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l'HE LEDGER. Th'iHov; S. Carter, EDITOR, AND MANAGER. SATIUDAV, OCTOHKH 1+, 1809. REVELATIONS OF OUTZS. First Chapter of the Inside History of the Dispensary. Attacks Robinson, Miles and Haselden and Promises That Hotter Things are Yet to Come. Special to Greenville News. Columbia, Oct 12.?D A G Ootzs tin kes part of his promisee] public statement today. He wil issue his cards in serial form. Th< first deals with his removal and ii not as hot as what is behind. Ii his card he starts out by saying 'During my years of service it the dispensary 1 have seen a num ber of things done which 1 kne* were wrong. These I reportei to members the board who were I know honest, able and pure They thought, however, that i was best to say nothing publicl about the wrong doing until me like themselves wore a majorit of the board. They believed i the dispensary and earnestl strove to make it a success. I their judgment the dispensar could not withstand the effect o such exposures if its control wa in the hands of the men again? whom these exposures were made They wanted to save the law fo the great potentiel good that wa in it. But as the contrary elemen has grown so confident of it powe that it has come to turning hones men out of office $tf4.be dispensar so a* to fill all pTaces with its tools thus faciliating iho carrying on o its plans, I deem it my duty t mr-ke public all I know so as t expose theso men, deeming it-bet ter that the dispensary should di than to continue under their con Kilt Kn>\in/v tlwti t K <\ ? ti */i, "ill ii"|mii?; i mi i iiif rutH'i iJ my criticism will he to drive sue men out of the dispensary an place its management in the hand of men above reproach. "I make this statoment becaus I do not wish to be considered sorehead or as exposing things condoned as long as I hold office. * Then he has as his first serie an open letter to the board of eon trol. He says he had full authori tv from Douthit to make the sale for which he was suspended Talking of the investigation, hi says: "On the night of the 20tl or the 21st of September T ( Robinson, who had loosened hi tongue with liquor, told me ii front of Muggins* store, on Mail street, that Ilaselden had set i trap for Douthit and had caugb him in it. After asking him sev eral times what the trap was, h< aid it was selling contraband liquor at the State dispensary anc not having it entered upon the shipping clerk's book as required by the resolutions of the board ai the last board meeting. 4'Was the trap the addition ol the words 4Tbrough the Regular Channols V Probably at the time of that conversation Mr Robison did not know that Chief Conspirator Haselden wanted my scalp also and thereforo spoke aa a af r/m/v ft* ion/1 ? f * tm nt? a I ivuu Ul II1IUU VVIilt'U IIP always claimed to he, especially since 1800 when 1 and my relatives worked for and carried Edgefield county for him as the candidate for State superintendent of education. But when Bosh Haselden popped the whip over his back he forgot this friendship and sense of obligations to me and also forgot his statement to me after heating my explanation, of my sale of that bottle of gin, that he did no see how I could have ?? .? 1 I ? done otherwise than obey the in- TI structions of the commissioner and especially as there was an under-* Sti standing in the hoard as to the V orders given the commissioner." . Outzs goes on to say: "I was suspended because a political clique wanted me removed from Co the dispensary. They are bound to get here by a community of :n- ha terost, their predominant feeling bu being a thirst for revenge und a go desire to get complete control of tin the dispensary for the use of a afl political machine and more venal aims which can be understood re: from the charges and specifications ty which I will make." ad Talking of Chairman Miles he wi says: "And yet the old hypocrite, dc r after admitting that he had not co I treated me fairly, appealed to the th I members of the board to confirm ad my suspension and thus confirm a 9 his action as a courtesy due him er j by the members of the board, is . There is auothor lie told by Mr. a' 1 Miles. He promised that 1 should ei be accorded a full hearing by the board before a vote was taken on pi the motion to make my suspension 01 permanent, but tho vote was taken sv without n hfiflrinnr hoiniT rritrnn K?? i. ~ "'b "v"*e fj""" " ^ nie. While on the question of d< y, Mr. Miles' veracity, 1 might hi state that he is a liar by his own fi y confession. 1 have heard him n any on several occasions '1 have y, told more lies since I have been b on the board than in all my lifo ?' y before.' 1 dare him to deny that he made this statement. If he 8 hoes I will prove it on him. ''Printed copies of the roles V ( were posted all over the building. Shipping Clerk Black had been H reported to Chairman Miles time ^ and again for drinking and being c< drunk and cursing in the dispen- c? ^ ?ary, against the positive rule of Is y the board, but be has not even remonstrated with Black, much less fc f suspended him. ci "By his position as chairman of tf the board Miles was able to give t' o ^ or get the job of receiving clerk H , for his nephew, F Elmore Young, ft' of Clinton. Young does not know u ^ the multiplication table and could w ^ not count a car load of glass cor- * j 1 rectly if his life depended on it. w h 1 Time and again he has made gross ci ! errors in his count of goods re- w ceived at the dispensary though h his count was relied upon to veri- w j fy the invoices for which the dis, 1 pensary paid. >' I "Speaking of retail sales of the ^ dispensary, less than three months 01 ago Chairman {Miles bought of ^ s himself and sold to himself at the h< ; State dispensary a half pint of al i cohol which he paid for at the I l ^ ! price to dispensers anil not to consumers, thus cheating the.town h and county out of protits. Mr Ilaselden now poses as condemn- ar ( ing retail sales at the dispensary g ! as contrary to the spirit of the . dispensary law but in March of RC j this very year while H iselden } ; was still chairman, he personally jn j Bold at the State dispensary to jg . the committee in charge of the ^ } banquet to visiting congressmen I champagne, whiskey, ruin, wine ru , and brandy to the amount of $106.85, about the largest bill or i that was ever retailed at the dis* w, , pensary, Helling to them at the m, ( prices to dispensers and not to mi consumers, thereby swindling the faj town and county out of the profit.'' (ja Wedding Near Hock Hill. wt i in Special to The State. (j, Rock Hill, Oct 11?This after- inj noon, in Kbenezer, at the residence foi of the bride's parents, Mr and jg Mrs Leroy Poag, Mias Anna. their charming and accomplished daughter, was married to Mr r Cloud Hicklin, one of our most cri popular and prosperous farmers, m? who lives six miles south of this ba: city, on the Chester conrty line, at The ceremony , was performed by to the bride's pastor, the Kev Dr ac< Dr James H Thornwell. eel IE BARN WELL SHORTAGE. ited Thiit the Late Treasurer /as Short Over $3,000 More Than Was at First Alleged? Over fS,000 is Admitted. lumbia Record, 10th inst. The sinking fund commission d an important meeting today, t owing to the fact that the vernor was otherwise engaged a moeting convened sometime ter the regular hour. One important matter was in fcroneo to the shortage of eountreasurer Free. It has been mitted by his executors that be is short over eight thousand liars, but it has since been dis vered or alleged to have been at about f3,000 more should be Idod to the amount. It will tak< tedious time to discover wheth ' all of this latter amount, if an} chargeable against the deceased, id the commissionera will consid the facts before acting. ll was recently decided thai roceedings should be taken a' ace against all bondsmen whom ireties wero found short, anc ereafter there will bo few if ain elays in doing so. Going on i ond hereafter will noi bo a per inctory matter. There may be some raoieirreg laritios in it to be considered ut they are not of general inter it. MURDER IN MONROE. irTbito Farmer Killed and Thiowi into a Rock Quarry. Monroe is excited over the dis Dvery of a murder, which wai mmitted in or near the towi ist Thursday. A white man named Fletchei ledlin was the victim. Medlit imo to town Thursday with cot ,n to sell. He seen late ii 0 afternoon with two negroes le started homfc in his wagon nd that was the last seen of hin ntil Tuesday, when his dead bod} as found in a rock quarry, whicl as near the town. The qunrr} as full of water and tho bod} ime to tho surface. The negroes ho were last seen with Medlit ave been arrested. Suspicior as aroused in regard to tho posbility of the man's body beinjj 1 the quarry from the fact thai ie two negroes kept going there, I'idontly looking 'or sometbiug. ledlin had been shot through tbt Bad. He was drinking at the me he was killed. A Novel I'oint. Judge (iary last Saturday signed i order for bail in the sum of 1.500 in tho OHSfl tif f I?nrt? ... J oward, churned with murder, id Howard expects to make the >nd in a few days. The manner which the order was obtained entirely new in the court* in is part of the State. .J A ooney, Bsq., Howard's attorney ised the point that the Solicitor tying failed to arraign Howard set a day for trial, the prisoner is thereby entitled to hail. He ade a written petition and douid for trial and the Solicitor iled to comply. On the last y of court he made the motion r bail and brought out a law to lich recourse has not been had nearly forty years, and .fudge try had no hesitation in granty the order. The procedent was ind in Richardson's report for 51 in the case of Basket, in lich it was decided that if at the st term of court after the alleged ime, the arraignment was not ide the accused was entitled to il, and if the case was not called the second term he waaontitled a discharge, operating as an n|uittal.?Greenville Mountainr. The Greatest Ba X Lancasi 1 Our Foil a Have been eon ){ & o's and W. G V tered and we an ! y left?old, and nc A y ? 'M $20,000 Worit r X ON THE DOLLAR. 'Our bu L v things and they got them. . $12.50 Suirs for $7.75. V/ *T- 50 Suits for $4.50. . ! ^ |:W Boys and ( $12.50 Overcoats for $8.00. ^ ^ $10.00 Overcoats for $( !? UP TO DA * .A Just opened, a beautiful line in tl - Kf pons in blister and stripes effects, f< A for colors tailer-tnade suits, all new * grades from 10 cts. opto $1 00 per ? Cotton Up 2 1-2 y Best 5 cent Plaids at 3ft centQ 1 A Fleece Doting Plaids at <4 cents. 1 y at 4 cents. Ladies 25 cent Fleece 1 A Under Shirts at 25 cents. 20 cent * y Hats at 75 cents. b TERRIBLE i ? .... Now is the time to get your wi 9 y regular price. Several lots must b X Ml LINERY 11 y ,5 TU \7'* iy We are fortunate in securing ' Springs cM Co., last season, aud Mb \Kf experience and rare ability and wi millinery ever brought to this town i cash ba: ; A The Ganson S '\a for (xisn. i> but The Price ltespecfully, I ^ .'V t | ^7^ ^ HKFOCLKDTHKMUK* Mo OKOKf 1 All doctors told Ilenick Ilamil ?j?0 ton, of West Jefferson, ()., after not suffering IS months from Rectal j)en9ai Fistula, he whold die unless a ' an ni costly operation whh performed; think! but ho cured himself with five than boxes of Bucklen's Arnica Salve, at the the surest 1*116 cure on Earth, and as a h the lasst Salve in the World. 25 while cents o box. Sold by Crawford /flrn. Bros' Druggist. be en< and g 1 wo Connecticut men who got ,, would home from the Dewey celebration jluotjr with 30 cents between them, and it wot without any recollection of how ? . now 8 they spent their money, have l>een v A In" notified by the hotel at which they , ( ' our ei stoppe<l that $500 is in the hotel #mn^j afo to their credit. They had jn ^ deposited it for safe keeping be- cani(j( fore they began to celebrate, but forgot all about it. When they get it Again they will probably Th? celebrate again. the at ' , wmi can no' The Abbeville cotton mill has *** increased its capital stock to $500,000. ^ Mr"%t ?r~ % f t V irgain Sale ler Has Ever VII T Big S c ^ solidated in Ueai Sanson's stores to e slaying them w alike. * i of Clothing at yers while in Now York had thei #10.50 Suits for $0.50 Suits Children's Suits at if 1.00 and up. $10.50 Overeoa >.00 $7.50 Ovei TE DRESS C< lie newest and most popular fabrics >r suits and skirts. Nice line im| shades, Plaids are very popular n yard. m BUT WE ARE CenlS, GOODS CHEAP! Pest 5 cent Outings Plaids at ce Ifard Wide Pleaching at 4 cents. Lined Vests at 10 cents. Mens 5 Schoolboy Wool Jeans at 10 cents. SHOE SLAUC inter shoes?women, Misses and CI e closed to make room for new got OPENING IESDAY. OCTOB the services of Miss Thorn, who ? Huey of Rock Hill, S. C. They 111 take plasure in showing one of tl RGAIN S' tores will he r 10 ioodscharged 11 knock out all c 4., I 2 ^ 4 H V >. ^ ney Worse Than Wasted. j ^ see the bustling, anxious, >-l>e-left throng at the diary, on Saturdays especially, ? mply appalling. Just to II I ! Hundreds of dollars worse M wasted. The money spent j I dispensary for drink simply leverage, would in a short lift the mortgages on every CJ in Kershaw county, it would lugh to educate every boy irl in Kershaw county, it twoji I put shoes on the feet of ods of barefooted children, aD<| 5 an<1 ? lid bring happiness to many un*qi ;loomy homes. Yet we are KEA ted to be patriotic by giving 1 idorsement to the moral inon. liut we are deficient MAY H A riotism, along this line.? en Messenger. _1_ SECI ) dispensary can withstand Hi^re tacks of its enemies, but it reiurr t survive the dissensions of ends. ?Columbia Kecord. CHE! t * t ' i 4 4 ""Subscribe to The Lf.dokk. | y yr>,? Pflffr X 'itnessed I 2 tocks I th, Springs X be slaugh" right and **? *** .:; ; X 60 Cents ir eyes open for* good*J $6.75. for $3.90. <jMftr J&l <2? ts for $(>.75. rcouts for $4.50. TSl 30DS. X , great selections cre~ported cloths in-plain- ^f0 .nd we have them in alf . 4Mfc' SELLING COTTONKR THAN. EVER. *J* nts. Best Wide Soft' W0 Yard Wide Sea Island^ fm$ >, 0 cent Fleece Line<l iff 72 Fur Alpine $1.25 > 1HTER. 3 lildrens, ranch lesw than-. Xj 3C-. IEB. IQTH. 5 was with Mess. Heath, . ^ are both milliners of he prettiest stooks of : x TORES. | mi strictly Xto anybody X ompetition. X MFlHf ^ j* ^ j IESTER , MACHINE tD LUMBERS COMPANY. A HESTER, S. C . > Chester Machine Co. hiwS-RcNR. t A Co IkMVM nnnanlM.t .J . a . _ ?\^/KOUI|UH MVt/ 'anta, ?D(1 now realty to fafii'Mi'i ting In the Machine Mid Lu aoerwith a well equlpned Vou?*? iachine Hhop, and Door, Hub* Hind Factory rur tacilltieaialle?l lu thin part of the HfrMto . PERS MOWERS, rURESHKUM, GINS. ENGINES KAW MILLI . AND CO? TON PRE8SHE. , RR0W8, CA8IINQS. KTUt ALSO DND HAND MACHINE**... ' Pllla complete for DweMitrj^ Room*, etc. hend ua Dat-e* f wanta, and w? will ana we,- cat--/ i inwll i : , Reepaf. fultt. 5TER MMHHNE A LUMBER COMfAtR.. %