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WKDITBS?AY, OCTOBEB dlv Toe Ranter Watchman was foDuded in 1850 and (he True Southron in 1866. ?b?? 1fte??K5? ant? Southron now has the combined, eircnlation and influence cef hoik Of the old papers, and is maoi ; lastly the best advertising medinm in FOR PRESIDENT, % NBW YORK. FOR VICE-PRESIDENT, MM G. TH?RMAN, OP OHIO. STATE TICKET. . Jibr Governor^ JOHN PETER RICHARDSON, Of Clarendon. Tor Lieutenant Governor, W. L. MAULDIN, 'Of Greenville. - *n-Secretary of 'State, J. Q. MARSHALL, Of Rkh?aad. L S. BAMBERG, Of Barnwell. Jar Comptroller Genera*, J. &VBRNBR, Of Oconce. /fer Attorney General, JOSEPH H. EARLS, Of Somter. Jbr Adjutant gnd Inspector General, If. L. BOX HAH, Of Abbeville. Far Snperintavdent of Education, J. H. RICE, OfAbberffi* COUNTY TICKET. Legislature. B. FRANK WILSON, ARTHUR K. SANDERS? ALTAMONT 31 OSES, ^HKNRT G. SHAW. Judge of Probate. T. V. WALSH. AudHor. \T R. DELGAR. Treasurer. P. P. GAILLARD. Clerk of Court. 4AS. D. GRAHAM. County Commissioner*. B. D. MITvBjSLL, JOHN L BROGDON, JOHN K. BROWN. JOHN T. GREEN. Sheriff. %. SCOTT CARSON: Coronc'. A. G. WARREN XDITORIAL^ITEMSr Tbe Bastover grand Democratic ral ly was rather what Mr. Mao talin i tamed **a dem moist unpleasant" af l??r. As everybody knows, Saturday was not a fine day, and that fact told gra%tly on tbe attendance. There were, # about four hundred persona , a majority being colored. El was a good one and is said tfr have made a fine impression. Hamp so* d&40t come to time, .which was a gssat disappointment. - The dinner waish followed the speaking was a de cided success. Colonels were abundant at the feast. Oar old State is running : a ctose race with Georgia on Colonels, aad to nsc an ancient gag, it will re ?flairs the U.S. Census to determine e more nnoterons within her doctors of divinity or militia s colonels. The fersr in Florida while develop ing the fact that the teachings of the > to who is our neighbor, deep root in the hearts of has trough t ant also the un pleab eat (set that men will quarrel over asawej even at a time when the grim aad great reaper is potting in bis keen ' siefcsl among the flowers as well as the bearded grain. The latest develop aaottf is a complaint by tbe Fernandina UXk against the Jackson vi liiaas, or " ewtLsr the Howard Association people ' in that city, for not letting them have as mach money as they want. Once fc?ftra there wss a similar row raised by tlamesviUc. What a spectacle ! Eo j fsffrias fs practically shut oat from the wer Id, the sole telegraph operator hav ing left. Up to the present, in Jaek aoaville, the ratio of deaths to cases is 1 to 12, a very low rate. It is likely bow that tbe fever will drag itself along until a (reeling cold shall come and pnt a period to it. The New Yorkers are revelling in new operas. Gilbert and Sullivan (the OOt the msaler.) have pro aaotber play, a joint production, which is not a saecees, while Coquehn a French low comedian has lifted the j? Gothamitee oat of their hose and half assc by his acting in a series of French plajm that are "naughty, bnt oh ! so aies/' Plays have nothing particular I f? do with politics, except in the sense that "ail the world's a stage," but it is stetsd that there is no more convincing sign of prosperity than the receipts at . the box offices of the theatres. This aign abounds io New York at present. " aad it a sufficient rebuttal of the Flamed Knave's dismal croakings as to the depressing effects of Democratic file. As asnal the man from Maine Maes under a mistake, which he will j doohtless discover after the G.h of No ber. ford SaekviUe, the British represen tative at Washington has got himself iatoa frightful mess. In reply to a I letter asking his au?lee as to how to ic the coming election, from a man Murchison, resident in Califor via sad a naturalized citizen of our Cone try, Lord Sackviik replied very . folly, bat not advising very positively how the man should vote. Bis action is looked upon <oa a decided breach of diplomatic etiquette and as violating the understanding between the two govern ments as to tbe American doctrine of naturalization. Minister West, as Lord S. is otherwise known, treated Murcbisco. as if ?he^ bad been 'still a British subject. The unfortunate dip lomat is naturally enraged with himself and with American political methods. His home government is Lard on him also, and it is said that he will be re called at once. Blaine is making the most of the affair, as of coarse he weald. Tbe average politician's con science is elastic as caoutchouc, and his methods as untrustworthy as are the predictions of the weather -bureau? only a little more so. One of the queerest tergiversations lately recorded is that of "Herr S." as the papers designate him. The Herr is ths nephew of the present Pope Some years ago he married the Signer; Lak Pecci, the Pope's niece, and mi grated to South America where he be came a millionaire. His wife died, and the bereaved widower returned to Italy and visited hu nncle who had mean while been elevated to the Pontifical chair. At Vienna, his ancestral home, Herr S. met and succumbed to tbe charms of the beadle's daughter of a certain synagogue in that city, and nothing would do bnt that he must marry her. Tbe lady was obstinate Not even for tbe Herrs millions would she renounce the faith cf her forefath ers, and there was nothing left for the Herr to do bot to renounce what sem blance of the Christian faith he might by any possibility bare had at any time, and return to his original faith, which was also ber's. This he did, and the -j two were made one. The Pope, ap parently, bas something else to worry him besides bis desire to recover his lost temporal power. Herr S. bas proved himself a Srst-class contortionist, j while his lady has shown a firmness which entitles her to consider herself the stronger vessel of the two. 'Twas ever thus ! The Herr recognized how it wonld inevitably be from his former marital experiences, and gracefully stepped down before compulsion was brought to bear, save that of'love's all conquering power. . As a companion picture to tbe last we suspend another as an evidence of the same great troth. Miss Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, author of "Gates Ajar," and ?:*The Old. Maid's Paradise," has consented to take unto herself a bus band, tbe Eev. Herbert I). Ward of New York city. He is 30 and-she 45, old enough to take good care of him and play the part of discreet guardian to her Ward, so to speak. It seems that the lady was. engaged long ago to a young fellow who lost his life in the civil war, and it was doubtless due to the thoughts excited by that sad event, that led her to let loose her imagination, and pen the pages of "Gates Ajar." By. aa unexplained process the Kev. Mr. Ward is- said to bave first made himself indispensable to Miss Phelps as a skipper. We trust that bis skipping "days are over at last, or else that when he skips she will skip also. Perhaps right here we had better "cheese it," as Scotby Briggs remarked to the cler gyman in the celebrated interview re corded in Mark Twains "Houghing It." Still we wonld like to -suggest that "Ministers as Mashers" might form the title of a slashing article in the N. A. Review, for from the facility I i with which many of them "get there" matrimonially, they must be set down as dangerous, and should be labeled ac cordingly, like dynamite. As usual we extend to the happy couple our sin cere wishes for 'heir future if not pres ent happiness, and that when they arrive at tbe portals of eternity, they may8till find the "Gates Ajar." The School Commissioner of Claren don County must be a sorry combination of good-for-nothingness sure enough. The Grand Jury in its presentment last week says that "the Grand Jury are fully convinced that from the work done by the School Commissioner, and tbe nature of that work, that his salary is too great, and they request the members of the Legislature from this county to introduce a bill at the next meeting of the Legislature, reducing the salary of the School Commissioner of Clarendon County to a commission of five per cent of all school money collected during the j \ year, and to reduce the amount allowed by law for traveiiug espeufes from one hundred dollars to fi^ty doliars, this law to take effeet from the passage of tbe act. If such a law is made, it will re duce the School Comtni?sioner*s pay aboat one half Kvcn then for tbe work usually done in this office he would \ t receive very high compensation, the J t duties of the office being chiefly those |f of a disbursing officer." This is bring- j * ing the salary of a very important j x office down to "nigger hire'' and we I j are of the opinion that before it should ] 1 be allowed to reach that pwt.it the onW had better be abolished altogether. ELECTION BUTS. An esteemed contemporary, in a j ,; lucid interval, has called attention to j \ i the fact that the stafn'e against betting i ( on elections \? openly, often, ond fla- | f grantly violated. Yet, strange (?) to ! 1 say that same esteemed contemporary \ \ bas gives several coluuias in ail within j , the last two weeks, to recording the j \ stages of a bet of this sort between two ! men, who managed to get a deal of I 1 gratuitous, though flattering (to them) ; f advertising out of it. On the principle i that tbe receiver is as bad as tee thief, ! f it wuuid bLtai that tbcaart v or paper '. v circulating intelligence of an unlawful j character, is as guilty as the original j parties to the act. If so, our esteemed j contemporary is late in the day in dis- j covering the hcioousness of. the offence itself, and persistently blind.to its own part in the performance. For if it had not taken the tnauer up, it is certain that far less would Lave been heard about it than h:is been. Tbe late dis covery by our Northern brethren that skvcry was wrong and sinful, docs not at all exculpate them from the great original guilt of having been the first to import slaves into this country. So oeither does this Sunday discovery that a statute of the State has been violated, do away or mitigate the prominent part played by our esteemed contemporary in lie matter, or its guilt as accessory before and after the fact. Were our contemporary up for murder the evi dence of its own columns wonld be fatal to its chances of acquittal. So mach for that side of it. As for other sides of these immoral transactions, there, is. no reason that can be urged against betting on a Pres ident that cannot be urged with equal force against betting on a horse race. Such Puritanical prudery abridges the liberty of the citizen, as it would also pat a stop to horse racing, which in these degenerate days is done not to ex bibii the qualities of fine stock and en tourage its development, bnt simply md solely to make money; and the money is made not oat of the purses pat up, bat out of tbe bets that are ar ranged. We are surprised, therefore, mat our sovereigns should submit to ;be retention of such a statute. Its re peal should be made tbe basis of the next political campaign as a foil to Tillmauism. Such, at least, must be he reflections of those who with equal impartiality promote a bet and condemn ?etticg. It has been said that the de )auchee is often very penitent the norning after excessive indulgence. Is t upon that principle fbat we are to adge of our contemporary's latest legal Discovery ? If so, contemporary, how nuch have you put up, and on whom, ind who is tbe other party ? (From our Regnlar Correspondent.) WASHINGTON LETTER. Washington, D. C, Oct. 26, 1888. Senator Gorman came over from the lational democratic headquarters io Srew York, and bad a long conference vita Mr. Cleveland this week. Mr. jrorman gave the President a detailed tccount of the present statos of the campaign, and also fully informed him )f t&? expectations of the natioual com mittee, together with the grounds upon itbich they are based. Just before re urning to New York, Mr. Gorman in bruied your correspondent that he egarded the election of Cleveland and Pborman as an absolute certainty, as he case now stands, but be intimated hat he feared the effect of large suai s >f republican money upon the hoodlum voters of the lower wards of New York )ity on election day. Many r.epubli ans here say opeqly that if money will sarry New York, they are certain to fin, but I think it more likely that cme of thei.r eminent statesmen will ;et in jail if they attempt bribery on'a arge scale in New York City. The lemocratic committee are fully alive and rill frustrate any attempt upon the part if tbe republicans to bay votes in New fork or elsewhere Democrats here are confidently fig tring on the Senate after the 4th of text March, as well as the Presidency iud Hi'Ose. It will only take republi an legi.-datares in West Virginia and ?ew Jersey to accomplish that much tesired result, and then the democratic >arty w:;i have a real opportunity to ?ring about some of tbe many reforms hat are so badly uceded. Mr. Cleveland leaves to-night for Sew York, where he will to-morrow ifternoon review the mammoth business nen's Cleveland and Thurman parade. Ie wilt reiurn to Washington im nediately after the parade. He has >ot yet decided whether he will go to Buffalo to vote or not, but it is probable hat he will go, not so much because be ensiders his vote necessary to succscs, ?ut as an example to other New York 'Oters temporarily residing in tbfs city ?there are over 3,000 of them. Nearly all the members of the Cabinet are actively engaged in the ampaign. They are all doiug excellent rork, too Washingtouians now rejoice io the >ossession of a genuine English Lord i'he Briticb minister here has recently, hrcugh the death of a relative, become jord Sackvii?e. Could John C Calhoun have lived tntil the present time, he would have I lad an opportunity of verifying the j ncieut adage 'all things come to him j hat waits.' For several years past the jnited States Supreme Court has been landing down decisions in favor of the j loctrine of 'States' Rights,' which Cal- ! loun so ably advocated, but this week j he Court made two decisions which are ! ii effect far beyond anything ever ; Maimed by Calhoun and bis associates, j !)ae of these decisions upholds the con- j titutionality of the Alabama state law I )roviding tests for color blindness in all j :mpl<>yes of railroads in. or passing ; hrough the state, thus demonstrating j hat a state law is superior to Congres- j ionai legislationu, and the regulations | >? the United States Iotor-State Com- i livr?e Commission. Tbe oiher nf?irms I he deeifti-on of the Supreme Court of iowa to the eRVcf that under the pro- i tibi tory law of that ^tate no liquors can ; >e mace within its borders no matter ' vherc they are to be sold. These de- j unions are the more remarkable Jvhen he fact is remembered that two thirds ! ?? the Justices of the Supreme Court : ire republicans. Hew the old fashioned i .fates' rights demuerut.s must enj-ty i hese d?crions, providing an they do ' hat the principle for which they f :ught or so ma.-sy years was the right eue. Perhaps after a few m??re decisions like ; he above, rabid republican edirorR like tlurat, Hah-feud and Whitelaw iteid ; vill agree that this country is a con- i ?ederation of Sovereign Spates. Already inquiries are beginning to ' >e received here from organizations that propose attending iHevesand*!) inaugu- j ation. j Chief Jostic F-i-cr delivered bis! irst opinion in ti e Supreme Court this j vec?. it Wuo :j ?it? t?cei that the Stute of Pennsylvania was not eDtitled to collect a tax on messages sent by the Western Union Ttlegraph Co, except messages between poiuts witbi? tbe borders of tbe State. A prominent business man of New York City, who was in Washington this week, gave it as his opinion that Cleveland would bave a plurality of 25,000 id his state. He says that tbe National Committee are now certain of holding their own in tbe labor vote, and that tbey are daily making gains among business men^ wea who stndy. Adam's Body. Our Presbyterian friends $eetu to find it pretty hard to seule among themselves the issue raised by Dr. Woodrow several years ago as to the formation of the body of Adam. The matter has been discu>sed and voted on at all the Synods and Presbyteries of the Church held since the issue was first raised, and it seems as far from a satis factory solution to-day as ever. Re cently the Charleston Presbytery pass ed a resolution forbidding public con tending against the decision of the General Assembly in the Woodrow case. The friends of Dr. Woodrow not liking the spirit of the resolution brought up the matter at tbe session of the Synod at Greenwood last week, which body passed a resolution requir ing the "Charleston Presbytery to meet and recind the objectionable resolution, which it is understood it will do. For our part, we think it makes very little difference bow Adam's body was made, and all the fuss being made over it is time thrown away. As the News and Courier says, Adam's body is dead and it ought to be allowed to rest, while millions of bis descendants are perish ing for tbe light of the gospel.?Or angebury Times and Democrat.. Keeping Cotton Back. A leading Savannah cotton buyer in formed a Morning News reporter yes terday that he has information that tbe Farmers' Alliance of Georgia and Ala bama have taken united action to with hold their cotton from the market from November 1 to November 20, and for a double pnrpo.se?on account of the high price of bagging as arbitrarily fixed by the Bagging Trust, and because cotton is, in their judgment, selling at figures below what it should command, and they argue that by keeping back the cotton for twenty days the price of bag ging will decline and cotton will appre ciate in value. The gentleman says that cotton has been and is now kept from going for* ward for tbe reasons which combined to bring about the action cf' the Farm ers' Alliance, and that tbe failing off iu the receipts of cotton i? due to the causes above mentioned. He says the fields are white aod the crop large, but that -the quality is inferior, showing discoloration, and that while he could bave bought 1,000 bales of strict mid dling at this time a year ago, it would be a very difficult matter to . buy one third that amount from factors cow.? Savannah News. I am sow, as ever, convinced that such a tariff as we have not only brings about serious conflicts between labor aod capital, but is responsible for the high prices of manufactured goods ; that it depresses the labor market, and that it fosters trust* and combinations. In fact, every tariff since 1789 down to the present time, in so far as it was protective, injured both farmer . and laborer by making farming less profit able in order to make the cost of labor to the factory cheaper.?S. S. Cox, in the House of Repress h tut ices. I BMP ??"? I ? " During the fort three years of the Cleveland Administration the public debt was redueed at an average of ?106.000,000 annually. During the three years immediately preceding, during Arthur's term, the reduction averaged ?99.500,000. Tbe total re duction for th? whole term of Mr. C;ev?land, ending 30th of June last, was $33G.905,271 80. That is surely an excellent showing. Yesterday a prominent New York lawyer arrived in Washington for a con sultation with an attorney of this city regarding some patent cases. During the conversation a match to light a cigar was lacking, and the Washing touian remarked that a piece of ice would do. The New Yorker laoghed and was incredulous, and a wager of a champaign supper was made. The Washingtonian took a piece of clear ice about an inch tbtck from tbe water cooler, whittled it into the shape of a disk, and with the palois of his hands meifed its two sides convex, thus giv ing it the form of a doable convex lens or burning glass. With it he foensed rhe sun's rays on. the end of his cigar, thu3 lighting the cigar. While smok ing the weed he enjoyed the chagrin of the New Yorker, who promptly paid the bet.? Washington Star. - , mm.g? . +~+~+-4gmm. The oldest chime of bells in America is the chime of eight on Christ Church, Salem Street, Boston They were brought from England in 1744. - ?a? . -> >? m -i - Where "Fiies Go in Winter? Some one baa asked, "Where do flies go in wioter ?*' This is a question of some interest, for a house fly is born fully grown and of mature size, anil there are no little flics of the same species, the small ones occasionally observed being different in kind from tbe larger ones. The house fly dues not bite or pierce the skin, but gathers its food by a comb or rake or brush-like tongue, with which it is able to scrap* the varnish from covers of books, and thus it tickles tho skin of a person upon whom it alights to feed upon the perspiration. A fly is a scavenger, and is a vehicle by which contagious diseases are spread, ft poisons wounds and may carry deadly viru* fron? decaying organic matter into food. It retires from the sight at the beginning of the winter, but where it goes few persons know. If a search of the house be made they will be found in great num bcrs secreted in warm places in the roof or between the partitions or floors. Last winter wc had occasion to examine a roof, and tbund around the chimney | myriads of flics hibernating comfortably and sufficiently lively to ;iy when dis turbed "in overpowering clouds.'' No doubt this is a favorite winter resort fur these creature* ?Boston Globe FOR RENT. A N IMPROVED FARM three miles from Mayesville on Ea*t Blark liiv*-r, coa tuining h bout one hundred and fifty-fire ?cr?e j cultivntable. wiih about the sauae in wood- j land adjoining. Apple to "e. m. wri^on, Winnsboro, S. C. or S. W. WILSON, ?ct 1 ?. 3 MayeoviJIe, S. C. Use Your Own Eyes, We continue to offer extra ordinary inducements in all DRESS GOODS and' also in all the latest novel ties in Dress Trimmings. Sweeping reductions in prices of Ladies' and Misses' and Children's Wraps of all Descriptions. Special prices on all Domes tics. GREAT SLAUGHTER in our Clothing Department. We have determined to sell our large stock of clothing REGARDLESS OP PRICE, so it will pay all in need to in spect our goods and prices ere they buy, and save money. Carpets and Rugs of all descriptions at rock bot tom prices. We are determined to main tain our reputation as "Leaders of Popular Prices." Facts are stubborn things, but you'll find them first class safeguards. An ounce of feet is worth a ton uf theory. There are a few facts which we desire to submit here and we want you to read and re-read them and tag , each fact to the tablet of your memory* Tl Q Urmt That J- RETTENBERG & SONS A l 10 Q) X (1U t carry three" times a larger stock than any other store. Tl Q Uo^f T3bat J RETTENBERG & SONS It lu Ci J. dUt prices are the lowest of any House'in , ' Sumter. Tl Uonf That J- RYTTE^BEKG & SOWS X t 1U (X X (XU t do, by far, the largest business of any house in Sumter. It is a Faet That J. RYTTENBERG & SONS I have the best and most reliable class of goods in the various departments of j their mammoth establishment. These are facts and you can no more falsify a fact than you can falsify truth, for a fact is the basis of all truth. SUMTER. 'S. C. -. . * ? . DoYoM?wnTfakiBg, We liv? m an age when per* sons can do their 6wn> thinking, and' they ought to do it. The only way.to Get at the Truth of a Thing is by A-nalysia. The only way to grt* at: THE VALSE OF ANYTHING is- by Comparison?it is;- the1 unerring rule by which to MEASURE Compare fte Size of Our M with any other House io this city and draw y??r; ?wn? con clusions: C0MF1R? Q?RPBKf?' (on the same grade) with ther p?rces of others, and draw your* own conclusions. Compare tie BiB&ess; we do with tia6 of any other House, and draw your own con* elusions; . Compare oar Methods of dealing with the-^abKc with the methods of oth^^and dnrtr your own conclusions; Compare tie IseriBpns; ?^nrease of our business and draw yoar own conclusions, - We think w? are justified in as serting most positively that for ex cellence and variety our display of Clothing for Men, Boys and Child ren, surpasses anything that has ever been seen in Sumter. Both floors of our large Store is well stocked with CLOTHING, HATS, PIECE GOODS, -AND FURNISHING GOOSJS, Including a fuir line of the famous Patent SpK-Sfrj?s P?itt-Fittif - Suits. Prince Albert Smts fo? Men and Youths. Cutaway Suits for Men and Youths. Square and Round Cut Saefe Suits for Men and Youths, Square and Round Cut Sack Suits for Boys. School Suits, Long Pants, from $2.50 to $6.00. Knee Pants Suits from $1,00 tip. 100 Boy's odd Vests at 25 and 50 cents. 100 Men's odd Vests at 50 and 75 cents. 800 extra Pants for Men and Boys from 65 cents to $7.50. NEW STORE, Corner Main and SUMTER, S. C. Shirts! Shirts?! LAUNDRIED SHIRTS. UNLAUNDRIED SHIRTS. BICYCLE SHIRTS. We are handling one of the very best $1.00 Unlaundried Shirts in the market and claim that it is un excelled by any other Shirt at tu?t price. We also have a GOOD SHIRT FOR 50 CENTS, And an excellent one at 75 cents, or 6 for $4 00. WARRANTED PURE LINEN R?SO.M3. NECKWEAR! NECKWEAR! All the latest shapes in Scaxfe. Ties, and Bows, Mufflers, Suspen ders, Cuffs and Collars. A Beautiful line of Silk, Linen and Cotton Handkerchiefs. 200 Pairs Sample Gloves at less than wholesale prices. A large assortment of Silk* Glo ria, Alpaca and Gingham Umbrel las, ' . ^