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=- - LOCAL MARXET COTTON MARKET ot i Corrected by Nat Gist. Good Mi.dding ...141-2 E . Strict iddlng ...143-8 Hams (co)..17.17 to By Robt. McC. Holm ..6.50 to7.00 Good Middling ..-14 1-- .e .. Strict Middling ...14 3-8 Mea 95 Mddling .1Bacon.......14 to 17 -Cotton se ela I N-1 U-2 eents. VLMXLIINUBR0.NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROINA, FRIDAY, APRIL 15, 1910. TIEAWE,$.0AYA COUNTY POLITICS. Ward Clubs in the City-Reorganiza tion to Take Place-Candia,tes Are Slow Moving. unty Chairman Fred. H. Dom k issues a call to the Democratic of the county to meet on Sat ay, April 23, for the purpose of nization and the election of egtes to the county convention, is to be held at Newberry Mon May 2. e Herald and News would be ed to have the clubs, when they to send in their delegates, of and committeemen promptly. will ,be recalled that at the last ty convention a resolution was adop*ed requiring that the city of Newberry be organized into ward clubs." This organization was effect ed and for this convention the dele gates to the, county convention will be elected from the wards. In Order that those Democrats, who live it Mollohon. might have a club, an additional club known as Mollohon was organized. Tthet Herald and News prints in this connection for the imformation of the wards, the officers elected at the organization of the ward clubs two years ago. It will be recalled that these clubs were organized after the adjourlnient of the convention two yearg ago. Up to this time there has been aa almost absolute quietness in the po litical field in Newtberry county. Now that the call for the reorganization of clubs is made it is probable that the politicias will get active and come out from their hiding places. These Hold Over. The officers who hold over until the .1912 election are as foliows: Senatog-Alan Johnstone. Clerk of Court-J. C. Goggans. Sheriff-M. M. Buford. .Master-H. H. Rikard. Superintendent of Education-J. S. Wheeler. 'County Supervisor-L. I. Feagle. County Commissioners-L. C. Liv ingston and C. L. Leitzsey. Coroner-W. E Felker. These Don't. Representatives-C. T. Wyche, Arthur Kibler, Godfrey Harmon. Judge of Probate-F. M. Schum ~pert. ~County Treasurer--J. L. Epps. Auditor-E. S. Werts. The following is the list of the ela~bs and club officers of the city: Ward 1. Presdeult-Geo. B. iOromer. Vice-president-Jos. H. Hunter. Seeretary and Treasurer-Jno. W. Earhardt. Memnber of Counby Exeoutive Com mititee-W. H. Wallace.I Executive Comzmittee-W. A. Hill, W.~ G. Peterson and B. M. Buzhardt. Registration Committee-P. F. &Bater, B. 0. Epting and T. G. Wil Aliams. Ward 2. President-J. F. J. Caldwell. First Vice-president - William; Johuson. Second Vice,presiden?-E. 0.1 Secretary and Treasurer-H. W. Dominick. --Member County Executive Corn Exeeutive Com.mittee-0. B. May er, chairman; W. K. Sligh, S. J. Derrick.; ! Committee on Registration-L H. SHunt, chairman; J. B. Mayes, R. B. Lominiek. Ward 3. President-Alan Johnstone. First Vice-president-Geo. S. Mower. Second Vice-president-McK. Hut chinson. Secretary-L. W. Jones. Member Executive Committee-F. L. Bynum. Executive Committee-E. ML. Evans, J. W. Reagin, J. B. 0O'Neall' Bfolloway. J. A. B11:aekwalder, F. L. Bynum. Registration Committee -W. F. FEwart. W. H. Jones, Clarence T. &mmer.Mollohon 0klb. /President-W. W. Searborough. / First Vice-president-J. A. Der Second vice-president-J. F. Mc Connell. Secretary and Treasurer-I. T. Timmerman. Member County Executive Coin mittee-D. D. Darby. Ward 4. President-Geo. W. Summer. Vice-president-E. H. Aull. Secretary-W. S. Langford. Treasurer-E. A. Griffin. Committee to Prepare By-Laws for t,he Club-G. W. Summer, W. S. Langford, E. H. Aull, E. T. Carison and E. A. Griffin. CYmmittee to assist Secretary to get a Complete Enrolment of the Voters in this Club-C. R. Wise, Jno. A. Senn, Geo. W. Sunmmer, Jr. Ward 5. President-T. S. Hudson. First Vite-president-J. Y. Jones. Second Vice-president-E. C. Bed enbaugh. Secretary-E. L. Crump. Member County Executive Commit tee-J. P. Cook. Registration :Committee-B. L. Kiser, B. L. Albritton, C. R. Wesson. MOE SCARE IN CHEROKEE. Altogether Probable That Explosion Which Scared Arat People Was Dynamite Tbrown by Fish ermen. News and Courier. Sparta'aburg, April 12.-Yesteray at Gaffney the News and Courier or respoudent made some inquiry as to I the re~ort _d an-aerolite, which was said to have fallen last week on the Broad river hills, a;bout eight miles southeast of Gaffney. No one had visited the place. Reports said that there was a loud explosion and a big hole blown out in a field. Now, meteoric stones do not sail around through space with fuses at tached to them ready to explode when they hury themselves in the earth. Some of the older people about Ohar leston. if they were not hiding in bomb-proofs, may remember the be havior of large mortar shells when they exploded after sinking several feet in the earth. They made a hole large enough to bury a horse or two. Whean the shell did not explode the hle was only as large as the shell. That was the way it was on the hills about Petersburg in 1864. A meteor striking the earth would sink se :eral feet below the surface perhaps, but there would ,be no blow ing out. Hence the story was not believed by many persons. There was no doubt as to the ex plosion, for man1y of the neighbors heamd it. But no flash or long trail! of light was reported. It is said that some of the men on the river hd .been killing fish with dynamite on the sly and they had some ear tridges and concluded that they would fire them out in a field. That stroy is told about G.affney, but it needs corroborating. dn the fall of 1848 or '49 there was an aerolite that fell not far from Gaff ney, in the "Coaling grounmd.'' About 5 o'clock in the afternoon there was a bright flash of light fol lowed by a report, whieh was heard. for miles. Around Cherokee Ford and the Kings Mountain Iron Works there were thousands of acres of land known as the coaling ground. The wood had been cut to heat th'e iron furnaces and a thiek undergrowthi had succeeded the forest timber. Somewhere in that region the met eoric stone buried itself in the earth and its resting splace is as unknown as that of Moses, the Hetbraw lawgiver. Teachers Association. The next meeting of the T'eachers'j] association will be held Saturday,. April 16th, a.t 10:30, in the graded school building at Little Mountain. Following is the program: "Relation of school to trustees' ' J. B. Derrick. "Relation of school to patrons' ' Miss Erin Kohn.1 "Relation of school to communlity'' -irgil B. Sease. You are urged to attend. Geo. D. Brown, President. Miss Elizabeth Dominieck, THE NEWS OF PROSPERITY. "hamber of Commerce to be Organ ized.-W. C. T. U. Organized. Buying Automobiles. Prosperity, April 14.-Mr. R. L. Werts, the genial editor of the Sa Lodla Standard, was in our city Tues lay. Mr. J. C. Schumpert left Wed aesday for Spartanburg to attend the Furniture Dealers' convention. While gone he will visit High Point ind other furniture factory centres >f North 'Carolina. Old Folks' Day has been appoint d for the fourth Sunday in May. Mr. S. S. Birge, who lately has been spending most of his time at iis plantation in Little Mountain, this week moved his goods and chattels th:ere to take up his permanent abode )n his house-erested hill. We wish Ur. Birge all kinds of good luck in iis enterprises, even to the sharing )f his joys and he dividing of his ;orrows. Prosperity continues to press for ward. On Friday at 5 p. m. at the iuditorium the business men, of the ity will meet for the purpose of or ranizing a chaniber of commerce. We rust this may be suecessfully con nmmated for we believe this league will tend towards the improvement ind future saeass of our town. ay its promotors' shadows never roW lews ._-_"___"_ Mr. Sam Kohn who has been spend ng a week at Wise Hotel, returned ;o Columbia Wednesday. Mr. Birge Wise, not to be eeeaded n fast moving by the numerous au ;os has just purchased 4 fine Ken ucky horse "Wistaria" with a his ory. When he goes flashing by eryone is heard to exclaim again tud again, "Oh, how I do wish it vould rain.' Mr. and Mrs. T. Duck Copelaind, )f Clinton, visited Mr. W. A. Mose ey's family this week. Mrs. Eine.s, of Atlanta, is the rnest of her s irets,HjOYflfi. rMs-. uest of her sister, Mrs. Oaldwell. Mr. J. H. Hunter, one of our for ner citizens, was again on our streets his week shaking hands with old 'riends. Tinrough the efforts of Mrs. Zehner LW. C. T. U. has been organized. [he first regular m'eeting was held with Miss Susie Langford on Tues lay. In conjunction with this there vill be operated a L. T. L. Mrs. Jiohn Scott has gone to Po naria to spend a few days with rel W\e admonish our readers that it vill be to their adv.aintage to be ready :o give Mr. Bushnell Bowers the glad land in a few days when hre comes round in the interest of Uncle Sam's esus bureau. Mrs. Lizzie DeWalt has returned rom a visit to her sister, Mrs. Mit hell, near Salu'da. Miss Rosa Ridgell, of Batesbuirg, a route for the Baraeia-Philathea 3onvention stopped over with Mrs. J. L. Wise's family. Mr. and Mrs. C. Gr Barrie and ittle soni visited Mr. S. J. Kohin's ~amily last week. Miss Mary Lizzie Wiss spent from riday until Monday with Miss Wil e Kohn in: Columnbia. Mrs. Kreps and her sister, Mrs. [ovelok, of Lynchburg, Va, -leave ~oday to visit Mr. Carper K.reps in l.ugsta. Drs. Hunter and Wheeler have >urchased handsome Studebaker tour .ng cars. We have nine autos al edy and they tend mightily to vards making us think we are in some sity with their incessant hond-honk ng. We hear that this number will >robably be augmented very soon. WVe hope that it may. Mr. Belton Stockman, of the Zion sommunity, has also recently pur' ~hased a good looking Ford ma :hie. There will be a Lyceum attraction it the Auditorium on the eveni'Lg of .he 17th inst. So do-n't forget this Mr. C. C. Wyehe, of Sparta:nburg, s on a short visit to his parents. People in different secetions of the tate, up and down -are seeing the D. B. COOPER PARDONED. Gov. Patterson Grants Full Absolu tion to Elder of Carmack's Slayers. Nashville, Tenn., April 13.-Gover nor Paltterson( this aftkrnoon par done;d Colonel Duncan B. Cooper, whose . sentence of twenty years in the penitentiary for the murder of United States Senator E. W. 'Car matk was affirmed today by ithe iState supreme count. Although it was believed by many that the chief executive would take this action, the pardaon, coming so soon after the a.etion of the court, created a sensa tion. What Governor Patterson Says. Governor Patterson, in pazdning Colonel Cooper, said: "'Being ithoroughly familiar with the record, havi-ng read all the testi mony and testified to certain faets within my personal knowledge, it is neither desirable nor necessary to detail action 'for petition to be pre sentetd asking executive clemency. "In my opinion, neither of i ,defendants are guilty, and they have not had a fair and impartial trial, 4bat were convicted con,trary to the law and evidence. The action of the suprene o6unt, in vacating the judg ment as to Robin Cooper, leaves the sentence of final co-nvietion as to his co-defendant. The proof showed that Robin Cooper k1il itha deceased and that D. B. Cooper did not fire a shot. Without reflecting upon the court, it is inconceivable to my mind and re pugnant to every principle of justice that a man should be found guilty of murder, who was not in a conspiracy to kill and who, in fact, dild, not kill." ,Friends of Carmack Indignant. The friends of Senator Carmaek are indignant over the hasty action of the governor and the matter is being discussed by excited groups of nen on the streets. After being handed his pardon, Colonel Cooper was immediately sur rounded by his friends and congrat ulated. Accompanidd by his son .1id other relatives he then repaired to the home of his daughter, Mrs. Lucius Burch. It is dotbteld here that the ease against Robin Cooper, which was re versed today, will ever again be brough.t to trial. JUDGE A. C. HASKELL DBAD. Diii in Columbia as Result of a Surgical Operation. Columibia, April 13.-Judge A. C. Haakell, for many years one of the leading men of the State, both in pulblic life and in business affairs, died this morning ait 2:30. Last ight JuIdge Haskell was operated on for an obstruction of the intestines. He stood the operation well and his condition was such as greatly to en courage his physicians and friends. Later in the night, however, he grew rapidly worse and early this morning the end came. He was 71 years old. Newberry Swamps Charleston. At the college on Monday after noon the Newberry swamiked the "Ibattery 'boys'' by a score of 9 to 1. The whole Ne'wberry team played an excellent game, hitting the ball al most at will, while the Charleston ans were unable to connect success fully with Eitdson's curves. Scurry for New'berry got a home run by hit tingo a line drive to left field when the ball bounced over the fenee. B.urton again hit well, and the batting of Eidson was nothing less than senea tional. For Charleston, the batting honors were between Lawman and Levi. "Westward the stfar of empire takes its course'' seems to have been somewhat changed recently. It now appears to be the star of love. Only, like the coming comet, it die viates, first to the Florida side and then to the land of Louisiana, near the border mark of Texas, the lone star State. Who will be the next to sing: "Bright star of hope, come shed MARSE JAKE AN A STORY OF TI BY COL D. (Continued from April 8.) The rolling thunder and seismetie disturbance of pdlitics for a half cen tury or more, burst forth at last with a suddenness of Mount Pelee, I in which was destined to engulf so many people in ruin and distraction. South Carolina had east its lone Pal meitto 'banner to the bold breeze of heaven,'" and stood for a time, soli tary and alone against the autocratie government of the United States. At a eall men rushed to arms from the mountains to the sea, to defend the course of their State. No section of the eonatry was more patriotic or more loyal to the principles of States rights than the Dutch Fork, nor none more willing to defend its course with their lives. Drums were beat, and military com panies were formed all over the State. D-ne of these was formed. near the home of Jake Baldwin, he being among the very first to insist, and was chosen second officer in his company. A good old citizen, one who "would take care of the boy,'" was first ehos en for comm"der, but it wi soon evident that he could not endure the hardships in store for real soldiers. He resigned and Lieutenant Jake Baldwin was unanimously ielated captain instead and soon became the dominant figure in the company, the source of .power and authority. Great enthusiasm and excitement were e hilbited everywhere. The company met for drill and instruction weekly, and a short time before the de>arture for the regimental rendezvous, a "camps muster" was ori:eed. For three days the soldier boys had the carousal of their lives. Ladies for miles around graced the occasion with their presence, and through their in terest and assistance, gave great- im 1-ciis to tha men. The. r-ame iL buggies, carriages and wagons, all loaded with <ehoicest of eatables, mak ing this "camp mu.ter,: one long picnic. During the intervals of drills and inspection the young gallants, kd t;he ~beauties of the Fork in the giddy mazes of the dance. Cage came tne last day to witness the exercises and to bring the rock away in which Marse Jake and Miss Calline were to return home. The soul of Cage was stirred to its inner most when he behe?ld his young mas to in the regulation ain,torm of bhat day, blaek broadeloth coat, adorned with double rows of shiny palmetto iuttons, gray trouse, with git stripes 'down the seams; high top b:..ts, broad 3,rrmirn-d :. hat, mi 1 golden band and ostrich plume, crim son sash and savord belt around the waist, all of which caused Cage to say in his ad'miration, "Dog my cat, ef Marse Jake ain't the finest muster man I ever seed. He jist natterly beats any of dem b& nns I uswer see mustering in Mike Koons old field, when ole Lindler hbead de drum so, he mashed the headen outer hit.'' Then afser witnessing a few evolutions he continued, "if he was jist straddle of ole Shoestring (his horse) wid his big spurs, he would ho look' proud nuf for de govmor's son.'' The spectre of war that had been before the people so long that it eeased .to be feared, now had become a reality, a-ud J'ake Bald win's comn pany was ordered to the front; The day was appointed for their depart ure, it being the intention of 'rap tain Baldwin, to take old Ransom along, as a servant,..to cook and wait upon him. But the night before leav ing, Cage came in to take issue with his master and give him some sage advice. "Nowy, look here Marse Jake, you saiy you gwine to take UJnkle Rance er long to tend to you. But I .done study bout this matter. UJnk Ranee ain't gwine ter do a tall, case ou de white sweillin done make em lame, and he can't get about pert lik me Wat he know bout cookin? IRUNAWAY CAGE. IE DUTCH FORK. A. DICKERT. An den if dere be any runnin in dis ihere war, old Maxher gwine to loss a nigger. Den how he gwine wash wid rhumatics in his hant Wat"he -know bout grabbin pulle&t off do roost, when times git skaeof No Marse Jake let Unk Rance stay to home, an see bout Miss Calline, an I'm sho gwine wid you." That night Jake and his wife had an earnest talk over Cage's advice and logie con eluding he was about half right. Jk too, remembering the past, thought it possible that Cage might get back into his old ways and run away again. It was decided at last to dress him Up into some of Jake's east of clothes a!nd allow him .to go, so he marched away with the soldier boys amid the cheers, drum beats and flags waving, with' the good wishes and silent prayers of the anxious eon course of people assem led to see them off. : ; ;K, At the capitol of the Sta;k -he Ooil pany was joined by the other organ izations of the regiment, the whole going ipto "camp of instruction" for some'time. But the troops could not afford to remain in camp long, for the grat battle of Manassas had been fought, iwhile McClelMan, with the grand army of the Potomac was forcing a landing im the Yorktorwn peninsular, and would soon be on his march to Richmond. The command to which Capt. Baldwin's company was attached was soon on the firing line, At Seven Pines the Confederat* comma.nder was disabled and an ob scure Virginian was aippointed com mander in eihief. That obscure sol dier became the irommtal Robert E. Lee. He drew his lines nearer around the confines of Richmond. Night and day C:ptain Baldwin was active and vigilant in his du ties, keeping his ceompany well equip ped, his pickets always on the elert. T'hen during the last days of Stone wall Jackson, who had been watch ig Patterson in the Shenaindoah val ley, eame down and joined forces with Lee. Then for seven days the roar of combat sounded a;nd the con- -- fliet raged with .flenidish vehemene'e. Jake Baldwin's plumes waved trium phantly at the head of his command during all the bloody carnage, bold, defiant and aggressive, until the last shot was fired by the retreating foe from the top of MaWlern Hill. After a .brief respite Lee began 'his long mareh of invasion of the North. Old Maj. Baldwin lived long enough to learn of the brimiant career of his son as a soldier. The time came for him to meet the mes senger of death and one night as the beams of the pale moon fedll upon the foliage without, the low moon of the distant river was sighing a requiem, Maj. Baldwim called iMingo to his bed side and reminded him of tfhe promise he was to fulfill to his son at his death, turned his Lae to the walil and passed into the valley of eternal rest. Maj. Gen. John Pope 'was organz ing a great army in northern Virginia and Stonewall Jackson was sent to. meet hri. Then Meol<4llan began moving his army from the James back to the Potomac, by way of steamers and sailing vessels while Lee under took to circumvent his movement by an oveAland march through the val ey of the Shenandoah. lIi passing. through the valleys and over the mountains Longstreet met the enemy in force at Thoroughfare Gap in the Bull Run mountain. Here he had to force a passage at the point of the bayonet. Jake Baldwin was now at the head of his regiment, having, through the casualties of battle, been made full coloneql. He stormed the mountain heights on the right of the great Thoroughfare, opening a pas sage, by which Longstreet came in n time for the preat battle, then