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Tile State Monopoly. Schedules of Stealage by Dis? pensers. Money to le Paid Into Treasury. The State Board of Control bas de* ter cc i oed to pay into the State Treas ; Dry the som of $40,000 Joly 9th, oat . of tho*profits OD the business. During the meeting Colonel Jones stated "tat tho Board nov had about $50,000 on hand sod owed nothing and be moved that of this amount 40,000 be turned over His resolution ino]oded a prom? ise to pay the following soms at the times epeeiSed : $15.090 on Au sus; 1,. September 1 and O ot ober 1 ; $25,000 on the first of Oerober, November and December, making io ali a total of $160.000. The D3xt important matter for coo? stderatioo was brought op by Mr. Wil Hams tn referenee to uouoty Dispen? sers' bonds. He has been investigating this mutter and the result has not beeo at all satisfactory. He had io hts pos? session a batch of about eighty hoads and oat of ail that number the Assist? ant Attorney General found only ooe that was strictly correct. Mr Williams called to the attention of the Board to another matter of equal importance almost as the foregoing. This was in reference to the various shortage; which nave occurred since the Dispensary has beeo in operation -stnd about which notting has beeo "l done looking to the collection of fcbe money, for the State from the bonds? men or of prosecuting those charged with the defalcations. In connection with the subject the clerk had prepared a list of all Dis- | pensers who have been short since be? ginning of business The names and ' amounts follow : M Carlson. $76 04 ; J Carson, I $655 9? ; BO Evans, $17.08 W H Barron, -- ; A F Dixon, $938.84 : H A Diesen, $258 96 ; G M Lang? ston, $674.71 ; G V*rn, $94 66 ; A B McDonald. $294 61 ; T A Scott; $4.920.28 : Wade Lamar. $352 99 ; \H F Eolrnelaw, $1,301.34 ; D E Keels, $379.31; J. E Gaston, $307. 42; O W Boshes. $195 12 ; T S Fennell. $242 74; I O Wood, $184 -, 15; J L Platt, $268 58. All these shortages occurred before the Board of Control was established, and so far as the records of the institu? tion show, no prosection has been made in soy cf these eases, nor has the State; recovered one cent, except, perhaps, in the case of B O. Evans. W St. Mat? thews, io which a:compromise was effect? ed hy the local Board of Control. It ? the intention of the State Board to j have the'Inspector visit every coun ty where shortages have occurred, get up the evidence and give it to the Solici? tor, who will be requested by the board to make & vigorous prosecution against the bondsmen and the Dispensers The amount* of the shortages as above, is $12.653.80. The report of Inspector Hill wis rend. In it he makes the following . statement as to the Dispensaries meo* tioned : L W. White, Greenville, short $100; Powers, Charleston, short $139.10 ; Stevenson, Wisnsboro, short $33. Io explanation of the latter, the Inspector says Mr. Stevenson had beeo sick at one time aod had gotten others to roo hts Dispensary for him, and that the shortage occurred during that period It amounted originally to over $200, but Mr. S te ve oso o bas ?nade it all good except $33, which ha says he say s h Ci will pay very shortly. The Chester Dispensary was found short $487. Dispenser McDaniel de nies that he is responsible for this, and says that after be took a mouth after ^tbe business was turned over to bim by Dispenser Hood, be discovered the shortage Dispenser Hood's books, the Inspector says, are io Columbia, aod be saggests that they be sent to Solicitor Henry. As to the Hotel Calbouo io Charles? ton the report says: "After taking the entire stock, amounting to $3, 495 48. the hotel is still short $1,577, 55. I have been informed that Mr. Bowman paid Maj. B. B Evans $33 for bond of Levin to carry the stock, and that after getting poseseion of the bond. Bowmao destroyed the saTne The record can be found io tbe office of Maj B B. Evan8. I have beeD in? formed by tbe Assistant Attorney Gen? eral that opon proper steps being taken by your honorable body this bond can 'held for $l,577.65.,, More Shortage. The Total Nearing Twenty Thousand Dollars. Io addition to tbe statement of dis? pensary shortages from Feb 1. 1895, to April 1, 1896. aggregating $12, 702 82, published io The State yester? day, the following adpitiosal shortages that hare occorred since the di speedy bas beeD' under tbe management of the State boar d of control from April 1 to the present, have been obtained : J M McDaniel, Chester. $ 518 09 W. T. Cresswell, Fort Motte, 308.69 R. B. Stu?te, King8tree, 475 50 W. H.Williams. Mt. Pleasant, 684 50 E W Vee o?ng, St. Stephen r, 208 45 J C. Meyer, Sycamore, 391.97 Total, $2.585 20 To the above should be added the Calhoun hotel shortage amounting to $1,577.65. This places the total I shortages auder the State board at j ?5,162.85, and for the period from j Feb. ?. 1895, to the present at ?16, I 865 67. The unexplored sea of short? ages before that period is still a matter of conjecture. Further investigation into the matter of shortages will doubtless be made Inspector Hill bas left Columbia aod will do his best to cirry out/the r?solu don of the State board as to pushing the prosecutions. MR. WILLIA5I3* POSITION. A representative of The State yester? day eaw Mr. L J. Williams of the State board of control and askod if be had anything to say about the gover? nor's interview condemning the mis? management of the board and intimat? ing that he would be glad to accept the resignation of'all five 'members of the board Mr Williams replied thot he thought ?k? the governor that it was very un? fortunate for the dispensary thar there had been "wrangling and mismanage? ment, "and bad done all in his power to avoid both or either, and hoped yet that the evils named would be cured The on'.y criticism, if it oonid be called such, that he had to make upon the governor's interview was that he failed to specify who was responsible for the "mismanagement'' complained of. 'He said that be wanted no man censured for bis mistakes and neither was he williog to bear censure for the mis? take of others. That if he was guilty of "mismanagement" and injury to the dispensary or to the governor's ad? ministration, he called upon the gov? ernor to specify wherein it bad oc? curred. -.That though he bad been io a minority be bad dooe his best for the moral and financial success of the cispen sarys and bad been ably assisted by Mr. Doutbit along those lines, and if he bad been guilty of aoy mistakes he wanted the governor to call names aod say that L J Williams was guilty or that he was innocent. He said that he would be glad to be relieved of the an? noyance of trying to help ruo the dis? pensary, but that he could not retire under the general charges of the gov? ernor-the responsibility must first be fixed. Mr Dcotbit was present during this interview and fully concurred io the statement above made When Governor Ellerbe returned tc the city yesterday frpm Clemson he wi s shown the above, but declined to "speci? fy" as Mr. Williams wished him to do.-Columbia Register "It's Him, It's film." A Western Exchange says: The mau who wipes his nose on bis shirt sleeves, picks his teeth with a fork, fqc irts tobacco juice on the cook stove hearth, rides to mill with corn in one of the sacks and a stone in the other, drittes to market with hickory bark Hoes, deposits his money io his lan winter's socks, insists on paying bis taxes in coon skins and wild hooey, fastens one gallue with, a wooden. peg aod wears' possom belly pants, is the same old rooster who has no use for his homepaper, and his brother, is the fel? low who tries to do .business in town without advertising. --II- - \ A Tough Hog Story, ) John Cassar Cicero Gustavos Dar? ling, the noted Sullivan county bun? ter, is de'ad For nearly a century be had lived in his mountain borne at Sand Pond, where the telling of his quaint yarns and the presence of his dwarfed form1 and long, flowing beard,- reaching nearly to his feet, made bim famous. Scarred and dis? figured by his encounters with ani? mals and crashed by a bear until nearly dead, he still lived, like most of Sullivan county's hardy woods? men, to a ripe old age. It was not the many deer and bear which be killed that gave the old man his ce lebrity, bat his propensity for story telling. One of his best yarns was told a short time before his death "I once had a bog that lost the use of her hind legs," he said, "and I made a two wheeled truck by saw? ing two rounds from a log eight inches in diameter. I then bored a hole in the center of the wheels, whittled a stick the right size, and in no time had a cart, which I placed under -her bind parts She seemed to take kindly to it, and I turned her out ito feed on beech nats, where she picked her living during the winter. In the spring I found when I went to look for her that she had given birth to 12 pigs, and every one had a two wheelo truck under it. Even the brass headed nails and the strap that I used in fastening the truck to the j mother were on the little trucks " St. Louis Globe-Democrat. in i i -? - Doubles the Reward. for the arrest and delivery to the proper authorities of Chris Harris alias Harrison, the town council of Anderson a few days ago offered a reward of $100, which was supple? mented by citizens with $150 The negro is charged with criminal as? sault. Yesterday Governor Ellerbe offered an additional reward of $250 for the capture of the negro, making the price put on the negro's person $500. Take JOHNSON'S CHILL & FEVER TONIC. A Storm Centre. THERE MAY AGAIN BE TROU? BLE IN WHEELING. Wheeling, W Va., July 7.-The storm centre of the big coal strike bids fair to be located in the vicinity of Wheeling. Already operators in the Fairmont, W. Va , region are preparing to send great quantities of coal into Ohio and to the lakes, and Wheeling is the gateway through which all this coal will pass. Three roads, the Baltimore and Ohio, the Wheeling and Lake Eire and the Cleveland, Lorian and Wheeling, will carry it through to its (markets. Along the line of each road in east? ern Ohio are located many coal mines, nearly all of which have closed down since the strike was de? clared last week, in this area the turbulence of three years ago oc? curred when several thousand men of the Ohio National Guard were ordered out. The fear is now be? coming general that tbe coal from the West Virginia mines passing through will provoke violence on the part of the idle miners and their friends in eastern Ohio Al ready the receivers of the Wheeling and Lake Erie road have secured the services of a number of United States marshals to protect the small number of men still at work in their mines in this vicinity, in case of violence Severs! of the mines fn Belmont county, Ohio, have agreed to accept the 60 cent rate, but the striking miners object to these mines resum ingy fearing it will injure the hoped for effectiveness of the strike, which depends, of course, on little or no coal entering the market. mmm - There is Nothing So Good. There is nothing-just sis good as Dr. King's New Discovery for Consumption, Coughs and Colas, 50 demand it and do not permit tb? doaler to sell you souse substitute. 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