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THE UNION TIMES.
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VOL. LVII NO 6. UNION, SOUTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1907. $1.00 A YEAR.
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I (It UlSftNSAKY DOUBLY DAMNED.!
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OThe Abolition of the State Grog Shops
Gives This "Grafting Machine"
the Black Eye.
It is often said that one cannot
touch pitch and not be smeared. In
I regard to the "whiskey business that is
true, certainly. Into the dispensary of
South Carolina many men have gone
with clean reputations; but not one
such has come out. In spite of the
revelations of crookedness brought out
by the invcstigathig committee last
Pj*oi, wwt.li DitiuKiu ai>t>ui a 'decree
ftbm "ibe people ft?r the abofction of
tlfte Sfate grog shop, the directors of
t"he State liquor machine hwe gone
on violating the law in mose flagrant
manner, according to the report just
made by a special committee of investigation.
Although the law specifically
^ requires the directors to advertise for
"bids from houses which <Besire to supply
the State dispensary, the records
of the business as reported by this committee
show that "Rirecltor Black went
in person to IVoria, fill., and bought.'
2ibout $125,000 wrrrth of liquor without
:a bid, upon the State's credit; and that
the same brand of Whiskey as quoted
iby other howses oti the open market
could have been bought about 20 per <
cent, cheaper than tthe price Mr. Black
paid for it. The lboard of directors,
nvLurumi; tv) xnc ropoTt, nave lreqmrtrt- 1
ly violate*! the 'Jnw in regard to purchases,
bids, etc. AH the warehotwe
room of the dispensary is crowded
with whisloey and fhcrc arc standing
on the side tracks in the Colombia
freight ynTds 35 ?rarloads of liqwvr for
the dispensary. The commissioner
swears he has repeatedly protested
against the conduct of the board of
directors, hut "all to no avail. And it
will be so as lU.ng as men deal in the
vile stuff. Wen with clean reparations
have gone into tlie dispensary, hut
none have come out.
Or. 'Bpdbst's Lecture.
Special
Carlisle, "Feb. 7.?Dr. Flavins Rrobst.
of the New Orhrans lyccum Imwau,' delivered
his lectvre here last night on
"Smiles and Laughter," in the school |
building. Owing to the unfavorable
condition <of the-weather there was only
a smaTl number present. Or. Urobst
is a pleavmg speaker and deligV/led his
audience wtih jokes and humorous anecdotes.
His phiSosophy on the ibene.
tit of laughter a-ml smiles wa* very
good.
Mr. M. <C. Denver, who ha* 'been
-quite sick with grippe for the 1a?t few
days, was able to *it up for a sfhort
-while today. His Ivost of friend* wish
for him a speedy revovery.
I Roland Glenn Young, son of &. 'G.
Hill, is quite ill.
Death of Col. B. T. Clayton.
Col. R. F. (Clayton, one of Aivcier sori's
oldest, roost prominent anil most
amiafblc ctiizem, died on February '(*>.
He was born in Greenville in 1X20. A,s ;
a young man he came to Anderson and'!
'H has spent a long and uscltd life there,,j
living lor the latter part ?Vf his life mi i
[>' "his fine farm neair the city. He was.
a great admirer oi!' tine stock and did I
much to lead the 'Jarmcrs <vf his secS?
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to better and progressive mcth-.
His passing removes one of the j
" most beloved figures in Anderson |
f county.
'k A Runaway.
I Mr. Robert Vaughan was run over :
1 last Saturday afternoon by a to\orse
3 ridden by Mr. Israel Berlin. The acV
cident took place just in front of Mr. I
H O. A. Swygert's store on Main street.
Mr. 'Berlin had "Keen warned as t<?
reckless driving several times during,
the day By policemen. The horse was
a wild one. Mr. Vatighan was pretty
badly cut tip. He wa< knocked senseless
and his collar bone was fractured.
| He was carried to Dr. Austell's office
where he received medical attention.
At last accounts he was doing well. '
The fault was perhaps more in the 1
/icious horse than in Berlin, hut the '
law against reckless riding in the city I
limits should be enforced.
Asst. Treasurer and Gen'l Manaqer. !
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i At a meeting of the hoard of direct-,
ors of Lockhart cotton mills held in
New Cork at Dcrring, Milliken & Co.'s
recently, Mr. Alfred Moore was elected
assistant treasurer and general
manager of the mill. Mr. Moore has i
for sever"! years been superintendent <
[of the Tucapau mills. I!
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SOME GOOD \D\
Mr. E. Mclver Williamson G
Who Wish to Have
For a number of years after I bewail
to farm I followed the old-time
method-of putting the fertilizer all under
the corn, planting on a level 01
higher, six by three feet, pushing the
plant from the start and making a big
stalk, but the ears were few and frequently
small. 1 planted much corn
in the spring and bought much corn
the next spring, until finally I was driven
to the conclusion that corn could
not be made on uplands in this section,
certainly not by the old method, except
at a loss.
1 did not give up, however, for 1
knew that the farmer who did not
make his own corn never had succeeded,
ami never would. First, 1 planted
lower, and the yield was better, but
the stalk was still too large, so I discontinued
altogether the application ol
fertilizer before planting, and knowing
thai all crops should be fertilized at
some time, I used mixed fertilizer as
\ side application and applied the more
soluble nitrate of soda later, being
guided to this by the excellent results
nihtained from its use as a top dressing
for oats. Still the yield, though
regular, was not large, and the small
A Shooting Scrape.
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William Treaty shot Frank Rioe at
Galilee churdh, neaT Sedalia. lllhc
shooting ?o?ik place Sunday after i
church. Rice .died Tuesday morning.
He was shot iin the nedk. ,
An inqoest \wns held by Coroiner .
Hames ore>r the Ibody of jRice on \V<t>d- 1
nesday. ll was .brought out that She j 1
two negroxes gut into a .qaurrel orer! ]
20 cents. *Beuty said to Rice: 'Tin 1
going to kill you."" He drew his pistcil <
and tired. Me then went off about 100 ;
yards, and returned and said: "I'm gr>- 1
ing to kill you." Wut did wot shoot a j 1
second time. The werdict ?>f the jury I
was that Rice came to his death from I
a gunshot wmund at die hands of Beaty. !j
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An Approacmng Marriage. :
Invitations arc out it<> the approaching
marriage of AI iss Lena Lonora 1
Lipscomb, of Gatifney, 1<> Mr. Joseph
Einil Johnston, of Greenville. The !
happy event is to come off Feb. 20th. 1
All iss Lipscomb is the accomplished '
daughter of Mr. \Y. Sam Lupscomb, '
and is sister of Messrs. C. ?. and Ed- '
ward Lipscomb, of Union. Mr. John- (
ston is cashier of the City National 1
Hank, of Greenville, S. C.? and is a |'
man of fine character and of excellent j
business qualifications.
The Times extends best wishes. May
life be "cme glad, sweet song."
Marriage at JonesvBle. <
Jonesville, Feb. 7.?At 8:.v> last night (
Miss Maggie High and Mr. James H. *
Alman were married at the home of ^
the bride's parents. Rev. D. E. Ca- '
mack pronounced the solemn cercmo- s
ny. About fifty invited guests were v
present. After the ceremony light refreshment*
were served.
Prof. Brobst delivered bis funny lec- 11
ture here last night in the graded
'chool house. About one hundred were y
present. ^
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Will Serve Cakes and Syrup p
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The ladies of the Episcopal church v
will serve hot cakes and maple syrup I
">n Tuesday at T. E. Bailey's furniture d
store. P
DEATH TO WALL STREET GAMBLING j
Some Good Work of Southern Gotton
Growers' Association. Hot After
Wall Street Gamblers.
We believe in the Southern Cotton
Growers' association. It justified its
existence when it discovered the leak
in cotton reports at the agricultural J
department. It has justified its exis- j
tcncc in other ways. The latest is in
getting after the great and mighty
New York cotton exchange through
congressional inquiry. It is dawning
upon the public that the said exchange
is after al!l but a lot of robber barons, ,
gamblers who play for large stakes,
who differ from the miserable bucket
shops trot so much as was thought.
Now the Southern States are in
rapid succession passing laws, against
dealing in cotton futures. The law in
Nortb Carolina has already been tested
in the courts and found proof
against the attacks of the exchange
people. Other States are following
fn?t. It is said such a law is before
our legislature. Let it pass. If \ve
do away with selling cotton futures in
A'merica the gambling in cotton will ]
have received its death blow. The
South will do it; and iits eyes once opened
the New Yorkers will have a
lonely time playing t!he game for the
Southerners* shekels.
Success to the Cotrton Growers* as- .
sociation.
Drain the Coast-side Counties,
Ex-Governor Hcyward made an address
on drainage for the coast-side
counties the other day before the '
house of representatives at Columbia. '
It is a worthy theme on which the |'
Governor is well posted. Ily all means
the coast-side counties should 'be!'
drained. Coastward South Carolina is '
both beautiful, sahflrrious and very fer- 1
tile. Tens of thousands of acres lie in
forest and swamp waiting reclaiming
and capable cultivation. The coast
belt will one day 'blossom like
and be the garden spot of America. 1
It is eminently adapted to trucking.
With drainage perfected even that terrible
bugaboo, malarial fever, will no '
longer frighten the timid up-coamtTytnan
when "hps interests call him eoastward.
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ness of the stalk itself now suggested
that they should ibe planted thicker in
the drill. 'Phis was done tV?? next
year, with results- so satisfactory t>.rt
I continued fem year to year t-o increase
the number of stalks and the
fertilizer, with -which to sustain them,
also to apply nitrate of soda at last
plowing, and to lay by early, sowing
peas broadcast. This method steadily
increased the yield, until year before
last 'with corn eleven inches
apart in six foot rows and $13 worth
>f fertilizer to the acre. I made Kj
bushels average to the acre, several
oi my best acres making as much a?
125 bushels.
Last year < 1905), 1 followed the
sanig. ntfetboil, planting ah- u.-eek
m April. 70 acres which had produced
the year Iwfore 1,000 pounds seed cotton
per acre. This land is sandy upland,
somewhat rolling. Seasons were
very unfavorable, owing to the tremendous
rains in May and the dry
and extremely hot weather later. From
June 12th t?> July 12th. the time -when
it most Thseded moisture, there was
only five-enjoins of an inch of rainfall
here; yet with $7.01 cost of fertilizer,
my yield was -52 bushels per acre.
Rows were *.ix feet and com sixteen
inches in drill.
With thi* method, on land that will
ordinarily jwwduuc 1,000 pounds o(
?eed cotton, \v?ith 800 pounds of fertiizer,
50 bushels <caf corn per acre sltould
tie made by .using 200 pounds of acid
ihosphate, 200 pomnds of cotton seed
meal, and 400 pounds of Kainit mixed
>r their equivalent in other fertilizer,
incl 125 pounds of nitrate of soda, all
to be used as side applications as directed
below.
On land tfzat will .make a bale and
anc-half of cotton per acre when well
fertilized, a hundred bushels of corn
diould be produced bv dotiblinc the
unount of fertilizer. except that 30c
jcuuuls of nitrate of soda should be
isc.d.
In each case there should be left on
he land in corn stalks, peas, vines and
roots. $12 to ?i6 worth of fertilizing
naterial per acre, beside the great henflit
to the land from so large an
unount of vegetable matter. I he place
)i this in the permanent improvement
if land can never be taken by commercial
fertilizer, for it is absolutely immssible
to make lands rich as long as
hey arc Lacking in vegetable matter.
Land should he thoroughly and dcepy
broken for corn, and this is the
ime in a system of rotation to deepen
the soil. Cotton requires a more
compact soil than corn, and while a
leep soil is essential to its best derelopment,
it will not produce as well
>n loose, open land, while corn does
test on land thoroughly broken. A
leep soil will not only produce more
leavily than a shallow soil with good
easons, but it will stand more wet as
veil as more dry weather.
In preparing for the corn crop, the
and should be broken broadcast durcig
the winter one-fourth deeper than
t has been ulowed hi?for?? it
egetable matter is being turned liner,
it may be broken one-third deepr.
This is as much deepening as
ind will usually stand in one year and
roduce well, though it may be coninued
each year so long as much dead
egetable matter is being turned under,
t may, however, be sub-soiled to any
epth by following in bottom of turn
low furrow, provided no more of the
ICE TO FARMERS
ives Good Advice to Farmers
$ a Good Corn Crop.
sub-soil jhan has been directed is
; turned up. Break with twt>-h?rse plow
if possible, or better, with disc plow.
With the latter, cotton stalks or corn
: stalks as large as we ever make can
; be turned under without having been
chopped, and in pea vines it will not
I choke or drag.
i Never I'j.'ivttwhen it ii wet, if
yovi *e*f>eci ever to have any use for
I ."vjiuiain,
l?ed with turn plow in six foot rows.
., leavin^tjvc inch balk. When ready to
plant, break this out with scooter, following
in bottom of this fur#ow deep
with Dixie plow, wing taken off.
. Ridge then on this furrow with same
| plow, still going deeper. Run corn
planter on this ridge, dropping one
grain every live or six inches. Plant
early, as soon as frost danger is past,
, say first seasonable spell after March
15th, in this section. Especially is
1 early planting necessary 011 very rich
lands where stalks cannot otherwise
be prevented from growing too large.
Give first working with harrow or any
plow that will not cover the ?lan?
For second working use ten or twelve
inch sweep on both sides of corn,
which sliould now be SDoiTT tr finhinhigh.
Tfcin after this working. It is
?u>t necessary that the plants should
he left all the same distance apart, if
die right number remain to each yard
of row.
Corn should not be worked again
. until growth has been so retarded, and
, the stalk so hardened, that it will never
, grow too large. This is the MOST
, DIFFICULT POINT in the whole
process. K.\periencc and judgment
(are required to know just how much
i the stalk should he stunted, and
I PLENTY OF NERVE is required to
. hold hack your corn when your neighbors
who fertilized at planting time
and cultivated rapidly, have corn twice
.t!> .size of yours. ('They are having
j their fun how; yours Wfft cbmr -wr
harvc-t time.) 'The richer the land
(the ni re necessary it is that the stunting
p. >ccss should be thoroughly
done. 1
When you are convinced that your
, corn has been sufficiently humiliated,
! you may begin to make the ear. It
i shock I now be front twelve to eighteen
I j indies high, and look worse than you
'hare ever had any corn to look before.
Put half your mixed fertilizer (this
' lx.'ii?Sg the first ti-r-cd at all) in the old
sweep furrow on both sides of every
middle, and cover with turn plow.
. About one week later treat the other
middle the same way. Within a few
.days side corn in first middle with sixteen
inch sweep. Put all your nitrate
of ,M?da in this Furrow, if less than 150
pounds. If more, use one-half of it
now. Cover with one furrow of turn
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invii *>'*\v pons in tins middle
broadcast at the rate of at least one
bushel to the acre, and tinish breaking
out.
In a few days side corn the other
middle with -aine -weep; put balance
i of nitrate of soda in this furrow if it
has been divided, cover with turn plow,
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sow peas, and break out. This lays
by your crop with a good bed and
'plenty of dirt around your stalk. This
i should be from June totli to 20th. 1111iless
season i- very late, and corn
should be hardly bunching for tassel,
i Lay by early. More corn is ruined
by late plowing than by lack of plowting.
This i> when the ear is hurt,
j Two good rains after laying by should
Intake you a good crop <corn, and it
will certainly make with much less
rain than if pushed and fertilised -in
11 lie old way.
The stalks thus raised are very small
land do not require anything like the
j moisture even in proportion to size
j that is necessary for large, sappy
stalks. They may, therefore, be left
jnuicn thicker in the row. This is no
new process. It has long been a custom
to cut back vines and trees in orjder
to increase the yield and quality of
fruit, and so long as you do not HOLI)
back your corn, it will go, like mine
so long went, all to stalk.
Do not be discouraged hv thr> t?r?Wc
of your corn (luring the process of i
cultivation. It will yield out of all proportion
to its appearance. Large
stalks cannot make large yields, except
with extremely favorable seasons, j
: for they cannot stand a lack of niois-j
1 ture. Early applications of manure go
to make large stalks, which you do not j
want, and the plant food is all thus !
used up before the ear, which you do
want, is made. Tall stalks not only will
S not allow you to make the pea vines, j
(Continued on Page Four.)
BUND TIGER POISON DID THE WORK.
Four Men Drank Blind Tiger Booze
Freely?One Dead and Other
Three in Critical Condition.
Four Gaffncy horse traders left that
I town on last Monday for a jaunt to
j Spartanburg, bent on swapping equities
to their pecuniary gain on the Spartahnurg
"hone yard," for it was salesday
and salesday is the approved day
for dealing in abused and trieky horse
flesh.
To make the trip "interesting." th<
four poor fellows fatuously procuret
from some place what is thought to
have been wood alcohol, of which
they all drank pretty freely. The
names of the men are J. F. Farmer,
Hosea Fright, Hud Bright and \V. M.
! Scoggins.
| They spent Monday night in Spartanburg.
Tuesday night at Mount Zion
and started for GatTney Wednesday
morning, but Farmer died between that
point and Cowpens and the others aresaid
to be in a critical condition at
Cowpens.
Relatives of the stricken men havegone
to Cowpens to see if they can be
of any assistance.
Theatre-Going Preachers.
-?my ffectarti
love of the histronic, and do not attend
even the good plays that come to Atlanta,
because there are so many who
would mistake my approval of the good
as an indorsement of theatre-going alan
institution, without discrimination."
?Rev. John E. White, I). 1).
"Here." says The Constitution, "b
where we differ from Dr. White."
And here, says The Georgian, is exactly
where we agree with Dr. White
Further than this, we share the view
| that when preachers generally indorse
the theatre because it is not whollj
had, and because some plays are good
there will he no one left to resent tin
vast number of plays that are wholh
evil.
ATtnvt Wfi wtOie'lieve that this of hi
times is not the time for the preach
lers to become more worldly instead o
'becoming more spiritual. The laps*
of the old time religion is pronounce*
enough as it is. and we are moving a!
'too fast in some directions toward .1
| church that "will not interfere eithct
with your politics or your business."
When the preachers are turned loose
j in the theatres, it won't be long before
they are at the race track which
J ""has some noble features" in the
game courage of the beautiful animals
| and tile cool courage of the little jocki
eys. And then, you know, it is a "great
training to the judgement" to "bet
|discreetly and successfully" upon the
| results.
Dr. Rroughton scores a strong point
in quoting Edwin Booth and Henry Irving
upon the danger and demoralization
of the stage and the watchful care
which they exercised over their children
in attending it.
The position of The Georgian is not
une oi opposition to the theatre. What
we stand ior is the preservation of the
pulpit in its purity and integrity,?as
an example and an influence in the
w< >rld.
Worldly amusements and frivolities
are not for the orthodox ministers oi
! the Xazarene.?The Atlanta Georgian,
News Around West Springs.
\\\->t Springs. Feb. 5.?The weather
has been ver\ unfavorable for the last
'week. We have had rain and now we
.have sleet and snow.
It i> with regret we learn that Mr.
1 S. E. Money has withdrawn from The
! Times. Mr. Monty has many friends
in West Springs who regret very much
to see him go. However we wish him
much success in his new field.
It seems that the work of the inccndiary
goes on. We cannot pick tip a
! paper without seeing the account of a
! house being burned somewhere. It
1 cannot be that all these burnings are
accidental. There must be some incenI
diary hand at 'he back of these fires.
I Let us see ' *e one who has caused
this gre?' of property is caught
and pjr .iied. Let us see if we cannot
s4op so many of these fires. If
this state of affairs is allowed to continue
no one can consider his property
safe at any time.
Mr. Curtis Gregory and Miss Leitha
Kingsmore were married Sunday afternoon
at two o'clock at the home of
the groom's brother, Mr. Berry Gregory.
They were married by Rev. J
R. Funderburke. Mr. Gregory is a
young farmer who lives near Gibhs.
and Miss Kingsmore is an attractive
young lady irom Buffalo.
I DEATH Of CLAUDE COLEMAN.
' | This Christian Young Man, of Eighteen
Years, Succumbs After a 3WR
Lingering Illness.
j Claude Coleman, son of Mr. Frank
Coletnan, of Jonesville, died Saturday,
January -?6th. Though he had been in
poor health for some time his death
was quite a shock to all his friends.
Voting though he was. only eighteen,
death held no terrors for him, and as .
he said, he was not afraid to die. He /
iihad been a member of the Baptist
I church since he was thirteen.?a mcm>
her in word and deed, one who lived
i i his religion. He was one of the most
active workers in the B. Y. P. I"., re'
cently organized at this place. During
the summer, when a series of prayer
! meetings were organized <>n Yarn
i Mill Hill, lie was one of the first to
I aid in conducting these, and frequently
made helpful talks at these meetings.
| He was found in his place at the Sun|day-school
on the Hill as long as his
health permitted, lie will he greatly
i missed in all these organizations and
j in the community. One of his friends
said that he was never known to do
.anything wrong. Can anything better
|he said of a young man? Of all those
l who miss him, his mother's grief is
Ithe sorest v XT ; "?
I.. ?iiotn such could he said, will surely
give her strength to hear the
i and send the
Ithcr so kadly need. It is well with him
because his life was true and he has
gone to the reward his Father had for
, him.
lie once told his mother that he wantled
to go tirst. so that he could be
i there to welcome her when she came.
Ilis wish was granted and now he has
passed over the river to wait for his
imother until she, too, shall he called
j to her reward.
*i < >nr sympathy goes "tit t ? his sorrowing
family, who sorrow not as
i "they who have no hope," hut in the
trust that God will bring them to him
jin his own good time. H. A. \V.
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A Serious Scrape.
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A few days ago Jack Jeter, a colI
ored man living on Mrs. I.eaty's place
I several miles west of Santuc, was found
l in his house in an unconscious condi'
tioii. Dr. Jeter, of Santuc. who was
called to see the injured man, found
''hint unconscious and with a severe
wound on the head, indicted by Walki
er Gardner, another negro. He was
[still living when last heard from about
noon Thursday.
Entertainment.
The Art Recital company, under the
j management of the Alkahest lyccum,
j will give an entertainment in Union
Monday night, Feb. 18.
The company is made up of Miss
j Mandeline M. Evans, 'celo; Miss Chris'tine
Giles, soprano and violinist; Mr.
Ross Crane, cartoonist. Those who
; attend may expect a pleasant and profitable
evening. The attraction is
brought to Union by the U. 1). C., and
(the ladies request a liberal patronage.
Reserve *eats 7^c; general admission
; 5?c.
Goes to New York.
Cant. K. I.. Clark will leave Monday
for New York, where he goes to purchase
a stock of goods for the Clark
Clothing company. The new concern
' will i .iii-ii -
. , . ...i iniMill-ss 1110 lir>t Of
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March. Capt. Clark says he is going
t<. >tart tip with an entirely new stock
of goods. He does not expect to purhase
any of the old stock of the
Bai'ey-Copeland Co., but will have
i only the newest goods and latest
styles.
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Will Governor Remove Board ?
Governor Ansel will hear arguments
today in the matter relating to the
! removal of the dispensary State bo^rd
'of control. Director Joe B. YVylie appeared
before Gov. Ansel at noon
I Tuesday and argued the point he raised
a few days before, viz: that the governor
has no right to remove without
first giving notice to the accused that
I they must show cause why they should
, not be ejected from office. Today
i the governor will hear the
'of the attorneys employed by the
1 board.
Bamberg was visited by a disastrous
tire Tuesday morning. The tire
i- thou-.'it to have been the work of
incendiaries. The loss is estimated at
$jc,ooo, with only partial insurar.ee.
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