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W l y S"-s^r|THF RAMRFPfmFPAl D I"??^ ?, .?J35_??. 1 is, 1 Lv L)AJ'lL>L<I\VJ 1 lUIyrvUL/. csr? '- OfflceHonrs8a.n1.to5p.nl. j Established 1891 ~ BAMBERG, S. C., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1905 One Dollar a Year ^ ? ? ??i ? ? ? ?mmmmm??i?mmmmmMg BURNED TO DEATH. i | * The Sad Fate of Mrs. Ben Willis, in Colleton County. Walterboro, December 7.?News reached here this morning of the death of Mrs. Ben Willis, at her home at Cottageville, resulting from barns received yesterday. It seems that Mrs. Willis was alone at home with a colored woman. She had given the colored woman some money to go to a store to purchase some fruit to make a fruit cake for Christmas, as she expected her absent children to be V at home then. While the colored woman was absent on.the mission Mrs. Willis's - . clothes became ignited and before any thing could be done for .her she was so hnrnfid that death resulted in a few Sp hours. Mrs. Willis was the widow of ? ' Capt. Ben Willis,who died here about two ^ears ago, while sitting on a jury in the rourt houde. She was-a lady of many ^ - friends and justly popular in her comtuunity, and her death -will come as a ' severe shock to all who knew her. Claims Placed on File. Washington, Dec. 9.?W. Boyd Evans, attorney, today filed before the court of C- claims, a claim for soldiers' pay for mem\ hers of the First and Second South Carolina regiments and heavy artillery batf 4 tery in the Spanish-American war, for ;; r^ ; service from time of leaving home till mustering in. K : '? ~ jv As documentary evidence 27 certified company rolls were filed. Mr. Evans J|* learned through Attorneys Calhoun and P | Saizer that the South Carolina soldiers in Sthe marine service are also entitled to this hack pay and wired Adjutant General Frost to request Commander Pinckney to prepare rolls giving dates of . leaving home and actual musterings in. j Applications must be filed by Jan. 1. Sues Conference for Back Salary. ^ ~ V: A decidedly unusual suit is that which has been entered against the Palmetto conference of the African M. E. Zion church by S. T. Meek of this city, who seeks to recover $2,100 back salary. The ^5'- : amount named is what he alleges is still due him on salary, as presiding elder for |r for eight years' seivice from 1896 to 1904. This suit, it is believed, is without a parallel in the history of the church and ** v" and is thonsrht tO be I ; | the result of not being given an appoint- j &y'; ment by Bishop J. S. Caldwell, of Phlla-j lP*t delphia, last year, when the bishop de-1 "$T ctined op account of Meek's not meeting | his personal obligations.?Union Prog-j y.rass. ._> i ^ f/:- A gentleman riding with an Irishman , camo within sight of an old gallows, and, ^ to display his wit, said: r|5^y ' "Pat, do you see that?'' - - t ?Xo be sure Oi do," replied Pat. y&i v "And where would you be if the galBp lows had its due?""Oi'd be riding alone," replied Pat. f ^ Vliegro Slew His Son With a Broomstick. nfcs&v "n w Anderson, Dec. 8?L.I Jordan, a negro \ypy 'who lives on South Fant street, this morning killed bis son, Wesley Jordan, ' a youth 'about 19 years old, with a broomstick. The boy had been unruly and his y:'father started to chastise him, using a broomstick for the purpose. He struck yv the boy a sharp blow across the head and the boy sank into a chair and soon beS&y; came unconscious and died in a few minutes. Jordan sent for a doctor and was working over his son's body trying Kim when thfl nhvsiHftn arrived. (J-j):. %V Itinu uuu novo ?? f?j ?? it The physician says death resulted from a ?y:\ hemorrhage of the brain, caused by the ^ blow. Jordan remained at his house ^ until the deputy sheriff arrived and ar rested him and carried him to jail. It is '0. generally believed that Jordan's story of the killing is correct. i IN MAD"CHASE. Millions rash in mad chase after health when one extreme of faddism to another, f from, if they would only eat good food, and keep their bowels regular with Dr. King's New Life Pills, their troubles ^ would all pass away." Prompt relief and j* quick cure for liver and stomach trouble. 25c at all druggists in Bamberg; Felder ?' & Matthews, Denmark; guaranteed. m Big Dam Salt Again Porfjponed. Union, Dec. 8?The proceedings brought by the Columbia Electric Street Railway, Light and Power Company, which involves important riparian rights and was to permanently enjoin the Union Manufacturing and Power Company from restraining the waters of the Broad river by its big dam at Neals Shoals was not argued to-day before Judge Townsend as expected, presumably because he retires from the circuit bench next Friday and might not have time to render a decision. When, and before whom the hearing will be held is not known to-day as both . President Duncan of the Union Power i Com Dan v and his attorney are away.. *wr ? m FURIOUS FIGHTING (v- "For seven years," writes Geo. WJ Hoffman, of Harper, Wash., "I had abiti - ter battle, with chronic stomach and liver ' tronble, but at last I won, and cured my diseases, by the use of Electric Bitters. I v'. ; . recommend them to all, and don't intend in the future to be without them in the bouse. They are certainly a wonderful , medicine, to have cured such a bad case as mine." Sold, under guarantee to do " the same for you, by all druggists in Bamberg ;Felder& Matthews, Denmark; at . 50c a bottle. Try them today. ; . . . I * <4 IN THE PALMETTO STATE. INTERESTING OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS \ KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA. State News Boiled Down for Quick Reading t Pungent Paragraphs About Men j and Happenings. Edgefield county voted out the dispen- 1 sary last Thursday by a majority of about < two to one. { The election in Saluda county on the { dispensary question is to be held on the . 19th instant. The girls at Winthrop college hissed J the board of trustees recently because the 1 board would not grant a holiday at Christ- i mas. 1 Hamp Smith, assistant town marshal of j Hampton, was shot and killed last Thursday night by three brothers named Cook. \ The men were drinking and the marshal i attempted to arrest them. . i The office of the county treasurer in t Georgetown was broken into Saturday { night but only the cash drawer was broken open and about one hundred pennies stolen. There is no clue to the guilty j party. , Lewis Broughton, a negro, was shot and killed by the chief of police of Greer, Greenville county, last Friday. Broughon was an all round bad negro and that policeman was attempting to arrest him t for selling blind tiger liquor. He opened t fire on the officer first, and fired three > times. ' Mr. M. D. Blackmon, of Columbia, was killed in Lexington county last week by 1 the bursting of a circular saw which was t being used for cutting wood. When the f saw flew to pieces one of the fragments , struck him full in the face and.cutting deep into the brain. He lived only a I short time after the accident. ] Hon. Altamont-Moses died in Sumter ( last week, and was buried in that city j Sunday afternoon. Mr. Moses was one f of the prominent men in public affairs of this State. He had been a member of the e legislature for many years, and was chair- g man of the ways and means committee ? at the time of his death. He was Past ~ Grand Chancellor of the Knights of c Pythias. . t At a special term of court in Williams- * burg county last week, Arthur Williams, Jenkins Burrows, and Robert Scott, all 0 negroes, were convicted of the murder of Mr, Julian Wilson and sentenced to be hanged on January 12th. Mr. Wilson % was murdered in a country store in that t county a short time ago, and the special v term of court was promised. in order to . keep the negroes from being lynched. Williams made a confession. c Brown Johnson, colored, an employe a of the Southern Power Company, engaged in erecting poles between York- t \ille and Clover, was blown almost to , pieces by a discharge of dynamite on 0 Thursday. Johnson was holding a stick a of the explosive in his hand and was sit- d tihg with companions near a fi e The ^ dynamite exploded and caused a box containing a quantity of. the same material 8 standing by to explode also. Johnson c was so badly injured that he died soon f after. Alex Steward was painfully hurt. Others were stunned but escaped injury. The State Supreme Court last week passed an order that J. S. Farnum must ? produce in that court the papers which c he refused to show the dispensary inves- i rrk a /Inf A moo MgttblUK UUUiUllbbUC. UdbU UAWU w?o j last Monday, at which time Farnum's attorney appeared and asked for further 8 time, saying that the papers were in the hands of a man in Georgia, who was now off on a hunt and could not be reached. The court gave him until next Monday to produce the papers. Farnum is a beer dispenser in Charleston, and it is thought these letters, if ever brought to light, will throw much light on dispensary matters. If you want a higher grade buggy than you can find elsewhere, call at G. Frank Bamberg's. That Train to Bamberg. Post E., as told of in The Sunday Herald, is in earnest for better schedule to Augusta, and from what can be learned, will continue to lend every effort to get the Southern to put on a train between this city and Bamberg. Mr. McGee of the Southern, when seen to-day, said he could not yet state if the schedule would be extended, but talked rather favorable about it.?Augusta Herald. One Bonnd of Pleasure. "Ever have a continuous show here?" inquired the advance agent, who had con eluded his business and was waiting for his train, according to the Smart Set. ( "Heck, yes!" promptly replied the land- ? lord of the Prunytown tavern. "It began ? shortly after thin-voiced, stoop-shoulder- \ ed, skimpey little Lester Pinney dyed his j whiskers a gay and rakish black and ad- < vertised for a wife. He got her, all right ] enough, in the person of a broad, com- ( manding-sized widow, with half a dozen t rampant and nncurried children and an ( old maid sister who was, and still is, addicted to the elocution, soulfulness and ( spells and a couple of brothers too able* ( bodied to work except at a dinner table < a nd a miscellaneous collection of mission- i f * aries, sigh-collygists, natural bone-setters 1 delsarte chair-setters, hyp-not-nitists and J other hypochondriconfoundednuisances, ^ who come and go, but seldom fail to keep t the house full, and all the time have ap- c petites like dragons. Lester married to get a helpmeet and got instead a gang of help-hirp-eats. This happened some four j .years ago and is still going on?a con- p tinuous show, for men only, as you might fi say, but contrary to custom, at the same ~ time one with a pretty good sized moral I attached to it, if you just look at it right." I ? c Jollyboy?Well, supposing she did a throw you over because you lost your ? money; there as good fish in the sea as t ever came out of it. I Saddun?I know; hut that's poor con- r eolation for a fellow who has lost his bait, c Mistrial Was Ordered. Columbia, December 6.?The jury in he State House case against Milburn and VIcIlvain-Unkefer Company resulted in a nistrial. After the jury had been out for ,wenty-four hours Judge Gage asked the jury if there was any hope of agreement rhe jury did not think so, but he thought t well after the case bad been before the jourt for nearly two weeks, to take mother try. It was a vain hope and afer noon Judge Gage directed that a misrial be entered, as it was evident that the ^ a/vkaa TKn follr oKrvnf tVio lUijr wuiu uw? ogiw. *?<, range after the jury came out was that i majority of the members of the jury vere in favor of a verdict for damages "or the State agaiDSt Frank P. Milburn md Mcllvain-Unkefer Company, but that s another matter and all that the records lay and all that i3 of moment is that after ;welve days of work the trial resulted in i disagreement of the jury. Q. Frank Bamberg handles the best toggles and wagons, yet the prices ire reasonable. Court at Walterboro. Walterboro, December 6.?The last iwo days of court were taken up in the rial of William Cox, William DeHog, Edward J. Hiott, R. E. Lee, Elliot Macivood. It will be remembered these men vere sent to jail here several months ago iccused of breaking open and stealing rom freight cars on the Atlantic Coast '.tn a Poilmo^ Torino f h OT7 QttomntoH tn JIUU JLIAlXiVaUi A ?? iUV UUVJ uvvvuji^vwm ?v jreak out of the jail, one of them, J. E Tludd, succeeding, and being still at large Juite a number of witnesses were examned and considerable interest was maniested in the trial. The case was conclud:d yesterday and this morning the Judge jave his charge. The jury was out tbout fifteen minutes and returned a verlict of not guilty. jearch for Treasure Near Columbia. Parties living about twelve miles north if the city are telling a rather strange tory concerning a search for $50,000 in ;old supposed to be buried by a paymaser of Sherman's army.' The land on rhich the gold is supposed to be buried 3 owned by Mr. Joseph McGee, of this ity, and, composes a tract of about 1,800 ores. Mr. McGee purchased the land some ime ago and recently inspected the bouniaries. On his drive around he noticed bout a hundred holes of various depths lug and naturally inquired the reason for his work of excavation. It took him / orae time to find out the history of the :ase, but he eventually learned that a man rom the north has been living on propirty adjoining his for about a year and his man has done nothing but dig for fold. The people living in that section >f the country regard him as a harmless unatic, and no doubt the man does not nind this as it lets him go ahead with the earch undisturbed.: Upon investigation it was learned that vhen Sherman left Columbia he marched oward Winnsboro. All along the way he yas worried and harrassed by Hampton's jrigade and a number of skirmishes took ilace. Man from the north now looking lor the gold is said to be one of a party guarding a paymaster once when they sighted some of the men in gray. Rather ihan have the gold captured the paymas;er buried it. In the skirmish that followed several of the Federals were killed and ihe searcher for gold escaped. He afterwards went north and a short ;ime ago managed to get enough money ;o take it easy for some years. He at )uce came here and since then has been ndustriously digging for the $50,000. As proof of the fact that there were a lumber of skirmishes near there a quaniity of brass buttons were recently unearthed. Whether there is that much noney in the ground or not, however, |is mother matter. ttlnner Took Smallpox Bennetttville, Dec. 6.?The smallpox epidemic is creating some anxiety not to lay alarm in some sections of the county, md vaccination is almost universal. A 'ew days ago Mr. James McDaniel died Irom the effects of smallpox. A few days earlier a negro boy by name of Moses Long also succumbed to the loathsome iisease. Several cases now prevail in hat neighborhood; there has been no quarantine or compulsory vaccination. Mr. McDaniel was a prominent farmer, >wner of a public mill and ginnery and contracted the disease by ginning some cotton on which a negro had been sleepng who had the disease, without the knowledge of Mr. McDaniel. Qis head ind body swelled abnormally and friends ind neighbors of course could not jeoparlize the lives of their families, as well as heir own, by rushing into the dreaded Iisease. TORTURE OF A PREACHER. The story of torture of Rev.O. D. Moore, castor of the Baptist church, of Har>ersville,N. Y.,will interest you. He says: T suffered agonies, because of a persistint cough, resulting from grip. I had to ,leep sitting up in bed. I tried many remidies, without relief, until I took Dr. king's New Discovery for consumption, toughs and colds, which cured my cough md saved me from consumption." A ^rand cure for diseased conditions of hroat and lungs. At all druggists in lamberg; Felder & Matthews,Denmark; trice 50c and fl.00, guaranteed. Trial tottle free. COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS. * I SOME INTERESTING HAPPENINGS IN VARIOUS SECTIONS. News Items Gathered All Aronnd < the County and Elsewhere. t Ehrhardt Etchings. j Ehrhardt, December 11.?Messrs. j Frank and Jacob Hiers have hauled the , lumber on the ground for their store 4 building. ] Capt. J. C. Westeriuna win gotounar. < leston today to buy some Christmas j goods for his trade during the Xmas j holidays. He expects to be in his new ] place of business by then. ] C. Ehrhardt & Sons will be in want of , several mill hands at their saw mill plant | for another year. Good prices and good , quarters are furnished their hands. ( Saturday was a damp, cold day, and the ( dispensary did a good business. Lots of colored men were rich enough from the : effect of a half pint to want to buy land, . others were talking about their wealth, ] which amounted to five cents when asked to show up. "Oh, how funny I feel when ( I feel that way," is their song. Mr. A. W. Brabham is busily engaged in a legal contest for some lands in his neighborhood, which caKes an 01 ms spare time, bat he can't give np his cotton farm. Says his top cotton has commenced to open since the last frost. Mrs. M. A. Adams, of Bamberg, passed through town Friday on her way to visit her son, Charlie, who lives in Walterboro. Dr. J. H. Roberts went on a business trip to Rock Hill last week. Mr. Charlie Kinsey has concluded to work for Capt. J. M. Dannelly in his general merchandise store. Dr. J. L. Copeland was the busiest man in town last week. Seems as if every one in the neighborhood wanted some medicine. C. Ehrhardt & Sons have a choice lot of Hawkes' eye glasses.* Don't forget to try them when your eyesight fails you. jee. olston Callings. Colston, December 12.?Mr. T. D. Beard is spending this week in Charleston. He is attending the Masonic grand lodge session. Mrs. Kathleen Watson, of Mt. Carmel, returned home last Sunday, after a week's visit to her father. Rev. 8. P. Chisolm. Master Rice Beard, of Bamberg, visited relatives here Sunday. ^ Cards are out announcing the marriage j of Mr. James Avant to Miss Blanche , Bishop, on December 21st. ( Messrs. H. W. and C. M. Vara visited Bamberg last Monday. , Mr. C. W. Clayton spent last Sunday at Barnwell. Mrs. J. B. All and little son went to Bamberg last Monday. Mr. Hubert Chisolm spant Sunday night at Bamberg. The bird hunters in this sedtion are having plenty of sport these days. Bedding for Horses. It is important that the horse be supplied with warm, dry bedding, in a close, well ventilated stable. A horse kept in a cold damp stable will require fully 25 per cent more feed to keep him in good condition or he must call on his own system to supply the neccessary energy. It is not necessary to have the most expensive stables and modern barns to keep the horse comfortable, for the cheap one can be just as comfortable. Close up the cracks in your stable and you will have gone a long ways towards making it as it should be. The cost of bedding on the average farm is nothing, as there is generally much material which can be used on the farm. This is a good way to make use of a straw stack, or some spoiled hay, which will dsv better to use for bedding than feed. Don't make horses eat what is unfit, and sell the best; the best is none too good for horses. Where Are the Books? There was a hearing in Columbia on Friday, which is regarded as significant, before the legislative committee appointed to check np certain State officials. The object is to discover the fonr missing cash books from Secretary of State Gantt's office covering transactions amounting to many thousands of dollars. These are the books about which there was such a heated controversy at the last sesfi?nn nf the legislature. The committee "4W** ?? has information that these books were i not burned as was intimated. Clerk Mc Cown testified Friday that he was absent ] in Florence when the books got lost, and Clerk McLaurin did not know how the j books got away. Secretary Gantt is sick ] and his examinaion along with that of j Clerk Means, of the sinking fund com- i mission, is deferred until they can be examined together. A FEARFUL FATE. It is a fearful fate1 to have to endure ( the terrible torture of piles. 'T can t truthfully sav," writes Hany Colson, of j Masonville, la., "that for blind, bleeding, itching and protruding piles, Bucklen s Arnica Salve is the best cure made." Also best for cuts, burns and injaries. 25c at all druggists in Bamberg; Felder & Mat- 1 thews, Denmark. 1 CAN'T HANDLE SKUNK SKINS. ft F. D. Carrier Musi Cut Out Offensive Side Business. Washington, Dec. 12.?A man can not sell polecat skins and deliver the United States mail from the same wagon at the same time without getting in trouble with (he postoffice department. This was es jihlished when Mr. De Graw. the fourth assistant postmaster general, received a I complaint from a farmer living at Little Hocking, Washington county, Ohio, who declares that the rural free delivery carrier who brings his letters and newspapers disposes of'polecat skins as a side line. The complainant further says that his letters and newspapers exude a very disagreeable odor as a result of this contact with the skins, and that he thinks the department should make the carrier cut out the side line or resign from the government service. The rules of the department allow a rural carrier to carry on other business, provided it does not interfere with his mail deliveries, and Mr. De Graw is trying to figure out whether this is a sufficient "interference." Jury in State House Case. The jury in the State house case appears to have been quite talkative. Some of the members of the jury have suggested that if they had been more restricted that a verdict might have been rendered, rhe attitude of the jury seems to have been an entire surprise to the community, rhe surprise was two-fold, but particularly that a majority of the jury shouid aave been in favor of a verdict for ?65,000. This is talk from the jury room ind may or may not be worth much, but ;he talk that has been circulated as coning from the jury room is that eight of ;he jurors were in favor of a verdict of ?65,-000 for the State; that one stood for i nominal verdict, and that after very ong and very acrimonious discussion the ofeman of the jury made a tentative offer io agree to a nominal verdict, which night approximate the cost of a second irial, and that two of the members of the jury would consent to no verdict, and ind that these two bitterly opposed a rerdict of any sort, and that they would lever have consented to even a one cent rerdict.?A. K. in News and Courier. A New Excuse. \ There was a man in Atlanta, says the Woman's Home Companion, who once suspected a negro in his employ of tampering with the* contents of his wine cellar, especially with a certain brand of whiskey. The employer decided to adopt measures to verify his suspicions. He allowed the demijohn holding his "private stock" to become empty; then, instead of refilling it, he placed his petbrand in bottles, labeling each one "poison." One evening on returning home suddenly he caught his servant "in flagrante delicto." Seizing the bottle from the darkey's hand the Atlanta man exclaimed in a 'tone of terror, "Great heavens, Sam! Do you know what you have been doing? This bottle is marked 'poison!'" The negro took the bottle and surveyed it closely. Then he sniffed at it. A melancholy smile flitted over his dnsky countenance. "'Tain't pizen, sab," he said, dejectedly. "I'se been fooled ag'in." "Fooled again?" repeated the master indignantly. "What do you mean?" "Well, 8ah," continued the darkey In the same tone of depression: "It am dis way. I knowed from de fust, from the way you acted 'bout dat demijohn, dat you had yo' suspishuns of me, an' dat sho made me feel pretty blue. I got distressed an' didn't care. Why, sah, fo' most two weeks now I'se been trying to commit suicide outer dat bottle." ^ y How to Treat Your Town. Praise it. Improve it. Talk about it. Write about it. Trade at home. Tell of its business resources. Tell of its natural advantages. Trade and induce others to trade here. When strangers come to town use them well. Don't call your best friends frauds and impostors. Support the local institutions that benefit your town. Look ahead of yourself when all the town is to be considered. Don't forget you live on the people here, and you should help others as they help you. Don't advertise in the local paper "to +V.O nmnriotnr " hnt tn heln vonrself. UCip kuv/ -r y Let's get together and keep things moving, hustling all the time; cheerfully keeping a stiff upper lip waiting for the good time coming for the old town. Let's Lry it. Do it now. The Cotton Market. The price of cotton is still going higher. The price being paid in Bamberg ioday (Wednesday) is 11 3-8 cents the jound, while the receipts of the week are ibout 175 bales or more. If you want a higher grade buggy than you can find elsewhere, call at G. Prank Bamberg's. A PITIFUL ACCIDENT. Little Child Killed, While Crossing Tracks, by Passenger Train. One of the most pitiful accidents thai has occurred in this section happened Thursday about three miles above the city, this side of Felton's bridge, when the only child of Mr. and Mrs. Harmon Thompson was killed by the passenger train due here at 10 o'clock. The engine was in charge of Engineer Hughes and was running on regular time. The track at that place is perfect' ly straight and a considerable grade coming this way. There are high weeds on both sides of the track at the place where . the accident occurred, and the first Engineer Hughes saw was a dog cross the track just in front of the engine and immediately the child started to follow his dog. The train was so close by this time that no earthly do wer could have stoDDed it in time to save the child, and it was terribly crushed by the heavy wheel*The train was stopped but nothing could ' v.* be done for the innocent little fellows Death was instantaneous. " Mr. Thompson, the father, was at his " . * mother-in-law's, Mrs. Luther J. Burriss, when the accident occurred, and was . soon reached by phone, when he hurried gj! home to find his child, whom he had left \-ity only a short time before in health and v happiness, now cold in* death. Mr. Thompson is a son of Mr. Bob Thompson of the Lebanon section, and his wife is a daughter of the late Luther * -1 j J. Burriss. They had been married about > : four years, and this was their only child, and was about three years old. Another sad feature is the mother hat y been very unwell for some months, and confined to her bed a great deal of the * y time and was unable to give the child her company and care as she would like to > t have done. 9 The Thompsons lived close to the rail-- ^ | road at the old D. M. Drennan place. Anderson Advocate. "" { ;: ^ Home Wedding. VvJi Miss Lillian Bellinger and Mr. W. L . Faulkner, of Augusta, were quietly mar- [ ried at the home of the bride's parents, ^ Mr. and Mrs. John R. Bellinger, in this * ' & city last Wednesday evening. Rev. 8* Uarey iSecKwitn, 01 Aisen, rector 01 me Episcopal v church, was the officiating, minister. . The bride and groom left on the evening train for Augusta, where they will make their home. Mr. Faulkner is k * traveling salesman, representing the Nixon Grocery Company, of Augusta, in this territory, and is well and favorably , known to many people in this section. The bride is a young woman of the most admirable traits of character, and she is deservedly popular among a very large circle of friends here and elsewhere. Indeed her husband is to be congratulated, snd we, in common with all who know I S her, wish for her a long life of happiness*- ; She is a very fine woman, and we regret % that her home is to be elsewhere than in V # Bamberg. ?* mim ' ?? Punswav Horses. > ' ' Wn I There were three runaways on Hals street this week, one every day for Sunr I'qJ day, Monday, and Tuesday. Mr. Bipat- ^ ? ^ Brickie's horse ran away Sunday and . - dashed up on the sidewalk in front of Rhoad's store. Mr. J. P. Murphy was passing and he was pushed violently against the show window, breaking it* Nobody was hurt much. Tuesday after- 'r.( noon the same horse ran away again, and - rS broke up the buggy against a tree near $ Pearlstine's store. Mr. Brickie and- the v negro who was driving were both braised f *-~h up some. / .-Jil Monday afternoon a house belonging - <; to Black & Black ran into a wagon and > % demolished one wheel of the road cart to which he was being driven, but nobody . | was hurt. : v ^ ? Dispensary Matters.'. J/j Columbia, December 13.?-An effort was made today'to keep the Anderson dispensary open under injunction proceedings, as was done in Greenville and Spartanburg. The Anderson case was * argued before the supreme court today. Woo arc Rp|]!nm>r and Welsh aDDCaTOd and asked that a temporary injunction be granted restraining the county board of Andferson from closing the dispensaries which had been voted oat. The asnal grounds of argument were used and the court postponed a decision in the matter. The dispensary committee will prob- <* ably hold a meeting next Monday to plan farther work before the Legislature meets. Monday is the day the Farnum papers will be brought into the Courts^, and some interesting developments are expected. ? :sS ? To Baise Cigar Company's Taxes. Columbia, December 7.?The Comp- / trolJer General has raised the assessment of the American Cigar Company under the license law of this State from a return of $174,200 to $812,739. This raise was made as a result of the investigations made by the Comptroller on the business done, in this State, and will result in considerable more license taxes being paid in. It is probable that the company will take the case into the courts. ........ ---