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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.
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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.
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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.
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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."
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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.
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
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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,
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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. (
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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.