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The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-05-02
SHE LIVED WITH NEGROES.
Strange Case of White Child Who
Was Raised by Colored Woman.

SAVANNAH, April 25.-A strange
case of a little white girl that had
lived all her life with an old negro
woman came to light today, and to-
morrow the child will be taken from
her negro foster mother and placed
in an institution.
Viola Glover, 8 years old, is one OF
the prettiest and brightest children
of the first grade of the Bernard
school. In some way it became
noised about that the child lived
with negroes; that, while unquestlon-
ably she was white, she yet went by
the name of Viola Reddy among the
negroes. = !.
Captain Sayers, of the Salvation
Army, was advised of the circum,,
stances. He investigated and found
the child with old Mary Reddy, on
Duffy street, where none but ne
groes lived. ,
The old woman's story was that
the child had been given her by a
negro nurse when but eight days old.
Both the woman and child wept
bitterly over the prospective sepa-
ration.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-05-02
To Vote on Prohibition.

COLUMBIA, April 27.-Of the "a
out of Al counties in the state re-
manning ''wet'' under the Carey
Cothran dispensary law seven are
about to vote on the question, with
the almost certain result that all
seven will vote out the dispensaries.
Although in many of the counties,
particularly those embracing the
larger cities, the new system is prov
ing successful financially, the tend
ency throughout the state is steadily
toward prohibition.
The counties which will vote on
the issue in the near future are,
Richland, Chesterfield, Barnwell,
Bamberg, Laurens, Kershaw, and
Lexington.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-05-02
COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS
SOME INTERESTING HAPPENINGS
IN VARIOUS SECTIONS.
News Items Gathered All Around the
County and Elsewhere.
Ehrhardt News.

EHRHARDT, April 29.-The wealth
er for the past few days has been all
the farmers could desire, and they
are taking advantage of it too, judg-
ing from the forsaken condition Of
the streets.
Misses jamie, Carrie and Ella
Moore, and Elouise Stafford went to
Lodge last Wednesday to attend the
Jones' Cone marriage.
The many friends of Mrs. G. A.
Copeland are sorry to hear of her
illness.
There will be a spelling bee at the
school house on the 10th of May.
The blue-back speller will be used.
Friends and patrons of the school
are invited.
Mr.. w. L. Warren went to Bam-
berg last Tuesday.
Mr.. S. w. Copeland went to Bay
ard, Fla, last Monday on business.
He will be gone about two weeks.
The wood rack of Messrs. Bennett
and Fox about half mile from here
was burned last Friday. It is near
the railroad track, but it is not
known how it caught. The train
was delayed about an hour on ac-
count of it.
The Mt. Pleasant Lutheran Sunday
school picnic will be on the 9th of
May this year. This school always
gives holiday for this picnic, and the
pupils are looking forward to it with
much pleasure.
LEROY WEsTERLUND.
Ehrhardt Graded School.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-05-02
Where the Money Goes.

We frequently hear the jug trade
mentioned as an excuse for the exist
ence of a dispensary in our town.
We would like to call the attention
of all such to the fact that all the
thousands of dollars paid for dispen.
sary liquor goes to the north and
west and nothing remains here
but the profits and that will not
be as much as heretofore. Some peo-
ple seem to think that the whiskey
sold in the dispensary is product OF
the State and therefore we must buy
it. We dare say that the Jug trade
whiskey of equal quality can be
bought for less than the dispensary
liquor and it would be a saving to
the people of the county, if they
must have liquor, to patronize the
jug trade.-Chesterfeld Advertiser.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-05-02
State Convict Suicides.

COLUMBIA, April PA white con-
vict named Strickland, sent up from
Anderson county for killing his
wife, committed suicide at the peni-
tentiary yesterday afternoon. He
had been confined in the hospital re-
Gently, on account of his condition,
which justified treatment, and while
on the second story piazza he jump.
ed over, his head striking the end of
the steps below. He lived for about
two hours.
Strickland was convicted of MUIR
der for killing his wife and at the
trial his lawyers put in a plea Of in
sanity, but the jury disregarded the
plea and found him guilty. He had
lately given indication Of mental dis
order and was under treatment
when he suddenly exhibited the
suicidal mania.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-05-02
Drowning at Whitney Mills.

SPARTANBURG, April 27.-J. A.
Searcy, an employe at Whitney mills,
was drowned in the pond at that
place this afternoon and not until
late this evening when the water
had been drawn off was his body
recovered. Searcy was % years OF
age and had been married only q
few months. He was son of j. D.
Searcy, who is also an operative and
came from North Carolina some
time ago to work in the mill. Searcy
and two companions were flshlng.
He either fell from the boat or
jumped in the pond intending to
swim to the other side, say those
who saw the affair, bnt proceeded
only a few yards when he went down
never to appear again.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-05-02
NEGRO KILLS HIS WIFE.
Jim Malloy Arrested Near Benefits
vile, Charged With Murder.

BENNETTsv1LLE, Apr. &.-Jm
Malloy, a negro, killed his wife Min
ME, this afternoon at 2 o'clock by
cutting her throat from ear to ear.
Jim and his wife quarreled three
days ago, at which time he whipped
her severely. She returned home to-
day. Jim said he was sick and stay
ed at home today. Both were alone
in the house, when the woman's
screams attracted the attention of
neighbors. At first Jim refused to
open the door. When, however, adj
mittance was gained the woman's
body was found on a pallet near the
fireplace.
A crowd of some 300 or 400 negroes
gathered and kept Malloy in the loft
Of his house until he was arrested by
the sheriff, who arrived shortly af-
terward.
The crime occurred on the planta-
ton of Messrs. T. S. and E. w. Ev-
ans, one of the largest in the county.
At the coroner's inquest held this
afternoon, Malloy refused to make
any explanation or give any reason
for the crime, He has been placed
in Jail.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-05-02
Parental Law Needed.

This is what a rural editor says
about young idlers. 1--WE are raising
too many society fops, parlor soldiers
and cigarette suckers and street
loafers. When we see a little foppish,
short dress, silly girl, just jumping
into her teens, gadding up and down
the streets, talking slang and flirt-
ing with the boys, entertaining
young jobless bloods in the parlor in
the night time when she ought to be
in her trundle bed beneath her moth
er's tucked snugly in; when we see
knee pants kids and beardless youths
loafng up and down the streets who
are too trifling to think and too stuck
up to do odd jobs around home we
exclaim it's not statutory law that
we need, but it's parental law. -
Kansas City Post.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-05-02
FIREBURds CAUGHT in YORK.
Believed to be Members of an Or
ganized Band.

Rock HILL, April 26.-The city
has been much interested in the re-:
ports which came here yesterday by
telephone and persons coming from
that section of the capture of three
negroes, who, it is said, were caught
red handed in an attempt to burn;
the barn of a Mr.. Garrison in Steel
Creek, Just over the river from
here. There seems to have been a.
regularly organized band of firebugs
at work in that community, there
having been seven barns burned
since Jan. l Of this year. The last
was that of Mr.. Frank Erwin, which
was burned Monday night and en-
tirely destroyed, together with g
number of stock. Mr.. Garrison
who lives not far from Erwin's con-
cluded that he would watch Tuesday
night, thinking that an attempt
might be made on his property next.
He did so in company with a neigh
Dor and about midnight their vigil
was broken by the approach Of three
or more negro men who came creep
ing on all fours toward the barn.
When the negroes were almost to
the barn they were called on to halt
and when they broke and ran instead
they were followed by loads Of shot
from the guns of Garrison and his
friend. This failed to stop them,
however, and Mr.. Garrison and his.
partner chased them with hounds
and captured three. They were later,
turned over to the sheriff Of the.
county. There are rumors that one
of the negroes has confessed.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-05-02
Liked Old Ways Best.

A painfully bashful young man
proposed to his girl by means of a
phonograph, to the waxen cylinders
of which he had previously told his
love. The girl was greatly surprised
and not displeased to hear her lovers
declaration, but the idea Of this
betrothal did not appeal to her.
Accordingly she sent her little broth
er with a note which read as follows:
Dear Sir-If you have courage
enough, you might come over and
tell me what you have to say, but If
you haven't, stay at home, for I'll be
jiggered if l am going to be hugged
and kissed by a phonograph if |
never get a chance to say Yes.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-05-02
Greenville's Record.

Both Kentucky and Tennesse are
inclining toward prohibition and
other States almost as famous for
their liquors are bending in the same
direction. It begins to look like pro-
hibition for the entire country few
wears hence. Most of us have grown
up with the idea that while prohibi-
ton was a mighty good thing it was
not practicable. The record Greenville
has made since the county went dry,
as compared with bar-room and dis
pensary days, is astonishing al
most unanswerable argument in
favor of prohibition. Gre enville
News.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-05-02
Boats To Columbia.

COLUMBIA, April 26. Capt. Geo.
P. Howell, of Charleston, the govern
ment engineer in charge of river
work in this state, was in the city
yesterday and Inspected the progress
made in the dredging Of channel
from the government dam to the foot
Of Senate street. Capt. Howell was
well pleased with the rapid advance
nent of plans and it is thought that
boats viii be able to come up to the
wharves, to be erected near Gervais
street bridge, within a few weeks.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-05-02
With Dispensary Llquor7

On last Tuesday Frank Fielder, a
colored man from the Bowman
neighborhood, undertook to paint
0rangeburg red, and as conse-
quence he fell into the hands Of the
guardians of the peace. He had
acted so outrageously that Mayor
Doyle determined to make an ex-
ample of him. So he fined him on
different counts $120, which Fielder
paid. This is a pretty big sum for a
man of Felder's means to blow in in
one night. Two other colored sin
ners contributed thirty dollars to the
exchequer Of the city for helping
Fielder in his effort to paint things
red -Orangeburg Times and Demo-
crat.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-05-02
IN THE PALMETTO STATE.
SOME OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS
KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA.
State News Boiled Down For Quick
Reading-Paragraphs About
Men and Happenings.

Senator Latimer has notified Com
missioner Watson that the congress
Dnal investigating committee on
immigration will come to South
Carolina soon to look into conditions
down here.
A recent disastrous fire with insult
fcient water pressure has led the
city council of Spartanburg to pur-
chase the water plant of that city.
til understood that the price paid
was something like $500, 1000.
A. B. Williams, editor of the Rich
mond News-L leader, has been invited
to deliver the annual address before
the South Carolina press association
at its meeting in Charleston June 13-
Is. He has accepted the invitation.
C. j. Holroyd, assistant engineer
at the waterworks plant in Columbia,
was drowned last Saturday in one OF
the basins at the filter plant. He
was subject to attacks of vertigo
and fell from a narrow ledge into
the water which was thirteen feet
deep.
Warren Lovingood, negro mail
messenger in Orangeburg, has been
bound over to the United States
Court on the charge Of cutting mail
sacks and robbing them. He has
been dismissed as messenger. The
evidence against him is said to be
very strong.
VIM. S. Green, formerly coroner
of Richland county, shot and killed a
negro hack driver named Nose
Tucker in Columbia last Friday
morning. The killing occurred in a
fruit store, and while it seems there
had been some sort of trouble be-
tween the men the night before, the
killing, from the testimony Of eye
witnesses, was an ,unprovoked muir
der
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-05-02
FAMOUS MRS. THUr1B.
She is One of the Littlest People in
the World.

Like a wispy little breeze out of
the past, came Mrs. Tom Thumb,
Countess Magri, through Shreveport
from Kansas City yesterday, on her
way to San Antonio, Tex, to join
the Gentry Bros. show. Accompany
ing the wee lady was her husband,
Count Magri, and Baron Madri, her
brother-in-law.
Sixty-fve years ago this little wo-
man, who has been one of the
worlds human wonders, was born.
Reaching the age when girls can fall
in love, the heart, in her, which was
as big as any other big girls heart,
went out to Charles S. Stratton,
generally known to the world as
Gen. Tom Thumb, and they were
married.
In the story books and newspapers,
the tiny couple filled many pages and
when Gen. Tom Thumb died much
sympathy was extended to his little
wife by crowned heads, rulers and
mere folks. But twenty-five years
ago the widow cousoled herself by
taking another husband, Count
Magri.
It is years and years since Gen.
and Mrs. Tom Thumb, and sweet
Minnie Warren, now dead, and the
walnut-shaped coach, drawn by his
four midget horses, delighted the
children and grown-ups of the land
as they drove through the streets or
presented the story Of cinderella
in packed theatres.
Times.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-05-02
Early Closing.

We, the undersigned merchants OF
the city of Bamberg, hereby pledge
ourselves to close our places of bust.
ness at $50 o'clock in the afternoon
from May 18th to August 18th, ex'
cept Saturdays, in order that ou1
employees may have some recreation
during the summer months.
J. D. Copeland, Mgr.
C.. R. Brabham & Sons.
Armstrong -Johnson-Brabham Co.
E. A. Hooton.
w. A. Klauber.
Mrs. K..I Shuck & Co.
J. A. Byrd,
E. 0. Kirsch.
F. NJ. Simmons.
Mrs. Speaks & Co.
A. w. Knight.
Bamberg Fur. & Hardware Co.
C.. J. S. Brooker.
H. C. Folk.
Planters Mercantile Co.
w. D. Rhoad.
J. B. Black.
A. Rice.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-05-02
Ehrhardt EtchingS.

EHRHARDT, April &c. Sunday was
an ideal day, and the young folks
made use of it, driving and prone
nading.
M. ]. D. Padgett and Mr.. Bert
Dannelly will leave for Florida to-
day.
Mrs. Lizzie Lane and Miss Joe
Ella Padgett spent day or two with
their father, Mr.. Perry Padgett.
Mrs. James C. Bishop was buried
Sunday afternoon.
Mrs. DOME Chassereau, after a
two weeks illness, is convalescent,
and we hope to see her out on our
streets again soon.
Mr.. Jack Hoffman, Of Lodge, is
not expected to live. Pneumonia
has him in its clutches.
Mr.. John Hartz is the champion
fisherman of Bamberg county. He
caught at least one thousand pike
and perch in three or four days last
week.
Cotton planting and corn plough
ing is the talk of our farmers now:
The petition to do away with the
dispensaries in Bamberg county was
carried around in this section last
week.
Plenty cross ties coming to market
these days. Messrs. Dannelly & Co,
bought four hundred one day last
week, and ten is about the largest
load they bought at one time.
The oat crop will be short this sea
son. The weeds are plentiful in
them now in most of the fields in
this section.
Don't forget Mt. Pleasant. Sunday
school picnic on ascension day. It is
useless to say much about what is
expected on that day. So don't for
get to come and help out with your
presence and we'll filled baskets, and
enjoy the day yourself and help to
make some one else enjoy themselves.
On ascension day, don't forget it.
JEE.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-05-02
AN AGED MAN KILLS HIr1SELF.
s. H. Moore Blows off Top of His Head
With Shotgun.

SPARTANBURG, April 26.--Mr. S.
H. Moore, an old man about 70 years
of age, committed suicide by blowing
the top of his head off with a shotgun
at his home at Glendale this after
noon about 4:3O o'clock. Desponden-
cy on account of i'll health was the
cause of the deed.
For some weeks MIR. Moore has
been in wretched health, so much so
that his mind was affected. He i'm
agined that some one was after him
to take his life and requested that a
gun be kept handy so that he could
defend himself.
His condition grew worse yester-
day. He became more frenzied and
his wife went to call a physician in
the afternoon. While she was gone
he deliberately took the gun that had
been kept near to satisfy his whim
for protection and blew the top Of
his head off.
When his wife returned she found
him in his room with the top Of his
head torn off and the empty gun in
his hands. His brains were scatter
ed over the floor and the walls were
spattered with blood.
Mr.. Moore was a feeble old man
and for years has not been able to
work. He had two children who
worked in the Glendale mills and
supported him. Some years ago he
married rather young woman who
cared for him with tender care and
protected him from harm.
MIR. Moore was a well known char
acter around Glendale, having lived
there more or less all his life.
The coroner was summoned this af-
ternoon shortly after the tragedy:
The verdict was that the deceased
came to his death by a shotgun
wound, inflicted by gun from his
own hands.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-05-02
Fitting School Notes.

The lyceum course closed last
Wednesday night with the entertain
ment given by Mrs. VIM. C. Chiffon.
Mrs. Chiffon with her rich, full voice
and graceful rendering of her selec-
tons, delighted the splendid audience
which gathered to hear her. It was
a fitting close to the course, which,
taken all in all, has been very good
this season. 1t has given the people
some splendid attractions and the
local committee desires to bring
even better ones next season.
Baseball has taken quite hold
upon the students, and much en-
rhusiasm is being manifested. The
team has received its new suits and
is practicing hard every day. While
we were not successful in claiming
the first game we showed possibilities
of good playing, and expect to have
a different record on the tally sheet
next time.
Prof. Hogan and some Of the
students attended the memorial ex-
ercises last Friday. Among them:
Miss Sudie Ritter, Messrs. Ernest
and Percy HERS, VIM. McClam,
Rhett OFT, and William Fender.
The noted humorist, w. Powell
Hale, will give an entertainment in
the chapel on May 18th.
Prof. Roberts made a weekend
trip to Olar.
Prof. Hogan spent the holidays at
his home by the bedside of his
father, who is quite i'll. We hope
IN early restoration.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-05-02
The Uses of Adversely.

A politician was once making can
vas of a county of Arkansas, stop
ped at certain farm house for a drink
of water. Said he to the woman
who answered his knock; II observe
that there is good deal of ague in
this country. A great drawback. It
must unfit a man for work entirely" "
"Gener'ly itdo," said the woman:
"Still, when my man Tom has right
hard fit of the shakes, we fasten the
churn dasher to him, an he brings
the butter inside of fifteen minutes.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-05-02
Cow Went Mad.

LAURENs, April A.-Mr. w. F.
Cleveland, q young farmer of the
Huntington section of the county, is
IN Atlanta at the Pasteur institute
under treatment to prevent the pos
sble development of rabies, he hav-
iing been exposed to the disease by
milking a COW whose calf died a few
days ago exhibiting every symptom
of hydrophobia. Today the cow went
mad and of course the family and
friends of Mr.. Cleveland are much
concerned about him.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-05-02
Frisky In Her Old Age.

A farmer in this county has mule
twenty-seven years old, a gray mule,
and a few days ago was offered SITS
for it and refused the offer. The
mule in former years was gentle
and safe animal but is now so wild
it is unsafe to work it to a buggy
Monroe ENQUIRER.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-05-02
STATE PENSIONS.
Annual Statement Is Made Public By
the Comptroller General.

COLUMBIA, April 27.-The annual
pension statement was made public
by the comptroller general today,
showing a total disbursement Of $243,
755 to the regular six classes. The
appropriation this year was $3.50, GOO:
as against $225,0O0 last year and
there was a surplus from last years
disbursements of $2,378.86. $500
is reserved this year for the artificial
limb fund provided for in the new
act. .
The expense account this year is
put down at So, ,623.66 which includes
the expenses of the county boards.
The pensioners get the same as last
year except those in classes G 2 and
&c 4 who; get S21.O7 each instead Of
s18.95. Glass A gets s96. B $72and
C l and 3 S48 as heretofore. The;
total roll has the usual pension list
habit of steadily increasing, though;
the net increase this year is only rs,
the total number of pensioners be-
ing 9,015.
The first pension appropriation
was $4,000 but the roll was, less
than a fifth of it's present length
and those on it got more. Spartan
burg county leads the list of bene-
ficiaries this year, getting $40, ,67O.28.s
Anderson comes next with $l4, Co.,.
70 and Greenville third with $13, 49, .
80. None of the others gets as much
as $4,000. Charleston gets &,N.&.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-05-02

It's too bad to see people who 60 from
day to day suffering from physical
weakness when Hollister's Rocky Noun
tain Tea would make them well. The
greatest tonic known. IS cents, tea or
tablets. II. r. Hoover.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-05-02

Who's Jolly? What's jolly?
The Florida agriculturist., 1907-10-02

One Of our consuls to Germany
reports that the amount of dog flesh
consumed by the people as food is
constantly increasing. Five thousand
five hundred dog carcasses were sub
mitted to official inspection last year
i'll the German empire. He also re-
ports that horse flesh has now be-
come a standard article Of food con-
sumption i'll Germany, and that about
$4,000 carcasses each year are in
spected for this purpose.-Wallace's
Farmer.
The Florida agriculturist., 1907-10-02
Why Not Grow Figs?

Some days since Mr. J D Jones
called Our attention to a fig tree in
the yard of Mr.. J. J. Williams which
Notwithstanding the unfavorab1e sea-
son, was simply loaded with fruit.
We were asked the question, 'Why
is it more figs are not grown for the
market? The trees require little care,
bear abundantly, grow almost any
where and come into early bearing.
Why does not some one engage in
fig-rasing as business-plant large
orehard? You go into a store and
you see apples, peaches, oranges,
grapes and most all other fruits in
season, but rarely fig; yet none are
better, or raised with so little effort
and small expense"
This is all true 1t is a surprise
that some one has not embarked in
this industry on a large scale. We
are informed that there is only one
really large fig orchard in the United
Sta&es-in Southern California;
that does an immense business. A
person who understood drying, pack
ing and preserving could soon be in
dependent. No section we have ever
visited is better adapted to fig culture
than Washington county, and we
never ate. fruit of finer quality and
flavor that some grown right here in
hipley.-Chipley Banner.