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. '. ' t% : P ' '' ' ,'- '. > ; -'v^-vv^ .- \ ,.. WM * *i ' - .*M ?Itp Hamhrrg tytmib f Established 1891 BAMBERG, S. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST I3, 1908 One Dollar a Year Jj IN THE PALMETTO STATE _______ ? < SOME OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS / KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA. State News Boiled Down for Quick j Reading?Paragraphs About Men and Happenings. The honor of marketing the first ! bale of cotton in South Carolina this ] year goes to Marlboro county. The bale brought sixteen cents a pound. J Would that the whole crop would . bring this price. There was a terrific electrical j storm in the city of Spartanburg last { Wednesday. Many persons were , shocked by lightning, and a number of houses were struck. Much damage was done by lightning. Several T CDUruure ncic uauiagw. ( Thomas Vic, white, an operative in ' the Monaghan cotton mills at Green- j ville, was arrested last week charged with stabbing his wife. She was stabbed in three places, all of the wounds being serious. He threatened to kill 1 his children if they told on him, but one of them told her uncle, which re- I -n suited in the arrest of Vic. 1 The State Supreme court has de- j cided that Calhoun county, which i was created from territory taken t from Orangeburg and Lexington, is g a dispensary county. In accordance c with this decision a county board of - control has been appointed by Gov- c ernor Ansel. The dispensaries have been open all the time however. There was a campaign meeting at I Allendale last Wednesday, at which * the candidates for United States Sen- 6 ator spoke. A difficulty was narrow ly averted between Grace and Col. I. * L. Tobin. The lie was passed, and * N? for a while the atmosphere was * stormy, but it passed over without f conflict, The meeting was a great 1 ovation for Rhett, he being decidedly the favorite. The campaign in Laurens county is said to be a warm one. Laurens is or has been a strong dispensary S county, but it seems that there is a number of people there who favor I prohibition. Prohibition candidates 3 for the Senate and House are in the race against those who favor the dis- li pensary. The liquor question is play- f ing quite a prominent part in some o , of the county campaigns. 1; The campaign meeting at New- e , berry last Wednesday was a warm ^ one. Cole Blease was at home, and d replied to the ministers who had signed 2l card saying they would not sup' port him, and he also had something to say about Mr. W. H. Wallace, edi- ^ tor of the Newberry Observer, whois not supporting him. Railroad ? Commissioner Caughman told Mr. F. c C. Fishburne, of Charleston, that he a was a liar and the truth was not in d V , Later both men apologized to ^ the audience and the matter was end- ? ed. Governor Ansel was well receiv- ^ ed, and had considerable applause, t even if he was in the home of his op- p ponent. Victim of Peculiar Accident. Last Friday afternoon, while working on a bridge near Tryon, says a t dispatch from Columbus, Polk county, to the Charlotte News, John Pack ? of Polk county fell and skinned his hose. At first it seemed a trifling h matter, but Saturday night he awoke Mrs. Pack by his groans and she e found that he was in a paralyzed con- s , dition, being unable to speak or move. Medical aid was summoned at once u but by the time the physician reached c the Pack home Mr. Pack was havine n epileptic fits. The physician drew about three pints of blood from the injured man, which seemed to relieve him considerably. ^ The doctors state that if they can ward off these fits the chances are 1 that he will recover; if not, there is very little hope for the unfortunate 11 man. This case is without parallel , in the medical annals of this county. * ?Asheville Gazette-News. D e: Encounter at Walterboro. e: Walterboro, Aug. 5.?What came a near being a serious affray occurred p Friday afternoon between Martin d Crosby and Bel ton Lane in Terry & Shaffer's lot. Crosby was drinking u and oecame involved in a personal F difficulty with Lane, making an effort to strike him with knucks. Lane grabbed a wagon shaft and struck Crosby first on the arm and then on the head, breaking one of the bones in his arm and making a severe gash T * in his head. Crosby was taken to Dr. Riddick Ackerman's office, where N his wounds were dressed by Drs. Stokes and W. B. Ackerman. l? As soon as his wounds had been dressed he and Lane were brought e: before the mayor, who, after hearing II the case, released Lane and fined Crosby $15 or 15 days. The fine was u j paid. A Pierce Fight on Street Car. Pensacola, Fla., Aug 5.?One man was fatally wounded and another was d painfully injured as the result of a fight early to-day between negroes a and street railway employes on a Bay Shore car. William Johnson, colored, " was shot in the mouth and the abdomen while Thief Tnsnector McClnner e of the street railway suffered a pain- ^ ful wound in the hand. The negroes r< had had a picnic at Palmetto Beach which lasted far into the night. A u * special car with half a dozen trailers e was bringing them back when one negro refused to pay his fare. A general fight followed between the eight or 10 conductors and some of the ne- e groes. F Johnson died to-night. Conductor ^ Benson, who was in charge of the T trailer on which the fight took place, a has been arrested. f< CONDITION IN DRY COUNTIES. Statements as to Effect of Prohibition in Several Counties. The South Carolina Anti-Saloon League has been very energetic of late in getting information from the authorities in prohibition counties as to the condition of things since liquor was voted out. A letter was recently sent to the Clerk of Court in each dry county, as follows: Dear Sir: We are asking the Clerk Df Court in each prohibition county for facts in regard to prohibition. Will you kindly answer the following juestions as you may obtain them from the county records and forward jame to me at your very earliest convenience. Yours truly, J. L. HARLEY, State Superintendent. He has received for publication the mswers from many of the counties. The following tell whether prolibition will prohibit or not: EDGEFIELD. How long has your county been dry? ^.bout two and a half years. What effect has it had on business? think the general impression is that msiness is more satisfactory. Have you been able to enforce the aw? I think the law is pretty well mforced, as much so as was expectid. Of course there is occasionally ;ome whiskey sold here and in the :ounty but I think the sale of it in the town and county is on the deTease. What effect has it had with refer;nce to sobriety and good order? t has had wonderful effect in improvng good order and decreasing drunkmess. To what extent has the sale of liqlor and drinking been reduced? do not think there is more than 10 >er cent, of drinking and drunkenfss now as when whiskey was sold n town of Edgefield. W. B. COGBURN, C. C. P. Edgefield County., r?TTnn/\Tmn riATT\Tmxr wui\ i i. How long has your county been dry? lince Dec. 1, 1904. What effect has it had on business? think business has increased 25 to 3 1-3 per cent. Have you been able to enforce the aw? Yes. Occasionally we have a ew cases in the courts for violation if the law, but no more than formers'. What effect has it had with refernce to sobriety and good order? l most wonderful efTect. ?I think drunkenness has increased 60 to 75 >er cent. To what extent has the sale of liqor and drinking been reduced? lo liquor is sold in the county exept occasionally by parties who open p blind tigers, and they are soon aught and dealt with. A considerble amount of liquor is shipped in uring the fall and winter months, ly opinion is that the entire sale rom all sources has decreased 60 to 5 per cent, and possibly more, and be drinking reduced in the same proortion. Yours very truly, J. E. JEFFERIES, Clerk Cherokee County. YORK COUNTY. How long has your county been dry ? 'hree years. What effect has it had on business? lelped business. I Have you been able to enforce the iw? Yes. ' What effect has it had with refernce to sobriety and good order? plendid effect. To what extent has the sale of liqor and drinking been reduced? >pen public drinking has been disontinued. Answered by J. S. BRICE, At request of Clerk. PICKENS COUNTY. How long has your county been dry? 'hree years. What effect has it had on business? mprovement. Have you been able to enforce the iw? It has been enforced as well or etter than the dispensary law was nforced. What effect has it had with refernce to sobriety and good order? . wonderful improvement. It is 50 er cent better than when we had the ispensary. To what extent has the sale of liqor and drinking been reduced? my per ceni. Yours very truly, A. J. BOGGS, C. C. P. LANCASTER. How long has your county been dry? hree years. What effect has it had on business? lone that I can see. Have you been able to enforce the iw? Yes. What effect has it had with refernce to sobriety and good order? t has had a good effect. To what extent has the sale of liqor and drinking been reduced? .t least 75 or 80 per cent., possibly lore C. C. P. SPARTANBURG. How long has your county been ry? Three years. What effect has it had on business? lusiness has improved. Have you been able to enforce the iw? Yes. What effect has it had with referDce to sobriety and good order? .ccording to police records, crime educed about 75 per cent. To what extent has the sale of liqor and drinking been reduced? Sevntv-fivp ner ppnt J. F. FLOYD, Mayor. The city of Chester has sold its lectric light plant to the Southern ower Company, which has a big 'ater plant on the Catawba river, 'he city agrees to take seventy-five re lights from the power company, ar which they are to pay $66 a year. i FINE KNITTING MILL BURNED. Early Morning Fire Destroys Plant at Jonesville. Jonesville, August 9.?The Jonesville Knitting Mills was burnt early this morning. The fire was discovered by the night watchman at 2:30 a. m. and the alarm whistle was blown. The whole interior of the building was in flames in a few minutes and all efforts to save the mill were vain. The fire was inside the brick walls and could not be reached from the outside, and the people, who gathered promptly at the first alarm, had to stand back and see the flames eat up the finely equipped mill that was one of the earliest and most valued enterprises of Jonesville. This mill was built just seven years ago, but a small mill had been in operation for several years before, being replaced by the mill burned to-day. The mill was running on full time and employed about 350 hands, who will be thrown out of employment. *? - 1.. ^ J ? *. ? 1 - A AAA me piarn WttB vttiucu at <pxuv,vw and was installed with three hundred knitting machines, with all the other necessary equipment, with a complete dye plant. A box mill, which was in a separate building a few steps from the main building, and this was saved by hard work. President J. J. Littlejohn is away from home in Texas, looking after the interest of the Jonesville Manufacturing Company, of which the I knitting mills were a part. Mr. Littlejohn's trip was to investigate the present prospects of the cotton crop in the West, with a view of buying cotton for his plant. The cause of the fire cannot be accounted for, as the mill had stopped running at 11 o'clock in the morning on Saturday, which it has been doing on Saturday for a long time, so it had been shut down for about fourteen hours before the fire was discovered. The mill was very well insured. As President Littlejohn is away and cannot reach home for a day or two it nannot be learned at this early pe riod what the management of the mill will do. The boiler being encased in brick work is unharmed, but everything else in the building went up in smoke. A heavy rain late yesterday evening soaked the house tops, and but for this some of the dwelling houses near the mill would have been set on fire by the mill. Death of Mrs. T. A. Caldwell. Mrs. Sallie A. Caldwell, wife of Thomas Alexander Caldwell, a prominent citizen and farmer of Appomattox county, died at their residence near the village of Appomattox on Sunday morning at 4 o'clock. Mrs. Caldwell had for several years been subject to violent attacks from a malady, which it had been thought ? * U on several previous occasions wouiu prove fatal, but from which she rallied, until this last attack, which baffled the skill of her physician and the ministrations of loving and faithful friends and death came to her relief on Sunday morning; and now all feel assured that she is at rest, and "Safe in the arms of Jesus." Mrs. Caldwell was in the sixtieth year of her age, was born and raised in this cqunty and all her life resided here. For forty-two years she had been a faithful and consistent member of Liberty Baptist church, always punctual in her attendance at church and faithful in all church work and duties. From its organization she had been a member of the Woman's Missionary Society, of the church, a regular attendant upon its meetings, a liberal contributor to its funds and a cheerful, hearty worker in all its enterprises. She put her church duties above everything else and has frequently been seen at church soon after severe attacks of illness, when her friends would think she would better have been at home and in bed. She was a loving, faithful, dutiful wife; a fond and devoted mother and a kind and considerate friend and neighbor, and her pretty home was the abode of hospitality, especially for ministers of her church and the young people. She will be? greatly missed by her family and friends. Mrs. Caldwell left surviving her, besides her devoted husband, four daughters, Mrs. Robert C. Jones, of Bamberg, South Carolina; Mrs. Robert L. Havcock. of Washington City; Mrs. W. Dan Browning, of Richmond, and Miss Clara Caldwell, and one son, Mr. D. Eddie Caldwell of this county, all of whom were with her when the end came. She also leaves one sister, Mrs. Robt. E. Caldwell and one brother, Mr. Chas. H. Furbush, both of this county. Her funeral services were conducted at the grave in Liberty Church cemetery Monday aftfernoon at 3 o'clock by her pastor, Rev. R. C. Hubbard, in the presence of a large concourse of sympathizing friends and neighbors. Several beautiful and appropriate hymns were sung at the grave by a well trained choir of male and female voices, *and the flowers covering her grave were beautiful and profuse. Peace to her ashes, and God's V.ln??in(?n mA /inncnlinor crra na tn fhfi uiuooiugo aim v/uuouim^ ^iu.w w vmv bereaved ones.?Southside Virginian. Sorrowing for Dick. A Washington man tells of a dinner he once had at a farm house in Virginia, on which occasion the piece de resistance was a particularly tough chicken, says Harper's Weekly. Among the others at the table were the farmer's two young sons. These, as well as the Washingtonian, were struggling unsuccessfully to make some impression on their respective portions of the aged fowl/ when the youngest boy turned to his companion and observed sotto voce: "Tom, somehow I kinder wish old Dick hadn't a-died; don't you?" / UNION BANK CLOSES. The People's Bank of Union, B. F. A. Arthur, President, Suspends. Union, August 4.?The People's . bank of this city suspended this , morning pending going into volun- . tary liquidation. Just before the regular time for . the bank to open the following notice . was posted on the closed doors: ' *4 A A 1 A AO Dnnlr AUgusi t, l s vo. uaun ouop^uuvu. g "At a meeting of the board of di- c rectors of this bank last night it was ^ decided that owing to the continuous a decline in our deposits and the gener- ^ al depression in the stock owned by t, the bank that it was best to suspend further business pending arrange- y ments for voluntary liquidation of its ti affairs for the protection of all par- S( ties concerned. p "DEPOSITORS ARE FULLY PRO- t< TECTED. h "The State bank examiner has been P notified and requested to apply at e once to a circuit judge for the appointment of liquidating officers, according to low. B. F. ARTHUR, a "President." a V The People's bank was organized t, in February, 1904, with a capital stock of $60,000 and ftp to the time .. of the Duncan failure was doing quite a good business, was handicapped by that failure, as Mr. Duncan was vice- . president of the bank and had considerable interest in it. Last fall when t] the panic began in New York it nat- b urally affected this institution, as it did more or less every concern h throughout the country and though suspension was not expected at this time it is not altogether a surprise. At the present time its officers are: President, B. F. Arthur, and vice president, L. M. Jordan. These with Dr. J. H. Hamilton, Dr. H. K. Smith and W. D. Arthur of this city, B. G. Wilburn of Cross Keys, and W. N. Garner of Pinckney, A forming the directorate. J' It will be recalled that at the time f( that Judge Pritchard was appointed to take charge of the State dispensary wading up affairs this bank' had on deposit $10,000 of .the State dispen- " sary money and it is supposed that ?_ it is still in the bank's custody as rj both the State and federal courts forbade its removal and no judicial order changing this has been received ? so far as iS' generally known. y t( What effect this will have in the winding up finally of the affairs is d' not known. w State Bank Examiner Giles L. Wilson has been notified of the hank's suspension and is expected to reach Union to-morrow. There has been J. no excitement incident to the bank's suspension, everything moving on smoothly in business circles here, though, of course, it has been the jj topic of conversation. 0] 11 ill Dr. W. J. Murray, chairman of the ai State dispensary commission, stated h; last night that the State funds in the ci People's bank of Union were fully G protected. While Mr. Arthur was a w member of the commission $10,000 was deposited with his bank. Last h< winter a call was made upon all th6 sc banks having dispensary funds to re- tt mit 22 per cent, of the total amount tl deposited. The People's Bank of al Union complied with this call, which oi leaves but $7,800 of dispensary funds pi on deposit with a small amount of sc interest to be added. There are securities to the amount h< of $12,000 in the State treasury to P* protect this deposit, but whether the M State held any security or not the w funds are protected by the temporary h< injunction issued early in January tt by United- States Judge Pritchard. si By this restraining order the People's si Bank of Union was prohibited from paying out or otherwise disposing of n< the funds in its hands belonging to w the State dispensary funds. d< Garrison Released on Bond. Laurens. Aue. 2.?Counsel for J. Henry Garrison, the Gray Court citizen who% shot and killed J. Louis Wil- h< liamson? the young York county 0f farmer in the Garrison home Friday c< night, appeared before Circuit Judge Richard C. Watts at chambers here is last night'and obtained an order for iG bail in the sum of $1,000 for his ap- jjj pearance at the next term of the Lau- ca rens criminal court. The bond was be executed and the defendant released be from custody to-day. Ih The body of young Williamson was aI shipped last night to the home of his th father, who lives about (eight miles \\? from Rock Hill, the remains being m accompanied from Clinton by a broth- be er of the deceased. No tragedy in yc recent years has caused more general bi regret in Laurens than Friday night's ar deplorable affair. Louis Williamson th belonged to a large and influential h? family of York county and is said to pa have been personally one of the most f0 popular young men of the entire fa county, honorable and upright, and wj successfully engaged in farming. ly af DROWNED NEAR SPARTANBURG. T] ar Arthur Gibbes, Colored, Loses Life aI in Lawson's Creek. Gi Spartanburg, August 1.?Arthur Gibbes, a negro man of about 21 years of age, was drowned in Law t0 son's creek at noon to-day. Gibbes was in washing with several negroes at a point just below White's mill when he was seized with cramps, m His partners on the bank could not ed swim well enough to go to his rescue h? and he went down for the third time pi before their eyes. The coroner was re notified and after dragging and sein- st ing the stream for two hours recov- ru ered the body. de Gibbes was a negro from Pacolet wi who was in Spartanburg working N< with a gang on the bridge over Law- th son's creek at the foot of the east be Main street extension. fo - . I.'-.' j. HELI) ON FRAUD CHARGE. Llleged Agent of Scale Company Arrested at Branchville. B ranch ville, August 8.?J. T. Marin, who says that his home is near .ouisville, Ky., was arrested here toay by Constable A. R. Byrd on a /arrant sworn out by Mr. G. M. Nole, of this place. The charge is atempted frfcud. It appears that an dvertisement appeared in the State few days ago for a man to take harge of a branch house. Mr. Nole answered the advertisement and rrangements were made to meet Mr. , Iartin, the advertiser, in Charleston d close the contract. : Mr. Martin claimed to represent , he Standard Scale Company, of Deroit. It appears that for some rea- , fnnnnnollAri O/MI1A KD A/MTI. LPJLi LUC Liauoavuvu WUiU UW ipv vuui leted, and Mr. Martin was to be here >day. In the meantime Mr. Noble ad a telegram from the Detroit peole to the effect that Mr. Martin was ntirely unknown to them. The conract stipulated that $500 cash was d be paid Mr. Martin, $nd Mr. Noble ppeared to be trying to raise this < mount when the arrest was made. 7hile waiting to complete the deal > ais morning, Mr. Noble received an- ' ther telegram saying that Mr. Mar- i n was in no way connected with J ae Detroit house, and to have him rrested. Mr. Martin claims that he ] t connected with the Detroit firm, ' nd has full authority to deal for * aein, and that he will have no trou- 1 le in proving that he is innocent of 1 le charge. He was taken to Orange- I urg jail this afternoon. J CHILD'S SLA1TER CONVICTED < oseph Vance Found Guilty at Ashe- j ville for Killing Little Girl. i Asheville, N. C., August 8.?Jos- s ph Lance, who shot and killed little 1 lma Green from a passenger train, ] t Buena Vista, last December, was : >und guilty of manslaughter in the ! riminal court this afternoon after le jury had been out two hours. The evidence in the trial set forth ] lat Lance, while under the influence f liquor had fired his revolver irough the car Window, saying at le same time: "Watch me make lat girl bounce." The bullet struck le 14-year-old girl, who had come > the station to see her uncle, an agineer, in the heart, and she fell ead in her brother's arms. Sentence ill be passed Monday morning. YOUNG MAN SHOT. , Louis Williamson Shot in Fiancee's Presence. Laurens, Aug. 1.?J. Louis Wilamson, a prominent young farmer f York county and son of J. L*. Wilamson of the same county, was shot ad mortally wounded late last night Y J. H. Garrison, the shooting oclrring at the Garrison home at ray Court, a little town 10 miles est of Laurens. Young Williamson lived three aurs after the shooting, being con:ious for some time and realizing lat he could not recover. It seems lat young Williamson was a visitor t the Garrison home as the guest ? Miss Mary Garrison, the accomlished daughter of Mr. J. H. Garri>n. Last evening Miss Garrison and sr visitor were alone in the family irlor. About 11 o'clock, it appears, r. Garrison went on the piazza for j ater. Observing the young people, 3 concluded from appearances that Le young man was not acting as he lould and fired upon him with a lotgun. ' i An inquest was held thia after- fi Don and a verdict in accordance , ith the above facts were returned, j Garrison came down and surren- e jred to the sheriff this morning. , i Another Account. ? Rock Hill, Aug. 1.?News came J ?re to-day of the killing last night 1 ' Mr. Louis Williamson at Gray 8 3urt, Laurens county, by a Mr. t arrison of that place. The killing J said to have occurred in the par- * r of Garrison's home, where Wil- 8 imson was calling. The matter . .n not be understood here. It is ? ilieved that a terrible mistake has * *en made by some one. Mr. Wil- 2 imson is a prominently connected * nwanprmiu vnnne farmer of Be- _ ? f ? r ? tesda, near here, a son of Mr. J. L. J 'illiamson, one of the county's fore- * ost men. Young Williamson has r ien devoted in his attentions to the J ?ung lady in whose presence he met ; s death. He was engaged to her 1 id was making preparations for s eir marriage early in the fall. He c id talked the matter over with his ? irents and had made arrangements r renting a part of his father's rm. He spent Thursday night here ? Ith his brother and left on the eartrain Friday morning to visit his , Banced at her home in Gray Court, le news reached here too late for ? ly of the family to make connection . id get to Gray Court, but F. Barron ? rier, Esq., of Greenwood, a cousin . the deceased attended the inquest . id will bring the body to Rock Hill ? -night. 0 Steals His Leper Wife. jj Los Angeles, Cal., Aug. 2.?Deter- p * 1 ~ ?.??, 1'1 Mrtf Ko eonarat. Vl ineu uicti xic w umu nut i/c . ju 1 from his wife who is a leper, and b is been confined at the county hos- v tal, Brig. Gen. David K. Wardwell, b tired, veteran of two wars, has I olen her from the institution and h ished her across the Mexican bor- a jr, where he declares he will live t ith her until death separates them, v 3 attempt will be made to bring t em back as the officials say they a >th threatened to end their lives if v reed to live apart. g j ' ' ? ; 7 - THE BLACKLIST HUSBAND. * Lady Editor Won't Allow Husband*! :-yi Name in Her Paper. ? -r The editor of the Emporia Time* is Mrs. Mary McCreary Parkman. She is a loyal Democrat and has served two terms as county superinten- \ dent, elected by her party, or parties, as the case may be. Her husband it ? Harrison Parkman, Republican cons- | ty surveyor and candidate for renom- > ination. It is one of the rules of the Times office that Mr. Parkman's name . \ % shall not appear in the paper. When a news item requires mention of him, ) he appears as "the county surveyor.", This policy of blacklisting her hua-^l band has caused some comment in - || the town and in her own defense Mrs. Parkman is authorized to print the following editorial. "We have been asked frequently why we keep our husband on tte blacklist in the Emporia Times. Nov. ordinarily, what we do to our husband Is our own business. And it would seem in all fairness that if we put up < with this man morning, noon, and:^:|? night, we shouldn't have to be putting him in the paper all the nine. / ^ We and our husband, like all married people, have our Agreements and^--'-\J5 our disagreements. We agree on literature, religion, art, the nebular pothesis, the proper method of pok- - || [ng the fire, the value of breakfast :%\&? food as a brain builder, paving, me? aicipal ownership, and the facts it the Guineas case. But^we disagiss^l^ on politics.' We think our husband ^Jsjj has a good deal of sense?for a mors man?on lots of subjects, but on poi?.' [tics, he doesn't know much. He la i Republican?a black Republican, i mean black Republican, and as such has no claim on us either as a molder of public opinion,a fellow cftK sen or as a wife. We will cook tor 3ur husband; we will mend our Iran* JqM band's clothing; we will darn and ; ; brush him, and keep him up?as our busband. But as an officeholder of < i vile, venal, and corrupt organist Lion, an emissary of Wall street, md as an oppressor of the poor, Dur husband has only our . unspeak* ible contempt. He should thank his lucky stars that we do keep his name "'J| 3ut of the Times. "We know enough of our husband should he attempt to press this mat* Is&A :er too far, to make his vote in this' -Wl Section litle more than scattering.But up to the present we have skid lothing. We have believed that oar luty as a wife had some claims on \ )ur duty as an editor. But a word ;o the wise should be sufficient, and ' f our husband has learned d lick of J' sense from past experience with us? le will take a grand immortal tum-^^Sjw Die to himself and call off his dogs, rhis newspaper is a free and ua?.y}/|| trammeled organ of special prill- _t eges to none and equal rights to nil, md if our husband thinks he belongs% ;o the privileged classes he is mighty jadly fooled. , -> "We think a good bit of our hus>and, first and last, and in (me way i|jjg ma anoiner, out. we win ircium in. w . tvsa 'oolishness from this Republican / :ounty surveyor. He is a bad UA'> *?&& md we withhold certain matters la ; ;his affair, on account of the respeolr ibility of the parties concerned.'*? "^Raj Smporia Gazette. incidents of Nearly Panics. Remarkable Cheerfulness Displayed v-f|l| in Days of Financial Gloom. /' 'A In 1857, when the writer wasal* ; eady established in busines,he lean* .-y$g id by the failure of the Ohio Life la? turance and Trust companies how to ace difficulties that are apt to coaront us on the occassion of almost ivery panic. He drew in current lines some -\-M noney from a Williamsburg bank md $100 in gold from the Bank of sew York. When subsequently alnost every financial institution thia 'g tlio T)n/>Vioa rlnopd it* doom. he writer would play chess i/i hi?v % ffice with his clerk, while his dis-1 racted neighbors chased the fleeting g ihadows of ephemeral bankers. The writer, on one of those gloomy lays, was agreeably surprised by the . ' nvitation of a friend to join him In. l glass of wine. We went to Delmonico's, at the junction of leaver and William streets in New fork, and while Longhi uncorked a : '% >ottle of his best, friend Andrew nnolded a letter to explain the whimical reason for his good cheer. In he conventional terms of the timet & he letter simply announced the In- ? olvency of another firm. As this tm. losed the long list or nis aeoiors, 10 other failures impended to distort lis mind. We celebrated his deliv- t-.irance, and drank to a speedy re- ' ? umption of this and of the numerous ; lebtors who had preceded him. A Western friend described the Irastic means some Western men em?loyed to recoup deposits lost by the run." Among others a German v irushmaker had withdrawn from his iank $500. Safe deposit vaults beog unavailable he hid the money in lis bed; but fear of robbers preyed 'rv3% m his mind until he found no rest ' ','r n his couch nor comfort at his neals. When the banker heard of lis dilemma, he conceived the idea of . 3$ retending at midnight to burglarise . ^ lis house. The brushmaker, tremiling with fear, sat on his bed, revoler in hand, and carried his fortune ack to the bank early in the morning, le was glad when the officers ended ii lis worry by the reacceptance of his ccount. An amateur band of urglars was then organizd, other whilom depositors were scared so as o follow the brushmaker's example. ,nd money became easy in that bailiwick.?Louis Windmueller, in Au:ust Forum.