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??" ' ' it ' ' T !M9b|HJiPQ| ofe Harnhmj ipralii | !* 'V ??-? ?i^?^^^ Established 1891 BAMBEfeQ, S. C., THURSDAY, JANUARY 24, 1907 One Dollar a Year, ll 1 -):* 1 i ? . ' &&% . COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS. "SOME INTERESTING HAPPENINGS ( IN YARIOUS SECTIONS. News Items Gathered All Around t the County and Elsewhere. j Ehrhardt Etchings. j Ehrhardt, January 21.?Mr and t Mrs Lane, of Fairfax, visited her j c. - ! . > *< Ifv Porrv PaHofPtt. I r 1?urcii o e A cold wave after the warm rain i Sunday morning rejoiced the people t who have been waiting for some time \ ~to kill the remainder of their porkers ^ .and hang up what they had in salt t for more than a month. ? *+ \ Some few corn buyers are on the t hunt for it already, but they say t they haven't the cash to buy with g f~.' - and credit will not be as cheap this ] M Tear as it was last year. Farmers are all trying to prepare to make a cheap crop this year. The Bell Telephone company are a * long time starting to run their line from Bamberg to Ehrhardt. What's 1 1 wrong? There is money in it for s them. People are constantly want- j mg to talk to people in Bamberg-. ? N Col C Ehrhardt went to Bamberg > on business last week. i Mr J D Padgett went to Walter- I .boro Friday to receive ties and take c a bird hunt with some of his friends. \ Mr JnoJ Copeland was in town i hunting parts for his pump. Says be * neglected his pump during the cold v weather and the barrel of his pump was bursted by the ice. Says he 7-> " wants water and must have it. ; , The drummers are plentiful. They nil have the best bargains and all the goods are advancing every day, but ( not much goods are being bought by * our merchants as yet. 1 Some of our young men went fish-!1 ; ; > ing last week one or two nights, but ^ j -don't think they caught more than ; they Jeould eat, if that many, for * they were very hungry next morning c (when breakfast'was announced. } A drummer said the other day that 1 itA mm* frk r?ncc Hia n#?T?ner sauce at -*** ' "w'v X?ri ? / : the hotel table and it was so hot that if his hand was burning yet. Hot c stuff. * About seven cars of cotton seed f ^were 'shipped from this place last * -* ' / week to be exchanged for meal. . V Most of it went to the Walterboro 1 <Jotton Oil Co. v'y ' Lumber is in good demand, but * ears are somewhat scarce to load it ? ' : f : Mr J D Dannelly returned from his trip to Florida on Saturday. He ? &. Trill go back this week, however, to ? do?e his trade. He has secured about 17,000 acres of pine land, and * i ^ will go there to work it, both in tur- ^ pentine and lumber. His uncle, Tom :V\. Dannelly, will go with him when -everything is arranged to help him ^ | v - work the plant. , Mr. Jesse J. Farrell says he will soon commence his dwelling. Look- ii atthe Plan now, and as soon as h he decides will go to work having t the lumber placed for the carpenters ii c * -tq go to work. i] Some more eleven cents cotton in I the hands of a few farmers, at least S -they want that price for it, and that p & price will bring it on the market. p Messrs Frank and Jacob Hiers and o -John Hartz went to Augusta Sunday, t Returned Monday morning as the a ^chickens got up. So sleepy. Jee. u Sy';:v' ? \ Free Lecture. ^ Mrs. Helen M. Bullock, national g organizer of the Woman's Christian f Temperance Union, will deliver an address this (Thursday) evening at v *7:30 o'clock in the Methodist church. ^ .AD are invited, both old and young, o jnen* and women. It is not known ? what her subject will be, but it is * presumed she will speak upon some ^ phase of the temperance question, b Mrs. Bullock is a cultured, traveled t woman, and has given much time t .? , :and thought to the work in which n ?he is engaged, and her address will t: no doubt be highly entertaining and tl instructive. We feel sure that those b ; . who go will be pleased. . o, s: Death in Branchville. v News has been received from b Branchville of the death of Mrs. ^ Susan Dukes, of that place. Mrs. ? Dukes was the widow of Mr. A. F. o H. Dukes, who died some years ago. Mrs. Dukes was something over 50 r years of age and her death was | rather sudden, being due to heart jj trouble. f, r . ' j> - * . .; ' ' . " .. . - O. ' RAILROAD WRECK. Collision Nea Denmark Between Passenger and Freight Trains. Last Saturday morning there was i railroad wreck about two miles Tom Denmark on the Atlantic Coast Line, between the fast passenger ;rain going to Augusta and a freight leaded towards Florence. Both engines were badly wrecked, and both ;rains damaged. The track was torn *i~> oil twine Af fVio Pnacf T.inp OI1U Oil tl UliiU VA WIV WMVW lad to come from Barnwell byBlackrille to Denmark over the Southern ;rack. No one was killed, and only iome few minor injures were susained by the passengers. It is said he wreck was caused by the pasenger train not taking the siding at Denmark for the freight to pass. Bamberg Graded School. The second term of the graded school begins with an enrollment of 173 pupils. The work of the institution has )een satisfactory, the conduct of the student body has been commendable. Examinations closing the work of the irst term have been completed. Reports will be in the hands of parents vithin the next few days. If reports ire not satisfactory to parents, let >arents examine into the cause. Parents and others interested in school work are invited to visit the nstitution; their coming will be an nspiration to their own children and x) our teachers. Shall we not expect you? H. G. Sheridan, Principal. Bamberg, S. C., January 22, 1907. Does Not Recommend Pardon. Columbia, January 22.?Judge jary has returned to the governor ;he papers in the petition for the >ardon of R. A. Adams without his ecommendation. The judge reviews rery briefly the history of the case, vhich was tried before him in Colle?n in 1903. Adams was convicted md Judge Gary refused the motion hen made for a new trial. He then mposed the death sentence. The ase since that time, says Judge Jary, is familiar history. He con:ludes: "I knew of no reason at that ime why he should not pay the peniltyof his act, and f9r that reason mposed the sentence of the law upon tim. Further than this I have nothng to say." uviivxwi i/?f iO) nuv |/i he case, has already filed with the governor his views strongly protestng against any interference with he death sentence for Adams. The ase will come before the pardon >oard at the next session, Adams laving been respited by Governor leyward in order for his appeal to >e heard. BLACKS GIVE TROUBLE. in Uprising of Negroes at Beaufort Feared?Militia Ordered Out. Beaufort, January 20.? Murmurngs of negroes today caused apprelension of an uprising and the auhorities at once sought to secure nilitary protection for the city. The itendant telegraphed Colonel R W 'atterson, in command at Fort icreven, Georgia, asking for a comiany of regular troops to be dis>atched here for the preservation of rder. In response at 8:35 o'clock onight forty-five men fully armed nd equipped for service, arrived mder command of Captain Joseph Vheeler. The detachment came on he tug Gibbons, and immediately uards were established and patrols ormed. The discontent among the negroes, rhich it is feared might be fanned ito fury, was caused by the killing f William Bennett, colored, by a uard at 1 o'clock this morning'. Tie negro was discovered hanging round the ruins of the People's ank, one of the buildings destroyed y the disastrous fire yesterday. To he challenge of the guard on duty here no satisfactory response was lade, it seems, and the guard fired. The arrival of the United States roops relieved the apprehension of he citizens. The negroes, impressed y the presence of the regulars, have eased their hostile demonstrations nd the military apparently have the ituation well in hand. Their arrival /as welcomed by the citizens, who ad been standing guard over valubles saved from the flames, and /ho were not prepared to resist as hey might any outbreak on the part f the negroes. Governor Ansel, at the intendant's equest, ordered out the naval reerves to protect life and property. it last reports the blacks are quietig down and fprther trouble is not 1 eared. < : WM. J. HARLEY KILLED. DESPERADO HEETS DEATH ATTHE HANDS OF C. C. PARLER. Killing Was Justifiable, as Harley Was Attempting to Enter Parler's %Home to Kill Him. St. George, Jan. 20.?The much talked of William J. Harley, of Harleyville, this county, was killed by C. C. Parler last night at Harleyville. Harley went to Parler's house "? ? il A . i 1 ana was going into tne iront aoor threatening to kill and drag Parler out of the house. Parler saw and heard him coming and asked Harley several times not to come into the house, but Harley walked up the steps toward the front door with a double-barrel shot gun in his hand, and when he had reached the top of the steps and was crossing the porch in the direction of the front door Parler saw that there was nothing else to be done for his safety and for the protection of his family and his home. He fired at Harley, hitting him in the right side, and Harley turned slightly and fell down the steps and died instantly. This is the same W. J. Harley who has been terrorizing this community, $nd especially .the vicinity of Harleyville, for the past several years. He was tried about a year ago at the sessions court of this county for stabbing Richard Weeks, a young white man, on the court house 'grounds here while court was in session. He was arrested for this, but escaped and tried in his absence and found guilty and at the time- of his death a sealed sentence awaited him in the clerk of court's office here. On the afternoon that Harley was, killed it is said that he was walking up and down the town of Harleyville, cursing and shooting off firearms along the streets, and the whole community was in a state of great fear and excitement. Coroner Kizer was summoned last night and held an inquest over the body of Harley, the jury returning a verdict that he came to his death by a gun shot wound in the hands of C. C. Parler. It was only about an hour before the Jkilling that Harley came up to a peaceable negro in a store at Harleyville and pulled his pistol and made the negro stand still while he beat him unmercifully over the head with the handle of the pistol, and when the negro begged for mercy Harley shot at the negro and missed him only a short distance, and almost hitting the proprietor of the store and his little nephew. , Harley was regarded as an allround bad man, was single and about 36 years old. The unanimous verdict of all who have knowledge of this tragedy is that Parler did the only thing that he could have done to protect himself, his family and his premises; in fact, had Parler not acted when he did and as he did Harley would have killed him in his own hduse and in the presence of his family. Parler surrendered himself to Sheriff Kizer and is now safe under arrest. Parler has retained Messrs. E. J. Denning and M. S. Connor to defend him. , Legislative Doings. The legislature will visit Clemson college on Friday, January 26th. A compulsory education bill was introduced in the house last Friday by Representative Kershaw, of Florence. An unfavorable report was made on the bill to sell the State farms, and it will likelv hp killed. The house has passed a bill appro-, priating $10,000 for a statue of John C. Calhoun in the capitol at Washington. Proposed New Church. Spartanburg, Jan. 22.?It is announced that the new Methodist church would not be erected on east Main street. This lot was recently purchase^ for $8,000. The church will be erected on the south side of the city on south Church street. There has been a great deal of interest here among Methodists as to the best solution of the problem confronting the denomination. The congregation has outgrown Central Methodist church and it was proposed by some that this building be duplicated in the structure to be erected on east Main street. BEAUFORT RUINED BY FIRE. Flames Consumed Nearly $700,000 on Business Blocks. Beaufort, S. C., January 19.? The most disastrous fire in the history of this town occurred today, the loss being estimated at from $500,. 000 to $700,000, with insurance about one third that amount. The fire started in the stables of F. W. Scheper and was spread rapidly by 1 * i rrn tne nign wina. ine water suppiy failed and the flames stopped only when everything was burned in the direction which the wind carried the flames. The town hall and city market were consumed. .Scheper's grocery, the Peopled Bank, Christensen's hardware store, and the Talbird business block were burned. Flying embers ignited residences some distance away and several fine homes were destroyed. Money is intact in the banks. Christensen & Sons, Thomas Talbird and James N Crofut carried no insurance. Fitting School Notes. The following invitation was issued last week: "The faculty and students of the Carlisle Fitting school request the honor of your presence at a reception to be given in the chapel, Saturday evening, February the second, nineteen hundred and seven, eight thirty o'clock." Reception committee?Misses Sudy ' i T-n n/r J L Tm: rutter, riossie iviuruaugii, jcjiisc Rentz, Marie Weekley, Messrs DeWitt Guilds, Eugene Stokes. Chaperones?Mesdames Josephine Beach, W S Hogan, Jr, R L Risher, Jas E Salley, W D Roberts. Preparations are now being made 1 for this reception and it is hoped that it will prove a very pleasant occasion, and one which will be for a season at least, remembered by those who attend. On last Saturday, the centenary of Gen Lee's birth, after the regular chapel exercises, we tried, to some extent, to commemorate that event and to pay our tribute to that peerless commander and noble character. 1 Because of a lack of time we were unable to have these exercises as full and as fitting as we should.have liked to have seen them. However, each one seemed to have entered into his or her part willingly and cheerfully and all present enjoyed what was said and done. Miss Ida Muller read a brief biographical sketch of Lee, bringing out his most prominent achievements and characteristics. DeWitt Guilds read an appropriate selection from "The Sentinel Songs." "The Sword of Lee," was recited by Miss Katie Garter, and John Huffman read an article on the centenary of Lee. After these had finished each of the teachers, Profs. Hogan, Roberts and Guilds, made a few appropriate remarks about this great man and his sublime character. Miss Emma McNinch, a teacher in the Fairfax graded school, delighted several of her former pupils by spending a couple of days with them last week. The photographer was on his annual visit to the campus last week, taking pictures of the classes, etc. All wore the smile. At a called meeting of the Kilgo literary society, Meredith Wolling resigned as a contestant for the Roberts declamation medal and Rhett Ott was elected in his stead. Prof and Mrs Roberts spent two days at Mrs Roberts' home. Mrs Roberts will spend several days before returning. Solicitor Davis Against Adams. T TWr,%, ouuci tux u cuiics -lj -L/av is iias ucclined to recommend the pardon of R A Adams, the Colleton murderer. He says it was the most brutal murder case in which he was ever engaged and it is not a case deserving of mercy. In his report to the governor he says: "As I view the case from this standpoint the State made out a clear case of malice prepense against R. A. Adams, and it is useless for me to pursue this matter further. I can t-inf -ron/vnrmorirl fViic -novrlnn T rc. IXV/b 1 ^/WlllIlAVllU tlilU UV1A* X A V/ gret it extremely, but stern justice demands that the law be vindicated in this case. Instead of Adams being in a position to plead self defense he actually, as I view the ease, hunted down his victim and took his Jife, when there was absolutely no necessity for it. He has widowed the wife of the deceased and orphaned their children, and when it comes to a question of pity, instead thereof it is contemptible in one situated as I am to allow my action to be controlled by any such false sentiment." i 4 < ' > IN THE PALMETTO STATE INTERESTING OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA. State News Boiled Down for Quick Readini Pungent Paragraphs About Men and Happenings. A company has purchased a wharf a) Charleston harbor and itB exclusive busi ness t will be that of coaling vessels This will, it is expected, bring many bif vessels into that port. Tom Hamilton, Will Oliver and Jo( Byrd, white men, were convicted in the sessions court in Anderson on Friday ol robbing stores at Iva, and were sentenced to ten years in the penitentiary. J. H. Latimer, of Greenville, has beer appointed chief dispensary constable, tc succeed Mr. U. B. Hammett, of Barnwell who will be deputy internal revenue col lecttor, with headquarters at Sumter. It is said that T. B. Fraser, of Sumter and Jno. S. Wilson, of Manning, novt solicitor, are the most prominent candidates mentioned for Judge Purdy's place Mr. Fraser is a member of the house ol representatives. A Spartanburg man was arrested las) Thursday on the charge of getting sev eral mules under false pretenses?mort gaging land he did not own. He sole the mules and was preparing to skip when arrested. Representative H. E. Gyles, of Aiken has introduced a bill in the legistatun fixing the fare on railroads at two anc one-half cents a mile. .The bill is beinp strongly opposed by the railroads, but i ought to pass. There will be general regret over th< State that Judge R. 0. Purdy is to retin from the bench. He has made a most ex celleht official, and to him is due in larg< measure that abetter sentiment prevail as to law and order. For our part, wi had rather spare any of the other Judges President McLeod of the senate an nounced as members of the dispensary investigation committee appointed unde the Chistensen- resolution as Senator Christensen and Graydon. The memoer from the house are Rucker, Richards an< Cary. The committee will organize an< will UDder the law report to the legisla tare within ten days. ' At a meeting of the State railroad com missioner last week, E. P. Waring, Jr of Charleston, was elected secretary,sue ceeding D. P. Duncan, who has beei secretary for a number of years.' Mi Waring is to takfe charge March 1st. H has been connected with the Charlestoi freight bureau, and has had considerable experience in freight and traffic matters Ex- Senator J. T. Hay, of Camden, die last Wednesday night. He was found ii an unconscious condition in his offic during the day and never rallied. H would have been sixty years old nex April. The burial took place at Camden Senator Hay was a prominent lawyer o his home bar, and was one of the lead ing members of the State Senate. Hi I J 12 J 1 st n4- ttAAH ueciwieu ic cicvuuu i?c? jca*. State Liquor Commissioner Tatumsayi the board of dispensary directors ha bought entirely too much liquor. Tb< v warehouses of the dispensary are full an< numbers of cars are on the side tracki waiting to be unloaded. Senator Chris tensen introduced a resolution calling fo: an investigation, which has passed bott the senate and house. The committei is to report in a short time. It seem: from this that the new board is pursuin( the same tactics of former boards, that is stocking up with iiquor whicfi is no needed. The whole thing is rotten, an< (he only coure to pursue is to kill it. W< have had enough of attempts at "purifi cation." Wouldn't Vote for Tillman. . Columbia, Jan. 22.?Both house held busy sessions today at whicl there was dispatched a quantity o: business.. Senator B. R. Tillman wa today elected United States Senato] for a term of six years. The ballot ing was done separately in eacl house. When the balloting was com menced in the House, Representa tive* Mann, of Oconee (a minister o1 the gospel) took the floor and statec that he could not vote for Senatoi Tillman until the matter of his having given Hubbell rebates was explained. He thought that the in formation should be furnished hiir as to the amount of money that was received in rebates before Senatoi Tillman should be elected Senator He also denounces the statement thai Tillman had made, that the preachers of the State were in collusion witt the old barroom element, and saic that Tillman knew it was false. The remarks were warm and Representative John G. Richards moved thai they be expunged from the record of the proceedings of the House. This was ordered done and the balloting proceeded. Representative Mann did not vote in the balloting. NOT GUILTY. Sheriff M. fl. Limehouse Is Exonerated > by Orangeburg Jury. Orangeburg, Jan. 18.?After be\ ing out for an hour and a half the jury charged with the case of the . H State against M. M. Limehouse, t former sheriff of Dorchester county, who was charged with neglect of duty in permitting a prisoner to be , ' taken from him by a mob last summer, the negro, Will Spain, having i | been lynched, returned a verdict of ' j not guilty. i The trial of the case was entered ; ;gj upon this morning. Many Dorches- - V { ter people were in attendance upon , the court. The testimony of the . J t witnesses examined during the morn- ; ^ . ing for the state was largely along the same line of .that brought out at ^|| , the inquest of the dead prisoner. ' || r The defence offered no testimony. Only two arguments were made, ]4m that for the state being made by i|| f Solicitor Hildebrand, and that for ' the defence by Mr. T. M. Raysor, L who, under the rule, had the reply... *|B Judge Gage made a very powerful v^ll [ charge. He held that Sheriff Lime- p&S j house allowed a mob of unknown people to take the negro away he Z-M was guilty. He also dealt vigorously J 1 with the evils of mob law and de1 clared that in no circumstances was ' 5 lynching justifiable. . '4 t Sheriff Limehouse had under the constitution been removed from o&? e fice pending the outcome of 2 trial. Had he been convicted he ? ' could never again have held public | B office in this state. The verdict hav? ing been in his favor he will be rein, stated in the office of sheriff. ^ Parler Granted Ball. f Mr. C. C. Parler together with his r attorney, Mr. E. J. Dennis, came-to g Orangeburg this morning for the jpfl j purpose of going before Judge ^ 4 Dantzier to he crranted bail. Bail T^^B was granted in the sum of $2,0Q0and '% Messrs. Parler and Dennis returned - to their homes this afternoon. Be., sides Mr. Dennis, the firm-qf Wolfe \v|/| - & Connor, of St. George, have also ; I 3 been retained by Mr, Parler, v| ? W. J. Harley, a desperate char-:jj^B e actor, who has been wanted by the , authorities in Dorchester county for |? | i some time past, was shot and almost a instantly killed last Saturday night e in Harleyville by C. C. Parler. . e The killing occurred at the home t of Mr. Parler, and from the wpoHir'gjS|M ' from that section was unavoidable. f Harley had been causing no little disturbance in the town of Harley- ^ e ville all the afternoon, and had beat- '.)i en a negrcwunmercifully at the point ;y' j of a pistoh and then fired at him and ; e almost mtting several Dysisnaers.:tm j Harley came dowil to the house of ' xf 9 Mr. C. C. Parler, cursing anddeclar- v^|| . ing that he was going to kill him. r He entered the yard and started for '?. K * the piazza, when Mr. Parler called ;'i|| B to him not to come in the house. . 8 Harley did not heed the warning, ? and within a few seconds, Mr. Par- : -^|g j ler realized that Harley was intent. j on coming in, and in order to protect *jjjl B himself, his family and home, he fir- ;<?i . ed at Harley, the load entering his pH side. Harley reeled and fell down ,-'M the steps dead. , Mr. Parler then gave himself up ; : J| 3 and was lodged in jail. \ 1 Harley was a bad character, h$ -|f| ^ having been a terror to^the people of * /Ji 3 that section. About a year or so ago ;\'m r he stabbed a young white man but '; v]| succeeded in escaping.* He was tried - S 1 in his absence, however, and the cleric of the court of Dorchester county .7/Jj has now a sealed verdict await-. * ^ ;?nr?nr?m<rphiiror Rvcnincr News. xxx6. ?o c , 1 Monday January 21. Shot at Editor. Clinton, January 22.?Mr. W. J. ,yjf Dendy, of the Cinton Gazette, o^e | i of the leading local journals, has ex> perienced a very close escape from * death. The attempt on Mr. Dendy's / . life occurred last evening about 7 t o'clock, while the editor was at his 5 residence. He was engaged iri reading near a window when he was -Pm . greatly startled to hear the report 1 of a gun and to find that a bullet & - - - '? -i . 1 1* v* ! had flattened itseii against uie wait, . only a few inches below the window w where he had been sitting. Mr. \ Dendy says he thinks the murderous *tf attack was due to editorials he has/ -1^ 1 written recently in his publication, : denouncing the secret meetings bein? indulged in by the. negroes of this community,. ..