The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, August 12, 1897, Image 7
v*
,f^j( '
11010 am MI
Big Cotton Mill and Electric Plant to
fe', Be Built There.
$ THE DEED HAS BEEN SIGNED.
The State Disposed of Its Interest for
$1,000 -The Property Will Be Valuable
When Developed.
It looks as if the old State Canal, began
at Catawba Falls in 1830, is soon
to be developed, and that Bock Hill,
Chester and Winnsboro will be getting
Mi muuuuouuv ui ciocuiv jjveacx UJ vuw
transmission process from that source.
The matter has been before the State
Sinking fund Commission for some
time, and the commission, at its meeting
last week, agreed to sign a deed
which stipulates that on or before the
8d day of January', 1903, the canal must
be completed and $130,000 invested in
the erection of a factory for the manufacture
of cotton gOods or other commodities
and in a plant for the generation
and development of electric power,
L? to be therefrom delivered to neighboring
towns and cities. It was originally
oontemplated that a railroad line shoula
be built out to this property from either
Chester or Winnsboro, and it is not un[
likely that this will be done if the
development contemplated is carried
\ through.
The old canal property is at Catawba
Falls, at the intersection of the coun;
ties of Fairfield, Chester and Lancastar.
It is about twenty miles from
each of the towns of Winnsboro and
Bock Hill and Chester, and the development
of electrical power from the
magnificent water power there will
! mean much to these three growing
towns.
It seems that Mrs. Susan A. Boylesu
* ton, of Winnsboro, owns all the propfcV
erty surrounding the canal property,
\ the title of which is vested in the State
L of South Carolina. Some time ago
f some capitalists made a proposition to
tVief VtaTT trnnlrl tolro ilio nvAnnftw
fMWt ?MMV kMWJ n VUAU H V kUO ?J
and complete the canal, provided she
would secure the transfer of the title of
the State to her on the condition that
) by a certain date $150,000 would be invested
in a manufacturing enterprise
and an electrical developing plant
I The property as it stands is absolutely
; worthless to the State. She
tj: made the proposition to the State sinkr
| ing fund commission, and that
boay received it favorably. The
Attorney General was asked to*draw up
f-- a deed, and he has drawn a deed, in
which the State is thoroughly protected.
The deed transfers the title to
Mrs. Boyleston, her heirs and assigns,
on the condition that on or before Janj&
nary 3, 1003, as much as $150,000 shall
Y , be invested as indicated above, the fao~
tory to be in operation by the date
named, and upon a further considersE,
- tion of the sum of $1,000 to be paid to
the sinking fund commission. The
property will be valuable when devell
,. oped, but as it stands a great amount
ra water power is lying idle. It is
known everywhere that the water power
at the falls is one of the best in the
State.
fc ; _ The deed agreed to by the State sinking
fund commission transferring the
rv oanal right of way to Mrs. Boyleston ,
upon the condition that the power be
developed has been dolv signed bv all
the ^proper officials an d forwarded to
p i the property tribunal for record.
INTO COURT AGAIN.
I Another Passage at Arms In the Agricultural
Hall Case.
Mr. Wesley, the winner in the famous
agricultural hall case, last week wrote
to the United States marshal for the
- district of South Carolina demanding
that he come to Columbia and put him
in possession of the building and prem*
ises. It appears that the marshal, upon
receipt of the demand, notified the
State's attorneys in the case. They at
once began to take steps to prevent interference
with the property until the
r\f UlA Tt in RAtd
* that on Tuesday night guards were kept
' at the building all night with instructions
to resist any attempt upon the part
of anyone to take possession of the)
building, with force if necessary?
Later the attorney general's office had
the following notice served upon the
United States marshal and upon Mr.
LyTei, thus putting a stop to furthei
Bp . proceedings until the date named at
5$ least; by agreement the hour named in
the noticejias exchanged until 5 p. m.
Here is the nptjce:
United States of America, District of
u South Carolina, Fourth Circuit In re
~ Edward B. Wesley, plaintiff, vs. J. E
Tindal and J. R. Boyles, defendants.
Ex parte Samuel W. Vance, petiX
' taoner.
To W. H. Lyles, attorney for Edward
B. Wesley and J. T. Hunter, U. S.
Marshal for the district of South
j?; ' , Carolina:
You will hereby take notice that the
undersigned, as attorneys for Samuel
W. Vance, petitioner in the above
stated case, and upon whos epetition a
writ cf error has been allowed to the
Unit'd States Circuit Court of appeals
for the fourth circuit, and a supercedes
bond approved by Judge C. H. Simonton,
circuit judge, will make a motion
before his honor, C. H. Simonton,
United States circuit judge, at Greenville,
S. C., on Tuesday, the 10th day
of August, A. D., 1897, at 11 o'clock a.
m., or as soon thereafter as counsel can
be heard, to stay the execution in the
tRy-*? case of E. B. Wesley, plaintiff, vs. J.
E. Tindal and J. 1J. Boyles, defendants,
pending the said appeal to
the circuit court of appeals, the said
motion to be heard on the petition for
. writ of error, bond and all other papers
in the case. S. W. Melton,
Attorney for S. W. Vance, petitioner.
Wm. A. Bakbeb,
Of Counsel.
' ?
? A French Phrase.
~ Kell?Mies Bjanes uses French phrases
in the most peculiar manner.
Bell?Does she?
Nell?Yes, indeed! Why, at breakfast
yesterday I asked her how she
liked her eggs and she said they were
f .very chick.?Philadelphia Record.
IN THE PHOSPHATE FIELDS.
What State Inspector Jones Says of
the Operations Therein.
While in Columbia en route back to
the coast after a brief visit to his home
in Abbeville, State Phosphate Inspector
Jones talked interestingly to a State
reporter of the condition of the mining
industry ki the phosphate territory of
this State.
Mr. Jones says that the market still
remains very dull, and there has been
practically no change in the situation
in this State in the last two months.
The Farmers' Mining Company baa
now shipped away about 16,000 tons of
rock it had on hand at the time the re- i
ductioa in the royalty was made; this
of coarse, had to pay 50 cents per ton
royalty. The Coosaw company, which
went ont of business because the State
board would not grant the reduction so
as to apply to the rock on hand, has
shipped out about 20,000 tons of rock,
leaving 16,500 tons more to be shipped.
The new Empire company has begun
operations in the territory, but up to
the present time has been engaged in
simply handpicking, getting out about
500 tons of rock monthly. The other
three operating companies are getting
ont rock per month as follows: Farmers'
Mining Company, 3.000 tons; Beaufort
Phosphate Company, 8,000 tons;
and James Beid about 700 tons.
DREHER DEALS DEATH.
Slays His Wife and John Cain, Her
Paramour.
A special to The State from Lewiedale,
of the 6th, says last night at 9:30 p. m.
our town was aroused to considerable
excitement by several gun and pistol
shots, and a good deal of moaning in the
northern portion of town, among the
colored population.
Pat Dreher, a negro who has been
living here for years, came to his house
at the hour stated above, and found his
wife with John Cain on the front side of
the house. Pat fired on Cain with a
shot gun "loaded for dear," the load
striking Cain in the small part of the
bodv, inflicting a very dangerous if not
fatal wound. Pat's wife ran from the
house into the cornfield, whereupon Pat
ran, overtaking her, shot her in the
hreiutt with a mstol and then cut her
throat, killing her almost instantly.
John Cain and Dreher's wife have
been on verv intimate terms for years.
Dreher has had very (frequent friction
with Cain, and has repeatedly warned
Cain to cease his relations with Mamie,
his wife, but to no avail. Some time
during last winter Dreher found Cain
and Mamie together, whereupon several
shots were exchanged, but none took
effect.
Pat Dreher is an inoffensive kind of a
negro, and has been much abused.
The verdict of a majority of the people
is, "Pat waited too long to do this
work."
Dreher is supposed to be making
tracks to parts unknown. No attempt
has yet been made towards his arrest
Later rumor has it that Pat said last
night that he was not satisfied, and was
going to kill others and then end his
own career.
DEFAULTING DISPENSER
Convicted, But Is Let Loose on Bail
In Greenville,
At Greenville last week the first case
against a dispenser for defalcation tried
in the courts in this State, which resulted
in a conviction, was closed for
the time by the sentence of R. F. G.
Holtzolaw, the West End dispenser, to
serve nine months at hard labor in the
penitentiary or pay a fine of $500. A
motion was made bv Holtzclaw's at
torneys for a new trial, but after hearing
the argument Judge Watts declined
to hear the argument of Solicitor Ansel
and refused the motion.
Sentence was then passed on Holtzclaw
to serve nine months in the penitentiary
or pay a fine of $500. The attorneys
for Holtzclaw served notice of
appeal to the Supreme Court Pending
the appeal Holtzclaw was released on a
bail bond of $500.
The charges against Holtzclaw were,
first, a shortage of $1,600; second, overdrawing
his salary $130; third, drawing
a check for $? as dispenser to pay election
managers. He was convicted on
the second and third counts. Bookkeeper
Scruggs testified that the $1,600
bad gone, but he could not account for
the disappearance.
ON THE SOLAR PLEXUS.
Candidate Mayfield Get* a Knockout
- ~ - Blow.
Senatorial Candidate May field's 4 'expose
of the duplicity of the Governor
in the matter of the Charleston metropolitan
police is generally admitted in
political and private circles to have
been a very weak affair, and simply a
rehash of old political rumors which
have been current ever since last
winter. There was absolutely nothinfi
in the charge which Mr. Mayfield
had so loudly fheralded, and an
expected political sensation was knocked
into a cocked hat. The Governor,
on Sunday, said in reference to the expose:
Without the slightest provocation
on mv part. Mr. Mayfield has preferred
charges against me without being able
to prove them. His statements are false.
A gentleman is at a disadvantage when
he engages in a controversey with snch
a man. I cannot afford to notice him
further."
This gets Mr. Mayfield w here Fitzsimmons
got Corbet, right on the solar
plexus.?The Register.
Pardon and Commutation.
A commutation of sentence has been
granted by the Governor to Jack Riley,
who was convicted of manslaughter in
July, 1888, in Barnwell county, and
was sentenced by Judge Pressley to ten
years' imprisonment in the penitentiary.
The sentence is commuted to Aug.
1. This has been done because of his
good conduct.
Governor Eilexbe has granted a full
pardon to Robert Simpson, who was
convicted in February last in Laurens
county of larceny and was sentenced by
Judge Watts to two years service on the
county chain gang.
',K; ii - -vi
1 Mil Milli
Five Candidates are Stumpingthe
State for Earie's Place,
A SUMMARY OF THE SPEECHES,
Evans Jumps on McLaurin's Tariff
Views ? McLaurtn and Irby on
Their Records?Mafield Talks Out.
The following is a brief summary of
I the Sanatoria! eamoaien speeches from
day to day.
The Pickens Meeting.
The Senatorial candidates were rather
caustic toward each other at Pickens.
Mr. Mayfield said Senator McLaurin's
position on the dispensary was wrong,
and was criticising his views, when the
latter asked that if it was true he was
not in a combination to fight him, why
did he single him out from an attack on
his dispensary views, when Mr. Evans,
the father of the dispensary law, sat
near by. Later Mr. Mayfield stated
he would say nothing more about Senator
McLaurin, as he had committed
political suicide at Greenville. The
Senator said he supposed Mr. Mayfield
made no mention of Irby or Evans, as
he regarded them as being also dead.
Mr. Evans said some of the candidates
criticised the dispensary because
the law is unpopular here, but as for
himself he considered he had no regrets
for his advocacy of the law, ana still
considered it the best solution of the
liquor problem. Mr. Evans claimed that
" r. nAfinlitr otato
UlHWrcrS HWC iCAWUiUK m PVVWMM
when Governor Ellerbe said he would
use the machinery of his administration
against Irby and Evans if they opposed
McLaurin. As Governor Ellerbe
was absent, Senator McLaurin
j denied for him that he ever made such
| a statement Mr. May field said Mr.
Ellerbe told hir^ so and that if he denied
it, he was guilty of a deliberate
| falsehood.
Ex-Senator Irby stated that he would
prove by Smith Thompson, of Spartanburg,
that Senator McLaurin promised
to vote for Butler for Senator against
Tillman. McLaurin denied this and
said the alleged conference was not
about senatorial matters, but on other
questions.
The Oconee Meeting.
The campaign meeting for this county
was held at Walhalla, and was without
special incident, except the spat between
Senator McLaurin and Col.
Irby. Some one asked McLaurin if he
was Governor would he favor the metropolitan
police. He replied that he
would not. Col. Irby asked whether
he would remove the police from
Charleston if Governor, and he said he
would remove the police. Col. Irby
said this remark was stabbing Governor
Ellerbe. Mr. McLaurin said it was no
such thing; that he would defend Ellerbe
at all times, and that Ellerbe intended
removing the police from
Charleston, but was prevented by a
combination of circumstances.
Col. Irby said he only attacked Governor
Ellerbe because he had said to
Mavfield that he was going to throw
the"power of his administration against
Evans and Irbv. Senator McLaurin
said Governor Ellerbe had denied this,
and had said he would use his power if
his administration were attacked. Col.
Irby condemned the present suffrage
provisions in this State, and said i t disfranchised
lt800 poor white men in
Spartanburg county alone.
Messrs. McLaurin and Evans said
the present plan was the best possible
* -_J -1.-1 ?1 /~1_I 1 _v_ ??
BOiuuon, aim mat wueu v-ui. ii uj appealed
to the poor white men he was
using the argument of the demogogue,
for there were no poor white men who
were disfranchised in South Carolina.
All white men were equal and sovereign,
as much so as his rich countrymen.
Mr. Mayfield was not present.
He spent the qay with his father in
Greenville county.
The Anderson Meeting.
The campaign meeting at Anderson
was attended by about 700 people. Mr.
Mayfield, who spoke first, said that
instead of convicting him of falsehood,
Governor Ellerbe had convicted himself
of uttering one, and that before the
bar of justice it would be proven that
Ellerbe and not Mayfield had told the
falsehood. He said that he bad a letter
from Representative Ashley, stating
that his charges were entirely correct
ahd thgt Governor Ellerbe
promised hinf to remove the metropolitan
police from Charleston.* -cvs ?
Former Governor Evans justified his
action in imposing the metropolitan
police on Charleston, and said, the law
was given him to enforce, and he treated
Charleston as he would any other
section. If Charleston would not enforce
the law, it should be made so to
do. He saw no justice in Senator McLaurin
twitting him for imposing the
police on Charleston, and defended
flnrpmnr for keeoinx? them
there.
Senator McLaurin said he had to answer
these speeches and could not daily
branch off on side issues.
Ex-Senator Irby said that certain
newspapers were trying to organize a
new party and unload the old war
horses who had done the work.
The Greenwood Sleeting.
It was a very much delayed, a larger
and more lively campaign meeting at
Greenwood, than at previous places.
To begin with, the speaking did not
start until 2 o'clock, but the throng
seemed to be hungry for campaign oratory,
and waited and listened until
nightfall. The speakers' stand col apsed.
early in the programme, but that made
no material difference.
Col. Irby was even more vigorous
than usual and paid his respects 13 Governor
Ellerbe, in brief. There was a
lively time for a few minutes when CoL
Irby asked Mr. McLaurin to answer a
question and insisted on a "yes" or
"no" answer, and Mr. McLaurin was
ecually as positive in answering the
question in his own way, or not at all.
This, Col. Irby urged, was dodging,
which was denied by Mr. McLaurin.
The controversy ended in Senator
McLaurin not recognizing the subsequent
questions, and Col. Irby declining
interruption for the answer. There
were appeals for fair play. Coloneil
Irby's retort was that he tcok his med
I
S& i Yff 'Vf i::
rc \ Q&fjrr *< . *2? ' -r^<" > ' v. *.r.-1i' * - <8
icine like a gamecock, acd that Senator
McLaurin was mad. This Mr.
McLaurin vigorously denied. Colonel
Irby said that Governor Ellerbe was as I
weak as circus lemonade, and was j
prostituting iiis uuiuo su na w iujuio
him, and he charged that one of his
friends on the constabulaiy force had
been discharged because he would not ;
work for McLaurin. He sai J there was ;
a talk of a deal for the removal of the ,
metropolian police from Charleston,
and promised tha'; if this were so he
would be heard from later on this subject.
The Abbeville Meet ing.
The senatorial campaign meeting at
Abbeville was devoid of special interest,
and the 500 auditors showed little enthusiasm.
Ex-Se:iator Irtv said the
only reason Governor EUeibe was retaining
the dispemary constables was
to use them. He insisted that under
existing conditions the constables were
useless, except to go about and lie on
him.
Mr. Evans was outspoken in opposing
Senator Tillman, and also Senator McLaurin,
for his timff views.
Mr. Mavfield said Senator McLaurin
dictated the Populist platform, and Mr.
Bowden wrote it. Senator McLaurin
said he voted for the Tillman-Latixper'
dispensary bill, so that every State oould
regulate its affairs, liquor and other
wise.
CAROLINA CULL1NGS.
? t
The Standard Oil Company has purchased
the Laurens canning factory
and will utilize il as a store room for
their oil stocks.
Work is progressing finely with the
new artesian well at Marion, and the
contractor, Mr. Mace, hopes soon to
have a good flow.
The Secretary of State has granted a
charter under the general incorporation
act to the town of Landrum in
Spartar.burg county.
It is considered very likely that the
investigation which the Governor had
made of the recent acts of the constables
in the raid of the Windsor
Hotel in Spartanburg will amount to
notmng alter an. ?me state.
R. R. Stutts, the dispenser at Kingston,
has been removed and A. O. Mouzon
appointed instead. No charges
were preferred against him, except that
he had in his employment a boy, 16
years old, as clerk.
The 20th annnal session of the South
Carolina Sunday School convention is
to be held in Camden the 24th to 26th
insts. The indications are that the attendance
will ?be unusually large. The
music is to be under the direction of
the local choir, assisted by Mr. F. F.
Whilden, of Charleston, and the Rev.
Walter I. Herbert, of Florence.
Two negroes, Willie Gibbes and Tommie
Trimble, one hailing from Staun- ,
ton, Va., and the other from HartsI
^ x M J
viile, .uarnngton county, were iquuu
upon the track of the Northwestern
Railroad, about three miles from
Kingstree,on the 6th, horribly mangled.
The coroner was at once notified and
held an inqnest and found that the men
came to their death "by their own carelessness
in going to sleep on the railroad
track.
THURMOND WAS ACQUITTED.
State Prosecutor in Edgefield Found
Not Guilty of Murder.
An Edgefield jury, after thirty minutes
deliberation, found Solicitor J. W.
Thurmond, State practitioner for the
Fifth Circuit, not guilty of the murder
of W. G. Harris, Jr., last March.
Harris wrs a young man, belonged
to an old family and traveled for a drug
house in Columbia. The cause of the
trouble grew out of politics.
Thurmond had recently been elected
solicitor, while Harris' father' was defeated
for a county office. .
Young Harris, "meeting Thurmond,
charged him with undermiuing his
father and called him a Tillrannite.
Thurmond withdrew into his office and
stood at the door. When Harris came
bv more words were exchanged, when,
Thurmond says, Harris advanced on
him with a knife in his hand and he
kicked him down the step.
Harris came at him again, he swore,
with a knife in his left hand and his
right on his hip, when he shot him dead.
. There were no witnesses |o this.
Harris' knife was found closed in his
right pocket and no "ther weapon was
on his i>erson.
THE COLORED COLLEGE.
President Miller Talks of the Situation.
President Thomas E. Miller of the
colored industrial college at Orangeburg,
was in Columbia last week on his
way to Washington. In speaking of
the college and its prospec ts to a Register
representative, he said:
"Though the college really has ac/
_ _J _ A. ' 1 _ AT J A_ :i
commouauoos ior oniy oui siuueuwj, iv
had 1,100 students at the last session
and the prospects are that the next session,
which will begin on September
2?, will start with an enrollment of 2,OOOstudents,
of whom 40 i>er cent, will
be female. The accommtdatiomi and
income of the college are wholly inadequate
to accommodate the students.
There would be 4,000 enrolled if the
college could accommodate them. '
Charleston's Elevator.
The officials of the South Caroli na k
Georgia Railroad have given assurance
that the new elevator at Charleston will
be ready for business by Septemlier 1.
The storage capacity of the elevator is
200,000 bushels, receiving capacity 5,000
bushels an hour, discharging capacity
5,000 bushels an hour, loading aDd unloading
capacity 10,000 bushels an hour,
cooling and cleaning capacity, wilh improved
blowers, 4,000 bushels an hour.
The facilities for loading vessels direct
from the elevator are of the latest up-todate
methods. In addition to a large
spout conveyor, a new belt conveyor is
now being constructed the entire length
of the pier, with a number of spouts
along its entire length, which will enable
the grain to be loaded into all of
the various holds of a vessel at the same
time. --Manufacturers' Record.
There is <me thing about having trouble;
only live men ire bothered. Dead
men lever have anything to worry
about.
* 1
II GRINDJUJCf III"
Yorkville's Gallant Yeomanry Assembled
at Tirzah,
THE ANNUAL ENCAMPMENT.
Congres iman Strait Delivers an Address-Tillman
Jumps on Preachers
and Defends the Dispensary.
Tirzah, York county's geographical
centre, vas on the 5th the center of interest
and the Mecca for the Alliancemen
and citizens of York and adjoining
counties Two thousand of York's yeomanry,
gallant swains and winsome
women, (fathered there. The fourth annual
en-:ampmentof the York County
Alliance was a great occasion.
W. N. Elder, president of the York (
County Alliance, presided gracefully
as master of ceremonies. Thomas T.
McDow, an eloquent young barrister
of Yorkville, delivered the address of
welcome. Mr. J. C. Wilborn, president
of the State Alliance, spoke of the
objects of the Alliance, and in an earnest
and eloquent appeal called for all 1
true Southerners to be loyal to the Al- 1
liance and her principles.
Congressman Strait spoke for an hour
and a half on the democracy of the
Alliance and its demands. He closed
with an arraignment of the McKinleyHanna-Keed
special session and severely
scored the iniquitous tariff bill. His
views are diametrically opposed to
those of McLaurin, and he speaks with
fire and zeal.
* ' - I 1 -L _ . A |
Al l o ciock a neavy swrm came up
and the meeting broke up.
Among some of the distinguisbed '
visitors present were: W. A. Neal, J.
D. Shaw and D. P. Duncan.
The dispensary was closed and peace
and good will prevailed.
An Immense crowd braved the rain to
Keet Tillman at Tirzah on the 6th. )
16 first speaker was CoL D'Arcy P.
Duncan, whose exposition of the Al- ,
liance principles was- listened to intently.
When Senator Tillman and Governor
Ell-irbe arrived, they were loudly cheer- i
ed. Mr. Tillman began to speak soon
afterward with his ac customed fire and
vigor. He stated in the beginning that 1
his first political speech was made near '
this spot eleven years ago. He then '
began an elaborate defenso of the dis- !
pensarv law. He fathered all responsibility
for the law; he nursed it and held '
it up, and stood by it, defended it
against all the attacks in the courts, in
the Darlington war and is now standing 1
by it in the Senate. If hard work ana 1
faithful effort can have influence, his j
bill (recently defeated in the House)
will yet pass Congress.
He jumped on the preachers vigor
ousiy ior oppoBing ir-3 law De cause, as
they say, it is a shame for the State to
be selling whiskey. They stand alongside
the barkeepers in their opposition.
The devil is at one end of the rope and
the preachers are at the other, trying to
choke the law to death. They have allied
themselves with Gonzales, Hemphill,
Simonton and the devil.
There was stealing in the dispensary
because of the divided responsibility,
but thore was also dishonesty in other
business enterprises.
He then defended Governor Ellerbe,
who was an honest man and tmthfnl,
and has not gone to lying at this late
day.
In regard to the metropolitan police.
Senator Tillman said two days after the
Legislature met in J an narv he had a
friendly interview with Governor Ellerbe
and advised him not to remove
the police nnless every member of the
Charleston citv council would sign an
agreement to see the law enforced.,
The Governor said lie would not, and
he did not think he had turned out to
be a liar and a hypocrite.
In reply to a question from W. H.
Lawrence, of Laurens, he said that he
and Mr. McLaurin had voted alike on
tariff issues. He explained hi* bluff in
regard to voting with the Republicans.
Governor Ellerbe was then introduced,
and after vindicating himself in regard
to netropolitan police, he denied
the charges against him in regard to a
combint'to elect McLaurin. He would
be a can lidate for re-election and would
then ref ate the charges against him.
Here 'here was a little pleasantry between
himself and Tillman. Tillman
had stated in Abbeville that he pre
ferred to remain in the Senate, but if
Gonzales was to run the State, he
would come home and be elected Governor.
Mr. Ellerbe stated that there
might be "a statesman out of a job,"
for he would himself stand for re-elec
tron.
Congressman Strait then sprang a
sensation by denouncing a re port in the
Colombia Kecord, saying that he had
attacked. McLanrin and Tillman on the
tariff question in the interests of Evans
and Irby. He had not attac ked them,
and his speech could not be 8c jonstrued.
He simply declared his views.
After dinner Congressman Stokes
and Mr. Sligh spoke.
SI ATE BUY?WHISKEY.
Dlspentary Board Lays In Supply of
Drinks, Etc.
The State Board of Control of the
dispensiry was in session in Columbia
last week. In his report, Commissioner
Vance, among other things says: "Our
stock ol liquors and supplies amounts
to abou; 8150,000 here in the State dispensary
and the stock on hand in the
local dispensaries will amount, in round
number8, to $200,000, and we have
money jnoueh on hand to pay for all
your honorable board may see tit to buy
this month. This I consider a good
showing for the financial standing of
the dif pensary, notwithstanding the
charges of corruption made by the enemies
of the dispensary.
The toard devoted a good deal of its
time to purchasing liquors. All the
beer co nes from Georgia this month.
200 barrels being ordered from the
Acme brewing Company, of Macon,
and 100 barrels from the Atlanta Brewing
Company. Fifty barrels of corn ,
were ordered from the Kohn distillery,
Montgomery, Ala. Baltimore and
Philade lphia houses got orders for up- {
ward of 400 barrels. 1
lift
' :'"'p
if bis m ilt 1
The Dispensary Authorities Keep Up t
Their Promise.
? ?
nmn in iaiirfns nniiNTY. 9
Good for the Citadel?Remedy for
Lynching?Two Brothers Hovels ,^9
Fatal Fight.
.
Secretary Hollo-way, of the State Fair
Association, has received the following
letter from the chairman of the Southern
Passenger Association:
Deat Sib Replying to yoursof July ' H ?
23d on above subject At a meeting
of the conference committee of this as- -J.
Bociation held at Asheville, N. C., July
20th, it was decided to adopt a rate of
one fare for the round trip from, all f-.S
points within the State; tickets at thirf
rate to be sold daily, good returning
after close of fair. t ;>j?l
It was also decided to adopt a cheap jr;|
rate based on a fraction over one cent >
per mile, tickets at such rates to be
Bold on two dates, namely, Wednesday ' %'
and Thursday.
In case there is any movement of
military, a rate of one cent per mile
traveled per capita will be employed
with the understanding that twenty or
more will move on one ticket
Yery respectfully,
Joseph Richabdsox,
Chairman. ,?2338
Col. Holloway says "A second letter ' _]
from the secretary brought the rates
agreed upon by the conference commit- -.5|
tee. The rates at one cent a mile tear- /j
sled was asked for on Tuesday, Wed- ,v
nesday and Thursday? Tueeaay^'ia
omitted.
"It occurs to me that if three days instead
of two had been named, the roada "vj
could more easily handle the people
satisfactorily, and would have given,
visitors more time for an inspection of
the exhibits and the special attraetions."
If the Congress of the United States
passes at its next session a bill whioh
has been prepared by Gen. Breoken- . ^
ridge, the adjutant and inspector gen- / ]
sral of the United States army, themiications
are that graduates of the Cita- ' 4
iIaI AnulomT r\1 tttia mil !>?/$..
eligible to seoond lieutenants in the Si
United States army, being thus placed . '
inly one degree lower than graduates of $
:he United States Military Academy.
Glen. Breckenridge's bill makes such a
iroposition in regard to the military
icademies of the country which rank
ilong with the Citadel. Gen. Gar ling
on in his report saye that there are only. S'J
:hree institutions of the grade oantemilated
in the bill, the Citadel, the TiffijjM
finia Military Institute, and the aead- fy
any at Chester, Penn. The board of . "
risitors at their meeting at tha
equest of Gen. Breckenridge,endorsed %
he bill and urged Cingress to past it
[here were sixty applications for the
rwelve vacant scnolrshipe in the Cttar jCSj
lei. The board gza ated permitB to tba
'ollowing number in each county to
stand the oompetitai e examinations for
.hese vacancies: Aiken 4, Beaufort 7,
Charleston .5, Fairfield 2. Oconee 8,
Orangeburg 8, Sumter 6, Union 4, Wiliama
burg 4, Berkeley 2.
Commissiodtr Yanoe has paid into
he State treasury the sum of fl5,00(V K
ieing the amount promised by the
doard of Control at the last meeting. .
I month ago the Boerd tuned over tq
he treasury ?*0,000, and with thin ad- ,
iitional payment the treasury trill ba3
greatly helped. It traa not thought '
hat the dispensary would ba able to l"
itand up to the promises, but the par-' - u
nentof this amount seems to indicate '/$
hat the Board of Control wiU he as
jood as their word. Treaaurer Tim-/
nerman said the other day that the *>>
>aymentot $11,000 would greatly help
)ut the treasury and might possibly
Tin the government for a month witb>ut
having to borrow. If the State
Board continues the monthly payments
t may be that the deficit will be onlj %''
1 dream.
A negro on Mr. McQuoW place be- > $
ween Laurens and Clinton, while
blowing near the base of an old stump
n one of his fields unearthed a hand*
ul of old English gold ooinaof the
ssue of 1888. On further search jfiv/p/
rreat many other coins were brought
o light The person finding them and .
iia oronlnrnr refnan/t fn flfnfe nne^ioeltr - 1 -"9
he amount of the treasure, but It is
inown that there was over|1,000found. %
rhis is tbe second time recently that
xeasure has been found in thin county,
mt it is not probable that thisdisoovery
)f gold in this county will create audi a
:ommotion as the Klondike discovery
n Alaska has done.
Wicker Smith died about 10 milea
rom Newberry. His two sons?Walter
ind Howard-tried to decide where
hey would lay the old man away,
rhey could not agree, and from words
same to blows, and as a grand finala , v
doward cut Walter four times and gay? H
lim three deep stabs in the breast,
doward was shot in the hand. At last
iccounts both were alive, but the old
voman buried Wicker in another come- /<
ery.
In speaking about the lynching
problem which now seems tip be agitxt* .a
ng the whole country, Governor Elerbe
a few days ago said that lie did
lot think that any crime justified
ynching. He thinks the real remedy
or lynch law lies in speedy calls of a
he conrts and immediate trials, with,
estrictions preventing appeals from
he finding of those courts on techui:alities.
The Secretary of State has issued a
:ommis8ion to the Prosperity Cotton ^
3il and Fertilizer Company, of Pros- 'J
>erity. The corporators are R. T. C.
lunter, J. A. Sligh, Jos. L. Keitt, W.
2. Blake and others. The capital stock
s to be$15,000, divided into six hundred
ihares. The corporators are leading
nembers of the State Alliance.
The United Sons of Confederate ^
Veterans are to meet in Greenville at ;
he same time that the annual reunion >?
if the United Confederate Veterans ia |
leld there.