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*'^ "* " 'W ?lie lamtorg iffralii 1 % - | Established 1891 BAMBERG, S. C., THURSDAY, JULY 29,1909. One Dollar a Year i COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS SOME INTERESTING HAPPENINGS IN VARIOUS SECTIONS. News Items Gathered All Around the County and Elsewhere, v Hearse News. Kearse, July 26.?Miss Evelyn Brabham entertained her friends last Friday evening with a lawn party given in honor of Miss Annie Halford, * of Blackville. All spent a pleasant Avpninc- nlavin? eames and eating ices. Good music added much to the pleasure of the crowd. Those present "out of town" were: Miss Antley, of Cordova, and Messrs. Hazelden and Richardson, of Ulmer. * Fish-fries, fox-hunts, and base-ball are the chief amusements of the day. Colston and Kearse base-ball teams ^ played an interesting game on Saturday afternoon on Colston grounds. A crowd of our young folks went to root for the home team. The game > was a tie?thie score being 9 to 9. Mr. Williams, of Bayard, Fla., is vialfinc in the neighborhood. ? Miss Sarah Brabham spent Sunday at home. Mr. David E. Pifer, of Olar, was in our midst Sunday afternoon. On account of the absence of sev\ eral of the members, the public meeting of the Timrod Literary Society, which was to be held next Friday evening, July 30th, is indefinitely postponed. We are glad to see such great interest shown in our Sunday-school. Quite a crowd were present Sunday * afternoon, and two members were added to our roll. These we hope will V be regular attendants, though living some distance from our place of meetIf tos UNION LAD A SUICIDE. H ;v;' ' Louis Vanderford, Son of WeilKnown Farmer, Shoots Himself. ' TTninn Tniv ?T.oiiis Vander * ford, a white boy 16 years of age, and a son of Ashmore Vanderford, a well-known farmer, shot and killed himself near his father's house, in * the Lockhart section of this county at an early hour this morning. Coroner Haines has just returned from holding an inquest over the body of the unfortunate lad, the verdict being that he came to his death from a i gunshot wound in a manner unknown to the jury. T* onnooT-a that VftHTl? man was *% v-v ^ ? ??o ' in good spirits yesterday, and free from trouble. This morning he wish- ( ed to go to work on the public road, , y but his father refused to allow this ( and ordered him to go to school. At this the boy took a Winchester rifle from the house and went to some - woods two or three hundred yards > distant. The noise of a shot was ( soon heard from that direction, and on investigation, the body of the rash ( youth was found, death having been instantaneous. The ball entered the ( left breast, penetrating the heart and lungs, and going through the body, the gun against the stump of a tree, ( the muzzle against his own heart, and to have fired the rifle by means ; i of a stick. The occurrence is greatly depolred by all. 1 Flames Destroy Eddy Lake Mill. * Conway, July 26.?Yesterday morning about 7 o'clock Jire broke out in the sawmill of the Eddy Lake 1 Cypress Company, at Eddy Lake, and in a very short time the sawmill 1 proper, including engine room, lathe room and filing room, was swept > away. But for the course of the wind and very hard work on the part of the people of the village, the 1 whole plant would doubtless have i -.been swept away. The loss is said to be between $50,000 and $60,000. Just what insurance was carried on the property has not been learned. The fire is thought to have originated from the boiler room nearby. The contents of this room, however, > were saved. A large force of workmen is now busy clearing away the debris, preparatory to rebuilding the plant. Just what will be done in the ? way of rebuilding cannot yet be stated. Mr. W. M. Burgan, the prin- : cipal stockholder, lives in Baltimore. He will be down as soon as possible w and work will be held up pending his arrival. This is one of the largest and best 1 V equipped mills in this section. The company owns some of the finest bodies of timber in the county, and only recently made marked improve- > ments on their plant. This company is also the chief promoter of the Eddy Lake & Northern Railroad Company, which serves as a feeder for the mill. Messrs. Geo. Officer and J. W. Little, two of the best mill men of the State, are in charge of the large mills, which are the outgrowth of the onetime Geo. Officer Company. Child Poisoned at Greer. Greenville, July 26.?The young son of Dr. James, a prominent phyi % sician of Greer, died early this morn * ing in most excruciating agony, me father hurriedly leaving home yesterday afternoon accidentally dropped a bottle of morphine on the porch floor and the little fellow picked it up and, when discovered by his mother, had eaten the greater part of the contents of the bottle. A physi' * clan was quickly summoned and a stomach pump applied. The poisoning had advanced too far to be overcome. * C. S. MAY ARRESTED. Shortage of Rock Hill Treasurer More Than $14,000. Rock Hill, July 23.?Mr. C. S. May, former city treasurer, was arrested at noon Wednesday and taken before Magistrate Beckham, where he waived preliminary and gave bond in the sum of $5,000 for his appearance at next term of court. This action was taken by council after several ?1. Amar. silUllgd WUCU tuc VI bUU ican Audit Company was received and digested. The amount named by Mr. May when he confessed his shortage to his bondsmen several weeks ago was $6,000. He persists in the statement that this is correct. The amount given by the audit company is $14,670.04. It is stated by council that this amount might be lessened to a small amount if there were any receipts for the disbursements of the present year. The receipts and vouchers of this year having been destroyed it was found impossible to check these later than December 31, 1908. It is understood that Mr. May admits that the shortage has been accumulating for five or six years. At the council meeting held Tuesday morning Mr. May's counsel was allowed until noon to aay m wmcn 10 arrange 10 xuaae guuu the shortage. This not being done, the arrest followed. It is also stated that Mr. May declared emphatically, prior to any movement to arrest him, that he would stajr right here, face the charges and take his punishment like a man. Judge Hudson Dead. Greenville, July 22.?Joshua Hilary Hudson, 77 years of age, statesman, soldier, jurist and citizen of whom all Soyth Carolina was proud, died this afternoon at the home of his daughter, Mrs. William A. Williams, after an illness lasting for several weeks. None was prepared for the sudden ending of the life of the distinguished jurist whose name has for two decades or more been a synonym for all that stood for the right and the just. Judge Hudson was born in Chester on January 29, 1832. Besides Mrs. Williams, the daughter, at whose home he died, he leaves three other daughters, Mrs. A. A. Bristow, of this city; Mrs. J. L. Jordan and Mrs. W. R. Crosland, of Bennettsville. The body will be taken to Bennettsville to-morrow afternoon at 12:30 o'clock and the interment, will be made there. WONDERFUL RESCUE. Little Girl More Than Two Hours in Narrow Well. Fort Mill, July 26.?Word reached Fort Mill this morning of a harrowing accident, and a most remarkable escape from death, which Sunday afternoon befell the 8-year-old daughter - ? / * 1- - ?t-jx. .r or u. *jook, a wnue laruier ui mc Belair neighborhood, seven miles from this place. The child was playing about the yard and in some way fell into the well, which is 30 feet deep, contains about eight feet of water, and is walled with 18-inch terracotta piping. The child screamed while falling and her parents discovered at once that she was in the well. Intelligent effort was immediately directed toward the rescue of the child, who displayed the remarkable presence of mind, after sinking the depth of the eight feet of water and rising to the surface, of bracing her body with knees and back on opposite sides of the piping to avoid drowning. A rope was quickly lowered and the child told to grasp it. This she did, but when drawn to within a few feet of the mouth of the well the child's strength failed and she fell to the bottom of the well a second time, but again rose to the surface of the water and grasped the rope. After the lapse of an hour or more the child was again persuaded to swing to the rope while her parents for the second time attempted to draw her from the well. Again, when almost within arm's reach of the parents, the child let go the rope and for the third time sank to the bottom, but fortunately rose to the surface of the water as formerly. The rope was again quickly lowered and once more was in the hands of the child. This time, however, the child could not, for the third time, be induced to undertake the ascent?she was all but exhausted, but had sufficient strength left to hold to the rope and thereby save herself from drowning. Another hour passed and little hope of rescuing the child was left. Finally a pair of steelyards was secured and tied to the end of a second rope. This was lowered and the child told to fasten one of the hooks to her clothing. In this way she was at last rescued, after facing death for more than two hours. Monday morning the little girl was at play as usual, apparently little the worse for the harrowing experience of the afternoon before. BACKED INTO SALUDA RIVER. Mr. and Mrs. Wessinger Had Narrow Escape from Drowning. Chapman, July 23.?On returning from Lexington yesterday Mr. and Mrs. Banks Wessinger had a narrow escape from being drowned. While in the flat, crossing at Uysis ferry, the mule backed the buggy out of the flat, Mr. and Mrs. Wessinger, together with the mule and buggy, all going into the river. It was fortunate that they were near the bank of the river, and Mr. Wessinger swam out with his wife in one arm, and with the aid of Mr. Wyse was able to get the mule and buggy out without any damage at all. IN THE PALMETTO STATE SOME OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS KINDS IX SOUTH CAROLINA. State News Boiled Down for Quick Reading?Paragraphs About Men and Happenings. C. W. McCravy, auditor of Laurens county, has resigned. The reason given is business cares of a private nature. A party of Orangeburg people left that city last week in a motor boat. It is their intention to go down the Edisto river to Charleston. The automobile route from Atlanta to New York has been decided on. In this State it is to go through Anderson, Greenville, Spartanburg, and Gaffney on to Charlotte. J. Chester Kennedy is being tried again in Barnwell this week for complicity in the murder of W. Perry Ussery. It is charged that Kennedy hired two men to kill a man named Holland and they killed Ussery by mistake. Kennedy was tried last week and the jury failed to agree. George Myers, a State constable, was accidentally shot at 11 Society street, in Charleston, Sunday morning. He dropped his pistol to the floor, and it was discharged, the bullet entering his stomach. Myers was carried to the Roper hospital. It is feared the wound will prove fatal. Six negroes have been arrested and lodged in jail at Bishopville, charged with being implicated in the murder of a negro woman, who was found dead in her house with her skull crushed. The whole affair is shrouded in mystery, but the husband of the woman was one of the negroes arrested. A special from Lexington says crops in that county are burning up for the want of rain. Cotton is suffering most and the crop will be a great deal shorter than last year. Everything has been put in excellent nnmlition. and with rain in the next day or two there might be a considerable come-out in the younger crops. The cotton mill known as the Reedy River Manufacturing Co., sit-: uated about seven miles from Greenville, on the Reedy river, was sold at public auction last Friday. It was bought by W. E. Beattie, of Greenville, and associates, the price paid being $149,400. The property is said to be worth $200,000. The concern will be reorganized. It is stated that the cocaine habit is prevailing to an alarming extent among the negroes in Lexington county, and that many farm hands are being made utterly worthless through its use. The negroes carry it around with them in their pockets, one negro being found with $12 worth of the drug on him. Dealers are making a good thing out of the sale. Deputy Sheriff H. H. Lockhart, of Cherokee, arrested a negro named Alonzo Lockhart, who is charged with enticing laborers to leave the State in violation of the statute covering such cases, and took him before Magistrate Camp, who committed him to jail for trial one day this week in default of bond. Lockhart has retained counsel to represent him, and claims that he is not guilty of the offense charged against him. The Southern Power Company is about ready to begin work on its big plant at Getty's Shoals, twelve miles above Camden, twenty-four miles below Great Falls, and twenty-one miles below the Rocky Creek works. The dam will be 110 feet in height and will back water to the Rocky creek dam, making a continuous lake of twenty-one miles in length. The Getty's Shoals plant is expected to furnish 100,000 power when completed. Harry Ellis, a black negro boy, of about seventeen or eighteen years of age, was brought to Greenville Sat UIUO.V UlgUl UClltCCU inviTv uuu vuv o'clock by Deputy Maddox, of Groye township, near Piedmont, about ten miles from the city. Ellis is charged with an attempt to ravish a young white girl of good family in that neighborhood. There was some talk of lynching the negro after the deed was committed, but the officers managed to get him to Greenville before the mob could get up courage to perform the deed. Attorney General Lyon has rendered an opinion that dispensaries may not open up for business immediately after the election, in case the voters decide in favor of the sale of whiskey. He states that the dispensaries must be kept closed until the result is finally determined, and this cannot be done until the State board of canvassers meets and declares the result. We presume in case of a contest, the dispensaries would remain closed until the contest was settled, and in case there was an appeal to the courts this would take several months. TEX CENTS REWARD. What a Rich Banker Gave a Lad for Finding $25,000. 31. iUUIHtJUUIUCK, ilittjui KJL \jauj.ybell Hill, 111., mill owner, banker and real estate man, was at Murphysboro, 111., a few nights ago and dropped his wallet, containing $25,000 in money and negotiable papers. Frank Will, a youth employed by the Mobile and Ohio railroad as coach cleaner, found the wallet and restored it to Mohlenbrock, who rewarded the boy's honesty by handing him a dime. Mohelenbrock had walked from the train to a hotel, nearly a mile distant, and had not missed the wallet when Will called him up by telephone and notified him of finding it in a car. SHORTAGE IX GEORGETOWX. County Treasurer Claims it is a Mistake, However. There is a shortage of nearly $7,000 in the accounts of the treasurer of Georgetown county. This has been suspected for some time by the comptroller general's office and a close checking up of the books has been going on. However, the treasurer insists that he is not short and that the checking up is at fault. The Georgetown Times gave publicity to the following statement: "Our whole community is terribly shaken over the condition of the county treasurer's office, caused, as we have no doubt, by bad bookkeeping on the part of Mr. Detyens, the incumbent. The report has it that he is about $6,000 short; and, from what we can gather, there seems to be no doubt about it. Where has the money gone? Not into his two houses; not into his farm, certainly, because all this property is under mortgage, all is incumbered. He never lived a fast life; he never gambled, or wasted his money on fast women. If he ever did these things, his friends and constituents would know of it, for this is a small community, and every one knows each other's business to a greater or less ^AWUVt "It is but justice to say Mr. Deytens disputes the correctness of the figures put down by Gen. Jones and Mr. Wilson, and claims that he has more vouchers in his office, which, when deducted from the balance found against him, will materially decrease the amount of the apparent shortage. We hope so from our heart. We understand that it is the intention of the treasurer to have an expert go over his accounts. "The expert officers checked up the vouchers and accounts of the superintendent of education as to schools and the same as to the supervisor. Postmaster in Trouble, Too? "And as if all this was not enough to shock the people there are rumors of all kinds affecting the postoffice, but as we have no official information on the subject, we care not to dilate on it for the present; neither can we write intelligently about the fines collected by the magistrates, although Comptroller Jones says there is a big discrepancy between the amount collected and actually turned in to the treasurer." Pnstofflfia Inspector Greeorv. who was in Columbia, expressed surprise that the Georgetown postmaster, Mr. A. L. King, was thought to be in financial trouble. Mr. Gregory knows Mr. King well and thinks well of him. However, he could give no information about the supposed trouble in the Georgetown office, as this office is not in Mr. Gregory's territory. It is looked after from the Charleston office. Representatives J. Walter Doar and Olin Sawyer, of Georgetown, who were in Columbia yesterday, confirmed the rumors of the shortage of Treasurer J. F. Detyens, of Georgetown county. The shortage ampunts to about $6,800. Several days ago Comptroller General Jones made an investigation of ithe affairs of the office and it is un Sdrstood will submit a report to Gov. ! Ansel asking for the removal of Mr. jDetyens. Mr. Jones was out of the I city yesterday and, therefore, the exact figures could not be obtained from him. Mr. W. H. Darrill, who has been auditor for Georgetown county for a number of years, was in Columbia, and it is understood has submitted his resignation to the delegation. His action, however, has nothing to do with the shortage, but^was because of bad health and the fact that he is about 80 years of age. Detyens, according to the statement of Dr. Sawyer, was to have made a number of speeches in the cause of prohibition, being interested in the fight now going on in Georgetown county. He is still in office, although when a full report of the comptroller general is submitted, a request will be made for his removal. Among other items of shortage is said to be $1,000 at one clip, this in the form of a check for dispensary money, which was indorsed and paid, but of which there is said to be no record in the treasurer's office. The treasurer is also said to have receipted for money to a number of road overseers and made no record of the transaction. To Try John Jenkins. Georgetown, July 26.?Judge John S. Wilson, Solicitor Wells and Ste nographer Covington arrived nere to-day to officiate at the special term of court which convenes here tomorrow for the trial of John Jenkins, who is now here in jail, charged with assault with criminal intent. Jenkins has been in the penitentiary for several weeks for safe keeping, but was brought back here for trial last Friday night. A large crowd is expected to be in I the city to-morrow; in fact, a large crowd arrived here to-day on the steamer Mitchell C, from Conway, and it is understood that there will be a special excursion boat from Conway here to-morrow. Sheriff C. W. Scurry does not anticipate any trouble during the trial. However, the Georgetown Rifle Guards are now on duty by order of the governor, and will remain in readiness until Wednesday night. Jenkins, when asked if he had anything to say for publication, replied: "Not much, sir, except when the trouble happened above Friendfield I was down at Aldery plantation, about two and one-half miles from the place where it occured, and when I went back to Friendfleld, the place where I live at, I was arrested as the man. But I am not the man, and if I am found guilty I want to be hung right away. All that can be done is to hang me and I am satisfied all is well with me." WALL SAVES GALVESTON MAX-BUILT BULWARK PROVES IMPREGNABLE TO WATERS. Storm Reaps its Toll of Dead on Fishing Pier Beyond Protecting Walls of the Town. Galveston, Tex., July 21.?Ten dead is the total number of lives lost, so far as is known, in the hurricane which swept over the Gulf of Mexico and struck Galveston this morning and continued until after mid-day. While the city of Galveston was held safe against the fury of the storm by the new sea wall, far out in the gulf, on Tarpon fishing pier, seven miles from the city, where the storm whipped over the jetty into the bay, 10 persons were washed from the rocky promontories into the gulf. Boats to-night are searching the bay for bodies, but so far have been unsuccessful. Those drowned were members of a fishing party and employes of the Tarpon pier, marooned from the jetties. Boats were sent to their assistance late to-day and it was learned that the house in which they had taken refuge had been washed away. While it is impossible to get an accurate list of the dead owing to the fact that the register has always been kept at the pier, the best information obtainable is as follows: Capt. Bettison and wife, Edward Lewis, C. H. Dailey, circulation manager of the Galveston Tribune, formerly of Chicago, Ray Teetshorn, of Houston, and iour negroes. The others are unknown. Man's strength and skill were pitted against the fury of the elements tn-dav and man won when the city of Galveston, entrenched behind her impregnable 17-foot seawall, withstood, with comparatively trifling loss, a tidal wave and hurricane equal in intensity and destructive force to the one which destroyed the city on September 8, 1900. With wires down and railroad communication destroyed, the exact loss is impossible to estimate. The hurricane struck Galveston about 11 o'clock this morning, the wind attaining a velocity of 70 miles an hour, which whipped the treacherous waters of the Mexican gulf into a fury of destruction. With the pent up anger of 10 years of hate, the waves blindly assaulted the grim parapets of stone which man had builded to restrain its attacks. In vain it hurled its thousands of tons of water upon the splendid breastworks. Only a feeble burst of spray and a little water reached its objective and the beleaguered city lay calm and safe behind the wall. Waters Vainly Vent Wrath. Outside the limits of the city, where the wall had not been reared and the city had not been elevated, the waters had their way, but they wrecked only deserted huts and abandoned territory. In this section of the city, which is low and sparsely settled, the water rose to a height of seven feet, but the warnings of the weather bureau had been heeded and | the inhabitants had removed their j possessions out of the danger zone. I From other cities in the affected I area come tales of narrow escapes and much destruction to property. What damage and loss of life will be reported from the many resorts along other sections of the low-lying gulf coast is not known yet. There is no communication by wire with the island city of Galveston tonight. A schooner, torn from her anchor, smashed the one bridge which connects Gaiveston with the mainland and severed the telegraph and telephone cables as well as rendered the bridge unsafe. To-night all communication with the world is by tugs. Sweeping westward, the tropical storm which had been central over the Gulf of Mexico for 24 hours, struck Galveston shortly after 11 o'clock. The wind attained a velocity of 68 miles an hour and shifted to the northeast, heaving the waters of Galveston bay up against the island and flooding that quarter which had not been raised. The water backed up into the main streets of the city, but the principal damage was confined to the beach front, where bath houses and pleas ? ~ <"rrant anrav Shinning UTtf piCi o wcic oncpw UTTW,J. was undisturbed. Hurricane Foretold. A hurricane for east Texas was forecast at the district weather bureau in New Orleans early this morning and warnings were sent out. When wind and rain arrived several hours later, they found Galveston prepared. The inhabitants of the few scattered houses in the low part of the island had already sought safety and the vessels that had cleared and prepared to sail were riding .at anchor in the bay. The fury of the storm soon abated and the anxiety or tnose wno entertained fears of another tidal wave were soon relieved. Small boys paddling around in the flooded streets, even before the heavy wind had died down, presented a scene which dispelled alarm felt by the timid. So short was the duration of the storm that the Mallory line* steamer, which was booked to sail for New York shortly after noon, left on schedule time. It is impossible to-night to make an accurate estimate of the monetary damage. Few buildings were blown down, but it is believed many warehouses were flooded and goods ruined. The storm covered a wide area along the gulf coast. Some damage is reported as far south as Matagorda bay and as far east as the parish of Cameron, La. A fishing pier, seven miles from [Continued on fourth page.] NO SHORTAGE. Georgetown Postmaster Praised by Inspector. Georgetown, July 25.?Reports to . the effect that Postmaster A. L. King is in trouble of a financial nature with the postal authorities are without foundation. In fact Postofflce Inspector Smith is now in the city, and has given the office a rigid examination, and, it is learned, has commended the manner* in which the office is being conducted in the highest terms. This information was secured from vlnrr Vt 1 ?vi nrtl I tttV* a amll rusiuiasici xviug uiuiocn, nuu suiu* ingly asserted that his statement would be fully sustained by the inspector's official reports. The people of Georgetown have been given excellent mail service, and there are no complaints heard in that respect even among Mr. King's enemies, political and otherwise. Rumors of irregularities in the postofflce were no sooner abroad in the city than ofT to Washington hurried J. A. Baxter, the negro Republic can leader here, hoping, it is said, for a chance to supplant the incumbent, Mr. King. Mr. J. E. McQuade is out with a largely signed petition, praying for appointment to the place in case there is a vacancy. In view of the fact that Mr. King has but recently been appointed for another term and the inspector has given him a clean sheet as to alleged irregularities,, it is likely that the agitation in the matter will be ignored at Washington. Verdict Found in Three Minutes. Georgetown, July 27.?Pursuant to the proclamation of the governor issued several days ago in response to a petition submitted to him by Solicitor Walter H. Wells, the spring term of court for the trial of John Jenkins, alias "Slippery Jim Joint," for an assault with criminal intent upon a woman was convened here to-day at 10 o'clock, Judge John S. Wilson, Solicitor Wells and Stenog- / rapher Covington officiating. The grand Jury was immediately assembled at the opening of the court and after a short but instructive charge by Judge Wilson the grand jury retired to their room to investigate whether or not a prima ?I ? aaaa *??? 1A k/N ?vt rtnf o oro itlfli lttt'IC UiXJJC VJUU1U uc uauc vut the accused. After remaining oat about 15 minutes the grand jury re- 1 turned and published the result of j&gB their investigation in court, which was a true bill against John Jenkins for assault with criminal intent as charged. Accordingly a petit jury was drawn for the regular trial. Jenkins did not have counsel for his defense and the court assigned Messrs. Walter Hazard and M. W. Pyatt for the defense, while Solicitor Wells and James Wingate represented the State. The testimony began about eleven o'clock. The prosecutrix was the first to be sworn. At the request of the solicitor and under the act of the last legislature, so providing, every one was requested by the judge to 4 'Z&jM leave the court room, excepting the near relatives of the prosecutrix, the attorneys and other necessary officials during the testimony of the young lady. The prosecutrix while on the stand, embarrassed and in a faltering tone, told the story clearly and distinctly, positively identifying the accused, who stood before her. Her startling story brought tears to the eyes of many wno were present nuu ?? sun left the court room, passing the prisoner in the box, she said: "I hope I will never see that brute alive i again." g Several other witnesses testified, among whom were Deputy Sheriff Ward, F. L. Siair, Jr., and several colored witnesses. ; >4 At the conclusion of the testimony the judge charged the jury, as neither side, cared to make a speech. The judge's charge was short, clear and V; instructive. The jury retired about 2:15 o'clock and returned in less than three minutes with a verdict of guilty with an ** assault with criminal intent, aa charged in the indictment, for which, under the new act of the legislature, the only punishment that may be inflicted was death. At 2:25 p. m. Judge Wilson solemnly pronounced the sentence of the court, which was to the effect that John Jenkins, alias "Slippery Joint," must pay the penalty for his crime on the gallows on August 13; next. Jenkins appears to be about 17 years of age, perfectly illiterate and nf a v*>rv stolid nature. While the sentence of death was being pronounced upon him he smiled almost incessantly and seemed to have thought that it was smart to be the centre of attraction of so large a crowd, which almost bulged the walls of the court house. Jenkins was quietly carried back to the jail house and during the whole trial there was perfect order. Judge Wilson highly commended the people for their action in the matter, their orderly conduct, and while it was a case of a nature to excite the highest anger, the law was allowed to take its full course and everything will continue orderly until the execution is consummated. * Shot Himself Accidentally. Saluda, July 26.?Mr. R. A. Coleman, of the Denny section of this county, accidentally shot himself Friday morning, while out shooting squirrels. He had just fired his gun and afterward threw it across his shoulder with the muzzle pointing forward. In some way he lost his grip on the gun and it fell backward from his shoulder, with the muzzle pointing toward him and as it struck the ground it was discharged, the load of *hot entering the left foot and ankle. The wound is a very painful one, the ankle bones being shattered. 1