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OUTZS' TALE OF Ousts Declares that tlioro is a Band of Conspirators Working to Got Oomploto Control of tho Dispensary for tkoir Own Pecuniary and Political Advautago Mr. D. A. G. Ouzts, who was recently 8U8pentled by tho Stato board of con trol, and who has been connected with tho State dispensary longer than any othor man, has given to tho nowepu pora tho following . A CAUD TO TUE PUBLIC. It scorns that the Augean stables need cloansing. I aui no lioicu'cs, but I can at least do a part of tho work. 1 have been uonncctod with the dispen sary (or over six years. That 1 have boon honest and fuithfil in tho dis charge of my duties is proven by the fact that when my enemies on tho board of control wished to displace mo tho only exeuso they could find for my re moval was an allegation that I had viola tod a rule of tho board,a rulo which two members of the board assort was modi tied to permit that which 1 was dischar ged for doing. 1 am a strong believer In the dispensary law, and have done all in my power to make It a success, i I still bellevo with Its administration In tho hands of honest, pure and able men it Is tho very best solution of the liquor problom. During my years of service in the dispousary 1 havo seen a number of things dono which I know were wrong. Those 1 reported to members of the board, who were 1 knew honost, able and pure. Tk^y thojght, however, that it was best to say nothing public ly about tho wrong-doing until men like thomselvcs wore a majority of the board. They believed in the dlppen sary and earnestly strovo to tnako it a success. In their judgment tho dis pensary could nut withstand tho effect of such exposures, If its control was In hands of the men against whom these oxposures were made. They wanted to save the law for tho great potential good that was in lv. But as tho con trary element has grown so confident of Its power that it has gone to turning honest men out of office at tho dispensary, so as to (ill all places with Its tools, thus facilitating tho carrying of its plans, I deem it my duty to maito public all 1 know, so as to oxposo these men, deeming it hotter that the dispensary should dlo than to continue under their control, but hop ing that tho elTect of my criticism will bo to ?rivo such men out of the dispen sary and place its management in the hand:, of men abovo reproach. I make this statement becauso I do not wish to bo considered a sorehead or as exposing things I condoned as long as 1 held of fice. 1 stand ready and hereby olT.ir my services to tho board in helping them sift out all wrong doing of whatever kind which exists, and help them placo tho dispe nsary law where it should be, abovo reproach, and to enforce its reg ulations in accordance with law ami conduct it in tho Interests of the pCo plo, and not tho gang which now con trols it. Very respectfully, D* A. ?. Ouzts. AN OPEN LETTER. To tho Btato i'.oard of Control. As I havo by a vote of a majority of your mombors been donlod tho hearing to which I had a right and which 1 had oeen promised by your chairman, I intond making my defonso in tho public prints. At tho same time, 1 will go further and show tho char acters of the men by whom I was so summarily deposed, and of thoir follow conspirators. I am deposed becauso 1 violated an order of the board of con trol?an order which tho two honorable members of tho board assert was modi fled to permit tho very action which was alleged as tho reason for my re moval. I will show how members of tho board, violate the disponsary law and how employes at the dispensary, who are pets of tho majority faction of the board violate the board's orders and are not oven roprimandod for their misconduct. As tho majority faction seems anxious to wash dirty linen, I will first prove that mine Is clean and then give them somo dirty linen of tholr own to clean. Now, first, as to my own linen. Chairman Miles temporarily suspended mo on charge of violating an order of tho board by selling a bottle of gin at the Stato dispensary and not immedi ately reporting it to the shipping clerk. Chairman Miles says ho per sonally notified mo of the passage of that order by the board. He did in cidentally In tho course oLa .con,versa tlon one raorrd form statoment Mr. Williams Introduced a resolution, which was passed, whloh Mr. Douthlt understood modified the previous order aud permitted sales of contraband at tho State disponsary, provided they wero entered on tho cominiat oner's potty cash book, and invoiced at the end of the month to a Columbia eilsp-na< r and tho cash re ceived for them turned over to that dispenser. Messrs. Boykln and Wil liams, two members of the board, as sert such a resolution was passed. If the Williams resolution was meant to accomplish any purpose at all it was meant, to modify the rule forbidding sales of contraband at tho State dis pensary, yet us it appears on tho minutes of tho hoard It is construed by tho majority facttou to bo a mere ro Hiriuniioii of that rule. II that con struction bo accepted as correct, the hoard was guilty of the absurdity of twlco at ono meeting passing a resolu tion pormltting tho commissioner to do something which tho dispensury law itself gavo h|m tho right to do without any resolutions of tho hoard - that is to send contraband to a dispen ser for aale. As ^recorded, tho Wil liams resolution permits salas of con traband, " througlf tho regular chan nels," which w >rdsChairman Miles ad mits ho told Cierk *Wobb to add to the resolutions, claiming it was an atncnel mout which hud been udoptod, but which Mr, Boykin,. who was In tho chair whon the resolution wasndopted, denies was ovor voted on by tho hoard. 1 do not bei love that at lirfct recorded, tho Williams resolution had thoso we rds attached to it. Tho wrltlug ot thoso words In the mlnute book gives evldonce that it was not done at tho same time that tho body of the Wil liams resolution . was pinned in that record, because the sla-* A tho words "through regular f*' ^nels," Indicate that they wero writ-ton by a man sit ting iu a dl?ercnttwoelilpu from that Occupied when the father part of tho Williams resolution- was written. 1 am satisfied that they wore added to give color to tho contention that the board had not given "permission for tho sales of contraband, which the majority faction decided to make as an excuse for my removal. The majority faction, which is plot ting to get absolute control of the dis pensary, tilling all positions with its henchmen, had decided to removo all employes who wero not subservient to it. Tile*- did not intend to fully and fairly investigate tho conduct of such employes, but prcforred one-sided tes timony. At the September moeting of tho board Messrs. Haseldon and Wil liams wero appointed to investigate tho contraband room and its accounts. Mr. Uuseldon vanted Mr. Williams to meet him in Columbia on Wednesday following tho adjournment of tho boptember meeting of tho board. Mr. Williams said he had important en gagements up to and including Wed nesday, but would meet Mr. Ifaseldcn in Columbia tho day after Wednesday. Thuy parted with tho understanding that Mr. Haselden was to notify Mr. Williams when to come to Columbia to go to work on the investigation, which he novcr did, but returned to Colum bia before Wednesday and gavo to the news papers a statemont that ho was i*oiug?to Harris Springs. Mr. Wil liams saw that statement in tho papers and continued to wait for a notifica tion when to come to Columbia. The next tiling he saw was a statement tha'u he had been supplanted on the oommlttoo by Mr. Itoblnsou, without notice to him. It was then two of a kind and Mr. Haselden was at liberty to proceed with his ono-sided investigation. Neither I nor Mr. Douthlt wero asked for any explanation of tho charges Qoncoctcd by this one-sided process. ' On the. night of tho 20th or 21st of September T. C. Kobinson, who had loosened his tongue with liquor, told me in front of Huggins' sttiro, on Main btreet, that "Haselden had set a trap for Douthlt anel had caught him in it." After aaking him' several times what the trap was he said it was "in soiling contraband lieiuor at tho Stato^dlspor sary, and not having It ontered upon the shipping clerk's book, as requlreel by tho resolution of the board at the last board meeting." Was tho trap, the addition of tho words, "through (the regular channels ?" Probably at the time of that conversation Mr. Kobin son did not know that Chief Conspira tor Haseldon wantod my scalp also, und.thoreforo, spoke as ?vstrong friend, which he always claimed to bo, es pecially sinco 18U0. I and my relatives worked for and carried Eu?efiold County for him aft: tho cupdidate for State Superintendent of Education. I3u' whoo Boss Hasel den popped tho whip o/or his back ho forgot his friendship und senso of ob ligations to mc, ntid also forgot his statement to me* after hearing my ex planation of my sale of that bottle Of gin, that he did not ?fco how I could have done otherwise I than obey the instruct ions of the corV.lssiouer, espe cially us there was a ; A understanding in tho board as to th>. Krr3 given tho ||^jamlssioncr. Ho ?^K jd me to ap iM^^^the 1/ Hgul mako my ??Lj^WHuiotHyMiow I which u cutiiuaitteo was appointed ,to> do, to Bookkeeper Mobley and Inspec tor Moody and spent their time caucus ing with Chairman MileB and the con spirators. A caucus was hold in the oflico of n State officer audit was de cided to suspend me wlthoutgiviog me any notico or asking me for any oxplu oation of the charges against me. This determination wob talked around Columbia for nearly an hour before I was notified of ray suupension ; a friend of mine hcaiditat the uppor end of Main street and walked down town to a telephooo.and told me that tho gang hud fixed to make it hot for mo.and to do mo. Tho day after my tomporary suspen sion Chulrinan Miles gavo the nows papers uq Interview which contained a lie and u slanderous insinuation, whose absoluto falsity he could havo easily informodhlmsolf of. Ho said : "I did not know until this morning that Com migsionor . Douthit had boon doing tho the game thing, cIbo 1 would havo sus pended him along with Mr. Ouzte." Tho afternoon before, that interview was given out I told Mr'. Miles I had made a nalo of contraband because my superior officer, Commissioner Douthit, bad made Buch aalen und instructed me to do likewise, and I showed him on tho book tho records of such sales by Mr. Douthit. Aftor hearing what I had to say on tho subject, Mr. Miles declined to revoke ray tomporary suspeusion then, but said ho would think It over during the night and decide next mi ruing, admitting that it looked hard to suspend mo when I had no intent to do wrong and thought I was dotyg right in obeying tho orders of mj bu porior ollieor. The morning aftor my suspension ho wont to Sparlanburg.. When ho returned he aald, to Mis Douthit: "If I had known when I suspended Mr. OuztB what I knpw now. 1 would not have suspended him." And yet tho old hypocrltoi after admitting that ho had not treated rae fairly, appealed to the members of the board to confirm ray suspension und thus confirm his action as a courtesy du j him by tho membors of tho boardV Tho slanderous Insinuation is his statement "that tho money obtained from th > aalo of contraband had been propor ly turned ovor, so far ae ho know." lie know it had boon properly turned over, because I told him bo and showed him the record. There is another lie told by Mr. Miles. He promised mo that I Bhould be accorded a full hearing by tho board before a voto was taken on tho motion to make my Buapcnslon pormanent. But tho voto was tukon without a hearing being given me, though 1 waa on hand wuiting for it. When I taxed Mr. Milea with his porfidy ho at first tried to deny huving mude such a promise After l forced him to admit it ho said, "Yes; but I forgot It." Then ho returned to the board room und said to tho board, "Mr. Ou/.ts wanted a hearing but did not know it was my pluco to get it. for him." Whilo on tho question of Mr. Miles' veracity, I might statu that he is u liur by his own confession. I have heard him feay on sevorul occasions : "I huvo told more lies since l have been on the board than in all ray life be fore." I dare him to deny that ho made this statement; if ho does l will prove it on him. In my cab^ Mr. Miles Is a great stickler for strict obedience to the rules of tho board, but hois more luxed in other cases. 1 huvo shown that it is very doubtful if there was such a rule as was claimed l violated, but there are other rules of tho board as to which there Is no doubt and violations of which have been reported to Mr. Miles, chuirman, without any action being taken by him. Tho board pussed a rule forbidding employes of tho dispensary to drink on tho premises. Printed copies of that rulo were posted all ovor the building. Shipping Clork Black hud been reported to Chairman MilcB time and aguin for drinking and being drunk und cursing in the disponsary, against tho positive rule of tho board, but ho has not even remonstrated with JJluok, much has ausponded him. Yut ho suspends mo without an Investiga t on of the charge against mo. By his position as chairman of'the board, Mr. Miles was able toj^'fvo or got the job of receiving cloffc for his nophow, l<\ L. Mooro Yoang, of Clin ton. Ono has only to refer to tho bookB Young tries ttf keep to find his ut ter unfitnoee for ti0 job. Young does not know the multiplication table and could not count a coyload of glass correctly if his JJ.\S depended upon it. Tijno and ?gain ho has made gross errors in his count of goods rocoivod at the dispen sary, though his count waa rolled upon to vorify tho invoices for which tho dispensary paid. Commissioner Douthit lfl a bonded ottlcor. It is his duty to pay for goods received at tho dispensary. If ho pays for goods which havo not boen received, his bond can bo sued for tho recovery of tho money so paid. Naturally, Mr. Douthit endeavored to make the re volving clerk, whoso reports were the Uuslu for his payments of goods re ceived at tho disponsary, efficiently J'ttirtftri" ii'iiiliUl"a TT" r?Portotl ft Bpeaklng of retail Baits ai> the' ols Eonsary, loss than three months ago hairman Miles bought of himself and sold to himself at the State dispensary a half pint of alcohol, which he bought it. the prlco to dispensers and not con sumers, thus cheating tho town and county out of their profits. Why doesn't ho suspend hlmsolf ? In Haseldou's and Uobiuson's report of the Investigation made by Book keeper Mobloy and Inspector Moody, there arc no chargeB against me, and fxo produced no proof against mo of any wrong doing in his allidavitand yot, when Mr. Uasoldon's report was road and after Mr. Douthlt's removal, he, Hasoldon, moved to mako my sus pension permanent without hoarlug me as he had promisod to do tho night pofor;; ho mado tho report. lie volun tarily told mo in the Columbia hotel that ho had finished hlsroportand that ho had not touched me in it nor had ho any evidence of my wrong doing and when my c:i e came up ho would piom Ibo to hcBr mo and thon decide bow he wou'd vote. Tho noxt moaning ho moved to mako my suspension perma nent without hearing my explanation. When tho board adjourned for dinner aftor voting to romovo Mr. Doutl.lt, I taxed Hasoldon about his conduot in going back on his promise about hear ing mo and I mado him admit In Mr. Boykln*8 presence that ho Bald ho toid mo ho had no charges against me and no evidenco of wrong doing and whon I asked him to explain his aotlnn in making a motion to permanently sus pend mo, ho ;-aid : " I just done that to bring tho mat?..r up ; I don't know howl will vote-on It but will doclde after hearing ycu." What do you call Such double-dealing and sneaking eva sion-?; Is It acting a Ho as well as toll ing one '.' In gott ng.up his evidenco tried to keon everything hid and wot 1 sneak 'around like ho was ashamed of his dirty work and whon askod if he wanted anything, or if anything could be explained to him if ho did not un derstand It, ho would say ho was not looking for anything. Seemed to bo afraid Mr. Douthit and I would find I out what ho wus driving at and oxplain i it bo ftilly to him that ho could not havo the heart to distort it to mako it fit his vile ends. Ho seems to hate jus tice and with his pcrvorslon paralyzos truth. Mr. Hasolden now poses as condemn ing retail sales at tho dispensary as contrary to tho spirit of the dispensary bill, but In March of this very year, while Haselden was still chairman, ho personally sold at the State dispensary to a committee in charge of a banquet to tho visiting Congressmen, cham paign, whiskey, wino, rum and brandy to the amount of $100.80, about the larg est bill that was evor retailed at the dispensary, selling to them at tho price to dispensers and not to consumers, thereby swindling tho town and county out of their profits. D. A. G. OUZTS. DAN OUZTS' SECOND EPISTLE. Ho Charjrcs That Haseltlort Taken Gooil Caro <>r His Cousins 1'rniu Marion?Some Figures l<Yom OIb pensnry Kecords. To the board of Control: D. Sachs & Sons', of Louisville, Ky., first had John T. Gasten, ox-acting Stato commissioner, as State striker, striking tho boar? for orders for them. I don't think Gaston was employed directly by them, but by their drum mer, lie was'paid for one or two pur chases and their regular drummor, Mr. Mlckle discharged Gaston during tho mooting of the board. Gaston told me that he immediately left Micklo's ?room in tho Joromo Hotel and went to the board room and called Mr. M. K Cooper, a member of tho State board, out of tho room and told him of his treatment; that Cooper wont back into the board room und had the board to countermand tho order for 2;"> barrels of whiskey which had boon given to D. Sachs & Sons. Tho noxt movo Sachs & Sonc, or tholr HriinTr^rJr-^rSL'VlP jgjtb local strikers JtH& with young EvacisJ 7roTfr^arion7"TS4 eon: in of J. Dud ley Haselden, then tho chairman of tho board. This young man was scarcely 21 years old, and novcr sold whiskey beforo, and knows just about as much about travoling for a whiskey houso as the averago coun try youth, and they know nothing about trade and commorco. lie could never havo gotton tho job if had not been related to tho chairman. Tho strength of his pull and the amount of his and Gaston's ordors amount to $l?,f>80.?8. Thoso figures are from tho books In the dlsponsary. Tho amount may bo largor than this, bocauso all Invoices may not havo been postod when this amount was taken from the books. Hasoldon beggod tho board, like ho bad boon Sachs & Sons' attornoy, to got them to buy. Tho clork of tho hoard seems to have, leaned In that direction also, for he ontorod or gavo out to tho newspapers a list of pur chases containing 25 cases of Cape May whl: key at the May meeting, 1890, which tho board had bought. To got him out of a hole and keep down hard clings, ho board decided to buy the which wero not nocdod, for s plonty in stock ; as provod oro was no occasion to *sq until September It Wae ordered shippud, with the un derstanding that no lnoro would bo bought and shipped direct from Pa ducah to Stelling. Hut lator an order came from Stelling for more of these goods ; viz : 50 kogs 43 gallons euch, which Colonel Vance, *hon commis sioner, ordered from thorn, notwith standing Stelling was to havo no more shipped him direct from them. Thon Mr. John W. Keller, one of the firm, cams down, and Mr. Matthlos, Stelling's partner, was hero to striko for him ordors for tbolr whl?koy ; then I tuo order wus given for thoir first ship ment to tho Stato disponsary. Tho uext month Koller and Matthles wore hero again und ordorB wero given them ugain. Somo Newport was bought from thom and 'n order to assist It in gotting out of .o Stato dlB Eensury, so there would bo nono on and at tho next mooting of tho board, and moro would havo to do bought, tho house, Friedman, Keller & Co., issued a circular letter and sent to all the dis pensuries, tolling them they would sond thorn u silver bottlo with Newport whiskey in it when thoy had ordered as much as flvo casoS of Newport. Grand schemo ! 01 dispensaries m tho State, live timea 01 aro 455 casos? quite a lot to pluco ovor tho Stato hud ail tho disponaors beon taken in. Somo of tho dispensers wanted tho silver bottles, and ordorod Qvo cases, not caring In what sizes, I pints, pints or quarts wore sent, just bo thoy got tho Qvo cascB which would entitle them to tho sllvor boitlo. In throe or four meetings of tho board Matthies bo cumo so nauseating to thorn that Friodman, Keller & Co., got no moro ardors. Matthies was kopt in Charleston, and things not coming Fried nan, Keiler & Co.'s way fast onough, Mr. '-'?jilor stayed away a mooting or two. Tho last mooting ho was hero boforo ho appointed W. E. Blue, of Marion County, unothor cousin of J. Dudley Llasoldon, aud said he would got in and get ordors from tho hoard if bo had .to spend $500. I hoard him make this stutomont. Mr. Blue was said to bo general Southern agent, yot bo only represented Friedman, Keller & Co., in South Carolina until tho board of coutrol decided t? stop buying from houses having local strikers. Mr. Blue succoodod in getting some good orders, and tho amount of his pull and that of Matthies with J. Dudley Hasol den, chairman, udvocuting orders for him, amounts to 110,419, in orders given. Aftor tho hoard passed resolutions excluding local strikers, Blue was turned down by Friedman, Keller & Co., and J. Dudloy Hasoldcn decided that their liquor was not us good as It was whllo Bluo was with thom. At loust ho gave up udvocuting purchas ing from Friedman, Keller & Co., and thoy havo gotten no moro ordors since. Ono would think two cousins from tho sumo county was onough for ono member of tho board of control to take care of, but not ao for J. Dudloy Uasol dcn, who, although not chulrman now, wants to retain his pull, as shown by tho fact of another cousin entering the Hold. This ono is W. Boyd Evans, ex private secretary to Govornor Ellerbe. Just aftor tho death of Govornor Ellorbo, and about tho time Evuns wub leaving his office, a drummer by the nume of Sprinkle came to Columbia to a mooting of tho board. Sprinkle ro presoutod tho Koidsvillo, N. C, Liquor Co., and was corralled at tho tirst mooting he attended by W. Boyd Evans, who got a job with him and upon Sprinkle's going boforo tho board with Evans and tolling thom ho bad employod EvanB to travel North and South Carolina, an order was given tho Koidsville Liquor Co. Thoy got such a large order that they had some difficulty in filling it ; did not fill it in time to get another ut tho next board mooting, but havo ooon given ordors at ovory mooting sinco. If Evans ovor traveled further for thom than from Marion hero to Columbia it has novor boon heard of. Boyd Evan's pull amounts to $8,800 08 in ordors given, Jjosidos Soptombor purchases. So rnuoh"iorV^?klng euro of cousins. Now, wT^ft about self? J. Dudloy daaelden, did yous^ver make this re mark, that you had liquidated $10,000 -in debts sinco you hud boon a mitober of tho board P Your salary, according to thq published roport of tho board, was not $1,500. You seem to condemn selling contra band at tho State disponsary so strong ly now. Why did you not atop It while chairman P You Bald you tried and wont so far as to threaton to discharge somebody If it was not stopped ; this you will not dony. At the samo time, woro you not buying contraband your solf ? Viz . I. W. Harper whiskey at a dollar and oight conts per quart; tho samo price charged to county dlspon serL, and thus tho town and county losing tholr profits, and not paying cash but having It charged to your ac count P When you would draw your pay for attondanco hore'as chairman at tho end of tho week, you would have a bill made out for It, receipted, pay ing for tho same. Not only this : did you not havo full oasos of champagne oponod in tho Stato disponsary, tjiko out what yo ) wanted, and pay for it, at prices charged tho county dlspun sarleB? This you did while VictoV4 Bluo was horo, and you and ho drank At in tho board room. J. Dudloy Hasel*. IfWfffiflfrifl"1''' ollioial capacity as chair of the bookkeepers to the Stato board, did most of the work tho Hasoldon contraband committee was appointed to do, but still tho committee gets tho $4 per day and mlloago just the same. I iiuvo gono to the trouble to proparo a comploto list of all merchandise, which is whiskey, sold the two years Colonel Vauco was commlssionor and l lind, during Colonel Vance's lirst yoar, whilo llasoldon was not a mumbor of tho board, thero was sold, as enturod upon tho potty cash book, $251. Tho next year, under Haselden's adminis tration as chairman, there was sold, as cnten-d on potty cash book $833.66 worth ; nearly four times more than when llaseldo was not on tho board, and still he tried to stop it. llasoldon, on July 9th, 1898, whilo you wcro chairman, you bought con traband whiskey to tho tune of $2, and yet your tried to stop It. Again on Novembor 10th, 1898, your bought con traband I. W. Harpor whiskey and champagne to the amount of $19.-11, paying for both at tho end of tho woek after you had dra?vn you pay and pay ing for it less tho town and county profits. Then again after the adjourn ment of tho Legislature, you tele phoned to the State d'sponsary to have a case of Lanahan's XXXX Monoaga hola ryo sent to you at tho Columbia hotel to give to your friends among tho legislators, and it not being sent to you becauso Colonel Vance was not then at tho building, you had to get a case from Dispenser Cartlodgo and you paid tho State dispensary for it, less town and county profits,'and another had to be given Cartlodgo without charging it to him, to take tho place of the one you got from him and paid for at tho State d'sponsary, tho town and county losing $1 8U profit by this oporatlon, and this is tho way you stopped it. When Hon. William J. Bryan was at Duo West, Haselden and Cooper wcro in Columbia, a committee on building tho now story on tho present dispen sary. They both went to Due West, and llasoldcn whilo there told tho county treasurer of Grcenvillo county that he, Haselden, would bo elected chairman of the State board of control and it would just suit him ; ho could leave homo about night, aftor attend ing to a whole day's work on tho farm, and como to Columbia and got pay for that day, and when ho went home his train left early in the morning and he could get home in time for breakfast and get pay for that day and be at home looking after his farm. This arrangement enabled him to get a whole week's pay for attending to the duties as chairman of board and be at home two days out of bix, attending to his private business and yet bo paid for his sorviccs not rendered here. You said you lived a long ways ; your mileage was 5 cents and you could make enough out of that to pay your expenses. J. Du?ley I In-eld en betakes himself and a bookkeeper to Charleston to got allidavits from dispensers there about the conduct and management of tho dispensaries bore in Columbia. Why don't he commence nearor homo and get allidavits from dispensers at Dillon and Marlon as to wby thoy order Cape May and Goldon Grain and other whiskies which are sold by houses his various cousin liquor drummers repre sent P Thero is a resolution of tho board of long stauding forbidding whiskey drummers or their houses from trying to Induco dieponBers to order goods sold by them, and it would be well for the board to Investigate this matter and see if tho resolution has been broken : apply the remedy prescribed, stop buying from such houses which violate it ; then these violators woald have to got othor bouses. D. A. G. Ou/.ts. Had Already Thought the Mat ter OVKlt.?Senator I'omeroy used to tell of a local preacher in Kansas who had forced himself upon tho stump after Lincoln's second nomination and who demanded recognition of tho party for his sorviccs during tho campaign. Ho said ho would Uko to bo sont as minister plenipotentiary to England or FltsnCa, and when told that is was Im possible, insisted on being appointed consul to Liverpool, binding that tho "powers that bo" considered .that equally preposterous, ho was q ute OmflS?fid what ho consl d rod a lack of ?ppVpciiitlon of his sor vwo in a State that n'oHrfwS-Pould have turnod against tho Hepubllcahbr Finally, Senator I'omeroy said to him : " I'm going to Washington in about two weeks' time?think tho matter ovor, and if you should light on some thing In raasou, I'll aid you In getting it. In ton days ho callod on tho Sena tor again, his head still away up In tho clouds, and boing assured of tho im possibility of gottlng what ho thought was about his duo, Bali : " Senator, can't you think of somo placo that would suit mo " Yes," said I'omeroy, " I'vo thought of a placo that would suit you and that you would suit, and that there Is a pos sibility of gottlng for your. U'b at. In dian agoncy." " An Indian agency ? What's thatV" queried tho preacher. Well, you aro to look aftor tho wol faro of our rod bro.thors and boo that their supplies aro proporly and hon estly dolivorod to thorn.' "What is it worth V" THE TRANS VAAJL'S ULTIMATUM. DEFYING A UHU/VT KMIMIUC. The Boors Demand that British Troops Bo Withdraw n and a i;(> to mil Ih Declaration of Wm Tho ultimatum of tbu Transvaal government to Groat Britain was sent to London on tho lUth lnst., and con tains the following : " Ii6r majesty's unlawful Interven tion in tho Internal atTuirB of this re public in conflict with tho London con vention of 1884, by the extraordinary strengthening of her troops of this republic has caused un intolerable con dition of things to arise, to whloh this government feels itself obliged, in the interest not only of this republic, but ulso of all South Africa, to make an end us soon as possible : und this gov ernment feels Itself culled upon und obliged to press earnestly, anl with emphasis for an immodiuto termina tion of tills state of things uud to re quest hor majesty's government to give ussurances upon the following four demands : " First?That all points of mutual difference bo regulated by friendly re course to arbitration or by whatever amicuble way may bo agreed upon by this government uud her mujesty's government. " Second?That ull troops on tho bor dors of this republic shail be instantly withdraw n. " Third?That ull reinforcements of troops which huvo : *r5w?d in Smith Afrlcu since Juno 1, 1800, shall bore moved from South Africa within u rousonublo time as agreed upon with this government und with the mutual assurunce and guarantee on the pun of this government that no attack upon or hostilities uguinst any portion of the possessions of tho British govern ment shall be uiudo by this republic during tins further negotiations, with iu a period of time to bo subsequently agreed upon betweon the governments: and this government will, on com pliance therewith, be prepared to with druw the armed burghers of this re public from the borders. Fourth?That her majesty's troops which uro now on tho high seas shall not be lauded in any part of South Africa." 1'0 these demands is appended the definition of the time limit for u reply: " This government prossos for an im mediate and affirmative answer to these four quostions and eurnestly requosts her majesty's government to return an ausvvor before or upon Wednes day, October 11th, 1809, not later than 5 o'clock p. m. " It dcBlrcs further to add that in tho unexpected event of un uuswer not satisfactory being received by it v'th In tho Interval, it will with grout re gret be compelled to regard the action of her majesty's government us a formal declurution of war, und will not hold itself responsible for tho conse quences thereof, and that in the event of uny further movement of troops oc curring within tho nbovo mentioned time in u nearer direction to our bor ders, this government will be com pelled to rcgtttd that also a formal de claration of war." The points at issuo in South Africa and whut has brought about a condi tion of war urecoutulned in tho follow ing summary : First. Oreut Brituln claims suze rainty over tho Trunsvuul under the terms of the convention of 1881. The Boers dispute the claim, invoking the convention of 1881, In which the term "suzerainty" does not appear. Second. Great Britain demands in creased facilities for naturalization of ( Uutlandors. At present Outlanders ' desirous of nuturuli/.ution must take un oath renouncing nllogiance to their former government, und then, ufter 12 years' residence, provided they have the affirmative vote of three-fourths of tho burghers In their district, they be come citizens of tho South African Republic. The Boors ut one point of tho negotiations olTercd to reduco tho probutlonury term to live years, but the lntest udvlcos uro that thoy now stick out for soven vcars. Third. Great Brituin demands for the Outlandeis a sharo In the election of tho president und increased repre sentation for tho gold fields. Tho Boors say thoy uro willing to concede these point, but under conditions which tho British claim are likely to muko tho concessions illusory. Tha Britto*! V.- "foment wants to b?v this matter thoVufi?tiiy ' as to insure tho Outlun tho substanco, and no' ehadow, of their doma : peei. Groat Britai such an examination as a precedent for internal affairs which tho Boor: caso. Montaguo T tho South Ai closed tho hoart and on gonoral principe. "TTST-^ stopping to count the cost of war. Mr. Whltocitcd tho Isandl wkatra u sacro as an Instance of such a (hange in British opinion. He then wjnt on to say : "I suppose there can bo only ono ultimate rosult of tho hostilities, As to the duration of tho war I am not ablo to venture a guess. It woms to mo a matter of the prroatosi uncer tainty. I hear that Groat Britain will not begin tho wiping out pro.vyg until December. In the moantiiucw? shall sco what wo shall soo. "I have received no special Instruc tion- or nows from tho TranSTku dur ing tho last forty-eight hours, aud~ 1 expect none, having long age received diroetions as to the course for me to take when matters rouohod this stage. I shall romain on the continent, and if anything further can bo don,, m tho .atoro8t of my government, 1 shall, of course, endeavor to do it, although thero Bcoms nothing left but to light it out to tho bitter, unjust end." Mr. Whlto scorned muoh distressed ovor the. rupturo and evidently ii d not entertain tho loast hope of Hour suc cess. Ho said tho'Transvaie ,i,;oncy In Brussels would bo continued ;w tho European headquarters of the govern* merit. Mr. White's reforonoo to tho ldand\ whama massacre Is an allusio n to tho at tack made on January 22, 185U, by some 15,000 Zulus upon tho British camp at Isandula, or Isandlwhama, about tun miles from Uorko's drif*. ?o tho Tugela. Five companies of the Twonty fourth regiment, with C'olonol Durn fewlt^jileUt. rvu l'.il^olno aivL-Othor^ ofllcorsj wenS^nlassacrCuTtrieBrltieh total loss being about Two thous and Zulus aro said to have been killed. AN AKMOKK? TRAIN VIKKI) UPON. The lirst act of war far n took placo on the 13th inst., when tho Boers at tacked and destroyed an armored train of the British at Kraaipan. Captain Ncsbltt, who was in command of the train, was warned at Marlbogo that tho Boers held tho line. He replied that he was bound to proceed. Near ing Kraaipan, the train dashed into a culvert that had boon blown up by the Boors, who were lying in wait for tho train. Tho Boer artillery immediate ly opened lire and a dosporate light ap pears to have ensued, lasting four hours, with tho odds greatly against the British. The precise details aro uncertain. It seems, however, that a poliuo pa trol, attracted by tho tiring, approach- .. ed within about two thousand yams of Kraaipan, saw the train ditched, with tho Boer artillery still pounding at It, but noticeil no response, Tue Boers seemed afraid to approach until tho wreck was complete ; and the police patrol feared, as thero was ho sign of life near the train, that the ontiru force had perished in a desperate at tompt to get tho train back to Mafok insr, where they knew it was anxiously awaited with its load of guns and am munition. It la reported that tad' Boors lost heavily, but there Is no means of vorl fylng this. Two miles ofrails were torn up. ?*? T11K MAN WHO 1STOCRUS1I THE IJOEUS. The British government has made a deliberate choice in sending a (it tool to crush the Boer:., with a full know ledge of his oharaotor and capacity, and he appreciates the task he is ex pected to perform. Gen. Sir RedVers Duller, the commandor-ln-ohlof of tho British forces in the Transvaal, has already embarked ior South Africa, and is to have an undisturbed and absolute control ol the campaign. Two months ago the secretary of state for war, the Marquis of Lans downo, otTored l?ulier command of tho projootod army corps. Sir Ucdvors gave a point blank refusal unless tho war ollico would guarantee him be tween 00,000 and 70,Oou men. Ho said thai if lie were; to go it must be on the distinct understanding that he c?uld select his own statt and would bo en tirely unintorfered with by the war ollico. His request regarding the stall", It Is said, was prompted by his suspicion that Lord Woisley would attempt to pay oil old scores by foisting upon him stall olllcora antagonistic to him. LordV Lansdownc demurred, but the strengen/ man prevailed and Bullcr, having gained all the points he coveted, ac cepted toe supreme eoinuuiml^^^^^ral freely 1 ma im fcalssftfff that^d^raM