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Jennings were drowned in Bern's mill Dond eight miles from Green in Greenville County Monday of last week. The two men were taking a day's outing, and were fishing in the pond when a storm came I. up. They started for the shore to escape drenching, but were thrown out of the boat Neither could swim. The bodj^of Mr. Jennings was recovered the same afternoon, but that of ^ Dr. Leonard was not recovered until ' the next day. A unique suit has been brought by .'v' Columbia attorneys in the common pleas court at Lexington. The case tea suit for $$00 damages against J. Weetxe, a farmer, for allowing his buG to enter upon the track of the . ;. Columbia, Newberry & Laurens Railroad and refusing to leave said track although due warning and signals '% were given. The complaint states v that the bull strayed on the track and caused an engine and cars to ran over it, causing great injury and 'damage to the machinery and endangering the lives of the train crew and nassengers. Mr. Meetze has brought suit in the' magistrate's ' court for $95, which he considers the vaiqp of the animal killed by the 4 ' tfUn. . . ? Grand Jury Finds True Bills. ? $ew York, May 29.?Theo. H. ?#?> at one time known as "the cotton king," because of his trades ha the staple, and more recently president of the Eagle Fire Insurance company, was indicted to-day by the 4 federal grand Jury after a long investigation after a startling leak of the cotton crop statistics in a government report which had not been made public. The grand jury found two indictments against Price, one charging conspiracy to commit an oftense against the United States and thj& other bribery of a government Official. Three other persons were f' indicted with Price and warrants have been issued for their arrest as they are out of the Jurisdiction of fa -j&l the federal court of this district. With the handing down of the indictments Mr. Price, who had apparently anticipated the action taken against him, appeared at the federal building and surrendered himself. V ?e was arraigned before Jpdge Hough and pleaded not guilty. Bail was fixed at $5,000 which was furnished and Mr. Price was released alter the court had set June ltf as the date for the preliminary hearing. A- . Hew Railroad Laws. , After July 1st next, pjl passenger . coacheB used within the State will be provided with cinder deflectors, like those used on Pullmans. An act requiring thp companies so to equip - their cars by the date named was * passed by the recent legislature. ; The penalty for non-compliance is .a fine of not less than $500 and not more than $1,000 for each' car not /furnished with the deflectors. '<4 ? The railroad commission has furnished the railroad companies, for 11 their information and guidance, with rcopies of the act. The commission has also written A Mia Mflrnoil anmnnniM rfirw>Hnp W VUV XniUAVMM v.. c, their attention to another act passed I 5 by the recent legislature, forbidding public drinking on trains. It is re. ? quested that a sign be displayed in 7 each coach. " $? + ' [ - v ; v v Death of John B. Smith, Thb many Bamberg friends of ' John B. Smith, Sr., will be pained bp hear of his death which occurred V at his home at Smoaks last Sunday ? a week ago' Mr. Smith has been critically ill * for about two months, and from the beginning but little hope of his recovery was entertained, and though he received most careful attention feom his physicians and tender '< nursing from his devoted wife and friends throughout his illness death catte Sunday morning about four o'clock. His funeral services were conducted by his pastor, Rev. C. L. Wroton, s and he was buried in the cemetery \ at Smoaks Monday morning. He was married about a week before his death to Miss Belle Martin. This romantic marriage is the culmination of a long attachment, and it is peculiarly sad that the bride of v- a week should find herself so soon ^ a widow. Three brothers and two sisters of what was once a large family are left to mourn his loss. Mr. Smith was a member of the legislature a few years ago. He was well known all over the lower part of the State, as an active and tireit less worker, both in business and i public affairs. Mr. Smith lived in Bamberg several * ' years ago, and had a number of s t friends in this city and county. .. * ' 3MET , . V r PLEADED FOR HIS SLAYER. Peacemaker in Street Fight Dies From Pistol Wound. With the last breath of his life Henry Abel, of Asheville, N. C., pleaded for the life of the man who shot him down because he attempted to act as peacemaker in a fight between two well known citizens of the town. His dying request was that no action be taken against his assailant. "I have forgiven him," he murmured, "and I pray God that he may go a free man." Abel was shot a few nights ago by David L. Boyd, representative from Haywood county in the North Carolina legislature, during a street fight between a man named Leatherwood and a nephew of Boyd. Abel tried to part the two men, which enraged Boyd, who remonstrated.with him to let them "fight it out." Abel persisted in his effort of peacemaker, when Boyd drew a revolver and shot him twice. Boyd escaped, and it was reported he had fled the State and crossed over the Tennessee line into the mountains, but he later returned and gave himself up. He was placed under a $40,000 bond, which he gave, but with the death of Abel has been locked up. Abel sent for Boyd, and Boyd was at Abel's bedside when he died. He was visibly affected and on his knees asked Abel for forgiveness. Abel was formerly chief of police of Waynesvilie, N. C. i Big Flood in Johnson City. < Bristol, Tenn., May 29.?The worst ' flood in the history of Johnson City, Tenn., visited that city late this afternoon, causing much damage. Several of the business streets centering at the Southern Railway station were ! flooded with water and the loss is 1 heavy. ? The railroad bridge near the 1 station was washed away and as a ] result traffic is still blocked on the j main line of the southern, several wholesale houses, the electric plant j and other concerns suffered heavy loss on account of high water. Mr. Cn Turnings Will Recover. Beaufort, May 29.?The family of ( Mr. C. I. Cummings, of Hampton county, who was recently shot from ; ambush hear his mill at Titon, have . resided the past year in Beaufort ; and their many friendB have daily sought information as to Mr. Cum mings' condition. It is thought now ( that he will certainly recover, though , the wound in- the left lung was a desperate one. The would-be assas- j sin has not yet been apprehended. j Soil Survey Will be Extended. | Wahington, May 29.?The whole of South Carolina is to be "soil sur- , veyed" and the work will be pressed. ( Secretary Wilson announces that he j has ordered the discontinuance of j all soil surveys by his department ( throughout the country with the ex- ] ception of certain arid sections of ] the Western States, the timber lands 1 of Michigan and the whole of South Carolina and Alabama. { TV> f o onnnnn Aom Dnf ic of ifltprASt to the farmers , of the State for the especial reason that the soil surveys are being followed by demonstrations by agricultural experts of what the various soils will produce. Dispensary Bobbed. St. Stephen's May 27.?Some unknown parties entered the county dispensary here last night and carried off considerable Jiquor. There is absolutely no clue to the robbers. They used a wagon and other vehicle to carry off the goods. Congress Has Adjourned. Washington; May 30.?Just 10 minutes, officially, before the hands of the big round clocks in the chambers of the two houses of congress pointed to the hour of midnight the first session of the sixtieth congress came to a close. In the house the closing hours were characterized by singing of songs by Republicans in honor of Speaker Cannon, and by Democrats in the Interest of William J. Bryan. The excitement, which i was great at times finally subsided j and the session closed with general 1 good fellowship among the members. ] The senate was extremely quiet dur- r ing the closing hours, held together . only by the necessity of remaining in session for the engrossing and , sienine of bills. , Used Crow Bar on Jail Door. [ Spartanburg, May .30.?Thomas | Shedd, a young white man, the son i of a merchant at Clifton, who recently escaped from the gang, was ] arrested last night at Clifton on the charge of breaking into the house of a colored man and stealing a pistol. He was lodged in the guard house at Clifton, and during the night Adol- i phus Shedd, his brother, attempted j to rescue Thomas by breaking open j the door of the lock-up with a crow bar. Adolphus was arrested on the . charge of attempting to aid the ( prisoner to escape, and both young men were brought to the city this morning and committed td' jail. \ Entered Wrong House. Spartanburg, May 30? A Walden, ] who claims Virginia as his home, was s fined $25 or thirty days in the Police court this morning. He was the i richest defendant the police has dealt i with in mariv miinna havinp' a pprtifi- 1 cate from the cashier of a bank in Virginia showing that he had three { thousand dollars on deposit at six per cent, interest. He also had a < pass book on a local bank showing a credit of five hundred dollars. Wal- 1 den went to see his girl last night ] and being a stranger in the city, got into the wrong premises and was 1 about to be shot by the inmates of the house, thinking he was a burglar. He was taken in charge by the ] police. < COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS SOME INTERESTING HAPPENINGS IN VARIOUS SECTIONS. v 1 News Items Gathered All Around the County and Elsewhere. Ehrhardt Etchings. Ehrhardt, May 25.?Mr. C. F. Car- 1 ter, who has been farming for Mr. { R. E. Jones near Lodge and living in Mr. Jones's dwelling house, lost all his 1 household goods and house by fire ( last week. Have not learned if Mr. 1 Jones carried any insurance on the 1 building. Don't think Mr. Carter ( had any insurance on his household | goods. The loss is very heavy on Mr. Carter. j Quite a crowd of ladies and gen** ^ TT -11 >- -1 A 411 < uemen went over to nuwcn ? uiu mm site and had a fish fry last week. ' Fish was plentiful, appetites good, * and all enjoyed the sports of the day. \ The only draw back to the occasion j was the red bugs. The young ladies 1 said they were sassy, and then to 1 help out the enjoyment most of the ; young ladies got drenched with rain J on their way home. This belongs to ? fishermen, however, and was appropriate to make the day co&plete.. ( Crops are improving, and there is 1 plenty room for it to continue. 1 Farmers have been very busy get- \ ting their various crops in good ' shape. A farmer brought me a stalk of 1 cotton that was about ten inches high and had four fairly well matured * forms on it The beauty of it was he k was not in want of an extension on \ his lien. A colored farmer, Miles Williams, J on Col. C. Ehrhardt's Ayer planta- \ tion, has twenty acres of the finest c corn I expect in the county. Will 1 I average as xugn as a uiau a suuumci all over. He say he is weary paying 1 the West such high prices for corn, and intends to try to make it himself. This is the right idea for all the farmers to follow. Make plenty of corn and hay and then all the cotton they can, and when this is done we will be independent, and it can be done so easily. Mr. George Folk says the plums are plentiful on his route and very juicy and sweet, but says they are not near as sweet as the young ladies. Col. Jno. F. Folk and brother, Henry, took an automobile ride Sunday to the Folk section. Took dinner wtth their father, Mr. H. N. Polk, and stopped as they passed back through town. The roads are [n fine fix now for such riding. Practically no water and rain enough to settle the dust. Mr. C. R. Clayton was bitten or stung by a spider last week. The doctor soon overcame the1 poison, but Mr. Clayton at one time thought it was time for him to pass in his checks. He was a sick man. He basn't gotten able to get out yet, but think he will soon be about his svorfc again. y Mrs. Lizzie McMillan, of Colston, f spent Saturday with her sister, Mrs. t Phil Padget. { Mrs. S. M. Brown is spending t some time with her daughter, Mrs. Dr. Kirkland, who is very ill. Hope :hat she may have a speedy recovery. Some rains are reported in various parts of the county, but not general. _ Messrs. Marvin Bishop and Talbert , Warren, sons of Messrs. L. M. Bishop j md W. L. Warren, left these parts e vthout notice last night. They took j from Mr. Lewis Bishop's lot his best mule. The buggy belonged to Mr. Marvin Bishop. The mule was y vorked by a contract hand op Mr. t Bishop's plantation, so it makes it ^ rery bad for him at this season of ^ the year. These two young men left ? liome in company a year or so ago, ind their absence this morning ? makes their parents believe that they aave gone again, this time with con- t sreyance so they can't be captured by a their parents as easily as on the previous occasion. JEE. a Hartzog Happenings. . Hartzog, June 1.?The crops are t sorry for the time of year. Corn t is small and yellow with a few excep- t tions. Cotton is improving. The|y lice are very bad on it in places, t The grass is growing, too, but if the t jrass don't grow the crops won't g The picnic at Howell's old mill s vas pretty well attended. Only one i candidate, except our magistrate caniidates, was present. That was Col. I Fno. F. Folk. We had two strong \ prohibition speeches from Revs. C Smith and Belvin. \ .1 send you the first cotton bloom [ have seen on my place this year. s N. R. RHOAD. t ?? * Colston News. I Colston, June 2.?We are having c jome very fine weather these days J ik/N ?*vi o t?o ^ -U UWJirUJ glOBB, ttUU buc laiuiciB aiv making good use of it. I The union meeting last Saturday 19 md Sunday was a grand success in jvery way. E Mr. J. B. All and his nephew, Mr. James All, Jr., of Ulmer, visited jj iriends and relatives here last Sun- 1 lay. p We are sorry to note the illness of r Mrs. P. M. Varn. We hope her a >peedy recovery. Miss Annie Belle Darnell, of Norway, who has been spending a few * veeks with relatives and friends here, s las returned home. t Rev. S. P. Chisolm visited his son t it Blackville last week. i: Mr. G. W. Beard has the best a ;orn we have seen this year. fc Messrs. Martin Blake and Emory t SVilliams, of Norway, were visitors c lere last Saturday and Sunday. P Mr. Sam D. Beard, of Ulmer, visi- t ;ed relatives here on" Sunday last. c - a The Sunday excursions to the Isle of Palms commenced last Suniay. ' a 1 NEWS FROM OLAR. Kirkland Reunion, School Closing, Base Ball, and Other News. Olar, June 1.?Dr. and Mrs. N. P. Kirkland, Sr., celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary last Wednesday, May 27th. All of their children were present except Mr. J. M. L. Kirkland, of Beaufort, who was unable to be present on account of his large trucking interest which requires his attention at this season. Most of their grand-children were there, too, and quite a good number )f relatives and friends. The day was pleasantly spent by all in picnic fashion under the old oaks in front >f the house. No couple ever took the solemn obligations of matrimony 1 li J kvno nave nveu up iu luem muic :ruly and faithfully than they have, rheir lives have not only been ones 5f devotion to each other and family, but to neighbors, friends, Christ ind His church. No one for miles iround when bent down by sorrow md trouble but what always appeals to and finds comfort in the true Christian advice and sympathy of Cousin Frank and Cousin Jenny. May God spare their useful lives to ?ee many more anniversaries. The Olar base ball team went iown to Luray last Wednesday and )layed a game with that town's team, ^.fter nine innings which were played ? W of AA/i .11 ClatUJ UliC UUU J. , IUC Dtuic OIUVU J to 1 in favor of Luray. Olar has i very fine team, but seems to be )laying in hard luck this season. The commencement exercises of Dlar high school will take place next Sunday and continue until Tuesday evening. Sermons will be preached Sunday by Rev. J. W. Daniel, in the norning, and by Rev. R. A. Yongue n the evening. Prof. W. M. Oxner md his faculty of teachers deserve nuch credit for the efforts they have mt forth to make this'the most suc:essful school year Olar has ever had. Glad to report all of the typhoid 'ever cases in and around here are getting on nicely. Miss Emma Cooke left Sunday for ^eesville to be present at the comnencement of Leesville college. Misses Maude Owens and Lavinia ?ulley spent Sunday with Miss Sarah Srabham, at Kearse. Messrs. C. F. Rizer and J. O. Saniers went to Aiken last week to atend the grand lodge Knights of Pythas, as delegates from this lodge. Master Will Brabham, of Bamberg, 8 spending time with relatives here. Messrs. J. J. Brabham, Jr., and J. * f!hittv went over to Bamberg Fri lay to see the game of ball between Bamberg and Charleston. Crops are looking well in this section. Get busy, base ball fans, and et's win that 4ouble header from mray and Ulmers next Thursday. , B. G' ' News from Ehrhardt. Ehrhardt, June 1.?Grain has been .bout all cut and housed, and farmers are preparing to plant their stub>le land in corn. Glad to see our armers putting so much attention to heir corn crops. Corn and plenty of t is what is needed in this section. We have as fine lands as there is any* trhere in the State and attention is ill that we need to have plenty of inything that we want. Mt Pleasant Sunday-school picnic ?as a success in every respect. The lay was all that could be desired, a ittle warm, and the crowd was large no ugh and attentive. Master Jesse lentz made the welcome address, md, even if a little timid, meant uore welcome to the visitors than le could tell in words. The address >y Rev. W. H. Greever, of Columbia, ras in order for the day, and his auLience was held as one to the end, ind when through everyone made the ?ne comment: "Wasn't the lecture Ine." The dinner was spread and l11 seemed to be of the same opinion, hat it was good to eat, at least their ictions proved this thought, for they ite heartily. Ice cold lemonade was erved free, and was not bad to cool md satisfy the thirsty. The youngsers then had their time. Selecting he young lady of his choice amid the (lushes, etc., he would tell her somehing pleasant. Yes, pleasant, but roung ladies, do you think that what hey said was half true? To wind up he day the young men played a ;ame of base ball on the Ehrhardt chool diamond, in the afternoon >art of the day. Capt. J. C. Westerlund has sold out lis stock to J. M. Dannelly & Co. and rill move his family this week to Charleston, where he expects to get rork. Miss Lena Miley, of Miley.'s, is pending some time with her grandno ther.' Mrs. R. A. Owens. Mrs. T. J. Hiers and children, of )unbarton .are visiting at the home >f her father, Mr. J. F. Copeland. Sunday was a fine time for the oung folks. Buggy riding and >romenading late in the afternoon ?as indulged in by them. Mr, C. J. Cone was in town this , Qorning on business. Ask Jacob C. Hiers, Jr., how hard . fern is to pull up by the roots. He las some experience along this line, >r at least he told a young lady how , iard it was to uproot. JEE. Disappointed in Love. Birmingham, Ala., May 29.?Miss 3mma C. Blair, a well known public tenographer, committed suicide by ; aking poison in the Brown-Mark ; >uilding yesterday afternoon. She s said to have been infatuated with . young man and when he showed ler his marriage certificate, showing 1 hat he was to marry another, she ailed several friends over the teleihone and told them she was going o end her life. Before any of them ould reach her she had swallowed ; , solution of oxallic acid. m I Last Saturday was a legal holiday, .nd the postoffice kept Sunday hours. EHRHARDT SCHOOLCOLUMN PERSONALS AND NEWS FROM A GOOD OLD TOWN. News Written by Pupils of School Under Supervision erf Principal T. D. Jones. Ehrhardt, June 1.?Dr. J. L.' Copeland went to Charleston last week on professional business, returning Friday. Mr. T. D. Jones and family and Messrs. W. D. Sease and C. A. Thomas and Miss Leland Hiers went to Smoaks last Sunday morning, returning home Monday morning. Messrs. J. C. Kinard and Aquilla , Kinard went to the club house last week fishing. They didn't catch many, but had plenty to eat while they were there. Messrs. W. D. Sease and H. A. Kearse represented the Ehrhardt Knights of Pythias at the grand lodge in Aiken last week. The streets of Ehrhardt were well nigh deserted last Thursday, the day of the Mt. Pleasant Sundayschool picnic. The day was bright and fair, the crowd large and good humored, the lemonade good and cold, and the dinner the kind they always have?good and plentiful. The Rev. Mr. W. H. Greever, of Columbia, preached a most excellent sermon in the forenoon, and the afternoon was given over to the young folks for out-door pleasures. A few of the young folks of the town went to Carter's Ford last Thursday to a fish fry. Ofvcourse, everybody always has a good time at a fish fry. The Kearse,base ball boys played against a picked-up team at the school house last Thursday afternoon. The result was 21 to 15 in favor of Kearse. The shower of rain last Friday night was welcomed by the farmers of this community. The following average grades were made on the final examinations. Necessary for promotion, 75. John McMillan, absent. Talbert Warren, absent. Robbie Hughes, 45. - i Harry Hiers, absent. Jesse Rentz, 91. Annie Rentz, 93. Lionel Clayton, absent. Ryan Clayton, absent. Laurie Klnard, 72. Purdie McLeod, 79. i Leon Ramsey, absent. < Clarence Moore, 82. Clemmons Carter, 74. * Jonnelle Hoffman, 96.* Gilbert Hiers, absent Maurice Clayton, absent. i John Copeland, 89. i George McMillan, absent. Leroy Westerlund, absent. Harry Copeland, 96.* Biddle Carter, absent i In the case of Laurie Kinard and < Clemmons Carter who made 72 and 74 respectively, they will be ad- i vanced on probation for 3 months. 1 Those who were absent examination week and missed as much as < two months during the session, I i would recomend to take the same i work over another year. Those who have not been absent that much 1 during the session, but did not have i an opportunity of standing the final 1 examination, may stand the entrance * examination at the begining of the 1 next session. 1 It is unfortunate for this com- J munity in general in this school in particular that so many patrons t think it absolutely necessary to stop their children out of school two or 1 three months of every session. If i the pupils have been properly classified at the beginning of the session, is impossible for any of them to do in six months what it takes others i eight months to do. Examine the < above list, out of 23 pupils enrolled s in the advanced department of the \ school, 11 of them were absent examination week, and some of them have been oat of school as mach as three months. Now, these pupils won't flit in anywhere next session. They certainly won't be prepared to take the work of the next higher grade, and won't have quite enough to do to take the same work over. I do not say this in a spirit of fault finding, as I believe you are as interested in the advancement of your children as I am and will co-oper- , ate with the teachers in every way < possible to attain that result, if you j fully understand the situation. With . but few exceptions the above pupils ! were stopped from school to work. < Now, I know that it is right and ] proper that children should be j taught to work. I would rather a j boy of mine would know how to j work and like it, than to know where the Bay of Biscay is or that Peter the Hermit ever had anything to do wild tne urusaaes. cui now ( honestly, don't you sometimes stop your boy to work when it is not absolutely necessary? If you realize that it takes a pupil about three days < to make up what he loses in one day, 1 would you stop your boy at every 1 imaginary need. I believe it would i simplify matters and certainly work 1 to the advantage of the pupil who is f compelled to work two months out 1 of the eight, if his parents would let him work one whole year, and then '< let him go to school three whole ses- 1 sions without any interruptions. I t am satisfied that this would be best 1 for the large pupils. < A prize of a silver badge was of- 1 fered to the best penman in school, i On the last day of school all were y required to write the same sentence J on a slip of paper. Each paper was t given a number, and these papers y were turned over to a committee con- 1 Bisting of Messrs. J. J. Farreil, W. D. Sease, and J. C. Hiers, Jr. They decided that the writing of Clarence i Moore was the best and that Clem- 1 mons Carter's was the next best 1 W. J. ISENHOWER BADLY HURT. ' <1 Shot by Henry Buggs, Colored, Naur , ? Wlnnsboro, S. C. Winnsboro, May 31.?A very de- ^ plorable occurrence was the shooting and fatal wounding of Mr. W. J. Isenhower this morning about 10 o'clock by a negro boy, Henry Buggs. The tragedy was enacted > * about one mile from Mr. Isenhowpr** * home, which is about eight mile* Northeast of Winnsboro. There were no eye witnesses to the shoot- - . ing and the below antemortem statement made by Mr. Isenhower soon ^ afterwards to Capt. John G. Mobley explains the causes leading up to -.il the crime. ' Mr. Isenhower was found lying in . V the road by some negroes who hurfied to Mr. T. A. Moore's house, half ij&}. a mile distant, and reported to him. Mr. Moore hastened to the scene but O the wounded man was already being carried to his (Mr. Moore's) home. He is now there, and at the last re- '- j. port is Testing well. Dre. C. S. Pixley and J. S. Beaty were summoned / ?,? ??? HULL! YV1UU9UU1U tv n?iv VU wv wounded man. They found on examination that the bullet, 3?-calibre, which struck Mr. Isenhowm* In the left side a'bout on a line with the waistband, ranged backward and up- Uty ward and is probably lodged in the : ,% muscles of the back. The negro who did the shooting immediately after firing ran toward his home, a short distance off, where he, on the advice of his father, Wil- ' liam Buggs, decided to ride to Wlnnsboro and surrender himself to ^jff Sheriff Hood. It appears, however, that Henry changed his mind and took to the woods. The chaingang bloodhounds were quickly secured but as yet they have not captured Buggs. They took the trail and made a brilliant start. The statement as given by Mr. Isenhower as follows: '-( "Believing that death is near at hand to me from a pistol wound inflicted on my person by Henry Buggs, a brown-skinned negro, I make this my last statement: ^ : "On yesterday Henry Buggs came to my house and made threats ' against me. My mother is an aged lady and on her account I avoided a > difficulty there. Henry said that he / would meet me again to-day, May .. 31. I accidentally met him on the road this morning and no one was ^ present except he and myself. I asked him why he had attempted -to > raise a fuss at my house. He made ' some apparent apoiogy ana i bout- 1- 'fc& ed to ride on. As I did so in passing him he shot me in the left side. I > considered that I was mortally wounded and tried to get oil hay horse. As I did so he fired again and maybe a third time. I had reached the ground at this time, but was too weak to fire with any effective aim but discharged my pistoL v "I have given in this statement the truth which I believe to be my lying declaration, so help me God." ; Mr. Isenhower is a young single ? man, about thirty years of age, and lives with his widowed mother, near / ^ Wateree church. He is a good farm- S 3r of some means. About two year? ago he killed a negro in self-defense and was acquitted by the law. Sheriff A. D. Hood has just returned from the scene of the shoot- '; Ing, and as is his usual custom has his prisoner. BuggB was captured at a negro's house, about four miles from here. He stated to Sheriff Hood that Mr. Isenhower made an ^ attempt to fire at him before he(Buggs) shot. This contradicts the ~ I statement made by Mr.. Isenhower. The negio is lodged in the conn- *r||l ty Jail and no trouble whatever Is- , . anticioated. Safe Blower Arrested. Columbia, May 30.?Information !vas received in Columbia to-day that [Jus Deford, a notorious safe-blower ind bank burglar, who operated' extensively in the Southern States ibout four years ago, has been ar- >21 rested in London, England. His aiK: rest was effected through United States secret service agents and as joou as ' requisition papers can be prepared in the different States in ^ which Indictments against him haye been found, he will be returned to this country for trial. ' ^ Another Instance. A Western merchant, in a conyer- ^ sat ion with a competitor, remarked that "advertising does pay" and as #3 incident thereto stated that the week ' previous he had advertised in their weekly for a boy, and snre enough the following morning his adverti*ment was more than covered in the IjM 'act that his wife had presented hfni thgt same morning with twins?both ? ? boys. his wish Granted; ' .yj 3eorge Martin Killed by T,igrh??>i g While Under a Tree. ' George Martin, who for years had vi * engaged in religious work in the Capacity of special preacher and whose lome was along the public road leadng from Hancock to^ Warfordsburg, ^ Va., was killed by lightning while sitting under an apple tree near bis lome on Thursday. When the storm came up Martin ^ md two companions sought shelter, Viartin going under the tree and his ;wo companions into the house. He jvaj? warned of the danger, hut his "IMS >nly reply was that he wished the jord would strike him with lightling. Five minutes later when there vas a flash of lightning from the 'ty iky, the tree was shattered and Marin was instantly killed. Martin, vho was 4fl years old, was an eccen- V :| :ric character. ' J __ 6. Frank Bamberg is now in the West, ind a car load of moles will arrive at us stables the latter part of this week. \ . nght prices.