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I Wk " * ' m " ''J* ^ THTJIILOW S. CARTER, # ^ Family 2?ew*papcr : Fur the. Promotion of the Political, ?&? Urf, Agricultural and Commercial Interests. 5 TERMS: 51.60 a Y*ah. kpitob amd 1 uwaoib. s _ 7 > 1'atait^jh in adta^.t. ScWI-atEKlJ kUiMUN. LANOA^TKK, S. C~ J U 1.Y l. 1 H)8~ " ?5.YIk! ' nrnrni n STUMR SPEAKERS fc HEARD AT SUMTER es1 The Campaign Meeting in the f? Game Cock City. . COL TILLMAN READS A LET-i I' TER. 17 It Related to the Fertiliser Tax j jn, Tag Business?A Little More t|l( JJfc Injected Into Prowced- | ?0| ings. |0? i an Special to The State. < sp Sumter, Juno 2S.?Several wc features of interest enlivened the i;rj campaign meeting here today. I wn Oapt L D Childs, the prohibition j)r leader, was on hand to seo howlco| the cause was progressing, while ju, Railroad Commissioner Evans and I ^ VVilhurn nn<l Si?r?pof?i*v Dm.n.ml .... j ? . qu were present to got hoiuo pointers uo from tlio legation of candidates who are pulling for their col- <?|, leagues place on tho hoard. wtJ Col Floyd made soiue interest- mfl ing comments on his opponents, particularly tho present incum" no bent, while Harney Evans warmed col up Commissioner Thomas again, jn| and Mr Cooper hurled some U0 thunder at Secretary Tompkins j tet for his inactivity on the State yU board of control, and last hut not co; least Uncle George Tillman pro- ( duced a letter in suhstuntation of nf his charges that there was something wrong ahout the fertilizer gU Lag tax business. pn There were about three huntired persons present. FI/>YD ON WATTS. I After Gen Watts' speech, i pe< wherein he said he stood ou his ' pr< merits and his record, Col Floyd ] tie came to the front. "Gen Watts,,' < said ho " ins thrown down the; plu gauge and I accept it. I have | the bwa trying from Orangeburg to did Ham berg to forcehiin to a discuss- fai: ion of the needs of the militia of pr< South Carolina, but without sue- the N f cess. Now, he says ho is ready otli to compare records and I will ho< meet him. You know whether ma the prestige of the militia has thn heen preserved in his hands. On ha( those resolutions of his hangs a ag? tale, which might ho unfolded." wo (Jen Watts?Well, unfold it. ha< 4'The prestige of the militia noi has suffered in the hands of Gen the Watts. My epponents are young sig men, one of them on the dude leg order. South Carolina's second (i^i junta has been called for. View the them gentlemen, (Laughter.) Mi Would not thev show their patriot- tic ism if, regardless of stars and prt shoulder straps, they should offer tin their services to their mother wh tState? but they hide behind their get offers to the governor Itecause ho en hasn't tho power to muster them the into tho private ranks. And ha< can't you see that the reason men it, oat?ode of tho militia came for- dai ward was to atone in some way the for tho inefficiency of tho militia, go for which Gen Watts is respon- ho si hie." (Laughter and applause, < am* cries of 4'Go ahead," as ed Chairman Purdy called time.) th? Major Blythe recounted his Ch military experience and said that Ell when bin county or hia State or Ch the United States needed hia aer- thi vices he wouhl go aa a private. #2 CANDIDATE* FOR GOVERNOR. " Colonel Shumpert made an able WG speech, "blowing his own horn," W Pie put it, with m much modesty wb possible and declaring that as ! ivernor he would execute what i or laws the people passed. i Colonel Watson said his high- 1 L ambition was to do something < r the common schools of South u'olina. The people wore stirred 1 never before on the educational i estion and there was a brighter t y for the common schools. lie 1 uitcd all the colleges to be in < >se contact with the people. He t ! not want to pull down exist-1 'i I institution , but ho wanted i} e State to build from the hot - j \ n upwards. The private coi- ' v res had not fair play. They i ^ ? educating 2 l-2times as many idents as the State colleges t re and they did not want indis- f initiate free tuition. Men and ^ > alien who ought to he m the >, iinarv schools should not b<> in , llego. 1 le was applauded when s said that the dispeusary was1,, ? bost solution of the liquor | \ estion, l>ut advised his hearers v t to drink whiskey. I Mr Feathorstouo indulged in a , eart talk" on prohibition. lie t uld ta'k it if every man, wo- j ,p ami child opposed him. lie | ew that the sale of liquor could ( L bo stopped entirely, but it ?. ild be diminished largely, l'ro- i iiiiion was right and ho appealed t individual consciences in de~ 3 mining their vo cs. 4'Vote as i u pray." Mr Feathorstono re~ ? ved generous applause. > Candidate Archer recited some c tho extravagances which the t form government had been * ilty of. There was not the ipor pro|M>rtion of expenditures a tween higher and lower e luea- 1 n in South Carolina. i Col (iwalt Whitman was es n dally happy in his picturesque > isentation of the statu of p??li- f s ami education today. u liovernor Kllerbe received up- n iuse. Culled to the office by t j people of both factions, he . t 1 not ask reelection it' the in. < I' nous charges against him won* 1 )ven. Ho would not bow to ! t > politicians if he never hold 11 ice. Ilis only ambition hud, t Ml to give unselfish ser*'?ce. No 11 ,nly man would advance charges U - I- _ ? - a up couia noi sustain. Tillman ! I aiado wholesome charges, s linst bis administration, but he li uld not prove thorn. Tillman t I pone to Clemson with a mi- t rity report in his pocket, but < ?y bamboo/led him and he i nod a report sayiup the col- i; ;e was doing a grand work, o aughter.) Why didn't he haveiu i courage of his convictions?: > was soured hy defeat in poli-j( s and Ins judgment has become : > sjudiced. It was unfortunate 11 it he should come at this time, en the people were petting to ther, to try and tear down srything. I did not inaugurate j disponsury, though I wish 1 v 1 that honor. Hen Tillman <lid 'J and does ho i George Tillman i # re say that he did it to corrupt n . 4U? < > - , uiFiuio in liiu jumpier i lie li vernor was loudly applauded as u concluded. 1 (' C'ol Uoorgo Tillman was cheer-111 as he l?egan. Kllerlro's charts it he was Irving to pull down t sinson was infamously false and ii lerhe know it. But why should 111 smaon si?end $100,000 when 11 n i mother college spends only R 0,000. He objected to the f mount'1 of money spent. Time p >uld show that Clemaon and ' inthrop were failures as far as iat they were intended to do. j I It" objected to tlits '' I >ug cabinet' :in;l otlior useless buildings. ()m reason for tho deficit ! * veni was tho enormous c\ mo*; \j ; L*l< nison. Responding to Govern* r Id erbe's invitation to prove hi? barges concerning the fertilizel ug tax, he road a letter from Iteprcsentativo L S Connor ol )rangeburg, saying that, as Gov rnor Rllerhuhud said if Colonel I'illmun could prove that certain mrties got all the fertilizer they vanted without paying the tax he vouid withdraw from tin* race, he vould state as follows: * * 1 ti 1S90 I sent 100 old tags hat had been used to the nianu'acturer, had 10t> sacks of lame hipped me, and my invoice will how that 1 get credit for the 100 Id tags. I could have sent the nmo old tags back and hud nn tiier carloud sent in the same vav. < hi .lanuary 24, lsps, I vitnessed a carload of fertilizer eing unloa'led and delivered to aistomers without a single tax ag. 1 called a witness and re orted it n xt day to three ineui ers of the l>oard of trustees o| Jlomson and to one of tho inspectors, who told me he had wit leased a similar delivery and hue eported it to Cleiuson. * * * A ear or two ago a certain dealei n this county was reported time ind Ainiin f??r - - ? ?"u8 puuut vithont lux ta^s until it had lie tome so public that u men)l>er ol ho board of control compromised vith him for $125. I have been old this by one of the trustee* >nd by one of the inspectors, ['he same member of the hoard nformod mo that a lot of cotton neal was seized in Marlboro last 'ear and that they compromised or $2.">0 Ciovernor Ellurbe is a uomber of the b. ard of trustees ,nd of the fertilizer board of con rol. The trustees' report show hat fertilizers sampled were bedw the guarantee from IS to 2tf icr cent., yet we are to hear of Iw. ll-a* ? mni |/nct'i uiuiii. i <>u nave good case, and if yon can get lie people to hear you, you can nako it warm for tho f?o-en I led governor. Col Tillman exhibited a table bowing that $373,045 of tins tax ins gone to Clomson, and out of lie pockets of farnun s, and stated hat when a bill providing for the on I uion of tags was introduced a tho annate, Messrs Norris, itackhouse and Mauldin, member* f tho Clomson board,, voted gainst it. Speeches were also in ado by Candidates ltice, Brown Maytiold, loMahan, Bollinger. Pcrham and Cpton. .1 Wilson Gibbet. HO Bit K I) Til K GKAVK< A startling incident, of which ,lr John Oliver of Philadelphia, /as the subject, is narrated by i n as follows: "1 was in a most Ireadful condition. My skin waImost yollov , oyes sunken, tonno coated, pain continually in inck and sides, no appetite? radually growing weaker day by ay. Three physicians had given io up. Fortunately, a friend dv'sed trying 'Kleotric Bitters:' nd to my great iov And _ i v i" ,"*t' ho first hottlo made u decided mprovement. I continued theii iho for tliroo wookH, and am now well man. I know they Kaveti 11 y life, and robbed the grave ol nother victim." No one shouU1 ail to try them, Only 50 ctt >er Imttlo at Crawford Bros' )rug Store. Rdarat* Tour Hnwota With ftf f U. C ?ndy CtUartlr, euro CMiiilpailoa forover Oc. We. II0. C C nit, dniftiu rttand bomt CRUISER'S GUNS LANDED. jGK '! r i : r THEY WILL HE I'SED TO DEFE N1 > S A NT I AGO jGo ENTRANCES. i 1 \ Shafter Orders His Men to Refrain From Desultory Encount- i ',or 1 ers and Wait for the Decisive Rattle. ;as? diet Plava del Kste, .June 2'.t.? 8cn1 ' 'IM News has been received at Cuban H headquarters and afterward coin- 11 a 1 iiiunieatcd by Castillo to Shafter j n?*c that the Spaniards have strongly entrenched Santa Ursuls and Lo- nrni 1 gunas, l>oth important entrances e to Santiago. Two heavy batter- ? ie ; have been erected, including I *roni guns landed from the Spanish! 01 \V1 cruisers. The batteries arc sup- 1 1 ported by six thousand men. K ft' The Cuban outposts have erect- ,n 1 ed a strong fortress and strength |c'm enod other defenses. General Shatter has issued rigid! 1 orders to the troops not to en-1 gage the Spaniards unnecessarily, ^ * j his object Uung to keep tho troops j quiet until a strong, decisive, at-, ^'tack. It is known that the Span- 1 ., . I. ., Ry iards will make a strong resis- . .) ' tance. I a tr?s LIN A R KS DEFE AT K1>. Ithe ) reti 5 Ho Personally Commanded thej'llU1 5 Attack on the Rough Riders. j C ( Sibony, June *29.?Details of' lt ' the 6ght were brought in by 1 Roosevelt. Wood's official list an< 1 shows: Americans, sovcnteen killed and sixty-three wounded; \U I Spanish, eleven wagon loads left I ^ at 1 the field bearing mortally wound- >an # ' twc ; ed; thirty eight left dead on the tield and several loads slightly I t ViV wounded entered the city. It inj . 1 openly admitted in Santiago that four thousand Spanish were con- j * centrated against our nine hunI 400 dred troops, under the personal I command of Linares. ^ lead Burial of Rough Riders. ? . the uunnthnamo Bay, dune 29.? vor TUfnnnrol 1> 1- t*; . I I .... ui me rviuers | . t.*ok place yesterday in a fieuuti-; j fill spot about n mile from the 11 battlefield. Meu from all the . CllC regiments attended the burial. A small iron cross was erected to mark the spot. The effects of i II the men havo been preserved to H 1 be han<led over to their frion<ls. I Am | IIP IN ? ) COU No Deaths From Wounds. <ler Washington, June 20 -?Shaf- relit , ter roports the health of the army ,,a"! remarkably good. There havei^,',^ l?een no deaths among those j ?*<|i wouudod in the battle of 1.a Krel Quisitna. The graves of those killed have been so marked as to make identification suro. ?, 1! ? ? ? m?i 'j Itiicki'u'? Arnica Salve. i coh '( TiikIUjT Mai.vk ill the world for mei ' I Cut*, Bruises, Mores, Ulcers, Suit the ! Hheum, Fever Mores, Tetter. Chap (iR, i peit Haw!*, Chilb'ainH. Corn*. hih! ul ' kilt eruption*, end positively cures ' ^ I'ile*, or no pay required It in guar- tie, ! anteeil (u give perfect satisfaction or ' p money refunded. l*rlre -> cei.is per J ftJ, i I bo*. For bale by Crawford Bros. ? ? ? Wl! Political Prodigy. dy I ! , laudator has a prodigy. Two, n< r year* ago Mr J K Hlackmon j 8re j promiaed that if elected he would 'll>J , not l>c a candidate for re-election , I 4-t, for another term. The remark' able thine abo.it it ia that he now An< remember* hi* promise ami de- un< clinea to be a candidate.?Cheater Lantern. " 91 ;n wiikklkk's success ou. v of Alubamu Will See 'l'liut Lis Seat in Congress is La-it. rlontgomery, .June 2'J.? IV s were filed with Governor mson some time ago asking for >eeial election in the Eight! riot of Alabama, now rupreM>d by Major (ion Wheeler. ) ground on which tin; applion was based was Vacancy of :e because of the holding by i Wheeler of a position in tho iv and that the acceptance of latter vacated the cougressionflico. Governor Johnson has eluded not tr? isM the order a special election and Gen color's seat, until the -tth of -ch, will be undisturbed unless the meantime tho governor iiyes his opinion. BLUE GOES AGAIN. s South Carolina Lieutenant lakes Another Dangerous Trip Safely. Telegraph to Tho Daily News: lururgau, l'rovineo of Santia .June 2*.? Lieutenant Blue, of auxilliary gunboat Suwanee. nruod to the fleet today from ther investigation trip ashore, reported that Admiral Cua's ships are all in the harbor h the exception of one torpedo troyar. They are at anchor I show no signs of activity, lieutenant Blue wont ashore urday to the west of Morro ?tle accompanied by some Cui guides. He advanced until > miles west of Cabanas and lost up to the batteries. He ruled sixty miles and then reled the Suwanee this morning, one time the lieutenant was at uhan outpost separated by only i yards from tho Span sh out t. "They popped away at ti other all the time," said utenant Blue. "1 don't think Cubans hurt the Spaniards V much jiml 1 know the SpanIs did not hurt the Cubans." lieutenant Blue was sont to urately take tho position of h of Admiral Cervera's ships. Stive Your y using "Tiik Great Mouth ERICA N KlONEV Cl'KK," Thlti r remedy i* a ureal surprise on acnt of i(m exceeding promptness in BVinn i tit11 in the Kidneys. Biadand Back in male or female. It eves intention of wate* ami pain in sing it almoHt immtdiately. Have rselvea t?y using this marvelou* 9. Its me will prevent fatal con jencea hi almost all eases t>y it> itattcrnalive and healing powers I iiy J K Maekey A Co,, I.ancaatei V >oon after Andy ' Burt was le colonel of tho Twenty-fifth :?red regiment, he informed his n, then at chickamauga, that y must plav hall an hour every . i ? ? ?a L i iu in nor ui get naruened up. ml while we are pitying" Haul "remember that I'm simply ily Hurt." During the first no the colonel lined out what a suro homo run. "Hun An run, you tallow-faced, knock >ed son of n gun," yelled t aay black soldier at the coach liue. The colonel stopped al it base, got another player tc 0 his place, put on his uniforn 1 announced: I'm Colonel Hurl til further orders." for Fifty Coot*. MttilMd tobowo htblt euro, moke* ???l I ilitafi Mood pur*. Wo ? All drunnu I NO FIGHT li. Shafter Now Has a Direct Wire Route to Washington. ALL WAITING. j Reported That lie; Will Take I Suntingo sis Stum :is 11 * is Ready arid Then Said Nothing More About it. ! By Telegraph to The Greenville News: Washington, .June t5i>. -The i war department received the welcome information today that a military telegraph station had been established at Sevilla i ? tlio center of the front of military operations and that this line runs to a point near Aguadores where it is connected with the ITeneh ) cable line, thus bringing General ; Shafter into direct communication . with the war dopa'tinont. General Greely received a disI patch to thit elTe< t from Lieutenant Coloni I Allen, who has charge I . of the tclegaaphie and cable oper ations The information was conveyed to the seoretaay of war and 1 General Miles and gave much satisfaction as it accomplishes an (endlong sought and diiKcult to aecomnlish The work has been done by Colonel Allen assisted by Major Greene, of General Shafter's stall". The shore point at which the military line condects with the French cable company will be dvanced to Aguudores as soon as that town is taken. It is now hold by Spanish forces but the purpose is to have the warships shell it, after which it will bo i occupied us a shore base. Beyond this the war depart mont has received little news from General Shafter's hcudipiurtor> in addition to the important report received from him yesterday. In fact nothing but the actual I assault remains to bo reported after the significrnt stascment made by General Slmfter to General Miles that he expected to take Santiago us booh as he got ready to move, without waiting for re I iiuurccim'UlS. Dliraiti of Ihr Olood and Nerves. | No one need sutler with neuralgia. '1 inn clio-iwr in quickly and permanently cured II l>y Brown*' Iron Bitters. Kvcrv disease of the blood, nerves on?l stomach, chronic or otherwise, succumb* to Browns' Iron Bitters. Known and used for nearly a quarter of a century, it stands to-day foremost among our most valued remedies. Browns'Iron Bitters is sold by all dealers. SJl'jfson? Alt. my friend, rum brought you here, of course! I, too. used to drink, hut for ten yeai.s not a drop >f liquor has pa ?*d my lips , J Oonvict?''House me t>ard. hut I tlon't waut to hear uo hard luck story now. I've got troubles of niy own. 1 HJTlUh on human, mange on hot i hos dog* and till stock, cured in mo mln( titer l?y Wool ford* Sanitary lotion. This never fails. Sold hy J F Mack ' ty <k Co., Druggist, Lancaster. S C. I Hornn m?n ??- ? ' . imo nw mm I V II1HI IIIC V I will atpieeze u sheer dollar until the eagle gets cramps in the Htnmtch. A North CaroMnA man named Ace has just been presented hy his wife > with Hour sons at one birth, and the joker on poker Is of couise haul at work. t The ^Government paid $75,000 for theaecret and right of Manufacture the Whitehead torp do. t Ifrlchea didn't havi wings they ) would he unable to roost ao huh. nooutlence of water during . .deep stopped immediately hy I)k R Drtohoh's Antt Diuretic Cure, children and adults alike?Price, $1 t Hold t?y J F Mackey 6 Co., Druggia* . ' Lancaater. 8 C.