The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, September 04, 1913, Page 5, Image 5
^ PERSONAL MENTION.
People Visiting in This City and
at Other Points.
?.Mr. J. M. Griffin is in the city to
buy cotton this season.
i ?.Mr. G. A. Lucas, of Aiken, spent
a few days in the city this week.
?Miss Beulah Grimes is at home
from a stay at Hendetsonville, X. C.
?Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Spann are at
home from a trip to Waynesville, X.
C.
?E. H. Henderson, Esq., is at
v home from a stay at Cedar Mountain,
X. C.
Mr* Torrv lnrdfin r?f Alkpn.
spent Sunday and Monday in the
city.
?Mr. H. H. Copeland is at home
from a stay of several weeks at Hen.C
dersonville, X. C.
y
?Mr. P. J. Minis, of the Leesville
. Coffin & Casket Co., spent Monday
^ night in the city,
w ?Mrs. Carrie Bradley, of Orangek
burg, is in the city on a visit to her
mother, Mrs. M. L. Johns.
?Miss Flossie Riley, of Orangeburg,
is spending some time with
the Misses Adams near town.
?Magistrate J. C. Copeland and
Mr. Geo. J. Hiers, of the Ehrhardt
s section, were in the city Monday.
?Mr. \V. H. Xapier, who bought
cotton here last season is again in
the city to buy cotton this season.
?Mrs. L. E. Spann and children
returned last Friday from an extend-1
ed visit to relatives in Lexington
county.
?Mrs. O. L. Lane and children ieit
Sunday for Augusta where they will
spend some time with relatives and
friends. '
?Mr. Laurie C. Smoak, who is at^
tending a business college in Augusta,
Ga., spent a few days in the city
this week.
?Dr. O. D. Faust and daughters,
who have been spending the summer
at Brevard, N. C., returned home
Monday nftght.
?Mrs. M. C. Sandifer and children,
of Tampa, Fla., have returned to
their home after an extended visit to
relatives in the city.
* ?Banks Wannamaker, - 'Arthur
Davis, and Jack Henagan attended a
dance at Bamberg Tuesday.?St
Matthews Advance.
?Mr. Wilson Johns, of Baldoc,
spent a few days in the city this
week on a visit to hfs grandmother,
Mrs. M. L. Johns.
,? ?Misses Merle Smoak, of Orangeburg,
and Marion Rountree, of Williston,
are visiting Mr. and Mrs. C.
J. S. Brooker in the city.
?Miss Clara McMillan returned
home last Thursday from a trip to
Baltimore, where she went to buy
goods for The Millinery Store.
?Mr. W. C. Whitesides, who
bought cotton here last season, arrived
in the city this week and will
buy cotton here again this season.
? ?Mr. and Mrs. William Riley and
little daughter, of Denmark, were the
week end guests of Mr. and Mrs. J.
M. Holman.?St. Matthews Advance.
?Mrs. G. O. Simmons and children
returned home Sunday night
after spending some time with relatives
and friends in and near Branch>
ville.
?Misses Inez Lemacks, of Beau5
fort, and Mrs. Janie C. Lewis returned
to their respective homes this
week, after a pleasant visit to Mrs. J.
A. Williams.
?Miss Gladys Johns, who has been
spending some time in Henderson
ville and Murphey, N. C., spent a;
few davs in the city this week, on her
) i
way to her homo at Baldoc.
?Misses Mildred and Aegina
Knight and Wilkes Knight returned
home this week after an extended
stay in the mountains of North Carolina.
?Messrs. W. Preston Griffin and
% J. C. Lightsey, J^r., attended the opening
dance of the season given by the
Edisto Country club at Bamberg,
, Tuesday evening.?Hampton Guardian.
?Mr. R. L. Meriwether, of Allendale,
who taught in Carlisle School
last year, spent a few days in the
city last week on a visit to his aunt
Mrs. A. McB. Speaks. Mr. Meriwether
will take a special course at
Vanderbilt University the coming
year.
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Suspected of $(>25,000 Robbery.
London, September 2.?Five men
were arrested in London this afternoon
on suspicion of being concerned
in the robbery of a pearl necklace
stolen during transit by post
from Paris to a London dealer on
July 16. Jt was valued at $625,000.
Two of Picnic Party Killed.
Charlotte, X. C., September 2.?
Two persons were killed and four
slightly injured when an interurban
electric car struck a wagon carrying
a picnic party at a crossing near here
% late to-day. The dead are Miss Emma
' Sandford, aged 19, and Isaac Brymar,
aged 20.
j WILSON MAY CHOOSE.
Tillman and Smith jtisagree on District
Attorney.
Washington. August 30.?Matters
are believed to be rapidly approaching
a crisis with regard to the Federal
district attorneyship of South
Carolina, for which Messrs. J. \Ym.
Thurmond, of Edgefield, and Frank
H. Weston, of Columbia, have been
avowed candidates for some time,
| the former with the endorsement of
Senator Tillman ana me inner wiui
the endorsement of Senator E. D.
Smith.
Senator Smith has put forward no
candidate for marshal against Mr.
Jas. L. Sims, of Orangeburg. Senator
Tillman's choice for the post,
but the junior Senator refuses to
give in as to the district attorneyship.
The disagreement of the two Senators
as to this important piece of
patronage is embarrassing to the
Administration, which does not desire
to offend either of them.
If they continue at loggerheads it
is posible that the President may
consider himself justified in making
a selection on his own initiative.
Definite developments are expected
soon after the President's return
from his brief outing in New Hampshire.
"Xe\vspai>er Honesty."
The Observer printed on Friday an
article on the above subject from the
Bamberg Herald, in which it was
stated that several newspapers had
printed, with an Athens, Ga., dateline,
an article on "Be Honest even
with the Railroads," protesting that
the railroads are being underpaid
by the government for carrying
the mails. The Herald said that
this article did not originate with the
Athens paper, as it purported to do,
but "was sent out by the office of the
Southern railway in Atlanta, Ga.,
* * * * where it appears that a regular
press bureau is maintained."
This incident illustrates forcibly
the secret workings of railroads and
newspapers, and serves as an unanswerable
argument against the
"free pass" system, and against any
| sort or form of obligation of newspapers
to these great corporations.
The Bamberg Herald does not tell
anything that newspaper men did
not know before; but it was probably
new to many other persons that the
Southern keeps a "press bureau" in
Atlanta, from which articles eulogistic
and commendatory of the Southern
are sent out to newspapers, and
that these articles appear in many
newspapers as regular news items.
Here is one of these articies now.
right before our eyes, published with
an Atlanta headline, and dated Aug.
2Sth. It has all the appearances of
a real news item; the public has no
means of knowing, but it is nothing
more nor less than a "puff" of the
ouuuiem remruau, wailicu cuiu iuinished
to the paper by the Southern
road itself, and published in the
newspaper, not because it, has any
news value, but because the newspaper
has a free pass from the road
and is thus under obligation to publish
it. Perhaps some of our readers
will recognize the article referred to
from these few lines: "Aug. 2S.?
To help South Carolina Producers
Find -Markets for the Products of the
Soil, is the slogan of the market department
of the Southern railway"?
and so on for six inches of space.
' There is nothing wrong in the
Southern railway's helping the farmers,
and nothing wrong in the newspapers'
saying so; the objection is to
this secret subsidizing process, by
which the public are deceived into
believing that the commendatory articles
are spontaneous 011 the part of
the newspapers, and are genuine
matters of news. They are nothing of
the kind. If the newspapers were
"honest"' with the public they would
print these "press bureau" letters in
such a way, 11 mey puDiisiieu mem
at all, that the public would know
their origin?would know that they
are furnished by the railroad itself.
?Newberry Observer.
The Potato in Europe.
The accuracy of Winston Churchill's
reference, recently made in parliament,
to Sir Francis Drake as the
man who first introduced the potato
into Europe, is questioned by a writer
in the London Daily Chronicle. He
quotes Chambers as the authority
for the statement that the Spaniards
had introduced the tuber from near
Quito, at the beginning of the 16th
century, and that Sir John Hawkins
also brought it to England from Virginia
in 1563. 23 years before the im- i
portation ascribed to Drake. In Ire-I
land credit is usually given to Sir i
Walter Raleigh for the introduction I
of both tobacco and potatoes from
America. The cultivation of the former
has been carried on under difficulties
in that country, but the latter
took so quickly to the Irish soibthat
it at one time formed the staple food
of the peasantry, and now Irish potatoes
are largely exported to America,
the place of their origin.
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LETTING IN THE PACIFIC.
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Waters of the Western Ocean Pour
Into Panama Canal.
; i
Panama, Sept. 1.?The last remain- j
j ing barrier at the Pacific end of the |
Panama canal was blown out by dy- j
! namite Sunday morning. It was an
J intensely interesting spectacle. At j
exactly 9.30 o'clock an electric switch J
was turned on and the 1,500 specta- j
j tors, including the Shriners visiting j
I here from the Tinted States and om-:
eers of the British cruiser New ZeaI
land were rewarded by a wonderful I
sight. Hundreds of tons of mud and
stones were thrown high in the air '
and the thunderous roar of the ex- j
plosions reechoed in the nearby h'ills.
Abot 20 long tons, equivalent to !
44,800 pounds of 45 per cent dyna- j
mite constituted the blast, which was |
one of the largest ever set off in the !
canal.
I The charge, which was planted in
541 holes at an average depth of 30 j
feet, tore a big gap in the barrier, but j
none to a sufficient depth to permit j
water to flow through, as the sea \
level channel was at low tide.
Equally interesting as the explosion
I was the actual breaking of the barrier
in the afternoon, the tide creeping
steadily up until at 1.35 o'clock
it was level with the top of the gap.
A workman seized a shovel and made
a small trench through which a rill j
of water trickled.. Gradually it
widened, until an hour later a raging j
torrent, with a 35-foot fall, poured;
through an opening 400 feet wide!
into that part of the canal between
Gamboa dike and the TMiraflores
locks, which previously had been excavated
by steam shovels.
This cut. which is 5,000 feet long.
500 leet wide and 41 feet deep below
mean sea level, was entirely filled by
3 o'clock, when the waters of the Pacific
laved for the first time the solid
masonry of the Miraflores locks.
Dredges passed last night through
the opening, and in a few days the
last vestige of the barrier will be
removed, giving a practically completed
channel at the Pacific end.
The dredges will begin tomorrow to
remove the last barrier of the Atlantic
channel. When this work is
accomplished ships may navigate to
the lock ends.
Some Prison Statistics.
The hosiery mill having been abolished,
the directors of the State penitentiary
are now advertising for
somebody to give employment to the
convicts. Contract with the management
of the hosiery mill will expire
November 1st.
The board has requests for some of
the convicts for road work in some of
the counties, but no definite action
was taken. The board will take
this matter up again September 10th.
The following is the notice for convicts
to hire:
"The board of directors of South
Carolina penitentiary will be pleased
to receive bids for the employment of
200 or 300 convicts within the walls
of the penitentiary for the purpose of
manufacturing leather goods, furni
ture, chairs, etc. The penitentiary to
furnish buildings, guards, water,
lights and heat. Contract to be let
at their office, Columbia, S. C., on
Wednesday, September 10."
There are now 430 prisoners at the
penitentiary. Of this number about
45 are women. There are 220 prisoners
employed in the hosiery mill.
Statistics gathered by the penitentiary
officials show that the following
are now employed in the hosiery
mill. Eighty-six negro men convicted
of murder and serving life sentences;
nine white men serving life
terms for murder; 13 negroes serving
sentences of three to fifteen years
lor burglary and larceny; 15 white i
men under similar sentences; three!
white men and three negroes serving ;
sentences ranging from two to five
r ~ U 1\nf
years eacn iur absauu emu. uauu,< ui <
a high and aggravated nature: 16 ne-1
groes serving sentences for manslaughter,
of 10 to 30 years each;!
seven white men serving like sent- J
ences for manslaughter; 27 negroes |
serving terms of 30 years to life j
each for attempted criminal as-1
sault; 11 white men and three j
negroes serving terms of from
1 0 to 30 years each on the charge of j
arson.?Anderson Mail.
Not Held for Xegro's Killing.
Savannah, Ga., Aug. 26.?Recorder
Schwarz decided yesterday that Mrs.
Hattie Lucas did no wrong when she
shot and killed Smart Lloyd, a negro,
on Tuesday night of last week.
It was shown that Lloyd had Mrs.,
Lucas' husband down in a ditch near!
a store kept by the Lucases, and that j
he was trying to open his knife with !
his teeth to cut him. Mrs. Lloyd:
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came up with a revolver and poking
it into the negro's ribs she pulled the
trigger.
Lloyd keeled over and was carried i
to a hospital, where he died.
The recorder said it was purely a
case of justifiable homicide and lie
would not lioid the woman for the
grand jury. Public sentiment backs
up the recorder in the stand he has
taken.
SOX ACCUSED WITH FATHER.
Young lien Walker Implicated in 1
Harter Killing.
Hampton, September 1.?The coroner's
jury of inquest over the dead ,
body of Chief of Police J. B. Harter,
of Allendale, who was killed yesterday
afternoon at Lena, this county, *
this afternoon rendered a verdict t
that the deceased came to his death j
by pistol shot wounds from a pistol
in the hands of J. F. Walker, aided
and abetted by Ben Walker, his son. ^
Ben Walker, the lS-year-old son of s
Joe F. Walker, was arrested to-day C
and the coroner's jury implicated him o
in the shooting of Harter. t
The inquest was held at Estill to- d
day at 1 2 o'clock and Attorneys J. M.
Patterson, R. P. Searson, Jr., and J. t
Henry Johnson, of Allendale, con- f
ducted the examination of witnesses 1
for the coroner, while George War- c
ien, Esq.. of Hampton, was present 0
looking after the interests of Walker, t
though he did not examine any of the s
witnesses. c
B. J. Peeples was the first witness. 8
He testified that he heard Walker n
make some threat against the Allen- a
dale policeman. 8
Testimony of Eyewitnesses. e
Oscar Carlton. J. B. Prosser, T. J. t<
.Mcintosh and J. E. Young, all eye- h
witnesses to the killing, testified in o
substance to the following statement v
of facts. On Sunday afternoon at c
about 3 o'clock Mr. Harter was sit- a
ting on a bench on the depot plat- a
form at Lena in company with the I
Rev. Mr. Langston. of Columbia, and st
Oscar Carlton; J. F. Walker and his e
son. Ben, came walking down the v
railroad from the direction of their
home. On arriving at the bench the c
cider Walker demanded his pistol F
from Harter, who stated that he did a
not have it, and when the request o
was refused Walker hit Harter over h
the head with a pistol; Harter at- v
tempted to resist, out was pushed t
back by Walker repeatedly, while ii
Walker and his son, Ben, kept up a s
continuous fire in the direction ot f
Harter, the younger man standing s
on the left of his father. h
Each witness swore that he did c
not see Harter shoot at all; that after i(
the shooting they walked about thir- L
ty yards to the place of the shooting P
and found Harter gasping and dying; P
that there was a 3S calibre pistol b
with one empty cartridge in it lying s
half way between the dying man and
the edge of the platform, presumably h
the property of the dead man. d
Say Walker Made Threats. t
It was testified by several witness- 11
es that Walker had repeatedly s
threatened the life of Harter because t
Harter had officially taken a pistol Cl
from the prisoner at Allendale a year e
ago. It was stated by one eye-wit- n
ness to the taking of the pistol that n
on that occasion Walker swore he
would kill Harter the first time he M
caught him out of Allendale. Ben C
Walker was arrested and lodged in e
jail to-day. t:
Dr. Lawton, who held the post- i]
mortem examination, testified that *
four 3S-calibre pistol balls entered n
the front of^the body and passed en- c
tirely through the body, one of which
went through the heart, and two 32- s
calibre pistol balls entered the left *
arm, one of which was cut out and in- P
troduced in evidence. n
The doctor also stated to the .News vand
Courier correspondent that he r
dressed a slight scalp wound on c
Walker after the difficulty. One of w
the witnesses stated that Walker was v
bloody. Several testified that Harter *]
never rose from the bench on which k
he was sitting. c
J. F. Walker to-day referred all ^
questions to his attorneys, Messrs.
Warren & Warren. These gentlemen, *
when asked for a statement, said e
that the defence was self-defence. a
Beyond this no statement was given P
out. 0
Mr. Harter's body was buried at 0
the family burying ground about fif- *
teen miles from here, to-day. v
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ROBBERS AT HOPKINS. r
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Two Masked Men Try to Hold Up t
Boys at Hopkins. 11
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Antr ? 1 TllP HaVS of S
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robbers and highwaymen have not r
yet been relegated to the past. Last t.
night two young men, while on their s
way home after calling upon a girl s
at Congaree, were held up by two
highwaymen near Cedar creek bridge ^
upon a lonely piece of road between s;
Hopkins and Congaree. As Postell c
Hopkins of this place and his friend, 0
Beverley English, Jr., of Columbia, v
were returning home about 11
o'clock at night two men with masks !i
over their faces stepped in front of ^
their buggy and commanded them to e
halt. This they did. One of the 'a
young men started to get out of the r
buggy, but as he did so one of the
highwaymen shot at him. This fright- 1
ened the horse which ran away. Sev- c
eral' shots were fired at the fleeing ^
buggy, but all shots went wide of s
their mark. Rural Policeman Dun- ^
naway is working on a clue and 0
thinks that he will be able to locate 0
the guilty parties in a short time.
IMPEACHMEXT PROCEEDINGS.
rhere Have Been Seven Previous
Cases In This Country.
The impeachment proceedings
igainst Governor William Sulzer, of !
sew York, have caused many to ask
f there has ever been a governor in
he United States impeached. There !
las. but not in many years, to be
-xact, not since 1S7G. Impeachment
roceedingshave been brought against
even governors in this country.
)f that number, two were removed, (
>ne was acquitted, one resigned and
he proceedings against three were
ropped.
Charles Robinson, of Kansas, was i
he first chief executive of a state to (
ace impeachment proceedings. In
SG2, his state needed money and ,
onsequently a bond issue of $150,- (
00 was made. Money was scarce at ,
hat time; the civil war having just
tarted, and the only purchaser that (
ould be found'was the United States j
overnment. The United States had j
noney in trust at the time for sever- 1
1 Indian tribes which the Federal j
overnment was authorized to proprly
invest. Arrangements were made
o sell the bonds to a claim agent,
ut it seems that the signature of
ne of the Kansas senators which
.-as necessary to complete the deal, ^
ould not be secured. The governor's
gent it is claimed, paid $1,000
nd secured the signature by fraud,
mpeachment proceedings were in- '
;ituted against the governor and oth- j '
r state officials, but the governor i 1
.-as acquitted.
The next governor to face pro-! *
eedings of this kind was Harrison {
teed, of Florida, in 1S6S. He was 1
ccused of falsehood and lying in
fficial matters, incompetency, un- j
awfullv declaring legislative seats;
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acant, embezzlement from the state
reasury and corruption and bribery j
n appointments. So vacant had the |
tate legislature become that when; 1
he charges were presented to the | c
enate, only eight senators were on !
and to hear the impeachment pro- j 1
edings. The impeachment automat- j 1
;a!ly suspended Reed from office and I
aeutnant Governor Gleason was i
'\
ut in his place. Following the disosition
of the governor, the assem- j
ly adjourned for two months. The ;
enate refused to adjourn, and act- |
tig Governor Gleason adjourned it j *
imself. Governor Reed, however, j 1
eclined to leave the office and took j
1 (
he matter to court. The court re- j
aoved Gleason as governor and rein- j '
tated Reed. The supreme court of i
he United States reversed the lower | j
ourt and Gleason went back to gov- j
rnor protem. Two months later the I
i c
ew legislature, filled, dropped the
latter and Reed resumed the office, j
The next governor to face charges !
as William W. Holden, of North;
iarolina, in 1870, and he was remov-j
r from office. His case was par-! '
icularly interesting inasmuch as it;
avolved the doings of the famous,
[u Klux Klan, which had been com-;
litting numerous crimes in two,
ounties of the state. County author-; 1
:ies seemed unable to cope with the | 1
ituation, or reluctant to try it, and i
he governor was apealed to. He j
roclaimed martial law and sent the , ;
nilitia into them. The colonel in \
harge of the soldiers made many ar- j '
ests and disregarded writs of habeas |
orpus served upon him in which he;
as backed by the governor. The fight j
rhich the governor made against j
lie Klan led to his impeachment j
y the legislature and his disqualifi- ; <
ation from holding office again in;
iorth Carolina.
Powell Clayton, of Arkansas, in i
S71, was the next. He was impeach- j ]
d by the legislature, charged with, j \
mong other things, conspiring to de- j ]
rive the lieutenant governor of his , i
ffice, illegally removing judges from ' j
ffice and illegally filling their places, J ]
aking part in election frauds and :
;ith unlawfully having issued state! <
onds for the benefit of certain railbads.
In order that the governor
light not get away, he was locked in 1
lie executive chamber and the door ailed.
He escaped, however, and 1
ampaigned so effectively for himelf
that by the time the charges
eached the senate, a committee of ?
hat body recommended their dismis- i
al, which the assembly finally con- i
ented to do. 1
The impeachment of Governor J
)avid Butler, of Nebraska, in the 1
ame year, was more serious. He was 1
barged with having converted $16,- t
00 of state funds to his own uses, 1
,-ith taking bribes, giving state lands t
o railroads and with selling state <
ands and retaining the proceeds. 1
hitler was acquitted of all the charg- 1
s with the exception of that of misppropriating
the $16,000. He was 1
emoved from office. <
Henrv C. Warmouth. governor of s
,ouisana, was impeached in 1S72, l
barged with having offered a $50,- '
00 bribe to Lieutenant Governor P. Pinchback,
and with having forci- <
ly ejected the secretary of state from 1
ffice. Governor "^Yarmouth's term of <
ffice came to an' end, however, be- 1
ore the trial was brought about and ^
GIVES ALL HIS STOCK AWAY.
Mi\ A. T. Utsey ISecomes Insane and
Strips Store of Everything.
A. T. Utsey, a white man who
operates a small store on Broad i
street, immediately above Hawk's
Gully, was taken in hand by the police
Monday morning after he had
given away the contents of his store,
piece by piece.
Utsey is harmlessly insane. He is
believed to have brothers in South
Carolina, J. S. Utsey, at Bamberg,
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clliu J. U. t 15>C) , dl U.UU1JUO. J. lie
chief of police tried to reach them by
telegraph and telephone to notify
them of their brother's condition.
Mr. A. T. Utsey suffered from an
hallucination that he was possessed
of much wealth. He was willing to
buy nearly anything offered, and was
attempting to sell a large number of
cattle. The stock of goods in his
store he had given away or sold so
ridiculously cheap that the proceeds g
didn't count. He sold fifty pounds of J
Hour to one person for fifteen cents.
His bank book and money he gave S
to a responsible person, who is keep- 9
ing them. 9
The store is stripped of everything. ^
?Augusta Herald. ^^*9
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REPTILES IX FATAL DUEL.
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Blacksnake Bests Rattler in Battle to
the Death.
John Blackford was about .to kill 9
a blacksnake here to stop its theft of
Dggs, when the thief earned its liberty
by saving the life of his mother.
The young man had found the nest
3f a hen that had taken to laying its
5ggs in a grove some distance away
from the house. He also discovered
:hat the blacksnake had been devouring
the eggs as fast as the hen laid
:hem. He determined to' ambush the
snake and kill it.
He and his mother watched the
lien recntiy and when the egg was
feDOsited in the nest thev creDt
closer to watch for the thief. In a
tew minutes the blacksnake appeared,
steathily creeping through the
inderbrush. Mrs. Blackford was so
fascinated at the sight of the blacksnake
that she did not hear a soft '
ivhirring sound as she stepped back
:o give John plenty of room in which
;o dispatch the reptile.
Evidently the whirring sound did
not escape the blacksnake. Suddenly
X stopped and its whole body sedmed
:o stiffen. More quickly than the eye
Df Mrs. Blackford could follow, it
larted toward her, but a little to the
'
side. As she screamed and jumped ,jj
back her son leaped to her rescue,
but he stopped too, for he saw what
tiuman beings rarely see, a blacksnake
fighting a rattler.
The1 two stood aside and watched
:he conflict, which was uneven from
:he start. The long slim blacksnake
irvas too quick for the more sluggish
and heavier poisonous one. With
its first leap it had clamped its fangless
jaws back of the poison head of
:he rattler and wound its body tight
around the other. In a few seconds
:he life had been squeezed out of the
rattlesnake.
"That snake can have all thee ggs
an this farm for all 0' me," remarked
toung Blackford when it was over,
"and what's more, I'll never kill
another blacksnake as long as I live."
"That's just the way I feel," said
Mrs. Blackford.?Swarftswood, N. J.,
correspondence New York Sun.
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JACKSONVILLE MAX A SUICIDE.
Sends Bullet into His Head and Leaps
into Water.
Jacksonville, Fla., Aug. 28.?F.
\*ebel, a bookkeeper, created a sensa:ion
on the ocean pier of the Atlantic
Beach Hotel, at 7.30 o'clock to-night
ly shooting himself through the head
and leaping into the ocean. His body
:ias not been recovered. He leaves
1 wife in Jacksonville, but she can
?ive no reason for the affair.
All kinds of ledgers and blank
books at Herald Book Store, cheap.
the matter dropped.
In 1876, Governor Albert Ames, of
Mississippi, was tried by the senate
is the result of an assembly impeachment.
charging him with having de[rauded
the state of $33,370, with
liaving prison labor contracts to personal
frauds, conspiracy to slander a
political opponent, inciting race riots
tvith inflammatory speeches and
granting a pardon to a conrict
on the payment of $3,000
:o a third party. Governor Ames
offered to resign. His resignation
ivas accepted and the charges dropped.
Lieutenant Governor Alexander K.
Davis was imneached soon after Gov
?rnor Ames, charged with having
old a pardon to a murderer while the
governor was absent from the state.
He tried to follow the example of
A.mes and resign, but the legislature
lid not allow him to escape. He was
tried, convicted and removed from
office and disqualified from again
lolding office in that state.?Greenville
Piedmont.
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