his popularity. John L. at that time weighed more than 250 pounds, and when Hannibal was, asked if he wished to meet the champIditrtE-5 - answered: "Hannibal is not Mahomet, and must refuse to mix it up with the mountain." Approaching a group of college stu dents, Hannibal used to say: "Not wishing to Interrupt the gentlemen, and wholly In the search for knowl edge, which has been my unvarying custom through life, I would like to ask the gentlemen here a question, What Is the first thing a gentleman puts on when he gets up In the morn ing?" Everyabody took a chance In an swering, and when all had finished Hannibal would say: "Not wishing to place myself above the gentlemen present In knowledge, I beg to say that all you gentlemen are wrong. The first thig a gentleman puts on In the morning is his foot-on the floor." His Latin orations were his spe cialities. He had attended commence ments half a century ago, had learned by heart some of the addresses and had copied the pronunciation of the speakers. Had Extraordinary Taste. A woman with two little girls alight. ed from her motor car for tea at a res taurant In a midland town in England, recently, and ate an extraordinary meal. She ordered tea, a Welsh rab bit and a bottle of port wine. When the order had been given she took from the cruet stand a bottle of Wor cestershire sauce, put it to her lips and emptied it down her throat. She then lifted the anchovy sauce bottle to her lips and emptied that. Then she picked up a bottle of tomato ketch-j up and drank that. The waitress had3 now come In with the Welsli rabbit, the port and the tea. Then the-womal drank the port, then eagerly emptied the mustard pot on the Welsh rabbit and, while she was eating it, ordered another bottle of port. While her mother was thus engaged one of th9 little girls picked up the cream jug put her tongue Into it and licked--it out. Hearing Both Sides. Last summer there died at Was ington a lawyer who for many y had shocked a large number of hi friends by his rather liberal view touching religion. A friend of the deceased, who e short a Canadian trip to hurry b. to Washington for the purpose of tending the last rites of his colleagu entered the late lawyer's home so minutes after the beginni-g of service. "What part of the service isths he Inquired In a whisper of ano legal friend standing In the crow hallway.I "I've just come myself," saidpo other, "but I believe they've o t0t the defense."-Harper's "Nk Child i~ "Didn't he roll h~ asked little Doroth gulshed foreigner ha I"I didn't notice," "but I awu him rn11ll