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Third. If so, will any fractiona part of an acre of land legally con veyed to a person constitute him i freeholder for the purposes of th? Act or whatever rights and privileges by law inure to freeholders? In conclusion I respectfully ask, in behalf of the Prohibitionists of the city and county of Laurens, the white voters of which cast a heavy majority in the general primary ol 1892 for prohibition, full and careful consideration of the facts and ques? tions presented and our rights undei the Diepensaiy Act. Very respectfully, . A. C. FULLER. THE GOVERNOR'S ANSWER. Governor Tillman sent the follow reply to Senator Fuller : Hon. A. C Fuller, Laurens, S C. - Dear Sir : In reply to your letter of September 5 I beg te say the State board of contr ol is endeavoring to comply strictly with the dispensary law and have all others do so. If your statements are true, which I do not doubt, the county board of Lau rens has transcended their authority, and we will not recognize their action as legal. Your questions in regard to the legal status of the newly enfranchised citizens is one for the Courts to pass on. The irregularity of the action of the county board arose from not having the petition on file the ten days required by law. We will not lend ourselves lo anything that is unlawful in establishing a dispensary in Laurens, though we know that a dispensary is the safest and cheapest remedy against blind tigers, and that the State constables cannot be paid except from the revenue derived from dispensaries. 1 will only endeavor to enforce the dispensary law where dispensaries do not exist until the Legislature meets, and then ask that the prohibi? tion counties which object to dispen saries shall support the constables by taxation If you are a friend to the dispen? sary law you will not lend your influence to our enemies and the enemies of prohibition to prevent the establishment of at least one dispen? sary for each county. I hope you understand by this time that the struggle is not one between prohibi? tion and the dispensary, but a strug ? gie between the dispensary and the j license system which we have just overthrown I shall write the chair? man of the county board that his board must comply with the terms of the dispensary law before a dispen I sary can be established in Laurens. Yours respectfully, B. K. TILLMAN, Governor. The Governor also wrote to chair? man Gary that the action of the board had been irregular if the ten I days notice had not been given and that such must be done. Mr. Gary wrote in reply that the list had been kept open from time to time : that more than ten days had elapsed since the original list had been filed, and that the new names were regarded as a part of the first list filed. Governor Tillman wrote that ten days would have to elapse after the complete list had been filed before it could be considered. It is said that a great many of the names filed were of freeholders made on the day the list was considered. Governor Tillman seems lo be veiy well satisfied with the way the dis? pensaries are springing up on all sides, and expects to have the Legis? lature put one in every county in the State.-News and Courier. -- ? ? -- Diabolical Scheme of a Pen? sion Attorney A despatch from Pittsburg, Pa., says ;_One of the most despicable schemes of which man can be guilty was iaid bare in the local pension office in the Federal building yester day. A pension attorney has been urging old soldiers to organize and to assassinate President Grover Cleve? land and Secretary Hoke Smith of the Department of the Interior. This pension attorney-a man reputed to be of sound mind, but in the light of his infamous scheme his reputation on that point will likely need investigation-has been enraged at Secretary Smith's endeavor to make the pension lists rolls of honor, ile says it is an attempt to starve old soldiers, and that the only way lo stop it is to assassinate the President and the Secretary. The pension attorney is not a Pittsburger, it is said, although his indentity is kept secret for the present. The entire matter has bec i report? ed to Washington and will be inves? tigated by the au thorites The fool? ish attorney has made himself liable to charges inciting to treason _^^m-~+~+- -'-? The Iron Bridge Damaged. The high water caused a land slide on the Western bauk of the Wateree river last Thursday night, and this caused the two piers of the Wateree Irou Biidge on that side of the river to sink in about 2J feet An expert engineer has exanfincd the bridge, and says lhere is no danger in crossing upon it in its profit conditio o It has been temporarily fixed.-Wateree Messenger. . --- mm The board of control has declined to gran' petition to allow the Charleston dispensaries to keep open until 9 p m A Father Recovers his Daugh? ter. AD adduction case came to light io Columbia on September llth. After three years of search, D. A. Coley of Salisbury, N C., found his thirteen year-old daughter, Jane, there She was living, apparently against her will, with her step-grandfather, B. H. Wood, an ex-deacon of the church. He is fifty years old. Between sobs the child told her father that a year ago Wood forced her to live with him as man and wife. Miss Coley bas a sweet and pretty face, framed by beautiful golden hair. She is rather tall and slender, and while bright, is modest and retiring. She said that three years ago Wood came by the house when her father was away and forced ber against her wishes to go with bim. He took her to Lancaster and thee to Jacksonville, Fla., where they stayed some time. He then carried her to Bollock county, Georgia where they remained about one year. Wood made a crop there. Then they went to Augusta, and after that to Barnwell, S C. They arrived in Columbia last Decem? ber. After working on a farm there a while Wood went to work io the State dispensary and has been there ever since. Miss Coley said that he treated her badly at times. She ran away once but he caught her after she had gotten six miles. He tried to whip her once. She was afraid that if Wood was re? leased he would kill her. Coley said that for three years he had been tracking Wood. Friday before the storm, a railroad man from bis sec? tion was in Columbia and recognixed Wood there and also found out; (hat he was living with Miss Coley. This was communicated to the father, who after getting the necessary papers, went there. Wood is a tall, homely man. He said that about eight years ago bis name was mixed up in such a way with a woman that be left home and "came within an ace of committing suicide." He was once a deacon in the church. He de? clared that the girl wanted to come with bim and denied that be had been liviog with ber as hie wife. He 'said that he had always trated her well, hav? ing sent her to school in Barnwell. "I came here because she aod a boy in Barnwell were trying to run off and get married. The reason I did not communicate with anybody at home, was because I could not write. I sent ber to school so she could learn to write. I tried to get ber to write, bot she would not. She and her brother once under? took to run away by themselves. I didn't persuade her to come with me. I think the child is scared." Coley and his daughter left for home and Wood will be taken back for trial by an officer. Beaufort Negroes in the Mode. A special to the News and Courier from Beaufort says : With regard to the condition of the storm sufferers, I am rejoiced to say that as far as can be learned everything is getting along very nicely. The immediate suffering is being relieved. No serious sickness has been reported. The work of distribution seems to be well organized. The people are get? ting into their normal good and happy spirits and all Beaufort ie getting along very well. The worst is per? haps over. With the work of charity well systematized and a generous response from the people of the United States there is no ground for apprehension but there must be a supply of food. The Beaufort com? mittee, I am informed, has received $2,664 30. lu addition to this sup pi ?es of food and clothing have been received from every part of the coun? try. The committee holds nightly meet? ings and a system of distribution has been adopted. The Douglass fund is being turned over to the general fund. Col. J. G. White is chairman of the citizens relief committee through which the New York Evening Post fund is being carefully distributed among the needy. The matter was brought tc the special attention of the Post through Mrs. Qt. F. Lawrence. In addition to the fund of $1,396.50 through the Post there have come immense packages of clothing, evi? dently from the very best class of New Yorkers. Although fifty packages of good clothing have beeti distributed to whites and colored, I found a quantity of really fine clothing on hand, so good that the committee think it best to sell the articles and use the money for food. 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It not sold hy November Ifuh thr- same will be with? drawn and leases renewed for coming vear. Apply to LEE k M )1SE,' Attorneys at Law. Aug. ?--:ui\. mst I LINN JOB MUK AT BOTTOM PRIOF.S* *A IT.H,iU\ Min imi!* JftK OFFICE SUMTER, S. C Subsoiling In the Financial Field. Joel Chandler Harris, special corres? pondent of the Atlanta Constitution, has written to bis paper the following review of (he financial situation as seen by him from the Congressional Gal? lery : Washington, September ll.-About the time that voting day comes around, the sturdy farmer, and the worthy laboring man are very large and import? ant-especially the farmer. I do not know a bigger man than the farmer when bis vote is wanted He is "the bone and sinew of the country'" And there is no more beautiful occupation than farming Did you ever realize the full significance of that fact ? As the farmer is the "bone and sinew'' of things, as it were, so farming is "the basis of all other occupations." It is funny that this should bo so, and the reason ? know it is eo is because all the congressional "bimetallists" have come right out and said so. Beiug rampaut and savage "bimetallists," they have not sought to cover up or conceal any? things. They have come right oat and made these remarks-they have said io so many words that the farmer is a big thing and that farming is the basis of all occupations-and they have allowed The Congressional Record to divulge the whole business. They have gone farther. They have said that labor is the true measure of value, money being merely the ex? pression of it ; and they have rubbed their lily-white hands together and declared that if anybody on earth in entitled to the sympathy and respect of statesmen and the rest of the body politic, it is the farmer, "the bone and sinew/' and so forth. II. Nevertheless, wheo we come down to business, the farmer is not in it. When the esteemed senate (to go no further) is herded together and compelled to go right ahead with the great work of cultivating a crop of legislation, it is discovered that the banks aod the peo? ple who have money are to reap the benefits of it. On paper, the farmer is a famous fellow. As a matter of fact is often happens that, in legislation he has no more show than a-John thomas cat in a hailstorm. It is carious bow sensitive the senate is wh3n the banks are touched on.. I have heen sitting around in the gallery watching that body with all the interest and curiosity that a provincial can muster up, and I have noticed that no matter how many seats are empty, or bow many senators are asleep in the cloak rooms, the mo? ment some untamed Jacksonian dem? ocrat yells oat "banks," the senators rush in to find out what it is about-J din Sherman, with hts bony hands clinch? ed, old man Hoar with his face a-fire, and all the great band of "bimetallists," republicans and democrats, with alarm on their faces-everything suddenly becomes alive and alert. "Banks, did yon say ?" one will cry "I trust the gentleman will not push his remarks too far. The matter is a very delicate one. We are in the presence of a great North American crisis. I move that the whole matter be referred to the 'feenawnce' com? mittee." There seems to be a sore place some? where in the banks, and some of the senators seem to have set themselves ap as wet nurses for them. Hit a bank and you hit all the "bimetallists" io the senate, and they make as much fuss about it as a little nigger who has been accidentally hit on the shin with a baseball bat. The poor, unfortunate banks ! how could anybody bc so cruel as to criticise them for their efforts to get more bonds and to make money ? But if a dozen men were to stand up in the senate chamber and yell out "farmer" till their eyes popped out, John Sherman would snore in the cloak room, and all the "bimetallists" who are trying to smash the party platform would make no response whatever. The farmers can take caro of themselves. When there is no campaign afoot and election day is oot on hand, they are not in its. But the banks-well, the banks, with their more than $600,000, 000 of capital need watching and nursing. If they want an issue of gold bonds they ought to have it. If they want to knock dowo the price of farm products so that their European partners can get wheat and cotton more cheaply, they ought to be allowed to do it. If they want to make all debts payable in gold-every dollar of which is now worth a dollar and one-half in any kiud of property-why should any crank stand in their way ? Senator Hill was lampooned and caricatured and editorially abused by the eastern papers when he supported the resolution offered by Peffer ten days ago. and Senator George may expect no better treatment. The whole effort seems to be to proteot the banks in their violations of the law, if they have violated it, by staying the baud of investigation by covering ap and con? cealing from the public the details of the b?id arni brlliaut scheme by which the banks brought on the panic aud the methods by which they carried it out. What is behind it all ? If the banks in a period of panic and monetary stringency have allowed their reserves lo fall below the amount fixed by law, surely there is a simpl' and satisfactory explanation Why, theu, should John Sherman rush in out of the cloak room as if his coattails were afire when Senator Peffer proposes to introduce a resolution of investigation and have it acted on ? Why docs Senator McPher? son risc io his seat, as mad as a wet hen anti appeal to the senate to have thc resolution referred to the "feenawnee'' committee, there to be bu ri eil ? There is some explanation for all this excited opposition, and it is not to be lound in the character of the resolution itself What is the trouble? Wei!, those who arc not on the iuside will have to exercise their reasoning faculties a little. They will have to put this and that together, and fit fact, to inference so as to give birth to a logical conclu sion. What is it the banks and their spokesmen here desired to have covered np ? Thc fact that their reserves fell at one time below the legal limit? Nonsense! They admitted the fact, advertised it far and wide, tried to make ? it contribute to the "lack of confidence so-called, and urged it as an o tl; argument in favor of the repeal of t Sherman law. This being so, wi threatening or dangerous element is be found in the Peffer resolutiot Everybody knows the law was violate and everybody that takes aseri?os ?otc est io our finances desires to know whel the violation was the result of the s called panic, or whether it was the i suit of a desire oo the part of the ban themselves to contribute it to the scar That is the pith aod narrow of the whe businesss, and to this center the Pefl resolution adroitly tends. The bau and their friends herc are opposed the resolution because it means an in ve tigatioo, and such an iovestigatit might load to disclosures that wou give the public a too intimate idea the methods of modern financiering. III Jeffersonian democracy was strengt ened and supplemented by the Jackso ian type-the type that depends as mot OD backbone as oo diplomacy. Andre Jackson, I have heard, was one of tl politest gentlemen the country h produced, but he did not depend c politDess any further than he thong! it would stretch, fie and bis par did not put on kid gloves wheo thc got after the first great national bao this country had. There was only 01 bank then, and its power and influent is no more to be compared to the 3,0C banks that now have control of tl country than a cricket is to be compare to a cormorant. The issue that wt fought out in Andrew Jackson's da will have to be fought out agaio, ac it will be by far the most memorab campaign the country has ever witnesi ed. If the old United States bank ha too much pwer in Andrew Jackson day, what is to be said of the associate United States banks of New Yorl Boston and Philadelphia ? The bant of these three cities control the finance of.thc country, control legislation, au cao come mighty near controlling an party that the people can bring into th field. And yet, if the republic is to b perpetuated in good shape, privilege must be possessed by the people as we as by thc associated banks, and tb practically exclusive control of th people's money must be taken out ( their bands. You may expect to see the Peffe resolution disappear in the "feeoaoce committee, where the undertaker i ready to dispose of it Any sort of a investigation would unearth facts i regard to recent events that must b kept covered up at all hazards. Kee you eyes open, and you will see tha any legislation io favor of the bank has the right of way. This is true DOW thao ever, since republicans am democrats have become converted to th grand doctrine of goldbug "bimet allisni" and ali are nuder the lead o that glorious patriot aod mao of th people, John Shermao. Your readers must not suppose that am including southern banks in tb national bank syndicate that has charg of the machinery here. If it wen necesssary to include them I would do st unhesitatingly. They are too far awat from the power house. The correo that reaches them is too feeble to do an] harm. Io point of fact, a gentleman wh< was pointed out to me as a New Yorl baoker, made some remarks io my hear ing that gave the southern banks a very clean bill of health indeed. He said in substance, that the southern bauki had no more idea of the situation than i Kentucky mule. "The damned little corn crib affairs," he said, scornfully "have actually been using clearing house certificates as a circulating medium." I gathered from bis remark! that the "corocrib" affair, without knowing what they were about, had simply flung the fat io thc fire. Hi: tone was not only contemptuous, bul very angry, and I judged that the employment of clearing house certi? ficates, as a curreocy for the public bj the southern banks, had hurt bis feel? ings. IV. Now, this is a pretty come off, isn't it? What if it should happen that the southern banks, taking the situation se? riously aod providing a prompt aod ao efficacious remedy, have been the means of bringing to a sudden and an unexpected end thc great ?heme of pro? viding a financial stringency as an excuse for repealing the Sherman law and forcing an issue of bonds ? Turn the matter over in your minds a moment. Look at it carefully. Just as soon as the bank syndicate fouod that thc southern banks were issuing clearing house certifi? cates to the public, thus putting and end to the financial stringency, by providing a curreocy just as good as bank or treasury notes, there was a sudden collapse of the "panic" in the east. Southern banks were promptly notified that they could get all the currency they wanted. There was a complete reaction. It is a great victory for the "corocrib" banks of the south, though, possibly, it is an unintentional ooe. Hut observe what follows! Thc ma? chinery of thc internal revenue is at once put in motion to suppress these clearing house curreocy notes, by levying thc 10 per cent, tax oo them. They have been found too useful. Can it be feared that their employment, even in an emer? gency, will give the people a taste for state banks of issue, and the clearing house currency is to be promptly sup? pressed ? The bank syndicate is wide awake. Please don't forget that. The probability is that the "concrib" banks of the south will not soon have another opportunity to break up a bond-forcing slierne by issuing a local currency. J O KL ClI ANDI.Ki; H ARMS A Model Newspaper Man. Writing of Mr. fi. B Hook of The Augusta Chronicle, The Evening Herald, of that city, says : "The News and Courier recently made the comment that Mr. E B Hook was a judge of whisky, and had frowned at the stuff sold by Carolina dispensaries. Mr. Hook never tasted an intoxicant of any kind in his life, never smoked a oigar, uever had to? bacco in his mouth, never played a card, never played pool or billiard, never bet on a horse race and does'i know a chicken gaff from the triangle of a French pool table.;> No Prohibition in This. COLUMBIA, September 12.-Gover? nor Tillman has come ont in a letter to Senator Fuller, of Laurens, in which he gives an outline of one of the dispensary amendments he propo? ses to offer lo the Legislature. Ile evidently wants lo make a good financial showing and is unwilling to have those counties that have dispen? saries and make a dollar or two con? tribute it to the support of a con? stabulary in alleged prohibition counties. Ile wants dispensaries established for a dual purpose-to make money by which taxes may be reduced and to keep down the ter? rible "blind tigers." Governor Tillman has "sat down" most beautifully on the county board in Laurens, and the opening of the dispensary there upon a questionable basis has been postponed for a few days at least. SENATOR FULLER'S PROTEST. Senator Fuller had the boldness to bring the irregularities to the Gover? nor's attention. Here is the letter he wrote : LAURENS, S. C., September 5,1893. Governor B. R. Tillman, Chairman Board of Control of State Dispensary -Dear Sir : I write to ii.form you from the standpoint of those who, in exercising their right of local opinion under the Dispensary act, prefer pro? hibition to the dispensary, of certain events transpiring here which should sincerely concern yourself and other members of the board, as being chiefly responsible under the law for the fair and faithful administration of the Dispensary Act. I myself am afraid of the Dispensary Act as a whole, but more of its local option feature, and only ask that our right of local option under the law shall be respected, and a fair, impartial and non-partisan enforcement of the Act be had. Nobody here has asked or expressed anything else than that the question shall be decided by ascer? taining on which side stood the majority ot bona fide freehold voters. The county board met on the 21st of August last, and the petition of Langoton for the office of county dis? penser was presented and contained fifty-five names, twenty one whites and thirty-four colored, the list of non-signers contained seventy-four whites and two colored. The board refused to appoint Langston on ac count of not having a majority of freehold voters as signers, and it was so recorded by their secretary in their minutes. Last Friday, September 1, inst., the enclosed printed call, written by the county chairman, II. F. Gary, appeared in the Laurens Herald for the board to meet on the 4th inst., which, for rank partisanship and wanton flings at Prohibitionists and church members, is hard to surpass. Well, the board met and the fact, was ascertained that the old petition was renewed and was circulated after the case was adjudicated on the 21 st, and when it was known that parties who signed wanted their names off, and thirty-four negroes and nineteen whites were added- fifty-three in all. One of these, J. L M. Irby, declared j in my presence and that of several others : "That his name had been used without his authority, and that he didn't want to be mixed up with it." Well, here were fifty-three names added to the petition which were" never on file in the clerk's office a single day as the law re? quired. Where did all these new freehold voters come from ? II E. Gary, chairman, sounded the keynote when he said in his call : "Every citizen of this incorporation should be enfranchised on a question where he is so much interested." Aud the business of enfranchising landless citizens began in order to evade and defeat the law and the will of the people. Since the board met on the 21st ultimo fifty-three new names had been enfranchised and added to the petition, besides six other names who had previously sighed, but had no land, making fifty-nine new freehold voters in all A. R. Sullivan, candidate for dispen? sary book keeper, and bother-in-law to IL E. Gary, chairman, deeded to these fifty-nine citizens one-eighth acre, more or less, of worthless land, each share 1 472 part ol one acre, and the job was done, the necessary majority of freehold voters was secured, and the board of control, without requiring the nantes of these new freehold voters to be filed at all, as the law directs, granted the petition of Langston and established the dispensary. (The deeds of conveyance of this one-eighth acre of land to these fifty-nine citizens are on record hi the cleik's office.) But it is proper to add, timt you may understand the whole truth, that A. R. Sullivan executed two deeds of conveyance of identically the same one-eighth acre of lund First to nineteen whites on August 31, 1893, and the second on September 2 to forty negroes, every boundary pre? cisely the same. Thus these nine? teen whites were enfranchised only four days before the final meeting of the board on September 4 and the forty negroes but two days before, and all were counted by the board as bona fide freehold voters If any of these alleged facts are denied they will be substantiated if allowed an opportunity. Ilaving thus submitted so much of our case as we deem of special im? portance, wo respectfully ask the ruling of the State hoard un the ques? tions : First. Will thc State board recog? nize the legality of the action of the county board in establishing a dis. pensary at Laurens on a petition acted on and rel used, to which petition a considerable number of new sign?is were added and not put ? on file the ten days required by law ? I Second. Docs the State board of! control recognize those fifty nine | newly enfranchised citizens, who own j the 1,-172 part of an acre of land each, as bona fide freehold voters of j Laurens, aceoiding to tho intent and I spirit of the Dispensary Act ? I Third. If so, will any fractiona part of an acre of land legally con veyed to a person constitute him i freeholder for the purposes of th? Act or whatever rights and privileges by law inure to freeholders? In conclusion I respectfully ask, in behalf of the Prohibitionists of the city and county of Laurens, the white voters of which cast a heavy majority in the general primary ol 1892 for prohibition, full and careful consideration of the facts and ques? tions presented and our rights undei the Diepensaiy Act. Very respectfully, . A. C. FULLER. THE GOVERNOR'S ANSWER. Governor Tillman sent the follow reply to Senator Fuller : Hon. A. C Fuller, Laurens, S C. - Dear Sir : In reply to your letter of September 5 I beg te say the State board of contr ol is endeavoring to comply strictly with the dispensary law and have all others do so. If your statements are true, which I do not doubt, the county board of Lau rens has transcended their authority, and we will not recognize their action as legal. Your questions in regard to the legal status of the newly enfranchised citizens is one for the Courts to pass on. The irregularity of the action of the county board arose from not having the petition on file the ten days required by law. We will not lend ourselves lo anything that is unlawful in establishing a dispensary in Laurens, though we know that a dispensary is the safest and cheapest remedy against blind tigers, and that the State constables cannot be paid except from the revenue derived from dispensaries. 1 will only endeavor to enforce the dispensary law where dispensaries do not exist until the Legislature meets, and then ask that the prohibi? tion counties which object to dispen saries shall support the constables by taxation If you are a friend to the dispen? sary law you will not lend your influence to our enemies and the enemies of prohibition to prevent the establishment of at least one dispen? sary for each county. I hope you understand by this time that the struggle is not one between prohibi? tion and the dispensary, but a strug ? gie between the dispensary and the j license system which we have just overthrown I shall write the chair? man of the county board that his board must comply with the terms of the dispensary law before a dispen I sary can be established in Laurens. Yours respectfully, B. K. TILLMAN, Governor. The Governor also wrote to chair? man Gary that the action of the board had been irregular if the ten I days notice had not been given and that such must be done. Mr. Gary wrote in reply that the list had been kept open from time to time : that more than ten days had elapsed since the original list had been filed, and that the new names were regarded as a part of the first list filed. Governor Tillman wrote that ten days would have to elapse after the complete list had been filed before it could be considered. It is said that a great many of the names filed were of freeholders made on the day the list was considered. Governor Tillman seems lo be veiy well satisfied with the way the dis? pensaries are springing up on all sides, and expects to have the Legis? lature put one in every county in the State.-News and Courier. -- ? ? -- Diabolical Scheme of a Pen? sion Attorney A despatch from Pittsburg, Pa., says ;_One of the most despicable schemes of which man can be guilty was iaid bare in the local pension office in the Federal building yester day. A pension attorney has been urging old soldiers to organize and to assassinate President Grover Cleve? land and Secretary Hoke Smith of the Department of the Interior. This pension attorney-a man reputed to be of sound mind, but in the light of his infamous scheme his reputation on that point will likely need investigation-has been enraged at Secretary Smith's endeavor to make the pension lists rolls of honor, ile says it is an attempt to starve old soldiers, and that the only way lo stop it is to assassinate the President and the Secretary. The pension attorney is not a Pittsburger, it is said, although his indentity is kept secret for the present. The entire matter has bec i report? ed to Washington and will be inves? tigated by the au thorites The fool? ish attorney has made himself liable to charges inciting to treason _^^m-~+~+- -'-? The Iron Bridge Damaged. The high water caused a land slide on the Western bauk of the Wateree river last Thursday night, and this caused the two piers of the Wateree Irou Biidge on that side of the river to sink in about 2J feet An expert engineer has exanfincd the bridge, and says lhere is no danger in crossing upon it in its profit conditio o It has been temporarily fixed.-Wateree Messenger. . --- mm The board of control has declined to gran' petition to allow the Charleston dispensaries to keep open until 9 p m Third. If so, will any fractiona part of an acre of land legally con veyed to a person constitute him i freeholder for the purposes of th? Act or whatever rights and privileges by law inure to freeholders? In conclusion I respectfully ask, in behalf of the Prohibitionists of the city and county of Laurens, the white voters of which cast a heavy majority in the general primary ol 1892 for prohibition, full and careful consideration of the facts and ques? tions presented and our rights undei the Diepensaiy Act. Very respectfully, . A. C. FULLER. THE GOVERNOR'S ANSWER. Governor Tillman sent the follow reply to Senator Fuller : Hon. A. C Fuller, Laurens, S C. - Dear Sir : In reply to your letter of September 5 I beg te say the State board of contr ol is endeavoring to comply strictly with the dispensary law and have all others do so. If your statements are true, which I do not doubt, the county board of Lau rens has transcended their authority, and we will not recognize their action as legal. Your questions in regard to the legal status of the newly enfranchised citizens is one for the Courts to pass on. The irregularity of the action of the county board arose from not having the petition on file the ten days required by law. We will not lend ourselves lo anything that is unlawful in establishing a dispensary in Laurens, though we know that a dispensary is the safest and cheapest remedy against blind tigers, and that the State constables cannot be paid except from the revenue derived from dispensaries. 1 will only endeavor to enforce the dispensary law where dispensaries do not exist until the Legislature meets, and then ask that the prohibi? tion counties which object to dispen saries shall support the constables by taxation If you are a friend to the dispen? sary law you will not lend your influence to our enemies and the enemies of prohibition to prevent the establishment of at least one dispen? sary for each county. I hope you understand by this time that the struggle is not one between prohibi? tion and the dispensary, but a strug ? gie between the dispensary and the j license system which we have just overthrown I shall write the chair? man of the county board that his board must comply with the terms of the dispensary law before a dispen I sary can be established in Laurens. Yours respectfully, B. K. TILLMAN, Governor. The Governor also wrote to chair? man Gary that the action of the board had been irregular if the ten I days notice had not been given and that such must be done. Mr. Gary wrote in reply that the list had been kept open from time to time : that more than ten days had elapsed since the original list had been filed, and that the new names were regarded as a part of the first list filed. Governor Tillman wrote that ten days would have to elapse after the complete list had been filed before it could be considered. It is said that a great many of the names filed were of freeholders made on the day the list was considered. Governor Tillman seems lo be veiy well satisfied with the way the dis? pensaries are springing up on all sides, and expects to have the Legis? lature put one in every county in the State.-News and Courier. -- ? ? -- Diabolical Scheme of a Pen? sion Attorney A despatch from Pittsburg, Pa., says ;_One of the most despicable schemes of which man can be guilty was iaid bare in the local pension office in the Federal building yester day. A pension attorney has been urging old soldiers to organize and to assassinate President Grover Cleve? land and Secretary Hoke Smith of the Department of the Interior. This pension attorney-a man reputed to be of sound mind, but in the light of his infamous scheme his reputation on that point will likely need investigation-has been enraged at Secretary Smith's endeavor to make the pension lists rolls of honor, ile says it is an attempt to starve old soldiers, and that the only way lo stop it is to assassinate the President and the Secretary. The pension attorney is not a Pittsburger, it is said, although his indentity is kept secret for the present. The entire matter has bec i report? ed to Washington and will be inves? tigated by the au thorites The fool? ish attorney has made himself liable to charges inciting to treason _^^m-~+~+- -'-? The Iron Bridge Damaged. The high water caused a land slide on the Western bauk of the Wateree river last Thursday night, and this caused the two piers of the Wateree Irou Biidge on that side of the river to sink in about 2J feet An expert engineer has exanfincd the bridge, and says lhere is no danger in crossing upon it in its profit conditio o It has been temporarily fixed.-Wateree Messenger. . --- mm The board of control has declined to gran' petition to allow the Charleston dispensaries to keep open until 9 p m Third. If so, will any fractiona part of an acre of land legally con veyed to a person constitute him i freeholder for the purposes of th? Act or whatever rights and privileges by law inure to freeholders? In conclusion I respectfully ask, in behalf of the Prohibitionists of the city and county of Laurens, the white voters of which cast a heavy majority in the general primary ol 1892 for prohibition, full and careful consideration of the facts and ques? tions presented and our rights undei the Diepensaiy Act. Very respectfully, . A. C. FULLER. THE GOVERNOR'S ANSWER. Governor Tillman sent the follow reply to Senator Fuller : Hon. A. C Fuller, Laurens, S C. - Dear Sir : In reply to your letter of September 5 I beg te say the State board of contr ol is endeavoring to comply strictly with the dispensary law and have all others do so. If your statements are true, which I do not doubt, the county board of Lau rens has transcended their authority, and we will not recognize their action as legal. Your questions in regard to the legal status of the newly enfranchised citizens is one for the Courts to pass on. The irregularity of the action of the county board arose from not having the petition on file the ten days required by law. We will not lend ourselves lo anything that is unlawful in establishing a dispensary in Laurens, though we know that a dispensary is the safest and cheapest remedy against blind tigers, and that the State constables cannot be paid except from the revenue derived from dispensaries. 1 will only endeavor to enforce the dispensary law where dispensaries do not exist until the Legislature meets, and then ask that the prohibi? tion counties which object to dispen saries shall support the constables by taxation If you are a friend to the dispen? sary law you will not lend your influence to our enemies and the enemies of prohibition to prevent the establishment of at least one dispen? sary for each county. I hope you understand by this time that the struggle is not one between prohibi? tion and the dispensary, but a strug ? gie between the dispensary and the j license system which we have just overthrown I shall write the chair? man of the county board that his board must comply with the terms of the dispensary law before a dispen I sary can be established in Laurens. Yours respectfully, B. K. TILLMAN, Governor. The Governor also wrote to chair? man Gary that the action of the board had been irregular if the ten I days notice had not been given and that such must be done. Mr. Gary wrote in reply that the list had been kept open from time to time : that more than ten days had elapsed since the original list had been filed, and that the new names were regarded as a part of the first list filed. Governor Tillman wrote that ten days would have to elapse after the complete list had been filed before it could be considered. It is said that a great many of the names filed were of freeholders made on the day the list was considered. Governor Tillman seems lo be veiy well satisfied with the way the dis? pensaries are springing up on all sides, and expects to have the Legis? lature put one in every county in the State.-News and Courier. -- ? ? -- Diabolical Scheme of a Pen? sion Attorney A despatch from Pittsburg, Pa., says ;_One of the most despicable schemes of which man can be guilty was iaid bare in the local pension office in the Federal building yester day. A pension attorney has been urging old soldiers to organize and to assassinate President Grover Cleve? land and Secretary Hoke Smith of the Department of the Interior. This pension attorney-a man reputed to be of sound mind, but in the light of his infamous scheme his reputation on that point will likely need investigation-has been enraged at Secretary Smith's endeavor to make the pension lists rolls of honor, ile says it is an attempt to starve old soldiers, and that the only way lo stop it is to assassinate the President and the Secretary. The pension attorney is not a Pittsburger, it is said, although his indentity is kept secret for the present. The entire matter has bec i report? ed to Washington and will be inves? tigated by the au thorites The fool? ish attorney has made himself liable to charges inciting to treason _^^m-~+~+- -'-? The Iron Bridge Damaged. The high water caused a land slide on the Western bauk of the Wateree river last Thursday night, and this caused the two piers of the Wateree Irou Biidge on that side of the river to sink in about 2J feet An expert engineer has exanfincd the bridge, and says lhere is no danger in crossing upon it in its profit conditio o It has been temporarily fixed.-Wateree Messenger. . --- mm The board of control has declined to gran' petition to allow the Charleston dispensaries to keep open until 9 p m