The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1895-08-07

"The new price current for the dis
pensary," as announced from Columbia,
''went into effect on Thursday. The prices
on all of the commoner grades of liquor
have been reduced fully 25 per cent, and
no doubt this will increase the demand
somewhat" This reduction is Of course
plain confession of error in the cond uct
of the business Of the dispensary during
the past two years, or ever since Its Or
ganization. The only wonder is that the
authorities did not discover and rectify
their mistake sooner. They should have
understood, what was so we'll understood
by all business men and by nearly every
body else, that in putting so high prices
on their goods they were simply putting
premium on illegal competition. AS it
ia, they have corrected only half OF their
mistake by reducing the price of the
c,mmoner grades of their goods. They
should now reduce the price of all the
grades to the lowest point consistent with
the purpose of making the dispensary
system self sustaining. If the idea is
simply to regulate" the conduct Of the
liquor business and not to make profit
out of it, the first and essential point IL
to control it. And it can never be con,
trolled as long as good liquors can be sold
dispensaries.-NeWs and Courier.
"A human being skinned alive and
living to tell the story is one of the Curl
osities of Oconee county, in this State.
The fearful work was wrought by stroke
of lightning and the victim was negro
woman living on Mr.. John B. Hattaway's
plantation near High Shoals. The negro
woman was in bed in cabin on the place.
Lightning struck the cabin and the vivid,
brilliant, deathdealing current hit the
negro woman on the head, scattered in
an electric shower that enveloped the vic
TINS body for moment in q dazzling
sheet of fl .me, leaving her stunned, skim
less and insensible, but the life pump
WAS still working away in her bosom
Of her body. When found she was hor-
rible sight to look upon, with not particle
OF skin on her body and dangling around
her ankles was mass of scorc6ed and
crisp strips of skin, the ghastly remains
ofthe once black, oily covering that nature
gave to the descendants of Ham. With
the aid Of physicians the woman regained
consciousness and 1t is thought will re-
cover. She is now perfectly white and If
she lives will be exhibited at the Atlanta
exposition this fall-At tlanta Constitution.
-Itis lawful in Atlanta for man to
kiss his wife in the street or anywhere
else. The Courts have so decided IN the
case of Ezekiel Martin, United States
soldier at Fort Mcpherson. 1t appeared
at the trial that he and his wife, who had
not seen one another for some tune, met
in one of the principal streets of Atlanta.
Martin was so delighted that he kissed
her then and there, and not only that,
but he hugged her, and it took great
many repetitions of these atfsctionate de-
monstrations to express his feelings. a
large number of people witnessed the
performance and were highly delighted
with it, but policeman was scandalized
and proceeded to apprehend Martin for
disorderly conduct. The Court did not
sustain his view of the case, but held that
it was entirely in order for a man to hug
and kiss his wife wherever he pleased.
Thereupon the happy couple kissed in
Court a. went about their business hand
in hand.
- The women OF the Methodist Epi ico-
pal Church, South, support thirty five
mission are in China, Mexico and Brazil.
The society through which they work has
1884 auxiliaries, with 1880 members,
and 2,312 young peoples and juvenile
societies, with 26,545 members; total
OF " ,595 membe
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