Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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?' "V . . . - ?J|f lafthrrg fjrralii ESTABLISHED APRIL, 1891. A. VV. KNIGHT. Editor. Published every Thursday in The Uom \A hnilHintr nn Main BtPfifet. in the lire and growing City of Bamberg, being issued from a printing office which is equipped with Mergenthaler linotype machine, cylinder press, folder, two jobbers, all run by electric power, with other material and machinery in keeping, the whole equipment representing an investment of 110,000 and upwards. Subscriptions?By the year, $1.00, or 10 cents a month for less than one year. All subscriptions payable strictly in advance. * Advertisements?$1.00 per inch for first insertion, subsequent insertions 50 cents per inch. Legal advertisements at the rates allowed by law. Local reading notices 10 cents a line each insertion. Wants and l j other advertisements under special head, 1 cent a word each insertion. Liberal contracts made for three, six, ana twelve monins. wove iur rates. Obituaries, tributes of respect, resolutions, cards of thanks, and all no" tices\Of a personal or political Char?! - acter are charged for as regular adIvertising. Contracts for advertising fi-:. not subject to cancellation after first & insertion. ' Communications?We are always glad to publish news letters of those U. pertaining to matters of public interim est. We require the name and address of the writer in every case. No article which is defamatory or offensively personal can find place in ,our columns at any price, and we are not responsible for the opinions expressed in any communication. Thursday, Dec. 22,1910. The articles in last Sunday's State were a most valuable contribution to the history of the beginning of the war of secession. The Christmas edition of the Pj?*- Greewood Journal was one 01 me owsu 1 holiday editions which has come to . our notice. The issue was forty-four pages, and the ads. were as neat and attractive as any we have seen in some time. The terrible tragedy at Branchville is the result of this awful habit i of pistol carrying. If Jones had not had a pistol in his pocket Pearlstine ! would be alive to-day. Yet Jones ws an attorney, sworn to uphold the laws of the State. Several of our contemporaries issued very creditable Christmas editions last week* The issuance of such special editions is made poa; eibl by the advertising patronage, | hut they cannot be issued unless I such patronage,is forthcoming. This explains why The Herald does not issue special editions. The Christmas, edition of the . Greenwood Index was a record! breaking in weekly journalism in I I South Carolina. The issue contained I sixty-four pages, and the amount of | advertising carried kept pace with the size of the paper. If Watson and Bailey keep up this pace long, ' they won't know what to do with their money. While Governor Ansel has granted t a respite to the negro, Pink 'Franklin, j who murdered young Valentine, we cannot believe he will commute thei sentence, but will let the negro hang, as he deserves to be. Twelve good men have found him guilty and the courts have declined to interfere, so it would be presumptious in the governor to commute the sentence. ' Too much Bamberg money goes away from home for articles which could be bought at a lower price from our home merchants. As long as people do this sort of thing they cannot expect the merchants of the town to carry in stock certain lines of goods. Too many people seemf to think an article is mot good unless bought in a city, when the same "1J W- *.4crVl + Ii.mTig UUU1U UC UVU5UI uuoapci ix&uv at home. We need to cultivate the spirit of buying at home. If the facts as reported be true, the killing of Abe Pearlstine by J. J. Jones does not look like self-defense. The testimony of Postmaster Byrd was to the effect that the fight was over and Pearlstine had turned away from Jones and was going into the private office of Byrd when he was shot by Jones. Truly .men are getting to regard life very lightly J these days. Stronger efforts than heretofore should be put forth to break up the pistol toting habit \ The Edisto river project is not dead by any manner of means. Congressman Lever says he has just help gun to fight and will carry the matpi ter to the secretary of war and the president if necessary. The Orange burg people are, backing him in his efforts, and a hearing has been appointed in Washington for January 3rd. At this meeting a committee from Orangeburg will be present, and it seems to us there should be a like . committee from Bamberg. We must work if we expect to get results. Things don't come just so. Congressman Lever can be counted on to do more than his part, but the people themselves must show some interest. S|> IP m?:/:. - . v >; .. p > , ,V ? . Govan Letter. Govan, Dec. 19*.?Friday" night ai aged white man, Jesse McCormack was burned up in his dwelling. It h not known how the. fire started. His home was not far from the home o1 Dr. Jno. R. McCormack, his son. 11 is evident that the old man tried tc make his escape through the window, but the flames enveloped hin before he could make his exit. A colored girl named "Monkey' Borden was married to a* negro boj Saturday. Perhaps her good old mother thought she conformed to b near likeness of that "quadruped family," the cause for assigning thai name to her. These lines are applicable here: "Monkey married the baboon's brother, He kissed so bard be made bei smother." Our Georgia friend is doubtless getting rich on Georgia molasses But my hoW can he charge such ar extortionate price for his ysop," while others sell it for 30 cents per gallon, and to tell the truth it can be bought for less than that price, less the freight. With undue temerity in the face of qualified statements as to the price of Georgia molasses, this correspondent asserts that he obtains as high a price as 75 cents per gallon for his yrup. Now brother if you have any more syrup to sell don't deceive your customers so by causing them to believe that your syrup is of such high grade that it may be compared to sea island cotton. Of course we know that there is different grades of cotton, but not quite such a difference in the short staple that it can't be compared to the unadulterated Georgia molasses. The Georgia molasses is good, and its intrinsic value is not over 30 cents per gallon, and this means the pure unadulterated kind. Georgia syrup can be recommended highly because I believe that it is made principally by white laborers, but I do not mean to say that colored labor is not good for the manufacture of the good thing, but when it ia made by white labor we are more assured that it is cooked with greater cleanliness, and I don't mean to say that "some" colored folks are not cleanly with it. Again I would remind the Georgia correspondent that I was speaking of the wholesale price of Georgia syrup, and not the retail price. Surely he must sell all of his at retail to the "servile" kind of labor, and surely they must be the most servile. Well, slavery has long since been abolished in America, but I must say this has its kinship with that awful, practice. I would recommend the following as a good precept for (my friend) extortioner: ~ "Let your light so shine before men that they seeing your good works will glorify your Father which IH In Heaven." " 'My reference to Georgia and the divorce law was only a joke, and I beg the pardon of my Carolina friends whom have recently made theiri abode in that fair State. One can hardly condemn a State for the divorce law, for if I am not misinformed all of the States in th$ Union " 1 Cnntli nave me uivorue mw, save uuuvu Carolina and condemn its existence in one State, would be to condemn ft in practically the entire Union. I must say though that South Carolina in my opinion can boast of 'the proud honor of always taking the lead in matters pertaining to the best administration from an ethical and civic standpoint. I believe that the quotation, "First in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen" is more applicable to the "Palmetto" State than any State in the Union. >yas it not South Carolina that led the States South of Mason's and Dixon's line into that bloody conflict of the 60's? Was it not 'South Carolina's famous statesman that exclaimed in the great congress in the face of bitter antagonism: "Truth, iustice and then the constitution." These burning words were supported by sons of the stamp of Marion Sumter and others of no less note and heroism who suppressed and unrooted Britain's tyrannous rule from our shores. But we shall not close without measuring unto fair Georgia ^hei share of distinguished honor. It was Georgia that furnished the great Dougles, the master champion ol the South's cause, who antagonized Mr. Lincoln on the great issue "abolition." Mr. Douglas's only mistake was he thought slavery to be jusl and constitutional. Indeed it was constitutional until the addition oi the 15th amendment. Mr. Douglas bore the distinguished honor of the vice-presidency of the confederacy. White Man Stabs a Mole. On Tuesday evening Claude Breazeale, a young white man, stabbed a mule belonging to Mrs. A. G. Latimer, the wound being of a rathei serious nature. It is said that Breazeale was drinking when he did i1 and had no cause for mistreating th( animal. The mule was hitched anc he stuck his knife in its side as h< passed. The case will come up in the may or's court to-day.?Belton Times. ^ N- .. -i THREAT FATAL TO FIANCE. Man Snatches Carbolic Acid from J Sweetheart, Drinks it, Dies. . j f Philadelphia, Dec. 19.?Snatching t a goblet of carbolic acid from the ) hands of his fiance as she stood - threatening suicide as the result of a i quarrel to-day, Charles Morback, aged 30, drank the contents himself and died a few minutes later, accordr ing to the police who investigated I his death. l Mary A. Kalck, the fiance, the only I witness of the happening says she t did not see the man drink the acid - and doubted that he did. Miss Kalck, suffering with acid burns on face, hands and arms refuses to believe that the man she was to have married is dead. She sobbingly insisted that he was en\ gaged4 in" a grim make-believe in . answer to what was her mock threat t of suicide.; Miss Kalck says she had * no intention of swallowing the acid , when she made her threat of suicide. ; "I thought it would give him a shock i that would stop the continual quarl relling that has made our engagej ment so unhappy," she said. ; m t Human Life is Cheap. 1 Jno. J. Jones, a lawyer, and Abe 1 Pearlstine, a merchant, had a fisticuff , n the Branchville postoffice on Thurs' day and were separated. While Pearlstine was apologizing to the ' postmaster for raising a disturbance 1 in his office, Jones deliberately pull1 ed his pistol and shot Pearlstine dead. On Saturday he went before : Associate Justice Gary in Columbia 1 and was admitted to Damn tne sum " of $3,000. The facts carry their 1 own comment. Human life is very, 1 very cheap.?Newberry Observer. Barnwell-Bamberg Club. Columbia, Dec. 15.?County clubs are now in great vogue at the Uni, versity of S. C. Fraternities being under the ban, the boys respond , to the social impulse by organizing clubs. Sometimes these are composed of the students rooming in a given dormitory, but more usually the boys from a county form a club. The constitutions of these organizations strictly forbid the intrusion of anything serious in the proceedings. The comic reigns supreme. , The latent to organize is the "Barnwell Bamberg Club," which on last Friday night elected the following oft fleers: President, Floyd C. Chitty, Olar; vice-president, T. S. McMillan, Ulmers; secretary and treasurer,, C. E. Black, Bamberg; .chaplain, L. R. : Mellichamp, Williston; critic, Chas. M. Chitty, Olar; custos forum, R?P. Bellinger, Bamberg; . water-boy,- A , R. Morris, Olar; drawing-card, "Blondey" Reed's wig. The declared object is, "To disturb nobody." "Strictly an affair of the heart," is the motto of the club. Permanent quarters have not yet been decided uppn, but for the present they meet "next door to matrimony," at 12:50 p. x. Their favorite tune is "Home Swedt Home," the adoption of which is due to the large fvoahmoTi mamKoraVH n flffi/vffll ^hfll. JLl^DUXUau ore are "bilious green" and "chocolate brown." For drinks the club voted unanimously for "anything red," but discreetly named only cherry smash and watermelon juice to the reporter. The members are as follows: F. C. Chitty, C. M. Chitty, T. S. McMillan, 0. E. Black, L. R. Mellichamp, R. P. Bellinger, A. R. Morris, R. L. Reed. F. C. C. Property Increase is $9,000,000. Columbia, Dec. 17.?The sum approximately $9,000,000 represents the increase for all property in the State for taxation according to returns made to the office of Comptroll. er General Jones. There was a decrease of $2,189,678 , in the value of personal property. , This decrease is attributed to the ; low assessments of many of the banks , and the placing of the cotton mills, , oil mills and fertilizer plants on a . basis of 50 per cent, for taxation in i place of 60 per cent. The total value of all property as . returned for taxation was $279,755,. 349 as compared with $271,106,302 ( in 1909. There was an increase of ; $10,613,014 in the value of real es - - A ? ? ? tate. The real estate as returned iur [ the year was $147,051,422 as com. pared with $136,438,358 for 1909. , The assessed value of the personal property In the State last year was , $92,66.4,198. For this year $90,[ 474,520, or a decrease of over $2,5 000,000. The railroad property was , returned this year at $42,229,407 as compared with $42,203,946 last year. A Distinguished Speaker. A man by the name of Potts was to address a labor meeting in one i of the towns of eastern Pennsyl vania, and Casey was called upon to r introduce the speaker. He prefaced - his remarks as follows: t "Ladies and gentlemen," said > Cnjspv "wp have with us this even I iiig a very distinguished gintlemin, J so much so that the great State of Pennsylvania has named three of its - cities after him, namely, Pottsville, Pottsdam and Chambersburg." V - ... C . ? :? *:. ' 0. >v-. v' - -- - m v LOOKING FOR A WIFE. Wanted a "Nice Little Pensacola Lady for a Dear Companion." Those hustling real estate men up at Pensacola have acquired a repution for furnishing almost everything that goes to make ideal homes, but one of them, according to the Journal, of that city, received a letter the other day, which must have taxed even his resources. It ran this way: "Dear Sir: Seeing your correspondence regarding real estate. Now Sir if you will .Be a little Patent I will give you a job of your Life. 1st. I started to the south, accompanied By My Wife some months ago it - 0X. A sne taKen sick on me way, aner * days illness she Passed away and Now 1 partly reckonciled again yet I am a stranger here and More so down there. But Now to the Point, I have 2 trades: I am a carpenter and a Brick Layer. Was Raised on a farm. I teach vocal Music a great Deal of my time especially in winter seasons up North where we cant do eneything Else. I want two things in youre part of Fla. a good Little Truck farm and a Nice little Pensacola Lady For a dear companion the Lady must be of the Best Class as I Want a Wife I Make good money I love to Work Now please sir can you furnish the kind of goods that is required to Make Me a home in or about Pensacola. If so I shall Be glad to heare from you By Return Mail are you Married if you are you know what I want In the Wife Line. If you ever Farmed or Raised truck or Cotton you know the kind of Land I Want. If the Lady you select owns a Little Farm I would Like to take care of it for her I belong to the I. O. O. F. allso a Rebecca am strictly temperment. I can Furnish the Best of Reference. This is strictly a business Propision No Joke I await an Early Reply. "Yours For Business/' Annual Meeting. The annual meeting of stock holders of Bamberg Banking Company was held at the office of the bank Tuesday morning. The report of the officers was very good and a satisfactory dividend was declared. The same directors were re-elected: H. J. Brabham, J. B. Black, J. D. Copeland, Henry F. Bamberg, E. C. Hays, J. A. Byrd, W. D. Rhoad. The directors held a meeting immediately after the stockholders adjourhed and re-elected the same officers: H. J. Brabham, president; J. A. Byrd, vice president; D. F. Hooton, cashier; M. W. Brabham, assistant cashier; Miss Myra Hooton, book-keeper. Send The Herald to a friend next year and make that friend happy. CITATION NOTICE. The State of South Carolina? County or uamDerg?Dy ueo. r. narmon, Esq., Jujige of Probate. Whereas W. G. Hutto hath made suit to me to grant him letters of administration of the estate of and effects of L. B. Lee, deceased: \These are therefore to cite and admonish all and singular the kindred and creditors of the said L. B. Lee, deceased, that they be and appear before me in the Court of Probate, to be held at Bamberg, on Friday, December 30th, next, after publication thereof, at 11 o'clock in the forenoon, to show cause, if any they have, why the said administration should not be granted, Given under my hand and seal this 10th day of December, A. D., 1910. GEO. P. HARMON, Judge of Probate. CITATION NOTICE. The State of South Carolina? County of Bamberg?By Geo. P. Harmon, Esq., Judge of Probate. Whereas C. B. Free, Clerk of Court, hath made suit to me to grant him letters of administration of the estate of. and effects of Daniel W. Jones, deceased: These are therefore to cite and admonish all and singular th? kindred and creditors of the said Daniel W. Jones, deceased, that they be and appear before me in the Court of Probate, to be held at Bamberg, on Saturday, January 21st, next, after publication thereof, at 11 o'clock in the forenoon, to show cause, if any they "have, why the said administration - - ? x - J snoaia not oe granted. Given under my hand and seal this 10th day of December, A. D., 1910. GEO. P. HARMON, '/ Judge of Probate. MASTERS' SALE. In pursuance to an order of the court of common pleas made in the case of Edward R. Fishburne et al, vs. Claude C. Fishburne et al., dated November 23, 1910, I will sell at public auction, in front of the court house at Bamberg, S. C., during the legal hours for sale, on January 2, 1911, the same being sales day, the following described land to wit: All that tract of land, situated in Bamberg county, S. c., containing three hundred and sixty-five (365) acres, more or less, and having the following boundaries: On the North by Lemon Swamp; on the East by estate of R. W. Sandifer, L. N. Bellinger and W. H. Morris, on the South by D. D. Utsey; and on the West by lands of C. C. Fishburne, Mrs. Eliza Fishburne, and estate of E. H. Dowling. The said sale to be for cash, and purchaser to pay for papers. Witness my hand and seal this 12th day of December, 1910. H. C. FOLK, (L. S.) Master for Bamberg County. WYMAN & HENDERSON, Plaintiffs' Attorneys. "v k ' ? . *v-- .. . ; > . |Christmas FurntturJj tSee as for bargains in Fnnrnitare of all kinds. We can A outfit your home complete, as we carry a complete line Z |jjj of Furniture, Rugs, Mattings, Pictures, Crockery, Glass- X ware, Stoves, Ranges, and all sorts of house furnishing On account of the shortness of the cotton crop, we are X i sellings every article in the store at greatly reduced x 1 prices. Now is the time to reap the harvest of bargains. 0 ;^|jg We can suit you we know, and the prices are bound to nlnn ?MnMa Ch?4ctmoa nrftnftnfy hnt all nmfal. W kJV/lIU UIW WiUiy &V1 V1UJOWUMO VPWW^ v??v ? @ Come in and see. A few bicycles for the little folks* ^ BAMBERG, SOUTH CAROLINA. S !|Few,liLatest Just In I j I MRS. K. I^HUCK & CO., Bamberg, S^C. ^ Reduced Prices! H Every article in our large new 11 ';$f?a stock is being sold at greatly vj|Jg reduced pricey come and see. . fllfl We have an immense line of iM everything in FURNITURE, ?J|g also Coffins and Caskets, and >1 we must reduce. V. .*. .*. J G. 0. SIMMONS II Furniture Store - - '- - Bamberg, S. C. I g., (Prickly Aih, Poke Root tni Potaidnm) '. Prompt Powerful Permanent I V H Its beneficial ef- Stubborn cases Good results are H m fec^a aye usually yield to P. P. P. lasting?it cures I 'A>Jv felt very quickly when other modi- you to stay cured WKr VJU cines are useless 7 ly p. p. p. I Makes rich, red, pure blood?-cleanses the entire system?clears the brain?strengthens difestloa and nerves. K|||||| A positive specific for Blood Poison and skin diseases. ' i:^^K|?pp8b I Drives out Rheumatism and Stops the Pain; ends Malaria; B .M is a wonderful tonic and body-builder. Thousands endorse it. H ;M | F. V. UPPMAN, SAVANNAH, GA. ? |New Goods at Hunters! X Go to Hunter's Hardware Store for Sugar Cane 5'Li^Sl A Mills, Sugar Kettles, Two-Horse Turn Plows, Field . X l?y Wire Fence, Heaters, Ranges, Grates, Bugggy X ?|||I ? Robes, Sulky Plows, Barbed Wire, Axes, Paints, NP @ Guns, Bicycles, Tricycles, Boys' Wagons, Athletic w ^^1 @ Sweaters, Foot Balls, Christmas Goods and Toys, A ' J A Brass Andirons, Oil Heaters, Nails, Harness, A J ! Leather, Pumps, Piping, Tinware, Glassware, Crock- A ery, Wail Paper, Alabastine, Frescoat, Wall Stains, 5? Food Choppers, Lard Presses, Gun Shells and Am- 5? munition. We also handle Hard and Soft Coal. '5^1 J. A. HUNTER III THE HARDWARE MAN. BAMBERG, 8. C. Sk