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The Lexington Dispatch. Ji. Beprescntatiue Keurspaper. Boocrs Bexington and the Borders of the Surrounding bounties Bihe a Blanhct. t'OL. XXXI. LEXINGTON, S. C., WEDNESDAY, JULY 3. 1901. NO. 04 | "X- -??the +**BEST ADVERTISING MEDIUM ?IN WESTERN SOUTH CAROLINA?o? RATES REASONABLE. 0 SUBSCRIPTION SI PER ANNUM 1 m tim A [ | Queen Quality /V OXFORDS I I ! There is nothing to compare j with them. If you want a pair 1 ; of Oxfords for dress you are seen to be correctly dressed if j you wear the I , QUEEN QUALITY, j j LEVER, "THE SHOE MAN," 1503 Main Street, COLUMBIA, - - S C. i Feb. 6-ly. lOAMCBAIEBAI j OF SOUTH CAROLINA ^ State, City & County Depository i COLUMBIA. S. C. a Capital Paid in Full $150,000.00 i: Surplus 60,000.01' v Liabilities cf Stockholders 150,000.00 i $360,000.00 ^ savings depabtment. f C Interest at the rate of 4 per centum per annum paid on deposits in this department TRUST DEPAR1MENT. This Bank under special provision of it* charter exercises the office of Executor, Administrator, Trustee or Guardian of Es- 11 tates. SAFETY DEPOSIT DEPARTMENT. G Fire and Burglar proof safety deposit -n for rent from $4 00 to $1'2 00 per year. EDWIN W. BOBEBTSON, F President, A. C. HASKELL, ij Vice President J. CALDWELL BOBEBTSON, 0 2d Vice President G. M. BEBBY, Cashier. q February 12?ly. When writing mention the Dispatch. ^ IN CONFIDENCE, . Don't <nve me away, c And I'll tell yon the remedy of the day, A Listen! it is L. L. and Z. T It makes the system clean and pure, t Will health and strength to yon A secure. Strictly a vegetable preparation, a Mild and pleasant in its operation x No need for nostrums just made to sell, Its Life for the Liver that makes ^ you welL ii H HILTON'S LIFE FOB THE n R LIVSB, Aim KICNSTS. 0 Wholesale by the MTJBBAY DBDG CO., D V Columbia. S. C. r For Sale at THE BAZAAR. 0 Mav 15?ly. When writing mention the Dispatch. 0 (iimm$9oo: SALARY yearly. t Van on/f Trnmpn r>f trrtAft flftiirftKStO retire sent us, some to travel appointing agents "0 others for local work looking after ourinterests. $900salary guaranteed yearly: extra _ commissions and expenses, rapid advance- " meet, old established house. Grand chance for earnest man or woman to secure pleasant q and permanent position, liberal income and future- New, brilliant lines. Write at once. STAFFORD PRESS, 23 Church St., Rew Haven, Conn. A March 27?37. ~ PARLOR RESTAURANT,' 1336 MAIN STREET. COLUMBIA, - S. C., The only up-to-date eating House of its kind in the City of Columbia. It is well kept?clean linen, , prom pt and polite service and get it quickly. Quiet and order always prevail. You get i] what you order and pay only for what >ou e,?t Within easv reach of desirable sleep- c ing apartments. OPEN ALL NIGHT. ; B. DAVID, Proprietor. t February 20. GEORGE BRUITS MAIS' ST., COLUMBIA, S. 0., J JEWELER REPAIRER Has a splendid stock of Jewelry, Watches, J Clocks and Silverware. A fine line of , Spectacles and Eyeglasses to fit every one, * all for sale at lowest prices. g Bepairs on Watches first class quickly done and guaranteed, at moderate 6 prices. 60?tf. r When writing mention the Dispatch. I DR. E. J. ETHEREDGE, SURGEON DENTIST, LEESYILLE, S. C. Office next door below post office. Always on hand. February 12. ENGINES boilers. Tanks, Stacks, Stand Pipes and Sheet-Iron Work; Shafting, Pulleys, Gearing, Boxes, Hangers, etc. Mill Castings. ^~Cast erery day; work 200 hands. LOMBARD IRON WORKS A SUPPLY CO AUGUSTA, GEORGIA. | January 27? Have jour job printing done at the Dispatch office. A / Ipmm ? 1 L_ 4 Jj lii lYTl^ J3 ?i??P?a?a????B?B?HwawcMg?mkjo?* n ! SORES AMU ULCERS, Sores and Ulcers never become chronic unless the blood is in poor condition ? is sluggish, weak and unable to throw of! the poisons that accumulate in it. The system must be relieved of the unhealthy matter through the sore, and great danger to life would follow should it heal before the blood has been made pure and healthy and all impurities eliminated from the sys tern. S.S.S. begins the cure by first cleansing and invigorating the blood, building up the general health and removing from ne SyShT A CONSTANT DRAIN iffetematterl UPON THE SYSTEM. When this has been accomplished the discharge gradually ceases, and the sore or ilcer heals. It is the tendency of these old indolent sores to grow worse and worse, md eventually to destroy the bones. Local ipplications, while soothing and to some extent alleviate pain, cannot reach the seat if the trouble. S. S. S. does, and no matter low apparently hopeless your condition, even though your constitution has broken lown, it will bring relief when nothing else can. It supplies the rich, pure blood jecessary to heal the sore and nourish he debilitated, diseased body. Mr. J. B. Talbert, I.ock Box 245,\Vinona, Miss., ays: " Six years ago my leg from the knee to he foot was one solid sore. Several physicians reated me and I made two trips to Hot Springs, iut found no relief. I was induced to try S. S. S, ; ,nd it made a complete cure. I have been a perectly well man ever since." poisonous minerals to ^1^ ruin the digestion and .dd to, rather than relieve your sufferngs. If your flesh does not heal readily rhen scratched, bruised or cut, your blood s in bad condition, and any ordinary sore s apt to become chronic. Send for our free book and write our ihysicians about your case. We make no harge for this service. THE SWIFT SPECIFIC CO., ATLANTA, GA. THE OLD RAIL FENCE. a the merry days of boyhood when we never knew a care rreater than the mumps or measles or a mother's cut of hair, rhen the sore toe was a treasure and a stone bruise on the heel 'illed the other boys with envy which they tried not to conceal. 'here were many treasured objects on the farm we held most dear, irchard. fields, the creek we swam in, and the old spring cold and clear; >ver there the woods of hick'ryaudoi oaks j so deep and dense, looming up behind ihe outlines of the old rail fence. n the rails the quail would whistle in the early summer morn, ailing to their hiding fellows in the field of waving corn, nd the meadow larks and robius on the stakes would sit and sing ill the forest shades behind them with their melody would ring, here the cat bird and the jay bird sat and called each other names, nd the squirrels and the chipmunks played chase-and-catch-nie games, nd the garter snake was often in unpleas- > ant evidence 1 the grasses in the corners of the old rail fence. s we grew to early manhood when we thought the country girls 1 the diadem of beauty were the very fairest pearls, ft from spellin' school or meetin' or the jolly shuckin' bee own the old lane we would wander with a merry little " 'he." n the plea of being tired (just the country lover lie), n a grassy seat we'd linger in the moonlight. she and I, nd we'd paint a future picture touched with colors most intense s we sat there in the corner of the old rail fence. here one night in happy dreaming we were sitting hand in hand, 'p so near the gates of heaven we could almost hear the band, Then she heard a declaration whispered in V?OCT AA^A. AAO LlUg V/*** ne she often since has told me she was mighty glad to hear, n my head there's now a desert friDged j with foliage of gray, .nd there's many a thread of silver in her dear old head today. 'et the flame of love is burning in our bosoms as intense .s it burned in the corner of that old rail fence. Candidates for 1902. Candidates for State officers are >eginning to pop in the political fored2 beds. The Columbia Record atalogues some of them as follows: The latest candidate for Governor s Captain D. C. Hey ward of Colleton, le is a good citizen and has many riends in the State who have urged tim to make the race, and his candilacy has met with a very favorable eception by the press. Ex-Governor John C Sheppard, of Edgefield, will also be a candidate for Governor. He served a short term, mcceeding Governor Hugh S. Thomplon, who resigned to accept an ap>ointment in the treasury departnent at Washington. Since then jovernor Sheppard has been promi > ? ' il Ol I lent id political anairs in me otate, md he has a large cumber of friends .hroughout the State who will enthusiastically work for his election to he gubernatorial chair. Among other candidates for Governor will be Lieutenant Governor rillman, who i3 actually eDgaged in prosecuting his canvass. All the nembers of the former First regi nent are loyal friends to Colonel Fillman and it is said that almost to i man they will do active work in Lis aehalf. There is some talk about Governor McSweeney again being a candidate. While the sentiment against a third / I "W;>ii loao MAIN NTH ~?4 Solicits a St u ! term is pretty stroEg 111 tins state. Governor McSweeney's friends hold that he ha9 only been elected Gov| ercor orce by the people, and that | the portion of the term of the late j Governor Ellerbe he served does not j count as a term. The Governor has made no statement as to his inten tions, but his popularity has greatly fVi/"> Clfnfn 1-vt? Vila rcfnfiftl i UL/l CODCU III IUU MIUIV ks j u?u avamwi** to have a political canvass this year. Secretary of State Cooper is also an avowed candidate for Governor. Mr. Cooper is very popular in the State and will no doubt receive a strong support. Should he not be a candidate again for Secretary of State, the names of Colonel S. "W. Vance and Mr. J. T. Gantt, Chief Clerk, have been men ? M. it.. tionea id connection wild me oiuce. Neither has formerly announced his . caDdidacy. Attorney General Bellinger will be a candidate for Congress in Colonel Tolbert's district. He has a strong bold on the people of that district, and knowing politicians say he will stand a gocd chance of winning Assistant Attorney General U. X. Gunter, Jr., will be a candidate for Attorney General. He is well qualified to fill the position and his connection with the office makes him thoroughly familiar with his duties He has been for several years Secre fcary of the Democratic executive j Committee, and consequently is in close touch with the people of the State. It is reported that Speaker Stevenson will be a candidate also, i but this cannot be confirmed. It is not known whether Comptroller General Derham will be a candidate again or not. Even if he is, , there are indefinite reports about . several gentlemen throughout the the State, who fill the poeition of ( county Auditor or Treasurer, who will be candidates. But no definite ( announcements have been made. Treasurer JenniDgs will again be a candidate, and is not known whether bo will have opposition. General Floyd is thinking of running for Congress in the Fifth district. In case he does, it is said that Colonel Frost, Mr. G. Douglass Rouse of Charleston and perhaps others will be candidates. It may be that General Watts may take another flyer at the job. ( So, from this it will be seen that j there will be a considerable shaking up at the State house next year if 1 present plans are carried out. Beware of Ointments for Catarrh that Contain Mercury. i As mercury will surely destroy the | i souse of smell and completely de- I raDge the whole system when enter- J ing it through the mucous surfaces. Such articles should never be used except on prescriptions from reputa- j ble physicians, as the damage they i will do is ten fold to the good you can ! possibly derive from them. Hall's j Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, 0 , contains no mercur^and is taken internally acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of tke system. In buying Hall's Catarrh Cure be sure you get the genuine. It is taken in- j ternally, and made in Toledo, Ohio, by F. J. Cheney & Co. Testimonials free. Sold by Druggists 75c, per bottle. Hall's Family Pills are the best. An Unusual Caller. Columbia state, June z/tn. There was an unusual caller at the executive office yesterday morniDg. The caller was a very respectable looking colored woman, and she was accompanied by her mother. She wanted to ask the Governor to get her three-year-old child from her brutal husband who lives in Lexington. She stated that he had for the fifth time recently beat her with a stick and his fists in a most brutal I mauner and she had left him and j come back to her mother. He bad ! taken her little girl from her. Of I course she could get no aid, though | I w ~ I the Governor listened to her pathetic ) story. The husband will doubtless j soon be arrested and sent up for wife j beating. The ladies of Marion have begun to raise funds to erect a monument I to Confederate soldiers in the court 1 house square. GLOBE DRY I ZE3I. 2^03STCmT< ei:T, tare of Your Valued Oak Grove Items. To the Editor of the Dispatch: Tbe excessive rainfall has ceased and tbe farmers are battling with "General Green" with all their might - -? i 1_. J nnd means. \V bile tney nave cnec-Keu him to a considerable extent, still he is not conquered by a jug full. Cotton in this section of the county is somewhat drowned out aDd unless the seasons are very favorable hereafter the crop will be cut short. Corn is looking very well considering the unfavorable seasons. Mrs. Eva Lilly, of Columbia, has been visiting Mr. R W. Kleckley's family a few days. Mr. G. B. Matbais has retured home from a business college in Augusts, Ga, haviDg completed the business course. The death aDgel visited the home of Mr. Solomon Roland on June 10th, and took from them Lee. The cause : of his death was typhoid fever. He ! was buried at St. David's church. | We extend to them our heartfelt sympathy. Mr. and Mrs. James Dunning from near New Brookland, visited MrsDunniDg's parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Sox, on Sunday. Misses Hattie and Bessie, the accomplished daughters of Captain P. H. Caughman, were the guests of Misses Mary Sox and Linnie and Maggie Corley last Sunday. We will! welcome them again in our midst. Mr. A. L. Cromer, who has been i working for the firm of Meetze & j Co., in Columbia, I am sorry to say, is home now with typhoid fever. I wish him a speed recovery. Our friend, Mr. Alvin B. Roof, who has been travelling for some time, j is again in our midst and is stajing I with his Uncle Benjamin Roof, near ; Oak Grove school house. Mrs. Quincy CaughmaD, of your towD, has been vieitiDg her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Sox, for a few j Says. Mr. John Kaminer and wife, of the Sandy Run eectioD, have been visiting relatives and friends in this neighborhood. What has become of the C. R. M. & S. show? Boys, don't give it up, | for you will not succeed unless you j rry. I think they must be practic- I ing on the sly to give us the finest ''burnt cork" exhibition on record. With the best wishes for the Disr>nfrtVi on/1 ifo TMif/ir T rcinflin ^/atvja auu uo xjuivv*) A * VU<M>M7 "Spruce." June 27, 1901. He Kept His Leg. Twelve years ago J. W. SullivaD, of Hartford, Conn., scratched his leg with a rusty wire. Inflammation and j blood poisoDiDg set in. For two years ! he suffered intensely. Then the best doctors urged amputation, "but," he writes, "I used odo bottle of Electric Bitters and 1^ boxes of Bucklen's ; Arnica Salve and my leg was sound and well as ever." For eruptions, eczema, tetter, salt rheum, sores and all blood disorders Electric Bitters I has no rival no earth. Try them -J. j E Kaufmann will guarantee satis- j faction or refund money. Only 50 [ cents. Benet Roasts Them. I f.Viavlnof r\r> T^ncf j Judge W. C. Benet, recently in the court of sessions for Charleston county, saw fit to say something further to the grand jury on the finding j of no bills in dispensary cases. The remarks were occasioned by j the handing of several indictment J for violation of the dispensary law. I Judge Benet reminded the jury that in all the other indictments given the cases were thrown out, adding : that the witnesses in the former cases were the same as in the present cases. "If you believe that a State constables is not to be believed because he is a State constable, you are vio- i lating your consciences," he said. "A heavy responsibility rests upon you. All of you have taken the oath 'so help me God,' and I again adjure you to do your duty. Apply the same rule and standard in the dis pensary cases as in the other cases If you apply other rules I leave the matter with you and your God. Constables in other counties have furnished testimony to grand juries and true bills have been found. "I am not pressing you, gentlemen, for true bills in these indictments. I A. GOODS COMP, DUST, TE., 3^^: Patronage. Polite and ! wieh to God there was no ground fcr a true bill in Charleston. But there I is a mass of evidence all around uf. | Young boys growing up see the law ! tramnled on. The moral effect is j fearful and will lead to something I serious in other ways. "I know not the witnesses, but by . no means make up your minds not to return true bills because policemen and State constables furnish the evidence. There have been grand juries in Charleston who have done this. I speak from knowledge. I hope I am not speaking to such a grand jury. If the grand jury before us is a corrupt one, then God help Charleston." Thousands Sent Into Exile. Every year a large number of poor sufferers whose lungs are sore and racked with coughs are urged to go to another climate. But this is costly and not always sure. Don't be an exiled when Dr. King's New Discovery for Consumption will cure you at home. It's the most infallible medicine for coughs, colds and all throat and lung diseases on earth. The first dcse brings relief. Astounding cures result from persistent use. Trial bottles free at J. E. Kaufmann'sNew Drugstore. Price50c.and$1. Every bottle guaranteed. Superintendent of State Exhtbits. The following letter ia self explanatory. Hod. W. H. F. Rast, Commissioner Lexington county, Swansea, S. C. Dear Sir: I have been appointed Superintendent of State exhibit at the South Carolina Inter State and West Indian Exposition by the South Carolina commission, created by act of the laBt General Assembly. I am dow ready to begin the work of collecting the county exhibit?, and aek your most earnest aid in this undertaking, for it is obligatory upon us to have this State's resources fully exhibited because this is "The South Carolina Exposition" and by its success or by its failure will we be judged by the world. Please permit me to urge that you personally begin now to solicit specimens for your county exhibit, for the time is passing for some itemp, especially sheaf grain. The only expense a county will incur in mak ing an exhibit is the collecting and loading into a car, or cars, and the arranging of the exhibit in the Palace of Agriculture. I will meet with your board between now and the first of August to give you all the aid and information you may need. Can I count on your support? Very truly yours, A. W. Love, Superintendent State Exhibits. ? Tried to Wreck a Train. Orangeburg Times and Democrat. June2f>. An attempt was made on last "Wednesday morning to wreck the t . . "l 11 througn Ireignt train ana iue passenger train on the Manchester and Augusta Railroad a few miles below Orangeburg. Several cross ties had been placed across the track and the freight struck them, damaging the engine considerably, it is said. Engineer Butler stopped his train and found several ties near the track. The train had knocked them aside. Passenger train 35 passing later had been notified of the attempted wrecking. When it passed the cross ties had been replaced on the track, but the train was stopped and the obstructions removed. The fellow i who did this is badly in need of ! some hemp. A Good Cough Medicine. Many thousands have been restorj ed to health and happiness by the use of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. If afll cted with any throat or lung I trouble, give it a trial for it is certain to prove beneficial. Coughs that have resisted all other treatment for years, have yielded to this remedy and perfect health been jestcred. Cases that seemed hopeless, that the climate of famous health resorts failed to benefit, have been permanently ? T T? cured by its use. I'd* sale oy o. r^. Kaufmann. ?*. It is said tbere are f>3 cotton seed oil mills in the State. Of these 130 j are independent and the others are j under the control of %the Southern 1 Cotton Oil Company. i 4NY, COLUMBIA, H. . Prompt Attention. Octot Smallpox in Brookland. i j Columbia Evening Record. Magistrate Corley, of Brcokland, sent the following communication to | The Record yesterday, and it would ( ; have been published had it not mis- , i carried in the mails: i Editor The Record: I notice an I article appeared in your issue of the 1 24th inefc., "Compulsory Vaccination i ' Tr* r^nlr 4 r\ ccul 1 li-i J-/1UUOIOUU. JL!J iv euiu j i article must say that it certainly is i very annoying to the citizens of < Brookland and vicinity to be so mis- , erably misrepresented in tbis so | called smallpox epidemic. We con- j j fe83 that when the disease first api peared in the form of mild chicken- , pox the board of health perhaps did ] not take steps at once that probably they should have. But soon as the disease got a little more severe, and i the state board of beaith was notified of the fact, they sent beaith officers to investigate, and they pronounced the disease smallpox, and 1 left instructions to stamp the disease out. The local board of beaith and j the local physicians took up said ini structions and carried them out as ? best they could, in which I think j they have been very successful, as it v appears that at the time the health ^ ; officera were here, about si? or seven weeks ago, there were about seventyj five or eighty cases in the t)wn and a few outside the incorporation. ^ | Since that time and during this f ! last excitement of the last week, the ; disease has been reduced to Dot over c ; six cases, the cases beiDg in infected j ! families. Today I am informed that ? I there are not over four or five cases, ! and thev are convalescing aDd will , y - u [ soon be ont of any danger of ccm; municating the disease to aDy one. c ! The disease has been checked principally by quarantining infected houses and by ligidly enforcing fumigation c as vaccination seems to have very j little t ffect on the disease Parties f who have been recently vaccinated ; take the disease readily, and the a vaccination takes readily on persons who have had the disease recently. e Io reference to the disease outside ^ ! of the incorporation, will say that the disease has been in only three c : families. As scon as it fully devel: oped I telephoned the Governor and t was instructed by him to do what I j could to keep the disease from t : spreading. I had the families who had the disease quarantined and had ^ r- tr\ 4 r\ y r\ n A aa TTQQ LUfc) fcULLie piKCBUHUU ruiuivtu uo r??.o carried out in the town by fumigating, etc. At present there is no indication of the disease spreading at all. W. M. Ccrl?y, Magistrate. 'x Brookland, S. C., June 25,1901. < ft. Heartburn. When the quantity of food taken 1 is too large or the quality too rich, * heartburn is likely to follow, and J especially so if the digestion has I been weakened by constipation. Eat slowly and not too freely of easily digested food. Masticate the food < | thoroughly. Let six hours elapse j between meals and when you feel a j fullness and weight iu the region cf the stomach after eating, indicating that jou have eaten too much, take one of Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets and the heartburn may be avoided. For sale by J. E. Kaufmann. ' * "Texas Sittings," : To the Editor of the Dispatch: It may interest some of your readers for me to give a few items from Texas. The State of Texas, as is well i known, is the adopted home of many ! South Carolinians. I have met some , of them since my arrival here. Messrs. j Jim and HeDry Bouknight, formerly i of Saluda county, are in business in Cameron. It was a real pleasure to j meet them and learn of their success, j i Jim is rr juicing over his first baby ! ! 8irI- i Mrs. Christina Whites, nee Chris tina Shealy, formerly of Spiing Hill, i Lexington county, is in Cameron also, i She lives with her youngest daugh- j i ter, Mrs Nora Ruby. Mrs. Whitep, j ; though 80 )ears old, is cheerful and j ; with the exception of lhumatism en- j j joys good health. Recollections of j the days gone by iD South Carolina i are among her cherished things, and | i the names of the Eargle, Drehers, et j 1 al. are fresh in her memory. A call i \ Jl $. e., fjD ' >er I3tf at their pleasant home was much enjoyed by this writer. Farmers here are suspended between hope and fear. Cotton has been attacked by two insect pest. One is known as the boll wevil and _i.i 1.1 t _ _i.__ hpi h. iL oiuer iue suarpsnooier. xury uuiu attack the sqnare wherein they deposit their egg, causiDg the rquare to drop off, The farmers are spraying their cotton with poison in the hope of destroying these pests. Corn is beginning to suffer from dry weather. Where it was planted early it is safe and fine. The lands in this portion of Texas ire good but the water is pcor. Church and educational woik re3eives a liberal share of attention here as it should everywhere. J. E. Cameron, Texas, June 24, 1901. Food Changed To Poison. Pn Ivofrinor in fltn iriiccf l'nco J. U.iC.jrii-g AUWV ^ produce fffects like those of arsenic, 3ut Dr. King's New Life Pills expel he poison from clogged bowels, genty, easily but surely, curiDg constipa,ion, biliousness, sick headache, fevers til liver, kidney aod bowel troubles. )oly 25c. at J. E. Kjufannn's New Drug Store. Points for Growing Girls. Some one has suggested fifteen hiDgs that every girl can learn benro cVio is fifteen vonrs nf acre 'N'r.f'. very one oao learn to play or sing >r paint well enough to give pleasure o her freinds, but the following 'accomplishments" are.within every)ody's reach: Shut the door and shut it softly. Keep your own rcom in tasteful >rder. Have an hour for rising and rise. Learn to make bread as well as ake. Ntver let a button stay off twentyour hours. Always know where your things ;re. Never let a day pass without doing cmelbing to make somebody comortable. Never come to breakfast without a ollar. Never go about with your shoes mbuttoned. Speak clearly enough for every>ody to understand. Never fidget cr bum, so as to disutb others. Never fuss or fret, or fidget.?Ex. ? -O- ? Don't Let Them Suffer. Often children are tortured with tching and burning eczema and other ikin diseases but Bucklen's Arnica Salve heals the raw sores, expels inlammatiou. leaves the skin without a 3car. Clean, fragrant, cheap, there's 10 salve on earth as good. Try it. Dure guarantred. Only 25c. at J. E Kaufmann's New Drug Store. To Birmingham and Return. On account of the National Grand Temple, Mosaic Templars of America, at Birmingham, Ala, July 30August 4:b, the Southern TUilway announces rate of one first class fare for the round trip from all points on its lines to Birmingham, Ala., and return. JL1CACIB LU UC OU1U uuij ? w, 30, final limit August 6, 1901. For detailed information call on or address any agent of the Southern Railway or connections. W. H. Tajloe, Assistant Pass. Agt., Atlanta, Ga , It is dangerous business to 'monkey' I with Texas Justice. Sometime ago a man named Dent forged a pardon j and therewith secured the liberation of a life convict. He received $10,000 for the forgery. WbeD the trick was discovered, Dent was arrested, tried and convicted and sentenced to serve the sentence of the man he liberated?the term of his natural life. The matter was tateii to tee eupre . e court, which the other day decided that the sentence upon Dent was legal. Wanted. Trustworthy men and women to travel and advertise for old established house of solid financial standing. Salary ?730 a year and expenses, all payable in cash. No canvassing required. Give references and enclose s*-lf addressed stamped envelope Address Manager, 355 Caxton Bldg, Chicago. 51 | ADVERTISING RATES. Advertisements wilt be inserted at tne rate o 75 cents per square of one i ch S/-aee for first insertion, and 50 cents per inch for 6&ch subsequent insertion. 2raj coatraotr- mnde with those wishing v advertise for thres, six and twtive mos tlis? Notices m the local column 5 cents per line each insertion Obit auric; charged for at he rate ol one cent a word, wlen they exceed 100 words ilarriage notices inserted free Address O. M. HARMAN. Editor and Publisher STATE NEWS. What Our Neighbors Are Saying and Doing Condensed for Busy Headers. Four of the striking machinist of the Souihern Railway shop9 in Columbia have been arrested on warrants sworn out by the railroad onllinrilico /?harr?inor thorn with rirtt auiuv/tibivo buv*M IT * % M *v? and assault. The team of the Independent Steam Fire Co., of Columbia, has decided not to accept the invitation of the Charlotte firemen, to partici| pate in a tournament, cn account of the emallness .of the prizes offered. T'ie State Phosphate Commission will meet in th9 city of Columbia on July 9th and will then start on a tour of inspection of the phosphate beds of the State. J. C. Simms, formerly of Lancas- * ter county, in this State, is prominently spoken of as the next Democratic candidate for the governor-ship of Oilifortia. He was private secretary to Gov. Hampton. The Southern R iilroad, since January 1st, has built or contracted for $27,600 worth of side tracks in Co luinoia inegrowtn or tne wnoiesale business in Columbia has a great deal to do with this demand for increased trackage. Mr. W. A. Neal, a former superintendent of the State penitentiary, was tried at the Richland term of the court of sessions on an indictment charging him with failing to turn over public moneys to his successsor within the limit prescribed by law. Walsh's new city directory for Columbia has been issued. The publishers state in their preface that the directory? based upon a eireful canvass of the city and immediate suburbs, shows the population to be not less than 32,000. Mr. X. II. Williams, says he has a curiosity at his house in the shape of animal which is half rabbit and half cat. The fore part is like a cat and the hind part lookf like a rabbit. It is about six weeks old, and he supposes it to be the result of tame rabbitts uud cats bieeding together. The Governor ha9 been asked to offer a reward for the capture of a negro Damea itoagers nonertsoD, who is badly waDted by the peace officers of Greenwood county to answer for the unprovoked murder of a negro woman named Mary Lou Griffin. On the advice of Solicitor Johnsod, the Governor has pardoned Ben King, colored, of Marlborough county. He had eerved a eix month's sentence for wife beating and the pardon was granted to restore citizenship so that he could be used as a witness in a case now pending in court. A deplorable accident occurred at the Epworth orphanage in Columbia on June 26, in which a young boy lost his life. During a storm which passed over that city on the day mentioned, nine bojs sought refuge under a shed, which the violence of the wind brought down with a crash instantly killing Charlie Stack. Governor McSweeney announced some days ago that it was his intention to call a "Good Koadb" convention to meet some time during August. Toe correspondence with county supervisors has been favorable to the convention idea. The State geologist and his assistants, who are familiar with the aspect of ooAnnmiAAl Hpv^lonment. will be consulted before a date for the convention is made. The addition to the barracks Clemson makes room for 150 more boys. This increase in the number of students necessitated an increase in the teaching force, and the trustees recently elected the following additional teachers: Mr. IS. W. Reeves, of Marion, assistant professor of mathematics; Mr. Arthur B. RryaD, of B ?rnwell, tutor in English; Mr. J. E HuDter, of Newberry, tutor; Mr. Mark Bradley, of Abbeville, tutor. Little VernoD, the two year old eon of Mrs. E D. Humphries, of Union, passed through an experience recenT? which caused his parents considerable uneasiness for the time being. He wa3 playing with a four penny wire nail and^ Lia mother noticed him gagging and trying to get some thing from his throat. She knew he had swallowed the nail, bub she could do nothing. The nail passed down and the parents were very uneasy for the four days it remain* d in the child. They were overjoyed when they knew the child was relieved of the danger. It was sharp pointed, and the child had a narrow escape. All of Dr. Boyd's remedies are for sale at the Bazaar.