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AS TO REGISTRATION. Mr. DeBruhl Thinks Lav Requires Revision of Books Only Before G! ieral Elections. The condition of the rezistration oks in zth ever:0 coun'ie- is o 1p for discussitoi in official eireles. I The govern-r has rec ei v t -1 I :r from Mrli. F. M . Czu:in,pevi uf reg.is: .. ii l'r ('he,terfLc: l cul. ty. in whieln he :iks if, e law ref'uir In! tlle I t o be eri''d hCtol'e e. election r er to sp'eir eleeli . such as z.C ]Pr'pose )CleeL1':in )on thbe d1spensaV T3ies?tlon. T*sv letter w:aS referred o .e attorn'-?.10'.'al. mld YL11 an opilliol it is hel!,d by Assi-ti:il At' orney General DeBruhl that th, law,.refers only to zeneral eleelioll. Tae )rovision in question is Section 1S7 ot\ the Code of 1902. whi-h reads folhav: "Tihe boaIr or rf isTered elee,irs ai least tenI layspre eedin- each eiewtion and shall erase therefrom the names of all r'istered electors who have become disqualified or who, upon satisfactory evidence. may appear to have died or removed from their respective counties or who may have been illegally or fraudii lentix registered." Several days ago the governor re-! ceived a letter from the supervisor of Williamsburg county. together with a letter from one of the supervisors of re1istration for that county in regard to the supervisor's action in refusing to )rder an election in that county. It will be recalled that the board of registration stated that they had gone over the books and ascertained that the number of names on the petition for election were more than one fourth of the total numbcr of quali fied electors. but the supervisor' re fused to order an election on this showing, requiring that the board of registration certify to him the total number ,of electors. The situation. was brought to. the attention of the' governor, who wrote to Supervisor Singletary in regard fo the matter. The letters, setting fortl- e position of the county supervisor and the, board of registration. were forward-' ed to the governor and by him refer red to all attorney general. Mi. De Bruhl has decided that if the board of registration will farnish the county supervisor a certificate that the eight hundred and sixty-six names on the petition asking for an election are one-fourth of the qualified electors1 of the county the election should be ordered. although the exact number of qualified electors is not certified to. He holds that if the supervisors of registration have ascertained the number of eleetors with sufficient ae euracv to know that 866 are one fourtih of th~e total number this is all that is necessary, since complete revision of the rolls may decrease but could not increase the total num ber of qualified electors., It wduld appear from this that the people of. Williamsburg are entitled to an elee tion on the dispensary if the other requirements of the law have been complied with.. Mu.nicipal Government. Richmnd Timnes-Dispatch.I Npme wouil 1 me~ even Raihae! for not painting a masteme Dif h only utensils were a broom and am whitewash brush. Nor could Phda * himself chisel out a salable statue wit.h a crowbar alone. When :e work is criticized the conldition1 nn der whic th we rk was do~ne mut '(e eensidere.cd. and to bet ter thed wo rk the first and most sobvious step) is to bet ter the conditions. Here in Rih mnond Ilor muni~cipal administration is a jumbled and cumbrous affair. which is carried en with great loss of enier2v andl time because the mrachin Eryxis :op~eessly unfit for the work in hand. It !Inot the fault of the council meui that ti. ) -have to assemble, de bate and pass an ordinance "to re quire the keeper of Monroe park to designate a man to trim the hedges on Montiment avenue'' with as much formality as '"a resolution awardinii the contract for rehabilita:ting the gas works t'o the Staey Manufactur mnz company at a cost of $.310.000. It is a fair cry from trimming hedges to b)uildintg a was plant costing $.310. 000. b)ut the conneil has to supervi-e both. and if neither are well dohne. ii is really not th~e fault of the counceil as a whiole. Rather it is the fault of a system which so loads petty details upon men who are already burd enedi with their own business cares that it _?~2n absolute impossibility for al the detals to be properly executed. On last Monday night the couili was in session five hours. Durinj that time it passed 26 ordinances and reeolutions. debated and taled or de feated a number of others. rase great number of salaries. refused oth ers. sprinkled streets with~ oil. ei: pensated an employe who wasx kiek-. ed by n mule. and de&lie o as t2Q ya of thec lamn1iiihters~ *'d: r e:15 *. *u::~ilme~ .f Ihinoud be m011)elled to deal vi t h 11such a mass >f special matter? It is the unvarv .n1g exPeriene of all l)usiness coneernls 1:h.t all such Imatu-s if detail a- Za! iries for subordinates and petty rez No !1rn 1: *4 1 -~ i~t11Za t I )!I c .\ :ri: wIh rVt e -.ferI to its 1) 1a Il f i i s i Ie tluss o'. * iletioInI inistration reLaimn the affairs of the ityV will Iever receiv h:t s . - itie ad coherent direction ipoll voih scces dnoms.Thewnr -vI Iae a. that the (itY a pr-ospered s*l a rofo it inheren1 t O' u-enV'th *ii l i t V '1117 :v si;rs -i 2n!istra :ion under the Systeui which our wrest'l! chart faster!! l us. Whiat Riechmnd nieedls :-z :1ins r'::iz:6,in fir a i ness city. A Drop in the Black Bucket. Thie TavIr Trotwiood. ior'tl of us have had sulh a way of makin many noisy iemarks wlei ome one like the !!od Miss Jeans ir s a million of dollar( or so toward I0 ro C :h:caiti,(n1 in he soth that n 1lli1formed person would think that it was somethin- new. Tne truth of lie maer is just this: The South g-ives eise (if the word) e,o hioney 10 Xard the education of illiterate ne Troes to make all the donations fr m nIortlh of the Ohio River inee the Ie xinnin of time, seem a mere ba-atelle i comparison. The interest on a mil lon dollars rcently ivenl by thi: xo.>d Quaker would amount to some hing like $35.000. or at most $40.000 annually. which is only a medium size irop in a very large bucket of south ?rn appropriations. When it is realiz e?l that the southern states have spent ome $325.000.000 or $350.00).000 in duca-ting the negroes since they were Ereed, and that this has been spent principally in the primary educa tion of negro children the strictures aon her for not having done her part become the index fingers of ignor nce. Two hundred and fifty million dol ars per year would be saved if elec :rity were to supplant steam en irely. E. SHEEHAN -Augusta, Ga. 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WRITEFOR BEATIlFUL CATAL9Ml!E., Grand July Clearance Sale! We have too many summer goods, and rath er than. carry them over we are going to make the price on them RED HOT. This sale corn mences Friday 12th, and includes all colored summer Dress Goods, Colored Parasols, La dies' Slippers, Men's Straw Hats, Ladies' Hats and Flowers, Summer Clothing, Men's Low Quarter Shoes, We sell Domestic Sewing Ma chines $25.00, New Defender Drop Head Sewing Machine $17.93, Machine warranted 20 years. Just received our 32nd car, making 3,555 bbls, choice Tennessee Flour, and while it lasts goes for best patent $5.35, half pat. $4:90. Every barrel guaranteed to give satisfaction. Moseley Bros., PROSPERITY, S. C. CALL ON Broaddus RU AT THE HERALD & NEWS FOR Box Paper, Tablets, Pencils Pens and Ink, Soaps, *Fine Extracts, &c., &c. In fact anything you need along that line. ALSO CIGARS AND TOBACCO. 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