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".'Sf y6'll shet erp yer month,
^in'r'l, En' qait er ^otberin' me wi'
yer talk, I'll do it yit!" cried the
coat, with peevish fretfuluess in his
oice. "Mary Ann cayn't stan' no
ich jawin' es this yar 'at ye'r a-giviu'
us! Go on erbout yer own business
n* le' me erlone!"
The general probably did not hear
these words; but if he did he made no
response, for Peevy was a privileged
character.
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iur. reruuu ntuun muic auu iuvuvuless,
his eyes fixed upon that desperate
horseman.
"Order your men to shoot at that
officer?that renegade yonder!" Jack- |
on stormed in the old man's ear.
Mr. Vernon made no respouse, but
turned aud walked away.
Just then the batteries and the rifles
of Carroll's men all roared out as one.
A level flood of destruction poured
cross the ditch. For a few moments
the smoke enveloped the American
line so that nothing could be seen.
Still the marksmen had the range and 1
kept on firiug b^ guess, doing frigutfui
havoc.
When the cloud lifted, the whole
British army had melted away. All
f over the level field lay heaps and
windrows of the slain. A few scattered |
/ i. olmi.n in ilia distanee their !
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wearers in precipitate flight. Broken J
i cannon, t am bled fascines and crushed
Udders marked the straggling route j
/ of the British Forty-fourth Regiment, j
J which had been assigned to the duty j
of making the ditch croseable. One ,
company, not far from the river, was |
seen trying to re-form, although half !
of its men wore already dead and the j
living ones nearly all wounded. i
The rider who had been so boldly i
oouspicuous was urging his sorely j
crippled horse away across the held j
toward the wood. He still had the |
reins in his teeth, while both arms j
dangled at his sides. |
The terrible thirty-two-pounder was
fired once more, and the horse weut
down, torn into shreds; but up rose
that dark, determined cavalier and
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A yell of admiration burst forth
from the victorious Americans as they
gazed.
Then a still stranger sight met their
eye9. A tall old man, who had climbed
over the breastworks from the American
side, set off at a tottering but
singularly swift gait in the direction
of the British lines. When he reached
the fatal ditch, beyond which the
ground was heaped with slain, he
floundered through it and arose,
muddy and dripping, on the farther
baak. There he paused for a moment,
wiped the ooze from his face and theu
went right on.
was Max Burns, the preacher, j
* And who was that little man running
after hira? The onlookers had scarce?
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Ij naa time tu m?*o um uwui o iuv
cloud of smoke settled down cgain
*Dd hid both from view.
Mr. Vernon stood like a grim statue
-while this was goiug on. Very well
he knew what it was that impelled
both Burns and Vasseur. 1
CHAPTER XXV.
PRISONERSTVhen
Lapin recoiled before the incoming
men out at the plantationhouse
and uttered the name of Pierre
Ram*:;, Mrs. Vernon, Pauline and
Mademoiselle de Sezannes began to
ahriek, rushing together into one another's
arms.
Colonel Loring entered, followed
by two or three ill-favored men. If
he was snrpriaed at seeing the three
ladies so fiighteued at the mere mention
of hia name?the name he had
eome to like best?he did not show it
in bis calm, cold face, or by even the
lightest movement.
He stood a moment as 11 to mate
tare of bis vision and then stalked
forward in his peculiar half-graceful,
half-dogged way to whore the group of
frightened and crying women stood.
"Why, Madame Vernon!" he cried.
'Is this you? And you, Miss Pauline!
And Mademoiselle de Sezannes!"
He looked at them askance, but
with no particular interest.
"Oh, it is Colonel Loring!" cried
Mrs. Vernon, springing toward him,
almost as if to embrace him, in her
sudden sense of reiief. "I was frightened
nearly out of my senses; oh, I'm
so very glad!"
The man smiled so that his face for
the moment flashed forth a fascinating
light from its almost stolid features.
He took Mrs. Vernon's hand,
and at the same time looked at Pauline
and Mademoiselle de Sezannes
"I am making my way to my
friend," he said, "and came in here
thinking to get some information. I
did not dream cf the pleasure of finding
you here."
He told the lie with consummate
i ease and naturalness.
The young ladies now came forward
smiling through their tears and greeted
him warmly. For the moment even
Mademoiselle de Sezannes forget that
he had made himself odions to her.
Meantime Lapin stood openmouthed
and wondering to see that
terrible robber received so consider>.lr'y
by his mistress and Pauline.
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Vj r.ot*rt Bonder's Sobs.
I oeriect mdiirerence in his tone. "I
think they are quite near here."
Mrs. Vernon recoiled from him,
horrified. Pauline's face whitened.
"Butyou are jesting," said Mademoiselle
do Sezannes. "You would
not do that."
"Why not?" ho demanded, with
something like brutal emphasis.
"What should hinder me? These
Americans have set a price on my
head; and, besides, I am a Scotchman.
1 owe my allegiance to my
country."
The scene in the theatre rose in
3IademoiseIIe de Sezanues's memory
at once, and so vividly that she
clasped her hands and uttered a little
cry of pain and anger.
Loring smiled sardonically, feeling
her thought, as it were, flung upon
him.
"This country is too small for both
me and my enemies," he smiled, "and
so for a few days I leave them in possession;
but when I return," and his
face showed a sudden concentration
of passion, "when I return they will
be glad to get out of my way."
Ho turned and waved his hand, and
his men retired from the houso.
"Go give them something to eat,"
he said to Lapin.
Then he began tramping heavily
back and forth across the floor.
Pauline went to him and timidly
yet with a certain firmness laid her
| hand on his arm. She walked beside
! him. It was a strange picture they
I mmld Tlifl nrirl's lmuulse could not
j have been explained by her; she felt
j as if she could save him, as if 6ome
[ great spring in her nature compelled
her try.
The thought that the British array
was very near her had affected Mrs.
Vernon to such a degree that she
could not feel the full force of what
was impelling Pauline. As for Mademoiselle
de Sezaunes, she stood
shivering with a chill of blended emotions
while she gazed at Loring.
It is the last refinement of torture
when we feel that we hate and detest
and yet have to admire. Loring compelled
Mademoiselle de Sezannes's admiration
in some mysterious way.
His manly beauty, marred with tho
gloora of evil as it was, had yet tho
fascination which captivates while it
repels.
- "Do not go," murmured Pauline;
"stay with us. I do not know why,
but 1 feel that I cannot let you go."
Her appeal was so simply spoken,
so earnest, so evidently straight from
the heart that Loring looked down
into her face with sudden softening
of his cruel eyes. He did not speak,
but she saw his look.
"You know tliat it is not right for
you to??"
"Right!" he interrupted. "I never
did a right thing in my life. Doing
right would be a new experience."
"Begin now," she urged. "You
I will find it very comforting."
"Do you know who I am?" he demanded,
almost gruffly.
"Yes, I know."
"No, you do not. If you did, you
would not touch me, speak to me,
look at mo. You would abhor me."
"I heard your name just a while
. M
ago.
"Ah, that name! Yes, you heard
that. Is it not dreadful to you?"
"You might be a good man yet."
"The words come easily; but deeds
are not ao lightly fashioned. If I had
always had one like you to influence
me "
"It is yourself that must do that.
You are no child to be influenced. I
am scarcely more than a child myself,
but I know that "
"You know absolutely nothing."
"I know that, if you would try, yon
could be a good man. Forgive me, if
I say that you are bad; but "
He laughed outright and looked at
her as one looks at a child when it has
said some laughable thing.
She let go his arm and stood facing I
him. Her attitude and her fresh deli- |
cate beauty mime ner iook iikb u utu,
graceful flower.
He reached a baud and half caressingly
touched her hair. It was the
thing that a brother would have done:
there was no way of resenting it.
"I'd iather have a biscuit than a
lejcture," he said, lie1-*1- ?noueh.
"Can't you offer me something to eat
! and drink? I'm hungry.
"Yes, certainly."
They together approaehed Mrs. Yer;
nou aud Mademoiselle de Sezaunes,
j who had been standing helplessly looking
upon what was to them an iucxj
plicable scene.
"Colonel Loring has not had dinner,"
Pauline said to her mother; "wo
j must be hospitable."
Mademoiselle do Sezaunes shrank
' away as they came up.
Loring noticed litis and gave her a
smile which made his face show all of
its evil beauty. He waved his hand
at her and said: i
"You hate me beceuse 1 punished
Ttallanche for his impudence." His
j lip curled.
"He and Jackson will be apt to remember
me," he added, after a mo!
ment's pause.
j Mrs. Vernon hastened to set some
j food for him, aud he ate and drank
i heartily.
Pauline was in a strange stato of
mind. She felt irresistibly urged from
within to do something, she knew not
?>i.ar, for tuo bcuclit of this dark,
wicked, fascinating man. L\made her
shudder to see liirn, and sue slirarir
from the thought of his past lifeknowing
now that he was Pierre lta?
meau, the outlaw?but yet some.fountain
in her heart hied for him, some
center of sympathy iu the deepest
chamber of her scul sent forth a thrib
in his behalf. Sue was, to a degree,
like one in a dream, albeit she realized
to the full the hopelessness of ihe desire
that was forming in her breast.
How could 9he do anything to turn
this strong man back from evil? Sue
remembered that she had, when e
child, seen the officials taking a young
man to the scaffold to be executed.
Ho was a mere youth, hard-faced and
repulsive; but ever since she had regretted
that ehe could not go to bird
and show him thatono of all the world
was sorry for him. Why should she
recall that scene at this moment? The
human heart beats through mysterious
rhythms. We can never say by what
labyrinths the roots of sympathy travel
to reach their end. If Pauline could
have known all the history of
this man, she might have
feltVione of the inexplicable fascination
which came to her like a vague
but powerful ^minder of something
sadly but unmistakably imperative in
her nature; but she was aware now of
just enough to arouse all the romauce
as well as all tho pity that an inexperienced
young girl's heart can compass.
When Loring arose from the table
at which he had eaten, he turned to
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peared aboat to speak, but he checked
himself.
"Thank you," he said to Mrs. Vernon.
"I was very hungry. I will
now go to the British lines, unless"?
he hesitated just for a breath?"unless
you will permit mo to help you and
the youqg ladies back to New Orleans.
Indeed, this is no place for you."
lie had scarcely ceased speaking,
when one of hisnieu unceremoniously
broke into the room and exclaimed,
with blunt, rough vehemence:
"We'ro surrounded! The British
are all arouud the pjace!"
When Loring's companion ran in
with the cry, "We are surrounded!
The British are all around tho place!"
the ladies were dumbfounded. They
stood like white-faced statues.
Loring did not appear to iind anything
startling iu the situation.
He walked boldiy out through tho
front door, followed by his man. As
ho passed close to Mrs. Vernon, he
stooped toward her and said, with a
ring of impatience in his voice:
"Your husband must have been
nnilfl nnt nf liia uonaPQ TvllAJl lift RPllt
you ladies out bcre. But be calm.
\o\i shall not hi ill-treated."
There was a stir out-of-doors ?a
sound of voices. Some low commands
were given. Mrs. Vernon and Mademoiselle
de Sezannes became hysterical,
but l'auline, though pale as a
ghost, seemed to have found ample
strength to bear whatever was to
come. She thought she heard her
father's voice at the door. It was
Loring speaking with the British officer.
The two entered n moment later.
"Thny must be taken to some place
where they can bo protected." Loring
was saying.
"Certainly, if it can be done," the
officer replied. "But we are in no
condition to take care of ladies.
"Send them to New Orleaus."
"No, sir. That is against positive
orders. We are to permit no white
person to go from us to the enemy.
No; we must take them. If you are
what you claim to be, the general will
receive you lumiiy ami gives iue muies
the best comforts that he cau command.
That is all that I cau say."
"I advise you to treat me with reipect,
sir," said Loriug, very calmly,
lml fixing his eyes with a malignant
itare on thuse of the officer. "You
srill know more of me."
"Do as I command you!" exclaimed
the sturdy Englishman. "I'm not to
be bullied by a prisoner! Bundle up
these women and put them on your
aorses. You will walk. There's no
lime for talk. Move along!"
Loring compressed his lips, bnt
said not another word. He saw tlin
(or once he had fouud a check to hi.*
arrogance. He explained to the
ladies that all were prisoners and
British "commander's headquarters."
"I commend you to the good-will
of Lieutenant Barnaby," he said,
bowiug with perfect easa toward the
officer. "He feels as big as a drummajor
at present."
"Silence, sir, or I'll have you
gagged in an instant!" exclaimed the
lieutenant.
"You could not gag a hen!" sneered
Loring.
The lieutenant wr>opea oui ms
sword; his face was ablaze with
choler.
Tho ladies began to shriek. Pauline
sprang between the men. Loring
put her gently but forcibly aside;
then lifted the lapel of his coat and
leaned forward.
"Put your sword-point through
that!" he exclaimed, laying his finger
on a shining badge that covered his
heart. "Thrust away, young maul
Thrust away!"
The face of the officer paled as suddenly
as it had reddened. He stood
us if faltering for a moment, and then
saluted.
Loring responded with lofty indifference,
and turiug to Mrs. Vernon
bade her make haste to go with her
captors.
"I will protect you all," he said,
turning to Mademoiselle de Sezannes.
"Yon will be safer with the army than
in Naw Orleaus." After a moment
he turned to tbe lieutenant and said:
"Hurry things up, let us be off."
It was a curious change; the prisoner
seemed to be in commaud.
"You will ride my horse," he said
to Pauline, taking her gently by the
arm, "and I am going to walk along
beside you. Wrap yourself up well,
for it is chilly out in this night fog."
(to be continued. i
BAPTIST CONVENTION,
Important Work That Was Done in
Annual Session;
Sumter. Special.?The Baptist Con
vention accomplished a great deal of
work here last week. Reports were
full and encouraging. At Saturday's
session Dr. J. D. Chapman reported
for committee to nominate trustees of
the orphanage as follows: J. N. Brown,
J. K. Durst, C. P. Evin, W. H. Hunt
and R. N. Pratt.
Dr. H. A. Bagby moved that a telegram
of ackuowledgment be sent to
Mrs. I. G. McKIssick for her gift to the
orphanage. Carried.
Rev. R. T. Marsh moved that the
convention recognize in a suitable
manner the splendid services of Mr.
John W. King in the great work of increasing
the Furman university endowment.
On motion of Dr. Baglev the following
committee was appointed to make
recommendations as to enlargement
for the coming year: W. W. Keys, H.
A. Bagby, J. B. Shelton, J. D. Chapman
and R. W. Sanders.
The report on the report of the orphanage
superintendent was offered by
Rev. Rufus Ford. It expresses entire
satisfaction with condition of all the
affairs at the orphanage. Special recommendations
are made in regard to
having an orphanage day each year.
Mr. B. J. W. Graham of Georgia
stated that after some considerable
observation he is profoundly convinced
that the Connie Maxwell orphanage
is the best managed institution
of the kind in the Southern Baptist
convention.
The following standing committees
were appointed by the president:
Order cf Business: O. L. Martin,
H. A. Bagby, M. A. Connors and B. J.
Woodward.
Foreign Missslons: C. M. Billings.
J. D. Pitts, T. P. Lide, M. W. Gordon
and S. R. Beliechampe.
Home Missions: J. H. Boldridge,
John O. Gough, F. M. gatterwhite, N.
B. Fallow and W. H. Dowling.
Sunday Schools: J. S. Ccrpensing.
P. Easterling, S. R. B*rs, J, E.
Brunsou and P. C. Freeman.
Young Peoples Union: W. B.
Oliver, Wm. Haynesworth and C. C.
Vaughn.
Temperance: J. H. Edwards, F.
O. Curtis, W. E. Thayer, F. C.
Ilickson and C. B. Bobo.
Chairman of Committee on Obituaries:
J. W. Perry, with a member
from each association.
The next session goes to Chester.
Dispensary for Winnsboro.
Winnsboro, Special.?Winnsboro will
have a beer dispensary unless something
is done to prevent the carrying
out of the decision of the county board
cf control to the effect that a beer dispensary
be opened at an early date. It
will be recalled that this matter came
up several months ago when a petition
was presented by Samuel Simpson to
the State board of directors asking for
the establisment of beer dispensary
at this place where a regular dispensary
was doing a thriving business. A
counter petition was also presented at
the same meeting, and the authorities
of the State machine referred the matter
back to the local board with the
authority to establish said dispensary
unless a petition against it should be
presented bearing the signature of a
majority of the registered voters of the
township in which Winnsboro is located.
The said petition was presented,
and with the records that the county
board had before it they decided that
it contained the necessary majority and
so the instructions of the State board
were not carried out.
The next step was a summoning of
lip mpmhrrs of the county board to
appear before the State board and
show why their instruction had not
been carried out. The whole matter,
however, was referred back to the local
board with the resu't that it yesterday
reversed its previous action. Those
who have opposed the establishment
of the said dispensary will now take
out an injunction against its establishment
till certain facts can be decided
by the courts. The issue is in regard
to who are voters. According to the
registration board there are a great
many names there of parties who do
not now reside in this township and
who have been away from it long
enough to be entitled to vote elsewhere.
Those who oppose the dispensary hold
that these are not now entitled to vote
in the township and their names can
not therefore be counted in making up
the list of registered voters. Those
who favor the dispensary not only
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warn lilt: iiuujca ui iuuov oU^u .....
counted, but they also claim the names
of those who are registered elsewhere
and who have been here long enough
to have registerd If thy had only attended
to it. Both of these points have
been submitted to the attorney general,
but for some reason he has deferred
giving an answer in the matter.
The Brunson Bank Robbjry.
Branson, Special.?For the robbery
of the Bank of Brunson six suspects
have been arrested so far, but only two,
Ed. Parker and Mike Brady, have been
hound over for court: the other four,
having proveO an alibi, were released.
It is sincerely hoped thai the perpetrators
of this crime will be speedily
brought to Justice. The two now held
for trial wer seen around Branson for
several days preceding the robbery,
...u!?v >?/.( tiiov siHmit and vpf erive no
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plausible reason for being here. It
would be wise for the town council to
enforce the vagrancy law more rigidly,
thus perhaps preventing such crimes.
New Enterprises.
The Mab Lumber company of Georgetown,
which received a commission,
is capitalized at $20,000, the petitioners
being LeGrand Walker and E. L,
Lloyd.
The Chicora Realty company cf
Charleston, a real estate business, received
its charier. This enterprise hai
j a capital stock of $400 and its ofUcerf
are: Henry H. Ficken, president; J,
H. Armstrong, secretary., and William
1 Fait, treasurer.
WINTBROP COLLEGE REPORT.
Good Work Beinz Done by This
School for Young Women.
Thetrimtees of Winthrop College
met in Columbia last week to prepare
the annual report to be submitted to
the general assembly and to suggest
a budget of appropriations necessary
to carry the college through next
year. Among those in attendance
were: Gov. Hey ward, President Johnson.
Mr. John E. Brezeale of Anderson,
Superintendent 0. B. Martin, Prof.
Joyner, Senator G. W. Brown and Mr.
D. W. McLaurin.
The following is a synopsis of President
Johnson's annual report:
Winthrop College has begun its
ninth session with the largest enrollment
in its history. The enrollment
in the college classes since the opening.
Sept. 16, i3 474. There were 790
applicants for admission. A gratifying
feature in connection with the admission
of new students this session is
the fact that comparatively few waited
until the opening of the session to
stand the entrance examination. Most
of the applicants stood the entrance
examination held at the county court
houses July 10 or came up with certificates
from accredited schools. It is
very much to the interest of prospective
students to stand this county
examination and it is hoped that in
time all new applicants not from accredited
schools will do so and thus
be saved the expense of traveling to
and from the college and the mortifim
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cation or Demg sent, uumc i:- v.asv ?.
failure to enter.
The enrollment in the model schools
and kindergarten thus far this season
is 199, making the total number in all
departments cared for by the college
593.
Every county in the State is represented
in the enrollment.
The following is the enrollment by
classes:
?cniory 60
Junior 80
Sophomore 115
Freshmen .147
Special 72
Model school (children).. .. 91
Kindergarten (children) .. ..23
Total cared for by college.. .593
The average age at the beginning
of the session was 13 years two and
one-half months?over three years
above the age required for admission.
There is no sub-freshman class.
Among the new students admitted
this session are 63 graduates of high
schools and colleges. Of those in attendance
42 have taught school before
entering to further perfect themselves
as teachers.
The health of the student body is
good.
The normal courses have been much
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strengmenea uy tut? muuuutuuu vt [
I manual training, which is being taught
by Miss Wickliffe.
There are 36 instructors and assistants
in the college and nine executive
officers.
It has been the endeavor to so conduct
the college as to make it a pleasant,
busy and well ordered home. The
object has been to develop self-control,
to strengthen character. Privileges
heretofore confined to the senior
class have been extended to the whole
school this session and the students ]
are responding with a fine spirit of j
loyalty to the confidence and trust
imposed in them.
An Exchange Suggestion.
The school board of London has proposed
to Superintendent Martin that i
a sort of correspondence school be j
opened up between the children at- I
tending the London schools and the I
children attending the schools of j
South Carolina. The board's idea is j
that the children here write compositions
and descriptions of the country
and exchange these with the cihldren
of London for similar compositions.
The idea is a good one. Superintendent
Martin thinks, and it will be submitted
to the school authorities of Columbia,
Greenville, Charleston, Spartanburg
and other towns, and in the meantime
should any of the schools desire
to take it up the adress of the board is
Victoria Embankment, W. C., London.
The Camden Bank.
j The statement or tne rarmers ana \
' Merchants' Bank, of Camden, S. C., the
president and cashier of which killed
themselves on the same day, is not encouraging.
The depositors and credit,
ors will get their money eventually, but
$72,370, belonging to the stockholders,
will not be realized. On the day of the
double tragedy, when the bank closed,
the cash in hand was $171.99.
State Superintendent's Report.
Superintendent of Education Martin
is preparing his report to the Legislature,
and while statistics have not
been received from all counties a
pretty accurate idea of the school
population as to races is obtainable.
The negroes constituting the larger
part ef the population have the largest
school enrollment, but the proportion j
I is not perhaps larger than that cf the
whites, when population is considered.
The total enrollment for the year
; hows a large increase, it being 2S6.S92
against 243.400 for the previous year.
Of the total for 1903 the white pupils
munbe'' 133.070 and the colored 153."10.
The figures for 1902 were 120,995
whites and 131,465 colored.
New Enterprises.
The Secretary of State has issued
a charter to the Darlington Drug Company,
of Darlineton. capitalized at
S3.000. W. B. Hoole is president and
treasurer, and A. S. Dargan secretary.
A commission was also issued to the
Woodruff Agricultural society of
Spartanburg county, capitalized at $2.1
300. The petitioners are L. H. Yrby, A.
' W. Smith and others.
J A charter was given the DavisReeves
Drug Company of North, capitalized
at $1,000.
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Palmetto Matters.
A very sad accident, about which
but little seems to have been known,
occured on the Seaboard Air Line near
Osceola, In Lancaster county, on Monday
night of last week. Paul Lowery,
whose home was at Doster, near Monroe,
got upon the rear end of a vestibuled
car to go to Monroe from Catawba
Junction, but not being able to
get inside of the vestibule door,
Lowery swung on to the car, having a
grip In front of him and pressed up
against the door. Near Osceola there
Is a long rbek projecting out of the
side of a deep cut. As the train whirled
along at a high rate of speed, the rock
struck the young man's head, killing
him instantly. His body was not discovered
until the next morning, when
an inquest was held. Lowery was
about 20 years of age and was esteemed
as an excellent young man.
His fate is a melancholy one, but no
blame it attached to the railroad authorities.
It is reported that on Monday,
Sheriff Cornwell, of Chester, shot a
man from Spartanburg whose name
could not be learned. According to the
rumor Sheriff Cornwell was on a Seaboard
Air Line train and was appealed
to by the conductor to suppress
two young men whose conduct was
bad. When the sheriff attempted to use ?
his authority, both men took oJ|.their
overcoats and showed fight, but the
sheriff was not to be bulldozed and
held his ground until the train reached
Leeds, when he attempted to put the
men in the guard house. They grabbed
up a lot of rocks, but being
pushed they ran, and the sheriff, happening
to be going hunting and his
shotgun being handy, pulled down on
one of the men, filling his leg full of
bird shot. This stopped both the men
and they went into the jug at Carlisle.
The government distillery of J. H.
Beard, about three miles from Greenville.
together with 2,500 gallons of
whiskey, was seized Monday by dispensary
constables and United States
revenue officers. The valuation of the
property seized Is estimated at $5,000.
In the government warehouse the officers
discovered a trap door leading
into the basement, where was found
3S1 gallons of contraband liquor. Warrants
have been issued for the arrest
of several parties.
There came near being a stampede
in the Neely's Creek church in York
county Sunday night. The shingles in,
the roor caught a nre r:om"aeieeo7?_
flue while the services were in progress
and the congregation was not
long getting on the outside of the
building. Fortunately some young men
ran to a nearby neighbor's home and
secured a ladder, while others carried
water. The flames were subdued before
muh damage was done. The building
was Insured.
The Southern Railway has filed notice
of appeal in the verdict rendered
against It by a jury at the recent session
of criminal court in Columbia in
the suit brought by John Pickett for^"
the loss of his arm. The suit was for
$10,000 and a verdict for $8,000 was .
rendered. Pickett was a messenger
bnv who lost his arm at St. Matthews
while trying to board a moving train,
the agent having refused to sell him a
ticket.
In Kershaw Sunday Dr. R. S. Beckham.
Sr., father of Dr. R. S. Beckham.
Jr., a former resident of Rock Hill,
was stricken with paralysis while making
a talk before a church conference
in the Methodist church. His condition
was considered serious and his death
expected at any time. He is a physician
of long experience and a man who/
has always taken a prominent part y
the affairs of his country
Mr. Ben Neal, a prominent farmer 0?^
the Meeting Street section of Edgefield
county fell dead in the street
Monday. He had just left the bank,
where he had some business, and was
preparing to go home when he threw
his bands to his left breast and sank J
to the ground expiring in a few
seconds. He leaves a lance family to
mourn his untimely end.
There are no further development# ^
in the Abernathy tragedy at Fort
Lawn, but parties from that town say
that the community is almost unanimously
of the opinion that the killing
was purely accidental. This is made
almost absolutely sure by Abernathy*#
remark to Miss Thomasson that he believed
he would commit "susancide,**
and her Jocular reply, "What wfth?
soothing syrup?" Miss Thomasson
persists in the positive belief that it
was an accident and could not
been anything else. I ^
in tne annual report of the>State
superintendent of education will be
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from the county superintendents discussing
educational conditions. Improvements
needs and prospects. Mr.
Martin asked particularly for information
from those districts which
have levied special taxes, which have
centralized and consolidated schools,
built or improved any houses, established
any libraries or made any other
forward movement.
The censvts of 1900 gave Orangeburg
a population of 4,500, but since
then the city has made wonderful
strides and the most conservative now
place the population at 6,50#^ Newbuildings
have gone up on evSry- side,
both mercantile and for residence purposes,
and the work of crcltion continues
unabated.
It is estimated that Rlchand county
and Columbia will divide 140,000 dispensary
profits botwecn fcem. The
profits for December are slvays larger
than for other months, an| officials are
counting on that matefuiy neipmg
out until taxes come in.#
The L. C. Braddy c<Jpanv of Dll- J
Ion has received its chmer. This firm /"
which does a mercanJe business Ia?>
capitalized at $5,000 has 33 Its!
officers L. C. Bradd J president and
recretary, and Ana^^E- Braddy?
treasurer. J