The Fairfield News and Herald, 1900-12-19

A Good Decision. The Columbia State says the surpreme court of South Carolina has done a good job in knocking out the special exemption clauses inserted in bo many acts of the legislature aga-nst the maadate of the constitution. In a Spartanburg case the court has declared that "in order that a law may be general it , must be of force in every county of the State, and while it may contain special provisions making its effect different in certain counties those ?ounties cannot . be made exempt from its entire operation." Ever Since the new constitution was adopted members of the legislature have been devoting themselves to nullifying its provisions in this matter of local legislation; the common | method being to pass a general law and ( then exempt the majority of counties from the opsratioas thereof. This was intended as an evasion of the constitution, but it turns out to be a distinct violation of it and as such ha&encounkered the veto of the surpreme court. When the legislature meets theTe* wllr be a scurrying for eover. Very many acts passed during the last five years will have to be remodeled to fit this deoision. A Terrible DeathThe Beaufort correspondent of The State says: "Edward Alson, colored, of Keass Neck, came here Wednesday night to bring his son, eighteen months

HT led in devotional exercises by iuv. r. P. Blalcck, a blind preachcr from Fdge 1 QB field. Bat the most interesting occur- ! Bft_ ^?ce-.oflt&-morning fession was the 1 ^^^9?arance of & recro preacher, Rev r SB Edward Stark, of Ecgc field, -who war V - introduced by Mr. W. L Dcrst and ad Jm dressed the body. Stark wa9 bom in Virginia and was 100 years of age la?t c Rfc. August. He was sent to Sou^h Caro . lina when he was 14 years old aad was j fe slave 64 years. He be!osg?d to the Derores and Sheppsrds of E 'gefield. When tho conference srose in a body to ( welcome this old Degro and invited him ^ M to the rostrum to addres? them, a like j incident was recalled when a colored j B5 preacher addressed The Southern BapB tist Convention, at Hot Springs last ft summer,'and hov? his speech aroused

men wara auu mxo money wicj ur?iro\? to leave in the priest's charge. Father Grooae consented to take the boy under his care and also -;reed to accept the custody of the funds as suggested. The two strangers displayed several bundles of back notes apparently genuine which they placed in com partmenlB in the safe which Father Grcese accommodatingly opened for ihem. The pair left the house stating tba.: they were going to Milan where th$ had left their young charge, and would return with him. Several days passed tut neither of the men returned. Father Grosse then having become suspicious went to his *afe. He found that noteg aggregating 10,000 pounds, all the funds of tie inEtitution. were gone and that the bun

Dareiy escaping going aowa witu we team. The field has been iar cultivation for over sixty years, and never before has such a thing occurred. Newton wai plowing with a double team and both I horses went in the pit. A number of I neighbors at once set to workjligging, I and after some time secured the team, but one of the horses had to be killed. ' It is supposed that a large underground waterway was the cause of the cavein, ^1 but none was discovered in the chasm. One theory is that it marks the outlet s oZ the lake on the mountain near by whioh seems to be bottomless and that the outlet is in the bed of the Te nnei* ee river. Interesting Criminal Statistics. I Attorney General Walser has pre- 4^

Ifflf THE 24IXISTE2S CONFERSXC?. Hrko Baptists ministers mot ia their ' Bnunl conference at the Baptist Brcrch in Greenwood last Thursday Kening at 7.30 o'clock. Th:s confer . race is held tee day bafore the conven- < BBo assembles for the purpose of dis- j Bssiag questions of interest to the Ministers in their work, but thess meetfigs are open to others who m%y desire j be present and on this occasion the , Bnferenee was well attended. W^ftfj>-devotiocal service conducted ] fcy Ke'vs. J. I). Hoggins, W. T. D^r- ( lieax and C.,0. Brown, the body wa3 , organized by electing Ktv. B. F. Cor: lay to preside, Rev. J. S. Jordan hav t iug declined, as it is the custom to -

IU liCUlLUUiiJCD WU1VU bumu iicv uvvu ohcckod bad medical attention been obtained earlier. Alston killed the rat and stated that it was fnlly as Urge as a half grown cat. The other four victims appear to be doiBfitwell." Boasted to Death The two months old bab7 of Mra. James Dennis, of Newark, N. J., was burned to death in the family range Wednesday. Mrs. Dennis left the house about 10 o'clock, having started a fire in the raDge previous to her departure. The boy Carleton Dennis was left in charge of his 3 year old brother Carl. The mother remained away longer than she anticipated and when nearing the i house the oder of burning fhsh greet -

in the civil war as one of Gen. Wade Hampton's scouts, is to spend Christ* mas with the old general at his home in South Carolina. Mr. Harris was a young chap in the war and had hair like But?lo Bill's. The closest place he was ever in was when the Yankee got him. It was a hand to hand combat following a oavarly charge. Mr. Harris' scalp was ripped open from the top of his head to the base of his neck by a (tabre stroke and the hair and scalp flapped over into his face blinding him. JEven then he would have got his man but for the snapping of his pistol. As it was, the Yankee got him, and it was a good many days before he did any

me, received tho blow on her skull and was killed. "I was adopted by Big Bow, the war chief of the Kiowas, and raised as one of his family. I was trained in the arts of Indian warfare. X did not learn that I was a white boy until after the battle of Washita, when General Caster, having defeated our band, iound me. He sent me home, but I ran away again. At the age of eix-.een I enlisted in Troop C, Fourth United States Cavalry, for special duty among the Indians. I served with the troop ' two years and then deserted. I was captured later and sentenced by a drumhead court to be shot. I escaped by cutting my way through the roof of the