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"" THE BAMBERG HERALD. I Established 1891 BAMBERG, S. C., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1904 One Dollar a Year'.?^ IN THE PALMETTO STATE J ? I - | INTERESTING OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA. State News Boiled Down for Quick Reading Pungent Paragraphs About Men ^ and Happenings. The town of Elloree, Orangeburg county, now has a bank, it having opened for business last week. v Mr. J. Frank Breeden, one of Marlboro's most prominent citizens, died last week. He was a large and successful planter. Judge J. T. Hay, of Kershaw, will be a ^ candidate for Judge of the fifth circuit against Judge Ernest Gary, the incumbent. The Ministers' Union, of Spartanburg, has filed a protest with the railroad commission against the running of freight trains on Sunday. 1 The Mystic Shriners held their fall session at White Stone Springs last week, .and had a great time. This is a "sideline" of Masonry, being the place where 4 the fun comes in. W. C. Horlbeck, a well-known young man, committed suicide at his home in Charleston last Friday afternoon byshooting himself in the head with a pistol. He had been in poor health recently. Magistrate S. M. Youmans was tried for 3 the second time in Manning last week for the killing of Jno. R. Keels a few months - ago. After a deliberation of six minutes the jury returned a verdict of not guilty. ^ A wreck occurred on the Atlantic Coast Line near Latta, in Marion county, last week, caused by a collision between a through freight and passenger train. The engineer and two" passengers were injured but not fatally. * Mr. Yates Snowden has resigned his position on the editorial staff of the News and Courier, and he and Mrs. Snowden have gone to New York, where he will ta&e a course of lectures at Columbia University. Mr. Snowden will be engaged in i A study for a year. : Pratt Miles, a young white man, cut his , throat with a razor in Spartanburg last i Saturday and died the next day. He had I been sick for some time and was very J ^ despondent, saying that his family would j be better off if he were dead. He leaves a wife and three children! j In Mayesville last Wednesday night j Policeman S. F. Hurst was shot and killed 1 by J. Ed. Anderson, the depot agent. The 1 shooting was the result of a personal 5 . trouble, and the published report puts j Anderson in the light of being justified. < Anderson used a Colt's automatic pistol, and all the six bullets fired took effect in j the breast and abdomen. Hurst died in- -\ stantly. ] Sam Marks, the negro who killed a white man named Hill Langston by 't ^ knocking him in the head several weeks J ago, was tried in Darlington last week, J found guilty, and sentenced to be hanged < November 11th. The military company ^ was on duty during the trial, but there was no demonstration by citizens. Moses i Hair, an accomplice in the crime, was < . sentenced to the penitehtiary for life, r . A family row'occurred at Vance's, near f Holly Hill, in Orangeburg county, last ( Wednesday between Elvin Smith, his two 1 sons, Tom and John, and his son-in-law, Cass Stoutamire. Stoutamire shot at Elvin Smith, missing him, the shot entering the neck of John, the young son of Smith, * who had run between the two. Tom,- an older son of Smith, then took up the quarrel and shot at Stoutamire, wounding him ' in the arm. Neither is seriously wounded and both are doing well at this time. Last Monday morning about eleven * o'clock a negro went to the house of Mr. Raleigh Neill, a prominent farmer who lives about eight miles north of the town of Lancaster, and made improper propos- ' als to his wife. Mrs. Neill stepped back . into an adjoining room and brought out ! her husband's gun, which frightened the ' negro off. It was unloaded however. Mr. , Neill had gone to Lancaster at the time. ' * The lady soon gave the alarm and a 1 crowd gathered but did not succeed in capturing the brute. ' Ernest H. Miller, of Charleston, a young white man about 19 years of age, was killed by the accidental discbarge of his , a gan Sunday afternoon. He and a * friend had been out hunting on Morris Island and were in their boat about to start back to the city. In handling an k i oar he struck the hammers of his gun, } which discharged it, the load taking effect in his head and knocking him into the water. He died almost instantly. His friend recovered the body. This is a good j \ text on which to preach a sermon against hunting on Sunday. A rear-end collision occurred on the Atlantic Coast Line near Charleston between the Florida limited and the local Augusta train last Thursday morning, i % The engine of the local crashed into the private car of Superintendent Denham. The colored fireman of the local was killed and a flagman, G. C. Lamb, seriously injured. Several others were hurt, but not seriously. The accident was caused ; by the negro porter in the sleeper accidentally pulling the bell cord while making up a berth and stopping the limited, ""be local was only a short distance bebind and could not be seen on account of y a heavy fog. ' * ' " v - V,u-. -I' Sumter is to have her carnival or fall , festival. Sufficient money has been sub- * scribed, and it will take place in November. A good time is promised. Columbia businessmen have subscribed enough money to buy another steamboat, ( to replace the one destroyed by fire a few months ago, and river navigation to that city will again be established. "W. T. Latham, a white man, committed g suicide in the Camden jail last Tuesday c by drinking lysol, a poisonous disinfect- 2 - 1 " ' 1 J 1 ? 1- 4. ~ An n am wnicn nau ueeu givca aim iu put wu. ? his hand. He had been found guilty of assault and battery, but sentence had not been passed. John Morrison, a white man, who was recently acquitted for killing a negro, was lynched in Kershaw last Saturday night. He was a desperate character, and during the afternoon shot down and killed Will Floyd, a young white man against whom he had a grudge. Floyd was unarmed and was shot while holding up his hands and pleading for his life. The murder occurred on the streets of the town of Kershaw, and was witnessed by several people. Morrison attempted to escape but was held up by a pistol in the hands of a man who saw him shoot Floyd. The murderer was put in the guard house and a guard stationed around it, but soon after dark a mob overpowered them and took Morrison out about a mile from town and hung him to a tree. Governor Heyward was informed shortly after the killing and advised that a lynching would no doubt take place. He acted promptly and sent the sheriff from Lancaster and the military company from Camden to Kershaw, each on a special train, but the lynching was over when thev arrived. c ?? I t Tom Beed as a Campaign Speaker. ^ The late Thomas B. Reed was a very "v entertaining speaker. His droll satire was c enough to stampede his opponents. The v inimitable drawl of his utterances madethe lash linger, It is related of him that * when be was addressing an audience in S the State of Maine, a clumsy man con- 0 spicuously up in front managed somehow or other to fall off the improvised bench lo the floor, causing a great deal of merri- b tnent. Reed looked at him with a min- b gled expression of mirth and madness; 0 then he said, very slowly, "I thought it was .about time that some of you were taking a tumble to what I was saying!" But Mr. Reed's great strength as a * 'stump-speaker" lay in his ability to put t< things pat. I heard him at Old Orchard p in 1896, when the country was in an ugly nood. It was this wise statesman's good- " nature that tended to allay, rather than to * stir up, the passions of his countrymen, it that time he said two things?and nemorable they are. One was, -'You lannot untie a shoestring with temper." The other was, "Some people attempt to L perfect a system of finance in less time p ,han it takes Nature to ripen a straw- . neriy."?October Woman's Home Companion. 9 ONE OF*MANY. ? H. A. Tisdale, of Summerton, S. C., r suffered for twenty years with piles. ^ Specialists were employed and many rem- o edies used but relief and permanent good ? was found only in the use of DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve. This is only one of ? the many cures effected by this wonder- d ful reme'dy. In buying Witch Hazel Salve E it is only necessary to see that you get ^ the genuine DeWitt's, made by E. C. De- . Witt & Co., in Chicago, and a cure is certain. DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve cures * all kinds of piles, cuts, burns, bruises, b eczema, tetter, ringworm, skin diseases, ^ etc. Sold by H. F. Hoover. . City Council Meeting. c City council held a regular -meeting Tuesday evening, and while a number of ^ important matters were discussed, no ac- 11 tion was taken. P Col. Jno. F. Folk was before council with a proposition to sell an acetylene gas s plant for lighting the streets. It is said that a machine to furnish thirty lights 1 would cost about $650. No action was ^ taken, as council <iid not have the money. ? The resignation of W. C.Kirkland was 0 received. Two applicants for the position ^ were received, but no election was held. * Mr. Kirkland will serve until his successor ^ is elected. ^ One bond and the interest on the court 1 house and jail bond is to be paid in a few days, but the city treasury is about empty. a Council has had a number of unusual ex- r penditures this year, and taxes were low- 1 ered this year. * A number of bills were approved and ^ council adjourned. ^ Farmers' Institute at Bamberg. c Clemson College, S. C., Sept. 19,1904. c Editor Herald, Bamberg, S. C.? r Dear Sir: By authority of the board of k trustees of Clemson Agricultural College, local farmers' institutes will be held in 1 the following counties during the month g of December, 1904, provided requests for d such institutes, signed by fifteen farmers, g are sent to J. S. Newman, director farm- t ers' institutes, Clemson College, S. C., by a the first day of November, 1904. p The counties in which institutes may t be held in winter are: Georgetown, Clar- t endon, Berkeley, Marion, Horry, Flor- t ence, Williamsburg, Charleston, Dorches- s ter. Orangeburg, Bamberg, Colleton, Beaufort, Hampton, and Barnwell. The petitioners will designate suitable places for holding the institutes, provide ( halls in which to hold them, and adver- t tise the time and place of each in the ter- s ritory from which attendance is expected, c As early as practicable after November ^ 1st the director will name the date on ( which each is to be held and notify the < promoter of the institute in each case, ? Please insert this notice in your paper. ] Yours truly, J. S. Newman ( Director Farmers' Institutes. < IN INTERESTING HISTORY )F THE SPRiNGTOWN BAPTIST CHURCH IN BAMBERG COUNTY. foliated and Written by Rev. W. 0. McMillan, of Blackville?From the Time of Its Organization in 1803 to 1903. The Sprinsjtown Baptist church was or;anized in the year 1803 The Presbytery insisted of Rev. James Sweat acd Rev. Nathaniel Walker. It does not appear ,s to who constituted the covenant memlers, since the records of the church have ?een lost or destroyed, and much of vallable information in regard to the early dstory of the church is not obtainable at his remote period. Rev. Nathaniel Walker was elected pasor, and Elijah Forcl and John Sutton vere choser. Deacons. It seems from a itatement in a small book by Rev. L. H. Shuck, publi shed in 1867, and comprising vhat available information could be obained in reference to the history of the ;hurches of the Barnwell Association, hat the membership of Spriugtown ihurch at that time was very sm.ill, and or some length of time its condition was lot prosperous. Rev. James Sweat became its first pas,or, but it continued in a condition of spiritual 'coldness. Rev. Handsford D. Duncan succeeded Bro. Sweat in the pasorate, and James Simmons also preached :'or a season. At this time Lot Copeland ind Daniel Matheny were chosen deacons. Jev. Darling Peeples was next called to he pastoral charge of the church. J. D. )dom at this time was church clerk. Bro. ?eeples remained vrith the church for leveral years, and it was during his pasorate that s. glorious revival occurred, at vhich time nearly one hundred persons vere baptized into the fellowship of the hurch. From this occasion the church, rhich had good reason to praise God for he abundant manifestation of the Holy Ipirit in her midst, entered upon a career f prosperity. J. W. Matlieny was added to the numer of deacons. Rev. John Brooker now ecame pastor, whose life and character f purity, zeal and consecration are too rell knowt. to require comment. Rev. iewis M. Brown succeeded Bro. Brooker, rho with Rev. James Fant, ministered n the churc'i for five or six years, when iro. Fant w as left in charge entirely. At lis time Aaron Rice and Dr.B. S. Sweat rere elected deacons. This brines us up to the year 1845, at rhich time Rev. Elliott Estes became pasir, but remained onljr one year. Clinton iee now became church clerk. At this eriod the church seems to have lapsed llo a cold siate, but in 1846 Rev. W. T. anders became pastor and it took on ew life and had a marked increase both i numbers and efficiency. Every year ras characterized by revivals of greater r less extent for sixteen years, in which tro. Sanders was pastor, when he resignd to enter the Southern army. It was uring Bro. Sanders's pastorate that Dr. >. H. Sweat was called and set apart to lie gospel m inistry. Some of the deacons aving died, H. W. Kennedy and D. H. lice were elected deacons. D. Dowling ecame clerx and was succeeded, at his eath, by T. J Counts. We come now to the astorate of Rev. Jas. F. Buist, who sue eedea Bro. Sanders m isos. It is to be regretted that from this time o 1883 there is no data from which a conected history of the church can be comtiled, thus appears a gap of about 20 years t is known, however, that Rev. J. F. Buist erved the church acceptably for several ears. It is also remembered thai; during his period Rev. Marion W. Sams was tastor for some length of time. In 1883 re find Rev. John G. Williams in charge >f the church, and it is also known that lis pastorate began several years precedag that time. In 1895 Dr. W. B. Rice, C 5. Faust and G. B. McMillan were elected leacons. A. F. Free was clerk at this ime. In October, 1892, Bro Williamsresigned, ,nd Rev. C. P. Ervin became pastor and esigned in April, 1897. Rev. J. M. Bosick was called to fill the unexpired porion of the year. In December, 1897, Rev. '. F. Morra'll was called and served one ear. H. D. Free was clerk at this time, n November, 1898, Rev. W. D. Rice was ailed to the pastorate and served the hurch up to December, 1900, when the ecords close. He died in December, 1901. L W. Sandifer was clerk up to this time. Doubtless much of value in reference o the history of the church might be ;leaned from some who are now members lid the writer have access to them. Rev. i. P. Hair is the present pastor, and though he church lias suffered greatly from death ,nd removals, there is manifested on the tart of the membership a determination o maintain the prestige of old Springown. It is contemplated to remodel the luilding or to build a new house of wor hip in the early future. CAN YOU EAT ? J. B. Taylor, a prominent merchant of )harlesman, Tex., says: "I could not eat >ecause of a weak stomach. I lost strength tnd ran down in weight. All tha"; money :ould do was done, but hope of recovery vanished. Hearing of some wonderful :ures effected by Kodol Dyspepsia cure, I :oncluded to try it. The first bottle benifitted me, and after taking four bottles, [ am fully restored to my usual strength, v eight ancl health." Kodol Dyspepsia Jure digests what you eat and cures. Sold by Dr, H. F. Hoover. wr *' j.'-vi -f n-' V : BENNETT TO BE TRIED. Consultation Between Governor Heyward and Solicitor Davis. Governor Heyward held a consultation in Columbia last week with Mr. James E. Davis, solicitor of the second circuit, in regard to the case of Ben Bennett. Mr. Davis will prosecute the prisoner for the killing of his wife. In case the prisoner should be acquitted, there will be compli- 1 cations. Bennett was arrested on Georgia soil, and Mr. Davis thinks that the defense may be set up that he was brought to this State by force and that therefore he is not in arrest for violation of his parole. However, the governor of Georgia granted his extradition on both charges, violation of his parole and the killing of his wife. Resolutions of Knights of Pythias. Whereas, God in His infinite wisdom has seen fit to remove from our midst our friend and brother, B. F. Brown, therefore be it resolved: First. That in the death of Bro. Brown we have lost one of our most useful and honored members; a loyal supporter of the Lodge both by word and deed. . Second. That we deplore his untimely death, and extend our sympathies to his bereaved family and pray God's blessing upon his raother and sister. Third. That as a token of our love for him and sympathy for his family, these resolutions be. incorporated in the minutes ofiour Lodge, be published in the county papers, and a copy be sent to the family. W. B. Moore, J. Francis Folk, H. A. Kearse, Committee Ehrhardt Lodge. No. 98, K. of P. _____ Cnnntir Rnarri Mopfino". The county board of commissioners met at the court house in regular quarterly session last Monday, Supervisor Bruce and Commissioners Carter and Fogle being present. J. Frank Jones, William Sease's wife, and Mrs. L. A. Thomas, at their request, were placed on the pauper list. The applications of Hester Brown and R. C. Prescott were held up for further .investigation. The amount allowed paupers each month was reduced from $2.50 to $2.00, as the burden on the county was getting i so heavy. i The road commutation tax was changed 1 from $1.00 to $3.00. Several petitions for new roads were ] presented, but all were laid over for the < present, as the board deemed it; un- \ wise to attempt to open new highways until the old roads were worked up. < Mr. H. D. Free, the present incumbent, i was elected clerk of the board for the < ensuing two years. A number of claims were approved, and the board then adjourned until the first Mondav in January. Home Mission Society. The annual meeting of the Woman's Home Mission Society of the South Carolina conference will be held at Bamberg October 13-16. The series of meetings, which will be held in the Methodist church will be full of interest from beginning to end. The many friends of Rev. Charles Smith will be glad to know be will be here and will preach the annual sermon on Sunday, October, 16th. The general secretary, Mrs. R. W. MacDowell, of Nashville, Tenn., with a number of gifted women from all over the State, will also be present. The Home Mission Society is created for the purpose of uniting the efforts of Christian women and children in procuring and maintaining homes and parsonages for the use of the itinerant preachers of the Methodist, Episcopal Church, South, and for establishing and maintaining schools, missions, hospitals, homes for the friendless, and other like charities and agencies for the propagation of the gospel of Jesus Christ and the elevation of mankind. This society has made for itself a helpful place in Bamberg. General interest in the work has increased, which has resulted in an enlarged membership. Dispensary Sales for September. At a regular meeting of the county board of control held here last Monday, .the following reports of sales were received from the dispensaries of this county: Bamberg?Sales, $3,575.91; invoice price, $2,677.34; gross profit, $898.57; expenses, $176.03; net profit, $732.54. Denmark?Sales, $1,608.75; invoice price, $1,225.26; gross profit, $383.49; expenses, $111.97; net profit, $271.52. Olar?Sales, $1,095.85; invoice price, $824.14; gross profit, $271.71; expenses, $74.49 ; net profit, $196.22. Ehrhardt?Sales, $848.20; invoice price, $634.46; gross profit, $213.74; expenses, $83.50; net profit, $130.24. Midway?Sales, $326.00; invoice price, $247.50; gross profit, $78.50; expenses, $49.24; net profit, $29.26. Profits were paid the towns and county as follows : Bamberg, $361.27; Denmark, $135.76; Olar, $98.11; Ehrhardt, $65.12; Midway, $14.63. The county gets $674.89. BETTER THAN PILLS. The question has been asked?in what way are Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets superior to ordinary cathartic and liver pills? Our answer is?they are easier and more pleasant to take and effect is so gentle and agreeable that one hardly realizes it is produced by medicine. They not only move the bowels but improve the appetite and aid the digestion. For sale at 25 cents per bottle by Bamberg Phar; H. C. Rice, Denmark. COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS. SOME INTERESTING HAPPENINGS IN YARIOUS SECTIONS. News Items Gathered All Around the Connty and Elsewhere. Ehrhardt Etchings. Ehrhardt, October 3.?C. Ehrhardt & Sons' ginnery caught on fire one day last week, but was soon put out with their waterworks. It is supposed to have originated from matches in the seed cotton. Only a small amount of lint cotton was damaged. The machinery was repaired and at work in about two hours' time. The fall off in the price of cotton nas somewhat stopped the selling of the fleecy staple. The farmers are hauling it home and storing it away until prices suit them. Mr. Wm. Hiers and son, Frank, while on their way home from church Sunday, riding in their buggy, were run into from the rear, by a young man on horseback. Knocked the horse and the rider down, skinning the horse badly and broke the spokes from one of the hind wheels entirely out. Mr. Hiers's horse became frightened, but he was able to manage it. Some of the young folks in town are wishing for rain. Say it is too dusty to promenade with their best girls. Some of our young folks visited Bamberg Sunday, returning Monday morning. Excuse: horse sick. Our bird hunters are looking over their guns, oiling them up, and getting in shape to shoot birds. Mr. John J. Copeland and wife were in town Sunday. Mrs. Tom Jones is visiting her parents' Capt. W. E. Sease. Her husband had rented a house in Bishopville, S. C., and was keeping a few boarders. The house and nearly all their possessions were burned one night not long since, some of the folks barely escaping with their lives. We had a good rain last night. Makes evervthins look fresh this morning and gives the cotton pickers a rest. Jee. Prophecies of a Backwoodsman. Cotton will reach 12-fr cents per pound ere December prox., notwithstanding there will be a proximate crop of 12,000,000 bales. Flour will advance before Christmas. Though the Japs have the advantage now and Russia is disintegrating on account of Jewish and peasantry disaffection and a somewhat weak-minded Tsar, DeWitte, the greatest worker and financier on the globe today, and Kuropatkin, the opium-eater, one of the greatest generals, will put in the field next spring, if necessary, 500,000 men, regain what she has lost in Manchuria, hold Vladivostock and Port Arthur, and the great Slav nation will again check the Hud and Ostragoth from overrunning Europe and possibly America. Open the door to 600,000,000 heathen, and the "black peril" and Rooseveltism will pale into insignificance. Russia alone checked the great Napoleon at Smolensk in 1814 and fought the allied powers for two years at Sebastapol. Watch her! She is bound to win, and deservedly so. The Greek church and Christianity versus Moslemism and Paganism. * S. O. J. < ' Ulmer, S. C., October 3,1904. Death of Mrs. Grier. Dublin, Ga., October 1.?Mrs. R. T. Grier died at her home in this place, after an illness of only a few short hours, Saturday morning. Mrs. Grier was Miss Etta O'Bymes before her marriage. Mrs. Grier was one of the few whom by their good Christian character endear themselves to all whom they know. Mrs. Grier had only been married a year, but in that time had shed sunshine and good deeds around those whom she came in contact. It was with sorrowful hearts they laid her to rest in the West-view cemetery Monday morning at 11 o'clock. Mrs. Grier leaves beside her husband, a father, Mr. James O'Bymes, formerly of Dublin, but now of Mississippi. On account of serious illness, Mr. O'Bymes was unable to attend the funeral of his daughter. Mrs. H. W. Beard and Miss Jennye O'Bymes, of Bamberg, S. C., were sisters of Mrs. Grier, Messrs. Harry, Jesse and Frank O'Bymes were brothers of Mrs. Grier. Several hours before Mrs. GrieFs death her little daughter, Janie-Gene, died and was interred with her mother Monday morning. Revs. Matthews and Thomson conducted the funeral services from the residence and cemetery. Mrs. Grier was well-known in Bamberg, having visited there often before ' t a. A her marriage ana once since, jusi nneen months ago Mrs. Grier's mother died at this place. Laying of the Corner Stone of the Healing Spring High School Will occur Tuesday, October the 11th, Anno Domini nineteen hundred and four, just as the sun reaches his meridian height. This crowining act to a magnificent building is a realization of purpose gratifying to the most sanguine citizen of Barnwell county, if not indeed the grand old State of South Carolina. It brings into existence the cherished idol of the thrifty people of the Healing Spring section?an idol seconded by none save the fine school to be organized on this momentous day. This modern school building and the spirit of this people is a beautiful exampie of the progress of the New South, an . enduring monument to the pluck and ^'|g push of this section, as well as a lasting vf! argument in favor of consolidation of ;JgM schools. v We invite you most heartily to be with : us on this occasion, for in such the heart of every American should rejoice, and if there be any who has thought, "Can any Jm; good come out of Nazareth" (rural dis- "-Matricts)? let him "come and see." ' Following is the programme for the day. ' Exercises begin" at 11 a. m.: ' tt? a. i? a.\ i i r> 'fi n -rr_f_ . nisiory 01 me scnoox?ivev. o. r. nair. 'uBBx Music?Chorus of young ladies. J Laying the corner stone, (12 m.)?Hon. : 0. B. Martin, State Superintendent of Ed- ^ | Music?Selected. Speeches by County Superintendents of Education?W. H. Jones, B. M. Darling- 'MS: ton; Col. C. W. Sanders, Berkeley county:,, Picnic for all. You will be fed. J Introduction of teachers. ^ Future of the school?Principal John C. Eagerton. ' M The Influence of Education on Moral? --if?! and Christianity?Rev. J. D. Moore. ^ Speech?Rev. C. E. Burts. ^ Speeches by a number of prominent men. S. P. Hair. i-ffibg Country Correspondence. Truly, Indian Summer weather we are m having. The late crops around here are v' , suffering very much for rain. S Cotton pickers are happy, though they; |i'm are very scarce. The majority of the farmers go each morning in wagons to :':|9 Bamberg for them and return them that that night; and after getting it picked is equally as hard to get it ginned in thia On Sunday afternoon, Sept. 25, at the ri? ja bride's home near Clear Pond, Mr. Eugene 1 Hutto, of Midway, was married to Miss Hattie Ayer, Rev. Thomas Rivers officiat- ' ing. On Sunday afternoon, Oct. 2, at the iSpjjj bride's home, near Bamberg^ Mr. James Mitchell, of Clear Pond, was married to vr ri? t>? a tj ni:. iuiss xiauujre u?ayo v/ui, uc*. o. x. vilin* i olm, of Colston, officiating. Only the 3 ^ immediate families of the contracting parties were present at both marriages. Jlwf To both happy couples we wish a long. 3 M life of happiness and prosperity. Mr. J. W. Hill has put a telephone in his residence. On last Thursday a match in the.cotton that Mr. P. W. Sandifer was ginning, "J|jH caught hut fortunately the fire was put out- sfej beforeany great damage was done. -A good deal of lint, eye-brows, etc., were Miss Belle McEewn took charge of Hampton school on last Monday morning. This promises to be a very success- . y|tt|j ful year there, as the trustees have done considerable work for the comfort of pupils and teacher. Mew patent desks have been put in, and Mr. Monnie Yarn, of Branchville, has painted the building, which adds to comfort and looks. / : On last Tuesday evening Miss Minnye >. Lee Ayer, of Clear Pond, entertained.a few of her young friends. The evening was pleasantly spent in various ways. A |SH quotation hunt on the jfart of the girls to yS 1 get partners to go to supper was interest- -sflM ing, but the supper was more so, consist- * -vf|]?? | ing of ginger bread and sweetened water, ' ^? served in tin plates and cups on a bare ' table ornamented with gourd blossoms,- S|..^ poke berries, mustard and lettuce leaves, with a huge green gourd in the centre of the table as an ornament. The very strik- yM ing scenery was made more admirable by J the brilliant light of a tin lamp without a shade. Tliis was served in the cook room by the girls, the young men being escorted there by them. After roars of laughter IS land tasting of the delicious course and and fuming of the odorous flowers, the couples returned to the parlor, indulged. in fishing for love till a bell rang, when rM ?: numbers were presented to the entire . J j crowd and the young men were requested to search for a number corresponding to - v|S| his among the young ladies. When all were matched, a loud bell was sounded |||and the young men were requested to j||S take their partners in the dining room, which was beautifully lighted and sweetly decorated with ferns, geraniums, ivy and other choice plants, where a delightful course of ices, sherbet and cake was serv- I 'M ed by Mrs. Ayer. On returning to the parlor a large glass - ^30 of green peas, shelled, was placed on a table, when all wanted to know if that was the next course, but it proved to be ?'"f an interesting little game; a long hat pin was used and the one sticking the most and least peas was awarded a prize. Miss Lula Oxner, of Leesville, sticking the most was awarded a prettv bouquet of flowers and Miss Georgie Emma Jordan won the booby, a huge stewed Irish potato. The prizes were presented by Mr. W". H. Vara in appropriate word3. Aftef ' . *18 bidding the gentle hostess a farewell for several months (as she left next morning > 3| for S. C. C. I., at Edgefield) and express- x ingthe enjoyment of the evening, the crowd left and found themselves under the light of the stars till the little hours ^ were well on the way. Miss Naomi Sandifer has been elected to teach the Hey ward school near St. /J Johns' this term. The alarm of fire was given Monday uM night, caused by the explosion of a lamp ??? at the Cope hotel. There was some ex* citement, but little damage was done. 'r'y?