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LIQUOR DROUGHT IN ALABAMA.
Passage of Carmichael Bill Has Instant
and Striking Effect.
Montgomery, Ala., August 6.?The
Carmichael prohibition bill?far more
drastic than the present statutory
State-wide prohibition law?which
passed the senate this afternoon by
a vote of 2S to 2, and which now
awaits only the signature of AlabaiKitinn
ovopiitivo tn hp thp
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law, has already scored a far-reaching
effect, so far as the operatiqn of
locker clubs and near-beer saloons
are concerned. From all parts of the
State come reports that with the
news of the passage of the Carmichael
bill near-beer saloons, and clubs,
wherein liquors have been dispensed
to members under the locker system,
were dismantled and to-night the
State is almost as dry as it will ever
be.
In Montgomery even social clubs
' of the highest class have been closed,
and early in the afternoon the nearK.
beer men began theremoval of all
drinkables from their places. With
considerable weariness, a few of the
saloons are disposing of occasional
I* bottles of the amber fluid of the
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"near" kind, but even those of the
quenchless thirst are extremely cautious
in attempting to secure drinkables.
Urges More Work on Congaree.
Washington, Aug. 5.?The chief
? V engineer of the war department has
made a report to the secretary of war
v recommending the appropriation of
$50,000 for the improvement of the
Congaree river. This information
v,. was obtained by Representative Lever.
1^v The purpose of the appropriation
??; is to raise the pool level two feet and
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I permit, ox a uve-iuui uuauuu nvsu*
Columbia to Georgetown. Representative
Lever hopes to obtain the appropriation
at the coming session of
congress, which has been recomw
mended in accordance with the provisions
of the last river and harbor
Condition of Cotton Poor.
Washington, Aug. 2.?A cotton
crop condition of 71.9 per cent, of a
normal on July 25 was announced by
the department of agriculture to-day
against 74.6 a month ago, 83 a year
ago, and 80.6 10 years average on
The average condition of cotton on
July 25, 1907, was 75 and 82.9 on
July 5, 1906. The average condition
by States on July 25, 1909, and 10
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follow:
Virginia 71 and 82; North Carolina
71 and 81; South Carolina 77
and 80; Georgia 78-and 81; Florida
84 and 84; Alabama 68 and 80;
Mississippi 64 and 80; Louisiana 58
and 81; Texas 70 and 81; Arkansas
76 and 81; Tennessee 80 and 83;
Missouri 85 and 84; Oklahoma 79
and 82.
? 'Twas a Glorious Victory.
There's rejoicing in Fedora, Tenn.
A man's life has been saved, and now
Dr. King's New Discovery is the talk
of the town for curing C. V. Pepper
of deadly lung hemorrhages. "I could
not work nor get about," he writes,
"and the doctors did me no good, but,
after using Dr. King's New Discovery
three weeks, I feel like a new man,
and can do good work again." For
weak, sore or diseased lungs, coughs
and colds, hemorrhages, hay fever,
lagrippe, asthma or any bronchial affection
it stands unrivaled. Price 50c.
and $1.00. Trial bottle free. Sold
and ciiaranteed hv Peonle's Drue Co..
||pt; Bamberg, S. C.
Big Deal in Coal Lands.
W*??* Bristol, Tenn., Aug. 5.?A special
$$$ ' . from Pennington Gap, Va., states
f:that N. D. Bachman, Jr., of Bristol,
K' general manager, and Paul Dulaney,
;&V ' of Washington, D. C., to-day conj&'v;
summated a deal by which the Black
P " Mountain Corporation, of Alexandria,
Va., comes into possession of 7,000
g?r - acres of coal lands adjoining exten|?r.
sive holdings of the company in Lee
county, Va. The deal involves sevp.-'
eral hundred thousand dollars.
This transaction practically gives
^ the company complete control of the
Little Black Mountain field, which is
estimated to contain more than a
billion tons of coal. Among the capitalists
interested are: Charles M.
Warren and Charles H. Zehuder, of
p'-";.- New York.
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Preacher Warned to Leave.
Ethel, Miss., Aug. 4.?Indignation
was caused here today by a dispatch
from Cincinatti quoting Rev. Frank
? B. English as saying that he was
threatened with mob violence and
driven out of Ethel without anything
to eat when he came to take the presidency
of Rust University at Holly
Cf Springs.
Leading citizens of Ethel admit
that Mr. English was told to leave
^ t town because he was seen shaking
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hands with negroes ana acting iamiliarly
towards them, which they believe
would excite the blacks and
stir up race strife.
They say, however, that no mob
was formed and that no threats were
made. They say Mr. English became
frightened when told that it would
be better for him to leave.
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FLORENCE POSTOFFICE MATTER.
Situation Stili Badly Mixed?No
Move Before Next Winter.
Washington, August 6.?When
President Taft left Washington this
afternoon for his summer home in
.Massachusetts, no intimation could
be had as to what steps would be
taken in the Florence postoffice matter.
The situation appears still to be
badly mixed as the result of efforts
to land various candidates several
months ago. It is probable, therefore,
that nothing further will be
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UU11C until UtAC niutvt. AUVUUV>4MV
Josh Wilson will hold the fort.
"Revenues" Cut Babe Durham's Still.
Greenville, Aug. 6.?Revenue officers
have returned to the city from
the Dark Corner, where they cut up a
large 200-gaIlon distillery in the
neighborhood of Babe Durham's
place. The plant was not in operation,
but the officers found a quantity
of beer and whiskey, which they
poured out.
The ubiquitious moonshiner is now
learning to evade the "revenues"
much more astutely than in the old
days. The method now employed by
the manufacturers of white liquor, of
placing outposts and lookouts on the
roads leading to the mountains,
makes it hard for the officers to make
an arrest.
Seaborn Wright Speaks in Bamberg.
Bamberg, Aug. 5.?Hon. Seaborn
Wright spoke here to-day for an
hour or more to an audience which
filled the court house to its seating
capacity. Prohibition was his theme,
and not from a moral standpoint in
particular, but more especially from
a business point of view, Mr. Wright
discussed the pros and cons of the
question.
Without heat or passion, without
appeal to any but the best in man,
the speaker gave a lucid and clear
argument for the abolition of the
county dispensary in Bamberg county.
Facts and figures as presented
by the speaker and verified by inves
tigations, gave a new point of view
to many who were present to-day.
One gentleman who is known to be
in favor of the dispensary stated
openly that several new ideas had
been presented to him to-day. .He
did not say that he would change his
attitude in the approaching election,
but it is the current opinion that
many will be influenced by the array
\ of favorable argument.
The law and order league, which
was formed here last week, held another
meeting to-day for the purpose
of extending the organization
throughout the county. The men
who are behind this movement are of
the very best in the county, and it is
a well known fact that blind tigers
will be prosecuted and run out of the
community and public opinion will
doubtless make it so hot for the tigers
that they will be very auiet. The
law and order league will be a permanent
organization and will have
for its particular work that of hunting
out the secret rum shops.
White Man Killed by Train.
Anderson, Aug. 6.?Robert M.
Ritchie, a white man of 35 years of
age, was run over and killed by a
train near Pendleton on the Blue
Ridge railway at an early hour this
morning. The train was a special
an excursion train on its return trip
from Asheville. On Ritchie's body
was found $148 in money and near
him was a satchel. This dispels the
first idea advanced that he was killed
and robbed and placed on the track
by his assassin. It is believed that
he was drunk and that he went to
sleep on the track. His body was horribly
mangled, being cut nearly in
two.
He was unmarried and lived near
where the accident occurred. The
body was" found this morning.
Ritchie served a sentence on the
county chaingang for slashing Sheriff
Green and his deputy at the fair
grounds three years ago when they
attempted to arrest him.
DRYS LOSING GROUND.
Sentiment is Changing and the Yrote
on August 17 Will be Close.
Florence, August 7.?The prohibitionists
as well as the anti-prohibitionists
in Florence county, all seemed
to be well stirred up now and
there is going to be a "hot time" in
the county from now till 4 o'clock
Tuesday afternoon, August 17.
The prohibitionists have had full
sway throughout the county all the
while, but it seems as if they have
gotten into the lair of the antis and
have been capturing some of their
members, and the antis are awaken
ing and geting to work witn a vim.
At one time it looked as if the whole
of Florence county was going to vote
the prohibition ticket and would be
glad of the opportunity, but sentiment
seems to be changing, whether
or not it is because the county has
been dry since August 3, or not cannot
betold. At any rate the vote is
1 going to be greatly reduced on the
prohibition side on election day to
what it looked two weeks ago.
A MAGIC NAME.
An Episode in the Life of Buckskin
Sam.
What has become of Major Sam S.
Hall, a prominent figure in the pioneer
history of the southwest, commander
of a celebrated company of
volunteer Texas Rangers, and an Indian
fighter of the caliber ot Sam
Houston ana u-en :unes:
This question was recently asked
at a small gathering of literary folk
in Fasadena, but no one present could
furnish any reply of a positive character.
A few years since, he was living
somewhere in his native State of
Texas; no report of his death has
been published, at least to the best of
the knowledge and recollection of the
company in question; and I am frank
to state that they would each like to
known why and where this once widely
known maker of southwestern history
has dropped so completely out
of public notice.
Like Kit Carson, Phil Sheridan,
and a few other heroic names upon
our country's roll of honor, Maj.
Hall ("Buckskin Sam") was a man
of small stature, perhaps the smallest
in the entire list. But in shrewd
generalship and daredevil bravery he
loomed up in large, commanding proportions.
Indeed, there was a time when the
name of Buckskin Sam Hall was a
terror-and an omen to hostile Indians
and renegade whites from Wyoming
to the Mexican border.
Many amusing, as well as thrilling
tales could be told of the active days
of this big little commander of frontier
heroes, for the rough life of the
early mining towns and border settlements,
the humorous and ludicrous
often walked hand in hand with the
jtragical and the heroic,
j A simple incident of this character
I is recalled to mind from the days
, when Quartz Canon was a flourishing
stage coach station in eastern Arizona.
Just to be up-to-date in the prevailing
fashion of the day, Quartz
Canon had its liberal quota of tough
characters, man-eating "bad 'uns,"
whose special pride consisted in occasionally
shooting up the town and
terrorizing generally the more peace-,
ably inclined citizens.
This feature of the early days was
merely a peculiar custom and followed
for no other reason than the dictates
of Dame Fashion, just as we
follow her mandate now in a slightly
different way.
One day in early summer, on some
special occasion or other, quite a
company of miners and rangemen
had congregated at the Saddleback
saloon and were sampling the liquid
refreshments of that hostelry in a
manner befitting the time and place.
Things were quitt and orderly
enough until one of the professional
bulldozing gentry appeared upon the
scene.
He was an untamed and ferociouslooking
specimen of mountain manhood,
clad in a red woolen shirt,
greasy trousers from which one leg
had been torn irregularly off at the
knee, a frayed and discolored buckskin
jacket, a broad belt in which
were stuck two 45-caliber Colt's revolvers,
and a very disreputable-looking
fur cap minus the brim and a
considerable portion of the crown
through which fantastic wisps of unkept
hair protruded in reckless disiromnt
hnir nrotruded in reckless dis
way, he glanced around the room in
a way calculated to make every one
present feel a cold shiver along the
spine. Then prancing up to the bar,
he brought the butt of one huge revolver
down on to the wooden rail*
ing with a dramatic flourish.
"Here, you!" he snarled at the
bartender, "trot out yer rat poison
for this whole gang?an' be quick
about it. Everybody licker up!"
The barkeeper hesitated a moment,
not seeing the color of any legal tender
about the stranger's person, but
a savage scowl of impatience and an
ominous click of gunworks produced
\he desired effect, and the crowd
obligingly emptied a glass all around
at the newcomer's dictation.
"When I say the word, it's fer you
to shiver in yer boots an' obey orders!"
he roared, leaning over the
bar and glaring darkly under the
bartender's very nose. "I'm the Cyclone
from Salt River, I am, an' when
I start goin', the horned toads an'
coyotes generally hunt their holes
some quick. I could chaw up this
here camp in about four minutes an*
spit her out on the other side of the
range. Is there any galoot here what
feels like disputin' my word?"
And drawing nimseir up to tne mu
height limit, he cast a wolfish glance
of contemptuous challenge down the
line of men.
No one seemed particularly impressed
by the tragic information just
vouchsafed, and after allowing his
words to sink in to the proper depth,
the stranger proceeds to furnish additional
enlightenment of the subject.
"Yes, sir," he exclaimed, "I'm the
Salt River Cyclone, with a tin hat
on."
"Looks more like muskrat hide I
than tin," ventured one of his hearers,
with a subdued snicker.
"Wow! where's the four-legged
3on of a cayuse that said this here
headpiece was muskrat?" fairly
howled the stranger, grabbing his
tattered cap w.:L one hand and flourishing
it aroun. iiiS Lead while he indulged
in a startling war dance.
"Any cross-eyed, p'isened pup what
says that ain't the genuine, two-yearold
seal, right from the icebergs of
the Fiji Islands, I'll eat him, body
an' boots!"
A distinct silence followed this
lurid declaration, and after ordering
a second round of drinks, the "Cyclone"
discovered another world to
conquer.
In glaring around the room, his
eyes for the first time took in the
outlines of a small, quiet-appearing
man seated at a table in a remote
corner, eating a frugal lunch and
washing it down with a glass of ale.
With a roar, the festive stranger
skipped across the room and aimed a
sw-eeping kick at the table for the
purpose of overturning it, glass,
dishes and alL
But the quiet little man in the corner
merely leaned forward and
grasped the edges of the table with
both hands, and the vigorous kick
failed to make any impression thereon.
With a howl of rage, the bully
"hauled off" to give it another and
more telling crash with his heavy
boot. As he did so, the small table
came sailing through the air, striking
him fairly in the face! And being but
precariously balanced on one foot, he
went down with a crash that shook
the whole building.
The Cyclone scrambled to his feet
in a half-dazed way, to find himself
looking down the muzzle of a pistol
held in a hand which was firm as a
rock.
"Now you make tracks out of this
camp just as lively as you know how,
or you're going to get into serious
trouble," said the little man in a tone
which sounded as though he meant
exactly what he said.
"Hurrah for Buckskin Sam!"
shouted the bystanders in lusty
chorus.
And at the sound of the magic
name, the Cyclone from Salt River
turned pale and dashed out through
the doorway as if Satan himself was
in hot pursuit.?Clyde Scott Chase, in
Los Angeles Times.
The Crime of Idleness.
Idleness means trouble for any
one. Its the same with a lazy liver.
It causes constipation, headache,
jaundice, sallow complexion, pimples
and blotches, loss of appetite, nausea,
but Dr. King's New Life Pills soon
banish liver troubles and build up
your health. 25c. at Peoples Drug
Co., Bamberg, S. C.
Saws His Way to Liberty.
- Butler, Ga., Aug. 5.?Ben Garrett,
a desperate prisoner confined in the
Taylor county jail, sawed his way to
liberty to-day, releasing five other
white men charged with serious
crimes.
Garrett was recently arrested in
Antelos, Okla., charged with the
murder of Frank Wilcher, at this
place, December 19, 1903.
Judge Price Gilbert had called a
special term of the superior court in
order to give Garrett a speedy trial,
the case being set for next Monday.
A saw was smuggled to the prison
er and with this he cut the iron
gratings.
Shot Himself in Street.
Albany, Ga., Aug. 4.?A hundred
passers by in a business street to-day
saw Homer Santipher, aged 24, shoot
himself in the breast with a pistol,
after a friend, Walter Keaton, had
vainly struggled with the young man
to prevent the act.
Keaton was shot through the left
hand in a desperate effort to deflect
a bullet Santipher tried to send into
his own body. Keaton's wound prevented
him from saving his friend.
The two men were sitting together
quietly talking when Santipher suddenly
jumped to his feet and cried:
"I believe I will kill myself," and
pulled his pistol. The second shot he
fired struck beneath his heart and he
will die.
EBNEST E. HITTER
Attorney-at-Law
BAMBERG, S. C.
Respectfully offers his services to
the people of Bamberg county, and
by giving faithful attention to all
business trusts to merit a portion of
the legal work, and assures in advance
his sincere appreciation.
Offices upstairs over Bamberg
Banking Co.
LETTERS DISMISSORY.
On Monday, August 16th, 1909, at
11 o'clock a. m., I will apply to Geo.
P. Harmon, Judge of Probate for
Bamberg county, for letters dismissory
as executor of the estate of Anna
E. Guess, deceased, at which time
I will file my final accounting as such
executor. All claims against said
estate must be presented on or before
the date mentioned, and all
amounts owing said estate must be
paid by that time.
GEO. W. GOOLSBY,
Executor.
Bamberg, S. C., July 24th, 1909.
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