Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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* >:v ' . ? . / rVf?-'"^Tv-...'< '* * .-.' '. " ! ' ' *' '. . - i---V - 1 , : -Vi / : ' ?lyr Smntorg Sjrralii ESTABLISHED IN APRIL, 1891 A* W. KNIGHT* Editor. Thursday, Jan. 9, 1908. ~ = = It is announced that J. A. McCullougb, of Greenville, may run for the United States Senate. He is< a man of brains and would till ttie position with credit. ( % ' ? Petitions are being circulated in this county asking the legislature to enact a prohibition law.for the State. These petitions are being numerously ^ - signed, in fact nearly everyone seems to be in favor of State prohibition. ! ' The new order of the postoffice deli^ partment which requires newspapers to be paid for during one year will g:V- A make no difference to this newsfl>' " paper, for we do not send The Herald on long credit, but it will play the mischief with the circulation of some :T: weeklies. k - The Greenwood Index has installed its linotype machine. The newspapers of Greenwood are more liberty supported by the merchants of ; their town than any weeklies we know of. Their advertising patronise is way ahead of the most of we country editors. ? The Anderson Daily Mail printed last week an interesting story of the growth of the electric city during ' ' ? 1 1 X Ip the past year. Anderson is noaouDi r the best town in this State, and |.v: while the Mail is a good newspaper, f , it would be more interesting if it talked Anderson more and Latimer |pess. V The candidates for judge of the second circuit, to succeed Judge James Aldrich are: Senator Geo. H. Bates, Robert Aldrich, and Solicitor James E. Davis, of Barnwell; Capt. Claude E. Sawyer, of Aiken. Of these candidates we have no hesitancy in saying that Senator Bates would be f; our choice for the position. (!? We heartily welcome the order of % the postoffice department forbidding newspapers being sent to subscribers mp on? year in arrears. It will stop the practice of building uphogus circulajST lion, or the never-pay kind, and many p* jl fellow who has been "beating" the || weeklies for years will have to pay up or go without reading matter. Bamberg's boys are scattered all If dyer the country. The Herald's suUacription list would be a revelation to most people in this community, who Ic have lost sight of the fact that so ;/";.9iany young men from this town |p have gone away. These boys ought to be kept in Bamberg; there is no reason why the young men who grow '7i up here should be forced to seek Tr 'work elsewhere. Let our business / men resolve to keep Bamberg's young !* men at home by giving them employment here. There is work for all );who will work. Has Married 630 Coupfes. A paragraph appeared in The State recently to,the effect that Rev. W. B. Duncan, the Methodist minister | at Rock Hill, had performed 25 martriage ceremonies tiiis year, and this was referred to as a record breaker. y. The writer of the paragraph is evidently not familiar with the wide spread popularity of Rev. A. A. James, the Presbyterian minister, who resides at Pacolet. Mr. James informs Progress that jp t - / he has made eighty hearts beat as one, in other words, to solve this IIP!- ' seemingly impossible mathematical jgfe-'- problem, he united in marriage forty couples during the year 1907. v During his long service as a minis %% terhe has married more than 630 - f . couples, and in mentioning this fact v recently said that he then "had two more on deck."?Union Progress. r-;'f . Advice to mothers: Don't let your children waste away. Keep them strong z and healthy during the winter with Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea. It is % the greatest tonic for children. Pure sua Harmless, uwo vuc kicow?i, 6wu. 35c, tea or tablets. ' H. P. Huover. To Whet His Appetite. A convict of a Western prison had ? been extremely refractory, and dif, ferent means were tried, without success, to break his spirit. One morning the superintendent said to ; ; the warden, according to the Philadelphia Public Ledsrer. "That scoundrel, No 213, is behavp'r ing worse than ever. Put him on bread and water." "But he is already on fast diet," replied the warden. 1; "Then keep it up and give him a I . * cook-book to read," John?"What kind of tea do you like best?" Priscilla?"Go-tees, .some, but ir: Rocky Mountain Tea best." John? y7 "Why Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea best?" Priscilla?"It speaks for itself, John." (Miakes lovely complexions^) H. F.Hoover. ' * p . . : r - - ' -M: ., ^y.y . ;v;v. -]' - " '. - * ' ' * ; " FIRST LYNCHING THIS YEAR. Negro Shot to Death In Streets of 1 Brookhaven, Miss. j Brookhaven. Miss., Jan. 2?Probably the first lynching of 1908 occurred here today when a mob in broad daylight took a negro away from police officers and shot him. The negro, whose name was not known either to the police or mob, was accused of killing a policeman at Oakvale, Miss., on Tuesday night. The negro had been arrested as a suspicious person because he came to Brookhaven looking for medical treatment for a gunshot 1 ?J 4-It-rv n on WUUIIU ill liic auuuiuwi> The men got him away from police by making a lasso which was thrown over the negro's neck as the officers hurried him to jail. The lassoing of the black occurred near the central part of the town about 3 o'clock and owing to the quick gathering of crowds an effort to hang him was , abandoned. After the shooting a : city official persuaded the mob not to drag the body through the streets as its members proclaimed an intention of doing. The mob is said to have been composed mostly of men from the vicinity of Oakvale. After the lynching a negro who saw the body said it was that of Coot Autman. \ / Patterson Watching War Claims. Representative Patterson expects to secure the passage of a large nnmber of war claims during the next few months. These claims have nrispn acainst the government by reason of the fact that during the war many churches and schools were damaged or burned by Federal soldiers, and for some years past the government has been settling them upon the proper evidence being adduced. In the'lower part of South Carolina many schools and Churches were destroyed, and some of these claims have already' been ordered paid.?News and Courier. . | Opposition to Prohibition. Birmingham, Ala., Jan. 2.?Opposition to the new prohibition law is springing up in all mparts of the State and a& earnest fight now seems to be on between the prohibition and anti-prohibition forces. Gov. Comer today requested Circuit Judge Speake of Decatur to go to Cullman and hold a SDecial session of court to investi gate the violations of the law in that county. Nine saloons ran in full blast in Cullman today. Reports from Shelby county tonight are to the effect that saloon men of Calera have gone to Columbiana to ask the probate judge to issue them licenses on the ground that the local option law is unconstitutional. Test cases have already come up in Lowndes and Crenshaw counties and the cases will be heard in'Greenville Saturday. .j < Too Many Ktyses. Aithur Kehr, a musician, who has been married just sixteen days, has sued for divorce. Too much love is the plea he makes for disunion. He married Mary Rogers, a young wiitow. Here is his own story: 'Tou never saw anything like it in all your life, j She would sit on my lap by the hour, and if I wanted to go across the 3treet for a package of tobacco she would order me to stay where I was and do the, errand herself, because she was afraid some girl might run off with me., "Sne wanted to be kissed in the morning and kissed at noon and kissed at night. I never could get away from the passionate despairing cry, 'Arthur, kiss me!' "I was a prisoner in my wife's house. The week' I was ther:e I earned only $4.20, because she wouldn't let me go out and play. I had to be with her all the time getting loved. ' TViero urns rmlv one thine for me to do, and I did it?ran away. I wouldn't go back to her for anything."?Chicago dispatch to New York World. Suicide Was A. N. FreeImd. Littte Mountain, Jan. 6.?The stranger who committed suicide by drinking poison here last Friday night was buried in the cemetery this evening at 5 o'clock. v All possible efforts were made to establish his identity, but to no avail until about an hour after bis burial. Engineer Graham of the Columbia,' Newberry & Laurens railroad gave very nearly an exact description of the deceased, whom he said was A. N. Freeland of Sumter and had at one time been connected with the Atlan tic Coast Line railroad. Mr. Graham stated that he saw Mr. Freeland about 10 miles north of here on Friday morning last sitting by the railroad track and feels almost certain that this is the same man. Negro Street Railroad Sold. Jacksonville, Fla., Jan. 6.?H. M. Endicott, Jr., of Boston, Mass., today bought at public auction for $70,000 the property of the North Jacksonville Street railway and Town Improvement company, popularly known as the "negro street railway." The sale was made to satisfy the judgment in a foreclosure of a mortgage in which- W. D. Barnett was trustee. It is reported that the road now will become the property of the Jacksonville Electric company and that the sale was carried through especially to make the transfer of the property wholly legal. This road was built here several years ago by negro capital and was the only , line in the United States owned'and operated by negroes. * 1 / - t " h. L. Solomons Acquitted. Beaufort, Jan. 6.?A petit jury this afternoon found a verdict of not guilty in the case of the State vs. H. L. Solomons, the liquor drummer, who was charged with violating section 35 Oi the Carey-Cothran law. Favor Larger Pensions. Spartanburg, Jan. 6.?At a well attended meeting of the Confederate veterans, held here today, a resolution was passed calling on the State legislature to raise the appropriation for pensions from $250,000 to $600000. The veterans also urged their representatives in congress tu support the bill introduced by Congressman Hobson to aid the Confederates. It fills the arteries with rich, red blood, makes new flesh; healthy men, women and children. Nothing can take its place; no remedy has done so much good as Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea. 35c, tea or tablets. H. F. Hoover. Phillips' Improved Cotton Seed. Has your seed run out? Are they nearly all black seed? Do you want seed that will.add 10 to 20 per cent, to your yield another year? Then write for circulars of Phillips' Improved Cotton seed. J. L. PHILLIPS, Orangeburg, S. C. LETTERS DISMISSORY I will file my final accounting as administrator on the estate of W. H. Bamberg, February 8th, 1908, with Geo. P. Harmon, Judge of Probate, and will ask for letters dismissory. C. M. BAMBERG, Administrator. January 6th, 1908. IV i TfHEC Cleaned, Polished, Oiled tt AI CUE J from $1.00 to $1.50 each Clocks Cleaned, Polished and Oiled from 50c to $1.25 each. Jewelry repaired. Satisfaction guaranteed. H C hirkincon Ramherg. S. C. 11* !_* l^ivnauwuj ?? ??. g, .. White Brick SAVANNAH . SAND-LIME \ BRICK CO. i , ' . D. J. DpLK AGENT, - - - - BAJ1BERG, S. C. J I THANKS I / We wish to thank all our friends for their liberal patM/\nno,A /inninn1 -fVin iuiiagc uuiuic uuv< N holidays. We have > had an unusually i good -trade ana certainly appreci ate it. While we sold the most of the Fruit that we had on hand, we have received a; fresh supply and now have on hand as nice an assortment as ever. If you are needing anything in. the Grocery or Fruit line you must be sure and visit our place of business. V Moyes Grocery Store ON THE CORNER 'PHONE 41 BAflBERG, 5. C. if how ABOirr those || I." _ _ FLOWS We have the celebrated Syracuse, the best on the market, and the prices are the only cheap thing about them. We also nave In stock all kinds of I Farming Implements : at prices that will surely please you. We also handle. Pittsburg wire Fencing the kind that lasts, is easy to put up, and will keep your stock In*, we have a nice line of Hardware, all new and'up-todate. When In need of anything In dur line, come and see us. I j Simmons Hardware Co. j .Bamberg, South Carolina' | ' THE LITTLE JIOUNTAIN MYSTERY. / Stranger who Attempted Suicide Stil Alive and Unknown. Little Mountain, Jan. 5.?The unknown man who gave h?s name as Wade and attempted suicide by poison at the hotel Friday night, is still in a stupor, all efforts to arouse him having proved futile. Dr. Sease. the attending physician, holds little hope for his recovery. The doctor says he has taken two kinds of poison, and he believes them to have been laudanum and chloral. / All clues as to' his identity when followed up have revealed nothing. He is a gentlemanly looking old man, apparently about 60 years of age, and he wears a gray beard ar?H snectacles. Search of his cloth ing has revealed no letters nor marks to identify him except in his hat, where the name may be made out "Dr. J. N. Johnson." It has developed that the man came here walking, having come up to the depot at the time of the arrival of the 3:39 train, his shoes well blackened and free from all traces of mud show that he is no tramp. Without purse or baggage he evi- ' dently came here with the intention of killing himself. His general appearance and the circumstances surrounding the case lead one to believe that he is a well-to-do-man, perhaps suffering from financial tronbles in the recent panic, and he has searched out this place as a secluded spot . where he could end his troubles. He took good care to cover up all traces of his identity except his hat, which he possibly overlooked, or else left it to mislead the investigators. The small vials discovered in the fireplace have been burned and roasted. so that it is impossible to tell what their contents were. It is cer- = tain that he took the poison about 10 o'clock Friday night. He was not found until late yesterday morning, and he has been receiving medi- f cal assistance for the last twenty- 1 eight hours, and it is only due to and- t dotes, heart stimulants and electro- c magnetism that life has been pro- * longed thus far. i t J A Wise Boss. * In a New York street a wagon j loaded with lamp globes collided with ? a truck and many of the globes were j smashed. A behevolent-loolring old j gentleman eyed the driver compas- { sionately. "My poor man," he said, < "I suppose you will have to make \ good this loss out of your own j pocket?" "Yep," was the melancholy reply. "Well, well," said the ] philanthropic old gentleman, "hold \ out your hat?here's a quarter for \ you, and I dare say some of these ] other people will give you a helping j hand too." The driver held out his j * % - 1 ' , IkAAiAMA/) fA nat, ana several persons uaaicucu tv drop coins into it. At last, when the ] contributions had ceased, he emptied j the contents of his hat into his < pocket Then, pointing to the re j treating figure of the philanthropist < who had started the collection, he observed: "Say, maybe he ain't the ] wise guy! That's me boss!"?Efell- i man. ( White Burglar Visits Yorkvflle. J Yorkvillb, Jim. 6.?Rather a bold i burglary was committed here early 1 Friday morning. A stranger tried ! the door of Mr. J. F. Youngblood and the noise aroused the occupants, j Mr. Youngblood went to the door ! and ordered the party off. The bur- ' thpn went across the street and \ entered the dwelling of Mr. J. L. Sanders. From there a lot of cloaks, coats, furs, etc., were taken. Mr. Sanders got up and followed the burglar and found him in thecustody of the night watchman at the Neely cotton mill. 'The goods were secured and the man, who is7 a small one, very ordinary looking and who has the appearance of Deing half witted, was lodged in jail. He says he came from near Marion, N. C., and gave his name as Hyatt. He states that he is a cotton mill opera tive and a' hook used in pulling thread into a loom was found on his person. Aged Women Badly Burned. Spartanburg, Jan. 1.?Mrs. Mary Hannis, a woman 65 years old, was fatally burned at the home of her son at Clifton this afternoon and it is regarded as only a matter of a few hours until her death results. Her j clothing caught from an open fire in j the house and in her fright she ran into the yard, where neighbors ran ' to her rescue, covering her body with blankets. Her clothing was burned from her body and her limbs are charred to the bone. KHled by His Wife. Hallettsville, Texas., Jan. 2.? This afternoon as he was entering his office, W. R. Beaumier, editor of the Hallettsville Herald, was shot and killed by his wife and she was arrested and placed under $2,000 bail. Do-' mestic troubles are said to be the cause of the killing. House Party. Mrs. W. Z. Bryan, of Allendale, gave a house party during the holidays at her lovely suburban home. The following from Bamberg were amongherguests: MissesOttawa and Xania Easterlin, Annie Lou Byrd, Pearle Counts and Hibernia Counts. f Rube Wasster and Sam McClure had a shooting scrape at Bluff City, Tenn., on Monday in which each one killed the other. They had been friends, but fell out because of the attentions one paid to the other's sister. ' > SSfpigpp?g ^ -s,- - - - 1 I WE ARE EXP ^ And we do not thin HI disappointed. Our ?n are right. Big lot H Goods going at coi i Anything in at a Very S We want to sell y< we can. Large sal is our idea. Lots . Oats still on hand, will not regret it.. Armstrong-Johnson' Bamberg, . . . . MOTHER , protected w where YOUR DUTY JL0^ Harbored a Crazy Man. , BENNETTSVitLE, Jan 5.-0n the day ifter Christmas Carroll Langley, who ives in Smithville township, near ;he State line, found a man in an old >ut house on nis place in a very pftikble condition. He was barefooted, : early naked and almost frozen. His :eet were frost bitten and so sore ;hat he could hardly walk. Mr. Langley took him to his house md warmed him up and gave him something to eat. The man behaved ill right, and Mr. Langley thoughthe sad been on a spree and wandered iway and got in the old house. But >n Saturday he became furious and unmanageable, and Mr. Langley found that he was insane. Under the pretense of bringing *? ? fn trcA- Hid fp&t I CU1X1 W & J/liJOlVXOU W 5VV -j treated Mr. Langley got hips to come to Bennettsville with nis son Sunday. Be was taken before Tudge Mc- j Laurin and he committed him to ja3 I is a lunatic. The man was found to be Paul Bayne Byrd, of Aiken county. He is 18 or 20 years old, and until5 re- 1 jently has been in the asylum in Co- j lUmbia since he was about 14 years )f age. Sheriff Greerf went to Columbia last week to carry a crazy negro voman, Mary Johnson, from R. C. Coxe's place, and he talked with Dr. Babcock about BynJ. Dr. Babcock said his was a bad case of insanity, and that his relatives had taken him sut of the asylum over Dr. Babcock's protest. It is said that Byrd has a relative at Patrick, where he came to spend Christmas, and wandered from there over to this county. t |D. J. Dpi ij CARRIAGE WUKKd | ANYTHING ON WHEELS | m Delivery wagons, one and two I horse farm wagons, ice wag- I ons, log carts, sewing machine , wagons, jot any kind of special fl work built to order on short I notice. First-class repair and paint shop,does pipe work and 8 carries piping, and fixtures, brass fittings, engine supplies, injectors, steam gauges, en- I gine oils, large stock of bug- I gies, harness, lap robes ana I whips for sale cheap. All work I will be appreciated and satis- 8 faction guaranteed 8 ID. J. DELK I BAMBERG, 5. C. I Notice to Creditors. 4 . ' * All persons holding any claims against the estate of Richard H. Hammond, dewill nresent the same, duly| swornto, totfie undersigned H. C. FOLK, Master for Bamberg Country. 2 December 23,1907. IW P. RILEY | FIRE, LIFE Z ACCIDENT Z ! INSURANCE1 t BAMBERG, - - -A 8. C. J l -< .?" *, V/ " * - ECTING YOU 1 1 k that we will be x ? terms and prices % X of Winter Dress X % mall Profit CM'; ou.and everybody * Ml hs and small profit? O 4^-d : of those Appier \ See us and you ?' M Brabham Company || ] South Carolina .flggH * ?????' i i ^"Vy your own?to see that your children are 'hen Croup and Pneumonia coma GOW- I UMONIA CURE will cure any disease f 'M | animation to the cause. Keep Gowrn's I 0 j e. All druggists. External. 25 cents f ? 1 ts. BUY IT TO-DAY and be prepared* GRATEFUIIB woa^r^o^vi^ AH ^^mamm } * *, rv- tf --av*.*r?>a53 j:d??58^Wy5ix5^SB D.A^Kinard&Co^H Under Joknoa'* Hotel W^SM BAMBERG, - - - - 8^j||l ASSESSMENT NOTfC^ ^S? Office of the Coanty v Auditor, Ban ?||$SW berg, S. C., December.10,1967>- * I will be at the following places ?(??w?B the days and dates named for $& pose of taking returns of pergonal WWtiB erty for the year 1908: v ? ^ Farrell'sX Roads, Thursday, January! 2nd, 9 a. m. until 4 p. m. , "'-SJgSgfflH Hunters Chapel, Friday, January ^d^"v |S 9 a. m. until 1 p. m. . Colston, Saturday, January 4tV9j^H&?| m. until 1 p. m. Ehrhardt, Tuesday, January 7th, 9a^3 mT until 5 d. m. *> v. St John'8, Wednesday, January 8tfc;'j| 9 a. m. until 4 p. m. Camp Hill School House, Tlmrala&tifSffilk January 9th, 10 a. in. untd 3 p. m., . Kearse's store, Friday, JantiarylOtk^agg; 9 a. m. until 3 p. m. ' fl Lees, Monday, January 13th, 10 a.m-f|^9 until 5 p. m. l, vftffiHljl Denmark, Tuesday W edneeday, j?yByl 14th and 15th, 9:30 a. m. until 5 p. m. ;j| Hightower'8 Mill, Thursday, JaniflftraHlfi 16th, 10:30 a. m* until 3:30 p. m. J| Midway, Friday, January 17th, 9a.J^|gp|I m. until 4 p.m. > Go van, Monday, January 20th, lp.v-"ijH m. until Tuesday, 21st, 1 p. m. 1 Olar, Tuesday, January 21sty 1:30 p. ~ m. until Wednesday, 22nd, 5 p. m. r m At the courthouse from Jam2aty22n& IfltBB until February 20th, after which date iiKjJfl 50 per cent, penalty will be added pergonal property not returned. g|j| wnere lanus nave ucvii ,u? sold, or new buildings erected since Jan-^HBg uary 1st, 1907, note should be made of * same on returns. ||M Please meet me promptly. . ~ ; R. W. D. HOWELL, ;JMB Auditor Bamberg County, iffe m? ve d/ckinson ;[ INSURANCE AGENT J WILL WRITE ANYTMINO < M ! Fire, Tornado, Accident, Ua- < >|?| J[ bility, Casualty, in the \ [IB <j strongest and most re- j? %JH < liable companies. ! gMB| J [ TELEPHONE No. 10 B. Btunbttj, S.C, ?