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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
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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. %
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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
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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.
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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.
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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 (
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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NEW CREED PREACHED IN LONG
BRANCH SCHOOL.
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Employers of Miss Lane, Who Con- J
verted Pupils to Strange Faith, ?
Put Out of Office. l
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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 ]
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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
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?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
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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
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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 %