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LOUIS APPELT, EDITOR. PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One Year...........................$1.50 Six Months......... ............... 75 Four Months....................... 50 ADVERTISING RATES: One square, one time, $1; each subse quent insertion, 50 cents. Obituaries and Tributes of Respect charged for as regular advertisements. Liberal contracts made for three, six and twelve months. Communications must be accompanied by the real name and address of the writer in order to receive attention. No communication of a personal char acter will be published except as an adver tisemeut. Entered at the Post Office at Manning as Second-Class Matter. MANNING, S. C.: WEDNESDAY, APRI. 8, 1896. SILAS JONES STANDS BY BEN TILLMAN. I have read very carefully Senator Tilhwan's letter to the Rev. Mr. Reid, also his 1 .tter to The Register. I have thought seriously over the position taken by Tillman. I have given these two letters more thought than I have ever'given to letters pub lished by the ordinary politician, office-holder, or office-seeker. In view of past events Tillman's propo sition is not at all startling; the only outspoken arraignment of men who as Democrats have perjured them selves and wrecked thel Democratic party. He but gives expression to thoughts and sentiments entertained by a large majority of the voters in the United States. I have never voted any but the Democratic party ticket. I have never in my life scratched the name of a single candidate nominated by the Democratic party. I have watch ed the politics in our State and na tion for years before I was old enough to vote. In all that time I have read all the glittering promises set forth in the different party platforms and the grand, eloquent language used in the various letters of acceptance of the nominees of both great parties; then I have watched closely how many of these promises were ever fulfilled and say that I have never known a single promise that was of vital interest to the masses that was -ever kept by either of the great parties, and still we go on year after year "'sticking to the party." A few of the boldest have from time to time complained of these things, but were at once sat upon by the press, the bosses and all the party machinery. They were scolded, lectured, threatened, and driven back into line where they ever afterward remained objects of susgicion by -all the party leaders who were fattening at the pie counter. Whenever a con siderable number of the intelligent people who have grown tired of these false promises threaten to leave the party, they are violently abused by the subsidized press, called inde pendents, traitors to the old Democ racy, &c., adnauseamt. 'They are ex horted to "stand together in the party one more time and we will whip the other fellows and get what we want." We have stood together at the dic tates of the party leaders and have deposited our ballots time and again for this or that man, only to find out when too late tha-.t he too is a hired tool, hired to carry out the wishes ot the enemies of the por.man in this country, and whose whole time was occupied in formulating schemes that would return bim to office. It is a well known fact that the mo nopolists are ever on the watch and whenever they find a man possessed of iare qualities as an orator no mat ter where from, he is worked upon, flattered, bribed and bought if neces sary, over to their side, as we have every reason to believe is true of Cleveland, Carlisle & Co It is a fact that D)emocracy in late years Las lost all its former terrors for these monopolists and money sharks. They no. longer fear the name of Democracy and use their mua.ey lavishly at times to put the Democracy in power whenever the Democrats put a man who promises them more tnan the -Republican can didate. Tihe Democrat will win and vice versa. They know that the national Democratic party, like its powerful opponent, has in the mat ter of morality, honor and truth ret rograded in the last thirty years un til there is not enough of these quali ties left among a great majority o: the leader to till a thimble. 'These bribed and ready to be bribed leaders when the time for another election draws near and the mutterings of the people are heard all over the land landly denounce any one who has the temerity to sise up and say that the party organization is rotten, that a mnajority o1 the leaders are a bribed I1>t oX perjurers who have deliberately lied to the people and sold them out to their enemies. These are facts known to every man who pays any attention to politics, but let any number of men dare to state these facts and lie is pounced upon by both leaders and press, and the cry of traitor is raised and one long, loud wail is sounded, the re frain whereof is -stick to the party"! "stick to the party!"' for what? just to put back into office t Lis same set of office-seeking perjurers who have repeatedly soki us out. What in God's name has the party done for us since Lhe war? Sonme will say it did not have a chance to do any thing; it was not in power to do any thing untar 1s84. 'Irue, but what did it do when ib g-otin power? did it pass any important measure, 1 mean important to the masses? No. they fouuht among themsave~s like thme famous Kilikenny cats, wauted all their time in non serO at talk about matters that did no concrn the people just as the present Congress is wasting all its time on Thos. F. Bayard and the Cuban question, and ignoring en tirely those questions most vital to the people. In such a manner, has the Demo cratic Congress frittered away time. They raised a great hue and cry about the tariff, the Sandwich Islands, &c. They passed a tariff bill that doesn't afford revenue enough to meet the ordinary expenses of the government until Messrs. Cleveland, Carlisle & Co. had to mortgage the United States for the next thirty years to raise $260,000,000 in gold that the Wall street thieves might rob the Treasury and divide the profits with the Demo cratic leaders. This is what Demo cracy has done for the people who built their fondest hopes upon it. They not only refused to give our wants any attention in regard to the currency question, but did every thing in their power against any increase in the circulation of our currency. They repealed the Sherman Act which was a little better than nothing and gave us a gold standard because the bankers who held all the gold wanted it. They refused to keep a single pledge made the people to restore silver toits proper place, and why? Because the money leaders of Lon don and New York said "No, don't touch that question, it will unsettle business and bring ruin upon us, and these leaders with the price of their purchase down in their breeches pockets answered, No! we won't do anything that will hurt you, but we must make some show of an attempt in order to blind the dear public. Whenever any measure looking to the relief of the toiling millions is presented, up goes the cry again from these cormorants "you will unsettle business." If doing justice to-nearly seventy millions of people will un settle business, then I think it is high time that this relentless oppressor of the poor man which is so very sensi tive, that the least attempt at justice to the mrsses terrifies it into convul sions, should get a good shaking up. Stamp it under foot, get rid of it some way and put a business in its place that wili not go into, spasms every time there is au effort made at legis lation that is in favor of the masses of the people. Business, what is it? In later days it is nothing but banking, brokerage and stocks. This is the sensitive crea ture that always rises up and oppo ses any and everything that proposes to better the condition of the great masses. It must have everything or it will die. It has already got about everything in the world. Its baleful influence has filled the world with homeless, houseless, millions upon millions of tramps. It has by its hard exactions and heartless tyranny filled the world with increasing numbers of starving men, women and children. This is business. How long will the people stand its cruel reign? This is the creature before whom our polit ical hacks and bosses postrate them selves after every election and renew ter oaths and allegiance. This is the creature who for many years has controlled the leaders of both great political par-ties in this country. Then I ask how are the masses to get jus ice by "sticking" to either of these already perjured and bribed organ izations, whose every public act is to perpetuate and strengthen the power of this cold-blooded harlot. It is thoughts like these that have prompted T1illmian to write those let ters. It is a knowledge of these facts which will cause millions to side with Tillman in his fearless onslaught on the cause of all our troubles. I have -ited all these facts to show that Till man's letters are worth more than a passing' notice. They are but faint expressions of a sentiment that per vades millions of the oppressed poor throughout the whole United States. There are many Democrats in full sympathy with this idea who are honest in their every act, but fear a splt, just as some of our ancestors feared revolt of the colouies from the mother country. They knew it was right but lacked the courage of their convictions. These people fear we are not strong enough and in this connection the speech of Patrick Henry before the Virginia Assembly is very applicable, "when will we be stronger? will it be the next week or will it be next year? or will it be when we are totally disarmed," and the gold standard thieves shall have bound us hand and foot? Shall we gain strength by irresolution and in action? Shall we acquire the means of effectual resistfance by lying supine lv on our backs and hugging that delusive phantom of hope until we are securely bound and handed over to our implacable enemies. No, we must work hard, fight hard and show our strength. We have the numbers and strength to accomplish our wishes. All we lack is the courage. We are cowards and we have been made so by long years of bullying and legislation. If we are ever to be free, we must shake off this feeling of cowardice. It matters not what our eneie-s may call us if our cause is just. It is time that the' down trod den people of thi-s country should rise up and assert their right to live here without starving, and like Till man, I say never again support for office such j[men as McKinley, Reed, Cleveland, Carlisle, Whitucy, &c. These are the only kind of men whom monied interests or the business in terests will permit to be nominated at St. Louis or Chicago. Fight them to the last ditch nowv with your bal lots, or the tune is not far distant when the fight will have to be made with bullets. Why all this accummulation of force to the Army and Navy? Don't fool yourselves that they are intended for Spain or England. These warlike preparations are being made to pro tet these rascally millionaires against a popular uprising which they know they are hurrying forward, sin which there will be no North, South, East or West, but one common people against a common and relentless en emy. It will be a death struggle of the masses against the classes. Coxey's army, Tillman's letter and other occurrences are - but the fore shadowing of what is to be if the people don't combine in one great party and stamp out these blood sucking parasites who have throttled the government and reduced us to a nation of beggars and tramps. Let tLe:e be more T'illmans and thi re will e i8 amving peophl. We have men who cannot be bought; let us elect them to carry out our wishes. The Democrats and Republicans re fuse to do it. SuAs JONES. A REPUBLICAN MEETING. THE LILY-WHITES DOWN THE KOAL-BLACKS. The Meeting Was a Reminder of the Days of Whittemore, Moses and Scott-Bob Smalls, the Gullah Statesman from Beaufort. and E. M. Brayton, a White Man from God-Knows-Where, the Orators of the Occasion. The court house was well filled with Clarendon's colored citizens last Thursday to hear General Robert Smalls, colored, of Beaufort,j andjE. U. Brayton, white, of Columbia. Smalls represents what is known as the Webster faction of the Republi can party, and Brayton represents the Melton faction. Smalls is of the orthodox school and wants the negroes to stand fast to Republican principles and not be attracted away by fanciful "isms" that sore-headed politicians have concocted for their own purposes. Brayton is endeavor ing to make the Republican party have the semblance of respectability by taking from the Conservative fac tion white men who are disgruntled because they cannot get office from their own race, or who have been driven from the sale of whiskey by the dispensary law. The chairman of the meeting was R. A. White, but the man who did the signalling for applause was R. A. Stewart, in fact, he seemed to have taken advantage of White's political innocence to convert White's Web ster meeting from a Webster to a Brayton affair. The meeting was composed of Brayton's or Stewart followers and Smalls's following was very small; notwithstanding Smalls's reputation as a stalwart Republican is a household word in every section in the State, and being a colored man it was a little suprising that his voice had so little effect, for there is not the slightest doubt that Smalls spoke sincerely and was trying to guide his people right. He told them of his connection with the constitutional convention, and the fight he made to preserve their franchise. He ex plained the requirements of the law to entitle citizens to vote and ex pressed the belief that when the registration was concluded there would not be 5000 negroes in the State registered. He told them that the white men without regard to faction favored the disfranchisement of the negro; that the conservatives were professing to be their friends, but they were not. The Tillmanites were manly and open with all of this devilment.. Till man told ue openly and boldly that he intended to have ii constitutional convention and it was to be for the purpose of disfranchising the negro. Conservatives professed to be opposed to the convention and said it would be an outrage to disfranchise the negroes and "please Ga'wd wen we get to de convenashun I see'd rich men as Tedoor G. Ba'arker of Uba's ton,and I walk 'cross debstreet to raise me hat to uma, tinking he wos weno friends, ca'as me know him eber since we bin boys togedder, and he say he hate Tillman, bless uno souls he wos wurse agin de nigger dan Till man and my friends and fellow re publicans I found de conservatives wos not de nigger friends, but dat dey wunted we niggers votes to beat Tillman, did'nt I stump Alarion and odder counties for Haskell and ob course I spected dem to be our friend, but dey had no use for nigger. De rimwanites hate nigger like de deb bil hate holy water and de Antis hate em like de debbil hate soda water, so yu see dey all two, all one." General Smialls continued his speech for neaily three hours, sonL& uiLLes he wade some keen thrusts at -lily whites" or the Brayton faction, bjut as the house was "agin" bim and Bray ton's man Stewart did the sig allizing very little applause punct urated the speaker's remarks, not even when he attempted to infect a lttle fire, auch as "de white man ynich nigger,but de nigger too coward to lynch white man." At the conclusion of his rambling gultan speech, Stewart rose to intro duce the next speaker and as he rose and shook out the tails of his Prince Albert coat the audience broke out into applause and it continued for some time. He introduced Mr. Bray ton who by the way is not a bad looking fellow. He has a very respect able appearence and is a good speaker. Of course, he knew what he had to talk to, and anything he might say would be taken as a sweet morsel by his black audience. He was also a "fellow republican," and repeated it very often for fear that his hearers would forget it, and naturally that he should think they might forget it, for the reason that a white man at a negro meeting pro claiuiimog himself a "fellow republi can" in this country is a thing not often seen and in appearance it re sembles a drop of milk in a pan of coal tar. Brayton fired his "fellow republicans' with his denancistions o the registration law, and the con stitutional convention. He denounc ed in unmeasured terms white men who would lynch negroes. He gave as his reason for not comning to Clar endon before, that he alwaye under stood tihat the negroes could and did get their rights and justice'from the white people. He showed the ad vantages of his side of the dispute and urged hts "fellow republicans" to believe that he was their Moses to lead them out of political slavery. He denounced the 'Tillmanites, and said that the Conservatives were fast coming into the republican fold, and with a shrewd wiak he exclaimed, "let them come, our arms are open to receive them." The wink signified that it the conservatives think they are going to soak up the offices they will realhze a big mistake. During his retuarks he made hints at Gen eral Sumails and the old-timer would wince every time. Brayton talked a long time aud had his audience with him as is evidenced from the a.-: pla use evoked. General smalls had the reply, in which he went over his first speech and asked his audience if Brayton had given them an intellient idea Af how he would save them. During Small's reply Brayton interupted the speaker and made some statement which we failed to catch, but evi dently Smalls caught it and turning to Brayton and pointing his finger at him he said in a keen ringing voice "sir that is absolutely false, and you said it maliciously and dare not say it out side," and he continued to look at Brayton for some minutes without speaking, then turning to his auditors he told them that there was no necssity for them to become ex cited, that he was a man able to take care of himself and that Mr. Brayton would not say outside lwhat he said here. Brayton for some time hung his head, but finally told Smalls that he made the charge first and that there was no use for a quarrel. When the speaking was over a cocoanut-shape-headed negro by the name of David, from the Summerton country, got up and attempted to have the Brayton-Meltonites endors ed, but the bomb caused a little dust to rise in various parts of the hall by the chairman refusing to put the mo tion. This brought Stewart to his feet and he expressed the belief that the meeting could do as they pleased. Gus Collins then came forward and poured grace on the turbulence by having David to withdraw the motion to be endorsed. It is clearly evident that Stewart who is Brayton's man Friday here, has succeeded in downing Bob White with his republican organization, and when delegates are elected the fol lowers of Stewart will win, neverthe less a contesting delegation will] also go to "de convenshun." RELIGIOUS THOUGHTS. BY REV. J. O. GOUGE, MANNING, S. C. THE RESURRECTION OF THE DEAD. An Easter Sermon Delivered in the Colle giate Institute Hall, Sunday, April 5th, and Placed in this Column by Request. Text: I Cur., 15. 14. "And if Christ be not risen." The fact that Jesus arose from the dead on or about April 9th is believed by many; the exact date, however, is unknown. It is certain, however, that he arose the 3rd day after his crucifixion. There are many things as touching the resurection of the dead that we must be content to know only in part. All human theory is but a mere guess. We are shut up to the bible, and to it alone. But here we find a stream of light reach ing from the early dawn of creation, growing brighter and brighter until it shall end in the glory of the consu mation of all things. We find the idea of the resurection bursting out through the dim vision of human reason almost at the very dawn of the world. Job, whie in the hour of his deep solitude, thought of the resurection until his revolving thoughts broke in to an interrogation and he asked: "If a man die, shall he live again ?" There was the first gleam of hope; the first signs of the breaking dawn. Gradually did the great thought pass on down the corridors [o time until David awoke in the twilight of a new revelation and exclaimed: "I shall be satisfied when I awake with thy like ness." On and still on rolled the thought through the centuries until the prophet, Isaiah saw .the truth in its beauty and splendor and said: "Thy dead men shall rise, together with my dead body shall they rise." Still the thought as the years passed by, passing from patriarch to prophet until the day passed on into the fuller meridian. Daniel exclaimed that "many that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to s'hame and everlasting con tempt." to my brethren, this great truth has comec on down the ages from the eriy dawn of creation, passing from under the grasp of the old dispensa tion, leaping across the gulf that in trvenes, and breaking forth into the dawn of the new. John the Baptist caught a glimpse of the truth as he saw Jesus, who himself was the resurrection and the life, and said: "He must increase but I must decrease." Cbrist himself while mingling with the throng often spoke of his own death and resurrection. So this mighty doctrine wvhichi was pro claimed by the prophets, and heralded by the apostles, was taken up by the disciples and carried into all the world, or as far as their influence ex tended. But with all the light that revelation could. flash around this doctrine, with all prophecies which pointed to this hour, notwithstanding the emphatic words of Christ himself that he should be crucified and the third day rise from the dead, there were some who believed not in the resurrection of the dlead, who said that "the dead rise not." This led the apostle Paul to the meditation of the text, "And if Christ be not risen." I ave taken the analysis of the apostle's discourse as my own and give it to you as we find it. All who have ever existed in this life, with only two exceptions, have passed out into the realms of the unknown through the gate of death. They will continue to pass this way until time shall be no more. "And if Christ be not risen," says the apostle, 1. OUR PREACHING :ts VAIN. Can it be true that all the eloquent and soul-inspiring sermons that have been the means in God's hands of saving the world, and -the turning of housands upon thouspnds to the glory of honest living, is in vain ? U'an it be that the preaching of the ross of Christ is nothing but '-sound ing brass and a tinkling cymbal," void of the presence and inspiration f the Divine Christ? If it be true hat our preaching is vain, then the ble around which the greatest boghts of the age have ever clus ered, is absolutely false and is no nore than a dime novel, and the :ross of Christ has lost its beauty md power. "if Christ be not risen," hen all the preaching of all the nophets, of all the apostles of all e disciples, of all the miniaters, of dl the ages, has been nothing but a rain display of idle words based upon i book that is false. Can it be -that the preaching of [on Knon, who movedaA S11 otland by his prayers and his preaching, is false? Can you believe that the preaching of Martin Luther, who, battling with the reformation, kin dled a blaze of religious awakening that swept over the continent like the fury of a raging storm, arousing the world, as it were, to religious thought and Christian living, is vain? "If Christ be not risen," then Peter's sermon on the day of Pentecost was but the display of a raving maniac, whose preaching thrilled and filled no one with holy zeal and eternal inspirations, and the record given to us is as false as the bible upon which it is based. "If the dead rise not," then all the sermons, my brethren, that have moved you to a Godly life, all the words of comfort ever spoken by your minister in church, or in the home in the glad hour of prosperity, or in the dark hour of adversity and afliction when he knelt by your side and prayed for and with you at a "throne of grace" and cheered you along life's rough pathway, has been only the sighing of the wind, void of its holy principles. But bless God that Jesus has risen from the dead and "become the first fruits of them that slept." "As his precious body went down into the dark chambers of the grave, and there struggling in his grave clothes with the grim tyrant, death, wrested from his brow the black diadem, snatched from his hands the cruel scepter, and by one single blow shattered into fragments his skeleton empire, and rising victorious over the grave, death, hell, brought life and immor tality,light." 2. YoUE FAIrT Is ALSO vAIN, and ye are yet in your sins. There have been men in all ages of the world who have trusted in the merits of the Lord Jesus for salvation. But if the dead rise not, the woman who pressed her way through the anxions throng and with her exhausted and trembling hand reached out and "touched the hem of His garment" is to-day a miserable lost wretch. Not only so, but Mary Magdelene, out of whom he cast seven devils, is the same unregenerate, unredeemed, un saved soul, as when the devils were raging within. But how idle the thought, my brethren, that all the faith of the ages is lost in the darkness of the night. If it be true that your faith is vain, then all the faith of Job, of Abraham, of Joseph, of Moses, of David, of Daniel, of Paul, of Timothy, and all the apostles and martyrs who marched through the floods and flames to a glorious immortality, and who, "through faith, subdued king doms, wrought righteousness, ob tained promises, stopped the mouths of lions, quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness were made strong, turned to flight the armies of the aliens, women received their dead raised to life again, others were tortured - not accepting deliverance, that they might obtain a better resurrection." All these says the writer, obtained a good report through faith, but if Christ be not risen, then all is lost, and not one star shines upon the midnight of the tomb; not one hope cheers the dying; and not one note of victory falls upon the ear of the lost. Oh, what was it as you took the precious dying babe by the hand aud felt it cold in death! You held on as long as you could and then low ered its little form down into the mansion of the dead, while over the grave you wept "for the [ouch of a vanished hand." Was it not hope that in the resurrection morning mother would find her lost babe and father would join the happy reunion in a glorious immortality ? But thanks be to God which giv eth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. This is the victory that -overcometh the world, even our faith. "Up from the grave he arose, with a mighty triuibph o'er his foes, and he lives forever vith his saints to reign; hallelujah! Christ arose." Not only is our faith vain, but 3. WE ARE FOUND FALSE wITNESSES OF GOD. God seems to have made almost everything witness the resurrection of His Son. On that memorable oc casion an angel from the realms of glory came to earth and with his an gelic fngers rolled away the stone from [be mouth of the sepulchre and sat upon it. Hence, God would first of all witness the resurrection by the presence of angels, wah the shak ing earth, amid the chaos and conf us ion of the keepers of the tomb. There was another strong witness in the persons of the two women who went to the sepulchre as it it began to dawn toward the first day of the week. As they drew nigh into the silence of the death chamber a voice greeted them, saying: "Ye seek Jesus. He is not here, he is risen; come see [be place where the Lord lay." But to see an empty grave as a proof of his resurrectton was dull and unsatisfactory. They must have something more positive. Returning to tell the disciples, Jesus met them, saying, "All hail." This was a living proof of his resurrecti':n. Other proofs are found in his appearance to the two disciples as they walked to Eamaus, and the disciples gathered together when Thomas was absent. Also, the seven fishermen out on the sea of T1ibenass, and eleven disciples on a mountain in Gallilee, and 500 brethren at once, then to Cephus and James, and all the apostles, and of me, also, says PauL. All these were living test witnesses of His resu rrec tion, but if Christ be not risen all these are found to be false before God. Can it be true that the sub lime life of Paul was shrouded in the mist of error, whose hope reaches not beyond this life ? Paul, animated by the hope of the resurrection, toiled onward and up ward, and looking back from the eternal heights, could exclaim, "Oh, death, where is thy sting ?" "Marvel not that I said unto thee the hour is coing and now is, in the which they' that are in the graves shall hear the voice if the Son of God and shall come lorth, they that have done good unto the resurrection of life, and they that have done evil to the resurrec tion of damnation. 4. THlEY THAT HAVE FALLEN ALEEP IN JESUS HAVE PERISHD. 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Be s.:re you get it. J. H. Zeilin & Co-, Philadelphia, Pa. think of our loved ones as being dead. They are only asleep. Notice the expressions, "Some one fallen asleep," "Fallen asleep in Jesus," 'He is not dead, but sleepeth," "Da vid, after he had served his genera tion by the spill of God, fell asleep," "Since your fathers fell asleep," "Slept with-his father," "Sleep in Je sus, blessed sleep." The world vi brates to-day with the testimony of dying souls who have gone down to the dark stream with a hope of a brighter day. But if the dead be not raised, all lies crumbling in the sepulchre. But the trump of God shall sound and tLe dead in Christ shall rise. They shall be caught up to meet him in the air. So shall they be ever with the Lord. THE NEW REGISTRATION LAW. Conditions Necessary to Enable a Citizen to Cast a Ballot. The new registration law is quite lengthy and very stringent in its pro visions; but a comprehensive idea of it can be gathered from the fol lowing: Until January 1, 1898, registrations shall be in the hands of three super visors in each county; after January 1, 1898, the work will be in charge of one supervisor in each county. Until January 1. 1898, all male citizens who have been residents of the State for . two years and their respective polling precincts for four months, and have paid their poll tax t least six months previous to an election, and who are not laboring nder any of the disabilites men ioned in the constitution, and who an read or understand the constitu ion, are entitled to register and be ome electors. After January 1, 1898, he other conditions must be com plied with as described, and the can idate for registration must have also paid all taxes that may have been assessed against him during the prev ous year, must be able to read and write any section of the constitution, r must show tax receipts on prop rty to the value of $300. Ministers ad teachers, where otherwise qual ified, will be entitled to register after ix months residence in the State. The registration books must be pened at the court house on the first onday in April next and kept open for six consecutive weeks. They ust be opened again on the first ondays in June, July, August and September and kept open one week n each month. They will be closed 0 davs before the general election; ut individuals who become of age uring that interval and are other wise qualified, may be registered be fore the books are closed. Trhe board l registration is to be the judge as o an applicant's qualification for voting. If the applicant is not satis fied with the ruling of the board, he can take his case to a circuit judge or the circuit court, and from there to the supreme court. All persons registered on or before January 1, 1898, will be qualified voters for life nless tbey should be subsequently disqualified on account of other pro visions of the constitution. Registration certificates shall be in the following form: Registration Certificate, Number-. This is to certify that--is a regis tere elect.>r of thie election district or ounty oft, resides in -tonship or parish or ward; is- e .rs of ag~e, ad' is entitled to vote in-'pllii g precinct if otherwise qualitied. Rtegistere'i on the -.ay of 18-. Bo.rd of Registration of---conty. --, Supervisor of regibtration of Provision is made for the renewal oflost or destroyed certificates and for the trausfer of registration from one county to another. It is the duty of the clerks of the court to keep registration boards advised of all con victions for disqualifying crimes, and it is the duty of the registration boards to erase the names of all who ave been conlvictedl of such crimes. The disqualifying crimes are: Burg lrv arson, obtaining goods or mo'ney under false pretenses, perjury, frgery, robbery, bribery, adultery, bigamy, wifebeating, housebreaking, receiving stolen goods, breach of trust with fraudulent intent, fornicat io n, sodomy, incest, assault with intent to ravish, miscegenation, larceny, or crimes against the election laws. It is provided that the disabilities oc casioned by conviction of the crimes mentioned may be removed by a pardon from the governor, even after the name of the voterhas been strick en from the regist ration lists. Until after the general election of 1896, there is no change in the law as itapplies to incorporated cities and towns. After the general election of' 1896, however, before an election can be held, all [of the would be voters must have been duly 1egistered by a spervisor of registration appointed by the mayor or intendant, as the l cmas may be Bfore a ertificate can The Ducker & Buitman Co. The above company having bought the entire stock of Ducker & Bultman, an- * * nounce to the trade: In addition to all kinds of ...................* * * * * * FANCY GROCERIES, we are making a specialty of PLANTATION -:- SUPPLIES At Wholesale Prices. Two cars of FLOUR, bought before the advance, offered at less than mill prices. SMOKED BACON, DRY SALT * * * and BUTT MEATS, MEAL, GRITS,, RICE, SUGAR, COF * * * FEE and TOBACCO at Charles ton Prices. First-Class CHEESE at 10 Cents a Pound. A large and complete line of DRY GOODS, NOTIONS, HATS, SHOES and CLOTHING at wholesale and retail. Get our prices befere buying................... The Ducker & Buhtillan Colilpally, Sumter, S. C. be issued, the applicant must have subscribed to an oath to the effect M a L that he has lived in the State two years, in the county one year, and in. Engines, his polling precinct four months next Bole s . immediately proceeding the election SwMls ____ ___Corn Mills,.. SRoller Mil. " NOTICE OF TOWN ELECTION. .Brick Machines. In accordance with the require-....PaigMcie,. ments of the town charter, there will and all other kinds of. be an election on the 13th day of . ood-Working. April, 1896, for one intendant and Machinery. four wardens to serve as a town coun cil for the town of Manning, for a s . period of two years. The polls will be held at the court Boxes.. house opening at 8 o'clock a. m. and I am the General Agent for closing at 4 o'clock p m. By order of OUIS LEVI, Talbott & Sons, Intendant, Acting. Louis APPELT, Acting Clerk. Watertow Engine Co. - HOW'S THIS! H. B. Smith Machine Co. We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward Can furnish full equipment in the for any case of Catarrh that cannot be above lines at factory prices. cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. F. J. Cheney & Co., Props., Toledo, O. We the undersigned, have known F. J. Cheney for the last 15 years, and believe B him perfectly honorable in 1ll business COLUMBIA, . . transactions and financially able to carry out any obligation made by their firm. West & Traux, wholesale Druggists, To ledo, 0. Walding, Einnan & .larvin, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, 0. o1S. ace QSo Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood an d mucousl.c urfaces of the sysGtem. Price 75c. per bottle. Sold by all Druggists. Testimon- ; 0 ials free. State of South Carolina, co County of Clarendon. By Louis Apjpeit, Esquire, Probate Judge. < WHEREAS. LILY MAY COLE MADEW suit to me to grant her letters of admiinis- ~' ~ tration of the estate of and effects of Mrs. = Annie H. Cole. Mnfcueso These are thereforo to sight and admo ish all and singular the kindred and cred itors of the said Annie H. Cole, de- IOrSsBidM ud ceased, that they be and appear, before me, in the Court of Probate, to be held at Ma ning, on the 11th day of April, nextaeral after pa blication hereof, at 11 o'clock in the ai uidn forenoon, to shew cause, if any they have, CH R ET N S.Ci-. why the said administration should not be granted. SS EGT N Given under my hand this 25th day ofCOD AN March, A. D. 1896.BILESHAD R. [szu,.] LOUIS APPELT, Judge of Probate. WNO N AC NOTICE OF REGISTRATION Of Voters! TeTryFs ofpn OFFICE OF SUPERVISORS OF REGIS tration of.voterBwillrbeopened. at te cort huse n Maning Mon7~h...C or Miflls,......h!1 day, April..:Bri1896,candecontin.e open fr six onsective weks..Or.relaningso forchies,-- . 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