The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1895-08-21
The States Rum Revenue.

COLUMBIA, August 16.-The State dis
pensary paid to the State Treasurer to-
day, to the credit of the State. the $50, 900
which was advanced by the State for the
first purchases of the dispensary. The
promise has long been mado that the
money would.be placed in the treasury
|. for the general use Of the State, but to-
day Commissioner Mixson, in person,
carried the warrant for the $4,000 and
received q receipt for the money. The
money, it Is said, will be used, or at least
so much Of it as may be necessary, for
the expenses OF the Constitutional Con-
vention.
Commissioner Mixson is very much
delighted that the dispensary is able to
see financial daylight. He says that 1t
has been hard work for himself, Chief
Clerk Scruggs and the entire force to get
things in the shape that they now are.
He went on to say thRt there was in the
State treasury, prior to the payment of
the $4,000, the sum Of $94, 900. On the
1st of the month there was in the treasury,
he said, S11, 900 over and above the stock
on hand which has been paid for. Since
that time he has received payments from
the dispensers, which has run the bal
ance up to about S23,000. Some little
stock has been bought in the interim.
Mr., Mixson says that while there ia no
way of positively telling what business
will be done he thinks there will be a
net profit which can be turned over to
the State for the next quarter Of about
S35, 900 to $4,000. He, however, puts
full confidence in the estimate that the
State will receive $4,000 for the next
quarters business. While it cannot be
stated from the records what the net
earnings were for the last quarter until
the figures are given out by the Legisla-
tive committee, it is in the neighborhood
of $35, 900.
The business Of the dispensary, with
the cheap prices, continues to be very
good. All dispensaries have been ordered
to bs kept closed next Tuesday, on ac-
count of the election of delegates to the
Constitutional Convention.
Charleston is again threatened with a
metropolitan police. This time Cover
nor Evans announced that there is no
bluff or foolishness about the matter.
He was asked for publication whether
there was any ything in the intimation tina.
Charleston would have metropolitan
police. He said: 81 think we will have
q metropolitan police in Charleston in
sixty days If things get no BETTER"
Then he went on to say: "No, this is no
bluff, for and everyone else is sick and
tired of the way things are going on in
Charleston. All the blind tigers are to
be put under Injunction and we will see
what can be DONE" In the course of
conversation he said that he believed that
Chief Martin was in earnest in his efforts
to enforce the law. but the policemen had
been led to believe that the State could
and would do nothing about the matter.
He said that he would have the matter
inquired into, and if there was no i'm
provement there would be nothing left
to do but to give Charleston metropoli-
tan police. What he said, he urged, was
not by way of threat or bluff.
The introduction Of metropolitan po-
lice would do away with the necessity
for constables in Charleston, as some Of
the members of the force could be used
as detectives. Chief of Police Martin and
w. Gibbes Whaley, of the board of con-
troll, saw Governor Evans to-day, but the
latter insists that their visit was in regard
to another matter.-Special to Ne,cS and
Gon1je7.