The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1903-06-18
Terminal Property Ordered Sold.

at Beaufort.
Terminal Property Ordered Sold.
A decree has been filed in the Uni.
ted States circuit court in Charleston
ordering the sale by receiver on July
IA of the East Shore terminal property
in that city, including the water front
terminals and ware houses and cot
ton compressors. The total upset
price is $4,000.
Fired First Shot Of Civil War.
Major W. F. Gibbs, who fired the
first shot of the civil war from Fort
Johnson. on Morris Island, upon Fort
Sumter, on April II, 1861, died the
past week in Columbia.
Major Gibbes was gunner IN Cap
tain George James company, to whom
General Beauregard sent the order to
open fire upon Major Anderson In Fort
Sumter. He was postmaster at Colum-
bia under President Cleveland.
Two South Carolina Boys Pass.
1t was announced at Annapolis, Nd,
a few days ago that the following
among other candidates for admis-
sion to the naval academy had sue
cessfully passed the medical examina'
tion and were ordered to report at the
academy for duty. They had previous
" passed the mental examinations: s..
A. Clement, Virginia; M. C: Shirley,
South Carolina; Leonard Mill, South
Carolina. ..
Relief Work in Spartanburg.
The work of relief is progressing
satisfactorily in Spartanburg. Tents
and rations furnished by the war de-
partment arrived promptly, and the
local committees are doing active and
effective work. The chief object now
is to remove the thousands of opera
tives to other points. Ten mills in
this state and North Carolina, have
already agreed to take care OF sever
al hundreds families. Some have al
ready gone. The Southern railway
has most generously offered free
transportation to his army OF work
ers.
Charleston Hotel Forced to Close.
The doors Of the Charleston hotel
were closed last Monday afternoon by
the present managers, who decided
/ that in the face of the outstanding
! debts against the hotel and the deter
mination of the hotels creditors to
place the hotel in the hands of re-
ceiver, that it would be best to close
the hotel for the present. ~
Monday morning Manager Palmer
notified his guests that the hotel would
be closed to the public at 4 o'clock
and asked them to mack arrangements
for accommodations elsewhere.
The guests gathered their baggage TO-
gether and moved to the other hotels
in the city. This is the first time in
. over a half century that the doors OF
the house have been closed.
Converse College Unseathed.
In the reports Of the terrible disas-
/ ter wrought by the flood in South
Carolina which appeared in the press,
1t was stated that Converse college,
one of the leading educational institu'
tions of the state, was probably dam
| aged.
It subsequently developed that the
report was unfounded and there Is no
DANGER of the school closing its doors,
as was then imagined would be neces-
sary. The college, 1t Is stated, has not
lost a dollar and is really In better
condition than it has been in years.
Converse college was founded sorae
years ago by D. E. Converse and at
the time of his death the institution
was named as one of the beneficiarles
under his will. The fact that part OF
the endowment Of the institution con-
sisted Of securities in the Converse
! mills gave rise to the report that II
would suffer by the damage resulting
from the great food. The officials de
clare the school has sustained no loss
! however.
Cause Of Recent Cloudburst.
Following the recent floods which
! cost so many lives and resulted in such
an enormous loss to property in Kan
sas and South Carolina, a scientific
statement as to the probable cause OF
! such conditions which make sucn
floods possible is not untimely. Sec
ton Director J. W. Bauer, OF the co
lumbia weather bureau, in recent IN
terview, said the great forest fires
which ragged throughout New York and
New England for the past few weeks
are the primary causes is both inter
esting and instructive.
The causes that produce ordinary
rain are fairly well understood in re
cent years, or, to state it in differen'
words, meteorologists agree that be
fore condensation ct the vapor OF the
atmosphere is possible to produce
even the smallest drop of rain there
must be a nucleus of dust Or some for
| eign matter on which the condensa
ton takes place; the drop then en-
larges by additional or accretlona
condensation until it's weight is enough
to cause it to fall to the ground.
1t is possible for drop to grow un
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