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CAROLINA .NEWS NOTES. of Interest Condensed and Par? lor Quick Reading. \ Sloan, lieutenant g over ordered an election for the successor of the late Col. C. S. McCall, senator from Marlboro county. The election will be held. on the 24th of January, giving; the Democratic party - -pie time to make ^nominations by primary or otherwise? Governor Heyward has received a m for the pardon of Claude a young white man, who was convicted of fraudulently packing two ton bales last fall. The petitioners; tate that signatures can be obtained from, ali of the jury and reccm ajttendations from the judge and rolic ?tor if necessary. The pardon is to restore citizenship. Gv C Wellbrook, a wholesale fruit dealer of Charleston, 43 years old, : led himself Tuesday morning at II Relock in the private office of his es ^blishment. He had just entered the >25ce and locked the door, when tfce; :r?p*>rt of the pistol was heard,- and lyton the door being opened he was found lying on the floor in a *?ool of - with a hoie in hi? riglt^^mple a slea of his nad passed out, a pane of the window 'ore iinaily ?pending its; iorae. ' Tom Smith; colored, met a tragic j .:eath Tuesday morning while engaged ia wailing the wei* on Mr. Lip Wood's premises, near Pacolet station, Spar ;mbarg county. Some of the work ;*r? on the ground were lowering' a ".massive bucket, filled with rocks, to Smith, who was corking in the well, some 25 or 30 . feet below. Suddenly che hoops of the over-laden bucket gave way and the entire contents fell on the unfortunate man's head, crush ixsg his skulL Death was almost in? stantaneous. While sitting on the porch at hi 5 res? idence two miles east of Yorkville j /Tuesday afternoon, Mr. Napoleon A. SiDor? had an attack of heart trouble and fell dead, Mrs. Simril witnessing the sad occurrence. Mr. Simril was one of the most successful and enter? prising men of York county. Many farmers in Marlboro ocunty are devoting much attention to poultry raising, and- are breeding various im? proved strains. Former Senator J. L. 3CcLaurm is preparing to engage ex? tensively in the poultry business Comptroller G?nerai Jones will . - / ;- v,\ -.--r.': as^mh?y : ie ) . - paid a? - les io Impose iaxe<= ?nd to. have the insurance companes jget hack such mosey"in their rates of insurance. He thfnks that better re? sults will be had by restricting the collection of all insurance taxes to the state government, and then, if deemed ?advisable, a division may be.^effected 'oetween the counties and the state. A little girl, 20 months old, daugh? ter of Mr. and Mrs, J. Mi Pearson, of Woodruff; Spartanburg county, swal? lowed a poultry wire^ staple a few days z&o. The parents did- not know what a?te had swallowed! She grew worse ?ad Tuesday she was carried to the hospital in Spartanburg and an oper ; .?rion was performed. The staple was t??en >ut, but i?aammation has set in. . ' Her recovery & doubtful. The people in the territory involved . ave declared in favor of the establish? ment of Calhoun crvanty. The election rs to have beer, overwhelmingly favor of the sew county and it ls to the legislature to ratify that ^?acion., Returns from the election sbow an overwhelming majority, be? yond the two-thirds required by the constitution as follows; Abbeville, ayes t?45, nays 41; Edgefield. ayes 23?, nays 3?: Greenwood, ayes 50. nays ll. This makes a^total of 551 for the establish? ment of the new county against 147 in ^position. "Another concession in the matter of :r: charges- o? the port of ^oKr?e^tor ivas mude Wednesday when Sayor Rhett received--, -.notification :ie Clyde Steamship line that :.??ea;ter u uni?rom charge of 10 cents . per ton will be made for the unloading -af freight, either for local delivery or transfer to cars for shipment out of Ute city. The former charge ranged from 10 to 20 cents and. even higher, j This reduction puts Charleston on a plane with Norfolk and Savannah. The will of the late Senator McCall left most of* his estate to his three sis? ters and two brothers and to his two nephews. Two of his bequests are isotailo. He left the Thornwell or? phanage the sum of $5,000. Another noble bequest was that to Mr. William Boyer of Marlboro. Mr. Boyer's "aoose and farm was mortgaged to Senator McCall but the will when ?*pened showed the mortgage had been canceled. Mr. Boyer lost both of his ?rms several years ago in thc prema? ture explosion of a cannon during a poJS?cal celebration in Bennettsvil?e. Governor Heyward has received ?t most unique letter from an actor in eiew York, recommending that the ?tate legislature i rame a law making ?I a misdemeanor to produce '.Uncle Tom's Cabin" anywhere in this state. The writer "bitterly condemns the truths in this book and presenl "number of reasons why the prop? measure should become a law. The president has sent to the se: the nomination of A. I?. King, as p master of Georgetown; Joseph : ?Abbey at St. George and Fran! Cain at St, Motthews. The Geo town postmaster died recently this is a new appointment. The o two are leappo?ntments. The case of Aaron P. Prioleau, negro congressional candidate, < victed recently in the district c< for tampering with the mails, has t appealed to the. circuit court of peals and the %se will ceme up ft hearing next February. He was leased-on a bond of $50?,- a ne preacher, named Beckett, andftanot negro, David Hayne, of St. Stephi going on the bond. Attorney W. Julien J?rvey alleged a number of rors of the court in the overruling certain testimony and in the adn ^dbn of other depositions in his p tion. Mr. A> C. Murph is the winner the prize of $100 in g offered by the First National bank Spartanburg, for the largest yield cotton on one acre of land. His yi amounted to 4,284 pounds of seed c ton. Early last spring the bank off ed this award and fixed rules and n uiations to govern the contest. This i tion "was taken to encourage and sti ulate the spirit of intensive farming the county. There were from 15 to contestants. At 4 o'clock Wednesday morning the wharf of the Waccamaw line steamers at Georgetown tire destroy 200 bales* of cotton, consigned Sprunt & Son, Wilmington, X. C. T fire department responded promp and worked hard to save the hui] inga. Estimated loss $T,000, said to covered by insurance. At a recent meeting of the And? son city council the ordinace abolis ing dry wells in the city was giv its final reading and adopted. The are only four or five dry wells in t] city. The owners will be allowed u til the first of March to put them o of commission. The sale of fertilizers in this sta last year exceeded ail previous recor by 8,000 tons, the income from tl ftag-tax" having. been $118,914.1 For the year preceding it had bei $98,909.80. The year 1905 has start? off nicely, over ?S,100 having been r ceived this week. : : Dispensary Directors To will ar Boykin have been in Columbia in n g-iird to the pro;>osed case to be argue .^con ia regard to the closing, of ti dispensary at Elloree. They are lool l:zg; up the law under wihch they acte [ anti jiare satisfied that the suprera court will sustain their action, "J pfchey do not," said Director.'Towil k**there should be a law passed whic -will allow the people to express thei ! will." The case is attracting considei able attention throughout the state. The State Historical Associatio met in Columbia on last Wed ? nesday, Messrs. J. T. Gantt, H. A I M. Smith, W. C. Benet and John I [ Cleveland being presents The associa tidn, after a lenghty session, adopte a resolution appointing Messrs. Gan ti Smith and Benet a committee of thre to prepare a bill for the general as sembly providing for a separat apartment for ali of the valuable rec ords in the office of the secretary o state,- and that a clerk be furnishe< the association at a fixed salary, whi will care for these records. Secretary Gantt, who is chairman, ex-officic, o the commission, submitted, an annua report, which strongly recommended this action, and the committee wil endeavor to have the bill, passed. George W. Campbell, aged about 4i years, a white plumber of Spartanburg died suddenly Tuesday night about j midnight. From what could be learn j ed of the matter it seems that Camp? bell had been drinking heavily of late, but Monday afternoon and night he did not appear to be drunk. He at? tended a meeting of the Plumbers1 f-uion at which ne was elected presi? dent. A hoop of the Richland Distilling company's 5.000 gallon capacity tank broke yesterday afternoon and all o? the contents with over thirty barrels of whiskey, were lost, save the little the employes scooped up with buckets from the floor, which was covered a foot deep. T. A. Sizemore, of Greenville, has been allowed a patent on a machine which he invented for making bands for spinning and twisting machines. A number of the white friends of the late Alex Johnson, the negro bar? ber of Anderson, who died a few months ago, have erected a neat head? stone over his grave in the colored cemetery. Johnson was held in es? teem by the whites because of his good work among the negroes in IS75. He was a staunch Democrat, and did much to prevent disturbances among the negroes. Mr* Samuel A. Murphy, one of Chester's oldest and most widely known citizens, died Monday of pa ja?ysis, after a long and painful ill ! ness of more than ten months. He suf ' fered a stroke of paralysis' the first part of last year and never sufficiently recovered to be able to leave his home. Mr. Murphy was a Confederate v< an and rendered his country gul service in the trying days of '61. is survived hy his wife and three s The railroad commission reorj ized with the election of Commissi? J. KL Wharton, ,of Laurens, as cr man to succeed Mr. C. W. Ga whose term has expired. Ccmmiss er John H. Earle, of Greenville, present and took part in the dis sion of routine business, which lowed after Commissioner Wha; assumed the chair. Mr. Garris present and listened to the express of good will made by his assoc! I who regret to see him leave. Mr. ( ris has not yet decided where he j be for the next few weeks, but j has a number of offers from pro I neut railroad officials who recog f his ability as a railroad man. ; j . ? There was a shooting Wednes j night in Darlington, Willie Dixor I notorious colored youth, shot S; Wright, colored, in the back. Sylfc j dangerously wounded, there being j little ' chance of her recovery. Dfc j shot another woman here seve [months ago. Policeman Fields appe j ed on the scene to arrest Dixon v j fled, firing once at the officer, but m: j ing him.^ Bloodhounds were put on I trail of the criminal, but he mi j good his escape. At a negro festival at Monticello, j Fairfield county, Sam Bell killed I j Peay and broke Dave Peay's jawbo J Wylie Suber was shot in the back J ? party unknown. Dr. Scott does i j think he will die. Another negro wh< I name is unknown had his skull crae jed. I News has been received of 1 j death of Mrs. Bratton, wife of ] j Rev. Theo. D. Bratton, bishop of Mt I issippi, which occurred at Jacks j Thursday afternoon. Her husband a J six children survive her. The dec eas I was a Miss Randolph, of Florida. I Mr. Boyd Taylor, a young wh man who lived near Mars Bluff I Florence county, was found dead I the woods near his home Wednesd morning. From what can be learn? j he went out in the woods to haul I load of wood and not coming hon I search was made for him, and tl j next morning tis ox and cart we j found and not far from the place ? J body was found. It is supposed he di? I from natural causes. A freight train coming in from t I wards Charleston Wednesday mon I ing ran ov?r a wagon and mules ; I JSvans street crossing in Florence, kil I ing- one of the mules outright ar I breaking, one leg and bruising vei badly* the other. The negro driver wi j thrown from the wagon and had '^i skull fractured, but is doing well.' ?. is not thought that the wound wj prove fatal. The negro drove upon-tf railroad just as the train was comiB lin, and it seems strange that he cB not see the train. The wagon wa completely torn up.. The mules an wagon belonged to Mr. Moses Greg! who lives near Claussens. Court will convene in- Umon n?> Monday, Judge R. C. Watts, of Che raw, presiding. There are five murde cases to be tried, among them th now famous one against Bert Gregor "lor poisoning his bride of three week.? The other cases are Bob Wood ware captured recently in Virginia for th murder of Tom Leonard near th? Newberry line in 1900; Wash Thomas who killed Allen Stewart after a ne gro frolic near Carlisle in October John Davis and Silas Ly les for killin] Will Kubanks, a young white man a Shelton. Mr. J. N. Melton, who was severa weeks ago shot by his son-in-law, Rob? ert Clements, died Wednesday. Coron? er Clanton held an inquest in the af; ternoon and the verdict gives the wound inflicted as the cause of hii death. The above parties live in the Sycamore section of Darlington coun? ty. Of interest to the state generally will be the marriage of Gen. M. C. Butler, which has been announced by personal letter to his son, Dr. F. W. P. Butler, to take place on the 14 th day of this month in New York city. The bride is Mrs. Chares Whitman. She be? longs to an old Maryland family and is a very cultured and handsome wo? man. Gen. Butler has purchased a large house in North Augusta and it is here the couple will make their home. Charleston will have a union pas? senger station, and it will be located at the northeast corner of Columbus and Bay streets. Soon after his in? auguration Mayor Rhett took up the matter with the railroads, and yester? day he was very much gratified to be able to announce that all the land de? sired for the station had been bought, transferred and paid for. Work will begin at an early date. At a largely attended meeting of business men yesterday at the Com? mercial club, more than half of the capital stock of the proposed Charles? ton-Georgetown Steamboat Company I was subsc ribed, and the remainder of ! the s?ojcJs will probably be subscribed, 1 *- ' . the company organized and the re supmtion of the line undertaken. The j capttal s?oek is to be $20.000. } It '^as been hoped and expected that j Dr. AYoo?row Wilson, president of Columbia next week to attend the celebration of the South Carolina col? lege centennial, but the college au? thorities are destined to disappoint? ment, for two weeks Dr. Wildon has been ill at a hospital in New York city. A severe operation was there performed and it will be two weeks or more before Dr. Wilson will be able to resume even his presidential duties at Princeton. Policeman Knox, in the Columbia mill district, on Friday arrested D. W. Ward and Willie Mims for soliciting labor for the Graniteville mill. The presidential electors of this state will meet next Monday to con? clude the business for which they elected and to select a messenger to carry the vote of this state to the electoral college which meets in Washington next Tuesday. The elect? ors are: For the state at large, George Johnstone, T. J. Cunningham. First district, M. P. Howell; second dis? trict, B. W. Crouch; third, H. H. Wat? kins, fourth, W. T. Jeter; fifth, W. M. Shannon; sixth district. Olin Sawyer; seventh, A. W. Summers. Mr. F. H.} Hitchcock, successor to the late Wm. C. Whitney as president of the Saratoga Racing association, and a steward of the National Rac-, ing Association, also owner of a prom? inent racing stable, is spending the winter in Aiken the guest of his. broth? er, Mr. Thomas Hitchcock, Jr. An important capture was made Thursday afternoon by Magistrate's Constable T. A. Mills in the arrest of Will Springs, colored, charged with the killing of officer S. E. Coles of Mecklenburg county, N. C., and the wounding of H. M. Nabors near Sugar Creek church, just across the North Carolina line, last Sunday afternoon. Immediately after the killing, Springs fled from the scene of his crime and came to that section where it is sup? posed he has since been hiding. For the arrest of Springs, Constable Mills, will receive a reward of $340-$200 from the governor of North Carolina and $100 from the sheriff of Mecklen? burg county. Constable Mills took his prisoner to Charlottee yesterday after? noon, where he was positively identi? fied as the man wanted for the killing of Cole and the wounding of Nabors. Four Italians, Thomas Scandini, Tuzo, Capsalata and Gualto, were ar? rested Friday at the rock fields near Pon Pon and carried to Charleston to answer to the charge of peonage un? der United States revised statutes 45526, 5527 and 1990. The arrests were made by Marshal Adams,. office Deputy Adams and Special Deputy Button with but little trouble. The United States officers \ would have probably-had a serious time but for the fact that Mr. James Lawton, su perintedent of the works, but having no connection at all with the' peonage, kindly assisted the marshals and in? duced the Italians to submit to the arrest. The' warrants were taken out on the affidavits of four Italians who escaped from the pen in which they had been housed. The affidavits allega that they had been imported and put to work in the rock fields, being fre? quently beaten and receiving no re? muneration for their work. Scandini, the boss, and his guards say that the men were simply working out the cost of their expenses and would have been paid for their services later. The preliminary will probably be held. Monday. Two well known young Charleston ians are dead, Dr. W. H. Prioleau, Jr., and Edward Shubrick Hayne. Dr. Prioleau was in failing health for sev? eral years and his death was not un? expected. He practiced in New York after "graduating from the South Car? olina Medical college, achieving dis? tinction, but was "forced to return south on account of his health, prac? ticing in Summerville and later ii. Asheville, N. C., in both places build? ing up a large and lucrative practice in (a short time. Mr. Hayne recently left Charleston to engag in business in Yazoo City, Miss., dying after a brief illness of pneumonia. It is a coin? cidence that his brother died in th? same city a couple of years ago. A young negro, Arthur Paine, was shot and killed Wednesday night in Orangeburg. The negro who did the shooting was a stranger in Orangeburg and immediately after the shooting he got away. It is said that the shooting was the result of a dispute in a negro pool room of the city. Greatly In Demand. Nothing is more in demand than a med? icine which meets modern requirements for a blood and system cleanser, such ar Dr King's New Life rills. They are j act what you neta to cure ftoma? h and liver troubles Try them. At J. F. W. DeLorme. drug ctore 25c, guaranteed. Washington, D. C., January -i. Representative Hanna, of Illinois, introduced a bill in the house today abolishing the present Isthmian trana! corrjmission and vesting full powers for thc- canal zone and the cons*ruc tn " of the canal in the president CASTOR SA For Infants and Children. Hie Kind You Haie Always Bought Bears the Signature of H?8THERB MEDDLERS WORRIED. SUCCESS OF IMMIGRATION BU? REAU NOT PLEASING. Busybodies Who Are Even Interfering With Things That Do Not Con? cern Them-Complain That White Settlers Will Drive Out the Negroes. By W\ H. McCaw. Columbia. Jan. 5.-Inquiries that have recently been received at the governor's office from northern mag? azine and newspaper publishers in? dicate a fear on the part of that sec? tion of the country that the new move? ment that has been inaugurated to bring immigrants to tba south to de? velop its agricultural and industrial resources and incidentally to solve- the negro question, will result in-flooding this section of the country with ah un? desirable class of foreigners and in the end do more harm than good. Thl3 state has nothing to fear along this line inasmuch as the law which the legislature last year passed establish? ing the bureau of agriculture and im? migration requires that preference of the Latin races, such as Italians and the like, several colonies of which Im? migration Commissioner Watson has already refused. Commissioner Wat? son, therefore, has no, fear of the out? come of the recent conf?rence* held in Washington for the purpose of divert? ing southward the tide of immigration that has been flowf?g into the con? gested northern centres. But in his opinion other states which are neg? lecting to establish similar bureaus are jeopordizing their safety in this respect. Having a bureau this state is in a position to protect itself through the. federal immigration laws. Commissioner Watson has had much trouble from time to time get ting^desirable farm laborers satisfac? torily established in this state, because of the cheap negro labor, but a num? ber of good white farm hands, have been placed, generally as superin? tendents or overseers, at from* $15 to $30 a month and board. His efforts have been to place the agricultural immigrants on small farms of their own sold to them on reasonable terms; those who have gone out td hire have been given places that would not throw then in direct competition and association with the negro. A few have become dissatisfied and returned to the north. Mr. A. R. Stewart, who has just re turned fo Columbia from an extended visit to his old home in Scotland, in conversation with your correspondent Oday expressed surprised at. how well/ known 'abroad . the movement for im? migration to the south ' already be? come. He heard about it and was ask? ed for particulars by prospective^ im? migrants or those who had. sons al? ready in this country, at Glascow, Liv-, erpool Edinburg and the Highlands of Scotland. At these points, delegations waited on him and eagerly plied him with questions in search of details. "Those people opened their eyes in wonder," said Mr. Stewart, when I explained to them how we made four crops a year down here. They were then gathering turnips in six inches of snow in Scotland, and some of their ' sons had written back of their dissat- i isfaction with the rigorous ' climate j they had come in contact with In the northwest! "The transportation people have been advertising the northwest abroad for many years and those people have airead heard of the south. They told me they had an idea that there was nothing in the south much but rich planters and negroes. "Anoher thing-?gainst the south for immigrants from" that portion of Eu? rope is that those people are kind of foolish about the English flag; when they cometo America they prefer Can? ada or those portions of the Unite J States near Canada." The work of the South Carolina im? migration bureau the coming year will be concentrated almost entirely in ef? forts to bring desirable farmers here from the hard climates of the north? west, where lands are high and scare. Applications :*or positions in the en? grossing department of the legislature are still coming in, which evidences that there is no abatement in the fever? ish appetite for public jobs. Although there are only sixteen positions to be filled, and most o? these will be given to those who held places in the de? partment last year there are already on file over 300 applications glowing with eloquent delineations of the qual? ifications of those . who would serve their country in the handwriting lin?, and over a thousond letters have been received recommending these various applicants. Although the fact that the board o? railroad commissioners will today se? lect a stenographer at $4.00 per, has been regarded as practically a secret, already half a dozen applicants from various pa.ts of the state have devel? oped a red hot campaign for the posi? tion, and the wire pulling that is goinpr on has that usually exercised in a leg? islative election stung to death when it come to strenuosity. An agreeable movement of the bowels without any unpleasant effect is product d by Chamberlain's Stomach and Uv er lab Forr?ale by all druggists. COURTS FOR. 1905. Itinerary of the Circuit Judges for the Current Year-Requires Three . Years Around. Columbia, January 3.-The grind of the circuit courts will be resumed in a few days. The judges go from circuit to circuit in regular progression in holding court, and the presiding court i officials at the spring terms will be as follows:" Judge Geo. W. Gage of the sixth circuit to preside in the first circuit. Judge D. A Townsend of the sev? enth circuit to preside in the second circuit Judge C. G. Dantzler of the first circuit to preside in the fourth cir? cuit Judge Alfred Aldrich of the second circuit to preside In he fifth circuit Judge R. O. Furdy of the third cir? cuit to preside in the. sixth circuit Judge R. C. Watts of the fourth cir? cuit to preside in the sevetnh circuit Judge Ernest Gary of the fifth cir? cuit to preside in th eeighth circuit. The second session of the circuit courts will see another change in the personnel of the presiding judges. The judge of the sixth circuit starts out in f the first circuit: the judge of the fifth circuit follows to the first circuit and the judge of the fourth circuit con? cludes the year in the first circuit In this way it requires nearly three years for a circuit judge to go around the entire state. The first courts of the year will be held as follows: First Circuit-Orangeburg, January ?j 9; Berkeley, January 24; Dorchester, February 6; Charleston, February 27. Second Circuit-Beaufort, January 2; Hampton, February^; Aiken, Feb- J mary 20; Barnwell, March 13; Col leton, March 27; Bamberg, April 10. Third Circuit-Clarendon, February 13; Lee, February 27; Florence, March 13; Georgetown, March 27; Williamsburg, April 10; Sumter, April 24. Fourth Circuit-Horry, February 20; Marion^ February 27; Darlington, March 6; Chesterfield, March 13; Marlboro, March 20. Fifth Circuit-Richland, February 6; Lexington, February 20; Edgefield, March 6; Saluda, March 27; Kershaw, April 10. Sixth Circuit-Fairfield, February 20; Cherokee, March 6; Lancaster, March 20; Chester* April 3; York, April 17. Seventh Circuit-Spartanburg, Jan? uary 2 and again February 20; Union," January 9; Laurens, January 23.; March 27. I Eighth Circuit-=-Greenville, January 23; Anderson, February 13; Abbeville, February 20; Oconee, March 13; Pick- 1 ens, March 20. . These dates are for the first crimi- j nal courts in each of the counties. In Spartanburg court is in session nearly j all the year. . In some of thc circuits ! I the judg'":s vvi:; sish the"criminal bus? iness in all of ?:he counties and wili'' : then start around the ; circuif-agsjn, : trying nothing but c;vU eases. MM Wi THE STATE. s 1 TOTAL NUMBER OF CASES BY SO? LICITORS REPORTED. Decrease in Number of Murders, Butijra an Increase in Percentage of ? Acquittals. The attorney general has received ! all of the reports from the solicitors [ and has compiled a table, showing the r totals as to the convictions and ac? quittals in this state during the year. The report shows a decrease in the number of murders, but also a de? crease in the number of convictions on the percentage basis and a larger per? centage of acquittals. The report also shows sa decrease in the number of dispensary cases and a larger percent? age of convictions. For the year 1904 there were pre? sented 1,891 cases, of which 609 were dismissed or there were no bills brought in by the grand Jury. Of the remainder 350 were found not guilty and 924 guilty. The year 1903 there was a smaller number of cases, the total number being 1,515. Of the murder, cases in 1904 there were 202 for murder and manslaugh? ter presented during the year and of these 26 no bills were returned, 99 were acquitted, 79 found guilty of either manslaughter or murder and the other two appealed to the supreme court The dispensary case presented in 1904 were 150, of which 46 no bills were returned, 27 not guilty and 77 guilty. For 1903 there were 222 murder, trials, of which 20 no bills were found, 100 acquitted and 102 convicted. For 1903 there were 169 dispensary eases, of which 55 were dismissed, 25 were acquitted and S9 convicted. The record of previous years as as to murder compiled by Attorney General Gunter last year was as follows: 1902. guilty 101, not guilty 103; 1901, guilty 77, not guilty, 87; 1900, ? guilty 70, not guilty 119; 1899, guilty. 96, not guilty 83. Tonic to the System For liver trouble and constipation there is nothing better then De Witt's. Little En: ly ? Risers, the famous little Pill. They do n.t weaken tl e stomach. Their aoiion upon tbe^f- ^ system is mild pleasant and 1 a- m?e-? Bob Moore of LaFayette,li;d^?ay-, No u?e talk? ing, DeWitt's Little E \r\y Risen? co their | work; all other pills I have used gripe and i maka me sick in the stomach aud never cured me. Be Witt's Little Early Risers proved to be the lon.: sought relief. They are simply perfect." Person-' travebnir tied: j Little Ea ly Risersjha_niii?t r<li*l>io eine-j i ?dy to carry with tle%. S..?U b? 0. \?J ? gavia.