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Established 1891 BAMBERG, S. C., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1908 One Dollar a Year
TAFT HAS LARGE MAJORITY
Republicans Win Election by Nearly
300 Electoral Votes
KERN'S HOME STATE GOES REPUBLICAN
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Bryan lias Apparently carried rNeorasna, VYIIIIC V11IUI
Has Gone for Taft by About 50,000?Re=
publican Pluralities Have Falle.n
Off in the West.
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New York, Nov. 3.?The indications are that the following will be cast in tbp
electoral college for Taft: California 10; Connecticut 7; Delaware 3; Idaho 3;
Illinois 27; Indiana 15; Iowa 13; Kansas 10; Maine 6;- Maryland 8; Massachusetts
16; Michigan 14; Minnesota 11; New Hampshire 4; New Jersey 12; New
York 39; North Dakota 4; Ohio 23; Oregon 4; Pennsylvania 34; Bhode Island
4; South Dakota 4; Utah 3; Vermont 4; Washington 5; West Virginia 7; Wia'
consin 13; Wyoming 3. Total 306.
New York, Nov. 4.?General election returns from throughout the United
States received up to an early hour this morning show the following results:
William H. Taft of Ohio has been elected president with 298 votes secure
and 13 doubtful.
Practically no change is indicated in the complexion of the national house I
fl
I ?f representatives.
I The United States senate will retain its present Republican majority.
I Gov. Charles E. Hughes has been re-elected in New York by about 70,000
I plurality.
I Indiana has gone fof Taft fy from 15,000 to 18,000 plurality.
I Brvan apparently has carried Nebraska, although the Republicans still
I claim the State.
I Ohio returns have been seriously delayed owing to the immense sizes of the
I ballot, but Taft has carried the State by a majority ranging from 50,000 to 75,I
000.
I Taft carried New York city by about 11,000 plurality, this being the first
, / I time the city has given its vote to a Republican presidential candidate since
1 1896, when Mr. McKinley had a small plurality.
I Mr. Taft received a greater plurality in New York State than President
I Roosevelt did four years ago, the indications pointing to 202,000 for Mr. Taft,
* I as against 175,000 for Mr. Roosevelt.
1 Hisgen, the Independence party candidate for president, received about 28,\
.. I 000 votes in greater New York.
1 The indications are that Democratic governors have been elected in severI
al of the Middle Western States that have given their presidential votes to
S ' Taft.
I Mr. Taft has exceeded Mr. Roosevelt's plurality in New Jersey and in
I Massachusetts as well as in Sew York.
ittl _ ~n?t~i* ? v?oQTriiT7- in -flip Mirlrllp West in a manner
xne xiepuuuuciii piuAcuuuico uu. uvmiij ui
thoroughly surprising to the Republican managers.
Speaker Cannon has been re-elected by his usual majority.
Missouri has returned to the "solid South" on the presidential ticket and
? . elected Cowherd as its governor.
The first returns received to-day came from scattering districts in Massacluisetts.
The heavy pluralities indicated there for Mr. Taft seemec^ at once
to uissipate any probability of a landslide for Mr. Bryan, as many Democrats
had claimed, and the Republican managers at once began to put in claims of
victory.
Returns from the up-country districts of New York State, where voting
machines are largely used, were the next to arrive. It had been predicted for
days that Erie County, including the heavy vote of Buffalo, might be taken as
an index to the drift throughout the country. This proved to be the case so
/ 1 far as the national ticket was concerned, Mr. Taft having a plurality of some- | thing
more than 4,000 votes. Erie county surprisingly, however, gave Lieut. I
Gov. Chandler a plurality of more than 3,000. The opponents of Gov. Hughes |
were quick to claim a sweeping victory, but returns from the other large I
counties and cities soon changed the complexion of the returns completely. I
The vote in Greater New York for Mr. Chanler was deeply disappointing to
his friends, while the heavy vote for Mr. Taft, especially in the borough of
Brooklyn, completely eclipsed the most sanguine hopes of the Republicans.
Gov: Hughes was cut heavily up the State, but not so deeply as to imperil his
election, once the drift in his favor '4below the Bronx'' had begun to make itself
felt.
Maryland and West Virginia are confidently claimed by the Republicans,
but the returns are too meagre to justify a classification of either State.
There has been a shrinkage of the Democratic vote in several of the
Southern States, notably in Virginia and North Carolina. I
Mr. Taft has carried Wisconsin by about 75,000, a falling off from the I
Roosevelt plurality of 150,000 in 1904. I
TVpntnokv has e-one safelv for Mr. Bryan by about 15,000. |
Gov. John A. Johnson of Minnesota has probably been elected governor of |
that State for a third term, although the State has gone safely for Mr. Taft. I
Mr. Taft carried practically every so-called doubtful State except Nebras- I
ka, where the indications point to a Democratic victory. Mr. Bryan has car- I
ried Nevada and Montana, in addition to the solid South, which includes Mis- I
souri. I
Returns from Colorado and from Maryland are too meagre to form a defi- |
nite conclusion as to their ultimate alignment. I
The latest Republican advices are that Taft has carried Maryland by I
about 3,000. J
COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS
SOME INTERESTING HAPPENINGS
IN VARIOUS SECTIONS.
News Items Gathered All Around
the County and Elsewhere. .
Ehrhardt Etchings.
Ehrhardt, November 2.?Mr. Willie
Sease and Miss Leila Hiers took an
early buggy ride Sunday morning.
They took in the Lutheran parsonage
among their places to visit, and while
there they had Rev. P. E. Monroe to
make them man and wife. They returned
to town and attended church
looking as happy as any need for.
Mr. Tom D. Jones was in town a
few days last week, looking and feeling
as jovial as ever. He thinks of
moving his family to Augusta, Ga.,
a$ soon as his wife can close out her
millinery goods.
Com W Pr?noland anH Ms wifp
attended the fair in Columbia last
week.
Quite a lot of cotton came to town
last week. Most of it of a poor grade,
however.
Jack frost has visited this section.
Did not stay very long this time but
promises another visit soon.
Potato digging is the go now.
Some of the farmers have made plenty
and fine ones. Mr. John L. Cothran
brought im one that he made
from vines planted out the latter part
of June that weighed 3^ pounds.
I have seen several potatoes from
older plantings that weighed from
5 pounds to 5% pounds.
Conrad Ehrhardt Co. received
from Clio, S. C. twenty-five bushels
of choice seed rye last week.
Prof. Clifford, the blind musician
and ballad singer, held a concert, in
the Ehrhardt graded school building
on the 28 th of October. The weather
was very bad but he had a very
good audience, and all who went enjoyed
themselves and had a good
time.
Law suits before the Magistrate
are fashionable, especially among the
colored folks. One half pint of
booze can make a thirty or forty dollar
suit, or a thirty day chain gang
scrape, without any exertion to assist
it. Mrs.
Ada Lillie Jaycocks and her
two children are spending some time
with her sister, Mrs. W. B. Moore.
The trustees of Ehrhardt graded
school building should have the sadh
repaired, as the .glass is nearly all
out, and too much fresh air will mingle
with the children's lessons and
interfere with their recitations.
News from OLar.
Olar, November 2.?The program
of the Simms Literary Society for
Friday afternoon was as follows:
Recitation?Miss Maida Still.
Essays?Miss> Berta and Mr. Athen
Morris.
Current Events?Miss Anna McCormack.
Description of a Horse?Mr. Corinthen
Morris.
Historical Questions?Miss Hattie
Ray.
Debate?Resolved: The United
States navy shuld be increased. Affirmative:
Misses Orrie Morris and
Emma Bessinger and Mr. Ellis Barker.
Negative Miss Ettie Kearse.
Messrs. Bernice Barker and Elvyn
TCenrse. The iudees were: Misses
Hattie Ray, Annie Laurie Kirfcland,
and Anna McCormack. Their decision
was in favor of the negative.
Miss Ida Bessinger left for Windsor
Friday, where she will teach
school for the coming session.
Miss Lillian Black, of Colleton
county, spent Saturday and Sunday
with Miss Ettie Kearse, of this place.
Quite a number of our folks attended
the State" fair last week.
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Rev. D. L. Roton moved into town
Wednesday. We are very glad to
have him with us.
Mr. Jim Wilson, of Stillwell, Ga.,
was ii) town on Monday attending to
business.
Death of Little Lottie Zeigler.
On last Thursday morning, October
22nd, as the sun was just peeping
from its hiding place, spreading
its radiant light over old brown
mother earth, the death angel visited
the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ephriam
F. Zeigler, taking away their little
darline. Lottie, the oldest daughter,
ABBEVILLE FARMER HURT.
Train Hits Buggy, Kills Mule and
Tosses OWner Quite a Distance.
Donald's, Nov. 1.?About one mile
south of Honea Path last night near
Mr. Mavin Ashley's home, the eastbound
train, going to Columbia, ran
into a mule and buggy belonging to
Mr. Thad Gambrell, which Mr.
Gambrell was driving, killing the
mule, completely demolishing the
buggy,- and throwing Mr. Gambrell
quite a distance from the track.
Mr. Gambrell, who looks to be about
55 or 6u years old, weighing in the
neighborhood of 250 pounds, lives
about three miles northeast of Honea
Path. He left home early yesterday
morning, went to Belton and then
came to Donald's about 2 p. m., having
with him one bottle of whiskey,
telling some of his friends that he
was going to Abbeville. Where he
actually went his friends do not
know.
Mr. Gambrell was driving up the
track when the train ran^nto him.
He was brought to Donald's and given
medical attention. He was badly
cut about the head and bruised internally.
His condition to-day is better,
and he was carried this morning by
hand to relatives about one mile
above Donald's.
Two whiskey bottles were found
at the scene of the accident, and an
old negro woman saw him turn his
buggy around on the railroad track,
but being afraid, did not help the unfortunate
man.
MANDAMUS GRANTED BY COURT.
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State Dispensary Commission Ordered
to Pay Judgment.
Columbia, Oct. 30.?In a per curiam
^order filed to-day the State Supreme
Court ordered the dispensary
commission to violate its orders from
the federal court which has all the
funds enjoined, and pay a judgment
of A. W. Ray, amounting to $350,
which Ray bought from the Louisville
Distilling company, -which secured
the judgment on account of an
unlawful seizure of liquoy in Charleston.
Attorney Stevenson for the commission,
wo had all his papers ready
for such a decision, immediately appealed
to the federal supreme court
on a writ of error, which the chief
justice signed. The appeal papers
went on to Washington this afternoon
by express, so as to get the case
up along with the appeal from the
decision of the court of appeal affirming
Judge Pritchard's decision.
The hearing to-day was in special
session, called for the purpose of
.passing upon this petition. The court
reaffirmed its decision made when
Attorney General Lyon applied for
a mandamus, after Judge Pritchard
had assumed jurisdiction, to compel
the commission to pay over $15,000
appropriated by the Legislature out
of the dispensary tunds for prosecution
purposes. This was paid out,
Judge Pritchard of his own volition
setting aside this amount when the
court made its decision. ' In its decision
to-day, as in the former case,
the State Supreme Court holds that
the federal court has no jurisdiction.
Thus the point whether the federal
court wiil follow the decision of the
State court, as the State court contends
it should, is to be put squarely
before the federal supreme court.
Mr. Stevenson based his appeal on
the ground that the State court had
ordered the commission to do something
it had been forbidden to do by
the federal court
aged 3 years 5 months, and 22 days.
Her remains were laid to rest at 10
o'clock on Friday morning in Mt.
Pleasant Lutheran cemetery.
She was sick only a few days. Her
death came unexpected. Little Lottie
was a smart and affectionate
child, and her sweet life had son entwined
its cords around the hearts
of those who knew her that they
were hard to be broken. No one
knew her but to love her. Tho' only
a little child, she left many sad
hearts to mourn her long absence.
She was too precious to live here, so
the Lord took her to his mansion in
Heaven. May this sad incident bring
God in Christ nearer the bereft.
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"Many are tne amicuons ui me ngmeous,
but the Lord delivereth him
out of them all." So weep not, then,
sorrowing ones, as those who have
no hope, for you can go to her.
ONE WHO LOVED HER.
Ehrhardt, November 2, 1908.
Hints That May Help.
The most filthy habtt in farm work
is that of wetting the hands when
milking with milk drawn from the
cow. Always milk with dry hands.
The man who has been holding his
wheat during the past six months for
higher prices will, I hope, win the
top figure, but I fear he will not. The
top figure is never recognized till too
late.
Good intentions never made a man
rich unless he carried them out,
neither will they /save the reaper
standing in the field all winter.
The Good Book says: "Love thou
thy neighbor as thyself," but really
do you know any man, including
yourself; who does it?
I am in favor of the auto. It ds
here to stay and there is no ijse
making a fuss about it. In the hands
of any careful man they are perfectly
safe and they don't eat when they
are not at work.
Whenever I see a woman feeding
hogs, chopping wood or doing rough
outside work I am ready to bet her
husband is either sick, dead or too
lazy to live among decent ioiks.
One of my neighbors spends at
least two hours going to the well?
which is nearly a mile from the house
?to pump water for the stock. Says
he don't believe windmills pay. Yet
he keeps three dogs.
Whenever I see a silo lift its front
toward the sky I know it is a sign
of a farmer who has pulled out of
the rut and is going ahead?not back.
?M. C. Miller.
Died With Hiccoughs.
Atlanta.. Ga., Nov. 1.?Earl Van
Dorn Haskell, a prominent citizen of
Atlanta, and a leading official of the
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty
to Animals, in Georgia, died here this
morning at an early hour after suffering
for a week with a stubborn attack
of hiccoughs.
Mr. Haskell was born in Mississippi
in 1862. He served in the United
States army and for several years
taught among the Indians..
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IN THE PALMETTO STATE
SOME OCCURRENCES OP VARIOUS
KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA.
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State News Boiled Down for Quick
Reading?Paragraphs About
Men and Happenings.
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E. T. Atkinson, Jr., of Sumter, was
killed by jumping from a Coast Line
passenger train near diat city Tuesday
afternoon. He had been mentally
unbalanced for some time, and
was recently committed to the asylum.
He leaves a wife and several
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Thomas B. Patterson, a Southern
railway brakeman of Statesville, N.
C., was killed on the fair grounds
spur track in Columbia at 2:30
o'clock last Saturday morning. He
was caught under a derailment cans- J
ed by some one leaving a car door
on the tracks and dlfed within the ?
hour it took to release him.
Miles T. Winter, night foreman at
the Seaboard Air Line shops in Columbia,
shot George Gill, an engineer
of the Seaboard, at the shops in that
city last Monday morning. Gill was r<
shot three times, but the wounds are ^
not serious. The men had some dis
pute about the putting of an engine \
in condition. Winter surrendered to
the sheriff and is now in the Richland
jail. A
negro named John Henry Manning
was shot and instantly killed
in Greenville last Sunday morning
by a policeman of the city named
Hendrix Rector. The policeman was -5
was endeavoring to arrest the negro,
who had burglarized a residence \in CM
that city. The negro was attempting ^ v|
to take a train to leave town, and *' ff?
when the policeman attempted to arrest
him he attacked the officer with ?r
a knife.
George Brandon, a young white
man, an employe of the Southern
railway, running as a brakeman be- m
tween Columbia and Winston-Salem, v
N. C., is in the Richland county jail,
charged with bigamy. The prosecut- w
ing witness is Eli Smith, a brother of Vi||
a voune lady whom Brandon says he \ M
married as Miss Mamie Smith on * '
June 10th, 1908. G. W. Smith, a
well known motorman of the street '
railway company, is the head of the
Smith family. He is alleged to have ^
married a Miss Lily Gerald in ^
Greensboro, N. C., in 1901, and later ..?
deserted her. He came to Colum- M
bia in April and was married in Jane. .? - %1
The Smith family heard rumors of - - -fjfJ
another wife after Brandon had max- -*|?
I ried Miss Mamie Smith and invest!- v||
gations were made which resulted in
j Brandon's arrest. He waived preliminary
hearing and was committed to '/m
jail in default of $500 bond. The woman
from Greensboro claiming to be
the first wife was present to appear *r>||
against Brandon. She had one child
| with her and stated that they had 1
one child dead.
Led Life of Shame.
Lured by poverty to lead a life of '-V*
shame and degradation and having *i--J
as a natural result thereof, fallen intn
thp rlnt.rhes of the law. Leila Grif- 5$
fith, a young white gi$ of tender age,
was yesterday sent to the city stockade
to serve a sentence for violating .-y
the statutes of the city. With bitter
tears streaming down her face, Just,. .
before being taken to enter upon her
Sentence, she vowed before God that i??|
she would lead a virtuous life in the ^
future. ' *
It was a sad tale which she related
to some bystanders in the police ^ |
station. She said that she had not
sunken to degradation until but a
few weeks before and that poverty
and evil companions had dragged her
to it. She seemed determined to
forsake all of her evil companions '-;??
and to live as she should in the fu
ture.?Greenville News.
Slight Wreck on Southern.
Asheville, N. C., * November 2.?
Southern railway passenger train No.'
36, eastbound from Memphis to New ' ^
York, which left Asheville to-day at j
6:56 o'clock a. m., ran off the track , |||j
| a few miles east of Marion, N. C., 41 >
miles east of here. The engine, two ^
baggage cars, mail car and a passeneer
coach left the rails. With the , ?
exception of slight bruises and a bad shaking
up no one was injured.
Bequest for Receivers.
Norfolk, Va., Nov. 2.?Upon suit '/'
filed in the United States circuit
court here by Charles L. Hilgartner,
Andrew Hilgartner and Addition E.
Mulliken, citizens of Maryland, for
the appointment of receivers in Virginia
for the Southern Life and Accident
Insurance company, Judge
Waddill to-day cited the defendant
company to appear here Nov. 16 and j
show cause why a receiver should ^
not be named.
Watch Your Tongue.
Snrnp times a Derson's tongue gets
them into trouble, watch your tongue,
it is your tongue, it belongs to
you, and is the only one for which
you are responsible. Your neighbor's
tongue may need care also, but that
is his business; this is yours to see
to. Watch your tongue; it needs ; M
watching. It is a fire?watch it. It .- J
is the helm which guides the vessel.
Let the helmsmen keep wide awake.
It can bless or it can curse; it can
poison or heal; it can pierce hearts
or blight hopes; it can sow discord
or separate chief friends. Watch
your tongue, no one but you can take
care of that tongue. Your neighbors
may wish to, but they can't do it
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Nice line of picture books for children
at The Herald Book Store.
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