Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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4 Ik Upanca]star pews (SEMI-WEEKLY.) Published Wednesdays and Saturdays at Lanoaster, H. C., by the Lancaster Publishing Company, Charles T. Connors, Editor. SUBSCRIPTION KATES. * One ?.? W.fiO Six Months _ 75 Threo Months 4C Payable In advance. ADVERTISING KATES. One Inch, first insertion. fl.CD. Each subseucnt Insertion 50 cents. For three months or onger, reduced rates. Professional cards, per year, 112. Business notices, Transient Advertisements, Lost and Found, and other classified aovertlsements not exceeding 25 words, 25 cents for each insertion; I cent a word for each additional word over 25 words. Obituaries, Tributes of respect, cards of thanks and all matter of a personal or political nature to bo charged for. Advertising rates by the column made known on application. Brief correspondence on subjects of general interest Invited. Not responsible for views of corresponden ts. K. K. WYL1E, President. A. J. CLARK, Business Manager. Entered as second-class matter, Oct. 7, 1P0.\ at the postofllce at Lancaster S. C., under Act of Congress of March 3. 1879 SiTHKUAY, lIAIttll 21, IttOM. Finny Wav is tlie name of a candidate for office in Colquitt county, Georgia. It remains to be seen whether he is a sucker. An exchange says this sort of weather makes one wish that there were two Saturday nights in a week. Some people wouldn't be satisfied it there were tv^o weeks in one Saturday night. Why didn't Lancaster celebra'e her centennial? Is it possible that nobody knew when she reached her 100th anniversary? Never mind, we'll do the right thing by the old town next time. A South Georgia girl walked seventeen miles to get married. The only reason that she didn't swim a river is that there wasn't ono on the road.?Anderson Mail. Nothing could stop a girl like that?not even the sea ot matri mony. The Concord, N. C., Times 4 - 1 1 _ . ? _ K ^1.^4 I. -- it)us ui jv negru uem^ mmui uy two white men in that vicinity. Is it possible that it takes two tar heels to pump lead into one nigger? Down this way, one white man, half shot himself, can shoot a hall dozen coons and not half try. A Richmond man has been asleep for seventeen days and the doctors are unable to wake him up.?Anderson Mail. better bring him/lown to Rock Hill and ride him out on the fa mous hay.burner street car of that city, and if that doesn't wake him, you might as well bury him. It's only the dead that tne Rock Ilill rattler fails to make sit up and take notice. It is idle to talk about juries Convicting anybody as long ae the judges on the bench lean so much to mercy, and as long as they, in cass of conviction, give the necessary new trials to secure an acquittal. The judges in giving easy, cheap, or low bail to murderers set a very slight seal of condemnation on murder. ?Abbeville i'ress and i5anner. Our esteemed contemporary does a gross injustice to the judiciary of South Carolina. The judges may, as they should, temper justice with mercy, but it is absurd to say that they "lean so much to mercy." They are simply administering the laws as they tind them on the statute books and as interpreted by the TBI LAI Supreme Court. The records J will no,doubt show that very few new trials have been granted in homicide cases without foil wari rant of law. There have e certainly been no such trials j granted in order to "secure an acquittal." The Press and Ban- ^ ner is also in error as to the raatc ter of bail. In granting bail, ^ the judges again follow the law ^ of the State. If too much dis cretion has been given them, the ^ fault is chargeable to the law. ^ making power, and not to the t judges. c Spring took a back 6eat yes- 1 terday in order to allow winter * to do a tew farewell stunts. t The Hon. John G. Richards, j of Kershaw county, announces tha he will not be a candidate J for governor this year. Ilia de cision in the matter will be re- ( ceived with disappointment by . his numerous friends and ad mirers in this section. The Hon. William A. Courtenay, one of South Carolina's most prominent and patriotic sous, died at his home in Colum bia Tuesday night. He was mayor of Charleston, the place of his nativity, for several years, giving the city a model administration. If this issue ef The News isn't up to the usual accredited standard of excellence, don't blame the writer, but place the responsibility where it belongs: on the shoulders of Col. Leroy Springs. For the past two or three days and nights this scribe has been feeding his feeble mentality on a lot of loud, lofty, lurid, loop-theloop literature kindly loaned him by the thoughtful and kindlioart.prl (^nlnnol Hv fho whu i have you ever read?but of i course you have. ( l Senator Gary, who was elected to till the unexpired term of the ] 1 ite Senator Latimer, was on Wednesday assigned to the following committees : Census, corporations organized in the * District of Columbia; immigra- ' tion, manufactures, 1'acilic rail- 1 roads, patents, privileges and elections; public buildings and grounds. As the new Senator has only about a year to serve, 1 he'll have to hustle in order to familiarize himself with his various committee duties. One day last week $700 in gold that had been stored away for a , long time, was deposited in the F.rst National Bank. It was brought in by an administrator of a man who died in the county recently, and had been stored away so long that some of it had , turned green.?Monroe Journal, i Just think of the handsome sum of interest the owner of that gold would have had to his credit if he had placed his money in a bank long yearn ago ! So many persons make the mistake of letting their savings lie idle, run ning the risk of loss by robbery or fire, when the money could be earning good interest in a rei sponsible bank. Waller it.-Talbirt. Mr. John W. Walters, of the Tradesville section, and Miss I ' Queen Talbirt, daughter of Mrs. Eliza Talbirt, of the cotton mills 1 community, were married Thurs i day by Magistrate W.P. Caskey. SCA6TMK *MW6, MARCH 91 Attempt to Wreck Trains near Greenville. Greenville special in the News nd Courier: Two unsuccessful ifforts were made to wreck main ine passenger trains of the South>rn Railway near this city MouLay morning by placing crossties in the rails, the second attempt laving been made within two lours of the first, and not a mile listaut. Both trains were north)ound, the first being Fast Mail *o 36, passing here a few miultes after 6 o'clock, and the sec >nd, No 42, scheduled to depart wo houis later. No arrests have >een made, and no clue obtained, but a negro who was found in ;he woods near the scene of the ittempted wrecks was giveu a ong chase by a special oflicer, who was sent to the scene. He Inally made his escape. Olli jials of the road believe that nalice was tliesole motivejpromptng the acts. Father and Son Jailed on Ugly Charges. Greenville, S. C., special in the Charlotte Observer: Wil iara and Earle Payne, fathei *ud son, respectively, are lodg ?d in the county jail to-night, both charged with canital of O L 'enses of a different nature, i he jlder Payne, who is 65 years of me, is charged with arson, and lie younger one is charged with laving ravished a young negro lirl. Earle Payne, the younf man, was arrested yesterday morning on a warrant sworn out ay tlie girl's parents, and while the latter were in this city it it claimed that the elder Payne burned their hou6e. The eviience against both of them it mid to he strong. The Paynes are white people and heretofore have borne food reputations. Both crimes were committed about four miles from the city. Ran Away from School Dead. Aiken special in the News and Courier: Young Dean, the son )f a prominent citizen of Langley, was killed this afternoon on the electric car line between Langley and Warrenville. The coroner went to the scene of the accident this afternoon. It seemi that young Dean slipped otT 01 ran away from school and got or the Augusta?Aiken express car It is supposed that he either fel off or was shaken ofT, falling oe the track and was then run ovei by the car. Young Man's Peculiar Deatt Anderson special in the Coh umbia State: Yesterday after noon the 1-year-old child of Jo< Sayle, colored, who lives ii Dunklin township, Ureenvilh county, fell into a tub half filled with water and was drowned The mothor had left the chile alone while she was attending t< some duties around the house and while she was away the child fell into the tub. The news quickly spread, an< a number of the neighbors gath ered, among them Joe Jordan the 18-year-old son of Mr. J. 11 Jordan, a prominent farmer of the vicinity. Young Jordai walked up to the tub in whicl the child had been drowned, look ed at it tor a moment and drop< ped dead. . If08. ? For An; in 1 GROCEB Call W. LCr?) PHOIS Your Ordei Quick E Plant King < I have 500 bushels 1 for sale. This cotton r pounds seed cotton to tl cents per bushel in sma els or more at reduced j > | Marfch 15th, 1908. ( Justice for the Cotton Grower Asked?New York Cotton Exchange and Bucket t Shops Denounced. 1 Washington, March 19?In the course of discussion of the cotton industry Mr. Heflin, of . Alabama, in the House of Representatives to day, referred to the falling off of the trade in that staple. lie declared that 1 the South was not only the grea'est region in the world for cot1 ton, l>ut had demonstrated that 1 there was no other place in the w )rld where cotton could be i manufactured so cheaply and a - . J profitably. And yet, he said, England, China and Japan were 1 getting most, of llie trade in cot* ton goods. If tbe United States * wanted a fair share of that trade 1 it must go after it. He pleaded that the cotton producers should be put upon ^ the same basis as any manufact urer or mercantile business. The one obstacle that stood in the way of buying and selling cotton 3 in the open, he declared, was 1 the New York cotton exchange, |* which was the "rottenest on earth,'' and the various "bucket oV? Ar\n H IX A n 1 1 n/1 li r\/\w j lie laucu u j/uii vyuud gress to act, "and not be decievi, ed by a suggestion from the ' White House that at some time in the pale distant future a commission may be appointed to look into the speculators' hauds " The producers, he asserted, f "have Buffered the horrors that ' come from the gamble exchange year after year." There was, he . said, an army of producers in the West an army of producers in the yfching the ;Y LINE Up iUm <fc (!ft. rE 39 *s Solicited, delivery. AW CAA#I I pure King Cotton Seed \ nade from 1200 to 2500 j le acre last year. Eighty ill quantities. Ten bushprice. T. Y. WILLIAMS. \ South, "marching, through their representatives, to this chamber, asking you to act now and drive from power the gamblers in the exchange in Chicago and New York." Mr. llefiin severely arraigned Theodore Price, who, he charged, had a substitute on the IToor of the exrlr ng', notwithstanding he had resigued his member- a ship. r 1~ Homicide Near Greenville. Greenville special in Columbia State : John Fowler,a white farmer living near this citv, was shot and instantly killed by Ben McAbee, a distant rolative of his, I who lived in the same house with him. It seems that the killing resulted from a quarrel between McAbee and his wife, for which he blamed Fowler. McAbee is lodged in the county jail. A C'amino Marriage. Cards are out announcing the approaching marriage Mr. James Stonev Drake,a popular and sterl ing young man of this place, and Lf laa I ? 1 11 n n ( 1 -m " ? ~ iuioo uiiiiau vjiD^ury,uuo OI Ijtincaster's most attractive and accomplished young ladies. The ceremony will be performed at high noon Wednesday, the 8th of April, at the elegant home of the prospective bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Gregory. A wedding reception will be given Miss Gregory the evening previous by her parents. Mr. B. F. Hale, of Lancaster, 8. C., has been spending a few days here this week.?Monroe^. Enquirer.