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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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Address as to Attitude
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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
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;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.
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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.
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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
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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. CLAYTON^ , ^15
County Dispensary Board for Bam
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