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- ~ r i ~ ~ 3 1~f' * - -1 * - A -~ - - - E4ABLIS11ED_1865- NEWBEaRY, S. ., TUTESDAY, MA 4,1897 TICE A W EI 1 AVJ'AT "GIVENTO GARRIS" MR. OASTON'S OFFICIAL REPORT *W TO THAT T1UNK ainportnn.Qittei ive 1,0h301n Issued by GoVy Enlerbe-Wint he 8ys-Questions for Mr. Uaston .to A newer. (The State, 30th April.) The report of ex-commissioner Jno. T. Gaston of the State dispon sary on the Beckroge trink and its contents was given to the press yes terday by Governor Ellorbe. It road as follows: Columbia, S. C., April 14, 1897. Hon W. A.-Barbor, Attorney 'Genor al of South Carolina: Sir: Complying with your re quest concerning a certain trunk seized in Charleston by the State constabulary and sent to State dis pensary, I have this to say: A large drummer's trunk was received here by the autho'ities, containing (to the. best of my recollections) Alpeolwo gallon jugs of whiswy,-mine bottles of wine, 10 boxesr-igars, two cans peaches and hink ono dozen lom ons. TI runk was not to my roc ollea' , marked so that you would ku contained whiskey. A card m d glass was on the trunk in e.al places. Mr. C. W. Garris of Colleton told me that Mr. Scruggs, the bookkeeper, told him that he could have the trunk and I lot him have it. The whiskey has boon dumped, the wines are here in my possesion; the cigars, the poaches and the lemons are gone. That is about the status of the trunk busi ness as I recollect. Yours respectfully, Join T. GAT.oN, Acting Commissioner. Governor Ellorbe is quito willing to permit the search light of public opiuion to ponotrato into the romot est cornor of tho dispensary wcrk ings. To a reportor of The Stato yester day evening ho said that ho only heard of the Beckrogo trunk for the first time a few days ago. It was when the above report of Mr. Gatson was referred to him from the attor noy general's office. It was a thor ough surpriso. The governor con tinuing, said that lie had hpd a talk with Clerk Scruggs soon after the report was referred to him. Clerk Scruggs said that, he had sold the trunk to Mr. C. W. Garris. Col. Wilio Jones was sent for by the gov rnor and to him said that that wi the first time he had beard H ' of thi, nk. aughi the governor did not say so, from his talk it \'vas seen that he was surprised whon lie read iu The State of yesterday that Colonel Jones recalled that the trunk had been put in the dispensary and a report made of its arrivial to the board of wvhich he is chairman. Governor Ellerbo did not mince words in speaking of the trunk in cident.,~ "They had as well take the the dispensary liquor that is bought by the State," said lie, "and p)resent it to their friends." Contraband goods are the property of the State as much as the liquor that is bought, he declared, and there was no wvar rant or excuse for them to be consid ered in any other light.' The consta bles are paid b)y the State to seize contraband goods and the seizures shouhdt go as far as possible to pay for'the maintainance of the constab ul'ry. jt is all right for the officials to np the samples of whiskey, he said, id lie could see no harm in an offic inteven giving a bottle sometimes to a friend. "I would not hesitate," declared the governor, "to go in the samll room and get a bottle of whiskoy if I felt the need of it, but I -would never think of taking any of the con traband liquor no matter how choice it might be." Cor3tinuming, Governor Ellerbo said lhe lyad advised the board to turn over the management of the details of the dispensary to Commissioner Vance. It would be wvell nigh impos * sible for a board modting once a month to manage everything about the dispensary. '"he duties of the bolgd, ho Jight, were like those o tioard of regents for the hos pital for the insane. It was to exor cise a general supervisicn over all the affairs and leave to the manage. mont to execute. On one point the governor was particularly emphatic. He did not think it wise to leave the purchasing of whiskey to one man. That the board ought not to do. Returning to the question of con traband goods he said that oven if the Beckrogo trunk was sold it had not bon sold in a businesslike and proper manner. It should have been sold to the highest bidder, he de clared. "I havo given Vance orders, howevor," he said, "not to lot any contraband things go out of the dis ponsary." He went on to say that horo,fter trunks, cigars and such li; things seized with liquor would t advortised and sold to the highest biddor. The seized liquor could not be disposed of in this way, but after having it analyzed it could be bottled and sent out if up to the 'required standard. He has already given or dors that a list of every trunk, pair of shoes or anything of the sort must be kept and that he was going to hold the persons in charge responsi ble for everything. 'Governor Ellorbe in conclusion said that he was going to try and carry out his pledgo of a clean and businoss administration of the diB pensary. ANOTHER TRUTH1-sEEKER. In regiard to this Beckrogo trunk matter and other affairs at the dis pinsary in connection therewith the following card was banded to The State yesterday. "Inquisitor" asks some very straightforward and per tinont questions: To the Editor of The State: Beckrogo's Trunk. Curiosity at Fever Hoat. Details Wanted-Ex Commissioner Gaston should now mako his report public and not con.. sidor his duty to the interested pub lic fully performed with a private report or two. In his farowell address to his ad miring subordinates he boasted that in the midst of charges and crimina tions ho went out of office without a suspicion against him. What, my dear colonel, do you mean? Instead of suspicions was it facts that come now to molest you? Is it a fact that as commissioner, you and your sub ordinate, Mr. Watts, have control of the sample room and alone are enti tled to keys thereto? Is it a fact that the board ordered the lock changed on the sample room after certain occurrences. Could you en lighton us wvith a statement of those occurrences? Being corhmnissioner and in charge of all contraband goods, was it your custom to sell those goods without naming the p)rico? Did you author ize Mr. Scruggs to sell to his friend without even naming the p)rico? Isn't it a little emubarassing to the purchasar to be presented with a bill for goods which he thinks is fully paid for in friendship? Is this the link which binds many an ardent friendship for expert officials? Does the sample room furnish the coin with which free advertising is p)aidl? Can yo~u sigure it out by an "expert method of bookkeeping" how to make a just settlement with the examining committee on this last re port? Now Moses, Thomas and Burns have committed a grave oversight in confining their report to lbusiness, when all messages and reports for the whole term of Mr. Scrugg's ser vice have almost without any excep tion advertised to a wvondlering and admiring people the method and manner of thme "Scruggs system of bookkeeping." lut Brother Burns seems to have discovered the over sight in timo to make amends in part by "requesting t,ho statement that the work wvas facilitated by the book INof Mr. Scruggs." ydear Col. Gaston, you of cour\ Jro not supp)losedI to know of matters andl methods since you loft you r mantle there unstained anid with no bad odor upon it, hut with whom did you leave the sample room keys? Now I am at a loss who to ask how the account was balanced with Brother Burns for his timely observation. Will oir, low-country editor tell of the times he has and our up-country friend throwlight, on the subject by telling us the sample room price of a puff. INQUISITOR. BROAD INTIMATION. Going a step further, but on the line of the management of affairs at the State dispensary, the following, taken from the Manning Times of yesterday, will be of general interest and seems to call for some response: "The dispensary bone will not do to gnaw upon, un' as there is corrup tion in the institution. If it can be proven that any of the board are in league with the whiskey dealers, it should be exposed and the guilty punished. If ary members of the board are known to sleep with whis keg drummers when they visit Co lumbia, lift the curtain and lot the people see the 'sleeping beauty'; they might wake him up, to question him as to how much he is to get, or bot ter still, search his pockets for evi dence to convict. If any corruption, whether it be in members of the board, commission, superintendent, shipping clerk, or drayman is known, out with it, and the people will fire the corrupt. Should there be any corruption shown, that ought not to mean the destruction of tho institution; South Carolina has plenty of honest men who would conduct the dispensary as they would their own business, and if the present management does not accomplish the desired results, take out the weak timbers and put in strong ones until it will stand wish out propping." Why take Johnson's Chill & Fever Tonic? Because it cures the most stubborn case of Fever in ONE DA Y. Let the Truth be Told. [Abbeville Medium.] A lecture was delivered by Fred. Emerson Brooks in the opera house at Elberton recently. A correspon dent of the Elberton Tribune speaks in high terms of his descripticn of "Pickett" and the scenes around Gettysburg. It seems that one old Confederate survivor shed tears and said "It was so real and true, every word. God blesB him." The old soldier should have asked the lecturer to fell how many men Pickott lost in the great charge. If the lecturer was posted lhe would have been compelled to say that Pickett's loss wvas not more than an average of fifteen men to the rogi mont showing that the charge was not so desperate as the imagination of writers has made it. Georgia had commands that would regard such losses as nothing -more than might be expected in an ordi nary skirmish. The brigades of Benning, Wright and "Tige" Ander son would never have fallen back for the infinitesimal loss of fifteen men to a regiment. In the charge writ ten up in such extravagant phrases Pettigrew's men wvent farther to the front and stayed longer than Pick ott's but Pettigrewv did not have a crowd of newspaper men along to blow for him and to make a reputa tion for him wvith the pen instead of wvit,h t'he swvord. Poetic license has much to do wvith PickeotL?s reputation and it is time the old soldiers who wvere at Gettysburg should be publishiug the actual facts about this famous charge and give "honor to whom honor is duo." Buckleo's Arniea Salve. The11 bost S~alve in the world for Cuts, Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rhecum' Fever Sores, Tletter, Chapped 1Hands, Chilblains, Corns, and all Skin Erup tions, and( positively cures Plies, or no pay required. It is guaranteed to give per'fect satisfactioni or mloney~ refun deri. Price 25 cents ner box. For sale by Rtohnrtson & Gil1er. GEN. K W. HARLLEE DIES PEAUCFULLY, AS FULL OF ION OUS AS OF YEAUS. Sketch of Ills Life-- Conilanded Carolina' Troops In the Florida, Wir-Lieutenant (lovernor in 1800. [The State.] Floronco, April 29.--Gen. Win. W Harileo died at half past 7 o'cloc) tonight, at the ripo old age of 8 years. His health .had not boo] good for some time, but for only i week had he boon confined to hii bed. He sank rapidly during thi day, and the end was painless. General Harlloo was born in Mae ion county, in 1812; his father Thomas Harlloo, being a native oJ Virginia, and his mother, Elizabotl (Stewart) Harloe, a South Carolin ian. Thomas Harlloo, his father, who came to South Carolina in 1790, was a prominent planter and mer chant, residing at his estato, "Little Rock,' which lie purchased soon after settling in South Carolina. He was a member of the house of repro sentatives for four years and of the senate for a like period. He was al so a surveyor, surveying the countie of Marion and Horry under contracl with the State, being assisted it the work by his oldest son, John. Win. W. Harilee, the youngest o six children, began the study of law in 1831, under the tutelage o George W. Dargan, Esq., afterward. chancellor. Being admitted to th< bar in 1833, he began the practice o his profession at Marion C. H. where he continued to pratico unti 1889, when he movod to Florence where he has been engaged in activ< practice since. General Harlloo has taken a prom inont part in the aflairs of his nativ< Stato. In .1836 l,o was returned b' Marion county to the house of repro sentatives, whoro he served tw< years. In 1837 he was appointo( major of South Carolina troops calle for by the general government foi the Seminole war in Florida, wher( he served with his command foi three months, until olected colonel o the thirty-second regiment of Soutl Carolina militia. In 1841 he wat elected brigadier goneral of the eightl brigade, and in 1485 became majo general of the fourth division o the South Carolina militia. In 1847 he returned to politica life and was returned to the legis lature, where he was instrumental in getting through the bill for th< charter of the Wilmington and Man chester, now the Wilmington, Co. lumnbia and Augusta railro-d, and ix the following year wvas eletod presi dent of that road, and retained thc position until 1855, when lie resign ed on account of failing hxealth, al though the directors offered te double his salary if he would con tinue in charge. As a compliment to him the town, nowv city, of Florence wvas named after his daughter, and the name has beon extended to the county in which it is located. In 1860 he wvas elentod liouten. ant governor of the State, and wvas a delegate to tihe convention of so cession, serving as a member of th( military committee and of the exe. cutive committee. During the same year he raised brigade for the Confederate service, which was called the Peo Dee legion, 1and received a commission as briga dier general from the governor, When his arrangements were being made for the field, however, thme con. vention again met, andl appointed him a member of the executive coun. cil, and also p)lacod him at the lhead of.the financial department of th< State, in wvhich capacity he handled millions of dollars for the State be fore the close of the wvar. When thme war closed he roturno( to the practice of his profession, an( in 1876 p)resided over the con voention that nominated Gon. Wad< H-ampjton. In 1880 he was agail eoo .ed to the State senate and sory ed four years as p)residen)t pro term pore. When his term expired h< refused to stand for re-elion. In 1894 Gonoral Harlloo presided over the convention which nominated . Judge Haskell. General Harlleo was married in 1840 to Miss Martha S. Shackleford of Charleston. Of the six children born to this union, one-Edward B. Harlloo-was until 1876 editor of the Now Orloans Picayune, dying from overwork in that city at that . time. He was a man of groat prom iso and brilliancy. As a lawyer General Harllooa tood i very high, his election to the presi doney of the Stato Bar association in .1880 being a tril-ito to his standing. As a hospitable southern gor.fleman of the old-timo school, he was prince ly. Being one of the largest plant. ors in the State, lie was able to lavish tho most generous hospitality upon his friends. Quinine and other fe ver medicines take from 5 to 10 days to cure fever. Johnson's Chill and Pev6r Tonic cures In ONE DAY. WIHO IS TO BLAME? Errors In the Acta an publilshed by the Printer. The Evening Iocord of yesterday says: "The public printer of Mr. Bronz onle should explain. A great many complaints of errors in the printed volumo of the acts of the late session of the general -assombly have been r mado. Who is responsible? The , State pays enough for this work to I havo it (lone accuratoly, as its im portianeo makes absolutoly necos sary. The Stato could get the work (oC for loss than the present )ub - lic printer charges, but one of tho r reasons given for having him do the work at a good prico was tham lie would do it botter than anybody olso. Oh! no, it is not the public I printer's fault. Cortainly Mr. Brenz I onlo, who prepared the "copy" of the acts for the public printer, is to blamo. Why should not the respon sibility be rolled off on his shoulders? It would be unkind to blame the well paid public printer. Until there is an explanation, Mr. Brenzoalo must bear the blamo. What are the errors? The Yorkville Enquirer of this wook says: "According to the acts of the last I gonoral assombly as published, the levy in Catawba township, on ac I count of intorost on the Charleston, Cincinnati and Chicago railroad bonds, is only 1 mill. Mr. J. S. Brice informs Thle Enquirer that this is a mistake, He has a corti fied copy~ of the act as it p)assedl the general assembly, and according to it the levy is 2 mills, as recommend ed by the county board of comnmis sioners. Tho0 treasurer, of course, wvill go by the certified copy rather than the printed act. H-ad the mis take not been discovered, considerable trouble wvould have resulted and an addition ial levy would have been necessary next year to make up the deficioney. "The object of printing the acts is to make it unnecessary to send to Columbia for copies of the original acts, which are kep)t in the secretary of state's ofice. Of course, when inaccuracies are diLcovered in the published volume of the acts, confidence in it is destroyaed and no one feels safe in relying upon them. "In the issue of The Enquirer from wvhich the above extract was madoe, Senator Love questions the accuracy of the acts. Seine citizens I of Greenwood county in getting a certified cop)y of the act creating that I connty discoVered seome serious dis crepancs betwoon the original and I the printed copy. Other complaints or errors have been made. "The liocord repeats: T1hie money I spent for publication of the acts is I just several hunidred dlollars thrown - away if their accuracy cannot be > relied up1on. The responsibility for the errors complained of should be - established, so that the legislature - will know howv to proceed to prevent 3 future wvork of the kind being faulty. Who is to blamn ?'' OFFICIAL INVESTIUATION TO BE APPLIED To the Trunk Scandai-Uov. EUerbo Gives the Aslnt,ut At torney General Instruct. Iona--Sinondis Wine Matter. (The State, 1st.) Governor Ellorbe announced posi tively yesterday that he intended to prosecute any official wiho was found to have done anything wrong in the Beckroge trunk matter. The trunk, if it was sold, was not sold in a prop or manner, and he intended that punishment should fall on the head of the guiliy party. As soon as the affair was called to his attention, he said that he ordered ex-Comminssionor Gaston to make the report that was published yesterday. Assistant Attorney General Town send was instructed also to begin an invostigation immediatoly, and if anything. was detected that lookod like oflicial misconduct, to take active steps to bring the guilty to justice. The chips may fall where they may, declared the governor but he intend od to have justice done. Mr. Townsond was at the dispon sary yestorday carrying out instruct ions. What he found out will be embodied in a report to the gover nor that will be submitted today or tomorrow. If anything is found wrong, he will prepare to prosecute the guilty one. Concerning the Beckrogo trunk, the rumor is going around that Clork Scruggs has gone to Colloton to see Mr. C. W. Garris and collect the bill of $5, $0, $7, $8 or maybe $10, that the $25 trunk is supposed to have been sold for. Ho left ovor the Coast Line, but that does not provent him getting off at Sumter and crossing over to the South Caro lina and Georgia and going on to Colloton. He left Thursday, and had not eoturned late yesterday after 110011. A mystory is encircling another seizure of wine sont to Banker Sim onds of Charleston. Yosterday the governor received the following telo gram: "Simonds refused to accopt goods. Turner offering thom for salo to other parties and I have seized them with warrant while in depot. Answer at once. "W. M. Bahr." The governor wired to Mr. Bahr to send particulars by mail a once and then he would give orders con corning the seizuro. This is another shipment to Bank or Simond, and he refuses to receive it. The Charleston agent of tihe consignor, who is referred to as Turner, it is thought offered to sell the goods to other parties, and tihe constables thereupon seized it. Constable B3ahr will continue to hold the wines until lhe receives or ders from the governor. Jotfnson's ChilI and Pe ver Tonic is a ON13-DAY Cure. ft cures the most stubborn case of P4ver in 24 Hours. CIMMSON's iNoOME Privilege Tax Already AmnountA to Nearly SO0,o0o. | The State, 1st] A comparison of the amounts re ceived by tile State treasurer from tile privilege tax on fertilizers for this and last year shows that the difference is small, in spite of the alarming rep)orts sent out b)y cor.. 'respondents that never before had suchl amounts of guano been sold ill their nleighb)orhooods. For thlis year tile privilege tax up to this time ag gregates $55,975.93 whlile last year it was $54,524.37; a difference of $1,451.50 in favor of thlis year. The privilege tax is 25 cents a ton anid four times $1,45-1.56 gives tho num ber of tons more sold1 this than last year, wh)ich is 5,800 t.ons. Propor tionedl equally among the counties of the State the amount of fertilizers used in each this year is 145 tons in excess'of that used last. All of this tax goos to tihe supp)ort of Clomson. Though tile amount is $55,975.93, CJemson has to pay back to the State $10,000) which wvas overpaid one year by a clerical error. That is to be returned to the State tis year, anid will.re(duce the col lege's revenue thlat amount. FOUTiIERN 8011100a HISTORY, Eleven Text Ilooks Endoraed by the United Confederate Voterans. [Baltimore Sun.] The United Confedorate Voterans' Awsociation has ondorsed eleven school historios of the United States written by Southern authors, among the last additions to the list being those of Mrs. Susan P. Loo and the Rev. Dr. J. William Jonos, the latter published by the R. H. Woodward Company, of Baltimore. Dr. Jones served throughout the war in the Confedorato army and had a porson al knowledge of many of the inci dents of which ho writos in that part of his history which treats of the conflict betwoon the States. He pro sonts briefly, but forcibly, the causes which led to the withdrawal of the Southern States from the Union and the war which began at Sumter and ended at Appomattox. In his prof aceo Dr. Jonas says he holds himself preparod "to sustain every stateinet t ho has made by the most unques tioned authority." The history be gins with the discovery of America and is brought down to the closing days of the Second Cleveland Ad ministration. in urging recontly the necessity for a history of the civil war that would preosent the facts without sec tional bias, the Sun was not unmind ful that a number of very valuablo works have boon writtenby Southern authors dealing with speoial phases of that, groat conflict. Among these books may be noted Col. William Al lan's "Jackson's Valley Campaigns," "The Army of Northern Virginia in 1862," and "The Campaign and Bat. t1e of Cnancollorsville." Thoso are fine spocimens of paiinstaking and ac curate history. The Rev. Dr. John Johnson, of Charleston, S. C., who was Onginoor in charge of Fort Sum tor, has givon us a miliiary classic in his "Defonco of Eort Sumter and Charloston Harbor." Col. William Proston Johnston's "Life of Albert Sidnoy Johnston," Col. Walter Tay lor's "Four Yoars with Leo," Gen. Fitzhugh Loo's "Life of .R. E. Lee," Gen. .1ubal A. Early's "Memoirs of the Last Year of the War," Gen Jos eph E. Johnston's "Narrative," Gen. John B. Hood's "Advance and Re treat," Judge Romain's "Memoirs of Gen. G. T. Beauregard," Dr. W. M. Polk's memoir of his father, Gon. (Bishop) Leonidas Polk; Admiral Sonme's "Service Afloat and Ashore," D)r. Rt. L. Dabney's "Life of Stone wvall Jackson," Joffer-son Davis's "Rise and Fall of the Confederate States," A. HL. Stephen's "War Be tween the States," Mrs. Jefferson Davis's memoirs of her husband, Dr. A. T1. Blodsoo's "I's Davis a Traitor?" anid Major HI. B. McClellan's "Life of Stuart" are volumes worthy of a p)laco in any lbrary. Among the most valuable publica. tions relating to the wvar are the twenty-four volumes of the Southein Historical Society's papers. They touch on every phase and period of the chieftain who led you to victory; renewed heartfelt allegiance to the great union, your union, our union. "On this inspiring occasion we love to toll you that for all the grandeur and majesty of Grant's character, for all the sp)lendor of his gener-osity to our bravo men and broken peop)le, his name shall be embalmed in the hearts of our chil dren and of our children's children with devotion as warm as our south. ern sun. "Illustrious citizen of the republbc, in danger brave, in victory generous, we help to crown him with his peo ple's undying love aind in the pr~Cosnco of thme highest officials of state and1( municipality we help dedi cate this muonumnont to his name and fame and lift them like incense to thme powvers above. "HoI was so (easily a general that he failed to no)to his own reserved powers. lie will grow with his own generation arid thoso who come after will learn to appreciate his worth. "JAmIs LoNcSTREET." It was such sentiments as the ven erable general oxp)ressed in his state mont that prevadod the talk of the gray-haired1 men of all p)arties who camno from Washington to honor Grant.