19993. Bank of Chester (Chester, SC)

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his store, and tell him in a very positive man- ner that he must stop his nefarious business. If the injunction was not obeyed, to pay a sec- ond visit, and proceed at once to the good work of demolishing his store. This is the kind of treatment these rascals deserve. Revs. R. E. Cooper, J. S. White and T. W. Irwin, held a recent meeting at this place in reference to the work of sustentation in Bethel Presbytery. They also had under consideration the propriety and expediency of obtaining an evangelist for the Presbytery. No conclusion of a definite nature was ar- rived at in regard to the matter. The com- mittee, however, inclined to the opinion that the means at their disposal had best be devo- ted to the cause of sustentation. The condi- tion of Rev. Mr. James, of Union, who has recently been sold out of house and home by the sheriff, came up for consideration before the committee. Their warmest sympathies were expressed for this good man and faith- ful preacher, and I have no doubt an earnest effort will be made by the Presbytery, through their committee, to provide him a home. Harvey Terry, Esq., of Columbia, who in- vested, after the war, a large amount of mon- ey in the bills of the old Bank of Chester, has recently brought suit in the United States District Court against a large number of its stockholders. On Thursday the writs were served upon the stockholders living in our town. The summons reads as follows: "You are hereby strictly commanded, and firm- ly enjoined that, all manner of excuses being laid aside, you be and appear before the Judges of the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of South Carolina, at Charleston, on the first Monday of November next, twenty days after the service thereof; then and there true and per- fect answer to make upon your corporal oath on the Holy Evangelists, to all such matters as shall be objected against you in the bill of complaint of Harvey Terry against the Bank of Chester and John J. McLure, Receiver, et. al. And also that you do, on the rule's day next immediately after the day appointed and expressed, file, or cause to be filed, in the Registry of said Court, your plea, answer or demurrer, to the said bill of com- plaint." The fear that the plaintiff will recover judgment is causing some of the stockholders to tremble in their boots. Others regard the matter with perfect indifference. They snap their fingers at old Terry, and tell him to get his money if he can. The bills of the old Bank of Chester, which were bought up by the plaintiff at a mere song, will have proven a splendid investment if the Court orders their payment in full. It will certainly be a painful spectacle to men to see their property pass out of their hands for the purpose of re- deeming bills, which were overwhelmed with ruin by the results of a disastrous war. It is said that Mr. Terry is his own lawyer, but the probabilities favor the engineering of the whole affair by one of the Columbia lawyers. The defendants to the suit will be represented by very fine legal counsel. On Thursday, Mr. Marion Chisholm brought suit for damages before Trial Justice Sanders, against certain colored men for in- flicting such injuries upon his cow as to occa- sion its death. Gen. W. A. Walker and J. G. McAliley, Esq., were the lawyers employ- ed in the case the former representing the plaintiff and the latter the defendants. The charge brought against the defendants was established by the testimony. They, howev- er, endeavored to show that the cow came to her death by eating an undue quantity of peas; but a post mortem examination of the unfortunate cow revealing no sign of peas, caused this allegation to fall to the ground. The defendants, who were three in number, were sentenced by the Trial Justice to an im- prisonment of fifteen days in the county jail, or the payment of a fine of five dollars each, and the costs of the suit. The latter alterna- tive was complied with, and they were dis- charged. Dublin Walker and Henry Blake, charged with and convicted at the recent sitting of the Sessions Court of the crime of issuing a fraudulent school certificate, and sentenced to an imprisonment in the State penitentiary- the former for a period of twelve months, the latter for three months have been brought back to our county jail, and will serve out their respective sentences here. Governor Chamberlain was simply unable to stem the tide of solicitation that flowed with an irresis- tible force in favor of the prisoners. He had the desire to stand firm and do his duty by the State; but, unfortunately, he did not have a sufficient amount of that Andrew Jackson determination in his character to carry the commendable desire into execution. Judge T. J. Mackey, who played a prominent part in obtaining the removal of Walker and Blake from the penitentiary to this place, says there were some leading Republicans here who op- posed this removal, and that this opposition was occasioned by the fear that some disa- greeable disclosures might be made by the prisoners in the event of their serving their imprisonment here. These developments, he says, will be brought to the light of day in the course of a few months, and will produce a considerable sensation. Hurry on the de- velopments with all possible speed! The public desire to become acquainted with the names of the guilty parties, and with the character of their actions. With the exception of Saturday evening, religious services were held in the Presbyte- rian church on every evening during the past week. Rev. Dr. Plumer, of Columbia, con- ducted the exercises on Friday evening, se- lecting his text from the last chapter of Joshua, "Choose ye, this day, whom ye will serve." The sermon was a solemn and earn- est appeal to the unconverted to embrace the offers of salvation. Jonathan Thompson, of this county, made application, recently, to our Board of Coun- ty Commissioners, for pecuniary assistance.