The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, April 29, 1896, Image 6
Dispensary Report. '
The Quarterly Report Show
mg its Earnings.
The legislative investigating com?
mittee on the dispensary has at last
finished its work and submitted its
report in full to the board of control
It is as follows :
To the State Board of Control :
We herewith submit our report of
our examination of the books and
financial transactions of the State
dispensary for the quarter ending
March 1, 1896. Mr. C. W. Garr?s of
the committee, with representatives
both of the State board and the State
commissioner, took stock at the close
of the quarter. On the 20th of
April, the committee assembled at
the office of the State board of con?
trol, and after a careful examination
of the books and vouchers of the
State Commissioner, we find the fol?
lowing :
ASSETS.
Merchandise in hands of
county dispensers -
State's profit added, $145,088.20
Less State's unearned pro?
fit added at time of
; shipment, 41.453 7 Y
Cost price of above mdse. ?103,634 43
Amounts due by ex dis?
pensers and in process
of settlement, 4,516 44
Personal accounts due
State, 4,408.06
Cash balance in State
treasury, 3,921 22
Teams and wagons, 1,257.25
Machinery and office fix?
tures, 2,656.47
Merchandise at State dis?
pensary, 73,067.19
Supplies at State dispen?
sary, 47,741.51
$241,212.57.
LIABILITIES.
Persoual accounts due by
State, . ? 4.065.36
Due the general fund of
the Slate from former
earnings, 192.847. S9
Net accrued profit . for
present quarter passed
to the credit of State
school fund. 44,299.32
?241,212 57
Of the total accrued profit for this
quarter ($44,299.32 as'above), the
amount of $31,300 84 represents an
unmeasured profit on goods in the
hands of county dispensers on De
cember 31, 1895, additional to an
increase in valuation of goods in con
sequence of an advance in prices of
goods in the month of January by
order of the chairman of the State
board of control. The remainder,
$12,998.48, is an accrued profit on
sales for this quarter.
Statement of profit and loss ac?
count for the quarter ending March
31, 1896:
PROFITS
City of Columbia's one
half profit for quarter
ending Oct. 31, with?
held by order of State
board of control. ? 565.12
City of Columbia^ one
half profit for quarter
ending Dec. 31, with?
held by order of State
board of control, 1,000.00
Gross profit on merchan?
dise for present quar?
ter, 105,557.50
Contraband seizures, 2,870 75
Profits from beer dispen?
sers, . 4,754 06
Discounts, abatements on -
whiskey purchases, 5,207.22
Total grass profits, $119,954.65
LOSSES.
Loss by fire on Florence
dispensary, \ ? 188 58
Loss by fire on Bamberg
dispensary, 802 56
Supplies used during quar?
ter, 18,027.42
Breakage and leakage dur?
ing quarter, 182 95
Insurance, 390.29
Constabulary cost lor quar?
ter, 15,523 50
Freights and express char?
ges. 21 04S.79
Expense (stationary,print?
ing, salaries, postage,
etc ), 4,593.78
Labor, . 4 734.53
Net profits on 6ales for
this quarter, 54,452.25
Total, $119,954.65
Of the net profit of $54,452 25 on
sales for this quarter, the amount of
$12,998.48 is an accrued profit : the
remainder, $41,453 97, is an unearn?
ed profit on goods in hands of coun?
ty dispens?is at the end of this quar?
ter. S. W Scruggs,
Chief Clerk.
Quarterly cash statement for the
quarter ending Marci) 31, 1896 :
RECEIPTS
Balance in State
treasury Dec.
31, 1896, $ 54,107.03
Jan. rec'ts, $ 96,614.46
Feb. fec'ts, 93,391.70
Mar. rec'ts, 113,630.05 303,630.81
To ac't for this quarter, ?357,743.84
DISBURSEMENTS.
?January disbursements, ?116,685.79
I February disbursements, 116,708.97
March disbursements, 120,427.86
Total for this quarter, $353,822.62
Balance in State treasury
March 31, 1896, 3,921.22
$357,743.84
S. W. Scruggs,
Chief Clerk.
UNEARNED PROFIT ACCOUNT.
Unearned profit on goods
in hands of county dis?
pensers Dec. 31 $25,571.85
Advance in prices on
above made in January
by order of State board
ot control, 5,728.99
$31,300.84
Your committee beg leave to say
that they have taken every precau?
tion to do their work propeily. They
have carefully checked every voucher
on the books of original entry and
thence to the different postings to a
general ledger, from whence this
statement is made up. A compari?
son of this with former reports will
show that the State dispensary is in
a very healthy condition. Our work
was very much facilitated by Mr S.
W. Scruggs' comprehensive style of
book keeping. We are indebted to
him for courteous assistance also. . j
Respectfully,
.T S. Brice,
C. W. Garr?s,
Committee.
The committee of the State board
of control has issued this letter to
the county boards of control :
Dear Sirs : On May the 5th, the
State board of control will appoint j
new county boards of control. Those |
wishing appointments to these places
must send in-their applications prop?
erly endorsed. No one holding any
county or State office or clerk or
constable to any county or State !
officer will be eligible to appoint?
ment, as the new Constitution pro?
vides against dual office holding.
Whilst the pay of the members of
the county board is nominal, then
duties are very important, and it is
the intention of the State board to
appoint no one who will not give the
accounts of their county dispensaries
their closest scrutiny and assist the
State board ni its efforts to see that
the dispensary law is carried out to
the letter by the county dispensers.
A Kansas Cyclone.
play Center, Kas., April 26.-A
cyclone of tremendous force sped
through Clay county last night, dealing
death and destruction on every hand.
As far as known to-night, five people
were killed, three fatally wounded and
17 injured.
The dead are :
Frank Peterson, Mrs. Frank Peter?
son, child of the Petersons, Mrs Ole
Naverson,. grandchild of Peter Ander?
son.
A full list of the injured is unobtain?
able, as the doctors have not returned
from the scene of the disaster. It is
known, however, that every member ot
the families of Jobo Morris, F Welkin,
Peter Anderson and Henry Gardner
was hurt, and three of them have
wounds said to be fatal,
j, A large number of horses and cattle
I were killed, and the damage to farm
property is immense. The cyclone
1 started about six miles south of Clifton
! and went in a northwesterly -lireotion
for 12 or 15 mi!e6 aod then lost its force
by spreading it passed about half way
between Clifton and Morganville. its
; jrack varied from 150 yards to a quar?
ter of a mile in width. It tor : through ;
a farming community, and nothing is
left standing. Houses and barns were
wrecked, trees torn up or broken,
fences levelled and hay stacks blown in
every direction. The cyclone was fol?
lowed by terrific storms which lasted
severai hours, flooding the devastated
district! There had been indications
of a heavy rain all day. with local
showers, but nobody expected a storm. ?
As far as learned, the victims of the I
cyclone were in their homes, and the j
most of them had retired.
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RECORDS BROKEN.
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Savannah, Ga, Aprl 27-At t^ie j
spring meet of the Savannah Cycle
club Charles M. Murphy of New j
York broke the world's record held I
by J. S Johnson for 100 yards with !
a standing start in nine and one-fifth j
seconds. Johnson's record was nine;
and two-fifths
In the half mile exhibition, for ?
which Harry C. Wheeler, F J. Jenny j
ot Utica, N Y , and W B. Young, of
New York entered, Jenny won by j
two feet in 1 10 4 5.
Murphy broke the track record for
a half mile, made three years ago by ;
Zimmerman, in 59 1-5 seconds Zini- :
merman's record was 1.06 o-5.
Murphy was paced the first quar?
ter by Wheeler and rode the .second
quarter unpaced The interest in the
local and interstate races was high. '
Frank Powers of Jaciisonville, Fia , ?
won the half mile open iii two min-j
utes, riding the last eighth iii four
seconds, and also the mile open in
2 5G 25. Henry P. Thompson of
Jacksonville won the half milo boys'
race in 1 25 and was second in the
mile three-minute class. Powers
was second in the mile handicap.
The races were witnessed bj, the
largest crowd, with one exception,
that has ever attended a meet at the
Savannah track
Altgeld Answers.
An Open Letter in Reply to
Secretary Carlisle.
Springfield. April 25.-Governor
Altgeld has written an open letter to
reply to the speech on the money
question recently delivered at Chica?
go by Secretary Carlisle He begins
by quoting from Mr Carlisle's state?
ment in 1878 in which the latter de?
clared that the demonetization of sil?
ver when characterized as a conspi?
racy "would ultimately entail more
misery upon the human race than all
the wars, pestilence and famine that
ever occurred. The absolute instan?
taneous destruction of half the mov?
able property of the world, includ?
ing, horses, ships, railroads and all
other appliances for carrying on com?
merce, while it would be felt more
sensibly at the moment, would not
produce anything like the prolonged
distress and disorganization of so?
ciety that must inevitably result from
the permanent annihilation of one
half of the metallic money of the
world."
Commenting upon this Governor
Altgeld says :
"It will be seen that this language
is clear and emphatic and has none
of the sophistry and pettifogging
about it that are fouud in his Chica-,
sro speech His awful predictions
made in 1878 came to pa68 He not
only 6aw his own phrophecy fulfiled,
but he saw the misery of his coun?
try become even greater than he had
predicted Finding that his views
had been correct, he continued to
hold them until he entered Mr. Cleve?
land's cabinet, when, in some mys?
terious manner, there was a change
of heart, but for some reason he
seems unwilling to talk about it
There are two other members of the
cabinet, Hoke Smith, of Georgia, and
Herbert, of Alabama, who, like
Carlisle have made their voices heard
for nearly a life time demanding the
restoratiou of silver, and denouncing
the great conspiracy that struck it
down, ind, strange to say, when
these two men entered Cleveland's
cabinet, they underwent a change of
heart, and, like Carlisle, they avoid
talking about it Why did hot
Carlisle throw a little light on this
question V1
.'All these men now denounce the
people who are opposed to the single
gold standard as scoundrels and luna
tics, yet there are only following the
doctrine which Carlisle & Co. preach?
ed. Are we to infer that Mr. Carlisle
and his two cabinet associates were
scoundrels and lunatics until they
got to be gold men and that the tinsel
of a cabinet position not only made
them honest, but gave them brains ?
Carlisle should have told us."
Governor Altgeld then enumerates
several questions which he says Mr
Carlisle should have answered, among
them this :
"Why it was that for 200 years
gold and silver held the market ratio
of about 4 1-2 to 1, while the ratio
fixed by law was 15 to 1 in some
countries, 15 1-2 to 1 in most coun?
tries, and fur a while, 16 to 1 in our
country ; why it was that in every
country where silver was stricken
dowri, it was done by the arbitrary
act of the governmet, and that
neither commerce nor business had i
anything to do with it. As there I
cannot be a general rise Jin prices
without an increase in the volume of
money must not the present paralysis
and stagnation continue until the
volume of moue}' is again restored to
what it was before silver was stricken
down ?
Referring to the recent bond is?
sues, Governor Altgeld charges that
the President enabled a friend and
former client in association with some
fellow speculators, to make $9,000,
000 to ?10,000,000 out j of the gov?
ernment in a few weeks in a small
bond transaction under the pretext
that "the sharks of Wall street had
agreed to protect the government
against gold raids until the following
November.'7 That is, the wealthiest,
the most enterprising, the most
powerful, the most industrious and
the most thrifty nation on the globe, j
paid tribute to a small band of specu j
lators for "protection.''
An important find of skeletons of i
pre-historic people supposed to be cliff j
dwellers was madf; some ten days ago j
on Beaver Creek, Yavapai County Ari i
The skeletons were laid out io orderly !
arrangement on fiatural shelves iu the j
chalk like cliffs bordering the creek j
There were about forty skeletons in all !
and each was laid on a piece of matting.
What would summer he without a ham?
mock ? H. G Usteen & OJ. bave a full sup?
ply at the lowest price*.
Something new and original in tablets at :
H.G. Usteen & Co.'s Book Store. Tablets i
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The bock is nurdymedical r.nd ?cicntif:r,
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A despairing man, who had applied to ur,
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THE PLACE TO GO.
F. H. WARREN,
Manufaturer of all kinds of Harness
and Saddlery and Dealer in
HORSE BLANKETS,
LAP ROBES,
TURF GOODS AND
GENERALSTABLE
SUPPLIES.
First Class Work and Satisfaction
Guaranteed.
SEND FOR PRICES.
223 Meeting Street,
Charleston, S, 0,
Oct. 16-0
BEAUTY HATH CHARMS
and all the charms which beau?
ty likes best to don are shown
in our grand display of fash?
ionable jewelry for this season.
Jewels like these would en?
hance the charms of the most
fascinating belle, and surely no
fair one would despise such
brilliant aids to her beauty.
Like personal loveliness, they
conquer admiration on sight ;
they score new victories at ev?
ery inspection. Those who
look over our stock do not
willingly stop with examina?
tion. Beauty may now be
made easily irresistible by a j
few judicious purchases from
our display of up to date jew?
elry.
L. W. FOLSOM,
Jeweler and Optician,
SIGN OF TUE BIG WATCH,
Oct. 16.
TIac S ea Baiter
Music House,
NEXT DOOR TO POST OFFICE.
Pianos, Organs and Sewing Machines
of the beat grade sold cheap for cash
or on easy terms 01*1 ones taken in ?
exchange for new OHOS.
CLEANING AND REPAIRING
D O N E P R O M I'T LY.
We also keep !
NEEDLES, OILS,
And prtrts of every Sewing Machine.
We have some rare bargains in
Pianos, Organs and Sewing Machines. ..
M. B. RANDLE, j
Jun S. Manager. 1
HARB Y # CO.,
WHOLESALE BROKERS,
-AND
Cotton Storage Warehouse
PROPRIETORS.
TJP-TOWN OFFICE:
COURT HOUSE SQUARE,
500 Tons Ammoniated Guano
500 Tons Acid Phosphate.
500 Tons German Kainit.
COTTON SEED MEAL, AND MEAT SALT
FOR SALE.
GET OUR PRICES.
We keep on hand a full line of beary
groceries.
FEED AND SEED OATS,
DRY SALT MEATS,
LARD, MEAL, GRIST.
FLOUR, SUGAR, RICE,
COFFEE, POTTED
MEATS, &c, ftc.
?&S* Correspondence solicited
Nov. 27.
SPITER RESTAURANT.
MEALS TO ORDER AT ALL HOURS
OYSTERS AND GAME IN SEASON.
Special attention to Lunches for Ladies.
Prices Moderate,
Your patronage solicited. Liberty Street
Dear Watchman and Southron Office.
Oct. 2.
Just Opened,
ALL FRESH GOODS,
LOW PRICES.
J. A. FOXWORTH
Informs his friends aod the
public generally that he has
opened a choice stock of
Family Groceries,
VEGETABLES aili FRUITS,
In the Tuomey Block
-fourth store North.
He invites all to give him a call, and
will try by offering the best goods at
bottom prices, to give satisfaction.
J. A. Foxworth.
Oct. IG-v.
BUY NONE BUT THE GENUINE.
8;000 Merchants sell Hawkes' Spectacles
successfully. Half of them bandle other
Spectacles without success,
Showing the Great Popularity of HAW?
KES' GLASSES over all others*
These Famous Glasses are fitted to the eye
I at A. J. China's Drug Store, Sumter. S. C.
Dec. ll-o.
J. F. W. DeLORME,
PHARMACIST.
Prescription Specialist.
Prescription department, in charge of graduate of Philadelphia
College of Pharmacy.
List of Soda Water Drinks for this Season:
11 Our Own'' Lemon Phosphate-over 5,000 glasses dispensed
last season.
Apricot,
Banana,
Blood Orange,
Cherry Ripe,
Pineapple,
Plum,
Quioce.
Red Messina Oraoge,
Red Currant,
Tu ti Prut ti,
Peach, Chocolate, Larnoo,
Vanilla, Ginger, Rasberry,
Strawberry.
The Above Flavors in Ices or Soda
Water.
Fruit Phosphate,
O-iange Phosphate,
R?6pberry Phosphate,
Wild Ch erry Phosphate,
Grape Phosphate, and others.
ice Cream Soda,
Milk Sh?ke,
Egg Phosphate,
Egg Lemonade,
Lemonade,
Lime,
Coca Cola, Wine Cocoa.
SOMETHING NEW EVERY FEW
DAYS DURING TEE SEASON.
Prices same as last season.
Si
TROPICAL FRUIT BLEND"
3VOTIC E3.
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 the 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.
GEO- F. EPPERSON
Office at Epperson's Livery Stables.
HEADQUARTERS
FOE
FOR THE NEXT SIXTY DAYS WILL
SELL AT 10 per cent. ABOVE COST
All of his stock of China, Glassware, W?lloware & AVoodemvare.
Also entire Stock of Toys.
-i!o||
Silver IPlettod UU'ELT'G.
A magnificent assortment at 25 cents per piece. This is a leader.
Tho Peerless Oil Choking Stove is the late:''- mode! and best manufactured. The
Wilson Trash Burner is the most convenient and economical heater ever invented.
As in the past, a full stock of the best .
STOVES A1SB RANGES
Always on hand. Housekeepers can be suited, no matter what they may
need io any of the lines handled by Searle The Workshop is better equipped
than ever and every variety of Sheet Iron and Tin Work turned out promptly.
Stove Piping and Tobacco Fines manufactured to order of the very best mate?
rial Piping made'by Searle guaranteed to last, longer than any other.
Am pi .pared to estimate on Tobacco Flues, Furnaces,
Doors and Frames. All sizes of Iron for Flues-Nos. 10 to 28.
DRIVEN WELLS put down in any par! of the county, i^st pumps and ma?
terial used, thirty inch pciuts. Guarantee a good iiow ot water.
Remember the old reliable and srive him a call.
Dec