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THE LEDGER. Tli'trlow S. Carter, EDITOR AND MANAGER. W K DX BS I) A Y, JULY 18, 1000. The Kmpiirer Kays that York county returns 1,281 sheep and gnats and 2,064 dogs. It is likely th t this proportion exists throughout the greater part of the Stute. A ..,1 !l 1^ I In. iUl? ??i /iiim IV 1.1 IIIU VA I^IVIIVU IM till? 111VL I thnt has more than anything else to do with keeping down tho j sheep-raising industry in South i Carolina. With a gang of idle curs on every plantation and farm, many of them of the worthless, sheep-killing kind, it is almo.-t impossible to raise sheep. Nearly eery negro owns a dog, some of them several; and many of the whites appears to ho a much attached to the yellow dog as the negro is. Efforts have been made time and again to pass such a dog law as to legislate the miserable curs out of existence; but the dreaded voter rises up in hi* might and frightens the timid legmlutor out of his wits, and the hill dies. It costs less to ruise a sheep than to keep a dog. The State needs a dog law, and in order to get it she needs legislators who are not afraid to incur the anger of the owners of the "yaller" curs. ? Greenville News. And until we grow big enough to elect legislators with sufficient courage to offend a yellow dog on a proposition of common sense, we cannot expect to see much improvement in the situation. This is a fact.?Yorkville Enquirer. House Sunk Into the Kurth. Mr John Cleary and family met with a calamity Friday noon. It hud hoen raining furiously all day. Mr Cleary's house, two miles and a half west of town, stands in a "bowl," the land around it rising t to a rim. Into this bowl the rain gathered, until it had formed (juite a lake, and the water around the house was a foot deep. While Mr Cleary was busy drying the head of his little boy, who had been out in fie rain and water rescuing little chicks, he suddenly heard a rumbling noise, and the hnilrlinnr 'ulinnt 11. ? |?MUvn. uili illiSIU^ UIU trouble, ho shouted to his wife to run for her life, as ho believed the building was sinking. He was right in his surmise, and scarcely had they cleared the building when the earth began to sink, and a moment later they would have been carried down with the building which went into a sink at least fifty feet in depth. One end of the house caught on the edge of the sink, the other portion and all the household effects are buried. Mr Cleary looks upon his house and effects as a complete loss. This calamity is the more depressing, as during the past summer Mr Cleary lost thirtyfive head of hogs, fattened and ready for the market, three head of horses, and all of his cattle that he had turned -out on the range. But Mr Cleary is made of the right stuff, and takes the situation philosophically. He says he is thankful life and health, wife and baby are spared him, and he will proceed to erect a residence on the rim of the basin, take hold of the plow, and begin to nniK0 anomer crop.?Ocala Correspondence Jackso n r i I I e Times-Union and Citizen. Canning Outfit for Yon can get a canning outfit, with full instructions, to can all of your fruit and vegetables for 10. If you want one write me at Lancaster or call at the Ledger office. C L McManns. , I ' The Stat? Campaigner!* at Marion. Marion, July 13?This is the most representative audience perhaps which wo have yet met. There are about 700 people in the opera house and nearly all are voters. Farmers, lawyers, etorekeepers, all gathered to hear the "canpaign of education." The meeting was an orderly one. There was a little bluster between the 4 f irtu xuvuuses. Col. Hoyt was given a hearty reception. There is a regular prohibition organization in this county, and Hoyt's chances nro flattering. At the night meeting at Florence Col. Hoyt received a regular ovation. The crowd had dwindled considerably when Gov McSweeney opened the heavy artillery fire after dinner, and he was thus at a disadvantage. He referred with sadness to the death of Gov Filerbe. He had sympathised with him in hie illness and had deplored his death. He seeks election on his administration. He had reduced tho constabulary to proper working basis, nnd had give them orders to enforce the law fearlessly but prudently. The law in now bettor enforced in the counties of the State and without bloodshed. Tho dispensary is the beet solution of the liquor question. He't was applauded when he said that J no man ought to be governor who! wouldn't take the papers and keep pouted. All that there is in the charges is merely to get him out of office to get somelwuly else in it. lie read a letter from tho mayor of Anderson and of Orange burg saying that tho -dispensary law is enforced there, lie had } done the best that he could with tho mayor of Charleston to get him to make the police enforce tho law, and t!ie constables are doing all that they can. He was applauded. When Col. Hoyt advanced to speak, ho was warmly applauded. The opera house had again filled, lie recited the record of methods of controlling sale of liquor, describing how each experiment had failed. The ,Tapper law to confine sales to hotels was abiued, as was the local option confining sales to incorporated towns and cities. In 1802 the prohibition Democrats won a victory of 10,000 majority, but the Roper bill which passed the house was in the sonato changed to dispensary law. 1 ~ 4 u a?: ?r ? i * in uiuiiri^iiiui mw me people were allowed to nay whether or not they wanted a dispensary. But that prohibitive feature was stricken out in less than six months and it was left to boards of eon trol. Since then the number has increased. The legislature has for the past eight years withheld from the people the right to voto on this question. The viotory of 1n92 will be repeated thin fall. (Applause.) The men who < perate the dispensary are not agreed as to how it must be operated. The prohibitionists who voted for tho original dispensary law wore assured that it was but a step toward an ultimate prohibition law. It is not a function of government to engage in this business. The State may as well, in fact had better engago in other lines of business. No man who has been engaged in it has been a promoter of the best interests of the com- j munity or tl?c State. It has been charged that he is in coalition ' with whiskey men. Who are the whiskey men i Thoso who are trying to increase the sales of liquor in dispensaries. Would those of his opponents who object to high license men and papers voting for and supporting him, would these met*object to these votes for themselves He is in coalition with nobody but prohibitionists. There never was a greater falsehood than the insinua tion that his administration would ba affected by high license men. He would listen to advice of discreet men of all parties, but in acting, ho would be his own man. (Applause.) Concluding, ho said he would let his three opponents divide the minority of Marion between tiieni. He sat down amid applause. Walt Whitman said ho had listoned with patience to hear Col Hoyt say he would enforce prohibition if he should be so fortunate and South Carolina so unfortunate as for him to bo elected governor. Col Hoyt is mighty shy of quoting scripture since Walt came into the camprign. He told how Noah got drunk. Ho was forced to abstain during the flood while his vineyard was growing and his wine making and when dry weather camo he tried to drink it all. Open barrooms are out of tho question. Dispensary is a failure. License is tho proper thing, fir a man with a license will let no miserable blind tiger operate in his neighborhood. Ho would be back in Marion two years from now. (Laughter.) He touched up the State colleges. South Carolina is paying $25,000 a year to support that miserable nnwen /*/\l of L ~ ~ VyUIIC^O at v/l (Applause.) He would cause rivers of blood to flow in enforcing law and make it respectable until some miserable little weakling would get in there. (Laughter) Mr. Gary said they were here for the people to size them up. McSweeney reads letters from Orangeburg and Anderson show* ing the enforcement of the law. The dispensay is popular there. Why not cite Charleston ? The non-enforcement of law in Charleston is the reason for Col Hoyt's being in the race. He denied Col Hoyt's statement at Florence that tho friends of the dispensary law have brought the State into degradation and dirt. W here ^ is the degradation ? Ladies in Ab ; beville can pass tho dispensary doors, but not so in barroom times. Under prohibition, blind tigers were as common in Abbe ille as Diar tracks in Last Ten ? CP nesaee. Ho denied the statement ! "sent out by a little coterie at Columbia which tries to direct tho politics of the State" to tho effect that he did no* favor the dispensary. He repeated his disavowal of injecting partisan politics into the campaign. He had kept the faith and had merely defended himself. He wanted schools to turn out trained intelligence to operate cotton mills. Gov Mc Sweeney occupies no higher place in the race than hi* competitors, f a r* K a I u 4^ H C > .- a ' ? ? ' .u> uu 10 lining me unexpired term of Gov Ellerhe. Some of the governor's friends published an interview purporting to come from Hen Tillmun in which he had named the ticket, saying that all State officers would he re elect' ed. Ho presented a letter from Senator Tillmati to Jim saying the interview was a fake. The house | of representatives had five times put itself on record us appreciative of his fairness and non partisan public career. (Applause.) A II Patterson claimed relaI tionship with all the "Macs" as his father and undo came from Robeson county, N C. Ho then proceeded to attack the editor of The State, but his rage worked no applause. Hero is what he said : it I J.. 4- * - my TiBit 10 Marion also reminds me of our former governor, the lamented Ellerbe. He like all mortals had his faults, hut will go' down in history as being a good man, a good citizen and a Christian. It was his fortune to come at a period in the political history of South Carolina when it re! quired a man to bring the warring factions of the Democratic party of South Carolina together, but it was hie misfortune to he a contemporary of that evil genius and ' malignant Spaniard, N G Gonzales, editor of the Columbia State, who, it is believed, hastened the death of the lamented governor by bis vile pen, which has 4 spared no man in South Carolina ' however high and exalted his . position and character may lie." > >v nen Patterson's time was up, lie whs assailing prohibition. He | wanted to go on speaking over 1 the half hour, hut tho chairman, Mr C A Woods, called him down. Patterson concluded amid cheers for Hovt. The Alliance Gathering at Tirzah Soon to he Held. , A few days ago one of those in 1 charge of the annual Alliance encampment at Tirzah said that this year the gathering would be pure- I ! ly agricultural in character. No L candidates will l?e invited and the I effort will be made to keep the occasion entirely free from politics. An invitation has been ! { extended to Secretary of Agri- < culture Wilson to address the ' gathering on agricultural subjects. I It is hoped that I e will he able to accept. Other men of prominence in the agricultural world wil1 bo invited to deliver addresses.? The State. Tho Ono Day Cold Cure. CoM irt html anil Bore throat curcil bv Ker ' mott's Chocolates I.axntive Quinine. As easy to take as candy. " Children cry tor them." < Announcements. FOR SOLICITOR. I will stand for reiiomitiation to the I ofhee of Solicitor of the Sixth judicial ' Circuit subject to tl?9 results of the Democratic Primary. J lv. I1ENKY. W! I htreby announce myself a candidate for Solicitor of the Sixth Circuit, auhject to the rules governing the Democratic Primary. W. C. HOUGH. <vrI hereby announce myaelf a caudle dtte for the oflh-e of Solicitor of the Sixth Judicial ' ircuit, pledging my* ael' to abide the result of tiie democratic primary election, and faithfully to discharge the duties of aaid office in the event of my election. THOS F. V(;I)OW. FOR HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVE* I am a candidate for the Legislature and will abide the result of the pri mary. nu/ 1 i D 117 I?i\r r v/n r>i> ?? 1 U 1 I O90S I hereby announce myself as a candidate for the House of Representatives, subject to the rules governing the Democratic Primary. R L. UICKLIN. &. I am a candidate for the Legislature, subject to rules of Democratic Primary J HARRY FOSTER. The many friends of J N Estridge respectfully announce his name for re-election for the Houpe of Kepre sentatlves or Lancaster county, and J will abide by the result off he primary election. MANY VOTERS. w F am a candidate for the House of Representatives subject to .the Democratic primary. J W HAMEL. w I am a canoidatc for re-election to the Legislature. I will abide ttie result of the democratic primary election. T Y WILLIAMS. FOR OLEKK OF COURT. With a high sense of .appreciation of pant considerations aixi tokens of Kindne** and with a deep feeling of gratitude for the Maine, I l>eg to announce myself a candidate for reelectiou to the office of Clerk of Court for Z,ancaater County, at the approachdug primary, mu?Jeot to the rulei of the Democratic primary. W 8 L PORTKR ?e? The many frlenda of Mr. Joseph F Gregory hereby announce him an a candidate for the office of Clerk of the Court, subject to *he result of the Democratic Primary, MANY FRIEND3. FOR SHERIFF I hereby announce myself a candl* late for HlieritT. subject to tho rulea of Democratic party. JAMES S WILSON. ' i w The many friends oi ('apt John P Hunter hereby announce film as a 1 candidate for the ottb*e of Sheriff*, sub~ i-et to the result of the democratic primary. Mr Hunter's fine reconl as ( -di< ritl in the past is a sufficient guar- < tutee of what his future admiulstra- < lion will be in cuse of his election. MA AY VOTERS. . t FOR COUNTY TREASURER. ( I am a candidate for re-election to I ho ofllce of County Treavurer. NV C OAUTHEN. FOR COUNTY AUDITOR. i I hereby announce myself as a can ilidate for the office of b ounty Auditor and pledge myself to abide ths result of tlie Democratic primary. I ECCROXTON. , <w> ] I respectfully announce my candl* ilacy for the ofllce of county Auditor, subject to tlie rules of the Democratic ptimary. L J PERRY. | 1 Mr Editor:?Realising tlie valuable , services rendered during bis term of nfflce, the neatness and correctness 1 of his work, and knowing him to be ) well ((ualitled for toe position, please announce tlie name of Jno A Cook for re-election to the ofllce of County Auditor, subjec to tlie rules governing the primary. j A#ANY FRIENDS. pnu iiiincniVTcwncMT AD ? */? ij ? liiitn i rjn i & V7 r J EDUCATION. At tl e solicitation of a few friends ' ' [ announce myself a candidate for the idliee of Superintendent of Education. K BAX I KK BLACKv.ON. I cc. The many friends of Mr. Ernest It ark.noil, hereby announce him as a candidate for the otllce of tVnmty Superintendent of Education, subject to rtsult of Democratic Primary. fjK To the Voters of Lancaster Cbunty: Willi many thanks f.n past favors, and at the solicitation of friends, I hereby announce myself ss a candidate for the ofllce of County Huperintendent of Edu -ation, subject to the rules governing the Democratic prls ' niary; and, if elected my time aiul energies areyours for the best Interests of education. J K BLACKMON. r/K Mr Editor: ?Please announce the name of PROP A C ROWELL as a candidate -for tlie office of County Superintendent of Education, subjact to tiie rules governing the Democratic primary. If elected, we pledge him to discharge the duties of the office to tiie best interest of education. MANY FRIENDS. FO/i MJPKRVISOK The many friends of Mr. R H Happ announce him iiim as a candidate for County 8u|>erviBor, subject to the rules of the Democratic Primary. MANY FRIENDS. f/K Tiie friends of W Q Caskey, announce iiim aa a candidate for County Supcrviaor. Mr tliskey will abide the result of the Democratic primary elections. r/K At the earnest solicitation of many friend-, i hereby announce rnyaelf ax a candidate for re-election to the office of County "Supervise r, subject to the reauit of the democratic primary. M G GARDNER FOR CORONER. The many frrends of C C Horton. Hr., announce him for the office of Coroner, Hui>ject to the rules of the Democratic Primary. r/r> i miununce myaeir an a candidate for the office of Coroner anil pledge myself to abide the result of the democratic primary election. J E 81 KWMAN w The friends of D N MACKKY an> nounce him as a candidate for the of> lice of Coroner, and pledge him to abide the result of the democratic primary. MANY FRIENDS. <506 I hereby announce tnyself'a candidate for re-election to the office of Coroner, and pledge myself to abide the result of the primary. R. YOUNG FOB MAGISTRATE. BUFOPD TOWNSfilP. Mr Editor.*? Please announce J B Fundetburk.for Magistrate of Buford Township. MANY FRIEND8. Hoyt'8 Hand Primary. Col Hoyt took a hand primary it Florence on Thursday. Here s the story according to the Nows ind Courier and State's campaign reporter: Col Hoyt was received with cheering. He was forced to ->niit discussion of other issues and xinfine himself to the liquor ques* Lion, as his opponents had devoted <o much time to him. Patterson interrupted Col Hoyt ince and the crowd cheered Hoyt. Patterson had claimed that nine tenths of the people drink liquor. Col Hoyt disputed it. Patterson?Take a hand prU mary. Hoyt?Why didn't you do it? The colonel took a hand prU mary to see how many in the audience uranK liquor. lftenum^ her of fists poked up was absurdly small and the crowd howled for Hoyt. Hoyt then said that Patterson had said that the crowd was sober l>eeause the dispensary was closed, rho colonel pronounced this as a slander on tho people of Florence and the crowd cheered again. If prohibition is a farce, why lid Patterson advocate it in 1892? And does he support the dispensary now because, as he says, 4'the majority of tho people favor it?" Col Hoyt read a denunciation of the dispensary written by the Rev W 11 Richardson, of Columbia, and when he came to a paragraph where it was said that small politicians use it to ride into office, the crowd cheered again. THAT TMKOBBINO IIIC A I) ACH K Would quickly leave you, if you used Dr. King's Now Life Pills. Thousands of sufferers hare proved their matchless merit for Sick and Nervous Headaches. They make pure blood and strong nerves and build up your health. Easy to take. Try them. Onlv 20 centn. Money back if not cured. Sold by Crawford Bros' Druggist. A vote has been ordered on the question of issuing $50,000 worth of bonds for the purpose of per* manent pavinge in Spartanburg. ^fBay your subcripiton to Ledger! Cure Cold In Head. Kertnott's Chocolate* Laxative Quinin*. ???y to take and quick to cure cold in head and core throat. HORSES! HORSES! HORSES I We have Just rt celved a carload of number one horses from Atlanta,every animal having been carefully selected ' in person by our Mr. Elliott. In the lot are Home of the tfiiest horses ever brouKht to this market If you want a good Haddler, or a good Driver, or a good (Combination borne, now in your time to get it. We now have juat what you want and need Call and see for yourself. We take phasure In ex*? hunting our stock, att well a* Vehiclea. Ill will either aell or swap, aud |U & will sell either for the cash WW W ?>r good paper ELLIOTT & CRAWFORD (diT Stibacribo to Thb Ledjer HEADQUARTERS For Best Virginia Lime, Cement, Plaster Paris and Plastering Hair AT T. H. 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