The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, February 29, 1924, Image 8
11YRNK8 FOR THK SENATE. I
Will Oppoae Nat H. Dial in Campaign
Thin Bummer.
Washington, Fe|S$.~-There U qttlttt
a buz* of Interest among members Ipf
the South Carolina delegation in Con
gress at tlu* now# that Congressman
James K. Hyrnes would in* a candi
date against Senator Dial for the
Democratic nomination for the senate.
That Senator Dial will be a candidate
for denomination haa been understood
for sometime, and thin means that
there will be a warm contest between
the Aiken representative and the
Ijauren? senator. Both have warm
supporters and there in promised a
lively campaign. The statement of
Congressman Byrnes as to his candi
dacy isHUed today readH an follows:
"In the approaching primary elec
tion it is my intention to be a candi
date for the Democratic nomination
for the United States Senate from
South Carolina.
"With my experience of more than
thirteen years as a member of Cop*.
' gress, ami my intimate acquaintance
with many members of the Senate,
with whom I served for years in the
House, it is my hope that if elected to
the Senate, 1 can be of real .service to
our state."
A biographical .sketch ^ives the fol
lowing information as to Mr. Byrnes:
Representative James . F.. Byrnes
resides at Aiken, S. C. At the age of
fifteen, in order to contribute to the
support of his mother, he left night
school and entered a law office as \0f
fice hoy. At night he studied short
hand and Inter served ns stenographer
in the same office. In 1900 he. entered
a competitive examination and won
the appointment as court stenogra
pher of the second circuit. While
serving in this capacity, he studied
law. In 1908 ho was elected solicitor
ar\d after serving two years was elect
ed to Congress.
In the House he first served on the
banking and currency committee and
took an active part in framing the
federal reserve act, offering the -pro
vision in the House bill granting the
privilege to rediscount agricultural
paper. He was one of a committee
of five that framed the first bill to
pass the House granting federal aid
in the construction of roads. During
recent years he has been a member
of tho appropriations committee and
has been active in framing legislation
reported by that committee and in the
debates on tho floor of the House.
Mr. Hyrnes was a delegate at largo
to tho last Democratic national con
vention, and represents South Caroli
na on tho Democratic congressional
committee. Ho in a member of tho
K j) i sco pa I church, is a thirty-second
degree Mason and a member of other
fraternal organizations.
Mrw. Shuford Dead.
Mrs, Mary A. Shuford. widow of the
late Rev. Jacob L. Shuford of tho
South Carolina conference, paused to
her reward Febi-uary 12, 1924, in the
Mini year of her ago. Her funeral aer
vices conducted in the Hishopville
Methodist church by her pastor, Rev.
M. l<. Hanks and Rev. W. V. Dibble, of
Sumter. Her body was laid to rest by
the side of her husband in the ceme
tery at Summerton, and her grave
was coyered with beautiful flowers.
hiving here years ago as a pastor's
wife she made many devoted and loyial
friends who rejoiced to have her re- 1
turn, after her husband's death to
spend tho remaining years in their
Tho Woman's Missionary Society
has lost a beloved and honored mem
ber. Her church and her community
are deeply grateful to God for her
long life tilled with so many Christian
virtues.
Mrs. Shuford is survived by the fol
lowing children, all of whom woro
with her in her last illness. W
Mrs. J. C. Uaskin, Miss Jessie Shu
ford, J. I,. Shuford, of Bishopvillo;
Mrs. H. W. Scarborough, of Florence;
Mrs. S. 1>. Hope, Jr., of Norfolk, "Va.,
It. P. Shuford of Georgetown, Mrs.
11. A. Richbourg of Summerton. and
also two step-children, Mrs. Chcwn
ing of Summerton and W. II. Shuford
of Florida; eighteen grandchildren
and one great-grandchild. ? Hishop
villo Messenger.
N. J. Hammond, supervisor of tracks
IvOclc ^ " ?a Mu r?A?? r? f ? Ko
Charleston division of tho Southern
Railroad, died at his home at Blacks
burg, last Sunday night at 11:30
o'clock after a lingering illness of
that dreaded malady tuberculosis. Ho
was a nativo of Branchville, S. C.( and
had lived here only five months. Be
fore his health failed three years ago,
ho .was roadmaster of this same divi
sion. He was 52* years old and left a
wife and four children.
Since her marriage Hope Hampton
movie star, has come to the conclu
sion that she can appear in the spoken
drama to a better advantage.
A car load of sweet potatoes re
cently shipped by J, C. Terrell, G. A.
Sherrell and R. J. Little, of Chester
field, brought them the tidy sum of
$1,030. A carload was shipped last
week from Morvcn, bought by the
South Carolina Sweet Potato Growers
association. This association has
bought three carloads from Nor^h
Carolina recently. In this connection
Mr. Tiller, Chesterfield, county, dem
onstration agent, states that had
Pageland and Mt. C.roghan grown
potatoes this year for shipping they
could have sold out at $2 per bushel.
A. W. Love, popularly known among
his many friends throughout the
Carolines as "Ix>x" Love is dead at his
home at Oakland, Cal., where he has
lived for somo timo. Mr. Love was
a former secretary of the South Caro
lina Fair Association and was a grad
uate of the University of South Caro
lina.
Decision was made at a meeting of
the Mariqp County Poultry Associa
tion Friday night to undertake to ship
a carload of poultry out of Marion
Monday, March 8.
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The John Wilkes Booth Mystery.
(Greenville Piedmont)
Was John Wilkes Booth, the assas
sin of President Lincoln, shot and kill
ed by Boston Corbett, a union soldier
12 days after the historic tragedy, or
did hp escape and live for many years
under an assumed name?
An absorbingly interesting article
upon this mystery appears in the
January number of the "Scrap Book"
published by Miss Mildred Rutherford,
historian of the United Daughters of
the Confederacy, who for 29 years
has been gathering data about Booth's
escape. The information she has col
lected raises some doubt as to the
trulb~of~tHe generally accepted ver
sion that Booth was captured and
killed in Virginia.
In 1 8'J-l Miss KutherfOrd received a
letter from Gen. James Gordon, of
Mississippi, who met and knew Booth
in Canada during the war between the
states. General. Gordon said that five
years after the assassination of Lin
coln he visited Memphis and there
met a friend -who was also an intimate
friend of Booth. He showed Gordon
a letter from a mutual friend who had
been absent since the close of the war
and who was then in the Rocky Moun
tains trapping and hunting. "He said
in his letter that his companion and
friend could not send his name, for he
bore a dead name, yet sent h?m his
photograph to let him know that the
original wan Ht ill alive, and sent hi?
kindly remembrances to him and to
myself. This, photo was a true likeness
of John Wilkes Booth," Gordon de
clared. r
Miss Rutherford says that Booth'*
motive for killing Lincoln was not be
cuu.se the slayer was a sympathizer
with the south, but because ho was h
warm friend and college roommate of
John Yates Beall, who was captured
in the north, tried as aspy am 1 hang
ed. Some evidence is offered by Miss
Rutherford to show that. Booth plead
ed with Lincoln to save Bcall's life,
that Lincoln promised to do so, but
later upon objection of Secretary Ste
ward, declined to interfere, with the
result that Be?U was hanged. Lewis
Payne, who was also a strong friend
of Beall's attempted to kill Seward at
the aame time that Booth shot Lin
coln. Miss Rutherford says she has
discovered that Booth and Payne took
an oath to kil) Lincoln and Seward
because of their responsibility for the
execution of Beall. Prom her ac
count it appears that, up to the time
that he refused to save Beall, Lincoln
was friendly to Booth, while the latter I
admired him. Beall was an officer in
the Confederate navy who seized a !
steamboat on Lake Erie, converted it
into a war vessel, captured and sunk a
boat, attempted to release the Con
federate prisoners at Johnson's Is
land, produced a panic in many of the
cities on the lakes, especially at Buf
falo and terrorized commerce. He
whs betrayed, captured, denied a just !
trial, and, although he was not a spy, 1
ho was tried, convicted, condemned to
death and executed just 44 days be
fore the assassination of Lincoln.*
When the supposed body of John
Wilkes Booth was carried to Wash
ington, no one who saw the corpse had
ever seen Booth in life. rr~was~se
cretly buried. Why? Reports and
testimony vary as to the burial place.
One account has it that the body was
buried under a brick pavement in a
Washington prison and that it was
later transferred to the Booth bury
ing ground in Baltimore. Another re
port is that the corpse was buried on
an island in the Potomac river. A
third is that it was buried in the
Navy Yard. A fifth is that the body
was taken at night froih a warship in
the Philadelphia Navy Yard ard its
disposition never divulged.
Did Booth escape to the west ? If
so he must have used several assumed
names, among them John St. Ilelenj
and David E. George. Pictures of a
PURE PERUVIAN GUANO.
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It has recently come to my attention that parties have
stated that there was no such thing as genuine Peruvian
Guano. Being the representative of the Nitrate Agencies
Company, of Wilmington, who are distributors of Genu
ine Peruvian Guano, 1 feel called upon to correct this
statement and offer below the following certificate from
the Treasury Department United States Custom Service
at Wilmington, N. C. ;
TKKABUHY DEPARTMENT
United States Customs Service
. Wilmington, N. C.
October 17, 1923.
TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:
This letter will certify that the Finnish Bark, PENANG,
now discharging a full cargo of Peruvian Guano 'at this
port, csmo here direct from the Pegwian Islands with this i
cargo, snd that , according to her papers and documents,
her cargo is the Genuine Peruvian Guano, as advertised by
the Consignees, the Nitrate Agencies Company.
(Signed) WILMINGTON CUSTOMS HOUSE
Per A,? L. McCaskill, Collector of Customs.
I am prepared to sell you genuine Peruvian and genu
ine Peruvian Mixtures, and will meet all prices.
W. R. HOUGH, Agent
Camden , S.C.
I" . . . ... . J., ... .J
man going by this name were recog
nized as likenesses of him by personal
friends and relatives, Miss . Ruther
ford assorts, adding that Gen. Albert
Pike recognized (lim in a hotel when
he was under the name of David E.
George and that Joseph Jefferson, the
actor, recognized him in a picture of
John St. Helen, as did his nephew,
Junius Biutus Booth. David E.
George committed suicide at Enid,
Okla., in 190o\ declaring on his death
bed th^t he was John Wilkes* Booth,
a confession he had previously made
twice.
A Washington investigator wroto
Mine Rutherford that, after making an
extended inquiry, he could find noth
ing to prove that any money at all
? : J i . it. a. ? r
?* UO puiu IW CUU tujnui O V/l Jl/VV bl* SJ
supposed dead body, but that some
years after the assassination of Lin
coln, the congress asked Secretary
of War Stanton to report what had
been done by him to reward the cap
tors of Booth and ho ,sent in a non
committal report which was laid on
the table and never considered by the
congress. Miss Rutherford : adds
"Over ?100,000 was offered for Booth
alone. It as never paid." Why? One
of the pallbearers who served when
the siyiposed body of Booth was bur
ied in the family plot in Baltimore
had known Booth and said that the \
corpse did not resemble him.
Finally, Miss Rutherford produces
what purports to be Booth's own ac
count of his escape. It was received
from one of her friends in Memphis
who "asked that neither her name nor
that of the friend who gave it to her
should be used as it had been giveu
in confidence." A most singular cir.
cumstancc is that this account, al
though believed to have been writtea
by Booth, was signed with an assumed
name which was neither of the two
aliases mentioned above. As this ac
count- lacked corroboration, Miss
Rutherford at first paid little heed to
it, but later she found other 8tate-~
ments which tended to verify it. In
his narrative Booth gave the circum
otuHCGu of his escape in rnuch Hotojj
and asserted that he made his way to
the Indian Territory and remained
there a year and a half, later going to
Texas.
Miss - Rutherford's conclusion is:
"There can no longer be any doubt
that John Wilkes Booth lived Ion#
after the man was killed at Garrett
Farm, April 26, 1865."
Nevertheless, the evidence as pub
lished by her \s not convincing proof
that Booth escaped. It would be pos
sible for a man looking liko Booth to
claim to be Booth even though the
latter were dead.
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