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f / & Bepresentative newspaper. Savers Lexington and the Borders of the Surrounding Bounties Like a Blanket. ' VOL. XXXII. LEXINGTON, S. C., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 18, 1902. NO. 32 t J GLOBE DBY GOODS OOSPANY, %Jkifflti laso MAIN STREET, - COLUMBIA, S. C. * t ei Solicits a Share of Your Valued Patronage. Polite and Prompt Attention. . October l3tf THISSTORE ln| An Accident Mi You find the reason in the change ^ you get back, GREATEST ASSORTMENT OF Sl.OO, S1.4SO, SS AND 8S.50 OXFORDS ON THE MARKET. LEVER, ! "THE SHOE MAN," 1603 Main Street, COLUMBIA, - - S. C. Feb. 6?ly. C. M. ETIRD. F. E. Dreheb EFIRD & DREHER, Attorneys at Law, LEXINGTON, C. S. C. WILL PEACTICE IN ALL THE Courts. Business solicited. One member of the firm will always be at office, i Lexington, S. C. ? June 17?6m. Albert M. Boozer, Attorney at Law, COLUMBIA, c. Especial attention given to bnsiness entrusted to him by his fellow citizens o Lexington county. Office: 1316 Main 8treet, upstairs, cppcei q Von Mafro'c rnrtiitnie Store February 28 ?tf, DR. F. C. GILMORE, IDS INTTZST, Located at no. 1510 main street. I over Husemann's Gan Store, Columbia, S. C., where he will be glad to see his former as well as new patients. Dr. Gilmore will be at Kaminer Hotel in Lexington on Tuesday and Wednesday, June 8th and 9th, to accommodate patients who find it inconvenient to call at i his Columbia office. January 23, 1901?tf. THE PROOF OF THE PUDDING IS THE EATING. THE PROOF OF THE MEDICINE 1ST HE TAKING. HILTON'S LIFE FOR THE LIVER ANC KIDNEYS verity every claim mude tor ^ ifc. Test it by a trial of a 253. bottle. It *" makes last friends wherever once used, and becomes the medicine of the household. It is pleasant to take, acts pleasantly and causes one to feel pleasant. It is the best and quickest remedy for the | cure of kidney troubles, lame back, disordered liver and any derangement of the stomach and bowels. BOTTLES, 25c., 50c. and $1.00. Wholesale by the MURRAY DRUG CO., Columbia. S. C. Solo af TTTF, RAZAAR. May 15? ly. Eg Best Cough Syrup. Tastes Good. Use ffj l,-v ia time. Sold by druggists. El a Col. Win. Elliott for United States Senate. The followiDg is condensed and extracted from a letter in the Barnwell Sentinel signed Democrat: AmoDg the candidates for the United States Senate there is no one who has such high claims upon the State as Col. William Elliott. His career began with the war, and he was never absent but once from his post, and then because incapacitated from duty. In 1881 he was chosen as the Democratic candidate for congress in the "Black District'' to redeem the lower section cf the State from negro rule, and after 18 years of constant fighting he has redeemed it. During his service in coDgress he has fought persistently to get for his district and State a fair share of public appropriations, and the money he has brought to his district from the national treasury amounts to many millions of dollars; and all of it for purposes most beneficial to the people. He was appointed at the opening of the war on Gov. Pickens' staff, and worked on the fortifications on the coast, took part in the attack on Fort Sumter, and entered with the Iron Clad battery the night of the ! capture. Joined Kershaw's regi| ment, with the Brooks guards, as | lieutenant, and took part in the First Battle of Manassas, the campaign on the peninsular Seven Days Fight, Second Manassas, and Sharpsburg, and was made captain and sent as assistant adjutant general to Gen. Stephen D. Lee, of South Carolina; was in Vicksburg duriDg the seige, in the battle of Baker's Creek, and was promoted major for gallantry; was assistant adjutant general of the dapartmenfc of Alabama, Mississippi and East Louisana, was in the battles of Harrisburg, 28vh July, and Jonesboro around Atlanta. Went with Hood into Tennessee, and was in the fight at Florence, Ala., sr^ the battle of Franklin and Nashville. Wae transferred to North Carolina and was in the battles of Kingston and Bentonville. He was also in numerous other fights and skirmishes. This is a record which speaks for itself. FIGHTING THE XEGHO. From 1876 to 1884 Col. Elliott was county chairman of Beaufort county. In 1884 it became necessary to make a fight in the Seventh congreBBional district against the negroes. The Democratic candidate had to be popular, fearless and a constant fighter. William Ellio t was chosen, made an aggressive campaign, but was defeated. In 1886 he was again opposed in the election of Robert Smalls, and Col. Elliott was elected. Rioting occurred constantly in the elections and the precinct managers at Hilton Head and St. Helena were mobbed by the negroes, who had become most insolent. Smalls contested the election. This meant that testimony as to the fairness of the election had l to be taken during three months in every county of the district at the same time. Then printed arguments, compiled from the 1,000 or more printed pages of testimony, had to be filed with the committee of elections, then argued before them, and finally fought out on the floor of the house. Colonel Elliott won the contest. From then to the present time he has had the following fights with negro candidates, in each instance a 1 contested election following the elec- i tioD: In 1888 and 1890 with Tom < Miller, in the latter case Miller was 1 seated by Reed's congress; in 1891, i 1896 and 1898 with George W. Murray, in the first of which contests, < Murray was seated, and Col. Elliott 1 unseated, and in 1900 with Beckett, a negro preacher. Thus, after eighteen years of relent- ' less, laborious and expensive fightiDg, ColoDel Elliott reclaimed the district composed of the coast coun- ^ ties from negro rule, and now has an i \i r\/? f m f Va UULUUlCOtCU OCCfcU 1U LUiigiCOO iOi me first time. ^ Col. Elliott is today a poorer man than he was in 1884. < IIIS WORK IN CONGRESS. j It is an ax^*n in congress that a man with a contest can accomplish ? little for his district. Yet, despite j 16 years of contested elections, what j Colonel Elliott has accomplished for his district and State equals the work ] of any member of congress in the j United States. <; I mention but some of his larger works of a material kind: He had j passed the amendment to the direct tax refunding act, appropriating c 8500,000 to reimburse the people of a Beaufort for a part of their losses !] under the direct rax act of congress passed during the war. In order 1 that the money should not be wasted 1 in exorbitant fees he volunteered to a do, and did, all the legal work neces- I sary to secure the same from the treasury, takiDg all the testimony, v thereby saving his people thousands E of dollars in expenses. ^ He procured an appropriation of a $500,000 to build a dry dock at Port * Royal, and has assi?ted in procuring e hundreds of thousands of dollars in v improving the place. E He obtained appropriations of about $2,500,000 to deepen the bar ^ of Winyah Bay, thereby affording an outlet to the ocean to the follow- ^ ing rivers: Waccamaw, Lumber, Great Pee Dee, Little Pee Dee, Clark, Lynch, Mingo, Black, Wateree, Congaree, Santee and the Sampit, and has gotten numerous appropriations for these rivers. t He had established in Charleston ? a new light house depot at a cost of v $35,000; had the first garrison order- t ed to Charleston; was most active in I getting the appropriation for build- u ing fine quarters on Sullivan's island; a procured $40,000 for a public build- f ing at Georgetown, and secured from p a hostile house $90,000 for the Char- ii leston exposition, and at various c times he has procured over $300,000 I of appropriations for Charleston har- e bor, and after years of work, $30,000 p to improve inland navigation between p Beaufort and Charleston, and helped I to obtain $50,000 to improve the fc inland route north of Charleston. h FIRST TRUST FRUITER. U Colonel Elliott was the first man ? in public life in this State to advise n the farmers to combine against the li cotton bagging trust, a movement p which finally resulted in the defeat e of that trust. I He is a prominent member of the 6 judiciary committee, one of the most l important and influential committees J of the house. 8 If Colonel* Elliott is sent to the i senate the State of South Carolina will have a Benator whose life is with- c out a blemish, whose political record i c of 20-odd years ie unspotted, whose i t service in war was loDg and conspicu- : t ous, and, above all, a seasoned and I r i well trained legislator whose accumulated experience of 16 years in congress will be an as^ot to the State which it would take years for a new man to acquire. Above all he is a man whose honor, character and reputation are above reproach. I Oak Grove Items. ro the Editor of the Dispatch: Plenty of rain. The wheat crop of this section was verv cnnd. onnsidp-rincr thfi drv ; J (-) 1 c-> J weather. The health of this community is rery good at present. Misses Bertha Kleckley and Hattie Uromer, who has been attending the Palmetto Collegiate Institute, have re iurned home. Mrs. Anna Gregory, who has been spending a while with her father, Mr. John B. Sox, has returned to her lome in Fairfield county, S. C. Misses Marie and Helen Sawyer of [lexington, visited their schoolmate, Hiss Bertha Kleckley of this section, Saturday and Sunday. Mr. "Wade Sox who is clerking for !tl. D. Shull at New Brookland, visitid his parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Sox, accompanied by Misses Lula md Carrie Bundrick and Mr. Jimmie Cyne, Sunday. Miss Ethel Mathias of New Brookand, is visiting her cousin. Miss klary Sox. She reports of having had > very nice time, eating apples, >eache8 and plums. Wonder if any of the youDg men ?ere caught in the rain Sunday tight and stayed until nearly day >reak? If any one finds out, be sure nd let us know. [Young ladies :eep mum: less ye be "found guilty/' specially when you don't know the alue of a beau's Sunday suit and the lew straw hat?Ed Dispatch ] There will be communion services leld at St. David's church Sunday. With best wishes to the dear old Dispatch and its readers, We remain, The Evening Stars. This Will Interest Many, To quickly introduce B. B. B. (Boanic Blood Balm;, the famous Southern blood cure, into new homes, ve will send, absolutely free, 10,000 rial treatments. Botanic Blood 3alm (B. B. B ) quickly cures old ilcers, scrofula, eczema, itching skin nd blood humors, cancer, eating, estering sores, boils, carbuncles, )imples or offensive eruptions, pains q bones or joints, rheumatism, atarrh, or any blood or skin trouble, botanic Blood Balm (B. B. B.) heals very sore or pimple, makes the biood >ure and rich and stops all aches and >ains. Botanic Blood Balm (B. B. 5.) thorough!}* tested for 30 years in Lospital and private practice, and ias cured thousands of cases given ip as hopeless. Sold at drug stores, 51 per large bottle. For free treatment write to Biood Balm Co, Atanta, Ga. Medicine sent at once, repaid. Describe trouble and free nodical ftdvipp criver- RnKnic Blnnd Salm (B. B. B.) gives life, vigor and trength to the bleed. The finest Slood Purifier mace Botanic Blood 5alm (B. B. B ) gives a healthy Blood upply to the akin and entire system. Clemson college is to have an other of the United States as military :ommandant at the beginning of he next session and it is expected hat he will drill discipline into the ecalcitrant students. Thoughts Penned "by Billy Felix. To the Editor of the Dispatch: The dust is laid. Plums are plentiful. Black-berries ripening. The timid candidate keeps bobbing up. The recent rains and winds have somewhat damaged early corn by breaking off the tops and leaning it. Early peaches are ripe and already we nave been teasting on the ]uicy pie. Bees have been robbed and the yield of honey, good and sweet. Gardens are doing well these rainy days and oh! my, how Billy dees feast upon the tender bean, the aqueous squash, the fiery pepper, the sleek okrs, and only the Dispatch devil knows how many other garden edibles. A number of our youDg folks were disappointed Sunday eve as the rain prevented them calling on their best girl. One young widower however, took advantage of it and went early and of course, had a good excuse to stay all night. Rev. Henry M. Fallaw who has been at the Theological Seminary at Louisville, is at home for a short while with mother and brother W. B. Fallaw. He preached at Sardis the 3rd ultimo and will preach at Harmony on the 4th Sunday instant, at 11 o'clock a. m. He will assist the pastor in a series of meetings at Red Bank (Saxe Gotha) Mills, commencing on "Wednesday night before the first Sunday in July. The public is cordially invited to attend this meeting. For the information of Brother "Klondike," Mr. Editor, you may inform him that Billy Felix is at home?when he is there?and boards at the same place, when he has any thing to eat. Mies Lula Lagrone of the Ridge Springs section, is spending awhile with her college mate, Miss Dora Craft. Crops as a general thing are looking fine. Peas are in great demand. The Baptist Sunday School Convention will meet on Friday before the fourth Sunday in Julyat Samaria church. We want all the churches * represented with delegates from Sunday schools and those churches which have not organized schools will please do so at once and send a full delegation to the convention. There is plenty "grip" in the county now, but it afreets the hand only and usually the right hand. Rev. M. J. Kyzer spoke some time ago of making the race for County Supt. of Education but so far his name has not appeared. Don't be bashful Bro. Miles, twist up your mustache, pin back your ears, roll up your sleeves and 1< ap out upon the political waters and steer your boat forward and you'll "get there" on the home run. Should the present good health of the happy Felix family continue you may again hear from June 16, 1902. Billy Felix. Dots from Jones' Mill. To the Editor of the Dispatch: The wheat is now harvested and seems to have made a very good yieid. Oats is now in, so we don't expect to buy much more one dollar corn this year, and if we are blessed with good seasons, this section will buy very little corn next year, at any price. My brother farmers don't look to | our government for better times, for j vain is the help of man. But look up to him that has chosen the poor of this world to be the rich in spirit. Do this first sek ye the kingdom of j te*ven and all its righteousness and ! these things shall be added. | Crops are the finest in this section i I ever saw at this date. ! Pea planting is now in order and j don't fail to plant plenty and work | them. I "Klondike'' is now feasting on the J best of the land, fried chicken and S chicken pie. More yankee tricks and no more | hawks. Mr. H. H. Draughon of i | Mingo, N. Y, called on us the other day and ask if there was any hawks around. I told him yes. So we went out to kill some. In about an hour we killed one, which he called up with a hawk caller. We were surprized to hear the answer bo quick from the darter who comes and lights over us, in easy gun shot. As night was on us, we went back for the night. Next morning wo went again and in less than two hours we had killed three more hawks and one crow. Of course we could have killed more if we had not ran out of shells, but in time, we expect to rid Black creek of hawks, crows and owls. Our friend S. Rafus Smith, secretary of the Oak Grove Democratic Club did not hand in the full resolution as passed by our club unanij mously. After endorsing Hon. A. F. Lever for re-election we praised both Lever and Lattimer for their good fight for the salary system of our free mail delivery. Saturday and Sunday brought us good seasons. Much success to the Dispatch and its Editor. Traveler. A Gentle Hint. In our style of climate, with its sudden changes of temperature,? rain, wind and sunshine often intermingled in a single day,?it is no wonder that our children, friends and relatives are so frequently taken from us by neglected colds, half the deaths resulting directly from this cause. i A bottle of Boschee's German Syrup l kept about your home for immediate use will prevent serious sickness, a large doctors bill, and perhaps death, by the use of three or four doses. For curing Consumption, Hemorrhages, Pneumonia, Severe Coughs, Croup, or any disease of the Throat or Lungs, its success is simply wonderful, as your druggist will tell you. Get a sample bottle free from Kaufmann's drug store. Kegular size, 75 cts. Get Green's Special Almanac. + Camp Steadman to 2?eet. Camp Steadman, No. GGS, U. C. V., will assemble in special session on Monday, the 7th day cf July, 1002, at 10 o'clock a. m, for the purpose of electing delegates to the State re-union at Greenville, S. C., August 6, 7 and Sth and to transact other important business in connection with our regular camp meeting which will be held August 12th, 1902. All members who have not already done so will please come pre J 3 T. * i ' | pareu iu pay uues. it la important f that each and every member attend. By order of M. D. Harman, Com. ! G. M. Harman, Adj t. ! * The appearance of the heavens j indicate more rain.