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* . * p] JriiTi jprict 1 ? ^ 1^# PERSONAL MENTION. 9 ' People Visiting in This City and at Other Points. . . ?Mr. Geo. W. Johns, of Baldoc, spent Sunday in the city. i?Misses Clara and Linnie Riley $ spent the holidays at home. ?Mr. G. F. Hires, of the Ehrhardt section, was in the city Monday. ?Mr. W. S. Miley, of the Buford's Bridge section, was in the city Monday. ? ?Miss Esma Delk, who is teaching the Edisto school, spent Christmas at home. \ ?Mr. and Mrs. Hooton M. Felder, of Mullins, spent Christmas in the > city with relatives. i ?Miss Birdie Gill spent the holidays in Hampton with her sister, Mrs. G. B. Hoover. ?Maj. Havelock Eaves, of Co. lnmbia, spent a few days in the city v last and this week. ?Mr. R. M. Bmce, of The Herald, spent Christmas in Charlotte. N. C., with friends. { ?Miss Mary Ellen Eaves, from the College for Women, Columbia, spent the holidays at home. ?Mrs. R. B. Still, of Blackville, i visited her parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Folk, in the city this week. ?Messrs. Jno. W. Crum, J. B. Gillam, Jr., and S. G. Ray, of Den, mark, were in the city Monday. ?Mr. J. Felder Hunter, of Orangeburg, spent last Saturday in the city with his father, Sheriff J. B. Hunter. | ?Col. F. N. K. Bailey and family, of Edgefield, spent the holidays in the city with the family of Dr. J. B. ? Black, ?Mr. Glenn Cope, of the Citadel, is spending the holidays at home with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jno. H. Cope. * ? ?Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Hays, of n-roon-omnd snent Christmas in the city with relatives'. They returned; home Monday. ?Mrs. J. Paul Ridgway, of Royston, Ga., arrived in the city Friday evening on a visit to her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Sam Farrison. ^ ?Miss Elizabeth Barnett, who formerly taught in the Bamberg graded school, is in the city on a visit to Mrs. M. W. Brabham. ?Mr. and Mrs. LeRoy Wilson, Jr., returned from their bridal trip } last week and spent a day or two in the city with Mrs. Wilson's parents before going to their home in Allendale. ?Col. E. H. Aull, editor of the Newberry Herald and News and f president of the State Press Association, spent Sunday and part of Monday in the city. The Colonel has many friends in Bamberg who were glad to greet him. This was his first visit to Bamberg, and he was surprised to find Bamberg such a good town. \ LES I received anothi seventy head on Mules than ever for the timberma .ES % A visit to 01 as profitable in its every yon. We c js and My Stock of Buggies, V sities is the largest anc South Carolina. Don't * I rra BA *J. M. GAMEWELL ARRESTED. Wife of a Spartanburg Mill Man Sn- i ing Him for Alimony. Atlanta, Ga., Dec. 28.?J. M. Gamewell, a prominent cotton mill man, of Spartanburg, S. C., was ar- , rested here yesterday afternoon and . held until he furnished a bond of $3,000 to insure payment of what- . ever judgment is rendered against him in a suit for alimony brought by . his wife. . Mrs. Gamewell has sued for $15,000 permanent and temporary alimony, the suit anticipating one for divorce, which will be brought as soon as she completes the requisite . twelve months residence in the State. Mr Clamewell furnished the bond , and was released. Mrs. Gamewell was visited by her husband at the home of her sister at Carnegie place, and he was taken in charge there by a superior court offi[cer. Negotiations looking to the settlement of the trouble were under way at the time and ic is probable ithat they will be adjusted. Personal Mention. ?Mr. Ernest E. Ritter spent Christmas at McRae, Ga. He returned Monday night. ?Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Wright, of Orangeburg, spent Christmas in the city with relatives. ?Mrs. LeRoy Wilson, Jr., of Allendale, is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Brabham. ?Mr. J. W. Barr is spending several days in the city, and his many | friends here are indeed glad to see|g him again. ?Miss Mary Livingston, from Lander College, Greenwood, is spending the holidays at home with ? her mother. ?Mr. Bert Carter, who is attend ing the law school of the University i of South Carolina, is spending the i holidays in the city. S ?Mr. H. J. Brabham, Jr., and little s daughter, Adelle, left Tuesday night I for a trip to Baltimore, where Mr. c Brabham went to buy goods. _ i ?Mr. and Mrs. E. P. Allen spent * Christmas in creenwooa. air. Aiieu is attending the meeting of the State * Teachers' Association in Columbia 1 this week. ?Rev. and Mrs. T. G. Herbert and the children left Tuesday morning for Fernandina, Fla., to visit relatives. They will be away a week J or ten days. a ?Mr. Clarence Black, who is j studying law in the office of Shep- \ pard Bros., at Edgefield, and also c assistant teacher in the graded j school of that town, is spending the ( holidays at home. ^ ?Mr. E. F. McMillan and family, of the Hunter's Chapel section, r moved this week to their new home l at Hahira, Ga. Mr. McMillan is one of our very best citizens, and we re- 1 gret to have him leave us. He has s the best wishes of a very large circle j j of friends. 1 I US er car load of mu hand. I am in bel before. I have Mu in; in fact FOR > X-vl /"V r>? TT-n 1 1 u stauitss wrn ) to you. "We r phase, and an surely pi Terrr Wagons, Harness, Saddler} I most complete line ever a fail to inspect what I ha1 nk lMBERQ, sot i WITH PHANTOM GUESTS. Strange Christmas Dinner m Hotel at New York. New York, Dec. 26.?It was inieed a strange Christmas dinner that Elenry B. Tannehill ate at a local ho- 1 ;el yesterday. He sat at a table at vhich there were four other chairs, jut all of them vacant, in front of jach there was placed a complete Uhristmas repast which was later 1 :aken away untouched. Tannehill 1 lined with phantom guests, the' spirits of his sister and her three !i ihildren, all dead. Of an adventurous spirit, Tanne-! lill, resident of this city, has wan-! lered far and wide and returning! lere on Monday last from Alaska he . earned of the death of his sister and j 1 ler children. His explanation of thej veird dinner is perhaps th$ best, j He says: "On the day I left my: sister's house I told her that I would 3e back next Christmas or the one , ifter, and that the treat for them 1 vould be the finest that money could 1 3uy. I got out and hustled and : laved considerable money m rne Klondike, and when I arirved here ;he other night, I ran over to the Sast Side and began to look up the oiks. It did not take me long to Ind out what I least expected. My dster went out to a store one day ind left the children alone; when the came back they were dead? )urned. A little later she herself lied of pneumonia and worry." TROOPS GUARD MINES. ! strike on at Plant of Stearns Coal and Lumber Company. 1 Stearns, Ky., Dec. 27.?Fearing in attack from striking miners, several of whom engaged in a bloody 1 mcounter with deputy United States j narshals on Christmas day, the ( nines and lumber yards of the J, Itearns Coal and Lumber Company 1 ire guarded to-night by State militia. 1 dounted deputies are scouring the , ,'ountry in search of several fugitive niners, said to be in hiding in the lills east of Stearns. The body of Deputy Marshal Mullins, who was i tilled in Friday's fight, was buried j o-day. . Woman Killed by Brother. j Manning, Dec. 27.?A terrible ] ragedy occurred on the plantation i >f Maj. W. T. Lesesne a few miles < rom Manning. Frank Driggers shot i md instantly killed his sister, Mrs. damie Boseman, wife of Henry | 3oseman. She was about 37 years , >ld and a hard working woman. ] triggers has surrendered to Sherift < Gamble. He claims the shooting i vas accidental. ; All parties concerned in this ter- i iblp affair are white. They are il- ] iterate but honest and industrious. < Later intelligence states that the j lomicide was the culmination of a ] ieries of violent quarrels over the j >ossession of or payment for a i iorse. ( LES les last week, and iter shape to furn lies for the plow EVE prove interef know the M know how tc ease you in is Alv , Whips, Lap Robes, and < arried by me or any one els ve before making your pi Bai JTH CAROLU f TRAIN TURNS TURTLE. Scores of Passengers Injured in a Wreck Near Reidsville, Ga. Reidsville, Ga., Dec. 26.?On the Georgia Coast and Piedmont Rail *? f AtTTT* fA W ay, 1U LUC SUUUIUO \JL iuio lunu ?w day, the incoming passenger train, in rounding a curve on high embankment, jumped the track, turned turtle and landed in a heap forty feet below. The passenger list consisted of twelve persons, all of whom were seriously injured, several of this number receiving broken limbs and severe concussions. On account of the isolated location of the place, the names of the injured cannot be ascertained. The train was coming into the yard at a moderate rate of speed, and no cause for the accident is assigned. The injured: - Misses Mamie and Myrtle Padgett, Reidsville, Georgia; Mrs. Joseph W. Smith, Purvis, Ga.; Mrs. E. C. Laid, Ocala, Fla.; the Rev. J. W. Witherington, Collins, Ga.; Conductor Bennett, slightly bruised about the ankles; Beton Lanier, a newsboy, received a small cut aboul the head; Bill Anderson, porter, arm broken. LEAVES BABY IN MAD HASTE. ?- tt 1 Woman mscovers sne no? wujj Bundle of Infant's Clothes. New York, Dec. 26.?Mrs. Rebecca Seigel, of East New York, became so excited during a fire in her flat yesterday which broke out while 3he was bathing her six-months-old infant that she seized the bundle of baby clothes, thinking that the child was tucked safely inside, only to find to her chagrin and horror when she reached the street that the bundle was empty. A man hearing her screams that the child was in the burning building rushed in and found the baby 3eated contentedly in the bath tub, cooing happily and splashing the water while the flames crackled about the room. Rescuer and baby were unscathed. Hog Meat was Poison. Union, Dec. 22.?Rev. John G. Parr, pastor of the Green Street Methodist church, and who before ?oing into the ministry was for some twelve years auditor of Union county, together with five of his children aarrowly escaped death by poisoning within the past few days, seemingly an account of having eaten meat which was rather spoiled. Some days ago Mr. Farr received from his brother, Mr. W. T. Farr, of kdamsburg, some nice fresh hog meat. The meat was in fine condi:ion but on account of the unusually <P/-.r> +V110 coo eAn r\f thp Well ill W CaiUUi 1V/1 tUiU wvuuvu VA rear, it must have spoiled, for after sating some a day or so ago, Mr. Parr and practically every member sf his family were taken very sick md but for prompt medical attention might have died, and while Mr. Farr md his children are now able to be ip and about, still they had a very slose call. j _ I now have about ish any kind of and draft, Mules :ryb< sting as well nl A mioinnao IAJlKD U ulojjl?^oo ) buy to suit every way. vays I ? )ther Horseman's Neces>e in the lower section of irchases. :::::: ( nbe N A I IIVI JVb We received last load containing high-class horse now have the b< Bamberg Count anybody in an at I pose, come to * and terms will b< Jones I Bamberg : : : Race Trouble Feared. Cuthbert, Ga., Dec. 2G.?Charles' Worrell, a member of Mercer law I class and a son of Judge Worrell of the Pautaula circuit, yesterday aft-. ernoon Kinea win jlhtwid, a hc5ju, , in a shooting affray here, in which I Alexander Glenn, another negro, was! also killed, the latter by Alexander! Bridges, white. The double shooting threw the negroes into a state of ex-j citement, and a general outbreak be- i tween the races is feared by some as a result of the trouble. i ? j 233 "Sinners'* in Atlanta. Atlanta, Ga., Dec. 26.?The record which Atlanta has been making under prohibition for a consistent decrease in arrests for disorderly conduct was marred to-day, when 233 such cases were tried in the recorder's court. This was the highest number for any one day in the past; two years. It included 74 arrests for drunkenness. J r. Is! X) Y ( *ightl o I tAAAAAOAAAAAAA ;=Mules| forty-two head of X s and mules. ' We Xj ;st lot of stock in S\ y, and can suit A limal for any pur- 3? see us. The prices X 5 made to suit you. X South Carolina 1 Can Vanquish Hog Cholera. Columbia, Mo., Dec. 26.?As a result of perfecting a serum that is aa antitoxin against hog cholera the Missouri Agricultural college issued a statement to-day guaranteeing the State legislature that with an appro priation of $45,000 a year it will save the farmers of Missouri from $1,000,000 to $5,000,000 annually. The agricultural college announced unequivocally that it now is prepared to vanquish hog cholera. The serum is drawn from what is known as a hyperimmunized hog blood, the flbering being removed so as to prevent clotting. The serum is treated with small quantities of carbolic acid. _ An Example. Little Willie: "I say, pa, what is meant by the law of demand and supply?" Pa: "Take the coal dealer, for example, my son. About this time of the year he demands the money and we supply it."