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s&k'y: *" !$ m?:- V" !^THE BAMBERG HERALD.BH office Honrs 8 ? m. to 5 p. m. ^ ^ |'Phone 4, Bamberg, S C I ^ Established 1891 BAMBERG, S. C., THURSDAY, JANUARY 18, 1906 - One Dollar a Year &vi = ASSAULTED A CHILD. vrr-'- Young Newberry Negro Charged With a Heinous Crime. Newberry, Jan. 10.?Clarence Butler, a negro about 17 years old* was brought to jail here last night by Sheriff M. M. 4 Buford, charged with felonions assault. The victim is a negro child about 7 years old, daughter of Louis Jesse, living on the plantation of Mr. Jno. R. Spearman, near Silver Street. The crime is alleged to have been committed on Tuesday evening about 5 o'clock. The child was in the house alone. Her cries were heard : - and some of the people on the plantation . hastened to her rescue and saw a man .1* -?v- .'v running from the house. The child at once told the story of the assault and it is said that an examination corroborated her statements. Mr. Spearman telephoned to Sheriff Buford, and yesterday, v, with a warrant issued on the information of the father of the child, by Magistrate Cannon Blease, he went in search of his man. He found him at Saluda Oldtown yesterday evening and brought him to S ^ jail here. It-iSheriff Buford is being congratulated today on toe swiftness of the capture. To the promptness and skill with which he has always discharged the duties of his office, as in this case, many attribute the good order of the county, and the in^ V;'V frequency of serious crime. g - Bobert Wilson Comedian with Barlow & Wilson's min,'|f $' itrels, which will appear at the Bamberg V' - - opera house Tuesday evening, Jan. 23rd. What Became of the Change. Gen. Chaffee was once ed by asked soldier to lend him a quarter. I "Didn't you receive your month's pay I jpH , ' yesterday?" asked the general. "Yes," said the veteran. "Where's your money now?" V^V "Why I left the post and crossed the ? < terry with $15.50. I met a friend and we > , had dinner. The bill was $8.00. Then I L - bought $1.00 worth of cigars; then we went to the theatre for $4.00. After the theatre we went down to the Bowery and Ispent $3.00 there." j. "That makes $15.00," said the general. "What became of the other fifty cents?" > / The old soldier seemed puzzled, and finilly said: kk/ "Why,I must have spent that foolishly." GREATLY IN DEMAND. W Nothing is more in demand than a F medicine which meets modern require* W ,, ments for a blood and system cleanser, ; such as Dr. King's New Life Pills. They / are just What you need to cure stomach and liver troubles. Try them.' At J. B. t Black's sfid H. F. Hoover's. 25c, guar* i . anteed.^ v m Circumstances Alter Cases. I; V ; My maid, Norah, went to consult afortune teller, and returned wailing dismally. ' | v"Did she predict some great trouble?" 't)~ I asked sympathetically. "Och, mem, sich tirrible news!" moan* I ' ' ed Norah, rocking back and forth wring* y ;f ing her hands. V; "Tell me," I said, wishing to comfort 1.1 , - y we ?1X1. 6 "She tould me thot me father works V hard shovelin' coal an' tindin' foires fer W mttviaV p i "Bat that's no disgrace nor sorrow," t * 1 said, a trifle vexed at such affectation. "Och,mem,me poor father!" sobbed North. "He's bin dead these nine years." u A Thoughtful Husband. ; %,. What is more touching at the holiday ^ v season than to see an old man planning t ? w a pleasant surprise for his aged wife? "Ts tryin' ter raise money enough ter - ' git my wife a new dress for Christmas, sah," said Uncle Ebony to Mr. Feather^ r atone. "Ah, I see. You want me to give you some chores to do, uncle, eh?" "Well, no, sah, I t'ought perhaps you could git de old lady a job at washing 1 sah!" v ^ ~ An American spends on an average $50 a year for food, a Frenchman $48, a Ger i man $45, a Spaniard $33, an Italian $24 ft a Russian $40. The American eats 109 inds of meat a year, the Frenchman pounds, the German 64 pounds, the lan 38 pounds and the Russian 51 nds. Of bread the American conies 380 pounds, the Frenchman 550 nds, the German 560 pounds, the Span1480 pounds, the Italian 400 pounds, the Russian 655 pounds. 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. A negro driver was held up on the streets of Greenville by two white men in broad daylight last Friday, and robbed of $26.20. The men escaped. | Mr. Geo. W. Branson, Jr., who was I in Oranrrohnrrr la tfl hA tllft tlfiW A OlDV/U 1U ViaUgWUAg) <w ?v W ?w.. editor of the Greenville News. He has been editing a daily paper in Wilmington. N.C. C. M. Weatherly, a prominent citizen of Beunettsville, died last Friday. He was 65 years old, and leaves a fortune estimated at $200,000. He was clerk of court of Marlboro county for 16 years. Mr. J. T. Parks has sold the Orangeburg Patriot to Mr. J. H. Funderburg, who is now the editor. Mr. R. H. Covar remains with the paper as business manager and foreman of the mechanical department. I Mr. Browning, of Union, has introduced a bill in the legislature to abolish the dispensary and providing for elections in every county to decide the question of prohibition or high license. No license to be granted for less than $5,000 a year. Mr. J. C. Garlington, who for years was editor of the Spartanburg Herald, but recently has been compiling Confederate rolls, with headquarters in Colum bia, has returned to Spartanburg as chief editorial writer of the Spartanburg Journal. The Carolina Field, which has been published at Georgetown for the last few months, edited by James Henry Rice, has been discontinued. The directors of the company, at a meeting last week, decided to discontinue the paper and advertise the plant for sale. The State supreme court has decided that the Brice law is constitutional. The decision is a unanimous one. The court decided that the only unconstitutional part of the law was the rider put on by the dispensary advocates, which provided that counties voting out the dispensary should not share in the profits for the schools. Jenkins Burrows and Arthur Williams, two of the three negroes recently convicted in Williamsburg county for the murder of Mr. Julian Wilson, were hanged in Kingstree last Friday. Both protested their innocence to the last. Williams claimed that Burrows and Robert Scott committed the crime. Scott was granted a respite by Governor Hey ward. A Bead Beat The trolley car was crowded, a number of passengers finding precarious foothold upon the running-board. It had proceeded quite a distance before the conductor could complete his fare collecting round. Suddenly a woman caught hold of hie arm and cried, excitedly: "Conductor! A man has fallen off the car!" UI know it, ma'am," was the cool reply. "I hadn't got his fare. Some folks will go any length to beat the company!" A FIghy Affair. The newspaper controversy between D. H. Means, clerk of the sinking fund commission, and Jesse T. Gantt, late private secretary to secretary of 8tate M. R. Cooper and present secretary of State, is calculated to make the people sit up and pay attention. As the Newberry Observer says the gist of the whole thing is that there has probably been "graft" in the secretary's office. It looks that way, though the proof is only circumstantial and inferential. Five books of the office are missing?said to have been destroyed by a very mysterious fire in the secretary's office?a fire that seems to have known precisely where these books were and to ? -V I 9 ' nave gone ior mem ana scarcely anyinmg else. Fonr of the books were books of original entry, in which Mr. Gantt, while private secretary and afterwards as secretary of State, entered the charter fees of office; the other was a book kept by Mr. Means himself showing fees turned over to him. Mr. Means explanation of the books puts Mr. Secretary Gantt in a very awkward position before the public. Mr. Gantt replies that Mr. Means is an "enemy" and is trying to injure him. There will likely be some revelations by an investigating committee before the matter is ended. South Carolina cannot afford to let official scandals like this be fought out in the newspapers. A thorough and impartial investigation is needed and there is reason to hope that the whole affair will be sifted to the bottom. 4 n-nrir mn 4 n-nrkvr J\. 1 XVAUXii^ 1 is daily enacted, in thousands of homes, as death claims, in each one, another victim of consumption or pneumonia. But when coughs and colds are properly treated, the tragedy is averted. F. G. Huntley, of Oaklandon, Ind., writes: "My wife had consumption and three doctors gave her up. Finally she took Dr. King's New Discovery for consumption, coughs and colds, which cured her, and today she is well and strong." It kills the germs of all diseases. One dose relieves. Guaranteed at 50c and $1.00 by J. B. Black and H. F. Hoover. Trial bottle free. GIVEN FIFTEEN YEARS. An Orangeburg Negro Convicted of an At* tempted Assault Orangeburg, Jan. 10.?In the court of general sessions yesterday, William Livingston, a negro about 18 years of age, pleaded guilty of an attempt to assault Mrs. Caroline Meyers and was sentenced to serve 15 years at hard labor in the penitentiary. Several weeks ago Mr. John F. Meyers, who lives below Branchville, in company with several of his neighbors, surrendered the negro to Magistrate A. S. Dukes, at Branchville, charged with an attempt to assault Mrs. Meyers. It was also said at the time that the other members of the crowd had wanted to lynch the negro, but Mr. Meyers insisted that the law be allowed to take its course. Mr. Dukes, the magistrate, was the only witness before the grand jury and when the case was called the negro promptly pleaded guilty, though he denied, in response to questions from the judge, that he laid hold of the woman or even had designs on her. He said he only returned to the house for another bucket of slops for the pigs, having fallen down and spilled the first one. The negro did not appear to be of sound mind and many who heard his replies are of the opinion he did not realize what his plea of guilty meant. There was not an unusual crowd in the court room and no excitement manifested, but Sheriff Dukes, out of an abundance - ^ J n/\ ( ftVan f A OI UaULIULl, Jiau bUC UC^IU ia&cu bu tut penitentiary by the first train. District Attorney Capers in Trouble. Washington, January 10.?President Roosevelt, it is stated on the best authority, has told District Attorney Capers that he will not be appointed to the Judgeship in case provision for a new Federal judge for South Carolina is made by Congress. There is some doubt, also, about Mr. Capers being reappointed to the position he now holds. The term of District Attorney Capers ended on December 16. There has as yet been no reappointment, for the reason that an investigation is being made by an agent of Attorney General Moody into certain charges made against Mr. Capers. At the department of justice it is acknowledged that formal charges have been filed affecting the efficiency and character of Mr. Capers. What these are, or who filed them, the department will not disclose. They are of a character, however, calling for investigation, and this is under way. It is the President's purpose to reappoint Mr. Capers to his present position, unless this investigation should disclose facts that make such reappointment impossible. SICKENING SHIVERING FITS ' of ague and malaria, can be relieved and cured with Electric Bitters. This is a pure, tonic medicine; of especial benefit in malaria, for it exerts a true curative influence on the disease, driving it entirely out of the system. It is much to be preferred to quinine, having none of this drug's bad after effects. E. S. Munday of Henrietta, Tex., writes: "My brother was very low with malarial fever and jaundice, till he took Electric Bitters, which saved his life. At J. B. Black's and H. F. Hoover's; price 50c, guaranteed. Stack to His Theory. Arthur E. Boswick, the head of the circulation department of New York's free libraries, tells this story to the New York Tribune about a German professor of Jena, who belonged to the Haecklin School: "The professor got shipwrecked off a tropical island. As soon as the.ship struck the old gentleman leaped overboard and swam ashore. "But no sooner was he on dry land than he turned and plunged into the water again, and swam back to the ship. "He seized his stout wife in his arms, leaped headlong overboard, and, despite his burden, again reached shore in safety, i "There the captain, who had already landed, said t6 him an amazed tone: " Why didn't you save your wife the first time?' " " * Ah,' said the professor, with a satis, fied smile, T was bound to save myself first, you know. Self-preservation is nature's highest law.'" Don't encourage that boy in his idea that he has enough schooling before he , has finished a common high school course. Keep him going even at the expense of some rather stringent urging. The successful man of the future must be an educated man. Things have changed since you were a boy and are changing more rapidly now than -ever before. The chances for the plug man are disappearin a so frive vour bov education enough "~?> O * ~ ? to raise him out of that class. . Pension Notice. " I will be in the Auditor's office every Saturday in January, 1906, from 10 o'clock, a. m., until 2 o'clock p. m., for the purpose of writing up and preparing applications for those that wish to go before the county pension board, which meets the first Monday in February, 1906. All those that are already on the pension roll will please report in person or by mail. C. R. Clayton, Pension Commissioner. COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS. SOME INTERESTING HAPPENINGS IN VARIOUS SECTIONS. News Items Gathered All Around the County and Elsewhere. Ehrhardt Etchings. Ehrhardt, January 15.?Quite an unusual quantity of cotton seed were banled to town last week. Messrs. Mitcbum "Rrns handled them for the farmers. Mrs. Fannie Copeland and Mrs. Maud Farrell left last Thursday forBranchville, to spend some time with their sister, Mrs. Emma Appleby. Dr. J. H. Roberts left for Barnwell Sunday, where he will take the train for his new home in Rock Hill, on Monday or Tuesday. Mr. Joel. Copeland, from near Midway, was in town Saturday, on business. The force of brick masons will start work on the bank building today. Messrs. Frank and Jacob Hiers have the frame of their store up. S<>me tramps came to town last week, some begging for ntoney and others something to eat. Mr. B. B. Hutson, who has been sick with lagrippe for a few days, is able to be out again. Mr. Charley Taylor, of Williams, and Miss Sophia Carter were married by Rev. T. L. Belvin at Ehrftardt Methodist parsonage last Thursday afternoon. Miss Lula Belvin is spending some time with relatives and friends at Cheraw. Mr. G. J. Herndon is having his dwelling beautified by the paint brush, in the hands of Mr. M. A. Hoover. Mr. R. W. D. Rowell spent two days in fatiniv rntiirnfl H-laH UUI lUWil iOOb laaiu^, tvvuiuw. vi?v.?t to shake his hand. Colston Dots. Colston, January 16.?Our farmers are busy hauling fertilizers now, and the roads are in a very bad condition. Miss Mattie Valentine spent last Sunday with Miss Bessie Chitty, of Olar. We are glad to report that Mrs. H. Z. McMillan is improving from a recent attack of sickness. Mrs. Mary Beard will give a birthday dinner at her home on next Tuesday, January 23rd, and everybody is cordially invited to attend with well filled baskets. Rev. and Mrs. S. P. Chisolm returned last Sunday from a trip to Savannah, Ga. Mr. Ben McMillan, of Colleton county, and Miss Amanda Bishop, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Bishop, were happily united in marriage at the home of the bride last Sundav afternoon at three o'clock, Rev. P. fi. Monroe officiating. We extend to them our good wishes. R. L. B. Notes From Allendale Allendale, January 10.?The Rev. J. D. Hoggins, Jhe new pastor of the Baptist Church, has arrived and assumed his duties. The Presbyterians now have a resident pastor.the Rev. S. C. Caldwell, formerly of Waiterboro. Mr. J. G. Stoney is erecting a handsome residence on the edge of town. The National Chemical Company, of Allendale, have put up a mixing plant in connection with the Seaboard Cotton Oil Company's plant here, and will manufacture and mix fertilizer this season. With the advent of the new year the usual amount of moving about is noticeable. Most of the moving this year is into instead of out of Allendale and unfortunately for the growth of the town, there are not sufficient residences to accommodate the demand. It is greatly to be hoped that some of the money citizens will erect in the near future a lot of comfortable cottages, for rent. Mr. J. N. Walker, of Appleton, who has recently purchased a beautiful home and taken up his residence in Aiienaaie, nas opened sal eatables and merchandise business on Main street. Mr. T. R.Erwin and family, of Macon, Ga., has come to Allendale to stay. , Country Correspondence. Already the farmers have begun their preparations for the year, and may they realize this a very profitable year. Mr. J. W. Hill has just purchased a new boiler and had his sawing plant rehauled and is now better prepared to serve the public. Dr. W. A. Hanberry, of Denmark, was Mr. O. P. Jordan's guest Sdnday. To Supervisor E. C. Bruce and overseer C. K. Smoak, we return many grateful thanks for some good work on Lemon Swamp crossing on Ehrhardt and Bamberg road. It has been in almost impassable condition, for some time. Why can't it be thoroughly worked and clayed, as the majority of the roads in the county have been ? The regular preaching day at Bethesda Baptist church is on the second Sunday in each month. Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Sandifer have moved to Ehrhardt. The schools in our vicinity, Hampton and Sassafras, respectively, are on a boom now. Attempt to Wreck Train. There was an attempt to wreck the west bound passenger train in this city last Friday night. This train passes here about eight o'clock, going to Augusta, and at a point on Kauroad Avenue, in the center of the residence portion of the town, some scoundrels bad placed an old railroad rail across the track. This rail was so heavy that one man could not manage it. and this shows conclusively that there must have been two men or more concerned in the affair. The cow catcher on the front of the engine'picked up the rail and carried it some distance, and it did not get under the wheels of the engine. No damage was done, but it was a dastardly attempt which will call for severe punishment if the guilty parties should be caught. A detective for the railroad has been here at work on the case, and it is to be hoped the right men will be prosecuted for the crime. A VERY GENIAL FRIEND. His Last Words to a Fair Travelling Companion. The late Col. John 8. Linehan, of Concord, N. H., insurance commissioner of that state, told many good stories. One he liked to tell was of a genial friend who never waited for an introduction to any one, bat made friends in his own jovial way. One day this man boarded the train at Concord to ride to Lowell. The only vacant seat was beside a rather distin - - - s s? guished looking woman 01 miaaie age. Col. Linehan's friend dropped into this, and, in spite of the fact that the lady disdainfully drew her skirts away from him, at once tried to enter into conversation by making comments on the weather. The woman condescended no reply except a freezing stare*, and, after repeating the attempt several times, the Concord man relapsed into silence, and finally drowsed off, with his head against the back of the seat. When train reached Lowell he was wakened by the cry of the brakeman, and hastily gathered bis belongings together to leave the car. Glancing at his seat mate, he observed that she also had entered the land of slumber. The chance was too good to resist, so he leaned over, gave her a gentle poke in the ribs, and said, genially: "I wanted to say goodby, madam, as it may be a long time before you and I sleep together again." Then be stalked out of the car, followed by a roar of laughter from those in the vicinity of the seat, and leaving the woman in a dazed conditions-Boston Herald. _ Lawrence Barlow. ^F jJH Among -the varying styles of negro mimicry the work of Lawrence Barlow stands oat as a distinctive creation in comedy work. His jokes are pungent, his repartee quietly droll, his gestures full of suppressed fun, and his every action laughable. Mr. Barlow's style of portrayal belongs to the modern school, and is particularly pleasing to the fastidious theatre-goers, from the fact that he avoids any suggestion of coarseness or "horse-play." In song and story Mr. Barlow is a bubbling font. of clean, sparkling wit and melody. Peals of laughter invariably follow his clever sallies; bis humor is choice and piquant, and of a quality which leaves his audience hungering for more. As a clean mirthful artist, his work leaves nothing to be desired, as he has no superior in bis chosen profession as a fun- maker. Mr. p"'? thQ Termor /?nmpHiar> in "Ra.r.1 UOAAUTT AO bUV ^/AVkuav* ???? ? . _ low & Wilson's Minstrels, which appear at Bamberg opera house, Tuesday evening, January 23rd. New Advertisements. . J. L. Phillips?CottOD Seed. Mrs. Alice E. Hightower?Citation for Letters of Administration on Estate of Robert L. Hightower. The dispensary was voted out of Laurens county last week by a small majority. It's good for the sick and well and excellent for the young and well. All doctors recommend 8HAWS PURE MALT. For sale at the Dispensary. Some Samples of Spelling. A Jersey City druggist is making a collection of the queer orders he receives from people who send children to the store for things. Here are a few samples of them. "This child is my little girl. I sent you five cents to buy sitless powders for a groan up adult who is sike Another reads: "Dear Doctor, pies gif barer five sense worse of Auntie Toxyne for to gargle babi's throte and obleage." An anxious mother writes: <(You will please give the lettle boi five cents worth of apeac for to throw up in a five months old babe. B.?The babe has a sore stnmmick." i This one puzzled the druggist. "I have a cote pain in my child's diagram. Please give my son something to release it" Another anxious mother wrote: "My little babeyhas eat up it's father's parish plasther. Send an antedote as quick as possible by the enclosed little girl." ' This writer was evidently in pain: "I haf a hot time in my insides and wich I would like it to be extinguished. What is good for to extinguish it? The enclosed quarter is for the price of the extinguisher. Hurry, please." SPOILED HER BEAUTY. Harriet. Howard, of W. 34th St., New York, at one time had her beauty spoiled with skin trouble. She writes: "I had salt rheum or eczema for years, but nothing would cure it, until I used Bucklen's Arnica Salve." A quick and sure healer for cuts, burns and sores. 25c at J. B. Black's and.H. F. Hoover's. The Big Company of Comedians With Barlow & Wilson's Minstrels. There lives to-day no man with a keener perception of the truly artistic comedy than Barlow & Wilson. True humor haa not only been a gift, bnt a study, with Messrs. Barlow & Wilson, who belie?# ! that in real humor there is something i higher than mere amusement?something that touches the heart, refreshes the soul and improves the intellect. They believe that he who has by bead and hand lightened an ounce weight of the load of human misery, has not disappointed the purpose of his creation. For these reasons Barlow & Wilson always exercise the greatest care in selecting the big com- < pany of comedians who are one of the leading features of the Barlow & Wilson mmsireis. . .. , ... y > , :* Headed by the greatest living delinea- ? tor of the negro character and dialect, Lawrence Barlow, the company of fun- / , makers also includes Jimmie Kennedy, of whom it has been truly said "To aeeT v J him is to experience a sensation of uncontrollable merriment," and Ted Prim- _ J rose, who, as a fixture of the Barlow & ' Wilson minstrels has created a tidal wave of laughter from ocean to ocean by U$ his original witticisms and his inimitable ' \ way of expressing them. Others of. this happy band whose mission in life, is to < - ^ make others laugh, are: Tommy Snaggs, Pat Boyle, Jimmie Hamlin, Billie Wilson and Tom Barlow, all of whom have acquired individual reputations in their ; own distinct lines of lightening the cares - ^ of others by merry jests and infectious , smiles. Barlow & Wilson's minstrels appear at Bamberg opera house,Tuesday y-J evening, January 23. , Handsome Gift to Chnreh. At the morning service of the Metho- ^ dist church last Snnday, Rev. Peter h . Stokes, ) the pastor, presented to the * church two handsome collection plates, the same being a gift from Dr. George ; Douglas Rouse. A motion was made . and passed that the thanks of thecongre- " gat ion be returned to Dr. Ronse, and on Mondav Pastor Stokes wrote a note to Dr. Boose, extending the sincere thanks **4*3 of the congregation for the handsome ' gift. The plates are indeed "handsome ones, and in keeping with the elegant appointments of the new church. Cashier Elected. A meeting of directors of the Peoples Bankwas held Monday afternoon. Mr. W. Paul Biley, who has been secretary of the cotton mills for a number of years, was elected cashier of the bank, his services to commence the first of August v;; Mr. Biley is a fine book-keeper ana an excellent business man, and his election will give general satisfaction. * A builaing committee, consisting of. v <:-? Jno. F. Folk, N. P. Smoak, and Jones A. Williams, was appointed to have charge of tne erection of the bank build- $4 ing, and work will begin as early as possible. ' v? . 1 * Pythian District Meeting. '. 7, To the Pythian Lodges in District Np. . M 3, Grand Domain of South Carolina* Greeting: We are rapidly ending the r 43rd year of our existence with gratify* . ing accomplishments for the good of . humanity, and ajost pridein (he class of manhood enrolled under our banners.!" Much remains to be done, for our numbers are increasing in organized lodges, and in almost every hamlet in our country. New lodges are seeking organize tion, ana increasing namoers increases responsibility. The time, for our next . > district meeting has been fixed for February 16tb, and upon the invitation of Blackville Lodge, No. 18, we will meet with them. Let every lodge be fully" fully represented, with a full report of . its workings in every detail. As hereto-,., fore, we will have a public meeting at , . 11 o'clock a. m., addressed by Dr. J. H. Thornwell, G. K. R. and S.?the public generally, and especially the ladies -are cordially invited to attend. At 7.80 p. m. the district lodge will meet in the Castle Hall of Blackville Lodge, No. 18, to %? tend to the business of the district meeting. All Pythians in good standing can . -< be admitted, as in any Pythian lodge;-, meeting. All knights are. eligible as >.<:<:1 ' delegates, but the law requires'that if it " " , is possible the V. C. of each lodge must yy' ? be one of the delegates. Each lodge is entitled to one delegate for every twenty- ' five members, and fractional part thereof.,. Let each lodge send the names of its delegates as soon as they are elected to the K. R and 8. of Blackville Lodge, . No. 18, at Blackville, 8. C. Where will the next district meeting beheld? Who will you elect district deputy grand chancellor? ^ Fraternally yours, James B. Guess, D. D. G. C. Denmark, 8. C., January 6tb, 1906.. ' . .. R. P. Searson has been confirmed by the United States Senate as postmaster at Allendale. . - > Representative B. A. Morgan, of Green. V 3 _ 1 1 1*11 _ viile, nas mtroaucea a locai opiion oiu ui the legislature, and th6 eommittee, to whom it was referred, has given it a favorable report. Still it is said the friends of . the dispensary are confident that (he present system will be continued. It is hard to predict what the legislature will do, but we believe the dispensary will be killed?if not by the legislature, certainly by the people. i