The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, July 14, 1897, Image 8
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. He will
not claim there is anything better, but in or
der to make more pro?t be may claim some?
thing else to be just as good. You wantDr.
King's Kew Disco ves/ because you know it to
be safe and reliable, and guaranteed to do
good or moDey refunded. For Coughs, Colds
Cor.sumption and for all affections of Throat'
Coest and Lungs, there is nothing sn good as
is Dr. King's New Discovery. Trial b?tele
free at Dr. J- F. W. DeLorme's Drug Store
Regular size 50 cents and 1. 3
Crescent
Our 1897
wheels are
stronger
handsomer
easier running
than ever before
the prices are
right
WESTERN WHEEL WORKS
CHICAGO-HEW YORK
Catalogue free Agents everywhere
STANTON
HOUSE.
D. J. JONES, Poprieior.
Rates $2.00 Per Day.
SPECIAL TEEMS TO FAMILIES
Two Minutes TJTalk From Central
Depot.
Chattanooga, Tenn.
July 29.
Soitl Camilla Military Academy. 1
TBE FOLLOWING Beneficiary Vacancies i
exist in this academy : Beaufort 2, ?
Williamsburg 1, Aiken 1, Oraniiemire: 1, j
Sumter I, Union 1, Oconee 1, Berkeley 2.
Edenfield 1, Charleston 1.
Those desiring to compete will apply
promptly to the Cbairronn of the Board of
Visitors Rt Barnwell, S. C., for iiiformmiorj ;
and necessary blanks. AU papers properly ,
made out must be filed with the Chairman
before August 1, wheo the I*jard will con- ;
vene to pass upoD the same
JOHNSON HAGOOD,
Chairman Bo*rd of Visitors.
July 7-2t. j
GETTING READY
Every expectant mother has
a trying ordeal to face, if she does not
of uncertainties if
Nature is not given proper assistance.
Mother's Friend
is the best help you can use at this time.
It is a liniment, and when regularly ap?
plied several months before baby comes,
it makes the advent easy and nearly pain?
less. It relieves and prevents '4 morning
sickness," relaxes the overstrained mus?
cles, relieves the distended feeling, short?
ens labor, makes recovery rapid and cer?
tain without any dangerous after-effects.
Mother's Friend is good for only one
purpose, viz.: to relieve motherhood of
danger and pain.
SWolIar per bottle at all drug stores, or sent
by mail on feceiot of price.
FREE BOOKS, containing valuable informa?
tion for women, will be sent to any address
I upon application to
THE BRADFIELD REGULATOR CO.,
Atlanta, Ga.
ARE YOU NEEDING AN IRON
SAFE?
HAVING BEEN APPOINTED GEN?
ERAL AGENT for the Alpine Fire
and Borglar Proof Safe Company. I am
prepared to offer liberal terms to th *e who
are*ir: need of a good safe
For prices and terms address
J. A. RENNO,
Mch 24 Sumter, S. C
D. M. YOUNG,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
Prompt attention to all business entrusted
to bim. Office on Court House Square, in
Blandios: office.
SUMTER RESTAURANT.
Reduced Prices
Eegular Meals 25cts.
Private Dioiog Room for Ladies.
Dec. 30.
DRUGS
AND
Soda Water
Toilet Articles,
Drugs and Patent
Medicines,
PERFUMERY, EXTRACT- S
TOOTHBRUSHES HAIRBRUSHES,
COMBS,
TOILET SOAPS
IN GREAT VARIETY.
Prescriptions Careful?
ly filled day and night
-AT
J1HUGHS0N
& GO.,
DRUGGISTS,
MONAGHAN BLOCK
SUMTER, S. C.
Fine Bus
Do you wan'f a nice Vehicle to rid?
nd well selected Steck cf Buggies, Sun
Gri
Office at Epperson'.- S'abies
Dip DO more-when yon be?
gin let your pen slide 'till
you're done-you can't do it
without a Waterman Ideal
Fountain Pen.
\\ E SELL THEM.
H. G. OSTEEN & GO,,
LIBERTY ST.
I To You
i --
I Who Use
?
PENS, INK,
?
t
I Paper, BlankBooks:|
Sj . At H. G. OSTEEN & CO'S $
$ You can get everything ibat you *P
<b want at the lowest prices. We are so J
$ situated that we ctn afford to make S
prices closer than any one else. $
I All Goods are new and of g
I the best quality. No shop- g
I worn gooda. $
& We matte a specialty of Schoo!. S
d> Supplies and also keep a full line o $
w Stationery, Blanks Books, Etc (jj
j? Come and inspect our goods. .
LIBSETY STBEET,
SUMTEB, S. C
Tie Largest anil Mos! Collete
EstaMistafiiit Sfinfb
Geo. S. Hacker & Son,
-MANUFACTURERS OF
DOORS, SASri3 BUNDS,
Moulding & Building
- Material.
office and Warerooms, King, opposite Can?
non Street,
CHARLESTON, S. C.
??f* Pnrchasp our noske, which we gu?rante
superior to any sold South, and
thereby pave money.
Window and Paney Glass a Specialty
October 16-o
;gies. Surreys and C
s in this Spring. If you do, call on me
r e y s. Carriages, etc., and my prices are as
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61st to SgJ, M.
Ten Professors and Assistants. Four
Sciecufie Laboiatories Three Courses for
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Terms reteonnble. Send for a catalogue.
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President.
June 23.
THE
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1,000 Feet Above the Sea.
A Perfect Summer Home.
Cool Rooms. 800 feet ol" Wide Porches
Extensive Well-sbaded Grouods.
Tennis Courts, Dancing,' Children's
PUy Grounds.
Good Drive?, Reasonable Livery Charges.
Cool Nights, Pure Air, Lithia Springs,
Coolest and sweetest water io the State.
Fret h Fruits and Yrg?tables,
Cuisine aod service the best. Easy of ac?
cess, rates reasonable, 8 mails daily.
Jnue 9
JNO. F, JONES,
BLACKSBURG, S. C.
?WAP**'
(%W9fw B nc w KOO Aiwoo&Tag'J
Tie StuUer Pnnctureless Tire,.
resilient, light, durable and
guaranteed against puncture.
No leather, steel or wire.
STODDER P?NCT?RELESS TIRifi CO.,
58 Warren St., N. Y. City.
Also
STANDARD BICYCLES,
are bigb grade in every particular, price
45100. Special induct men ts to clubs.
Reliable agents wanted io all unoccupied
.territories Address
Tte Geo. MroE?Co.,
7tb Ave., 28 & 29th St., N. Y" City.
March 24.
OS. I ALTA MMOi,
DENTIST.
office
OVBB STOBE OF SUMTER OBY GOODS COMPAST
.JUtrance on Main Street,
Between Dry Goods Co. and Durant & Son
OFFICE HOURS :
9 to 1.30 ; 2 to5 o'clock.
April 9. 2 ' v
tot Sonthern D?tective Aper,
CHARLOTTE, N. C.,
DO ALL KINDS of legetiraate Detective'
Work at reasonable rat*>8.
ARSON, MURDER, DIVORCE
SPECIALTY.
March 10-6m*
arriages.
and examine my stock, I have a large
low as the lowest.