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BEEF, WINE AND IRON.

This admirable preparation SO sue
cessfully used for many years has be-
come a necessity to that classs of pa
tents requiring e mild but efficient
tonic. combining the virtues of fresh
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salt of iron, which strengthens but
does not constipate. Its use in con-
valesence, wasting disease, dyspepsia,
alcoholism, loss Of appetite, nervous
debility and general prostration is
too well known to require further
comment, For sale at the Bazaar.
Price S1.00.
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Positions Guaranteed.

Money a be deposited in bank,
for tuition, until position is secured.
Send for 70 page catalogue Of
Draughon's Consolidated Practical
Business College, Nashville, Tenn.
No vacation. Enter anytime.
s1r(Mentlon this paper.)
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BuckIen's Arnica SaIve.

The best Salve in the world for
Cuts, Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt
Rheum, Fever Sores, letter, Chapped
Hands, Chilblains Corns, and all
Skin Eruptions, and positively cures
Piles, or no pay required. 1t is guar
anteed to give perfect satisfaction, or
money refunded. Price 25 cents per
box. For sale at the Bazaar
March 81.
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Il is Easier to Keep Well than
to Got We'll!

If we could only keep our Liver in
such a condition that we did not
know we had a Liver, we would
escape three-fourths Of humanity's
ills-such as Dyspepsia, Indigestion,
Constipation, Sick Headache, Malaria,
Loss of Appetite, etc. Liver-Aid
will do just that thing for US. 1t is
the latest and best formula for Tor
bid Liver and all of its evils.
A medicine glass graduated for
table, desert and teaspoon, fit as a
nice cap on each bottled. Price soc.
For sale at the Bazaar.
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arguments by the eleven, and wetook

arguments by the eleven, and we took
another vote:
For murder, IL. For acquittal, l.
And that was the way the vote
stood next morning after breakfast.
We grew desperate. Finally the
whole manner of Jethro changed, and
he exclaimed, excitedly:
"If each of you will take a solemn
oath before the God that made you
not 10 reveal what I tell you until I
am dead, I will give you the reason
why I do not agree to a verdict of
guilty."
After some consultation and glances
at the clock, which showed that the
hour for ~r6eonvening of court a at
hand, we, one at a time, took the
In low, half-whispered tones the
juror told his secret.
Fifteen minutes later we went into
the courtroom with a verdict of mot
guilty"
I remember distinctly the conster-
nation on the judges face, and the
look of disgust on that of the soil
citor's. The newspapers criticised
us severely, and went so far as to
write editorials on the prevalence of
crime on ACCOUNT of a failure by the
courts to adequately punish those
detected in the commission OF it.
Well, Emanuel Jethro is dead, and
I believe I am now absolved from
the OATH he made US take.
THAT German boy did not kill that
old man." he told us in his dry, husky
voice. ''On the night before the
murder a man met him and paid him
to leave the fay,nearly next morning
gave him a large roll of money which
Was enough to tempt him to give up
his situation, And the man who did
this watched the boy as he left next
morning, and slipped into the room
and killed the old gardener as he was
preparing to rise-killed him to pay
a debt that only his blood could wipe
out"
Sand gentlemen" he concluded,
Il am the murderer"
We looked upon the mans ashy
face as th krds fell from his lips,
and each knew the story was
He stoSa by the door waiting to be
the last to leave the jury room, and
as We passed him he whispered:
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Tie Virginia Populists.
A Ticket Placed in the Field-Cleve-
land and Carlisle Bitterly Assailed.

land and Carlisle Bitterly Assailed.
Lynchburg, Va, Aug. 3.-The
Popul;sts Of Virginia met here today.
Nearly five hundred delegates,
chiefly from the rrHal districts, were
in attendance, and queerly enough,
there was not a negro among them
all. Among the visiting statesmen
were jerry Simpson from Kansas and
Congressman Pence from Colorado.
Simpson spoke to a mass meeting
last night, and Pence today addressed
the convention. In the course of his
speech he bitterly assailed Nh. Cleye-
land and Secretary Carlisle, quoting
from a speech of the latter delivered
some years ago in strong denuncia-
ton of the financial policy to which
he seems to be now committed.
Fences speech created much enthu-
siasm.
The convention was permanently
organized by the election of Col.
Robert Beverly, of Fauquier, as
chairman with the usual complement
of subordinate officers. G. n. Pier
son, of Caroline county, who edits
the Virginia Sun at Richmond, was
made chairman of the committee on
resolutions.
The following nominations were
made unanimously: For Governor,
E. r. Cooke of Cumberland; Lieuten-
ant Governor, J. Brad Beverly, of
Fauquier; Attorney General, William
S. Gravely, Of Henry 4, the n,,rnose
Alaea the expenses of a vigor-
Gus campaign.
The platform adopted is reported
to have been written by Editor Pier
son, who is decidedly the ablest man
in the party. 1t was brought up
from Richmond in, printed slips.
It declares for free silver coinage
at the ratio of 16 to /; a national cur
rency issued by the general govern
ment and distributed directly to the
people on the security of their prop
erty; the imposition Of a risi2 income
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issued for the arrest of these Elders
as Migrants. The arrest was resisted
by some of their misguided friends,
but two were taken over in Lexing-
ton county where they proposed to
shake South Carolina dust from their
unhallowed feet aud go hence never
to return. They were put aboard
the train and left, but it was rumored
that the party having them in charge
gave them a parting buggy trace re-
hinder such as will cause them to
stand up to eat for some days. [ am
no advocate of mob law, but these
Elders are wolves in sleeps cloth
ing. leading the very ignorant along
with the lewd and vicious to accept
their doctrines which, when fully ex-
posed, are q stencil in the nostrils of
good people. Some of their friends
have taken out warrants at Orange
burg for the party arresting them
and next Tuesday is set for a hearing.
There may be no law to rid the State
of Mormans who hold to barbarous
doctrines at variance with Holy Writ
while they pretend to preach sound
doctrine, but they may rest assured
that our edict has gone forth that
Mormons must "get a hump on and
this attempt at persecution only ag-
gravates the matter. If fools,
knaves, lewd women and the out
casts of other churches wish to as
sist the Mormons then they had bet
ter purchase through tickets to Utah.
The Rev. Mr.. Abney has been cen
sured for his active part in arresting
these Elders. Mr.. Abney is a high
toned Christian gentleman, and if
the country had many more such
men Mormon ~outcasts would not stay
here a week.
Lexington county val repre-
b. Plunkett, form
o,1r 81 1atesburg, who does a thiiv
:og business as a merchant and hotel
mar. He is d~eservedly popular.
Mn, Jake Craft, son of Lexington's
worthy Nh. Tommy Craft, is at the
head of MIR. G.. A. Harley's mann,
moth store. MI. Irwin Furtick has
erected splendid buildings and
keeps a stock of goods large enough
-
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Maud: George says I'm one girl
in ten. How the dear boy must love
me-" Madge: Don't you know
what he means7 He proposed to
nine other girls and you're the only
one out of the ten that accepted him"
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1893-08-09
How Southern Bank Stand the
Storm.

A gentleman in this city has pre-
pared from a recently printed state
ment of the comptroller of the cur
rency the following interesting table,
showing the number Of national
banks in the Southern States and
the failures among them this year:
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will be ban

$N V&4&&
best interests of men. No long ar
guments would be necessary to con
vince the inhabitants of that day that
a large proportion of their country
men need assistance and that a small
Inconvenience to all would bring a
great relief to many.
His arguments of a column and a
half can be stated very briefly, thus:
Every enterprise supported by in
terest bonds is wrong and should be
condemned.
The free bridge enterprise is one
supported by interest bearing bonds;
therefore, the free bridge enterprise
should be condemned.
The fallacy of such al argument
is so apparent that I would startle
the reading public with an attempt
at r~efutation. Gladiator" is a great
reformer and full grown, stalwart
Allianceman loud in his proclamations
of good intentions to relieve the
down trodden farmers of his county
but when a good opportunity is
thrown across his pathway to prove
his faith by his work, and to assist
in giving relief to a great many OF
the hardy sons of toll and at q very
small outlay to any. one, his visionary
dreams of snakes and innocent little
adders causes him to make a conhic-
ton in his faith and practice, but
Gallo like, he cares for none of these
things. There is another "nigger IN
the fence" that drives him away. In
the haIlucination of his dream he is
.:led by the spirit" to prophecy evil
things concerning the nations execu-
tive and his ~servile minions in Con
eress, but he will not see nor open
his eyes to behold that interest bear,
ing bonds that pay all expenses and
a large divided to the holders, who IN
this case is the county, ''harbor" nc
deceptive serpentile spirits, the
phantom is a delusion and the crea
ture of his deranged imagination, al
ignis fatuus of his brain. He should
refute the premises of the argument
3 or admit the conclusion. He see:
unscriptural, criminal interest in the
bonds, but is deaf to the great de
mand to love thy neighbor as thysel
and even forgets to bear n another:
burdens and so fulfill the law Of Christ
Washin@rIrving says: that it ii
wonderful how providence has ar
ranged comets for the relief Of
.bewildered philosopher. That Whe1
he finds that he is about to plung'
into the abyss of nonsense and alb
surdity he a seize the comet by tn
beard, mount astride his tail, ant
away he gallops in triumph, like
Connecticut witch on her broom sticl
to sweep the cob webs from the sky
When Gladiator" tires of ever,
other adventure he turns to the sam
old story again and makes Presiden
Cleveland and the American Con
: gress the scape goat for the sins 0
the people and disclaiming the gif
OF prophecy or henage from a prophet
he foretells Of a time which, for tn
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asply to Gladiator. 81
To the Editor of the Dispatch:

In answer TO Gladiator" will say
the $4,000 was considered sufi-
GENTLY large to build the two bridges
and that belief was based on the es~
innate of two different bridge compa-
MES. I have already stated their esti-
mates on the Congaree bridge and the
bridge builders certainly know
what they are doing when they have
to give a heavy bond for the perform
ance of their contract and to warrant
it for several years, and that part of
"Gladiator's" objection he can lay
aside. Good new bridges can be
built within $4,000. But the limo
cent adder still confuses his mind
and he is looking all the time for an
other snake in the pile of "dsmnable
bends and if the bridges should be
freed 7 really believe he would never
cross them for fear of being "snake
bit"
One below the status of an intel
lectual solon can see that visionary is
too mild a term to express his idea
of issuing ''non interest bearing le-
gal tender bridge bonds by the Leg
islature after the dawn of the milen-
ium. "Gladiator's" idea of the mil
lenium is as visionary as his coneep-
ton of the advantages and benefits
of the free bridges. The sacred
historian tells US that will be a day
of peace and good will, Prejudice
and Ill viii will not be among the
emotions Of the soul; selfish motives
viii be driven in exile from the heart
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1893-08-09
Educating Sub Alliances.

The committee appointed by the
County Farmers Alliance at it's meet
Ing Friday, July Dist, to arrange a
schedule of places for holding meet
ings of Sub Unions for the purpose
of instructing or educating the peo-
pie upon the aims and demands of
the Farmers Alliance and Industrial
Union, make the following report as to
the time and place for said meetings.:
/. Cedar Grove, August I'd.
2. Chinquapin, (Little Black Creek
church, August Sd.
3. Boynton Alliance, August 18th.
4. CASTOR, August Sth.
5. Sandy Run, August 9th.
6. Joseph Shumperts, August 10th
7. Congaree Alliance, August 18th.
s.. Ford Alliance, August 18th.
9. Irmo, August 18th.
10. Spring Hill, August 18th.
IL. Pine Ridge, August oath.
The following named persons are
appointed a committee at the places
named, and it is expected that they
will make all necessary arrangements
for the holding of the meeting and
invite such speakers as in their judg-
ment may seem best for the good OF
the Order and the advancement of
its just demands. The committees
are as follows;
Cedar Grove-W. W. Koon, Joseph
Hite, Boston Price.
Chinquapin-G. NJ. Adams, Capt.
Griffith. R. B. Barre.
Boynton Alliance-Jeremiah Wise,
Ed King, -.-. Smith.
Gaston-G. A. Glenn, Robert lin
ker, G. A. Goodwin.
Sandy Run--Henry Assmann, H.
J. Seibles, n. B. Wannamaker.
Shumperts-Joe Shumpert, Noah
Shumpert, Noah Lucas.
Congaree-James Roof, J. A. Cor
ley, George Wilson.
Ford-E. L.. Vineyard, gorge
Sawyer, Jacob Wingard~
Irmo-N. S. Tonnginer, ). W.
Dreher, Robert Hook.
Spring Hil-Dr. J. W. Eargle'
Jacob Haltiwanger, George Defines.
Pine Ridge-D. I. Epting' ). D.
E,rr O. 4 DERRICK. ~
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DR.. Thacker's improved Liver Pills
act easily without causing pain. In
glass bottles. Price rs cents. For
sale at the Bazaar.
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ADVERTISING RATES:

Advertisements will be inserted at the rate
of - cents per SCARE Of one inch space for
first insertion. and 20 cents per square for
each subsequent Insertion.
Liberal contracts made with those wishing
to advertise for three, six or twelve months.
Notices in the local column 10 cents per
line each insertion.
Marriage notices inserted free.
Obituaries over ten Lire charged for at
advertising rates.
Address.
G.. II HARMAN. Editor
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Liz hCAO ""
of witnesses began. The Evidence
was shert and it was conclusive.
Karl Beiderman, a German youth
employed on q truck garden near the
city, was charged with numbering
his employer by splitting open his
head with an ak. He and the gar
dener had lived alone. One morning
the boy came into the city, and, while
drinking freely, had shown a large
sum of money. A day later the gar
dener was found lying dead upon the
floor of a room in his house, with the
bloody ak which had done the work
living near him. The German youth
was arrested with some of the money
still in his possession. 1t was shown
that Beiderman had been seen leaving
the house hurriedly, very early on
the morning Of the killing, and that
he made several contradictory state
ments about how he came into the
possession of the money. There was
proof that the boy and the gardener
had been heard quarrelling about an
increase in wages, which the boy had
asked for and did not get.
To ofsetthis strong array of circum-
stantial evidence there was nothing
but the prisoners statement, very
badly told by an interpreter. He
denied knowing anything Of the kill
ing and said the money he had was
given him by a man the night be-
fore as a bride to leave his employer,
that he knew nothing of the killing
| or who did it.
The judges charge was principally
upon the weight of circumstantial
evidence.
The jury was told to retire.
When we reached the jury room
there seemed but two things to do
elect a foreman and bring in YER
dict Of guilty.
The first we did with little trouble
Then we took a ballot, merely as {
matter of form. I counted the vote
and it stood:
For guilty-l1.
For acquittal-1.
"Who is the twelfth gentleman
that does not know murder when h'
e e it," n of the jurors asked
little sarcastically.
Il am" came the reply, calml.
spoken by Juror No. 7-Emanue
Jethro.
Then We began to argue the cas-
with him. He looked out the window
most of the time, and made no repl
to any of our telling arguments
Finally he was asked if he had an.
reason to advance for voting as h
did.
None at ALL" he replied quietly,
except that I don't wish to see an IL
nocent man hanged"
The was a rap on the jury 1oor
door and the bailiff said the iudg
wanted to know if we were likely
reach a verdict soon. We couldn
say.
There were some more conyincin
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1893-08-09

will attend these meetings for the
purpose of instructing the sub ALI
ances and aiding them in whatever
way may lies in his power.
Let the brethren see to it that the
meetings are well attended.
P. W. SHEALY,
JOHN FULMER,
P. II. CAUGHMAN.
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All of DR.. Ayers standard Medi-
ciues can be found at the Bazaar.
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juror No. 7.
By Gordon Noel Hurtel.

By Gordon Noel Hurtel.
So he is dead!
looked again at the newspaper
which I held IN my hand, and read:
Died near Mobile, Ala, March Is,
1898, Emanuel Jethro, aged fifty
seven years.
He is dead after all these years,
and at last I am free to reveal a ter
rible secret of a jury room, which has
been q burden to myself and ten
other men unless they like Jethro,
have passed over the river.
In August, 1875, there was a muir
der trial in Mobile, Ala, which per-
haps the older citizens of that city
still remember.
The murder itself did not at the
time of its commission attract much
public attention, but the trial did.
was the third juror chosen. Of
Jurors No. l and 2. I remember but
little, except that they were both
elderly men and we'll TODD citizens of
the county.
Jurors No. 4, 5, and 6, were mer-
chants of the city, at least, two were
merchants and one a clerk.
After juror Nc. 6 was told to pass
into the jury box the court clerk
called the name Of
Emanuel Jethlo."
I believe everyone in the courtroom
was struck with the mans appearance.
He walked briskly, and ina peculiarly
nervous manner which could not fail
to attract attention. He answered
the solicitors questions eagerly, in
fact, one time his answer came before
the question was concluded.
The solicitor said, prisoner, look
on the juror, juror, look on the pris-
oner;" and he probably expected the
defense to strike, but the defense did
not.
Juror No. 7 was told to take his
seat in the box. His residence was
given in the jury list az Bayou La
Batre beat, and he evidently came
from a very secluded place on the
coast.
The rest Of BAT day was tsSh
-MX1W&XHA-
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He stood by the door waiting to be
the last to leave the jury room, and
as We passed him he whispered:
"Until I am dead-remember your
OATH"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-05-17
THE CITY OF MELBOURNE BANK FAILS.

UNSETTLED FEELING on TIE LONDON STOCK
ExcHANGE-FAILURE OF r. HODGsoN SONS.
LIndon May 1G.-The failure announced this
morning OF the City OF Melbourne Bank, Limited.
The London manager Of the concern Is Edmund
Rouse and It's Offices are at No III BishopSg;itest
within, r. {.
An unsettled feeling evident on the stock EX-
change at noon. and prices were lower, notably for
american securities. There was much excitement,
There was less excitement at the hour for the Oili-
cial close OF the Exchange, although there was no
abatement OF the anxiety regarding the outcome OF
the Australian crisis and the currency troubles In
america A further rise OF the bank rate Thurs
dav 10 being accepted certainty, hardened prices
in The discount market. street business was dull.
and The decline In price, was maintained at the
unofficial close. The days fall In Colonial Govern
ment bonds ranged from 10 l-2. the latter being
the fall in the bonds OF Queensland. where the more
recent bank failures have occurred. The shares OF
Australian banks showed average fall OF from IL
10 There were numerous dealings In railroads, the
h,rtno md selling being about equally balanced.
.,boucq, cable di ipa;ches showed that Wall Street
w.s unsettled New. York orders finally took stock
IN IN. Enr,sh market thus making values nrmer
inst nj the unofficial close OF business, which left
A,c,,xon Topeka and santa Fe incomes aud Illinois
Central only IL lower for the day. while Chicago
milwaukee, and st. Paul common ana Norfolk and
Western ordinary. NOriolk ana We,ei" Preiereo' anu
i,non rad0c were q fraction better;
r.. Hodgson a Sons. brokers' well known Tor thirty
vcars In their line OF business. have Jailed.
Sylnsy. N. 6. W, May TO- More deposits than
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-05-17
DYNAMITE BONES FOUND IN PARIS.
THE MOST POWERFUL YET DIScOvERED-TIIREf
ANARCHISTS ARRESTED.

THE MOST POWERFUL YET DISCOVERED-TIlREE
ANARCHISTS ARRESTED.
Paris, May 16.-The police to-day fond several
bombs. many pounds OF dynamite and a chest Of
burglars tools buried in lot surrounding shed In
the suburb OF Levallois. The bombs pow
erful than any before In Paris Each consisted
Of old can formerly used for preserving peas and
and packing around the lube Of giant powder and
small pieces Of iron. Any one OF the bombs was
powerful enough 10 blow up house or TO wound
OF persons If it exploded in the streets.
The police do not feel certain whether not the
bombs and dynamite were buried 10y Anarchists or
by the burglars who the chest OF tools. They
have arrested Bondon, owner OF the property which
the tools and explosives were found; Ninchow, a
mechanic living near the she'd and Spannagcl Mar
chand and Leveille three Anarchists
The discovery Of the explosives was due TO the
ndscIe,iOn Of Spannesc, who was twice seen eX
amining with peculiar the passages in the Pre-
lecture of Police. spannccel followed to Courbe
vote. There the police learned that he closely
associated with men living in Levallois In the
until they learned enough 10 induce them to
make the search which resulted In the discovery
OF the explosives.
Marchand Is a notorious Anarchist. At St. Oucn
he fired The police during the May Day celebration
OF lo9l.
NJ. Girard. Chief of the Municipal Laboratory, has
examined the contents Of the glass tubes In the
lin cans. He says that the liquid Is mixture com
pounded according II recipe given In the Anarchist
text book entitled The Perfect Anarchist