Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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1HE LEDGER. Th^iHow S. Carter EDITOR AND ftl A NAG EH. WKDNKSDAV, JINK 2!) 1S98. HARD ON ELLERBE. liOill TILLMAN AND WA'l SON SCORK HIM AT ItARNW KLL. > Watson Promised to Prove Tha Rllerbe Had Made a Deal in Charleston b\ (lood YV'it nesscs. 1 tarn well, June 24.?Over tl. re hundred persons greeted the cam paigners here today. (i o v e r n o r K I I erbe ehargc< *'l nele** (leorge Tilltnun witl trying to pull down Clemsoi when two years ago, as a niemlie; ni lt< lindl'/l Ito Iwnl i'onoido/1 t)in ' ?!'" ? * ? ?" it whs doing largo and prosper oils work. Tillman replied that the repor was written by Julian Mitehel and he disappeared Kllerbu declared Tillman wa too prejudiced to be governor. Colonel Tillman almost Inn! ai ovation. He declared that th I'nited States government migh yet call on the state for inonc that had been squandered a Clem son. Candidate Watson scored Kller be for thinking he was the onl man in the State tit to be bri? adier general. Ellerbe had made a deal i Chin leston and before the cam paigr ended ho would proye i hy a dozen witnesses, one of whot wus Dr Timmerman. He believed KUerbe had aj pointed Alston for a political coi sideration. KILLS HER HUSBAND. Bloody and Mysterious Tragec in Washington City. By Telegraph to The Daily New Washington, .June '24.?One the bloodiest tragedies enacted Washington for years occurr last night in a little room in t rear of '.>11 Twenty-second strei northwest. William 11 Brooks veteran of the civil war, a pt sioner and until recently a watt man in the navy department, w killed by his wife, Martha, witl hatchet., she in turn being fatal inbire? 1 with the same weapon. The old couple?Brooks bei 7h ami his wife >."> ? lived alo and there were no witnesses the tragedy. About d:'?o oYlo (Jeorge L Larson, a friend Brook's called, and not getting response to his knock, entered t I 1 ? I A \ noose. nrooKS was jii^i rircsn in<* his last, and Mrs Brooks w unconscious. T ic walls of the small roo were s mttored with Blood ar the llcor was runnim; with it. S e I Is-F o rc|>nu<rh Circus Tci Blown Down. Sioux City, Iowa, .June 24.A severe wind storm struck th city tonight, Blowing down tl main tent of the Sells-Forepaut circus, while a performance w: in progress. The collapse of tl canvass caused a panic, in whi< a score or moro of people we injured. Ono of them, Adolf Halversen, of Sioux City, di< soon afterwards of his injurie while Frank Reynolds, an n tacho of the show, is hurt inte pally and it in believed, will die CASTOR IA For Infanta and Children. Thi Kind Too Han Always Bougl Bears the Signature of /-CCCcJitd $ DR. COKE SMITH ON PRO- J < HIBITIOX. i ? Editor of The Herald and News: j i I read your paper every week ' with much pleasure. All news 11 from mv native State is eagerlv ~ * ? devoured. Net section and no < peoplo can ever be to me what i South Carolina and her peopleare. j .Just now 1 am greatly interested I ... in the prohibi ion movement a j niong you. This is a subject upon which 1 have read and thought much, searching for the truth. ' Looking at it from a moral stand . point 1 can see no justification ; for the manufacture and sale of intoxicants any more than for the I manufacture and sale of burglar's I P J tools. No arguments that 1 have ! J seen upon that side seem to stand I ^ | the test of investigation. From 11 a political point of view?1 mean ' political in its truest and highest [ sense?there appears no reason : 1 to justify it. The lhpior traffic 1 is not an industry. Tried by the I principles of economics it is found ^ wanting in every particular 1 unn iwi i nii.'iirnitn a:<?i> i:.......... 1 i I ? ' *; *"*" 1 I In vour lust issue you f>ay: "We, 8 1 1 are opposed to prohibition for j1 many reasons. It will not pro- ' D . . . hibit, and then we <h> not believe M ^ you eun legislate temperance into people any more than you can re- 1 ligion. Man is a free moral agent and has to answer for his own sins.'' You will pardon me when I say that I see in this no argument, but mere assertion which may be made with equal force against any law. You cannot leg- 1 islato kindness, and moderation into people, are you therefore opposed to the law against conceal U ed weapons? If you cannot take the had tempers out of men would ' you oppose a law that proj>osed 1 to remove the means of gratifyinnr tliafiA Ko/1 o??rui??u2 \Jkf J win |/vn ni Tf uum you prohibit theft? If bo, why? If what you say disposes of the argument for the prohibition of ^ the manufacture and sale of intoxicants does it not hear equally against all prohibitory laws which i ' compose the mass of our statutes? of If not, why not? Would you lisense an opiumjoint or a bagnio? ^ If you cannot legislate men into! chastitv, why not license the i ?l dives? If you cannot legislate: men into honesty whv not license' , gambling? h,?s Now I take it that no attempt j is made by the advocates of pr.?llv hibition to legislato men into religion any more than those who advocate laws against theft, perjury ne murder and all other crimes,have this for their object. There is aj (.j. difference between sin, crime and nf vice. The minufacture and sale of , ? intoxicants is a sin just as murder. |)(, is a sin; but it is not with thej j. moral side of murder that the >ls civil law deals but with the crimi- . nal side; or with its political or economic side. Leave out thej 1(j moral side in so far as it can be left out from any political ques lion, and by what arguments can the liquor trafiic be justilied on economic grounds? I ask this ... honestly. If there are any rea sons for justifying this business I jH would like to see then). I have 1 ie read what the advocates of license r|, in every form had to say and I i lls have tried to look at them judi-1 ,c ciously, but for the life of mo, 1 .|j have l?een unable to see any reare sons to justify a law that author1 i'/.e? uien for any consideration to 1 manufacture ami sell that which 1 debauches the manhood of our country and indirectly or indirect r. i lv the mother of three-fourths of the crimes with which we have to deal. I have written this in no spirit > of controversy, but as a seeker | for truth. I acknowledge the it difficulty of dealing with this mat ter. I know prohibition does not /, prohibit in anything. It does not prohibit theft, murder, gambling or any crime to which appetite or avarice may tempt men: hut is that any reason why the law *hould compound with it: If yon will kindly give your readers the strongest of the 4'many reasons" why vou oppose prohihtiion I for one will he greatly obliged. A Coke Smith. Lynchburg, V?., dune 13, 1898. ' D1KD OF HIS WOUNDS. Fowler. Who Was in the Al-1 leged Lynching Party, Wns ) Fatally Hurt. The disturbance at Hunters ville, this county, rosultinc from the visit of supposed lynchers to | the house of a colored man named i Parks has more serious results than was at first reported. Fow- i lcr, one of the white men who i wns shot by Parks, died yester- | [lay from the wound that was at i lirst reported to he slight. , Parks1 littlo boy, who was shot < during the nlTray, is likely to die. < His pulse yesterday was reported j \t 150. I S (i Hughes, a son of the man on whose place the outrage was L lommitted. was in the city Thurs. I ( [lay and said n > local action had , been takeD in the matter. Up to ( a late hour last night no official ( notice hnd been received here of | the condition of affairs.?Cireen ville News, 27th inst. Don't Tobarro Hfit and Kaake Tour Ufa Away. To quit tobacco eaatly and forever, be mag j ' netlc. full cf life, nerre and vigor, tuke No-ToBae, the wonder-worker, that mnkea weak men 1 atrong. All drugglaU, 80c or It. Cure guaranteed Booklet and cu.tnple free Addreaa ' Sterling Kerned? Co , Chicago or New York HOTEL DISPENSERS. Some of Them Likely to go to! Jail This Week. Special to The Daily News. Columbia, S. C., June 2f>7? Governor Ellerhe today announced through his secretary that he ..rill 5--It *r di j?i \/ui|ai) |Mii in jini any hotel dispenser who attempts to reopen under the recent resolution of the State board. The program is to have the hotel dispensers open next week to make a test 1 case and throw the quarrel between ' the governor and board into the j courts for settlement. , . It K>1 \ KKAKLK liKSHK. Mrs Michael Curbun, Plain-1 field, 111., makes the statement, , that she caught cold, which settled on her lungs; she was treated a month by her family physician, but grew worse. He told her she was a hopeless victim of consumption and that no medicine could o ire her I ler druggist suggest-! ed I)r King's New Discovery for Consumption; she bought a bottle and to her delight found her-elf benefitted from first dose. She continued its use and after taking six bottles, found herself sound and well; now does hcrown house- ' work, ami is as well as she ever i was. Free triul I Kittles of this' (treat Discovery at Crawford Pros' Drug Stoie. Large bottles 50 cents and 100. THE THIRD EXPEDITION. ' i Five Transports Leave San Frincisco To Dnr- (Jeneral Merritt Expected to Sail Wednesday. , i San Francisco, .Line 2rt. Fair | thousand men, comprising the | third expedition to the Phillipines, , embarked early this afternoon aid ( soldiers now swarm in the holds ( and upon the decks of the steamnru OfiiA I n/l! t '?* ? v." VT.II", iKHOlin, V-llJf III I'JirB and Morgan C'ity. To morrow the atearoer Valencia will receiva her complement of the military, anil theae fivo transport*, hearing the hulk of the expeditionary force, will prolwhly nail tomor. row afternoon, to l? followed ot Wednesday hy the ateamer New* port upon which General Morritt ia expected to depart. I I IN MEMORZAMDied i n the 4th of June, 1898, Mnhel Culp Life anil beauty ? led in the glance of her eyes. Mahel wh> a hriaht little girl, w m 17 months and 12(1 y?(ld. Not gone fr< in memory. Not gone from love. Hut gone to our Father'* house ? In th it lamlof rich supplies. Bread in found that autiatiea, > Hallelujah! she is fed . I At thattuhle richly spread, j Oh f!ia? garden of delight*, () the Jots upon the height a. 1 Brighter giowt the golden ray l I When we siiail meat her in day. 1 ( Motl Baby BVIm< d' most critical ^ c c ? m n t J I a sourcc ?* I ' ^ ^ suffering ! danger of the ordeal n s its anticipation one of mi , MOTHER'S ERIE is the remedy which reli women of the great pain and t : - ? -J A BRIGHT, BREEZY TALK WITH MR. FEATHER. STONE. I'!ie Handsome Prohibition Candi date For Governor Says He's Making His Fight For Principle. Mr. C. Featherstone, the. Prohibition candidate for governoi was seen at the Hotel .Jerome Ins night. He is on his way fron Lai.reus, wheiehehas heen oi business since the campaigi meeting at Charleston, to Barn well, where he will attend ttu meeting today. Ho was asked by the Stato re porter: "What is the news fron !i Prohibition standpoint?" "1 don't know that 1 have an\ great deal. You can say, how evei that the Prohibitionist all over tin Stato mean business. They an in this tight to win, and they art i^oing to win if pluck and advocac; jf the right can win. They are tick and tired of the whiskey traf fic engaged in by the o. p. shopi blind tigers, or the dispensary. They a e opposed to the sale o whiskey in any shape, form or fa thion. They think is it just tu wrong for the State to engage in the business as for individuals t< lo so. They are opposed to higl license as well as the dispensary, l'hey are making the fight or principle. A few years ago the; voted prohibition, and it carriet the state. They were given tin rlispensary, and they have nevei gotten over it." "Are they going to make tlx tight by counties?" "Yes ,sir: and you may also sin by townships. "How have you been receviet in the campaign so far?" "Fist rate; I have had the kind est treatment at the hands of botl people and candidates. The can didates are all irnnd fellow* am treat me as well as could be ex pected. They realize that I an making a tight for what 1 bolievi is right, and for right's sake the1 res(>ect me. I have no mud t< sling, and do not engage in per sonalitica. I will quit the cam paign before I'll do so. I an hitt:ng liquor, though, whereve it pokes its hea i up.' 'Well, what about your chaiieesf 'You have asked me a hnr< ipiestion, but you can jn-t sr that the candidate that beats th Prohibition man is going to b governor. I am going to be ii the seeotid race, and the lello' that get - in the sceond race wit! mo hud better look out.' The reporter suggested that tin Prohibition candidate was the lies looking man in the race, but M Featherstono was too modest t< 'own up,' but d.d say that he wa the youngest of the gubernatoria uspi-ants. The State. In arguing a point before i judge of the superior court, (\?1 onel Folk, of the mountain eir trtiit in North Carolina, laid dowi * very doubtful proposition o law. The judge eyed him a mo ment, and queried: "Colono Folk, do you liiink that is law?' rhe colonel gracefully Wowed, anc replied: "Candor compels me t< <ny that 1 do not, Wut I did no know how it would strike youi honor.'* The judge deliberate* i few moments, hi <1 gravely said "That may not Iki contempt o: ;ourt, Wut it is a close shave." "CafarRT was my great affliction for a number of years. Doctors did not help me.Byafriend'aadvicelbegan using your medicines, and waa perfectly cured after taking three bottles of c tier's 5arsaparina." I. MURPHY, 178 Malbcrry St., N?wrV * J icuiig Hicmcni 10 maternity; 1 hour which is dreaded as won > severest trial is not only r j painless, but all the danger i moved by its use. Those wh( this remedy arc no longer i spondent or gloomy; nervous , nausea and other distressing . ditions arc avoided, the systc made ready for the coming e 3 and the serious accidents so < r . mon to the critical hour obviated by the use of Motl Friend. It is a blessing to wo 9 i H.OOPKRBOTTLK tall Drug St or aent by axpreaa on raoalpt of ] ROOKS Containing Invaluable Informal CDCC Intorert to all woman, will b | rHtt to any addreaa, upon applicati ^ Tk* BRADF1ELD BMCUTOI CO.. AUaa ^Bargain i I Ife are still r ^ every irain ' cd to make In order 10 <lo ho wo are of HIGH PRlChS. Our bu 1 leits ju-1 ?-eiurned from the > v I sir ire r lortion of his time the o piek ii]i stntT at almost his ov on a few things : MEN'S'. YOU j and ;v;* rhe chkapkst ' h Men's Suits at ?1 85. i suits $3 25. All wool Clay Hoy's Suits from 21) eon i e-/* For #2 35 suit of ? -! Stain's the 5 cents ki f'Derss t'bailie yard. Come | Double-width Dress Nov | SHOES Men's good Sunday shoe 1 coiits. Ladies tine lace shoes ' 38 cents. Children's shoes f : Overall <pints at 23 cen f Hoys knee pants 13 cents per We also have a nice line DRESS GOODS, SILKS, Si JUST RECEIVED ! 2 from 38 cents to $3. Anothi on the $1.00, among them a i mnnufacfurers cost. We havo many othc forhid mentioning. Come to the counter. Kea|>ectfully Shannon SlOOReward SIOO. , little The reader? of thia papeor will he park- p'eased to learn that there la ?t leaet Little one dreaded disease tint science baa She "hie to cure in al' ita stage". and tnat is Catarrh. Hell's Catarrh Clllt la the only positive cure known to the medical fraternity. Catarrh being a constitutional disease, requires a w?udiove slhntional treatment. Hall's Catarrh ' ' t'lireis taken internal), acting directly upon the hlood ami muuou* sur race? of the at atem, thereby destroy ing the foundation of the disease, and giving the patient atrengthby building lip the tonalhutinn and assisting nature In doing ita work. The proprietors have so much faith in ita curative powers, that they offer One Hundred Dollajs for any cuae that it fai'a that to cur? Send for list of testimonial*. Address, F J CHKNKY A CO., Iier. Toledo, O. HaSTHold by Druggisis, 75c. I M i.i iiTn n n tt , nmnn n IMS UP' Vil/i'UKI. )ther from every side makes all of oh ^c* take greater pride than ever in rand THE AMERICAN EAGLE. C"hc ?Just so have K Brandt's ware* I pc- b?611 l'11* to the test and have won life, victory everywhere. [db? During the Summer : joy wc have reduced prices in order the to suit the times, and Our wares ware and lake ()?r .)rj cfH un R BRANDT, liu C;ilh>TKR, HC ieves Under Town Clock. i INSOMNIA 3 USe born n?ln( CAfKMHRTX for de- Insomnia. with which I have been afflicted for over lwentr yeara. and I can ??y that Caacareta iness have irlven me more relief than any other remeCOn <,'Jf 1 blve ever tried. 1 shall certainly reeom- ' mend them to my friends an being all thev are :m IS repreaented." Tuoa Uii.i.ahl>. Elgin, 1IL vent, ^^52^ C<are m CATHARTIC ^ ?i o\r\ man. mM/VVlWlFWW maoi makh MumiMo torn, prloe. loo oa,Jh? ?P1*V.*nt Palatable. Potent. Taate flood. Do ?A ?T Ooert. Never Sicken. Weaken, or Orlpe. We. Jbc. Re ** ?? ... CURB CONSTIPATION. ... barfr r?^Nf?iNn. iwimi, * ? vet. n* BO-TO-BAC is! Bargains! eceiving tliem on and are compel I5 room tor tliem. i fjoin?,r to knock the HOCK bottom out Iyer, Mr. T .1 Shannon, of Monroe, N. C., northern markets, and, spending the re, with the spot cash enables him to m price. We <juote you prices below TH'S buys; clothing ' over brought to Lancaster. Men's all woo! Suits *2 75 Men's plaid Worsted Suits, *3 75 ts up to $7.00. dothes, nice pair of shoes and hat. ml prints 3 cents, intl. All styles of s *1 3-4 cents per while it lasts. cities at 0 cenls, worth 15 cents. , SHOE 8 03 cents. Ladies tine button shoes 45 40 cents. Old Ladies common Sense rom 10 cents |K*r pair up. ts. Rain Overall suits only 45 cents, pair, i of ITINS, ETC., CHEAPER THAN YOU CAN BUY ELSEWHERE. solid canes Uubrellas at prices ranging ar nice line of Sample Hnts at 50 cents lice lot of Stans. Yours at leas than ir Bargains that time and printers ink see us and let ua quote you prices over Y ours, Funderburk Co.