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SSa jjman at Smi jiron. WSDJ ESDAY, JULY 2671899? The Sumter Watchman was oundea in 1850 and the True Southron in 1866 The Watchman and Southron now has the combined circulation and influence of both of thc old papers, and is mani festly the best advertising medium in Sumter. Senator McLaurin will be fixed for life when he succeeds Judge Simon ton. and he will be heard of no more <as a factor in Sooth Carolina politics. It will be jest as well for the'Stale, ss bia leaning toward McKinley's imperialism shows that he is not in -accord with bis constituents, and there are other men in the Slate who would moire truly represent Souith Carolina in the senate. The numerous aspirants for the governorship of Alabama are all delighted to have Gen. Wheeler go to the Philippines, for while he remained in this couotry there was danger that be might cast covetous eyes on tbe governorship himself. The price of bottled stuff appears to be the determining factofSas to whether it is or is not a beverage ander the terms of the dispensary law. The opinion of Assistant At torney General Gunter does not say that malt extract is a beverage nor does it declare it is not-it simply straddles tbe question and leaves it for tbe pub'iic to decide whether there are any folks fool enough to ..pay twenty five cents a bottle for mall extract at a drug store when they cao buy beer from the dispen sary at ten cents a bottle or three for a qa arter The severest criticism of the Mc 'Kinley-Alger administration thus far made is tbat of tbe London Times, -an impartial and conservative journal that cannot be accused of partisan bias since it is an outsider and sees things a3 they appear from the point .of view of a disinterested third party. What could be stronger or 'more severe than this, "Alger bas mn the war office as a political machine. Military posts bave been bestowed upon political friends with -Dut regard to fitness or the interests r'of The country. Dishonesty and cor raption have been rampant wherever - there was public money to be ban .. led. American soldiers were killed --by thousands on American soil by 'such agencies as embalmed beef and scandalous neglect of elementary sanitation McKinley, for some rea "Son or other, is incapable of ridding ^himself of the incubus of his (secre tary, who, evidently regarding him self as having the president in his pocket, serenely defies the public^! indignation that has been aroused by <h 3 mismanagement r And it is true, -every word of it Gorman's presidential boomlet gains neither strength nor popularity with the lapse of time Gorman may be made the nominee of the -assistant republican gold bugs who -snaf querade under the name of demo rats, but he is not and never can be the leader cf the democratic hosts of the country who can neither be -bought nor intimidated by the trusts nd money power The democrats will select their leader without the id of the self appointed bosses of ike Gorman clique, and a clear cut fight will be made Steel Cars. lt is claimed thar thc pressed steel 'freight car is a demonstrated success and that ito oso ie increasing very rapidly A Pittsburg company, with a capital of $25.000,000, is manufac turing oars of this kind, and bas filled -orders for $14.000,000 worth of them. Tbe factories of the company employ .6,000 meo and are b:iog ruo day and night. An additional plant to employ 4,000 men will soon be completed. Tba ears of tbe new style are made of steel -pressed into correct steel shapes, with -proper regard for strength and utility, nd it has been found that they add .from-80 to 40 per cent to tbs carrying capacity of trains over the old style of wooden oars. The steel oars in use on the Baltimore and Ohio have a carrying .capaoity of from 95,000 to 100,000 pounds, and reoent oars of this type secured by the Pennsylvania railroad ^will carry 110,000 pounds. The capa city of wooden oars is usually 60,000. At the reoent convention of master ^neohanies at Old Point Comfort th* steel car was the subject of considerable discussion.-Atlanta Journal. Climate awi Crop Condition . S. Department of Agricul tare, South Carolina Section. COLUMBIA, S. C., July 25, 1899. Ths week ending July 24th average about 3 degrees per day hotter tha: usual,, with a weekly mean of tempera ture of 84 degrees, but the maxiocun temperature did not reach the extrem figure of the previous week. Tb nights were uniformly bot. There were light, scattered ehower on the 17tb, and tho two following dates, but at few pointa only was tin rainfall heavy enough to break thi drought Charleston had 1 00 inoh Kingstree 1.05 ; and Summerville 3.li nobes ; elsewhere the amounts wen generally under half an inch, whil over the greater portion of the Statt practically no rain fell. The droughl has reached a serious stage Crops o all kinds have deteriorated, and some such as old corn, etc , are in places ruined. The prospects are reported tc ba "gloomy" . and "appalling" in places. No amount of rainfall, corre spondents say, wculd restore the failing crops to profitable yields. Water for stock is scarce, and in places cattle are reported dying. Light showers have fallen in portions of the state since most of the reporta were received. Cotton failed rapidly and drought has stopped growth, it is turning yellow as though maturing, and is shedding leaves and fruit. The plants are blooming from bottom to top. These ore thc prevailing condition?, nut in spots cotton oontinues to do well. Sea island cotton, while generally in excel lent condition, is blighting; to a consid erable extent. Old corn is injured beyond recovery in many cantees, 3cd generally it is bat a poor crop. Corn on bottom lands is very good. Fodder pulling has begun io the eastern counties. Tobacco was severely injured in places by tbe drought and extreme heat; the leaves are sunburned, aod the qual ity of the orop is reducod. Where timely rains fell, the crop is very fine. Curing is general. Early rice is heading. The crop stands in need of rain, generally, and of water for flooding, where not laid by. Upland rice has suffered fron heat and drought* Comparatively few sweet potato slips have been' set out. Stand of peas on stubble is dyiog io places The com merdai orop of mel os about ail chip ped. Sugar cane, sorghum and millet aol growing weli. Pastures very scant, in tbs Charleston truck district, ;he weather condition were favorable for preparing fields for autumn pissi ng. EXTRACTS FROM CORRESPONDENTS7 RE PORTS. Darlington-Society Hill : Excessive beat accompanied by drought has been lit-astrous to corn and tobacco ; cotton bas suffered less, but needs moisture to retain its fruit ; minor crops need rain badly.-Maj J J Lucas. Florence-Lynoh : Light ram on the 17tb, but not enough to do much good ; ill crop3 and gardens are nearly ruined ; it seems that oom will be a failure ; tobacco 13 badly sunburned ; cotton has about stopped growing.-E 3 Smith. Orangeburg-Bowman : Crops are suffering for rain generally, mo^e than at any time this year ; cotton 3 shed ding forms and leaves badly in some fields ; oom is about made when planted early, and this crop wiil be fairly good ; sugar cane backward ; early rice begin ning to head ; pastures failing some - B O Evan3. Riobland-Congaree : Cool, desic cating winds ; hot sun and laok of moisture have well nigh ruined all growiog crops ; cotton fired and shedding ; corn is not filling out well ; farmers are discouraged and tho outlook is appalling -J F Smith. Piokena-Loopers : We have no rain yet, and our crcps re about gone ; cotton bloomed to thc top, ia shedding its leaves und is drying up ; late planted corn is tasseling aod is not shooting, and c&nnofc make over half a orop from appearances at this time.-W N Hoghes. Kershaw-Tiller's Ferry : All crops still suffering from drought ; ootton last of all to fail, is shedding badly and turning yellow ; sorghum heading low ; potatoes do not grow at ail ; early peac bearing a half orop.-J W Gardner. ---mmmW- -- "I bare used Chamberlain's Cough Rem edy io my family for years and always wilb good results," saj3 iMr. W. B. Cooper of El Rio, Cal. "For small children we find it j especially effective." For sale by Dr. A. J. i i China. j Alger^Big Bluff. ACCEPTANCE OP RESIG NATION A SURPRISE. Washington, July 24 -The unsuc cessful bluffer is spoken of as a duffer by sports. Well, Alger is an unsuccessful political bluffer, and the result wiil be his retirement from j public life on August 1. Somehow this bluffing phase of the the quee I tion has been overlooked But a close friend of Alger's is responsible for the statement that Alger's resig nation was handed to Mr McKinley as a big bluff, with the expectation that he would decline it in a nice little note that Alger could have published to refute the charge that he was remaining in the cabinet against Mr. McKinley's wishes, and that Alger was the most surprised man in Washington when he receiv ed Mr. McKinley's note accepting his resignation to take effect August 1. The same man says that Alger is very mad, although pretending to be greatly pleased, and that he may toss a few bombshells administrationward after he drops official harness, and that their explosion will not make pleasant music for Mr. McKinley. If the new secretary of war-Mr. Root-is merely to* look after the legal questions connected with our military occupation of Cuba, Porto Rico and the Philippines, leaving military affairs to be controlled by Meikeljohn and Corbin, and that is the present understanding, Algerism isn't likely to depart with Alger Unless Mr. Elihu Root, of New York, can persuade Mr. McKinley to shake up the war department clique and to give Gen. Miles the say that properly belongs to bim as command ing general of the army, in all strict ly military matters, be will live to regret the day he so eagerly accepted the war portfolio to perform duties properly belonging to the attorney general, after two members of the cabinet, fully conversant with the situation, had declined to do so, and to stand before the country as a figure head responsible for the con duct ol the war department Perhaps it was a fellow feeling that caused "Corporal'" Tanner, who was kicked out of the pension bureau by Harrison, after a few months ser vice as commissioner, to rush into print with fulsome praise of Alger and Algerism. Whatever it was, it was creditable to Tanner's heart, if not to his sense of thrift, to stand op for the under dog, in this fracas, because he liked him personally, although he knew when he did it that it was likely to lessen his own pull on the administration. Mr. M. L Lockwood, of Pennsyl vania, president of the Anti Trost league, which although a non parti san organization, purposes to take an important part in the presidential campaign, is a strong Bryan demo erat, aud he says of the sentiment of of Pennsylvania democrats : "I am in touch with the true democrats of Pennsylvania, and it is safe to say that 95 per cent of them are loyal to Bryan and the principles of the Chi cago platform. The real democracy of the State and of all other states must be ou the alert, for. if the tricksters get one vote more than one third of ail the members of the national convention, they will accom pii&h their end, which is the defeat of Bryan. The monopolistic and trust interests will bend all their energies to defeat his nomination because they recognize that no human power eau prevent bis victory at the polls, if he be again declared the nominee of the democratic par ty Tbe statement that Hon W. C Whitney, whose shrewd manipulation procured the last nomination of Mr Cleveland, in spite of the seemingly invincible obstracies, had gone to Europe for the purpose of trying to persuade Admiral Dewey to allow his name to go before the next Dem ocratic convention as a candidate for the presidential nomination, while interesting, was not regarded in Washington as of any particular im portance. Mr. Whitney has been hunting for sometime for anybody to beat Bryan, and has sounded a num ber of men as to their willingness to contest the nomination with Col Bry an Nobody with the slightest politi cal knowledge has shown any disposi* tion to try to do the impossible, and it 3 among the possibilities that Mr Whitney, banking upon Admiral Dewey's ignorance of politics and existing political conditions, may intercept him somewhere in Europe and try to persuade him to attempt it. Those who know him best say that Admiral Dewey never changes his mind after having once decided a question, and that he will give Mr. Whitney the same answer he has already given to others to the same question. Gen. Carlos Garcia, eon of the late Gen. Calixto Garcia, is in Washing ton as a representative of the Cuban Republican league, which advocatee complete political independence of Cuba. He asked Mr. McKinley for authority to hold election for muni cipal offices, throughout Cuba, in order to demonstrate the ability of the Cubans to govern themselves. Mr McKinley did not give him a decided answer, but it had been previously said by officiais that no elections would be held in Cuba until a census of those entitled to vole had been taken. NitroGlycerine Used ia Cleveland. CLEVELAND, July 24 -Rioiiog broke ou afresh here tonight aud a second attempt to wreck a car was made. A Pearl street car, speediog south near Holmdeu avenue, carrying beside the motorman and conductor a guard, suc cessfully ran a gauntlet of missiles throwa from the roofs of houses, ody to run iuto a can of nitro glycerine which exploded with terrific force. The rear platform was thrown off and the flooring wrenched from irs fastenings. The crev: was not injured, but emerged from :he battered ruin with their pistols drawn and bagan firing at what they thought was a couple of men crouching as if to hide themselves behind a small bill board The explosion was the signal for renewing the attack from the house tops and alleys. Troop A, hurrying on hor eback to the scene, was bombarded with giant firecrackers. One of these exploded with snob force that the mount of one of the troopers was knocked over. In his fall he carried with tbem two other horses aod their riders. Several arrests were made. Pistol shots were frequently beard, and one man was slightly wounded in thc arm, it is said. Up to a late hoar reports more or less vague of blockades and shooting floated about town but failed of confirmation. Strikers and their families held a mass meeting in Newbourgb, a suburb of Cieveland tonight during which the men were urged to persevere in their fight against the Big Consolidated. W. J Jonea, a prominent farmer of Taiaton, Ga , was fatally shot on Saturday night by his 17 year old son whom he attempted io whip. Arrest disease by the timely use of Tutts Liver Pills, an old and favorite remedy of increasing popularity. Always cures SICK HEADACHE, sour stomach, malaria, indiges tion, torpid liver, constipation and all bilious diseases. TUTTS Liver PILLS Everything in DRUGS, Soda Waler, AND Cigars. -AT HUGKSON-LIGON CO. Successors to J. S. Hughson & Co. MONAGHAN BLOCK SUMTER. S. C. MAKE OUR STORE YOUR HEAD QUARTERS WHEN YOU COME TO TOWN. ARE YOU NEEDING AN IRON SAFE? HAVING BEEN APPOINTED GEN ERAL AGENT for the Alpine Fire and Burglar Proof Safe Company. 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SHERIFF'S SALES, BY VIRTUE o sundry executions to cae directed, I will offer for sale at Pub lic Auction, in from of the Court Rouse io the Citv of Sumter, on the first Mon day in AUGUST, next, and as many days thereafter as may fte necessary, within the lega! hours of sale, the following property : One lot in the city of Sumter, Sumter County, State of South Carolina, bounded by lands of Dr. Auld, Mrs. Monaghan and by Manning Avenue of said city, levied upon and to be sold as the property of James Maai gauh at the suit of the State for taxes. All that piece, parcel or tract of land situ ate, ly inp and being in Springhi ll Township, Sumter County, State cf South Caroiioa, containing 25 acres more or less and bounded on the north by lands of G. W. Murray, sooth and west by lands of Horace Barby, east by lands of J. fi. Rembert and C. L. Williamson, levied upon and to be sold as the property of Nora Butler at the suit of the State for taxes. All 'hat piece, parcel or tract of land situ ! ate, lying and being in Springhill Towoebip, Sumter County, State of South Caroline, j containing 10 acres more or less and bounded north by lands of Lydia Jefferson, south by lands of Annie China, east by lands of Miss Ellen P. Gaillard and west by lands of Mrs. Neill O'Donnell, levied upon and to be sold as the property of Jimmie Deas at the suit of the State for taxes. All that piece, parcel or tract of land situ ate, lying aDd being io Mayesville Township, Sumter County, State of South Carolina, containing three acres more or less and bocoded by lands of Eugeoe McCutchen, J. E Mayes, trustee, and Smart Wilson, leviep upon and to be sold as the property of Brun son and Wilson at the suit of the State for | taxes. j All that piece, parcel or tract of laad aitu- j ate, j i o gr and being ia Springhill Township, Sumter County, State of South Carolina, containing 51 acree mere or less and bounded north by lands of Primus Entier, east by lands of-' Paul Wilson, sou'h by lands of Willis Blanding and west by lands of the estate of Jane Scott, levied upon and to be sold ss the property of February Brunson at the suit nf the State for taxes. All that piece, parcel or tract of land situ ate, lying and being in Springhill Township, Sumter County, State of South Carolina containing 62 acres more or less and bouoded by lands cf Bill Shiver, T. H. Burkett and B. F. Burkett/lfcvied upon and to be sold as the propety of R. W. Burkett at the suit of the State for taxes. Ali that piece, parcel or tract of land situ ate, lying and being in Spr t nill Township, -, Sumter County, State of South Carolina, containing 23 acres more cr less and bounded by lands of Bob Mathis, A. J. Marten, Mrs. Smith and R. L. Herriot, levied upon and to be sold as the property of Israel Pogue at thc suit of the Sta:e for taxes All that piece, parcel or tract of land situ ate, lying and being in Springhill Township, Sumter County, State of South Carolina, containing 18 acres more or less and bounded by landa cf Isbam Scott, estate of James Scott and by lands now or formerly of Pip kins, levied upon and to be sold as the prop erty of W. C. Shull at tba suit of the State for taxes. All tbat piece, parcel or tract of land situ ate, lying and being in Sumter Township, county of Sumter, State of South Carolina, containing 15 acres more or lesa and bounded by lands of Ransom Dick, Dandy Simmons, R. C. McFadden and others, levied upon and to be soli as the property of Jane Borch at the suit of the State fer taxes. One red cow levied upon and to be sold as the property of Robert M. James at the suit of the State for taxes. B. G. PIERSON, July 12 Sheriff Sumter County. ????????????(????mB j For Rent-From Sep-1 tember 1st. ' f V>HE STORK cn Main Street, occupied by ! j Vf. B. Burna, .'ce ot" ibe beststandsj I u ihe citv. D. JAS. WINN, j ! Jnlv 12-tf 1 I DR. W. B. ALFORD, DENTAL SURGEON, SUMTER, S. C. UFF;C>: B< una-8 a. m. to 2:30 p. m.; 3:15 to 'i:30 p ni. Office over Baltman'e Shoe Store. Ma v 2-?m