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PERSONAL* MENTION. ^ People 'Visiting in This City and at Other Points. ?Mr. Isaac M. Loryea spent Moni day in Columbia. ?Mrs. A. E. Cave, of Lees, was in t the city Tuesday. ?Mr. W. H. Faust, of Denmark, was in the city last Friday. ?Mr. A. A. Zeigler, of Ehrhardt, was in the city Tuesday. ?Mr. J. R. Owens, Sr., spent last Friday and Saturday in Charleston. ? ?Dr. and Mrs. J. L. Copeland, of Ehrhardt, were in the city Monday. ?Mr. W. C. Patrick, of Columbia, spent a few days in the city this I week. ?Mr. V. Bounds, spent a few days this week with his parents in Ben? nettsville. ?Mrs. M. W. Brabham, of Raleigh, N. C., is in the city on a visit to relatives. ?Miss Nellie Murphy, who has been teaching in Marion, is at home for the summer. ?Mr. Benjamin Hill, who has been attending Clemson college, is at home for vacation. ?Mr. Marion Cooner is at home from the University of South Caro1 lina, for the summer vacation. ?Mr. David B. Hill graduated at Clemson college last week, and is at home for the summer vacation. ?Mr. F. M. Moye, of Columbia, spent a few days in the city this week on a visit to relatives and friends. ?Mr. Clarence E. Black, who ?. graduated in the law department of the University of South Carolina, came home last week. ?Miss May Justice, who has been mililner for Mrs. A. McB. Speaks & Co. the past season, has returned to *i her home in North Carolina. ?Mr. J. Clyde O'Neal, of Savannah, spent several days in the city last and this week on a visit to his * * parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. T. O'Neal. ?Mr. and Mrs. A. Kirsch went Y down to Charleston last week to attend the graduating exercises of the Citadel, as their son, Carl, graduated. , , ?Mr. Carl Kirsch returned home || last Friday night from the Citadel, where he graduated. His graduation creates a vacant scholarship from [ this county. I ?Miss Nell Roper, who has been | milliner at Hooton's for* the spring V season, left Tuesday to visit friends i in Aiken. From there she will go to her home in Atlanta. 3k ?Misses Gladys and Eunice Johns, of Baldoc, who have been spending some time in the city with their \ grandmother, Mrs. M. L. Johns, returned home last Friday. ?Mr. R. P. Bellinger, who is attending the University of South CaroI* lina, spent a few days in the city last week. He went on to Augusta to visit his mother and sister. ?Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Free, of Sum1 merton, arrived in the city last week for a visit to relatives. Mr. Free has returned to Summerton, but Mrs. Free will be here for some time yet. ?G. W. Rentz, of Ehrhardt, was in the city last Monday to meet his son, Eddie W. Rentz, who was on his i way home from Newberry, where he has been attending Newberry college. ?Headmaster J. C. Guilds returned from Spartanburg Monday night, where he had been attending th? State meeting of the Epworth League. Mr. Guilds was elected president. > ?Mr. W. A. Klauber spent several days in Charleston last week, he going down to attend the commencement exercises of the Citadel, of which he is a graduate. He attended tne alumni oanquex inursaay evening. ?Miss Lynn Riley, who has been i ,' teaching over in Georgia, is at home for the summer vacation. Miss Riley BjL will have charge of the primary deVjjflL partment at the Carlisle Fitting B&, School next year, and her many Wg friends will be delighted that she is B to remain at home. |i| ?-Dr. and Mrs. Geo. F. Hair and |h daughter, Miss Blanche, and son, B Belton, Mr. W. D. Rhoad, Francis m Bamberg, and Miss Alma Sandifer 8BI left Tuesday for an extended trip HF through the West. They will be away SP? about a month. Their itinerary will Hf include a number of Western cities, r Yellowstone Park, etc. Ha Knew How. I The lawyer of the convicted pickpocket took the fine imposed upon his client very much to heart, says the New York Sun. "Twenty-five dollars," he expostulated. "Your honor, where is this poor unfortunate man to get $25?" His honor did not know, or if he did he refrained from saying so, but the prisoner was less discreet. "Just let me out of here for 10 or 15 minutes," he said, "and I'll show you." NECK BROKEN. Girls is Cured?Walks alter Four- 1 teen Months. Picked up for dead but saved from the dead wagon before it started for * the morgue, when a faint sign of life d was detected, 18-year-old Esther Har- 0 ris, whose escape from the Triangle ^ fire last year was made at the cost b of a broken neck and back has been * cured. r Unable to move even a finger for a eleven months after the tragedy, in e which 147 men and women were a killed, she can now stand and walk ^ unassisted; a feat rare in surgery a whose teachings are that in almost every case of total paralysis result- S ing from a fracture of the neck the v victim never regains command of mo- s tion. For fourteen weeks Esther lay un- ^ conscious. The doctors at St. Vin- t( cent's hospital told her she had only r q four u-oeks tn livp. Finallv shp was Of IV fl ? VV"V vv -- . W. ? W? w ? ?? taken home to die. Then, on the bare p hope it might help, a method old in li lesser cases hut unprecedented in to- b tal disability, was tried by the chief t< surgeon, Dr. Henry W. Prauenthal, at fi the Hospital for Deformities and g Joint Diseases. s< Esther Now Walks Every Day. ? It worked beyond the most san- f: guine expectations, and after being v absolutely unable to move in the bed T. to which she was confined for eleven months, Esther now gets up every ^ day and walks a little further than n the first two steps she took on Wash- a ington's birthday. She wears a stiff r, steel and leather harness to support p her neck, but in a few months it is 0 hoped this will be discarded and her c escape from a death in life will be 0 complete. tl Esther owes her life to the coolness a and nerve that enabled her to save tl herself, when the last opportunity v was presented. While it was her lead- e ership that enabled a score of others r, to escape incineration, it brought about her serious injuries. a She jumped for the elevator cables on the ninth floor of the flaming ? a building and started to slide down. Immediately after her a man jumped. He lost his hold and fell.' His body struck the girl as she had reached the sixth floor. She hurtled through the shaft to the basement, where she fell on top of the cage. ? She landed on her back and neck. On top of her fell twenty other girls and men who had used the only hope of escape from the crematory that the eighth and ninth floors had been transformed into. Lost All Sense of Feeling. ^ The impact had broken her neck, ^ yet she did not lose consciousness for an hour or more after. But her sensibilities had been killed. She felt no ^ pain. Even when a heavy body fell y directly across her legs she would not ^ have knowm it if she had not seen it. Then she swooned. It was while in ^ that condition that she was removed c< from the Washington place elevator shaft, from which forty bodies were ? taken, and she was put in the dead pile for shipment to the morgue. It a was only as she was being loaded into the wagon that life movements were a noticed and she was placed in a St. Vincent's ambulance. Her story came to light through tl the action of Max Steurer, counsel 2 for Harris & Blanck, the firm owning h the Triangle Waist Company, ^nploy- ^ ers of the men and women who were k killed. He made a gift in beiialf of i] his clients to the hospital in. which 0 the girl's cure had been effected and M to other hospitals in which some of a the injured were treated. Esther Harris is the niece of Isaac Harris, ^ who with his partner Blanck was tried on the charge of manslaughter d and acquitted. , c Hope to Have Her Home in a Month. & Esther's family lives at No. 769 i] Howrard avenue, Brooklyn. There her s mother and father expect her to be again to stay within another month. ^ At the hospital Esther shares their belief. ' c In her fall she fractured the fourth j3 and fifth cervical vertebrae. This is " the spine at the base of the nqck, the 8 lower bone being just on a line with p the shoulder blades. Either fracture i3 is set down as fatal, doubled the g chances for recovery were none, it was ^ believed. Her family was told that J death was only a matter of a few e days or weeks. = T After three months in St. Vincent's a Esther seemed to be fulfilling the prediction as to the certainty of her e death. She had wasted from a girl C( of 130 pounds to one weighing less C( than 85. She had upset the calcula- ^ tions as to the length of time she ^ would hold on to life, but even this r tenacity did not alter the belief of the six eminent surgeons who had a conferred on her case. Thereupon e her people concluded that if she was ^ to die she had best die at home, so she was taken there to await the h end. e This was in July. She lay on a e bed at her home free from bandages, able to talk, but quite immobile. Then in December she was taken to v the Deformities and Joint Diseases t Institution at One Hundred and n FIGHT AT BENTOXVELLE. low a Confederate Soldier Buried His Brother. On the 19th day of March, 1865, Kershaw's old brigade, then Kennedy's, had been bringing up the rear ?f Hardee's corps for several days, in act ever since we had left Averysorough, N. C., where we had a batle. On the morning of the 19th we eceived orders to press forward with 11 possible speed. In the morning arly we could hear cannonading way in the direction we were going. Ve were urged forward ever; now nd then the command "Close up;" Keep in your places;" "No Stragling; keep up." About 10 o'clock ?e had got near enough to hear the mall arms. Maybe now we were in our miles of the battle. We would ave to go at double quick some time o keep up with the officers, who were iding in front. A little after noon we reached the lace where the fighting was. Our ines were doing the charging. Of all attles I had ever been in or listened ~ T TTT O C VlAOvioot J, 1 LJUUUg J_lL. LUIS nao ? *v/uv ring I had ever heard. As we were etting near enough to hear the creeching of the shells we met Gen. lardee and staff coming from the ront. Some one asked Gen. Hardee rhich side was doing the pressing, te said the enemy. Just before reaching the battlefield 'e were ordered to the left. We had ot gone very far before ourfront met squad of cavalry trying to gain the ear of our line of battle; but we surrised them and they retreated at nee, but not until they had made one harge and found they had met a line f infantry. We did not get near to hem, but I saw a few prisoners and few riderless horses. We were on he extreme left of Johnstone's line, ye formed a line of battle and waitd snrnp time but the cavalry never sturned. We were then moved to the right nd formed in line in rear of the :oops that were fighting. We were dvanced till we came to a line of rorks that our lines had driven the nemy from. Our lines were still ressing them. We were halted here nd held in reserve till late in the vening,when we were ordered to adance over the works. We went on hrough the pines into the heaviest ring I ever heard. We did not see lany killed or wounded; neither did fe hear many bullets. We kept adancing. After a while we came up rith two lines of battle lying on the round, loading and firing with all heir mi^jht. We asked what they rere firing at. They said the enemy rere right in their front. We were rdered to halt and commence firing. Ve had those woods so full of smoke ou could not see a man any distance 1 front. I guess the enemy were not very ir off, for we had several men in our ompany wounded. When night came n we got mixed up with the Yanees." We captured some prisoners nd lost some men. Capt. Tom Ducktt was captured when he went after drink of water. This ended all the hard fighting at his place (Bentonville,) although here was come sharp fighting the Oth and 21st. I had a brother who ad gone through the whole war; had een wounded twice before, and was | illed by a %tray bullet on the evenig of the 21st. Wc had to leave him n the battlefield till night before re could carry him off. We had an mbulance come to haul him in and wo comrades, Sergeant Wilson and acob Crouch, with James McKitrick driving the ambulance. It was iark and raining, and the driver ould not see his way. We lighted torch and were going along a road i the woods where the enemy could ee our torch, and they commenced 0 throw shell at our torch, and kept t up till we had to put out the orch and make our way the best we ould in the dark. We finished buryig him about eleven o'clock at night 1 a hard rain. We had no box or ubstitute for a coffin; we just wraped him in his blanket, cut his name 2 a cartridge box lid, tacked it on a arden palling and stucK it up at nis ead. This was the last fighting ohnstone's army did.?James Mitch11, in Newberry Observer. wenty-fourth street and Madison venue. That the spinal cord had been sevred by the broken bones of the olumn was the belief of the St. Vinent's surgeon. That was why they rere certain the girl could not get rell. heights Attached to Legs and Head. Esther was placed on a flat board nd a weight of 15 pounds put on ach leg at the foot and an equal weight swung from the head. These Drty-flve pounds pulled and racked er body into a rigid position wherein ach bone was stretched into its propr place. Don't complain about the hot feather. The cotton planters say his sort of weather is needed to lake the cotton grow. CANDIDATES BEGIN CANVASS. Blease and Jones Join Debate in Court House at Sumter. Sumter, June 18.?Candidates for : State offices to-day began their weary grind, the county-to-county canvass ; opening in the court house here this : morning. Gov. Blease was the first , speaker, John T. Duncan the second , and Ira B. Jones the third. The can- j vass continues through August 22, ending at Greenville. The party ap- i pears in Charleston on July 5. , 1 T 1 ? .1 ?2 i. jDica&e duu dunes met lur me urst < time in a political campaign debate. < The crowd was assembled from four j counties and interest in the speeches 1 was keen. The keynote of Gov. 1 Blease's speech was that of the rule < for the people, while Judge Jones < made the same claim and appealed < for good government. He assailed 1 many features of Gov. Blease's ad- 1 ministration. Second interest was < centered in the race for attorney gen- < eral. The last part of the meeting < was held inside the court house, \ whereas the candidates for the gov- ' ernorship were heard in the open. Gov. Blease prefaced his speech with the statement that two years ' ago, it was predicted his administra- ] tion would bankrupt the State, but 1 that yesterday he had signed notes to 5 fVio omnnnt nf t A A 0 AAA of tVio rata 1 mc ouiuuuv ui i v v,v v v av vug iui<v of 3 per cent. He then started his regularly prepared speech. The- gov- 1 ernor started to speak shortly after 11 o'clock and was greeted with 1 cheers in his speech. Gov. Blease 1 called upon the voters to elect a gov- 1 ernor of the people as opposed to a ^ candidate brought out by the news- ^ papers. 1 Gov. Blease referred to the State ( Democratic convention and mentioned Lewis G. Parker, his attorney, H. J. i Haynsworth, "one W. F. Stevenson," ] corporation attorneys and other financiers, who, he said, "controlled the convention against Cole L. 5 Blease." He said the farmers and * common people were not represented ^ in the convention. "Three cheers for Blease!" rang out a voice in the crowd and it brought cheers. He said : the newspapers and "corporation . ring" were attempting to wrench from the people their right to express { their choice for the governorship. j Won't Weep, If Defeated. \ Gov. Blease stated that his desire to be governor had been fulfilled, and ' that if he were defeated this year, he would have no tears to shed; that he : "was governor and had been govern- j or." (Cheers again.) "Newspapers 1 and corporations," the governor fre- 1 quently referred to as his bitterest j enemies. The governor took up the . matter of taxes and spoke of his opposition to spending so much money \ for the State educational institutions and so little on the common schools. < He touched on the education of ne- 1 groes and expressed his opposition to negroes being taught by white . teachers. Gov. Blease expressed his opposi- : tion to employing an attorney to go about over the State managing his campaign, and he said he had no cor- ; poration or large money interest back ( of him. Newspapers were frequently ! asailed by the governor, and he want ed to know who was "paying the i money" to finance the campaign of J his opponent. He said he had proof . that money1 had been used to buy votes against him and he said he had heard it said that the Jones crowd ! had boasted that if it could not beat . Blease it would "count him out." "I _ _ __ _ J* XL _ I promise to be a governor 01 me people, for I am one of the people," end- ! ed the governor, and he took his seat amid cheers. He spoke half an hour. Duncan Also Attacks Press. ( - John T. Duncan was the second < speaker. He referred to the commit- ] tee investigating the dispensary af- 1 fairs, and said it had resumed its j probing on the edge of the campaign. Reduced "graft" expulsion were the themes of the second speaker. He ' asasiled newspapers and charged { narrow partisanship. I Mr. Duncan could hardly speak for < the shouts hurled at him, and several : times the crowd had to be called to ' order. Judge Jones's Platform. Former Chief Justice Jones was . the next speaker. He started his speech amid silence and attention. * He stated that he would first outline \ hia platform, and then read his pre- j pared speech. He said: "I stand for county local option." He said he ? stood for support of State educational j institutions, and for improvement | and advancement of the common ] schools. He took a stand for good roads and favored the Torrens system of land registration. He explain- i ed these principles clearly. ] He further favored an employers' j liability law, liberal pensions for \ Confederate veterans, enforcement of i the laws against illegal combinations of capital, protection of the right of every white Democratic citizen to vote 1 in the primaries. He spoke of the J veto by Gov. Blease of the act of the | last legislature allowing only citizens to vote in the primaries. Some one said, "Hurrah for Blease!" and one . other took up the cheer. Judge Jones shouted that there were only i two who then cheered for Blease, ; but votes talked louder than cheers and when the vote is counted it '1 will be seen that those that cheer most vote least. ! Judge Jones outlined his belief as . to the use of the pardon power, and favored scientific agriculture. "Let's J down with the demagogue," cried j Judge Jones in warm tones and a ] few cheers rang out for Blease. < Judge Jones told several jokes ] which were thrusts at those who were . sheering for Blease and he said the cheering would be getting "weaker ! and weaker, and on the 27th of Au- 1 ?ust you will hardly hear it." He i was cheered. As to a second term for 1 Blease, Judge Jones said it was traitDrous to give a man office for a se?t- < Dnd term, who had "debauched" the 1 Dffice. Judge Jones denied that he was backed by corporations, and said \ tie knew the head of the Atlantic Coast Lumber Company, W. H. An- : irews, a Blease man, and the head . counsel for the Southern Railway in this State, "Ben" Abney, lives in the 1 'White House." ! Lyon to Expose Evans? . Attorney General Lyon in his ] speech made a bitter attack on B. B. 1 Evans, his opponent, and threatened ' lo produce evidence lr mvans did not 3top his attacks on the members of 1 the Ansel dispensary board that , would prove him to have had crooked , lealings with the State. Mr. Evans was allowed a short re- ; ply to deny a statement made by At- 1 torney general Lyon. Mr. Evans said that if Lyon had any records to show : tie had dealt crookedly he would chal- . ienge him to produce them. Lyon replied he would produce them at Bish- [ spville to-morrow. We recover umbrellas and para- I 30ls of all shades and sizes. F. G. MERTINS, Augusta, Ga. Do not desert your work, but pierce ] into its heart, exalt it to its loftiest ! conception, if you would be more holy.?Phillips Brooks. : CANDIDATES' CARDS. . FOB UNITED STATES SENATOR. I I hereby announce myself a can- ] Jidate for the United States Senate, i subject to the rules of the Democratic party. Your support and influence ; will be appreciated. N. B. DIAL, Laurens, S. C. : FOR CONGRESS. ======?1 I hereby announce my candidacy for re-election as Representative of the Second District in the United ' States Congress, pledging myself to abide by the result of the Democratic primary. JAMES F. BYRNES. Ambitious- to represent the people Df the Second District in Congress, I ; respectfully offer my candidacy in the approaching primary for your ; consideration, agreeing to support the nominees of the party. HARRY D. CALHOUN, Barnwell, S. C. FOR SOLICITOR. I hereby announce myself as a candidate for Solicitor of the second judicial circuit of South Carolina, and pledge myself to abide the result of the Democratic primary. On account of the fact of having to hold four terms of court during the months of June and July, it will be impossible for me to make a thorough canvass of the circuit, but I , trust that doing my duty, will appeal to the voters as much as the popular mode of electioneering. R. L. GUNTER. FOR STATE SENATE. I hereby announce myself as a candidate for re-election to the State Senate, subject to the rules and regulations of the Democratic primary. J. B. BLACK. Conveying to the citizen taxpayers . of Bamberg county my appreciation ; of the confidence shown in me by repeatedly electing me to the respon- . 3ible position of County Treasurer, and believing that I can be of greater service to you, I am retiring from , that position and hereby announce myself a candidate for State Sena- , tor from Bamberg county, to which position, if elected, I pledge you my best efforts in the protection of your Interests and the upbuilding of our county and State, and I hereby pledge myself to abide the result of the ' Democratic primary and support the nominees thereof. JOHN F. FOLK. " : HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. I respectfully announce myself as i candidate for the House of Representatives for Bamberg county, subject to the rules and regulations of j the Democratic primary. B. W. MILEY. I am a candidate for the House of Representatives from Bamberg coun- ] ty. and will abide the result of the | Democratic primary. F. F. CARROLL. Grateful to the voters for their mpport two years ago, I hereby an- < iiounce myself a candidate for re- ] election as a member of the House of < Representatives from Bamberg Coun- ] ty, subject to result of the Democratic primary. : J. AQUILLA HUNTER. I hereby announce my candidacy for the House of Representatives. I : svill abide the result of the Democrat- 1 ic primary and support the nominees i thereof. J. WESLEY CRUM, JR. FOR CLERK OF COURT. < With thanks to the voters for their i ? support in the past, I respectfully announce myself a candidate for reelection as Clerk of Court of Bamberg county, subject to the result of the Democratic primary. i C. B. FREE. FOR SHERIFF. - - yjj. Having been solicited by a number of friends, I have decided to offer for Sheriff of Bamberg county, and hereby announce myself as a candidate, pledging myself to abide the result of the Democratic primary ana support the nominees of the party. .'-"3 J. FELDER HUNTER. Grateful to my friends for their eery liberal support some years ago, [ announce my candidacy for the office of Sheriff of Bamberg county, subject to the result of the Democratic primary. S. G. RAY. I hereby announce myself a candidate for the office of Sheriff of Bamberg county, subject to the rules and regulations of the Democratic primary, and pledge myself to support the nominees thereof. J. H. LANCASTER. FOR COUNTY TREASURER. I hereby announce myself as a candidate for Treasurer of Bamberg county, and pledge myself to abide the result of the Democratic primary and support the nominees. I will appreciate the support of the voters and promise you my best service, if elected. GEO. A. JENNINGS. I resneetfullv announce mvself a - candidate for the office of Treasurer., of Bamberg county subject to the rules and regulations of the Democratic primary, pledging myself to'abide the result and support the nominees of the party. If elected I 3hall perform the duties of the office to the best of my ability. - ^ JACOB H. A. CARTER. FOR COUNTY SUPERVISOR. I hereby announce myself a candiJ.I. a At - .on ? ? n * a ? uaie lor me urnue 01 supervisor oi Bamberg county, subject to the rules and regulations of the Democratic primary, and pledge myself to support the nominees thereof. E. C. BRUCE. I respectfully announce myself a candidate for the office of County Supervisor, subject to the rules and regulations of the Democratic primary. If elected I promise to give my entire time and best talent to the work. Respectfully, G. BROOK KINARD. I hereby announce myself as a candidate for Supervisor of Bamberg County, pledging myself to abide the result of the Democratic primary and support the nominees of the party. W. PRESTON MCMILLAN. FOR JUDGE OF PROBATE. I hereby announce my candidacy for re-election as Judge of Probate of Bamberg county, subject to the result of the Democratic primary. G. P. HARMON. I respectfully announce myself a candidate for the office of Judge of Probate of Bamberg county, subject to "the result of the Democratic pri- , mary. H. WHILDEN WALKER. FOR COUNTY COMMISSIONER. I hereby announce myself as a candidate for County Commissioner of Bamberg county, and will abide the result of the Democratic primary. W. PRESTON SANDIFER. , . ,| I hereby announce myself a candidate for County Commissioner of Bamberg county, subject to the rules and regulations of the Democratic primary. W. BARNEY SMOAK. I am a candidate for County Commisisoner of Bamberg county, subject to the result of the Democratic primary. J. J. ZEIGLER. I hereby announce myself as a candidate for County Commissioner of Bamberg county, and will abide the result of the Democratic primary. , ; . H. W. CHITTY. With thanks to the voters for their support in the past, I respectfully announce myself as a candidate for re-election to the office of County Commissioner for Bamberg county. I will abide the result of the primary. G. W. FOLK. FOR COTTON WEIGHER AT BAMBERG. I respectfully announce my candidacy for Cotton Weigher at Bamberg, subject to the result of the Democratic primary. G. L. KINARD. I hereby announce myself as a candidate for cotton weigher at Bam- , berg, pledging myself to abide the t result of the Democratic primary. G. A. RICE. Vi _? p FOR COTTON WEIGHER AT % EHBHARDT. - I respectfully announce myself as a candidate for Cotton Weigher at Ehrhardt, subject to the result of the Democratic primary. W. D. SEASE. FOR MAGISTRATE AT EHRHARDT = I hereby announce myself a candidate for re-election to the office of Magistrate at Ehrhardt pledging nnaalf ohido tho rooiiH nf the UiJOCli. tv MWiUV WUV A VUU?V V4 VMV Democratic primary and support the nominees thereof. J. C. COPELAND. I respectfully announce myself a candidate for Magistrate at Ehrhardt, pledging myself to abide the result pf the Democratic primary and support the nominees thereof. J. H. KINARD. FOR MAGISTRATE AT OLAR. ??II i i ??? 1 I am a candidate for re-election as magistrate at Olar, and will abide the result of the Democratic primary md support the nominees. 0. J. C. LAIN. I hereby announce myself as a candidate for magistrate at Olar, subject to the result of the Democratic primary. JEFF GUNNELLS. > ' jm