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his last communication made some allusion
to the failure of a jury TO convict whiskey
seller, at our last term of court on positive
testimony. We at the time with many 9th.
ers were nonplussed at the verdict and
thought 1t useless to bring any more cases OF
the kind before similar Jury. The evidence
was positive, the selling not denied in fact
the defendant put up II o defence. Mr.. Editor
there are only two witnesses and we hope
you will publish the evidence, we will never
be able to stop the Illicit traffic in whiskey
until juries learn TO do their duty.
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N 'KINLBY IS THE NAN
Nominated For President on
the First Ballot.
G. A. HOBART is HIS RUNNINGMATE

Only Ono Ballot Necessary to a Choice In
Each Case-Senator Teller, With Several
Other Silveritss. Bolted the Convention
When tho Gold Plank Was Adopted.
Proceedings OF tho Convention.
ST. LOUIS, June 1G.--The Republican
national convention was called to order
ut 1920 by Chairman Carter of Mon
tana, who presented to the convention
Charles w. Fairbanks of Indiana as its
temporary presiding officer.
After Mr.. Fairbanks had made
speech in which he declared that tie Ro.
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TO Visit the Different
POLLING PRECINCTS.

To further the registration OF the qualified
electors of Abbevile County, in accordance
with law, the Board Of Registration will al
tend the precincts on the following dates In
the month OF June:
Donalds, Sth. Monday.
Hodges, 9th Tuesday.
Greenwood, 10Th, Wednesday.
Greenwood. l1th. Thursday.
Ninety-SiX, 18th. Friday.
Verdery, 18th, Saturday.
Bradley, 18th, Monday.
Troy, 10th, Tuesday.
Mccormick, 18th. Wednesday.
Mt. Carmel, 18th. Thursday.
Magnolia, 18th. Friday.
LowndesvIlls, 10th, Saturday.
Antreville, end, Monday.
Due West, 23rd, Tuesday.
Douglass Mill, 9th, Wednesday.
Abbeville, 2jth, Thursday
CIatworthys y Roads. 9Gth, Friday.
J. D. CARWILE,
y. S. BOLES,
}. r. ELLIS,
Rnard of Supervisors of Registration.
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LAST DAYS WORK.
Mckinley Nominated For President and
Hobart For Vice President.

h0hlul0y NO1nlnateu coE ouu
Hobart For Vice President.
ST. LOUIS, June 1S.-McKinley was
nominated for president on the first bal
lot; Garrett A. Hobart of New Jersey
was nominated for vice president, also
on the first ballot, and Mark A. Hanna
was made national cE lirman.
The result of the ballot for president
was: Mckinley, GGl1s; Reed, S4h;
Quay, el1a; Morton. IS; Allison, S5R;
Cameron, l.
The result Of the ballot for vice presi-
dent was: Hobart, 53S1a; Evans, z77H;
Bulkeley. 80 Walker, "a; Lippitt, s; De-
pew, 8; Reed, 8; Thurston, 2; Grant. 2;
Morton, l.
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THE PLATFORM.

1t Declares For Gold Standard, Protec-
tive Tariff Free Ballot, Etc.
Preamble - The Republicans of the
United States, assembled by their repre-
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Nominated by the Republicans for
President Of the United States.
publican party should adopt a platform
declaring for gold standard, the con-
vention adjourned until 10 o'clock We'd
nesday morning.
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Rarrain sale for cash. COlored satteen goods
worth l9iI and Ii cts. now going at G!4c ut
Haddon's.
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To Cure a Cold in One Day.
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets.s We
refund the money II 1t fails to cure. 25c. AT
Speeds.
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nate over all legislation, and the inter-
ests OF the people will be secondary
consideration. Through the organfza-
tion of clubs it is expected to harmon
ize the different factions of the party
before the election is held, but this re-
suit will not be accomplished. Should
there be Republican majority in the
next legislature, there will be Dolph
men and Mitchell men. This will
mean bitter senatorial fight that will
last through the session, needed legis.
lation for the relief OF the taxpayers
will be neglected, and the session of
1897 will simply be repetition OF that
of 1895.
Such a calamity can be averted only
by wrestling the control Of the legis.
lature from the hands Of that party.
But with the Democratic party dis.
organized, this cannot be expected.
Hence 1t 10 that Democratic clubs
should be organized throughout the
state. The party should be brought to.
gether on the lines Of retrenchment,
with an unmistakable demand for the
cutting down Of public expenses, aud
an assurance that this will follow In
case Of Democratic supremacy in the
legislature. Let the Democrats organ.
ize clubs throughout the state, and
thereby consolidate the party Of the
people, the party that will relieve the
taxpayers OF their present burdens.
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MAY AND DECEMBER.
A Schoolgirl of 10 Marries Man "a
Years Old.

A Schoolgirl of 10 Marrles Man "a
Years Old.
CHICAGO, Jan. PA dispatch from
Pomona, Cal, says: The children and
grandchildren of james Rogers have
been amazed by the information that
he married, on Sunday last, Miss Ida
Nelson, at the home of the bi ide's
parents, near Prescott, Arizona. The
groom is II years old, and the bride
will be Is next May.
Mr.. Rogers has been twice married,
his second wife dying three years ago.
He has six children, many grandchil-
dren, and several great grandchildren.
He is we'll preserved, genial and level
headed, and has fortune of 500, 900,
invested in farm lands and bank
stocks in Iowa, and about 100000 in
property in Los Angeles. He has been
an active business man and as menu
ber of the Iowa legislature for several
years He came to visit his children
in Los Angeles last summer.
The first sign that the marriage was
SOON to take place was last week,
when all of Rogers Los Angles pro-
perty was transferred to Ida Nelson.
Mrs Rogers left school only a few
weeks ago. She is pretty girl, of
brunette type.
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1 SIXTEEN.TOONE SENATOR.

Arthur Brown, one OF the newly
elected senator's from the new state OF
Utah, says one OF his greatest aims in
the senate will be to hoist the cause of
silver at the needed ratio of sixteen-to-
one. The sixteen-to.one idea has not
been confined to silver alone by ma
jority Of the citizens of Utah for num-
Der of years. A good many Of the male
population OF that blooming COM
monwealth have clamored for years
for the privilege OF one man having
sixteen wives, or more If he could get
them, and this idea seems still to linger
In Mr.. Browns mind so distinctly that
he wants to apply it to all questions.
Whether it is sixtsen wives or sixteen
grains Of silver It is all the same to
Brown. He received all but sixteen Of
the votes in the house of representa-
tives, possibly may have had sixteen
wivss in the days Of Mormon suprem.
macy, and now wants free coinage At
tho ratio Of sixteen.to-one. He ap-
pears to be IN all-round Sixteen"
senator. It will be we'll for the rest OF
the senate to keep an eye on Brown.
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Cleveland to Crespo.

CHICAGO, Jan. ga Washington
special says:
President Crespo, of Venezuela, has
been advised by President Cleveland
to make an effort to re-establish diplo-
matte relations with Great Britain,
and the president of the Venezuela re-
public now has the subject under con-
sideration.
The suggestion was made by Secre-
tary Oluey to venezuela's minister
here, Senor Andrade, and by him
communicated to his government by
cable. There is a strong belief that
diplomatic relations between Great
Britain and Venezuela will be re-estab-
lished, and the exchange of ministers
will be agreed to upon a basis which
includes also an agreement to submit
the boundary question to arbitration.
The first intimation that such q
course would be satisfactory to the
British government was given by Sir
Julian Pauncefote, of the British en-
bassy, to Secretary Olney, who con.
suited with the president, who prompt.
ly acted upon 1t. Diplomatic relations
between Great Britain and Venezuela
have been suspended since 1887.
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TELEGRAPHIC.
MANUFACTURERS, MEETING.
Some of the objects 1T Will Work For.

Some of the objects it Will Work For.
at its Meeting.
CHICAGO, Jan. .2l.-Ex-United States
Senator Warner Miller arrived in this
city last night to attend the meeting
of the National Association OF Manu-
facturers Of the United States, OF
which organization he Is president. In
an interview, he said:
"The object Of the association is to
get the manufacturers of the country
in touch with each other and the in
dustrial life of the nation, and to create
public sentiment to induce congress
to establish the policy of recipro :ity
and to foster fast mail and communi-
cation with the South American points
whose trade ought to be ours. We
must have mail and rapid communica-
tion with these countries or we can
never have their business.
"The Manufacturers Association is
also interested in great international
waterways and communications, and
In the building Of the. Nicaragua canal,
which is necessity for modern com.
mercial intercourse between the At
lantic and Pacific coasts, a we'll as be-
tween China, Japan, South America
and the Sandwich islands. 1t is also
a necessity for our national defense.
When the canal Is built 1t will practt-
cally obviate the necessity for double
navy to guard our Atlantic and Pacific
coasts, for it will not only connect
both, but decrease the space between
them 10000 miles.
"The association will take the
ground that the Nicaragua canal
should be owned and operated by the
United States. AS to the completion
Of that enterprise there can be no
doubt. know that the canal will be
built, and If the United States does
not build it, Europe will, and
there will be another prominent
cause of war when national troubles
and jealousies arise. The present
Venezuela trouble emphasized the me-
cessity for this canal. Money for its
construction could have been secured
long ago from Europe if our national
legislature had not been talking and
passing resolutions about its owner
ship. If congress does not do any.
thing this session we will feel per-
fectly free to look elsewhere for the
means to complete the link between
the oceans. II the report OF the COM
mission sent to examine 1t is such as
has been given out in the papers, we
are prepared to prove its falsity. We
can prove by the best engineers in
this country and abroad that our work
il feasibleo
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SILVER Men in Conference.

WASHINGTON. Jan. 21.-A meeting
of prominent silver men from all parts
OF the country will be held here begin.
ming tomorrow. A preliminary con-
ference of the members of the execu-
tive committee Of the American bime-
tallic' league was held today at the
White House. Steps we're taken look-
ing to consolidation Of silver organi-
zation into one body, with hesdquar-
ters at Washington, Chicago, San
Francisco and some point South.
One purpose of tomorrow's meeting
will be to fix upon the time and place
of holding national silver conference,
when the national silver ticket will be
nominated. This action, however, de-
pends upon the failure of both old par
ties to recognize silver by nominating
candidates unequivocally pledged to
its rehabilitation. on basis of sixteen
to one. 1t is not necessary that adher-
ents Of the proposed new party should
already have severed all connections
with the old parties, but it is essential
that they be willing to do so should
the old parties fail to nominate candi-
dates pledged to the silver cause.
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the world. You will remember that
few months since, when combination
of steel aud iron manufacturers carried
their productions TO greatly increased
rates, our producers of tin declared
they were crowded to the wall by the
rise in iron and steel, and expressed
fear of being thus compelled to close
their works. They were saved by the
operation of the Wilson bill. That
had reduced the tax on steel, iron and
coal, and when the greed of the manu-.
facturer had carried prices of these
above the limit that bill intended to
fix, they fouod foreign manufacturers
underselling them in our markets
and forcing down their demands to q
rate that enabled the makers of tin to
continue their business. If the tax
was wholly taken off of coal, iron and
steel, and it ought to be, it is believed
that they could be produced in the
United States with sufficient profit and
that other industries Of which they fur
nish raw material, including shipbuild-
ing, would flourish as never before, and
the great army of consumers profit
from the reduction in prices that would
follow.
"Hides furnish another object lesson.
When they were taken from the taxed
and placed upon the free list, tanner
les sprung up as if by magic, all over
the country, and the manufacture OF
leather and leather goods increased
enormously, and the priceof them de-
creased. Speedily the production
doubled, trebled, and quadrupled, and
for years no man dared to raise his
voice for a restoration of hides to the
taxed list, until the birth OF the Nc
Kinley bill, in which the Armours and
Swifts had ingrafted a tax upon hides.
Upon its introduction, Mr.. Blaine de-
nounced it in the severest terms, and
it was stricken out with scarcely a nay.
If the reader will consider and COM
pare the prices of general articles OF
consumption, Of living, during the
high taxation of the Mckinley bill
with the present prices of like articles
he will have before him an object les.
son not difficult to understand.
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A LARGE CLAIM.
Government Will be Asked to Pay $780,
100000 TO Durkee's Heirs.

100000 TO Durkee's Heirs.
CHICAGO, Jan. PA special from
Champaign, ILL.,, says:
A conference was held here between
L. c. Blaisdell and twenty other citi-
zens of Champaign, on the one side
and A. J. Kuykendall, of Springfeld;
Captain j. I. Abel, and John T. Fergu-
son, of Decatur, on the other, on meas
ures for pressing huge claim against
the government. The gentlemen
named, after comforting with citizens
of Indianapolis, will proceed to WASH
ington. The claim referred to is based
on the alleged assignment, thirty years
or more ago. to Charles Durkee, then
governor of Utah, of over $4,000, 900
worth of Union Pacific bonds. L. C..
Blaisdell is the trustee of the heirs of
Durkee, and has spent much time and
money in the investigation of their
claims. Z He says the late Seer etary
Folger, admitted the existence OF the
assignment upon these bonds and Bla-
isdell says he has the best of legal ad-
vices that the principal and interest,
now amounting to nearly 100000, 900,
Is recoverable for the benefit of Dur.
kea's heirs,
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WASTED SENTIMENT.

Governor Lord is being deluged with
letters from overly sympathetic women.
both in this state and California, beg
ging him to interfere and save the life
of Lloyd Montgomery, under sentence
of death for killing both his parents
and q neighbor. Such sentiment IL
not only wasted, but whom ELECTED In
behalf Of such brute as Montgomery
1t is disgusting. He committed one Of
the most unnatural crimes on record.
Either in fit Of anger, or for the pur-
pose of robbery, he slew his father and
mother and McKercher, who unfortu-
nately was visiting at the Montgomery
home. He exhibited no sympathy for
his victims. He forfeited all rights to
life and liberty. No penalty but death
would be sufficient punishment for his
crime. But in the eyes of some senti.
mental women he Is hero-a martyr
and they would cheat the gallows by
their interventions II possible. They
waste their sentiment when bestowing
1t upon one so depraved as is the young
man whose life they seek to save, and
at the same time subject themselves to
ridicule
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EDITORIAL NOTES.

Utah will be represented for the first
time in the United States senate by
Frank J. Cannon and Arthur Brown.
Both are Republicans, free silver men
and Mormous.
No wonder Spain wants to sell Cuba.
She cannot subdue the patriotic Gu
bans, hence the easiest way is to re-
lieve herself of the burden is to sell
the island to England. But the title
she will deliver will be extremely
cloudy.
The war cloud has not entirely
blewn over. The dispatches announce
that England is bartering with Spain
for the purchase OF Cuba, in which
event war between the United States
and Great Britain is almost in.
eyitable.
Possibly the wool growers and some
of the woolen manufacturers have lost
through the workings of the present
tariff, but 10000, 900 of American citi-
zens have been enabled to buy their
woolen clothing at reduction of so
per cent from former prices.
The dispatches announce that Gen.
eral Campos and his lieutenant Gem
eral Ardereus are to be relieved from
the command of the Spanish armies in
Cuba. If, with these generals, the Span
lsh government would also recall all
It's troops from Cuba 1t would do -ra-
,ious deed, and also save itself much
aeedless expense and worry.
Judge Grosscup, of the United States
district court in Illinois, is reported as |
having decided that shipper could |
lot be held for violation OF the inter.
tate law by accepting rebate. This
3 the first Interpretation by court of
he clause in the interstase commerce
aw making shippers equally liable
nth carriers in cases of discrimina-
ion.
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LOVE OR FEAR, WHICH,

The London Globe publishes severe
article on the invitation of the United
States Venezuela commission to the
governments of Great Britain and
Venezuela to submit to the commission
all evidence in their possession which
is likely to further the work of the in
vestigation, and inviting the two gov
ernments to be represented before it
by attorneys without prejudice to
either claims, and then says:
''Great Britain will not allow this
monstrous claim to determine the
territory of British colony within its
jurisdiction. No power would admit
it except at the close of long and dis.
astrous war. Were such demand to
be made by any other power, our only
reply would be to hand its ambassador
his passports and mobilize the feet''
1t is that the British government
has such great affection for the United
States that it is 80 considerates Are
the ties of friendship so strong that
this is the only government on
earth from which it would tolerate
such impudence? Or do the naughty
Britishers uremember the events of
l776 and 1872, and fear that the events
of those times may be re-enacted If the
American ambassador were given his
passport? Whichever it is, it is pleas
ing to note that England does not care
to resort to any overt acts that would
terminate in on open rupture between
the two nations, and is willing that
the differences be settled by peaceable
maana
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RUSSIA AND TURKEY.
An Alliance Offensive and Defensive Con.
cluded.

An Alliance Offensive and Defensive Con.
cluded.
LONDON, Jan. 23.-A dispatch to the
Pail Mall Gazette from Constantine
pie, dated yesterday, says an offensive
and defensive alliance had been con-
cluded between Russia and Turkey.
The dispatch adds the treaty was
signed at Constantinople and ratifca.
tions were exchanged at st. Peters
burg between Aarej Pasha and the
czar. The basis of the treaty is de-
clared to be on the lines of the Un-
kiarskelessi agrea ment Of 1888, by
which Turkey agreed in the event Of
Russia cgoing to war, to close the
Dardanelles to the warship Of all ma.
tions. The Pail Mall Gazette cores
pondent says this treaty was soon
abandoned owing to the refusal of the
powers to recognize it. He also says
the French ambassador, NJ. Cambou,
conferred with the sultan yesterday,
and it is probable that France will be
included in the new alliance.
Commenting on the dispatch from
Constantinople announcing the sign
ing of the treaty between Russia and
Turkey for offensive and defensive
purposes, the Pail Mall Gazette says:
"We regard the news as true, and
the result of the treaty is the Darda-
nelles is the southern outpost Of Rus.
sia, and Turkey is Russia's vassal.
We presume the British government
will protest against the treaty for all
it Is worth.
"The information is plainly OF the
very gravest Importance. The first
intimation reached us four days ago,
but we withheld it until the arrival Of
the confirmation we received this
morning. This brings Russia into the
Mediterranean with vengeance, and
may necessitate strengthening our
fleet in those waters. The political
effect will be far greater. The treaty
means that Turkey has realized her
own impotence against disorders both
from within and without, and has de-
cided to throw herself for safety into
the arms of Russia. She Is, now Rus
sia's vassal, and Russia is entitled to
dispatch troops to any part of the sui.
tan's dominions."
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BENEFITS OF A LOW rAR1F

1t is conceded by all that there are
some industries which have been in
jured by the reduction of tariff duties,
but there are many others that have
been correspondingly benefited, and
the consumer generally has had the
benefit of reduced prices of nearly
every article he consumes, hence, there
are many who are beginning to real
ize that high protection was snare
and delusion. Some of the benefits
OF low tariffs are very plainly shown
by correspondent in the Oregonian
who says:
81 agree with the Oregonian that
tinplate furnishes an instructive object
lesson. The Wilson bill made heavy
reduction in the tax upon coal, iron
and steel. These are the principal
raw materials of tin manufacture. AL
though that bill reduced the tax upon
manufactured tin about so per cent,
tubs cheapening it to the consumer,
Its reduction OF the tax upon the raw
material stimulated and increased the
manufacture of tin in the United
States, and made probable the fact
that with wholly free raw material our
manufacturers Of tin can compete with
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UNION, Or, Jan. 22.-Coroner Lang,
a deputy district attorney, deputy
sheriff and a number of other persons
left Union for Pine Valley this after
noon for the purpose of exhuming the
bodies Of the three Maches who were
killed by Kelsay Porter on New
Years day. Porter is the only, wit
ness to the shooting. The bodies, ex-
cept the woman's, were buried without
being dressed, and there was no coro-
ner's inquest held. The object of the ex-
animation is to enable the state to bet
ter prosecute the case. 1t is expected
that the examination will show the
direction and distance from which the
shots were fired, and other material
facts,