The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1888-08-23
PROSPERITY LETTER.

Miss Ida Devlln, or Due w est, Is
visiting Miss Mary Boyd.
Mrs. Eliza McKellar spent Monday
in town.
Mrs. G. G. DeWalt and family have
returned to their home from Walhall;l.
The health of the town is very good,
and ferers are ut 4 prenlinm.
Mrs. Mary Johnson and Miss Lila
Kibler, of Newberry, are visiting Mrs.
J. \. Simpson.
The young people had a social on
Tuesday evening at Judge Hairs,
which was quite a pleasant affair. The
Judge is widower you know.
The writer may now be found, and
will be glad to see his many friends at
\. Fl. Kohn's cheap dry goods, grocery
and fancy goods store.
Prosperity and surroundings are still
dry and parched up. Below us rains
have been good and crops are good,
bat here the crops have, and are still
suffering fearfully from the drought
and intense heat.
Mr.. J. B. Edwards, of Due West,
who has been elected 1st Assistant OF
Prosperity High School has arrived
and is about his work. The school
opens on the lst Monday in September.
We hope to see this school open well,
and be literally patronized.
The political caldron has quit boiling
and is now seething. 1t looks some
times like the old thing will spring a
leak and burst anyhow. Political fuel
is being added every day and the old
POI just trembles and seethes and
uuivers, but we have a hope that her
tension will stand the strain until the
2Sth inst, when she will be allowed to
simmer down and cool off.
We will bet red apples that 1881 votes
are not absolutely necessary to noml-
nate candidate for the House of Rep
resentative, in Newberry County, not
withstanding there are only five candi-
dates for the place, and there may be
just 1900 votes. 1t is true that 9Ol is the
majority of 1906, and it is also true that
in this case it is possible, not however
probable, that all five candidates may
receive more ,nan majority of the 1900
votes. In such contingency, the rules
of the primary are plain and wise, and
provide for the nomination ofthe three
candidates who receive the highest
number of votes above the majority. Nc
number of candidates can effect the
real majority of 1900 votes. No one car
be nominated without receiving 9O1
votes or more.
On last Sunday evening our usually
quiet town was thrown into consldera'
BILE excitement, which continued lc
grow in feverishness and intensity urti
late on Monday afternoon.
Wade H. Suber, who had been with
old Uncle Abram Moore, had beer
missing for week. On Monday the
18th inst, he came to town with a bale
ofcotton for Mr.. Moore. He sold the
cotton, got the money and started
home, but never reached there. The
driver, Lawson Counts, negro, sac
that he had left Mr.. Suber in town
Mr.. Suber did not put in appearance
and the negro was questioned more
closely, and his answers become al
variance, and it was found that Sube
had been seen Ly different parties OF
wagon on the way home, still he neve
reached home. Soon suspicion pointed
to the driver, Lawson Counts, as having
foully dealt with Mr.. Suber, and in
vestigation developed sufficient circum
st:;ntial evidence to secure a warrant
for his (Counts) arrest. Henry Suber
brother of Wade's, swore oct war
rant on Sunday evening, chargin!
Lawson Counts with the murder o
Wade Suber. The warrant was exc
cuted about dark on Sunday, an(
Counts safely lodged in the guard house
Lynching was even spoken of, so stron!
was the circumstartial evider ce, ant
to prevent anything going wrong, :
strong guard was placed around tn
guard house. On Monday a large part,
of good men was organized to maxi
diligent search of the whole count.
around where the murder was supposed
to have been committed. The resUl
tended to corroboratc tine circumstantia
evidence already attained, and the
Trial Justice felt justified in committing
Counts to jail Oh charge of murder
The commitment was written out, tn
negro tied and put on the Lauren
! train, when a messenger arrived will
authentic information that Wade Sube
had turned up at the Windsor Hotel il
Spartanburg. The train had started
the bell rope was pulled and the trair
stopped, and Counts was taken off and
released. He felt happy, you bet, bu
not urite serene. Had Suber beer
"comatable" just then he would no
have Jared very well. Tbs case show.
how misleading circumstantial evi
dence can be, and to what bad result
it may lead, and it is admitted by al
that it was a case of exceedingly Strong
circumstantial evidence. The negro
brought it on by his lying before any
suspicion was attached to him, and by
the disappearing suddenly of two othe'
negroes, who from the beginning were
! cu,,r,ra3 to have bppn his accounlicec