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Dispensary Election.
Must l?o Conducted a* Arc Gen- |
ernl Flections. -Opinion Hy
Xttorncy General Of
(iieat Interest to All
Counties in tlio
Stato.
Columbia Record.
A'torney General Gunter has
received several coin muni cations
from individuals and county
officials us to his interpretation of
several phases of the Iirieo law,
Mr. W. F. Clayton, of Florcneo,
in a loiter, amongst other things,
expresses the opinion that tho
' stale cannot ho held responsible
for managers' pay and other oxpen
ses o. election on Ilia dispensary
question under tho 15rice law, nor
(1 vs he believe tho counties can
nc called upon to pay them. Me
asUs what is the law on the subjoe1,
or how the attorney general
construes it.
Mr Mentor, at the outest, says
that he is not umniudful of the
fact that ihe constitutionality of
the law is before tho supreme
court, and if only one county
were affected lie would not ats
tempt to anticipate the court, but
as every other county has tho
right to invoke the law at once ho
does not deem it impertinent to
give tho benefit of bis views to
ftdminisiativo officers.
Quoting the law, he says it is
evident that the only way dispen?
. J earies can ho voted in or voted
out is through special elections,
and tli > question is does the law
provide for other special elect ons
nnd how they shall he conducted.
Section 205 of civil coda 1002
provides for general and special
elections according to rules prescribed
The provisions for npe
vim ri xiniiM ciru IOUTKI III Cnnpier
X of the s mo code. The elections
most ho hel 1 4'pursmint to
tlio constitution," hence, they
must ho governed l>y our general
olcctiiui Isiv. From an exuminution
of various nnthvirities, text
hooks and decisions, Mr. Gun tor
concludes that where the machinery
for special elections is not
specifically provided for recourse
niUjt ho had to tho goncral election
law. Therefore, a supervisor
ordering an election under the
Brico Ir.w should direct tho ranic
to tho commissioners of election!
under tho Bricc law shonld direct
tho same to tho commissioners of;
election; that requirements as to
sizo of ballots, timo of opening
and closing polls, eligibility of
voters and all other requirements
of general election law must
he complied with.
It follows that expenses must
ho paid as in a general election.
If no funds are available that is a
matter for legislative consideration
This opinion is cn answer not
only to Mr. Clayton, hut to tho
supervisors of Union and New->
berry counties and tho Hon. J. S.
Brico, of York.
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MO FALSE CLAIMS.
Tho proprietors o f Foley's
Honey and Tar do not advertise
this as a "sure euro for consumption."
They do not claim it will
euro this dread complaint in advanced
cases, but do positively
assert that it will euro in the earlier
stages and never fails to give
comfort and relief in tho worst
cases. Foley's Honey and Tar is
without doubt the greatest throat
and lung remedy. Refuse substitutes.
Sold by Funderburk
pharmacy.
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Youth Eo tea By A Shark, j
Sutton DnvD 10 \ curs Old, Oillied
Away hy a large Shark
While he A'aa wading in
Wutor at the Davis
Shore.
Special to Too Observer.
Beaufort, July 30. ?A most
h urible and shocking occurrence
took ])laec at Davis, Shore, about
ten miles oast of lleaufort, \estorduy
afternoon, when Sutton
Davis, a 1 (3-year-old lad, while
wading and playing in thu Walor,
was suddenly attacked and oaten
by u very largo shark.
} ciing Davis was in the water
about waist deep when suddenly a
shnrtapproached him, throw dm
in the r?ir, caught him as he strue'i
the water, pulled him under and
disappeared in the (hop wat r
with tho boy. Thorough search
has been made, but no j>urliclo
of his body has been
found. Those that were with the
boy wore terribly frightened, and
could not help him. The occurrence
has thrown u fceiing of horror
over our town. Tho citizens
una the guests of the community,
particularly tho children, have
enjoyed tho tine dives and invigorating
swimming matches which
they daily participate in.
A large number of sharks have
been noticed in the waters here
for two weeks, tint, no one felt
much anxiety on account of tho
presence of the terrible monitors.
A largb quantity of fat-backs have
been caught tins month and
a quantity of refuse matter
has been thrown back in the \va
tor from the factories, and sharks
huva c one in to feast on it. It is
the lirst time a person has been
molested by a shark in those waters
in nearly 50 years.
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A UKIM TRAGEDY
is daily enacted, in thousands of
homes, as Death claims, in each
one, another victim of Consumption
or Pneumonia. l>ut when
Coughs and Colds are prop
eily treated, the tragedy i* averted.
F. G. ITuntloy, of Oakhmdon,
[ltd , wiite.it "My wife had the
consumption, and three doctor,
gave her up. Finally she tooUDr,
King's N? w Discovery for Consumption,
Coughs and Coldse
which cured Iter, and to-day she
is well and strong." D kills tho
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^v. in i W4 ii? v/111; li I ID.
relieves Gunruntccd ut 50o und
kifL.OO by Crawford Bros., ?J. FMnckey
& Co. Fundorbutk Bluir.
maey, druggists. Trial bottle freo.
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Bishop Hargrove in Dying #Condition.
Nashville, Tcnn., July 30.?
Bishop 11. K. Hargrove, of' the
Methodist Episcopal Church,
South, is reported in a dying condition
at his home here. Infirmities
of old age caused the bishop
to resign the presidency of
Vnnderbilt University Board of
trust this spring.
1
When it comes to making a
swift touch tl)0 gl>?<l hand is very
much in evidence.
Some physicians would doubtless
starve to death if their patients
didn't carry life insurance,
An average man would soon
attain pctfcction if he followed
tho advice he ban Is out to his
neighbors.
Sound kidneys are safeguards
of life. Make tho kidneys healthy
with Foley's Kidney Cure. Sold
by Fnndcrhurk Pharmacy.
l'ay your subscription.
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A Brave Drummer Boy.
Union Officer Socks Informntior
Concerning a S'outk Carolina
Soldier.
Special to The State.
Chester, July "S.?V.x-Scnatoi
J S McDaDicl of tliis county, whe
was lieutenant i'i the Sixth South
Carolina regiment of infantry
during the War Detween tin
Sections, lias been for a year or
mole in corrcspondoucc with
Capt Georgo C Smith of the
Eighty-liist New York regiment
whose home is n w in Middletown,
"N. Y. In n recent letter
Capt Smith wiiies as follows
"On the 24th of June, 1&64, I In
good's division charged us ii
front of Petersbuig and ihcy mol
with cpiitc a loss. I can neve;
forget that alter 110011. Anion*;
the prisoners was a mere boy, a
drummer of some South Caro
lina regiment. lie h id follower
his officers through a terrible
charge. 1 was on the front work:
and tiring had ceased. I stooc
on the works and this brave 1 ittl<
fellow n?n up to inc. I stoopec
down and raised him over tlu
Works. I said: "Vou little rat
why diil you come over in sucli
a shower of bullets.'1 tie said
Lnuiteuunt, L always go when
my company docs,' und he rai
down the traverse with his officer:
and yet had his drumsticks in hi:
hand. I have often thought .
would like much to know who tin
brave little fellow was. Yot
know how things tiro in such ;
time and I could not ask ijtics
lions. It seems to mo now t'iu
his regiment was the Nineteentl
oi Twenty-first South Carolina.'
If that brave little fellow is stil
alive or any of It's comrades o
llagoods troops recall this inci
dent and the nam", Capt Georgi
C Smith of Middletown, N. Y.
will be pleased to have iriforraa
Hon on the subject,
SPOILED HER BEAU IYHarriet
Howard, of 201) W. Dill
St,. New York, at ono time hai
her beauty spoiled with slur
trouble. Sbo writes: 4,I hud Sail
Rheum or Eczema for years, bui
nothing would euro it, until 1 nse<
Bucklen's Arnica Sulre." A quiet
and sure healer for cuts, burnt
and sores. 25c at Crawford Bros
.J. F. Mackcy & Co's, ant
Ftinderburk Pharmacy, <1 r u t
8tore.
- acrp *r> ten*.
Mothov and Child Killed h >
Lightning.
The State, July OOtli.
When Taylor Gilliam, colored
1 c. . ....
ruiurncu jrom rue eity to his hour
on the Winnsboro road at a lat
hour la^t night 1 e found tho bodie
of his wife and child lying dead ii
tho yard. A glance around show
ed that they had been killed by
stroke of lightning which fiii'
struck a tree near the house nn<
passed along a wiio suspends
from the treo to the house am
set fire to tho building. It l
supposed that the woman \va
standing in the yard near tho wir
with tho baby in her arms am
that tho deadly current in its pa?
sago along the wire leaped from i
and struck tbemdown.
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fuarntho ^ .ho Kind YouUavsAtvray*
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When a politician says he ha
nothing to say it's a safe Wot tha
ho is loaded t> the muzzle will
information.
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The Rights of a Preacher.
i lJev Mr ('? T 11 ttmoii Takes Issue
With Senator Latimor as
to Political Ivights of a
M i n inter.
r i'o the Editor of The State.
> Tlio report of the debate on the
i liquor traffic at the Greenville
district co'.f renoo made by the
' Helton correspondent of tho An- ,
derson D .i'v Mai! and copied in
i - your isauo i f ,Iuly 21, was dc!
icidtdly Latinurian and somewhat
> ! partisan. It must ho nppnient to
the majority of those who were
present a' the deba e tlint the re:
port was by uo mcms impartial,
" and must li-ivo hecn made solely
1 for the pn-pose of stating and defending
Mr Hatimev's pi?6ition.
We cl dm that the discussion of
r
' the liquor tr tlie with all of its attendant
evil , it being a ereat
j moral questi n, is perfectly legitimate
and pr >por in a district
conference, especially so when
j the discussion is precipitated by
tfvUnitcd States senator,a member
j of the eliui Mi and uprohibitionist,
in defense -f what has proven to
j bo one of the worst forms of that
ratiic. ftii L<atliner claimed thatlie
only wnntod to enter a protest
against be'.^g read out of tuo
^ church simply because ho believed
the dispensary Iho best snlulionof
tbo liquor problem. In the first
j place no one knew Mr Latimer's
sentiment j on tho que: lion. In
^ tho second place, no one was
^ reading Mr. Latimer nor any
one else out of tho church.?
^ Mr 1'lucknian said there were
i only two men i 1 his church that
, favored tho dispensary and they
j were g ing to move away. Some
j. one said: "And you aro glad?''
Mr Ilonrv said only two men
voted to retain the dispensary in
a small town in his chaigo and ho
did not know who they were.
Some ono said: "And you don't
i want to know." 1 don't think
J either Mr-Blackman or Mr Henry
, made any reply. This is what
1 Mr Latimer calls being read out
1 of the church, and against which
1 he entered such a vigorous proj
test.
If Mr Latimer had entered his
* protest niid said no more no one
j would have replied further than
y to enter a .disclaimer. Bdt, unfortunately
he did not slop there.
He made a spirited and passionate
i defense of the dispensary as being
the best solution of tho liquor
(problem. lie solemnly warned
the preachers Against entering
, politics and against bringing poli0
tics into the church. I Io thrcate
ened them with Mr Gonzales and
3 his high liccnso policy and with
n tho opposition of Senator B R
- Tillman. Ono would have tnought
a that Mr Latin.er was much more
i afraid that wo would voto tho tlis-1
1 pensnry out of South Corolina
1 than that wo would road him out
1 of tho church. And his fears are
? not altogether groundless.
It so happened that it foil to
( the lot of this scribe to reply to
^ Mr Larimer. Tho Bclton correspondent
said that Mr Harmon
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"lambasted" tho dispensary. I
certainly did enter a protest
against the disprnsary and every
t other form of tbo liquor traffic. I
endeavored to show that tiio Al'
mighty God whom wo servo pros
hibits cvil^of every kind and that
t Hi4 children must take and unali
lei ably maintain the same atlitudo
toward it. The liquor traffic in
all i'.e fcnna, the distillery, ti;e
blind tig1'", the open saloon a> d
the dispensary, is fi gijjantic evil
and only evil conlimud!y, a prolific
sonrco of ctimo and coii'uption
and that therefore tho Christian
people if they are true to their
God and to their high calling
tnust stand for prohihition first,
last and all tho time. This, too,
is not, altogether a political qucslion;
hut i^ even it. were, the
Christian people and even the
preachers are ciliz ns cf tho commonwealth
und have tho right to
discuss political questions. Hut
it is nl^o ft groat moral question,
and may, therefore, he legitimate
ly discussed in the pulpit and inthc
councils of the. church. The
right of franchise corrus with it
a grave moral as well m political
responsibility. It is, therefore,
the duty of the preacher to instruct
the pcoplo in the right
moral duty of tho ballot as it is
the duty of tho politician to instruct
them in tho light political
use of it. Just here is where the
preacher and tho politician sometime?.
come into conflict with
each other, and when they do Mr
Latimer wants tho preacher to
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>v ;\y iw iii?j [miiuuiaii, mui SO
he solemnly warns him to keep
out of polities.
1 do desire to put Mr Latimer
and every other politician in South
Carolina on notice here and now
that we are not going to give way,
for we regard tho moral aspect ol
the right of franchiso and of every
political question graver and
more important Man the p litica
aspect. It is tho duty of the
preacher to teach the people ho .v
to tvo religious at the polls as well
as in tho home, how to be religious
iu tho right use of the ballot
a5 in the right uso of the sacrament.
One trouble with our com
nionwealth today is that lh<
preacher has yielded too much tc
the politician and the p--oplo have
heeded the politician more thai
they havo tho preacher.
Tiio Ihlton correspondent, said
that Mr. Harmon wont on to sa>
lie nroferrcd the blind tiger to tin
two-cycd (open-eyed is what hi
said) tiger in tho shape of the din
pensary. I rciterato that state
ment. for 1 would rather havo th<
liquor trallic outlawed than tr
have il fostered, protected and rui
by tho State. I am as unaltcra
bly opposed to my State going
into tho liquor traffic as I an
opposed to going into it myself
fori regard myse'f a part of nv
State, and my State has no righ
to drag me into any kind of bus
iness that is morally wrong.
The rcpotor also said that Bis
hop Duncan said: 'Who ilraggei
this disoensary question in hen
anyhow'' The picachcrs took tin
hint and the dispensary was no
mentioned again." The insinua
to -i o il* of 1 1\h rii'ai oKai'O ii'aiw
VlWii if uri UUH II1U |'l V ilV^lJV/1 O U
afraid of Bishop Duncan. In th
first placo pronchora have no rca
son to bo afiaid of Bishop Dun
can; and, in the second place, a
a matter of fact, theyaro no nior
afraid of a Methodist bishop tha
thoy are of a Uitod States senator
The consensus of opinion was tha
enough had been said on tho sul
ject and we would let tho matte
drop. Upon this Mr. Latimer ir
sislod more strongly than any on
else. Nobody blamed him, for i
was evident to all that ho had no
only been worsted in tho discus
sion but was woefully in the mi
nority. G. L\ Harmon.
Greer, S. O,. July 20, 19o5.
1 Shut off From World.
No One Can T.cavo ( i* Knler New
Orleans. ? Hospitals Full of
Fever Patients.
New Orleans, July 28.?Governor
Blatichard has returned to
Baton Itougc, the slate capital,
and will hold himself in readiness
to perfect a stale organization to
combat yellow fever and mosquitoes
at the suggestion of the State
board of health and New Orleans
city board of health. Beginning
at 9 o'clock all of the sixteen
ward organizations in the city
began a consolidated organized
movement with Dr Warner sup
in iirrnucin. .Atxnit 300 inspectors
have been organized into 11
compact service. Tlio yellow
fever hospital is now filled with
patients, and additions to it are
being made to it ns necessity demands.
The city is now strictly
quarantined from the outside
world niul no one can even go to
a neighboring town and return.
! HRON'Ciims FOR TWT.NTV
YEARS.
1 Mrs. Minerva Smith, of Danville,
111., writes: "I had biont
chit is for twenty years and never
got rcliof until 1 used Foley's
Iloney ami Tar which is a sure
cure ' Sold It y Fundcrburk
j Pharmacy. A1 o C O Floyd, lver,
shaw.
f Hotice to Debtors and Cred
itors of i. A. Miller, Dee'd.
Ail persons liavii;.,* claims against
I Hie oslatu of John A Miller, deceased,
will present tlicm properly proven to
(I undersigned for puym at; and all
pr is M.'S indebted to said estate will
make immediate payment of the same
I to li. C. nazenby,
July G? <i.v* Administrator,
Notice to Debtors and Creditors
of B. F. Miller. Deceased.
All persons having ehrms against
? thee tatnof li. F, Miller. d<v< used,
will i 1; 1 s' r 11 thmit properly proven to
; tlio undersigned for payment; and all
i persons indebted to said estate will
make immediate payment of the same
to Jj. O. Eazenby,
July O-liw Admlnistratoi.
; Notice of Discharge.,
5 Notice is hereby given that on
the 20th day of August, 1005,
the undersigned as Administratrix
of tho estate of Jerrc M.
Knight deceased, will uiako her
' final rclutn and settlement, and
1 make application to tho Probate
. Court of Lancaster county, S. C.,
r for u final discharge as such Ad'
ministtutrix.
Laura J. Knight,
? Administratrix.
{ Dated July 20lb, 1005.
State of South Carolina.
COUNTY or LANCASTER,
| RY J Id Slewmao, Ids<i, Probate
Judge
3 WHEREAS, Ij c r.auenby made
suit to me, to grant him letters of ad
y ministration of the estate of and ef
t facts of Emnvi A Miller,
T11 ES Id A 11 Id T11 Id llF. Ff IIIF. m
' cite ami uomonish nil and singular the
kindred and creditors of said Emma
A Miller deceased, that they be and up
e pea: before me, in the Court of Pro
bute, to be held at Lancaster. 8 C on
" Saturday, July 28th next after pub.
licalion thereof, at 11 o'clock in the
/brenoon, to show cause, ir any they
s have, wiry said administration should
not be granted,
Given under my Hand this loth day
n or July Anno Domini, 1D??">
J K Htewma i,
Probate Judge
Go to the
,r. LANCASTER MARBLE
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GRANITE WORKS,
i, For Gooil Work uiul Lov* Prices
" A. .L iflcNineh.
LANCASTER, S. C '
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