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U. S. SUPREME COURT TO HEAR
DISPENSARY CASE.
Attorneys for Commission Get Notice
that Hearing Will be Had
. February 23.
Columbia, Dec. 11.?Attorneys for
the dispensary winding-up commission
have received notice from the
clerk of the United States Supreme
Court that the writ of certiorari in
the Fleischman case has been granted
and tnat this case, as well as the
Ray case, will bef heard by the supreme
court on February 23. The
Fleischman case is what may be called
the main dispensary case now in
the courts, being the consolidated
case first heard before Judge Pritchard
and-then before the court of appeals
at Richmond, the decision of
both these tribunals being adverse to
the dispensary commission. The
Ray case is the case in which the
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Olttie supreme CUUU &iaui.cu a nuv
of mandamus to compel the dispensary
commission to pay a certain
claim in accordance with the act of
legislature, the decision of the State
' court being directly contrary to that
of the Federal court. The hearing of
these two cases on the 23rd of February
will bring all the questions
involved in the dispensary litigation
squarely before the United States su
preme court.
The contempt proceedings before
Judge Pritcbard in the Ray case will
be heard at Greenville on the 21st of
the present month, Judge Pritchard
having issued a rule to shpw cause
i why Messrs. A. W. and D. C. Ray
should not be ruled for or adjudged
in contempt of his court for applying
to the State court for a mandamus
in contradiction of his decision
and that of the court of appeals.
The decision in the first two cases
referred to, to be rendered by the
United States supreme court, will
finally settle the whole dispensary
litigation, but, of course, it is not
known when this decision can be
had, as that is for the court to determine.
Until that decision is rendered,
it appears that the settlement
of dispensary matters, both civil and
criminal, is stopped.
Unusual Suit for Damages.
Kingston, N. Y., Dec. 11.?The
case of Mrs. Mary S. Roper, of
Brooklyn, who, through becoming
entangled in the ropes, made an involuntary
balloon ascension at the
fair of the Unster County Agricultural
society in 1906, was begun in
the supreme court today. She demands
$25,000 damages.
; As the bag was released {he trail
ing rope took a hair twist aoout tne
complainant's ankle and she found
herself being pulled violently along
the ground. In a desperate effort to
free herself, a little finger was
caught in a loop of the tightening
rope. Suspended from ankle and
finger, 30 feet below the basket, Mrs.
Roper,, it is alleged, rose 400 feet in
the air, and while other women
fainted at the sight, sailed along for
half a mile until the aeronaut, by
shillful manoeuvering, brought the
" balloon and its burden safely to the
ground.
. Spartanburg Pastor Arrested.
Spartanburg, Dec. 12.?The Rev.
S. T. Meefc^s, pastor of Meek's Temple
First Congregational church and
'% principal of Hamburg high school,
was arrested today on the charge of
obtaining money under a false pretence.
The warrant was sworn out'
by W. G. Lee, of the Piedmont Grocery
Company, who alleges that
Meeks secured $40 from him, and
gave him a mortgage on property on
which there were other papers.
Abraham Ruef Found Guilty.
San Francisco, Dec. 10.?Abraham
Ruef, former political boss, was convicted
today of bribery. The jury
deliberations had taken four hours
* after a trial lasting one hundred and
six days. Warnings of Judge Lawler
and a vigilance police checked all
attempted demonstration.
As the fatal words were read,
Ruef sat between his aged father
and Thomas B. Dozier, ,of the defense.
Though his pale face and his
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. upon the men who pronounced his
^ v fate, almost the first thought was
for the elder Ruef. He whispered a
few words of encouragement to the
elder man and sent him out of the
room to break the news to the defendant's
mother and sisters.
By previous agreement, the counsel
hill of exceptions will be settled
later. The court set next Saturday
for pronouncing judgment. Conviction
renders Ruef liable to a maximum
penalty of fourteen years.
Illicit Stills ill Lexington.
Lexington, Dec. 11.?It is reported
here that several illicit liquor
stills have recently been destroyed
by revenue officers, headed by Offi'
cer Sanders, in the lower seption of
the county along the famous Edisto.
It is said that four stills have so far
been destroyed, and a lot of whiskey
and beer confiscated. It is claimed
that this work will be kept up until
every law-breaker of this character
is brought to account.
A Slow Train.
"CTvoatintr r?f slnw trains." said the
lean-faced drummer, "you have some
in this section. I was on a train the
other day and the cattle bothered us
so much that we had to take off the
cow-catcher from the engine and put
it on the hind end of the train to
keep the horny devils from jumping
up into the rear car."
"Sad!" I murmured.
"Yes," he went on, "I once heard
of a cow over in Georgia that got its
tail caught in the cow-catcher and
ran off down the track witth the en'gine.
But," with a deep emphasis,
"speaking of slow trains. Up in
North Carolina I once knew of a
train that stopped so often that one
of the passengers tried to commit suicide.
He ran ahead about half a
mile, laid down on the track, but he
starved to death before the train got
there. Ah, here's the car."
AN AMERICAN HERO,
He Used His Own Body to Stop Leak
In a Ferryboat.
One morning in January, when
the ice in tne Hudson river ran unusually
heavy, a Hoboken ferryboat
siowly crunched her way through
the floating floes until the thickness
of the pack choked her paddles in
mid-river. It was an early morning
trip, and the decks were crowded
with laboring men and the drive|
ways with teams. Tne women and
children standing inside the cabins
I were a solid mass up to the swinging
doors. While she was gathering
strength for a further effort an
ocean tug sheered to avoid her, veered
a point and crashed into her side,
cutting her below the water line in a
great V-shaped gash. A moment
more and the disabled boat careened
from the shock and fell over on her
beam, helpless. Into the V-shaped
gash the water poured a torrent. It
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the ice.
Within 200 yards of both boats
and free of the heavy ice, steamed
the wrecking tug Reliance, of the
Offshore Wrecking Company, and on
her deck forward stood Captain
Scott. When the ocean tug reversed
her engines after the collision and
backed clear of the shattered wheelhouse
of the ferryboat he sprang forward,
stooped down, ran his eye
along the water line, noted in a flash
every shattered plank, climbed into
the pilot-house of his own boat and
before the astonished pilot could
catch his breath pushed the nose of
the Reliance along the rail of the
.ferryboat and dropped upon the latter's
deck like a cat.
With a threat to throw overboard
any man who stirred he dropped
into the engine room, met the engineer
halfway up the ladder, compelled
him to return, dragged the mattresses
from the crew's bunks, stripped
off blankets and snatched up
clothes, overalls, cotton waste and
rags of carpet, cramming them into
the great rent left by the tug's cutwater.
It was useless. Little by little the
water gained, bursting out first below,
then on one side, only to be
calked out again and only to rush in
once more.
Captain Scott stood a moment as if
undecided, ran his eye searchingly
over the engine room, saw that for
his needs it was empty, then deliberately
tore down the top wall calking
he had so carefully built up and before
the engineer could protest
forced his own body into the gap,
?rith his arm outside level with the
drifting ice.
An hour later the disabled ferryboat,
with every soul on board, was
towed into the Hoboken slip.
When they lifted the captain from
the wreck he was unconscious and
barely alive. The water had frozen
his blood, and the floating ice had
torn the flesh from his protruding
arm from shoirtder to wrist. When
the color began to creep back to his
cheeks he opened his eyes and said
to the doctor who was winding the
bandages:
"Wuz any of them babies hurt?"
A month passed before he regained
his strength and another week
before the arm had healed so that
he could get his coat on. Then he
went badk to the Reliance.?Everybody's
Magazine.
Liquor Men Denounce Anti-Saloon
League.
Washington, Dec. 9.?That the
wave of opposition throughout the
eonntrv to the liquor trade seems to
be receding was the keynote of the
report from various State organizations
made today at the closing session
of the National Liquor league.
The concensus of opinion expressed
at +he convention was that the best
intt ests of the liquor trade would
be conserved by having the number
of saloons limited according to population.
Resolutions were adopted declaring
that "the industry has been overlegislated,
over-abused and overtaxed
in the furtherance of a creed
or a cult that is basically un-American
and at absolute variance with
evpry principle of liberty, civic
righteousness, economics, common
sense and common justice."
It was further resolved that "the
Anti-Saloon league is a menace to
good government, the quietude of
communities and vested property
rights and exists for no other purpose
than to provide occupation and
revenue for the members of a close
corporation by the process of perpetual
agitation; and that local option
is but another name for prohibition
and# is equally confiscatory in
its assaults upon property rights."
Leap From Train.
Baton Rouge, La., Dec. 12.?
Four men from the country who had
never before ridden on a train, leaped
from a train traveling 30 miles
an hour near here today. Asked why
they jumped, they said because the
porter called out: "All off for Baton
Rouge." They were not seriously
injured.
Arrested" Near Campobello.
Campobello, December 14.?Constable
Mass Hayes located and arrested
the man Metze or Mintz, who
made the murderous attack on
"Aunt" Sallie Green, near here, last
Friday night.
He had on his person a small portion
of the money he robbed her of.
He does not deny taking the money,
but says he did not hit her with an
axe. He will try to implicate a negro.
But as yet he has not got his
story made up. .
Mrs. Green is still in a very critical
condition. . The doctor says her
injuries may terminate fatally at any
time.
Mints is held in the Spartanburg
jail. He has not been taken before
the old lady for identification yet.
Constables Miller and Hayes visited
this section to-day and captured
a small copper still in full operation.
The operators of the plant left the
officers in charge of the place, and
no persuasion could prevail on them
to stop till they were lost in the fastness
of the woods.
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NO FEUDS IN NAVY.
Seamen's Quarrels Are Settled at
Once With Boxing Gloves.
There are no more bitter, longstanding
feuds in the navy today as
in the time of John Paul Jones or
Decatur, says the Kansas City Star.
The popularity of boxing aboard the
battleships is the secret of the
change. Nowadays when a seaman
thinks he has been slighted or misused
by a friend he waits until the
hour for supper, and then gives the
man who insulted him a pair of
boxing gloves. A ring is quickly
formed and the misunderstanding is
speedily settled. No matter who
wins, both respect each other thereafter.
"A queer bout happened on the
New Jersey on the trip around
South America," said a gunner's^
mate at the navy recruiting station
recently. "Two young seamen were
scrapping with bare fists on the
deck. Suddenly the bugle sounded
'colors.' Instantly both of them
stood at attention and saluted the
flag. But the minute the ceremony
was over, away they went pummeling
each other again for dear life.
"In addition to these trials by
battle, two or three bouts are arranged
every night aboard ship. Once or
twice a month a battle royal or cup
fight is pulled off.
"Know what a cup fight is? It's
the most interesting of the nautical
pugilistic sports. The two contestants
are blindfolded and required to
get on their knees. Both must then
rap once on the floor with their left
hand and the scrap is on. Each
fighter, of course, aims his right
hooks and jabs in the direction of the
rap. The scidnce of the fight is in
rapping so deceptively on the floor
that your opponent doesn't know
where you are. Sounds like great
sport, doesnt it? Try it some time
with your little brother in the attic."
BANK STATEMENT.
Statement of the condition of the
Ehrhardt Banking Co., located at
Ehrhardt, S. C., at the close of business
November 27th, 1908.
RESOURCES.
Loans and discounts $17,495.99
Banking thouse 1,950.00
Furniture and fixtures 1,146.47
Other real estate : 300.00
Due from Banks and
Trust Companies 23,353.91
Currency 200.00
Gold 200.00
Silver and other coin 157.77
Checks and Cash Items.... 4,290.02
Total ; ! $49,088.16
LIABILITIES.
Capital stock paid in :..$20,000.00
Snrnlns fund 1,200.00
Undivided profits, less current
expenses and taxes
paid 1,614.84
Individual deposits subject
-to check 18,070.91
Time Certificates of Deposit
8,202.41
Total $49,088.16
State of South Carolina?County of
Bamberg.
Before me came A. F. Henderson,
Cashier of the above named bank,
who, being duly sworn, says that the
above and foregoing statement is a
true condition of said bank, as shown
by the books of said bank.
A. F. HENDERSON. Cashier.
Sworn to and subscribed before me,
this 9th day of December, 1908
JACOB EHRHARDT,
Notary Public S. C.
Correct Attest
H. A. HUGHES,
D. M. SMITH,
J. L. COPELAND, M. D.,
Directors.
MONEY TO LEND.
we are preparea 10 lenu uiuuej
upon good security upon reasonable
terms to all persons applying for
same.
Call or write to
WOLFE, BERRY & RITTER,
' Attorneys,
Bamberg Banking Co's. Building.
Bamberg, S. C.
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Fitting School this (Wednesday)
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TAX NOTICE.
The County Treasurer's office yrtll j
be open for the collection of State, },. m
county, school and all other taxes 'y.'jM
from the 15th day,of October, 1908,- Vsp
until the 15th. day of March, 1909.
From the 1st day of January, 19t)9, yM
until the 31st day of January, 1909,
a penalty of 1 per cent, will be added
to all unpaid taxes. From the 1st
day of February, 1909, until the 28th %
day of February, 1909, a penalty of
2 per cent will be added to all un- Js
paid taxes.- From the 1st day of r4[H
March, 1909, until the 15th day of
March, 1909, a penalty of 7 per cent i
will be added to all unpaid taxes. d
Following is the levy:
For State purposes, 5% mills.
For county purposes, 3 mills.
Constitutional school tax, 8 mills. .
Total, 11% mills. v
Special school levies:
Bamberg, No. 14, 7 mills. '$- :&"'f
Binnaker's, No. 12, 4 mills. 1
Clear Pond, No. 19, 2 mills.
Colston, No. 18, 2 mills.
Cuffle Creek, No. 21, 6 mills.
Denmark, No. 21, 6 mills. \ ^
Ehrhardt, No. 22, 2 mills.
Go van, No. 11, 4 mills.
Hunter's Chapel, No. 16, 1 mill. v
Hopewell, No. 1, 3 mills.
Heyward, No. 24, 2 mills. \ rg|
Hampton, No. 3, 2 mills.
Lees. No. 23. 4 mills.
Midway, No. 2, 2 mills. ' I v&l
Oak Grove, No. 20, 2 mills.
Olar, No. 8, 4 mills.
All male persons between the ages M
of twenty-one and sixty years, except
Confederate soldiers and sailors,
who are extempt at fifty years of age, ; '
are liable to a poll tax of one dollar.
Capitation dog tax, 50 cents. ?
All male persons who were 21 yean
of age on or before the 1st of January,
1908, and have not made r
turns to the Auditor, will do so on
or before the 1st of January, 1909.
I will receive the road commute fjjs
tion tax ($2.00) from October 15th/
1908, until March 1st, 1909.
JOHN F. FOLK, .... " Jf*
Treasurer Bamberg County.
Bamberg, S. C., Sept. 15, 1908.
ASSESSMENT NOTICE.
I or my deputy will be at the folf $2
lowing places on the days and dates
named below for the purpose of re- "
ceiving returns of personal property
and notice of real estate bought or
sold since last return:
L-es?Tuesday, January 5th, 1909
Denmark?Wednesday and Thurs- r;$
January 6th and 7th, 1909.
Olar?Monday and Tuesday, Jan- ? r J
uary 11th and 12th, 1909.
I Govan?Wednesday, January 13th,
1909.
Midway?Thursday, January 14th; , 'M
1909. /'? vS
Farrell's Store?Monday, January
18th, 1909. J
Hunter's Chapel?Tuesday, Jan- vk
uary 19th, 1909.
Colston?Wednesday, January 201,
1909.
Ehrhardt?Monday and Tuesday,
January 25th and 26th, 1909.
| St. Johns?Wednesday, January
27th, 1909. <
Camp Hill?Thursday, January 28,
until 11a. m., 1909.
Kearse?Thursday, January 28th, , ff
12 to 4 p. m.
All male persons between the age
of 21 and 60 years are liable to a poll
tax of $1.00 (except Confederate
soldiers who are exempt at fifty Jj?
years).
All dogs whether owned by head -
of family or children must be returned.
I will appreciate it if every tax
payer will meet me in person and
make their returns. * spj
After the 20th of February a pen- :
alty of fifty per cent, will be'added :r;
to all personal property not returned.
R. W. D. ROWELL,
Auditor Bamberg County.
Bamberg, S. C., Dec. 10, 1908. , .rd
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ever. All sorts of harness and shoes re- *
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manufacture harness of all kinds, hrldles
halters, etc. Give me a trial. .
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