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t! li tjatudug irn s. LOUIS APPELT. EDITOR. MANNING, S. C.: WEDNESDAL. OCT. 27, 1S97. PUBLISHED EVERY W EDNESDAY. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Ono Year.---- ------- -. --...... $1.50 Six M onths ...... -- -------- - ... 75 Four Months ..... .... .......... 50 ADVERTISING RATES: One square, one time, 1; caeh subse qnent insertion, 50 cents. Obituaries and fributes of Respect charged for as regular advertisements. Liberal contracts wade 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 tisement. Entered at the Post Office at Manning as Second-Class Matter. Senator Tillman has recovered from his spell of sickness. At the last session of the State Press Association quite an important paper was read, and a resolution was adopted asking all of the newspapers in the State to publish it before the convening of the General Assembly. We think now is a good time in order that the matters therein contained might be considered by the law makers. The newspapers have not been treated fairly, and if they will act in concert and show wherein they have been mistreated we feel satis fied some member of the legislature will appreciate the justice of our claim and right the wrong that has been inflicted. The article referred to by us was read by THE Tmx's ed itor and ordinarily his modesty would forbid his reminding the craft of this paper, but this subject is one of such vital importance that we are anxious that it should get before our repre sentatives for their consideration. We would suggest that the president fix a time and publish a request that the article might appear in all of the papers about the same time. Because Governor Ellerbe has sought the opinions of the ministers with reference to the operation of the dispensary law, he has given mortal offense to such newspapers as are op posed to the dispensary and who are laboring hard to bring back the bar room system. A few pretended pro hibition papers have joined in the denunciation of the governor, but it will avail them nothing. The people are heartily sick of the way things are running since the Simonton decision giving men the right to over-ride all law and decency, has had full swing. The original package shops are being conducted in an offensive manner almost everywhere, and the town authorities where they are located,are constantly appealing to the Attorney General to give them some plan whereby they can either put a stop to them, or make them pay a revenue. Greenville, Aiken and other towns have imposed licenses and are going ahead giving the original package men a "hot time" to do business. The Governor is right, under the present complicated conditions to seek all tlre information he can get and when the Genera'l Assembly convenes he will be prepared to give them his views, based upon the wishes of the people of the State. Some of our contemporaries seem surprised at what we had to say on the matter of the Neal-Evans contro versy, but we see no cause for sur prise. It is true that last year we re garded John Gary Evans the Reform candidate for the United States Sen ate, and as a factionalist we gave him our support. This support was in creased by what we considered most outrageous and slanderous attacks upon him and which we believe would have been made at that time against another Reformer. Charges were made upon the stump that were never attempted to be proven and he was defeated, the victiui of slander and misrepresentation. But later events have shown him to be no better than his traducers and in the last primary, in order to build up his chances he undertook to defame the character of a friend of his opponent, and to do this lie crawled into a sick chamber and from it dragged and exposed to phblic view an affliction which was laid upon a man by an allwise Provi dence. He endeavored to make cap ital out of Col. Neal's affliction by distorting the facts and by endeavor ieg to bring shame and disgrace upon a maan for no other reason than he was an influential obstacle against his reaching the goal of his ambition. We therefore could not endorse a man who will resort to such methods and having once been a supporter, we felt it was our duty to declare our renun ciation of him. BUCKiLEN'S ARINIGA SALVE. The best saive in the world for cuts, bruises, sores, ulcers. salt rheumn, fever sores, tetter. chapped hands, chilblains, corns and all skin eruptions, and positively carcs piles,or no pay required. It is guar anteed to give perfect satisfaction or money refunded. Price 25c. per box. For sale by Major E. H. Aull, editor of the Newberry Herald and Newsris the greatest schemer throughout the whole State of editors. He is always on the lookout for a good scheme and he is always successful. On the 15th of next month he will begin the pub lication of the "Southern Farmer and Horticulturist," with Prof. J. S. New man of Clemson College as editor. This journal is to be a purely agricul tural paper, devoted to the farm and home. It will fill a long felt want, and we hope it will be a great suc cess, as we feel assured that it will. This paper will be divided into va rious departments and each one will be looked after with great care. It will be issued twice a monthi, 16 pages, at $1 per year. Those desir ing the paper should write now to E. H. Aull, Newberry, S. C. The General Assembly will ba called upon to elect a number of cir cuit judges and a chief justice; from what we have seen, it is very evident that there will be a lively effort made to displace Judge Benet by electing some member of the bar of the first circuit. Judge Benet is one of the most learned men on the bench and we doubt exceedingly if he has his superior as a scholar any where in the State, and if before his elevation to the bench he had been a resident of the first circuit we doubt if there would be any opposition to him, but there is opposition, not because he is not qualified, but because the lawyers of that circuit feel an injustice was done them in forcing upon them a man who lived in another circuit. They regarded it as a reflection and they feel that it was done for a polit ical punishment. We must agree with the idea that the taking of a man from Abbeville and sending him to Charleston would not be done now, because there are no irritating political conditions as was the case when men were taken from one cir cuit to preside over another, and as things have simmered down, and there no longer exists causes for poli tical punishment we think the views f the members of the- various bars throughout the circuits where judges ire to be elected should be made known and respected by the General ssembly. Judges Benet, Buchanan and Watts were all sent from other circuits to preside over the judicial territory they occupy and as far as we know they are giving satisfaction. Judge Buchanan has made himself juited popular in this circuit and we believe were the bars throughout this judicial circuit called upon for i expression Judge Buchanan would be chosen to succeed himself, but nevertheless, the lawyers are the proper judges of a man's qualifica tions and they should have an op portunity of letting the law-makers know their choice. The last primary election was a strong indication that the much craved peace has been re stored, and instead of the Democratic party being divided into two hostile :amps they are now together with their differences settled and ready to aarch in solid phalanx. Then if we are correct, all causes for irritation should be removed and soon will the 3eneral Assembly have such an op ,ortunity. We have not heard of any opposi ;ion to Judge Buchanan of this cir uit and we hope none will arise, be ause he has not only shown himself o be an able and an upright judge, aut an agreeable and a courteous ~entleman. He has not rendered my sensational decision to make no :eriety for himself, but he has worked long with a conscientious modesty which made him strong friends throughout the State, but as we have lready said, we think the position of judge should be filled by a man who as the esteem of those who must ap pear before him regardless of any actional feeling t hat heretofore ex isted. Court. The case against Adam Green :harged with burning a tenant house, that was being tried as we were at press last week came to a sudden stop by the Solicitor announcing to the ourt that he was satisfied the State bad not produced sufficient evidence to justify a conviction and he there Fore consented to the jury bringing a verdict of not guilty. oRAND JURY PRESENTMENT. STATE OF SOUTH CAnoLNA CLARENDON COUNTY. 5 To the Honorable I. D. Wither spoon, Presiding Judge, October term f court 1897: We, the grand jury, would respect Fully make this our last presentment For this year. Ali bills of indictment banded us by the Solicitor- have received atten ti~on at our hands and some disposi tion made of them. In regard to the public offices of the county we beg to report that since the last term of the court, we have by special committee examined them al We think that all of our officers are endeavoring to comply with the law, and find nothing in their conduct requiring criticism at our hands. The records and books of the various offices appear to be neatly kept, and while there were minor details where improvements could be made, yet they were not of sufficient importance to require presentation, and we have made admonitions and suggestions to correct all small irregularities that that we discovered. We have examined the books of the Magistrates of the county and find them regular and as wvell kept as is necessary. They have not neglect usual time required before court for papers to be handed in. We have also by special committee examined the county Poor House and find it in its customary condition. Some little repairs are needed on some of the buildings, but the county supervisor tells us he has arranged to have this done soon. We have looked into the workings of the chain gang and find that the ex penses of the same are not as heavy as we at first supposed. We think that it is serving a good purpose, and that the work on roads and bridges is being done as economically as could be reasonably expected. We therefore think that the chain gang system should be given further trial before we make any criticisms upon it. Since the office of clerk of court has been provided with a fireproof vault we suggest that the iron safe former ly used in that office but now not used all, be repaired and placed in office of the probate judge, in order that that officer may better protect his records. We also recommend that the county supervisor provide the probate judge with another case for papers in his office, which can be done at an outlay of only a few dol lars. We think that he can use some of the cases formerly used in the clerk of court's office for this purpose. Our attention has been called to the fact that certain parties are prac. ting medicine in the county who have not deplomas and are therefore not registered in the clerk of court's office as practicing physicians. We desire to call attention to this matter, and if same continues it will receive attention in more definite shape at the next term of the court. We also note that the law is being grossly violated by many parties in regard to the trafficing in seed cotton without paying the license. We un derstand that many of our citizens in the county buy seed cotton with out license and we cannot expect the laws to be obeyed by the more ignorant when it is violated by many of our best citizens. We therefore recommend that the law against buy ing seed cotton be more rigidly en forced or then be Stricken from the statute books, and we call upon the Magistrates throughout the county to look more closely to its enforce ment in their respective communities. There are also continued violations of the game and fish trapping laws, and the attention of Magistrates is also called to this. We recommend that Mr. J. H. Lesesne be paid the sum of twenty dollars for services rendered as ex pert to us in our various examina tions. In conclusion we desire to thank your Honor for your clear and forc ible charge as to our duties. All of wbich is respectfully sub mitted. W. G. FRERsoN, Foreman. Court re-convened Tuesday and arguments before the judge were heard, but the jurors did not report until Wednesday morning. Jury No. 1 was organized with Mr. Jake Har in as foreman and Mr. J. M. Rich ardson foreman of jury No. 2. t As we go to press the court is en gaged in trying the case of Moses Levi vs. John J. Gardner, and the resti of the week will probably be occu pied clearing up the various land ases on the civil docket. The News in Jordana. The people of Jordan have just had the pleasure of entertaining the Wo man's Foreign Missionary Society Conference of the Sumter District. The first meeting was held Friday evening and several addresses of wel come were made, these being re sponded to by one of the delegates. Three sessions were held on Satur day. The morning was devoted to earing reports from the societies in this district. All rendered good re ports and seemed hopeful of greater progress during another vear'. The other services were informal and the ladies talked freely of the best plans for making their work successful. Some of these people he-e do not believe that women should take such an active ipart in these public meet-( ings, but this was quite a strong ar gument against their belief.t On Sunday morning the pastor prei. hed the sermon for the occasion and the evening the Epworth League ad a missionary rally instead of the regular meeting. There were nine delegates present, representing dif ferent societies. Mrs. Wightmnan, State president, and Mrs. Stubbs, district secretary, presidad over the deliberations of the conference. CoR. I Jordan, S. C., Oct. 19. A Small Riot at Carlisle. OLUMmIA, S. 0., Oct. 25.-Stark's eircus attracted a crowd of negroes to arlisle, who, being liberally supplied with liquor, became disorderly. Two were arrested and put in the wooden guardhouse. In the- evening the crowd surrounded the jail to liberate the pris oners. With guns and pistols they stood the whites off. Union was wired to for assistance. H.- policemen, with a supply of rifles, weg t up. armed the arlisle citizens and dispersed the mob, arresting eight of the ringleaders. The Negro Brote Captured. BENNrSVILLE, S. 0., Oct. 25.-Dan Morrison of Rockingham, N. C., has arrived in town, bringing with him John Aispaw, a negro, who is charged with assaulting Miss Qole, a young operative~in the Pee Dee mill. The negro was brought here for safe keep ing. There is much excitement in Rockingham, and it would not be a surprise if a mob from North Carolina comes here and lynches the negro. shot by Her son-In-Law. SAVANxAH, Oct. Z5 -Matilda Farrell was shot and killed on the Teifair road near this city by her son-in-law, Isaac Small. The murderer also shot at his wife but did not strike her. He then escaped. All parties are negroes. THE C0OMING WOMIAN who goes to the club while her husband tends the baby, a. w ell as the good old fashioned woman wh.' looks after her home, will both at times get run down in health. Thy will be troubled with loss of appetite, hedaces,~ sleeplessness. fainting or dizzy pll. The muost wondergni remedy for tee women is Electric Bitters. Thous an s of sufferers from lame back and weak kdneys. rise up and call it bles~sed. It is the medicielo for the women. Female comn pants and nervous troubles of all kinds ire soon relieved by the use of Electric Bit ter. Delicate women 4ihould keep this reeayl on hand to build up the system. Only 50 cents per bottle. For sale by R. B3. I Lo.,. a 1 AGAINST A LEASE SYSTEM. North Carolina Penitentiary Directors Opposed to Hiring Out Convicts. RALEIGH, Oct. 28.-The penitentiary directors have decided that the convicts should noge leased, as the general sen timent in the state is strongly against leasing. Chairman Dockery says an excellent showing is made by Superintendent Smith as to the farming operations and that after paying the debts there will be $250,000 Surplus. putti'ng cotton at a basis of 5 cents, and that there will be also plenty of grain and feed for an other year. A proposal from a Petersburg firm for conviots to make shirts in the peniten tiary was referred to a committee. It was decided that all incompetent em ployes should dropped and the peni tentiary not ade 8 refuge for office seekers. Train Eills a Somnambulist. JESUP, Ga., Oct. 28.-Northbound passenger train No. 18, on the Southern railway, struck and instantly killed a man at Pendervis, a flag station 11 miles south of Jesup. He was walking in the center of the track approaching the train and was supposed to have been asleep. since he paid no attention to the train. A health certificate and receipt for $30 were found on his body. These were in favor of August Sales bury of Chicago, Die., and were dated Oct. 18, 1897. This is supposed to be the dead man's name. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, COUNTY OF CLARENDON. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. John B. E. Sloan and Louis F. Sloan, co partnars as J. B. E. Sloan & Son, plain tiffs, Against Quitman S. Hodge, defendant. Summons for Relief, Complaint not Served. To the defendant, Quitman S. Hodge, above named: Yon are hereby Summoned and required to answer the complaint in this action, which has been filed in the Clerk's office for said County, and to spree a copy of your answer to the said complaint on the sub scribers, at their office, in the city of Sum :er, in Sumter County, State of South Caro ina, within twenty days after the service hereof, exclusive of the day of such service; Ind if you fail to' answer the complaint within the time aforesaid the plaintiffs in his :action will apply to the Court for the relief demanded in the complaint; and you he said Quitman S. Hodge, are hereby no ified that the complaint in the above en itled action has this the twenty-second day f October, A. D. 1897, been filed in the of ice of the Clerk of the Court Common Pleas for the County of Clarendon, in said state, dated Octobber 22:1. A. D. 1897. PURDY & REYNOLDS, Plaintiffs' Attorneys. 14-6t) Notice. Office Superintendent of Education, Clarendon County. Until further notice I will be in - office every Saturday, from 9 a. m. to 1 m. and rom 2 p. in., to 5 p. m. Other days si 11 be pent in visiting the schools. W. S. RICHBOURG. Supt. Education, C. C. Manning, S. C., Feb. 1st 1897. TAX NOTICE. )ounty Treasurer's Office, Clarendon Co. Manning, S. C., September 18, 1897. The tax books will be open for the co ection of taxes for the fiscal year commen ug January 1st, 1897, on the 15th day of )cto'ber, 1897, and will remain open until he 31st day of December, following, after rhich time a penalty of 15 per cent, at aches to all unpaid taxes. The following is the tax levy: For State purposes, five (5) mills. For Constitutional School Tax, three (3) ills. For Ordinary County Tax, three and hree-fourths (3)) mills. For Past Indebtedness, or.e-half of one till (1.2). Total 12 1.4 mills (outside of ~pecial School Tax.) Special two (2) mills, School Tax, School )isrict-No "39". Total 14 1.4 mills chool District "19."~ Special four (4) mills, School Tax. School )istrict-No. "7". Total 16 14 mills School istrict '"7". Special four (4) mills, School Tax, School istriet--No. "20". Total 16 1-4 mills, chool District "20". Every male citizen between the ages of wenty-one and sixty years, except those neapable of earning a support from being uaimed or from other cauoes, and except hose who are now exempt by law, shall be '-emed taxable polls. The law requires that Commutation Roadl ..x shall be paid for the succeeding year a' n State and County Taxes are paid. S. J. BOW.MAN, Treasurer Clarendon County. Fo Consumers of L.ager Beer: Tlhe Germania Brewing Company, of barleston, S. C., have made arrangements ith the South -'Carolina State authorities vs which they are enabled to fill orders. romt consumers for shipments of beer in ny quantity at the following prices: Pints, patent stopper, 60c. per dozen. Four dozen pints in crate, $2.80 per crate. Eighth-keg, $1.25. Quasrter-keg. $2 25. Half-barrel, $1.50. Exports, pints, ten dozen in barrel, $9. It will he necessary for consumers or arties ordering, to state that the beer is for rivate consumptionl. We offer special ates for .these shipments. This beer is ;uaranteed pure, made of the choicest hops .d malt, and is recommended by the edical fraternity. Send to us for a trial rd er. Brewing Comnany, Charleston. S. C. W HE N YOU COME TO TOWN CALL AT WELLS' SHAVING SALOON Which is fitted up with an eye to the comfort of his customers.... .. .. HAIR-CUTTING IN ALL STYLES, S HAVIN G AND SH AMPOOING .Done with neatness and dispatch.... ....,. A cordial invitation is extended... J. L. WE LLS. Notice to Creditors. All persons having claims against he estate of William L. Peagler, de eased, will presenlt them duly at ested and those owing said estate sill make payment to T HEOD)OCIA L. PEAGLER, Administratrix. Jordan, S. C., Oct. 8, 1897. \ILSON & DURANT, Attorney and Cou'nselors at Law, M ANLTNG S. C. GREAT REDUCTION SALE AT I MOSES LEVI'S, iw TWTIw All goods marked down and the stock mast be sold. From now on look in THE TDIES for bar gains, such as never have been offered in this market betore. Competition is the life of trade and I pro pose to make my competitors keep on the alert through this season. I am too busy opening up the large quan tities of goods of all kinds now daily arriv ing to devote much time to other matters, but I stop long enough to say to the people that all of my goods are subject to the greatly reduced prices. For the present I will mention these prices: SHOES. Ladies' Dongola Button, worth .$1.25-73c. James Means' Celebrated $3 now going at $2.25. Reynolds' Famous $2 to be sacrificed at $1.48. Later I will give you prices of other grades that will wake up and astonish you. Listen-Shirting Prints, fist colors, 4c. per yard. Merrimack Shirtings at 5c. per yard. The handsomest line of Dress Goods in the market. - Clothing, Hats, Notions and Trimmings, all to be sold at marvelously low figures. Watch me and I will show you where to secure bargains. MOSES LEVI. Oar third Car Load of Stock arrived last week. Our fourth and fifth will reach here about the last of this week. H. HAFRE3Y, sUJ3rrER, .. - - ...C Furniture, -:- TT FSUTAOIA :- Furniture. CUTO OMNPES Our stock is up to date in RbcaM alca~n ereW QUALITY and PRICE.StfesDfndt. Bed Room Suits at a great bar- UDRA))B ITEO ain. Jdmn re fteCuto Our Oak Safes are beauties. acintomdreeadbaig Poplar Safes at $2.75 and up. lcacin otehgetbde Poplar Beds $2 and up. a anni adCntwti Mattresses $2. Mnate1tdyo oebr Oak Cab Seat Rockers are the dsrbdra sae heapest we ever had. ln nw ste~~do ens Chairs too numnerous to mention. pae otiigFu ude n Undertaking Department al- bigi adSaeadcuto masrayfor business,.nteNrhb ad fIacHi AL~.1AAAAMLLAnett;Couty olandonhadC Thaesorge Wtfes by. land ofrankM M. C CHADLE. Purchans, o parners eog W. Stef.ens Bons P A, Stor BelwuBak.eOt of ForeeosurandSale Judgment OrderTof the Court o dateJune2nd,1897pt.wll1sll1a9pub In accordanceiwithtoettiohi49etGendral Stautsitisunawfl orpesof o ~Rcsa BCLarnoort ue, gage inaorMoffergfornaleaanyCpintolwrihie catrdgs es ha . aibeormtal leg lEur frudiclsT so knucklesnwithoutefirst haviog obtained, licens there1r89Ha being raeesd ath fullwing Now, therefoectakednotce: Asyaper son foundldealingpincpistolrecartridgesoo knucleswitoutfrt hvin padltnth nown' an th'idDenns' County ~placefcontdolarsgforua licenee wil be roecued an i covited teyshall ee nes Conftelineryn be punishednbyin saie ottovera$500,uoryiion prisnednotmor thn oe yar r wbtnOe-Hlf nd Oe, Pond bones. on ththNrthourt'sdsdoscraecioni T. CeyE, Friendy Delain ous Whte Supervilads fortat JaesC.n SUPERVISR'S NOTI e t; Sou1th, byQC ladf O~RiechadC. OFFIE CO NYSUPEVISO, Thames and ein our stlkand ofos.M CherifEClarndon ounty Coutyuprors oBelowile penk. n eigtteee of usnes. heoter ay o thOcekI . th 187 [11-4 wil heoutoftfice.tnigt od U~ m andbId Es OF COUNTYll UPERVIRUGST MANN:N, T. Cp. OW,187 CoutySneriso. thereTEforN ORAR I II WEDN ESDAY, No v.3, WILL GIVE A GREAl BARGIN Sli3 Dry Goods, Shoes, Hats and Clothing will be sold at prices unheard of to the people of this County. +c poo~o~oso.o 5,000 yards heavy check Homespun at 3 3-4c per yard; usual price 5c. 2,000 yards heavy sea island Homespun, 4 1-4c per yard. '20 dozen of the best men's $1.50 Shoes you ever saw, in :>als and congress, at $.125 per pair. 20 dozen ladies' real dongola button Shoes will be sold at $1.25; usual price 1..50. 20 dozen ladies' heavy pebble grain button Shoes will be. sold at $1; usual price 1.2.5. One case heavy gray mixed Blankets will be sold at 85c :>er pair; usual price $1. One case very nice 10--4 gray Blankets will be sold at 50c per pair; usual price 6.5c. One case heavy all-wool Blankets, silk bound and has never been sold in this market for less than $4.50 and 5.00 per pair. We will only ask you on that day 3.50 per pair. One case good heavy single Comforts will be sold at 45c each: usual price 60e. Five dozen jeans Pants at S0c per pair that sell every-. where at $1. 20 dozen gent's white unlaundried Shirts at 20c each; sually sold at 35c anid 40c each. 2() dozen gent's dark negligee Shirts at 20c each; usu lly sold at 30c. 1,000 pair gent's grood seamless half Hose at 4c per pair hat are usually sold at Sc per pair. . 00. .o......s. We will sell everything in the store on that day at greatly reduced prices and we have a very large stock of goods,hence we wvill be able to please every body that conmes that day WEDNESDA Y, NOV. 3,'97. Yours truly, W. E. JENKINSON. II