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THE LEDGER. Thmrlow S. Carter, ' i EDITOR AND MANAGER. | 8ATtTRI>AT MAY 10, 1000. Editor Hull Giving the Subject Prayerful Attention. In .1 recent issue The Yorkville Enquirer nominated Editor Hull of the Hock Hill Ilerald to represent York county in the Legislature Editor Hull thus responds: 4'When in February last the editor of The Herald was elected to the tirst oftire ever offered to him ? that of city alderman, with no emoluments in sight but a lot of cussin' in store for him ? he stated that he felt that he was speedily on the way to the White llon-e. Not comes the York villc Enquirer and in the innocence of its guileless soul, nominates the aspiring and perspiring editor for a seat in the legislatu:e. (treat Scot and Holy Moses ! \\ hat means all this heaping of honors on us so suddenly? What have we done to be thus exalted in a twinkling? lis a consummation devoutly to be wished ; but there comes the rub?whether it iH not better to bear the taunts of enraged aldermanic constituents or tly to the legislature and be kicked out of town the first time the outraged people got sight of their * 'representative." However, we shall give the subject prayerful attention, and if we conclude to p'uee ourself in the hands of the very dear people with the Enquirer as our sponsor, wo shall expect to head the ticket at one end or the other. believing there is urgent demand for our services and that there must still bo better things ahead, we eave the subject until our return f t'nni t PirlKioe* 41 J uiv i j tiuuil UICCIIU^ ill IIH) city by -the sea, where we will doubtless get another lucrutive jo I?. Wo do not indeed know tho needs of the dear people, their lister*, their cousins and their aunts, but they seem not to hare known our needs, else they would have given us a good job long ago." Had for the Public Schools. Important action was taken last week by the State board of direct. us of the dispensary relative to the new price lists, which will give the counties a chance to make about 10 per cent more than they are r.nw making. It is under* stood that the reduction in the in voice price to dispensers will not affect prices to consumers and the object of the reduction, which is 8 lid to have been according to legislative directions, is to give the cities and towns and the counties more of the profits and reduce the annual fund paid to the general school fund to about $75,000 a year. Heretofore about $100,000 has been paid annually and it is asserted that if this were kept up the schools will have the whole profit. There are many counties, however, which always devote the money received from the dispensary to school purposes. There areQothers which use it for general purposes, and no legislative requirement has heen made as to its disposition.?R ick Hill Herald. * too Dr. K. Detchon'8 An^t IHu/elic May be worth to you more than $ 100 ifyon haVe a chl <1 who anna bedding from incontenence of water during eleep. < 'urea old and young alike, ft arrest* the trouble at once. $1. Bold by J K Mackey A Co, Druggiat, La u an ter, 8 C. V. k? ? mtwmKBmwrnmtmmmmmmmmmmmmmm r-Wm 1'?J your aubscripiton to LlCUfi R ft t SOUTH CAROLINA DEMO- 1 CRATS. Hold a Harmonious Convention. THE DELEGATION TO KANSAS CITY INSTRUCTED TO VOTE AS A UNIT ON ALi, Q U EST IONS ? B K Y A N ENDORSED. ' Colonel You man s Makes an Attack on Senator Tillman, hut Was Quickly Snowed Under. Columbia, S C, May 16.?The State Democratic convention to day was harmonious for the Hrst time in a decale, and a unit for J Bryan and the Chicago platform with added planks. W F Steven' son, of Cheraw, presided. He ! congratulated the State upon the (harmony in the Democratic ranks. ] The delegation to the national convention was after the debate ;r.i ? Iiifum iwi ill VWIW M* Jl unu upon nil matters. The delegates at large arc: Senator B It Tillman, Gorernor M B McSweeney, State Chairman Wilie Jones, and A G Latimer. From the congressional districts: First district, W B Wilson, Thomas Talbert; second district, James H Tillman, C W Gams; third district, I II MoCalla and W S Stribling; fourth district, .1 A Moonoy, John Gary Evans; fifth district, T Y Williams, J C Wilhorn; sixth district, I) II Traxler, T W Bouchier; seventh district, .J Win Stokes, W B Gruber. The platform declares allegiance to the national party and demands reaffirmation of the Chicago platform at Kansas City. It con ueinns me nnancial legislation of the Republican party an subservient of the trusts and national banks. It decries the power of trusts and the hypocritical attitude of the Republican party, "using money stolen from the people to debauch the ignorant voters." It denounces ths foreign policy of President MoKinley, saying: "The benevolent assimilation of the Filipinos has proven it is an outrage to the consciences of liberty-loving Americans. Our free institutions cannot long ourviv the destruction of those principles OF! which that' rod unil (h? - "J ""> i tacle of subject peoples held down ! by the bayonet and robbed by I carpet-bakers, but foreshadows I the fate of our country, unless the j people are aroused to our danger. The unjust war of subjugation now being carried on in the Philippines by President McKinley should bo ended at once." The platform demands a strict adherence on the part of the United States government to the solemn pledges by which Congress promised independence to the Cuban patriots. The treatmen of Porto Kico iH also condemned, and the wise party leadership of Bryan ! :? .. - jo i,i>iiiuj?uuuu, "DBiiering mat ne I will restore the lost prestige of the high office of President." England's course in the Transvaal is denounced. The platform says: "Great Britain's unrighte* ous course deserves tho condomnation of all lovers of self -government. and we denounce the cowardice of the present administration for not extending an offer of its good offices to terminate the unholy war of subjugation.'' Colonel Lawrence TV' Youmans made a bitter attack on Senator Tillman's record, but tho conven I tion, with the exception of his rote, passed resolutions endorsing his policy in opposing imperialism. T|jo convention passed resolutions condemning the jute trust. WT Have you forgotten to day your subscription to Ledger! Statement by Baptist Miniater of Circumstances Under Which he Killed Bellinger. The affidavit of Rer. W E Johnson, the Baptist minister at Bamberg, who recently shot and killed W T Bellinger, gives more fully than has heretofore been LII-I 1 ? 1- - -! " pmmsuvu iu? circumstances of the unfortunate killing and we publish it below. There were twonty^ooe affidavits read at the hearing for bail, tnoro or less conflicting. As has been before published Mr. Johnson was granted bail in the sum of $2,000 by Justice Pope. Before mo personally appeared William E Johnson, who, being duly sworn, deposes and says: That he is 36 years old and has been ordained minister of the Baptist church for eleven years past, and for the past three years has been in charge of the Bamberg Baptist church, at Bamberg, in the said State. That the pastoral residence, or parsonage in which defendant resides with his family, which consists of his wife and four children, is situated upon the same block of the town with that of Mr. John It Bellinger, ituiuedi ately adjoining each other and :-t5jmruie<i oniy oy a dividing lence. That deponent moved to his said residence in October or November, 189S, and up to tbe month of June, 1899, the relations between the two families were peaceable. That in the month of June, 1899. deponent was called on professionally to perform the marriage ceremony between Mr. Joseph E Brown and Miss Jennie Bellinger, daughter of the said Mr John It Bellinger, both of whom appeared to bo, and deponent is informed were, of lawful age; i e, above the age of 21 years. That after this marriage, which it seems did not meet the approval of Mr. John R Bellinger and his fumily, they became extremely hostile to deponent, often abusing hitn to his face and in the hearing of his wifft unil r>hil(lron ir? .u? ? .. VM iu wuu ui\;oii c A"* treme manner, and showing this hostility towards him by many of those irritating, unneighl>orly ways, which are so easy to do and ho hard to bear. Deponent bore it hII w?th that foititude and resign nation which his calling required. That the manner in which he wan treated by this family became a matter of public notoriety, and he was assured by many that be ought to take stepa to have it stop|)ed, as it was lessening his influence 9 J A * - n?i inn gooa or me community. That about six weeks ago a young man of the town of Bamberg, in sympathy with the Bellingers without the slightest cause, rudely accosted deponent in one of the public streets, (tailed him a liar and struck him in ths face, forcing him to defend himself. PAINTINO THE DIVISION FENCE. That about two weeks ago a colorsd painter by the name of Walker, who was painting Mr. Bellinger's house and fence, came to deponent's house and asked leave to come into deponent's yard to paint the division fence between the two lots. Deponent consented, provided ho would paint the bottom board of the fence as well as the balance. This he promised to do, but didnotdo, deponent called his attention to it from time to time, such time re^ ceiving a promine that he would paint the said hoard heforo he loft, but he never did do it. About a week ago the said painter re*> turned to put on a second coat, and deponent informed him that he muHt do the work in accordance with the agreement, or it could not he done at all. lie promised to do it, but did not, and deponent seeing that he did not intend to do it, deponent ordered him to leave the yard. On Thursday, the 3d instant, the niHn Walker was in the yard painting, and the deceased, William T Bellinger, was sitting on the fence at the intersection of the division fence and the front fence, on the street: deponent ordered Walker to get out of his yard. He hesitated, looking first at the deceased and then at deponent, Be'linger ordered the man to paint on, and depone nt insisted on his going out and he started to go and Bellinger ordered him to paint on, antl ttie painter would act as if he intended to obey, when deponent peremptorily ordered him out and ho went. IIEI.LING F.R IIAI) A PISTOL. Mr. W T Hel linger then said the fence would be painted, and cursed deponent ad? long dipped ? of a ?, and much more of the samo abuse, relating that he would see that the fence was painted; deponent finally said he could not come into the road and talk to deponent that way, when deceased jumped off the fence to h:s father's gate, came out and stood by the post with a drawn pistol in his hand. Deponent had not noticed before that he had a I pistol, and said: "You are armed, eh ?" and turned and walked back into tho house. Nothing more passed that day. The next day deponent came out of his gate to po m? postothce, when ho met Mr. J oe Brown in his buggy, who asked him to take a seat with him, and they drove down-town. Mr. Brown told deponent that he had heard of the difficulty of tho day before and that he had heard of tho threats made by the deceased against deponent and warned him to protect himself. Mr. Brown pot out of the buggy at .Tone's stable and told deponent to drive around to the poatoffice.* und to hitch the horse there, in tho roar of the postoffice, which deponent did. Deponent pot Ins mail and returned homo. While at the post office deponent was warned to look out for Mr. Bellinger ? that he had made threats to kill him. On deponent's return home i,? ....._ ii.. i - ii .?? nun mr. t??jr mown coming towards his homo in his buggy, and deponent started out to meet hitn, and seeing Mr. W T Bellinger across the street, ho picked up a gun, which a friend hud put into his possession the day before, telling him to use it to protect himself with, and that he would need it to protect his life, and took it out with him holding it in bis hands. THE FATAL AFFRAY U r- IL.1i: II-- - ' I ..... 1/UIUII^Ql CN'IIC WUIKIUK ID( wards his father's house, while deponent was walking I?v the bug' gy with his hands upon the shafts, the horse being restless, moving forward a step at ihe time, Mr. Brown pulling him hack and endeavoring to raatrain him, which drew deponent and deceased nearer together, when suddenly Mr. Brown pulled his horse hack, and ' hacking some feet left deponent ! and Mr. Bellinger in -plain view ' of each other, immediately when, without a word from each other, lir. Bellinger raised his pistol and tired on -deponent, at a distance of ten or fifteen stepa. In quick succession ho fired a second I time, and am ho was in the act of I tiring tho third time deponent fired the gun one timo and deponent rained hin gun to fire again, hut ' seeing that deceased had desinted from firing ho shot no more. The deponent regreta mo?-o than he can tell tho necessity which he wee | under to shoot the deceaaed, and would only hare done so in dofence of his life. W E Johnson. - ? ? In Germany 1,057,989 acres were seeded to sugar l>eets last year. The yield was about eleven and a quarter tons to the acre, and the sugar results 12.7 per cent. MACKEY ORDERED TO LEAVE. Alexandria Landlady Fainted and Later Appealed to the Police. Washington Post, 16th inst. Judge Thomas J Maekoy and his wife, Katherine Mackey, who was recently adjudged insane by Justice Cole, in the district court, left their boarding place on Prince street, in Alexandria, last night under somewhat exciting circuroi ^ stances. They hoarded an elec' trie car hound for Washington, ! but alighted at Arlington junction, where they waited for some time and then returned to Aloxsndria. They did not return to the Prince street house, however, hut sought quai ters Prior to their departure from Alexandria there was quite a scene in front of 1104 Prince streot, where the Mackey's hoarded. An excited crowd of several hundred people gathered, and ill sorts of indignant comments and expressions were heard, hut there was no demonstration when the couple left the house. Eaily in the day some trouble occurred between Judge Maekey and a fellow-hoarder, and during the altercation Maekey was upbraided by his wife. Angry words passed between the two, with the result that at 3 o'clock Maekey left the house, saying he would not re turn. Ho did return, however, about dusk, when another quarrel ensued between him and his wife. During this quarrel the landlady swooned and had to be carried from the room. At her request the police weie summoned, and Lieut Smith and Pooceraan Sherwood soon appeared on the sceno. At the request of the land lad}* Lieut Smith suggested to Maokey the advisability of seeking other quarters, as his presence at 1104 Prince street was not deairable. At this time Mrs Mackey expressed a desire to speak privately to Lieut Smith, but her aged husband declined to permit it. | Finally tho Mat-keys left, in search of other quarters, hut were unable to procure accommodationH, and at about 9 o'clock returned for their trunk and lett the citv on the 9:30 train. Quite a crowd of men and women followed them, and the parting between Mrs Mackey and the few ladh a with whom ahe had become acquainted during her stay here was most affecting. Cure Cold In Head. Kermott * Chocolate* Laxative Quinine, etay to take and quick to cure cold in bead and tore throat. Announcements.^ irnn .crtr iriTnw I \y a? s/v/ui v/l A v/ifc I h? reby Announce myMlf? candidate for Holicltor ??f lb* Hixth Circuit, . HubJ?*ct to the rules governing the Democratic Primary. W. C. HOUGH. <r< I hereby announce myaelf a candln I d ite for the office of Holicltor of the Hixth Judicial i ircuit, pledging myeel' U. aldde the reeult of the demo-< 1 cratl" primary olectlon, and faithfully i to discharge the duties of said otlh e i in the event of my election. TH03 F. McDOW. j FOR HOUSE OF REFRHSJENs TATIVE* The many friends of J N Kstrldge respectfully announce hie name for ! re-election for the House of Representatives of Lancaster county, and will abide by the reeult of the primary | election. MANY VOTERS. W5 T am a candidate for the Hnuee of Representative*'*uhj?ct loathe Democratic primary. J W HAMEL /to I am a canoldale for re-election to the legislature. I will abide the re~ suit of the democratic primary eleo* tion. T Y WILLIAMS. FOR CLEKK OF COURF With a high sense of appreciatk>??#~ past consideration* aiuI tokens oCT kind no** and with a deep feelhir *' gratitude for the same, I beg to mknnunce myself a candidate fo# reelection to the office of Clerk of Cearfc for 7>ancaster County at the approach*ing primary, subject to the ru'es all tiie Democratic primary. VV R L PORTER FOR SHERIFF I hereby announce myself a? a? candidate for the office of HherifT #IT Lancaeter county, pledging myself toabide the rules o( the Democrat!*-: primary. J C.60WEL1* C60 I hereby announce myself a enadle date foi HherifT. subject to the roles Democratic party JAMES S WILSON on The many friends oi ('apt John P"* Hunter hereby announce him as mcandidate for the offi q of HherifT, sab? j-ct to the result of the democrutfcprimnry. Mr Hunter's floe record a?.Sin rift in tlie psst is a sufficient goai?an tee of what ills future adminfetnatiou will be in euse of bis election* v ANY VOTERS. FOR OOUNiY AUDI I Oft I hereby announce myself as a candidate for the ofllceof County Auriitraand pledge myself to abide the re*a*a of the Democratic primary E C CROX TON. vn I respectfully announce my cj?imT& d.<cy for the office of eountv Auditor., suly'ect to the rules of the Democraticprimary. L J PERRY. t/73 Mr Editor:?Realising the valuafcJaservices rendered during his term wf" office, the neatness and correetAmaof hi* work, and knowing him to be well (|iialifled for t'-e position, please announce the name of Juo A Cook fware election to the office of Couatjr Auditor, subject to the rules governing the primary. *?ANY FRIENDS. FOR SUPERINTENDENT OF* EDUCATION The manv friends of Mr. Ernest B ackmon. hereby announce him aw a. camiidate for the ?fflce of t'onntpHu|?erintendent of Education, subject, to result of Democratic Primary. To the Voters of Lancaster Cbuntyr With many thanks f n past favor**, anil at the solicitation of friends, h hereby annnu.ce myself ss a candidate for the office of Uounty Superintendent of Kdu *ation, subject to the~ rules governing the Democratie prfr? mar.v; and, If elected my tiioe an<ti energies areyours for the best intereAtu of education. J E BLACKMOIC. Mr Fditor:?Please announce tbenaiue of PROF A O ROWELL an ? candidate -for the office of County 1 Superintendent of E-iucation, subject to tiie rules governing the Demncnn icprimary. If elected, we pledge hkm> to discharge the duties of the office to* the best interest of education. MANY FR1KNM FOR SUPERVISOR The friend* of W Q CaHkey, ?onounce him aa a candidate for 1 ount> Supervlaor. Mr Otnkey will abide lk?renult of (he 'Democratic priioar>elecMoiia. c/K At the earneat Hnlieitatlon of many friendi*, I hereby announce mjeelf a candidate fur re-election to the o.fhe of (bounty !8upervia< r. eulject to Ike result of the democratic primary. M 0 OAKDNEK FOIi CORONER. I announce myaelf aa a candtdaf*for the office of Coroner and pledg* myaelf to abide the result of tlie> democratic primary election. JErtlESfMAN The friends of D N MACKEY at? nounoe blmuk candidate for the of* Ace of Coroner, and pledge hi in to abide the reeutt of the democratic pit* i inary. MANY FRIENDS. too I hereby announce myeelf a candfr* 1 date for re-election to the office of Coroner, and pledge nayeelt to abtatr the reeult of the primary. It. YOUNO CASTOR IA For Infanta and Children. The Kind Yn Han Always Bn0K I