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I THE LEXINGTON DISPATCH. * Jt Representative Betuspaper. Goners Lexington and the Borders of the Surroundinp bounties hike a Blanket. II tot, YTYVTT " ~~ LEXINGTON, S. C., WEDNESDAY, MAY 8. 1907. " ' 27~ jt M* BllS mrrv T\Tsvumrs A W AT BBOOSLAND. Sfe-.-, Petitions Presented For and Againsl its Establishment?Prohibitionists in the Lead. ?|| Monday quite a crowd from Brook& land appeared before the dispensary board and presented petitions for and against the establishment of a dispen?ary in that town. The prohibitionists were largely in the majority, so far as the delegation was concerned, I I having among their number ladies p -qf the Woman's Christian Temperit ance Union. Those* who appeared against the dispensary were: Revs. S. R. Bass and J. C. Holly, Mr. Wallace, superintendent of the Duck mill, G. A. Guignard, A. D. Shull, Jas. Mims, S. A. Moak and Mrs. Inez L. Glenn and Mrs. L. A. Havnesworth, while Capt. R. L. Shuler, B. B. Swygert and Mr. Thornhill represented the dispensary. Mr. Wallace clearly showed in his remarks that the dispensary was not wanted in Brookland, leither by the officials of the mill or the laborers. He pointed out the evils that would naturally follow the establishment ol a dispensary. Rev. Bass followed with a strong amm! nw\kiki'Krtn OTI/t llAolftrAH oppccu 1VH pivuwiwvu wi4v* w? that the majority of the citizen? were opposed to having a dispensary in Brookland. Rev. J. C. Holly, pastor of the f f Methodist church, followed Rev. Bass. . He is a man of .pleasing personality, * toent ^ eloqne=t speaker, and In y \ ^ words that most have appealed to all %- ,r who heard him, told of the curse that ^ f a dispensary would bring upon Brookland. Their fight was a ''moral one; y': nobody questions the revenue part." ^ y Brookland had always gotten along ^ V nicely without the dispensary, and : y could continue to do so. That those in favor of the institution worked all manner of schemes to get petitioners on their list; worked secretly and f underhanded. fx"ie speaker closed with an eloquent appeal to the board not to throat the dispensary upon them because they had the power to do so. "In the name of all that is noble and good," went on the speaker, "I ask yon. Sirs, as honorable, Godfearing Christian men, who have the fntnre welfare of your county at heart, not to pat this corse and breeder oi crime upon a people that don't wan1 it, because yon are clothed with the power to do so." ' Mrs. Inez Glenn, president of the Woman's Christian Union, beggec the board on behalf of the women noi to establish a whiskey mill in Brook land. Many a happy home has beei forever blasted by whiskey. Mr. G. A. Gnignard, one of the mos1 successful financiers and largest prop erty owners in the county, said thai he was no speaker, bnt he wanted tx make his protest against the estab lishment of a dispensary at Brook land. He said that the strong shoulc protect the weak; that the men whe drink whiskey, as a role, are th< wage earners?the day laborers, whe need thdir money for clothes and sup plies. * This is the class of people w< * want to protect, gentlemen." Mr Gnignard is not a speaker, bnt he is i - J - * ? 1 3 _ man of deep tnougns ana maae < strong, common-sense argumen the dispensary. Mrs. Thomwell also spoke again s the dispensary in behalf of the wivei and daughters of Brookland. r CAPT. R. L. SHULER. Capt. R. L. Shuler was the first U champion the cause of the dispensary He first replied to the statement o: Mr. Holly relative to the underhandec work of tfie dispensary advocates anc declared if there was any underhandec work he was not aware of it. He ad mitted thatit was no moral issue witl the dispensary advocates; it was the revenue that they wanted to be ex pended for the improvement of thei] town. That lexington and othei towns in the county much smalle] than Brookland, were getting a bif revenue from the dispensary; the} wanted it too?the property owner* wanted it. Right here Mr. Addy, of the board wanted to ^now if the petitioners Pf 3 G "W. J=r. Itjao MAIN. STRE Solicits a Shai i iranaw a %?m ?jryt^t>t?'dtfts p" " "* 4 MW ON THE STREET, : R. T. Wescott Shot Down on His Wa] to Work in City of Columbia. Columbia has had another tragedy as mysterious, deplorable and start ling as has ever occurred in that city Thursday morning just at dawn Mr R. T. Wescott, who resides in Shan don and runs a meat market in the city, was shot down on the street no1 far from where the terrible tragedy oj a few weeks ago when Chas. B. Greer killed Edgar Marshall and was himself slain, occurred, his dead bodj beincr found bv his son who was ore ceding his father to help him deliyei meat. The news quickly spread ovei the city and it was not long before the sheriff, coroner and other officers were on the scene. Everybody in the community heard the shots, but like in the Marshall-Green case, paid nc attention as it is nothing unusual tc hear pistol .reports in the section i where the crime was committed. ; It is believed that Mr. Wescott hac i a large sum of money on his person at the time he was killed, as the daj . previous was the first day of th ! month when collections are usually good. However, when his b6dy was ; discovered only 60 cents in small . change was found in his pockets, whicl I goes to prove that the motive of the crime was robbery. On Friday a young white man bj the name of Gardner, whose reputa tion is bad and who has been a frequent visitor at police court, was . arrested upon a warrant sworn out bj the father-in-law of WeScott, charg r ing him with the crime. He is still held by the police for further investi gation when the coroner again takes up the case Friday night. Kaw County Petition Filed. Colombia, May 6.?The amendec | petition for the election upon the for mulation of Edisto county, of whicl Wagner is to be the county seat, hai been filed with the governos, and h< has appointed the following commie sioners; W. Q. Jackson, of Swansea * Lexington county; Russell Poole o 1 Neece's, Orangeburg county; D. L ' Gantt, of Wagner, Aiken county Three other commissioners from th< three counties will be appointed out side of the territory proposed to to . included in the new county. Little Horace Marvin Found. The dead body of little Horaci Marvin, who disappeared from hi father's f&rm in Delaware on Marcl 4th, was found Saturday afternoon ii a marsh in a fair state of preservation It is thought now that the child wan dered off and was not kidnapped ai was first thought. were qualified voters, to whieh bofcl i * ii . l i.i -j. _ _ _ . sides repiiea Lnac tney were noc posi I tive as to all the signers. But, as ; j matter of fact, they are not all quali 5 fied voters. j Mr. Thornhill said that everybody . kicked about taxes being so high. H< 3 said that the bridge toll to Columbia for liquor alone amounted to mori i than $1500 a year and of this amoun l the people of Brookland contributed ^ at least $1,000. He said that rich an< poor high and low, all drank whiskey k that he took a drink himself when hi 8 felt like it. The town and county alike needs the revenue. Brooklan< is the largest town in the county an< needs the dispensary most. Is ii } favor of liquor; plenty of it here whei * he came into the world and he hope< * plenty of it would be here when th< * final summons came. * Mr. Swygert said the town wa i Without lights and needed the liquo - money. * This ended the discussion and th< J petitions were filed with the board In the absence of one of its mem p bers yesterday, the chairman of th r board declined to give out for publi r cation the number of signers for am ? against the dispensary, but it is gen 1 erally eonceded that the prohibition 5 ists are largely in the majority. The board will meet again Monday ? at which time they will announce s their decision. ILOBE DRY GO ?. M?35TCK^E?M ITST * * * ? ? ? e of Your Valued Pat) > j THE HOM 7 I LEXINGTC I ^WWWSAA/V/VWNA I BE WITH I ?WE I WILL BE V I F. W. OSWALD, ALFRED J. I I President. C The Civil War at a Glance. , The American Civil war was the , greatest conflict at arms*in the history t of the human race. The American Revolutionary war, which lasted I nearly twice as long, was a series of L mere skirmishes compared with the r struggle of the early sixties. Battles , were fought during the civil war, now r known only to the mustiest of his} torians or to local tradition or recoils lection, which exceeded in the forces L engaged and surpassed in the carnage , resulting some of the most important actions during the struggle for inde r pendence. The number of battles fought greatly exceeded the number incident to any single European war. ^ The firing line .was a thousand miles r long. , Nearly 4,000,0p0 men were engaged. More than 500,000 men were killed in action or died from wounds or disease. In practically every respect the war of 1861-65 was the bigi gest and bloodiest of all time. This' stupendous struggle embraced so many ramifications of incident that a complete history of .the whole is j utterly impossible. Historians have been able only to "Hit the high spots" 1 for want of space and lack of time 3 and endurance to sift and chronicle 3 all the interesting facts. We do not know even how many # battles were fought. This Ciin be f only approximated. In the govern. ment's "Chronological List of Battles" . the number exceeds 2,200. But the e bureau of pensions has an alphabeti. cal list of engagements, including . skirmishes and such other minor acD tions as were deemed sufficiently important to note. This list contains more than 6,800 engagements. About 2,800,000 Union soldiers were 5 enlisted during the war.. The Coufed3 erate records are very incomplete, a many of them having been lost or de2 stroyed. It is estimated that the numbers engaged on that side of the . conflict were not far short of 700,000 3 men*. These figures do not include the considerable numbers or irregular combatants on each side, many of " whom were not officially enrolled, h War department records show 359, 528 deaths from all causes in the Union a armies during the war. In proportion - to strength of forces engaged the Confederate losses were equally -severe. y In the absence of definite records any 3 estimate, however, must be a mere a guess. In the Union armies 67,058 3 men were killed in battle, 43,012 died t of wounds received in action, and 1 224,586 died of disease incident to ser* vice. Of those killed in battle 4,142 ? were commissioned officers. The e number of Union men who died while f prisoners of war was 29,498. United * States military authorities executed * 267 men and would have executed a many more but for the humane inter ' * ? ? t i mi _ a vention ot ADranam Liincom. xne * Confederates executed four officers e and sixty men of the Union forces. It is a most remarkable fact that in 8 the four years of this mighty conflict r only one man was executed for "political" reasons by a Union gen8 eral. In New Orleans a man named Mum ford pulled'down a flag of the - United States after the city had been e captured, but before it was occupied - by the Federal forces. General Benj. 3 F. Butler, who was in command of - the occupying force, caused Mumford - to be hanged.?Walton Williams in The American Press. 7 ? g For toilet powder, perfumery, sweet soaps, etc., come to The Bazaar. # ODS COMFA % TI3-, ronage. Polite and I [E BANK >N, S. C. US AND iriTH YOU WWNAA^VW^ ^OX, K. F. OSWALD, ashier. Ass't Cashier. STILL ANOTEtEE E0M3 CIDE FOB COLUMBIA. Negro Killed Wife and Serious Wounds Man Found in Bed With Her. There was still another homicide Columbia Saturday night. This tin the "parties are all colored. John J cobs went to his house about o'clock at night and finding the do> locked, he went in through a windo and found his wife, Bessie Jacob and a man, Will Johnson, lying in tl same bed asleep. This was too mu< for Jacobs, who took his hamm with which he had been driving nail and with all the force that he pc sessed drove it into the woman's hej killing her instantly. Not being sa isfied with what he had done he gi the man a terrific blow which bro! his skull and the brains flew out co ering Jacob's clothes. Jacobs gaye himself up to the a thorities and is now in jail, while t other man is at the hospital with b slight chances for his recovery. It is said that Jacobs was drinkii at the time of the act. Transfers of Seal Estate. The following transfers of real < tate have been recorded in the Cle of Court's office since our last issue: William Richardson and others Noah Rett and others, lot in Irmo 1 15. Concrete Stone Con. Co., to E. Seigler, lot in Batesburg for $125. Brown F. Harris to E. M. W ingai lot in Lexington for $t00. H. M. Wingaid to Brown F. Han lot in Lexington for $100. R. B. Barr to Gideon Hall, 300aci in Chinquepin township for $270.80. B. J. Derrick to Ernest B. Derri< 27 1-5 acres in Saluda township $435.20. A. B. Bach man to James H. Pri lot in Brookland for $100. P. S. Fulmer to Bank of Chapin, in Chapin for $140. T> flT CUaI. frt Hhoriin XV* TV JL'JLAVXk, IV j in Chapin for $150. P. M. Frick to J. S. Wessinger, in Chapin for $200. 0. A. Derrick to Marion Derri< 107 acres in Gilbert Hollow townsl for $1,070. A. B. Williams and others to Hugh Meighan, interest of the Brj heirs in 500 acres in Congaree tot* ship for $166.66. M. S. Sharpe and others to R. Baughman, Jr., two lots at Edmu for $200. T. Hugh Meighan to R. G. Ross, t Bryce heir9' interest in 50 acres Congaree township for $1,800. Son-in-law Sills Father-in-la B. F. Fortner, an aged farmer li ing near Pelzer in Anderson count was shot and killed by his son-in-la Neal Banks, about noon Saturday. It is said that Banks owed Fortn a board bill of $18.00 which he refus< to pay. He went to Fortner's hou to get his trunk, but Fortner wou not turn it over to him without tl $18.00. Without further provocate Mills drew his revolver and fired fo shots into the body of his father-i law, killing him instantly. The farmers are hustling. The tin for Gen. Green is at hand and 4it w be a battle to the finish. % NY, , 'il&EE, jfe ' 1 COLUMBIA, 8. C. ^ompt Attention. ^ October istf _________ """* & I cUATTVlT dttat mrnrryrwa amivm OiiiVlJI a(Ji\ tlliZiLiXO OlJilMI BY THEIR COUNTY. m Mass Meeting at Spreading Branch School House Adopt Resolutions Never to Sever From Old Lexington. To the Editor of the Dispatch: In response to a call o*f the voters of Sandy Run township, published in your valuable paper in your issue of i^Dril 23rd, a large and representative body of voters assembled at Spreading Branch school house, in that township, Wednesday morning. The purpose of this meeting was to discuss and 1 decide upon the advisability of forming a new county with St. Matthew's as - the county seat. It was in every way a representative meeting of the voters of the township. The meeting was called to order by Hon. W. T. Brooker, who explained the object of the meeting and nominated N. B. Wannamaker as chairman. Mr. Wannamaker was unanimously elected. Mr. John C. Mul ler was unanimously chosen secretary- of the meeting. The promoters of the |y new county movement were represented by Mr. J. Scottowe Wannamaker, of St. Matthews, Messrs.E. Wrinberly, 0. H. Werirges and Lee Muller, formerly a resident of the township, were also in attendance upon the meetingSwansea had her full contingent?a number of her progressive business men. in Historic old Orangeburg was represented by her versatile and gifted son, Mr. le J. H. Funderburg. Mr. J. Scattowe Wannamaker, on behalf of the new a- county promoters presented such claims for the:town of St. Matthews as the 11 advocates of new county schemes and aspirants to court house privileges at or the expense of the people of the outlying territory, have, upon a people who w are perfectly contented to remain in the old county and have no intention of ,S) leaving her. Mr. Editor their claims are "Nil." His references to the maiie administration of Orangeburg county affairs were totally irrelevant and of no 2k interest to tne people 01 JLexington. xne arguments in rebuttal were forcibly . er and eloquently presented by Mr. J. H. Funderburg, of Orangeburg, who said s that the people of no county or section should sit supinely by and permit (g' themselves to be cut off and burdened with debt to gratify the ambitions of selffish and designing politicians who, abound everywhere, hungry for pub^ lie pap, longing for comfortable berths, knowing all too well that ultimately ve the people will have to foot the bills. Lee county was a case in point. After only five years the taxpayers are burdened with a $40,000 bond issue to erect v_ the court house the promoters pledged the town of Bishopville to build t People had better look well before they leap. Had better zealously guard there interests?Orangeburg with her 1,300 miles of territory was the lowest ^ taxed county in the State, Charleston alone, excepted. * The new counties all have high rates for county purposes. He demon strated beyond all possible doubt the utter untenableness of their position. They had everything to ask and nothing to offer. We subjoin the list of new counties formed sinced 1895, including Saluda county for purposes of comparison, or more exactly speaking of contrast, which will amply repay a deligent perusal by all taxpayers: TAX LEVY IN MILLS FOE FIVE YEAES. 38* New Counties. 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 Average# Bamberg 4)? 4>? 4>? 4 3 41-10 r^V?oiwlroo 4-F\\t? ft?/ A ?Q VU^JLVA^/W ~/X v -X wrv ror Dorchester h% 4% 5)? 5)? 5% 5)? Greenwood 3)6 5 5)6 5>? 4)? 4 4-5 H Lee 4>? 4)6 5% 4% - 4% ' 4 17-20 Saluda 4% 5)6 6)6 7 6% 5 39-40 rd, Orangeburg 2% 2% 2% 3)6 3 219-20 The average total for the six new counties - - . - - 4 15-16 19' Thus it will be seen that the average total tax levy for the past five years was 4 15-16 mills on each dollar's worth of property in the six new counties, res while the average for the same period in Orangeburg county was only 2 19-20 mills, a little over half of that amount. This comparison of figures omits consideration of the 5 mill tax for State , for purposes and the constitutional 3 mill tax for the schools, as these are borne alike by all of the counties; these added to each of the above figures will give ce> the true total. It will also be remembered that each school district has the right to levy an extra special tax for the exclusive use of its own schools, lot The resolution that follows, presented by Mr. John C. Muller, the secretary of the meeting, voices the sentiment of the people of the township, lot The resolution was adopted without a single dissenting vote: "Resolved that we, the voters of Sandy Run township, in mas9 meeting lot assembled, do regard with unqualified disfavor any movement from whatever source?whatever end subserved?that contemplates the dismemberment of 2k, our county by cutting therefrom any township or section, or part thereof, orlip that in any way imperials the integrity of the same." There were perhaps a hundred persons in attendance upon the meeting., T. At the close of the meeting the voters returned to their homes well pleased rce with what had been accomplished. m- Sandy Run, S. ., May 6, 1907. N. B. W. and J. C. M, H' Shady Grove Items. Sills Brother Without Cause. nG To the Editor of The Dispatch: Saluda, May 6.?A most shocking he The health of our community is ex- fratricide was committed last night in in t ... the extreme northwestern section of ' CeThffamers^e planting corn and this county when Lawton Lowrey a cotton. Some are through planting ^^^wr^ tatht Smc * * cotton while others are just DCgmning. Pre^n^wrey, to death m the home v- The small grain crop is out ot me Lawton Lowry, it is saic,'was drunk w qUThe?Shadv Grove Sunday school is at the time he committed the terrible ' flourishing * under Superintendent deed, and since sobering up begs that er Bouknight and J. H. Derrick as as- he be killed also. The young boys. nA . ? . lived in the same house. Preston sd sistant. T . , se Rev. E. A. Wayne will preach at Lowry was married. Id ghady Grove every third Sunday 116 morning at 10:30 o'clock. ^ Many Children are Sickly. 5n Miss Martha Daly i9 visiting her Mother Gray's Sweet Powders for ur rtnrpnt.fi- Mr. and Mrs. Fro9tv Dalv. . r- unnciren, used by Mother Gray, a * n" Mr. Johnson Shealy, of Ballentine, nurse in Children's Home, New York, visited Mr. L. M. Boukright's family break up Colds in24 hours, cureFeverTobf Qnndav tehness, Headache, Stomach Troubles, last feunday. Teething Disorders, and Destroy ie Best wishes to the Dispatch and it3 Worms. At all druggists. 25c. Saronle iU many readers. A May Bee. m^edFree. Ad^e". AUen S. 01m.