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Murphy Must be Hanged. It will be seeo that Murphy, who hab j beeo convicted of kitliug Treasurer | Copes, has met with aootber defeat be- ? fore- the Supreme Court. The motion ! for a rehearing was denied, aod the Circuit Court will now sentence Mur phy. All that can now save Murphy is a commutation by the Governor. Murphy is at to* State Penitentiary for . safe keeping. The foilowicg * the official report of the case: State of South Carotica, in the Su preme Court, county of O range burg, 1st circuit. In the State against Daniel C. Murphy, ex. parre, Daniel C. Murphy, petition for rehearing. Malcolm L. Browning, pro petitioner After a careful examination of this petition the Court is unable to discover that any material fact or principle of law has beeo either overlooked or dis regarded, hence there is no ground for a rehearing. It is ordered that this petition be dismissed* aod the stay of remitt?ur heretofore, granted, be re voked. November, 30, 1896 Henry Mclver, G. J. Eugene B. Gary, A. J. Ira B. Jooes, A. J. Y. J. Pope. A. J. Wha t the Election Cost. At. the last session of the general assembly the sum of $15,000 was ap propriated with which to pay the per diem aod expenses of the com missioners aod managers of the recent general State aod Federal elections. The sum has beeo almost entirely expended. These bills ?re paid oo the plan of "first come, first served." As a con sequence some of the boards of com missioners aod maoagers who have not sect io their bills will have to go to the legislature and take- their chances of securing the amounts they*claim. The way that the food shall be distributed is fixed by law. The mileage charged up the several boards makes the to tal greater tbao the appropriation; hence it is for the legislatore to pro vide the additional som necessary, over the appropriation. The State boards have not yet been paid io Chester, Dar lington, Edgefield aod Fairfield, while the Federal boards bave not beeo paid in Baro well, Fairfield aod Sam ter counties. The total amount expended has beeo $14,953 84. not including the adver tising bills for election notices, which will amount to a considerable sum. It is thus seen that the recent elections cost the State of South Carolina in the neighborhood of $17,000 or more. Restricting the Franchise. Jackson, Miss , Nov. 80.?In decid ing that the collection of a poll tax cannot be made by sale of exempt prop erty the Supreme Court said to-day con cerning the constitutional provisions oo this subject it is evident that the con vention had before it for consideration two antagonistic propositions, one to levy a poll tax, a revenue measure, and to m?^e ita payment compulsory; the other to impose a tax as one of the many devices for excluding from the franchise a Urge o urn ber of a: class of persons, which class Ii was impractica ble wholly to exclude aod not desirable wholly to admit. In our opinion the clause was primarily intended by the framers of the Constitution as a clog upon the franchise, and secondarily and incidentally only as a meaos of revenue. It is evident the more the payment of the tax is made compulsory the greater will be the number by whom it will be paid, and therefore the less effective will be the clause for the purpose it was io tended. It cannot be denied that it was the purpose of the convention to declare a different role io refereooe to property subjected to taxa tion and that which was exempt, and when we consider the fact that a very large proportion of those whom it was thought desirable to exclude from the exercise of the franchise own no other property than that whioh had for maoy years beeo exempt from taxation, the conclusion becomes irresietable that it was intended to leave the payment of the tax to the voluntary action of those who owoed no other than non-taxable property. There are a hundred thou sand negroes and hundreds of white men who canoot vote unless they .pay this $2 poll tax, and who never will pay unless forced, so little do they care for the franchise. However, they are not wanted. The ational legislature will recon vene in a little overa week for the short session, with which the work of the Fifty-fourth Congress will come to an end. The fact of the session being a short one will undoubtedly militate to some degree against the enactment of some important legislation. For one thing, the passage of the appropriatioo bills will occupy much of its time and can be made to occupy Oiore. Io the next place, there seems to be consider able doubt as to the policy to be pureod io refereooe to rereoue legislation and this may result io its postponement until the meeting of toe next Congress, when there will be io the White House a President in political sympathy with the controlling party io the legislative body. Then again, no doubt some time will be taken op with the discus sion of the Cuban situation, which has been gradually getting into the fore ground. The outlook for a very fruit ful session is therefore oot at present very bright.?Bradstreets Gold and Silver Papers for sale by H. G Osteeo & Go. The Bike and the Baby. It was illogical, on my wife's part, to say that "something had got to b-' done" \ Jt was certainly illogical, seeing that she and I had already consumed more than an hour in unremitting ef forts to soothe the child, and only ap parent result being that it was squall ing worse that ever. When the ttouble first began, my wife had said, with a highly confi dent air : "It's his stomach, John. Get the paregoric " But the squalling had a peculiar, dominant note, which caused me to seriously doubt the wisdom of her diagnosis. Suppressing the doubt, I fetched the paregoric. "Of course, yau can't expect it to act at once." she continued "We most wait a minute " - cheerfully acquiesced. What did one minute of suspense signify when its expiration was to witness' our return to bed I Ten minutes, however, passed, with hope still deferred. We still stood on the floor in our night gowns; while the child refused to be comforted ?D id efe straok my wife "What he wants is a little castor oil." Grasping eagerly at' this Sugges tion? I started in search of the rem edy, innocently observing : never saw him like this before/' My wife turned on me : "Ah ! You want to make a fuss now About losing your sleep?having to rise in the morning, and the rest of the old story. Suppose you had him on your bands every minute of the day !" After this lesson I forbore from making further .suggestions, and mutely played the rol? of messenger ?8 she successively quoted tbe entire list of infantile ailments and pre scribed* their remedies' The effect was cumulative, in inverse ratio, for the child's screams became louder with every fresh dose My patient silence, however, in stead of placating, seemed to irritate ny wife. "Don't you think that sounds like ?o?ic ?" she inquired, after an unusu illy shrill scream had shaken the air Ehus appealed to, I had to say some thing, although I h*d not the least idea what I ought to say. "My dear, I really don't known, I am inclined to imagine" "Never mind what you imagine Fancy a man of your age utterly ?elplesB in such an emergency. Go 3ut and buy some peppermint." This I procured, but it did not fill the bill Hot lime water came next ; closely followed by tincture of gin ger ; but all three scored equal fail lies. ' Weil ! I should be ashamed to stand there like -a wooden Indian, ind never so much as offer a sugges :ion " In fact, I was uearing the despera ron mark, but managed to master nyseif. "My dear, please recollect that I im utterly inexperienced in babies . rhis is our first?and?and?I was lever married before. However, I 10 think that in the prese.nt case" "Oh, stop your conjectures, and jet me some Rochelle salts." After the latter had contributed :beir share toward aggravating the ?in, we experimented with the re spective cures for feverishnes6, cold, ?atarrh, sore mouth, cracked lips, jumboil, beadache, chafing, neural gia, rheumatism, paralysis, paresis, leart failure and apoplexy. These ind our wits were simultaneously ex ?austed, but the baby was still very ?ar from the limit of his lung ca pacity I made a last random venture : "My dear, if you would try" But ray wife sharply interposed : "Go for a doctor, you idiot, before ;he child is taken with convulsions before our very eyes !" It was the last straw. Stung to the quick, I shouted : "Hang it ! I believe the child is hungry !" My wife turned toward me, but with a face no longer wrathful, for the sudden consciousness of a mighty truth, like the drawn of returning reason, irradiated?almoet beautified ? her features. Giving me a pat upon the back?which was meant as a caress, but left, as I later discover ed, a black and a blue mark?ehe scampered out of the room. Return ing within a moment, she hastily placed a feeding bottle in the child's eager hands- Presently I heard her murmur, in a weak, insinuating voice : "I had forgotten to feed him sinc? 4 o'clock this afternoon. I had to 011 the bearings of my wheel as soon as I came in, and got so tired I went right to bed." Silently, and with the sweet con sciousness of duty faithfully fulfilled, I fell asleep. The Third Payment. _? The State board of control is car rying out its intention of paying into the State treasury the $100,000 of the ?190,000 due the State, which it undertook to pay during the pres ent fiscal year out of the earnings Half of the promised amount had been paid up to yesterday. In the afternoon ?25,000 was paid to the State treasurer, making $75,000 in all paid up to date. How One Man Got Rich. 0 e of the mo?.t pro-pemus o;en fi ing i? the i?uburb?< ut Aluany, Georgia was h few years? ago a worthless sot. To-day he is worth about $30,000. and ho owes it all to bis wife. For a number of years the man was a constant frequenter of the gaming table He had little money, but he had a mania fur gambling and risked all he had in the "jack pot.;' Before the games ended he was generally well loaded with liquor and although be did not k*now it be nearly always left the fable a winner. For ten years or more he kept up this life and then, suddenly he concluded to reform He announced that be had stopped drinking for good and was going into business His sole capital consisted of a small pony. He went to a prominent citizen and asked bim to sell him enough land on credit to build a store upon The gentleman laughed at bim but finally sold him the land. The man who wanted to reform traded hie pony off for lumber and by himself started to build a little store house. He worked steadily for several weeks, keeping as "sober as a judge,*' but be'worried considerably as to where he would get money to buy a stock of goods. His wife watched him with a good deal of interest and when ebe saw that be was io earnest in his efforts to re form she went to bim and placed ?2, 300 in cash in bis bands. He was lstooished, and of course wanted to snow where it had come from Then the good wife told him she "ould watch bim when be came home ?runk and would search bis pockets. She always found money, then she re noved the biggest portion of it. Dur- 1 og his career as a drunkard and gam- i )ler she bad gotten something like bree thousand dollars, most of which he had saved. Beginning on this money the hus iand opened bis store and by close at entioo business he bas within the last : even or eight years accumulated prop erty worth not less thao.$301000 ?At- ' anta Journal Bryan Writes on the Issues. New York. Nov. 30.?In the De :ember number of the North Ameri ;an Review published to-morrow. r. Bryan presents an article in vhich he discusses the result of the 1 flection as affecting the status of the til ver question The issue on which be election turns be describes as 'the greatest issue ever submitted to he American people in time of { )eace." , Tne declaration of the convention favor of the free coinage of silver breed upon the people of this coun ry a study of the money question in general The result of this study, dr. Bryan declares to be temporary lefeal, but permanent gain for the ?ause of bimetallism. Mr. Bryan ?gards it as a significant fact that he silver sentiment was strongest , vhere the question had been longest considered, that is to say, in the vest and south. The gold sentiment >revailed in the eastern States, but ?ven there, in Mr. Bryan's opinion, j he cause of bimetallism made more apid progress than any canse ever nade in such a short time. The )dds against bimetallism in the mid lie States were very great. In Wis ionsin and Minnesota, the Demo iratic party declared against silver the convention which sent dele gates to Chicago. In Michigan, the invention was nearly equally di vided and there was a bitter contest vithin the parly in Iowa, Indiana ,nd Ohio, while in Illinois the hostile nflaence of the Chicago press was jreatly felt. Mr. Bryan express. :<! gurance hat the election can be ^ no means egarded as a conclusive settlement , >f the questions at issue. This con idence is confirmed by the history of ecent elections. Mr. Greeley, was lefeated in 1872, and yet Mr. Tilden vas elected in 1876. Mr Biaine ?vas defeated in 1884, but Mr. Har ison was elected in 1888. The Re mblican victory of 1888 was foilow id by the Democratic victory of 1890 tnd the election of President Cleve and two years later. Mr. Bryan counsels the Republi can party to remember that thousands )f Republicans have been held to heir party this year by the pledge hat they will try to secure interna tional bimetallism. In regard to the gold standard Democrats, Mr Bryan is assured that hey cannot do as much harm in 1900 is they have done this year "They cannot," he says, "disguise hemselves again. The contest for inancial independence will go on. We undertook the contest with a lisorganized army ; we emerged rom it a united and disciplined force, without the loss of a soldier. We- are ready for another contest. We belive that we are right, and be ieving that right will finally triumph, sve face the future firm in the belief hat bimetallism will be restored.'7 London, Nov. 30?The Daily Mail ;o-morrow will say that Sir Thomas White Rideley, the home secretary, ictiog on the advise of Sir William Broadbent, who on Saturday visited and ixamined Dr. Jameson in Holloway jail, has ordered the release of the pris >ner. Dr. Jameson's friends wanted :o remove bim this evening, but be was tco weak to be taken from the prisoner. PRIVATEER PERSONALS. Privateer Township, S. C , Not. 30, 'S6. Tbe Tuanksgivii g prayer meetiDg at Bethel Church last Tuesday Hftemoon was an inter esting aod pleasant occaeion Remarks appro priate to tbe occasion were made by the Rev G. 41. Gresham, and Messrs Richard Tisd-tle. Willie Kolbaod 'Vhitfield Wells. Ae Mr Gresham will be absent at the Baptist State Convention in Charleston next Sunday there will be no preaching at Bethel. Mr. Frank M. Beckham, who will marry Miss Daisy Bloom io Charlotte next Wednes day, is a former "Privateer boy" and is well known and popular in our community. Mrs Mary Cuttino, of Oran?eburg County, who has been visiting in this community, was to leave to-dafy. Miss Lizzie Whilden has been on a visit to Samter. Tbete was a shooting match at Mr. Joe 0. Gedding'e gin on Saturday. We understand that several turkeys were won as prizes Mr. Sep Whilden, who probably knows as much about partridges as any one in this coanty, says that warm weather is not good to bunt them in?tbat io warm weather they feed early in tbe morning, but tbat in cold weatber they feed later io tbe morning and also early in tbe afternoon. Up to Saturday afternoon Mr Whilden had shot 70 ducks this season. A bright little girl of this township who has not been bere quite half a year, but whose life daring tbe last few years was passed in or near towns, informs os tbat sbe likes Pri vateer better than tbe towns. Oar township bas a citizen wbo bas hunted Eqairrels on tbe edge of Georgia's famous swamp, Okefenokee?tbat is Mr. Burgess Jen kins. Speaking of this swamp, we may ex press a wish tbat tbe Bureau of Ethnology of tbe Smithsonian Institution will some day publish a work about this interesting swamp, which is about 180 miles in circuit. It is probably not often that a man's wife is a step-granddaughter of bis step-mother, Privateer has an instance of tbe kind ; Mr. Davis McBlveen and bis wife are no kin, bat bis step-mother was ber step-grandmotber. Mr. W. L. Burke, a veteran citizen of Mid dletou Township, with his wife and little great-grandson, passed by Bethel Church yes terday. Mr. Burke claims tbat be will be 86 years old this month. This wife was not tbe great-grandmother of tbe tittle one with bin/. Tbe cold dizzle to-day is making up for tbe delightful, though somewhat warm weatber which we bave had this month. McD. F. There will be between eighty and one hundred babies on exhibition at tbe Baby Show; of tbe Reel Squad Bazaar if only those now on the list are present The Baby committee are encouraged by the success they bave thus far met with to hope tbat the Baby Show will b? a decided success in every respect, and an entertainment tbat tbe public will attend io large numbers and in doing so afford themselves a pleasure not often enjoy ed. It is to to hoped tbat all the men and all the ladies and all the children in town will visit tbe Baby Show, even though but a very few minutes can be spared for tbe pur pose. It will be an exhibition Veil worth seeing, and it seems to be the almost unani mous verdict tbat Delgar Reel Squad was more than fortunate when tbe decision to bave a Baby Show was jeacbed, for it met with the heartiest approval and will prove a drawing card. The ball will be handsomely decorated with flowers on tbe afternoon of the show, and, with the babies and decora tions, the hall be a bower of beauty, COTTON EE .. New York, December 1.?Market opened 5rm. Closed quiet. Opening. Closing. Dec. 7.57 7.48 Jan. 7.64 7.55 Feb. " 7.72 7.63 Mar. 7.79 7.70 Apr. 7.84 7.74 Liverpool, Dec. 1.?Market opened steady. Dicsed steady. Opening. Closing. Nov. and Dec. 4.16$ Dec. and Jany. 4.14 4.14 Jan. and Feb. 4.13 4.13 Feb. and Mar. 4.13 ? 4.13 Mar. and Apr. 4 12 4.13 Sumter spot market?6.85 Heart Disease Cured By Dr. Miles' Heart Cure. Fainting, Weak or Hungry Spells, Irregu lar or Intermittent Pulse, Fluttering or Pal pitation, Choking Sensation, Shortness of Breath, Swelling of Feet and Ankles, are symptoms cf a diseased or Weak Heart. MRS. N. C. MILLER. Of Fort Yvayne, Ind., writes on Nov. 29,1S94: "I was afflicted for forty years with heart trouble and suITercd untoid agony. I had weak, hungry spells, and my heart would palpitate so hard, the pain would be so acute and torturing, that I became so weak and nervous I could not sleep. I was treated by several physicians without relief and gave up ever beint; well again. About two years ago I commenced using Dr. Miles' Remedies. One bottle of the Heart Cure stopped all heart troubles and the Restorative Nervine did the rest.and now I sleep soundly and at tend to my household and social duties with out any trouble. Sold by druggists. Book sent free. Address Dr. Miles Medical Co., Elkhart, Ind. Dr, Miles' Remedies Restore Health. A WE HAVE OPENED OUR Annual Holiday Department, And it will pay all. buyers of CHRISTMAS GOODS to:.give us fca call before purchasing. We Open this Special Department for only one month and sell out everything at a very close profit. Books for X'mas, Books for Children, Books for Everybody. Bound Books by Standard Authors?Regular price 25c, our price 12c. Elegantly Bound Books by Holmes, Abbot, Milton, Goldsmith, Ruskin and others-r-Regular price 50c, our price 24c. Beautiful Bound Books in White and Blue (very pretty). All by standard authors Regular price 75c. Our price 37c. Imitation Morocco full 6ize 8 mo. Books. By Hawthorne, Thackeray, Whittier, Longfellow, Dickens, Scott, Tennyson, Lyall, &c Regular price 50c. Special price 29c. All Standard Poetical Works, imitation calf. Regular price $1. Special price 67c. Waverly Novels, Sir Walter Scott, 12 volumes. Regular price $6.50. Our special price ?3 49 10 volumes Thackeray's Works. Regular price $b 00. Our price $2 87. Macauley's History of England, volumes. Regular price $2 50. Spe cial price $1 35. Chatterbox, Oliver Optic, &c, all at reduced prices DOLLS. Children's Dolls Neatly Dressed 16c. tt .< ?t <, 24c " Large size'Nicely Dressed 49 " ' " Extra Large Elegantly Dressed 99c. Children's Tea Sets 15c, 35c, 75c.^ Elegant Dresden China Vases, Urns,Pictures, &c, &c , at these prices? 17c, 19c, 27c, 63c, 89c, 98c, $1 23, which are" just one-half the regular prices. CHIISFAWAEE. We have an entirely new assortment of Fancy Chinaware in Fancy Cups, Cups and Saucers, Fancy Plates, &c, &c, all suitable for holiday presents. We also have a fiue assortment of Perfumery, Albums, ?c, suitable for holiday presents. All these are separate from our regular line of goods, in which we are offering special figures Cloaks and Capes are going at prices usually made after Xmas We don't wait until everyone is supplied before cuttiDg prices, but let them go now. Overcoats the same way. We expected to have a severe winter and bought a large stock of Overcoats. They must go if price will make them. Children's Overcoats left from Bankrupt Stock at 75c, $1, $1.25, $1.50, $2 and $3. All these bargains and many more can be had if you will give us a call. Yours lor business, J. Sumter, S. C. AXJNTLEROY'S WILL BE X'mas Presents HEADQUARTERS FOR TOYS and DOLLS. THIS SEASON LARGE VARIETY OF EACH. AT OUR USUAL CUT RATE PRICES.? A BEAUTIFUL LINE AT FIGURES YOU CANNOT FAIL TO APPRECIATE. OPPOSITE BANZ OF SUMTER.