The Lancaster ledger. (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, January 13, 1904, Image 2
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EDITOU AND MAN'AdKH
WBUFIW1>AT, .IAM AUY 13, li?03.
An Address to the Legislature.
The State law and Order League
Want* Certain Changes Made
in the Dispensary lew.
Following is the memorial presented
by the State league to the
general assembly of South Carolina:
The Temperance Law and Order
League of South Carolina
respectfully represents to your
honorable body that it is un organization
of citizons representing
the sentiments of a large cluu
of the voters of the State haying
far ite object:
1. To render ull moral encouragement
ami support to the constituted
authorities in the enforcement
of existing laws, both State
and municipal, relating to the
peace and good order of the community
.
2 To lender such individual
service m may be practicable ami
lawful, in seeutiug and furnishing
to the proper law oflicers fact*
and information of violations of
law to enable them to proceid
against the violators.
3. Bj all lawful means to hold
the sworn officers of the law to
the prompt and faithful discharge
of their ofiiciul obligations to the
public,and by proceedings against
them for wilful neglect or failure
on their part.
4. Especially to socure a full
and satisfactory enforcement of
the dispensary law, both against
those engaged in prohibited traffic
in intoxicants and those who
violate the provisions of the law
while acting as sworn officers of
tho dispensary.
In pursuance of those objects
it would respectfully urge upon
the general assembly to make an
amendment to the law, commonly
known as the dispensary law,
as will afford the citizons of any
community in which a dispensary
may be established under the
provisions of the law, tho opportunity
to express by ballot their
wishes for its removal.
We make this appoal for the
reasons following:
1. Because as the dispensary
law makes every citizen a stockholder
sharing the profits and liabilities
resulting from the business
as an act of simple justice
they should be accorded the right
to end their connection with it if
they so desire.
2. Because there are many communities
in the State, we believe
the larger proportion, where dispensaries
have been established in
opposition to the known aud ex
pressed wish of these communities
or where through originally approved,
the experience of the evils
resulting from the operation of
dispensaries in their midst has
changed to one of disapproval,
and who would gladly avail themselves
of tho means of removing
what they realize to he an agency
which is only evil und a prolific
source of disorderly lawlessness
and general demoralization.
3. Because the purpose of
legislation should he tho rcpres
sion of lawlessness and crime, the
improvement of tha moral con
dition and the nromntinn nf
happiness of t he people, and
these purposes would be greatly
promoted by tho removal of dispensaries
from theso communities.
4. Because tho recorded facts
as to the conduct of the dispensary
system shown u luge and
constunt increase in the; sale by
the dispensary and consumption
of liquors l?y the people of the
State, and a consequent appalling
*
increase of crimes of violence ant
immorality traceable tlii ectlv t(
this cause.
5 Because the proposed amend
meat if made would largely de
crea?e the area in which liipiori
could be legally sold and the de
tection of violation easier and en
able the constituted legal admin
C?
istrators of the law to eonduc
the more limited business in i
manner more consonant with th?
purpose and intent of the law.
u. uecause uio demand for thi
change in law is made l>y th>
Christian church of tlie Stat
which cannot bo silent under th
oxisning condhion without sin
and which in the mum of he
communicants appeals to Chi ist
ian legislators for the means o
deliverance from the unholy al
banco in which as a part of th
St do citizenship they have beet
forced to partipate.
Respectfully,
?J.\V. liamel,
Chairman.
Howell Morrell,
Secretary.
Executive Commilteo State Tom
perance, Law and Order League
Columbia, Jan. 12, 190-L
i mi J i? ?
a mousana men luiiea.
The British Slaughter tho Ma
Mullah's Warriors?Somallil
land The Scene.
Aden, Arabia, Jau. 11. ? A
engagement in Somalilaad betwae
a British force and the forcaa c:
the U ad .Mullah has resulted in
ssvorc defeat of the latter, wh
lost 1,000 men Uiled. The Bril
ish had two officers killed an
oight officers severely wounded.
THE DETAILS.
London, Jan. 11.?The wa
oflico U night gave out tho fol
lowing dispatch which had bee
received from Maj. Gen. Eg?r
ton, commanding the Somalilan
expeditionary force, and which i
dated from didhalli, Somaliland
January 11:
4 'Advanced this morning 1
milo-t to ?Jidhalli, First brig&d
commando 1 by Manning, Secom
brigade under Faskins and mount
e l troops under Kenna. Toti
strength of tho regulars 2,20C
irregulars 1,000. Jidballi nel
by 5,000 Dervishes, Mounte
troops enveloped enemy's rigli
and infantry advanced within 70
yards of his position. Dervishe
advanced but were unable to fac
frontal firr coupled with llank at
o/.Lr 1 1 1 " 1
liiumij imum: aim ned An
was pursued lOnailoa. Derviahe
killed cstimatod at 1,000, moetl
in the pursuit. Many prisoner
and 400 rifles taken.
UI regret to report that tw
officers of regulnrr wore kille
and nino officers wounded, five c
the rank And file wounded; of us
tive troop* seven killed and 1
wounded; of irregulars 2 kille
and two wounded; am inclined t
think this is the Mullah's mai
force. The Mullah himself wo
not present, hut wr< expected c
Jidballi today."
Muj. Con. Kgertou's force i
camping tonight two tr iles he
yond .ladhaIli.
Laurens County Farmer Rob be
and His Store Burned.
Spartanburg, S. C., Jan. O.Andrew
Philips, a farmer an*
merchant of Laurens, was robbe
Thursday night and his ?tor
burned, lie found hi* larg
pocketboolc, in whiich ho ha
placod $107, empty in the road
Tho thief took one of hia mule*
and this was found at a neigh
bor's.
Tho situation in tho fur Last i
unchanged, but thero in great mc
tivity on the part of liutsia. urn
Japan.
1 Death of Gen. J. B. Gordon.
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Atlanta, Ga., Jan. 9. ? Lieu- ?
tenant General John B. Gordon
died Ht his winter home near
' Miami, Fla., at 10:05 o'clock tonight.
His fatul illness, which
overtook him last Wednesday,
waa congestion of the stomach
t
and liver, following an acuta atX
tack of indigestion, to which he
0 was subjected.
General Gordon was born in ]
S Upson county, Ga., July 0, 1832, ,
e of Scotch ancestry, which had u j
prominent part in the Revolution
o
ary war.
Young Gordan graduated from
the Georgia State University in i
^ 1852 find a few months later was
admitted to the practice of law.
Karly in 1861 bo enlisted in the
volunteer Confederate service and
was elected captain of his com
pany. He rose rapidly l?y promotion
to lieutenant coloeel of
tlio Sixth Alabama Infantry in
December 1861. He participated
in the struggle on the peninaula,
and took part iu the battle
of Malvern Hill, and was commissioned
brigadier geneaal, Nov.
1862. He was in command at
Chancellorsvilln aod in the Penn
I
aylvania campaign.
When hostilities wore ended,
d he called his men about him and
advised them to bear the trial of i
defeat, to go home in peace, obey J
j the laws and rebuild tho wasted .<
n country. He has taken a prouin
inent part in the councils of bis
party since 1856. He was a deu
feated candidate for Governor of
r) Georgia in 1S6S, and iu 1873 and
l 1971) was elected to the United
i
I States Senate, resigning that po
Bition in 1880, be participated *2-,
lively in building the Georgia
Pacific Railroad. In 1886 and
1 1SSS lie was eiected Governor of
Googia and in 1890 entered again
n into the United States Senate for
~~ the full term. Since his retire(*
ment from political activity be
8 haa devoted much of his tme in
') lecturing presenting the north aa
well as the South in his lecture
2 upon "The Last Days of tho
Q Confederacy."
j : Since tho organization of tho
: Confederate vetcans he has held (
'* the pnsitien of its chief com* j
^ mander, anu his frequent re* j
h elections to that position have :
d testified to the waimth of affet(j
tion in which he bat been held in (
t tho South. j
)S j Gen- Cordon's Funeral.
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j Atlanta, Ga., January 10.?
The remains of the late Gen.
!8 John B. Gordon, who died last
Y night at his winter home, near
8 Miami, Fla., will reach this city
i early next Tuesday, it having]
u been decided that the funeral
d party will leave Miami on Monday
morning,
i* j Definite arrangements for the
6 funeral have not yet been made,
d , but it is stated that the body
o will be in the State House for
n several days preceding the funeral,
the family of the deceased
it chieftain having agrood to the
request that the former followis
era of Hen . Gordon may view
j
i' his remains.
At a conference ltero this afternoon
between Governor Terd
rell and the relatives of Gen.
Gordon it was decided to hold
the funeral exercises in the hall
_ of the House of Representatives,
i wneii, in cunjunciion with the
d religious exercises, speakers
e prominent throughout the South
e and Veterans of the Confederate
(1 army will deliver eulogistic ad|,
dresses.
i Among tho speakers will be
Gen. Stephen B Lee, Gen. A. P.
Stewart, Gen. Clemont A.
Evans, Judge Thomas G. Jone9,
of the United Stales district
-Court of Northern Alabama,
d and Senator J. W. Daniel, of
I Virginia.
A Happy
>?New 1
Thanking <tiu*
C3
patronage and In <
past kindness in |i
have decided to ext
Thirty Days Lon
so that all of
benefit of reduced |
are principally ove
month intend to sel
one knows that we
STROUSE & BRO
which is by i
you look like you w
them. With everj
antee, guaranteeiiij
fades or loses its
why they can mak?
because every pieei
and shrunk befor
consequently there
fading. Mo forwar
the cut prices tor ti
will only call at oui
stock will promise
tome of our compe
Rembember our Doi
The very best
pair guaranteed to
leather soles and ?
not prove to be the
you at our store, ei
you a new pair 011
that is not as we re
HATS. N
Come alosg am
Wei have a sample
you to take out of <
Our best soft b
iMillinery, a fe\
closeovt cheap.
(Groceries of al
che^ip and meet an
Again thanking <
patronage shown u
will continue to pa
remain.
\
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and Pros
fear to A1
customers tor
>rder to reciproc
tatronizimr us so
o
end the ' ime
iger in Slaughtt
our customers
|?I'!CCS- tlotllili
r stocked on and
IS, regardless of 4
have the exclusi
s. HIGH ART
ar the best fittiii
ere moulded an
/ suit there is a v
% you a new sui
shape. Now I
; you such a guar
t of goods is thor
e it is made int
is no chance of t
d boys, and take
lie next 30 da^s
l# Is!!) j)(>!*! 1! !!! BIMi
to dress you up <
titors give you a
aglas and Godman Lint
that is manufacti
be solid leather e
double tip toe an
s same as the sa
lit open, we will
receipt of the oj
ipresent it to he.
IU END 10 THE
il let your eraniu
lot that we will
our way.
osomsliirts at cos
v pickings left, \
kinds in abunda
y prices given yc
our customers foi
s in the past and
tronize us in til
Yours ><
sperous
l.o?
?
their liberal
ale tor thei?*
largely, we
iring Prices
will get the
is what we
tor the i?ext
;ost.. Everyve
sale ot
CLOTHING.
ig and makes
ic* poured in
written guarit
in case it
can tell you
an tec, simply
oughly tested
to a garment;
shrinkage or
advantage of
i and it you
insnppi OUT
or else make
new suit.
s of Shoes.
ured. Every
ounter; solid
d if they do
imple shown freely
give
nes returned
M,
m be coyed.
almost give
St.
vhich we will
ince, will sell
>u.
l* ther liberal
L hoping they
e future, we
erve.
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