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EDITOlt AND MAN At! Kit.
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(SSUHU WKDNK3DAY ANI) fc ATI! Ill) AY
RUBSGKirriON J.iauI'HW YK\ It
WEDNESDAY MARCH, 1(J05.
Information Wanted by the
Dispensary Investigation
Committee.
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iV 4 I |JU1 9UII3 (11 Vllio UI (111^ W.I er
Stato are requested to send
aoy information iu their possession
relating to the affairs of the
South Carolina State dispensary,
which is the oauso of any complaint.
They are also requested
to state fully any facts that they
havs a3 to irregularities, mismanagement
or corruption
therein, or of any one connected
therewith, with suggestions as to
how the truth of the samo may
be properly ascertained.
No communication will he considered
uulos3 signed by tho parties
seuding it, but the name of
the sender will not bo given to
tne puuiic ii sucn oe aesiren.
(communications should he
sent to either of the undersigned :
J . T. Hay, Camden ; Cole L.
Blouse, Newberry ; Niels Christensen,
Jr., Beaufort; A. L.
Gaston, Chester; T. B. Fraser,
Sumter ; D. A. Spivey, Conway ;
J. Fraser Lyon, Abbeville.
A Distressing Death.
The only son of Mr and Mrs
Eph \lcKe?wn, of Uockton, aged
about four years, died under most
distressing circumstances last Sabbath
and the remains were brought
up to Bethlehem .Methodist church
Monday for Initial. The little fellow
was subject to ctoup and
tyrup of squills was used as a
remedy. He came in coughing
anil asked his father to give him
aomo medicine. The bottle wns
sitting on the mantel but seeing a
a bottle on the washstand with a
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B^JUUil 1?V AULii.C?IV 11 lUVMI^Ut
it was the medicine and gave hiiu
a doso. It proved to be carbolic
acid wbich Mrs McKeown had
been giving her chickens and had
forgotten to put away. A physician
was summoned at once but he
died 111 twenty minutes after the
acid was taken.?Chester Lantern.
Shortly after the war Iho late
T S Jefferys offered some shares
of the Equitable Life Assurance so
ciety in Yorkvilleat 75 cents on
the dollar. Mr Jefferys was at
that time local agent for the society
and his offerings were in pursuance
of ?n effort to popularize
thai institution in tho south. The
stack was offered quite freely but
there were no purchasers. Shares
which could have been bought
then for $75 each are now worth
$80,000 each and can ho aold more
readily for $80,000 now than for
$75 then?Yorkville Enquirer.
? Chester special of March 16
to Columbia State: The Chester
chapter, United Daughters of the
Confederacy, at their meeting
this week urianged the programme
for the exercises of laying the
corner stone of the Confederate
monument hereon the 11th of
April. Judge William H Brawley
of Charleston, a native of
Chester, will deliver the principal
address Dev Dr .1 S Clifton
,.e i -1 . /n /
it v/ruuguuiirg, uiso u v^aevier
county man, has been invitotl to
attend and make an address in
the afternoon. Judge Bruwley
was a member of tho Sixth regiment,
South Carolina infantry.
Dr Clifton of the First regiment
of cavalry.
"The daspchsary has put gray
hairs on my head in three years."
?11 1! Evans.
And in three years it ha*
brought down tho gray hairs ol
many a father and mother with
sorrow to the gravo. ? Chester
LftDtern.
a
Crime In Soiitb Maa? '
bond W'fHk of Putjiil un?J PrC&8
Said to bo Bearing Khiit- .
Seven Men NdVv Under Son.
t*nen of Death in the
t State.
*1 ecial to Charlotte Observer.
Columbia, S. C., March 10.?
Juries in criminal eases in thin
State have been notoriously lax
for the past <|unrtei of a century
with the result that murders and
other forms of violence have increased
steadily and the State has
gotten an unonviulde reputation
abroad. But owing to the good
work of pulpit and press, there
has hern substantial evidence iocently
of the pendulum swinging
the other way not only in those
(counties which have a largo nutn
her of homicide cases, but through
out the State generully. SpasiukHc
chnngo of sentiment has
manifested itself in this matter
through juries in particular sec
lions ? in Pickens, Greenville,
Ocoaeo and Spattunhurg counties,
for insiunce?a number of tones.
But h general change of mind
throughout the State bus just begun
to show itself.
There are just now seven men
under sentence of death in this
State, with the strong probability
that four of those will bo hanged
within the next few months. Four
out of tho seven are white men,
and two of these are men of means
and influence.
The first hanging will bo that
of Marion Parr, tho cotton mill
operative of this cit}1, who while
his case was about to tie taken to
the Supremo Court confessed
freely to his preacher, ncknow'edging
thai lie was guilty of
murder, saying he deserved to
and was roady to dio. Purr is to
lie executed hero on tho 14th of
I nest month, and it will bo the
first legal execution of a while
mar. this county has seen in 4C
years.
R A Adams, tho Colleton white
man who escaped jail after the
Supreme court refused his appeal
for a now trial, but who vas recaptured
after the Governor offer
red a rowaril of $1,000, is to
lie resentenced atWalterboro next
week. He is an ignorant, but c
rather influential and well connecl
cd man 111 his county. He killod
Jacques in a rage aftei looking
him up to quarrel with him uboul
a piece of property. Adams wil
hardly get a commutation.
Thero are two hangings set foi
the Mb of May at Florence, ami ii
is not unlikely that both of these
win uiKo piaco, aunougn tue Su.
pren.e court has not passed on th<
fate of the whito man convictei
there a few days ago of the murder
of a negro. The time u
which he had to perfect his appea
having expired, it is presumec
thai nothing will ho done to sav<
him. Marks, the negso who hac
to be hrenght here pending his ap
peal to the Supreme Court to pre
vent 'iim from being lynched, n
to be hanged at Florence on th<
5lh of May for the murder of th<
white man, llill Langston.
The most important mattor ii
that coming out of Oconee county,
where the case of Hoyt Hayes,
whose commutation created sc
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uiucii it-eiing mere against tlx
Governor originated. Earlo Rochester,
a leading Oconee farmei
of that secliou and considered s
tine citizen and desirable noighbor,
is under sentenco of doath for doing
a neighbor to death with i
allot gun. He and this noighboi
quarreled about the neighbor*!
cattle getting in Rochester's crops,
and matters went from bad t'
>' worse until Rochester met him ir
front of his (Rochester's) homt
1 and waited for him with a shol
l
gun. Tho mutter is now pending
! in tho Supreme Court, it is said
that Ub th# tadHilftg Bpflfctlii JUdgo
J A Mcljulotigbi of Gl'benVllU'.
who presided at the trial. was
making bis way id the court room
Hftcr the verdict havi been rendered
against Rochester he mot and
stooped to caress a beautiful chili,
playing joyously und with light
heart in front of the court house.
He is very fond of children ami a
pained and shocked look cumo into
his caretsfoI eyes when ho ask*
cd her who her father was arid
she lisped, 14Mr. Karle Rochester."
The night heforo ho passed
sentence ho did not close his eyes,
and it is said that ho voluntarily
promised to assist the attorneys
for the defense heforo tho Su->
premo Court or tho Govornnr or I
both.
The case against the two des-. j
pcrato blind rigor negroes, who !
killed Magistrate Co\ when ho
wont to arrest them from Fountain
Inn last May as they were j
hapling a load of liquor in a hug- ,
gy and who have been in the pen- j
itentiary for safe keeping, is still |
hung up in Iho Supreme Court.
The appeal came near being abandoned
for want of funds, hut in
thto eleventh hour a negro preacher
scaped up enough to base a
promise of more upon and the negroes
have a good lawyer. The
appeal is to come up for a hearing
at the April term end tho decision
will therefore not tie out until
some time next summer. The negroes
havo small chance of escaping
the gallows.
Terrible Explosion.
Shoo Factory at Brockton, Mass.,
Blown up.?Sixty Killed and
the Wounded Suffered Awful
Injuries.
Boston, March 20.?Many live*
were lost in the K. K Grover
Shoe company's factory at Brockton
this morning, as the result
1 of an explosion of a boiler. Three
t . ...
tloors above \bo boiler coMupssu.
Several hundred at work it was
1 feared weie buried in debris, but
1 the loss of life *>as not so serious
' as at first thought, though it was
bad enough.
There were about four hundred
persona at work when the explosion
occurred. The loss of life
1 is estimated at over lifty. All
doctors in theto.vn were called to
' the scero. All ambulances of the
> city are out, and hacks are being
; pressed into service cai rying away
1 the injured. The wreckage filed,
which communicuted to tho Dahl~
burg block and to houses in the
* vicinity, which are now burning.
5 Seven houses, together with the
block, are gone. Some of the
3 people are penned in and aro un'
able to get away and will burn to
death. A part of the exploded
1 boiler landed into a house lomo
' distance from the factory, partially
' wrecking it.
3 Doctors returning from the
i n
scene say the accieent was the
worst in all their experience; that
injuries to so many of tho survi^
vnm nrp fhn nmu> t..? ??! 1.1
T V* W V IIIUOI in 1 IHiU i""jr
3 had ever seen. The company man3
ufactured the Kmerson shoe.
Soon after the search of th
* dead began eighteen bodies were
, recovered. It is estimated that
( the number of derd at neon was
, between tifly nod sevont>fivo.
The fire was gotton under contiol
3 at 11 o'clock.
A Disaster to Texas.
Houston, Toxns, March 18.?
There was a tei ifio di?wnnr?ni- nf
rain all over Eastern and Southeastern
Texts today, and every
commnuity reports damage to
* bridges, newly-pluntod crops,
, fences, act. It is reported gene,
rally that the extraordinary vret
) season has lias rosulted iu the
rotting of seed potatoes and tliHt
5 erops have been damaged already
1 more than 50 per cent.
\ Many farmers bad planted poI
tatoes as a substitute for cottnn.
lyes 01]
A great reduc
For Th
in all Winter w
cordingly. Eyt
of these s laugh t
% h n
THE H E A1
I m. m M JB
We will offer
the following- g<
a clean clear am
make room for !
and inspect our
buy, for it is a |i
(what startlingj
All Winter w
jand Overcoats, ;
jets,Furs and Mi
i forts and Lap B
jsortment of Kn
; We have 150
land which are <
jtured. But, aft
;ing- from one st
j place them on t
go at a great sa
will be knifed t
too many.
Remember, 1
jCASH, and in
Come every hod;
will gixe you t!
taht has EVEB
We have just received a p
Ginghan
?e have the largest and b
Ci
'A pretty line of Mohair tai
Also a large asso
We h&ve the swellest and
so come at once
I
' f j r* t
Laces anu rmi
extensively the best and ch
can please the most fastid
The most up=to date line
string ties. Intern
to be had. am
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Several dozen HATS to be
the price and let your c
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We have several rolls o
slock of Furniture that wi
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urn, Ever;
stion in prices
e Next Thirty
'eights, so vorn
iryone come and tii
;erin?' prices.
n-ara aria- eraKra~H-n~WTT k"B
r H-J 0 N E S 0
B El IB ML.BLJB_Jtt n M m aa m ct r
to the trade 'or th
xxis at eost, as we
re of Winter wet
Spring- goods. So
stock, even if yon
deasure to show <
values we have in
eights in Clothing
at actual cost . Ah
uff's accordingly. 1
C> e'
lobes, the oe me wa
it Skirts at your pi
pairs of Shoes to o
>f the very best tin
:er breaking the h
ore to the other, Is
he Bargain Count?
orifice. Oun entsr
o the core, as we
these Prices are
> charging will 1
y and bring your
le cheapest and be:
!. been offered YOX
retty lot of Spring Goods such
is, Nainsooks, Swisses, Piques,
est selected stock of Ladies'
oilars that has ever been <
lor made Skirts in aii the leaili
rtment of black mercerized Sate
nobbiest line of Spring Silks in
and take a look and von will
*
prices, pattern, and quality.
)roideries!
eapest that money could buy, ai
ious.
: of CRAVATS, in ali colors,
ational and United Shirts and C
1 f?fl If >4
i aiso our nuy cent fine cant i
k .*? xk. .'T Sk f .S*? \iv /*? Sik
jy'^. jy"* JV ^ *
turned loose, name ??o 9|| l)i
ranium be covered.a"? L'^ t!i
k N*y^ ^ y .'f
^ ^ ^ ^ */ "*v ^
f CARPET that we will close on
e will sell at cost.
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pbody I
9
Pays :','
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yourselves ae- '
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ike advantage
?srw rrurtv a i= or & t? sr n o
0 M P ft N Y.
i-2_P_n_n r, y..?_Evjn_?s_aLia_jaj
e next month
waut-to make
\ 11 71 r n / v-tft /I ^ * v
it" ma uruur hi
eome at once
don't wish to
jor customers
store for them
1*?--Sults, Pants
50 Capes, Jaokllankets,
Coniy.
A big- asriee.
her very cheap
at. is maiiufac>oxes
in removave
decided to
>v and let them
e line of Shoes
have entirely
for the SPOT '
>e listened to.
.purse, and we
st merchandise
T
O
as
and lots of other stvles.
;hown oa this market,
ng shades.
:en Petticoats very cheap.
aii the up=4o=date shades,
be pleased with
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that ladies have a perfect
such, we have bought
id feel assured that we
Ascot's Four=in=hand and
oilars, the very best
)e duplicated.
ozcn Soiled Linen Collars,
le very best, 5 cents each. -
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it at cost. Also a small
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