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SAIL FROM CHARLESTON.
House Members to Leave for
Panama.
Washington, Dec. 27.?To familiarize
themselves with conditions under
the present form of government
of the Panama canal zone and to
consider what changes, if any, are
desirable, 12 members of the house
.committee on foreign and interstate
commerce will leave Charleston, S.
C., to-morrow for Colon.
It is not thought that any measure
having for its object a change in
the form of civil government for the
zone will receive the consideration
of congress at the present session,
but as all but two of the members of
the committee wil be members of the
house in the Sixty-first congress, the
committee will find the information
secured now of value later.
There has been some discussion of
the advisability of attaching the zone
to on? of the Southern circuits or
federal courts.
The congressional party not only
will investigate this matter, but also
will look into all phases of the construction
of the canal.
The committee has not had under
consideration any suggestion to include
the courts on the zone in one
of the federal circuits, nor has there
been any suggestion made to it that
labor conditions there are unsatisfactory.
It has before it, however, a
bill introduced by Representative
Mann of Illinois, calling for certain
changes in the form of government
and the abolition of the isthmian
canal commission. The measure provides
for the appointment by the
president of a chief engineer, a chief
counsel and a governor of the canal
zone. It also makes provision for
the appointment of a supreme court
for the zone with a fixed tenure of
office.
K Tried to Assault Young Lady.
Orangeburg, S. C., Dec. 26.?Actn
advices received at this
place Thursday, John Gholson, a
well known white man of this
county, is alleged to have attempted
an assault on Miss Bruner, 17 years
old, the young lady being employed
at the telephone exchange at St. Matthews,
a town some 14 miles from
this city.
Gholson is alleged to have been
drunken at the time; and there is a
report that there was violence
threatened on the part of the young
men of the town. Gholson is the
father of 10 children.
Miss Angie Bruner, the young
lady upon whom the assault was attempted,
is of one of the best families
in thjs section, and the report is
a great shock.
Gholson has been taken in'charge
and is now in jail.
Grief in Walterboro.
There is sorrow in Walterboro to'
day. In fact, the grief has lasted
two or three days and will continue
until the Christmas holidays are
f over. The mayor of Walterboro ordered
the dispensary in that town
closed the other day. There was little
notice given. The mayor acted
under the section of the Carey-Cothran
law authorizing the, governor or
the mayors or intendants of cities
and towns to close dispensaries
whenever it was deemed necessary in
the interest of good order. The
mayor of Walterboro thought that it
would be best to close the institution
and closed it.
Then there came a storm of protest.
One of the members of the
county dispensary board called up
Gov. Ansel and asked for relief. The
county was dry and getting dryer.
The governor quoted the law and intimated
that he rather approved of
the action of the mayor. It prevented
the usual Christmas drunkenness,
and as a matter of fact the mayor
had a perfect right to do this. So the
lid is still on.
It will be recalled that several
months ago an effort was made to
secure a vote on the dispensary question
in Colleton county, but, on account
of a defect of the law providing
for this election, the matter was
never placed before the people.
Since then there has been considerable
fppijn? in the matter.?The
State, Friday, December 25th.
? ?- TAFT
AND TILLMAN.
Senator Undertakes to Beat President-Elect
to a Frazzle.
On the same Pullman car that
brought President-elect Taft to Augusta,
Senator Ben Tillman, of South
Carolina, rode as far as Trenton.
The "pitchfork statesman" and
the president-elect were engaged in
a long and most animated conversation.
Senator Tillman remarked that
during Mr. Taft's sojourn in Augusta
he would probably visit him at the
Terrett cottage.
Whereupon the president-elect
hastened to press upon his prospective
guest a most urgent invitation,
and inquired if Mr. Tillman played
golf.
"Naw," replied the pitchfork senator
in a tone which indicated more
strongly than words his contempt for
the "sport of kings," "but I'll beat
you to a frazzle at town ball, knux,
or shmney. Mr.
Taft laughed uproariously. It
had not occurred to him that Senator
Tillman was unfamiliar with
golf, and he was highly amused at
the frank manner in which the Carolinian
disclaimed any knowledge of
a game that is presumably one of
the insignia of wealth and social position.
Boy Shot by Brother.
Union, Dec. 23.?A most distressing
accident occurred this afternoon
in South Union, when Willie, the 4year-old
son of Policeman J. R. Petty,
was accidentally shot by his 13-!
year-old brother, Lonnie Petty, and
is not expected to live.
It seems that the boys were playing
with a 22 calibre rifle which went
off, the ball entering the little fellow's
stomach and inflicting such a
wound that though Drs. Montgomery
and S. G. Sarrett were quickly summoned
and gave careful attention,
they fear that he cannot recover.
SOME QUEER SENTENCES.
Administrators of Justice Sometimes
Are Unconsciously Funny.
"To make the punishment fit the
crime," as Gilbert wrote, should be
the ambition of all those in whose
hands rests the administration of
justice, says a writer in Pearson's
Weekly.
Law, unfortunately, interferes
sadly with the desires of just-minded
people, but now and then one hears
of an individual with sufficient good
sense or strength of mind to decree a
fit and appropriate punishment
For instance, at Geneva, two small
boys were charged with stealing
from a shop, and were found guilty.
Said the magistrate: "I am not
going to send you to prison. I denr&a,
that vnn shail attend Sunday
school every Sunday for the next
fifty-two Sundays, and I make your
parents responsible for the sentence
being duly carried out."
At Denver, Col., when a tipsy man
is brought into the police station, he
is propped up against the wall and at
once photographed. Next morning,
when he is sober, he is shown the
picture, and they say it is quite surprising
how many absolute cures
have been effected by this simple
proceeding.
An Italian swindler, Lupo Salvatore
by name, was recently found
guilty upon no fewer than sixtythree
separate charges, and received
a sentence of three years' imprisonment
on each. He is hardly likely
to survive 189 years in an Italian
prison.
A railway company, the Northeastern,
took an odd method of punishing
a passenger who refused to leave
a saloon carriage when he had only
an ordinary third-class ticket. They
took the carriage off, backed it into
a siding and left it there.
The passenger sued for damages
for loss of time, but, though he failed
to recover, the judge refused to give
the company costs. He said they
should have locked the carriage if it
was to be reserved.
A punishment which got the per
petrators into serious trouoie concerned
a boy of 1? and a pot of green
paint. The boy, who ran errands for
a Battersea grocer, did something
\fchich annoyed his employer, who
stripped him and painted him green.
The boy nearly died, and the grocer
was very heavily fined.
Ten Laborers Killed.
Birmingham, Ala., Dec. 28.?Two
dead bodies have been recovered and
eight more are known to be buried
in an immense cave-ir of a trench at
the blast furnace plant at Ensley
early to-night. Several other laborers
wore injured, as also were two
foremen who were superintending
the work. Most of the dead were
foreigners.
The/'cave-in occurred without
warning and the bodie^ are being recovered
with difficulty because of
the large amount of gas which is
Douring into the excavation from the
furnace.
The men were working in a large
trench about eight feet below the
surface. They were excavating for
the gas flue which is to connect the
blast furnaces with the new battery
of boilers which is to run the plant.
The end of the old gas flue, wnicn
extends the full length of the furnace
plant, had been temporarily
bricked up while the laborers were
at work on the extension.
Mechanical carriers were used to
take away the dirt excavated and
when a carrier broke to-night a
beam fell on the cement wall which
formed one side of the trench the I
men were digging. The entire wallj
toppled over on the men and with it |
tons of loose earth which had been
held up by the rettaining wall.
When the wall fell it broke down
the brick work at the end of the big
fourfoot gas main and immense
quantities of gas were poured in
upon the entombed men.
Fined for Accepting Rebates.
Little Rock, Ark., Dec., 28.?Judge
Triber this afternoon in the federal
oourt imDosed a $15,000 fine on T.
H. Bunch, a prominent grain dealer, I
who pleaded guilty several weeks |
ago to having accepted rebates from j
the Missouri Pacific and the St. I
Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern;
railroads.
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BAIL DENIED COOPERS.
Men Accused of Carmack Murder
Refused Bond.
Nashville, Tenn., Dec. 28.?Col.
Duncan B. Cooper, his son, Robin J.
Cooper, and ex-Sheriff John D.
Sharp, charged with the murder of
ex-Senator E. W. Carmack, were today
denied bail and will remain iD
jail until January 20, the date set for
their trial. In refusing the application
of defendants for bail, Judge
Hart said:
"I have given this case careful
consideration and am of the opinion
that it is not a bailable case; thereore
decline to allow bail as to any
of the defendants and deny the application."
Most of the counsel for the defense
seemea siunnea at ursi uy me luuug
of the court and each sat stock still
for a moment following the rendition
of the brief opinion.
The prisoners were conducted back
to jail to await their trial on January
20.
Receivers for Seminole.
' Cheraw, Dec. 28.?Judge Watts
to-night, after hearing the arguments,
announced that he would appoint
receivers for the Seminole Securities
Company in accordance with
the request of J. C. Klugh. He stated
that on the allegations made he was
satisfied that there should be an investigation
of the affairs that could
only be done by a receiver. "If it be
true," said Judge Watts, "that these
commissions were paid, it shocks my
conscience. Of course, it is a bad
blow, but I see no other remedy."
The bond was fixed at $50,000 for
the receivers and $150,000 for the
value of the property. Messrs. Huger
Sinkler and Frank G. Tompkins were
suggested by the attorneys for the
plaintiffs and others may be suggested
by the attorneys for the defendants
tomorrow. The case was a long
one, but very interesting. The passages
between the attorneys, the allegations
made and answers returned,
the arguments, were all listened to
closely. The argument of attorneys
for Klugh was that the Seminole
company-was a mere shell and for
the mere protection of the stockholdfViA
roAoircro ahrml/1 tfllfft oharfire.
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The argument of attorneys for the
trustees was that the trustees were
not responsible for the action of
some of the agents and that no case
had been made out; also that there
was protection inside the company
that had never been asked. The
argument of Mr Bellinger for the
Seminole company was that the allegations
were irrelevant and there
was protection inside the company
for the stockholders.
, When the case was called there
was an array of attorneys on each
side. The Klugh complaint was represented
by F. Barron Grier and Nelson
& Nelson; Patterson by Lyles &
Lyles; Ruddell by Chas. C. Simms;
the Seminole company by G. Duncan
Bellinger and Chas. C. Dunn, and
the trustees by Aycock and Muller.
Messrs. Huger Sinkler, Jennings Owings
and several others represented
some of the stockholders. It was
agreed that the Klugh case should be
heard first.
FARMER KILLS HIMSELF.
Because He Did Not Have Money to
Buy Toys.
Quitman, Ga., December 25.?Because
he did not have money enough
to provide the usual Christmas toys
for his children C. A. Easters, a
farmer, near here, deliberately planned
his own death this morning and
died as he had planned.
Leaving the home where the children
were he walked a short distance
away, fitted his shotgun over a forked
stick, pressed his breast against
the muzzle and pushed t& trigger
with a stick. The wound was a terrible
one. His wife and several small
children ran out at the sound of the
shot and found the husband and
father dead.
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know why you shoved become telegraph
operators and" what school tc
attend, write to SOUTHERN SCHOOL
OF TELEGRAPHY, Newnan, Ga.,
for free Catalogue "A." EVERY
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SOUTH CAROLINA 1,
SHAW ANNUAL ORATOR.
Will Deliver Address Before Bar Association.
Hon. Leslie M. Shaw, one of the
most eminent members of the bar of
America, will deliver the annual address
at the meeting of the South
Carolina Bar Association in January.
Notice of acceptance of the invitation
has been received by President
Sbeppard and Secretary John J.
Earle and preparations will be made
for entertaining the distinguished
visitor during his stay in Columbia.
The annual meeting of the association
promises to be one of unusual
interest this year. The reports
from the various committees and the
proceedings generally will be of such
nature IDcil y radically cvci j uiciuber
of the bar in South Carolina and
a number from nearby States will attend.
Following the business session
the anual address will be made
by Mr. Shaw at the State capitol and
the annual banquet will close the
meeting.
I Leslie M. Shaw has for years stood
high in the legal profession and has
twice been mentioned as a possible
nominee of the Republican party for
the presidency. Up to a short time
ago he was secretary of the treasury,
before that being governor of Iowa.
Since then he has been identified
with some of the largest financial interests
of the country in a legal capacity.
He is said to be a polished
speaker and whatever subject he selects
will be well handled.
Unusual Case in Lexington.
Lexington, Dec. 22.?Charlie F.
Robertson, a young white man of the
Edmund section, was arrested and
lodged in jail yesterday for the nonpayment
of poll tax. Deputy Sheriff
Miller, who has charge of the collection
of tax executions, made the arrest.
'
Robertson is about 28 years of age
and claims that he has never paid a
poll. He was arraigned before Magistrate
G. A. Derrick and a fine of
$7.50 and costs was imposed. He
paid the poll and was released.
This is the first case in many years
where a person in this county has
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tax, but the officers state that unless
others take warning and pay up at
an early date more arrests will be
made.
Denounces Man-Hunting.
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"Man catching" by frivolous women
was deplored in Philadelphia on
Sunday in a sermon by Rabbi Joseph
Krauskopf at Keu^seth Israel
temple. This, he declared, was responsible
for a - good portion of
American divorces.
The Rabbi said: "From the day
the daughter enters young womanhood
the sole thought of many
homes is man catching. No artifice
is shunned that shall enable the gorgeously
decked out huntress quickest
to entrap her victim.
"There is probably no thought
which occupies a young sdtiety woman
more than that of being married;
there is probably no thought
which occupies her less than that of
being happy when married, or making
a husband happy."
Fewer Topers in Alabama.
Birmingham, Ala., Dec. 28.?Figures
on the internal revenue receipts
show a decided falling off in Ala
bama during the year just closed,
largely due to prohibition. The total
collections in Alabama for 1907
were $433,688.40, and for 1908
$149,196.68.
The figures for the last three days
of the present month were estimated.
by Collector Thompson.
'The whiskey revenue in the State
for the past three years was: 1906,
000.07; 1907, $26,000; 1908, $15,000.
I Have You Noticed 1
H?w mellow and per- I
n fectly blended are the
I flavors of the different I
kinds of fruit used in I
I your fruit cake if it is I
H made now and allowed B
k to "age" properly? I
I Cakes are more whole- I
I some when allowed to I
mellow in the proper fl
I way and should never fl
1 be eaten soon after fl
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J fruit cakes H
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will fill the bill fully. I
1 A careful selection of I
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I you find more satisfac- 9
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9 through the. purchase 9
9 of our materials 9
I For Cakesl
9 We solicit your orders 9
9 for dates, currants, 9
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9 evaporated peaches, Kj
9 figs or any kind of 9
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Tpyss spprl nntfl ruir Vina Viol $4.50, $5.25 and $6.50.
I Appier national oats raised "Satisfaction" BrandClothin
Orangeburg Co. per bu 105 ing from $6.00 the suit up. ?
3 lb cans Good Luck Baking Peters Shoes, every pair guar- at
Powder 25 anteed, from $1 up to $5per pr. fSa
6 bars Octagon soap 25 A full line of dry goods, notions A
Cosmo Buttermilk soap 10c and hats at prices that will assize,
now 05 tonish you.
Green coffee per lb 9c, 10c, Two Horse Auburn Wagon. J57.50 A
12Jc and 15c. One Horse Auburn Wagon..$31.00 *
Acme Roasted Coffee per lb.. 12 to $37.50. W";
Luzianne Coffee per can... 20 Reversible Disc Harrows $22.50 A .
Sugar per lb 6c; by bbl, 5? to $28.50.
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want your trade, and everything ? sold,
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That our <.ash resources have reached a grand total of over * ? *
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if it's a bicycle that is not in working ?
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$3.00, return it to us and you will receive a $1,000.00 accident
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"j Tickets on sale December 18th, 19th, 23rd, "F
24th, 25th, 30th, and 31st, 1908, and January 9 &
1st, 1909, limited to return not later than January Mp
J* For further information, reservations, etc., call
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