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? r i . n- t wiamiin ti?? irifiw " 3fl?e flteople U j? L1SI$?D EVJSUY Tli^HSDAY. Jr "*?n.?r? t ? r .:??? .y.. j W. A SGHKQCK, Publisher. jgBBSWdPTIOK, $1.50 PER ?l. " {jaiyUcu. S. 2, is THE DISPENSARY SOL TIT viiNT? We are pained to have to in- 1 ^trude the above question 011 tho ^?etiders qt The People agaiu, to prpvo our ] position 111 a /(VjtiQ f wsue. in wnich wo inti ipated doubts ,of t-Ue solvency of >he Great Moral Institution from records tlieu before us, we ^feel it to be our duty to all to give our impression of a later Report qn tlje much piooted sub ject, tlje same being issued a few days ago by State Pispen pary Commissioner Taturn him self, which report it seems to us to be either issued Ijy a man utterly unfamiliar with the sub ject, Qr by one who cannot see 'that 111 questions of figures, Jbhere is not ttye least particle of "difference in liability and adebt. We have reference to tho ri diculous assertion that the sum of S5Qp,(Jf)0 in ropnd numbers, duo by ? the dispensary to the schpol fpnd, is upt a debt, ))ut is Simply a liability. Mr. Tatuui, by adding up the cost of whis kies, wines, beer, supplies, &c., brings put the refreshing f;ict(?) tjiat if tho dispensary was closed 4own today, aud sold out, it would realize more than enough to pay dollar for dollar of its in debtedness. In this report, *Jio\vever? fyir. Tatupi deliberate ly wrote off about $500,000 of fund^ accumulator fur the school fund, ai)d coolly Sj^ys that tnat is merely a liability and nof; adebt. This is gratifying to those iyho hay? fondly believed that the school fund was sacred to 'the uses of the common schools. in ?his case you pay for what you don't get, and get a whole Jot less than yvu pay for. The report, as a whole, is a Chinese puzzle to all except those ;who want to belieyo in the bal ance brought do\ytj, whicji seems to bej ij^out $0,000 011 the credit side of the ledger. The goueral assets of the concern are placed at $000,000, a sum absurdly at variance with the market value of tlig stpclf ant} supplies, which we fully jjeJjeve would not bring an average of thirty cents on the dollar. We would much pre fer to think the dispensary sol vent, but we want more light on the school fund and we also want jo be convinced that a liability is not a debt. Occasion ally wo have to go into debt to others, aiid it is occasionally a little inconvenient for us to meet our liabilities, so if our debt is pronounced by competent au thority to t>e 110 debt, but simply a liability, we will fuel so much better. See? State Cainpalu" Meet Jug. The State campaigners holti tlieir meeting at the court house bu the *^7 th, nit., as scheduled. Tt was well attended, the audi ence being estimated at 400 to 500. The meeting was almost featureless, although iVL\ A. <J. Jones and Mr. Richard I. Man ning had quite a little spat over the assertion of Mr. Jones that Mr. Manning would not be in the race was it not for his hone r>f support from Senator Tillman 'and the dispensary, ? The favorites in the guberna torial race seemed to be Ansel, Manning and Rlease. As each of these gentlemen aro running on spnaratp platfprms the im '\>ression is that sentiment on the dispensary question is very much divided. D,|\ T. J. Strait vttended the meeting and made ?i few remarks. The best qf order prevailed as ' he dispensary was closed, and very few of the voters had laid ?y, or put up anything for a I'U-iny, or dry day. Now for the county campaign, iml then, h,o for the August anfl '^ptembcr primaries with the .mbsequont swelled heads of tl^e victors, and reduced craniumsof iho vanquished who've only sat isfaction will he ill explaining liotf it happened. Pi'iKlitfully Itiirncd. '"lull. W. Monro, a machinist, of rd Til, liad Ins hands frigfit ?:'ly burned m an rflntrioal furnace, lie applied Ruokleuta Arnica Jalve t, il|t the nsudl result i "a quick and ut l\'ct euro." Greatest healer on .?art li for Hums, Wounds, Mores, Ke and Pues. SftcatF. Leslie Zemp, | |>rug(^et, * - ? ? ; Ubvr<> Hill Picnic*. As previously announced, the ndiiqifl pipujp of the liberty Hill RMJes was held here on July 21>{t. Ah the ifill is so far from tljp centers of population, it was tiiought by inuny -that the at tendance would be small. These dq^bts were soon dispelled, as loug before the lcin?* pf day reached the zenith, every avail able spot of shade was occupied by people and vehicles. Many of those presept came a distance of twenty tnifos aud more, at least three counties being repre sented. Competent judges es timated the number present ut from 1,-00 to 1,400. We know that it was by far tho largest crowd wo ever saw at this place. It was typical Julv weather. No rain, but passiug plouds teui|MM*ed the rays of the sun, and made tho heat less oppres sive. Tho day was spent in viewing the scenery, listening to tho speeches (meplionof which will be found below), watching a game of base ball between the Heath Spring and Liberty Hill nines, and in conversation. Tho best of order prevailed through out, and the only thing to mar tho pleasure of tho occasion was the fact that our popular aud efficient company commander, OapL. John G. Richards was de tained at homo most of the day by the serious illness of a mem ber of his family, who, all hope, will soon be restored to health. VYe forgot to mention tl>at the dinner was not tho least enjoy able feature of the occasion. It was served in groups because of the large uuipber present. The quantity was ample, tho quulity excellent, and all seemed to en joy it to tho fullest exteut. This being campaign year, and as our old "JJeattie"' says, "all Americans arc politicians" for if they were not born during a oampaigti year, they were the year following, we think tho political feature pf the picnic worthy of considerable notice. (Senator Tillman, the principal speaker, and the guest of honor, did not arrive 011 the ground un til 11 o'clock, and being com pelled to return to Heath Spring by Ii:il0 p. m., ho had a very limited time for speaking, and was compelled to take his din uer ou the road. NJr. W. K. Thompson acted sis oljuirman and introduced Scne tqr Tillman who prefaced his re njarlis by saying that he was al ways glad to mget the people of the Liberty Hill section as a }>art of Ijis early education was obtained at p. place of thjit name. \Ve are sorry that we cannot give his able speech in full in stead of ouly a lew points. lie said that even his enemies had 110 fault to find with his actions in the Senate and that he was going to talk about State affairs. For this some criticize him, but he had not lost interest in issues at home, and did not care for criticism, but rather enjoyed it for the ingenuity of the arguments used. He said that the issuo is t he liquor question. It was claimed by some t hat lie foisted the dis pensary 011 the people when t hey htyd voted for prohibition. It was true that the vote for pro hibition was greater than the opposition but 30,000 did not vote on the issue at all. He desired to gi ve the people some thing better than they had, had studied the situation in prohibi tion Maine, and was satisfied that a prohibition law would not prohibit, lie did not like the idea of encouraging lying to gut whiskey, so substituted the dis pensary law. The Senate adopt ed it, and the Mouse accepted it. All his enemies fell in line with the opposition. He tried to got good men for constables but the law and those who triefl to en force |t weye so hounded and abused that it became necessary to get men who would stand and shoot when it became necessary. The result was that some kill ings occurred, but the opposi tion did not mention the number to the credit of tl^e old bar room system. lie was glad when Lumpkin wi;s announced to run as it would have given him something to do. lie is now making the campaign because he believes it is his duty to c}o so. What did the people ele{;t him for if they did not be lieve in him? If he sees the peo ple aboi\t to bo betrayed, and warns them, his enemies say that he is dictating, and wants to be boss. The dispensary should not have been taken out of the hands of the Governor and placed in those of a board of control at a salary of $400 per annum, and no safe guards thrown around their purchasing pqwor. The twfj papers that have led the light on the dispensary say that- prohibition is humbug and what they want is high li cense. Ho inaKos no preten sions to religion, but bow the prohibition members of the last legislature can reconcile their coursp, he ^annot. understand. He is not concerned about men in thjs matter. The legislators of some counties always turn the the Columbia ring. Tili80n,y occurs when the peo ple at home are careless or in l ^ v-^ ? hbwb ? MPBgawqw ^iffereut. b&>ruaf virile nee is* M^o price liberty and j# neoes *i)fy to the jjjiwwuker a? .well as the people. ? . 4 little fyoy was asked what kind of ti?h ho was catching:, and lie replied, Baptist tisli. His explanation wjis, they spoil ed so soon. So with a number of members pf the last legisla ture. Six years ago, Col. Hoy t, a ' prohibitionst, on a prohibition platform, was defeated by Mc Sweeny on a dispeusary plat form. The issue was not raised in the last campaign. The legis lature was not instructed to kill the dispensary which they tried to do. Failing that, they would not try to purify it. ./Vs to State and county dispensaries, ho be lieves the fonder to be the safest and most econpmical. Earnest ly advises against county dis pensaries, or the passage of the Morgan bill, beoause it is a step towards the establishment of the license system. Where does the profit on ex press shipments of whiskey go? To Georgia and North Carolina of course. Jt is a question of doing the best you can with a kuotty problem. , After a pitchfork anecdote, j and a few ple;isant remarks to the ladies and ypung. men, Seuator Tillman clospd amjd the plaudits of the audiance. He was pre sented with a beautiful bouquet of llowerg by a daughter qf Capt. | Richards. Ex-Congressman, Qr. T. .J. Strait a popular candidate for election to his q)d position made an interesting talk. Congress man fiuley ^*as not present. County candidates wore then called for, and Messrs. Dixon for supervisor* Hough for clerk of court and Uussell for auditor, preseuted their claims, as did Mr. |I. H. Horton of Heath Spring for auditor of I^aucaster coun?#y. Thus closed a very pleasant day, que long to be remembered by tljose presput. Hip Van Winkle. Court lfroccc?)ln^. Tho criminal court dragged lis \yeary length along until Wednesday morning of this week. Quite a lot of busiuess was disposed of. Our space iliis week is too limited to give tho cases and results in detail. We mention tl^e case of the County Medical Society against Mr. G. J. Baker as the one of most amusing in terest. M r. Baker was charged with practicing medicine without a license and acquitted, lie was defended by former Solicitor, J. Win. Thurmond. We call youi attention to the presentment of the Grand Jury. It is an interesting document. Terror in Presentment of (lie Grand Jury. Mr. M. 0. West, foreman of chain gang, requests us to call attention to an error in the pre sentment of the Graud Jury con cerning the gang. He states that lie was with the jury com mittee when they examined the gang and its management, an^l that ho showed them 13 convicts, and not 10 as stated, telling them also that he had 13. He says that he regrets to feel it proper to make this statement but that under all the circum stances, the error appears to liini to have been intentional rather than a oversight. ^Advertise in Newspnpers.'* Governor Joseph \V. FolJ;, in addressing the retail merchants of Missouri at their convention, spoke against the mail-order business and favored advert is J inginthe town papers. He said, in part: "Wo are proud of our splendid cities, and we want them to in crease in wealth and population, and we also want our country towns to grow. Wo wish the city merchants to build up,, but we also desire the country mer chants to prosper. I do not be lieve in the mail-order citizen. If a place is good enough for a man to, live in and to mal^e his money in, it is good enough for him to spend his money in. No merchant can succeed with out advertising in one "way or another. Patronize your town papers, build them up, and they w(ll build the town up and build you up increased trade and greater opportunities. " Tin: STATU CAMPAIGN. flneCH ami Dntrs of Meetings Fixed. Cntiidon Mooting 011 Friday, July U7ll?. Tlio special committee of the state Democratic executive com mittee has arranged the follow ing schedule for the staty cam paign meetings: GafTney, Thursday, " 2 Spartanburg, Friday, " 31 Union, Saturday, " 7 ? S ? I UIVDERTAKIIM6 CALLS ATTENDED ANY IIOUU DAY OU NIGHT. :::::: Est, E, O, McCreipht. m*mm- ? ' ? ?*. *A. announcements. For Treasurer. At il?? solicitation of friends, I hereby announce ntiyself a can 4 id a to for reelection to the q$icc pf Treasurer of K'erslmw county. D. M- McCasliji}, For the Spnutc. Mr. Editor: I have boon out of politics for the last twenty years aud had hoped that I would remain in private life. Hut in response to the call of my friends throughout the cpunty 1 have consented to announce my self a candidate for State Senator under the rules of the Democra tic party, Iu doiug this, I pledge myself to do my duty in every thing as I have always done. L. L. Clyburu. Mr. Editor: We take great pleasure in placing the name of Mr. \V. K. Hough before I he peo ple of Kershaw county as a can didate for the Senate. Mr. Hough is well kno>vu throughout the county, having served us faithfully in the past. He is a i young man of sterling business integrity and high character, and will ably represent the in terests of the people in -the Sen ?ate. . Manv Friends. For the fjeffittU^urc. At the request of many frieuds I have decide4 to announce my self a candidate lor the Legisla ture for Kershaw County. I pledge myself to abjde the re sult pf the Democratic primary, and if elected, will serve the peo ple to the best of my ability. tyespeetfully. R. Langley. 1 hereby q,nnotmcc myself :i candidate for ;the Legislature fol* Kershaw county the Demo cratic primary election iu Au gust, and pledge myself to abide the action of the same, and to sqpport the nominees thereof. Respectfully, W. A. Schroctc. Wo hereby present the name of Hon. John G. Richards for re election to the Legislature. Mr. Richards needs no introduction to the poople of Kerslmw coun ty, having already tilled this important position. Mr. Rich ards will make for Kershaw county in the future what In; has in the past ? a fearless aud im partial representative. M r . Richards morits the confidence and support, of the votors of Kershaw county. Many Friends. Mr. Editor: \Ve desire to" pre sent the name of Mr. 1). M. ! thunc as a candidate for the leg islature from Kershaw i:ounty. Mr. Bethune is well known throughout the County and will make a safe and conservative Representative. Having already served the County he is familiar with the duties required of a Rep resentative. Many Friends. For A ml it nr. Mr. Editor: We drs; n? to pre sent the name of Mr. V?\ F. R ?s sell, our cflicieut and i'aiiliie! auditor, for re election, su'?j',cl to the rules of llie Democratic1 primary. No one more suitable' could bo chosen for t his inipor- 1 | taut oftice. Many Friends. To the Democratic Voters of Kcrshnw Co. : I respectfully announce my-, self a candidate for Auditor of, Kershaw county in the ensuing primary election, subject to the rules of the democratic party. If elected, I will give my best thought and service to tin? oliici:. in the interests of the people. Respect I ully, ' W. M. Unison. Hupt. of K<h|f?t ion. We hereby nominate Mr. W. 13. Turner for re-elect iwn to the oftice of Supt. of Education. Mr. Turner has given entire satisfaction, and is to be coin mended for liia fearless dis charge o/ tho duties of the oftice. His many friends will be gratified to see him re-elected. ' Eastern Kershaw.. For County Supervlmir. "We hereby present, the name of ^tr. M. B. McT-eod us u can didate for the office of County Supervisor, anil pledjre him to j abide the result of the primary election. Mr. McT^eod is one of our staunchest citizen*-., and will, if elected, fill tne oltice of Super-) visor to t^e satisfaction of all the people. Yours for (ioodl Government. . Voters. In response to the- wishes of a tyumber of my friends through out the county for me to enter the race for Couut.v Supervisor, I hereby i\pnounce myself a can didate for said office, and pledge myself toqbide the results of the democratic primary election. If elected to said oflico I will give the people the best service of which I am capable, and see that the (iifaii'3 of the otHcn are ad ministered faithfully and im partially li, H. Williams, For !>(i|?'r>^?r. At Ijje solicitation a nmnbej? of my (rieuds, I hereby anuoiuieo > myself a candidate tor Super visor of Kershaw comity, subject lo the rules ?;overniu?c the Demo cratic party. If e looted I will <cive my undivided time and at tention to ilt? duties. D R Dixon Please ar;nounc?' 'Mr. M. C. West a candidate l'or tlio utt'.ce of County Supervisor. Mr. West's knowledge and experi ence with county affairs eminent ly qualities him for thi* position. IJutfalo Township. Clefk of C'?M;rt. We hereby announce Mr. t. C. ilouyh a candidate for Cleric of Court in the approaching pri mary election. Many Friends. At the solicitation of friend*, I hereby announce myself a candidate for Cleric of Court, and pledge myself to abide the result of the Democratic Pri mary election. G. W. Moselev For We hereby present the name j of Mr. J. I?. Nelson as.a cand; date for Magistrate for the upper sectioy of West Wateree in the coming primary election. Mr. Nelson needs no reconimenda tion from us as to his fitness or character, as hp is well known to be one of our best citizens in every sense of the word, and a right man fortjv office. West Wateree. Mr. Editor: Please announce j If. M. Fincher a candidate l'? ?i* i re appoint infill it) DeKalb 'I'dwh ' ship. Ho has made a good peace officer, and merits thei support of the people. Many Friends, i Editor of The People: Plen^e announce the name of W. T. Jetfurs for Magistrate in South West Wateree. Many Voters. ICE! IOeT I I G. W. Crosby's Okl RcliabJn| j Ico House is mow readv 1o s??ryei i vou with 10 E IN ANY Ql*.\N-i ITITV. | Kree Delivery at your ??ite on j regular route. Sunday hours 0 j a. m. to '2 p. in. Your Patronage is solicited. Prompt anil careful attention to j all orders. | G. W. Crosby. IViy\TAL CAKD. The undersigned respect fully informs his friends and patrons that he has resumed his practice. 1. II. Aluxandmk. 1). !). S. Ottice hours from ...in. to ni. Dr. E. G. Kirven Dental Surgeon. ort'K <> v i?: i : DR. F. LESLIE ZEMP'S. C * CX i o ifl T I O U \z O (/) Ti. :i 'JJ -> T ?J. CQ u 7 ? i " ? 2 Si- = ' $ ?' 'j s "? '1; S'js 2 3-as | . ? 0 r, .sr^i a* ^ Y w ? - 2 ^ S r 1 1 ?S ,2 rt -TT ^ ^ A) ~~ I ll2s ?g 1 "iiil ? JD 7( .2 ^ g o K E = ? ? ? -Me 3 la" o U rt y. ;| * c o W 3 TJ PJ flu O O <U Trespass Notice. All persons are hereby notified not to trespass upon our lands in Eastern Kershaw county, in any manner whatsoever. This land j is bounded on the North by hinds of It. M. Cooper, East, by J. A. Outlaw and Willie Ktokes, South by Black Uivor, and West by Finlcy and Ivocbell Hall. Any person viola tin;: this no lice will be p'.;ui.?hbd to the ; ? \ ? ter.t of t he law. C. K. Outlaw, I). J. Outlaw. ?July 20, '00. 01. N b w S 11 ni m 0 r O r e OtOCK Dry oods , Notions, Shoes and Hals. A Splendid Line of Ladies' Goods, Gent's, Youth's and Boy's Clothing. Furniture, Stoves and ether Hardware. i\ c me a call. David Wolfe. Aj^ent for Wannjunali^i ?V !?ro\vn Clothing. ?JLhbmJ mmTb^i iiwany ^u.-'' ? ?.?' .?? rvvii aXr^r - 1 / /; l is e jr ; ; /, iya y. iNlORTH-SOUTM' E^ST WEST Two Daily Pull mail W.-M I . i ? ? ? ? t -?. *.4 * i" i*:? ? ? i li??!\w??n NORTH A^'l> SOUTH, First ( lass C;,vs. The l'.KST ItATKS nm! Kl?i:TK I ?i :.!l I*..wi n < :??.?> Via IJiVl! aiul W AS!II \(!TU.\', ?ii \ ? :i MM ? ! t\ :>:??! m i?:i:ii<>r ? Ti? ATLANTA, N ASH V } U.K. M KV; i", ! h:. i ? * !' ,1 !S, < ' 1 1 1 < ' A< ?o. N I'- oK Li-'. 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