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Metropolitan Police! GOV. EVANS APPLIES THE NEW LAW TO CHARLESTON. From the Columbia State. Charleston at las. has the metropol? itan police. She is the first place to have the law, passed something over a year ago, applied. This action OD the part of the Governor has been ex? pected for some time-in fact, it was forecasted in The State several weeks ago. . Tbe Governor held the matter in abeyaoce, owi?g to the receipt of several telegrams the first week* of the session of the general assembly. , The final action was taken OD Mon? day night, when, after consulting with the State board of cootrol, Governor Evans appointed the members of the commission. He selected James M. Eason, Edward Anderson and T. S Wilbur as the members of the commis? sion. Tbe secretary of State yesterday issued to these commissioners their commissions, having them duly signed sealed and forwarded to Charleston. Yesterday morning the commissioners were notified by wire of these facts and directed to proceed to organize aod prepare to assume cootrol of the police department of the city of Cbarlestoo. The change becomes effective immedi? ately. Nothing was koowa of the matter here until yesterdey morning. Wheo Goveroor Evaos was seeo he de? clined to have anything to say about the matter beyood making the plain ao nouocemeot. Some days ago he said if Cbarlestoo was given the metropol? itan police, such action would not be due merely to the recent police issue there, as many seemed io think, but be? cause of the record of a whole year made by Cbarlestoo io eoforciog the dispensary law. Cbarlestoo bad beeo on trial for that ieogth of time. All koow what the provisions sf the metropolitan police law are, aod it is uooecessary here to tell the people what the commission is charged to do. The news was much discussed about the capitol and on the streets yesterday. HOW RECEIVED IN CHARLESTON. CHARLESTON, Jan. 28.-Information was received here to-day at mid-day i that Goveroor Evaos had placed Cbarlestoo uoder a metropolitao police j system. By ao aot of tbe legislature passed io 189-1, the goveroor of the State was empowered to place aoy city uoder metropolitao police wheoever it was deemed oecessary to the enforce? ment of the dispensary law by a State hoard of commissioners, consisting of himself, the secretary of state and the .comptroller general. The people of ? "Charlrstoo are bitterly opposed to the ^metropolitao system and they believe that Goveroor Evaos is prompted io his actioo simply by the determination to keep a persooal friend aod follower of his io office here. Io December, a new municipal administration, wbioh Gov? eroor Evans had tried his best to defeat, went, toto office Wb?o the time for appointing a chief of police came, Mayor Smyth appointed Iograham Hasell. a man who had beeo opposed to him politically, bot ooe ia whom every one had great confidence. J. Elmore Martin, who had been chief of police under the previous administration, was a persooal friend aud follower of Gov? ernor Evans and one of toe very few Tillmanites ia Cbarlestoo. His oppo neots claimed that be had been a bitter partisan and that for that reason he was unqualified to hold his office. Martin has made a good police officer outside of political considerations, and he had strong friends in the city. Two of the aldermen selected with Mayor Smyth being sick wheo he appoiuted Hasell, bis opponents bad a majority of 1 in council and refused, to confirm the ap? pointment. It was after this that Governor Evans began to threaten that unless Martio was reappointed he would put the met? ropolitao bill io force. This he did to? day by appointing J. M. Easoo, T. S. Wilbur and Eiward Andersoo as the local board of commissioners. This board met this afteroooo and organized Their only actioo besides the transaction of routine business was to appoint; J. Elmore Martin, the mao whom Gover? nor Evaos is accused of trying to keep in a job, marshal or chief cf police of the city.. Tbe city council met again to-night a?d Mayor Smyth agaio ap? pointed Haseil chief of police. The appointment was at ooce confirmed, a Smyth aldermao haviog recovered from bis illness aod one of the oppo? nents of the adoiioistrutioo voti?g with the mayor. The best people of the city bitterly resent the actioo takeo by the governor aod they accuse him of hav? iog protituted his high office for politi? cal purposes. -- Libsrty Bell in Greenville. Greenville, Jan. 30.-The Liberty Bell passed here to-day on schedule time, accompanied by the Atlanta and Philadelphia escort. It was met at the depot by about 4.000 people, includiug 1,200 schcol children from the public schools, who, as it stopped, sung "My Country 'Tis of Thee,'7 led by a cornet. Mayor Williams of Greenville spoke in behalf of the people, welcoming the party, and was responded to by Mayor Warwick of Philadelphia, and Mayor King of Atlanta. The car carrying the bell was handsomely decorated with the United States flag, ever greeos and flowers. A number of flowers were placed on thc bell here. A Church's Appeal. The bishops of the Protestant Episco? pal church iu the United States are un? iting in a set of petitions addressed to I the beads of the great powers of Europe 1 mploriog them to intervene in Turkey in behalf of the persecuted Christians I of Armenia. Each is add I somewhat different from but ressed in j stance is practically the same, the sub j Bishop Capers of the South Carolioa I diocese has signed the petitions pre ! pared for the purpose, one of woich is ! herewith presented : I To His Imperial Majesty, Nicholas H., I Czar of all the Russians. ? Sire : We, bishops of the Protestant Episcopal church in the United States ? of America, most respectfully petition your imperial majesty, as the head of the Christain Church in Russia, in be? half of your fellow Christians, the j Armenians. They have been subjected j to the most cruel persecutions by the Turkes, and, as we are well informed, under the express orders of the Turkish government, because they are Christ? ians. Tens of thousands have been massacred outright, after having re fused to renounce Chist and accept Islam. and some hundreds of thousands are at this moment in utter want and destitution, or even fugitives in the mountains, perishing by cold aod nun? gar, for the same cause. We believe the evidence to be conclusive that the I purpose of the Turkish government ?9 to exterminate the Armenians as a Christian people, at least in those in? terior portions of Anatolia and Ar? menia, where there are no foreign con? suls. We implore you, io Christ's mame, to come to the aid of our per* scouted brethren. Even under the most bloody persecutors among the Roman emperors such an atrocious and wholesale massacre was never perpe taate; and no persecution of the early church reckons so many martyrs for j Christ's sake. And shall the Christiao 1 world of the end of the ninteenth cen? tury stand carelessly by and see a Chris tain community utterly exterminated by the infidels? Our difference of do> trsne are aa nothing in the presence of a crisis like this. All we, who profess and cali ourselves Christians, must place the rescue of hundreds of thousands of our fellow Christians from death, or what is worse than death, above all questions of more material or national j advantage. It is not a question of I policy, but of Christianity, and even of j oommon humanity. For Christ's sake save our brothers from death, and rescue a Christian community from extinction. Io this moment all else should count as nothing in comparison with this. God grant that your imperial majesty, whom may God ever guard and guide, may heed our heartfelt cry, for.Christ'e sake. Amen. . Ellison Capers, Bishop of South Carolina, U. S A. The appeal voices the sentiment of the country's Christianity, but wc fear that it will fail of effect. The jealou? sies of Europe have already proven strocger than all the pleas of humanity If it shall prove, as reported, that Turkey bas consented to a Russian pro-1 tectorat-e, with an agreement to io tervene in Armenia and re-establish peace there, it will accomplished for the Armeuiaos what no concert of Cnristan nations has beeo able to do ; yet the be? lief that such terms have been made has I already inspired England to seek an al i liance which if effec?ed would unsettle the agreement and bring ou a general i European war, during the course of j which the Armenian atrocities would bc continued and completed. Io European diplomacy neither Christianity nor humanity has a large share.-The State. Chicago's Gotton Exposition. Augusta, Ga., ?January 28.-At a meeting of the provisional organiza? tion of the Chicago and Southern States Exposition in Augusta to-day, the following telegram was read from Acting Genetal Manager F. B De Berard, who has been in Chicago for several days in consultation with the business interests of that city : "Strong committee on organization formed, chairman W. A. Giles, sec? retary M alcorn McNeil, members D. ?. Hill, Col. II. L. Turner, Gen. Chas. Fitzsimmons, Geo. M. McKen? zie, Robert L. Henry, A. L. Bel!, ali men of high standing. Prominent citizens will join in an invatation to delegates from South. Expect to have all detail? completed on Satur? day. Important Chicago interests enlisted in support. Chicago's part in the exposition is now a certainty. The South must do the rest. Con- j ventin probably on February 19. j Chicago will warmly welcome dele- j g?tions from the South." The liveliest interest in this mat- : ter is taken in Augusta and reports received by the provisional commit? tee here from all over the South leave no doubt of the unanimous approval by the South of the exposition. Mayor Swift, of Chica0o, will issue official invitations to the Governors and mayors of the South and to busi? ness men of Chicago some time next month. Every assurance is given that the South will be fully repre? sented. The Stearn Racer holds nearly all the world's records. The Stearns Special is the finest combination track and road wheej bu..:. And the Stearns Model A is the road wheel par excellence. Thc Stearns Ladies' Wheel and Tandem are perfect models of their kind. H. G. Osteen & Co., Agents or Sumter and Clarendon. Pushing T?eir Business. Judge Earle, in the course of his j charge to the grand jury of Abbeville, j called attention to certain provisions of ! the dispensary law-more especially those requiring tbe entry of the pur : chaser's '-'request'7 for iiquor. Tbe ! judge said : "Now, in some of the counties of the j State it has beeu brought to my atten ; tion that the dispensers have disregard? ed these important provisions of the i statute aud have been filling orders for j whiskey without requiring *re I quest' to be signed. I do not. kf-ow that the dispenser in this county bas done so, but if he h-AS done so. ? charge you that he bas violated the law and it would be your duty to pre? sent him. As I said before, this stat? ute was intended to be a temperance measure, and as I take it, tbe purpose of this special requirement is two-fold : First, to lessen the opportunity of get? ting whiskey-to make it more difficult to procure it ; and second, tbat there should be a check upon the dispenser You observe that he is required to ac? count for 'ali unused and multilated blanks,' and to return all blanks tbat have been 611 ed to be used by bim in bis settlements with tbe county trea? surer. Now, if he were allowed to fill orders sent to him for whiskey, what would prevent him from sejling whis? key on his own account, or from run? ning a blind tiger, as it is called, in competition with tbe State? "Now, no one bas the power to au? thorize thc dispenser to sell whiskey otherwise than the statute directs ; the State board of control, for instance, would have no power to?give such di? rection. If this board bas done so, it has exceeded its authority and such dit rection would net justify the dispenser in violatiug the law No officer or set of officers, can add one jot or tittle to this statute ; it would be a dangerous precedent for an official, however high, to attempt to dispense with the plain re? quirements of the statute. "If the statute be carried out as it is written, it will prove, as I hope, a bless? ing ; but if those in charge of this de? partment be permitted to disregard its requirements, it may prove to be a curse. ^ "The question should not be how much revenue can oe made for the State, but how can the sale of whiskey be best controlled so as to minimise the evils resultiog therefrom V The State should make only so much revenue out of the sale of alcoholic stimulants as will be necessary to defray the expen? ses of State control. The schools of the State should not be supported by money procured from the sale of whis? key. If our children cannot be edu? cated except by such mean.?, then it would tbe better for them not to be edu? cated at the public schools." Judge Earle's information about the disuse of the "requests" is probably cor? rect. There was perbaps for awhile some attention paid to those provisions of tbe dispensary law which had for their ostensible purpose the restriction of the sale of liquor. But along with the earliest efforts to enlist popular feel? ing on the side of the law, there was the promise that the State's whiskey business would be so profitable as ma? terially to swell the State's treasui*y and thus reduce taxes. Obstacles to the expeditious "dispensing" of the "chem? ically pure" had therefore to remov? ed. The number of dispensaries had constantly to be increased and tbe dis? pensers bad to do quick work to supply the wants of people who patronized the concern as an institution for the promo? tion of temperance. The safe-guards which the statute purported to set against selling too much of the stuff to one person in one day, and against selling any to those whom the law ex? cluded from the benefits of the system, have been ignored in order to supply the wants of purchasers and thus swell the sales. Ic is no wonder that the local dispensers have been tempted to violate tbe law. They must have felt that io thus acting they were but carrying out the law accordiog to the views of the men at headquarters. The claim that there bave been safe-guards or restric? tions is in fact groundless. Judg? Earle's ''hope" that the law may prove a "blessing" is founded upon expectations which must already have beeo disappointed. Managed as it has been, the law must indeed be? come ere long a "curse." The effort to bolster the system, with all its temptations to venality, its oppor? tunities for corruption, by appropriating its profits to the common schools cannot command the approval of people who desire a just and permanent solution of the liquor question in South Carolina - The State. - ? ? - Cotton Statement. NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 31.-The New j Orleans crop statement for five mouths ' to January ol is as follows : Port re? ceipts 4.024,440 bales, against 6,304, 487 last year 4.870,016 year before jast and 4,003,393 for same time in ! 1893 ; overland to mills and Cauada i'594,311 bales, against 832,682, 650, ? 987 and 635,483. Interior stocks in ' excess of September 1447,583 bales, ?against 417,695, 324,824 and 323, ' 623. Southern mill takings, inclusive of consumption at Southern ou?ports, '484,265 bales, against 459.6?6, 4U8, ! 345 and 393,708. Crop in sight at j close of January 5,550,599 bales, ; against S,014,450, 5,254,172 and I 5,356,207 ; brought into sight for the month of January 618,729 bales, against 1,019,797, 7SS,0S0 and 565, 752. Weekly movement January 25 io 31, iuclusivo : Brought into sight for seven days 132,990 bales, against 242,579, 156,085 and 119,179. Railroad Wrecks. RALEIGH, N. C., Jan. 31 -At Man ly, last night, a freight train OD the Seaboard Air Line ran through an open switch upon a line of freight cars, ir having signalled to go forward. P]ngi neer Thad Pleasant, of Raleigh, wa? scalded, but not dangerously. Fire? man Walter Flanagan and Traio Hand Isaac Boveo, both colored, were instant ly killed The engine was wrecked and overturned and 10 freight cars were smashed. A number of mules in a car were killed. HGU'TOX. TKX , Jau 31 -A north bound fast freight, on ihe Houston and Texas Central, wa* wrecked six miles south of Hamstead last night The engine and five cars were wrecked, the locomotive being overturned and bury? ing beneath it the body of Engineer Jas. Quill. Fireman Charles Cash and Head Brakeman Colville were severely and perhaps fatally injured People should realize that the or'7 true and permanent cure for th-_-ir condition is to Lo iound in having Pure Because th-? health of every organ and tissue of the body depends u;.-cu the purity of thc; blood. The whole world knows the standard blood pu.iner is ' ? ScLTScipilfifScI And therefore it is thc only true and reliable medicine for nervous people. It makes the blood pure and healthyj and thus cures nervousness, makes the nerves firm and strong, gives sweet sleep, mental vigor, a good appetite, perfect digestion. It does all this, and cures Scrofula, Eczema, or Salt Eheum and all other blood diseases, because it Makes Besult? prove every word we hav6 j said. Thousands of voluntary testi- I monials -fully establish the fact that ? Sarsa? parilla Be Sure to Get Hood's x^?7 " I have u3ed Hood's Sarsaparilla for nervousness and I am in better health than for yean;." MES. SARAH E. LYLES, While Bluff, South Carolina. Hood's Pi!!s cure all liver ills, constipa? tion, biliousness, sick henria^-he, indigestion.25c. In going to get a drink stop and t'-iink what bargains in Pianos, Organs and Sewing Machines are to be had at the Sumter Music ! House, in the Masonic Tempi* building. Pianos, Organs and Sewing Machines sold on easy terms, ?nd exchanged tor old one? at tneSum'er Music House, in Masonic Temple. Christmas Presents IX GREAT VARIETY -FOR Laflies, Gentlemen an? Cita. Ladies' Pocket Rooks-newest and hes: thing cut. Ask for them. -FRESH DRUGS Prescriptions carefully compounded day or nighr. Jack-Frost-Lotiun-?:ott)in?z netter tur chipped hant.?. J. S. H?GKSON k CO , Monaghan Block. .Main Street. DfC. 13. IMPROVE YOUR STOCK. rpHE THOROUGH BRED REGISTERED Jersey Bull formerly in the possession of Messrs. Jor.ea <fe Bradford c*o now be found by all per? sons needing his services at ray Stables, Sumter. S C. Sent. 18. 1895. H. BARBY. DR. IL HU ??(Mil, DENTIST. oui ce OVER STORK OF SUMTER DRY UOODS COMPANY, Entrance on Main Street, Between Dry Goods Co. and Durant <fc Soc. OFFICE HOURS: 9 to 1.30 : 2 to 5 o'clock. April 9. 2 If Yon Want a Bi m m SIDEBOARD -OR -OR Parlor Suite LOUNGE, A Bedroom Suite, A Spring Bed or Mattress, Pictures. Frames, Glasses or Christ? mas Goods, You will find them in the Greatest Variety and at the Lowest Prices, J. D. CRAIG'S THE LEADER IN FURNITURE. Dec 6. NOTICE. I have got in stock a full line of Buggies, Ladies' Phaetons, Surreys, Car? riages, one and two-horse Farm Wagons, which I offer for sale at Low Prices. I represent several of tho largest wholesale manufacturing companies in the United States and can compete in quality and price with any dealer in the country. Call and examine my stock and get my prices. I will save you money. ii KO F. EPPERSON Office at Epperson's Livery Stables. Nov 13 wi physicians, and prescribed by them lLs\ Hr all over the world. VTb ?\%m ^ gr Positively guaranteed to cure the most Ji?% | fCO IJ oLrE^' Voe I stubborn cases. Theformul is published 1/ fe plainly on every bottle. As a tonic it is <jP P|^P|^j?^ #f f Superior I BLOTCHES f T0 ALL M1 j! & OLD SORES ! Sarsaparillas f BLOOD = ? For Female Compiaints and IP0 (v?? building up run-down sys- )h DA IA AN IMA \\ terns it acts like magic. Try W ? V WWII I i\ %J Yt I J RHEUMATISM! j j READ THE TRUTH ^ TH lUl?UmAIMAJ I EXTRACT FROM BOOK OF TESTIMONIALS. *jl ^ jfr ?f^fc j W A V ? "Was a rheumatic sufferer for IS months. Derived no benefit //il <&J? yfe^ W%L WvJf fi nj IL Irk fl$if& 1 g from physicians, treatment at Mineral Wells, Tex., or Hot Springs, ^J?n W J??A ? W^^r# I g Ark. My doctor declared my condition hopeless, but as a last resort ^?sh^sO AJ? fl advised P. ]P. P., Lippman's Great Remedy. Through its use 1 am ^r/vJC A Cv g to-day a wellman." W. F. TIMMINS, , /Ajb t J??v ^ _nM|_ <V?7 I of Timmins <fc Hines, Leading Grocers, Waxahachie, Tex. /.'j /O _A fl Indorsed by B. W. PEAHENS, Druggist. /A?// ? /7/7 I "P.P. P., Lippman's Great Remedy, cured mc of difficult breath- I // O 5 Sng and palpitation of the heart. Had not slept on either sido for l\ Si _ Ly P two years; now I sleep soundly in any posk|on/^ ^ ^ ^ ^?j^^^! l|Jf If-f fHi "^If W S v9 I t,Sw0rnt0andSUb3Cr?bejb3/?LCT? ' Wo W W ll fCfi If % *"^fe9 P " Suffered for years with a disagreeable eruption on my face. /^) j ^ Varions remediesfailed *? Remove it^ Tliree^bottles of P. P. 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