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Established 1891 BAMBERG, S. C., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1905 One Dollar a Year fl
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SHOOTING NEAR DARLINGTON.
Mr. Mack James Dangerously Shot by West
Skipper While Acting as Peacemaker.
Darlington, Feb. 19.?Mr. Mack
James, who lives about six miles from
- .'-v.,
here on the Timmonsville road, was shot
in the abdomen Friday night at his home
by West Skipper. Mr. James had given
an entertainment at his home. Two of
the men present became involved in a
dispute. They went out of the house.
Mr. James, wishing to "pour oil on trouVI?
J " onnoorcH At) tVlO cppnp Hft
U1CU nWlUO) ?^/J/V?4VU UU >4>v
was received with a bullet, which entered
?. the left side. The wounded man was
brought to town. Dr. G. B. Edwards
probed for the bullet but failed to locate
same. The intestines were not penetrated
and the wound is not necessarily dangerous,
as it is thought that the bullet lodged
in the hip.
West Skipper was arrested in Florence
this afternoon by Sheriffs Blackwell and
Burch. When taken Skipper was in bed
with a gun beside him.
: ; There are 18 prisoners in jail, a number
of whom are held on the charge of murp.'
der. m
~ r w / Wordg of Appreciation.
We desire to express our heart-felt
thanks for the many kindnesses extended
us, and the great assistance rendered us
?? by the good people of Bamberg, in- the
recent illness and death of our mother.
Mb. & Mrs. J. A. Murdaugh.
Sulphur's Beady Aid.
: Hancock's Liquid' Sulphur, nature's
" greatest germicide, cures itch, pimples,
?*1 prickly heat, burns, scalds, canker and
?? ;; soreness of scalp, eyelids, mouth, nose
^ and throat. The remedy to have in the
?? medicine cabinet. At leading druggists.
Hancock Liquid Sulphur Co., Baltimore,
v sends descriptive booklet
To Patrons of Bamberg Graded School
0. We have been havingconsiderable trou/'
ble with our heating plant, bnt we are
s ' glad to say that now it is working very
[c v > satisfactorily, after <j good many improve'meats
were put in. We feel sure that
parentsv who have been keeping their
&? . children at home on account of the cold
will run no danger hereafter in permitting
their children to attend regularly. A full
Bp* attendance will be highly pleasing both
to teachers and trustees.
Nathaniel M. Salley;
It: Principalp-:\
THE SUNSHINE OP SPRING.
The salve that cures without a scar is
DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve. Cuts, burns,
j$j? ' boils, bruises and piles disappear before
^ the use of this salve as snow before the
sunshine of spring. Miss H. X. Middle
ton, Thebes, 111., says: "I was afflicted
with a fever sore that was very painful.
^ v 'BeWitt's Wich Hazel Salve cured me in
less than a week." Get the genuine. Sold
by H. F. Hoover.
Accident Near Barnwell.
|p?A Bamtwell, February 18.?Yesterday
evening about 8 o'clock, Mr. Barney B.
t. Basterling, a very thrifty and well-to-do
>> young farmer of this city, was knocked
cC from his buggy and painfully injured by
the Florida limited north-bound train No
82, on the Southern Railroad, and his
horse killed and buggy broken in pieces.
. Mr. Eastarling was driving home from
his farm at a rapid gait. On both sides of
- the railroad were bridges, one of which
ooamc tn hftvn hp#?n taken nn. Just as!
||| Mr. Easterling had driven across the road |
his horse, noticing that the bridge was1
!P missing, turned to go back, and just as he
j got on the road, was struck by the engine,
throwing Mr. Easterling a considerable
distance. The engine carried the horse
and baggy for half a mile until nothing
g&j, was left of them to be carried. *
- V Mr. Easterling was taken up by the
' train and carried to Columbia, but his
family was without information from the
* railroad of the accident. He was brought
back to Barnwell this morning,'and is
lying in a very nervous condition and attended
by his physician.
; DESERVED POPULARITY.
To cure constipation and liver troubles
, : 7\ by gently moving the bowels and acting
'?> as a tonic to the liver, take Little Early
;.v Risers. These famous pills are mila,
pleasant and harmless, but effective and
sure. Their universal use for years is a
guarantee of their popularity and usefulv;.
ness. Sold by H. P. Hoover.
Shortages in Many Counties.
Two or three legislative commissions,
says the Columbia Record, have been aprAj'
pointed to investigate the fiscal affairs of
counties, though the comptroller general
found a larger number than three in
which there were financial irregularities
on the part of county officials. What is
the matter with officers? We hope that
the comptroller general's explanation is
the correct one, that these irregularities
arise owing to the business ignorance of
Incumbents rather than any intentional
wrongdoing. If the explanation is the
true one, it behooves the. people to be
more careful whom they select to conduct
their county financial business.
AGONIZING BURNS
'1 are instantly relieved and perfectly healed
f by Bucklen's Arnica Salve. C. Riven.
bark, Jr., of Norfolk, Ya., writes: "I burnt
my knee dreadfully; that it blistered all
over. Bucklen's Arnica Salve stopped the
pain and healed it without a scar." Also
heals wounds and sores. 25c by all druggists
in Bamberg; Felder & Matthews.
We appreciate the number of new subscribers
we have received recently, and
we hope they will continue to come. The
Herald should have twice as many subscribers
as we now have, and to hope to
maternally increase the number this year.
Best of all, the new ones are cash every
time.
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IN THE PALMETTO STATE.
INTERESTING OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS
KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA.
State News Boiled Down for Quick Reading
Pungent Paragraphs About Men
and Happenings.
Senator Latimer has introduced a bill
providing for the construction of a public
building at Greenwood to cost $100,000.
The Atlantic Coast Line Railroad has
given an order for thirty new locomotives
and a number of passenger and freight
cars.
Mr. Abial Lathrop, of Orangeburg, is
being spoken of as a candidate for the
IT O is Q RolMlh.
new x cuoxai j uugcomp. uv w u
lican.
Judge James F. Izlar, of Orangeburg,
was recently appointed by Governor
Heyward to preside over the term of
court at Lexington this week.
The cotton oil mill men at, Anderson
have under consideration plans to build a
soap factory in that town to utilize the
cotton seed oil from their mills.
The tourist hotel at Batesburg is nearing
completion. That is a progressive
town, it having both waterworks and
electric lights, all owned by the town.
Charlie Livington, a young man about
21 years old, while adjusting a belt at A. L.
Otts' ginnery, Elloree, was caught in the
shafting and both arms and legs were
broken.
The Richland Law and Order league
has begun a crusade against the money
loan companies operating in Columbia
by taking out the necessary papers before
a magistrate, charging theni with usury.
A Sunday night shooting scrape at
Gadsden, in Richland county, between
two negroes, Charles Adams and John
Davis, resulted in Adams receiving a
wound in the abdomen from which he
may die. >
A notinnal honlr in VavottprillA TJ. f!.
A UOVAVUO& uuuu. AW AUJVV?VIM?V| W.J
was closed last week on account of a
shortage of $28,000, which had been stolen
during the past three years by the cashier
and teller. False entries had been made
in the books to hide the shortage.
Mr. H. Martin Sauls, a good citizen and
old Confederate soldier, died at his home
near Brunson, in Hampton county, last
week. He left valuable lands and considerable
personal property. In his will
he gave everything to his adopted son.
The proposed Sumter and Northern
railroad, from Sumter to Bishopville, will
not be built. At least, the project is given
up for the present. This is because, it is
said, the land owners adjacent to Bishopville
have demanded exorbitant prices for
rights of way.
Mrs. Ferguson, a lady of 70 years, met
a terrible death at her home at the Orr
cotton mills in Anderson last' Saturday.
She was in the room alone and in some
manner her clothing caught fire, and burned
her body so severely that death resulted
in a fewv hours.
P. P. Home was killed at Blythewood,
Fairfield county, last week by a Southern
passenger train. He was standing on the
main line talking to the engineer of a
freight, which was on the siding, when
he was struck. His skull was crushed
and both legs broken.
They have begun to row about the bill
to create a new Federal judicial circuit in
the up country. The Senate judiciary
committee reported the bill favorably,
and it has passed the house, but Congressman
Johnson says he will try to prevent
it from being passed if Spartanburg is left
out as a place for holding court.
The board of firemasters of Greenville
asked the council of that city to abolish
the negro companies in order to reduce
expenses. A great stir was created by
their action, and a petition, signed by
many prominent white citizens, has been
presented to council, asking that the
companies be retained in the service.
The annual Schofield negro conference
was held in Aiken last week. This conference
is composed of negroes from fifteen
counties and its object is the uplifting of
the negro race. It is composed mostly of
farmers, and they agreed to cut their cotton
acreage 25 per cent, and use homemade
fertilizers. The purpose of these
meetings and the subjects discussed show
that it is a good thing.
The body of F. G. Trezfer, a jeweler of
Union, who has been missing from his
home since February 7, was found last
Thursday in Fair Forest creek, near
Buffalo Mills. An inspection showed
that the man had been shot. Some think
he committed suicide and others that he
met with foul play. Mr. Trezfer married
a daughter of Maj. Wm. M. Foster, and
was highly esteemed by all who knew him.
Marion Parr, the white man convicted
of the murder of Clarence Shealy, a white
boy, has been sentenced to be hanged on
the 14th of April. He has confessed the
crime to a minister, and says whiskev
was the cause. He had no previous ill
feelings against the boy but murdered
him while crazy drunk from poisoned
whiskey he says. Parr is a very poor and
ignorant man. He says the boy gave him
the poisoned whiskey and tola him it
would kUl him, and that he struck him
with a carpenter's square and killed him.
While walking a small trestle between
the Charleston and Western Carolina
depot and the Southern station in Spartanburg
last Friday, Corrie Hammond,
colored, was struck by the engine of the
Glenn Springs Railroad and killed. Deceased
was nearly across the trestle, walking
towards the Augusta depot, when the
Glenn Springs train pulled out from the
Southern station. Engineer Cummings
began ringing his bell and tried to stop,
and the woman stumbled in the trestle
works and fell. She regained footing and
fell again and the engine struck her,
breaking her neck and crushing her body.
Last week at the circuit court in Anderson,
in the course of hearing motions and
appeals, Judge Gary reversed the decision
of the intendant's court of the town of
Honea Path, in th* case of Honea Path
vs Representative Joshua Ashley, charged
with disorderly conduct and loud swearing.
The intendant, Mr. J. B. Humbert,
fined Mr. Ashley $30, and Mr. Ashley appealed.
Judge Gary, in reversing the
judgment and dismissing the proceedings,
said that Mr. Ashley had been unfairlytreated,
and made the butt of personal illwill.
Mr. Ashley was represented by Gen.
L. Bonham and Mr. B. F. Martin, of Anderson.
HAPPENINGS AT HARTZOG..
Marriages and Personals?Much Visiting and
Social Affairs?New Residences Erected.
Coming Marriage.
Hartzog, February 20.?On Tuesday
February 7th, at four o'clock, at the home
of the bride, Mr. Monnie J. Rentz, of
Adams Run. and Miss Mamie E. Rhoad:
of this place, -were united in matrimony,
Rev. T. L. Belvin officiating. Mr. Rentz
is a kind, courteous young man, while
the bride is one of our most affable
young ladies. Presents gave evidence of
the esteem in which they were held. The
happy couple left the day following for
their future home at Adams Run carrying
the good wishes of their many friends in
this community. Among the visitors at
the marriage were: Messrs. Jake Rentz
and Bob Carter, from near Charleston,
Mr. and Mrs. J. Folk, and relatives of the
bridal couple too numerous to mention.
Miss Ollie Rhoad, of the Carlisle Fitting
School, has been on a visit] to her
relatives here.
Miss Arrie K. Hiers has returned to
Bamberg, after a short visit in our community.
On last Saturday evening Mrs. J. G.
Rhoad entertained some of her friends in
honor of Miss Olive Haltiwanger. Some
very good music was the main feature of
the evening, and part of this was an exhibition
of "home talent."
Mr. 0. G. Rhoad spent several days
with his sons, J. W. and Sam Rhoad, at
fliiAAvinnnrl 1 o of wrftAlr
VJicciipuuu AMI rf
Several of our young people attended a
peanut hulling at Mr. Wannamaker's last
Thursday night and enjoyed themselves
immensely.
We were glad to have Mr. Norman
Fender with us last week.
Mr. J. H. Fender has movfed from his
old, heme near Hartzog post office to his
new residence in the suburbs of "Rural
Town." Mr. Eddie Steedly and bride are
now at his former residence.
We are sorry to learn of the illness of
Mr. R. E. Steedly and Rev. C. E.-Walker.
Miss Nita Walker has returned, after a
pleasant visit to Mrs. John Garris ai
Smoaks.
Miss Willie Rhoad spent several days
with Miss Maude Copeland last week.
Miss Ida Berry has been visiting relatives
near Branchville.
Mr. N. P. Smoak, of Bamberg, spent
Sunday at Mrs. M. A. Black's.
Cards are out announcing the marriage
of Mr. J. W. Black, formerly of this place,
to Miss Jennie Evans, of Branchville.
Our number of new residences still increases.
Mr. A. W. Hunter's is almost
completed, and ^Messrs. J. G. Rhoad and
R. Steedly have erected two neat looking
houses for rent.
Miss Lillian Black has returned to her
nome, aner a prolonged visu 10 w eimer s.
Mr. and Mrs. N. B. Rhoad, Mr. and
Mrs. J. G. Rhoad, Misses Olive Haltiwanger,
Madge Black, and Lizzie Rhoad,
Rev. C. E. Walker and Messrs. G. T.
Rhoad and Willie Walker attended quarterly
meeting at Ehrhardt Saturday.
We have a variation of affairs here:
Sleet and snow coming down, cotton and
farm bells going up, in fact we are on a
boom.
Home Mission Items.
The Woman's Home Mission Society
in the past eighteen years has helped almost
one third of the parsonages in
Southern Methodism. In 1886 the total
number was 2,030; value of parsonages
$247,285.00. In 1904 total number 4,216;
value $5,164,915.00. The H: M. S. has
helped 1,527 parsonages to the amount of
$141,510.36.
Many of our prisons today are filled
with criminals who date their down fall
from the time when, as idle children on
the city streets, they came in contact with
sin. They soon grow familiar with vice
in its many forms. The free kindergarten
is to prevent just such conditions as
these. It takes the idle child and puts
mm 10 wore in a way mac entertains as
well as instructs and develops. Where
it exists life is projected upon a higher
plane and there are no police recruits from
its ranks. Teachers with a missionary
spirit have been needed for our work
this year. Let our young women who
seek employment which will open a broad
field of usefulness, turn their attention to
this phase of home mission work.
Fragments of time, wasted opportunities,
persistent endeavor and achievement
carefully garnered can be transmitted into
treasures incorruptible that fade not away
Let our home mission workers forget not
to gather up the fragments.
Mrs. Speaks Yisitlng.
Mrs. A. McB. Speaks left on the 14th
instant for Cokesbury, where she will
visit her daughter, who is a student of the
conference school. She will visit NinetySix,
where for several days she will be
the guest of a friend of her childhood,
Mrs. J. P. Phillips. Mrs. Phillips is pleasantly
remembered by a great many Hampton
county people, (many of them her
relatives) as Miss Julia Lawton, whose
father,Rev. William H. Lawton,of sainted
memory, was a widely known and much
beloved minister of the S. 0. conference,
whose godly life, earnest sermons, cordial
hand clasp, and infectious laugh, lingers
with us still, tender, precious memories.
?Varnville correspondence Hampton
Guardian.
For coughs?Murray's Horehound,
Mullein and Tar. 35c for large bottle.
COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS.
SOME INTERESTING HAPPENINGS !
IN TARIOUS SECTIONS.
News Items Gathered All Around ;
the County and Elsewhere.
News from Goran.
Govan, February 20.?The farmers ]
have started off very nicely around here j
with their crops. They are kept very (
steady ploughing. ,
Mrs. J. R. McCormack, our music (
teacher, has been back with us for several ?
days. I
Twn nther medals are beincr offered in
our school. One for the best attendance
and deportment, and one for the best
work in the music class.
Misses Lillian and Estelle Lancaster and
Mary McCormack visited relatives near
Hilda Saturday and Sunday.
Mr. S. S. Williams and son, Lewis,
visited Mr. Williams's father, who lives at
Elko, Saturday.
Mr. Wright, from Nova Scotia, has
been doing a lot of brick work around
here during the past week. He has been
with Mr. S. S. Williams, he is now at Mr.
L. L. Lancaster's.
Ehrhardt Etchings.
Ehrhardt,-February 20.?Dr. H. W.
Bays delivered a lecture in the Methodist
church last Friday night. The proceeds
of same are to be applied to the new carpet-which
they have recently placed on
the church floor. Saturday he held conference
in the same church and preached
Sunday and Sunday night.
8everal of our town folks attended
church today at St. John's Baptist church.
Mr. Sam W. Copeland married a dusky
couple in the livery stable Saturday.
'After they were happily united they
boarded the train for Walterboro, S. C.,
looking as happy as two bumblebees
sucking blossoms on a gourd vine.
Mrs. Hentz, of Newberry county, is
spending some time with her daughter,
Mrs. P. E. Monroe.
The infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
P. E. Monroe was buried in Mt. Pleasant
grave yard on Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. Conrad Ehrhardt spent
Friday night with their daughter, Mrs.
John F. Folk, of Bamberg.
We have had a cold week of weather, ;
and Sunday afternoon threatened more !
falling weather. The prophets all give j
us bad weather until late, say as far as
April. Late gardens will be the result if \
their predictions are true. j
, Mr. O. P. Folk was in town Saturday i
looking as young and spry as ever. He ]
says the only thing rumples his feelings j
is the late coming of the trains, knocks
him out of his daily papers.
I Prof. E. W. Sawyer went duck hunting
1 Saturday morning. He says he saw
plenty ducks, but did not get but one .
| shot at them. He says his patience is j
not long enough to hunt ducks on a
cold day..
By the way pistols were fired just out
the corporate limits Saturday night, '
some parties must have forgotten that
Xmas has gone.
Say, Frank, whom did you say you
helped from the cross tie pile the other |
night ? and is it true that the party lost
his way in the dark ?
Mr. Ben T. Zeigler claims that he saw
plenty of the oats pests, a fly that has
made its appearance in this section of
late years, before the cold weather set in.
We expect they have had a rough time
since the sleet and freeze. It looks as if
the oats crop in this section will be short
this year, at least most of them look sick
now. Jee.
Hartzog Doings.
Haktzog, February 21.?Married, at the
home of the bride's father, Mr. 0. G.
Rhode, Mr. Monnie Rentz, of Adams Run,
S. C., to Miss Mamie E. Rhode, of Hartzog,
on Tuesday afternoon, February 7th,
at 4 o'clock, by Re?. T. L. Belvin. On
Thursday following the groom and bride
left for Adams Run, their future home.
Mr. O. G. Rhode spent Sunday and
Monday, the 12th and 18th instant, with
his sons, Messrs, Wyatt and Sam Rhode,
at Riverside, S. C., where they are working.
Riverside is situated fifteen miles
below Green Pond on the Coosaw River, 1
just above Field's Point, where the
Charleston Lumber Co. has one large
mill running and is putting up another
which they hope to have ready by the
first of June for work. The company is
building a railroad from Riverside to 1
Green Pond. They have seven or eight 1
miles of track laid. They are talking of 1
building from Coosaw to Columbia, S. C.
There was no preaching at Zion on 1
Sunday, as Rev. T. L. Belvin was in at- 1
tendance at the quarterly conference at ]
Ehrhardt.
Misses Lillie Brownlee and Mamie <
Miley, of Little Swamp, worshipped at t
Zion Sunday. They were guests of Miss
Bettie Steedly. t
POISONS IN FOOD. \
Perhaps you don't realize that many ,
pain poisons originate in your food, some
day you may feel a twinge of dyspepsia ?
that will convince you. Dr. King's New i
Life Pills are guaranteed to cure all sickness
due to poisons of undigested food?
or money back. 25c at all drug stores in s
Bamberg; Felder & Matthews, Denmark. J
Try them. i
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Senator Tillman at Home.
Columbia, February 19.?Senator Tillman
reached his home at Trenton today,
after a brief stay in Philadelphia, nnder
treatment of specialists. ThePhiladelphia
physicians confirmed the diagnosis of his
personal physician, Dr. J. W. Babcock,
that Senator Tillman is suffering from
grippe poisoning, affecting one of his
Qerves. The throat trouble from which
the Senator suffered last winter has been
entirely relieved, and the specialists agree
that the Senator's general condition is
excellent, but he will not return to Wash
ington daring this session of congress,
being advised to rest for a while.
GRAVE TROUBLE FORESEEN.
It needs bat little foresight, to tell that
when your stomach and liver are badly
affected, grave trouble is ahead, unless
you take the proper medicine for vour
disease, as Mrs. John A. Young, of Clay,
N. Y., did. She says: "I had neuralgia of
the liver and stomach, my heart was
weakened, and I could not eat. I was
very bad for a long time, but in Electric
Bitters, I found'what I needed, for they
quickly cured me." Best medicine for
weak women. Sold under a guarantee by
all drugggists in Bamberg and Felder &
Matthews, Denmark. 50c a bottle.
> ?Must
Return for Trial.
Green and Gaynor, who swindled the
United States government out of several
thousand dollars in connection with work
of the improvement of the Savannah
river, will be returned to this country to
stand trial. They went to Canada and
successfully resisted all attempt^ at extfaditing
them, and this was dohe, it is
said, by the liberal use of the money they
stole. An appeal being taken to the privy
council, that body decided the men must
be given up.
Low Bates via Southern Railway.
The Southern Railway gives below a
few special low excursion rates to the
following points:
To New Orleans, La., Mobile, Ala.,
and Pensacola, Fla. One first-class fare
plus twenty-five cents for the round trip
from all coupon stations. Tickets on sale
March 1-6, limited to March 11th, 1905.
May be extended to return March 25th,
1905, account of Mardi Gras.
To Washington, D. C., Presidential inauguration.
For civilians rate one firstclass
fare plus twenty-five cents for the
round trip from all coupon stations. For
military companies and brass bands in
uniform accompanying them in parties
90 or more on one ticket at one cent per
mile plus arbilraries. Tickets sold March
2d and 3d, limited March 8th, 1905, but
may be extended to March 18th, 1905.
very low rates to other points now in
effect. The Southern Railway is the best
route to the above points, operating
through Pullman and dining cars on all
through trains. For full information apply
to any agent Southern Railway, or
R. W. Hunt, Division Passenger Agent,
Charleston, S. C.
Obituary.
William H. Hungerford, the youngest
son of Capt. John P. Hungerford, born at
New Port, Florida, died at Coltimbia, 8.
D., February 18,1905, of general paralysis,
aged 54 years.
Interment at Springtown cemetery,
near Bamberg, S. C.
Sisters, Jesus said to Mary and Martha:
"Thy brother 8hall rise again." 1
May God bless- and comfort the two
sisters and relatives and friends.
J. H. STouDEifMiBE, Bamberg, S. C.
Cotton Growers Meet. *
Last Saturday was the day for holding
conventions at the court house in each
county for the purpose of taking action
along the line of reducing the acreage in
cotton and the amount of fertilizers. At
12 o'clock a number of representative
farmers from several sections of the
county Were present, township meetings
have been previously held J and delegates
elected.
The meeting was called to order by
Clerk of Court C. B. Free, and a temporary
organization effected by election of
Hon. Jno. W. Crum, of Denmark, as
president, and J. D. Felder, of Bamberg,
secretary. The names of the delegates
were then enrolled, after which Capt. D.
H. Rice, of Olar, was elected vice-president,
and C. B. Free, treasurer, the other
temporary officers being made permanent.
The object of the meeting and the purpose
of the association were explained in
strong speeches by C. B. Free, D. H. Rice,
t r? w "R Snann. J. H. Fender.
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Jno. W. Cram, and others.
A motion was made to adopt the pledge
recommended by the national association,
but this was rejected.
It was moved and carried that the acreage
in cotton be reduced to eighteen acres
to the plow, also to reduce the amount of
fertilizers twenty-five per cent.
Those who were holding cotton pledged
themselves to continue to hold it, subject
;o the action or recommendation of the ,
lational association.
Jno. W. Cram and C. B. Free were ,
jlected as delegates to the State conven- (
ion in Columbia. I
The meeting then adjourned, subject to j
he call of the president. 1
Those present seemed to be in earnest
ibout this matter, and as many of our
argest planters were present, it is safe to
lay that the cotton acreage in this county j
vill be materially reduced this year. \
The postmasters of South Carolina held <
i convention in Sumter last week. Dr. !
r. F. Ensor, postmaster at Columbia, was <
e-elected president. <
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STATE COTTON GROWERS.
Committee on Finance Appointed and Officer* . ?
Chosen at Columbia.
Columbia, Feb. 21.?All but two coon- '
ties of the State are represented here
today at the cotton growers' convention*.
Much enthusiasm is manifested. : ^
Ex-Senator John L. McLaurin fired the
big gathering to a high piteh of enthusiasm
in a ringing speech. . - .y*,.:V%
E. D. Smith, of Lee county, was' elected
president and made a strong speech, re* - ?
viewing the movement. Mr. H. B. Tindtf,
of Greenville, was elected vice president. < 0
F. H. Weston, of Colombia, was elected |
secretary and F. H. Hyatt, treasurer. . %
A committee on finance was appointed \ :
to carry ont Mr. Hyatt's plans for a regu- & ^
far bureau of information.,
The membership of the body is made
up of leading financiers, farmers and V "
merchants who are unanimously in favor . ^
of the New Orlean's constitution.
A Great Work Among School Boys.
We have just ended the happiest weekY <;1
work that has been known in the exist* M
ence of the Carlisle fitting School. Not
in the class room, or on the campus, but
with the salvation of oar souls. The boy* < v|
with the help of a noble teacher have jnat;' 3?j
finished a revival which met with great *
success in the future destiny of our souls.
The Sunday before this meeting the Y.
M. C. A. met with six members and the
following Snndav we met and reornn* - c
ized with thirty two active members. We
haven't an associate member, bat every. -1
one is taking an active part in the associ*
ation. As a body of young men we' are '
not ashamed to accept Christ as oar'-v*^
Savior and to tell the story to others. We
are looking forward to a good base ball
team, composed of Christian young men*
which is very seldom known of.
Respectfully,
U. V. MiLiicwr,
Cor. Sec. T. M. C. A.
Smallpox In Town. ?V;1
Tuesday it was discovered that Henry
Walker, a negro who had been employed ; f
at Mr. N. B. Fetter's grocery store as
porter, had a well developed case of '
smallpox. The board of health at once
took prompt measures. A yellow flag . :;jj
was put up at the house he occupies and > : f
a rope drawn around the premises. A .
strict quarantine of the house is bring
maintained, and no one is allowed to go
in or ont exceot theatlendineohvsieiane. ^ ^
Guards are on dnty night and day. There ; ;
Is no scare over the case, but some people '' %
are being vaccinated, which they should Vr h
have attended to long ago.
Walker went up towards Barnwell a.
week or so ago on a trip, and it is sup- .
^osed he contracted the disease while
away, as smallpox has been and still bj&^f|i
that community. There have been no
cases here in several years untH this one, V
and no other cases are likely to grow out
of this. The house in which Walker lives
is not situated in a thickly settled part of
thetown, and no spread of the disease IsM 1
apprehended. . .
Death of Mrs. H. E. Finger.. ;
Mrs. H. E. Finger died at the Cope
Hotel in this city last Monday morning
at an early hour, aged 78 years, after an
illness of about two weeks.
The burial took place at South-end
cemetery Tuesday morning. On account
of the inclement weathe^hie^ services
were conducted in J^hotelparlors by.
Revs. W. T. Duncan and J. B. Holly.
The pall-bearers were: H. C. Folk, Jno.
H. Cope, Miles J. Black, V. J. Hartzog,
R. L. Risber, A. W. Knight, B. D. Bronson,
and A. C. Griffln. '
Mrs. Finger was a lady of most lovable / ^
disposition and exemplary Christian :^
character. She was the widow of the _' . ^
Rev. John Finger, for many years a min- ' >^g
ister in the South Carolina conference, (
who died June 5th, 1884, and who is / ^
buried at Williamston. She wu born ^
near Morganton, N. C., February 22,
1827, and was married to Mr. Finger > / <
October 5th, 1858.
Only two children survive her. One Is Prof.
J. A. Finger, who has been principal J|
of the Courtenay graded school' in
Charleston for many years, and Mrs. J. A. #3
Mordangh, of this city, who has bean a
successful teacher in the graded schooL .??
here for a long time, she now having ' ^
charge of the third and fourth grades. %
Space will not permit us to speak of
the many lovable traits of character of
this good woman. She made her home
with her daughter in Bamberg and her ^
son in Charleston, being here inuch of
the time. For nearly two years the
writer lived at the hotel, and an intimate
' ? * i j nt.j. i
Knowledge 01 ner, aanu u?sn aim viuu>
tian character was afforded us. In sickuess,although
feeble,she was a ministering
^ngel, and we shall always remember her
deeds of kindness in times of trouble.
She has gone to a well-earned rest, and
tier life gi?es strength to those who desire
the better part.
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