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PERSONAL MENTION. * People Visiting in This City and 1 at Other Points. ?Mr. M. A. Move, of Fairfax, is visiting relatives in the city. i ?Dr. J. P. Ott. of Columbia. ^ spent last Saturdav in the citv. * 1 ?\\ . H. Townsend, Esq., of Colum- 1 bia. spent .Monday in the city. ?Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Yarn, of ] uiar. spent .woncay in ine cu*. 1 ?Mr. J. R. Owens, of Denmark, ; was in the city Tuesday morning. t ?Mr. Carl Kirsch returned to the Citadel at Charleston last Friday. i >% ?Mr. J. C. Hiers, Jr.. and sister, ' of Ehrhardt, were in the city yester- 1 day. i ?Mr. M. X. Rice, of the Buford's Bridge section, was in the city Mon- ^ day. ?Rev. and Mrs. S. P. Chisolm, of ] the Colston section, were in the city j \ Tuesday. < ?Mr. Geo. J. Hiers and daughter, 1 of the Ehrhardt section, were in the city Monday. ?Mr. David B. Jordan has re- 1 turned to Orangeburg College to re- 1 sume his studies. ?Miss Annie Laurie Rice left last 1 Saturday for Raymond, Orangeburg Pnnntv where she will teach this ses . ~ ' * sion. ?Mr. M. W. Brabham, assistant cashier of the Bamberg Banking Co., has been sick for a week, but is put again. I ?Mr. Austin R. Neal, of Roanoke, IVa., spent Wednesday and Thursday of this week in the city on a business trip and a visit to relatives. ?Mr. Hollis Frier returned to Lake City, Fla., this week to resume his studies in Columbia College, after spending the summer at home here. < ?Miss Marion Higgins, who last ' session taught in Berkeley, leaves to- ! day for Bamberg where she will teach 3 school.-?Newberry Herald and News. ?Mr. J. C. Kearse has taken a , position as book-keeper for the Fair- , fax Cotton Oil Co., and writes us to . send The Herald, as he says he don't ' see how he can do without it. ?Mr. W. L. Warren, of the Ehr- , hardt section, was in the city last Saturday. Mr. Warren is the young'* est of a family of twenty-three child- . i ren, all of whom were extra large < people. ( ?Mr. and Mrs. G. D. Gray, of the i , Lees section, were in the city last Saturday. They have thirty-three < ? pooS qDiqAi *uo}}od aug jo sajou ! farmers say will make about forty bales, even with the bad seasons this year. ?Robert, the little son of Mr. and Mrs. M. W. Brabham, is ill with pneumonia. Mrs. Brabham has had him , in Charleston for treatment for his i other trouble, and the pneumonia deI veloped after their return home Sat- ( t urday night. The little fellow is doing as well as could be expected. BURNING THE DEAD. _____ A Custom That Can be Traced Back to the Earliest Ages. Creamation has been practiced by most of the nations of the earth from the earliest ages, and, although in pagan countries it may have taken the form of fire worshipping, there can be no doubt that its adoption by (the ancients was for the most part prompted by other than religious reasons. Greeks ascribe its introj?a: -n-Vin having f UUCUU11 W iici v-uivo, <IUV| f v - sworn to transmit the body of Argus I to his father, thought this the most PI convenient way of fullfilling his promise. According to Homer, the burning of the dead was a common practice among the Greeks long before the Trojan war, but the earliest record of it is among the Scythians, who inhabited the vast region known under the name of Tartary. Slender accounts handed down concerning the manners of some of the j i ancient natives of Hindustan also allude to the custom. The idea of purification by fire was in all ages universal. and with good reason. Some believed that the body was f unclean after the departure of the ; soul, and it was therefore deemed necessary that it should be purified Ji by fire. Ovid expressed the general opinion of his time when he said that the soul was not completely separated from the body until the latter was consumed on the pyre. The Athenians invariably after a battle burned the slain. Announce Date Shortly. Capt. J. H. Fanning, of Springfield, was among the visitors "to the city to-day. While in the city occasion was taken to speak with Capt. Fanning in regard to the proposition of t opening the South Edisto river to navigation. He stated that Capt. Adams had been communicated with, but as yet no date had been fixed for a meeting to be held in Springfield, t' and a trip down the Edisto river as far as Bamberg. He stated that he expected that this date would be announced at some very near time, and it would be immediately made known.?Orangeburg Evening News. TWEXTY-XIXE LIVES LOST. List of Sailors Supposed to Have Beer Drowned. New York, Oct. 2.?There was given out at the battleship New Hampshire to-night a list of 29 men who were supposed to have perished by the swamping of a barge or whale boat which was being towed to the ressel at anchor in the Hudson nvei last night. Appended to the list arc :he names of IS men who are still absent but who were not recognizee' is having been in the swamped boat Capt. Thomas S. Rogers, in command of the New Hampshire, gave 3Ut the list with this brief introduction: "The following is the list of the men missing from yesterday's libertj party, who are thought to have beer in the boat that swamped last night.' Only two Southern men are in the list. They are: A. Mampley, coal passer, Richmond, Ya., and M. T Seals, electrician, first-class, Columbus. Ga. "It is not certain." comments Capt Roriorprs "that these men were lost as two of them originally on the lisl returned to-day." All day police boats dotted the cove in the river above west One Hundred and fifty-seventh street their crews grappling for bodies But their efforts were without success, not one body was recovered Old river men said they were not surprised, as when the accident occur red, they declared, the tide was run ning up stream like a mill race witt a brisk wind out of the southwesi puhsing it along at even a faster clip Phis would take the bodies far beyond the scene of the disaster anc possibly it will be several days before any more are found. Midshipman Chevalier, who was ir charge of the swamped boat and whc collapsed after saving 12 men, is stil shaken after the extreme mental anc physical strain. R. Karl, one of the men supposec to be drowned, is credited with hav ing saved four men. Karl was a bi? husky fellow and a good swimmer In the water he held up two mer until two life preservers came his way. He gave these to the weakei two and then swam around and founc two other men who were exhausted and sinking. These two he held ui until they were picked up by a boat Still, regardless of his own safety, h< did not attempt to get aboard for feai of overloading it. Nobody seems t< have seen him afterwards. The ac count of his bravery was given by his shinmates. . Warehouse Burned. Blackville, Sept.- 29.?The olc brick warehouse, formerly used foi cotton storage, presumably con structed some 15 years ago, and saic to contain cantaloupe seed, canta loupe crates, fertilizer and cottoi seed, and owned by the commissioi firm of Young & Mathis, was dis covered on fire at 6:30 this evening and burned down. The origin of th< conflagration is unknown. From al information procurable by the re porter, loss is estimated at $10,000 two-thirds covered by insurance. Blackville was visited by a seven electrical and rain storm to-day anc it is reported much damage was dom to the crops, in addition to one o the local churches being struck an< fired by lightning. The blaze wa: extinguished. FOUND DEAD IN DITCH. Mystery Surrounds Killing in Punt; Gorda. Punta Gorda, Fla., Oct. 1.?Wil Rice, a white man, was found dea< with a bullet hole through his hea< in a ditch in front of the house o Nellie Lancaster, on the outskirts o the city, early this morning. Xelli Lancaster has been arrested chargei with complicity in the affair. Much mystery surrounds the shoot ing. as there were no eye witnesse and the first the authorities knew o the supposed murder was when Rice' cold body was found lying in th ditch. Killed by His Brother. Greenville, Oct. 4.?Walter L. EI lis was killed by his brother. Williar Ellis, last night at Latham's gir about one mile from Easley.. Th former hit the latter with a rock an broke his skull from which he die about 9 o'clock. Walter Ellis lived in Greenville ur til the first of the present year. H managed Wyatt's livery stables hen He was formerly connected with th Southern Railway and had a cork le as the result of injuries received i a wreck. Their father. Mr. William Ellis, i a resident of Pickens and is an exce lent citizen. The family is a goo one. Walter Ellis moved this year to farm adjoining his brother's, and th two ran a ginnery. An inquest ws held last night and William Ellis we held for the crime. The killing created a sensation i Greenville, as all of the parties ar well known here and have relative | in the city. 4 SEABOARD LAW VIOLATOR i Newberry Sheriff Says Railron Agent Solicited Immigrants. Newberry, Sept. 20.?Sheriff i t ford has brought back to Xewber j from Rockingham. X. C\, a ne? j Jack Lever, charged with solicit J immigrants, without a license, i J the sheriff has information which ... , says maicaies uiai uie negro was ! the employ of the Seaboard Air L I Railway, and he will prosecute ! railway 011 this charge. The mat J came to the sheriff's attention wl k he was in Rockingham to arresl i negroes charged with violation farm labor contracts in this coin: > He would have brought Lever bj . with him at that time, but he s [ the Seaboard employed an attori . and resisted him. and the sheriff \ k forced to secure requisition pap< I Returning to North Carolina w his papers in proper shape, he t again met with opposition, hab corpus proceedings being institu and the latter being thoroug threshed out. Sheriff Buford < , ployed an attorney, and won in contention, bringing the negro 0; , with him and lodging him in ; > here. Sheriff Buford says there been considerable activity in matter of taking laborers away fr . the farms in this county for r; road work, and that he intends . use every effort in his power i . to avail himself of every oppor . nity which the law affords to pu etnn tr? it L About Whiskey. The subject of alcohol and its I feet on the human body has 1< ? been a favorite study of Sir Vic Horsley and some years back { pointed out the little less than ) traordinary way in which milk i I taking the place of alcohol in treatment of disease in the Lon< hospitals. In 1862 Sir Victor poin i out that seven of the great Lon< .1 hospitals spent 3,000 pounds on n r and over ..>,000 pounds on alcol while now the amount spent on n r reaches the sum which was recer ; expended on liquor. r A short time ago a friend wayl I Sir Victor Horsley in his club. "E 1 loa, Horsley," he said, "can you } us what whiskey is yet?" "Tell ; what whiskey is?" replied Sir Vici i "Certainly. It is the most popi r poison in the world, my friend." Nominate a Negro. 5 Greenville, Oct. 1.?At a conv tion of the Republicans of the Fou district, held here this afternc Thomas Briar, colored, of this c was nominated for congress to opp * Joseph T. Johnson, the nominee r the Democratic party. W. B. Freman, of Spartanb * was elected chairman of the pari About 28 were in attendance, i 1 resenting Union, Spartanburg i 1 Greenville counties. HAS LOST HIS GRIP. 3 I 1 That is What Horry Man Says Ab Tillman. J ~ In an interview given to the CI 2 lotte Observer's Washington co 1 spondent, DeVaux Porter, of He 2 county, talks interestingly of Ss f tor Tillman and another term in 1 senate. He predicts that Sens s Tillman will never again take active part in the senate proct ings, and will not be re-elected w his term expires. "It is common talk in South C< 1 lina," said Mr. Porter, "that physical reasons alone there wc 1 be little likelihood of Mr. Tillr i ever again being able to take up } tively the work of a political Is f er. Before this last attack he f an illness that sent him abroad p months in an effort to recover, i since his return, though he seei about normal, he has dropped i - the background. All through s tariff fight he seemed to be drift f along. The truth is, Tillman s lost his grip on the State, e "Ever since he defeated Hamr for the senate his position had b undisputed, but at his last elect when there was no candidate 1 dared oppose him, fifteen thous it men scratched his name on the i. lot just to show they did not e him. That was a straw in the w d It's strange, but even at the he d of his power he never has been ? to name office holders in the St l- and the dispensary, which was e favorite issue, has been legisk ? out of existence, in spite of strenuous defense of it." o* n Shoots Xegro Woman. Greenville, Oc^.3.?Lillie ) is shall, a colored woman who lives l- Webster street, wts badly surp d to-night when Moult Duncan, a bi roustabout, shoved his gun in J ,-v A A/I fi ??a A, a uuur ctuu wpcucu \ju e the three balls striking the woj is in the abdomen. After the shoo is Duncan quickly disappeared witl assigning any reasno for his br n storm. He is now being hunted e officers. Physicians, .after an es ?s ination of the woman, say she survive. AX IRISH ROMANCE. d's Recalled by the Death of Mrs. Kevin h Izod O'Doherty. An Irish romance is recalled by theElu recent death at Brisbane, Queens!'.v land, of Mrs. Kevin Izod O'Doherty. ro. She was Miss Eva Mary Kelly, the) daughter of a Galway gentleman, and j as a young girl she contributed poems hej under the pen name of "Eva" to Sir in Charles Gavan Duffy's Nation, the ine organ of the Young Ireland movethe ment in 1S4S. Her poems attracted ter wide attention, as did those of her fellow contributor "Sparanza," the : 3 nom de plume chosen by Lady of Wilde, mother of the late Oscar ity. Wilde. Among the admirers of "Eva's" ays poetry was Kevin Izod O'Doherty, a ae>" young medical student, who was also vas engaged in the patriotic movement, -rs- and he secured an introduction to it*1 her. As registered proprietor of the vas Tribune, another Dublin paper of reeas bellious tnedencies, he was arrested ted for seditious writing and had as his hl>" prison companion the late Sir -m_ Charles Gavan Duffy, his The jury disagreed twice, and on ack the eve of the third trial he was ofjail fered what was virtually a pardon if has he pleaded guilty?he had certainly the w ritten the article which was the baom sis of the charge. He then sent for ail- Eva. t? "I don't like this idea of pleadmd ing guilty," O'Doherty said: "'what 'tu- shall I do?" t a "Do?" asked Eva, "why, be a man and face the worst: I'll wait for you however long the sentence may be." A third trial duly came off. O'Doete hertv was found guilty and was sentenced to ten years' transportation. ;t?r Before his deportation to Australia, I Ite Eva was allowed to see him in his ex~ cell. **as "Be you faithful," she said to the O'Doherty. "I'll wait." Ion O'Doherty was transported, but beted jng released on parole in Australia ion he was able to finish his medical stuli*k dies and take out his degree. Years lol? passed and he returned to Ireland, lilk where Eva, true to her word in the l^*v prison cell, awaited him. Two days after his return to Dublin they were ai(* married and O'Doherty with his bride returned to Australia as a tell voluntary exile. P?u In 1885 O'Doherty came back to tor* the old land and entered the house llar of commons as member for North Meath. He quickly tired of parliamentary life, few years ago.?Exchange. en The Cotton Market. rth on, tv The good weather continues, and ose cottoa is coming to Bamberg right f along. A1 the gins are kept very busy. The price to-day (Wednesurg day^ is and while the receipts for the past week are heavy, we have * ' not the exact number of bales, ep- ^ an(l The Bamberg Herald is decidedly right in its contention that the pri mary needs a little patching up. 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