The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1905-11-30
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.
The Central hotel at Marion was de-
stroyed by fire last Monday morning
about one o'clock. The loss is about
$1,000.
It Is said that section of swamp land
about seven miles below Aiken has been
burning for the past eight years. The
burning ground covers about an acre.
Several cases of small pox have devel.
oped in Manning. One prominent mer-
chant of the town is down with 1t. Sew
eral negroes have the disease, and 1t is
hard to enforce quarantine.
Fire destroyed the dry kilns of the
Gardner & Lacy Lumber Company at
Georgetown Tuesday night. None OF the
machinery was damaged, but the loss, in
lumber chiefly, is about $25,OO0.
Chief Justice Pope last week granted
temporary injunction against closing
the dispensaries in Greenville county.
The case is to be heard by the State
supreme court on next Monday, Decem-
ber 4th.
The Comptroller General is not yet
prepared to make an estimate on the
amount received from the tax on dogs,
but the State Superintendent of Educa.
tion thinks that it will run up at least
$4,000 this year.
L. Reibling, beer dispenser, was con.
victed on Monday in the circuit court OF
Spartanburg on the charge of violating
the dispensary law in maintaining a nui-
sance in running a beer privilege house.
He will appeal to the supreme court.
Governor Hayward has decided to send
the dispensary constables back to Dar-
liugton county, and they will not be with
drawn from Greenville and Spartanburg:
Hereafter the constables will be retained
in all counties voting out the dispensary.
w. A. Holman, of Charleston, has
been appointed special judge for an extra
term of court to be held In Hampton
county. Mr.. Holman was appointed a
special Judge for term of court in Cam.
den, but the members of the bar Cancelled
the call.
The case of the State against the archi'
tect and contractor of the State house was
commenced in Columbia last week, and
is being continued this week. Some SEN
sational testimony has been introduced,
and it seems clear that the work was
poorly done.
John Abercrombie was found dead in
the woods near his home in Laurens
county last Monday. he left home with
q shot gun, and it is supposed that he
committed suicide. He was desperate
character, and at times had terrorized his
neighborhood.
A sufficient number of voters have
signed a petition for an election in Lau-
rens county on the question of dispensary
or no dispensary, and the supervisor will
order the election soon-to take place,
the Advertiser says, probably the second
Tuesday in January.
Great excitement was caused in Green
vile late Monday night by the discovery
of q baby, few hours old, in q house
in questionable part of that city. The
child was expensively clothed and had
money in its clothes; and more money
was assured for its support by the man
who left it at the house.
Charleston is to have union passenger
station at last. On Wednesday the con-
tract for the new depot was let to Mr..
Grant Wilkins, prominent contractor
of Atlanta. The bid was $152, 600, being
the lowest among nine competitors. This
union passenger station will fill long
felt need in Charleston and we hope to
see it completed soon.
The dispensary election in Williams
burg county has been contested on &C
count of irregularities. The dispensary
people employed lawyer who appeared
before the board of election commission
ers when they met to declare the result of
the election. The canvassing of the re-
turns was postponed until Tuesday,
December 18th, when the case will be
fully argued on both sides.
Governor Hayward has been asked to
pardon P. w. Hutto, q white man from
Orangeburg. On December 20 Hutto was
sent up for manslaughter and about IT.
teen months ago went to Columbia and
gave himself up voluntarily after the
supreme court had decided against him
ment papers, however, and Hutto pre-
sented the unusual spectacle of man
seeking admission to the State prison
and being refused for "a hours.
No wonder the North is rich and the
South hard up. The yankee knows the
value Of what he wants and buys under
that. The Southerner rarely thinks ahead.
Some time ago Judge Watts sold the tim
S2s. GOO. Within three months the buyers
refused an offer of 100000, and now
hold it at $4,000. That reminds Us of
remark of the late Governor johnson
Hagood to US about Is years ago: "The
time will come before very long when
every good pine tree of mill size in Barn
well county will be worth five dollars" ."
-Barnwell People.
q. Frank Bamberg handles the best
buggies and wagons, yet the prices