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r - * r?*v ^r:,vy * / - ' -.v^rr^.? - - . '* Styg larobgrg ISforalfi --,?!? .... i- * ... ... ^ $% Established 1891 BAMBERG, S. C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1910. One Dollar a Year f COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS ] SOME INTERESTING HAPPENINGS IN VARIOUS SECTIONS. News Items Gathered All Around the '< * County and Elsewhere. Ehrhardt Etchings. * ! 1 Ehrhardt, Sept. 26.?Schools are j opening up and getting ready to go to work. Several of our young men and ladies are leaving for their respective ^ > colleges to begin another year's work. Glad to say that the number from 1 this section is greater than last year, showing that more are taking an in- ( terest In getting an education. Principal Charley Shealey, Misses Rosa Hutto and Jennie Milling are here ready to begin their work in the Bhrhardt graded school. They hope ^ to do a good work, if they have a s, chance and are assisted by the parents f \ of the children. But if not supported by the children's parents, their efforts will amount to nothing. Mr. W. P. Pate came home to recruit, his health. He is up, and seems to be getting jolly again. Cotton is coming in, more than was expected, but the farmers say they -*. ? a*? ? ^ -1 J- -?j zc * can miss it irom tneir neias, auu n the good weather continues they say they will be through gathering their cotton crop by December. The farmers say that the mosqui- 2 toes are hard up, as they are in their 1 cotton fields, presenting their bills < f early and late. i 'Possum hunting will soon be in 1 order. The darkies are now talking * about the time will soon be here for i . "'possum and taters," one of their 1 .best dishes. ? The election is now over, and the ? h. candidates thinned down to one in a c hill. Now there is nothing more to i ' do but ratify those elected by the < 'good people" later on. I ^ Some one in town was dispensing j booze Saturday. Party had better c hold up or some one will hold him s up very soon. ? Mr. A. W. Knight was in our town last week. Gave me a jolly good I smile and shake. Was looking after i his business and friends. He is a f hustler and ready for business. t i There are enough wagons in town t for sale to haul al the cotton that will ^ be made this year at one load. Any one in need of a good farm wagon c can get a bargain from our mer- 1 chants, who no doubt want to reduce - -' - ?J ?in ~~n tneir SIOCKS auu wm ecu at a auuiv profit. The new building for our second ( bank is progressing nicely, and will 1 be ready in a short while for business. . About 600 bales of cotton up to t ^ now have been brought to market, against 1800 bales last year this time. I i JEE. 1 rA.--' J'' } Letter From Georgia. a . i Hahira, Ga., Sept. 20.?When I ( wrote you last we were having rain c every day, and now we are just as ? T' dry as We were wet then. Our crops x are poor over here?not over a half t > crop of cotton wil be made, and corn III*- is poor.. I However, cotton is worth 31 cents t j'?>, a pound to-day on our home market I have a fine bale of cotton to write t you about. The Hahira Gin Co. I 5* / bought a bale last Thursday which V i; was a record breaker. The amount i 6.-' paid for the bale of cotton was I $207.61. How is that Mr. Editor? It Is the best I ever heard of, and that t ia whv our lands are worth so much ? ?? money per acre. The price our lands f are selling at is from $25 to $50 per - > acre. We have two gins running now r on full time to gin this sea island cot- a ton. I I am sending you herewiith a sample of this fine bale of cotton. It t gr^d$d No. 1. Would have went a a { fancy but it was so heavy it was pressed so hard that it was off a I grade. Please put this cotton in r your show window and call the atten- I tion of your friends to it. I want them to see some sea island cotton, c Cotton seed are worth forty dollars c f; a ton. W. D. McMILLAN. J : * Two Negroes Jailed. j q . Saluda, Sept. 26.?Robert Gary f / V and .Edward Gary were lodged in jail here yesterday charged with kill- a ' ing George Mayson near Perrys cross i roads Saturday afternoon. All parties are negroes. Mayson was shot c s, twice with a shotgun. One wound was in the face and neck and the c other in the abdominal regions. i The details of the killing have not been obtained. A fish fry was being 1 held at Perry's cross roads Saturday t I and some trouble, it seems, ensued resulting in Mayson's being killed. g I Subscribe to The Herald and get C | all of the news all the time for I only one dollar per year. It's worth f | twice the price to the live reader. s I C OMING FOR CONFERENCE. Bills Lading Question Still Agitates English and American Bankers. Washington, Sept. 26.?It was said it the treasury department to-day :hat a committee of London bankers rill come to New York soon for a conference with American financiers, in :he hope of coming to some agreement on the question of guarantees m cotton bills of lading. The English banks have asked the American national banks to guarantee Dills of lading on exported cotton. Under the National Bank Act that vould be illegal. Bankers have asked Comptroller of the Currency Murray :o give a liberal interpretation of the National Bank Actto permit them to lo so but the comptrolled has refused. It is understood that American bankers are looking for some legal ivay to guarantee the bills and have nvitecf the British bankers into a conference. The English bankers are standing 3rm on their ultimatum not to accept any cotton bills without guaran:ees after October 31. Cotton growers and bankers are much concerned Dver the situation as much of the American crop goes to England. Letter from Kearse. Kearse. SeDt. 27.?A word to the ,'oung men please. Our neighborlood is in possession of a number )f brave young men, who are ever eady and willing to lend a helping land when they feel that it is need?d, and we wish to assure them that ve need them in the Sunday-school. Their presence would prove helpful ind would indeed be appreciated. Sunday-school is not a place to Iread, but rather its opposite n every respect; nothing is said or lone there but that is bright and ileasant and intended to be real enoyment. So come out, boys, every me of you, and you will receive a anile of welcome from the whole ichool. We are glad to have Miss Ettie hearse, our proficient organist, with is again. She has just returned rom a protracted visit among relaives and friends. Also are we sorry o lose Alice. Hope her stay away vill not be long. We have had some sickness reently, but are glad to report better lealth. Blackville Budget. Blackvllle, Sept. 27.?Miss Dora Jyles, of Aiken, is visiting relatives iere. Miss May uakman, of Beaufort, is he guest of her sister Mrs G. A. Still. Mesdames H. D. Still, Koger Still, lutchins Still, and Storne went to Augusta Monday. Mr. Cleveland Risher and his bride ire visiting Mr. Risher's mother and ;randparents here. They came from Columbia Sunday, where they were I ailed to the funeral oif Mrs. Margaret Clarkson, Mrs. Risher's mother, iTho died at Saluda last Friday, afer a short illness. - Mrs. T. J. Attaway and Mrs. George Suist, of Barnwell, visited relatives iere last week. Miss Florence Roach, of Charleson, was the guest of Mrs. H. A. lay last Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Sullivan, of Savanlah, were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. \ U. Groves recently. Mr. Lucious Bellinger vitsied relaives here last week. Miss Hattie Martin has returned rom a business trip to Atlanta. Mrs. Dantzler and little child have eturned to her home in Charleston, ifter spending several weeks with ter parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Wise. Mr. John Eubanks and his bride rere the guests of his parents, Mr. ind Mrs. I. W. Eubanks, last week. Miss Dru Baxley, from Savannah, las returned home, after a visit to elatives in Bamberg county and Jlackville. Miss Loulie Marguerite Moody, if Barnwell, and Miss Atossa Morris, if Augusta, were the guests of Mrs. '. M. Halford Sunday. Miss Lucile Matthews has gone to Columbia, S. C., to attend the College or Women. Mr. Rutherford Free will leave in i few days for Charleston to resume lis school duties at the Citadel. Mrs. S. S. Laffitte visited her laughter, Mrs. H. A. Ray, last week. Mrs. Spann Hammond and grand:on, Heyward, visited relatives in Augusta this week. Miss Rosa Hutto left for Ehrhardt ast Friday, where she has gone to each in the school there. Mr. Willie Altman was called to Springfield yesterday to the bed side >f his mother, who is very ill. Mr. Isadore Ussery will leave soon or the Citadel having won a schollirship there. 1 - . i' V . < IN THE PALMETTO STATE j SOME OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA. r State News Boiled Down for Quick c Reading?Paragraphs About r Men and Happenings. a t A reunion of Confederate veterans I of Orangeburg and adjoining coun- ? ? . - .. . r ties is to be held in the city of L Orangeburg on Wednesday, October ^ 12th. A great time is expected. * Gen. Julian S. Carr, commanding the r Confederate veterans of North Caro- s lina, will deliver the address. t Governor-elect Blease has appointed Mr. Alexander Rowland, of Columbia, as his private secretary, and the appointment has been accepted. Mr. Rowland has been auditor of disbursements for the C., N. & L. Railroad, and is a young man of high social standing in Columbia. He is originally from Augusta. It seems that Mr. Blease has made an appointment which will be beneficial to his administration. t The question of whether Charles- t ton has been "bottled up" by the I railroads of the State will be de- 1; cided by the railroad commission e when its opinion is written in the $ matter of the proposed reduction on s cotton manufacturers of the State, e The commission will hold a hearing p on October 14, at which time the pe- t tition of the over 100 textile plants of the State for a reduction in rates a on the products from the Piedmont 1 and Columbia points to the port of s Charleston. t Miss Carrie Free Dead. t [ a Govan, Sept. 27.?Sunday after- g noon at 2 o'clock the ego left the j body of Miss Carrie Free. Her c mortal remains were interred at r Springtown church, the place of her t worship, Monday morning at eleven t o'clock. Her disease being of a se- r rious nature, the inevitable could 7 not be forestalled. 8 The frail aspect of human life soon t suggests to the child of discretion n that our bodies cannot resist for an age the ravages of disease or the de- a lay of old age, but alas, the philoso- p phy of human life teaches us (aside t from Revelation) that that which a seeems death is transition to another b sphere. We view the hallowed acres, g the cities of the dead (if we may $ call them hallowed) and behold the k glittering monuments so beautiful q which in time shall turn to decay n and desolation! These, too, with h time are wrought to change. The lovely flowers at their primal bloom, t with delicate fragrance, promise a ^ sweeter hope and consolation, but 0 only wait the first gust of the evening ^ breeze to shed their passing beauty. But oh, man! God is not remorse-|S less! Thy sphere is not the eternal 0 as yet. The things which glow in the sunshine of this life must inevitably decay. "In the world ye shall have tribulation." a "Tell me my secret soul; oh! tell me, a hope and faith, a Is there no resting place from sor- ^ row, sin, and death? ' tl Is there no happy spot where mortals may be blessed, tl Where grief may find a balm and d weariness a rest? ^ Faith, hope and love, best boons to h mortals given, ii Waved their hrieht wines, and b whispered 'Yes in Heaven!'" 0 H., JR. tl tl Freight Clerks Still Idle. ^ t< New Orleans, Sept. 26.?Reports ^ received to-night from Shreveport, a Vicksburg, Jackson, Meridian, Ham- n burg and other cities on the lines of the New Orleans & Northeastern, d the Alabama & Vicksburg and the d Vicksuburg, Shreveport & Pacific a railroads indicate that the 500 or ^ more clerks who walked out Satur- r| day, are still on strike. The rail- w roads are taking energetic steps to fill their places, and several batches of clerks have been sent out from New Orleans for this purpose. f P Georgian Commits Suicide. 1 Dublin, Ga., Sept. 26.?Thomas J. t>; Pritchett, one of the wealthiest citizpns nf this? countv and former presi dent of the Dublin bank, committed ^ suicide this morning by shooting him- p self through the head. Death was tl instantaneous. Besides being identi- f< fied with the bank, Mr. Pritchett ? was president of the Georgia Warehouse and Compress company and a, other enterprises. He carried life in- ii surauce for about $11,000. Continu- j? ed ill health is attributed as the cause for self destruction. c, For all the news all the time read The Herald. . . r* ' ' I ?. >r. J * ' . PAID LAWYER IX JEWELS. sow Columbia Woman Seeks to Re cover the Diamonds. Columbia, Sept. 24.?Seeking tc ecover a necklace, containing twenty me diamonds, and a solitaire dia nond ring, alleged to have been giver is a fee in a case which she had instl uted against her husband, Mrs. Alics ). Whittle, of this city, late to-daj lied a suit ag asntiaFnrl23453455i lied a suit against Frank G. Tomp:ins, one of the leading members o! he Columbia Bar. Perhaps the mosl emarkable grounds given in a civi! uit in South Carolina are named ir his unique case. Mrs. Whittle claims that when she ;ave the two articles, worth a smallized fortune, to the attorney she wa? tot in her right mind. The suit tc ither recover the diamonds or to b< aid the sum of $1,000 was filed at he office of the clerk of court foi Uchland county to-day. The atorney representing Mrs. Whittle h L H. Ninestein, of Blackville, ir Jarnwell county. The complaint that Mrs. Whitth rings against Mr. Tompkins alleges hat on June 11, 1910, she gave iYank G. Tompkins a diamond neck due, Biuuucu vyh.ii iwcui,j-uuc uia aonds, and solitaire ring, valued at 1,000, in toto. In return for these he alleges, she was given an instrucent in writing for services to be terformed in a settlement pending letween herself and husband. "The plaintiff was suffering in mine ,nd body," so the complaint reads "hat her mind was impaired and thai he was incapable of making a conract are specific allegations. "The plaintiff had been ill," coninues complaint, in substance, and after making the contract she had tc ;o to the hospital for several weeks.' k. contract made and admittedly ir orrect shape at the time was latei epudiated by Mrs. Whittle, according o her own allegations laid down ir he complaint She says that, aftei emaining at the hospital severa] reeks, her mind was completely re tored, and that then she repudiated he contract that she alleges she lade with Mr. Tompkins. Mrs. Whittle, in her remarkable ffidavit, admits that she was ternorarily insane at the time she made he extraordinary contract with hei ttorney. The charge Mrs. Whittle rings against her attorney is that he hould have known her physicjal con ition and that she was unable tc ;now what contract she was making, including, the complaint seeks judgaent In the sum or $1,000, "or tc ave the diamonds returned." Mr. Frank G. Tompkins is one oi he leading members of the Columbia Jar. He has appeared in a numbei f the most important cases that have een tried here. The case brought by Mrs. Whittle , perhaps, unparalleled in the historj f legal causes in this State. Mortality Statistics. Washington, Sept. 25.?There was falling off in 1909 in fatalities on ccount of the grippe amounting tc Imost one-third, when compared rith the figures of 1908, according tc tie census bureau mortality report. In the area covered slightly more lian half of the United States, the eaths were 6,649, as compared rith 9,989 in 1908. On the other and there was a marked increase i deaths due to pneumonia, the numer enlarging from 61,259 to 70,33. This was an increase of more ban 9 in each 100,000 of populaion. The pneumonia deaths came dthin seven of the number credited i tuberculosis of the lungs, which ras 70,040. Tuberculosis remains t the top of the list, but only by this arrow margin. There also was a laraer number of eaths in 1909 than in 1908 from iseases of the nervous, circulatory nd genito-urinary systems. There as, too, a falling off in the death ate due to diarrhoea and enteretis, rhich chiefly affects children. The Cotton Market. Cotton is selling in Bamberg to-day Wednesday) for 13 5-16 cents the ound. Receipts for the past week, p to Saturday night, eight hundred ales. Receipts for the season 2,500 ales. CARD OF THANKS. To the Democrats of Bamberg ounty:?I would esteem it a great leasure to take each one of you by le hand and thank you personally )r the almost unanimous vote you ave me in the recent primary. ;owever, this is impossible, but I ant each one to know that I am eeply grateful for your confidence > r?o t am oaruvtailv nroud of the A UiV. A urn VM^vww..v ^ trge vote given me by the counties i the low country, where I am well nown. I trust always to merit your Dnfldence and esteem. Yours truly, W. W. MOORE. Barnwell, S. C., Sept. 20, 1910. RACESCLASHIN LANCASTER RESULT OF ATTEMPTED ASSAULT OX MARRIED WOMAN. ) Small Son of Negro Couple Wounded During Melee?Negro and One White Man Arrested. i ~~ ~ * * Lancaster, Sept. 25.?A row be ! tween white men and negroes in which several shots were fired and a small negro boy wounded resulted from an attempt by a negro to assault j a white married woman here last night and the subsequent effort to arrest a negro man suspected of the crime. The suspected negro and his wife gave battle and their son was shot, presumably by the mother, though unintentionally. Later the negro, his wife and a young white ' man were all arrested. The woman in question, whose home is in the suburbs of town, was returning from a visit to a nearby neighbor, when a negro man sprang out from behind some tall weeds and seized her. She screamed with fright and broke loose from his | clutches and ran, but the brute soon overtook her and caught hold of her again. For the second time she succeeded in getting away from him and finally reached her home in safety. ' Failing in his purpose the negro quickly disappeared in the darkness. | Go in Pursuit. At the time of the occurrence the ^ lady's husband was up town, but he soon returned home and upon being ' informed by his wife of what had happened started out, accompanied by some three or four friends, in search of the negro fiend, obtaining J from his wife a description of her would-be assailant, his dress, etc., , and the direction in which he disap pearea. The party went to the house of John Mackey, a negro tenant on one | of chief Justice Jones's farms east of town, and, pretending to want to j buy some whiskey, engaged Mackey in conversation, after calling him outj side the building. While talking to } him one of the party seized Mackey at the same time remarking, "You k are the nigger we want." Mackey jerked loose and ran back into his house, where, it is said, he 'm got his pistol and his wife a shotgun. A row was soon in process, a number [ of shots being fired, but no one was hurt except Mackey's son, a boy about ( 10 years old, who was shot in the hand, presumably by his mother, as the wound was inflicted by a shotgun, and she is said to have been the only person present armed with such a , weapon. Later in the night Policeman Bell * TT ? OT*^ k 3.I1Q UOHSUlUItJ IlUlllCi wcuu v/ut auu arrested Mackey and his wife; also a young white man, Bob Hunter, who is said to have been a member of 'r the party that went to Mackey's home. The parties arrested are now in jail. ( Deas Ousted from Chairmanship. i i Columbia, Sept. 26.?The much ; heralded plan to wrest control of i the Republican political organization of South Carolina from the net gro did not materialize at to-day's > meeting of the party's State convention which was overwhelmingly con trolled by negroes opposed to the nai tional administration. Although the . "lily white" element of the Republi . cans was conspicuous by its non-ap? pearance, for the first time in seven years, a white man, J. W. Tolbert, of > Greenwood, was elected State chairman, supplanting Edmond H. Deas, colored, of Darlington. A resolution i endorsing the administration of : President Taft was not even proposed. Tolbert led the fight two years ago against sending a Taft delegation to Chicago and he and the negro leaders charged that it was through the connivance of Deas with the white leaders that Taft delegates to the national convention were selected. Tolbert has long been one of the leaders of the "black and tan" element of the party. A State ticket was not named and the question of making congressional nominations was left to the several district conventions. J. R. Levy, a negro, was elected State vice chairman, over T. L. Grant, a Charleston negro, who two years ago was lined up with the Taft forces. Grant charged that he had been "counted out" and left the convention, vigorously denouncing the party organization in this State. Out of the ninety odd delegates present there were less than a dozen white men. The most dangerous force in this country is the fortune with no character behind it. i ? ^ | MOTHER'S HORRIBLE DEED. | Negress Leaves Children to Perish in Flames?One Dead. ^5 Anderson, September, 27.?Mary Gary, a negress about 30 years old, last night placed her two little daughters, aged 3 and 5 years, in a barrel half filled with water, rolled the bar rel against her house and set fire to the house. She then departel to a neighbor, nearly a half mile distant, and told what she had done. The fire burned rapidly and in a few min1 uu the house was one mass of fium;s. The five-year-old girl managed :o get out of the barrel and started off for assistance. Before assistance came, however, the barrel had become enmassed in flames and the little three-year-old girl was burned to a crisp. This happened ten miles from Anderson. Coroner Beasley went to the scene to-day and his jury returned a ... . . i. j i. ..... . . verdict, stating tnat tne uttie gin , j came to her death from drowning or burning, or both. The Gary woman was brought to the county jail to-night, and when asked why she committed the deed, mm said that she just took a notion to get rid of the children and decided to accomplish it that way. She said that she wanted to desert her husband and did not want to leave the Chil- A dren in his care. The woman talked as if she realized the seriousness of her act. Her mind does not seem to > , be affected, though she claims that the death of her child last March made her go nearly crazy. The woman testified before the coroner's jury and made a complete confession. Jottings from Jennys. * Jennys, Sept. 25.?"All aboard for the church festival at Jennys!" was j the watch-wora 01 tne country ior . j several miles around on the 15th (instant. Quite a crowd gathered in the gloaming on the lovely lawn, made picturesque by the many lan- ^?1 terns swung from the branches of the trees in front of Capt. J. W. - e|| Jenny's residence. The ladies of this congregation pledged themselves to v|J| equip the new Lutheran church, so the festival was given in order to help them raise some money. The fish'pond was the delight of jWgjttL the little children. This furnished lots of fun for the tots and some older ones, too, who now and then ' 3||J' | fished out a wee doll-baby or a mouth organ. All enjoyed grabbing in the "grab- IS? Several contributed fancy cushions, handkerchief cases, cravat hold- <J? ers, fancy baskets, aprons, etc.; all % of these articles were sold. Then a "thin little, plain little, white little cake, its cover was common, but 'twas lovely inside," was auctioned off to the most popular young lady present. Miss Sudie Ritter, of ' Kearse, was the lucky winner. Ice cream was served throughout' ^ .'<1 the whole afternoon. Dinner at seven. The sum realized was most grati- ^ ^ fying. Many thanks to each and -l^jH every one who contributed to this most worthy cause. - New St. Nicholas Lutheran cnurcp is nearing completion. If nothing hinders the painter, it will be ready for its worshipers by third Sunday in October. We regret very much to chronicle the indisposition of Mrs. J. W. Jenny. / She has been entertaining a chill every other day this past week, but 3 is better now. feaBfli Miss Salome Wilson spent a few days with Capt Jenny and family. Sorry her stay was so short; its elevating to have such noble women visit in our country. Miss Lizzie Varn, of Branchville, too^ has been visiting at this hospital home. Mr. Ben Williams and family spent Thursday with Mr. J. D. JenRev. D. B. Groseclose and Mr. Alfred Kinard, from Efirhardt, spent Thursday in Jennysville. After listening to a very interesting history of Zachariah in the Sycamore tree, delivered by Rev. ' Timmons at Bethel Baptist church y ^ Sunday morning last, Mr. Jno. L.ynes, wiit? emu muc uau^uw? 9 . #-v Vera, dined with Mr. Miles Cope and family. The day was most pleasant- ?i; ly spent around the dining table and under the gTape-arbor. Mr. Cope is the oldest man in our country, and is exceedingly lively for a veteran of perhaps eighty years. The old stork has been busy flying around lately leaving fine little boys at the homes of Messrs. Owen Loadholt and Ben Deer. Teachers' examination at the court house Friday of next week. ?Ill v