Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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SPENT FIFTY-T IN T! Drowned His Young Leave Rose C | Tended Wethersfield, Conn., June 18.? the gray of Sunday's dawn the do< of the State prison here opened a an old man, with face seamed, t gaze buoyant, came out and glanc right and left across the elm-shad lawn. No one was astir in the ^ lage except those on their way early church services. From Hartford, across the ra soaked countryside, came the mell notes of many church bells. The < man listened to them for a mome then glanced back at the door of t prison which for 52 years had be sag. his home. He was straight and U in spite of his 73 years, and his j; was square and forceful. He wc the metal-buttoned uniform of gr that denoted him a first-class pr oner?a "lifer." He squared 1 shoulders at the sound of the chur bells and inhaled a deep breath, li one who feels that the free air UIO. Went to His Loved Flowers. Then instinctively he glanced up the house of Warden W. A. Garner the upper end of the reservation, a | at the rose garden close beside it. ] sighed. ' \ , Slowly at first, then more rapid his feet picked their way over t wet grass to the rose garden. Lc ingly the old figure bent over t brilliant beds of American beauti and the gnarled old hands picked a bush that the wind had levele With tenderness he trained it aga jt.* ^ to its supporting stick and patt the leaves into place. Then he loo ed back at the somber red brick pr on and a film of tears masked his fi brown eyes. | Almost since boyhood this h been his home, and for maney yea the rose garden of the warden's wi t had been his one loved thing | earth. k And now he was leaving it. The man was John P. Warren, t & oldest prisoner in the Connectic State prison, and perhaps the olde in point of years served in the cou (try. He had murdered his girl wi when he and she were almost ch f dren, had served 52 years and h; been pardoned Saturday by the Sta board. ! He was about 21 when the fami - of a girl of 17 forced him to mar her. From the first the marriage w unhappy. There are old stories, nc almost forgotten, that he was in lo with another girl. Anyway, the neig borhood taunted him with the fa that perhaps he wasn't the father the child of the girl he married. Drowned Her in a Brook. He took his wife walking one d and induced her to go in wading in . brook. There were taunting wor from her and he "saw red." He thre her down in the brook and held h head under the water till she w dead. At the trial in Tolland the prison - - - - ? /v??ii4 ended proceedings Dy pieaums gum He was sentenced to life impriso g* ment in December, 1859. Twenty-eight times since he h P* petitioned for pardon. Saturday, ? ter he had given up hope, the boa r-" V-. suddenly released him. Of late yea the old man has been a "trusty," ai his particular delight has been f::' care for the rose garden of the ws || den's wife. It was here that a i porter found him, joyful at his su den release, yet regretful at leavi: j| his rose bushes. "Yes," he said, "I'm a free 'mana free old man. There's providen in most things, and maybe there in this. I'll leave here Thursday a go to my brother, Joel, in ZdansSe: Conn., the old home town, where 1 L rest. Perhaps I'll start a rose g? r den. In the few years that I ha to live that would give me m( pleasure?to tend a garden. Taunted Into Crime. "It's no good to talk about thin now. I've forgotten her long ago. S was only a girl and knew no bett She couldn't understand how I f when I heard many times that I w 'not the only one.' "After they got me I escaped fr( Tolland jail, and was gone from Ji to November. But a sneak of a nei? bor told on me, and the barn wher was hiding was surrounded and was captured. Then I was brouf T IM Here, in.6 nrst ye<xi 1 1UUU5UL x vx crazy. As the years went the age softened. Through the papers watched the civil war fought, a was sorry I couldn't go to the fro "Then there were years of ji the same old round every day, a then we heard there was war aga We read about Dewey at Manila a Roosevelt at San Juan, and we re too, that when the boys came to they said Teddy hadn't done it r t". K i: WO YEARS HE PENITENTIAR Wife in Brook?Hated harden Which He Long Years. -In; himself. 3rs i Would Like to See City. n(* "A great deal has happened si] jut 11 went out of the world. I'd like ;e(* ! go to New York just to s'ee the s' ted j way and the high buildings. I ril_; I'm old. I want to see my broth t0; and the old places I knew as a b ; But I wish I could take my rose g in-' den along. And I wish my fat! ow ; could have lived to see this day. ^d stood by me to the day of his dea The last time he visited me, 20 ye j ago, I saw he was failing. Then ( (en: day the warden showed me a pa] lU>! with a death notice in it. He wai aw good man." >re : ay j TO CUT COLLETON COUNTY. is- ! ???. his I ^"ew Coimty Movement Started ch! Hendersonville Meeting. ke 1 . ! Walterboro, June 19.?That Co] is i ' -j ton county is to suffer a further < j for the purpose of allowing the for ation of a new county was the obi at: of a meeting held at Hendersonvi at | Tuesday night. For some time nd has been known that there has be tie : some unrest among citizens of 1 j lower part of this county and rum* ly, i have been heard that on effort v [ he j be made to cut off and go to Be* >v-1 fort county. Recently, however, t] he j discussion has taken a new turn a ies | now the desire seems to be to fo: up I a new county out of the lower porti >d. I of Colleton county. Accordingly in | mass meeting was called at Hend< ed j sonville Tuesday night, of this we* 'k-! for the purpose of making plans loc is-! ing to the formation of this coun ne About 50 to 75 citizens of Hendersc | vi::ie and community assembled ad the high school auditorium and we irs; presided over in their deliberate ife; by the Rev. G. A. Martin, and H. on Williams was appointed secretary. ! was decided at this meeting to ? I point a committee of fourteen he have charge of working up sentime ut! in favor of the new county. Maj ist | s. A. Marvin, who is and has be n- the prime mover in the new cour ife | talk, was chosen chairman of tl il-i committee; other members of t ad committee are: Paul Sanders, C. ite; Fishburne, J. B. Dodd, J. N. Wot ! J. M. Speights, E. D. Ravenel, and dy | S. Hicman. There are several oth< ry whose names could not be obtain* as The principal cause for complai >w I is in reference to road work in t ve county. Those who are disgruntl h- claim that they do not get any ] ct j turn for their commutation road t of | and that their roads have not rece ed any attention in several yea : They claim that as they do not ha 1 a large voting population that it ' | useless to appeal to the county a , ! thorities for redress. As one of t ds members of the committee exprei ed it over the 'phone to the News a er i Courier correspondent, "anything i] aS 1 j der thg sun for a change." ? I The territory affected is all t er i ! lower part of the county, taking n ; as far up as Islandton, embracing t i Sniders section, and coming witt ag \ eight miles of Walterboro, which ; constitutional; encircling Walterbc r(j ! and taking in the territory near C< rs i tageville. It. is not known what J a(j1 ception this proposed new county w t0; meet in the portions of the territc ? ! included. Lr- [ | R. M. Jeffries, of Jasper coun former editor of the Jasper Hen ' and one of the promoters of Jasj : county, was to have been present ! the meeting at Hendersonville k ce i night, but did not show up. It is supposed that his services will be i a? cured to assist in working up sen ment for this new county and < gineering it through. lr-| CROWING MADE COCK MAD. ,ve | >st j Brooklyn Boy Attacked and Ba< Hurt by Rooster. South Norwalk, Conn., June 20. LgS Lester Moffitt, four years of age, er Brooklyn, who is visiting his unc elt Representative William H. Burr, rag Greens Farms, near here, went ii the barnyard this afternoon in qu of excitement and deemed it wise >m ij crow at a large and dignified roost j There Lester stopped. And th< J the rooster began. It flew at the b j! forced him to the ground and v r^t i ferociously jabbing its spurs into 1 ! lad's scalp when Mr. Burr, summi go : ed by Lester's screams, ran out a ?nv j beat the bird off. - j A physician, after taking se\ . stitches in Lester's head, said tl nt. , ; the rooster, in a few more minu ust ^! would have killed the boy. . "I'm going back to the city," s; * i the child. "The biff animals in 1 park ain't half as wild as Uncle Wi a.' chickens.." ick + m m all Rub-My Tism will cure you. PASS HOT WORDS. Y Gubernatorial Candidates Getting 1 Warm?Blease Says Jones is Liar. Gov. Blease was the first speaker at the campaign meeting in Bennetts- r to ville last Friday. To defend his ex- F penditures for law enforcement, made t to L. M. Green, and others, the gov- c ernor read prepared figures show- a ing the expenditures for this purpose J by Govs. Heyward and Ansel. In de- F fending his fight with the supreme 1 court, Gov. Blease said, "Yes, I op- a QCe posed it, and I licked it to a frazzle, e t0 and I'm going to lick one of its form- I er judges in this fight." He then ex- t plained at length his conflicts with p erg the court and his refusals to appoint oy special judges to preside over special ar_ courts. In mentioning his refusal to c ^er name Ernest Moore, of Lancaster, as A special judge, ne said, i wouian i ap- i point Ernest Moore to any office, not t ars even as dog catcher in the meanest t >ne town in South Carolina." He declared o per his intentions to continue to appoint a , 0 his friends to office. He referred to t J) "the gutter snipe investigators" at c work recently in Charleston. v Jones Speaks Plainly. ^ t Gov. Blease repeated his charges that Judge Jones had favored race equality in his stand on the separate ^ le_ coach bill in the house. At this point 0 Judge Jones rose to his feet and said, ^ ,m_ "Gov. Blease, if you say that I stood V ect for race equality, you tell a malicious lle falsehood." ^ "Keep cool, old man; you'll get c' ,en much better by August," replied Gov. ,he Blease and he added that he would p 3rs not say, but would prove nis cnarge, ~ and he referred to house journals. p He referred to Judge Jones's cam- ^ iubis paign manager as "Pussy Foot Bill." j n(j "I'm going to keep cool, but if that; f( rTY1 gentleman (referring to Jones) | 11 I III rr on jumps on me I'll be mighty quick to a help him off," said Blease, amidst t er_ cheers. ~ Gov. Blease repeated many of his j charges against Judge Jones. "I 'g thank God I had the opportunity to Jj pardon Wash Hunter to allow him to ? >n- * j, at escape disgrace by a judicial olig,re archy," shouted the governor in ex- a ins plaining his pardon record. His ^ speech was similar in most respects b T4. to those in the past few days. o ip- All a Lie, Asserts Jones. ' to Judge Jones in answering Gov. a >nt Blease's charges that he stood for for social equality, said "It's all a lie C( en out of the whole cloth,"/and later he e! tty said: "A man who tries to make you ^ lis believe that I stood for so'cial equal- jj he ity is not worthy of the name of man, K P- much less worthy of the honor of e, >d, being elected governor." Loud ap-^ J- plause followed. Judges Jones held irs up Gov. Blease's vote, when in the 3d. house, on a constitutional amend- ^ fnt me:it to deprive the children of a w he man who failed to pay poll tax of ed the right to attend the common re- schools and he demanded: "What ax has Cole Blease done for the poor w iv- man?" l2 rs. ' I know, men, I'm up against the w ve greatest demagogue in South Caro- ^ is lina," said Judge Jones.^ "O, fellow b( til- citizens, down with thef demagogue ^ he who desires to see the races at war 3S- with each other! Let the working nd man and the laboring man strike a] in- hands and raise a standard of justice ^ for both! I have heard that Gov. he Blez.se made a speech in Columbia to in negroes when he said the negro ought w he to have his share of the privilege g) tin tax, ' said Judge Jones, in referring a is to 'the social equality charges. 'ro Who Fears Newspapers? c< "He didn't whip out the supreme re" court; he broke the harness," said Judge Jones. He said the governor ,ry had put an extra expense on the people of Horry county by not appoint- P1 ty? ing a special judge then and he g would have to answer to the people. >er "What's the use of spending money $ out of the funds of enforcement of is* law and order when there's no such b 1S enforcement,." said the judge in re- n ferring to Gov. Blease's financial poli- a cies. "Who is afraid of a newspaper ! m~ unless he is a crook and a liar?" ask-! ed Judgo Jones while assailing the i governor's argument of "newspaper, lie." Loud and enthusiastic handily claps greeted this and many of Judge irtnbo'b PYnrPssions. The iudee re ferred to Gov. Blease's favor of the ^ ? plan to erect a new $900,000 State . of capi.tol. sle. B , Breakfast in Chicago Costs $9.00. at lto Chicago, June 19.?"They tell me ^ est the hotel has been clearing $30,000 t0 a day since last Thursday," said er- ''Bull" Tully, formerly a member of 2re the New York State senate. ?y> "I don't see haw they can do it 7dS with such reasonable prices," said the "E(i" Merritt, speaker of the New 3n~ York assembly. "You can get a very n^ fair breakfast here for $9.00." ren Wienges Sells 584 Bales. cat 0 ?gS St. Matthews, June 20.?Mr. O. H. r Wienges, of Singleton, near St. Mat- r< mews, one 01 tne must eALeusive u the farmers in the county, sold 584 bales tl jj,s of cotton yesterday to a firm in Orangeburg for $29,129.28. The cotton e was good, bad and indifferent and ii sold for 10^ cents round. WHEN LINCOLN RAN ?here Was Also Mudthrowing in Politics. Because of the terrific firing of the Qud batteries during the present iresidential primaries there are many imorous souls that believe that no andidate has ever been so bitterly ssailed as his favorite, says the sorth American Review. True, the iresidential primary has led to poitical methods that are condemn,ble, but, nevertheless, they are not ntirely new. The North American teview has collected some of the uterances when Lincoln ran for the iresidencjr. From the New York Herald: "ATov *i Q ISfiQ Tha RonnhlinQn iUUJ .. V ) AUUf A iig AWy U onvention at Chicago has nominated Lbraham Lincoln, of Illinois, for resident of the United States?a hird-rate Western lawyer, poorer han even poor Pierce. They pass ver Seward, Chase and Banks, who re statesmen and able men, and hey take a fourth-rate lecturer, who an not speak good grammar, and *ho, to raise the wind, delivers his ackneyed, illiterate compositions at 200 apiece. Our readers recollect hat this peripatetic politician visited 'ew York two or three months ago n his financial tour, when, in ream for the most unmitigated trash, iterlarded with coarse and clumsy Dkes, he filled his empty pockets dth dollars coined out of Republian fanaticism." "May 2.2, 1860?The candidate for resident, Abraham Lincoln, is an neducated man?a vulgar village olitician without any experience orth mentioning in the parctical dues of statesmanship, and only noted ?r some very unpopular votes which e gave while a member of congress, he comparison between Seward and ais illiterate Western boor is odious -it is the Hyperion to a satyr." From the Albany Atlas and Ar-i us: May 21, 1860?Mr. Lincoln wasj rst heard of in politics a year agoi ist fall, when, limping with wounds nd howling with anguish he was riven through the State of Illinois y Douglas and defeated with the icit approval of the majority of his wn party, and with the publicity exressed gratuiations of Greely, Weed nd others. Last spring he made his ebut in the State as an orator and smmenced charging for his speech3 at the rate of $100 apiece, and as forced to desist amid such pubc expressions of contempt that he lay he said to have been fairly hissI out of the State. He has never eld public office of any credit, and i not known except as a slangwhanglg stump speaker of a class with hich every party teems, and of 'hich all parties are ashamed." From the Boston Post: "May 21, 1860?Lincoln has merer a talent for demagogue appeal that as thought to be worth in New Engind $50 or $100 a speech by those, ho hired him; but some who heard im were surprised that he should e considered anywhere a great man. ie can only be the fanatical tool of le fanatical host he will lead on." Mud throwing is as old as pontics, nd politics began when there were vo men and one of theba wanted ofce. Cheer up, oh ye doubtful, for the orst is yet to come?wait until we et into the campaign proper and not mere primary campaign, and then will be time to run for the cyclone jllar. IN SOUTH CAROLINA. A Bennettsville young lady has erpetrated the following poem: rafters are the boldest? In South Carolina; [urders are the coldest? In South Carolina, lind Tiger Booze is the strongest ;'s effect will last the longest nd it will wrong the wrongest In South Carolina. oliticians are the slickest? In South Carolina, heir hand-shakes are the quickest In South Carolina. >ld maids are the oldest Id bachelors' feet the coldest, md Leap Year girls the boldest? In South Carolina. . j >ut Detter times are comm In South Carolina. .nd things will again be hummin'? In South Carolina. >ur great men are the blandest, ?ur Legislature is the grandest .nd our Governor is the DAMNDEST In South Carolina. ?Pee Dee Advocate. Picked Up Corpses from Titanic. New York, June 20.?The captain f the steamer Ilford, which has just eached Hamberg from Galveston, eports having found the bodies of hree Titanic victims 370 miles from tie spot where the liner sank. Papers found on the bodies showd that they were three stewards liv- i lg In the Isle of Wight. The bodies J 'ere buried at sea. RAINS FISH ON SHIP'S DECK. J The St. Egbert Barely Escapes Dis- C aster from Waterspout. It rained fish upon the deck of the British steamship St. Egbert on June J 6, when that vessel was in mid-ocean i and encountered a huge waterspout, s which nearly wrecked the craft, says a the Philadelphia Record. This is the J story brought in and verified by the c master and crew of the vessel, which 1 arrived in Philadelphia recently. t According to Capt. McKensie, the s spout was a monster. A huge funnel-shaped cloud swept across the t ocean in the direction of the vessel, t and as it neared the St. Egbert it t touched the water, sucking up a c great spout and throwing great quan- e tities of water upon the decks, at the c same time roaring like a cyclone. s When the water was sucked up in- a to the vortex of the storm many fish v were drawn above the surface with i it. As the water fell on the deck the I live fish were scattered about. Hun- e r\f tVi am woro Giir>VoH lin h>V Ui V/l WiAV/i I I * ? V* V MM V AX V VI v? the spout. c u S When Bill Squared Up. Down in a Southeast Kansas town ^ lives a rather simple minded youth E by the name of Bill Beasley, says- the 0 Kansas City Star, whose facility in a contracting small debts at the local g stores is only equalled by his success r in evading their payment. One day q recently, however, Bill made the mis- v take of showing, some money before c one of his creditors, and after the hard fought argument which follow- t ed the money was handed over to the g storekeeper. ' e "Now," said Bill sadly, "we're square and I want a receipt. Make j it legal so you won't be after me again." c And here is the receipt which Bill = proudly exhibited to his friends: To Whom It May Concern, Greeting?All men know by these presents, habeas corpus and nux vomica, \ that Bill Beasley don't owe this firm nothing and ain't going to. John Hobby. $ WHICH BANK fft, Is your money liid away in an j| where the burglar is likely t locked up tight in our vaul t massive steel safe, but by a well? You do not perhaps your money is in when kept day the newspapers tell of 1 ? this habit. If you would slec , edge that your money is per] A once and open an account wit ? no chances. 2 EHRHARDT BAN! JL EHRHARDT, ~Be Is a prosperous larme Telephone Enhance! A telephone on means convenience ? user, but it adds value enable you to sell you vantage. Telephone can be had at very lov Write for our free Farmers Line Depai SOUTHERN BELL TI & TELEGRAPH C \0&' SoaUx Pryor SL? At ~ a=aoBO< Repaint You Didn't somebody scratch, scar ture during that Xmas jollificatio] "Le-M c II is a mighty good tonic for ailing quick to dry. Try it for floors aL< tag We have just received a nice i Windows, Flower Pots, Jardinien Summer Prices. We give S. & H. Green Tradin and for all bills paid on or before II J. A. HI H THE HARDWARE MAN. I lbi=3omo( it *? rAMES G. SEIGLER TO APPEAL. ?? i\ Counsel for Convicted Aiken Man Change Plans. Aiken, June 20.?Attorneys for Fas. G. Seigler, charged with the nurder of Policeman Wade Patter- > on and convicted of manslaughter tnd sentenced to seven years at the Fune term of the general sessions :ourt, have served notice upon Soicitor Gunter and other attorneys for he State that they will appeal to the upreme court for a new tiral. When the verdict of the jury in ^ he case was returned, counsel for he defendant immediately gave noice of a motion for a new trial, but in the succeeding morning and just irevious to the passing of sentence m the prisoner, counsel issued a tatement to the court that they had, fter due deliberation, decided to withdraw the motion, and the court mposed its sentence on Seigler. lowever, at a more recent conference of attorneys for Seigler, it was lecided to reverse their former deision and file the appeal with the upreme court. V It is the law that where the sen- J ence imposed upon the prisoner does 1 iot exceed ten years and the saidpris- J mer appeals to the supreme court for | new trial, a circuit judge may .9 ;rantbail to the prisoner, pending the g esult of the appeal. The appeal in ' I uestion cannot be heard and passed 6 ipon before the November te^m of fl ourt, and it is very probable that, fl u the meantime, the circuit judge, ? he Hon. Hayne F. Rice, will release 1 leigler from jail on good and sufflcint bond. At present Seigler continues in v jSK ail and is still hopeful. He is holdug up well and remains in his usual ?||| heerful and good-humored nature. : H. M. GRAHAM Attorney-at-Law Vill practice in the United States and State Courts in any County i nj a. ? m ine isutw, BAMBERG, S. C. |.'1 old trunk, closet or bureau, ?p o find it any night, or is it ^ t, protected not only by a r -? mple burglar insurance as Ap realize what great danger t around the house. Every esses sustained because of Ap , "m >p soundly, with the knowl- t fectly secure, bring it in at h us. You are then taking iflp iCING COMPANY ?M . . . . SOUTH CAROLINA. J, holoiiil I the Farm not only * ind comfort for the ; to the land and will r land to a better adservice on the Farm V COSt. \ booklet. Address "I ranent SLEPHONE in m OMPANY lanta, Ga. : }.'F^ HBMMnngMMnnpHgMHaB ? JO0=O ir Furniture r A or bung up some of your fuming : >-LaC" furniture. Easy to apply and so, nothing better. Q issortment of Screen Doors and es, etc., and they are going at ? ? g Stamps for all cash purchases the 10th of each month. LJNTER I BAMBERG, S. O. I* >boi "rrl