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Dispensary Report. ' The Quarterly Report Show mg its Earnings. The legislative investigating com? mittee on the dispensary has at last finished its work and submitted its report in full to the board of control It is as follows : To the State Board of Control : We herewith submit our report of our examination of the books and financial transactions of the State dispensary for the quarter ending March 1, 1896. Mr. C. W. Garr?s of the committee, with representatives both of the State board and the State commissioner, took stock at the close of the quarter. On the 20th of April, the committee assembled at the office of the State board of con? trol, and after a careful examination of the books and vouchers of the State Commissioner, we find the fol? lowing : ASSETS. Merchandise in hands of county dispensers - State's profit added, $145,088.20 Less State's unearned pro? fit added at time of ; shipment, 41.453 7 Y Cost price of above mdse. ?103,634 43 Amounts due by ex dis? pensers and in process of settlement, 4,516 44 Personal accounts due State, 4,408.06 Cash balance in State treasury, 3,921 22 Teams and wagons, 1,257.25 Machinery and office fix? tures, 2,656.47 Merchandise at State dis? pensary, 73,067.19 Supplies at State dispen? sary, 47,741.51 $241,212.57. LIABILITIES. Persoual accounts due by State, . ? 4.065.36 Due the general fund of the Slate from former earnings, 192.847. S9 Net accrued profit . for present quarter passed to the credit of State school fund. 44,299.32 ?241,212 57 Of the total accrued profit for this quarter ($44,299.32 as'above), the amount of $31,300 84 represents an unmeasured profit on goods in the hands of county dispensers on De cember 31, 1895, additional to an increase in valuation of goods in con sequence of an advance in prices of goods in the month of January by order of the chairman of the State board of control. The remainder, $12,998.48, is an accrued profit on sales for this quarter. Statement of profit and loss ac? count for the quarter ending March 31, 1896: PROFITS City of Columbia's one half profit for quarter ending Oct. 31, with? held by order of State board of control. ? 565.12 City of Columbia^ one half profit for quarter ending Dec. 31, with? held by order of State board of control, 1,000.00 Gross profit on merchan? dise for present quar? ter, 105,557.50 Contraband seizures, 2,870 75 Profits from beer dispen? sers, . 4,754 06 Discounts, abatements on - whiskey purchases, 5,207.22 Total grass profits, $119,954.65 LOSSES. Loss by fire on Florence dispensary, \ ? 188 58 Loss by fire on Bamberg dispensary, 802 56 Supplies used during quar? ter, 18,027.42 Breakage and leakage dur? ing quarter, 182 95 Insurance, 390.29 Constabulary cost lor quar? ter, 15,523 50 Freights and express char? ges. 21 04S.79 Expense (stationary,print? ing, salaries, postage, etc ), 4,593.78 Labor, . 4 734.53 Net profits on 6ales for this quarter, 54,452.25 Total, $119,954.65 Of the net profit of $54,452 25 on sales for this quarter, the amount of $12,998.48 is an accrued profit : the remainder, $41,453 97, is an unearn? ed profit on goods in hands of coun? ty dispens?is at the end of this quar? ter. S. W Scruggs, Chief Clerk. Quarterly cash statement for the quarter ending Marci) 31, 1896 : RECEIPTS Balance in State treasury Dec. 31, 1896, $ 54,107.03 Jan. rec'ts, $ 96,614.46 Feb. fec'ts, 93,391.70 Mar. rec'ts, 113,630.05 303,630.81 To ac't for this quarter, ?357,743.84 DISBURSEMENTS. ?January disbursements, ?116,685.79 I February disbursements, 116,708.97 March disbursements, 120,427.86 Total for this quarter, $353,822.62 Balance in State treasury March 31, 1896, 3,921.22 $357,743.84 S. W. Scruggs, Chief Clerk. UNEARNED PROFIT ACCOUNT. Unearned profit on goods in hands of county dis? pensers Dec. 31 $25,571.85 Advance in prices on above made in January by order of State board ot control, 5,728.99 $31,300.84 Your committee beg leave to say that they have taken every precau? tion to do their work propeily. They have carefully checked every voucher on the books of original entry and thence to the different postings to a general ledger, from whence this statement is made up. A compari? son of this with former reports will show that the State dispensary is in a very healthy condition. Our work was very much facilitated by Mr S. W. Scruggs' comprehensive style of book keeping. We are indebted to him for courteous assistance also. . j Respectfully, .T S. Brice, C. W. Garr?s, Committee. The committee of the State board of control has issued this letter to the county boards of control : Dear Sirs : On May the 5th, the State board of control will appoint j new county boards of control. Those | wishing appointments to these places must send in-their applications prop? erly endorsed. No one holding any county or State office or clerk or constable to any county or State ! officer will be eligible to appoint? ment, as the new Constitution pro? vides against dual office holding. Whilst the pay of the members of the county board is nominal, then duties are very important, and it is the intention of the State board to appoint no one who will not give the accounts of their county dispensaries their closest scrutiny and assist the State board ni its efforts to see that the dispensary law is carried out to the letter by the county dispensers. A Kansas Cyclone. play Center, Kas., April 26.-A cyclone of tremendous force sped through Clay county last night, dealing death and destruction on every hand. As far as known to-night, five people were killed, three fatally wounded and 17 injured. The dead are : Frank Peterson, Mrs. Frank Peter? son, child of the Petersons, Mrs Ole Naverson,. grandchild of Peter Ander? son. A full list of the injured is unobtain? able, as the doctors have not returned from the scene of the disaster. It is known, however, that every member ot the families of Jobo Morris, F Welkin, Peter Anderson and Henry Gardner was hurt, and three of them have wounds said to be fatal, j, A large number of horses and cattle I were killed, and the damage to farm property is immense. The cyclone 1 started about six miles south of Clifton ! and went in a northwesterly -lireotion for 12 or 15 mi!e6 aod then lost its force by spreading it passed about half way between Clifton and Morganville. its ; jrack varied from 150 yards to a quar? ter of a mile in width. It tor : through ; a farming community, and nothing is left standing. Houses and barns were wrecked, trees torn up or broken, fences levelled and hay stacks blown in every direction. The cyclone was fol? lowed by terrific storms which lasted severai hours, flooding the devastated district! There had been indications of a heavy rain all day. with local showers, but nobody expected a storm. ? As far as learned, the victims of the I cyclone were in their homes, and the j most of them had retired. --iwm RECORDS BROKEN. _ i Savannah, Ga, Aprl 27-At t^ie j spring meet of the Savannah Cycle club Charles M. Murphy of New j York broke the world's record held I by J. S Johnson for 100 yards with ! a standing start in nine and one-fifth j seconds. Johnson's record was nine; and two-fifths In the half mile exhibition, for ? which Harry C. Wheeler, F J. Jenny j ot Utica, N Y , and W B. Young, of New York entered, Jenny won by j two feet in 1 10 4 5. Murphy broke the track record for a half mile, made three years ago by ; Zimmerman, in 59 1-5 seconds Zini- : merman's record was 1.06 o-5. Murphy was paced the first quar? ter by Wheeler and rode the .second quarter unpaced The interest in the local and interstate races was high. ' Frank Powers of Jaciisonville, Fia , ? won the half mile open iii two min-j utes, riding the last eighth iii four seconds, and also the mile open in 2 5G 25. Henry P. Thompson of Jacksonville won the half milo boys' race in 1 25 and was second in the mile three-minute class. Powers was second in the mile handicap. The races were witnessed bj, the largest crowd, with one exception, that has ever attended a meet at the Savannah track Altgeld Answers. An Open Letter in Reply to Secretary Carlisle. Springfield. April 25.-Governor Altgeld has written an open letter to reply to the speech on the money question recently delivered at Chica? go by Secretary Carlisle He begins by quoting from Mr Carlisle's state? ment in 1878 in which the latter de? clared that the demonetization of sil? ver when characterized as a conspi? racy "would ultimately entail more misery upon the human race than all the wars, pestilence and famine that ever occurred. The absolute instan? taneous destruction of half the mov? able property of the world, includ? ing, horses, ships, railroads and all other appliances for carrying on com? merce, while it would be felt more sensibly at the moment, would not produce anything like the prolonged distress and disorganization of so? ciety that must inevitably result from the permanent annihilation of one half of the metallic money of the world." Commenting upon this Governor Altgeld says : "It will be seen that this language is clear and emphatic and has none of the sophistry and pettifogging about it that are fouud in his Chica-, sro speech His awful predictions made in 1878 came to pa68 He not only 6aw his own phrophecy fulfiled, but he saw the misery of his coun? try become even greater than he had predicted Finding that his views had been correct, he continued to hold them until he entered Mr. Cleve? land's cabinet, when, in some mys? terious manner, there was a change of heart, but for some reason he seems unwilling to talk about it There are two other members of the cabinet, Hoke Smith, of Georgia, and Herbert, of Alabama, who, like Carlisle have made their voices heard for nearly a life time demanding the restoratiou of silver, and denouncing the great conspiracy that struck it down, ind, strange to say, when these two men entered Cleveland's cabinet, they underwent a change of heart, and, like Carlisle, they avoid talking about it Why did hot Carlisle throw a little light on this question V1 .'All these men now denounce the people who are opposed to the single gold standard as scoundrels and luna tics, yet there are only following the doctrine which Carlisle & Co. preach? ed. Are we to infer that Mr. Carlisle and his two cabinet associates were scoundrels and lunatics until they got to be gold men and that the tinsel of a cabinet position not only made them honest, but gave them brains ? Carlisle should have told us." Governor Altgeld then enumerates several questions which he says Mr Carlisle should have answered, among them this : "Why it was that for 200 years gold and silver held the market ratio of about 4 1-2 to 1, while the ratio fixed by law was 15 to 1 in some countries, 15 1-2 to 1 in most coun? tries, and fur a while, 16 to 1 in our country ; why it was that in every country where silver was stricken dowri, it was done by the arbitrary act of the governmet, and that neither commerce nor business had i anything to do with it. As there I cannot be a general rise Jin prices without an increase in the volume of money must not the present paralysis and stagnation continue until the volume of moue}' is again restored to what it was before silver was stricken down ? Referring to the recent bond is? sues, Governor Altgeld charges that the President enabled a friend and former client in association with some fellow speculators, to make $9,000, 000 to ?10,000,000 out j of the gov? ernment in a few weeks in a small bond transaction under the pretext that "the sharks of Wall street had agreed to protect the government against gold raids until the following November.'7 That is, the wealthiest, the most enterprising, the most powerful, the most industrious and the most thrifty nation on the globe, j paid tribute to a small band of specu j lators for "protection.'' 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Stove Piping and Tobacco Fines manufactured to order of the very best mate? rial Piping made'by Searle guaranteed to last, longer than any other. Am pi .pared to estimate on Tobacco Flues, Furnaces, Doors and Frames. All sizes of Iron for Flues-Nos. 10 to 28. DRIVEN WELLS put down in any par! of the county, i^st pumps and ma? terial used, thirty inch pciuts. Guarantee a good iiow ot water. Remember the old reliable and srive him a call. Dec