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THE HAMBURG RIOT. ci > Paj>er Read by Mrs. A. M. Parker, at (1 North Augusta Meeting. 111 5< A monument is to be erected to w McKie Meriwether, the young man ca who lost his life in Hamburg riot of ^ IS76. The people of North Augusta ^ , are raising funds for this purpose. w At a recent meeting of the North a Augusta Civic league Mrs. A. M. sc Parker read a paper on "The Cause and Effects of the Hamburg Riot." It ( i6 a very interesting paper and is as follows: ^ * ta It would be impossible for you or I who live peaceably here in our in ; \ homes to partially understand, or m even conceive of the deplorable state ? of affairs that existed in South C .ro- ar lina after the civil war. " There was a section said to be a w iaw that gave to every ignorant negro the right to vote and hold any of- n< * flee in South Carolina, taking such P( rights from white men connected al with the Confederacy. tl] At the head of State affairs were Robert Scott and Frank Moses, and ^ with the legislative halls filled with ec negroes, who could neither read or ri write, imagine what a regular '"log- a rolling" "corn-shucking" time of it sa they had. ^ - It is told of an old negro in the leg- p' islature who, napping away while a fe very important bill was being read. G aroused in the midst of it and said: i "Gee, dar, Lize, what for you don't git ^ straight in de row. Don't you know mules and niggers gwinter soon be ^ freed." 01 l* Yes, we had negro clerks of courts, w r negro magistrates, negro legislators,' negro everything, except a few white tc rascals who acted as advisors. My |io grandmother had to go before her, stable boy to get school claims sign- a ed. The republicans sent down >*( Chamberlain, apparently a gracious ca gentleman, who was elected gover- *n nor, to straighten out things. Mr.1 ^ Chamberlain said he could do noth-J ing with voting citizens who were1 too ignorant to understand a law. j C< Condition of Afl'airs Locally. ; V( J , Negro military companies were sc formed all over the State, and drums' cs could be heard all night. Smoke- A houses were robbed. Produce taken w from wagons along the public roads, ki and any resistance meant that you j f- would be knocked on the head. | S1 . Houses were burned, children's faces ot ' il. slapped. And on all sides, ignorant u 'Tiooi-n nffifops | S ^0'v ( In July, 1876, young Mr. Thomas ! Butler (a brother of Mrs. Dr. Meal-1 w ^ Ing) was going into the city on a;t>3 very important business deal, when j w he was turned back and told that he! It could not pass through Hamburg. w Returning home he was joined by his n< brother-in-law^ Mr. Henry Getzen, c< who advised going around the town Ci to avoid further trouble. While returning, a military line formed ahead of them and they were ordered to oi stop. Mr. Getzen, who was a very p< determined man, gave his horse a w decided cut with the whip and went er through the line. On arriving at in home they were met by an officer, ol who arrested them for defying mili- oi tarv rule. - H v.'".' ^ Mr. Robert Butler learned from A Prince Rivers, the magistrate, that f* the military company was not mus- ec tered in service and had no right to interfere. Then Mr. Butler had the a negroes arrested for obstructing tne; o1 public highway. At the trial, July w 18th, Mr. Getzen was placed on the stand and asked if he did not knowthat a military company had the tt right of way over civilians. w "Such is my understanding," re- r( plied Mr. Getzen, "but I do not con- si > sider yours a military company." e] "What do you consider it?" waslci asked Mr. Getzen. w "I consider itf" replied Mr. Getzen, 01 "an organized gang of robbers." b; This made Attaway, the negro commandant, very mad. He rushed Si out of the door saying, "I know what dem white folks wants. Dey wants [ ic / us to call 'em marster, but usTl ri wade in the white man's blood up f( ter our knees before us'H call 'em i; marster any more." K >* n ' He then went into the armory with his company. General Butler, who was attorney w for Mr. Robert Butler, arose in all H his dignity and said, "This is a e] farce." Calling to one of the negro g, lieutenants, he said, "Cartledge. go ^ * up yonder in that armory and tell u k those negroes that they have no ei r right to those guns. If they will s] turn them over to me I will see that a they are safely landed in Columbia. ^ And if they are not so delivered by ^ sundown^ the white people are going ni there and take them. ^ I*reparing for the Riot. cc It was a warm afternoon in July, oi and Hamburg's streets, now overrun b< It by pickaninnies and washer-women, ei ; were at that time very prosperous ct looking, being filled with cotton r< warehouses and wholesale grocery ir stores. Squads of men began riding a into town. The negroes about town tr hied away to the swamps, among , them Rivers, the magistrate.' leaving cc r there onlv this military company, oc- el i ? r lpying the armory. Just about sundown Col. Butl Mrs. John Ransey's father) ro to town with a cavalry company ) men. The negroes barricaded t indows with guns. General Butl died for volunteers with rifles. .Y 'ill Butler, .Mr. Henry Getzen, X ills, Mr. Finley and Mr. Joe Mei ether stepped forward. There w boyish tussle between father ai m, and finally McKie Meriweth )t the rifle from his father, sayin Jive me the gun, father." "Henry," said Colonel Butler r. Getzen, "take charge of this d ,il. Go down to the abutment e bridge with your rifles and fi to the windows. The rest of t en have shot guns and I want it in shot gun range of the buildii id unless you boys with rifles ri ie negroes away from the window e cannot get them." The detail went down and ran tl igroes from the windows to a par it on the top of the building. Ju lout this time, the Augusta peop! linking- it purely a negro affa -ed a volley from the other side te river and the detail was cornpe 1 to protect themselves by a ra >ad bank. After the firing ceas bit, Messrs Mills and Finley le iving their ammunition was out ai r. Meriwether stepped behind t er to roll up his trousers. In w seconds .Mr. Butler turned to N etzen saying: "There lies one of our men." \ etzen tells it with much feeling. "It was just about dark and bi ts were flying around me. I we :er, felt young Meriwether, w as trembling in the convulsion >ath, and found a hole across t >p of his head. My young compa n, Will Butler, said, 'I cannot he )u, Henry, because warm blood h strange effect over me.' So >ung man, St. Julian De Arma ime by and assisted me in delive g the body to Dr. H. H. Shaw, C< utler and Mr. Meriwether. Augusta Sends Help. That fine old gentleman, Mr. Jol onwav, of Augusta, at that time ;ry popular stable man, hitchii me of his very best horses to mnon, came over with some oth ugustans. among them a Mr. Bloui ho drove the horses and was lat illed, falling from the cannon. After the first cannon shot the n "oes seemed to vanish in mid-ai hers, figuratively speaking^ we trough a hole in the ground, b tveral sought hiding places in t lilding. Attawav, the commandai as pulled out from under the ste t Mr. Tom Hammond and one neg as found in a cofTin with the lid c is sometimes thought that negro ere shot at randon, but this w 5t true, for only those who h; mmitted some crime were shot, c spt in an instance or two. After the Riot. Every man in a radius of 20 mil ! Hamburg was "sent word" to a ?ar at court in Aiken. So eag ere they to meet the requiremer icaniping near Aiken, ana consu g with lawyers: Colonel Butli ' law that they spent a whole d ' Edgefield, Major Gary, of Augusi enderson, Croft and Aldrich, iken, all refusing pay for servici At the trial the men were disrai: 1 on the most ridiculous bond. Mr. Matheney, a mail clerk, sto hundred thousand dollar bond a: ivned nothing but his hat. T1 as the last of the trial. The First Refl Shirty. While the boys were beihg tri ie girls of Aiken were making shir hite cambric spotted with Veneti id. and these were the first r lirts worn. But later, when Gf :al Wade Hampton came to Sou irolina, companies of red shirt be ere formed all over the state. O ? the original shirts is now own y Mr. J. M. McKie. This ended the radical rule outh Carolina. One of the golden keys that u >cked the gate that led down t lgged path to reconstruction w )und on the evening of July ] 876, on the spot where Thomas >' ie Meriwether was killed. Prince Hi vers. My story would not be compU ithout giving you a description Hamburg's magistrate, "Prince R rs." He was magistrate, inspect eneral of South Carolina and lember of the legislature?a m( nusual negro, tall, stout and ve rect. As black as a crow and ick as a peeled onion, as shiny new mirror. He always greas is face on State occasions. He wc rass epaulettes and horsehair h< iets and rode a most beautiful hori e had as many kinks as any cer( jrporation. Prince had a very ela rate library, shelves and shelves 3oks, ranging from blue-back spe :s down to stacks and stacks of d irded records. He could neith ;ad nor write and signed his nai l a kind of scroll. He used a ty] il low-country dialect and as mag ate he was absurd in the extremt When mad with the negro men )urt he called them heifers, quite aborate term these days of "hi MOST RELIABLE KIKLE. er de It is tlie Lee-Enfield Carried by tlie of British Tro<>i?s. lie er None of the powers at present war r ring with one another use the same ,r- type of rifle, nor are any modern ri* rifles of the same pattern as those as in use at the time of the Franco1C1 Prussian war, says Pearson's YVeeker ly. S- Rifles, indeed, are continually being changed and improved. In the to last 100 years, for instance, Great e" Britain alone has had a dozen differof ent types of rifle, while other count's tries have altered their weapons just he as much. The rifle now used by the to expeditionary force, however, is undoubtedly the finest all-round weapon *n in the hands of any of the soldiers *'s on the continent. The last time the British rifle was he altered was in 1907, and the one now a- used is what is known as the short st Lee-Enfield. It is only 3 feet 8 1-2 le, inches long, the shortest of all rifles If. on the continent, but it is sighted up of to 2,800 yards, and will actually send 11- a bullet two miles, further than any 11- of the rifles of the other nations at e(l war. ft. The Lee-Enfield is only the result of a series of improvements upon tne he rifle rof 1887. It is what is caller! a a magazine rifle, that is to say, it has if. a compartment or magazine for holding cartridges to save the soldier If- from reloading every time he fires. The British rifle will fire 11 times *1- without reloading, twice as often as nt any other rifle except the one used hOjbv France, which fires nine, of j Here are the points in which the he: British rifle is superior to those used n-i on the continent: First of all, it car!lP|ries more cartridgts; secondly, it is as some inches shorter and also lighter, a;and thirdly, it carries a bullet I'ar-n-! ther and more accurately than any ;r*' other continental rifle. The weapon used by the French is known as the Lebel. It is not only half a pound heavier than the Engsn lish rifle, but it is nearly seven inches a j longer. It has one great fault, and a5 that is that only nine shots a minute a1 can be fired with it, compared with er 34 shots a minute of the British it.! rifle and 40 shots a minute of the er German. The German weapon, the famous ie-i Mauser, in fact, can fire more rounds r; J in a minute than any other rifle used at! by the continental powers. The ut; Mauser bullet, too, is considerably he, heavier than the Lebel or Lee-Enfield it,' bullet. The German gun, however, ps | is not sighted anything like as far ro' as the one we use, falling short by ,a- over 600 yards. es J The heaviest bullet fired by the as fighting forces is one from the Aasad | trian rifle, the Mannlicher. The Mannlicher bullet weighs 244 grains, as compared with 227 grains of the Mauser, 215 grains of the Lee-Enes fie'd and the 198 grains of the Lebel. ,p- The Russian rifle is an improveer ment on one invented in 1894 and its'known as the "3-line" Nagant. It it-lis a Quarter of a pound heavier than ?r.1 the Lee-Enfield and over seven inches ay longer. ta: DIES WHEN HOME BURNS, of _ aS ~ Woman Meets Horrible Death in Fire at Barnwell. Barnwell, December . 17.?Linda Kennedy, who with her husband, Scott Kennedy, occupied a hou6e in East Barnwell, was burned to death in the fire that destroyed their home e<* Tuesday morning. When the alarm ts* was given the house was in flames an and it was not until the fire had ec* burned itself out that the horrible :n~ discovery was made that the woman t*1 had lost her life. It is thought that iys she was making a fire, using kero ne sene for kindling, and that the can et* exploded, setting fire to her clothes and the house. She had been in illin health for several years and fright probably caused her to lose consciousin" ness before she could call for assistance. as i Figuratively Speaking. Ic Charles Frohman is a man of strong determination, and believes that his "say so" is beyond dispute. Some years ago William Furst, the .of composer and orchestra leader in l%~ one of the New Y(?k theatres, who or was also accustomed to having his a own way, was working over a new )st production at a stage rehersal, "Sir. TV * Frohman remarked: as "That.s too loud, Billy. Too as loud." "Can't help it, Mr. Frohman," re're plied Furst. "It's forte." a " "Well," observed the great man, se' imperturbably, "make it 53." >al _ ib- living." of As a slave he was a coachman for ill- Mr. MUlson. who u\wieu a. uig nte is- plantation near Charleston, and ier there, as the "man on the box," he ne learned the art of riding erect, pi- Later, after the riot, he was aris rested for some misdeed and bonded by Mr. Langley, founder of the in Langley Manufacturing company, for an whom he continued to drive until gh the last days. | We wish all our friends a Merry Xmas t And a Happy New Year And Remember Our Line of Shoes, Ribbons, Dress Goods, Children's Sweaters, Ladies' and Children's Underwear Is Complete and of the Best Stock to be had. ?? ' a At LI J 4 we Are Also neauquarxers rur Toys of All Kinds PRICE & JOHNSON The Right Price Ladies Store l^= ' ? = Your Xmas Dinner COME TO OUR STORE To get the ingredients for your Christmas Dinner this year. 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Liquors to be shipped in car load lots, except Beer, freight prepaid to Bamberg, S. C., to-wit: All kinds of corn, rye, gin, wines and brandies, both in bulk and bot tied in full 1-2 pints, pints and quarts. Beers in pints and quarts to be delivered at Bamberg, Denmark, Ehrhardt and Olar, S. C. Also bids on empty bottles, 1-2 pint, pints and quarts, in dispensary cases, cork and tin foil. All goods shall be furnished in compliance with and subject to the terms and conditions of the Dispensary law of 1907, and bidders must observe the following rules: 1. All bids must be sealed and there shall be no signature or mark upon the envelope indicating the name of the bidder. 2. All bids must be sent by express or registered letter to Geo. A. Jennings, Treasurer, Bamberg, S. C., on or before Monday, Jan. 11, 1915. 3 Thp rnntrnrt will hp awardpd to the lowest responsible bidder, the board reserving the right to reject any or all bids, or parts of bids. The Board requires that on all bids submitted the age and proof of all goods shall be stated, and bids shall be in gallons, 1-2 gallons, quarts, pints and 1-2 pints. 5 Bids will be opened at the office of the County Board, Bamberg, S. C., .v. on Jan 11, 1915. J. M. Grimes, Chairman. J. B. Kearse, W. H. Faust, Board of Control County Diepen= saries, Bamberg County, South Carolina. v TAX NOTICE. The treasurer's office will be open for the collection of State, county, scnooi ana an otner taxes irom tne 15th day of October, 1914 until the 15th day of March, 1915 inclusive. From the first day of January, 1915, until the 31st day of January, 1915, a penailty of one per cent, will be added to all unpaid taxes. From the 1st day of February, '1915, a penalty of 2 per cent, will be added to all unpaid taxes. From the 1st day of March, 1915, until the 15th day of March, 1915, a penalty of 7 per cent, will be added to a'i unptid taxes. THE LEVY. For State purposes 6 mills For county purposes 4 mills For bridges 1 mill For roads 1-2 mill , Constitutional school tax 3 mills Total ?4 1-2 mills SPECIAL SCHOOL LEVIES. Bamberg, No. 14 9 mills Binnakers, No. 12 3 mills Buford's Bridge, No. 7 2 mills Clear Pond, No. 19 2 mills ' Colston, No. 18 4 mills Denmark, No. 21 6 1-2 mills Ehrhardt, No. 22 9 mills Fishpond. No. 5 2 mills Govan, No. 11 4 mills Hutto, No. 6 .-...2 mills Hampton, No. 3 2 mills Heyward, No. 24 : 2 mills Hopewell, No. 1 3 mills Hunter's Chapel, No. 16 4 mills 7 Lees, No. 23 4 mills Midway, No. 2 2 mills Oak Grove, No. 20 2 mills - O!ar, No. 8 9 mills iSt. John's, No. 10 2 mills Salem, No. 9 4 mills Three Mile, No. 4 2 mills ' All persons between the ages of X i? A t?Ao?o nf ocro iwcflt/'uuc <11111 siaij j cat o v& mqv) except Confederate soldiers and sail- ? Ji ors, who are exempt at 50 years of age, are liable to a poll tax of one dollar. Capitation dog tax 50 cents. All persons who were 21 years of age on or before the 1st day of January, 1914 are liable to a poll tax of one dollar, and all who have not made returns to the Auditor, are requested to do so on or before the 1st of January, 1915. I will receive the commutation road tax of two ($2.00) dollars from ' the 15th day of October, 1914, until the 1st day of March, 1915. G. A. JENNINGS, Treasurer Bamberg Countv. RILEY & COPELAND Successors to W. P. Riley. Fire, Life Accident TUOTTP A Iff nil! 1 11 U U M M V M Office in J. D. Copeland's Store BAMBERG, S. C. llMM?? FRANCIS F. CARROLL Attorney-at-Law Office in Hoffman Building GENERAL PRACTICE. -j BAMBERG, S. C. ] LODGE MEETING. Bamberg, Lodge, No. 38, Knights of Pythias meets first and fourth Monday nights at 7:30 p. m. Visiting brethren cordially invited. A. M. DENBOW, Chancellor Commander, C. R. GILLIAM, Keeper of Records and Seal. 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