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SQUABBLING SAVES A LIFE ALMOST A LYNCHING IN NEWBERRY COUNTY. Disagreement Among Members of Mob as to How Man Should be Lynched Averts Deed. Newberry, July 21.?Disagreement as to the manner in which the proposed victim should be put to a speedy death, and the lack of a leader following the disagreement, prevented a lynching in the Silver street section of Newberry county on Wednesday night or during the early hours of Thursday morning, it is stated bv those in authority and in a position to know the facts. Thomas Yarbrough was the object of the vengeance of the crowd which numbered between 18 and 20 determined people. While the mob was deliberating Magistrate J. W. Hendrix got in communication with Sheriff Buford, at 3:45 on Thursday morning, and at 4 o'clock Sheriff Buford, accompanied by his son and deputy Pope L. Buford, was on his way to Yarbrough's home. Yarbrough, who has been working a one-horse farm on the Spearman place since February, when he left the Mollohon Mill, was found at work in his field when the sheriff reached his home. He was arrested and brought to Newberry and lodged in -i jail. Acting on advices received from the community as to the feeling , there, including a letter from Magistrate Hendrix, Sheriff Buford was in UUUIillUiliUcltlUlI WlLll 1,11*7 &V/ ? v.A uvi ^ -iji . office on Thursday morning, and in view of all the circumstances it was *. . deemed advisable to take Yarbrougb to Columbia to the State penitentiary for safe keeping, which was done on the 3:20 train on Thursday afternoon. Yarbrough is accused of attempting criminal assault on a seven-yearold white child of the community. The crime is alleged to have been committed on July 2. It is alleged > that it was committed in a path in a secluded part of the section, and the youthfulness of the victim is the reason assigned for its not having come to light sooner. An interesting story is involved in the manner in which U J- it reached the ears of the community. It is said that Yarbrough's wife wrote a leter to the mother of the child telling her if she knew what had happend she would not let the child travel alone the path which , she had been in the habit of travel5 ing. This letter, it is said, led to t the investigation, which resulted in the excitement and the arrest of Yarbrough and lodging him in the State . L penitentiary for safe keeping. Mob Disagrees. It is said that when the crowd M. s gathered on Wednesday night, the ip.-S,1/ first proposition was to go for Yarbrough, secure him, swing him to a limb over the river, riddle his body with bullets, then cut him down and let his body float down the river. Others, it is said, wanted to swing him to a limb in the woods, and let bis body remain as a warning. A third portion of the crowd, it is said, wanted to give him a whipping which would teach him a lesson and then p - : / let him leave the community. The crowd could not get together, it is learned. Magistrate J. W. Hendrix was in touch with the situation and he got Sheriff Buford over the telephone at 3:40 o'clock on Thursday morning Wt. and within fifteen minutes Sheriff Zy~ - Buford, as stated above was on the road to the scene, accompanied by Deputy Sheriff Pope Buford. He went to Yarbrough's home first and found him there at work in the field. Yarbrough readily surrendered and consented to come to Newberry, sayI: . ing that he knew nothing whatever of the charges against him. Yarbrough readily consented to talk, proclaiming his absolute innocence throughout his conversation. He gave his age as 45, saying that he was 45 years of age about a month ago. He said that he was born in Montgomery county, North Carolina. He left home when he was about 22 years of age. While at home he had been engaged in farming and mill work. After leaving home he spent some years in North Carolina working in the mills at Charlotte and Wilmington. From Wilmington he came to Darlington in this State and worked in Darlington a year or more, from Darlington he went to Charleston, where he was engaged at work at the navy yard,! and other places for about two years. From Charleston he went to Clinton, where he worked in the Clinton cotF" ' ton mills for four years. From Clin& ton he came to Newberry and worked in the Mollohon Mill here three or frtnr vonrs lpflvine here in February, of this year to go to farming. He rented a farm from Mr. Walter S. Spearman, in the Spearman section of the county, near Silver street. He was running a one-horse farm. Yarbrough said that he knew | nothing of the charges against him ? until he was arrested and that the k . I child lived in about a half mile of him and that she had always been friendly to him and that he had always liked her, and had frequently played with her as would a man his age with a girl of seven years, but as to any criminal intent, he said that such a thought had never entered his mind. Yarbrough has now his third wife. His first wife died soon after marriage. leaving no children. By his second wife he has one chiid, a boy about 17 years of age. By his third wife, who is still living, he has four children, two boys and two girls, the oldest of whom is eight years of age. The five children have Deen living with him and his wife. "Prejudice," Cause of Charge. Before leaving for Columbia this afternoon Yarbrough had Sheriff Buford to send a message to his home, telling his wife to come to Columbia to see him. He said he knew nothing of the alleged letter written by his wife to the mother of the alleged victim, which, it is said, brought oa the trouble. He said, however, that he had heard his wife say that the girl had been using "bad language" in company with her children, and that she wanted this stopped. He said that he could assign no reason for the charge except prejudice. Yarbrough was entirely willing to go to Columbia, saying he had no doubt that as soon as the feeling subsided his innocence would be realized. The advices upon which Sheriff Buford acted in communicating with the governor's office included, as stated above, not only the 'phone message from Magistrate Hendrix, acting upon which the sheriff went to Spearman's and arrested Yarbrough, but also a letter from the magistrate after Yarbrough was lodged in jail, which the magistrate said that he thought, in view of the feeling of the community, following the happening of Wednesday night, he felt that it would not be advisable to keep Yarbrough in Newberry. It is not alleged that Yarbrough accomplished his purpose. Under a recent act of the legislature the crime charged is a capital, offence in this State, unless the jury should recommend to mercy in case of conviction. Arrives in Columbia. Columbia, July 21.?Thomas Yarbrough, the white man from Newberry county, charged with an attempted criminal assault upon a white girl seven years of age, was brought to the penitentiary to-night for safekeeping by the sheriff of Newberry county. Yarbrough was brought here following a long distance call to the governor's office. Governor Ansel was out of the city, being at Walhalla to-day. J The announcement here this afternoon created much interest when it was learned that the man would be brought here. The Weekly Papers and Fradulent Advertising. There is no better evidence of the ? *i- it i. - ? aVhaaJ fVia Cnilf! new spirit mm is auiuau iu mc ^uuw than the active support the county papers are giving to the colleges of agriculture and the experiment stations, and the interest these papers are taking in getting matter of agricultural interest for their columns. The county papers can help greatly by wise selections of such matter, avoiding the sensational fakers as a matter of course. But one of the most unfortunate things connected with the weekly county papers is the fact that most of them seem to think that filling their pages with ads. of patent medi-J cines is necessary for their existence. In our town two weekly papers publish columns of local news items in short paragraphs, but each alternate paragraph is a puff of some nostrum worked right in the columns that people are sure to read. In fact, many of these weekly papers get most of their living from patent medicine fraud and cannot be induced to drop the business. The county paper and the church paper are relied upon by the makers of these nostrums more than are any other sheets.?Progressive Farmer. Tr? Tlomnnrl "An infant in a Pullman car set up a loud wail, and would not be comforted," narrates a high railroad official, "and I came forward and told the young mother that I had helped to raise five, and that I thought I could secure a quietus. I put the little turn turn across my knees, and with a gentle jogging achieved beautiful results. "Instead of giving me the credit I deserved some drummers in the car showed stern disapproval of my "butting in." At 2 a. m. the baby woke up and staid awake, and kept every one else in the car awake. Finally a gruff voice asked: " 'Where's that damn fool that put it to sleep this afternoon, I wonder?' "?New York Times. SHE GETS REVENGE. Xegro Woman Splits Her Husband's Head with Axe. Edgefield, Jul}* 22.?Grant Brunson, a negro of the Cleora section of the county, lies in a desperate condition, suffering from a wound in the head, inflicted by his wife. It seems that Grant had whipped his wife In the afternoon, and she planned to get even with him. While Grant was sitting at the supper table the woman slipped up behind and struck him with the blade of a club axe, cutting the occipital bone wide open from the crown of the head over twothirds the bone's length, dividing the brain in that locality. The attending physician is authority for the statement that he lost a considerable quantity of brain substance before the wound was closed. The Dairy Industry of the United States. According to the last year book of the department of agriculture, there are 21,720,000 milch cows in the United States, and these are worth $702,945,000.00. The magniture of the industry can perhaps be best understood when it is considered that these cows produce yearly about $1,000,000,000.00 worth of dairy products. There is no other branch of diversified agriculture so important to the progress of a community. The fertility of the soil can best be maintained by the liberal use of* barn vara manure ana uie uaii.> uciu uui only makes this possible, but dairying is also more remunerative than other branches of farming when properly carried on. Dairying has made wonderful progress since the advent of the modern creamery and the consumer of butter has not only been benefitted by being furnished a more wholesome and palatable article of food, but the wife in the farm home has been relieved of the drudgery incident to making butter on the farm. Where formerly the cream was ripened and churned into butter under conditions not conductive to fine quality in the finished product and in the majority of cases by unskilled hands, now the most of the milk or cream is delivered to a modern creamery where conditions are suited to the purpose of making butter, and the result has been wonderful improvement in the quality of our dairy products. As the quantity has improved consumption has increased and the progress of dairying has been remarkable during the past decade. The perpetuity of the country's greatness depends upon increasing the production of farm products from year to year, a result which not only furnishes our people with food but maintains the prosperity of our farming communities. Increase in production can only come through improved methods of agriculture and soil improvements. When it is considered that the dairy cow is the foundation for soil improvement and farming prosperity, her importance is best understood, and interest in her should not be confined to her owner. ? * --- ? ^ * r ~ A* SD6 IS an important, lactui m tuc ucvelopment and prosperity of our country. Soldiers Play at War. Chattanooga, Tenn., June 30.? Throughout the month of July the god of battle will hold sway at Chickamauga park, where twelve thousand militiamen from Tennessee, Mississippi, Florida, Georgia and North and South Carolina, with two thousand regulars, will engage in mimic warfare. The battle of the civil war, which made this section histroic, will be fought over, and while the fighting will be bloodless, it will lose none of its spectacular features. A new feature which is sure to attract many to the maneuvers will be the use of the war aeroplane. The war department expects to get valuable information as to the usefulness of the air fighting craft during these maneuvers. In order to enable people from all over the South to witness these most thrilling sights, the railroads have made special rates which will make the trip so low in cost as to be in the reach of all. According to the present plans, the second and third regiments of the South Carolina militia will encamp at Chickamauga and take part in the maneuvers. Beginning with the opening of the new cotton season on September 1st, cotton will be bought and sold in Anderson strictly on grade. The system of buying and selling at an average price, which has been in vogue for several years, has been abolished by an agreement reached between the Farmers' Union, the chamber of commerce and the local cotton mill men. NEGRO >L\\ DROWNED. Samuel James Believed to Have Committed Suicide. Orangeburg. July 21.?Samuel James, colored, was found drowned in the Edisto river late this afternoon by Wiliam Pearson, a white fisherman of this city. James's body was found lodged upon a log. the head and chest being above the water. The drowned man could be seen from the large bridge crossing the river at the foot of Russell street. James was a sufferer from consumption and it is thought that he drowned himself. James formerly lived in Florida and desired 10 return. Owing to his bad health he was unable to do so and on last Monday he told his sister he was going to the river. She stated that she searched for him but that he has been missing since last Monday until found in the river this afternoon. The inquest will probably be held later this afternoon and the body removed from the river. A Frightful Wreck of train, automobile or buggy may cause cuts, bruises, abrasions, sprains or wounds that demand Bucklen's Arnica Salve?earth's greatest healer. Quick relief and prompt cure results. For burns, boils, sores of all kinds, eczema, chapped hands and lips, sore eyes or corns, its supreme. Sure pile cure. 25c at People's Drug Co., Bamberg, S. C. Money Found in Cave. Thos. L. Rodgers, of High Point, X. C., has published a statement to the effect that he recently found $90,000 in gold coin in what is known as the Rock House cave, on the Clinch river in Hancock county, Tennessee. Rodgers states that the information that such a sum of money was in the cave was revealed to him in a dream. As he relates it, he went from his North Carolina home to his childhood home in Hancock county to explore the cave and with a lantern made the exploration alone, and found in a large chamber, many feet from the entrance, an uDturned ket tie, under which was stacked the gold. Around the old kettle were found rusty bayonets, canteens and other things, indicating that the cave was used as a place of refuge during the civil war. Beside the kettle was found a skeleton of a man and upon a slate stone slab nearby was an inscription telling of the gold and directing the finder to take charge of it upon condition that he bury the body of the owner in a designated spot on the summit of the mountain in which the cave is located. Rodgers says he complied with the terms of the inscription and left the cave with the money in his possession. Deafness Cannot be Cured by local applications, as they cannot reach the diseased portion of the ear. There is only one way to cure deafness, and that is by constitutional remedies. Deafness is caused by an inflamed condition of the mucous lining of the eustachian tube. When this tube is inflamed you have a rumbling sound or imperfect hearing, and when it is entirely closed, deafness is the result, and unless the inflammation can be taken out and this tube restored to its normal condition, hearing will be destroyed forever; nine cases out of ten are caused by catarrh, which is nothing but an inflamed condition of the mucous surfaces. We will give one hundred dollars for any case of deafness (caused by catarrh) that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Send for circulars free. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Tnledn. O. Sold by all druggists, 75c. Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation. The Tax of Bad Roads. One of the heaviest taxes farmers pay in many sections is the tax imposed by bad roads in the loss of time, the wear and tear of vehicles and the breaking down of horses. Add to this the loss in value of real estate bordering on bad roads, as shown by the immediate rise in value of real estate when good roads are made in any district. The Atlanta Constitution cites the case of a farmer in Georgia who refused to contribute a strip of his farm for a good road because he did not believe in goods roads on princil_?_ rt-.A. J . A ^ nil fV,Q pie. out ilie ruau v\aa umuc an same, and that farmer was offered ten dollars an acre more for his 300 acres than he had asked before the road was built. Queer sort of principle, his. Wherever a good road is built there is usually no more kicking, but people off the road soon want one in their neighborhood, so that one well-built road is the means of getting more, as has been the case in Mecklenburg county, North Carolina, where good roads are the rule rather than the exception, and the people are making more of them all the time. There is no better investment a farmer can make than a liberal tax for a first-class road.?Progressive Farmer. - ... ... ' - ' -I - I KEEP C There is no reason should drink warm w hot days when you < at such a reasonable livered in any quant pounds ud at any til We Sell No. 1 Timothy SMOAK'S SALE AND L J. J. SMOAK, Proprietor f DO YOU NEED Right now, perhaps, you are wishing th? to invest in some good business propo: off an old debt, or possibly, to enlarge y And it's just this way every month oi save many of the nickels and dimes tl time comes for profitable investment, < there would always be something with \ ency. Take care of the nickels and dimes count here. We pay 4 per cent, interes PEOPLES BANK - - - V??w? EHRHARDT BANKING Ehrhardt, S. C. CAPITAL STOCK $20 We do a general banking business, ; We are backed by a strong board oi every safety. We allow you 4 per cent ings department. We extend to our c consistent with good banking. We rece als, firms, and corporations on favora pleased to meet or correspond with tho: ing changes or opening new accounts. J. L. COPELAXD, J. C. KIXARD, President. Vice-Presid Ml I rpi 3i floi ' Bargains in Real 1 Farms in small and large tr and residences, mercanti , mill sites, sale stables, am propositions, at low figure terms. Descriptive list se tion. Call on or write, J J. T. O'N ft Real Estate Agent, - - bi II 101 I Horses & || Buggies & jjl Full Stock in C || on hand at al |1 See us before 3 S a r i? m j\ rew rancy || Horses on Han* JONES B I BAMBERG, I iittim7 nurv iim OTTITHIV r VYLLh-LNU AM dUMAI L ?TO? CHARLESTON AND ISLE 0 ?VIA? SOUTHERN RA) Effective Sunday, May 29th, and contini son, Southern Railway will have on sale regi to Charleston and Isle of Palms, S. C., with f also week-end tickets to be sold on Saturday trains, beginning Saturday, May 28th, final lii inidnicht the following Tuesday. Also cheap Sunday excursion tickets sc trains, good returning on last train leaving day night. For further information, rates, etc., app] agents or address, J. L. MEEK, Asst. Gen'l. Passenger Agent, Atlanta, Ga. - w' ; . \. . ' . '!-.* \ OOL why you rater these > :an get ice s price deity from 5 me of day. Hay Also JVERY STABLE I Telephone 68 I " MONEY? 1 , it you had enough money I sition, or, maybe to pay our business. I ' the year. If one would I lat are wasted when the I or when bills come due, H vhich to meet the emerg- I by having a savings ac- I t, compounded quarterly. I - Bamberg, S. C. I ? r COMPANY. . ' ,000.00. and solicit your account. : directors, insuring you on deposits in our savmstomers every courtesy uve accounts of individu,ble terms, and shall be j se who contemplate makv A. F. HEXDERSOX, ent. Cashier. = i X E^T istate, etc. h 1 ' vn ' ;* acts, town lots le businesses, d pole and* tie , s and on easy nt on applica"'SH EAL , | Bamberg, S. C. 1 Z^^hSIXSXIE J S3 UIa<vaha a TTdgUUd II :i )ur Line | I H times. | | rou buy. | I Driving jj I IR0S.J ' ** S XCURSION RATES F PALMS, S C ILWAY uing during the summer seaLiar summer excursion tickets inal limit October 31st, 1910, r?. ?nd for Sunday morning nit to leave destination before Id only for Sunday morning Charleston 8:15 p. m. Sun[y to Southern Railway ticket) W. E. McGEE, Division Passenger Agent, Charleston, S. C.