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THE LEDGER. Th'irlow S. Carter, l( EDITOR AND MANAGER. ?i SATURDAY, JAN. 14, 1899. m ?????????? Editor Gonzales of The Slate *f ch has Got. Ellerhe in a hola and we ^ sea no chance for tha Governor to ^ wriggle out. It was a treat surprise a few dajs before the last ^ primary alactioa to sea in Tha ^ Slate an editorial signed by Editor Gonzales, an avowed enemy of the dispensary and a zealous advocate of license and local option, Tl ^ ry supporting Ellerbe, the dispense- J rj candidate for governor. Tha ^ mystery baa l>een cleared. Aa ^ wag auppoaed Mr. Gonaalea had ^ in writing a pledge from Gov. ^ Ellerue, which wa? givea to seoure the support of The Stata and ^ its numaroua local option democratic friends, that if alacted he W( would recommand to tha next j? |gj ganeral assembly that the DiapenOT aary \ct should he amended ao aa to allow each county to settle the '' liquor question for itself. Thia AH wna fully explained to mean that the governor would recommend that eacli county should have the * gl, right to vote dispensary, prohi- ^ hition or license. Representative Frank Ii. Weston and Supt. of the Penitentiary Neal, frienda i ^ of the Governor, who called on Mr Gonzales to ask The State's support for him, were asaured j thia was the only condition upon j which it could bo secured and that, tha promise would have to be re*L dueed to writing by Got. Elierbe a? ho (Gonzales) had no confidence . iti the man to believe he would keep a verbal promise. Mr. Weston obtained the promise in the Governor's own handwriting . Vlt tho following: dav after hi? and DC Mr.Neal'? visit to Editor Gonzales sti and Tho State began its big fight for Ellerbe's re election, and, no . doubt, to this was due hi? election ^ and Feathorstone's defeat. . tlv Did Governor Ellerbe keep hi? j pledge? Reference to his message, a synopsis of which is published ^ in this paper, will ?how that he did not, and in an editorial in The State of Wednesday ?igaed N G. #e| Gonzales, he is held up a? a de- ^ ceiver of tho worst kind and told plairly that he lied. Represents- ^ t ve Weston sustains what Mr. Gonzales had to say and Supt. ^,e Nesl announced that he would have something to tay as soon as j he recovered from a spell of bilious colic. ? Sa All in all, things look very bad j for the Govoruor. Gales? he can vindicate himself ho should resign ^ the office obtained by falae pretenets and representations. Vindication or resignation, Mr. Kller" as be, is what the people, whose chief magistrate you happen to be t>y | c<>. the votes >f local optionists ob L tained in some way, have a right! | to expert. A few years ago yon | |. might have been rommeiided bv | your followers for buncoing Goi- ^ zalea but the tiin* has passed when politic*! tricksters and deceivers can gain the well don* of their | friends by buncoing ev*n Mr.(ion-1 .| zales. j Ar w?- | I hi The State of Thursday contains or a card from Alderman ,J II W ho Duncan of Columbia, scoring the kit Governor whom, b* says, called mc I ay? at his store several davs before * ths second primary and secures! p(1 bis vots and influence on a prom- Co isc to recommend local option in Sp bis messsge and to use his per- . sonal influence to get the passed tliis winter. ,4I am now , j/j, forced to believe that he is utterly tlx without truthfulness or honor," says Mr. !)uncnn at tin- closing of his letter. T Ho-To-Rm for fifty Out*. Guaranteed tobacco hai>it cure. make* weak , meu strong/Mood ?tire.' 50c SI All UrutHEtsCs. 1 jF. Convicted. >lumhia Record, 11th inst. Me When you eee it in The Record, F I nety nine timet out of a hundred of i to. When The State com- J ? enced urging its high license ] ientele to support Ellerbo in the J cond primary, The Record wa argod that to secure that support R ] llerhe had promi ed,if re-elected, ren recommend local option in his del esrage to the legislature. The tne ecord said it could prove Ellerhe poi id in pereon and by agents made for ch a promise verbally to men in p^ dumhia who were known to be Ap olently opposed to the dispenaa law and some of whom were . ^ inerally supposed to be violators that law. The Record said furfor er that it had reason to believe, ough it had no proof to offer to at effect, that a written pledge >WJ that effect had been extorted ' . * , . cas nni U "? itiw IMM , VtJ IliCII WUU . :>uld not give n snap of thair fin- i ra for one of his promises, unS8 it were on black and white, ^r. er hi8 own signature. Tha selei has proTan tha governor's ritten pleJg? to be as worthless *I()I his spoken word. It is a sad i BOn ?te of affairs for the proud state : *r South Carolina to have as its ivernor a man conricted of lying. . n he had any self-respect left, he Mild resign. If ho will not re- ^ * 2;n, the general assembly would *n( i South Carolina a service bv im- 80,1 aching. The State's disclosures is morning, coming as they do the heel of many other dissclosuresof P^llerbe's inveracity, Sii ake it impossible for an v body to ve any respect for the governor. ^?r Even if the governor had kept ^ r 5 written pledge by which he 1 irchased the State's support in ? 1 a second primary, his act would ve been as disreputable as his ? illation of that promise. Schumrt and Tilltnan canvassed the ite last summer as gubernatorial ? ' ndidates on the local optioa n?' p atform, while Ellerhe opposed em on every siouip, posing as n champion of the dispensary wai n as it stood. Knowing that wai e bu'k of disoensary voters wore nB ! r him in the second primary, ho ^vl ided his principles and con vie>ns for support of the high lioae men. He was elected, but paid a fearful price. He will down in history in about the mn,| ne nlaco in miblir nHtimutinn Id by tho Radical governors of B#,< Palmetto Slate. 8?V( ?LLEKBE STILL SILENT. ?' Stlt " offe ya he Has Nothing and Ma? , " l)0* Have Nothing to Say. B J con ~ by Telegraph to Tho Daily News. . Columbia, S. C., .Ian. 12. ? j irernor Ellerbe today said thati soon a* he had any statement in j ' Go azalea ho would notify the I ,p^ "respondents. He had nothing I say yet and there was no telling ^ inn he would say anything, if at ' whi Tonight he telephoned that he , I" ? I nothing to aay. ^ v- - ? - elcc ,t CI.KVKII TIIICK j,,a1 It certainly looks liko it, but ?re is really no trick about it. iybody can try it who has Lame ek and Weak Kidneys, Malaria \ nervous troubles. We mean r#p, run cure mmscu rigni away ny re ;in<j; Electric Hitter*. Phis dicine tones up the whole * dein, acts a* a stimulant to rer and Kidneys, is a hlood wea ritier and nerva tonic. It cures nstipation, Headache, Fainting ^rofi ells, SleepleHHnesa and Molun>ly. It i? purely vegetable, a Id laxative, and restores the item to it? natural vigor. Try .V sctric Hitters and he convinced trod it they are a miracla worker. e^.ft erj bottlo guaranteed. Only i a Wottla at Crawford Bros1 tt,( ug Store. } " Pay your suhscripiton to nien doer! bien tup: legislature t at mum lust Tuesday. Hob 3 Gury was re-elected speaks tha House, T C Hamei clerk 1 Withers reading clerk, an HI Stansill, sergeant at arms. In the Senate, ,lohn T Gasto s elected Sergeant-at-arms, ] Hemphill clerk, W H Stewai ding clerk, He v. G H War I chaplain, the Governor1 ssage read and committees aj ated. Kesolutionn were of ed extending the time for th anient of taxes to the last c iril. WEDNESDAY. House- The Governor's ruei ;e was read and portions r< red to proper committees. Mi rot's resolution to present >rd to Victor Blue was called Sir. T Yancy Williams of Lan tar said that hp ft r rmo hata oppose the resolution. He 5 many in South Carolina, ha atly admired the gallantry o tor Blu?, hut thought it un iely to make such an appropria a for a mere present when i ae sections the people coul dly pay taxes. tir. Bacot had thought it wa leasure which would com men If to the legislature. Otha tes were honoring their son* i South Carolina should d lething, when that require ; a pittance. klr. Wolfe agreed with Mr ;ot. There never has been r but that the heroes from tlii te were afterwards befitting! inred. He disagreed with th itleiuan from Lancaster in tha raw no present, but a quewtioi reward. 4r. Magi'l moved to eomnii bill to the committee on mili ydr. Stevenson raised the poin srder that the printed hill ha been on the desk of the mem s 94 hours. The speaker said that the poin i well taken, and the resolutioi \ laid over until Thursday were No. 2 and No. S. 14r ins' hill to extend the time fo payment of taxes, and Mr ase'a to authorize the.governo investigate the State inatitu is and to define their power duties. enate.?The Senate was i lion leas than an I; our. enator (iraydon introduce nral hills and resolutions Th it impertant by far was a con utional amtndmont which h red. It prorides for the r? I of section 7, article 7 of th titution. Its dim, >Ha explains Senator Gray don to The State 0 do away with slicing conn up, by a portion of one town 1 deciding that it waata to be ie a part of another county i repeal will not effect tho for ion of new counties, but atop practico of continually alter county liacK to please tb ins of n few. The reeolutioi vide* that, the question thai roted for at tho nsxt genera tion and if it carries the log Lure elected then will ratif; voters' action. THURSDAY. !r. Verncr presented a bill t< ?al the lien laws, except fo lr. Bleat*, of N cwborry, of (1 a bill to repeal the concealet poet law. eremiah Smith, of Horry, in luced a hill to have the priril tax naed in high schools in (I of for college*, lessra. Ktird and Johnaon in luced bills to have the privil tax divided between Clemsoi Winthrop. everal reaolutiona wero offer rtoking to four year terms foi nbers of the legislature Will sial sessions. By Mr. Jenkins, to fix talari for all county officials in Gret ' ville and Spartanburg. He pi 'r poses to pay the sheriff $l,20i ? clerk of court $600; coroner $2( ^ master $500, and so on. Both houses agreed to a rei 0 lution to extend the time for t " payment of taxes to March 1st. :t , !. LAGRIPPE IS C0NTAGI011 I Atmosphere Impregnated i >" Germs. Disease Proved Bsyoad Questi to be Infectious.?Is Rapidlj ^ Conqueriag the Country. LaQrippe ia a contagious disc* Its specific germ 1im? been positiv identified, and It is transmitted fr l- peraou to person itlier t>y direct c (j tact or by inhaling tlie germs wh tUey tlont .u the air. It is a dang b our diseuse, lowering the vitality a II i umilliii. . ?..v. >a. me loiHiivB power *(' l ,{ i pneumonia, heart disease, nerv j prostration and insanity find ei 1 victims* No apecitlu ia known t will kill the Grip germ. hut it may n driven out ami its elFecta overcome the prompt use of Dr. Mi lea' Resto tive Nervine. "La Grippe left my nervous syat so racked a-id shattered that I coi (| not aleep and for two m ?ntliH was i der the iufl leuce o? narcotics Pi r sicians and /rieuda gave m up to o t, but in two days after I comment () i t-king Dr. Miles' R-atoratlve Nerv j | 1 began to improve, and in a moot time I wan entirely cured, ft is l greatest health restorer on earth." I). W. H 11,ton, Louisville, Ky. a All druggista are anihoriz-d to s g Dr. Miles' Nervine on a gu irau tliat tl'?* botlie bent file or mom y V funded, lie sure and get Dr. Mil Nervine Booklet on heart a t nerves sent fre? . Address Dr. Vile? Medical Go., Klkhart, It ^ Confederate Dead North. At Chicago, known graves 4,7 . Estimated on the records, j which wara deatoyad by fire 1,5 At Alton 2,2 t At Camp Butler i At Hock Island 1,9 n ' At Mount City * Total in Illinois 10,9 r Indiana?Indianapolis 1,4 Naw Jerscv?Finns l'oint 1,4 r J ? Naw York?Elmira and a Long Inland 3,4 Ohio?Johnson Island and Colombo* Q ? ~ -- 7 *' Pennsylvania?Philadelphia and Piltabur^ 2 i Wisconsin? Madison ] Maryland ?Point Lookout 2,1 e * Total known 22,1 o ? . Beware oiOint men t* for Cntar 'hat Contain Mercury, '? as mercury wiil ile-tr*?y the eeiim i- nmcl hn*I completely Herniiire t i# wholes\ ?tein when entering it hrou the muctmuH sii' u ee. Such artic nhoulo never tie i hoI except on pi acripilmie from reputable phyelciai ?. mm 'he <1 linage they wll' ilo i* ten (i io tl.e gooil y oil can poHeihly <leil from them. Mall1* f atari h <'u ** | maniifuel tired by F J Cheney A C e Toleilo. ?) , e* iiiaic.a no mercury, a _ ii taken internally . acting ?l!recti? i on the hlooti ami mueiMua surfaces the system In luiying Mali's Catar >i | i 'tire lie Mite yon got tlit* genuine i* in ken inieiiiHlly mul is made in 1 1 It-do, Ohio, Ity K i ''iieiioy <St ( ^ Te?tl menials free p*?u -old by Druggista, price 75c j bottle. I DESPITE TILLMAN'S OK JECTION. j Postmaatar Dunnovant'a Appoir mont Has Keen Confirmed. Washington, .Ian. 10.?T senate todaj confirmed th? nominations: . Postmaster?South Carolina, , II McGhee, Darlington; J t Dunnovant, Cheater; J KCochra Jr., Anderson. Don't Tthirrt spit and ItMtl Toar l.lfr Awn] To quit tohnceo anally and forever, be ar> I* netic. full ef Ufa. nerve and visor, take No-1 Bne, tba wonder worker, Vkat make* wank 1 attonf. All drusciate, Wo or St. Cure runr toad. Booklet and sample free. Aridn Bfw-ltng Kaw??,l? "!htea?e er New Yo ies SUMTER TO CAMDEN. IB ro~ Another Road Projected Between 5 . These Points. Surrey Being )0; Made. io?? Cel. Tkos. Wilson, who hat ,he l*rge interests in the Atlantic Coast Line,is in the city in behalf of a road projected from Sumter in to Camden, it is his desire to hare the eharter of the Wilson and Summerton road so amended that this new branch may be built. The new road will be SO miles J I_ i 1 a i Abaa ISIlg auu IB OifWHIU to W)Bl fOUU, ioa 000. Tbe surrey is being made r and the road will most certainly be built.?The State. BARNWELL HAS ENOUGH. *'y Doesn't Need the Negroes From ille Greenwood. t#r* Special to The State. md hat Allendale, Jan. 10.?There is c>U8 already a surplus of ne roes in Barnwell, and it they are comhe i?g in rapidly from Greenwood 1 by county. Many who were tenants last em year are at a loss to know what uid j they will be able to do this year. ,n" j In this section of the county the ) y - I llt}. I meat supply is not equal to the 3ed demand. (Eleven hogs, one cow i,,e and some turkeve have recently !! S been stoler and eaten. Seven of the . the participants have been arrested, and some were sent to the ell "chaingang" today. This surely le? is not an encouraging token to the itnmigranta. ii d I m m i(j DIw?mi of the Blood and TTi i ? ?. No one m-ed suffer with neuralgia. This | disease is quickly and permanently cured I I>y Browns'Iron Bitters. Every disease of I the blood, nerves and stomach, chronio , or otherwise, succumbs to Browns' Iron Bitters. Known and used for nearly a qq i uarter of a centnry, it stands to-day foremost among our moot valued remedies, j Browns'Iron Bitten is sold br all dealers. qq Dawey a Republican. 118 i ? ? j0 Col. Henry Wattereon is as tingQ lucky as he is chivilric. No 34 sooner has he aanouneed, with an appropriate flourish of trumpets in the columns of the Courier* S4 Journal that the democratic pres34 idantiai caadidate in 1900 must be Gaorge Melrilla Dawey, than 3g along cornea tha admiral's brothsr with the cool, not to say cruel,as* qj sartion, that the victor of Manila is, and alwavH has been, a ranuh 3^ lican. In support of hia allaga2j tion, the remorseless relative ex* ~,j hibita a newspaper clipping containing an interview with Dewey 00 Kome-thirty years ago, in which the latter savs: rb "1 am a republican. 1 came of ii if - - oiu Vermont stock, rooted deep in of th? soil that faces the rugged lie elopes of tho Green mountain*. lrH Hut you know we navy officers r?-- are not inclined to discuss partisan questions aboard ship." ... All the members of Dewey's IV e J r??, family concur in declaring that ?-? they hare no reason to suppose that he has chanced his political ,,f convictions since.?Philadelphia rii Bulletin. "" j Work of Klaines in Barnwell. I >er ( Special to The State. Barnwell, Jan. 11. ? Last night about 1 o'clock tire wee discovered I . i either in one of the hex cars on i I the side track or depot of the : j Carolina Midland Railway, which | it- ! totally destroyed throe box cars, I t_ I some freight in the care and the contents of the cotton shed of the he j Caroliua Midland depot ; lose e*? '16 , titoftloil ?t Kmit 16 OAO 1 ?? XOWIII ^'IjUVU , |l?l klkl" ly inaured. O The lire quickly axtaaded to W Col. Mike Brown's round-hala gin n, plant, which waa total y consumed; loas eatimatad at laaat $8,000 with r. only $1,500 insurance. - m ?- m To?Pay your sr<bbcription to the Ledger. Thirty Bushels of Corn to the Acre. Do you waut to raise 30 bushels of corn to the acre! Select fair lend that will not waeh. Kua 5-foot rowi on the level, throw up moderate beds aud subsoil about 18 inches in the middle ; or better, subsoil the* lend ell over. Scatter in the drill 15 bushels of cotton seed end 200 pounds of acid phosphate before the 10th of February and throw two furrows on that. When the time comes to plant put in 200 pounds of guano and plant your corn 30 inches apart leaving only one stalk in the hill. That will give you 3,518 hills to the acre. The cost of the fertiliser will be about 15. Of course stable, or lot maaure or a good compost could be substituted for the shore. But the ides is that about $5 worth of fertiliser of some sort will be required oa ordinary land. By sowing -peas at the last plowing, especially tne kinds that do " not run much, the pea crop will more than pay for the fertiliser. Corn planted at the shore distance after subsoiling,* will not suffer from twenty days1 drought. Suppose you try this plan. The largest mill in the $outh will start in Atlanta this month. John B. Whitman, who has long been in the milling business in Chattanooga, is president. The plant cost 1125,000 and the capacity of the mill is 5,000 bushels of wheat and 3,000 bushels of corn every 24 hours. The oompany expects to buy all the wheat and corn tkey can in Georgia and cash markets will be provided on all the line* of tailway where these products can he bought. Mr. Whitman belierea that the adrantage to the Georgia farmer will be a constant market for his grain and that he will get the year round 10 to 20 per cent, more than he does now. The mill will turn out 1200 barrels of flour and 600 barrets of meal daily. The very finest machinery has been bought and the big mills of Minneapolis are not eiqierior to it. Mr. C J Hudson, of Waxhaw, has an ox in his possession for which hs wants an owner. A darkey offered the ox for sale on the streets of Waxhaw a few days ago and stated that he had a lot of cattle for sale and while prices WAra -II 1 1 ,.v>? woiu^ uifltiih.seii in? cattl? seller suddenly took his departur? for parts unkowj, leaving Mr. Hudson with the stolen ox.? Monro? Enquirer. BILIOUSNESS I bosses many a body and burdens many a mind. You can't enjoy the food you like because you are bilious. You take all sorts of precautions, and yet the bilious attack leaps on you like a tiger from ambush. You know the feeling ! The blood seeming on fire with a dull heat; the boring pains in tho eyes; the head seeming to open and shut; the horrible nausea. You know the irritability which precedes and the languor that follows the attack. It's miserable, isn't it ? Why not cure the trouble ? There's a pill that will cure biliousness. Dr. J. C. AY UK'S PILI.S | are an acknowledged specific for this I derangement. ; A. Swanger, Texarkana, Tax., writes t "For fifteen years I have used Ayeris Pills, and find them very effective in bilious complaints. I have yet to see the case where they have failed to cure." V You mrm BMIoum 0O MOT FAIL TO MM JW AYER'S PILLS *