The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1905-12-21
IN THE PALMETTO STATE.
INTERESTING OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS
KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA.
State News Boiled Down for Quick Reading
Punsent Paragraphs About Men
and Happenings.

and Happenings.
Saluda has Joined the ranks of anti
dispensary counties. The dispensary was
voted out of that county Tuesday by a
good majority.
President Benjamin Sloan, of the South
Carolina college, has rendered his reslg-
nation, he having reached the age limit,
but the board of trustees will not accept
it.
Mr.. L. ]. Jones, postmaster at Lodge,
Colleton county, was tried in the United
States court in Charleston last week on
the charge of fraudulently cancelling
stamps, and was acquitted.
Pomaria, one of the most prosperous
towns in Newberry county, was almost de-
stroyed by fire last Thursday morning.
The loss is $4,000 or more, most OF the
business houses being burned.
The business mems league of Orange
burg has contributed $500 to the Orange
burg Collegiate Institute, Baptist board
ing school in that city. 1t is proposed to
raise $4,000 as an endowment fund for
the school.
The monument erected to the late n. G.
Gonzales was unveiled in Columbia last
week with appropriate exercises. The
address was delivered by DR.. s. NJ. Smith,
pastor of the first Presbyterian church OF
Columbia.
Judge D. A. Townsend's term as Cir
cult Judge having expired he has resum-
ed the practice of law at Union. D. E.
Hydrick, of Spartanburg, has been sworn
in as Judge, he being elected by the legis-
lature at the last session.
The celebrated Farnum papers were
turned over to the State Supreme Court
last Monday. They fill large trunk,
and the Judges of the court will examine
them privately Then they will decide
whether any Or all of them are to be
turned over to the dispensary investigat-
ing committee.
An election was held on the dispensary
question in Fairfield county last week,
and the county decided to keep the dis
pensary by small majority. Fairfield
is the second county to retain the dispen1,,
pensary, Florence being the first. In all
other counties where elections have been
held the people voted out the dispensary.
The bill providing for a new Federal
judicial district in this State has been
again introduced in congress. Senator
Latimer has introduced bill in the Sem
ate providing for appropriations for the
erection of public buildings at Anderson,
Chester, and Greenwood, also to enlarge
and improve the postof1ce building in
Greenville.
One of the ledgers of the Union cotton
mills, which mysteriously disappeared
fromthe offices of the company, and for the
return of which unmutilated reward
was offered, was found last week upstairs
in the store of the mill company at Union.
But number of pages had been cut out
of the ledger, and these pages contained
accounts which were important.
Last Friday morning at Gaffney, Milan
Bennett and Abbott Dawson were shot
and killed by George Hasty. Bennett
was instantly killed and Dawson died
the next day. Hasty was one OF the
proprietors of hotel at Gaffney, and
the two dead men were members OF
theatrical company. They claimed Hasty
had insulted two lady members OF the
company, and while discussing the mat.
ter he pulled his pistol and commenced
firing. Hasty claims self-defense, saying
one man had knife. The sympathy OF
the people of Gaffney is with the dead
men, and the killing is condemned.
A hearing was had before Judge Watts
at Cheraw last Saturday in the matter of
q new inquest over the body of r. K.
Dargan, of Darlington. The Fidelity
Mutual Insurance Co., of Philadelphia,
which had policy of $4,000 on the life
of Dargan, has declined to pay the
claim, and brought the action to require
the coroner of Darlington county to hold
a new inquest, claiming that the inquest
held over the body of Dargan was irregu-
lar and insufficient. Judge Watts de-
clined to grant the order, but gave the
right to renew the motion at any time. 1t
is stated that the insurance company will
resist the payment of the policy unless
another inquest is held.
Dan Murphy is back in the South Car
olina penitentiary again. Last week Su-
perintendent Griffith, of the penitentiary,
Mr.. G.. B. Kittrell, of Orangeburg, and
Corporal W. E. Hardy, of the penitentiary
guard, went to Swainsboro, Ca, and pos
itively identified the man in Jail there as
Dan Murphy. At first he denied his iden.
tity, but later he confessed that he was
Murphy and told the story of his escape
from the penitentiary and what he had
been doing since. He seemed to be glad
to get back to South Carolina, for he says