University of South Carolina Libraries
Wut jjjjj . . -_ .. , -y ? ? ? ? ? - _ ? " i ?MI u4 . ' ..? ? ! VOL. XX _ WEDNESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 2, 1870. NO 39. ?lmeo Diinaoi Bl Don? P?renlei,~VlrR. IThe Sumter Watchman (ESTAULISUED Itt I860.) i i ri'f LHIID WKUNKNDAY MOHNIN?. AT SUMTER. 8. C.? BY 0 IL UK UT & PLOWEKS. Terms .M 00 0?.? . . 1 JO I .fol IllOlltlH. .i?v'I?Ui'|.HUW?NT.S Minoru-! ar the ru? ,oVl! IIOM.AII ANO KIKTV OB NTS per ?f .? ft,, it.? nrst. O.VB DOLLUt lor th? .P I |N,| KI KT Y i;iiNTS for each fuliMque.ni ""'"I,, fur-int injriu.l I ?KU I h un ihre? month* n? vu i ntuiUTBs OF KBSI?BC? I [fi ",,,". ,i H II I cu t lo n> which ?iibnerrc privul* ?o. ?ri ' .". or ai1 ii?lvrrltKi'iiieiil>. . ' 5cUcltft WiOVX), THS POOR PARSON'S TALE. \Iv wink l?os i? a large, scattered r-a'rbli flu.?el> populated with thu very Lott ?I??'" I a,u ?hiio>t powerless tu insist, ?iud (knowing how empty and cruul uru words o? comfort without that ln-tii I cuni"! give to fill tho hungry) ?niiicliuirs ti I must fear lo preach to. it js terrible io preach of'thc Lamb to pco pic with 'he wolf ut thu door. In i li is parish nru uiiiiiy rich meit, ninny thri? ving mid ?oil to do in ere hu tit 8 and mao ui'ieiurere, many benevolent meu, who wish well to tho poor and mistake that for Ictielienneo, many b?n?ficient men nliu willingly give of their abundnnoe, -coals and flannel to a (und and com? mittee.-hut never know the poor, or visit them in their tifHietion ; men who du unod to thc poor and mistake that for ulm ri ty .Men who deceive them M'lvos-nay. half laney in very deed they il-??rive thc Almighty-into the holier thill ?dm ri ty means thc contribut? ing either with sparing or liberal hand nf our nu n superfluities, and nut a con linnell personal Iricndship mid sy tn pa? llis nilli ut least some ot his pour )|?n ulm, believing the poor ure his Ifuucy. tiru yet satisfied to regard the hillie! nu I payment, of charitable subscrip linns in the collectors when they cull, us entitling them to a receipt in full foi IciMcy duty which shall pass them scot ?rec through his Court of Probate flood men, who can lovo their enemies, but to whom the poor, and thc hungry, aie! the outcast are thc lower classes, never lo he visited, mid known, an? I'Y ed. and comforted like friends; men ?flm.su mammon of unrighteousness brings thnn many dependents, many t< eat of tho crumbs which fall from theil laide, but nevera friend to receive them iiiiiieverlasting hubitutions. I have tor. much to do with poverty lo he Mipriscd at crime or to care ti (flossi it over with fine words I am tot frcmtciitly with thc dying, and my eyes rest IUD often on thc dead, to let mc trick ?mt a story in fine dress. I will speak what I know, und testify that V?Idell I have seen. .Sonic years ago, in a time of grcal destitution, when hundreds of the la boriiig elapses were reduced to the most liliject distress through a sudden failure in a ?(tiple manufacture, thc dwelling} of Hie poor became frightfully crowded, As mauv as forty mid fifty human be? ings huddled together in a single house if house indeed it could inderi! be cul? led, and ute, drunk, slept, washed.I and oui.k?d } the sick, and the well, yount ami ul I, married and single, all crowder! liv.'Pthcr us thick ns vermin. It was i bad siun oltcn when a single- family du have a simile room. There is an in? stinct in birds und boasts, which lead.' (hem to go away from their kind to suf fer and tn die. And too often (he singh room told ol worse si t aits uud decpci destitution than cuuld have been born? in a crowd. At the time of this distress, one nf (evin.:.ii I wu, visiting ii little pari* h ?on cr ?d'mine, ti II.ere child of twelve your old, wini, with her younger sister, make matchboxes ul five cents per grosss, am finds glin-and thin paper for thc insides too; und euro- Lizzie Uoltrcll and he sister together, nearly or quite as mud as her feeble mother cati make at sew big Between them the three pay th weekly rent of their own little room ?nd jiM keep the wolf from coming in -only just. NV hilo there I heard noise in thc street, and going out to sc i (lie cause, some one said : '-Oh, do g up into that house,,sir ; ibero's a ina beating his wife shameful !" I wen where I was directed, up u broken fligli 0?greasy stairs, winding round a filth Mack passage, up another flight of bri: ken stairs, and past mai.y haggard fuer <>f men und women Outside a broke door I paused, uncertain ?fit were th rieht one. I heard a motin that sound ed like a woman's. Then a mau ?pol? in n weak voice, but passionate, an broken int.) pauses by sickness or weak ness. "I wish, my God, I had kille you June !" ?'And I. Tom, and I woul not have cried nor g rou ned if you ha only kissed me first, and told mo yoi munt it,anl would forgive me." " would-have done it," be gasped oui '.but [-1 haven't got thc strength." I opened thc door ?nd walked ir "What do you want?" the mun uskci in a husky whisper. Ile wa- lying o thc . :?i flour, very faint, and hod raise himself up on his elbow. He had mee liku u sk luton, in which hungr and fever were contending for a prej i'hero was mit a : crap of furniture i tho room, neither bcd nor headstone chair nor table ; only a broken tcapc with a little water in it beside thc mai in another part of the room, against th empty fire grate, lay his wife, also o thc floor, lying on iicr back, and pul from thc loss of blood that flowed fro '?cr head. Near ber was a piece of ire foil that seemed once to have served fi a poker, and now for a weapon. ' <Wt know," I ?aid, for I was taki ?back ; "I wish only (o render help, 1 can." ..(Jo to her," he said I wei ?nd examined tho Wows on thc po woman's head. They were not soriou .?though bleeding profusely-sea WOUIHIH und bruises only. I pbtfn ?orne ol thc water from thc toapot on n handkerchief, bathed and bandagi "?cm with it. "He didn't mean todo it, sir," ?1 woman was crying, whilo I tied up tl Wounds, "lie is the kindest of hi tjan?s; but we've been in trouble latel lhere was ,," work. We've parted wi tho M things a fortnight ago. T?ldn?t hear to>o him dio for wt, before my eyes. And so I sont r ^'l??htcr-no, fdr,-I can't tell yoi J?t wo wore all two days without lot 7iUn t..fo,r mi*oH> Air : I would soo M Imvc died. Hut I couldn't boar s ?o nun Himer. And us lor what ho did lo mo, I deserve it nil. I:had a little pocket communion-ser? vice with me. There wus wine in it. I pourod it out-no sacrilege-and gave to her. ->ho would not touch it until her husband hud first drank a great part of it. Then, seeing him a trifle revived by the wine, I sal by him on tho floor, having given a trifilo to his wife to buy brcud, mid directed her to send for a doctor. ' vVhcn she was gone, I said,- - '..My poor fellow, opcu your heart to me ; t el I me what bitter strait brought you to regret, (hat'you hadn't strength left to become a murderer. Was it only fumino ?" Vi'-' ?No." He was very, weak-past food or mcdicut help : This murderous attack on his wife hud been tho lust mud effort of Uiver und delirium, thc flickering up of thc dying flume before it expires. "What then ? Tell me, that I may know how to help you." L drew his terrible story from him in short questionings and answers, ns ho could boar it. ile withheld thc por* lion? relative to his own greater priva? tions. Theso I afterwards gathered from his wife. He hud been out of work ten months, ulong with many hundred others, and lhere wus no work in his trudo obtaina bio -m y where. Ho gave up his little house first. That was a great pain. His wile was above his own station, and hud taken such u pride in it, und mudo even out of bin poor things a house fit for a gentleman, he said. Tho little savings from his weekly wages soon went, und when he moved into two rooms the fur niturc begun to go. They remained in two rooms until it was gone for food but the mat roes. Then they moved hore, and not liing wus left but a few gar menta to pawn. All this time he sought work, tried to get only un hour's employ as porter, messenger, any thing as long as it was work ; but tho lower down the seule the fiercer tuen light for their own, hunger makes them so keen. Hundreds were struggling for tho like employ The strong und thc clamorous succeeded while the earth bro ken wcro trampled down io thc crowd' Now and then he did get a few pennies in tho day for holding a horse ur something of thc kind. And in taking this home lo his wife and his daughter Nelly, he ulways made them believe he had spent part of what he earned on food for himself, and would seldom touch their brcud. Then he felt the end was coming. Ho could no more go out. And there was no food, und no more clothes left to pawn to ob? tain any. His only shirt hud long gone, nnd his wife and child were so destitute us only to have rags enough between thom to cover decently tho one who went out to fetch any thing. All that morning he had been lying in a kind of stupor which ho had thought was thc end. But, awakening, he missed his daughter, und asked for her. His wife prevaricated, then burst out crying, then owned what she hud done, how she had st nt her out ou the streets as a last resource to gc mou ey to buy brcud to save her father's life, mo? ney not to be begged nor stolen. "Oh, not that !" the mun had groaned, in bitter agony, "not that, mother! Botter we all die than that. O (Jod, how could you, the mother that bare her, and not have killed her ru th or I'-' Then in a wild frenzy of horror and anger, thinking his strength had returned to him, ho hud leaped up and f?llen on his wife with the piece of iron, thinking it belier they all had died than that; but lound himself' too weak. "No, sir," he said to me, don't tell me about God, or his book j only fetch me my child, my little Nelly,--it may liol bc too lute,-that I may see her be? fore I die and kuow that it is not too late." He was right. I left him kneeling nt hi-N wife's side, although it was a last effort, got medical advice and a trido of food, and, promising to return, sot off on my errand. I got a woman from thc house io accompany mc to identify the girl, and found a policeman to direct us in our inquiries. We visited every hon iib In the neighborhood, und every den where there was a chano ! of a poor, ragged girl being fouud; but without success. We thou took each street and alley within a circuit of three miles, and wandered about till evening waned into night, till night waxed to inidnigut, and thc pale moon stared out in a sickly halo through quickly-driftir.g, gusty clouds, and stars gleamed far off in thc depth behind the clouds. Farther yet we traversed, and tho. night grew on, till passing nlouc a deserted streot wc came to n great and fine building dedi? cated to Foreign Missions, a glorious monument of thc benevolent intorc. t wc tukc in tho, welfare of tho heathen who dwell where Afric's sunny fountains run down her guidon snuds. There, crouched on tho steps, numbed with thc cold, and asleep from shcor exhaustion, was the poor child wo sought. Thank God, it was not too late, her wan and frightened looks, and tho poor rags that clad her, were her surest protection from evil. We foti her first, there in tho street, for I had bought a little bread before the shops closed, and put in my pocket with a small flask of brandy. She atc ravenously ; and when she had taken as much ns wc deemed prudent to allow her, we brought her home in the middle of the riight. If < ever J ?iw devout thankfulness and supremo gratitude to tho Father in heaven dopiotcd on any human being's face, I saw it in that {>oor mail's as ho lay dying with his icad resting on Nolly's lap, tho only pillow ho had, or wished for. "I thought," he said, "my last sin beating Ker-but I didn't know what I did, and ho knows what f vo suffered kiss mo again, Jane-would nover bo forgiven me, Thon, ofter you wcro gono, it carno into my mind if I eould only eeo my little Nelly safo before I wont, I shouid tuko it tor a sign. God . bless you, sir I" ..Tho Lord is very pitiful, and of tend? ! cr morey," I suid. I "Will he seo they don't die of want?" ho asked, with a great and earnest effort. "I am sure he will," I replied; "and I will he his servant todo his will." He oloseJ h ts eyes and murmured, as I it wore in a sleep, "Very pitiful, and of tender morey I" And when he opened them again in spirit, it was where* they shall hunger no more, neither thirst any moro, and where God shall wipe away all tear? from their eyes. Tho night was past, and it was day. break, and the sun shone in upon the room, ns I left thom alono with their dead. I buried him. And they did not want. My wealthy parishioners are always ready td givo money to a thrilling case of aggravated distress, but sadly ?az to prevent the occurrence of such eases by lack of personal knowledge of the poor. Monetary help in plenty poured in from all sources iu answer to newspaper ap? peals. "Relief" is tho honester worn ; for it relices thc consciences of tho givers by deluding them that thereby they escape their duty to their kind. Thc mother never thoroughly re? covered that timo of sn Hering ; but, iu spite of care aud sympathy, faded out of lifo within three, mouths of her hus? band's death. Then arose the question, what to do with Nelly, a gentle, good looking girl of sixteen. I tried succes? sively to get her admitted to Orphan Schools and various Industrial and Be? nevolent Homes, honestly stating her history as I have told it. But the doors of theso excellent institutions were all shut against her. At last, with some trouble, I got Nelly received iuto a country village school, where she mode herself useful, und received an educa? tion at tho same time. Nelly grew up to boa gentle, good, Christian womau,-as much u lady iu heart and gentleness as any in thc land. And when the poor parson needed a help-meet for him in word and deed, to help him bind together iu one common chord of sympathy the very rich and the very poor, between whom the great gulf fixed i>? grown so wide as only just to bo spanned by kind words now ; ?iud when that thread once breaks, fire and sword will leap across it instead,-when, I soy, the poor parson ueeded such a gentle help, ho asked Nolly to be his wife. And all thc parish knows that tho par? son's wife is Nelly, thut was the outcast, and aro glad ; for she is the tenderer to the strayed and thc fallen, and them that, are out of thc way tor it. Ay.', my .darling ! aud all thc world is welcome to know it, too. I have talked of thc poor and their long suffering aud their patient poverty ; but. think ol'thc poverty of tuc rich, and of their privations. Do you know that all the real pleasures which a healthy mind eau enjoy como from sources free to all, without money nod without price,-a freehold forever, to thc poorest of us, which can neither bo bought nor sold, nor taken away? Like the air wc breathe, and like thc wild flowers God sows for us, it is very easy to mistake for valueless things which ure only priceless. And this it is thal makes rich people so poor, and often limes so cross and ill-tempered; they expect too much from money, expect it to buy pleasure, which is just what money can't buy. It will buy ex? citements and comforts and position in society, and a whole host of things to while away thc slipping hours before Judgment. Good, honest money, which represents a man's own labor and toil, with head or hands, l'or ino benefit of his fellows, brings with it a zest and a piquancy which idle accumulators and inheritors of storcd-up wealth would give a heavy price to experience. But no miser has wealth enough to buy such cheap things as love and charity, and good-nature, and real, earnest fellowship ?md Irieodship willi Iiis kind ; for wealth sears thc mind and affections, and blunts the senses to the sweetest and most delicate chords of heaven's music which vibrato on earth for him that hath ears to car. Both not wealth cat as doth a canker? Docs thc gold never binti when it comes to a mun bot villi tho tears of the poor anti needy, from whom it has been wrested in some of those gigantic swindles our laws dulCt touch ? Do no man's groans nor woman's tears go with tho gold to gnaw his heart into it foreboding ol thc sure judgement of the Almighty ? Who says gold is a trensuc that tl ol li not rust ? Thc dif? ference between hoirding ?rou and hoar ding gold is only this,-they both rust, -tho rust of the iron abides in thc iron, but thc rust of thc gold-even honest gold-enters tho soul of thc man and cakes over that. It isn't the gold gets the injury , if it were, it wouldn't mat? ter about being a rich man. James would never have cried, "(Jo to, now, ye rich men, weep and howl for the misorics which shall come upon you;" nor would he, who carno as a poor man, have said, "A rich man shad hardly en? ter tho Kingdom." -.-?.??>?? SIC VICK ac WIMIiltS, Tho New York papers publish a re? cord made up from dial ?os of tho weath? er during thc winters which elapsed bo tween 1780 and 1832. Tho tablo gives thc dates of thc closing by ico of thc Hudson ricer, and of tho opening of thc navigation in thc spring. No gcnoral rulo as to tho regular alternation of mild and severo weather can bo laid down from this tablo. Of theso forty-two winters sixteen wcro mihi, but sonic ol them occurred in immediate succession. Thus from 1792 to 1700 there were four mild winters, then from 1700 to 1700 thrco sovoro, from 1700 to 1804 fire mild winters ; then a suocossion of mild and severe wintors until 1811, when a long series of eighteen sovoro winters. set io, broken only by three mild ??otero The record would have been more yal* uablo had the warmth of the summers boen noted, as there is a theory that the average temperature is the same for ever> year ; that is, a hot summer is counterbalanced by a severe winter, and a temperate summer by a mild win? ter. [From the Litchfield (III.) Monitor.] MAU RI AGE liXTttAOHDINAItY TH ft QVBCRI?ST CASK YB r-HOW A SiioAmir WAS pimpiaHATKD IN H.INOJS-A RIAN FINDS AN0TII KIC HUSBAND FOU Hlft OWN WIFE. About (our years ago, as near as we can loam, there came to Litchfield from Missouri a man, about sixty years of agc, calling himself Cuvolt. Here ho CUM gaged in occupation of boarding-house keeper and teamster. With him came a woman, apparently about thirty-five years old, who presided over the domes? tic department of Cavolt. She repre? sented herself as thc widowed daughter -in law of the man, and had two chil? dren who passed os her children and tho man's grand children. She was generally known in the neighborhood as tho "widow Cavolt." Both the man aud tho woman represented thnt her husband dying, had Commanded her aud the children to the caro of his father, with the urgent request that he would al? ways remain with and protect and care (or thom. The family were considered by those who knew them as honest, re? spectable people, and tho fidelity with which Cavolt fullfilled the trust reposed in him by his departed soo was the SubjOOt of frequent culogium. As time passed on tho Cavolts made many acquaintances in the town, and some friends. Among tho latter was a young man named Reuben Akers, an honest and thrifty young workingman. Mr. Akers became a frequent visitor at the Cavolt house, till friendship ripened into a kinder and tender sentiment. The contemplation of tho young widow's many graces of pcrst n and domestic vir? tues was too many for him. The oft quoted advice of old Weller to Samivel to " bevarc of the vidders/' if ever heard by him, was forgotten in the intoxica? tion of "lovo'syoung dream," and-well last March he und thc widow became mun and wife. At least Reuben thought so, but, doubtless, thc law would take another view of the subject, as, in fact, Reuben does now. The ceremony <kver, the first to grasp Reuben's hand und wish him much joy was Cavolt, thc aged und pions guardian of the deceased son's widow and children. Tht blushing bride re? ceived the salutations and congratula? tions ol' her friends, and everything was happy as-say twenty or thirty-mar? riage bells. Thc honey moon passed-in fact, six ?tionths passcJ-without any apparent diminution of tho honey or its palling on thc taste. At the end of that timo a brother of (he bride, who in the muan - limo had como to Litchfield, let an immense cat out of the bag; otherwise, he revealed thc astounding fact that Cavolt was thc husband of his daughter in-law and tho father of his grandchil? dren-that is to say, that ho was hus? band and father, and not at all father in-law and grandfather, the dead son and his dying change being light and airy creatures of the playful fancy of Mr. and Mrs. Cuvolt. Naturally, Reuben Akers was con siden-b'y excited when he bea d the brother's ?tory, and he went immi-< lately to old Cuvolt to inquire as tn its trut . Thc patriarch acknowledged the ? r i frankly, lie said ho was oui, und had but few moro yeats to live, and not wish? ing to leave n young widow destitute to struggle fur a living for herself and a little ono in an unfeeling world, he thought it would be better to havo her united to a worthy and industrious young man, to whose tender caro he could safely intrust her when he should bc called to another aud a better homo. Instead of being overcome with emo? tion, or soothed and satisfied with this explanation, Reuben flew into a rage, and immediately abandoned his half interest in tho conjugal claim, where upon, shortly after, thc Cavolts, young and old, willi bag nnd baggage, departed for parts unknown. What sticks in Reuben's craw is the hand-shaking and congratulation of old Cavolt on the wedding day. "Why," said he, "thc old scalawag was tho first to wish me much joy." WOFFORD COLLEGE. SPAKTANnUICO C. II., SO. CA. FACULTY: KEV. A. M. 81111*1*. D. D., Pfttldont, on Professor Mental nnd Monti Sci neu. DAVID DUNCAN, A. M., Professor Ancient Language- and Literature KEV. W II IT li FOO lt D SMITH, D.D., Professor Knjrlith Literature. WA HU KN DU PRK, A. M., Professor Nolurnl Scionco. JAS. II. CARLISLE, A. M., Professor Mathe mailes. KEV. A. II. LKSTF.R, A. M., Profoseor Histor* and Ilihlical Litern toro. Tho Preparatory Sclnol, nuder tho iinmcdisto suporvMon of the Faculty, Juo. W. SUI TP, A. iL, Principal. Divinity .School-Rev. A. M. Shlpp, D. D. Hov. Whitefoord Smith, D. D. j Rev. A. II Len ter, A. M. Tho firat Session of tho Sixteenth Collc-iate Year-begin ? on tho Orot Monday In October, 18A9. the Hccond Besti?n boging on the fi ral Mon. day in January, IS?tf. Tho coane of studies ?nil tho standard of scholarship romain unchanged, but tho Faculty now admit irregular students or those who wibb to pursue particular studies only. Tho Schools also opon nt the snmo lime. Tuition per year, in College Classes, Including contingent fco, $64 In Spode, or its equivalent II Currency. Tuition por yon r, in Preparatory School, includ lng contingent fee, $44 In currency. lillis payable ono half In advance. Doard, pe Month, from $10 to $16 in curroncy. For further particular*, address A. M. SHIPP, Prc.il Joni. May IO Jy Business before Pleasure, A NEW PLAY. Ac-rl. BcBKBllt. Scene, the Store, ecruer of the Old Hotel next the Court Ilouse-SonwxRiK behind the comnter-Enter a Countryman. COUNTRYMAN. Are you the man that ?ell? STORE CLOTHES so ebeap ? ScBfrsKiN. Yes, I'm the man. So If your clothes are worn out, or ruined bj tear in', There's no ase in cute?n' but go right to Schwerin, .0. What I Oo to ttceariii' f Look bore, my friend, if tbat'e tba way you talk, bow do you expeot to prosper, when the Bible says "Swear not at all ?" S. You don't understand me, I mean cometo me i and I'll fit you out with a' new suit, inside and outside. My nam* it Schwerin* 0. Ohl That's lt, ia it? Well tts a cass-a very bad name, any how. But I s'posoyour goods are nuue the worse for that, and I see bon you might flt me with a suit outtide from your stock of Hut?, Boots and Shoes, Goats, Voste and Peats, Shirts, Undershirts, Drawers, Sooks, Collars, llnndcrohiefe, ftc, Ac, but how ona you flt me to a suit i ?aide, hey? S. Why, I'll toll you. Snroo of my excellent GUOCBRIES there would suityou ?mide to a T., wouldn't they ? C. Yes, thoy would, that's a fact, somo of your ; Sugar, Coffee, Too, Flour, Molasses, Canned Pish, Oysters and Lobsters, Chow Chow Pickles, Ac, Ac. S. Yos, I sell my Dry Qnmlrt and Wet Goods, Orocorios, Clothing and other articles too numeruus to montion, very CHEAP FOB CASH. "8mall Profits and Quick Retaras" ls my motto. .Exit Countryman with a bag full, a basket full and a bundle full. Sept 22_6m FALL AND WINTER CLOTHING, CLOTHS, &c &c. I). J. WINN, -AGENT FOR Shipley, Roane & Co., HAS now in store a large and fine stock of Fall and Winter (louds, consisting of FINE DRESS SUITS, Business Suits, Heavy Ordinary Clothing, Fino Cloth?, Cassiinore.4, Cloths for Indies' Clonks, Solem N. C. Jeans, Shirts, Druwere, Merino Vests, Sacks, Suspenders, Cravats, Ac. PoFFOxsing unueuat advantages, and being in this lino only, bo can and wi'l sell clothing nnd cloths, cheaper than they eon be elsewhere bought. And nil ho tusks is a careful inspection and this will bo demonstrated. Oct 6_tf__ Just Received. Fall and Winter Stock, .AT J. E . SU ARES. DRY GOODS, GROCERIES, ROOTS and SHOES, CLOTHING, Together with a variety of other Goods. Old Rye Whiskey. Tho Subscriber wisbos to announce that he will be in constant receipt ol tho COPPER DIS? TILLED MOUNTAIN PURE and UNADUL? TERATED WHITE & COLORED RYE WHISKEY, Direct (rom the Distillery nt Hannisvillo, Berk? ley County, Western Virginia. -ALSO Brandies, Gin, Wines, Porter & Ale, All of tito Best Brands. Also A CHOICE LO T OF SEGA HS. J. E. Suares, MAIN STREET, WEST SIDE. Sopt 20_Sumter, 8. C. F urn iture -AT THE SUMTER FURNITURE WAREROOMS, A LARGE LOT OF Bedsteads and Chairs. AND Cottage Setts, The Subscriber is receiving and will continuo to re?oive a stock of FURNITURE. direct from the manufactory, consisting of almost ovory artieto in that lino. J. VJ, SU AR KS, Main Street, opposite tho Express Office. Sept 29_Sumter, S. C. STOVES. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Manufactured 1>J Harbeck, Coiiklin & Willis, Manufacturer* of Stoves, Tin and Japancd Ware, And Agents fur Kaoline and Kiiamr-lcd H are. Fur salo by li. P. LOU INO, Agent, S uno 9- Slimier S. C. . ? FIRE A: I IN". S TXR CHAS. H. MOISI SUMTE LIVERPOOL AND LONDON ? GLOBE Insurance Company. Capital, Surplus and Reserved Funds, tn Gold, $17,700,000. Seventeen Million aud Seven Hundred Thousand Dollars-IN GOLD. Invested in the United Stat CB, Two Mil? lions of Dollars. $2,000,000. Risks in Sumter, taken at Charleston rates. Residences in (Ive Country Insur? ed at LOW Hates. Losses paid promptly in Charles? ton. On the payment of Ten Years j premiums in CASH, a perpet? ual policy will be issued. ANCE. . S, Insurance Agent, ii, s. ?: Brooklyn Mutual Life Insu? rance Co., of New York. Annual Income nearly Half a Million of Dollars. I Character well known in Sum? ter. 1 Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance Company, of Hartford. Assots ot Market value, Four Million Three Hundred Thou s nnd Dollars. $4,300,000. Losses paid ia Cash, Seven Hundred and Siztv-cight Thousand Dollars. " $708,000 This Company has never contested o claim. TERMS--HALF CASU ; HALF NOTE. CHAS. II. MOISE, Insurance Agcot, Sumter, S. C. Nov 17 Stn THE BEST ITV" USE. It is a preven- ^g?smS^?W?m-^ N0 BITTERS j ?ve of Chills, a ^JWtiWKBBfeK* &4 pg & equal to them.1 sure cure ?frifflWISES* For tho weak. Dyspepsia, qL-g^^r?^: * . - V.'C- * or the pale. Cholera Mor- j^^^f"* ""'For the sickly, bus, Indiges- fJ^^^^KM'^^r^,?^ For'the aged, tion, Nervous For females. Debility, Dae- jf?:p3??^^^^^^^u^?r???. ^or spring use. | light?ul Bevor- \^s?^^^^'^^J|vy^ All use it with age, a pleasant ^^^^^^^i^^^^S??^^^^ ^ wonderful suc tonic, an inval- ^ T -H,E; G REA"?? .--?^ oess- Brings cSamon??n8 lilli Salute fe Bloom and Beauty to tue thiu Face aad Care-worn countenance. Cures Fever | and creates Appetite. , THE B!TST~TN. USE. A ". , Recommended by thc Uhjhest Medical Authority at thc ?State. o?c Circulars around each Bottle. TRY TH KM. USU NO OTHER. Ask for SUMTER BITTERS. Sold by Druggists and Oro eera. See that our signature is over Ibo cork of ench holtlo. DOWIE & MOISE. PROPRIETORS AND WHOLESALE DRUGGISTS, CHARLESTON, S. 0. Oct 13 4m .|i...'i,M ,>'<?'? "'.?...l?U......|?t||.|,ll||.?.?l?,*lt,?ltl,||.,.?l|l*lttlt|..^.|,*l.*tl.**tft*l.**llvl.>*||.|,|.|?*.|,*t?f|||.|,.l||.||fl|,.||,l|,llt|l|,l,".|, Piedmont and Arlington LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY. THOSE TWO STAUNCH COMPANIES, THE PIEDMONT I AND "ARLINGTON" HAVE COMBINED UNDER THE ABOVE NAME, AND PRESENT, IN THE SHORT TIME OF TWO YEARS, A LIST OF OVER Sight Thousand Insurers and a Capital and Assets of over One Million and a Ha If of D lars, ATTAINING TO A POSITION ND IMPORTANCE AMONG Life Insurance Companies never before reached in so short a time. Rights of Policy Holders in both the "Piedmont" and "Arlington" will remain unchanged, and tho same as before. New and advantageous features in the new Company, will be allowed the old Insurers co-equal with the new ones There are Branch Offices in each Slate, where funds accruing art invested, and not talen beyond State limits. -o Branch Office in this State at Columbia, LEA Pl IA RT, JEFFERSON AND RANSOM. Manager?. H, H, MOSES, Agent. OITieo nt J. T. SOLOMONS' S.oro. REFERENCES : Capt. A. A. Gilbert, Cup?. E. W. Moise, Copt. Jno. S. Richardson Oct 0 WANDO FERTILIZER. Manufactured at the Wando Works, *IN CHARLESTON, S. C. Tl is a homo litado article, and proven to ba tho boat FICHT I LIZ IOU now in ?uso.' _ 1" JE3L E! "XW -A. INT X> O I CAN bo lind nt nil limes omi in nny quantity, by applying to thc Subscriber, tn SUMTER. ELISHA CARSON, Agent, For Sumter County. Oct 27 3in IB V E R Y D ? S C R IP?I O J) PllO il FT tY IXKCUTBD AT TUK OFFICE OF |The Sumter Watchman. '??? ! ! " I. >.(. : ' , !! ! '" ': I!- TM THE Highest Style of the Art Charleston Advertisements. PANKNIN'S HEPATIC BITTERS. THEY CURE DYSPEPSIA, AB? AU NfIABH Of Til? STOMACH AND LIVER. tnsr ARE RBCOMmtnnD ?r tn? MEDIOAi FACULTY. HEGE^AN Sc CO., AO axis,' jrorir rona. Manufactrjrrea^yCJF P ANKNIN, OBZHIBT AiT? APOTHECARY, OHA HljES'f ON, S. O. **-For ?ale bf/ Urt'Oi/itt* Kvcrv\cher*.~%X MONEY 8AV?0;iS MONEY MA0? ! CHEAP AND FASHIONABLE SHOE HOUSE. D. O'NEIIiL & SONS, No. 975'KlNO StREKT, (BBTIT'KKN OKOnOB AND CAI.HOUH STKBBTB,) CHARLESTON, S. C. Wholesale and Ketall . DKALKUS IN T II B IiATKST ply li? and best qualf Mu? of Hoots, Shoes, Tr-jnks, Traveling /UHRS, Valises, fcalch LUIS, ito., Ao. 1 Having a member 'of the firm alway a at the North aokctlog ind forwarding stock to us by ovory Steamer, wo .an assure our friends and buyers generally that we will give purfuct sntisfeotlon. It would be lo he Interest of Country, and City buyers lo givo us a cull and oxotolrte our stock which bas jtiHt ijeen replenished. Oot 13 ___6o?__ HOLMES & CALDER MANUFACTURKUS, Iur0HTER8 AND DKAI.KHS -IN TS, OlML Glt?SS, Varnishes, Brushes, Etc., No. 205 EAST BAY, Charleston, S. 0. W. li. JIOI.JIKH. W. CALDRR IlEFEJItENCES. Col. L. M. Ilatcb; Qon. Johnson Hagood; Wra 0. Dukes ? Co; Col. Charles H. Siiuoitton; L. W Sprnit, Esq; Col. J. B. E. Sloan. Oct 13 _ 6m WM. HA UH A i.. WM. II AURAL, JR WW, HARRAL & CO* FORMRRI.Y (II Alt H AL, NICHOLS & CO.) No. 19 HAYNE STREET, Charleston, 8. C. WK RESPECTFULLY CALL THE AT . tention of tho moicluints of Sumter mid the adjacent country, to our well selected stock of Saddlery, Saddlory U?rdwnro, Conch and Hur. oes? Materials, couslstiog in part of ' SADDLES, WHIPS, BRIDLES. COLLARS, HARNESS, GIRTHS, ' SPOKES, AXELS, HUHS, SPRINGS. HIMS, SHAFTS, ENAMELED CLOTHS, PATENT DASH J. i'AT lt Ell, JIAKNKSS 1, KA TH UK, AO., 40. Oct. 13. ^ (lin ''Campsen Mills" Flour RECEIVED THE 1*7 l*rcmium at thc So. Ca. Stale Fair in Columbia, 1800. ?"lelil? undersigned < flor t<> their country friends 1 and the public in general it chuice and puru article of I'lmir. Wo hnvoon hand and arc grinding daily u full supply of choice ' Family Extra & Super Flour ALSO Northern und Western Flour nt lowest murk? prleo. Corn, Oats anti May. o.OOO Habels Primo White Corn. 2 000 ? " Oats. .".CO Us '? Harlem and N. Uiver Hay. JOHN OAMPSKX A CO., pliitrleston, S. C. Dee 8_:ini<.? WI S. WHILDEN & 00^ 1.11 nt RTE RS AM) J ?lll) MRS (ll' O robbery, WATCHES. JEWELRY AND SII.VEK WAUK, -'55 KINO ST?IIJICT cor.of llcanjuin, (Ml A lt L10ST ON, S. C. SeptS _ Om_ F 0 REST H O TT S E f 100 KINO STREET, Charleston, S. C. B Y ti BOUGH T.. I? H ATX. BOARDING Transient Hoard, ono or two days. $3 00 |>or ?lay Transient Iluurd, -I or more day.-?. $|.;Mi j,er do v I tegular Donni - ?7.00 i? $8.io per ivoe'k D.iv If?nr<l .... $ii j,ur W1H.|{ Moving recently taken this largo and pleoMtnl House, a lew doors below .Mmkot St roc I, situated in H delightful and convenient lorn lily for tho business community, and llior>lighly renovated and refurnished it in nil departments I sm pro. pured lo m commodine Hoarders nt lim modern le prices ns flated above, and promise entire saris fact 11 II, h?ih ns to slceplner accoi|in'Milalloti mid luido fn re. lt EM KM H EU TUK Ko. 1?0 KING STU K BT, Sept 8_ _ Om _ MI t*I. l?OM> & Ct?ASSJhU? OYSTERS* SUPPLl KD In quant liles ?n s-tli piirclinfor* Order.? from ?ll purls of ilu. inn flor solidi. d. address Tims MeCrndy, Ag. nt, I?, ti. Ito* 330, Charlestini. S. C. deferences.-Jantes A tiger A ('?., ff mi .T p. Campbell. Dr. St. .1. MIIVOMI, la tl .1 .ml., M l rn lv A Son, W. U, Dingi?', John lt van. Nov. 17 Oinoe.