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Established 1891 BAMBERG, S. C., THURSDAY, JULY 26, 1906 One Dollar a Year
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INTERESTING OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS
KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA.
State News Boiled Down for Quick Reeding
Pungent Paragraphs About Men
4 and Happenings.
The State Alliance committee 'will meet:
in annual session at the Leydon hotel in j
Columbia on July 25th. This is the 19th
annual session of the alliance.
At the opening sales of the Mullin's
tobacco market on July IS, there were
74,000 pounds sold at an average price of
six and a half cents per pound.
George Langston, a negro employed in
the Virginia Carolina Chemical Company's
factory at Greenville, was mashed
to death in the crusher last Friday.
The Camperdown cotton mill, of Greenville,
was struck by lightning last Thursday
and set on fire. The mill and stock
were damaged to the extent of ?10,000.
'r,,, woe cl?rkt anri instant- !
XilUCIb .
* iy killed last Thursday by G. Wash J
Hunter over a game of cards near Goldyille
in Laurens county. Both -were
i prominent young white men.
A call for a State convention of the
Republican party of South Carolina has !
been' issued by State Chairman E. H.
Deas. The convention will be held in
' % Columbia on Wednesday, August Sth.
It is reported that the Walterboro cot#
ton mills has awarded a contract for adV
; ditional machinery that will largely in)
crease its spindliage. The present equip"i
iinent consists of 6500 spindles and 275
looms.
Sam Sharp, a twelve-year-old white boy,
was killed last Wednesday by the acci*
dental discharge of a gun in the hands of
his uncle, D. T. Sharp. The killing occurred
12 miles from Columbia on the
Winnsboro road.
|&Vr;' The lawyers of Aiken have failed to
ask for an immediate trial for Ike Knight,
the negro " ho assaulted Mrs. Chapin near
Aiken, but the citizens -of Aiken have
gotten up a petition asking for an immediate
trial of Knight.
Associate Justice Woods has rendered
a decision sustaining the action of the
?s State board of education in creating a
central depository for school books. The
r r.l. Bryan Company, of Columbia, has
been awarded the central depository.
|V Mr. Isaac Callahan, who died several
creeks ago at his home in Anaerson \
county left his estate, after making a number
of small legacies, to Connie Maxwell
Orphanage of Greenwood. The bequest
will amount to between $10,000 and $15,000.
> The newly constructed foundry build?
ing of the ' Russell-Compton Machine
' Company, at Spartanburg, collapsed and
eeriously injured Tom Mayfield, one of
the workmen on the building. The
: V building is a complete wreck and will
entail a loss of about $2,000.
J. M. Way, who shot and killed J. D.
Palmer in Orangeburg recently, has been
granted bail by Judge Dantzler in the'
sum of of $3,000. Judge Dantzier refused
to grant bail to James Williams, who
j t> nwr T.ivintrston in
Kliieuj3euz.cn u\J 0
Orangeburg county recently.
A reward of $1,000 has been offered by
the Georgia Railroad Bank for the cap^
ture of Thomas W. Alexander. Hesecur*
-ed $120,000 from that institution on false
cotton receipts, and left Augusta two
weeks ago. It is believed in Augusta
that Alexander is now in Europe.
A charter has been issued to the St.
George Cotton Seed Oil Co. The capital
stock of the company is $25,000, and the
officers are: Dr. J. B. Johnston, presi-s
dent: Dr. A. R. Johnston, secretary, and
R. F. Collier, general manager. Work
on the construction of the plant is being
pushed rapidly, and it is thought that
the plant will be in operation for the
fall business.
$ i . .
Railway men estimate that the fruit
. crop this year will break all records.
One of the local officials said yesterday
that the Southern expected to handle at
least 1,000 more cars of peaches this season
than last year. The crop is just beginning
to move steadily. One hundred
and fifty cars were "cleared" from Atlanta
for the East yesterday.?Greenville
News, 19th instant.
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Xiie xarmei a i/uiVu.
Mr. 0. P. Goodwin, president of the
State Farmers' Educational and Co-operative
union, has called a business meeting
of the organization, to be held at Clemson
college, Wednesday, August 8th.
Each county is entitled to one delegate
under arbitrary disticution, and to one j
additional delegate for each two hundred
members or fraction thereof.
Typhoid Fever Attacks Cadets.
Annapolis, July 23.?Typhoid fever
has developed among the members of the
new fourth class at the naval academy
and three members of that class are con*
fined to the academy hospital.
All three men took sick aboard the
practice ship Severn, on which they with
about a hundred other plebes, recently
sailed for a practice cruise, but were returned
here for treatment. , j
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MILL OPERATIVES OBJECT TO GERMANS.
Im.nigrants Brought to Virginia Will Stand
by Workers?All Will Leave Country.
Danville, Va., July 17.?'The 12 German
immigrants, whose employment at
the Riverside Cotton mills as weavers
caused 60 of the old operatives, who objected
to working with the foreigners, to
quit work and go on a strike yesterday,
have resigned their positions with the
mills. When the mill in which the
trouble was started opened this morning
only four of the Germans returned to
work and these were stoned by unknown J
parties. The strikers returned to the I
mills, and when they saw the Germans J
there they filed out and to their ranks
were addfed about 25 more of the operatives.
The Germans are expected to
leave the city to-night and the mill officials
hope to see all the strikers return to j
their posts in the morning. The foreign- j
ers would not work on account of alleged ,
intimidation and left contrary to the advice
of the mill officials.
South Carolina Club in New York City.
Albany, N. Y., July 19.?"The South j
Carolinians" of New York city, to pro- j
mote friendly intercourse among he
sous of South Carolina, to further the
State's interest, "to celebrate her histcric
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anniversaries" and for kindred purpc ses, (
filed a certificate of corporation here to-j
day.
The directors include: William A. j
Barber, John C. Calhoun, W. Gill Wylie, \
Thomas W. Lauderdale, Cornelius L.
Winkler, Alfred Huger and Henry Wetherhorn,
all of New York.
Railroad Man's Prayer.
The following is the text of a "railroad I
man's prayer" pasted on the fireman's j
side of the switch eDgine in the Northern j
Pacific yards in Spokane:
"Now that I have flagged Thee, lift bp
my feet from the rough road of life and
plant them safely on the deck of the
train of salvation. Let me use the safety
lamp of prudence, make all the couplings
with the link of love, and let my hand
lamp be the Bible, and keep all switches
closed that lead off the main line into the
sidings with blind ends. Have every
semaphore block along the line show the
white light of hope, that I may make the
run of life without stopping. Give me
the Ten Commandments as a working
card, and when I have finished the run
on schedule time and pulled into the terminal,
may Thou, superintendent of the
universe, say: 'Well done, good and
faithful servant; come into the general
office to sign the payroll and receive your
check for eternal happiness.'"?Milwaukee
Sentinel.
THE JURY ASKS FOR A PARDON.
For a Woman in Darlington County Whose
Chief Crime Appears to be Ignorance.
Governor Heyward yesterday received
a petition asking for the pardon of Amy
Addison, a woman convicted of burglary
aud larceny at the last term of the court
of general sessions for Darlington county.
There was nothing remarkable in the
fact that the petition was received, but
the document is unusual in that it was
drawn up voluntarily, by the jury which
convicted her, and is signed by every
member.
At her trial, the woman would not take
the stand, because another defendant,
who was acquitted, had been advised by
his attorney that the State's case was not
sufficient to convict him and he could
only hurt his cause by testifying. The
Addison woman evidently thought the
advice good enough to follow herself.
When called upon to say why sentence
should not be pronounced upon her, however,
she made a statement which put entirely
a different face upon the meager
facts in the case, and greatly strengthened
the strong probability of her innocence.
There was nothing the judge
could do at that stage but pass sentence,
and the jury, feeling, after hearing the
statement, that its verdict had been made
in ignorance of the facts, promptly signed
a petition asking that she be pardoned.
Governor Heyward will refer the petition
in due course to the State board of
pardons at its next session, which will be
held here Wednesday, Aug. 1.?The State,
24th inst.
No Fooling.
He had been courting the girl for a long
time. It happened on Sunday night after
church. They were sitting on the sofa
and she looked with ineffable tenderness
into his noble blue eyes.
"Tom," she murmured, with a tremor
in her voice, "didn't you tell me once you
would be willing to do any act of heroism
for my sake?"
"Yes, Mary, and [ gladly reiterate
that statement now," he replied in confident
tones. "No noble Roman of old ;
was fired with a loftier ambition, a braver J
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resoiuuon, man x.
"Well, Tom, I want you to do something :
really heroic for me."
"Speak, darling! What is it?"
"Ask me to be your wife. We've been
fooling long enough."?Tit-Bits.
Join the City Pressing Club and keep
your clothes in order.
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| KERSHAW WILL REMAIN DRY.
, No Dispensary Can be Established bv County
Board.
At a special session of the supreme
, court yesterday morning the county board
! of control of Kershaw county was enjoinI
ed from establishing a dispensary at the
j town of Kershaw. The decision is of
I very great importance to the people of
; Lancaster who have fougiit against the
j establishment of this dispensary for some
time and they will be gratified to learn
that the legal objections raised by them
were sufficient to make permanent a temI
porary injunction ordered some time ago.
! The reasons for the decision will be filed
later.
Kershaw is a town on the county line
' between Lancaster and Kershaw counties.
There was a dispensary there on theLan
caster side of the town until the county
voted out the institution so decisively.
Then the dispeusary was closed and nothing
further was heard of it until a few
months ago, when the State board,of dispensary
directors received from the
county board of control of Kershaw
county a petition sent in for the openiug
of a dispensary at Kershaw on the Kershaw
county side. The State board decided
to grant the petition and the county
board elected Grover Welsh dispenser.
The people of Lancaster and especcialiy
in the town of Kershaw at once decided
to fight this move and a temporary restraining
order was obtained until the
fortfc /.(Ml 1 r\ Kti rorvroconton tA fhA tilnrfmp
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court.
Tom Miller on the Stump.
It is said that Thomas Miller, President
of the State College for colored people at
Orangeburg, will go to Tennessee to take
part in the campaign in that State, and
will make a number of speeches for Henry
Clay Evans, the Republican candidate
for Governor. President Miller has not
been very active in politics in recent
years, but he has a.ways had a hankering
for the hustings and will probably be of
some assistance to Mr. Evans in his race.
Several weeks ago he offered his resignation
as President of the College at
Orangeburg, but it was not accepted by
the trustees, and he is still nominally connected
with that institution. If the trustees
find that the .report of his participation
in the political affairs of a neighboring
State be true, we do not see how they
could longer insist upon his retaining his
position at the head of the colored college.
Politics and pedagogy do not go
very weir together. What is needed at
Orangeburg is a teacher, not a politician.
?News and Courier, July 24.
Wanted it Solid.
"Fourth of July picnics are fine things,"
said Senator Chandler, "provided enough
lunch is taken along to satisfy the boyish
appetite.
"When I was a boy I attended many a
rourtn 01 duiv picnic, anu glorious uiuu
we used to have; but now and then the
food supply would be scant, and then I
came home feeling like a patient convalescing
from typhoid.
"You know how hungry this kind of
patiept always is, and how light is the
fare that the doctor allows him.
" 'Well,' said the doctor to one of thesi
convalescing patients, 'how are you today?
Could you eat a small chicken?'
"'That I could,' the patient replied.
"'What would you like .it stuffed
with?" asked the doctor.
"'Well,'replied the hungry patient, 'I
think I'd like to have it stuffed with another
chicken.'"
Union Meetings of Barnwell Association.
Union meetings will be held at the
following named churches July 28-29:
Healing Springs, Kline, Ghent's Branch.
Query No. 1.?The church and the convert,
their mutual obligation or what they
owe to each other. Jno. 21,15-17.
Query No. 2.?Map study on foreign
missions. Rom. 10.
Query No. 3.?Christian citizenship.
Rom. 13,1-6,11-15.
Query No. 4.?The Bible. Its proper
place. Ps. 119; Ps. 19.
Healing Springs?Introductory sermon,
Rev. M M. Benson.
Query 1.?W. D. McMillan, Geo. Boylston,
D. M. Johnston.
Query 2.?G. W. Garner.
Query 3.?R. C. Galphin, P. Bates, G.
E. Birt.
Query 4.?G. S. Askew, R. M. Mixon^.
Missionary Sermon?G. W. Garner,
j . Ghent's Branch?Introductory sermon
?S. P. Hair.
Query 1.?H. J. Snider, Dr. J. B. Black,
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ureo. n. oinoa*.
Query 2.?C. M. Billings.
Query 3.?S. P. Hair, I). 0. Hunter, Dr.
Geo. F.Hair.
Query 4?S. G. Mayfield, C. C. Ellzey,
J. B. Hunter.
Missionary sermon?C. M. Billings.
Kline?Introductory sermon?A. J.
Foster.
Query 1.?W. M. Jomes, W. T. Cave,
H. Carter.
Query 2.?A. J. Foster.
Query 3.?R. W. Sanders, J. A. Jenkins,
E. L. Sanders.
Query 4.?J. C. McMillan, C. M. Edenfield.
0*. W. Barker.
Missionary sermon? W. M. Jones.
Dinner will be expected on tbe grounds
Saturday. W. G. Britton excused attendance
at his own request.
W. H. Clayton, formerly of Ehrhardt,
has been appointed assistant collector of
the port and inspector of customs at WilI
mington, N. C.
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AN APPEAL FOR THOMPSON.
Man Sentenced to be Hanged in August Gets
Stay?Luke Gray Will be Hanged.
Aikex, July 23.?The counsel for Isaac
Thompson, who was sentenced to be
hanged on August 3, for killing John
Dooley and Lizzie Mays, have given notice
of an appeal to the supreme court for
a new trial. The case will be heard before
the supreme court in December. If
a new trial is granted the case will be
tried at the March term of the court of
general sessions; if the new trial is not
granted, Thompson will be resentenced
at the March term.
Luke Gray, who was convicted of the
murder of Mr. Clifford "Woodward, will
A iirmct 5 if thp <rr>rprnnr dnps
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I not interfere.
Electric Lights.
The following persons have had their
residences or places of busiuess wired for
electric lights. Their names, whether
residence or store, and number of lights
I follows:
I Jones A. Williams (residence) 70
{ A. W. Knight (residence) 17
Methodist Church : 100
I W. A. Klauber (store) 10
| N. B. Felder (store).... 7
J. A. Spann (store and bakery) 16
J. A. Spann (residence) 10
E. C. Hays (residence) 17
Juo. R. Bellinger (residence) 15
R. M. Bruce (residence) 8 j
Bamberg Herald (office). 13 j
H. J. Brabham (residence) 14
Jno. H. Cope (residence) r 17
Bamberg Hotel 20
Dr. Geo. F. Hair (residence) 20
W. M. Brabham (residence) 13
J. D. Felder (residence) 10
Methodist Parsonage 11
J. M. Jennings (residence) 9
Telephone Exchange 6
S. A. Kinard (residence) 9
J. A. Byrd (store) 10
Mrs. L. E. Livingston (residence) 9
J. A. Byrd (residence) 12
H. W. Beard (market) 6
F. M. Moye (store, electro fan, 4 lights) 10
J. A. Nimmons (barber shop) 5
J. P. Murphy (post office) 4
H. J. Brabham, Jr. (residence) 15
Dr H F Hoover (drug store) 10
C. R. Brabham & Sons (store) 10
Dr J J Cleckley (residence) 10
G M*Dickinson (residence) 10
H F Bamberg (residence) 18
D J Delk (store and residence) 10
Peoples Bank 9
H C Folk (store, four 105 c. p) 30
H C Folk (residence) 15
J. Felder Hunter (residence) 12
Geo. F. Hair (cottage) 10
Cotton mill (office) 8
Carlisle Fitting SchoolMain
building ...-. ? 22
Beys' hall v * 25
Girls' hall 12
Cottage 1 7
Cottage 2 7
Cottage 3 6
Headmaster's residence 9
J. D. Copeland (store) 21
W. D. Rhoad (store) 11
C. W. Rentz (residence) 9
Mrs. K. I. Shuck & Co (store) 5
E C Havs (store) 4
J D Copeland (residence) 10
TV A Riley (residence).. 10
E C Bruce (residence) 8
J A Murdaugh (residence) 7
Johnson's Hotel 3-1
Armstrong-Johnson-Brabham Co 18
J W Pearlstine Co. (store) 10
J A Nimmons (residence) 10
W E Spann (residence) 14
Colored Baptist church 15
Matthew Stewart (res) 8
F. W. Free (res) 12
W. D. Rhoad (res) 12
Colored Methodist Church 12
D F Hooton (residence) 17
Heyward Johnson (residence) 10
Kary Brabham (residence) 4
Mrs A P Johnson (residence) 17
J F Folk (three cottages) 25
Total 969
Twenty-Two Killed in Seaboard Collision Sunday.
Raleigh, N. C., July 23.?The head-on
collision between Rockingham and Hamlet
on the Seaboard Air Line Sunday resulted
in the death of 22 persons and the
injury of 23.
The regular local passenger train was
an hour late and instructions were wired
from the train dispatcher's office here to
hold it there for an extra freight going
west, but for some reason the order was
not delivered. The operator at Rocking
ham i9 W. E. Luther. The distance between
Hamlet and Rockingham is six
miles, and engineer Bandy, of the freight,
seeing the approaching passenger train
when three miles from Hamlet, stopped
his train and jumped before the collision.
Killed About a Woman.
Anderson, July 23.?In a Sunday afternoon
row between Oscar Daniels and
Eliiah Gretrs. negroes, livim in Savannah
township. Daniels was stabbed in the
breast and died shortly afterwards.
Gregg was shot through the stomach, but
the attending physician says he will recover.
The difficulty arose over the inevitable
woman. This'is the sixth killing among
the negroes in Savannah township within
the last 13 months.
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HARRY L. ROWELL KILLED.
He and Ephriam Murphy Engage in Fatal Pistol
Duel in Gough, Ga.
News has been received here that Mr.
Harry L. Rowell, son of Mr. and Mrs. B.
A. W. Rowell, of Bamberg, was killed
Monday, July 16th, at Gough, Ga., while
engaged in a pistol duel with Ephriam
Murphy, also a white man.
The particu'ars are about as follows:
Saturday Rowell and Murphy had some
words which amounted to a disagreement.
Monday afternoon they met again, and
after a few words had been spoken, both
reached for their pistols and began firing.
Both evidently were determined to fight
to the death, for both weapons were
emptied, and the shots were towards the
heart. Murphy died almost instantly,
never speaking. Rowell was wounded
fatally by several balls which went near
the heart; he died that night about 11
o'clock.
The parents of Rowell were telegraphed
to by the people with whom he- had
been boarding, but they never heard of
his death until they were shown a letter
received by The Herald from Judge T. S.
Weeks, formerly of Bamberg. The interment
took place at Gough the day following
the sad affair.
Harry Rowell was well known here,
having lived here until a short time ago,
when he went to Georgia. He was a first
class painter, and was generally considered
a young man of quiet habits and attentive
to business. He was about twenty-two
or three years of age, and married
Miss Mamie Templeton, a daughter of
the late John Templeton, of Blackville.
The Blue Janitor.
Bishop McVicar, of Providence, said of
tedious sermons:
"The worst case of this kind that I ever
heard of occurred in Philadelphia, where
I used to live.
"There was a little old church on the
outskirts of Philadelphia that had an old
clergyman who was noted for the dryness
of his sermons.
"It is said that one Sunday morning the
old gentleman preached a sermon so
amazingly long and dull that the congregation
diminished one by one until only
the janitor and himself were left.
"But the clergyman apparently unconscious
of all this kept right on until thfi
janitor, seeing no prospect of relief, finanlv
gave in also, and handing up the keys
to the minister, said:
" 'I'm off. You can lock up the church
when you're through.' "
Wants to go to Washington.
"The Hon. Senator Coburn," is the
way a letter came to the office of Secretary
F. D. Coburn this morning. But the
contents of the letter were even more
startling than the address. It was dated
Kansas City, Mo., and read as follows:
"My wife received leter from cousin in
Topeka, saying you are in surch of a privit
secretary to do your work in Wushington.
4,I have a great desire to live in Washington,
and if you can give me the job I'll
do your work all right, all right.
"I am thirty-three years of age a graduate
of Atchisofi Commercial College after
which I crapulated at the Lawrence
University with high honors. .
''Should like pay of 2,400 dollars at
least, for I suppose some of the political
work I shall be called upon to do will be
rather shedagerous, but I am equal to the
task."?Topeka Journal.
Bamberg. Some Facts.
It invites new citizens because:
It is the county seat.
It has been between 2,500 and 3,000 inhabitants.
It has two of the best equipped schools
in the State.,
It has two thriving banks.
It has one cotton mill. '
It has three churches for white people;
2 for colored.
It is backed by a st rong farming region.
It is busier with building than any town
of like size in the State.
It is installing electric lights and water
works.
It has 3 modern hotels.
It is determined to grow.
It has two weekly newspapers.
It has golden opportunities for investment.
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It is the largest cotton market betweer^
Charleston and Augusta.
It is only 61 miles from Augusta; 75
from Charleston; and 81 from Columbia.
It has a marked increase in postal receipts
every year.
It has up-to-date business houses.
It has one oil mill.
It is a lumber mamer.*.
It has truck farming interests nearby.
It has one dairy farm.
It is encouraging the proposed Bamberg-Ehrhardt
railway.
It is only about two miles from the
Edisto river.
It has 3 sale stables; 2 livery stables.
It has 1 park.
It has good health.
It has cool nights in the summer.
It has the faith of its citizens.
Its people believe in push and pull.
It is Bamberg, South Carolina.
BAMBERG COUNTY CAMPAIGN.
Firit Meeting Next Week?Candidates All Iil*
Some Interesting Races.
The State campaigners have come and
told the dear people all about themselves;
the big gun's have fired, the echo has almost
died away. Senator Tillman and
the men for congressional honors have
let their voices be heard above the roar
of common calibre. Now it is the time
for the local county candidate to press
forward and do all the nice things for the
people that they have observed .the candidates
for higher offices do.
Next Wednesday, August 1, the candidates
will meet at Ehrhardt. There will
doubtless be a large crowd present, and
a general program of speaking will be
dished out free for all.
The candidates for Congress are Congressman
J. 0. Patterson, ButlerB. Hare,
and G. L. Toole. In the two campaign
meetings held here all three of these men
made good speeches. It seems to be
however, Patterson against the other
two, and at the meeting here when Senator
Tillman spoke, Mr. Patterson seemed
sufficiently able to take care of himself
and his record.
The candidates for the legislature hare
not come out fast. Mr. B. "W. Miley made
a good race two years ago, and may develop
strength. Mr. E. T. LaFitte has
made a record in the legislature as a friend
of the dispensary; what his following will
be is not exactly clear, for the dispensary
is not so popular as one time. Mr. C. W.
Garris, former Railroad Commissioner,
has many friends throughout the county;
he will doubtless state his position on the *
liquor question at the meeting next weefc.
Mr. John F. Folk will be re-elected
treasurer without opposition.
The race for supervisor promises to be
tolerably torrid. Mr. J. B. Kearse who is
well known and liked throughout the
county will be in the race. Captain J. A.
vv alter, ot Denmark, will be in to win;
and Mr. W. M. McCue, of Bamberg, seems \
to be confident of success. All of these
men are well known and liked and have
large numbers of friends.
Rev. S. P. Chisolm, of the Colston section,
and Mr. Hugh A. Ray will be in the
running against Mr. R. W. D. Rowell for
auditor and superintendent of education.
Some close figures are expected in this
race also.
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The candidates for county commissioner
are all new men, neither of the old
members being announced. Messrs. H. J.
Bellinger, Jacob F. Copeland and J. B.
All are the ones wh? will make the race
this year.
Judge W. Russell Wright will not be
opposed for magistrate at Bamberg. Mr.
J. Crum Smoak is for magistrate at Fish
Pond and J. C. Copeland for a like position
at Three Mile.
The candidates will not come to Bamberg
until the 23rd of August. ? ^ $
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Sneh Railroading.
"Such railroading," said President Baer
of the Reading line, apropos of reckless
running,' 'reminds me of an Irish brakeman.
"This brakeman, who was employed on
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a railway iu me uciguuuiiiuuu ui
was annoyed one morning to find the
train stopping in a desolate place miles
away from any station.
"He ran to the cab and shouted to the
engineer:
" 'Hi, ye omadhoun, what are ye stoppin'
here fur?'
"The engineer retorted angrily:
"Don't ye see the signal's agin us, ye
gossoon?'
" 'Musha,' said the brakeman, 'how
mighty particular ye're gettin'.' "
Called Him ''Lawyer."
Some time ago in a Mississippi court,
a colored man sued a neighbor for damages
for killing his dog, says the Minneapolis
Journal.
Col. Blank,- the attorney for the defense,
called Sam Parker, a colored gen- ,
tleman to the witness stand to prove the
dog was a worthless cur, for whose dectrnrtinn
nn Hamftirpfl ahntilri he reenrered.
"Sam, did you know this dog?" asked
the Colonel, beginning the examination
of the colored man.
"Yas, sah, I wer' pussonally acquainted
wid dat dog," answered Sam.
"Well, tell the jury what sort of a dog
it was," commanded the Colonel.
"He wer' a big yaller dog," was the
reply.
"What was he good for?" came the
next question.
"Well," said Sam, "he wouldn't .hunt;
I he wouldn't do no guard duty; he jes'
lay around an' eat. Dat what make 'em
call him what dey did."
"Well, sir, what did they call him?",
pursued the attorney.
"Dey called him 'Lawyer,' sah,'.' was
the reply.
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