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rppg > Y' ; Y ; V: - -^ -?^| ' "' * <-9 ' lantbmj limilii I * i ^ ) ji| Established 1891 BAMBERG, S. C., THURSDAY, JANUARY 28, 1909 One Dollar a Year ||| ? ==a 'fm COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS SOME INTERESTING HAPPENINGS IN VARIOUS SECTIONS. News Items Gathered All Around the County and Elsewhere. Ehrhardt Etchings. Ehrhardt, Jan. 25.?The Baptists of this place have made some steps towards erecting a Baptist church. They have selected two lots on which to erect same. The members,, about ten in number, have had one meeting, but one of the preachers invited was sick, so they will have another meeting on the fifth Sunday in this month at the Ehrhard<t Methodist church at eleven o'clock, at which \ meeting Dr. T. M. Bailey, of Greenville, will be present and preach for them. The name they have selected for the church is the Ehrhardt BapOttAAAoe In nnHor. USl UllUiVUi OUV.WDO 1U buvii uuuxt taking, is our wish for them. Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Ehrhardt, Mamie and Liles, returned from Newberry last week, where they had gone to attend the burial of Miss h Alice Cline, sister of Mrs. Ehrhardt. Farmers are preparing for another crop, and no doubt will try to make more cotton than ever, as the price now is somewhat better than it has been for several months. Some few are selling out their holdings, and settling up their accounts, so as to have a clean sheet to start on for this year's business. Some few bales of cotton to gin, but not enough to amount to anything, and of a very poor grade; r usually top cotton. v Col. John and his brother, H. C. Folk, passed through town on their way to their father's, Mr. Henry N. Folk, Sunday afternoon. Mr. O. P. Folk has not been able to. come to town for several weeks. He is not sick enough to be in bed, but enough to keep him from attending to business away from home. Our merchants are putting in some dry goods and notions. They think that there will be some business ^ done. None, however, are buying large stocks of goods. % A AAtyimflnfti'ol U11C ivau Ui. WllllU^iViai 1VI inuvi has come to town. Was ordered by an outsider. It seems as if our merchants are slow to take hold of it ;Y this year. The way the merchants have been handling fertilizers is not ggj] a very paying business to them, as the farmers do not meet their notes as promptly as they should. The i merchants say they can't do business jj?p with unpaid notes. | Several counterfeit dollars have J been circulated in our town, and Y , some of our merchants have taken a few of them in exchange for goods. Look well at the money you handle, is the advice given to clerks in our business places. No one is suspicioned in this section, but if found ? out they will surely be turned over to the proper authorities to handle. Quarterly conference was held at Pleasant Hill Methodist church on Saturday and Sunday. Several of our town folks attended on Sunday, \ The farmers gathered into Dannelly's hall Saturday afternoon to listen to a speech made by a Farmers' Union man for the occasion.. Did ??? l?ao? Vi nomo an/1 MTj't SflV . 0 |iVI? UVai UIO UUU1V) M?A\* VM? V 4 what was the outcome of the meeting. The speaker gave them a good talk, is all the comments heard from the meeting. v We are having real spring weather now. Some of our farmers will start to plant corn soon if the weather continues warm much longer. Kearse News. Kearse Jan. 25.?The young people . of the neighborhood met last Friday evening at White Point school house f' to organize a society to be known as Timrod Literary Society. Our aim is to draw the people young and old, one evening each week, together in a social way, also to have musical performahces along with the literary part of it. One evening in each month'will be given entirely over to music and social features, and at the end of two months the general public will be entertained. jf The following officers were elected: President?Mr. B. .V. Kearse. Vice president?Miss Edna Chitty. Secretary?Miss Ethel Kearse. Treasurer?Miss Eloise Brabham. Critic?Mr. W. H. Ritter. Censor?Miss Ettie Kearse. The program for next Friday evening will consist of the following:: Current Events?Horace Kearse. Music?Miss Ettie Kearse. Recitation?Miss Mildred Kearse. Essay?Miss Edna Chitty. Reading?Miss Eloises Brabham. We have only a few charter members, but hope to soon see more names enrolled from time to time until we have all in reach with us, as only members will be eligible to attend the social functions given at the end of each month. Misses Ethel and Mildred Kearse spent few days last week in Bambeg. Mrs. G. E. Kearse entertained a number of ladies last Thursday. Miss Evelyn Brabham returned home Monday, after spending several t weeks in Ellentcn with her sister. Mrs. E. Walker and daughter, Miss Reba, are visiting friends and rela lives m mis neignuoruuuu. Mrs. Palmer Not Guilty. Tampa, Fla., Jan. 25.?The jury trying Mrs. Pauline Palmer, for the murder of her husband, Luke Palmer, in July, last, at their home, to-day ^ rendered a verdict of not guilty, after a trial lasting a week. The defense claimed the killing was done to protect-the chastity of Mollie Powers, 13year-old sen ant girl, who was being assaulted by Palmer at the time. The State claimed conspiracy to kill Palmer for life insurance. A PROHIBITION FIGHT ON. Superintendent Harley and Other Prominent Men Make Addresses. Columbia, S. C., Jan. 21.?The "drys" have launched their fight for [State-wide prohibition before house ! committee on dispensary and the senate committee on police regulations (the new dispensary committee). A number of prominent advocators of the measure were heard this afternoon in the senate chamber. Those who spoke were: Rev. J. L. | Harley, president of the Anti-Saloon League of South* Carolina; C. C. Featherstone, of Laurens; Charlton 1 Durant, of Manning; Rev. J. W. Guy, of Spartanburg; C. A. Smith, chairman of the committee appointed by the Baptist Convention at Union; Dr. [Z. F. Cody, of Greenville; J. J. Law- ( ton, of Hartsville; Rev. C. E. Burts, | of Edgefield, also on behalf of the committee of 25 appointed at the | Baptist convention in Union. Big Crowd Attends. The members of this committee, , members of the house and senate and a large audience, including many ladies, were present at the public hear- 1 ing. < In arguing for prohibition in this State, Rev. Harley compared South Carolina with her sister Spates. Kentucky has voted out whiskey in 96 out of 119 counties; ;Tennessee has just passed a prohibition bill; Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi are prohibi- j tion, also North Carolina and Ken- . tucky is to a large extent prohibition. > In this State, he claimed that in the , 21 dispensary counties of the 600,000 \ people, one-fourth are white and ( three-fourths colored; that in the 21 prohibition counties the conditions are reversed and he felt that the tinie has come for the one-fourth whites in ' the dispensary counties to come to ' the aid of the prohibitionist majority. ] He also claimed that if the subject , were put to a vote in this State, the I people would vote for prohibition by 40,000 majority. 1 Can Enforce Lf>w. ] As to the law, he claimed that the ( law can be enforced just as much so as any other law upon the statute books to-day, "if we have men with ! backbone to do it," he added. Rev. Harley attacked. Charleston, < saying that the law was not beiijg en- i fnroed there now. That there are 14 i dispensaries in Charleston, 361 li- ] censed blind tigers, "besides numbers < of blind tigers that are unlicensed." < He claimed also that there are twice as many blind tigers in dispensary 1 counties as in prohibition counties. < Mr. Featherstone made a plea for i prohibition, giving in his' arguments the opinions of the State Supreme Court justices and the United States courts. He argued that no State has , the right to permit engaging in a J business that is injurious to the people. Drank Denatured Alcohol. j Wilmington, Del., Jan. 25.?Two 1 soldiers are dead at Fort DuPont, i near Delaware City, and two others will probably die from drinking a \ pint of denatured alcohol. j The dead are: Sergt. Albert E. i Graham, aged 40, of Forty-fifth com- , pany, coast artillery; Private Martin j B. Barry, 31 years old, One Hundred \ and Thirty-ninth company, coast artillery. ] It is said that Private Albert Free- , man, 23 years old, One Hundred and < Thirty-ninth company, coast artillery, and Private Samuel Albright, aged 35 , years, same company, can not re- cover. " ? Although Graham died yesterday, j the affair was not reported to Coro- , ner Gaynor until to-day. While Coro- < ner's Physician Batian was holding a ( rrtnrtarn rtn fi-rnhnrn's hndv this I i tUVA VVUA vm v? i i. ? ^ _ j afternoon Barry also died. The post i mortem in each case clearly determined the cause of death. It was believed until to-night that Freeman and Albright would recover, but they have ( become delirous. Barry secured the poison which the men drank from ' Post Machinist Peacock on the pre- . text that he wished to use it to thin shellac. Was Jealous of Dead Husband. ] Jealous because the gnave of her ' late husband was beside the grave of ' his first, wife, Mrs. Sarah Bryson had ' the body taken up and removed from Millvale to a cemetery here. The re- } suit is that she and J. A. Criswell, an '> undertaker who removed the body, ] were arrested on a charge of "sepul- ( cher misdemeanor." They were held j in bail for a hearing next Thursday. 1 The charge was made by Mrs. Bry- 1 son's stepson. He declared that when 1 his father lay dying he expressed a ' wish to be buried beside his first 1 wife.?Philadelphia Record. ^ New Afternoon Paper. The secretary of state has issued a < commission to the Evening Sun < Company, of which the corporators are: Messrs. James A. Hoyt, M. L. ; Kinard and George L. Baker, and the ] capital stock is to be $25,000. Mr. < Hoyt is the organizer of the company j and is to be editor and general man ager of the paper. He stated that he 1 expects to begin the publication of the < paper within a few weeks, as soon as 1 a plant can be purchased and in- : stalled. The Evening Sun will use j the afternoon news service of the As- j sociated Press, of which organization ^ Mr. Hoyt was recently elected a mem- j ber. 1 Mr. Hoyt will be the largest stock- 1 holder in the Evening Sun Company, ] but he stated that a number of busi- 1 ness men in Columbia and other parts 1 of the State are also interested in the \ enterprise, regarding the afternoon 1 newspaper field in Columbia as very j inviting.?Columbia State. IN THE PALMETTO STATE SOME OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA. State News Boiled Down for Quick Reading?Paragraphs Ahont Men and Happenings. The legislature elected E. D. Smith United States Senator Tuesday of this week. Senator Lide has introduced a bill providing for an election this summer on the question of local option or prohibition. The Senate has passed a bill providing for the appointment of a commission to consider the advisability of erecting a new governor's mansion. The victims of mad dogs continue to multiply in the State. A boy named Tom Sherard was bitten by a mad dog In Abbeville county last Sunday, and went to Atlanta for the Pasteur treatment. Hamp Gray, a well-known citizen of Greenville county, committed. suicide last Monday at his home in Oaklawn township by blowing out his brains. He ran his family out of the house by threatening to shoot them before he shot himself. The legislature has passed a bill requiring reports from all corporations doing business in this State. This report must be made annually, Itemized, under oath, showing the actual assets and liabilities of such corporation: It is a good bill no doubt. Mr. Dave H. Gaston has bought from Mr. J. Monroe Steadman his farm of 102 acres, situated just on the eastern edge of the town. The price is $15,000, and as the land adjoins Mr. Gaston's place, the purchase gives him altogether a farm of about 250 acres, and one of the handsomest farms in the State. The price of $150 per acre shows the high value of good farming land near Aiken.?Aiken Recorder. The new board of directors of the Seminole Securities Co. have filed with the clerk of court for Richland county a bond for $300,000, and this In effect removes from the custody of the receivers the assets of the company. This course it is said will secure the turning over of the affairs of the company to the directors in a few days, and steps will at once be taken to prosecute those who "grafted" upon the confiding subscribers in 3tock. | STATE PUBLIC DEBT. Figures for the Past Year Given by the Comptroller General. Comptroller General Jones in his annual report calls attention to the State debt and the fact that in 1913 a large percentage of the bonds can be refunded. The report says: "The total State debt as appears ljy the State treasurer's report is approximately $6,532,915.63, of which $5,613,781.69 is in 4% per cent. Brown ronsol bonds and stocks. In 1913 the State can exercise its right to refund i the Brown consol bonds and stocks. "The sinking fund has now on band, which could be applied to said iebt, $738,000. The amount which I will probably be on hand July, 1913, will be $900,000, which will be iuce the State debt by that amount. We believe that the balance of the Brown consol debt can be refunded at 3 1A nor Aont Tn refundinc the debt. " 72 Fv? - o . corporations investing in such bonds should not be exempt from taxation an the amounts so invested, as it simply shifts the taxes so exempted on the people.?The State. Mr. Taft at Branchville. Branchville, Jan. 22.?Presidentelect William H. Taft passed through here to-day at 10:55 o'clock, a m., en route to Charleston, S. C., from which point he will sail on Monday morning for Panama. Mr. Taft was an his special train, which was being pulled by one of the best engines that the Southern Railway Company awns. Mr. Taft did not know when his train arrived that he would be expected to deliver an addfess, but when he was notified that there was a crowd of about one thousand people assembled here to see him, he very readily came out on the rear of his car and expressed his pleasure in seeing the people of Branchville and to talk with them while his train was stopped at the station. Mr. Taft looked as if he was enjoying the best i>f health and the people of Branchville wish for him and his party a tiappy trip to Panama. Dr. E. It. Patterson Dead. Barnwell, Jan. 24.?The town and county of Barnwell was cast in a ieep gloom of sorrow this morning when it was learned that Dr. E. L. Patterson had passed away at St. Luke's Hospital, in New York City, early to-day. Dr. Patterson left here i few days before Christmas for New York to consult pnysicians in regard to his health. His friends never Ireamed that there was any serious trouble and thought that he would return in a few days. After an examination by specialists it was found accessary to operate. The operation was performed on the 14th instant and since that time Dr. Patterson has been in a critical condition. Mrs. Patterson, the Hon. J. O. Patterson and Dr. J. A. Patterson, his brothers, have been at his bedside since the operation. Notwithstanding the fact that the reports from his bedside have not been reassuring, his host of friends and family hoped against hope and wished for a speedy recovery. I FELL FIFTEEN STORIES And the Many Things He Thought About in These Few Seconds. i L. E. Trout, who, with Charles Pepperdine, fell from the fifteenth floor of the Bank of Commerce building, thus describes the sensations while falling to what he believed must be instant death. "When the scaffold broke in the middle I realized i was too far from the ropes which descended at either end to seize one. I resigned myself to fate. It took about two and onehalf seconds to descend 84 feet, or half-way down. In those two seconds I thought of enough things to make a volume. My first thought was this: 'Will my wife forgive me for working in a dangerous place and teling her I was working inside?' I wopdered if the news of my death would kill my wife. , "hen I wondered why I did not strike the bottom. It seemed that I had been in the air an hour, and I longed to reach the bottom to end my suspense. I knew that my companion was ahead of me in the descent through space and I wondered what luck he was having. "Every unkind word I had ever uttered to my wife in little quarrels stood before me as if painted in glaring lines on a billboard. They cut me to the quick, and I thought how differently I would have acted if I had known what a terrible death and abrupt parting was coming. I wished that instead of an instantaneous death I might have a moment to comfort her, but I knew there was no hope for that. And through all of my thoughts there ran as a sort of undertone a feeling of wonder why I hung suspended in the air and could not get to my journey's end. "My life from boyhood days was revealed. I saw every act that I have done which I am ashamed of. I saw the windows passing up and I knew I was not yet halfway down. Then I felt the rope in my hands burning and cutting my flesh. The vibration of the rope, which was fastened at both ends, had carried it inward 12 feet at the middle, and in my lightning like descent I had happened to make about half of my fall at the instant the rope came nearest me. I would have reached the bottom in two-thirds of a second more. "I heard Pepperdine strike and scream. The pain in my hands made me want to relinquish my hold, for I thought that I would be killed anyway. But I decided to be game. Next I saw sparks. I knew then that I should see my wife again. I knew that if death came it would not be Than T lnot nnncoinnfln^SS lUllllUUiat^. J. UVU M iVWV VW**w%/.w ?Kansas city special to Baltimore American. MONUMENT TO A MULE. Georgia Man Erects Shaft to "Old Fly." News has been received here from Royston, Ga., to tile effect that Mr. W. M. Bowers, one of the leading men of that section, has had erected a substantial monument to the memory of "Old Fly," an old family mule. Om one side of the marble are these words: " 'Old Fly,' Mrs. S. C. Berryman's buggy mule. Hence this monument." On the reverse side appears this lettering: "She was forty years and five days old when she died." Proverbs 12-10: "A righteous man regardeth the life 1 - - - * v... 01 nis Deasi, uut iue mciuico ui cue wicked are cruel." In speaking of the monument, Mr. Bowers said: "I think it meet and proper, and it proves a noble spirit in mankind to be kind to animals, especially in their declining and helpless days. For this reason we decided to place a monument over the last resting place of 'Old Fly.' Another reason for it was because mother thought so much of the old mule, who in turn, it seemed, to a certain extent, reciprocated the feeling."?Anderson special to News and Courier. ?? Penalty for Miscegenation. If Senator Milton, of Florida, can have his way miscegenation in the District of Columbia hereafter will be treated in the courts as a crime punishable by imprisonment for ten years and a fine of $1,000. The Florida senator has introduced a bill to this affect, restricting its provision to marriage between white persons and negroes, and the bill provides that any person who has oneeighth or more of negro blood in his veins shall be considered as of the African race. Such marriages are declared to be null and void, and any issue resulting from them illegitimate and incapable of inheritance. . The bill proposes a punishment of imprisonment for a year, or a fine of $1,000 upon any one performing the marriage ceremony between representatives of the two races. NEGRO BURIED IX CAVE-IN. Well Digger, in Chester, Meets Death 25 Feet Beneath Surface. Chester, Jan. 24.?Hernton Chalk, a colored well-digger, was buried by a cave-in while digging a well on Mr. Geo. W. Byers's place at Wilksburg Friday morning, and a companion, Wallace Brown, was also partly buried in the debris, but was rescued without serious hurt. The two men had dug down for a distance of 25 feet through earth, when they struck soft rock, which made blasting necessary. This, it is supposed, is what caused the cave-in. Chalk had his neck and jaw broken, and it required three hours of digging to bring his body out of the ruins. Brown was on the opposite side of the well, and was only partially covered. Chalk, who was 65 years of age, leaves a wife and [several children. TAUGHT UNKNOWN TONGUE ________ 1 NEW CREED PREACHED IN LONG BRANCH SCHOOL. i Employers of Miss Lane, Who Con- J verted Pupils to Strange Faith, ? Put Out of Office. l \ Laurens, Jan. 24.?Acting on a < complaint, embodied in a formal peti- 1 tion filed with the county superin- i tendent of education and his board by S certain patrons of Long Branch i school, located in Scuffletown town- < ship, the board yesterday, after giv- i ing both sides to the controversy a 1 full hearing, removed the district t trustees and immediately named their successors, to whom County Superin- * tendent of Education Geo. L. Pitts at 1 once issued commissions.. The board * of trustees removed consisted of i Uacora U A QiiTriDpal W A Prtnlo ] ill^OOlO* iTl* UUlUV/i VA) Tf *. WAV and L. T. Benjamin, three of the leading cidzens of their community and all well known as progressive and substantial farmers as the county affords.. The new board likewise is composed of representative men. They are Messrs. J. Wilson Blakeley, George W. Cunningham and Sam J. Todd. This unusual and in some respects rather sensational proceeding was brought about by the employment last fall of Miss Nellie Lane, formerly of Georgia, to teach the Long Branch school for the current session. At the time the trustees had up for consideration the employment of a teacher early last fall, it is said that objection to Miss Lane was made by some of the patrons on the ground that she was identified with and a conspicuous leader and teacher of the so-called "Lnknown Tongue" religious creed. Furthermore, it was known that Miss Lane had no teacher's first grade certificate or college'diploma, as required by the public school law of this State. This was another serious, Objection. Nevertheless Miss Lane was given the school, though there were several qualified applicants for the position. To Miss Lane's credit, it is stated, that she frankly informed the trustees before accepting the school that she had had no experience as a teacher and held no credentials as such. The board of trustees, of which Mr. Sumerel was chairman, insisted, it is said, that she had the essential r> n fVtATT Crt 1*0901*^0^ if l| UaillllMllVUO ao buvj gv ivgi?kuv%b aw ?the "power" to interpret and teach the doctrine of the new sect. She was promised $40 the month for her services, and the school opened about the first of last November. At first practically all the patrons patronized the school as usuai. Soon, however, reports from the school room indicated that the teacher was giving oyer practically all of her time to instruction in the Bible and the new creed of religion, to the disregard of other instruction. This caused some of the patrons to stop their children and informal complaints were made to the superintendent of education, Mr. R. W. Nash, who, on January 1, relinquished the office and was succeeded 1 by Mr. Pitts. 1 Mr. Nash investigated the matter 1 and informed the trustees that he 1 could not approve the pay warrants t of Miss Lane and indicated to the dis- < satisfied patrons a remedy and form t of procedure. No steps were taken in J the matter, however, until after Mr. < Pitts assumed tne duties or rne superintendent's office and a vacancy on the county board of education was filled, which was done a few days ago by the appointment of Mr. R. E. Babb, vice Prof. R. A. Dobson, resigned, who now resides at GafTney. The petition of complaint was therefore prepared and presented, signed by some half dozen patrons of the school. The complaint set out substantially the conditions under which Miss Lane was employed and her unusual methods of instruction as principal of Long Branch school, as recited above. At the hearing, which was held in the office of the county superintendent yesterday, and continued until a late hour in the afternoon, the chairman of the old board of trustees and other members, together with a number of patrons and pupils, representing both sides, were examined/ In addition, Chairman Sumerel, of the now extinct board, made a talk of nearly two hours in defense of the conduct of the board in engaging Miss Lane and her management of the school, which, he said, had his unqualified indorsement as well as that of the other members of the board and a majority of the pat rons of Long Branch school. 5 It developed that for some time 26 pupils represented the total attendance, or about two-thirds of the strength of the school. Out of the 26 "faithful" pupils all but two, it is claimed, have made a profession of Miss Lane's doctrine. This fact evidently gave rise to Mr. Sumerel's characterization of yesterday of what he considered "excellent i progress of the school under Miss t Lane's direction." ( It is understood that the new board i will proceed at once to select a new g teacher, and it is likely the school t exercises at Long Branch, so abruptly c discontinued, will be resumed within ? a week or such matter. l Miss Lane, as stated, is from Geor- 1 gia, and was last year in attendance 1 upon the Altamont Bible institute, lo- j cated a few miles above Greenville I city, and conducted by Rev. N. J. i Holmes and others. ? i Superintendent of Education Pitts, c following the law and carrying out 1 - - - ? -J ? t the purposes of his predecessor in i this matter, states that he will decline t to approve Miss Lane's pay warrants, amounting to something like $140. f Valentine cards a specialty at the 1 5c. and ltc. store. 1 SWINDLER FINDS SUCKERS. M rraveling Man "Works" Orangeburg '!JCount} People. H. H. Dantzler, claiming to be the epresentative of the Cash Buyers ' 'M Jnion, of Chicago, made a sweeping laul in this county last week, and ..M'M $o far as can be learned at present le has skipped to parts unknown. He "fj| worked a scheme on the people of the ^ country all the way from Elloree te "Ai Port Motte, and finally, wound up : with something like $800 or $900 It Til 3t. Matthews last Friday night and Saturday morning he had flown the wop, and the victims who he roped n will doubtless wait a long time be- ;|*g lore the goods are delivered, which 3||| hey bought Dantzler arrived in this city about 71?? i week agp, and put up at the HuttO , warding house. He claimed, so it tr klleged, that he was buying and sell*.^ ng timber, and made inquiry front Vir. Hutto as to securing a horse and' 5uggy for a day. He wanted te mow if there was more than oneTaisH (table here, but being informed that ^ ;here was but one, the west end st*? lie, he asked Mr. Hutto to engage a ;eam for him. This was done, and ?arly Monday morning the team with i driver was waiting for him at his . warding house. He left for Elloro* ' shortly and did not return that night,.,. Ji % 3e remained away from the city ;he entire week, and finally wound ip by sending the team back from St Matthews, dodging the driver and not saying for the service. . According to the story told by thf ^ Iriver who had charge of the team* J Dantzler claimed to be representing :he Cash Buyers Union, of Chicago, ||H ind offered anything for sale, that njifS;,' lustomei; might chance to want He sold buggies, wagons, groceries, and : ^ n fact anything that could be sold. , md sold them at reniarkably low. m ^ prices. He required a cash payment ^ ; m the goods, and would give a re* JH seipt He found many who, took vantage of his offers, and in fact to #* ; fast and successful was his businegi|l conducted that he had a box beneath :he buggy seat in which he stacked|ffl| lis coin. He had this box filled whe^.^i ie reached St. Matthews, and the ne?ro says he did not; take time lount it. He just gathered it up and ^ packed it away in his pockets. He told the driver at St Matthiwi^gp ? :o be ready for him early Saturday : *3 morning for the return trip to thhl: - ?|^ jity, but when the driver went for ;V|$ lim he was informed that the man > ^ lad taken the early morning train: ".^'.' for the opposite direction. He did pay for the team, and the goods wjBteaHte ie sold will hardly be delivered. '>?Jj Dantzler was a man of medidnt- ^ lalffht onH was lamp In one foot -^31 vhich caused him to limp. He wi*4||j|;.;: jlean shaven, and there were two' ">jj scars on his cheek, so it is stated. ~-'<M8B It was also learned to-day that the - A. same man worked the lower part at|3| 5 ;his county about two years ago, with ' i similar scheme and got away.?Or* v''dm mgeburg Evening News. || The Prohibition Question. The house came very near stumb* O ing on the prohibition bill accidental* y Friday and getting it through A vithout its author knowing what was V-J Happening, and cutting off all in the:anks of hot air that have been load* ^ 5d up for that measure. It was In i :he rush of routine work in the open* MM ng hours, the speaker's desk was beared and the calendar taken up^H f before the members knew exactly 9| vhat was happening. As a vote was '-::M jeing taken Maj. Richards caught on ^ md asked that the bill be passed over for the time. He expected to have some heavy ammunition after the.f^S nee ting of the Farmers' Union. He.^ tiad no doubt of the passage of the bill in the house, but he wanted iErjH well backed. It is No. 5 on the caleu* ' Jga iar. The fight on it will be the first ~ '-|p iglll U1 lUC DCOOIUU. , The preliminary skirmish on pro- Igjfa nibition in the house Thursday really forecasts nothing, the lines were not ^ strictly drawn. It is part of the pro-; ?ram of the prohibition workers to ieluge the legislature with petitions -jag from all over the State. The antt?i^|a; prohibitionists and the economists of :;fS the house together referred them to :he dispensary committee, which vv may, alter all, manage to get the names all in print, as it is the petidons are just 'so much lumber reach* ng the eyes of probably one or two }? jlerks. The expense of printing ^ should have been a big item and for -hat reason many who might have .'*% roted for prohibition would not stand for the deluge. The amount of prohi3ition literature that is flooding the j| State house now is very considerable, md much of it is very strong. There j|g * +oiHnor qq vpt hnw the vote will o uu t?iuue ?? j .. be, but it is pretty safe to say that ' -M ill the floods of eloquence on either < side or the other will not change enough rotes to affect the result. Marshall on the Stand. / Union City, Jan. 25.?Nervously | -ubbing his hands, Ed. Marshall, on ^ ;rial for complicity in the murder of Uapt. Quentin Rankin, testified this 3s ifternoon in his own behalf. He was lubjected to a rigid cross-exaininaion, and the witness several times be- ? jame confused and contradicted him- -0 self. He said he first saw the night .?|B iders when they came to his home ^ ast summer and threatened to kill rJSj lim, his wife and baby and burn his jroperty unless ne joined me Dana. -v.59 ie took the oath and met with them -?J 1 number of times but staunchly delied participating in any of the . ;rimes. He said when convinced that ' M Taylor and Rankin were to be killed ' 1 le pleaded with their leader to sav* & heir lives. Failing in this, he mount- ;%a| id his horse and rode away before the 'M iring began. "If Col. Taylor knew what I did' for lim he would embrace me now," said %