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" V ^ n t W: P"'V ? Bp'' \/ ... -* ss^|; ~ ' " ' " ^ - ^ ADVERTISING RATES: line^each :.. -rlioij/^ KATES REASONABLE. I ? .,, ? r>? j Marriage notices inserted free. pB PRINTING A SPECIALTY, j :.VHH Obituaries over ten line charged for at ""v i__ i " " ~ 7 regular advertising rates. | VOL. XXIII. LEXINGTON. S. C., WEDNESDAY, MAY 3, 1893. NO. 24. "*-> a?,u?A^ra? * ?I- "-"" a??a PETERSON WAS GUILTY MAYFIELD MAKES A REPORT ON THE LYNCHING. Some Starting Evidence Just Brought Oat?Two Denmark Negroes Come to Attend the Mass Meeting Last Night?What They Intended to Tell Them?Mr. May field Vouches for Them and (jives Additional Evidence. Governor Tillman received the following letter last night from Senator Mayfield, who tried hard to preserve law and order at Denmark: His Excellency B. R. Tillman, Governor of South Carolina, Columbia, S. C. Sir: Pursuant to your telegram of today I write you a full statement of the facts concerning the death of John Petersen. The statement in the State of today giving the testi** t j mony is cooreci, as 1 sena n you. John Peterson fitiled in proving an alibi. As Henry Williams proved one to the satisfaction of the people he was turned into the jail to await developments. But all who heard our proof were fully satisfied that Peterson was in Denmark on Thursday night and Friday morning, and / that Henry White and Joe Witchell were with him, and they left the South Carolina Railroad section house after playing cards all night. I called into the room two highly respectable colored men to hear the " J 1'??? ? tlx/-.*, ti'i + V> rron. WBMKnnt^<~<UlU LIJCJ II1I.U VI.UI.* tlemen present were satisfied that John Peterson did spend the night } at Denmark, and many if not most of those present believed from the actions of Peterson and the testi mony, that John Peterson was the ^ man who had assaulted Miss Mamie ^ Baxter. ? I asked if we should take him bef fore the young lady and all answered 7? yes. * At Mr. Baxter's house Col. D. Paul Sojourner, ex-SeDator of Barnwell county, proposed that only a few should go into the house and no re*v?a Tf Trno rlopirlo/-? VimvpvpT\ that the two reporters. Messrs. Ife "Watson and Price, should go in, but -so as not to excite the girl by the taking notes. She was very muc excited, however, and said "he not the maD." We then turne away, but Mr. McClendon continue to interrogate her after we left, as xvas informed, and to him she sai< '"He looks like him, except the ey( and nose.'' On my return to Dei mark, I found that the prisoner ha not arrived, but had been carried t the house of the negro, Thad "Whiti for his wife to see if she could idei tify him. But finding that Mr. M< Clendon who had proceeded me, ha stated that the prisoner had bee identified, and seeing the growin anxiety for the return of the prisone] I sent for the party to bring him i; at once and wired you. rr*i l aT 'it. 11 xne return 01 me party wild id prisoner was the first and conclusiv proofto my mind that Tht? in emminent danger. It is we] enough for the newspapers to giv sensational accounts; it gives th news, and papers are saleable. Bu honored sir, it is impossible for m< to depict to vou the deep feeling o that crowd, who, for eleven days hau striven to catch and convict thi man who had outraged the daughte: of our fellow citizen, a man who hat lived an honorable and upright lif< .and risen by honest toil from abjec poverty to comfortable circumstances In short, a well-to-do, prosperous fanner. It should be that a lady mi^hl travel from the mountains to th seaboard alone unharmed. Yel while this man's daughter was 01 her way to school with flowers or her bosom, purity in her young heart, to be seized by a ruffian, draggec down an embankment and thee thrown into the mud cf the ditch anc outraged by the And, the weeping father saying to the crowd. <;Xo. she did not recognize the man and I fear, men, she never will." Then McClendon saying she told me that he looked like the man, except his P nose and eyes. The testimony was for and I read it to them. It is no Wonder that this man was Yisited with death commensurate vrith the deed charged. I did what I could to delay the execution, to dissuade them from doing so, but at the same time I saw and realized that it was useless to do more. Five hundred men heard the statements of the girl from the lips of the committee who heard her say "he was not the man,'' and 500 men heard from Imo mcf Af iturn jusb H5 MULLiZLil said to him and her father that "ho I1-!--d like the man except the eyes ose." It was the general vere is the man. and one and all 1 to execute him, with a few > details were given in the parith much accuracy, some color1 th8 main correct. It is not for . us of Barnwell to say what the worlc i may think, but I truly record the verdict when I say "that crowd be j lieved John Peterson was the mar who assaulted Miss Mamie Baxter;' therefore they executed him. It is unfair, unjust, to say thai Peterson was killed because "som? i negro must die,'' for he was the twenty fifth man who had beer brought up for examination, and with the exception of Henry Wil ! liams, no attempt has be in made tc injure the suspected prisoner. Wh\ ! then did the people feel so bittei against and Peterson? Be j cause the inji ed girl said of the ! former ''he lrcLs like the man' ? later, "he is the man." And had it not been for *he most positive as ! snrances that he could shew he was elsewhere that he escaped. Of the ; latter, she said, while excited, "he isnot the man"?later, to Mr. McGendom, "he looks like him, except the j eyes and nose." T! at, taken to' getber with the failure of Peterson to establish an alibi when once hf had attempted to do sc, ana the statement of Joe Witchell that Peterson was the man and of the woman who told Mr. Xeece that she believed Peterson was the guilty man, fixed ! the guilt of the prisoner in the miucls of the crowd. It is not fair to mix i or mingle State politics and bitter, i burning, personal feeling with this ! matter. He Barnwell county, to my certain | knowledge, leading "Wen who were : bitter, open and avowed ''Conserva i tives" were leaders in this lynching. "! So we who are on the spot think it j unfair to us and our people to thus | drag down a preceeding to visit summary punishment on one who had as saulted a lady, to the level of a political fcustiDg. It is higher, far higher, and while I was opposed to the verdict, yet just as good, yea far better than I, believed it was a ju*t verdict. So we ask that this affaii be spoken of as it is?"nothing ex tenuate, nor set. down aught in malice." Respectfully, ;h j ' is j More Evidence. ?d I Colombia Register. id Peterson was the guilty m? I About that there can hardly be doubt now. ?s Two negroes from Denmark cai a- to Columbia Wednesday night to f ,d tend the negro mass meeting, ai ;o to state frankly that the guilty m; e, had suffered a righteous judgme 1- and that there could no longer i 2- any doubt about it. d They gave their names as R. I n Jewett and Henry Hutchinson, ai g Senator Mayfield, who is in the ci on legal business, corroborates the II statement. Jewett stated that it hs ^een positively ascertained 1 e witnesses that Petersen was on ti e j railroad the day he was accused < ikjeial colored peep ^ j had 3een fcim. Ke made enoth< e ! startling statement which shows, e ! any thing, that ja tic-e has only bee * j pa, tially meted ont, and that tw 5 ; fiends deserved richly the fate give ^ j to Peterson. He says that the me > ! Harvey and Witchell had made a pic ? ! with Peterson to commit the act, an r that they were near by but not i I sight. They wre all to participal a in a crime that would be more heinou j and fiendish than the one that wa ^ ! pnnimitfpfl if snnh athincr wprcnn! j sible. He says that such statement 5 | have been brought out by coloie I people since the trial, and that a . { the colored people now believe ?k J only that Peterson was guilty, bu ! i that the other two should meet tL L | same end. i J Hutchinson says that he was i ! Mr. May field's office every time an j one was arrested, and that he neve j felt anybody was guilt y until Peterso 1 ! appeared and gave his testimony i ! Then he felt certain that he wa [ ; guilty, and said to a white man tha ; he didn't see any use in taking th : man before Miss Baxter. He alsi > I corroborates the statement of th ! ' othfr colored man that the colorei j people of that section now had no j the least doubt as to Peterson's guilt Mr. Mayneld received a letier las 1 I night by the hands of one of th : I colored men from Denmark iD whicl j it is stated that the woman Sylvia | at whose house Peterson was sni( j to have stayed, now admits that Johi j told Ler that he had committed th< ' crime and that if God would let bin j off this time he would never get int< ' such a scrape again. She also say: that be was an escaped convict frou Alabama. One of the witnesses a the trial testified that the womai i bad said that Peterson was the man Mr. May field, who defended tb( ! negro to the last, now says that h( has no doubt as to bis guilt, and ht knows other people who bad doubt? that are now thoroughly convinced of tb" criminal's guilt. This all looks pretty straight, These two negjoes came here of theii own accord to preveDt their brethren making asses of themselves, but ar rived too late to stop them. In view of all this is it not probable that some "indignators" feel like crawling into u *^ole and staying there j a season? y\ \ i HIS FACE SAVED HIM ; I TOWS END EEFR * I",ED FROM J ^HOOTING GLADSTONE 'Dnnn.lUA HP 11 PvOtllUV "R fJ CC? Tfl Vll P>C > ! His Father?Would-Bo Murderei ' J Lost Heart?Townsend Laid Ir ! Wait to Kill Gladstone, but the Premier's Venerable Appearance > ! Reminded Him of His Father's Looks, When On His Death-Bed I and He Fled. Loudon, Ami! 2S.?The Pall Mai 7 x ' Gazette states that on the day thai - I : U? TYUri .io?ne rule bill was uassed (o ' j its second reading William Town j send, the man under arrest oil tbt nominal charge of ha/ing dischargee ! a revoh er uoluwfulh in a public ! place, but really on suspicion of hav ing int- nded to assassiuate Gladstout ' lay in wait lor Gladstone's departure I from his lesidenee with the fell pur1 pose ol murdering the Premier. Townsend was armed with a loaded ! j revolver, and was deliberately pre ' ;>ared to sbooi tjrlacistone as soon us he came within reach. When Gladstone came out of his ' residence and the would-bt assassin 1 saw him, his purpose weakened foi the peculiar reason that the venera' ble appearance of the Premier re ; minded Townsend of his own father's appearance on his death-bed. 1 i The pistol slipped from the fin ! gers of the intending assassin, and he rushed into a park and sank on a bench and burst into tears. It is asserted that Townsend made ; ! his way into the central hall ! f]~.Q niica r\f n^rirnmnnia OV* t.h* same eight and vigorously denounced the home rule bill. t , state of ohio, city cf toledo, > gg lucas county ) Flank J. Cheney makes oath that he is the senior partner of the firm of F. J. Cheney & Co., doing business in the City of Toledo, County and State aforesaid, and that said J every case of Catarrh that ""cannot cured by the use of Hall's "Catar Cuke. FRANK J. CHENEY. Sworn to before me and subscrib m. in my presence, this 6th day of I a cember, A. D. 18S6. ( "? at\r r*tr 4ca\t nn ) Cr AT r A. A). A" "A, OCAAj ;? 1 i Notary Public. 1 ^v?' ad Hail's Catarrh Cure is taken int( aiJ ually and acts directly on the blcx and mucus surfaces of the systei be Send for testimonials, free. F J. CHENEY & Co., Toledo, 0 d 8sfcr"3old b} Druggists, 7oc. 26. id ! ? t\ The Decline in Prices. ir Ltj A l-mtx Constitution. )V Mr. Tien holm in bis book on tl j "People's Money," which is admir 3f bly written and carefully thought oi from the goldbug point of vie\ ?1 stmes-h&rd to create the jmpressic if that gold has bten made the stan< D aid of our monetary system becaus 0 i*s value is fixed and stable. And y< >u no coinmodi.y has been subjected 1 E more violent or frequent fluctuation )t If, since it has betn made the sb d | standard of our system, it had di n ; placed the Quality cf staDdiiv. thei e would not now be an effort on tb ^ part of the people to restore bilv* 5. j to its old place in our currency. Bu :s j the ''honest dollar" has in realit ^ ! become a dishonest dollar, It is coi 11 )t j stantly increasing in value, coi it ! stantly growing dearer. The golc e olators are in the habit of deny in this plain fact most strenuously, an u it is significant, of the essential weal ^ ness of their position that they det n | with this elemental and most import '. i ftnt feature of gold monometallisr s ! bv merely denying its existence. t ! " " ' : Nevertheless, it is a fact that ha D ! made an impression deep enough i: e ! England to bring into existence ^ j party of bimetellism?a party tha ^ ! has at the head of it some of th< 1' | most distinguished statesman 0 e ; (ireat Untian and some ol the mos i j successful business men. And it i j a fact that makes a deep and lasting 1 | impression on the minds of Amen 3 { can farmers every time they ofFe: i j their produce in the market for tin 3 j purpose of buying gold with whicl j to pay their debts. They may no t know that the trouble at the botton i , of the matter is the appreciation o: gold, but they know that money ha: I become dearer because they canno! i get as much of it for their products ! as formerly. Ten years ago a bale oi I cotton was good for ?50. Now ? I..!, .?:n -r. } unit' ox couon \>iii jtu.u hULueiuiuij i ! over $30. So with all the great ! staple commodities. In is truer tc i say that these commodities ore the I measure of the value of gold than to say that gold is the measure of . their value. They register its con IX .nt advance with as much certainty \ \ ? B?a? ? ? ii ii ?? as the sun dial registers the shadow ; cast by the sun. Those who say that j r the price of everything has declined, while gold has remained fixed and j ! ft?.A 1-vrt rtAmnororl TIM til tVlAftP i j SldUlCf iUC IU LUUJJ7U4VW IT4VU J 1 who would say tbat the march of the j ' shadow on the dial is due to the * movement of the sun. i ! The Boston Kerald, replying to a j ? : correspondent, undertakes to say that ' ^ i the fell in the price of silver has no j : relation to the fall in the price of all i ' ' the staple products of humao indus- i , i try, and the proof it offers is a state- j J ment to the effect that the decline in [ j silver has been jreacv in twenty I i j years than the decline in +he price of j > j other commodities. in noint of fact 1 { *" ^ j I the proof shows that gold has in- , ; I creased in value steadily as compared I j with silver, while other commodities . i have beer effected to some extent bv ; Ii the greater or less supply. The fact , j that ^ e insist upon as showing thaf I 4 j gold has constantly increased in value ' is that the decline in price has been | j practically universal, and the decline | , ' is going on constantly. It is the one | I j # . j feature that attracts attention in all j countries where gold is employed as j the standard of value. How can it be known that this : decline, is not really a decline ; 1 . 1 but a sign of the increase in j the value of gold? By the simplest j and most satisfactory method known ; to the human mind?the method of > I comparison. When we compare the ; products of human industry with j each other, we perceive at once that ttnere-ha* beenno j2hange_ with re- i spect to their relations with eacST , other. A bushel of wheat will buy i just as much cotton as it would j Qrr?\ Tn nltior words I iwcuij jcaio a,f>v/* *** > w. | the products of human industry are j interchangeable with each other in j barter on pretty near the same basis j that existed when silver bullion was j money. An once of silver will buy j very nearly the same amount of wheat j and cotton that it would buy before i it was demoneytized in 1873. It is only in relation to gold that these products are seentohave lost ^value^an^hftinevih^^^^lKision be j has taken place in their relation t( eh gold is due to the fact that gold'hai enormously increased in value sinct od it Las become the sole monetary standard of so many nations. And this conclusion has its complete veri ficatior in the fact that prices hav* not delmed in India and Mexico and ! other countries that have the silver ?r- standard. In India today 64 cents1 Dd worth of bullion silver will buy a 11. dollar's worth of cotton or wheat and the producer loses nothing, for his silver is worth a dollar in gold in the market where he has to pay his debts or purchase his supplies. This Indian situation has a direct bearing on the condition of our own farmers. They are compelled to pay their 10 debts in g<rid, but their cotton and a" their wheat are sold at prices fixed by the silver standard. When a farmer takes his products )u to market for the purpose of buying gold to pay taxes or settle hia debts, he discovers at once at the -result =t of his labor will not gw as far as it 3 used to. He cannot make Iris cotton 8" or his wheat more cheaply, but he finds that he has to bring a great fe" deal more of it to get a dollar in *e gold. This is due to the fact that ie j gold has largely increased in value. ?1* ! T>U - A 1-1- 12. 21 A_ Z xjLie irouoie is it continues to m,l cvease in value, and the producers do - | not know where the process is to I end. lThe question suggests itself which ! is the more dishonest dollar, the dol(T ... ^ ; lar that by constant increasing in value, robs the the debtor or pro ^ ducer, or the cheaper dollar that pre vents creditors and money lenders ! from realizing more than a fair share of profit. - s ! . q It Should Be in Every House. a | J. B. Wilson, 371 Clay St., Sharpst i burg, Pa., says he will not be without ? I Dr. King's New Discovery for Conf I sumption, Coughs and Colds, that it t j cured his wife who was threatened s with Pneumonia after an attack of v "La Grippe," when various other . remedies and several physicians had r done her no good. Robert Barber, B of Couksport, Pa., claims Dr. King's . New Discovery has done him more t | good than anything he ever used for * ! Lung Trouble. Nothing like it, f | Try it. Free Trial Bottles at the 3 ! Bazaar. Large bottles, 50c. and ?.! 81.00. f Dr. Thacher's Worm Syrup. It is ! pleasant to take and children like it. j Dr. Thacker's improved Liver Pills ' | act easily without causing pain. In | glass bottles. Price 25 cents. For I sale at the Bazaar. ! I | j All of Dr. Ayer's standard Medi /n-n cts na Ko -frvnrwl of viuuo wuii wo au tuc j^a/>aai. Try BLACK^RAUQHT tea for Dyspepsia. i PETE8S0X LYNCHED. M ? i< THE 0DTS20KEN VERDICT OF THE J JURY. 1 1 ji i r The Corpse Still Hangs From the ( ^ "Rpndid Stnlmc?The Body Per j . -f " I I forated With Bullet Holes?The > { Lynching* Commeded by Whites j 1 and Blacks?Colored Men on the j ' Jury Which Condemed Him?All i Is Qurec~aDd Peaceful WheieOnoe 1 Was Excitement. i t Augu ta C.'iriMiiox^. j Denma-k, S. G\, April 2*>.?Today j at Denmark is as calm and peaceful i ' 1 as the quiet town has ever enjoyed, j but out at the seen ^ of little Mamie ' j Baxter's awful experience hung all ^ day n fearful warning to black and j white unconscionable scroui.dieis. Last right aftc-/ the train for Au- . gu^ta parsed the acet,? the crowd of j avengers began to-disperse and ibf stillness of death soon settled over j the place. j As I dro<*e over to the spot just j after the occurrence, Mr. Baxter, the ! ^ - . j father of the girl, told me that after ^ the excitement occasioned by the negro's presence before her had . passed awa^ his daughter said that ( she felt convinced that Peterson was j the man. . Men vievted-the scenes with varied ( feelings. The majority felt that they were but guarding the most sacred trust of the husband, father, brother p audson^Jheir grim faces still bore t theh^Udeterminaties -and Ab.ey ^ seemed^P'essed with the burden g of their duty. g And yet ifr some there was an awful levity, %$hile the passion for human blood seemed to be aroused in j others. Oho must witness such a r tragedy andjfeujigle among the crowd ? to fully confl^^B^ie elements of character a jury of Judge l|H^Wcourt. To the casual oulo<^P^if one can be so de- ^ scribed, lif^eemed to be a trifle and \ not a Goa#iven gift. But there is ^ son^fcypjeaier to man than life, 5 n ervecR^Bhandtbatslipped the ' noose, anwteadied the aim of hun; dreds of pfitols that belched forth r death. U Bone last shot. ( "Here goes one last shot," cried one An li r\ ?v? ? J ih A * 1 J 1 1 . i ao xic iiiuumtu. me rauroau emoaoK. i merit and putted his pistol. "No; don't dc' it,"' cried a dozen | voices, but the man was determined. ! the last shot rang out and the dark form swayed in the moonlight. Some of the morbid relic hunters cut patches from the dead man's breeches, but for many the memory ! of that night will be a sufficient rne] mento of the awful scene. In a hour or so the last man left | the spot but daylight heralded the I sightseers. I Nobody touched the body, that | solemn duty being gladly left for j Trial Justice R. W. D. Ro veil, act ! ing Coron'or, who neld tile inquest, 'fhe first train to pass was one from Augusta, and the passengers looked out upon the solemn sight, while ike curious Ciowd that g?thered in the vicimty ppiuted out to them the black corpse, others doing the same duty j for the passeng* -s shortly afterward i going in the opposite direction. I went up to Black'dlle and came | back for the Coroner's inquest. As the freight slowly passed the scene a negro preacher with bared head pointed to the body and then slowly moved his hand heavenward, repeating the movement until the train passed bevnnd fV)/sr? pntonnnr l"i,o VvnrrnrTT TT-it-Vi , j , ? "-""ft uu6bJ "uu I a companion he drove away. | As the train stopped at the South| Bound crossing I joined a group of men in front of a store and the i minister before mentioned pulled up j his buggy within earshot of the party and delivered a short sermon on the I occasion, presumably to one of his race, but really to his white hearers, j He had no sympathy for evil doers, he said, but he did not believe in making the innocent suffer for the guilty. j The majority of the negroes, howI nrnv f nnl 4-1** a n V* r? o | vfwj iwbi tuat lul iluuii iiao paiu the penalty for his crime and a number of them witnessed the execution last night. Today they were calm 1 observers of the sight and cooly commented on the corpse as they viewed ( the bullet riddled body. 1 There are some few who believe J that an innocent negro has been lynched and while they do not hesi- 1 itate to express their opinion they are J in a very small minority and the gen- 1 eral conviction is that the outrager is \ ( dead. i 1 < COURT OF JUDGE LYNCH. j g It is doubtful if .such a scene as il yesderday's has ever been witnessed ! t outside of the wilds of the West in ; c the days we read about. Never be- j ] rore has Judge Lynch held court so )penly in a State where courts are >rganized an^ government estab- ' ished. The scene was one very si m? i lar to that in a Trial Justice's court. Che prisoner wa3 placed upon the stand and made his statement, evilence was taken on both sides and i I ;ke prisoner permitted to cross ex- j tmine the witnesses but tbe jury of . "mblij opinion passed upon bis case md tbe verdict was guilty. THE CORONERS INQrEST. i Af G o'clock t111*- evMiirig Trial Jus :ics xlovrel], a/.ii'jg Gv>roner, sum- ! no'.od til? following jury: S. G. Ra Fereitro, E L G, x. S. V Haud. A D. p..M son. L. L Ken-' :edy, J. D Turner. I. J. Nt wsor, A. Eia<~ liffe, F 13. M Ci ee. P.. C. Hard- j E C. Hruce. In i' Liele* and on foot they pro'eedi d to iho opot d withering on be railroad rack, o yuiized and re ? . .? ! nvJ a <Uen vWhuc* a-iy :or tou- , inltatiou. Ai'rer some mi in conference he jury declared: "That John Peterson, alias John ?etei Richardson, came to his death \v hanging and gunshot wounds at he hands of about 50;) citizens who r.tended fo inflict the punishment of leath upon John Peterson alias John ?eter Richardson, for having asiaulted Miss Mamie Baxter on Friiay, April 34, 1898, with intent to :ommit rape." This community feels that it had a iolemn duty to perform and while he outside world may calmly critirise-^acLcensure, the provocation was mch that few if any communities limilarly situated would have acted >therwise. I say this not to justify the lynchng of John Peterson but in explanation of the above outspoken verlict of the jury of inquest. The inquest was held so late that the body was not cut down tonight but swings yet from the death tree plainly visible in the bright rnoonight like a dark shadow on the othervise calm and peaceful scene. j Mrs. E. J. Rowel!, Medford, Mass., says her mother has been cured of Scrofula by tho use I - ' ' * " '! .A.. ^ oi iour doitier vl u.*** much other treat- mcnt, and being reduced to quite a low condition of health, as it was thought she could not live. Cured my little boy > of hereditary scrofula"whichappeared all over his face. For a year I had given up all hope of his recovery, when finally I w % s Induced to use A few bo ^ttles cured him, and no fcaSSSB 6ymptcms of the disease remain. Mas. T. L. Mathxrs, Matherville, Miss. Our book oa Blood and Skin Divrascs mailed free. Swift SrsciFic Co., AUwt*, Cv. Ma" - 2 j IV. In Republican Hands. Que?'- Status of Affairs Urider a Democratic Administration. WasbiDgtoD, Apr:! 2fc\?The visit of th? entire cabinet to New York to paitidpate in the Day?1 review wi)) show that slow progress has been made in reorganizing the executive departments. Onlj three Democratic assistant secretaries wil} be in charge during the ab ence of their chiefs, while live Republican officials will serve us labinet officers for tiie time being. Assistant Secretary Hamlin has been designated as acting Secretary of the Treasury, Fourth Assistant Postmaster General Maxwell will act as Postmaster General and Assistant Attorney General Whitney will probably attend to Mr. OnlyV duties in the Department of Justice. The other cabinet officers will leave Republicans in charge of their departments. General Grant will act as Secretary of War; Com modore Ramsey, as Secretary of the Navy; Professor Willits, as Secretary of Agriculture; Judge Chandler, as Secretary of the Interior; and Assistant Secretary Adee will be in charge of the State Department. Electric Bitters. This remedy is becoming so well known and so popular as to need no special mention. All who have used Electric Bitters sing the same song 3f praise.?A purer medicine does act exist and it is guaranteed to do ill that is claimed. Electric Bitters ivill cure all diseases of the Liver md Kidneys, will remove Pimples, Boils, Salt Piheum and other affec:ions caused bv impure blood.?Will irive Malarial from the system and ->revent as well as cure all Malarial "evers.?For cure of Headache, Con>tipation and Indigestion try Electric 3itters?Entire satisfaction guaran,eed, or money refunded.?Price 50 its. and 81.00 per bottle at the Bazaar. fife W. C. T. C. PEPATMEXT. f i g H. L. Roof. Superin4ender.t of Press Work. I c i r I i All Commuinications Intended for i I This Department Must be Ad- 1 dress to the Superintendent at 1 Leesville, S. C. 8 \ PROHIBITION THE GREAT I ELIVERANCE. C Selected j The cycle, the scythe and the era- | , die were gool and <tfie;ent ra. hods j ^ for gatneiiug the harvest some years j .. sinne, but we have wondernil im- i s prove menu* in machinery in these j ^ later days En the moral and rflig- ' , ions woild we now h;.\e mowing ?nd reaping machines tbat laugh at the : immense fields that are ready for the harvest. How impressive and beau titul ..he sjght ot such a harvc t as now lies spread out before us in the j development of the P/oliibir'on j movement; how inviting and what a c promise of magnificent results we ( have in the work. Let us use the new and effective machinery of pro- ] hibbion. Tbe North, the South, the East, the West are all clamoring for i Christian, patriotic combination and c co-operation. Political prohibition is t our new reaper and mower; to do g yeoman service in securing thix g splendid harvest for God and human- f ity. Let us echo the watchwoid, [ "Prohibition,'' and with this efficient t reaper, we shall accomplish result.- e that will astonish ourselves. J Zt is Easier to Seen Well than 1 ' "trtrt-wim J* If we could only keep our Liver in j such a condition that we did not know we had a Liver, we would escape three-fourths of humanity's ills?such as Dyspepsia, Indigestion, < Constipation, Sick Headache, Malaria, ] Loss of Appetite, etc. Liver-Aid 1 will do just that thing for us. It is * the latest and best formula for Torpid Liver and all of its evils. i A medicine glass graduated for 1 For sale at the Bazaar. The Sheriffs Called TJpcn. Gov. Tillman Pays ^ieir Fines "Which Release Them. Sheiiff Riser was in Columbia Friday on his way to Charleston, having received from Marshal Cunningham an order to report to him at once in person. It is supposed that the same order was issued to the other sheriffs. They have been in jail, as far as the law is concerned, ever since Judge Simonton fined them. Now that an adverse decision has been rendered to the sheriffs, the authorities have called upon t.1 em to pay up or to go to jail. Governor Tillman has stood by the sheriff's as he said he would, and has already sent a check to pay the fines and costs, which amount to someihiDg like ?2,0; 0. Sheriff Riser was in doubt as u ! whether he should go 011 or not, in ! view of the fact what his personal ap pearence was demanded. It could not be learned delinitely yesterday which way he went, but it was stated that he had gone to Charleston. Valuable Book. Every farmer and mechanic should have a copy of "Ropp's Commercial Calculator." It shows &t a glance the value of grain, stock, hay cotton, lumber and merchandise, also the exact interest at any rate; the per cent of gain or loss, tables of wages, and shows contents of lumber, logs [ haras, bins, wagon beds, corn cribs, j i cord wood, and carpenters, plasterers and bricklayers work and also solves many practical problems in daily experience. For sale at the Bazaar. The Meeting Condemned. F. in Colnrob'a Register. I am greatly grieved that Columbia's leading men are still determined to to retard, if not blast, the bright j future which we hope is in store for our beautiful city. I know nearly all of the prominent men present at the indignation j meeting, and, while I have not a word of censure for them(if they think they ; : are right), yet I wish to say plainly. ! gentlemen, you have made a grievous j 1 mistake, and, uuless you bitterly re- i pent of your folly, you will bring j 1 down the curse of the good people of : < the State of South Carolina upon our j i heads. ' AVe are this dav suffering for the j * * o folly of our politicians in the memor- i r able charge at the Fair Grounds in j t 1890 and the part we took in the j 1 campaign just ended. If we acted ; f like a set of sane men and sent representatives in sympathy with our Hate government, we might this day lave had the Asylum properly ;ewered, and also much work done >n our State House, and possibly, Dight have secured the women's colege. aouot teat u-overnor liliinan las left undone many things which io promised and ought to have done, ind many of us Reformers would rote against him, and in favor of such :onservative Reformers as Messrs. Donaldson and Talbert, if you only vould allow us any liberty; but so ong as you fight our Governor so treasonably, if be deserves censure, ;o long will you force all Reformers o '-illy to bis support, regardless of ur i'olilicai preferences. I venture the assertion that your ndignation meeting will make Gov rnor Tillman 5,000 votes and will (ive bin Butler's Senatorial chair. What man was there in the court louse lust night, in whose breast here was a spark of true Southern thivclry, but what if his sister, iaughtei or wife had thus been asailed would not have been one of Denmark s leaders? No, gentlemen, the colored man iiust learn that on the least suspi rion of his insulting a white lady hat his doom shall be certain and speedy, and that he shall have the same light to defend the purity of his ireside; that he shall never be wrought to a town l.ke yours, where rou fail to convict on the positive jvidence of a respectable white lady. Furthermore, gentlemen, you should be told that if you are only ridding for the negroes' vote, you should not obtain office with it till she last drop of our blood hr-sfeed in . jehalf of the rights of the people. Bucklen's Arnica Salve. The best Salve in the world for Huts, Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum, Fever Sores, Tetter, Chapped Elands, Chilblains Corns, and all Skin Eruptions, and positively cures Piles, or no pay required. It is guarinteed to give perfect satisfaction, or noney refunded. Price 25 cents per x>x. For sale atrfhe Bazaar March 31. Messrs. Lippman Bros.^^^^BM*. Savannah, Ga. Gentlemen: I have had Rheumatism about two months during last winter, was confined to my room most of the time; I saw an advertisement in the Saline Courier recommending P. P. P., as a cure for Rheumatism I boueht three bottles. but before I got through with the third bottle I was cured and have ; v not felt the least effect of Rheuma- % tism since. It is undoubtedly the best remedy for Rheumatism I ever tried. I can cheerfully recommend i it to the public. Yours truly, D. M. Cunningham. . A Letter from Festus. The Swansea hotel, so large and j well arranged, will add much to the ! appearance of our railroad front j when Mr. A. W. Martin and his son, I Tom, the architects, have it finished. Mr. Lee Brooker has the material on the ground to erect a building sixty feet long and two stories high for a store and dwelling. "Cap"' Williams' mammoth stables and dwelling are nearly ready to occupy. The Sabbath school, with Col. Knotts as Supintendent ably assisted by Messrs. Corbitt and Quattlebaum and Miss Rebecca Dowling, is growing under their care and reflects credit upon the community. Our live young men have organized a base ball club. They played 1 their first game last Saturday, and will meet again next Saturday to organize and select a suitable uni form. Our place has shared somewhat in ^ the excitement over the dastardly ' assault perpetrated by a negro last week on a Miss Baxter near Den- ^ mark. Lynching, on general priciples, is to be deprecated, but such fiends as these prowling through the country, lendering it unsafe for our tender girls to ^afte??sL school are surely outlaws not wonk* to he given a dignified trial by a their peers, for they have none so low as to be their equals. The preparations for the Dispensary at Columbia seem to be colossal. Why such great store houses if it is really intended to check the destructive flow of ardent spirits by taking the sale thereof from the individual n order that the State may enjoy a nonoooly ? Next in order may be a concealed weapons' despensary. Al nost every hip pocket is an arsenal. ["here's money in it and why not the State gobble up the profits and pernit none to carry a pistol without a a? on the rotunda of his breeches ? het the tag bear this warning: "This ellow is loaded.'' Festus. Swansea, S. C., April 21, 1893. A