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PERSONAL MENTION. People Visiting in This City and at Other Points. ?Mr. and Mrs. W. I. Johns, of Baldoc, spent several days in the -city last week. ?Senator J. B. Black and Representative J. A. Hunter spent last Sat11 rriav and Sundav at home, returning to Columbia Monday. ?Mr. Frank Folk, who has been -clerk in the postoffice for some time, has resigned his position and aci cepted a position at the depot. ?Mr. M. N. Rice, of the Buford's ^ Birdge section, was in the city TuesBridge section, was in the city Tuesday. He went on to Aiken that brother, Judge H. F. Rice. Complete Shut Down Threatened. | Lawrence, Mass., Jan. 14.?Unless ft the 13,000 or more textile strikers f in Lawrence arrange to return to work by Monday there will be a complete shut down of the mills in this city, and 2d,000 operatives will be locked out. This is the drastic measure agreed 1 w ill ATrnArt, r\ f thlO . upon vy iue linn 1 other cities as a result of the objec* tions of tlie workers to the mill owners' way of construing the new7 54 hour law. The plan so far as the Everett mill is concerned, went into effect ? noon yesterday. When business [ stopped at noon the men and women were told that they need not return to work Monday?that the mill would ' shut up shop indefinitely. "That is exactly the plan that has been agreed upon to break this.unre^able strike," declared a mill owner. "Business does not justify paying any more per hour and w7e don't propose to do it. The strikers will return to work at once or all hands will go out until such time ? ? ? ??-* 1" + r\ wrtrt as mey wdui iu ICVUIU w The strike could not have come I in a more opportune time for either parties to it. The textile men say that they have just gone through a hard siege ahd were just getting on their feet when they were hit with the new 54 hour law and the strike of the men who wanted 56 hours' pay for 54 hours' work. Should there be a general lockout it would come-right at the worst time in winter when food and heat are highest and money is most need! ed by the workers and their families. The mill workers are not well organised and could not look for help from unions. Policemen and firemen are on guard to-night and members of the local militia are in readiness for a call in the event of another outbreak of rioting. It is the general opinion here that there would have been no strike had it not been precipitated by men from New York who are at the head of the organization known as the Industrial Workers of the World?an organization to which many textile workers belong. Lee Phillips, a member of this organization, is under arrest on the charge of inciting riot. He will be 1 dealt with by the courts on Wednesday. Other textile cities have their eyes on Lawrence. The result of the strike here will determine action in Fall River, New Bedford, Lowell and other places. It is for that reason in part, that the fight heie is bound to be a bitter one. A BASEBALL BILL AND COO. "Why are you such a baseball bug?" the maiden asked the man; "Cut out the game and wed some girl; I'm very sure you can." "I like to win my games, you see," the baseball bug replied, 'And in the Matrimony League the teams are always tied." VOhcome now, why not take a chance and just steal home for life?" She asked, then added, "Why not tie the game up with a wife?" "If I should steal home as you say," he said, "I do not doubt, But what my wife would catch me at the plate and bawl me .out." k "You have the goods," she cooed, m "with me you've made an awful hit * I think our team work would be swell ?what say you? Here's my mitt." "The sal'ry limit," he replied, "der prives me of the price; I think it's time to hit and run?why should I sacrifice?" "But if we work together well," she blushed and eyed her boots, "Next season we'll have added strength?we'll sign some new recruits"? He whiffed at that one good and strong; it cut right o'er the pan? 'Twas ever thus, by hook or crook, maid has her way with man. I "My batting average," he said, "you must remeber that? What would you do if we were wed and I went on a bat?" "Oh, nevermind." she softly sighed. "I know you baseball men? In every game we must expect a high ball now and then." L'EXVOI. Three strikes and out! The game was hers, and great was her elation? Xo team can beat the Skirt Squad at the game of conversation. Xo further protest did he make? right on the lips ne pecked her? She worked the "squeeze" for life, and now?he's just her chest protector. ?Birmingham News. i i CHIMES OP ST. MICHAEL. Have Crossed the Ocean Not Less Cc Than Five Times. The old world boasts of many famous bells and chimes, to which clings the association of romance and poetry, but of all the bells in the do world none, perhaps, have had a t0 more adventurous career than those of St. Michael's, at Charleston, S. C. The well-authenticated story of this stl famous peal shows that the bells ^ composing it have crossed the ocean bu no less than five times?once as a or heap of twisted metal. w< The St. Michael bells were cast in ?* England some time before our revolutionary war and brought to this qu country. When war against the old in country began the Charleston peal bc was sent back to England, so that it bo might not be injured. When the Ie] war was concluded the Charlestonians clamored for their bells, and it w< I i-Wa -Hnfr rvf Aiir firQt minifttpr 1 uccauic kuc UULJ vi. vui to the court of St. James to see that ie: they were returned. His negotiations ^ were sucessful, and the bells were, with much ceremony, reinstalled in the church. J*? The next adventure came with the ** civil war, when the steeple of St. Michael's was made a target for the *-:1 guns of the besiegers. The bells were removed for safety to Columbia, but ra when the army of Sherman occupied that town, the sheds in the yard of ^ the State house wherein the bells had ^ri more hrrvVpn into and the J^ UCCU CtVi^U nviv Ml , bells smashed into fragments, sheds being fired. a The bells were not, however, com- su pletely "done for." At the close of the civil war the pieces were carefully cil gathered and shipped to Liverpool, aE together with directions with how gl they should be recast, the specifica- pc tions being taken from the records ^ of St. Michael's, which showed where * the bells had been cast and the pro- ro tr portions. It was found that the firm of bell- eE founders which had cast the bells in gc the first place was still in existence, consisting of descendants of the original firm. The records of this firm as showed that the proportions of the casting corresponded with those of n ?<T record at St. Michael's; and so, under these circumstances the recasting of tr the bells was not so difficult a mat- *** ter. Accordingly, for the fifth time, nc they crossed the ocean and were set * up at Charleston.?Philadelphia Record. ai i th Scruggs Case in Federal Court. Ui Anderson, Jan. 15.?The case bi against Deputy Revenue Collector wl Scruggs, for selling whiskey which dc had been seized by the officers of the sp federal government at Walhalla, will nj be transferred to the federal court, sa Scruggs was arrested for selling the ly ?" 1 ?--i- onrttinn Q n H iras seizeu W Ul&RCY a.L auvuuu uuu .. given a preliminary hearing before the magistrate at Walhalla. The case was sent up to the circuit court. District Attorney Ernest F. Cochran appeared at the hearing in behalf of Scruggs, and in speaking about the case yesterday stated that the case ?* would be heard in the federal court. possibly at its next session in Green- *? ville. An interesting point of law m is involved in the case, and its ter- m' F1 mination will be watched for with r interest. ^ NEGRO CHARGED WITH MURDER w S( Eleven-Year-Old Negro Youth Shot ^ Girl at Florence. ye At Florence Fred Lane, a negro w boy, 11 years of age, was arrested T] Saturday night charged with the be murder of a girl, Estella Burnett, 14 oa years of age. There was no malice in apparently in the killing. The boy ai pointed the gun at the girl and said he was going to shoot her?and he w shot. She warned him to put it up, aj ? a J 1 -/N-^? n inirvof n Vl 1 C? L a 3QQ Q1Q LLUL scmu tu aunv/ipai^ ui? m shooting. His family say that it tfc was purely accidental, but he is in se jail awaiting the action of the solicitor in the matter. The solicitor m is now in Columbia in attendance on s< the general assembly. tl: A Plucky Fight. e( How seven American sailors fought and worsted a party of Moro head 0j hunters in the heart of a Philippine g forest, leaving six of their enemies dead, was told by the crew of the g Muncaster Castle, just in from a five cc months' cruise in the far east. "We were at Cabu taking on a cargo, when cj seven of us thought it would be fine to spend Sunday duck hunting," said g Chief Officer Charles Bonner. "We * could find no ducks, so we landed and j dived into the jungle, thinking to bring down some sort of game, anyhow. We had gone in the jungle about three miles when a band of fif- g i teen or twenty natives attacked us. ' " * " JT, - j 1 i. ... 1. ;i ^ \\ e naa rmes hiiu suoiguus, wimc cj they had only bolos, but in one attack a Moro got so near to the head p of Chief Engineer Lewis that he cut off the visor of Lewis's cap with a slash of his bolo. We killed six of l those head hunters. Every now and *< then one dropped as we covered our retreat to the shore with occasional shots. But it took us three hours to C reach our boats." p< * JOKES FROM THE RECORD. >ngressman Heflin Illustrates His A Speech with Funny Stories. H When one of our northern friends is down in Mississippi talking to a >uther farmer, he said: "Why n't you people teach the monkeys pick cotton? The little nimble igered fellows would run around e stalks and pick out the fluffy nff and throw it in the baskets." i res," said the farmer, "that's right; A it we wouldn't more than get- 'em ganized before you durned Yankees >uld come down here and free 'em." daughter and applause.] A teacher once asked a boy this lestion: "If there are twelve sheep a pen and seven of them jump out, ?w many sheep will be left?" The y scratched his head and was si at. The teacher said: "Can't you ;ure? There would be five left, )uld there not?" The boy said: >Jo, sir; there would not be any ft." The teacher said: "Why, ere would certainly be five left in e pen." The boy said: "Professor, u may understand arithmetic, bu-t u don't understand sheep." daughter and applause.) I am reminded of the story of old icle Johhny. His friend said: "Un3 Johnny, they are going to build a ilroad through this settlement," and icle Johnny said, "My judgment is ey will never build it." But his iend said, "They are surveying now st a few miles from here." Then icle Johnny observed: "There is sight of difference between road rveying and road building." "Well/' said his friend, "they are gging dirt over on the hill now," id Uncle Johnny replied, "Dirt digng and road completing are two iwerful different propositions." daughter.] Finally his friend said, Jiicle Johnny, they have got the ad done; they have completed the ack and the train has arrived; the igine is out there on the track now; ? out and look at it." Uncle Johnny *nt out and looked at it; cold and eless the engine stood; and when ked, "What do you think of it now, acle Johnny?" he said, "They'll iver budge 'er." [Laughter.] ?Vhv," he says, "I don't see any aces or singletrees, and besides at, it ain't a fit track for mules, > how." "Why," his friend said, 1 hey are going to run it with steam. I iey will unite the forces of wood I id water and fire and send it down e track pulsing like a thing of life." acle Johnny said, "They'll never L idge her." [Laughter.] Finally, *' hen they warmed her up, she went ? iwn the track, whistle blowing and arks flying. "Well," Uncle John- . r, said the man. "What do you ft v now?" And he replied, "By gol- ([i , they'll never stop her." [Laughr and applause.] South Carolina War Claims. Washington, Jan. 15.?For six ;ars the war claims which have jen considered by the federal court claims at Washington have been ing up by the refusal of the senate pass the house's measure providg for the payment of such judgents unless the house will accept the rench spoliation claims as a rider to e bill. The committee on war claims, of hich Representative Byrnes, of >uth Carolina, is a member, has just awn up the war claims bill for this ;ar. It includes only claims on hich the court has given judgments, ti total amount of the payments to i made under it would be something rer $1,400,000. If the senate again sists on the French spoliation nendment (involving more than 1,000,000,) last year's performance ill doubtless be repeated, as the )propriations committee of the >use is not in a mood to allot more tan $1,500,000 to war claims at this ssion. The bill as reported by the comittee carries the following items for juth Carolina: To A. J. Buero, administrator of le estate of Angelo Buero, deceas1, of Charleston, $725. i To J. B. Matthews, adminstrator ! Nathan Gradick, deceased, late of ichland county, $-1,180. To Robert B. Howard, heir of Jas. . Howard, deceased, of Charleston >untv, $1,100. To the trustees of the Baptist lurch, of Beaufort, $2,200. To the ve&try of Trinity Protestant piscopal church, on Edisto Island. 1,200. To the Mount Zion Society, of Faired county. $6,000. To the trustees of the Ebenezer ethodist Episcopal church, of ampton county, $1,710. To the trustees of the Baptist lurch, of Hardeeville, $1,050. To the trustees of the Stony Creek resbyterian church, McPhersonville, 2,r,oo. To the trustees of the German utheran church, of Orangeburg, 383.33. " . During the last year New York U itv consumed 31,000,000 pounds of \ sultry. Our ?2*3 4 . Appreciation Mm v - *>^3 We take this means of thanking our good friends and customers for their patronage during the past year, and we wish to state that we want a con- | tinuance of same, assuring them that we are ready 4 and willing to treat them in the same GOOD AND EASY way that we always have done heretofore. If (Those who have dealt with us know what the I words GOOD AND EASY mean.) We also wish ;l 1 c _ 1 1 . ? _ .1 _ . 1 to advise our rnenas ana customers mat we nave v-J moved into our new two-story brick building, and | have enlarged our stock very much by adding to M it the following lines: Buggies and Surreys, One i ___ and Two Horse Wagons, Harness, Saddles, Etc. | We also carry a nice line of Furniture of all kinds, Matting, Squares, Rugs, Etc. We sell either for 1 cash or credit. Come in and see us. Thank you, Farmers Mercantile Co. v' *35 V I. H. KEARSE, Manager OLAR, S. C. | I BODY FOtxl) 1X GTJLLY- j SPECIAL NOTICES. iV Mystery ?f DOnald's Man's Wsap" Advertisements Under This Head 35c. ' t ]] pearance Partly Solved. Por ^ Words or A Due West, Jan. 15. The mystery Wanted.?Fifty thousand cypress which shrouded the disappearance of shingles. J. A. WYMAN. ' Mr. W. E. Agnew, from his home Fri- _ ? _ ? .. _ . , . , , . , For Sale.?Full blood Shepherd W A W ^1 VT^ y mornin8?? ^as been cleared up to pUpS for saie. Males, $4.00; females, \ III A I III lilt SOm8 extent- Hi& body was found $3.00. W. H. ZEIGLER, COPE, S. C. 1/lrlLUUUL by nef?es/?"day'. about two . Lost.-One white English setter miles behind his house, m a narrow with few brown spotg on ears; >par. rnUTYMITrn gulley, some ten feet deep. His body tially trained. Taught to shake hands. >. ilrlUtl/ was lying downward, nearly covered Reward if returned to W. D. COLEwith snow, with arms partly crossed, g* ?amberS Banking Co., Bamlegs crossed and the face and head ' lying in a pool 01 water, with no For Rent.?A five-horse farm, in s-t-j us ? half mile of postoffice; land wilp illl marKS 01 any kiuu uyuii ins peiauu. , . , III r , . n. a . make a bale of cotton per acre. Also gloom ?W0 farmfl on ^jje river> por further Wife?John, I like II ' ?ver the entire section of Donald- information apply to H. J. FAUST, ' Illl Shoals-Junction and Due West, as Denmark, S. C. my shoes SO well I Mr. Agnew was well connected, a man MONEY-MAKING opportunities in f-hinlr vnn hpffpr crn Illl of good character and lived a use" every South Carolina town selling UUI1K yuu UCLier go; I ful life health and accident (income) insurright back to Rentz & ? K Illl "Label Case'* Continued. details H. G. Johnson, 816 FourFelder and get a pair Columbia, Jan. 15.?The Richland teenth st- N- w- Wa8hin8ton- D- cfor Ruth, Daisy, Sally, 3* f?erl^na?DI Uttfarm l ^e w1thegoaodS?mIlll sumea its work this morning, w^ith ni?AtrnmAnfo WAii iaaof00 xa Mnmin T?1 ai?i{a 1VTn^ Illl provements, well located as to town Mamie, riorrie, lViag- M|| Judge Ernest Gary presiding. The and railroad; must be good value for "D^r.4- Illl election of Judge Watts to the su- price asked. Give full particulars in gie, and Maud. Kest preme bench necessitated adjourn. first letter r cosby newton, of the ffirls don't need Illl I nent of the Richland county court | Lock Box 12*> Bennettsville, S. C. ^ m, , . Mil | until another judge could be secured, FOR COTTOX WEIGHER, any. lnen g6t a pair |||| i and Judge Ernest Gary, who was dis- To the Democratic Voters of Bamfnr Tf?P Rpri Will IP IIII engaged, was assigned to preside. berg County: due, ?>en, nmc, morning a continuance was The undersigned hereby announces TTVortlr Taw WorjTnr llll . ^ .u ?o v i? himself as a candidate for cotton rranK, lom, nenry? granted m the "label" case on motion weigher at Bamberg, S. C., subject to CTnVm infprrnnt?; ^ llll of tbe state* tbe State's showing the rules and regulations governing \duim in ten up to.; mm that Qne Qf their witnesses was sick> the Democratic party of South CaroJohll Hold On that llll tbat ^Ir* Stevenson's legislative du- *ipa- z- WELDER, JR. 11 j ? xi,- J llll ties would Prevent his giving any ASSESSMENT NOTICE. Will uO tor thlS time. |||| time to the case, and that Mr. Abnej The Auditor or his deputy will be ttt./j "Ro-H-nv rrpf I III was abs nt fr6m the city 011 business> at the following places on the days WHe setter get MM Coj p h kelson, of counsel for the and dates named below for the purthem while you can defence, announced that he would J^,?^ee?'?S ta* retUrDS ?f P61" III <M,nnofl o mntmn f r?r pnntinnance. , m ... Illl HWU WWWWSJC a IXJVSVIXSU. 1U1 ... /va4* (taa/1 avian 11lra Illl nmrnarai, x u^bu&j^ miu ucuuco* get guua uiieb illl provided it was marked on the dock- day, February 6th and 7th. mrnp T VipKpvp thpv Illl et as Sranted on motion of the State. St. John's Thursday, February 8th, Illl 'The defendants were ready for trial. from 8 a. m. to 12 m. / I will lfict mP9 u^r anrl Illl Camphill, Thursday, February 8th, wiiiiasbmeayear, ana mi from 2 p. m> t0 4 p. m. now Tohn von P-O rip-ht I I ?r er* Kearse's Store, Friday, February I1UW duilliyuugurigni Columbia, Jan. 14.?J. B. Harris, 9th, from 8 a. m. to 12 m. fn Ml who was last night shot in the stom- Govan, Monday, January 22nd. ach by W. F. Martin, died eariy this ^ 2? ?? Wednesday. O rrT l\n^ Illl morn'n?' an^ a coroner s jurv this Denmark, Thursday and Friday, KrlMI/ Xl rr I IvrK Illl afternoon held Martin for the mur- January lSch and 19th. llfj II I Lflil/Llll Illl Any, rp^ ov>r?rt+?ncr tnnir niapp in a AH other days to February 20th | UC1 . X 11^ CilUV 11UQ bWkk T , , Sy.ian boarding house on Assembly | " cent, will be added after Wife?Oh, John, get Ptreet' and some of the witnesses at 20th of February. ? , ? . the inquest testified that a game of R. W. D. ROWELL, a pane OI glass tor the cards was going on, when Martin Auditor window, the boys snow came in- got int0 a row wlth Harris BRICK WORK ^ and shot him, the wound proving balled one out. * fatal. Harris was an electrician and * am *n ?xP?riefc^d. ^ricl iason 1 .. and do all kinds of brick and con- . J T -i i 11 i , "!! Martin a farmer, both being well CTete work plastering, kalsomining, A John?All right. Ill] known. etc. Satisfaction gnaranteed. Let us have your renewal promptJOHN DATS i ly if your subscription has expired. BAMBERG, S. C. * ' \S - y. 2. ' * ^