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~ . . . . ~~"? I ... .i ~ .; ' rSTREE, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, MARCH 10,1898. NO, 10. || IM IIS OF IIMS1. AFFAIRS CAUGHT BY OUR LOCAL REPORTER AND NOTED. Written in Condensed Form and Printed in Like Manner for the Sake of our Weary Readers. Head the sheriif s sales in another column. March is here so lookout for some blustry weather. Monday was saledav, but no of ficial sales were made. There has been a great demand for rubber overshoes during the the past few days. onnoroienr'a mnnrt in Uvv HIV/ ova |/\ *ao v? v? ? ... another column of this issue of the County Uecord. Mr. George S. Burr took the oath of office as warden of the town of Kingstree last Friday. Mr. S. McB. Scott has been drawn on the Jrafakjory of the United States circuit cofcrt for the April term. lhe additions to Barr's hofl^are nearing completion, and add m uch to the appearance and convenience of the building. Snmter Watchman and Southron, March 2nd: Mr. Joel E.Brun 800, of Kingstree, 8 pent yesterday in the city on business. The crowd in town saleday was unusually small for this season *of t he year, bnt the weather was very rainy .and disagreeable. '''he Boyal Fraternal Union will meet next Tuesday night at 8 o'clock. Mr. Edwin Harper, C. 0., request a full attendance of members. The newly appointed board of supervisors of registration opened the registration books last Monday. $ee the advertisement of the boarl ? % diiAthus onltimn M is miuuiwi 'W<uM*u? # We have been asked to say that there were 86 votes >ast at the recent municftpa) election. We said as much in our last Issue, but some f people seem to have not understood it. The chaingang has Unshed all the work on the road just across the river, and left Monday for Lake Swamp, where several weeks (pent working the roads ke City and Scrauton. g is now composed of bers, two of wboui are ?n. >t our subscribers who res for their subscription March and who do not or to the 25th inst., will I they will not receive the! Iter that date until all s have been settled. We un anyone longer than We have recently sent al hundred bills to subind we would greatly ap I predate a remittance from every I one. We need the money. Nearly every day we receive letters from subscribers coinpli men'ing us upon the improvements we have made in the County Record since we have been in con! trol of the paper The latest one is from Mr. W. E. Snowden, of Hannah. a staunch friend of the County Record. While remiting for his subscripiion Mr. Snowden savs: "I am always glad to see the Record. No citizen of Williamsburg / can afford to do without it, and ta|| certainly no one is so iuapprecia ble as to read its newsy columns and not pay for it.** We wish that HV there were certain others who thought like this gentleman. I IT HAS INJURED SUSiNESS. The Lake Citv Affair Said to Have Hurt Values. To show to what extent the re cent outrage at Lake City has hurt the community at large, we will give a synopsis ot a conversation we had with a prominent business man of Kingstree a few day9 ago. Speaking of the occurence at Lake City," said the genllemau a let me tell you some of the effiw?ts that it has alreadv had UDon our country; For some mouths there has been going on between a prominent Kingstree lawyer and wealthy parties at the north a correspondence relative to the purchase of several large tracts of land iu this and Georgetown counties by the nor herners referred to. The moneyed men were, to u?e a trite phrase, wild to close the trade. Theyjintended buying up an enor mous amount of land down here and improve it and speculate. The lawyer has received Reveral letters urging him to close >he contracts for the property, and to let the speculators know when to come here to take charge of their purchases. Several telegrams passed between the northerners aud their attorney, the men being in such a hurry to gain possession of the land. The trade with me for a tract of land that I own was about completed, as were several other trades of like nature, when tliU Lake City affair occurred. Well, lo make a long storj short, the attorney received a let ter day before yesterday froin the northerners saving that after reading an account of the horrible affair at Lake City, they did not care to own any property in this section at all, an 1 instructing him to call off all options that had be n former ly offered. will give you some idea of the enormity of the offense committed against the iunocent public by the Lake City mob. Not only did thev commit one of the mosf horrible crimes that the State pvpr tnmvn against the State and moral laws, but their offence to business is almost irreparable." A New Postmaster. Mr. Louis Jacobs has been ap pointed post master at this place. The appointment of a post master here has been ''hanging fire" for several months, and, as a change was to be made, there are but very few who are not pleased at the appointment of Mr. Jacobs. Kingstree's new postmaster will take charge of the office April 1st. He will fit up a new building, and will have an office with all the modern fixtures and appliances. Mr. Jacobs intends fitting the 6tore now used by Misses Benjamin& Jacobs as a millinery store at once with an entire new outfit of boxes, both call and lock. Kingstree has long needed lock-boxes and now that out business men will be accommodated with them, there is a good feeling prevalent. We have decided ?oopen a reg ular prohibition column, to be edited by Mr. Joel E Branson, Grand Chief Templer of South Carolina. Every week there will appear articles from the pen of this eminent gentleman. The prohibitionists of the State have called a convention to meet in Columbia next month, a copy of which call is published in another column, for the pur pose of nominating a full State ticket, and the prohibition column will be conducted during the cam paign. / V RELIEF w K en. A RESOLUTION TO PAY THE WIDOW SI.OOO. Representative White, of North Carolina, Introduces Such a Resolution in Congress. Representative Geo. H. White has introduced the following resolution in the lower house of Congress: Whereas, on or about Feb. 21 100 or more armed men fired upon and killed the postmaster at Lake City. S. C., killing one of the family ana wounding several others and burning all they had: and Whereas, the said family is now suffering even for means Jor medi cal treatment ana ior otner nrjutrssaries of life; therefore be it Resolved, by the senate and house, That the sum of $1,000 is Jiereby appropriated and made immediately available for the relief of the said family. Congressman White is the only negro in the present house, and it was very appropriate that he should offer the resolution looking to the reliel of the family of Lake City's late postmaster. The resolution was referred to the usual committee, and will no doubt become a law pretty soon. f OSOROS H. WHITS. The United Mates goverment has increased the reward lor the Lake City lynchers t9 $1,500 for the first lyncher arrested and $1,000 for every subsequent one. This is the largest reward ever of fered by the goverment in a similar case and it is hoped that the amount is sufficiently large to induce private detectives to work 011 the case. The department has detailed several additional inspecters to investigate the case Senator Mason, of Illinois, has introduced a resolution into the United States Senate to have a Congressional committee com posed of three senators and three Kepresenatives appointed to go to Lake City and investigate the killing of Baker and the burning of the post office and its contents. ? County Sunday School Aa&ociaition. Mr. Frank F. Whilden, field sec retary of the State Interdenominational SuudaySchool As sociation, was in Kingstree last Tuesday, and a meeting of the Sunday School workers of the various denominations of the town met in the Methodist church Tuseday afternoon and decided to call a meeting ot the representatives of the various township organizations throughout the county at Kingscree on Saturday, March 26th, at 11 o'clock in the Methodist church, to decide upon a time and place of meeting and a . program for a county convention to be held at some subsequent dav. Mr. Whilden will be pres1 ent at the meeting on the 26 inst. and will render all the assistance in his power to have a full representation. i i The County Record one dollar a year. \ * v' JUS MEETING OF CAMP PRESSLEY. Delegates Elected to the Reunion and a Sponsor Chosen. A very important and interesting meeting of Camp Presslev, U. C. V., was held in the court house last Monday, Commandant D. E. Gorden presiding. Delegates were elected to the annnol ronninn ivhlVh IfllfPQ nlrtf'P liuai IVUIIIVII^ ?* tlavM vmmvw in Charreston this year, and a sponsor was elected lor the ensuing year. A Committe was appointed to draft appropriate resolutions pertaining to the death of the late Col. James McCutchen, one of the lieutenant commandants of the Camp, the said committee to report at the meeting in May. i The following were appointed delegates to the Charleston reunion: J A McElveen, S J Taylor, William Epps, J M Footman, W | J Ferrell, E M Smith, A W Fla ' ? ft |gler and li J uranam: i/ommaudant Gordon and chaplain J E Dunlop are ex-officio delegates. The fol'owing committee was appointed to draft the resolutions referred to above: J A Kelley, K D Rollins, W S Eaddy, J E McElveen, and Robt. Epps. The election of a sponsor consumed some time, as there were so many pretty and oopular daughters of ex Confederals mentioned in connection with the office. The choice finally fell upon Miss Mary McCutchen, a daughter of the late James McCutehen, one of the most charming and popular young ladie" it: ; he county. A few names were added to the a r vidy long IIo? ft)' cm rv it? ma stmt n i't?W Other ( IIOV UJ OM? * W?vr^ Mtsva ?? w .. ? j minor matters were attended to, I alter which the Camp adjourned. 1 NOUGHT TO BE A MURDERER. A Negro Arrested for Killing The Two Italians at Salters Last Spring. P H Davis, the negro arreted >a few days ago by a constable [from Magistrate Greek's Court, [ was lodged in Jail yesterday. It is thought that he is one ot the parties wno murdered two Italian peddlers near Salters in April last. He,will be lseld until some of the [ people from Salters and Strawber I rv can come here and identify him. Davis is accused of being a memI V ber of a bloodthirsty gang. After {he was arrested the constable who had him in tow was fired on eight itimes from ambush, but fortunate I ly be was not touched. A few days before the murder of the Italians three negro toughs entered a small store at Strawberry, on the AtlanticCoast Line, and after buying provisions opened fire on the clerk with Winchester rifles and pistols. In the scrimmage the negroes dropped a small book which contained their names, and told of their recent deeds. The book was evidently the property of P H Davis. It was generally believed around Salters that the murderers of the Italians were the same men who had committed so many outrages in the small town near Salters. Davis will be held here until an investigation can be made. ?News and Courier. ii For Sale. One hundred bushels of King's latest improved cotton seed at <1 ' per bushel. In lots of five bushels or more, TScts a bushel. Terms, cash with order. Apply to W G Rich, Gourdin, 8. C. Titles, mortgages, bonds, notes, liens and other law blanks at the County Record office. SOME Mil! MIME THE NAMES OP THOSE WHO ARE SAID TO ASPIRE TO OFFICE. There Will be Quite a Number of Applicants for the Various County Offices. As this is election year there is a good deal of talk as to who will be candidates for the variouscoutv office sin Williamsburg county That there will be a goodly num ber of gentlemen onering memselves as suitable men to fill the various offices seem very probable. We have heard a good deal of talk about the men who have intimated that thev would run, or who have said positively that he will run for any of the offices that aie to be filled, but what we print below has been gathered from talks with various prominent men living in different parts of the county. The primary election this year will select men to fill the following offices: State senator, three represenatatives, treasurer, audi tor, superintendent of educationand supervisor?eight offices in all. That there will be a score or more candidates seems an assured fact. The senstorahip wi 1 probably cause a lively scramble, as sena tor Williams has said that lie will not be a candidate for re-election this year. There have been several gentlemen mentioned to us in connection with this office, but no one seems to Know just who will try to succeed our present senator. However, there seems to be but little doubt that there will be at least two can4idates in the persons of MrW i< Singletary,of Scranton,and Mr. J. H. Black well, of Lake C^ty. The friends of the two gentlemen talk hopefully of/the prospects of them, but do not say positively that they, or either of them, will be candidates tor the position. Supervisor Chaadler will no doubt have several opponents, if the expressions of others count for ? - If. f P mucn. 11 IS saiu maw mcsncis ? . * . Epps, S. P. Bradshaw, Ed. Cox, W. R. Funk, F. M. Player and J. J. Eaddy will make the race for this office. For places in I he general Assem bly there is little doubt that the present represenatives will try. Mr. W W. Kennedy is said to ^s pire to such a position, too, as do also Messers E R Lesesne, T K Smith, W fcl Campbell and Dr. VVavne Gamble. The office of county superinteadaut of education, now filled by Mr. N D Lesesne, will be sought for by the incumbent and Mr. J J B Montgomery. Treasurer Rollins will find opposition in the persons of Messers. William Cooper, W B McCollough and J Davis Carter. It is not known who will oppose auditor Hauna, if that gentleman stands for re-election, as there seems to be some doubt about that. We have heard oi' no one who wants this job at all. Of course, as we said above, we we do not say positively that any of the gentlemen named above will be candidates. We have only put into print what we have heard talked by friends of the various prospective candidatesv but if all of them decide to enter the contest for office, the voters of the county will have no trouble in selecting suitable men to fill all the offices within reach. Persons having linen to send to a steam laundry will please leave same at Barrs Hotel. y t . Rubber Omrshi. WAR Willi \ Jii We have declared war upon our competitors, " onH in^AnH tn Itmii it ; ^ up. It will soon be springand we will begin* to receive i NEW SPRINO HOODS * To make room for our - " . i. . new stock wo will soil goods at prices that onr " competitors eant reach: ' : ' ' " Gall and see I '' \ . :,w>3 US. 1 r . llBSiE||l| Kings tree, . C. J -"3H &?ii|