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THE MAN1NG TIES. Manning, S. Co S. A. NETTLES, Editor. WEDNESDAY, November 20,1889. NEWSPAPER ETHICS. The National Democrat, a paper pub lished in Washington, saw fit re cently to turn loose its vials of wrath upon the Charleston World. The World replied to the article in a dig nified manner, one that we thought appropriate, but it also made an un called for sling at the country press of this State. We had not intended making note of this fling, but we judge the World wishes our opinion on the subject, as it has sent us a marked copy of that paper. We shall therefore take this opportunity of giving vent to some thoughts along this line, using the World's paragraph for our text. The World says: We think it very probable that we can stand this abuse, as every cox comb in this State who dignifies him self with the name of editor, has done nothing but abuse us for every decid ed utterance we have made. We have few friends among our country exchanges; they do not like our inde pendence of thought; they cannot bear pur praising and criticising, in discriininately, Republicans and Dem ocrats, who deserve applause or cen sure. Their school of politics having taught them that one party must be always right and the other always wrong. Now the above paragraph certainly does not have reference to us, as we never in all our life have been insult ed with the insinuation of being a dude or a coxcomb, and we likewise admire independence of thought and speech. Therefore what we say will be honest criticism, and in no way can be construed into a vindictive re ply We like the World and have often spoken a kind word for it, but we are free to say that to us it has some im perfections. We like its straightfor ward,- honest way of saying things, and we think it has many valuable points; but somehow we can't fancy one of its apparent features: the principle that endeavors to rise by crushing down others. Sometimes we see this cropping out in the World. It is in our judgment poor policy. The public does not like it. It is a well-founded principle of our busi ness to take care of our own sweet self first but never by attempting to crush out our opponents or competi tors by saying or doing aught against hem. We think such a course mean 'eanoutside of the high bcaarable p~re in volvedigdhis' course, we find it payE~TPhe public 'is always ready to regard with suspic ion the person who vituperates his opponent, and the general result is, the vituperation proves a boomerang,. injuring the vituperator. Our obser vation bears us out in this. Now the~ World is not as much in fault in this matter as several other papers 'we! col isfrtlfl it is notl blameless. One thing we admire in the World as the high plane on which it carries -on a controversy. We do not recall an instance where it ever sank into the contemptible style of using abuse and billingsgate for argument. No newspaper, or writer who lays claim to being a gentleman, can afford to adopt such a style in his writings. The moment one leaves the field of argument and enters that of abuse he shows his weakness and want of cul ture. Argument is a powerful and -effective weapon in a righteous cause, -but abuse and ungentlemanly lan guage is abhorrent to the refined and caltivated. We could never compre h end how a writer in a newspaper could retain his self-respect and yet give and take vile epithets. We thik it always proper to treat any thing in a newspaper in the same way the same thing wo~ld be treated if ut tered in the street face to face. Ev ery man should be held personally accountable for his utterances any * where and at any time. -If there is any necessity for saying anything through the public press, let it te couched in terms appropriate to the occasion and to the subject, but let nothing be set down in malice. Because one differs from me it does not necessarily hold that I am right, and the other party wrong: therefore, as long as argument is used grant to *every one that he is honest in his con victions; but the moment billingsgate is introduced it is a tacit acknowl edgemaent that the party using it is wrong, or is a too quick tempered person. The World claims that it has few friends among the country press of this State. The World is in a better -position than we are, to make this as sertion. We do know, however, that TEE MA!4xnG Tnus is a friend to the World, and we have never failed to respond promptly to-any request for a favor that the World made of us. Can the World say the same course has always been pursued by it to wards the country press ? A commercial cable from Charles ton, S. C., to Hayti, and thence ex tending to South America, was to have been landed at Charleston to -day. The French Cable Company ave the matter in hand.. NO PAY; NO PAPER. After our Grand Gift Distribution we are coming down to a strictly HARD CASH BASIS. We shall send the Trs only for the money. If the Tnes is worth anything it is worth paying for; and if any one does not think it worth paying for, all right. THE MANNING TIMES will go to no one after Nov. 30th, except for the cash or its equivalent. That's busi ness, and we mean it. THAT UNNECESSARY INQUEST. We are told that Coroner Rowe last week publicly called in question the statements made by us three weeks ago, in reference to his holding an inquest over the body of Mr. Thos. E. Shannon. We have not seen his article but we wish simply to reiterate every word in that article. We were present when Coroner Rowe was making his preparations to leave Manning to hold the inquest, and ad vised him not to go. Mr. W. H. H. Hobbs, chairman of the board of county commissioners, and Dr. I. M. Woods, the attending physician, told us that they advised Mr. Rowe not to hold the inquest; and Mr. Hobbs says he urgently protested against the holding of the inquest, and told Mr. Rowe that he would never approve of any claim he might present for holding this inquest. Mr. Hobbs says that Mr. Rowe had, as he thought, abandoned the idea of hold ing the inquest, and that the funeral procession with the corpse had left the house for the cemetery when the inquest(?) was held. These same gen tlemen told us that the jury of inquest did not view the body, or examine the only person who was in the room at the time of Mr. Shannon's death. After we wrote the article three weeks ago, criticising Coroner Rowe, we read it to Dr. I. . Woods (who Mr. Rowe says requested him to hold the inquest) and l'e told us it was ex actly correct. As will be seen we wrote our article on information. which we then condered, and yet con sider, perfectly reliable. WHISKE OR NO WHISKEY 3 Foreston is to vote the first Mon day in December on the' whiskey question. Every man who has the interest and welfare of the town and community and of his own family at heart, will not, for a moment, hesitate how to vote. A barroom in Foreston would be a curse to the town, with no benefit. The expense of keeping up a police force in a small town where whiskey is sold is more than the revenue from the barroom. Then the danger, the misery, the damnation it will cause in so mnany households. Better, far better, to get the charter of the -town rescinded, and let the town rgek on indeg eff6f"nypo lice powers, than that an accursed' barroom should be opened in the town. Every family has at some time felt the venomous sting of alcohol. Foreston is no exception. Then let every respectable man in the town, every wvoman, every child, do all in his power to avert the threatened SUMTER'S TRADE RETIEW. T he Sumter Watchman and Southron issued this week a trade review, which is one of the most handsome and at tractive trade issues we have ever seen. It contains eighteen views of the principal points of interest i Sumter, and twenty-two portraits of its most prominent citizens, in all for. ty pictures. It gives a history of all the enterprises of the place, and shows that the trade of Sumter has been a regular even growth, without any boom. In 1887 the population was 2,709; in 1889, only two years, the Watchman claims a net increase of 1,452 inhabitants, making the present population 4,161. The business of this year is $3,102,500, an increase over last year of $184,200. The tax able property is returned at $1,225,160, which the Watchnran thinks is only half its market value. It has four railroads, two banks, a cotton factory, an electric light plant, etc. The show ing is very creditable for both Sum ter and the Watchman. The trade is sue contains eight eight-column pages, and is printed on book paper. MANNING WANTS THE RAILRlOAD). The Eutawville Railroad will soon be completed through this county to Sumter, and a large part of the trade of western Clarendon will drift away from Manning. We want a railroad to this section for the purpose of com peting for the trade, and also for the purpose of giving us a competing line to Charleston. Cotton is now shipped from Summerton to Charleston for a1 third less than from Manning. A road built to Manning would get its full share of the freight, and would also do a good passenger business. We understand a special train is now run from Vances to Elloree, and that it pays. The same train could prob ably do the work on both these branch lines, and pay a still greater dividend. Manning wants this branch line. Williamsburg News. (Kingstree Record.] Mr. H. W. Fulmore died suddenly of ap oplexy at his home near Cade's depot last Friday. A number of horses and mules~ have died in this county during the past two weeks. We have heard that not less than eight or ten have died of blind staggers. Mr. Thomas Humphreys, .a citizen of Flor ence county, was returning to his home from Cartersville in his cart last Saturday. stand ing up in it-, when his horse became fright ened, ran away,' threw him out and broke his neck, killing him instantly. Capt. W. 11. Johnson died at his home in the neighborhood of Johnsonville in this county on Sunday last, after a long sickness, which confmed him to his house many nioths. He was paialyzed eight or ten days before his death and was unable .to F. Levi Quotes a Few Prices. 1 The Fall season is here, cotton is coming i, into market rapidly. Good crops have been 1 made, and all will have i more or less money to 14 spend. I am paying the very highest cash prices for cotton, and selling my goods at the very S lowest rock bottom cash figures. Be sure then e when in Sumter to call a at my store. It will be f decidedly to your inter- s est to do so. In our Black Goods d Department we quote r Double Width Cash- f, mere at 25, 30, 35, 40, 50, 75, and $1.00. All good value for the a a money. All Wool Henriettas d at 40, 50, 75, and $1.00. c All Wool Cashmeres, a double width, in colors, e 25, 35, 50, 75, and $1.00. Single Width Mohair s: Goods, in Stripes, e Plaids, and Solids, at - 12 1-2, 15, 20, and 25 a cents. n Gingham in great va riety of patterns at 8 cents. h Etoile de Nord, a 12 1-2 cents. Imported Ginghams, s 20 cents. t] Satines at 10, 12 1-2, r 15, and 20 cents. d Percales at 12 1-2 cents. JA Full lines of Corsets, i from 35 cents to $1.50. c Warner's Coraline p Corsets $1.00. Warner's s Health Corsets $1.25. n Whatever you want, you can get at i FERDINAND LEVI'S, i Sumter, S. C. a [(ea-s and Courier.] Foster, Mrs. J. E4Ien. e5B Mrs. J. Ellen Foster made quite an exhibition of herself in the recent convention of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union at Chicago. 'Some- I how-perhaps it was because her u husband has been "recognized" by tc the present administration-she felt tc it to be her, bounden duty to defend es Vice-President Morton and his bar- ir: room in Washington. and when herm sisters declined to hear herreflect ionsR upon their lovable presidlent, Miss. at Willard, Mrs. Foster got as mad as a a] wet- no, a "dry"-hen. -While she w was in her tantrum, Mrs. Foster de- l cared that, if she were running a:t hotel like the Vice-President, she p would also have a barroom attached to it, or words to that effect, and made it very clear that in her zeal to defend tM~ Vice-Presidr't, because he h is a.-Pepublican, she lost sight of thaLt edsistency in preaching and practice b -hich should ever characterize the conduct of an apostle of temper- tl ance-. The upshot of the Foster episode't was that Mrs. Foster and the Iowa delegation withdrew from the conven tion. So much the better for the con vention and for the work in wvhich the if Woman's Christian Temperance Un ion is engaged. It was mainly throughg the influence of such wvomen as Mrs. J. Ellen Foster that the temperance cause received so severe a rebuke in I Iowa. It has been through the par tisan course of Mrs. 3. Ellen Fosterd and her use of the temperance or- c anization to advance the interests of. the Republican party that the Prohi-I bitionists of Iowa have come to grief. The Woman's Christian Temperance i Union can get along without Mrs. J. Ellen Foster far better than Mrs. J. Ellen Foster can get along without the Woman's Christian Temperance A Union. Miss Willard, as they say inb Kansas, is worth a cowpen full ofb Mrs. J. Ellen Fosters. How to Make Money. n Having had samples of e* 0 cotton from other gins com'- h pared with those from ours e tl by competent judges, we can a now assure our patrons at a, least 1-4 cent per pounda more for their cotton than a any other gin in the State. We would like those who Ih will not patronize us to come 1~ fi around and see how much better their neighbors get e their cotton ginned than they do. If they can show us any fault in our work we will be glad to know it. It will be I to the interest of any one to ec see us before ginning else where, as we are offering special inducements for this and next month; also will pay more for cotton seed than any one else, or will ex change the meal for them. Come and see us. C. R. & W. S. HARVIN. a Swapping Houses. Mr. J. C. Huntley has traded his house on Market square, now occupied by Mrs. Finlayson, to Mr. P. H. Brock for the house which the latter owns on the'corner of Market and 5th streets. This is the first time that we evert heard of men swapping houses.- ('he The assessed valuation of property 2 Asheville, N. C., for 1889, is $4,153, 34, against $904,428 in 18S0, an in rease of nearly five hundred per cent. i nine years. But few cities can 'ake a better showing. Who would have thought that 10 ents on every barrel of beer brewed i New York in one year would aggre ate $446,000 ? There are, it seems, ,460,000 barrels of beer sold by the few York brewers every fear, or bout three barrels for each man, roman, and child living in the city. Large deposits of ice, believed by :me to be relics of the glacial period i this country, have been discovered i Idaho. They are embedded in arth and overgrown with moss, which as prevented them from wasting way. It is seriously proposed to >rm companies to mine this ice for de in Western cities where ice is al rays dear and scarce. The Czar is said to be in constant read of assassination, and this state f ever present fear, added to the he ditary melancholy of the Romanoff imily, has so utterly shattered his erves that for days together he is ractically not responsible for his ac ons. He also smokes incessantly, nd not only endeavors to sustain his pirits by copious libations of cham agne and brandy, but has taken to rugging himself with chloral. Capt. P. W. McKinney, the Demo ratic Governor-elect of Virginia, in a interview a few days ago, remark : that it was with a great deal of leasure he could say that through at the campaign he met with not a ngle indignity of any kind. No one er hooted or hissed him, and he -as confident that no man ever made more thorough canvass, he having kissed but one appointment. He ever saw the Democrats so thorough organized and the Republicans so isrupted in his life as they were, and >r full two months .before the election e hadn't had the slightest doubt bout the party's success. The naval commission appointed to lect the site for the navy yard on e Southern coast has submitted its port to the secretary of the navy, commending the establishment of a ry dock, repair shops, and supply de t at Port Royal, South Carolina. u estimate accompanying the report ses the cost of a timber dry dock, milar to those now building for the -overnment, at $675,000, to be com leted in three years. The commis on also recommend the establish Lent of a construction yard at Algi s, opposite New Orleans. The re )rt of the commission now goes to ie secretary of the navy and he will ansmit it to Congress for such action may be deemed proper. The revolution that was effected in razil last week was one of the most ccessful pieces of political work of odern times. By the revolution the )vernment is changed from a mon chy to a republic. The Emperor, om Pedro, quietly accepted the sit tion and has gone with his famuily Portugal. A government similar that of the United States has been tablished, and everything seems to: dicate that it will be stable and per anent. Dom Pedro, on leaving io, was presented by the provisional ithorities with ?580,000), an~d was so informed that ?80,000) pereo ould be allowed hmimi fromini the civil t. It doesn't seem to be such a bad ing after all to be a dethroned Em ror. The Fight of the Farmers. The address of President Stack )use "to the members of the Alliance South Carolina" should be read Severy farmer in the State, wvhether be in or out of the Alliance; for e fight of one is the fight of all. he farmers have put their hands to e plough and they cannot look b)ack. he splendid warfare that they have aged will have been waged in vain at this critical moment in the con st they surrender all that they have ined. "If wve are to continue and succeed this fight," says Presidcnt Stack use, "we should lose no time." very Sub-Alliance in the State must! side for itself, and decide quickly-, hether or not the contest shall be rtinued next year. It will be pos ble to obtain an ample supply of tton bagging to cover every bale of tton grown in the South next year, the .Alliance will take its stand pon this question nowv. The mills ill not manufacture cotton bagging aless they have a pledge from the liance that the cotton bagging will Sused for covering the crop next ~ar. The mills were not able to anufacture cotton bagging-in suffic nt quantity to cover the present ~ars crop, because the Alliance did >t give them time to put up the nec sary machinery for the manufacture 'the bagging. ~The question of tare is not been ttdjusted, because the ex anges have been led to believe that e farmers were only making a spurt, id that they could not hold out ~ainst the combination. Unless the farmers act now1 and1 t together, the contest will turn ainst them next year and their last ate will be worse'than their first. If e principle for wvhich the Alliance as been contending was worth fight ig for this year, it will be worth ghting for next year, and every ear. Bat in order to win, the farm e's inust stand together and work to' ether.-News and Cuner. Editor Sis Vets Married. ORANxGEBURG, Nov. 1-.-Last even ig, at the residence of Capt. H. G. heridan, on Amelia street,. in this ty, Mr. James L. Sims, the editor nd proprietor of the Times and /Jem -rat, was married to Miss Georgie C. heridan, the eldest daughter of Capt. heridlan, the Rev. G. P. Watson of ciating. The bride is one of the rettiest and most accompJlished oung ladies of this sect ion of - the ountry. Mr. Sims is well known in bis State as a very live and energetie ud enterprising newvspaper man, as 11 who read his journal -well know, ud if he makes as good a husband s he does manager of a newspaper is wife must be congratalatcd. The ewly married couple have already loved into their elegant and well ap ortioned home ou Amelia street. ~hev havec a host of frieind(s in thmis tate, who entertain best wishes for ieir future happ.inless. No Pay, No Paper. After our Grand Gift Distribution we are coming down to a strictly HARD CASH BASIS. We shall send the TIms only for the money. If the Times is worth anything it is worth paying for; and if any one does not think it worth paying for, all right. The MANNIsG Thus will go to no one after Nov. 30th, except for the cash or its eq'uivalent. That's busi ness and we mean it. -.4 . Colored Alliance Meeting. ~Sevatr' A1d L(Lic.] On'Friday and Saturday of last week the colored Alliance of Sumter county held a close convention in the court house in this city. Some of their State officials were piesent. Being in session for two days they must have considered and discussed various questions at great length. The meet ings were secret and held with closed doors, and nothing could be learned of the doings within. It is hard, however, to keep a news paper man from finding out some things when he makes up his mind to do so. We have since found out from a confidential source and a source tat we consider altogether reliable, that during the meeting of the convention the negroes composing it unanimously passed resolutions that they were not fighting the merchants only, but were also fighting the landlords and the white planters. That they would de mand higher wages and lower rents, and would not, under any circum stances, work for less, nor pay more for land rents, than the figures named in the resolutions. The figures given by our informant were 50c. per acre for chopping cotton, 65c. per hundred for picking, and $1 per acre for rent. We make these statements on informa tion and belief, and if they are not true, let them be refuted. The facts stated above have a very deep significance to our minds. They show first that the negroes are turning the Alliance into a secret labor organ ization. They show secondly, organ ized antagonism to the white people, and a resolution to bring about a race issue. There is abundant food for thought right here. Where will this thing lead to ? In this connection read our editorial to-day on this subject, which was written before the convention met. "He that hath ears to hear, let him hear." Scrofula in Children. The following is taken from a letter written under date of July 1, 1889, by Mrs. Ruth Berkley, a most charita ble and christian lady, of Salina, Kan.: "In the early part of 1887 scrofula ap peared on the head of my little grand child, then only eighteen months old. Shortly after breaking out it spread rapidly all over her body. The scabs on the sores would peel off on the slightest touch, and the odor that would arise would make the atmos phere of the room sickening and un bearable. The disease next attacked the eves and we feared she would lose hier sight. Eminent physicians: from the surrounlding country wvere consulted, lbut could do nothing to relieve the little innocent, and gave it as their opinior., 'that the case was opeless and impossible to save the child's eyesight.' It was then that we dccided to try Sw ift~s S'pecific (S. S. .) That medicine at once made a* speedy and complete cure. For more than a year past she has been as healthy as any child in thle land." Cured His Little Boy. Mv little boy had impurities of the blood thai were of a scrofulous nar tre, whioh reelte i he breaking~ out of an abscess on the hip. I gave him Swift's Specific (S. S. S.) It pu rifed his blood and restored his health. As a blood -purifier it cer tainly has no equal. Fnux Six, Salem, N. C. Treatise on blood and skinl diseases mailed free. SwIFr SPEcIFIc Co., Atlanta, Ga. 3 cakes laundry ;oap at M. Levi's for 5 ceents. Best granulated sugar only 10 cents. Other goods proportiontely cheap, at M. Levi's. Great bargains for the cash. Queer Cotton. The Stateburg correspondent of the Nor andi Courier states that lie has found cotton plants in his field which contained lint in the bolls and no seed,' they having dropped out of the boll, and planting this seed, he obtained, bols full of seed but no lint. This confirms the Spartanburg story. A colored man in the some neighbor-, hood reports the same state of facts, so that there seems to be no doubt about it. It is too early to determine what the bearings of these facts on~ otton production will be. It looks now as if there are "freaks" in the world of cotton, just as there are in te wvorld of men.-Watchman rndl 1H1)rall . f Presents in the most elegant form THE LAXATIVE AND NUTRITIOUS JUICE I -OF THE .FIGS OF CALIFORNIA, Combined with the medicinal virtues of plants known to be most beneficial to the human system, forming an agreeable and effective laxative to perma nently cure Habitual Consti pation, and the many ills de pending on a weak or inactive condition of the KIDNEYS, LUVER AND BOWELS. It is the most excelent remecdy known tO CLEANSE TH E SYSTEM EFFECTUALLY when one is Bilious or Constipated -So THAT PURE BLOOD, REFRESHINO SLEEP, HEALTH and STRENOTH I NATURALLY FOLLOW. Every one is using it and all are delighted with it. ASK YOUR DRUGGIST FOR MANUFACTURED ONLY BY CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP C. SAN FR ANCISCO, CA L. EOnJcnfe,a KY NWw YOnK, M I. SHERIFF'S SALE. SOUTH CAROLINA, CLARENDO COUNTY.-LN COURT OF Co]IO: PLEAS. ELIZA JANE EPPS, Plaintift, ajabcst EIGENIA V. EPPS, JOHN J. EPPS, an< ELIZABETH 31ARION EPPS, Def'd'ts. IN OBEDIENCE TO A DECREE 0] said court, rendered in the above state action, bearing date November 2nd, 1889, will sell at public outcry for cash at th Court House in Manning, in said county on the first Monday in December next, with in legal hours of sale, the following descrit ed real estate: All that certain parcel or tract of land, sit uated in said county of Clarendon, contain ing three hundred and seventy acres, mor or less, and bounded as follows: On th North by lands of S. R. Epps, on the Eas by the first or Western run of Pudding Swvamp, on the South by lands of Mrs. M R. Shannon, and on the West by lands o W. T. Rose and others. Purchaser to pay for titles. H. H. LESESNE, Sheriff Clarendon County. November 5, 1880. z jit~un Revolvers CO Rifles rV rS "E dean eap I ~ i 0rs Wui lt o Seines, Nets, Tents, and Sporting Goods Double Barrel Breech Loading Shot Guns choke bored, '8 to $100. Single Breech Load ing Shot Guos, $1 to $25. Every kind o Breech Loading and Repeating Rifles, $3 t, $40. Muzzle Loading Double Shot Guns $5 to $35. Single Shot Guns, $2.50 to $12 Revolvers Si to $20. Double Action Sel Cockers, $2.50 to $10. All kinds of Car tridges, Shells. Caps, Wads, Tools, Powde: Flasks, Shot Pouches, Primers. Send cents for Illustrated Catalogue. Addres J. H. JOHNSTON, GREAT WESTER3 GUN WORKS, Pittsburg, Pa. MRS. MARY 0. BURGESS -DEALER IN Millinery and ladies' Goods. anIi-rtg, S. C. I have an elegant stock of MILLINERY of the latest designs, which 1 will sell ver; low for the .SII. An accomplished Milliner from Baltimor< is with me to do the work. Orders fillet promptly and satisfaction guaranteed Patronage solicited. MRS. MARY 0. BURGESS. C. I. HOYT. H A. HOYT. C.IIOYT&BRO., Largest and Oldest Jewelry Store ii SUMTER, S. C. 2506 W C Silver Lamps, beauties, from $10 to S20 A very large stock of Britannia waie, th very best silver plated good' made. 554 Gold Rings on hand. Fine iine of Clocks Wedding Presents, Gold Pens, and. Specta eles. We keep any and everything in thb jewelry line. Be sure to call to see uq Lowest Pices. L. W. FOLSOM, Successor to F. Hi. Folsom & Bro. SUMTER, S. IC. DEALER IN WATCHES, CLOCKS JEWELRY. .The celebrated Royal St. John Sewing Maichine, and Finest Razors in America, al was on hand. Repairing promptly ani netly executed by skilled workmen. Orders by mail will receiv e careful atten tion. DRUGS! J. F. W. DELORME, Drugist su.znmter, S. C. Callers or orders for Drugs and Medicinese Druggist Sundries, Paints, Oils, or for any thing in the DRUG LINE shall receive promipt attention at this wel ne-irrr mpoum;--pcpcial at en tion giveni to physicians' prescription and orders. WHEN YOU GO TO S~UMTER CALL ON T. B. Curtis for the lowest prices on Staple and Fancy Groceries He is a Charleston mian, and will fix price for vou as low as is consistent with the qual iy of the goods. He is at the O'Connor's Old Stand. MR. M. J. MICHAU is with him, ani would be glad to see his many friends. BUGGIES ANI) WAGONS I will sell bran new BUGGIES from $3~3 up. Will also sell the WILSON & CHILDS W.A.GrONT fro 8 35 up, according to size. J. H. T. COULL[ETTE, Pnanola. S. C. SUMTER, S. C., SEPT. 25th, 1889. An Open Letter t OurFriends and Patrons -OF ULARENDON COUNTY. The undersigned would indeed be ungrateful were they not t return many thanks for the liberal support of many of Claren don's best people. We are annually enlarging our business i all branches, and are offering Unusual Inducements to purchasers. We are accused of catering for the farmers trade, and we feel a just pride in pleading "Guilty" to the Indictment. Need we ask what would become of the country were it no dependent on the success of the farmers? In order therefor to insure their success is it not the part of wisdom for t merchant to ' .LEND A HELPING HAND? We, at least entertain this opinion, and henceforth will d vide profits with them-and in fact all patrons of our Hous We are in no hurry to accumulate wealth, especially at th expense of the TOILING MA.ss8s. With this view of business as it exists to-day, we ask ou friends of Clarendon county to visit us, make A Special Call, and we feel assured of convincing them of the truth of thes statements. We desire especially to mention the fact tha we handle Staple Groceries by the Car Load, which enables us to give our Patrons Rock Bottom Prices. Before placing your -orders be sure to see us. Very truly yours, O'DONNELL & CO. IS YOUR CHANCEI Great Reductions in Prices of DRESS GOODS, CLOAK -A N D JACKETS. Seal Plush JacKals a Speci!.. IDon't fail to see these good when you visit the city. JOHN REID, LEADER OF LOW PRICES, S~inarlT, S.C