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$ * JOHNSON AWAITS DEATH. THK XKURO COXYIC'TKD OF ASSAULT IX HARTS VILLK. Dramatic Incident of the Trial When the Xegro Was Spirited off to Sumter While the Jury Deliberated. Robert Johnson, colored, was brought here yesterday by Sheriff J. C. Blackweli, of Darlington, and lodged in the penitentiary for safe keeping to await death by hanging for committing an assault in Hartsville on the night of December 2.1, 1908. Johnson was tried and convicted, of the crime February 27, the trial consuming but one day of court. Johnson had been positively identified by his victim. A feature of the trial was the 'spiriting away of Johnson to Sumter for safe keeping on the afternoon that the jury was considering the case. Johnson was carried over to Sumter by the officers and several private citizens in order that he might be safe from any violence that a favorable verdict might have caused the crowd assembled at the court house *in Darlington to at tempt. 'While, even when the negro was captured, no violence was attempted, it was thought best to keep the negro away for the announcement of the verdict of the jury. Had there been acquittal or recommendation to mercy it was feared that Johnson might not have been quite safe, incensed as the community was over the horrible crime that had been committed. So the afternoon train to Sumter wdfe used to convey Johnson to the Sumter jail. Late in the afternoon ?at 6:50, when the jury came out of the room in Darlington court house?the wires flashed the fate of the negro to Sumter. The guard knew then that no further danger was to be feared. Johnson was taken back to Darlington, received the sentence of the court and was * yesterday brought here to await the time for his hanging. This whole case is one where public sentiment and due caution by officers of the law prevented what under many similar circumstances might have caused all law to be forgot The crime was committed on December 22 and the reports from Hartsville said "the outrage was committed upon a white woman by a negro at this time unknown." Johnson was subsequently captured. The young woman was alone at home at the time the negro entered and overpowered her. The night of the ' crime news from Hartsville was to v the effect that "the crowd hgs the guilty man spotted and he will be arrested before daylight. No mob violence is feared, although the men Heenlv incensed." The capture was not effected so quickly, however. With the description, though, that the negro was five feet ten inches high, of medium size, beard on face and wore a slouch hat, the men had a clue as to the man's identity. Soon after Johnson was caught and lodged In jail. The trial was held February 27 and at 6:45 o'clock the jury returned a verdict of guilty. At 4:30 o'clock while the jury was out Johnson was taken to Sumter for safe keeping, it being feared that violence might result if the trial were favorable to the negro.?Columbia State, Saturday, March 0. Sailers and Negroes Fight. Norfolk, Va., March 6.?Prompt action on the part of the Norfolk and Berkley police to-night prevented a serious riot between sailors from the St. Helena reservation" and negroes in Berkley ward. A rough house started in a saloon between a crowd of sailors and as many negroes. This was quelled. The negroes were in the majority. Later the sailors, reinforced by about 100, returned to the neighbor hood pf the saloon, seeking revenge. The Berkley police, reinforced by a squad of blue-coats from Norfolk and reservation officers, were rushed to the scene and arrived just as the sailors were about to wreck Zinn's saloon on Liberty street. The negroes had fled. The ringleaders among the sailors were turned over to the reservation officers. Deputy Sheriff Sentenced. Utica, N. Y., March 6.?Leonard drake, deputy sheriff of this county, was to-day fined $250 and sentenced to jail for 30 days for consentenced to jail for 30 days for contempt of court. Drake attempted to get a business man of the city to burn his books or in some manner conceal them when they had been subpoenaed before the grand jury. Drake served the subpoena on the merchant and then advised him that as the books probably would show a bad state of affairs for several of the supervisors and some of the former county officers, he had better make away with them. IRELAND'S MISFORTUNES. Expensively Governed, Although the Poorest of All Countries. "Ireland is the poorest and most expensively governed country in the world." said Joseph F. McCormick, of Cork, Ireland, to a reporter for The Washington Herald. "It costs twice as much per head to govern Ireland as it does to rule England or Scotland, and all because of the discontent of the people. Until within a brief time there was no educational liberty for Ireland, and full religious liberty was not enjoyed until within a year. "There was a time when a tariff of 500 per cent, was exacted upon all goods manufactured in Ireland, and our industries were destroyed by this act of the British parliament. For more than a century not one shilling was expended by the British government to revive these industries. There is a revival, but it is wholly due to the efforts of the people, and the consequence is that it is small and slow. Industrial prosperity can not be created and maintained by any people deprived of self government. These conditions are the cause of the great emigration to America and elsewhere. "A more serious effort has been the repeated famines, in one of which 1,000,000 people died from want, while 1,000,000 were driven to death by the mad rush to escape from the country. "When Parnell started the present movement twenty-five years ago Ireland was in despair. Its representatives in parliament were self-seekers caring nothing for the people. He drove them all out and put in eighty-six men who were pledged to take no personal emolument for 11 J ~ themselves or omers, auu tu aci iugether as a unit upon all matters of importance. This method has been followed with the result that now one-third of Ireland is paying off its debts and the people are free from the former oppression of landlordism." Would Build Power Plant. Laurens,. March 5.?Col. N. B. Dial, of Laurens, has returned to the city from Washington, where he spent some days in an effort to get a government grant to construct a dam across the Savannah river at a point eight miles north of Augusta preparatory to the building of a power plant at that place. The scheme is a Georgia-Carolina enterprise, Mr. J. L. Hankinson, of Augusta, being associated with Mr. Dial in the effort. Already the charter for the company has been issued by the South Carolina legislature, but the Savannah river being a navigable stream national legislation for the construction of a dam is necessary. 1. The proposed plant is to be of large proportions, the capital stock being $500,000, with privilege to increase to $100,000,000. It purposes generating at the outset about 10, 000 horsepower of electricity and will supply townB and cities in the vicinity. Securing the necessary legislation by congress for the construction of , the dam is now an interesting question, owing to the position which President Taft may or may not take on the matter. Mr. Dial failed to , get through any measures in his recent trip, hence the matter rests until the special term this month. Lynchburg Now a Dry Town. Lynchburg, Va., March 5.?The ( saloons of Lynchburg closed tonight, conforming to the local option election result in December. The clos- i ing was quiet and orderly. It is expected that the social clubs will ^ remain open until their present 1 licenses expire on April 30. Demonstration Work Extends. The extension of the farm demon- , stration work in South Carolina goes , forward rapidly. During the past few ^ months under Prof. Ira B. Williams , the demonstration work has been pushed and as a result there are ( now 26 field agents that work in : this State. The demonstration plan i has necessarily been slow at first but \ the success of the work has resulted j in its gradual extension. \ At present the work, in addition to < the work now going on, will be con- ( ducted in the counties of York, Lan- ( caster, Lee, Sumter, Darlington and ? Clarendon and a few months later in ? Florence. Before the end of the \ year Commissioner Watson hopes to ; have the work in every county in the ( State except seven, and these excep- ' tions are not of a class where the \ demonstration work would be of par- < ticular benefit to the agricultural in- \ terests.?State. Killls Would-Be Slayer. , A merciless murderer is appendi- j citis with many victims. But Dr. King's New Life Pills kill it by pre- { vention. They gently stimulate ?' stomach, liver and bowels, prevent- 1 ing that clogging that invites appen- . dicitis, curing constipation, biliousness, chills, malaria, headache and indigestion. 25c. at Peoples Drug * Co., Bamberg, S. C. 1 I PRESIDENT SOUTH Extract From Inaugural Regarding Negr I look farward with hope to increasing the already good feeling between the South and the other sections of the country. My chief purpose is not to effect a change in the electoral vote of the Southern States. That is a secondary consideration. What 1 look forward to is ail increase in the tolerance of political views of all kinds and their advocacy throughout the South, and the existence of a respectable political opposition in every State; even more than this, to ar increased feeling on the part of all' the people in the South that this government is their government, and that its officers in their States are their officers. The consideration of this question cannot, however,, be complete and full without reference to the negro race, its progress and its present condition. The 13th amendment secured them freedom; the 14th amendment due process of law, protection of property and the pursuit of happiness; and the 15th amendment attempted to secure the negro against any deprivation of the privilege to vote because he was a negro. The 13th and 14th amendments have been generally enforced and have secured the objects for which they were intended. While the 15th amendment has not been generally observed in the past, it ought to be observed, and the tendency of Southern legislation to-day is toward the enactment of electoral qualifications which shall square with that amendment. Of course, the mere adoption of a constitutional law is only one step in the right direction. It must be fairly and justly enforced as well. In time both will come. Hence it is clear to all that the domination of an ignorant, irresponsible element can be prevented by constitutional laws which shall exclude from voting both negroes and whites not having education or other qualifications thought to be necessary for a proper electorate. The danger of the control of an ignorant electorate has therefore passed. With this change, the interest, which many of the Southern white citizens take in the welfare of the negroes has increased. Thecolored men must base their hope on the results of their own industry, self-restraint, thrift and business success, as well as upon the aid and comfort and sympathy which they may receive from their white neighbors of the South. There was a time when Northerners who sympathized with the negro in his necessary struggle for better conditions sought to give him the suffrage as a protection, and to enforce its exercise against the prevailing sentiment of the South. The movement proved to be a fail"?A TXrViof romoina )s th A 1 Flth UIC. VT uav AVAUM4UU -w amendment to the constitution and the right to have statutes of States specifying qualifications for electors subjected to the test of compliance with that amendment., This is a great protection to the negro. It never wijl be repealed, and it never ought to be repealed. If it had not been passed it might be difficult now to adopt it; but with it in our fundamental law, the policy of Southern legislation must and will tend to obey it, and so long as the statutes of the States meet the test of this amendment and are not otherwise in conflict with the constitution and laws of the United States, it is not the disposition nor within the province of the Federal government to interfere with the regulation by Southern States of their domestic affaiirs. There is in the South a stronger feeling than ever among the intelligent, well-to-do and influ-! ential element in favor of the industrial education of the negro and the encouragement of the race to make themselves useful members of the community. The progress that the negro has made in the last fifty '"? > ' ? olororv irhon Ua ctatia O 11U1U OittfVi;, ?? MV** *vw tics are reviewed, is marvelous, and it 'furnishes every reason to hope that in the next twenty-five years a still greater improvement in his coniitinn as a productive member of society, on the farm, and in the shop and in other occupations may come. The negroes are now Americans. rh ;ir ancestors came here years ago against their will, and this :1s their j'nlv country and their only flag. They have shown themselves anxious to live for it and to die for it. Encountering the race feeling against :hem, subjected at times to cruel injustice growing out of it, they may well have our profound sympathy and aid in the struggle they are making. We are charged with the sacred Iui;y of making their path as smooth md easy as we can. Any recognition of their distinguished men, any appointment to office from their number is properly taken as an encouragement and an appreciation of their progress, and this just policy % TAFT'S IERN POLICY Address as to Attitude o Appointments. shall be pursued. But it may well admit of doubt whether, in the case of any race, an appointment of one of their number to a local office in a community in which the race feeling is so widespread and acute as to interfere with the ease and facility with which the IaaoI tyararnmonf hiioi'noac r>q n lio IV/V.U x (jV* VI UlUVUt /UOIUVOC VUU uv ;done by the appointee, is of suffijcient benefit by way of encouragement to the race to outweigh the recurrence and increase of race feeling which such an appointment is likely to engender. Therefore, the executive, in recognizing the negro race by appointments must exercise a careful discretion not thereby to do it more harm than good. On the other hand we must be careful not to encourage the mere pretense of race feeling manufactured in the interest of individual political ambition. Personally, I have not the slightest race prejudice or feeling, and recognition of its existence only awakens in my heart a deeper sympathy for those who have to bear it or suffer from it, and I question the wisdom of a policy to increase it. Meanwhile, if nothing is done to prevent it, a better feeling between the negroes and the whites in the South will continue to grow, and more and more of the white people will come to realize that the future of the South is to be much benefited by the industrial and intellectual progress of the negro. The exercise of political franchise by those of his race who are intelligent and well-to-do iwill be acquiesced in, and the right to vote will "be withheld only from the ignorant and irresponsible of both races.?Extract from President Taft's inaugural address. The Closing of Rizer Chapel School. Feb. 12, 1909. j We enjoyed one of the best com jmencements, were ever known in ! Bamberg Co, among our colored Race. We must say it were grand indeed for Miss Wiihelmina V. Washington to take the numbers of 57 students, from 5 to 7, on up to 19 years of age didn't know anything about repeating the Bible. Now they can repeat the difference books from Genesis to Revelation through the Holy Bible. They can also repeat the 13 chapter of first Chrinthians. Also the first Psalms, through. And sevel other noble things which our children learnt during two month and I am Grateful to say all pattions are much please with Miss Wiihelmina V. Washington work. Now this is her second year with us. We wish to say Miss W. V. Washington is one of the best Teachers among our Colored Race were ever known. We were so much pleased And she having pleased to be with us She made the children a present of one weeks teaching which closed Feb. 119th. We all are now Pleased to have. Miss W. V. Washington to teach two monts longer Privet school, but she will not be able to oblige us, as she will leave, for Browning Home, Camden South Co. March first, Will return in summer to teach again for us. We also had an exlence address from Miss E. Green. Teacher of 3 miles creek. Children and Prents Were very sorry to depart from Miss W. V. Washington. P C. Glover & G. W. Walker. LEVER RESOLUTIOX PASSED. It Will Snpply Cotton Growers With Valuable Information. Washington, Feb. 28.?Congressman Lever's joint resolution providing for the collecting and publishing of additional statistics concerning the amount of baled cotton on hand at given periods has been passed by the Senate, and has now gone to tne president for his signature. This resolution means as much to the farmer of the South as any legislation recently enacted since it supplies him with the amount of baled cotton being held in the various mills of the country just as the buyers now obtain the amount of the crop being raised. It gives the farmer an equal amount of information, with reference to the demand, that the buyer now has with respect to the supply. Speaking of the resolution, Mr. Lever said: "This resolution will eliminate to some extent the feature of speculation and gambling in cotton, in my judgment, and will give to both parties, the buyer and the seller, a square deal at the hands of the government, as far as the statistics for cotton go than he has ever had, and this is the entire extent of my resolution." The Herald Book Store has the biggest tablet and best paper for 5 cents in the town. BARELY ESCAPED CREMATION. Three Families Have Close Call in a Fire at Columbia. Columbia, March 6.?Just before dawn to-day the three families residing at 2021 Sumter street narrowly escaped being burned in their beds, the whole upper story of the frame dwelling being enveloped in flames when the occupants were roused by a passing hackman. (5ne of the ladies was ill and had to be carried out. The place is the property and home of Mr. Hiram B. Sholar, foreman of blacksmiths at the Southern Railway shops, and with him lives his two sons-in-law, Messrs. Jumper and Sargent, and their families. The names originated in tne Kitcnen, probably from a defective flue. When the alarm was turned in by a passerby the fire had spread to the second story and gained such headway that it seemed that the total destruction of the house was inevitable. Hard and intelligent work by the firemen resulted in the checking of the flames. Postoffice and Depot Robbed. Wedgefield, March 7.?Some time between 12 o'clock test night atad daylight this morning the depot and postoffice here were robbed. The robbers secured from the postoffice one registered package and $7 or $8 out of the R. F. D. carrier's desk. Stamps, etc., were not molested. From the depot one or two express packages were taken. Two negroes, one black and one a bright mulatto, both strangers, who were in town all day, and were seen here as late as 12 o'clock last night, are suspected. * FORAKER GETS LOVING CUP. Washington Negroes Show Ex-Senator from Ohio their Esteem. Washington, March 6.?Former Senator Jos. B. Foraker to-night was presented with a massive silver loving cup, the gift of the negro residents of Washington, in appreciation of his fight in the United States Senjate to have the battalion of the 25th ' infantry, which was discharged "without honor" as a result or rne "shooting up" of Brownsville, Texas, restored to the army. The presentation was made at the Metropolitan A. M. E. church, and was followed by a reception. (COM | BAMI . Saturday, ONE NIG The Greatest D Deadwo ....Oi THE SCOIIT 01 A THRILLING STORY 30--PE0 Concert Band Traveling in Our Own Pi New, Clean, Moral and Mammoth Water Proof I .2,000 Folding Chairs. ONE NIGHT ONLY i. . /- . . . ... ^ \ _ ?*> 'Xafci j NOTICE TO LIQUOR DEALERS. I Office of County Dispensary Board of Bamberg County. Bamberg, S. C.. March 5, 1909. Bids are hereby requested, in accordance with the terms of the Dispensary Law now in force, for the following kinds and qualities of liquors, beer, and other articles herein enumerated, to be furnished to the State of South Carolina for use of the County Dispensary Board of Bamberg County, to wit: Fifty barrels Corn Whiskey, 90 proof, different grades. | | Fifty barrels Rye Whiskey, 90 proof, different grades. Five barrels Alcohol, 188 proof. Fifty barrels Gin, 90 proof, different grades Bids will also be received for Case I Goods, including Rye, Corn aad ? - n 1n?_ SCOtcn wniSKies, nrauuy, vxiu, xvuiu, Wines, Beers, Ales, and Porter. Also glass, corks and tinfoil, wire and other articles used for a County Dispensary All goods shall be furnished in ^ compliance with and subject to the terms and conditions of the Dispen- > sary Law of 1907, and bidders must observe the following rules: 1. The bids shall be sealed, and there shall be no sign or mark upon < the envelope indicating the name of the bidder 2. All bids must be sent by express or registered mail to Jno. F. S Folk, County Treasurer for Base- :-'M berg County, at Bamberg, S. C., on *74 or before 12 o'clock of Monday, the 5th day of April, 1909. The CO*- ??? tract shall be awarded to the lowest. M responsible bidder on - each kind* the Board reserving the right to reject any and all bids and any parts of bids. The Board reserves ran the right to increase or decrease the above quantities at the same' SM price as the bids submitted. 3. All goods to be delivered t o. b. Bamberg, S. C., freight prepaid, ..3|S Terms, to be paid for within ninety'" days and subject to regauge at onr warehouse. Also state discoifct for cash payment. Bids will be opened in the office of the County Dispen-1 '(M? sary Board at Bamberg, S. C. on Mon- -2?| day, April 5th, 1909. E. C. HAYS, J. A. WALKER, * G. B. 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