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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.
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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.
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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
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Mrs. Annie Steele, 2625 Cottage Grove Ave.
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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.
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color, to remove
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itching humors, and prevent the
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