The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-05-30
BEN TILLNAN'S BARROOMS.
Only a Few Counties to Be Supplied
at the Start.

The State Officials Confident, How
ever, That All the Counties viii Fall
in Line Before Long, Except Those
Under Local Prohibition Laws Beer
to Be Labeled by Numbers Instead
of Under Firm Names.
Columbia, S. c.. MAY % The official
barroom of the state of South Carolina
will be opened for business ON JulyI. On
and after that day it will be penal Of
tense for liquor to be sold anywhere in the
state except at the dispensary, which Will
bedistinctively a state industry under the
supervision of Gov. Tillman and several
other state officers.
Under the operation of the law it is
discretionary with the freeholders of
twenty-nine of the counties in the state
whether they will adopt the dispensary
system, which will provide for the estab-
lishment of a county dispensary to be
operated by dispenser, who will have to
secure majority of the freeholders of
his county as signers to his petition for
appointment In six counties there will
be no dispensaries, as the dispensary law
is not intended to conflict with any exist
ang prohibition laws.
ONLY A FEW AT THE START.
From present indications it is not prob
able that over a half dozen counties will
on July have dispensaries, as applicants
for the position of dispenser are expert
encing considerable trouble in securing
Pthe Endorsement of a majority of the
qualified voters Most of the larger
icounties-for instance, Charleston and
DISQUALIFICATION a disposition to avoid
the scheme, and the authorities in charge
of the system do not expect very many
counties to have dispensaries before
August, if then. They believe, however,
that the dispensaries will be scattered all
over the state in time on the ground that
the freeholders will prefer to receive
some revenue from the dispensary rather
than encourage blind tigers or pay the
expenses of the resulting drunkenness.
In Abbeville, Orangeburg, Barnwell
and few other counties the freehold vO-
tiers have already signiied their desire TO
give the new-fangled idea trial.
ONLY ONE TO A COUNTY.
In the rules recently announced by the
state board of control-consisting of the
governor, controller general and attorney
general. who have absolute management
of the system-it was stated that until
some of the practical results of the sys-
TEN could be ascertained only one dis
pensary would be given each county, no
matter what its size might be. This will
be done for the purpose of economy and
so as not to have the dispenSaries too
close.
The state dispensary, which is located
at Columbia, in the large building for
merly known as Agricultural hall, is to
be the general distributing point, and all
liquors which, after July /, are legiti-
mately consumed in South Carolina will
have to be sent out in special TASKS under
the seal of the dispensary The TASKS
have blown into them the seal of the state
and the words, "SOuth Carolina dispen-
sary."
A BIG DEMAND EXPECTED.
Every effort is now being made to have
things in readiness for the demand that
is anticipated from the counties. Within
the last day or two six carloads of Gin
cinnati whisky have been received and
shipment of l050 barrels is expected to
arrive shortly. The intention of the
authorities is to introduce a new feature
in the beer business. Six or eight brands
are to be used and will be known, not by
their commercial terms, but by numbers
This, it is stated, is for the purpose of
dismissing from the minds of the con-
sumers any imaginary superiority of one
brand over another. Beers will
be sold on their merits
at the uniform price of 10 cents a bottle.
Whisky viii be about So per gallon and
person may purchase from pint to five
gallons
1t will probably be some time after the
dispensary is in operation that the coun-
ties will be supplied with a full line of
gin, rum, wine and other less popular
drinks as the state chemist, who has to
subject all samples to a chemical analysis,
is somewhat behind in his work, having
given most of his time tn the ANALYSIS of
whistles and beers.