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B2W E''- E: J. SIELTOH WILLIAMS. WHAT HE SAYS ABOUT THE BONO TRANSACTION. Confirm* Col. Hukeir* Statement in Every^Particular—Doe* Not Know Who RMnd Meat—Say* Rhind Could Tall. Richhond, June 30.—Several times eince the bond scandal has become so prominent the name of Mr. John Skelton W il- liams, the energetic and pros perous young banker of this city, has been mentioned in connection with the question, “Who got these commissions?” This afternoon I called on Mr. Williams and had a talk with him in regard to the matter. He gives-an interesting chap ter to the bond business as a member of the syndicate. Re says that he took the matter up, after Mr. Lancaster’s fail ure and the agreement to pay Mr. Rhind a commission, which has been mentioned, was stated to them by Mr. Rhind. The people composing the Syndicate then thought the investment a good one with the commission allowed, and took the bonds. He confirms to the letter Col. Haskell’s statement, recently published, and says Mr. Rhind stated that he could not give them (the syndicate) the amount they expected as com mission, because “A large por tion of it had to be paid to par ties whose services and influence were necessary in the general assembly. He says he did not know to whom Mr. Rhind refer- ed. They had no right to ask him, yet they had no idea that it would be used for any im proper purpose.” Mr. Rhind gave them to understand all the way that this commission was to be so disposed of. tio far as he knows the drafts were divided in order that the amount should be given to “his associ ates.” He never heard -anything said connecting any State officer with the transaction. In reply to a question he said: “No 1 have never heard one word to connect any State officer with the matter, beyond Mr. Rhind’s statement, which any one can construe. Mr. Rhind or Mr. Lancaster can tell you about the whole matter, though, I suppose.” He said he knew that Mr. Evans was Mr. Rhind’s attorney in the matter.' Mr. Lancaster is at present at his summer home in this State and could not be seen today. E. J. WaTson. A. B. William* in a Letter to the Green ville New* Recalls to Mind Some Bond Deal History Which Make* the Business Look Still Worse for Those Who Got the Commissions. Dr. Bates says nobody ever offered to take the bonds at t per cent off. As a matter of tact the syndicate did take them at that price. The difference between the } per cent the syndicate got and the 21 per cent the State gave—a little matter of $78,000—went to Rhind “and associates.” in December 1892, while in Columbia, 1 received a telegram from John Skelton Williams, which 1 have on file, asking me to ascertain and report the stat us of the bond bill and saying he would probably be in Col umbia the following week. 1 did not know he was in the syndicate and naturally suppos ed he intended to bid on the bonds. I went to the senate chamber and learned from Sen ator Bmythe that the bill was on the second reading there and was being amended. Then I went down to the treasurer’s office and asked him if any ar rangement for the bonds had been completed. He answered “no.” I asked him again, care fully, if the matter was yet open and he said “yes.” I had the telegram in my hand and show ed it to him and said “I want to know. Here is a man who may come down next week and there’s no use bringing him down for nothing.” He again replied emphatically that no trade had been closed. Between 4 and 5 o’clock that afternoon Dr. Bates came to Capt. V. E. McBee’s residence, where I was dining. He was in a carriage, but came into the house and had me called from the dinner table. He said: “I don’t want to deceive you, Mr. Williams. I answered you frankly this morning because I saw the telegram you had was from one of our old syndicates, hat I want to say to you that we can consider no proposition unless it comes through Mr. Rhind, of Augusta.” He added that he had been driving all over town banting me. . I was naturally startled to know that the bonds were gone ihill to authorise them I said: “Do you ne, doctor, that come down hart next WfOK and put down their money and say: Here’s five million, five hundred thousand dollars. Will take your bonds at par.’ Do you mean to tell me you cau’t consider that?” His answer was: “Yes. We are under business and moral obligations to Mr. Rhind which wo are bound to respect.” I repeated the conversation to Captain McBee and enquired if anybody had the right to bind the people of South Carolina in advance to do business with any one man*, regardless of fig ures, and immediately sent a telegram to Mr. Williams: “The cards are stocked on you. I be lieve there is crooked work.” I think I added advice to him to get on the inside if he wanted bonds. I don’t know whether he was thinking of cutting loose from Rhind or not. I know it was fixed so he couldn’t. That is what I meant when I told the Times that persons en quiring about the bonds had been officially informed that they could not be bought at par or any other price except through Mr. Rhind. I have been wondering ever since who caus ed Treasurer Bates to change his mind between forenoon and afternoon. Col. Sparkman has been to Columbia, making arrange ments for the encampment of the Third Regitnent of Calvary and the Georgetown Rifle Guards on the island in July. We also learn that the crack company of the State, the Dar lington Guards, of Darlington, are preparing to invade the island this summer, and bring a large number of the compa ny’s friends with them. No doubt they will come during the encainpment; and the gay soldier boys and the many belles from South Carolina and other States will make the place as gay and pleasant as any sum mer resort. The facilities for getting to the island this summer have been increased and cheapened, which will add- to the pop ularity of the' place—George town Times. SPRINGVILLE, Crops are looking well at this writing. Miss Julia Adams is on the sick list at this writing. Laying by corn is a thing of the past in this community. We had a good rain last Fri day which was very much need ed. The cotton and corn of this section is better this year than last. Miss Ida Ward, of Pine Grove, is visiting relatives and friends in this community. Miss Rosa Ward, of Pine Grove, is visfting relatives and freinds in this section. Mrs. W. E. Flowers is visit ing her daughter. Mrs. G. I. Johnson, of Timmonsville. Mr. and Mrs. James Bozaman visited relatives and friends in this section last week. Mr. if at t hew Flowers paid his brother Mr. W. E. Flowers a visit on the 15 and 16 inst. Mr. A. L. Orrell, our skill ed machinist, is kept very busy repairing cotton gins for fall work. Mr. J. E. Flowers spent last Wednesday and Thursday very pleasantly in the city of Darlington. Mr. Willie Witherspoon, of Antioch, paid the family of Mr Jno. Parnell a visit on last Saturday and Sunday. Miss Gertrude Flowers, of Darlington, visited relatives and triends in this section last Sunday. Mr. Willie Flowers paid the family of Mr. Thomas Ward a short visit on last Saturday and Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Jno. Abbott, of Riverdale, paid the family of Mr. W. E. Flowers a visit on Sunday the 14 inst. UNA. It is about time for picnics. Isn’t it possible 1o get up one at Una? The heavy rain fall in this section is proving injurious to the cotton crop. Rev. Mr. Peel preached a very interesting sermon at Mt. Elon last Sunday, subject, the Cruific- tion of Christ. There will be a joint debate at Mechanicsville, Sumter coun ty, July, the (11th) eleventh to which the public is invited. Contestants U. W. Northcutt, of Darlington, L. Y. Brown, of Sumter. Mr. H. H. Redic has been re quested to announce himself as a candidate for County Super visor, but declines, by saying if >u the people want him they must if dpeak publicly, for be is not rt Ranting a job. JASPER. Miss Minkie Stephen is spend- iug a few days with friends at Oats. Miss Lena Lawson, of Oats, visited friends in this section recently. Mrs. C. A. Lewis has gone on an extended visit to her daugt- er Mrs. Kelly of Sumter. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Kelly, of Sumter, spent Saturday and Sunday with relatives in this section. Mr. P. N. Weaver’s little girl was run over by a mule Sunday, which knocked her down and broke her arm, be sides inflicting several very painful wounds about her face and shoulder. Dr. J. P. Parrott was summoned and dressed the wounds. He pronounced them painful though not neces sarily serious. AMERICA. My country ’tis of thee, Sweet land of liberty— Of thee I sing; Land where my fathers died. Land of the pilgrims’ pride; From every mountain side Let freedom ring. My native country! thee— Land of the noble free— Thy name t love. I love thy rocks and rills, Thy woods and templed hills; My heart with rapture thrills, Like that above. Let music swell the breeze, And ring from all the trees Sweet freedom's song; Let mortal tongues awake, Let all that breathe partake, Let rocks their silence break, The sound prolong. Our father’s God! to thee— Aurthor of liberty! To thee we sing: Long may our land be bright, With freedom's holy light— Protect us by thy might, Great God, our King. GOD BLESS OUR NATIVE LAND. God bless our native land, Firm may she ever stand Thro’ storm and night! When the wild tempests rave. Ruler of wind and wave, Do thou our country save By thy great might. For her our prayer shall rise, To God above the skies; On him we wait. Thou who hast beard each sigh, Watching each weeping eye, Be thou forever nigh; God save the state. CAUGHT WITH GOLD. ^ THE DRUG STORE. (JOLD EATING WATER She (gazing at the dying em bers)—“That fire reminds me of a man in love. It burns bright' ly at first, then gradually sub sides and nothing remains but &sh68 He—“And yet it will be all right if you feed it regularly ” —New York Herald. If NapolMB Had Invaded England? It is also pertinent to inquire what would have happened had Napoleon been successful in landing an army on English shores. In the first place, bis mastery of the seas would have been quickly ended by the combined efforts of the English war vessels then afloat, and he would have been left without base of supplies or communication. In the second place he would have met a resistance from a prond, free, enlight ened and desperate people which would have paralyzed all his tactics and would have worn out any army he could have kept together. Did Napoleon fail to un derstand this? Of course not. He had said before that an army which cannot be regularly recruited is a doomed army. He had seen this theory verified in Egypt, and he knew very well that a permanent mastery of the seas was out of the question with the fleets and flotil las at his disposal It would appear in the case of any other man than Napo leon that the proof was complete, in view of what actually did occur—name ly, the attack by land on Austria The impression which Metternich received in 1810 that this had been the emperor’s intention from the first, and the lavish ness with which Napoleon, throughont his public career, made use of any and every form of ruse, even the costliest, in order to mislead his foes, are comple mentary pieces of evidence which fur nish the strongest corroboration.—Pro fessor W. M. Sloane’s “Life of Napo leon” in Century. Wlierv the Diamond Tree Orows. No work on horticulture makes men tion of this interesting shrub, which rarely attains large size, but is mainly restricted to a number of small cutting* The pawnbroking trade is where the cultivation is carried on. An unscrupu lous pawnbroker having had certain dia mond ornaments intrusted to his safe keeping for awhile is the gardener, and it is in the arid atmosphere of his work shop that the work of propagation will be observed. A piece of jewelry in which diamonds are set is carefully examined, and stones of similar quality, but just a shade •mailer in size, are cleverly substituted. The removed stones are in turn ex changed for others from another article again, an imperceptible shade bigger, until at last the original cutting has de veloped quite respectable growth and di mensions. It is not wise to force the growth to too great an extent, and so the original process is being continually repeated. The beauty of the operation lies in the •light danger of detection. The substi tution in each case varies but very little in the matter of size, and the owners of the property rarely or never notice what has taken place, but “many a little makes a mnckle.” and in the course of a few weeks a skillful gardener may make a very good thing out of a diamond tree.—Pearson’■ Weekly. but the man eating shark took *45,000 OF THE BAIT. The Ex-DIrer’* Story of an Adventure In the “Greet Days”—Silence Smeared Itself AH Over the Yeranda at the Completion of the Yarn. “I suppose,” quoth James T. Gaulin of Winchester, Mass., who was sitting on the hotel veranda, “that I had the honor of killing the most valuable fish that ever swam the seas. I did it single handed too. I aver that this fish was worth more at the time of its death than the finest sperm whale thllt was ever harpooned, although we should really leave whales out of the question when speaking of fish. It was 30 years ago, and I was yonng and foolish enough to bo a deep sea diver. Our diving schooner and crew had been sent to Cuba to try to recover some stuff from a Spanish boat that had foundered off the coast of Cuba, just where I don’t now recollect. It was quite a long trip for us, and as the emplojment of a diving outfit was an expensive thing in those days the boys knew that there mnst be something pretty valuable in tho hold of the wreck. I was quite close to onr skipper, and he told me that there were several boxes of gold coin in the wreck. On onr arrival at the port near where the wreck lay in 30 feet of water the agent of the owners of the sunken schooner told ns some thing more snrprising. It was that the gold had not been stowed in boxes in the cabin, as was nsnal, but for some reason bad been bagged and placed in the hold, being billed as copper washers. This was probably a scheme to avoid any chance fcf the spirit of cupidity aris ing in the crew, for the treasure was very great. “As the confidential man, I was se lected to go down first and find the mon ey bags, attach lines to them and have them taken out before the other divers should proceed with the work of taking out the other freight that the water had not harmed. I was soon in the hold and was surprised to find that the bags were only a little distance from the hole in the side that had caused the schooner to founder. I had been told that there would be 12 bags, but I could 'lay my hands on bnt 11 of them. Finally I spied a torn bag lying near the hole in the hnll, and on picking it np discover ed that it contained a few gold coins. I decided that the heavy triple sacking had been torn open in some way or oth er when the schooner sank. I fastened lines about the 11 bags that were intact, and had them hoisted, afterward going np for air, for our apparatus was not very good. “lu a few minutes I returned to the hold to search for the scattered coins. Very few of them were in sight. It oc curred to me that they might have been washed outside the boat, judging from the position of the wreck and the fact that the hold was far down toward the ship’s bottom. I was about to crawl out of the hole when I remembered that' it might hazard the- air pipe, so I was pulled up and let down again over the vessel’s side. I was disappointed not to find any indication of the gold near the hole in the schooner, bnt set to work digging resolutely in the sand. I had gone but a foot down when I struck the gold pieces nil in a lump. I picked out a great handful and turned tho light on them, for I was a lover of gold then, even though it did not belong to me. "Just then I saw something that made the rubber helmet rise from my head. It was a man eating shark. I hadn’t thought of one in so long that I bad neglected to bring my knife. It was rushing at me. The stupid creature never stopped to consider that with a rubber and read dressing a diver makes a poor Inncn. I was kneeling beside the gold. At the shark’s onslaught I natural ly hnng fo tho hand!nl of gold as though to ase it as a weapon. He turned ou his side, opening his horrible mouth. A feeling of grim hnmor had come over me. The cruel goldbugs had sent me down here to be devoured, after saving thousands of dollars for them. I would be a spendthrift at the last. So with all my force I flung the heavy handful of coin into the yawning month. “The shark mnst have thought it was a part of'me, for he snapped bis jaws over the golden morsel. I am satisfied that he broke some teeth. He swam back a little, and then rushed at me again. I had no weapon bnt the gold, so again I flung into the hideons maw enongh to hoy me a'bome in New Eng land. I saw him snap and swallow it. Again and again was the attack repeat ed, and as often did I hurl gold into the shark’s throat. Pretty soon he became dizzy, as it were, for the gold had un balanced him, settling in the forward part of his body. Then he writhed in agony, and I had to keep dodging his finny. Then, with one terrible sbndder, he sank to the bottom, weighted down by the gold. I tied a liue about him and then gave the signal to be pnllcd up. Then I helped hoist the shark. We ent him open. Gentlemen, yon mnst take the word of an ex-diver that there was |45,000 in him. Gold had killed him.” Silence smeared itself all over the veranda. The pale moon slid behind a eloud. The amphitheater organ slowly wove a weird chunk of melody. The chimes began to ring. “Those were great days,” said Mr. Ganlin sadly.— Buffalo Express. A Flea Works tho Hammer. At Essen, Germany, in the great Krnpp gun works, which are situated at that place, there is a hammer that weighs 60 tons. This hammer works in connection with an anvil weighing 80 tons, which, in turn, is placed on an anvil (dock weighing 120 tons. Profess or Schumann, a “trained flea man” of Bern, Switzerland, visited Ks.sen and the great Avar machine works a few years ago. Upon returning home he set abont making a model of the great hammer which should be complete in • ,'ery detail, but on such a minute scale that the hammer could he raised by a flea instead of by a 100 horsepower en gine, as in the original In its completed state this wonderful miniature model, —frame, hammer, pulleys, eta—weighs but 1)» grains! The hammer and anvil are both of solid gold, the pulleys Ger man silver and the framework plati num. A flea, trained by Mr. Schumann, the maker of the model, will, at tho word of command, hoist the hammer to the top of the frame, where it is auto matically set free, descending in pre cisely the same manner as the monster after which it was modeled.—St, Louis Retrablia CHARACTER SKETCHES AT FOUN TAIN AND PRESCRIPTION DESK. SPARKLING LIQUID CHARGED WITH CYANIDE OF POTASSIUM. Funny Stories That Best the Old Poetaae Stamp Joke—Tricks Pleyed by Patrons ee Well as by Clerks end Phylcleas Some St. lonN Semples. The time honored jokes in the funny papers abont people who buy stamps in a drug store and want them wrapped up and delivered may be old to the average reader, hut they are new every day to the drug dispensers. Such ridiculous things arc everyday occurreuces. A welj knowu druggist tells of an instance when he was night clerk in a west end drug store. Abont 5 one morn ing a vigorous ring at the night bell roused him from peaceful slumbers. He came down wearing one shoe, snch mis cellaneous clothing as he conld pick np iu a hurry and a decidedly cross appear ance. At tho door was a nicely dressed lady. Would he kindly sell her a stamp? She had an important letter which she must mail, aud as she also desired to catch the 6:30 train she feared she would forget It. The stamp was sold to hor, and then very sweetly and inno cently she inquired if he would not, since she was in snch a burry, walk to the corner aud mall the letter for her. As he had worn only one shoe down he regretfully declined the honor. The soda dispenser in the drug store usually sees and enjoys more peculiari ties than any of the drug clerks from the fact that he is not bothered with any of their responsibilities. His great est trouble is in deciding whose money he shall take in the case of young ladies who drink soda together. If it were men, each would be anxions to pay for tbe beverages. In the case of young la dies, however, each is apparently anx ious not to pay for the drink. Then they argue with each other on abont this line: “No, let me pay.” "I will not. I think I should.” “Oh, I’ll be awful angry if you do. ” And all the while, says the soda dispenser, they are hang ing on to their dimes with a deathlike grip. The soda man finally solves the- problem by taking the money of each and returning the change to each, mak ing it a “Oinoinuati treat” The proverbial joke about the man who winks his eye at the apothecary when he wants a "stick” in his soda is not a fiction. Various excuses aro made to get liquor, but the standard and most usual is a terrible pain iu the stomach or else a threatened chill. The druggist always suggests Jamaica ginger. This suggestion is never satisfactory, as it is whisky they want. A favorite trick is to ask for a dose of calisaya, which, to be thoroughly effective, must be mixed with whisky. The “fiends” who make life miserable to the druggist are legion. They are fiends who aro addicted to phenacatin, to bromo seltzer, to quinine, to arsenic, to strychnine and to morphine. There are also people who aro addicted to the use of wine of cucoa. Tho drink contains a quantity of cocaine in solution and has a revivifying effect on the system. There are quinine fiends who take as much as 150 grains a day. Not long since a St. Louis physician proscribed this drug to a patient, ordering it to be put iu six powders of 60 grains each. The patient, a lady, took it all iu 24 hours, and, strange to say, got well. There are several people in St. Louis who ore addicted to tho use of aromatic spirits of ammonia and vichy. They drink it with great gusto. The morphine fiend is a shrewd and discriminating buyer. One of the usual excuses when the ficud is a woman is that the drug is "for mamma.” Poor mamma! She has many sins to answer for of which she is guiltless. Some of the fiends can tell the brand of mor phine by tbe taste and will have none bnt their favorite. One hopeless case has become so expert on the quantity that ho usually takes—thre-i grains—that with a dash of the bottle ho can throw the exact quantity into tho palm of bis hand. The druggist with whom he usually deills has verified the weight of tho dose thus prepared many times and invariably fiuds it correct to a fraction of a grain. Tbe drug store Is a favorite place for leaving bundles, valises, eta Many of the packages left are never called for. A lady left a bundle in an Olive street establishment a year ago that contained two dozen suits of underwear and has never returned for them. At the same drug store a well dressed man left his valise, containing clothing, papers, a shaving set and many miscellaneous ar ticles, and never came back. The stran gest case of the kind was a man who left his wife at a down town store abont 9 o'clock, promising to return in ten min utes. At 10 o'clock, closing time, he had not returned, so the druggist sat down to wait for him, not caring to turn the lady ont on the street. At 12:15 a. m. he dropped in, much the worse for wear, aud theu there was a sceue that repaid the druggist for his long vigil. People who get hurt cn the streets in any manner always go to the drug stores to be patched np. They claim treatment of this kind apparently as a right and part of the duty of the druggist to the pnhlic, and in nine cases ont of ten dl not even express their thanks for the service rendered them. Physicians’ prescriptions would often tell the sick person somethng they did not know if they conld understand them. Chalk and distilled water for nervons- ness, susar pills for headaches and pink water for dyspepsia are frequent pre scriptions. There is an old gentleman who pa tronizes a South St. Louis drug store who thnks he is a confirmed morphine fiend. He began the nse of morphia for insomnia. The first prescription called for chalk, bnt it put him to sleep, and he has had it refilled every day since. He sleeps like a babe at night, except when be misses his usual dose, and then die walks the floor until he gets It. 8b Louis Post-Dispatch. HOME, SWEET HOME. flisre's s Maatitul reuin In the faraway pwb all lovely with snmhln > and flowers. And volcae ss sweet as the eon* of the birds Lough away the bright, haiipy hoora; 1 can hear them now cotpe echoing baek, As ( watch tha starry dome, And mamory bells chime soft and low— Home, aweet home. fhe voioea loved to In that long ago, And thoso which make music now, rhe coming step and the hand whose touch Lingers gently on my brow— i hope to greet In that fadeless realm. Beyond the starry dome, Where angel voices welcome nraathe u» Home, sweet home. , Millions la tbs Yellaw Metal Weovra* bp Percolation—A Simple bnt Int*reel ing Prooeee, With Reenlts Which Am Nothing Leee Than Marvnlona, It Is not generally known, even In California, that millions of dollars In glittering gold are annually taken from rude heaps of base looking quarts by the gentle flowing of crystal water over huge piles of broken rocks that contain the precious metal, but such Is the fact. "Tbe process of robbing the earth of its gold has now been rednoed to snch a fine point,” said Professor Price, “that the gentle flowing of water over the ore gleans It of Its golden treasures, and this works well in cases where the old chloride and other methods are not so nsefnl. ” Bnt the water of which Professor Price spoke is not so pure as It looks, thongh the eye conld never distinguish It from that which Is dipped by the old oaken bucket from a well In the deep tangled wildwood. The water used by miners in bringing gold from piles of mineral bearing qnartz is charged with a simple chemical which has the potency to dissolve gold and hold It In solution. In truth, the sparkling liquid which flows over hundreds of tons of quartz, trickles through the mines and seeks Us level, laden with gold, Is charged with a deadly poison, cyanide of potassium, a drug which ferrets ont the minutest particles of the yellow metal, dissolves them aud brings the precious burden to the vats for conversion Into refined gold again. The c"-\" ,Ar - prjccss is a-novelese and unerring as the laws of g.uvltation, do ing its work as qnietly as “the majestiu dance of the honrs,” unhindered by darkness or weather, by disasters of field or flood. The state mining bureau of California was one of the first in the United States to investigate the merits of the cyanide process, and eince the earliest investiga tions the method has found extensive application. It is so interesting that its results are nothing less than marvelous. This method of extracting both gold and silver from ores Is based on the fact thet even a very weak solution of cyar de of potassium dissolves gold and r: Iver, forming respectively “auro - pot,"i‘o cyanide” and "argento-potaeslo cyan ide, ” in the language of the chemists. This interesting process consists of treating the ores with a weak solution of potassium cyanide, usually by allow ing the eolation to percolate throngh the ore, or by agitating a mixture of the ore and eolation. When this part of tbe operation is completed, tbe eolation Is separated from tbe solid material, and tho gold and silver are precipitated la a metallio form. The process Is modern iu its application, thongh it has long been known that cyanide of potassium would “eat gold. ” During the last five years, however, the process has been introduced into almost every goldfield in Calfornia and elsewhere, and more than $20,000,000 have been recovered by the gentle flowing of waters charged with tho magical chemical over heaps of ore. Aside from the thoroughness of the permeating water method, its economy is a marked feature in mining. It is in great favor with the gold mining com panies of New Zealand and at Johannes burg, Africa, as well as in California. One of the most advantageous fea.nres of tho cyanide method is that It can he applied to many gold and silver ores gen erally tailed "rebellions” or “refrac tory. ’’ The rebellions ore is placed in a vat for percolation, and the solution is run preferably from the bottom by a pipe, rising slowly throngh the ore. The solntion containing gold is carried throngh precipitating appliances into the final reeervoir, where, robbed of ita wealth of metal, it may bo repnmped Into ore vats and again nsed for search ing ont the coveted metal. One of the corious things abont the solution is that a total percentage not stronger than an eighth of 1 per cent will carry away the gold almost as well as fluid of greater strength. Precipitation is effected by the nse of fine pieces of zino, so arranged that when the rich waters flow over them tbe fine gold clusters in rich deposits over the zinc, for which It has an affinity. The gold which thus deserts the waters of cyanide deposits itself in the form of fine dnst on the plates of zino. The per centage of gold extracted by this process is very lar»-«. A ’argi c f fine eulplv itn> Horn the Utica u.ines y’c '.>d an av- rogn of 113.18 per cent of the gold value r !<e cyanide t”>vtrr.ent ary! similar results have been experienced elsewhere in tbe state. The cyan We plants are being extended, and the noiseless process is everywhere becoming popular.—San Francisco Chronicle. BT-A.TElidlEnsrT —of the— B1\K OF Omi.WTOl At the close of business, Juin ’<o. 1896, in conformity with an Act of t General Assembly. ASSETS. Loans and Discounts $227,1)38 20 Stocks 5,000 00 Real Estate 8,728 OH Safe, lumiture, &e 1,100 00 Due by banks. .. .$11,155 69 t'&sh 14,070 78 25,226 47 Total Assets $267,0112 76 LIABILITIES. Capital Stock paid in $100,000 00 Sin plus and Undivided Profits 55,614 26 Dividends unpaid ’145 00 Dividend No. 19 ... 5,000 00 Re-Discounts 34,877 00 Deposits 72,355 00 Total Liabilities $267,1192 76 Personallyappeared before me L. K. Williamson, Cashier, who on oath savs the foregoing statement is true and correct to the best of bis knowledge aud belief. L. E. WILLIAMSON. Cashier. Sworn to before me this 1st dav of July 1896. * M. T L1DE, [l.s.1 Notary Public, S. C. Attest: W. C. COKER, R. W. BOYD, E. R. McIVER, Directors, STATEMENT OF THE CONDITION OK Ths Fesfle': M sf Micgtoi, Darlington, S. C., At the close of business, June 30, 1896, in accordance with an Act of the General Assembly. ASSETS. Loans and Discounts $200,040.14 Stocks 6,980.00 Safe, Furniture, &c 997.00 Real Estate 326 25 Cash on hand and in Banks 11,925.82 Overdrafts 1,182 98 Total $221,452.19 LIABILITIES. Capital Stock $100,000.00 Surplus and undivided Profits 27,986.59 Dividends unpaid 30.00 Deposits 76,618.40 Due Banks 68.39 Re-Discounts 16,748.81 $221,452.10 STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA. County of Darlington. Personally appeared H. L. Charles, Cashier of People’s Bank of Darling ton, S C.. and made oath that the above statement is true to the best of his knowledge and belief. H. L. CHARLES, Cashier, Sworn to before me this 1st day of July. 1896. V [L. 8. | GEO. ONSLOW, Notary Public, S. C, Correct, attest: W. A. CARRIGAN, JOHN 8I8KRON. 0. 8. MCCULLOUGH, Directors. 4* ■ 4a s aa ■ ■ . - J OLENN SPRINGS, S. C. 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