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f THE BAMBERG HERALD. j Established 1891 BAMBERG, S. C., THURSDAY, MARCH 23, 1905 One Dollar a Year '|j THEY STAND BY IT. Barnwell Editors Refuse to Retract What They Said About Chairman Evans?Criminal Suit for Libel to be Brought First, n When the intention of Chairman H. H. Evins, of the state board of control, to prosecute the editors of the Barnwell Sentinel on the charge of libel was printed in the Columbia correspondence of the News and Courier a request was made through the Barnwell correspondent of the News and Courier for a statement on the part of the editors of the Sentinel. The following has been received from Barn* well: Barnwell, March 18.?When seen by your correspondent Messrs. Marshall Moore and R. Boyd Cole, the editors of the Barnwell Sentinel said, in reply to the article published in The News and Courier, that Mr. Evans sent his attorney here to confer with them in regard to the Sentinel's editorial and that they informed Mr. Elliott they had nothing to retract. They claim that the Columbia correspondent, in quoting only a part of the editorial, left the impression that the mention of Evans in that connection was unwarranted. The complete article is as follows: "The Sunday night sermon of the Rev. J. L. Harley was one full of practical thought and interest for the people of Barnwell. His subject, 4Evil in Power is Tyrannical,' carries with it a volume of thought and application. The purpose of this editorial, however, is not to comment on the entire sermon of the Metho dist minister, bat on one statement in the discourse, which is news not only to Barnwell county, but to the State of South A Carolina. We call it news; it may not be new to some people in the State, yet we trust will never grow so old and out of l date as not to be commented on. "In commenting upon the tyranny evil exercises upon men in public life, Mr. Harley had occasion to refer to an incident of the last legislature, in which the senator from Barnwell county was the hero. It is stated on good authority that while the Toole bill was pending, one Hub Evans, of dispensary fame, approached George H. Bates, senator from Barnwell county, and invited him to attend his box party at the theatre, Mr. Bates replied, 'Excuse me, sir, I cannot accept any courtesies from you.' Mr. * *?*? wo* P.rona hnr waq jn.nrivy nuucu i>ua? . .. filled with 2x legislators. "This is an incident of no weak import. The answer of Senator Bates to the professional lobbyist has a golden ring about it and sounds much like the seats of our legislature are being filled with men. "Is Evans to rule South Carolina with a salary of $400, when many a poor devil with $600 or $700 has to scratch for hungry mouths ? Ye economists, if ye will, tell us how a man can give box par" ties, keep daughters at college and be drawn around the streets of Rock Hill in a coftch and pair on tbe pitiful sum of $400 per annum. There is something rotten in the State of South Carolina and it reeks from Columbia to Barnwell." Since the matter has been mooted in - Barnwell the Sentinel has been offered * all the free counsel they want, and many business men have said that the suit shall not cost the editors a cent. Mr. Evans , attempted to employ prominent lawyers here, bat tlrey refused to take the case. The Columbia correspondent of The K t News and Courier explains the fact that the editorial was not reproduced in his dispatch of March 14 as follows: With reference to the special from Barnwell relative to the libel suit of Mr. H. H. Evans against the editors of the Barnwell Sentinel: It is only fair to state that the entire article was not available and that the paragraph quoted was what had been published in county papers and seemed to be the special occasion for the suit. The entire article as quoted above ? would gladly have been published as giving the reason for the suit and what was used was simply to show the basis of the action. **- TMIinff Tf tplin ronroccnt. JHI? Tf 11WUU JJU1V?<)U1<) nov?V|nvuv?? ed Mr. Evans, stated today that it was entirely incorrect to say that any lawyer at the Barnwell bar had refused to act in the case. He had been in Barnwell and the only lawyer he asked to be associated in the case had accepted, and he understood that the editors of the Barnwell k* Sentinel had regularly employed their council and that there was no gratuitous service about the matter. '( " Mr. Elliott stated that he had been the only one to visit Barnwell about the case and certainly no lawyer there refused to go into the case to whom such an offer that had been made. Mr. Elliot was busily engaged in the ! - United States court today, but stated that the warrant for criminal libel would be lodged within the next few days and that % any suggestion that the suit was a "bluff" k was not a fact. He had been instructed to bring a criminal suit first, and he was going to do so.?News and Courier. > ; . ? A young man sent a wedding gift to a young lady. This letter accompanied it: "My dear girl, You will find in this box a thingamigig, which has something to do with eating. It's a cross between a harpoon and a pitchfork. It may be for spearing pickles or stacking chopped cabbage. Anyway you will be so happy r? that you won't care what it is. Use it, and think that you might have speared me. I have lost a treasure that another has won." t I $ 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. Comptroller General Jones will distribute $118,000 of dispensary money to the schools this week. None of the up-country mills will join the Duncan mills in Uuion in establishing a ten-hour working day. TKa Ctoto toaMiprs association will be A U& UVUVV VVMWUVW held at Clemson college on June 29th, during the session of the State summer school. A petition is being circulated in Spartanburg county asking for an election on the question of voting the dispensary out of that county. Judge G. W. Gage is ill in Gharleston, and Judge R. W. Memminger is holding court there this week. Judge Gage was taken sick after arriving in the city. In Greenville county last Friday a white boy named Dudley Hunter "was accidentally shot and killed by his young friend, Patrick Davis, while out hunting. Two cottOD mills in the city of Union have adopted the ten hour day. It is said that the other mills of that county and Spartanburg will not make the reduction. The annual convention of the traveling salesmen of this State is to be held in Spartanburg April 14th and loth. Addresses will be delivered by prominent men. Andrew Carnegie has offered to give $10,000 for a public library for the city of Anderson if the city will furnish the lot and agree to give $1,000 a year for maintaining the library. Robbers blew open safes in two stores at Pinewood, Clarendon county, last Saturday night, but only a small amount of money was secured, i ne puues uauc good their escape. The Supreme Court has denied the appeal of Thrailkill, and he will have to serve bis sentence of life imprisonment in the penitentiary. Thrailkill is a white man from Saluda county who killed a man named Burton. The Southern train from Asheville to Columbia was wrecked near Spartanburg last Friday.. The train was derailed at a switch at Spartanburg Junction. No one was killed, and only a few people were slightly injured. Vincent Chicco, the Italian blind tiger king of Charleston, is a candidate for the legislature to fill an unexpired term. He promises to raise a "rough house" in Cofnmhia if ftlpotftd. It is hardlv to be ex pected that he will be elected." Monazile has been discovered in the creeks and branches of Grove township, Greenville county. A New York concern has bought the rights from many farms at $15.00 a ton for crude ore. When refined monazite is worth about $1000 a ton. The stock company which is to publish the Carolina Field, a new weekly paper at Georgetown, has been organized and a first-class printing outfit purchased. Jas. Henry Rice, Jr., is to be the editor. It is expected to issue the paper about the first of April. Maj. W. F. B. Haynsworth, an aged and prominent lawyer of Sumter, died suddenly at his residence in that city last Thursday morning. Maj. Haynsworth was a prominent and influential citizen, and will be greatly missed. He was 80 years old. The dispensary investigatingcommittee met for the second time in Columbia last week, but nothing was done. The committee wanted some information from the State board of directors as to the State dispensary, and these officials declared it would take thirty days or more to prepare it. The Chesterfield county grand jury found no bill against D. G. Mcintosh, of Cheraw, charged with criminal carelessness in causing the death of G. W. Traywick. It will be remembered that Mr. Traywick was shot while down at the Pee Dee river at Cheraw while inspecting lumber. Mr. Mcintosh was shooting at sparrows with a small rifie some distance away, and it was claimed that one of his shots killed Traywick. A negro named McClennan was shot and killed at Dillon last Sunday afternoon by D. C. Atkinson, a white man. Atkinson was a guard at the cotton mill during the quarantine of the mill village on account of small pox. He kept the negro from going up town a few days ago, and the negro made threats. Sunday afternoon McClennan renewed the difficulty and fired once at Atkinson, who drew his pistol and fired several shots, Vtllinn fV>A nom>A inet#ntW AlUlUg ?UV UV^AV Oil Mill Directors Meet. A special meeting of the board of directors of The Cotton Oil Company was held last Friday morning at the office of G. Frank Bamberg. Those present were C. W. Garris, Jno. H. Cope, G. Frank Bamberg, G. Moye Dickinson, and A. W. Knight. This meeting was held to receive the resignation of Mr. Garris as president, as he will soon move to Jacksonville. The resignation was formally received and accepted with regret.. A. W.Knight and G. Moye Dickinson were, on motion of Jno. H. Cope, made a committee to draft suitable resolutions in reference to the retirement of Mr. Garris. No election for a president was held, as the annual meeting is near at hand. G. Frank Bamberg, vice president, will act as president. m u??l. X VU JUUVUi A young theologican named Fiddle Refused to accept his degree; "For," said he, " 'tis enough to be Fiddle, Without being Fiddle D. D." PLEASANT AND HARMLESS. Don't drug the stomach to cure a cough. One Minute Cough Cure cuts the mucus, draws the inflammation out of the throat, lungs and bronchial tubes, heals, soothes and cures. A cure for croup and whooping cough. One Minute Cough Cure relieves a cough in one minute because it acts first on the mucous membrane right where the cough troubles?in the throat or deep-seated on the lungs. H. F. Hoover NEGROES KEPT FROM THEATRE. Four Leave the Hudson Threatening to Make More Trouble. Four negroes presented orchestratickets at the Hudson Theatre last night. The door keeper held them up and referred the matter to Sam Wallack, of the house staff, who firmly refused them admittance. The negroes exchange their tickets for cash at the box office and went away threatening to make trouble.?New York Sun. Supreme Court Discusses JL?ioei. The supreme court in a decision handed down last week discusses in a very interesting manner the question of ''what is libel." The case comes from Charleston. The Evening Post and The News and Courier of that city each being sued for $10,000 because in local reports in reference to one A. M. Flood he was spoken of as a colored man. The defendants interpose a demurrer which was overruled by the supreme court and the case goes to trial on its merits. The paragraph in The Evening Post which excited the ire of Augustus M. Flood is as follows: "Augustus M. Flood, colored, filed toHow o en it against, the f!nnsolidated com U ~B pany for damages in the sum of $1,000, for injuries received by being struck by a trolly car on King street on the night of September 9. Flood is represented by Young & Young." Local Lodge of Elks Held Important Meeting. Strange and ominous sounds issued from the closely curtained windows of the Elks Lodge last night, and those who were on the streets stopped passers by long enough to tell them that up stairs a victim was being toasted upon the coals. When it was ascertained that the Hon. Calvin Garris, of Bamberg, was being conducted across the hot sands and that a couple of his friends had come over for the purpose of seeing their friend well browned, people shook their heads, and passed on down the highway. But Mr. Garris, when seen after the performance, did not look like a man who had been badly treated, so that all doubts on that score may be allowed to die. Besides the initiation, the Elks last night took up and transacted a good deal of business which was awaiting the at tention of the members. The lodge was never in a more flourishing condition, and has come to play a very important part in the social life of this city .-Orangeburg Evening News. Rivers' Bridge Memorial. The Rivers' Bridge Memorial Association will observe Wednesday, April 26th, as memorial day. Col. L. W. Youmans, of Fairfax, will deliver the memorial address. The following committees have been appointed: On grounds and order of the day: J. D. Jenny, W. E. Sease, John J. Copeland, J. A. Chassereau, M. 0. Kinard, J. F. Kearse, J. A. Peters. On music: J. C.^Breland, J. William Kinard. On decoration: Mrs. J. W. Jenny, Jno. J. Copeland, J. William Kinard, Nellie Kinard, J. O. Kearse, J. C. Kinard, Misses Addie Jenny, Olive Folk, Janie McMillan. The Association will meet promptly at 11 o'clock. Speaking at 12 o'clock. "To these services the public is cordially invited to attend. The committee on decoration respectfully ask all friends to bring flowers. Db. N. F. Kirkland, Sr., J. W. Jenny, President, Secretary. Jenny, S. C., March 20, 1905. Bill Parker had a bill-board. Bill also had a board bill. The board bill bored Bill so Bill sold the bill-board to pay his board bill. So after Bill sold his billboard to pay his board bill the board bill no longer bored Bill. Now, don't you think that Bill beats all.?Orange, Ya., Observer. Woodmen of the World. A camp of the Woodmen of the World was organized here Monday evening. The meeting was held in the Fitting School building, and enough members were secured to insure a good camp here. The camp is known as Cypress Camp, No. 193, and officers were elected as follows: Consul Commander?E. K. Hardin, Jr. Advisor Lieutenant?L. A. Hartzog. Clerk?N. B. Felder. Banker?John Cooner. Escort?L. B. Owen. Watchman?E. A. Brabham. ? ? nu: Sentry?u. r. onmuci. Managers?B. D. Bronson, E. K. Hardin, Jr., J. M. Kinsey. Examining Physician?J. B. Black. The camp was organized by District Deputy W. W. Tinsley, of Augusta, and W. H. Felder, assistant. STRIKES HIDDEN ROCKS. When your ship of health strikes the hidden rocks of consumpiion, pneumonia, etc., you are lost, if you don't get help from Dr. King's New Discovery. J. W. McKinnon, of Talladega Springs, Ala., writes: "I had been ill with pneumonia, under the care of two doctors, but was getting no better when I began to take Dr. King's New Discovery. The first dose gave relief and one bottle cured me." Sure cure for sore throat, bronchitis, coughs and colds. Guaranteed by all druggists at Bamberg; Felder & Matthews, Denmark. Price 50c and $1.00. Trial bottle free. : COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS. SOME INTERESTING HAPPENINGS IN VARIOUS SECTIONS. News Items Gathered All Around the Coonty and Elsewhere. Ehrhardt Etchings. EHRqARDT, March 20.?The farmers of this section are hurrying to commence planting their com crops. ' - *< "?r? t t> Ijiaa 10 say tuai jits. j. jd. ^upciauu, who was very sick, is on the mend >nd hope she will soon be able to be out on our streets again. Her mother, Mrs. Haigler, is still with her. The last lot of whiskey the dispensary received must have been fighting whiskey. I never saw so many people wanting to fight as I did last week. Some of our young sports went on a bird hunt last week; rather rainy and wet but they were bent on shooting birds. The three bagged about thirty partridges, but they guy each other about their marksmanship at rabbits. One of 4-v?rki-vf Af a roKKJf oKnnf civ at* 01 orht tlicui ouui at a xatuit avv/ut. oia v* v*^uv I yards twice and never touched the cotton i tail. Seeing his poor work with his gun J he undertook to catch the rabbit. The dog taking in the situation thought he would lend a helping hand in the chase, but seemed to bother the young man, so he told the dog to get out of the way and give someone room that could run. The rabbit was caught. The young men tell j it that the cotton tail chaser got tangled while running in some bushes that threw him a somersault but it did not break his speed in the least. Mr. Frank H. Copeland and wife spent Sunday with his father, Mr. Joe I. Copeland. --- ?- - ?? . .1 T"1 I Miss Helen nunier, irom me roitt s store section, was in town last week shopping. Trains were very late several days last week. Two days not arriving early enough to leave on time. Dr. J. L. Copeland took Mr. Geo. F. McMillan to Charleston last week to put him under treatment for one of his eyes. The Doctor is fearful that he will not be able to save the sight for him. Mr. McMillan has been confined to his room for a Isvnnr trViilo 4ultc q ivug nuuw. The Clear Pond picnic is to be on the same day as usual, Good Friday. Jee. Govan Gossip. Govan, March 20.?Quite a crowd at tended services at Salem yesterday. Mrs. J. B. Hunter and Miss Pattie Lee Sweat.of Bamberg, visited here yesterday. Mr. W. F. Bessinger and son, Willie, visited Bamberg to-day. Mr. Edward Kane and Master Stoney Kennedv visited Bamberg todav. Miss Ledar and Masters Lewis and Wilbur Williams attended a donkey party Friday evening at Miss Rosa Hutto's school. Misses Hattie Bessinger and Mattie Sue Nimmons visited near Olar Friday. Mr. Willie Hay visited Bamberg last week. A Recital In Denmark. Denmark, March 18.?Miss Eugenia Tinsley, principal of the music department of the Denmark Graded school, gave a taking entertainment last night to a large audience of patrons and friends at the graded school building. The programme consisted of choice instrumental selections rendered by pupils and.a num ! ber of choruses by trained classes. Little Martha Ray and Annie Lou Collins, the wee ones of the department, performed with remarkable precision. Miss Gertrude Riley, who has been taking lessons only five months, manipulated the keys with perfect ease. Miss Tinsley is a graduate of Converse college, a pupil of the famous Dr. Peters. She performs beautifully and has the gift of inspiring her audience. Conrt at Barnwell. Barnwell, March 16.?Elliott Gardner, for burning the gin house of J. Lawton Ellis, was found guilty of arson, with recommendation to mercy. The Free case terminated this morning. J. E. Davis, solicitor, attempted to prove the case by Comptroller General's sheet, most of which had not been signed by Free, and his attorneys, Bellinger and Harley, demanded that the case be proven in the regular way by producing original documentary evidence, which could only be done by the introduction of auditor's and treasurer's original entries and going over item by item, and to do this, one of the State's expert witnesses stated, would take three months to trv the case. Upon which Judge Townsend ruled in favor of defendant, after which Solicitor Davis consented to take a verdict of "not guilty." This is regarded as a big victory for defendant's attorneys, as it was a fight from start to finish. THE COLONEL'S WATERLOO. Col. J. M. Fuller, Honey Grove, Texas, nearly met his Waterloo, from liver and kidney trouble. In a letter he says: "I was nearly dead, of these complaints, and, although I tried my family doctor, he did me no good; so I got h 50c bottle of your Electric Bitters, which cured me. I consider them the best medicine on earth, and thank God who gave you the knowledge to make them." Sold and guaranteed to cure dyspepsia, biliousness and kidney disease, by all druggists at Bamberg; Felder & Matthews, Denmark, at 50c a bottle. NEW NEGRO ENTERPRISE. Richmond Colored Women Secure Charter for a Big Store. Richmond, Va., March 11.?Headed by Maggie L. Walker, colored, who is presi- ' dent of St Luke's Bank, a flourishing insti- , tution of Richmond, twenty-two negro 1 women to-day secured a charter from the < corporation commission and will at once < open a big store, to be known as St ] .Liuse s .emporium. i ne autnonzea capital of the company is $25,000, bat it is the < purpose to largely increase it if the ven- < tare shall prove successful. The shares are $10 each, and all of them are being purchased by colored people. While one or two men are on the board of directors and a man, Joseph N.Myers, is vice president, the whole business practically is in the hands of women, and all of them live in Richmond. The head of the business, Maggie L. Walker, has been a leading figure in the business world here for some time. Under her guidance St Luke's Bank has become a flourishing institution, and the colored people are being trained to save their money and to deposit it regularly. The women connected with the new store are the wives and daughters of leading colored residents, many of whom own property and have very comfortable bank accounts. The success of the new store is practically certain.-?Washington Post. Carlisle fitting School Dots. One day last week Prof. Hugo G. Sheridan's little daughter, Sara, fell from the piazza banister and broke her right leg above the knee. Doctors were speedily called in, and soon the little sufferer was resting quietly, and has continued asjwell as could be expected. It is thought that she can be up again in two or three weeks. The baseball team has just received their new gray suits and full supplies for playing. The team makes quite a presentable appearance on the diamond, and there is hard training going on every afternoon. Some games will be played, and the boys are expected to hold up the "old gold and black" for Wofford in the lower part of the state. 1 Profs. Owen and Salley and Messrs. Eaves and Copeland have had considerable work done on their tennis court on the campus. The court has been clayed and sanded, then thoroughly packed, and after a few good rains will be in excellent fA?nlAtnnff COUUltlUU :ui piajriug. A Young Woman's Christian association has been organized by the boarding girls with some 20 or more members. This, with the Y. M. C. A. for the boys, and the young people's Sunday morning prayer meeting, affords an excellent opportunity for the cultivation of Christian manhood and womanhood among the students and for training them in Christian work. The following were elected by the Y. W. C. A. as officers: Prof. E. K. Hardin, Jr., president; Miss Louise Tilley, vicepresident ; Miss Ollie Rhode, secretary; Miss Essie Skinner, treasurer. The post-senior class has organized into a semi-library society for mutual improvement. Mr. Frank Skinner is president, Miss Eula Rowell is vice president, Miss Annie Varn is treasurer, Mr. Ubi Millican is critic, Mr. MacDonald Owen is secretary. The heartfelt sympathy of faculty and students goes out to two of the students, Mr. Phillips and Miss Agnes McCants, in the heavy loss of their home by fire. Mr. Elzie Myers, president of the Y. M. C. A., has just returned from the interstate Y. M. C. A. convention just held in Asheville, N. C. He reports a yery good convention indeed. All here sincerely hope that the effects of the meeting will prove productive of great good to the association here. Mr. L. Bloomer Owen, of the senior class, has just recovered from a two weeks' spell of the grip, and has joined his class again. Miss Maude Kernaghan, instructor of music, spent Sunday with her sister and mother in Columbia. Miss Estelle Bull paid her sister, Miss Grace, and brother, Webb, a very welcome visit a few days ago. The following students have spent a few days home at during the interval since my last letter: Messrs. Carter, Tyler, Berry, Mack and John Owen, McCants and Linder. Ail are oacs. at wui&. Misses Mattie Sanders, Pope and Amelia Rentz, and Lizzie Easterlin are at home. J Mr. Ubi Millican has withdrawn from 1 school. He goes home to help with his ' mother's plantation. , Mr. Chas. A. Boyd, of the junior class, i is at home for a few days on business. . The Sheridan literary society has just re-elected officers for the last term. The 1 same officers were re-elected. I Bamberg Guards Inspected. The Bamberg Guards were inspected at the armory Monday evening at eight o'clock by Capt. Ezra B. Fuller, of the j United Str.tes army, and Assistant Adjutant and Inspector General Jno, B. Patrick. The company turned out forty-one, 1 officers and men. On account of the t heavy rain, no field movements were ex- ( ecuted, the company only going through the manual of arms. It is not known yet 1 whether the company passed or hot, but ? it is presumed that a sufficient percentage < was made. ( ' -v .. , . . _ . REVOLTING STORY OF HEINOUS CASE. No Lynching Followed the Arrest of William Johnson in Orangeburg County. Orangeburg, March 17.?Much relief was felt here this afternoon when Sheriff John H. Dukes returned to the city, bringing William Johnson, the negro charged with criminally assaulting a little eight-year-old white girl. The sheriff reported no trouble whatever. The scene of the trouble was in Cow Castle township about 25 miles below the city, and nothing was known of the matter until 5 o'clock this morning, when two men from that section awoke Sheriff Dukes and asked him to ?o and helD arrest the negro, who they claimed was being protected by the negroes of the community. Judging from their story there was fear of serious trouble with the negroes and the sheriff left immediately for the scene accompanied only by his 1 . ^|j son, Mr. Frank Dukes. Much to their surprise they went within two miles of the home of the victim before they met any one who knew of the assault. They went to the home of Mrs. Howell, mother of the little girl, who said that on Thursday of last week three negroes, William Johnson being one of them, came to her house to procure some oil and other necessities. v She remembers that the two other negroes ' J|J left together and she supposed Johnson had gone ahead. . %fi! On Saturday the litle girl complained of '?0 being unwell and the mother says she ;:#?? bathed her with no idea as to the nature of the trouble. The child continued to . complain and on yesterday Dr. Cam was called in. men ine cniia 101a ner story, saying that Johnson had accomplished his parpose while on the premises last Thursday '- Jm and that she had been afraid to telL The negro, who was still in the community, was arrested, it is claimed, and in an effort to escape he was shot in the leg. The sheriff fonnd the negro this morning in the custody of three other negroes, who were holding him until the officers jfg came, and they had no idea of aiding or abetting him but wished to see the law take its course. The negro denies the crime and says he was shot last night without cause by one of the men who afterwards came for ; the sheriff. The negro said he did not expect to be arrested and when he saw the sheriff v supposed he had come to arrest the party who had shot him. The negro bears a bad name in the * community and while everyone believes - him guilty of the crime, all desire that the ^ law take its course. Mass Meeting. A mass meeting should be called and all candidates for mayor and aldermen be called on to estate their views to the voters. Let us know the platforms of candidates by all means. The waterworks and electric lights matter will not enter into the election, as it is already settled so far as council is concerned, they having passed the franchise. The question is now to be voted on by the people at the special election to be held Monday, . Aoril 3rd. -fHSm But we have been going on here for years voting for men for aldermen indiscriminately, not knowing their views or even whether they were candidates or not. If a man wants to be alderman or mayor, he should come out and say so, so the voters will be informed. His views on public matters should also be known, and he should be ready to give them to the taxpayers. Let us have the mass meeting by all means, so candidates can announce themselves and also tell where they stand. Thursday evening, April 6th, would be a good time, in the town hall or court house. What do our tax payers think about the idea ? To Address the Farmers. President E. D. Smith and Secretary F. H. Weston, of the cotton growers' associ tion, will be in Bamberg to-day (Thursday) and will deliver addresses in the court house at eleven o'clock. livery farmer in the county should be present. Both of these gentlemen are very enter* taining talkers, and they will discuss the cotton situtation, a matter in which we are all interested. Every business man, no matter what his line is, shonld attend the meeting and hear the addresses. The Smallpox Situation. One or two more cases of smallpox have developed here during the past week, : - J but these were not in the last few days. The authorities have been acting vigorously in this matter, and it is believed that the worst is no\^over. In fact, the situation has not caused uneasiness at my time, and no scare has existed. But ;hanks to energetic action, we believe irankly that there will be no new cases. Gun CluD organized. Mr. G. Moye Dickinson has interested '-i:M limself in the matter of organizing a gun ;lub, and has secured enough members to nake the organization a certainty. A trap md a number of clay pigeons have been >rdered, and the idea is to have some practice among the sportsmen daring the lummer afternoons when there is nothing loing. An organization meeting will no loubt be held shortly.