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I \ 'making money. 9 That Is What Commissioner Taturn Says About the STATE DISPENSARY, Which Is Vouched for by Qen. Wille Jones. According to the Figures the Dispensary Assets Arc Nearly Double that of Its Liabilities. Mr. W. O. Ta^m, state ^.spensary commissioner has Riven out the following statement: "Rjoently a number of papers, and Mr. J. Fraser Lyon, candidate for attorney general, assertod that the dispensary was Insolvent: that If it were put in liquidation it could not pay its debts. At the time this statement was roude I cauno out in a card asking a suspension of judgment and asserting that the dispensary was perfectly solvent. I ^aid I eoulci produce the figures to provs that the dispensary was amply able to pay every dollar it owed. I have the figures to more than sustain my contention and will submit them lu this statement. It took much time and lots of work to go through tft^great mass of accounts at the state dispensary and prepare a condensed statement showing exactly the condition of the institution, i could not expect, the newspapers to publish all the figures in their columns, but I invite any citizen, particularly Mr. Lyon and the editors of the papers which q lestloiied the solvency of the dispensary, to call at the state dispensary and examine for themselves the bocks and accounts, and so verify the statement I have prepared. Now here are the figures, condensed to the point where anv mind can grasp them and any memory retain them: "On June 1, 1906, the state dispensary owed for wnlskey, beer, etc., a total of $735,886.94. Since June I, and up to and Including July 21, 1906, there has been paid on the above accounts a total of $451,005.61, leaving a balance of $284,881.33. But of this balance $197 388 67 is not yet due, which leave* th* amount due on old accounts $87,492 71, and the state dispensary had on hand at the close of buslnews July 21, a cash baianoe of $96,518.76, or $9,026 05 more than enough to pay all accounts then due. However, when the new board of directors were restrained by order of the dispensary investigating committee from paying old acoounts of the dispensary Instead of letting the dispensary funds He idle, they discounted a number of new accounts by this course making an extra protit for the state of $3,908.32. Of the aooounts so discounted, an aggregate of $79,119 76 would not have been due on or before July 21, and so had not those accounts been discounted tne oash balance on that day would h&ye been $175,637 52, or $87 145.$i more than enougn to have paid all accounts due at that time. "Oq July 21 the State dispensary owed for whiskey, beer, supplies, etc., $443,225.34, though only 87,492.71 of this amount, as stated above, was aue on that date. Any assertion that ttie dispensary is not solvent and could not pay out every dollar it owes if it . owes if it owes if it went into liquidation seems ridiculous, when tne as sets of the institution are compared with that total of its debts. TIIE ACTAL K1GUHK8. MOi Juiy 21, the total of its debt was $443,225 34, to meet whioh it had easily assets ot $900,000 in round iighses, made up of $90,518 7G oash on hand, about $065,000 of stock in the state and county dispensaries, real estate which cost $50 300.50, supplies of bottles, seals, corks, etc., machinery and otiloe supplies. If all of its assets were sold at fifty cents on the dollar they would be more than sutticlent to pay its indebtedness. In the above I have given the value of the real estate at its cost price, but it must be remembered that 'It was bought before the tremendous boom of recont years in the prioe of Columbia real estate. The opinion of real estate men, architects and the county Alldlhnr i\t RiAhlnnrl nnnntv 1* t.hat. a very conservative eHtlmate of the present value of the dispensary real estate would be $150,000. Accepting that figure %ou.n make the dispensary's assets a million dollars with which to meet debts of less than $450,000 Far from being insolvent, if the dispensary were OiOSud out it could pay every cent it owes and hundreds of thousands of dollars into the school fund, to which It has contributed In tne last ten years $1,361,097.65, be Sides paying $3,991,325.49 to the towns and counties In that same pe v riod, a total of $5,343,023.12. "That is the condition of the dispensary today. The facts given above sustain my contention that the V dispensary is in better condition today than ever before. When I took oharge of the dispensary in March, 1904, the dispensary's condition was shown by the following statement oomplled on February 29, 1904: Quarterly statement of State dispensary for quarter ending February 29, 1904: ASSETS. Cash in state treasury Feb 29, 1904 $ 17,680.2E Teams and wagons.... 64.0C Supplies (inventory Feb 28, 1904) 34,828.06 Machinery and office fix 'MLj^ .... I turis 6,310.06 Uontrabaod (Inventory Feb 29, 1904) 1,472 47 Real estate 62 860.56 Merchandise In hands of dispensers Feb 29, 1904 400 558.85 Merchandise (Inventory of stock at State dispensary, Feb 29, 1904 490 038 09 Suspended aocounts.... 2,896.24 Personal accounts due state for empty barrels, alcohol, eto 5 830.78 Total assets ?1,012.537.98 LIABILITIES. School fur'l $ 519,664.12 Personal I ^counts due by state for supplies, whiskies, wines, beer alcohol, eto 492,873 8ft! I Total liabilities.. .'..$1,012 537 98 "It will be noticed how little cash was on hand at that time. The amount of stook was $890,000 in round figures or $225,000 more than July 21, 1906. Of that stock $;'50, 000 was represented by. an accumulation of hard stock which had not been worked off since the institution began business. Tnis has been worked off during my administration, and the present stock contains hardly $20,000 wortti of anything except new, fresh salable goods. This alone represents a trjmcndous Improvement of condition in the last two years. "Besides, In the liabilities sh r^pre Rented in the statement of Feb. 29th, 1904, there was over $300,000 of accounts past due, some of them as much as six months overdue. This condition compared to the statement for the present day ought to be convincing to any reasonable mind of the improvement of the financial condition of the dispensary. "The school fuud is not a debt of the dispensary, but its profit mid loss account. It is less understood than any other feature of the dispensary. This article is too long to permit me to stretch it further by adding an explanation of the school fund. I will irlvo oiinli r* 1"" 6"U cruwu oil lAj/ianai/IUll 1JMCT 111 Another Article." WILIE 4ONES' STATEMENT General Wilie Jones also nave out the following: statement: "After reading Commissioner Tatum's statement, and after having ex amlned the balance sheet of the books of the institution 1 say without hesitation that I regard the present condition of the finances of tho institution as in better shape than at any time during the last ten \ears. 1 was chairman of the board from April 1st, 1896 to April 1st, 1897, and also a member of the board by appointment of Governor Ileyward about six months in 1903, and I feel that I am thoroughly familiar with the affairs of the dispensary." (Signed) Wilie Jones. CkUK'H (J|> W lilt. Anna N jlan, a negress, employed at Lauderdale Springs hotel, forty miles from Meridian, Miss., was arrested Wednesday morning cnarged with an attempt at wholesale poisoning of the proprietor, attaches ar.u guests jf the hotel by placing a quantity of 11 >ugb on U&ts in the oclfdeserved Thursday The woman had a grievance against the proprietor. Two of the guests are reported very ill from the effects of uuo puiauu. They MuHt Uu. At Atlanta the lower house of the Georgia legislature Wednesday passed what Is known as the Boykin Anti-Bucketshop bill by a vote of 132 to 15, after the longest debate of the present session. The hill prohibits all dealings in futures on margin and will close all bucketshops, exchanges, etc, in the state. The bill goes to the senate where it is expected it will pass. Both Shot. Mrs. II. A. Leap trot was shot and instantly killed and her husband probably fatally wounded Thursday night while sitting oa the porch of their residence near Cherry Valley, Ark. The shooting was done by three mounted men who tired from thft front 1/a.fcn. Thft tivn Wnnlhriuht brothers woie arrested on the charge of uo Duplicity. Two years ago Leaptrot killed a member of the Woolbrlght family. lit)V<5 CJr?EcHI. At New York a love lorn Italian, Salavtor Dove, ran amuck In West 100th street Wednesday morning and in trylDg to shoot his sweetheart sent bullets Into the bodies of three pedes trlans, two of whom were seriously In. jured. Dove, who was badly In lovt with Tharesa Lodlhe, because she ac oepted attentions from another man, Wednesday morning he wavlaid hei and lired shots resulting as statec above. Klopod With Wliito Uirl. Henry (Jlayter, the negro arrested In Chicago where he was about t< marry a white girl with whom he i had eloped from Irvlngton, Ky., wat placed in the county Jail at Laursvllh for safe keeping. Word was rcoelvec by the police that a mob was forming i at Irvlngton t,o lynch Olavter. Another iiauie. A dispatch from Manila says anoth er battle has occured between tin i ? Twenty-fourth infantry and ounstab , alary against the bandits In the is and of Lsyte. Kifcy bandits wen killed and sixty wounded. ' Veil Oyorhuartl, Walter Ormond; a prominent law yer of Atlanta, G&., fell overboar( , from the Kansas Oity off the coast o ) North Carolina, on Thursday lilghi on hie return from New York to Sa ; van nab, and was drowned. He wai 36 years of age. (./' *> '* * i t- ; . WHERE IS IT? Ninety-Six Sailors On a Mysterious Island That NO ONE CAN LOC ATE. On ThU Island May be Living Command* er Hunt and the Crew ot the United States Man*of*War That Disappeared Long Ago. Hardly a year passes that the President of the United States is not im portuned to send forth a naval expedition to solve the most fascinating sea mystery that ever existed?and this one has battled all inquiry for nearly half a century. If "Robinson Crusoe" is the most absorbing piece of sea tiotiou ever written, how much more interesting would be the authentic record of ad ventures of no less than ninety-six Robinson Crusoes ail c\st away on the same uncharted island in the North Padti) forty six years ago. Whenever sea-faring veterans congregate to exchange experiences arid reminiscences the probable fate of this whole ship's crew of Ormoeu is a favorite subject for speculation. "Aye, aye, Captain," says a grizzled old second ottlcer of a tramp steamer, "I remember the Levant as well as If I'd seen her comiu' up the Hay only yesterday. In those days she was a man o' war to be proud of. The United States had few staunci.er. The whole crew lost, you say, Bill? Not a hit of It. Pitoalrn's not the only uncharted Island to show up just In time to save a shipwrecked crew." "Right you are, Mate," says the Captain, "and there's still a patch out In the Pacltio south of 20 north latitude and east of longitude 14C as big as the State of Maine that nobody knows any more about than they do of the North Pole. You all know that's about where the Levant got caught by the typhoon back In '60." "That'Bthe idea, Captain. If there's no island in that patch, says I, why has?nobody ever run across the wooden hull of the old Levant, or any of her lljatin' Junk?" T1IK TELL-TALE MAINMAST. "Except her mainmast that stranded on Kaalualu in the Ilawailans," savs Bill, making a historical oorrec tion. "That stranded spar goes to prove what I'm tellin' ye," says the old tramp second ofrloer. Why was nothin' but the mainmast of the Levant ever seen afterwards? Well, I'll tell ye. The mainmast went overboard when the typoon fust struok her, an' laid a dear curse for Hawaii. But the othOflrM mantri/ed fcn Irppn fr.ha T.p. vant's nose p'luted sou' sou'east for Panama till this here undiscovered Island bobbed up,caught her fast on a ooral reef an* made R jblnson Crusoe* of everybody aboard." Such, In a nutshell, are the possibilities?perhaps, even, the possibilities?regarding the fate of the officers and crew of the Levant. Commander William E. Hunt, with ninety-live officers and men, started with the sloop-of-war Levant from Hila, Hawaiian Islands, on September 18, 1860, bound for Panama via the California coast. These were the officers under Commander Hunt: Lieutenants?Moll. S. Porter, E G Stout, Colville Jerrett and It. T. Bowen. Surgeons?J. S. Gilliam and William Bradley; Purser, Andrew J. Watson; Master, James C. Mosely; First Lieutenant of Marines, P. L. Browning; Acting Boatswain, Harrison Edraonston; Gunner, Robert S. King; Carpenter, John Jarvls; Sail maker, Charles S. Frost. The official early records of the Le1 vant's disappearance are brief, but In ' teresting and significant. Commander J. B. Mongomery, United States ! Flagship Lanoaster at Panama. The ' following are from Montgomery's reports to Washington from his flaguhlrv uiaiMntr 4n liar* /\# uxiy nuiviu^ iu guo ajc?/ ui x AiiauiHi "Nov. 20, 1860?I have recently re, ceived letters from William E. Hunt I that the Levant is now ready and on i its way to this port." "January 31, 1861?The Saranao . and Wyoming will proceed in search ? of the Levant, to IIllo and Honolulu The unusual length of time since sailing produces serious apprehension for f hersafety." I "February 13, 1861?No word yet. Hurricane last September dismasted an American clipper, and II. 11. M. line of battleship Ganges had her sails I blown from the yards. ) "A letter from Commander Hunt, > dated September 3. 1860, stated he J would start from Ililo in ten or twelve ? days. It is now known that he sailed 1 from Hllo September . 18, without \ change of purpose to return to this port." "February 14. lftftl?rJnmtYianrlfir J. K. Mitchell, of the Wyoming, at HUo, reports his cruise from Panama. No word, except that Hunt Intended to take the usual Northern route to Panama, via the coast to California, to get the record of his work before Congress." "June 8, 1861?Thomas Miller, U. . S. Consul at IIIlo, reports a mast > washed ashore seventy-live miles from there, suoposed to be the mainmast ' of the Levant. Charles Spencer, Isaac 6 Nichols and Christopher Baker ex' amlned this mast of yellow pine and 9 pronounced It to be that of the Le< vant. Part of a lower yard five feet ic I circumference at the slings was found near the meet. Consul Miller and W., 0. P arks, Marshall at Hilo, oonttrm this opinion. Baker was the pilot who piloted the Levant In and out of IIUo harbor, and he had the dimensions of her masts and spars." ACT OK CONQKKSS JULY 24. 18(U. "June 3), 1881, shall be deemed and taken to be the day on wbloh the sloop of war Levant foundered at sea." This act of Congress, implying that the Levant, having "foundered," was Irreparably loss with all ber crew, failed to draw any curtain of oblivion over tbe incident. The mystery took too deep a hold on the imagination for it to b* allowed to sleep, forgotten. Kvery nation whose tlag floated over the highways of the North Pacitic saw its ships menaced by the unknown. Here was a vast aroa of ocean into which their ships were liable to be blown by storms which was absolutely unknown, lying woll otT the beaten track of navigation, and possibly made hazardous by the presence of characteristic coral reef8 and island which in the Paoltic are generally so low as not to be visible until a ship Is almost upon them. Tbe greater part of this unknown area still exists. It is to tho south and east of the route from San Francisco to Australia, and to the south of all the routes from the Hawaiian Islands to Panama and to Gallao. Whalers had explored It only tentatively, noting certain islauds, somo of which remain mythical to expeditions which made systematic search for them. The al most absolute silence and mystery about tho disappearance of the Levant, ?specially, as the years rolled on, tho fact that no traco of the wreck appeared, beyond tho stranded mainmast and yard, inspired every sailinu master traversing those waters with a tirm belief that the Levant had oast her crow upon some land, herself clinging fast upon the rocks which caught her. Between 1827 and 1839 this un known region had boon somewhat nar rowed by cruises of three British aud one American expeditions. All of these expeditions reported indications or shoal water aud urged the need of further investigations. During sixty years, however, no further progress was made. In 1899 the Fish Commls siou steamship Albatross traversed part of the doubtful region aud re ported seeing several lowlying Islands, ev dently the same that exist lu whallrg annals. One year before the loss of the Levant Captain John de Greaves, sailing from Honolulu to Uallao, reported the dhcovery of an island at longitude 13.t> and nortli latitude 17, which was about tifty feet high and two miles long. This island was so near the route of the Levant that if she had readied that ueighborhcoi in the night she might easily have been wrecked upon it. The latest effort of the United States Government to dispel the mystery of the Livant was made in 1903, when President Roosevelt diHpatoned the Taooma out on an expedition of discovery. All that the Taooma did was to narrow the unknown region down to an area of about the extent of the Stato of Maine. It discovered no island where there were visible HiKUBui ? wroux, or which were lnnaolted. The Tacoma negatively disposed of several island theories, but not of the possibility of the existence of one upon which the ?:ged Robinson Grusoes of the Levant may now be living. Oce of the great characters of notion is popularly supposed to be among these castaways?Pnilip Nolan, the pathetic hero of Edward Everett Hale's "Man Without a Country," whom the author disposed of aboard the Levant. Captain Lawless, in writing of his cruise, mentioned receiving a letter from the aged author of that masterpiece in which he said: "If you have found dear Pall Nolan, bring him at once to this house; 1 will adopt him as my grandfather." The great historical analogy for the theory that members of the crew of the Levant are still alive on some unknown island is the existence of the colony on Pltcalrn Island, in the South Pacific, these people being ae scendanr.8 of the crew of the Bounty, wntch mutinied more than a century ago and were wrecked on that island, there to exist for eighteen years before their fate was discovered and ui?'.it5 Kuuwn to tiis worm. These Bounty muttness for nearly a score of years were genuine It tbioson Crusoes, subsisting wholly upon tish and the other sea food, the birds and jfulmals aud the fruits which the Island afforded. The Levanters were, perhaps, able tosave part of the wreck of their shiy from which to build huts, and some of the stores, including clothing. If these old men are now clothed at all must be with the skins and feathers of birds, or even woven grasses, or perhaps the woven ilbre of the outer husk of the oocoanut. It is possible that there wore seeds aboard the Levant and that this colony of Crusoes hae been ahltt to onlr.l vihn tha imll m j a means of varying their supply of fish, birds, eggs, turtles and ko on. plainly the salvage of the ship's chrono' meter may still give them the time , of day. As at least a score of thorn must have been men of education, doubtless they have kept diaries wiiioii contain records of their strange ex perlenoes from day to day. But the mystery of the lost Levant and his crew, and also of the great un 1 explored region, is too fasolnating foi attempt to solve it to cease untl ; every Kuare mile of those latitude) ' has been scrutinized. Kvea ten yeuri 1 from now, if the fatal island Is found ' It is within the possibilities that som< broken, half savage old men may , rescued to tell olvilizatlon the trn? story of the loss of the Levant and ' of their long and wonderful exile. DiSflATUKfei ALCOHOL. HUllI'LUH FliUini AM) VKOKTAHIil-iS AND WASTK STUFF Can Be Made Into Material for Heating, Lighting and Running ' Bngines. "The passage of the denature alcohol bill by Congress at lte recent session 1h one of the beet and most helpful measures ever gotten through that body. Many persons do not fully understand the real help that Is to come from this bill, but when they learn that denatured alcohol can be used for the same purpose that gasoltuo Is, they will understand In a measure the great benotlts that we may reasonably expect to derive from It," says Mr. Slgo Meyers, of Savannah, Ga., who has given the matter a great deal of thought and his views on the subject are of more than ordinary Interest "1 am reliably lnformod that donv tured alcohol can bo produced at a cost of from 0 to 10 cents per gallon, and 1 know that the processes of mak ing It are not very ditllcult, and In fact are In reach of any farmer of ordinary meaos. Tuough every farmer has not Kutllolent quantities of raw material for making suoh an enter prise profitable yet In each neighborhood there Is a plenty of material that Is wasted every year to make these plants paying from the very start. Denatured alcohol can bo made from any fruits, corn and all grain, j sugar cane, potatoes, beets and a dozen other vegetables. "It has ooourtd to me that the best thlug to do with the largo surplus fruit and vegetable crops of the state would bo to convert them Into denatured alcohol. When this Is douo we have at hand the fuel for running our ?uuuuLiuijiion, uur Hiuan power pianiiH, and Instead of burning coal or wood at high price wo can use our cheap and Inexpensive alcohol for cooking and lightning, heating purposes and for txiany other uses, i should not go further wish this interview before stating the fact that denatured alcohol is poison and cannot be used as a beverago any more so than gasoline or keroseue?iu fact, a very small quantity taken internally produces death; heuoo it is that no one, no matter how religious, could objeot to Its manufacture as It positively oannot be used as a beverage. "The passage of this bill was a direct thrust at the Standard CM, which fought Its enaotment Into law with all of the powerful foroes at its command. The farmers of the country were behind the bill and when these bornev handed sons of toll gave the word it wont on tho statute books. Denatured alcohol, you see, is destined to rob the Standard Oil of a good deal of the protits It Is now making on gasoline. Denatured aloohol will be used In a thousand dliferent lines of art, with which chemists and skilled artisans are familiar and with whloh the general public have little Idea. Even I know of only a few uses It can be put to, even these few demonstrate the fact that Its use will become general In the United States In a short time. "1 am of the opinion that It will be nearly a year before the government will be able to permit tho openlug of these plants. In the meantime the real bene tits that may be expeotod from the passage of this bill will become the subjeot of favorable comment In every section of the country, and when the government is ready for openlug of these plants there will be a thousand of them ready to begin business. Commissioner John W. Yerkes of the Internal Revenue De partment, has gone abroad where he will study the methods of handling these plants by other governments. Most, if not all of the important for eign governments do not tax denatured alcohol, aad It in said that in Germany, for instance, that it lias been of great benefit to the small manufacturer, and that it has done a great deal towards making Germany one ol the leading manufacturing countries of the world. I look for it to have much the same elMot in the United States, and 1 am oertain that uo seo tlon of country will be benefited st much from the cheap power thui made possible as will the South. "It may be generally understooc but at tills time the regular alcoho now in use is taxed at the rate ol i about $2 a gallon. Under the bill jusl i passed this tax is entirely removed As I have stated it will admit of tie: farmer utilising every spare ounoe oi i tiie fruit and vegetable produces o ills farm which under the old law wat not permissible, as so few could aif >rr to pay the tux to manufacture. li addition tho demand for denaburec , aioohol at the price It had to be sole i was so lnsiglloaut that no one carec bo mauufacture It. It Is now wort! In the open market about $2 60 pei gallon. When the preHent bill becom ' us of force, say a year hence, it will bi i sold at retail around 20 cents per gal i Ion and by the barrel at a much small , or price. 1 look for a new and mor< [ prosperous era of industrial activity . ail through the country, and the mat who is going to be tho recipient o the greatest benetlts Is the atuidy ant . hard headed farmer, In every sectloi r of the country." I 3 Gave it Up. 3 Jerry Miller a saloonkeeper of Bris I tol, Tjdo., upon receiving woid tha a he had fallen heir to mining p-opert 3 worth $2,000,000,000 gave his saloo; i to his barkeeper and announced tha k he would never sell another drop of m Intoxicating beverage. TOUGHSJAILED In an Effort to Make Governor ! Glenn Pardon A. BOWERY SWINDLER Who Was Serving a Sentence In the North Carolina Penitentiary for Working His Rascally Schemes on Some Citizens of the kOld North State. A dispatch from Atlantic Clfcv, N. J., says: Governor Robert D. Glenn, of North Carolina, discussed guardedly Friday night the report of ths having beon held up by a gang of Tammany men In New York City and threatened with Injury If he refused to sign a pardon for a liowery swindler, who was serving a sentence Iu toa North Carolina penitentiary The fact that a Governor had been suhjectod to such an outrage has been suppressed carefully for a year for fear of creating uudoslred political prejudices. The hold-up episode, as relatod by those close to the G jvernor, occurred vhlle ho was the K'ucst of Tammany 11 "ill as one of the orators at tho Fourth of July celebration last Summer. Governor Glenn and Lieutenant-Governor Sanders, of Lmlsiana, another #uost, at tno conclusion of the ceremonies were Invited to j )ln a party tfoin# to Coney Island. There was a deliberate etT jrt, according to tho Governor, to #ot him drunk, several of tho party belli# Intixicated. The Governor, however, had been discreet and was undirected. They stopped at H indersoil's restaurant and wine was ordered. Soaroely had they seated themselves when one of tho men?a district leader, It is said?drew rrom his pocket a legally drafted pardon In favor of a #old-brlok artist named Ilalsey or llalstead, then dolu# time in ltalol#h, North Carolina, but whoso headquarters were batweou the Battery and Fourtfifinfch Htrnnf. Thinking the Governor was buIIIoioutly Jovial to sign anything oy that time, the leader remarked: "Just a favor, Governor. We would like you to sign this and let that man come baok to Now York." Governor Glenn told the leader that a petition had been presented to him just before ho left homo for that man's pardon; that he had looked into the ease, and had decided in tho negative, lie was sorry, but he could not reverse himself then, even to oblige his hosts. The man is reported to have become ugly, and shouted that the Governor would not get out alive If the pardon was not signed. Some allege that a revolver was brandished. The Governor rose from the table and said. "if 1 have any friends In this crowd, 1 wish they would come on this side of the table, for there's likely to be something doing here pretty soon.'* "I'll stand by you Governor," responded Lieutenant-Governor Sanders. The remainder of the party assumed an attitude of helpless intoxication. "Now, gentlemen, do your worst," is the reported ohalleuge by Governor Glenn.' "I'll see you lu hell before I'll sign that pardon," The politicians refused to carry out the blutt of keeping tno Governor as a nos.age for tue convict, and bestrode out of the building unmolested. He returned to his hotul and paid his own expenses. Tne gold-brio* swindler died in prlioft a few weeks ago and his wife applied to the Governor for permission to take the body from tho State for Interment. In recounting her efforts to obtain freedom for ner husband she 1 confessed boo had arranged to have the Governor invite.i to Mew York aDd no overwhelmed with kmdnes.i that he could not deny her a pardon. ''The truth of the matter was this,'* that the Governor Thursday night "After making an address at the Tammany mooting, I went out with a party of men to see the town. They wore not Tammany men so far as 1 know, but toey did try to get me drunk. "Afterward, I learned that these men had boan engage 1 by the wife of the man in our penitentiary to gat me druuk so that 1 could bo induced co slgu a pardon. "Instead of bogging or requesting me to sign a pardon, ttiey made an immediate demand, and they were downright insolent about it, too. "Weil, sir, 1 Just picked up my hat, turned on my heel aad walked out. 1 cannot tell you who they . were, i DKNIKS TlIK STOKY, A dlspaton from Kaieltfh s&ya 3 Governor Glenn er.presses just lndi#f nation at the publication made In i the New York American, reprinted f in some of the State papers about 1 what is declared to have been an at* a tempt on tne part of certaio Tarn* many leaders on the occasion of tne Governor's visit to New York some months ago, to force tne Governor of North Carolina to sign a pardon for " Hawley, one of the noted "gold brick'1 y oouvicts. He says the whole publioan blon is a tissue of lies and that he toid the representatives of certain papera n by whom it has been reprinted that* / - this was tita ?sse.