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COLORED PHYSICIANS. Very Pleasant and Successful An nual M e tig. The Colored Medical Society met in this city yesterday afteroooo witb a large at tendance. Papers were read bj Drs. Slc |?leacan, f Charleston; W. T. Smith, of Summer ; Pinckney, of Beaufort ; Earle of Anderson ; Williams, of Greenville, Robinson, of Darlington ; Moore, bf Orange barg, Macon, of Chester; Fleming, cf Georgetown; and Rhodes, of Spartanburg. Fer tbe ensuing year the folloniog officers were elected : President, Dr. C. C- Johnson, of Colombia; first vice president, Dr. I. A. Macon, ol' Chester; second vice president. Dr. Boyd, of Newberry ; secretary, Dr. W T. Smith, of Sumter ; treasurer. Dr. W. Ei Joh nsoc, of Charleston. A resolution WHS paa?ed asking the colored physicians to encourage young men to stady pharmacy. Also advising colored physicians to assist, a3 far as they can, colored pharma cists who are engaged in hustoess. Also, in dorsing the work of the Charleston Training School, and to encourage girls of proper age and qualifications tn take up tbe tsody and get scient i !5c training. Papers*of interest were reid aod discussed. President Thomas E. Wilson of the State Col lege of Oraogeburg, expended an invitation to the association to meet at Orangeburg the next year. The invitation was accepted. The association was not as largely attended as last year, bot some new members were pres ent and participated ia the deliberations of tba meeting. Tbe meeting was a pleasant one. The association was banqueted at the residence of Mr. R J. Palmer, on Sumter street.-Colombia Register, April 29. Knights of Damon. State Deputy G. M. Rosser, assisted by Gen. R. N. Ricfabourg, of Columbia^ insU 5 tosed a lodge of Knights of Damon last night with forty-five charter members. The meet ing was bead io the lodge room of the Ma sonic Temple. The following officers were elected : J. L. Hainsworth, Commander. Ser T. G. Herbert, Vice Commander. R. F^Hoyt. Seooir Warden. A. A. Br*db*m,~Jooior Warden. Rev. A. S WillefoxdjvPrelate. Edgar Skinner, Sentinel. V EC. Bcyoswcr b, Treasurer. A. W. Knight, Secretary. B. C. Wallace, Collector. Dr. Archie China, Medical Examiner. W. Y. L Marshall, Local Deputy. Memorial Orator. t - " v D. M. Young. Esq , who was selected by the committee appointed to elect an orator for Memorial Day, b * notified the committee of his acceptance of the invitation Mr. Yoong, notwithstanding that be bas bad a very short time for preparing his address, will dio fall justice to bis subject. Be is well fitted to deliver an original and eloquent tri bute to the memory of the , Con federate dead and be will bave a large audience to bear bim. Fire at Brogdon's. Oa Wednesday night, April 28, at ll o'clock the barn and stables of Mr. Jno I. Brogdoo, at Brogdon's, S. C., together with 800 bushels of corn, a large amount of bay and fodder and a number of agricultural im plements were destroyed by fire. Loss about $1,000, witb no insurance. The fire waa the work of an incendiary aod the perpetrator of the deed bas been appre hended od lodged tn jail. Laudanum and Lead. Editor Shaw Used Both to Sud His Life. Special to The State. Lake City, April 28.-Mr. William David Shaw, who was ap to this issac editor of Tbe Times, attempted suicide this morning at 9 30 o'clock. He bad bees to Charleston yesterday, returning last night aod seemed to be io good spirits. Mr. Shaw was rooming over Dr. Willta-ms' drag store He got ap as osaal this moroiog, talked with some friends and weat io The Times effics aod wrote the letter below. He" then went toro his room, drack two or three oaoees of laudanum oed theo shot him' self, the bali penetrating the body just - above and to the right of the right nip ple abd was cat oat by Dr. T. B. Hin oat jost below the sbcclder blade. When approached by ^friend; be saidee was only sorry he ciS oot make aod end of it ; that beiog dazed by the laudanum be had the pistol in his left hand when he thought he had it in his right hand, thereby shooting himself io the right instead of in the left breast. At thi9 writing there is every chao ce for his recovery Below is the iatter : .'Mast do the deed ? Ob, Ged I send down thine angel of mercy to bear my troaoW sou! away. Cac it be a sio ? Oh ! spare roe, forgive me, Father, to do away a lsfe that is filled witb paio aod misery. Is there any thing for me to live for ? Ali i* dark aod dismal. I have no hope. Is there rest aod peace io the grave? In a world so large, beautifol and wealthy, aod yet I most starve-no money, DO work. Cheerless and cold seems every heart to me. I cannot stand this straio. I have strained every brain nerve, muscle and vein ia thinking of what to do and all I can see before me is dismal distress Death does away with al! this. I have some friends here, I believe. I have endeavored to do my daty towards them. I hope that they will be kind nooogh to dispose of my body. Place it io "any old place," I care not where. My trank and clothes will go to my two brothers and sister. My watch at Colombia, wi!i go to Mrs. M. A. Emlyn, 1107 Pen- j dletOD street, Colombia, S. C., io coo- I sideratioo of kindnesses extended to me by herself and family. William David Sbaw. 0, t mpora; 0, mores." Mr. Shaw is a son of J. Duncan Shaw, who was kiiied io Bishopvilie several yeats ago by the well known Kelly brothers. Mr. Shaw bas beau for several years connected with the Colombia Register. ----- Excellent commercial note paper 15 cent;? a pound at H. G. Osteen & Co's-two pounds j for 25 cents. I JAPAN. IS AROUSED. j Hawaii Refuses to Allow Her Immigrants to Land. San Francisco, April 29 -Ace Ord ing to advices by steamer this morn ing the Japanese government is aroused over the refusal of the FJa waiian government to permit Shin shou Marou immigrants to land there, and has ordered warships to Hono lulu to enforce what the Japanese immigrants consider their right3 The foreign office instructed Hioigo Keucho at Kobe, on the 9th instant, to stop the departure of immigrants for the island at once. Grave com plications havt arisen, according to Japan newspapers, over the action of the United States government io send ing the Philadelphia to Honolulu Japanese official advices claim the cruiser bas been sent as a menace to the Japanese government and is signi ficant in that it foretells of annexation of the islands to the United States. Japanese official newspapers are full of war talk. The Chowc states that a telegram has been received bj the Japanese authorities to the effect that England has sent an intimation to the United Stales government that she objects to the intended annexa tion by the latter of the Hawaiian Republic The Sekai Jso Nifon says that a series of telegraphic com munications are at present passing between the United tates Legation at Tokio and the United States gov ernment, and is of opinion that they relate to the refusal of the Hawaiian government to permit Japanese immi grants to land Why take Johnson's Chill & Fever Tonic? Because it cures the most stubborn case of Fever in ONE DA Y. The Transvaal Situation. It has been remarked that during the Jameson raid and the period of intense anxiety about the relations of the British government of the Boer republics of South Afcica the English Foreign Office and all departments of the imperial government preserved an absolutely correct attitude. This, however, baa given way te a com pletely changed position The inves tigation of the British Chartered Company's relations to the raid de veloped the fact that the Colonial Secretary, Mr. Chamberlain, if not in sympathy with the redoubtable Cecil Rhodes, was his practical ally, while emphasis has beeo given to the un favorable elements in the situation by the forcible remarks of Mr Gosch en in regard to the position that the new British High Commissioner in South Africa will occupy. In some quarters the outlook is regarded as pointing to war Rumors to that ef fect have, in fact, found circulation. The transfer of British troops to South Africa seems, however, to be only the ordinary change of regi ment8 after having completed a tour of service in that portion of the world. In the same way the alleged intention of the British admiralty to send a warship "to Delagoa Bay bas been denied. - That there is irritation, however, cannot be denied. Sir James Sieve wright, probably the leading au thority on South African affairs, voiced the sentiment of the British as opposed to the Dutch influence in South Africa, when, in the Cape Par liament, be. in effect, declared that concessions to the Africanders had their limits The Jameson raid is now admitted even by its promoters to have been a colossal blunder. By means of it the Uillanders surrender ed all their real advantages of posi tion and put themselves in the ' wrong The substantial nature ol | their grievances, of course, remains, j and, as in the case of the extraordi- ! nary charges o the railroad organiza tions of the republic, which were re- \ ferred to in the last number of Brad street's, constitute a source for gen uine complaint. The Johannesburg correspondent of the London Economist, throws a strong light on the situation in an article appearing in the April 3 issue of that periodical, and in which, while emphasizing the evils of which the Uitlanders complain, due stress is laid on the unfortunate policy pur sued by the mining interests of the Transvaal, cn their lack of cohesion and their inability to secure perma nent reforms through united political action. As the correspondent in question indicates, capitalists wran gle and think the government is not in any way worthy of administering such vast material interests-it is heiped and held in position by the ! dissensions of those who should take j the le d in a work of the utmost im j portance. The 6ame correspondent j makes the point that a union of the j mining interests at an}' time would ; produce the reforms that are atso- j lutely necessary in the conduct of the | government of the Transvaal, while a note of alann is sounded in the as sertion that should there be no union ' of action and m> reforms, the unfa vorable and unprofitable conditions that now obtain in the mining indus try of the South African republic would lead to serious labor srobiems. -Bradstreet's. 1 Hit the Engineer When Engineer Jack Nettles arrived in this city last night from Florence he had his right eye swollen as big tts a jioose egg from being struck with a stone while the trnin wa9 run ning 40. miles an hour. The stone was thrown at Speer's swamp between Carters ville and Timmonsville on the Atlantic Coast Line railroad. The rock was thrown with great force and an unusual degree of accu racy to strike a man while the engine was running nt fuil speed, it was sandstone, and a part of it struck the fireman. The rain was stopped, and :n the h^ggnge car Engi neer Nettles bad hi* ere nmhed. Returning to the throttle ha again opened it und brought his train in here promptly 0:1 time. Ice Cream and Strawberry Festival. An ice cream ar.d strawberry festival will be given hy the ladies of M ay es vi He, at the Maso ic Hall, on Thursday evening, MAJ 13, ! for the ber>efit of the Methodist Pardooage. Al! are cordially iovited to attend. A Valuable Prescription. Editor Morrison o- Worthington. Ind., "Sun/ writes: '"You have a valuable prescription *in Eleetiic Bitters, and 1 can chserfully recom mend it for Constipation and Sick Headache, and ns a general system tonic it has no equal.' Mrs. Annie Steele, 2625 Cottage Grove Ave. Chicago, was all run down, could net eat nor digest food, bad a backache which never left her and felt tired and wear?, but six bottles of Electric Bitters restored her health and renewed ber strength, Prices 50 cents and 1.C0. Get a Bottle at J. F- W. Devonne's Drug Siore. 6 THE MANIAC IN THE CAR. A Drama With a Satisfactory Ending For All bot the Nervo os Woman. It was perfectly obvious thai the man in the corner was crazy. At least it was perfectly obvious to the nervous lcolring woman who sat just opposite him in the cable car. It was not so much the mystical series of "wigwag signals which he was making with his handkerchief as thc amazing contortions of his face. In the intervals of these contortions he stared intently in the direction of his nervous vis-a-vis, but at nothing in the world, so vague -was his look. Then he would tap the bridge of his nose with his finger, grimace and screw up his features into horrible expressions of malignant madness. The poor woman didn't know what to do. Her alarm was so apparent that all the others in thc car noticed it, even the man himself in one of his lucid in tervals, and thereafter his performances became more violent than ever. Every physician knows that maniacs delight in playing upon the terrors of those who exhibit fear of them. Perhaps the wom an herself knew it. At any rate her feelings finally reached an intensity such that when thc man half rose from his seat she shrank into her corner with a stifled squeak, which brought from him a glance cf triumph, or perhaps it was surprise. But he only sank back again, with an expression of disappoint ment, as if his time had not yet come, which indeed it hadn't. Thereafter she held herself gathered close, with every muscle strained, ready to spring and flee. She didn't have long to wait. Thc man looked toward her with that terrible, unseeing glare. His fists clinch ed. The handkerchief clinched in one of them jerked in short, sharp oscilla tions. His eyes began to bulge out. His face became purple. Beneath his curl ing lips could be seen his teeth, bare to the gums. He leaned forward toward the horror struck woman, his face pro truding almost into hers. His sharp, hot breath was on her cheek, and just as bis arms went up to clutch she made one bound from her seat that took her half way down the car. Two more leaps landed her cn the platform. Thence, with a mad yell, she launched herself forth, despite the re straining grasp of the alarm ed conductor, and was fortunately caught by a police man, who escorted her to the sidewalk, where she wept. From behind she heard a mad, gasping rear of barned rage, but the maniac did not follow. Ee didn't want to. He sank back in his scat again and wiped his tearful eyes. Then he took out a newspaper and began to read. It had been a hard strag gle, fcnt it had ended in victory. Ec had got f iat sneeze out.-New Ycrk Sun. Uncalled For Indignity. *'That's what I cail an insult to the whole human race." "What is?" The first speaker pointed to a North Side Lurcher's window, where, under an array cf calves' livers, hung this sign, "Get Your Brains Herc."-Chi- j cago Tribune. Well Satisfied wi "Nearly forty years ago, after some weeks OL sickness, my hair turned gray. I began using A y er's Hair Vigor, and was so well satis fied with the results that I have never tried any other kind of dress ing. Itrequiresonly an occasional appli cation of Hair Vigor to keep my hair of good color, to remove 'dandruff, to heal itching humors, and prevent the hair from falling ont. I never hesi tate 10 recommend Ayer's medicines tomy friends."-Mrs. LI. jj. HAIGIIT, Avoca, Nebr. Iii Hair Vigor Prepared by Dr. J. C. Ayer & Co., Lowell,Mas* Take Acer's Sarsaparilla :.- ha Carapulca. 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