Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-08-26


all we sold the State. told him
the Mill Creek Distilling company
furnished the capital to make the
dispensary a success and that in
stitution owed US more than $92.-
600 at one time, apd the books in
the Office of the dispensary would
prove it, and l thought the man.
agement of the dispensary would
be cold-blooded and ungrateful if
they did not give us portion OF
their business without our having
to "put up" for it.
We did not get the business.
Now, 1 leave the readers If your
paper to Judge for themselves.
GEO. HUBBELL.
Secretary Mill Creek Distilling Co.
Cincinnati, Aug. Is, 1896.
Mr.. MIxsoE DENIES.
Yesterday Col. T. NJ. Mixsoh,
State Liquar Commissioner, gave
out the following interview in re-
orvto the letter of Mr.. Geo. Hub
bell, Published iu yesterdays Reg
ister: ~ -,
Mr.. HubbeIl says n feferonce
to me: Every word he says about
my offering him rebate directly
or indirectly, of any amount, or in
any shape. or at any time, is abso-
lutely false from beginning 10
end" Yet he does not deny the
interview in the sample room nor
my statement of what occurred.
Should he do so, and when he
does, then he is the liar that 1
have already branded him iu such
event. 1 now go further and say
when the offer of the 10 per cent.
discount was made in the privacy
of the sample room, (he having
previously SO peremptorily refus-
ed to give me the 5 per cent. off)
1 looked upon it with suspicion
and hence the question, "Will you
let it appear regularly IN the in
voices?" Upon his declining to do
so and throwing himself behind
"the trust,' I was fully satisfied
what his meaning was and conse-
quently declined to deal with him
and have never done 30.
In the matter of interest my let
ter should have read interest be-
ing paid after go days, in place of
so as stated. I now say that his
invoices for all goods bear upon
their face Interest after 60 days
at 6 per cent. per annum," except
on the xxx rye, which he bills at
1926 per gallon, -four months.
You must understand that the
quantity of Xxx rye is very small
indeed in comparison with the
quantity of the other which was
billed on the 50 days time.
After assuming the duties of
Commissioner a draft came in
from Mr.. Hubbell's company,
claiming q balance of interest due
them. AS Mr.. Traxler had not re-
turned any amount due them as
such 1 refused to pay for some
time and did not do 80 until / had
Mr.. Hubbell to come out and had
Mr.. Traxler to go over the account
with my book-keeper, Mrs.. w.
Scrugs, who was soon convinced
that there was an accumulated in
terest from partial payments of
accounts due them amount g to
81, ,255.34, for which amount l is-
sued a warrant on the State Treas
urer, Mr.. Traxler agreeing to the
same in writing, which Inow have
in my Office. Even if Mr.. Hubbell
did not intend my putting the re-
turn "cash" from the 10 per cent
in my own pocket, as is 80
religiously claimed, he certainly
offered to act, must I say, in bad
faith in trying to beat and deceive
the trust of which he is an honor
I'd member and, l am informed, an
officer, and in doing SO he laid
himself open to be adjudged capa-
Die of making any kind of prop
As to the part of his let
er which states San agent of his
.alled OH me with letter of IN
reduction" and as the only party
o whom l g.7e letter of intro
luction was Mr.. Robert M. Mix
on, under the following circum.
tances: About the time l assum-
d the duties of the Office, Mr..
Robert M. Mixson, a nephew or
nine, who is and has been for the
ast ten or twelve years the solic-
ting freight agent of the South
rn department of the Louisville
nd Nash Vile Railroad with head j