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SOUTH CAROLINA'S WHISKEY SCAiNDA(x ^.Bookkeeper Makes Some Sweeping Charges. The following is the continuation of the book of revelations being issued from the pen of X-Bookkeeper D. A. G. Oazts, being the next sec tion of his open' letter to toe State board of control, a part of which was published yesterday. The writer of the bordereau announces that ' there will be several other sections -before the publication of the open letter included This chapter may be ve/y appropriately termed the Haselden chapter of the bordereau : D Sachs & Sons of Lonisviile, Ky., first had John T. Gaston, ex acting State commis3oaer, as State striker, striking the board for orders for them. Don't think Gaston 'was employed directly by them, but by their drummer. He was paid for one rr two purchases and their regaler drummer, Mr Mickie discharged Gbjton dering a meeting of the board. Gaston told me that he im medietely. left Mikle's room in the Je rome hotel and went to the board room and called Mr.' M R* Cooper, a member of the State board, out of the room and told him of bis treat ment; that Cooper went back into the board room and had the board to countermand the order for 25 barrels of whiskey which had been given to D. Sachs & Sons. The next move Sachs & Sons or their drummer, . made with local strikers was with young Evans,, from Marion, a cousin of. J. Dudley Haselden, theu the chairman of the board This young <s man was scarcely 21 years old, and never sold whiskey before, and knows just about as mach about traveling for a whiskey house as the average country yoath, and they know not h . lng about trade and commerce. Ile could never have gotton the job ii he had not been related to the chairman. The strength of his pull and the amount of bis and Gaston's orders amount to $16,580 98; these figures are from the books in the dis pensary. The amount may be larger than th:s,becsuse all .invoices may not have been potted when this amount1 was taken from the books Hasei j den begged the board like he had j been Sachs & Sons attorney to get ~bem -to bny. The- clerk of the board seems to have leaned in that direction also, foi: he entered or g&ve ont to the newspapers a list of put chases containing 25 esses Cape May whiskey at the May meeting, 1899, which the board had not bought To get him ont of a hole and keep down ' bard feelings, the board decided to bny the 25 esses, which were not needed, for there was plenty in stock, as proved by the fact that there was np occassion to order this purchase until September and there was enough n stock to last two months Being bought, it bad to be shipped, so young Evans could get his pay. The se statements are from records in \ io the State dispensary and cannot be denied 1 Another evidence of the man with a pul! is shown by the orders given to Friedman, Keiler & Co ofPaducah, Ky, who/admitted to the board of control that he had fought the dis pensary in the courts and with origi nal package bouses in Charleston ; that be bsd contributed from 500 to $750 to feelp break down the die pen sary law and did not succeed ; since tsen be found the dispensary aw a good law, and wanted to do business with the institution The board, through Cooper, Haselden and Miles voting in their favor, gave that house its first order They were aided in the sale of their liquor by the dispen ser-J H. Stelling- in Charleston, or, rather, his partner in business, Mr. Mattbies, who said they could seil more of Friedman, Keiler. & Co's, goods than others they hav ing been, I believe, their original package agents It has been as serted that Stelling was given a job as dispenser in Charleston because M. R. Cooper needed his in faence in the city to help bim in his race for secretary cf state J. D. Percival was also given a dis penser's job in Charleston about the same time. Stelling was finally al lowed to run a dispensary against the vote of Mr. Douthit and Mr Williams, and they had held bim up for 30 days and tried to prevent Stelling from running a wholesale dispensary. Stelling had given Friedman, Keiler & Co. orders for whiskey, and the board bad to ratify this because it ^ras claimed that it bad already been put up ready for shipment. It was ordered shipped, with the understanding that no more would be bought and shipped direct from Padneah to Stelling Bot later an order came from Stelling for more of these goods, viz : 50 kegs, four and three quarter gallons each which Col. Vance, then commissioner, or dered from them, notwithstanding Stelling was to have no more shipped him direct from them. Then Mr John W. Keller, one of the firm, came down, and Mr. Mattbies, -Stell ing's partner, waa here to strike for bim for their whiskey ; thea the order was given for their first ship ment to the State dispensary. The next month Keiler and Mattbies were here again and orders were them again. Some Newport bought from them, and in ord assist in getting out of the State pecsary, so there would be non hand at the next meeting of board, and more would have t bought, the house Friedman, K & Co issued a circular letter and to ali the dispensaries, telling they would send them a silver b( with Newport whiskey in it, \ they bad ordered as much as cases of Newport- Grand sehe Ninety one dispensaries in the St five times 91 are 455 cases ; qui lot to place over the State had all dispensaries been taken in Sou the dispensers wanted the silver ties aud ordered five cases, not ca in what sizes-one-half pints, \ or quarts-were sent, just so got the five cases, which would : titie them to the silver bottles. ! three or four meetings of the bi j Matth es became so nauseating them that Friedman, Keiler & got no more orders Matt hies kept in Charleston, and things coming Friedman, Keiier & way last enough, Mr Keiler sta away a meeting or two The meeting he was here before he pointed W. E Blue of Marion c< ty, another cousin of J. Du< Easelden, chairman, he said would get in and get orders from board if he had to spend $500 heard him make this statement Blue was said to be general sootb agent, yet he only represented Fr man, Keiler & Co. in South Caro until the board of control decidet stop baying from houses bav local strikers. Mr. Blue succee in getting some good orders, and amount of his poll and that of A4 thies with J. Dudley Haseld j chairman, advocating orders for h I amounts to $19,419, in orders giv After the board passed resoluti excluding local .strikers, Blue y turned down by Friedman, Keiier Co., and J. Dudley Haselden decit that their liquor was not as good it was while Blue was with the At least he gave up advocating p ! chasing from Friedman, Keiler & C I and they have gotten no more ord since One would think two cousins fr the same county was enough for c member of the board of control take care of, but not so for J Di ley Haseiden, who, although i chairman now, wants to retain puil, as shewn by the fact of anotl cousin entering the field This c is W. Boyd Evans, Xprivate sec tary to Gov. Eilerbe Just after t death of Gov. Ellerbe and about t j time Evans was leaving his office, I drummer by the name of Sprint came to Columbia to a meeting of t board. Sprinkle represented t Rsidsvilie (N. C ) Liquor Co , ai I was corralled at the first meeting ' attended by W. Boyd Evans, w got a job with him, and upon Spri I kle's going before the board wi I Evans and telling them be had e: j ployed Evans to travel North ai j Sooth Caroliua, an order was givi i the Reid8vi!le Liquor Co. They g ; such a large order that they b some difficulty in filling it ; did n ! fill it in time to get another at tl next board meeting, but have be( given orders at every meeting sine If Evans ever traveled farther them than from Marion here to C lumbia it has never been heard o Boyd Evans pull amounts to $8,866 08 in orders given, besides Septen ber purchases So mach for taking care of cousin Now, what about self? J. Dodie Hase-deo, did you ever make tb remark ? that you bad liquidated 10 OOO in debts since voa had been ! member of toe board ? Your salan j according Co the published report of th , board, was oot $1,500. You seem t condeena selling contrabatid at the Stat dispensary so strongly now. Why di yon oot stop it whiie cbairraao ? Yo said you tried, aod went so far as t threaten to discbarge somebody if i was oot stopped ; this voa wiil no deny A ; the same time, Were yon no baying cootrabaod yourself? viz: I W. H arper, whiskey at 1.08 pe I quart, the same price charged to count; dispeoser8, and thus the town ant county iosiog their prouts, and no paying cash, bat having it charged t< yoor account Wheo yon would draw j your pay for attendance here as ohair ! mas, at the end of the week, yon woulc j have a bili made out for it receipted, I paying fer tbe same. Not only this, : Did yon oot have foll cases of cham pagne opened io the State dispensary, take oat what you waoted, and pay foi it at prices charged tbe COUD ty dispen saries ? Dudley Haselden. in your official capacity as chairman, in one breath ordering the sale stopped, in the oext seod ng for contraband whiskey, having it charged, paying for it at the end of tbe week, were you not setting a bad example and acting inconsistently io seliing whiskey to yourself and buy ing it of yourself, and ia the next .moment ordering the saie stopped ; or was it then a virtue in yourself to buy, while now it is a crime in others to sell ? The moral turpitude ia the same, and you can't convince the people I otherwise ; you can't hide behind a doubtful rule of tho board of control forbidding selling any more success fully than you can lead the people to believe that your double face capacity is immaculate. What has brought such a change io the spirit of your dreams ? About a year ago you were heartily in favor of abolishing beer privileges, and now yon are their staunch f rien d and advocate, aod at t;he September meeting of the board you voted unanimously wi :b the rest of the members to abolish them Mr. Miles alone reserved the right to change his vote ; you did not, bot you remarked wheo Mr. Miles reserved this right with a haio of benefiting glory overshadowing your face, "if we find i we have made a mistake we oan change r If it was right a year ago j to abolish them, pray why not now ? Besides these three cousin liquor drummers, and before them, J Dudley Haseideri had his brother-in-law elected one of the inspectors, who held the job I several months, resigned and went back to college. After this, Mr. 3. C. j Moody, another cousin from Marion I County, was given the inspector's job. j He is Btiil connected with the dispeo I sary, and he, with Mobiey, one of the j bookkeepers . to tbe State board, did most of the work the Haeeiden contra band commitee was appointed to do, but still the committee gets the 4 per day and mileage just the same.. I have gone to the trouble to prepare a com plete Hst of al) merchandise, which is whiskey, sold the two years Col. Vance was commissioner, and I find duriog Col. Vance's first year, while Haselden was not a member of the board, there was sold as entered on the petty cash book, 251.00 Tee next year, under Haseldea's administration as chair man, there was sold, as entered cn petty cash book, 833.66 worth, nearly fou r times more than when Haselden was not on the board, and still be tried to stop it. Haselden on July 19, 1898, while you were chairman, you bought contraband whiskey to the tune of 2.00, and yet you tried to stop it Again, November 19, 1898, you bought contraband, E. W. Harper whis key and champagne to the amount of 19.41, paying for both at the end of the week after yt u had drawn your pay, and paying fdr it less the town and county profits. Then again, after tho adjournment of the legislature, you telephoned to the State dispensary to have a case of Laoahctn's XXXX monongahela rye sent to you at the Columbia hotel to give your friends among the legislators, and it not being Sent to you because Coi Vance was not theo at the building you had to get a case from Dispenser Cartledge and you paid the State dispensary for it, less town aod county profits, and another had to be given Cartledge without charging ic to him to take the place of the one you got from bim and paid for at the State dispensary, the towa and county lobing 1.80 profit by this ope ration. And tais is the way you stop ped it ? When Hon. William Jennings Bryan was at Due West Haselden and Cooper were in Columbia, a committee on building the new story on the present dispensary. They both went to Due West and Haselden while there told the county treasurer of Greenville county that" he, Haselden, would be elected chairman cf che State board of control, and it wouidjust suit him ; he could leave borne aoout night, after attending to a whole day's work on the farm, and come to Columbia and get pay for that day, and when he went home bis train lefc eariy in tho morn ing and he could get borne in time for breakfast and get- pay for that day, and be at home looking after his farm. This arrangement enabled him to get a whole week's pay for attendiog to the duties as chairman of the board and be ac home two days out of &ix, attending co his private business, and yee be paid for services noe rendered here. You said you lived a long ways and your mileage was 5 cents, and you could make enough out of that to pay your expenses J. Dudley Haselden betakes himself and a bookkeeper to Charleston to get affidavits from dispensers there about the conduct of the management of the dispensaries in Columbia. Why don't he commence nearer home, and get affi davits from dispensers at Dillon and Marion as to why they order Cape May aod Golden Grain and other whiskies which are sold by houses bis various cousin liquor drummers represent ? There is a resolution of tbe board of long standing forbidding whiskey drummers or their houses from crying to induce dispensers io order goods sold by them, aod ic would be well for the board to investigate this matter aud see if .the resolution has been broken ; apply che remedy prescribed, stop buy iog from snob bouses which' violate it, then these violaCors would have Co gee other houses. D. A. G. Ouzts. Brave Men Tall. Victims to stomach, liver and kidney trou bles as well as women, and all feel tbe resulta in loss of appetite, poisons in the blood, back ache, nervousness, headache and tired, listless run-down feeling. But there's no need to feel like that. Listen to J. W. Gardner, Idaville, Ind. He says: "Electric Bitters are just the thing for a man when he is all run down, and don't care whether he lives or dies. It did more to give me new strength and good appe tite than anything I could take. I can now eat anything and havo a new lease on life." Only 50 cents at J. F. W. DeLorme's Drug Store. Every bottle guaranteed. Norfolk, Va., Oct 14 -The reopen ing of the old Dismal Swamp Canal was celebrated today, and the canal officially opened to trafilo A party of 100 prominent railway and steamship officials, reprepenting many of the great lines of the Atlantic seaboard, went over tbe c?.oal on the steamer Osean View The start was made from Nor folk this morning at 8 30 o'clock. Elizabeth, City, N. C., was reached about 5 p. m. Third Chapter of the Dispensary Scand Colombia. Oct 14.-The tb . chapter of Ouzts' dispensary revi tiona has been issued." Like the e ond it deais with iostanoes^of h the machinery of the dispensary 1 has been used for years for the p ( sonal profit of the men high authority. It is spicy reading involves many or most of the n who have had control o that insti j tion. He first deals with M. Cooper, present secretary of sta who on his election to the board control pot his farm in charge of c Gatson,who at once became a whisi drummer and with Cooper's inflaei to back him sold the state $4 275 worth of liquor from two firms 1 first having dropped Gibson, prest] ably to a more profitable trade w blind tigers, their liquor d pr ciai wonderfully in value in Coope eyes Cooper, he said had -jse d pensary liquor at wholesale prie very freely io the last election. I Cooper is said to have bluffed f Charleston dispensers into handli a certain liquor, the agents of whi made friends with him at the Coln bia hotel. Capt. B. C. Webb, clerk of t board, he says ha6 violated rules the wholesale, besides spending week out of every month at 1 home and running trade for the 5. Ry., over which road he held a and used passes. He also set S order of the board at defiance granting an extension of time Costello, a beer dispenser of Charh ton who was ordered to close an count of large sums owing the stf and unpaid. The amounts we never paid. This man was St. Juli Yates' tenant. Miles knew of it, t made no attempt to suspend Wei: W. J. Brown dispenser at Cheri was known to have violated the li itself by selling the liquor on cre< but was not removed, but given tit to pay up He cails attention to several i stances where he has by honest att? tion to his work and the interests of I state, his employer, saved money ai been the means of collecting mon that the board paid no attention t One case was that of a man on lin of one county who was to send co to the dispensary to refund mom advanced him to pay taxes on liquc and sacks sent for the corn, mon* nor corn have ever been heard since, and Miles knew of it all. C< Vance had made a present of tl stable manure of rte dispensary one Dorn who used to give hi milk, butter and pork, though tl dispensary formerly sold tl manure and had the same bid formerly in for it when Vance ga^ it to his friend Vance ali used the dispensary teams to ha broken boxes to his house as fn wood and used the same teams f his friend Dorn. Vance sold whiskey, contraband himself and to some of the constable Vance also sold some of the dispensai stock to bis friends on credit also ra some of it away. He gaye the en ployees at the railroad about $20 won of whiskey on Christmas. Vance ali sold a horse and wagon seized by ti constables to a friend for 5 00t ac oever got the money, though twice i mach in cern was offered him Vance also arranged to be cut t Lioahan's whiskey when it was time J order and always substituted these gooc whenever there was an opportunity. Vance also favored and advanced b soo and one Ehrhardt, paying thei against the orders of the board out ( state funds, for work they were toi oot to do. Black, one of the em ployees was let off of duty, to lobby fo the election of certain candidates fe the board of control, and also befor the primary to work for Cooper's elec rioo. Whiskey was also given to Boy Evans, on credit, out of the dispensar to use on the day of the second pri mary wheo dispensaries were closed. Douthit was defeated for state boar of control by Vance and the looa whiskey strikers working against him because he refused to promise to vot for Vance again. MoB. Sloan, ex mayor of Columbia called "Columbia's x mayor-candiciati for state board of control, whiskey drummer and ooal dealer and friend o Vance, used to borrow the tates ooa from the dispensary, weighing it ii borrowing and returning himself, aoc sometimes not returning it. He is aist said to have sold coal io iarge quanti ties to Vance when, be said the price was advancing. Local whiskey "strikers'' were great ly in evidence io the lobby for mern bers of the state board of control. Ooe senator who had been an unsuccessful striker would not vote for Douthit because he oould not convince Douthit that hts liquor was worth ordering. Miles, Haseideo, Cooper aod Sioao have been pulling fine io double harness lately, he says All the strikers were put to work for Sloan for the board of control, and one man in the dispensary was discharged because of his refusal to work for Sloan. FIND THE CONCLUSION ON NEXT PAGE. -mvm- -- Our little boy was ifflicted with rheuma tism in bis knee, and at times unable to pot his foot to the floor. We tried in vain everv thing we could benr of that we thought would help bim. We almo9t pave up in de spair, when some one advised us to try Cbam berUi 's Pain Palm We did so, and the fi rsl bottle gave so mueb relief that we got a eecoad one, and, to our surprise, it cured i bim ecuod and well -T. J. Bays. Pastor Christian Church, Neodesha, Kan. For sale j bj A. J. China's drug store. Snow in Transvaal Retards the Boers. I Believed in England the I Weather is Against the I Dutch London, Oct;. 16 -So far as actual news is conoeroed, very little change io the situation is to be noticed. The state of affaire at Mafeking caa cnlv be conjectured. The occupation of Nev? Castle by the Boers wes prepared for and expected, the place having been abandoned by the British. The Boers are reported to he menacing Kimber ley. Very heavy rains and snow are reported which hamper the Boer move ments and they are finding that they began too late to gain the initial suc cesses they counted on. They evi dently found the advance upon Harri smith difficult, either from the north and weet, as Gen. Sir George Stewart White's reconnaissance seems to have sufficed to deter them for the present. The peaks of the Drakecsburg range are scow covered, and the storms which have ococrred must have caused the Boers great discomfort which probably explains their failure to attack Gen. White. Masterly inactivity charac terizes the operations on both sides. Persistent rumors are io circulation that the Schreiner ministry of Caps Colony bas been dismissed and that Mr. Ross Innes has been asked to form a cabinet. These rumors, however, are without foundation. UNPLEASANT FOR THE BRIT ISH. j London, Oct. 14.-In connection with tho rumored atlack upon Mafe king a disquieting report eomes from Pretoria to the effect that the Rusten burs and Marico commandoes have crossed the border, entered the Rooi grond territory between Lich eaburg and Mafeking, blowing op the bridge over the Maloppo river and destroying a train ioad of dynamite and the track. I As Mafeking depends on Rooigrcnd for its water supply, the significance of this move is evident. Pretoria, Oct. 13 -Advices from Volksrust confirm the report that a Boer commando bas occupied Laiog's Nek, without casualties. The heaith of the burghers is good. London, Oct 14.-The Boers, it is reported, have seized the railway sta tion north of Fourteen Streams, between Vryburg and Elimberley. Fighting is continuing in the neighborhood. London, Oct. 14-According to dis patches from the front the Boers have made several attacks upon Mafeking, all of which have been repulsed. / Germany Will be Neutral. Berlin, Oct. 14 -A high German official, whose utterances may be taken as absolutely conclusive, said to the representative of the Associ t ed Press today : "We shall observe the strictest neutrality, no matter what may develop in the war be tween the Boer republics and Great Britain. This is the only course "left open, as conditions io South Africa are so complicated and, our relations with both sides are so delicate that to abandon neutrality by so much as a hair's breadth would necessarily lead to new and unforseen complica tions ,; The Neal Case. Io tbe court of general sessions yes terday the indictments in the cases against Col. W. A Neal, former super intendent of the State penitentiary, were not handled out by Solicitor Thur mond, but they will go to the grand jury either today or tomorrow. This delay is occasioned by the absence of some important sod necessary witness es The attorney general yesterday handed the solicitor the list of these witnesses, and summons and warrants ba?e been issued for them. It is not thought that there will be any delay io getting the cases before the grand jury. Up to the close of banking hours yesterday nothing had come of the rumor that Col. Neai expected during the day to settle up everything with his bondsmen and the bank.-State, Oct. 17. Diamond Town Besieged. London, Oct 16-The Daily Mail's Capetown correspondent, tele graphing Sunday evening says : Kimberley is beseiged and the Boers are massing in force. No details, however, are obtainable. The Boers have cut the railway at Belmont, have seized the Spyfonteio railway station and constructed forti fied earthworks There are strong defending forces at Madder Bridge and OraDge river bridge. "The object of these energetic operations is believed to be the cap ture of Cecil Rhodes Kimberley is now isolate J, both railway and tele graphic communication being cut *' ?MW- -,*.T - New York, Ocr. 14-The Bridge port iioe 6t(,3.oier Nutmeg S ate was burned io Long Island Souod. off Sand's Point, h. I., at sunrise this morning, and ten persons were burned to death or drowned. Tc Lay the Corner Stone OD Sunday afternoon, nest, at 3 o'clock the corner stone of the Magnolia Street Meth odist Episcopal Church, South, will be laid at the corner of Magnolia and Mill Streets Work was commenced on the foundation of the building yesterday morning and will be pushed as rapidly as possible, es it is hcped to have the building ready for dedication the first Sunday in December. At the laying of the corner stone csit Sun day afternoon an appropriate programma wili be rendered, and an address made by Rey. J. A. Clifton, D. D. Seats will be pro vided for the congregation, and the public are cordially invited to be present. Harmony Presbytery. Manning, S. C , Oct 10 -Harmony Pres bytery met in the Presbyterian churro in this town on the <Mh instant, and was opened with a sermon by Rev. W. H. Mills, the last moderator. It is composed of 14 ministers and 33 churches, in the counties of Kershaw, Somier, Clarendon, Williamsburg and Georgetown. There were present at this meeting ll of its ministers and 20 ruling elden, from this number of ita churches. Rev. J. C. Bailey, Jr., waa elected moderator, and Rev. C. M. Richards, reading clerk. Mr. Luther 0. McCutchen, after a satisfactory ex amination on personal piety and motives for seeking the ministry, was taken under oar care as a candidate for that office. Rev. W. W. SadleF, cf Bethel Presbytery, was re ceived as a minister, and calls were placed in his hand3 from Lynchburg and Beulah churches, which be accepted ; and arrange ments were made for his installation as pas tor over them. Presbytery investigated the foundation of certain rumors, touching the Christian char acter of one cf its ministers, and found noth iog whatever to substantiate them. But inasmuch as tbe intimation was mace that additional evidence might be given, if the opportunity were presented. Presbytery determined to send a commission to tbe place where the rumors originated, so that those who gave the intimation, might have every opportunity of justifying themselves in bringing the matter to the attention cf Pres* bytory. Rev. A. E. Chandler, the oldest of our ministers, having died recently, a touching memorial of him was adopted. An invitation from Maye3vil!e church to bold cur spring meeting there next April was accepted. It was resolved by a rising vote to return sincere thaoks tor the generous hospitality with which the members were entertained in this community. Rev. J. 5. Stephenson and Dr. W. J. Mc Kav Dreached dur'mg the meetiog, and Dr. K. W. Edmunds and Rev. C. M. Richards remained after adjournment and preached in our town on Sabbath. James McDowell. A New Post Office. A new postoffiee bau been established at Heriot, Sumter County, S- C Rufus C. Wactor, Jr., has been commissioned post master. Simtroo8 Squaw Vine Wins or Tablets insure rapid recovery cf mother after child birth. Carriages, Buggies, Wagons acd Harness at Graham's. Sept 27 % A Large Ball in November. Tb following announcement bas been banded in for publication : Es-er since the Sumter Club has been or ganized it bas been in the habit of having a large dance aod supper in November, with which to inaugurate the winter season. This year will prove no exception, and Monday night initial steps|torsrd tn*t end were taken. Tbe date was set for November 16th and the following committees were appointed : Subscriptions-I. C. Strauss. Supper and Arrangement-S. J. Rytteo berg, Chairman ; J. H. Levy. Invitations-J G. DeLorme, Chairman; J. G. R. Wilder Rod C. E. Hurst. Floor-H J. Grover, Jr., Chairman ; W. R. Burgess and I. H. Moses, Jr. Reception-Altamont Moses, Chairman ; R. D. L e, D. J. Auld, Jr., Robt. Sbelor nd J. H. Burns. Chaperones-Mr and Mrs C F McFadden, Mr and Mrs Mi'cb Levi, Mr and Mrs Ferd Levi, Mr acd Mrs H M aoders, Mr and Mrs F A Bnltman, Mr a d Mrs J H Levy, Mr and Mrs E H Moses, Mr and Mro W H Ingram, Maj and Mrs Marion Moise, Co! and Mrs R D Lee. Gen and Mrs E W Moise, Mr and Mrs J F Laugbery, Mr and Mrs H C Moses. Dr and Mrs S C Baker, Capt and Sirs A C Phelps, Mr and Mrs R L Edmunds, Hon and Mrs Altamont Moses, Mr and Mrs H J Barnby. Maj. Ousts seems to be very mach dissatisfied with the way the dispensary has been mn. It bas taken bim six years to say so. bat be is maktcg np for lost time -State. COTTON MARKisT. Number of bales received to dale 12.075. Receipts today 100 bales. Market firm. The quotations were : Middling, 7 Strict Middling, ; Good Middling, 7J Strict Good Middling 7f Dyspepsia Cure. Digests what you eat. It artificially digests the food an^ aida Nature in strengthening and recon structing the exhausted digestive or gans. It is the latest discovered di test ant and tonic. No other preparation can approach it in efficiency. It in stantly relieves and permanently cures Dyspepsia, Indigestion. Heartburn, Flatulence, Sour Stomach, Nausea, SickHeadache, Gastralgia, Cramps.and all other results of imperfect digestion. \ Prepared by E. C. DeWftt A Co., Chicago. For sale in Sumter byJHucbson-Licon Co. 3EV OTIC 3EL ! A 2Tcw Market hy Old and Experi enced [Butchers. I "\T,rE wish to inform our ninny friends and ff customers that we have opsopr! a mar ket on Liorrfy Street, E*st of Main, nest door to Hood's repair shop, ard wiil do our best to furnish them as good Mints RS the : riurket will afford and as cheap as it can be sold. Thanki- g you fer past favors we respectfully solicit a continuance cf same. Good weight and work guaranteed. W. J. DAWSEY, JACOB BRAD WELL. SeDt 19-1 m