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t?it ^Ifflc?iiuiu?iui'?ou?naaL WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 27, 1902. S'?Terea at the ?*ou Oj?ce at Suinter S <?., as Second Class Mutter. HEW ADVERTISEMENTS. S Dr. Edw. P. Halstead.?Veterenari an. 5 The Sumter Dry Goods Co.?An nouncement;. PERSONAL. ?. ?iOuis - Lyons has returned from New York. Hon. E. L Manning want to Saluda last Saturday. Miss Alice Poole has returned from Sullivan's Island. Mr. C. L. Wheeler, of Dillon, spent ursday in town. Mr. ?. K. Sanders, of Hagood, spent Saturday in town. Mr. J. C. Freeland has eturned^ from Glenn Springs. Mrs. D. G. Zeigler went to Wil ington last Saturday. Rev. R. H. Jones returned on Wednesday from Beaufort. Miss Emma McGrew is spending a few days in Wilmington. Dr. E. W. Cooper, of Cheraw, is in - the city on a brief visit. Mr. W. H. Ingram, of Stateburg, ?i was in the city Saturday. Maj. H. Frank Wilson has returned from Henderson ville, N. C. Mr. Soi Ryttenberg returned on Monday from Glenn Springs. Mr; W. A. Green, of Wisackv, went to Asheville, N. C, Thursday. Miss Bessie McLean, of Cheraw, is spending a few days in the city. Mr. T. H. Dici, Jr., of Columbia, was in town Monday on business. Mr. T. B. Jenkins, Jr., has return ed from a visit to Lexington, Ky. Mrs. C. W*. McGrew has gone to Wilmington, C, for a few days. Mr. E. B. Muldrow, of Mayes ville, attended the campaign meeting today. Messrs. Eiisha Garson and Eb Wells returned from New York Monday morn ing. Mr. John B. Miller, of Washington, D. C, is in the city?on a two week's visit. Gen^E. W. Moise came up from his - summer heme on Sullivan's Island to vote. Eev. and Mrs. H. H. Covington re turn Monday afternoon from Brevard, . a Messrs. Neill O'Donne?l and W. B. Murray have returned from New York. Mr. Geo. Epperson and family have gone to Spartan burg to spend several weeks. Mrs. . M. Lebby, of Charleston, is visiting her daughter, Mrs. Bartow Itfaish, Maj. Marion. Moise- and.family re turned on Monday from Sullivan's Island Miss E. Rosa Gillespie, of Charles ton, is visiting her uncle, Dr. J. C. Spann. Mr. J. V. Wilson who has been ? visting in Bishopville has returned to the city. Messrs. W. G. Stubbs and R. D. Cuttino have been in New York for several days. Mr. Geo. W. Hutcheson returned last week from Virginia, after a month's stay. Mrs. M. P. Cotdes and her son, Sam Cordes, left Fridav morning for Siluda, N. C. Mr. Geo. L. Ricker returned last Wedneeday from Maine, where.he spent several weeks. Mr. J.. McF. Spann, after a stay of two months in the mountains, return ed home on Monday. Mrs. Abe Ryttenberg and her sister, Miss Beulah Weil, went to Henderson ville, N. C., on Monday. Mr. Harry Yates, who has been in business in Birmingham for a year or more, is in town on a visit. Dr.' J. Bossard, who has been at Glenn Springs for several weeks, re turned home Monday to vote. Miss Carrol Hogan, who has been visiting in Farfield county for the past month, has returned to the city Dr. R. E. Dennis, of Bishopville, passed through the city last week on his way to Western North Carolina. Mr. W. T. Hough and Miss Alice . Hough left for Uamden Monday morn ing to spend a few days with relatives. Mr. H. Harby and family, Mr. H. Harby, Jr., and Misses Marie Moise and Theo Lopez, returned from Paw ley's Island yesterday. Congressman A.' F. Lever and Mr. J. B. McLaucklin, who is a candidate for Congress in opposition to Mr. Lever, spent Saturday in town. Miss Pauline Sanders and Miss Annie Flowers returned on Saturday from a pleasant stay of six weeks North. They visited Washington, New York and Baltimore. Mr. J. Frank Pate has been appoint ed a member of the standing commit tee on ritual of the National Council Jr. C). U. A. M. The next meeting of the National Council will be held in San Francisco, Cal. Mr. W. Paul Friar, who has been chief dispatcher at Florence, has trans ferred to Charleston today to fill the position of chief dispatcher on Capt. G. G. Lynch's division, Mr. Ransom B. Hare, who has worked the second *4trick," becomes chief dispatcher, and Mr. A. D. Perkins, of the Ashley Junction ''block," takes Mr. Hare's piace as second i; trick" dispatcher. Col. J.- Harvey Wilson, the next Secretary of State, was in the city Saturday. Col. Wilson attended every regular campaign meeting in the forty - 5WO counties of the State and several of the extra meetings arranged by in terested citizens. He is looking well and says that he stood the campaign well arid save for feeling slightly fag ged is in excellent trim. He is con ceeded to be the leading candidate for Secretary of State and his friends are confident of his election. Cotton receipts are increasing each day ?nd the streets have the appear ance of fall The price today is s34. MARRIED. Miss Christine McKagen, of this city, and Mr. George Morrison, of Colombia, were married at the resi dence of Rev. "W. A. Fairey at 8.30 ! o'clock Sunday morning. Mr. Morri son and his bride left for Columbia on the 9.45 train. Married at the Lynchburg parsonage August 24th, Mr. John B. Nesb^t, of Suinter county and Miss Luna Cor bett, of Aikcn county, Rev. J. W . Humbert officiating. At the residence of the Mr. E. A. Lowry, this city, on Wednesday even ing, August 20, at 8 o'clock, Miss Mamie Lou Sanders, of Sumter, and Mr. W. G. Hutto, of Denmark, S. C. Dr. Rice Married. ?'Rev. John A. Rice, D. D.. of the South Carolina Conference, now at the Chicago University, made us a pleas ant visit last week. His presence in these parts was explained a little later by his marriage en Aug. 7, in Peters burg, Tenn., t? Miss Lacena Williams Darnell, daughter of Rev. T. L. Dar nell, our pastor there. The bride is a cultivated and charming lady with?a very wide circle of friends. They re turn to Chicago till the meeting of Mr. Rice's Conference, when he will take a pastorate."?Nashville, Tenn., Advocate. DEATH. Mr. John Bradley, formerly of Stateburg, died at Georgetown on Sunday, aged 48 years. His body was taken to Stateburg Monday morning for interment, the funeral being held at the church of the Holy Cross Monday. Death of Mrs. Mary Woodward. Mrs. Mary Woodward, the beloved wife, of Mr. Henry Woodward, died at the. home of her sister, Mrs. J. P. Kilgore, near Bishopville, on last Saturday, Aug. 16th. For a number of weeks Mrs. Woodward had been suffering with that dreadful disease consumption, and while her death was expected, it was a. great shock to her family and friends.?Bishopville Lead er. Stunned by a Live Wire. Bartow, the son of Mr. B. Walsh, was stunned by stepping on a live tele phone wire Thursday evening, about the same time that the telephone ex change was set on fire. He was going , Borne and at the corner of Harvin and Mill street attempted to jump over a puddle of water. He came down in the water and with both feet on the wire, and was stunned so that he sank down and tumbled over forward. For tunately the wire was under the mid dle or back part of his feet, so that when he fell forward the connection 'was broken, and being off the wire he was able to crawl away from it. He was not able to get upon his feet until he had crawled across the street. He says that while he was on the wire and while sinking down the joints of his feet and ankles were rigid and did not bend. The telephone wire that gave him the shock had been broken down by a falling tree limb during the storm just preceding the occurrence. Heavy Cotton Receipts. The receipts of cotton on this mar ket up to Saturday night reached a total of 582 bales, against no receipts ot the same date last year. The re ceipts week before last were 42 bales, and last week 510 bales; the receipts on Saturday were 167 bales. It is stated by a cotton man who is well posted that the August receipts on this market thus far are the heavi est ever recorded for the same dates. A South Carolina Land Suit. Mayor Stuckey, of Sumter, S. C, and his son-in-law, Mr. Hood, have been in town for several days. Mr. Stuckey is an attorney and is associ ated with Messrs. Long and Nichol son in a suit in regard to the posses sion of a tract of -land in Sumter Coun ty, S. C. Mrs. M. W. Spann, of Eagle Mills township, and her daugh ter-in-law, who also lives in Eagle Mills, are the parties to the suit. Mrs. Spann, Sr., is the defendant and her daughter-in-law is the plaintiff. The land is in possession of the form er and the latter, who claims possession through her husband, now deceased, is trying to establish her title to the property. The suit will of course be tried in South Carolina and Mr. Stuckey's business here is to get the depositions of a number of witnesses. The deposi tions will be taken today before Mr. John W. Guy, notary public. Messrs. Stuckey and Hood drove through the country from Sumter to Statesville, combining a pleasure trip with the business.?Statesville, N. -C;, Landmark. CRUELTY TO ANIMALS. A e Punished for Beating a Horse. Richard Woods, colored, was tried ! j and convicted Wednesday in Magistrate ! Folk's court at Providence for cruelty to animals and sentenced to pay a fine o" c or serve 10 days on the chain gang. The offense for which Woods was arrested was the crnei beating of I a horse which was apparently nearly starved to death. Magistrate Folk made the sentence as light as possible as it was the first case of the kind he had had in his court. The fine was paid by friends of Yvcods. Hunter Bell escaped from chain gang Saturday afternoon ciijout 4j o'clock but was recaptured that ni^ht j about 9 o'clock while hanging aronnd ! the depot to each a freight rrair: out of j town. Elections are profitable to the Iiv- i erymen if to no ^thers. Mrs. J. M. Chandler has returned home after a stay at Wrightsville Beach, and a visit to Atlanta and Charlotte. Rev. James McDowell and wife have gone to Glenn Springs to spend a while. DANGEROUS LIVE WIRES. telephone Switchboard Burned Out and a Horse Killed. The wind storm Thursday after noon, while it lasted only a few minutes and caused no direct damage, was productive of a condition that re sulted in serions loss to the telephone exchange and caused the sudden death of a horse. The high wind caused the electric light wires and the telephone wires to tecome entangled in a number of places. When the lighting current was 1;urned on ?t the power station the powerful current ran into the telephone ex change and set fire to the switchboard. The switchboard was burnt out and before the fire could be extinguished considerable damage wa~ done in the central. For a few minutes it seemed that a serious fire would follow and the fire alarm was rung, but by prompt measures being taken the flames were extinguished before they could spread beyond the switchboard. The switch board was insured for $1,000, which amount may cover the damage. Another result of the crossing of the wires was the instant death of Joe Grantham's old grey horse upon com ing into contact with one of the live wires. The wires where they were crossed on Liberty east of Harvin Street fell to the ground and sent off showers of electric sparks until burned in two. Mr. W. B. Boyle, realizing that the wires were danger ous to anyone coming in contact with them, stationed a man on the street to warn the drivers of all vehicles not to drive across the wires. Joe Grantham was the first one to come that way and disregarding the warning:, attempted to drive down Liberty street, think ing he could get through and not get In contact with the wires, Just as soon as his horse touched the wire it dropped dead in its tracks without a struggle. Joe Grantham still not real izing the deadly properties of the wire jumped from his wagon and started toward his horse with the intention of disentangling the wires, but fortunate ly for him was stopped before he could lay hold of the wire. As soon as it became known at the electric light power station that the wires were crossed the current was shut off and no electric lights were burned last night. Friday both the Electric Light Co. and the Telephone Co. had a force of hands at work on their wires, and an effort will be made to so ar range the wires that hereafter there will be less likelihood of a repetition of that night's accident. THE CANDIDATES IN TOWN. Well Attended Meetings Last Night and Today. / The candidates for county offices spoke on the Graded School Square Friday evening and again in the Court House Saturday, the attendance being quite large on both occasions. There were many ladies present at the open air meeting last night and they were as interested listeners to che pleas of the candidates as any of the voters who were present. The speeches were in a large meas ure a repetition of those made at pre vious campaign meetings, heretofore reported, but the large attendance and the interest displayed by the audience seeemd to inspire most of the speakers and they spoke with more earnestness and enthusiasm than they have shown at former meetings. Probate Judge Walsh and Mr. T. M. Keels, candidate for County Superin tendent of Education, were absent Fri daynight on account of illness and these two and Senator Manning and Mr. T. N. Huggins, a candidate for County Supervisor, were absent Saturday. Mr. Huggins also being excused on ac count of illness while Mr. Manning was called out of town Saturday morn ing by a telegram. The Congressional candidates, Messrs. A. F. Lever and J. B. Mc Lauchlin did not attend Friday nights, meeting but were present Saturday and made excellent speeches dealing with the issues of the day in national affairs. The crowd Friday night was composed almost entirely of town peo ple, while Saturday the crowd was by a large majority country people. Both crowds showed a disposition to accord liberal applause to those whom they favored or who made speeches meeting with their approval. The Sumter Dry Goods Co. Tikis justly popular and widely known mercantile concern, which was burned out at the first of the year and has been since that time, out of busi ness, has reopened at the old stand on the corner of Main and Liberty streets, with the largest and best stock of fine dress goods, notions, shoes and millin ery it has ever offered its patrons. Since the fire the store building has been practically rebuilt and it is now, the most modern, best equipped and handsomest place of business in the city. In remodeling and furnishing the i store the comfort and convenience of j the patrons of the store was the first consideration and that the storo is I now a modei establishment can be seen j by the casual visitor. Each department io separate and distinct yet access from one to the other is easy. ; The stock for the fall and winter is entirely new and it was selected with the greatest care, the buyers, who spent several weeks on the Northern markets, being guided in the selection of the stock by the exp?rience gained , by many years in catering to the tracie ; of this section of the State. Negro Gamblers Sentenced. George Richardson, Tom Wilson and ! ! Johnny Mack, three of the negroes , who were arrested for gambling in ! Graham's field Monday night, were I tried and convicted in the Mayor's court today. Mack was sentenced to i pay a fine of 67.00 and the other two I received sentences of 6 each. Several others are yet to be tried. ^ Congressional Candidate McLaugh lin had several carriages chartered for the day to transport voters to the polls, but it was generally talked on the street yesterday that the carriages carried Jim Tillman merchandise nine times to every once that they carried a Mc Laughlin voter. McLaughlin must have been an easy mark for those who know how to catch suckers. Manning News Items. Mr. Wash W. Benbow died at his home, near Summerton, Tuesday af ternoon, after a long illness. Mr. Benbow was well known throughout the county. Mr. Wm. Cobia, after a lingering illness of several weeks, died at his home near Manning Tuesday evening. Mr. Cobia was a member of Co. C. Hampton Legion, and did valiant ser vice in the Lost Cause. Thus the old soldier passes away. -^.^ Mrs. R. E. Herrington of the New Zion section had the misfortune to lose her dwelling and its contents, be sides a large part of her tobacco crop last week. Maj. David Bradham has been visit ing among his many friends, since his return home from Tennessee, strength ening old bonds of friendship before he leaves for New Mexico where he has accepted the position of Comman dant and Professor of Science in the New Mexico Military Academy. The Sumter Military Academy accepted Maj. Bradham's resignation with reluctancy and a feeling of indebted ness for his thorough, faithful work. The Black River ?nion will be held at the Providence Baptist Church August 29-31. Sermons on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday by Revs. Gresham, Myers, and Connors respec tively. To the Christian Temperance Workers of South Carolina. Our annual meeting will be held in Chester, S. C, Sept. 18th to 21st in clusive. Each Chapter is earnestly re quested to send a full delegation. Our sisters of Greenville helped us to make a good session in their city last year, and we believe our sisters of Chester will do equally as well for us this year. Many new Chapters have been organ ized since our last annual meeting, and we expect to see each chapter rep resented. The work was never so much needed before, and we hope for good results from our meeting. Mrs. Joel E. Brunson, President C. T. W. of S. C. Sumter, Aug. 16. 1902. Services at Bradford Springs. Rev. II. H. Covington will hold services and preach at St. Philip's Church Bradford Springs at 11 o'clock next Sunday morning. The voters who could not vote yester day because their names were not on the clnb roll have no one to blame but themselves, unless their names were on the roll at the last election. The mountain pilgrims, the sojourn ers by the sea and .the health-seekers at the springs are returning home to take up their regular occupations when the fall season opens. Bartlette street between Harvin and Main should be macadamized. There will be an interesting game of base ball at the park this af ternoon between the Game Cocks and the Giants, the two strongest teams of colored ball players in the city. The game will begin at 4.30 o'clock. Seats will be provided for spectators. Horses?Mules?Horses. Dr. Eward P. Halstead, Veterinary Surgeon from Heretford, England, now located at the Veterinary Infirmary, Augusta, Ga., begs to inform the pub lic generally that he will attend Sum ter, S. C, at Mr. Graham's stable, Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, Sept. 1st, 2d and 3rd. Three days only, for the treatment of lame and sick horses and mules. Specialist in the castration of Cryp torchid Horses. (Pigs) Postal address, Box 495, Augusta, Ga. Aug. 27?It IS YELLOW POISON in your blood ? Physicians cali it Halar?a! Germ. It can be seen changing red blood yellow under microscope. It works day and night. First, it turns your com plexion yellow. Chilly, aching sensations creep down your backbone. You feel weak and worthless. 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Whisky If ?jan I ?SiP? stock whisky, coi ton wood Four. Six :i?:<? to case. N<> cate contents. i.-> especially medicinal pur pure ando? t lu Yoii are al lib Vou r family it :iii<i if not turn it :it my will refund o fa m i 1 y out a case. No call for less rts by express If interested in whiskies write for full price list. In ordering remember whisky cannot be shipped C. O. D., and all orders must be accompanied by cash. Address all communications to E. A. LACKEY, aus 13?Gm Hamlet, . C, THE LAST CALL We are receiving daily the fruit? of our buyers' efforts io the New York Market. This does not signify that the summer is over* We have on hand in our various departments, "Odd Lots of Desirable Goods" We prefer not to carry any goods over till next season, so these will have to go. "We Will Not Stand on Price." This means we intend to sacrifice them. You will find things that you can use next sea son that it will pay you to buy now, j. Mgj soi. MACON] GA. SOMTER, S. G. ROCKY MOUNT, N. G. Artope & Whitt Co., a. E. RICHARDSON, - - Manager. Marble and Granite Monuments, Head stones and Iron Fencing* * Large Stock Finished Work on Tard. You will find our prices much lower than you have been paying. Investigate, call or write for designs and prices. Special discount for the next thirty days. Office and works 33 E. Liberty Street, Suin ter, S. G. Aug 11?