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' m m mm 1 Hii vAMUtjN tHKUnlllx ?? ??' -r"'? Mil ''!<? ?'li'|ltomi,'<,,"??,'i f, .. II. V. NUm and / K. N. McDowell.. j F?WI?I*? ? - Published ?very Friday at 1100 No. Broad Htreet, nud watered at the Gam ,< de? poatofflce km second clgaa mall mat ter. Price per annum $1.00. We ate glad to receive communlca tlouM of a reasonable length, but an important condition of their publlca tlou 1m tbat they Nliall In all case* be accompanied by the full name aud exact addresa of the (tender. obltu arles, resolutions of respect, and church notices will not be charged for. Mat ter* of purely a i>ersoual nature will be charged for at the rate of live emit* a Hue. Whiskey or jaiteut medicine advertisements will not be accepted at any price. Raton for <llsp)ay adver tising made known on application (huiidfn, H. April 23, 1915. T. J. Strait, M. I), will retire as Hii{>ertutendont of I ho State Hospital for the Insane on May I. This an nouncement was made Wedneaday by Gov. Manning after a conference, with l>r. Htrait. 0. Fred Williams, M. !>., wlli take charge on the above date. Governor Manning has addressed a letter to all tho county dlsitcusary hoards in t ho state advising them of the wisdom of carrying as small a stock of Whiskey as |s>sslblo from now on, citing as a reason that should state-wide prohibition win in Septem ber it. would be easier to dis|M>se of the small stock. L. 1\ linker, Ueau of the South Car olina University announced that Ihe nnme of Oscar Plaxlco, the Totlego premier sprinter would not be allowed to com|>ete in the athletic carnival at Philadelphia, because of the fact that he would be forced to compete with negroes. 'The horned toad which was plowed up recently by Mr. N. \V. Drlsklll at Mmcstone mills, and which was on ox* hlbltlon at The Ledger office, made Its escape Tuesday. The toad was enged In a pasteboard box, and when, In some unexplained manner, the lid he name misplaced, it disap|>earcd. Many people calllcd to look ftt tiic little aul aial as it was quite a curiosity In this nectloii, of the country, although It Is said they are quite common In the west. ? tiuffnev Ledger. ? i Nelson Ahlrirli, aged 74. foi'ine.l sen- 1 a tor from Rhode Island, died suddenly i at bis home in New York Frld'i.. Kvldonce of the faille of Greenwood coupty hogs Is shown In the shipment of two Duroc Jerseys by Mr. .1. It. Worts, of Ninety-Six, to Central Amer ica. Mr. Worts lias one of the tlnowt herds in the country. He,-*,roccntly sold a two-year-old of this breed to a Mr. White, of Abbeville, for $<!.". (Jreen wood .lournal. I,. M. Gasque was on Friday, held by the supreme court to be the so licitor of the Twelfth judicial circuit. In 101 li, W. 11. Wells was elected so licitor of the Twelfth circuit for a four-year term. He died in January. 11)13. aud on February 13. Governor I Mease appointed L I?. Singleton, of Horry county, to till out the unexpired term. L. M. (bisque was elected so licitor of the circuit in the general election of 11)11, and was later com missioned b.v Governor 1 Men so. Mr. Singleton refused to give up the otllce. claiming that he had been appointed for the unexpired four years. Accord ing to the decision of the supreme i court. which was concurrcd in b\ all j the justices, (he governor has no right to appoint for a full unexpired term : when a session of the general assembly intervenes. Mi's. John l>. Rockefeller left an estate <>f .il?<>nt two million dollars, and in her will just tiled, she leaves t he most of this money to charitable : institutions. Each of her three chil- i d I en are left one hundred thousand. S pel in a n Seminary of Atlanta. <?a.. is j I tic on!.* Southern institution remcm ! bcred - ,'A *? V ~ ITEMS OVER THE STATE Short Nov? Nolti Gathered From Our Exchange*. ..rt, v . . ..... *"' ?*"*?* '? ? <?*? Congressman Joaeph T. Johnson lut* assumed IiIh duties as Judge of the new Federal western (HlJHCt wurt ??t <* (Ireenvllle. , Dr. Anna Howard Shaw, foremost advocate of wottiiin suffrage III Ihe i 'nil. -.1 States* delivered a suffrage ad' (Iron* In CIih rleston last week. Jeff Boa chain, a well known painter of Oreei.iw'oed, rominlttwl suicide at hi* home in that city Thursday, by shooting himself with a shotgun. No cause wan given for the deed. tteorgo Undatedl of Orangeburg, wan liol.l np while driving his automobile about three wiles from Orangeburg Thursday night. He wan roblied of his money, a watch and his hat. By order of the i*>st master general, the parcel lsist terminal station es tablished In Columbia about a year ago, will lie dlncontlnued June .10, 1m? etui He the Htatlon Iiiih not developed enough business to warrant Its main tenance. . \ Cum FomUu-, an 4?i|4mu boy, living with Frank Loopcr, near Pickens, wan thrown from a uiule and killed Fri day afternoon. He wun going to the Held t<i plo>v when the mule became frightened and bolted, 'the boy's leg lielng caught in a trace by which he wan dragged a uille. Fifty giienta attending the wedding of Miss Harlc Brunson and .John Henry Hydrlek. near Oraiigoburg Tuesday evening narrowly escajied serious in jury when the ths?r of the reception hftll fell through. The dress of one of the guests was set on tire by an overturned lamp. Later the ceremony was performed on the front j^a/zjca. The home of Mrs, Julia Ilarvln llln son at Alcolu was totally destroyed by lire Monday morning about 1) o'clock. There was some Insurance on the build ing, but none on the contents, of which some was saved by timely assistance. This was one of the oldest residences In Clarendon county, and one of Iho old landmarks of the good days long before the war. The governor has appointed five dpi-, egates from Smith Carolina to the an n n ii 1 meeting of the American Acade my of Political mid Social Science In Philadelphia. Pa.. April .'10 and May 1. Professors of history and social coon : oiu.v from the different colleges of the j state were selected as follows : .1. W. I Moore, the Citadel; J. It. Kennedy, ('Union: < >. ( >. Fletcher, Fur man : I., i (\ Calloway, Frskine; N. W. Steven j son. college of Charleston. Six million five hundred thousand j postal cards were hauled Thursday aiorulng from the Charleston docks of I the Baltimore & Carolina Steamship I company to the Flitted States post j otTtcc building and stored in the cel j lar of that building prior to dlstrlhu ! tion throughout South Carolina. The S big shipment constitutes ;i solid car load from Washington via Baltimore, ami came to Charleston In t lie hold of the steamer Matilda Weeuis. The election for otlicers of the South Carolina National guard which was held last Saturday resulted as follows: First Regiment ? Colonel, 10. M. Blythe. (jreenvllle; Lieutenant Colonel. P. K. McCully, Anderson: Major First Ba tailion. B. (I. Watson. < Jreenvllle : Maj j or. Smind Batalllon, W. B. Moore, ' Vorkvllle. A second race will have to j be run between .1. B. Tiller. * ?f Ches lerlield, and Bobert McKorrell, of llartsvllle, for major of the Third Ba ' tallion. otlicers of the Second regl . iiient were elected as follows: Colonel. i 11. B. Springs, (ioorgctown: Lieuten ant Colonel, J. II. ClalYy. Orangeburg: .Major First Batalllon. A. 11. Sllcox. ( 'ha rleston : second hatallioii. l>ibert Jackson. Columbia : (bird hatnllion. .1. W. Bradford. Sumtei. Frnest Ford. Jr.. II years" old. and only child of former Fulted States dis trict attorney and Mrs. Krnbst F. Cochran, accldentallv shot himself thru 1r the head ith his father's automatic pistol Tuesday afternoon at Anderson, while in his father's room at their! home and died three hours later with- ! out having gained consciousness. ( The following Interesting bit of hls~ tory Im reproduced from The J our nil hiii) Confederate, ?f March 10? IWtf, a iMifwr published at Camden by J. T. llvrHbuian and \X !>. Hooolt The IMIM'r wuh loaned to uh by Mrn. (J. (?. Alexander, of thin city : I The Htorm bHH at length burnt upou Uh; the antlciiMited blow liaa fallen, and (<f|n|deQ has Iteen made to under go, In her turn, all the horrent of a Yankee invasion. The raid, though expected, wiih ao wudden, and it* dura tion so brief that we feel stunned, as It were, and hardly able to reallr.e that a Yankee force ban actually been in our mhlHt, plundering and destroying aw Is their want, although the black ened and smouldering rulna around uh too iMtlnfully attest tbv faet <}?d grant that it may be long ere such scenes of horror are again r?-enact??d in our peaceful quiet town, M??at of our eltlsens having ftOUUllt refuge in the neighboring swamps, from which they are only now ventur ing to return, and small lasHee of tlio -Yankees l?elng atlll reported hovering at no great dlatauce from the town render It somewhat unsafe to stir abroad, lienoo we liave not beoti a'lle. I up to the date of thin writing, to gather full |?artleulnrs of the Invasion and capture of Camden. _ Such Items as we have been able to glean, we throw luiHttly together for the, bene tit of our readers. The enemy made 'heir tlrat Mipetir ance in our midst on Thursday even ing the 19th Instant, having crossed the Watoree, nt Peay's and Jones' fer ries, about twenty miles aliove Cam den. They were in small number? some thirty ? and formed a line near Major John Wliltaker'w residence, where the milltlja, xmdfct-thO command of Oolr^RRSpr met the Intruder*. mid* aftpr a few shots were exchanged, the enemy withdrew, wounding and cap turing Mr. J. C. Drakeford, Of Flat Itock. They returned on the day fol low iiig (Friday) and readied Cam den about 2 p. mM entering the town fhom the north, with a force consisting of two detachments of cavalry ami one of Infantry, numbering In all, i>er baps, two hundred and fifty men. A portion of the cavalry and the bulk of ,the infantry proceeded' directly down Main street Into the heart of the town. The remainder stopped, by the way, to plunder. All the houses on the road were entered and pillaged more or less thoroughly, according to the caprice of the robbers. But of this hereafter. ? Soon aftoi' the main ; body reached Jungbluth's hotel, which | was. we believe, their headquarters. , the work of destroying the- govern- j ment stores and public buildings was l?egun. The tlrst building, tired was j the passenger depot, next the freight i deftot at the railroad ; then the Coi n- j wall.is hous<j: and the building occu pied as a commissary store house mid I ottice, on the cornet of DeKalb and Ma ^n streets, was next tired. From ; this latter, the flames communicated] to the adjoining buildings, and 11 the] houses fronting on Main str?sit oft Hint j square were totally destroyed. They also burnt Mr. <?eo, Douglass-store, the cotton sheds in the rear of Mr. (ier ald's and Hell's stores, and tbe bridge over li?e Watoree. The Masonic Hail, the three-story brick dwelling adjoin ing. occupied its tb<> enrolling oflice of ('apt. Coli-lough and residence of Mr. S. Oppcnhoim, McKaiu's drug store, and the three wooden buildings to tbe south, were also hurned ; but there Is reason to believe that the Yankees were not the Incindlarles in this case. All the stores were broken open and "pillaged. The Yankees-took what they wanted, and threw the balance of the goods in the street, whence they wvpre carried < fY by the negroes, who were encouraged and urged by the Yankees to appropriate whatever they fancied. The destruction of projierty has been very heavy, and years of patient labor will be required to replace It. .The devastation Is so utter, so complete, It Is really heartrending to contem plate. Hut we have not space to par ticular, 'y.e in this issue. After the cot ton. government stores, etc., had been burned, the majority of the Yankees dlsjwsed In small squalls over the town to rob on private account. Nearly every house In Camden and Kirk wood was visited. In fact we have heard of but two that escaped,! besides those in the immediate vh-inl-j t.v of Hisliop Davis' residence, before which a guard we understand, was placed. The conduct, of these Invaders varied, In different localities, according I to the dominant iustlncts of tin*- iudi- j j viduais who composed the squad. In j some instances,- rare -ones, they are re i. 00 r ted t;> have behuved wit it courtesy j iind gentleness, neither plundering nor Insulting the inmates, and limiting their ; dents i??H? to >1 dinner or a bod. i others, and these by far the larger, . number, they seem to have ro?i through ; the gnniet. from simple impertinence to I gross outrage, and from potty pITferffl|f~ to wholesale poilatlon and robhefy:"1 | Many families have l?een stripped of I everything they had in the world. In one neighborhood, where several bar-' I rels of liquor bad been burled by their owners, and dug yp by the Yankees^ I drunkenness came to stimulate outrage, 1 and intensify the horrors of the scepez ! They seemed tq take special delight in ? frightening women and children, and ? we have heard of private dwellings be lug set on fire under circumstances of the most wanton and heartless cruelty. The loss of property and the |M>llutlon of their presence Is all we have be^p called on to endure. Hut that Is quite enough to 'satisfy us for a long while to come. True to their Instincts they sought affiliation with our slaves, and devoted a portion of their time to persuading them to desert their owners and try the blessings <rt Yankee freedom. About two hnndrod nnd fifty, we hear, from the town and plantations In the vbln ity, have been deluded In going off. but t the large majority of the slaves have proved faithful to their masters. deed great praise is due them. csfteelai ly the house-servants, who. as a whole, stood faithfully by their mistresses, und, by their earnest-- and active ef forts, aided greatly In preventing out rage a qd saving property. Although the force which entered Spray With I Zed Devil Lye Makes old orchards produce ; doubles the yield of warden and truck. Buy a can at your grocer's, spray and grow prL:e winners. Writ* For Booklet, Wm. ^chield Mfg. Co., St. Louit, Mo. Camden was huiH, tlN?re were large bodtee of Yankee* tw the vk4uU>v fact the whole of Hheruian'a ariuy probably passed wtttiln twenty miles of uh. The party who came i.n on k'rl rtay left mi Mattmlay night, hut at**if glern are MHJI to l>e Keen In the vicinity and larger bodies are known to he at 1 uo great distance. Whither Sherman Is going f0 have no means of conjec turing with any approach to accura cy f, Out off froui all communication with the worhl, we know nothing of what I* going on elsewhere, ami we have no (lata on which to bane a cal culation, It 1h jiosslble that he at thla.tl.Mo ikh>ii|?1om Cheraw, and In that case we shall probably lie wholly rhl of our -unwelcome visitor for the pre sent. At Liberty Hill. The Maine paper of the name date contahiH the following about the raid upon i 1 1 > i ? 1 1 \ Hill : The Yankee#, while at IJIierty Hill, well sustained their unenviable repu tation for pillage and wanton cruelty to both man and J>enst. They reaped o golden harvest whllHt there. Proba bly no spot, of Its dimensions, In the Interior of the state, ??? m i?i boast of more wealth and refinement. The pa int la I residence of Mr. It. M. Cunning haiu, and every piece of furniture It contained, was destroyed by the in cendiarism of some tiend In human shape: also the resldoncea ??f Mr. John Perry and C. II. Curetoli wan burned. The desolation in that locality has fully equalled that of otir. own town, its imputation ? ( >1 1 s 1 1 1? ? 1 1 m i . EYESIGHT SPECIALIST. Dr. II. D. Rcette Will Be at Zenip & Dfl'aNH* Drug Store. Dr. II. D. lteese will be at Zemp & I tci'iis,-.' drug st <>n> from April 24 to May 8th. .Don't fall to see him If ,tou have any nerve or Eye trouble. We flse no |m>1hououh drugs or drops In the eyes. Glasses fitted wltli our eitws prism system where others have failed. Special attention given to children. CMW eyes straightened without, the use of the knife. Examinations free at Zerop A DePass* drug store from April 24 to May 8. Will visit, your home when requested. Don't fall to see Dr. Iteese while he is here in your home town. ? adv. Yeggnien cracked the postofliee safe at Scranton, in Williamsburg county, Thursday. Two residences were also robbed. Carl ltaiiseur, of Fayettevllle, N-. Q., died Tuesday at the ftpartanburg Hos pital, as the result- of injuries sus tained earlier *ln the afternoon, when he attempted to hoard a passenger train moving out of the station and slipped from the stop. One leg was severed from the body and the other ankle was crushed by the ear wheel. He 'was taken at once to the hospital, hut never recovered , from the shock. Mr. Hansen r was a traveling man -weJ*J known In the Carollnas. According to reports ^rom -Fairfield .lule Smith, a negro farm hand. Iiccus ede<l of assault upon a white woman, I was being pursued F>.v a posse Tues | clay. The alleged crime was committed i in the early hour* of. the morning. The negro attempted to secure a wea pon from the house, but -was foiled in his effort by the accidental discharge, of the gun. Excitement is intense in the neighborhood and it Is feared lynch ing may take place. (! rover (\ Dees, of Kock Hill, got Ills big live-passenger Chalmers auto mobile burned near Belalr last Sun clay night when en route from Wax haw to Hock Hill. It was a GO-horse power machine* and cost $2,400. The remains of the machine were brought to Waxhaw Monday morning. It is understood that the machine was in* sured for $1,400. Samuel II. I^ardwick. passenger traffic manager of the Southern rail way for many years, is to retire be cause of 111 health and will settle in -Montgomery, his native city. W. II. Tayloe has been apposed passenger traffic manager of the Southern, suc <*erdl??g Mr- Hardwick. Odd Bits of News. . Attlelmro. Mass. ? The services at the Christian Church last Sunday were unique In that the pulpit was occu pied by the twin sons ??f the regular pastor. The boys are studying for the minist ry. Mount Morrison, (3olo.-v-.Tolm ? Bris bane Walker, former magazine pub lisher. now retired to a Colorado es tate, has offered a site of 40 acres here for a home for newspapermen. OhMigo, 111. ? The year just closed has seen loss railway construction than any year since 1805 when the whole country was "broke." I^ast year saw only ir?(K) miles of new railroad built. Prescott. Ariz. ? The Ostrlnlr fann ers of the Southwest have Immmi offer ing irk) of the birds at $5 each, with few takers. The feather and plume market has disappeared. It is likely; that the birds will be, Turned loose. > Denver, Colo. ? Buffalo llill has re linquished the title of Colonel, and henceforth will be known as General William F. Cody. He has been ap pointed Judge Advocate-General of the mllitaiy forces of Wyoming by Gover nor Kendrick. . % Savannah, Ga. ? Wearing a placard on which was her name, destination and 1." cents in parcel i>ost stamps, six year old Edna NefT passed through the terminal station here on her way from PcTJsacola, Fla.. to Chrlstlanbnrg, Va.. where her father* awaited her. She weighed Just under the fifty jKMind limit. ^ The Better Way to Buy Hour, Feed and Gran. .?'* ?4.-' .?< ?? 1*^ vd ?ii >.2 *** The best end poet economical way to buy it is to go to a place that makes a specialty of handling It. Our business is the selling of Flour, Feed, and Grain, * and we give .you the best value and the best service to . ' - -v. i ' ? ? ' - ' be had in this town, because our exclusive business i8 !>' j' Viy the selling of Flour, Feed and' Grain. Buy it the better ll 4 ... ? ... ?? ?? ? - >. , ? < ... , way. SPRINGS & SHANNON jf THE STORE THAT CARRIES THE STOCK the rnmisa-Mm"s?EsmAr MS SON HAS A BANK ACCOUNT This would be a more prosperous community of ever? father in it would say-tor his boy: "Son, start a bank ? account this very vfeek and every dollar you save and put in the bank I'll give you another dollar to put ih the.] bank with it" ? pnd if 3verybod3t would > have SENSE, ^ enough to do it. * The "PRUDENT" young man who banks his moi becomes a PROSPEROUS man. ? ~~ " vV-~ :-v ' ' ' Make OUR bank YOUR l^anlc ... .. . . We pay rour per cent interest on saving* The First OF CAMDEN, & C - ? . ..? ? THE FIRE " in this country each year i* tremendous. The beat of fire-fighting equipment can not prevent it. Millions of dollars are lost tnrougn lack of insurance. If you are a practical man you can figure 'out yourself the adyatitage? of being insured. -Yhe-eoBt; is so small compared to the protection offered. Se? us, to-day. Detayft are danger ous. ' ? > ? ? y ? v v- " ' DuBose Telephone No. 43 Accurate Prescription Compounding Careful Attention to 'Phone Orders fficrgjaffiSs.' 7a:^ Highest Quality Drug Store .DELIVERY.. 4 g|i Phone $0. ^ Camden S.