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1HE LEDGER. Thn'low S. Carte? EDITOR AND MANAGER. WEDNF.SDAY, NOVKMHF.RS, 1S00 [ For The Ledger. Mistaken as to the Law Coi oern ing Dispensary l'rotits. Editor Tiik Ledokr:?Th< writer of the article puhlished ir Saturday's issue of your papei liti/lot' t Ko Kna/1 i i kTUft C ,.L . I.. ? uiimvi hiv Iivcu* mr OtlllHJIb HIM the Liquor ' taken fron The Columbia State of the 1st inst, is mistaken as to the law governing the distribution of th< dispensary profits among th( public schools of the several conn ties. He savs: "The Comptrolle: General has received from all th< counties save Barnwell anil Spar tanburg the statements or th county superintendents of school as to the amount each count; needs from the dispensary profit to make up the constitutional $ per capita. Upon this statemen the money now held in the treasur; will be distributed." That, I say, is a mistake. Th Comptroller General did not mak an inquiry as to what countie lacked anything of having $3 pe capita ior school purposes, an< no distribution based upon sucl an inouirv is to b? nu??tn VVS? 1 j ? " UW the Comptroller General wantei to know was how nmeh eacl county lacked after the apportion ment was made from the poll tai and the three mill tax of having enough to give each school din trict seventy tive dollars for eacl school in that district. For example, the Heath Spring District has two schools,?a white and n colored,?and its share of th< county school fund must he one hundred and fifty dollars, or it must he made up from this dispensary money that is about tr he distributed. The Beiair District has, I think, three schools: its share, therefore, must he twr hundred and twenty-tivo dollars. A good many of the districts dc not receive enough for each school to get this seventy-five dollar (to run the school three months, as the law directs) and Supt. u..? ? m. u.iui|inwii uiiviii^ hi) reported wc shall get $1,224.00 to make uj the deficiency, that boing the amount required. Now, after this deficiency ha* been made up in all the counties (which will require about $19,000.00) the remainder of the dispensary profits will be apportion ed among all the schools in the Stato in proportion to the enrollment of each school. I make this correction because, having to pay out the school funds, I know that there is already a general belief among the people that each school is entitled to three dollars per scholar, and they do not understand why they do not get that amount; and this article from The State will but confirm that belief if allowed to go uncorrected. There was a law requiring all of the State's share of the dis pensary profits to be divided among the schools that did not get three dollars per capita, but it has been repealed. The lav I have just tried to explain was made by an act of tho last session of the Legislature. W. C. Cauthen. Nov. 7, 1809. Governor McSwceney has removed .las Alton a State constable operating in Greenville for drunkenness. Tho Governor has issued his proclamation that Thursday, Nov 80th l>e observed as a day of thanksgiving by the people of South Carolina. Example for the Abbeville Press and Banner. From the Edgefield Advertiser. The Advertiser haw been charged and justly, with weakening in its support of the dispensary law. Well, the Bible says there is a time for all things and, in our judgment, now, if ever, is the I time to weaken in support of the dispensary, at any rate the tDan> agement theroof, which is a blot on the once fair natno of the Palmetto State. A good law may bo made vile in its administration. The Advertiser will continue to weaken until she kerflumuxes. Selah! Grain in the Blackjacks. The Enquirer's correspondent at Warren, writes under date of October 2S: ' 'The Blackjack people will cither mako or break on small grain next year. There has been more small grain sown this fall than for 12 or 13 years. [ J If next year proves to be a good grain year we will be better pre* pared to take 44 or 5 cents for cotton, than wo have been hereto 5 fore. Most of the cotton has 5 -been gathered. It does uot ' amount to more than a half crop." ?Yorkville Enquirer. i . To The Prohibitionists of South I Carolina. i Newberry, S C, Nov 3 ? It has been suggested to me by a num, ber of prohibitionists, that a con* ferenoe be held in Columbia during tho fair week, and I have decided to request the memliers of the State Prohibition Executive committee: the Prohibition County chairman of each county; the president or head of tho temperance organizations, and as many of the ministers of the State who may bo in Columbia to meet with us on Thursday, November the Oth, at 12 o'clock, noon. I expect to be at Wright's hotel and Will arrange for and notify our I friends where the meeting will he I held. A C Jones, ! Chairman State Prohibition Executive Committee. Hester's Weekly Report. New Orleans, Nov 3 ?Secretary | Hester's weekly New Orleans cot 1 ton exchange statement shows a I i decrease in the movement into J sight compared with the seven j days ending this date last year in round figures 205,000, a decroasc I under the same days year before i last of 87,000. The amount brought into sight during the past Took 373,128 bales against 577,700 for the seven days endintr this date laHt 1 yoar and 450,628 year before | 1 last. The total movement for the 64 (lays from Sept 1 to date 2,1)85,509 against 3,530,148 last year. The Governor has offored a leward of f 100 for the parties who burned the tents at the Boiling Springs camp ground in Orangohurg county. Mr George A Douglas of Charleston has been given a contract by the British government for 1,500 mules to be used in- the South African war. I Uncle Sam now ha* 99,160 sol diors?regular army, 64,586; volunteers, 34,574. The Rock Hill Harrow Manufacturing Company wan organized at Rock Hill last Thursday. W C Hutchinson in president. I The cook at Dp Whaley'n in Columbia, stole $74 in tnoney ' fpom the Drtctot's oflSc? last Thursday evening. THE OTHER SIDE. Chester Citizen Presents Another View of the Howie Walker Case. To the Editor of The State: In this morning's State is an artiele from Chester under the heading "Chester Jury Scored by Judge Buchannn." Wc regret to have to say that your Chester V-Wl I bCIIMHIIICMl UHCO II II I Cjll l'SCIll the uiajor part of the moral and religious sentiment of our qity and county, as perhaps your readers learned when Mayor Hardin had to call him down after the soldiers' reunion last summer. lie speaks of "a small number of citizens hacking up" Mr Walker in the tight against Mr Howie's beer privilege. The fact iH the majori ty of the good Christian people, both in the city and county, were with Mr Walker in the fight. And they had a right to he. Anyone who will examine the testimony taken at the preliminarywill find that the beer dispensary was opened without any regard th the law; so much so that Judge Gage, on reviewing the evidence taken, granted an injunction against it, and closed up the privi lege. Mr Walker wa.i simply doing his duty, and is a martyr to duty and the en forcement of law that some persons did not want en forced. As to .Fudge Buchanan's remarks to the jury, the good pen pie of the community who under Mand me Munition, and love jus ticc, approve of every word he said. .Judge Buchanan did not once go beyond the law in his j charge, lie understood why there was a refusal to enforce the law in this case, and he had the courage to speak out. He has greatly commended himself t> the lovers of law, order and justice in our community by hit bold course. The question our law-abiding ; people are asking is this: Shall a ' man be shot down in cold blood, J with no chance to defend himself, j because he is trying to atop law j ! lessness, or hecaune he does not proceed according to other people's ideas of legal method-? Has such a man no protection or security from the ussassin's bullet un' iter th^ law as administered in our courts in South Carolina? Citizen. Chester, Nov 2d. Pardons Granted. * The State. Gov McSweeney yesterday granted u pardon in the ease of Solomon Hoggins, a white man convicted before a magistrate in Chestertield count v of breach of | trust with fraudulent intent and sentenced to 30 days on the chain* gang. The testimony was not convincing. The man had served his sentence, and the pardon was desired to restoie his citizenship in order that he might he used as a witness. A pardon was also granted to lames Hoover of Orangeburg, who has served one year of his sentence of two years on the chaingang for involuntary man* slaughter. Mrs. Jackson Not Suffering. Charlotte, N C, Nov 4??A rumor having gone abroad over the country that Mrs Stonewall Jackson, widow of the distinguish* ed Confederate general, ia abso* lntely penniless, in want and hope* leasly ill and blind, Mrs Jackson said yesterday to a repi esentative of associated press that these state* nients are very much exaggerated. Ii is true that she ia hot in I \ ?4 f , I affluent circumstances, hut abel has a conr?i>etencv and has at ways iTid I a?;iaLJL[l^ The Greatest a Lane; Our Fo A ii avc been c Y\ ^ (V? and U ^ tered and we v# left?eld, and i A M v. $20,000 Wa : D.N l'liK DOLLAR. Ol . v things unci they got them. A $12.50 Suis for $7.75. kif $7.50 Suits for $4. A t"-W Boy 8 $12.50 Overcoats for $ A $10.00 (Overcoats i }' UP TO D A lost opened, a beautiful line pons in blister and stripes etfec A :!c.r colors tailer-made suits, all grados from 10 cts. up to $10 g Cotton Up 2 IBest 5 cent Plaids at cent : A Fleece Outing Plaids at (>? cent u at 4 cents. Ladies 25 cent FU IA Under Shirts at 25 cents. 20 Hats at 75 cents. >/ TERRIBLI j j Now is the time to get yoi f regular price. Several lots mi | MILINE R 'i 1 |A We are fortunate in seen A Springs Co., last season, and v experience and rare ability an A millinery ever brought to this t 1 CASH Bl r A Idle Canson a FOR CJtSH. )\ hut The Price i Kespecftilly, 4..^ -tr ^ been above want. Her health is H somewhat improved and she is not blind, though still suffering from ' a painful illness, faeial neuralgia. Appeals have been ma le all over the South for her relief, Mrs.M Jackson is anxious that the true|8^ state of the case should be known as she is unwilling to accept any .. gifts except those offered as testimonials of love and admiration 01 for her husband. bi KOBIIkDTHKGHAVK' " A startling incident, of which Mr John Oliver of Philadelphia, was the subject, is narrated by him as follows: "I was in a most N dreadful condition. My skin was almost yellow, /?yes sunken, ton- ^ gue coated, pain continually in ?'- t ^ 111 back and Hides, noap|>etite?gradually growing weaker day by day. P Three physicians had given me ()l nj>. Fortunately, a friend ad- C( vised trying 'Electric Hitters;" and to my great joy and surprise, the first bottle made a decided improvement. I continued their use for three weeks, and am now tl a well man. I know they saved q my life, and robbed the grave of, another victim." No one should r fail to try them. Only 60 ct#,. guarantee^, t pt Crawford Hros rf frug Store. o] Bargain c ale aster Has Ever V O ur Big S onsoliriated in Heti . (Sanson's stores t< are slaying them new alike. O rth of Clothing at ir buyers while in Now York had tlx $10.50 Suits ft 50. ' $6.50 Suit and Children's Suits at $1.00 and up. S.00. $10 50 Overco 'or $6.00 $7.50 Ovt >ATE DRESS G i in the newest and most popular fabric ts, for suits and skirts. Nice line in new shades. Plaids are very popular 0 per yard. 2 ftMf BUT WE ARE C Bills j GOODS CHEAT s. Best 5 cent Outings Plaids at c h. Yard Wide Bleaching at 4 cents. ?ece Lined Vests at 10 cents. Mens \ cent Schoolboy Wool Jeans at 10 cent* E SHOE SLAUC ir winter shoes?women, Misses and C ist be closed to make room for new go Y OPENING rUESDAY. OCTOE ring the services of Miss Thorn, who Miss Huey of U<x*k Hill, S. C. The; d will take plasure in showing one of t owh. lrgaIn s Stores will he i No -j oods charged will knock out all e mm nun t & e Carried Pistol in His Hip Al Pocket. I Ul pedal to The State. I Greenville, Nov 4. ? Mr WD m 'hitmire of this city accidentally II I lot himself this afternoon as he as leaving his hoarding ho ae on S uncomtie street. Hi* pistol fell i the steps and exploded, the ill entering his left thigh and ? inging upwards, lodged near the ip joint. The wound is not condered very dangerous. two j J b anytl ? ? 11 lie* "TICK: "D j We have moved our books to un'T 10 office of Heath, Springs & Co, KEA id nil partiea indebted to us will lease come forward and settle at ace. Wo guarantee as much for HA} || j )tton as any other market. Farmers' Hanking and Mercantile Company. SEC The report of frost throughout Ht'?rs >6 country contiguous to New ^turi Tleans last Saturday practically ound up the fever situation in CHE ouisiana. The quarantine was used and railroads resumed full perationa. Witnessed X x stocks I ith, Springs X > be slaugli- X right an?l V X k Mt ? * 60 Cents X W* 01 r eyes open for good >r $G.75. X s for $3.90. yJ nts for $0.75. c-v ?rcoats for $4.50. jT OODS. X s, great selections ere* ^ lported cloths in plain ^4) and we have them in all A SELLING COTTON 'Eli THAN. EVER. ^ ents. Host Wide Soft Yard Wide Sea Island X 50 cent Fleece Lined i. 72 Fur Alpine $1.25 A JHTER. y 'hildrons, much less than ^ ods. u X t?B. IDTH. ? was with Mess. Heath, V v are both milliners of rS he prettiest stocks of ^ x TORES. I mi strictly A I to anybody X ompetition. X BiPlli ^ yZ f ^ /* ^ 1ESTER MACHINE HO LUMBER COMPANY. HESTER, S. O. ? n CheMter Machine ?'o. and B. M. It A Co, have consolidated the > ante, and now ready to furnish .inK iu ma i*i?i*nuif and dumber , with a well equipped Foundry Machine Hhop, ami I)oor, Haah Jllnd Factory cur facilttiea ara nailed In thl* part of the State. iPERS MOWERS, niKKSBKKs, GINS, ENGINES RAW MILL/*, r AND COITON PRESSES, lRROWS, CA81IN0S. ETC ALSO OND HAND MACHINERY. * 1*11 In complete for Dwellfnfa. i Koomn, eto. Send ua list of wanta, and we will answer by a mail i Reepact fully, STIR MACHINE k UMBER COMPANY.