The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, February 24, 1898, Image 4
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no money to Agent*, except
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Thursday. Feb. 24.189S.
the lake CITY mORROR.
The recent post office tragedy at
tLake C'tv is without a parallel in
the annals of crime in this State.
?The facts in the case are published
on our first page, and they tell a.
ale of unprecedented cruelty
and horror.
\ That the patrons of Lake City
postoffice bate been imposed upon
since Baker's appointment is true,
but that fact was no excuse for so
? Wanton a crime as was committed
The deed was that of fiends in
hdman form and the perpetrators
of it should be brought to justice
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f and made to suffer for their crime.
Even if the postmaster was ob
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noxious, that was no excuse for the
the shedding of innocent blood,
and there can be no question
that innocent blood was shed
for the little infant and the other
children of the postmaster, nor
hit wile, were responsible for the
negro being in the postoffiee.
There were scores of other ways
of getting rid of the incompetent
postmaster besides the one resorted
to. The mob that killed him
could have done a much "neater"'
job than it did had a little comI*
-
\ /mon sense been used. There was
bo necessity of killing the infant
and perhaps other members of
the family, and maiming all the
feat. Io fact) there was no use
to kit! the negro at all. Lawful
means could have been resorted
to and would heve been successful.
Baker should have never been
appointed postmaster. He was
not a resident of Lake City. He
. was incompetent and disrespectful.
He was very offensive to the pa(mnB
nf kia ftffipa The mattpr huit
... "been repeatedly brought to the at
7* tention of tho-epthoritiesat Washandlbe
people had been
y repeatedly refused relief. But
all tills, however intolerable it may
', have been, was no excuse lor the
. - crime. The assassination was
*mhcot justification, and the
perpetrators should be. and we
hope will be, punished to the ex
? tent of tbe law.
The action of the mob cannot
be condoned t)V decent people and
< the horrible crime will forever re1
main tbe darkest blot upou South
Carolina history.
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" Since publishing the articie con
g cerning the refusal of the Legisla
lure to reimburse clerk of court
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Grayson, it has been brought to
our attention that the Legislatute
ft^o years ago reimbursed the
clerk of Florence count}', and ihe
last session of the Legislature re
imbursed the treasurer oft hat coun <
ty. while it refused to reimburse;
clerk Grayson. The mo'iev lost;
^ - by the Florence officials was lost;
by the failure ol the same bankj
that caused Mr. Grayson's Joss
It does seem strange that out o.!
four officials who lost county funds !
. by the failure of the same bank, i
Mr. Grayson should be the only j
one who if made to pay the lois. I
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WE PAY THE PRICE.
; We wish speak a little to-day
concerning the spirit of up-to-date
| journalism displayed by Tub County
Rkcohi) in the matter of the
Lake City post office tradogy.
As soon as it was learned here
Tuesday morning that the postmns!
ter had been assassinated, we de?
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! epatccd a rei*?rter to the scene, and
. in a few hours ho had interviewed
| the surviving members of the post.
: master's family, and had learned
| everything that could be obtained
concerning the affair.
Our representative arranged with
' a correspondent at Lake City to
J telegraph Tub County Record
! any and all developments in the
case.
Lust uight we telegraphed to a
newspaper reporter in Columbia for
latest developments, and we will
Hscoop" the daily papers this morn,
j by giving the latest news of the
affair throughout the county.
When our busineas men reach
.
their places of business this morning,
they will find The County
Record waiting for them there, being
several hours ahead of any other
paper.
When there is news to disscuii'
nate, our subscribers can ulway
count upon Tiie County Reuori
to publish it.
imlimroi.
AFFAIRS CAUGHT BY OUR LOCAL
REPORTER AND NOTED.
i Written in Condensed Form and Printed
I in Like Manner for the Sake
of our Weary Readers.
Mrs George Stack ley, of Florence
I is visiting relatives in town.
A printing office is no place for
I loafers.' Enough said.
'lilies, mortgages, bonds, noles,
| liens and other law blanks at the
County Record office.
The recent rains were very
much needed, and no ooubt the
farmers all welcomed the showers
Attention is called to the call o
the commandant of Camp Presslev
which appears in anotbed column
The taxpayers of the county
have paid up their taxes unusually
well this year, so says treasurer
Rollins.
Mr. B F Brockinton, .Jr, one of
the grand jourors who held over
| from last year, was elected forei
man ff the grand jury.
The county superintendent ol
i education conducted the ezami|
nation of applicants for for teachi
ore' /inrlilioulai; in llit> onnrt knncA
V I O V \ KJIJVniVO 111 ? IIV VWUI I UVUDV
last Friday.
The supervisor has requested
; us to say that the letting of the
bridge at Bass's bridge, Lynches
river, on March 2nd, will be at 10
| o'clock a. m.
| Col. U W Boyd and Judge
iThomas H Spain, two prominent
! members of the Darlington Bar,
j were here upon professional busii
ness this week.
The me-nbers of the Bar arrang|
ed a hunt lor the Judge, solicitor
and stenographer last Tuesday
Thejofficials all seems to enjoy the
, outing very much.
| The bill providing for three
supervisors of registration having
been passed, Messrs. \V G Cantley
andCharles Lesesne have been
appointed to serve with Mr. J J
Buddy on the board.
We have recently, sent out a
good many bills lor subscriptions
to The County Record, and we
will, in the next few days, send
mil ntllur.' WU OK) All 1 If LUnjliinv
VU V W'MVI CI ?? W HIV WIIIJ CV IIUllI^
bills to those of our subscribers
who have been taking the Record
for the past year and who have
never paid anything on their subscript
ion. We would greatly appreciate
a remittance from everyone
wtio is in debt to the paper,
and we hope t hat we will soon be
favored by those who are in debt
to us.
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THE NEGRO WHO WAS CHARGED
Wll H Bt.NG AN ACCESSARY
(To The Killing of Mr. Philip Poston
Last December Goes Scott
Free.
'{ The following account of ?he trial
of the negro Green, who was
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;charged with being an accessory
i to the Kiilingof constable Philip
Ponton last December is taken
j front ' he Georgetow n Tim? s:
Thursday morning, lite case
against Abram Green, lor murder,
! was called. Waller Hazard, Ksq..
| appeared for the defense, but an
nouneed that one of his important
> witnesses was absent. The solici
tor agreed to admit as true what
! this witness woutd prove, viz: tha*
Constable Poston had never legali
ly qualified as an officer, ?fcc., and
,{the case proceeded. Oitr readers
;jwill remember that Constable
I Poston and a Mr. tiarmon, of
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i Williainsbuig County, arrested a
. | negvo by the name of Sam Turner,
on the 23rd Dec. last; that the
. prisoner a-ked the privilege of go
, io Price's store, near the county
line, but in this county; there they
' called upon Price ?o assist in mak,
ing the arrest, the tiefcro refusing
, to go with the officer, back itno
Williamsburg county; that Price
declined to assist them; that these
two men had a scuflle with their
prisoner, when the constable was
1 killed, the prisoner badly shot and
afterwards lynched. The State,
| in the trail on Thursday, put up
witnesses to prove that iliis man
Green, during the scuftle, rushed
to the rescue of the prisoner and
struck the constable a severe blow
on the back ot his head, whichwas
enough of itself to produce death,
J although the constable had al
ready been shot five limes. 5>ome
of ihe witnesses testified to seeing
Green advance with the billet 01
wood, but no on? knew anything
of the blow on the Iftad until they
were preparing the dead body oi
the officer for bur a',when the back
of his head v.as discovered ail
mashed up from the effeets of Ihe
b.ow given by Green.Dr.Hemming
way testified to the wounds produced
by the pis toi shots, and Dr.
Johnson swore to the concussion
of Ihe skull, caused by a blow
from a heavy bludgeon of some
kin 1. Tt?e remarkable part about
ihis whole difficulty is Ihe fact
that young Harmon, who went
j with Constable Post011 to make the
the arrest, had a loaded pistol in
his pocket, and while his friend
Poston and the -negro prisoner ,
were exchanging about ten shots
between them^ this man Harmon
never touched his gun one time- ,
whereas, he might have ended the
: battle by one well directed shot! (
All day yesterday the court was 1
engaged in hearing the witnesses
for the defence. Dr. I sen) an gave
expert testimony as to wounds, etc.
Rev. Jno. VV Farrar, a northern ,
evangelist or missionary, testified
as to Green's good character; hesides
which, several neighbors,
j friends of the accused, tesified in
I lys behalf.
j Mr. Hazard addressed the jury
i in the alternoon, and was lollowled
bv Solicitor Wilson.' Thev
I both discussed I he legality of the
| arrest, and ran over the main
| points of the evidence. During
i the course of his argument, Mr.
; Hazard defended the character and
i repuation of Mr. Farrar, who had
| testified to the fact that he lived
jin a house in Georgetown with a
, colored woman, and who said (hit
he generaly "bunked" with the
(negroes;. Mr. Hazard hough it
very hard that any one should
| take offense at Mr. Farrar and his
| methods of dealing with the "poor
'negroes" Mr. Wilson said, in rei
ply, that the only reason why he
| was inild on the old gentleman j
j was because of his gray hairs, but j
he thought Mr. Hazard should let j
old man Farrar and all his ilk se- j
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verely alone. j
The Judge then charged the i
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jnry-a* to the law in a dear and j
explicit manner, wlu>n he ju v
re'iied io consult, ami were slid!
in t iifir rc.< a; when we went to j
press.
No one seemed to know when
the jury would agree; a mistrial
was looked lor.
Georgetown, Feb. 18.?Court ad- j
jonrned here today, concluding with [
the Poetou-T timer nmrde.* case,
which has attracted so much attention
in Georgetown and Williams
burg counties. The jury decided iu
a few minutes on a verdict, in which
the negro, Green, was fully exonerated.
It will be remembered that, had it
not been for th* quick action of this
county in claiming Green us its prisoner
and bringing him away from
the scene of excitement he would
very probably have been lynched by
a voilent mob. This is truly a lesson
fraught with grave and serious
warning.?The State.
Lake City Newsy Notes.
Mr. M A Thomas, who lives near
Cades, was in town during the
week.
The Legislature having adjournI)r
A H Williams returned to his
home Wednesday night.
Dr. J C Fulmo?e has moved into
his ni\v residence on East It It
Avenue.
Miss Carrie Kirton, who is teaching
at Perganios, spent Saturday
and Sunday at her home.
Mrs. J C Fulmore, who has been
visiting relatives in Charleston for
the paist week, returned Wednesday.
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The bell of the Methodist church
has been taken down. It is hoped
that a new one will be purchased
soon.
Mr. T P Driggers, accompained
by his son, Archie, of Bethel, Florence
Co., was In our town on Saturday.
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There was quite a pleasant sociable
given at the residence of the
Rev. A McA Pitt man Friday night
A goodly number of boys and girls
aiul wime young ladies were present
The amusements of the evening
were social games, music and
conversation. All present seemed
to be in the best of spirits, and after
remaining until a late hour,
went on'their way home rejoicing.
JOHNSONS
CHILL AND
FEVER TONIC
Cures Fever
In One Day.
The brush and currycomb are far
less used oil cows than they are on
horses, yet they are quite as nec.
essary to the animal's comfort.
Who has not seen cattle rubbing
their sides against a fence or tree
or their backs under some over,
hanging limbs-? It adds to their
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comiori 10 ruo inem uown, ana n
draws the blood nearer the surface,
so that the animal is warmer.
Wilh the same feeding a wellgroomed
cow will keep in good
condition when she would be
scrawny and rawboned if no
regularly curried or brushed.
Consumption!
I Will SCOTTS EMULSION j j
cure consumption? Yes and J J
[ no. Will it cure every case ? J ;
j No. What cases will it cure I
? then ? Those in their earlier |
[ stages, especially in young |
i people. We make no exag- ?!
gerated claims, but we have |
positive evidence that the I
early use of x
Qrnft'c Fmiilcinn 2,
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of God-liver oil with Hypo- %
phosphites of Lime and Soda 11
; in these cases results in a %
[ positive cure to a large num- $
| her. In advanced cases, how- %
[ ever, where a cure is impossi- % j
1 hie, this well-known remedy $'
! should be relied upon to pro- %
\ long life surprisingly* %
JOC. and $1.00, all druggists. V
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a final discharge as cxeciuo^H^H
eMate of II. \V. Brown.
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Feb. 21,189ft. rxecu^^MI
Ladies Who ijuiiefl
From any con)plaii)t peculiaj^H
their sex?such as Profuse,
ful, Suppressed or Irregular JV^HI
struation. are soon restored
health by V
Bradfield's Female Regulator]
It is a combination of remedial '
agents whicb have been used With
tfoe greatest success for n>ore than
! 9S vonr* and known to act ID8<li?
fically with and on th? organs of
Megstruation, and
J3pj recomrgcnded for
such compialots
\ ogly. It gever falls
to give relief agd
Ulwlfetf { restore the health
| of the suffering
/ Wr womar). It should!
iL 156 taKeg by the j
vW i 'iVvsM ^ust budding
fJi' I [ Iwjj igto womanhood |
ffaV wheg Megstrua-|
if' '~~aticn 14 Scant, Sup- |
^ pressed, Irregular
^ or Palgful, agd,
all delicate worgeg should use it. j
as its togic properties have a wog-1
derful igfluonce ig toging up and !
streggtbenlng the systeig by driv- i
ing through the proper channels |
all impurities.
"A daughter of one of my customers mined j
menstruation from expoen/a and cold, sad on
l?i .4 _t^. (./.
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wrecked, until she was twenty-four years of
age, when upon nyr recommendation,she need
one bottle of BredffoltPa Female Regulator, completely
reatorinc her to health."
J. W. Hsu.cms, Water Valley,Uiaa.
Tmc Braopicld Regulator Co., Atlanta, Qa.
eoca bt au. druggist* att $1 RCA eOTTLC.
It is estimated that North Carolina
mills are consuming annual
Iv 50,000 more ba'es of cotton
than are produced in the State.
Johnson's Chill and Fe*
ver Tonic is a ONE-DAY
Cure. It cures the most
stubborn case of Fever In \
24 Hours.
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The name California, derived'
fmm t hu ii?n iinanicli ivurdu t !ji1_ i
ienle Farnalli-i. e, Hint furnace*wis
give" bv Corfez in the year
!5-35 lo the peninsula now known
i i- Lower Cal fornia, o| which he
wast lie discoverer, 011 account of
its hot climate.
Whooping cough is the most distressing
malady, but its duration
can be cut short by the use of one
minute cough cure, which is also
the best known remedy for croup
and all lung and bronchial troubles.
Wallace & Johnson.
An immense meteor, followed
by a shower of meteoric stores, fell
near the big sand butte about
twenty miles southeast of Duboise,
Ind., last week. The concussion
was so great that it caused a perceptible
vibration of the earth,
j which was distinctly felt within a
radius of twenty miles, and was al
first supposed to be an earthquake.
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CHILL AND
FEVER TONIC
Cures Fevei
In One Day.
The revenue men are laughing
at the trick played on one of the
deputy collectors by an Orange
County, N. C., distiller. The latter
wanted a new still, the old one
being nearly burned out, and
could get a new one fpr $15,00
He removed the cap and other
pnr'.s of the old still and then got
$10;00 from the revenue men for
informing as to where it was located.
Thus he got his new outfit
for only $5 00.
What pleasure is there in life
with a headache, constipation and i
billiousness? Thousands experience
them who could become perxtly
healthy by using De Witt's
Jttle Early Risers, the famous little
pillsl Wallace & Johnson.
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close self-adcjressed stamped
ope. The Dominion Compai^BH|
Dept. W. Chicago.?3Mon.
Agents Wanted JS? B
new wall map of this state, 28 x 42
inches in size, five colors, on heavy i
paper, and with tin at top and bot- MB
torn. With index of towns on bord- B^fl
er showing location on map anjL-JHH
population figure. Sells at-apftp- ^^^B
nl:tr price. Se-d 50c ami get sum- fl
plcand terms frr county agency. |
Rax i), AicNali.y & Co.,
Chicago, 111.
Wa ntpH AT OXCE-Bright
it an vou,,g man tohandle
our celebrated Lubricating Oil and
j Greases. Salary and expenses. Enclose
stamp for .particular. Address,
ckfscent oil co.,
Minneapolis, Minn.
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For the speedy and permanent cure of
tetter, salt rheum and eczema. Chamberlain's
Eye and Shin Ointment is
without an equal. It relieves the itching
and smarting almost instantly and
I its continued use effects a permanent
cure. It also cures itch, barber's itch,
scald head, sore nipples, itching piles,
chapped hands, chronic sore'eyes and
granulated lids.
Dr. fair's Condition Powders lor
horses are the best tonic, blood purifier
and vermifuge Price, 83 cento. Sold by
Wallace & Johnson.
CITATION.
STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA.
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COUNTY OF W ILUAX8BUKG.
By E. M. Smith Esquire, .
Probate Judge.
WHEREAS W W Grayson, Clerk of
Court, of Willinmsbtyg Co, ban made
suit to rn?> to grant nun letter* of administration
of the E?tate of and effectr
of Josh B Chandler these are therefore
to cite and admonish all nml singula? ' >the
kindred the creditors of tliet said
Josh B Chandler, deceased, that tney lie
and appear before me. in the Court ef
Probate, to be held atKiug-tree S. C.
on March lOtli after publication hereof
at 11 o'clock in the forenoon, to show
cause, if any they have, why the said
administration should not be granted.
'Given under mv hand, this 8th day
of Feb Anno Domini, 1898.
Published on the 10th day of Feb
1898 in the'County Record.
fc. M. Smith,
2t. P. J. W. C.
Bridge To Let.
The chairmen of the boards of
toWnship commissioners of Lake
and Lee townships will meet the
county supervisor at Bass's Bridge, ejrS
Lynches creek, on Wednesday
March 2, 1898, at 1 o?Icock a. m. ' ^
for the purpose of ietting-the' contract
for building bridge at that
place. . ,
B.B. CHANDLER,
County Supervisor
J. J. B. Montgomery,
/ 'Clerk.
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