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Mixsoo Pays the Money. The Fifty Thousand Appro priation is Refunded. State Liquor Commissioner Mixsoo walked oat of the State Treasury yes terday with a oran Dew receipt io hi? hand tbat he seemed to be very proud of, and to take unusually good care of. It bere the number : '/No 8372.. origi nal." and on it was this : "Received of F M. Mixsoo, State Commissioner. O0 accoaot of legislative appropriation to State dispensary, fifty thousand ($50,000) dollars. And it did mean a good deal It meant that Che State dispensary had at last paid back to the State of South Carolina the appropr&tioo of fifty thousand dollars made for toe purpose of starting the State ?ut io the official liquor easiness.. Col. Mixsoo stated that they have ha? this amount on hand for some time, but have beeo holdiog it for an emergeooy. Now. be says, tbey bave in stock and in cash something like $100,000 aod the dis pensary is perfectly able to go ahead without falling back oo this money So it was returned to the State. It bad to be paid out of tha profits of the busi ness since its ioauguration. He s?ys his last quarterly Mtarement soon to be issued will show how it is that they were able to refund the amount of the appropriation to the State. Governor Evaos, in speaking about it, said : "You can just say that.the dispensary system is now being run on a simple living basis, and not for a profit. As soon as we got the fifty thousand dollars ou b?nd and saw our way olear, we reduced the prices of whiskey and liquors to actual cost. There is now oo longer any occasion for the Prohibitionists aod profit fea ture cranks to raise a howl If so, I can't see it." Constables at the Club. The Rooms of t&e? Columbia Club Searched. The dispensary constables, aided by Sergeant Morehead and Officer Strick land, of the Columbia police force, arm ed with a search warrant issued by Trial Justice Troy, Saturday afternoon called at the rooms of the Colombia Club, an organization of Colombia gen> tlemen that is known far and wide, aod searched the rooms, taking everything in sight. It was the first attempt that has ever been made to raid the club. A large quantity of liquors, stored io the private look boxes of the members, was taken ont and carted away in a wagon, which was backed up to the doors. A very large crowd of curious persons stood by, crowding the side walks so as to block them, to see the seized stuff brought oat. The consta bles participating in the raid were Speed, Davis and La Far. There were only a very few members of the club io the rooms when they came in. Officer Strickland was stationed at the door. Ever since the dispensary law went into effect the sale of liquor has been abolished at the club. A system of look boxes was established, aod each member who eared to have something to drink at the dub has kept his pri vate bottle in one of the boxes. When ever a member wanted a driok he would give the colored porter his key, have him get bis bottle and mix a drink or serve it straight. And this was the condition of things tbat the constables found. Several of the bot tles and packages were marked for per sonal use only, and those which were not so marked, were so located as to show tbat tbey were only intended for such use. But tbat made oo difference: everything, even the glasses, the spoons, etc., used by the porters were seized aod carted away. There was no demonstration oo the part of any one, though Mr. Roberston, a member, took a bottle belooging to him and poured the contents into a cuspidor, for which act be was placed under ar rest, but later released on his own re cognizance. Tbe members of the club did not seem to mind the loss of their liquor, except that it was what tbey considered the robbery of their own personal property, fulfy protected by Judge Simootoa's order of injunction. Several of tbem intend to imme diately prooeed in tbe Uoited States court to have the constables and police officers punished for contempt of Judge Si mon ton's order and to recover their property. All of them think tbe pro ceedings oatrageous aod will see what the courts will do for tbem. There was more or lees excitement on the street while the raid was in progress, bat no demonstration was made by any one. The property seized consisted of three kegs, containing cherry bounce aod rye whiskey marked with tbe name of the member to whom it be longed and inscribed "for personal ase ;" three boxes containing nineteen quarts of sherry wiae ; a box containing fourteen bottles of beer; four beer, three punch and twelve whiskey glasses, a box containing twenty-six bottles of beer ; a box containing ten beer and five punch glasses, five tumb lers, seven whiskey glasses, a straw and a schooner, two colored glasses, ooe outmeg box, six pitchers, ten spoons and ooe sifter, one box of thirty bottles of beer ; a box containing three bottles of ginger ale, a quart bottle of whiskey, a pint bottle of bitters, two tumblers, ooe schooner, ooe beer glass, two puch glasses, ooe fauoel, one jar, one ice shaver, ooe lemon squeezer, ooe ioe pick, two shakers aud one cork screw ; a box containing twenty five bottles of beer, ooe bottle of Medoc wioe aod three bottles of. whiskey, par* tially filled ? The State. A Wreck od the Southern. Atlanta, Aug. 18 ?The Southern Railway paraenger train, north bound which left Atlant? last night at 9 o'clock for Washington, was wrecked ninety miles from the city near Toc coa, at midnight. The train was ruehing down a steep grade between Toccoa and Mount Airy. Suddenly the tender of the engine leaped from the track aud the coupling that held it to the engine was torn loose. The tender was burled down a forty-foot embankment with terrific force, dragging after it the cars that made up the train with the exception of the sieeper, which was toru from the track, but was not injured The train was completely wrecked. The coaches were piled upon each other in fearful disorder Ks press Messenger Walter Greer, 24 years old, of Columbia, was killed iustant?y by being pinned to the wall by the iron safe in his car A negro, in the car was badly hurt, iris arm being mashed by the safe. The mail agent was injured aud had to be brought back to his home i'h Atlanta. Others were more or less injured After breaking loose from the train, the engine had a wild, exciting run of five miles. The air brake was broken and sweeping down a heavy grade at a speed of seventy five miles an hour, the veteran engioeer found it impossible to stop his engine Every minute the speed was increas ed aud the bobtail ed locomotive sped along like the wind, leaping from embankment to embankment. The road is perilous at this point, the cuts being narrow and the embank mente high It is in the [vicinity of Mount Airy and Tallulah Falls, and the midnight run of the engineer was calculated to turn hie hair gray. Hon. R. F Ko lb, of Alabama, was detained four iioere iu the wreck. Said he : "It is the worst I ever saw. How a soul escaped alive is a mira cle that a divine Providence alone can explain.'* Strong and Tillman. The New York Herald in a report of one of Senator THlman's speeches at Asbury Park when he was there two weeks ago, said : Mayor Strong and Senator-elect Tillman, of South Carolina, exchanged courtesies on the platform of the Asbury Park Auditorium at the national service, where they both spoke. The Mayor, who was introduced to the immense audience by the Rev Mr. Dawson, was the first speaker. He was warmly greeted and elicited tre mendous applause when he predict ed that in a year all the saloons in New York would closed on Sun days. But the former Governor of South Carolina, who followed him, intimated that be had grave doubts aa to the prophecy being fulfilled. "We are engaged in New York City in an effort to enforce a plain law which has been on the statute books for a long time," said Mayor Strong, **This law has probably been the source of more official cor ruption than any law in existence. I ?ay here that the municipal government of New York has de cided to enforce it to the letter. "The question at issue is a very simple one. The people iu New York who sell rum shall not be permitted to sell the stuff on the Sabbath, and while this law remains on the statute books it will be en forced to the letter. "My friends have said, you will injure the party. The municipal ; government, of the City of New York belongs to no party. It is the j duty of the municipal government to close up the saloons on Sunday. ; Our success in this effort is as ; snred. Every Sunday is better than 1 the last. "I have a year and a half longer j to continue in office, as the head of j the city government During that I period you may rest assured the i crusade inaugurated will be con I tinued to the end. We have all j the good people and respectable 1 citizens of New York City with us j in this matter, heart and soul, and , I oan say with safety, I think, that J one year from to-day every saloon I in the City of New York will be ? closed on the Sabbath. See if my I prediction is not fulfilled." The Mayor was succeeded by Senator-elect Tillman, who looked ? at him with a quizzical smile. "You have a big contract on your hands," he said?"a dozen big contracts?if you come here and predict that in a year from now there will be no whiskey sold in New York on Sundays. I shall wish you to come, and shall pray for your success, but you will scratch that old head of yours many a time during the year thinking the problem over. I put in two years bucking against the rumsellere and I had a monkey au^arrot time of it. I am frank to col. \ that I don't believe there is virtue enough in Mayor Strong's Sodom to stop Sun day liquor selling " The mayor looked up with a placid smile of contentment and nodded his head deprecatingly Senator elect Tillman then went into a long his tory of the South Carolina Dispen sary law and made au able defence of that much mooted measure. He was frequently questioned from the audience in respect to the workings of the law. Florence Heel Baces. The Firemen's Tournament for rbe cham pionship of the State, which will be one of the leading features' of the Labor Day cele bration in Florence on Monday, September 2d, has been definitely arranged and inviti tations issued. The Item is indebted for an invitation to Messrs. C. A. Buchbeit, W. J. McKagen and Julian Pendegrase, the com mittee of arrangements. There will be three ! prizes?$50, $15 and ?10. The connection j will be made with the Florence steam fire engine, from which, it is said, a stream can be thrown as quickly as when connection is made with a hydrant having a strong gravit/ pressure. The rules governing the contest are as follows : bulks governing contest. Carriages or reels to be weighed aud one man allowed to every 75 pou?ds, pipemen d wrenchmen not included ; hose to be connected three full turns; run 100 jards, stretch not less than 98 feel of hose,- attach the same to engine ; . screw the pipe to hose, using any size nozzle, and throw water in the shortest time, the butt to drop opposite or beyond the engine, (that is the butt which the nozzle must t-e attached to) or the com pany must be ruled out ; the hose must be connected when they fall on the ground, no snfp nozzles, couplings, straps or rotary wrenches allowed, the hose to be let go as soon as attached to engine, and if the butt is biown off the company must te ruled out; no team is allowed to assist another in the run or connection : fifteen minutes to be al lowed to each team after Judges' signal of "ready," any team failiog lo statt within the said time will be ruled out; the company making the best time wins. All companies desiring to enter the con test must notifv the committee not later than August 25. Prizes, $50, $15. ?10, for the best two out of three tests. Reduced rates will be givea od all railroads, and a big crowd will be in attendance. TheSumter Fire Department will be rep resented by cue and perhaps two squads, and theee squads will go in to win. The Florence firemen will have to-ha ve wings on their heels to keep theSumter boys from out-running them. Delgar Reel Squad commenced training for the race last night and will train systemati cally until the squad leaves tur Florence. Col, Dargan Retired. Daily hem, Aug. 17. Col. John J. Dargan is out of the-ace as a candidate for the Constitutional Conven tion and the fight in this county is narrowed down to a triangular contest between the joint democratic ticket, the Keels ticket and the negro republican ticket. Col. Dargan's forma] withdrawal was annouoced in the Freeman yesterday in a rard worded as fol lows : "Sickness in the family of Co!. J. J. Dargan, for the past three weeks, has ren dered it impossible for him to canvass the county in the interest of his candidacy as delegate to the Constitutional Convention, and also prevented bis making other prepara tions for the contest. He is now bimseif con fined to bis bed and I, therefore, in view of these circumstances, and with his permission, withdraw his name as such candidate. Very respectfully, Edwin F. Miller." My boy was taken with a disease resem bling bloody flux. The first thing I thought or was Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. Two doses of it settled the matter and cured him sound and well. I heartily recommend this remedy to all per sons suffering from a like complaint. I will answer any inquiries regarding it when stamp is inclosed. I refer to any county official as to reliability. Wm. Roach, J. P., Primroy, Campbell Co., Tenn. For sale by Dr. A. J. China. Success in Life depends on little things. A Ripans Tabule is a little thing, but taking one occasionally gives good digestion, and that means good blood, and tbat means good brain and brawn, and that means success 7?25?o 1 WMl * sun, Fire Insurance Agency, ESTABLISHED 1866. Represent, among othpr Companies : LIVERPOOL & LONDON & GLOBE, NORTH BRITISH & MERCANTILE, ! HOME, of New York. UNDERWRITERS' AGENCY. . Y. LANCASTER INSURANCE CO. Capital represented $75,000,000. j Feb. 28 PATRICK Military Institute, ANDERSON, S. C. THE 18th SESSION WILL OPEN SEP TEMBER 18. English, Mathematical, Classical and Business Course. Thorough instruction, good discipline, comfortable buildings, beautiful location, healthy cli ! mate, pure water, excellent social and re ! ligious privileges. Apply to COL. JOHN B. PATRICK, July 10. _ Supt. W0FF0RD?0LLEGE Ja9. H. Carlisle, L.L. D., President. WofTord College Fitting School, A. G. Rembert, Head Master. Expenses for one year, from $150 to ?200. Next Session begins Oct. 1,1895 For Catalogue, address J. A. SAMEWELL, July 31. Spartanburg, S. C. "I know HD old soldier who had chronic diarrhoea of long standing to hnve been per rannent!y cured by tnking Cbaranerlain's Colic. Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy," says Edwnrd Shumpik, a promineut druggist of Minneapolis, Minn. "I baVesold the remedy in thia city for o*er seven years and consider it superior to any other medicine now on the market for bowel complaints " 25 and 50 cent bottles of this remedy for sale by Dr. A. J* China. ECZEMA From early child hood unti! 1 was grown my family spent a fortune trying to cure me of this disease. I visited Hot Springs, and was treated by the best medical men, but was not benefited. When ail things had rriU|T1 failed 1 determined to try S. S. S., and in four months was entirely cured. The terrible Eczema was gone, not a sign of it left; my general health built up, and ? have never had any return of, CHILDHOOD recommended wtlli*w"VV?# S. S. S. to a number ci friends for skin dis ' eases, and have never yet known a failure to cure. GEO. W. IRWIN, Irwin. Pa. Never fails to cure, even after all other remedies have. Our TreaUeeon Blood and Skin Diseases mailed free to ar y address. SWIFT SPECIFIC CO., Atlanta, 6a. ? WATER All popular flavors with Pure Fruit Juices. Try our Cherry Phosphate. J. S. HUGHSCN & CO., Monaghan Block. Feb. 8 MAIN STRE?T SU ER s. a, I , .li DENTIST. Office OVER BROWN & BROWN'S STORE Entrance on Maio Street Between Brown & Brown *nd Durant <fc Son OFFICE HOURS: 9 to 1.30; 2 to 5 o'clock April 9. 2 FOR SALE. The whole or a part of th? mcdowell plantation, contain ! mg 640 acres, about a mile and a-half South ' of ibeCitv of Sumter. Apply to james McDowell, May 17?tf. Manning, S. C. CSB?RR COLLEGE, Augusta, Ga. One of the moft com plete Institutions tu th? Smth. Actual Business; Colley Currency. Many graduates i:i cood paying position; Full course, 4 months. Shorthand and Typewriting als aught. Free tnal lessons. Send for a a??*?*. Order Your PROVISIONS AND GROCERIES FROM GEO. f. STEFFENS & SOU Wholesale Agents, Charleston, S. C -Agents for MOTT'S CIDEE, BED SEAL CISAES, and DOVE HAMS 1890. 1894 A. C. PHELPS & CO., I Geieral Insurance Apto, Sumter, S. C. , Fire, Life, Accident, Steam Boiler, Pial ; Glass, Bonds of Surety for persons in posi tions of trust, and Liabilitr Insurance it : every branch, written in the very best Amer can and Foreign Companies. : Over sixty-five millions cf capital repre sen ted. Mchl4?o I To Yoo 1 I Who Buy ! I School Books: I <?i Wbysbonldyou pa? unreasonable rp prices for books, when you can get them from ^ I H. G. OSTEEN ? CO. ?I I - WHOLESALE PRICES. S $ ! (ft By a special arrangement we are u selling all books used in the Public i! School and other schools of this city i? (Tj at prices quoted in the wholesale list. <! We bave a full line of Tablets, SPens, Pencils, Erasers, Inks, and everything needed by schoolchildren. i y.osii&co., i LIBERTY STREET, I : SUMTER, s. c. Oliere Are You Going This Summer? To The Most Beautiful Spot on Earth. ' C II EV ROCK, . . ? I j 11/ V % ^ecause it is not only the most beautiful spot on earth Il III ? with its grand water falls, pretty little glenns, tower- ? ing mountains and magnificent views, but it is the most pleasant place in the mountains. It is away from the bustle and noise of railroads, and is, therefore, the best place to gain health and see real pleasure. How do you get there from Atlanta, Ga., Norfolk, Ya.f Wilmington, N. C, or intermediate points ? Parties going to Chimney Rock take the Seaboaed Air Line Trains, which are the best equipped of any line of Road in the South. The Sea board Air Line carries Chimney Rock visitors to Rutherfordton, from which point a connecting line of stages carries them over a splendid mountain road, through valleys, and by a beautiful river with its ever changing scenery. What Hotel Shall Stop At ? By all means stop at the Mountain View Inn, conducted by Mr. George P. Horton and his estimable wife. The hotel is new, the furniture and fittings of the best, and the surroundings well kept. From the hotel is a grand view of the most wonder ful waterfalls in the United States, the famous Chimney Rock towering hundreds of feet into space. Mrs. Horton is an estimable lady, making every one feel at home as soon as they arrive. She gives her personal attention to her house-work, and superintends the cooking department, which insures the most perfect cleanliness. The kitchen is kept as clean and neat as the parlor under her management. Mr. ! Horton is a hustler and believes in having everything fixed to please his guests. He has lawn tennis and croquet grounds, quoit pitching grounds, a marble yard, [that is, a yard nicely graded, where the boys, men and ladies can play the old, but ever new games of marble, "roll-hole, knuckle down, &c."] He has swings, joggling boards, turning boards, and many amuse ! ments for the children. He has rustic seats over the beautiful grounds. Nowhere else can visitors find a place where they can get the comforts and pleasures that they do at Mr Horton's hotel, But Is Not The Price Too High ? No ! It is really a puzzle to the visitors how Mr. Horton fur nishes the excellent fare and the amusements to visitors that he does for the small charges. Some of his visitors have insisted ; on paying him more,- and this is the reverse of most cases, for it 1 it usual to have visitors growl at high rates. He only charges seven dollars per week, or twenty-four dollars for a full calendar month. , This is valuable information to me, and a number of my 1 friends who are going to take a vacation this summer, and I am f certainly under obligations to you. and will see you during July , and August at Mr. Horton's. By the way. how far is it from ? A she ville ? Only twenty miles. A three hours drive with a good spann [ of horses will take you to or from the beautiful mountain city, and to YaDderbilt's elegant summer home. In fact it is said that Yanderbilt is going to have a cottage built at a point near ? Chimney Rock. As to all these points you can write Mr. George P. Horton, ?himney Rock, . C. By-the-way, a party of prominent editore visited the place and selected L the location as the best nlace to build an Editorial Club House, and thev wrote many words of praise concerning the place and section. I will quote from the following papers : RALEIGH NEWS AND OBSERVER. . "II?.w vvith lofty mountains on each side the most picturesque scenery east ? f ? ??* Rockies, we, a party of editors, have met to see for ourselves and t- H the world something of the real grandeur and sublimity. * * It ^ is a rev- Ution and yet how many are williag to live and die without putting - forth one effort to view this wondrous scenery. * # The view from the dome of Chimney Rock is superb. It must be seen to be thorough ly understood." ' CHARLOTTE OBSERVER. ? "The shades of night weie falling as we drew near our destination. The harvest moon hung in the sky as we rounded Chimney Rock. At our right was Old Baldy, under whose gigantic cliffs we insignificant mortals were creeping along. The river sang a vesper hymn, and it seemed as if nature vras offering her evening prayer to the Creator. The view from Chimney . Rock is glorious. * * But it is useless to describe the beauties of this region Go and see them for yourself." "j WILMINGTON REVIEW. "It was up hill and down dale ; now in the valley shut in by high hills, an anon skirting the brow of a precipice hundreds of feet above the plai?^ beneath. The country between Rutherfordton and Asheville is beautiful, rich, prosperous and happy. * * We stood upon the summit of j the rugged and picturesque Chimney and gazed abroad for sixty miles, the J1 eye taking in almost at one glance the peaks of a hundred magnificent ] j mountains. The view is simply sublime." j j RICHMOND DISPATCH. j : "There is not a missing element in this beautiful mountain scenery. There ? i is a succession of grand views all the way for six miles. No language can ! depict the grandeur of the scenery all along the route. The Broad River ! certainly is as picturesque as the famed Swanoanoa ; and larger and much more turbulent " ; NORFOLK VIRGINIAN. \ "At every turn of the road as we approach, the mountains unfold, pan oram like displaying wild grandeur almost and yet fascinating in the ex ? I treme. Peak after peak seemingly reaching skyward after supremacy as ?! though spurning the placidity o? the valley, and defying the arts of the i city builders of the plains. * It is only a few years since man ! first stood upon the summit of Chimney Rock. The outlook was superb be 1 yond description." I RICHMOND TIMES. il "Hickory Nut Gap is the most picturesque section of country to be I j found throughout the Appalachian chain. The Broad River, a restless ! crystal stream, divides the great gorge, leaving a towering, rugged height j j on either side. Members of our party were vieing with each other in the j j use of adjectives over the glorious landscape. To attempt a description of ? ; the great gray peaks, overlooking roaring cataracts and smiling vales below I j would be but sacrilege when once a glimpse has been obtained." A stay at Chimney Roek will cure malarial diseases, Blood Poison, Indi gestion and Dyspepsia. Without doubt Chimney Rock has the finest air and scenery to be found. Write to Geo. P. Horton, Chimney Rock, N. C. and get any further information desired.