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THE MANNING TIME. waninig, s. cM S. A. NETTLES, Editor. WEDNESDAY, January I, 1890. 1890. Eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, with all its good things and its evils, is numbered with the past. To many of us it has brought scenes of joy and brightness, while to others it has brought the saddest messages of their lives. But the old year is past, and eighteen hundred and ninety with all its bright outlooks is here to stay for twelve months. TH: TLNEs has no -new promises to make. We shall en deavor in the future, as in the past, to be progressive. We wish to each and every one of our subscribers a year full of joy and gladness, the happiest year of all their lives. THE BARNWELL LYNCHING. The lynching of the eight negroes in the Barnwell jail, presents, inde pendent of the ghastly violation of the law, a horrifying aspcct to every man who has aught of conscience about him. The deed is done ; the negroes have been hurled headlong into an eternal hell ; the murder of several white men has been revenged ; the poor, weak, impotent dignity of the State has been trampled under foot : but how about the lynchers? The mingled curses and prayers of the victims; their groans; their tortuous writhings, while tied to the trees, with the loaded guns and pistols onjy a few feet from their bodies ; their death struggles, and the hollow, dying, gur gling sounds, will never, pever be ef faced from the memories of these lynchers. It is not improbable that At the first volley some poor wretch was not killed, and to end his sufferings a second volley was fired at him. These memories will cling to every one of those lynchers, by day and by night. But what was the justification, the exasperation ? The case is not without some merit. Prominent white citizens had been killed, and less than ten days before two white men had been assas sinated. If lynching is ever in such eases justifiable, this was one of the cases. .But the account says that they lynched not only the accused murder era, but also two men who were charg ed as being witnesses only. That'is the worst feature in the whole case. Who did it? About twenty-five men from and near the town of Barnwell. Wet do not believe that there was any' .e reat multitude of horsemen, but only prominent man in the town of Barn Y'well knows. The Governor has offered a reward of $200 for the conviction of each one of the lynchers. He will nev er have one cent of this reward to pay. -But the lynching will have its effect, and murder in Barnwell will cease. To that extent great good will be ac c~ omplished. We are no apologist for lynch law, Sbut the actions, or rather inactions, of our juries, give cause for it. And :ab same men who as jurors, would perjure themselves in b'ringing in a false verdict, would be the very ones to head a lynching party. Lynch law means, and is an evidence of, a dis trust in the administration of the stat ~ te laws. ~>~The New York Herald says there is Sno doubt that since the election of 3 Mr. -Harrison the feeling between white and black in the South has be come strained. Why? No one can tell; at least no one has given an explana tion of the curious fact that while un ~der Mr. Arthur and Mr. Cleveland Ab.tere was a continuous growth of goZ~od feeling, suddenly, in the present Xyear, all that previous years had done seems to be undone. It is stated that Judge Kershaw is sued an order at the last term of court in Barnwell, ordering the Sheriff to guard the jail. It is further stated that the county commissioners refused to pay these deputies. These prisoners have been killed in consequence. Now suppose the sheriff and county com missioners of Barnwell be arrested for Sthe killing of these prisoners? Such a ce'.rse seems just and proper. But then, alas, suppose such was done. It is not improbable that the lynchers would be the jury, and of course noth ing could be done. We agree fully with the Charleston News and Courier that the funeral of Jefferson Davis is "without a parallel in history." Lincoln and Grant each had burials that were marvels of display, and the pomp~ and pageantry were probably unrivalled. But one was assassinated and the other was the victorious soldier, and both were idols of the North. Lincoln was ,murdered while President. But how different with the great Davis. Uncrowned, an old man, a poor man, a defeated leader, and without a coun try, and yet what a tribute-what a great testimonial of admiration !--Er. Postmaster-General Wanamiaker, with that instinct of a live advertiser that has *characterized his career. marnifests his anx iety to see what the newspapers have to say about him by subscribing to one of the New York concerns, which, for a fixed amount, furnishes clippings of all comments and criticisms. Each day there is regularly pla ced upon Mr. Wanamaker's desk the batch .of clippings containing utterances in regard -to his administratio~n of the postoffice de partment and his relations to his store. 'These are all filed away by the Postmaster General with much care. Nearly ninety members of the present Congress were in the Confederate army in stations ranging from private soldier to THE BARNWELL LYNCHING. Eight Defenceless Negroes Lynched at Barnwell-The Story of the Raid on the Jail and the March to I lie Place of Exe ention-Witnesses and Accessories Meet the Same Fate as Principals-The Cause of the Uprising. [Chareson Sunday News.] BARNWELL, December 28.-Between 2 and 4 o'clock this morning, about one hundred armed masked men broke the county jail here and took out eight negro prisoners, carried them to the woods three-quarters of a mile off, tied them to trees and shot them to death. The negroes who were killed are: Ripley Johnson, Mitchell Adams, Judge Jones, Robt. Phonix, Hugh Furz, Harrison Johnson, and Ralph Morral. THE JAILOR'S STORY. How the prisoners were taken from jail is best told by Jailor Nevill's state ment, which he gave to the News and Courier to-night, as follows: About 2.30 or 3 o'clock this morn ing some one applied at the gate, claiming to have a prisoner. I got up and opened the window and asked who was that. Some one in the crowd said, "My name is Black, from Mar tin's Station, with a prisoner," and said "come out and take him." I told them to hold on until I got ready. He said he was in a hurry'about it. I told him if he could not wait until I got outside to take him to go on with him. I dressed quickly and went out as usu al to receive a prisoner. I unlocked the gate and as I opened the gate a mob of masked men rusbed in on me. They demanded the prisoners from Martin's Station and then asked me where they were. I told them they were in jail. They told me to go and unlock the doors and point them out to them. By this time they took the keys from me by forcing them out of my hands, but told me to go and un lock the doors. I told them I would not, that they must unlock them them selves as they had the keys. The crowd then went to the door of the jail with the keys and unlocked the door and shoved. me in the jail ahead of them. As I struck the second jail gate which is of iron they told me to take the keys and unlock it. I told them I would not do it. They said if I didn't unlock the door they would shoot me, and drew pistols on ine. I told them I could not unlock that gate. They then sent down to the yard for an axe, and said if I did not open it they would knock the whole d-d thing open and let all the prisoners out. Just before the crowd got to the gate that leads to the cells and rooms I told them if they were determined to go into the jail to give me the keys and I would unlock the gate, but ask ed them not to turn out any prison ers other [than those they wanted. There were thirty prisoners in the jail at the time. THE VICTIMS OF THE MOU. . They themselves took the key, un locked the door, went into the jail and took out first Mitchell Adams, who was charged with the murder of J. J. Heffernan. Then three of them carried out Judge Jones, Robt. Phoenix, Pe ter Bell, Hugh Furz, Harrison John son, and Ralph Morral, all colored. Bell was charged with the murder of Robt. Martin, who was mysteriously killed at Martin's Station, S. C.,_last Satn~igh urz wsi inor an accessory to che kilHng, and Ralph Morral and Robt. Phoenix were held as witnesses, but supposed to have been accessories to the crime. Judge Jones and Harrison Johnson were held as witnesses. The crowd next roped the eight prisoners, brought them down stairs and carried them out into the- streets and marched them through the principal streets, compelling me to go with them. We got seventy yards across Turkey Creek, which is about a quarter of a mile. They stayed there some fifteen or twventy minutes, and the crowd asked the prisoners a good many questions. After talking to the prisoners I heard the crowd say : "Well, kill them right here." I asked the guard who had me in charge to carry me back to the bridge, as I did not want to see the negroes killed. The crowd that had me said I should not go back. ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY SHOTS. About this time two or three men ran up, caught hold of me and told the guards who had me in charge to go and carry me back to the bridge. One man on each side of me walked me back to the bridge and I and the guard sat down there twenty-five or twenty minutes before the crowd left me, and about thirty minutes after they were gone from where I was sit ting they commenced firing am1 it seemed to me they kept firing five or six minutes. I imagine 150 shots were fired in that time. The guard then ad dressed me by saying, 'Let's go up the road where the party are firing.' Then I mounted a horse that a man came algng leading, and I rode up the road -some two hun-Ired and fifty yards be fore the firing ceased. We went a fewv steps further when we met the crowd returning to town. The crowd escort ed me back to town and bidding me good-night said I could go to bed or go tell the sheriff that they had wound it up. The crowd then dispersed." Jailor Nevills afterwards said to your representative that he was armed when the mob came to the jail, but they took his weapon from him. THE cAL AFTER THE STORM. U;pon my arrival here to-night I found the town very quiet and order ly. My first visit was to the jail, which is located in a secluded spot in the southeast part of the town. After a lit tle trouble in gaining admission I found the jailor sitting with his famn ily around the fire conversing with Sheriff Lancaster about the outlook. Mr. Nevills, the jailor, is 50 years old and rather active. No blame can be attached to him for surrendering his prisoners, as he was powerless in the beginning, not suspecting any out break. Fortunately for him his family was not at home last night. THE SCENE OF THE LYNCH1NG. From the jail your representativ'e went out to the field where the killing took place. The bodies were lying on the roadside. When we reached there, at 9 o'clock, the bodies of Johnson and Adams had been removed, but the others were lying there undisturbed. The mobh divided the murderers, put ting the Heffernan slayers on the left of the road and the Martin murderers on the right. The negroes' arms were pinioned and tightly tied to trees with They were not suspended in the air, however. Mitchell Adams was tied to the post which marksthe corporate limits of Barnwell. Just to his right his accomplice, Ripley Johnson, was fastened to a tree. The Martin mur derers on the other side of the road were arranged in line. Some of the ne groes were old men, Morral possibly being 60 years old, and Peter Bell was about the same age. As your corres pondent viewed the corpses to-night, their frames were exposed, their clothes having been partially removed by physiciaus and the curious crowd. Some of the negroes had their eyes shot out ; others were wounded in the chest and face. Blood covered the ground upon which they laid, and a more horrible sight could not be be held by mortal man. The bodies of all the negroes were brought to town to-night and carried to the guard house, where they will remain until to morrow, when they will be buried. THE CORONER S INQUEST. Acting Coroner Hammill had an in quest this afternooa, and the verdict of the jury was the usual verdict in such cases, that they came to their death from gunshot wounds at the hands of parties unknown. A LUCKY ESCAIE. Sam Lee and Alfred Gantt, two ne groes who are in jail as accessories to the murder of Heffernan, strange to say, were not troubled by the mob. It is said that the crowd caught hold of Lee, but several in the mob protested against his being carried out, and so he was left unmolested. Lee and Gantt however, were badly frightened, and have not entirely gotten over the scare yet. ALL QUIET AT MIDNIGHT. At midnight to-night all is quiet and peaceable and but few people are on the streets. The vigilance commit tee is out patrolling and no further trouble is anticipated. The murder of Heffernan by Ripley Johnson, aided by Mitchell Adams, in Barnwell, and the killing of Martin, at Martin's Sta tion, by the suspected other six ne groes who were lynched, is too well known to the public for the particu lars to be repeated here. To sum up the whole affair, the whites were get ting tired of having negroes shooting and killing whites without being pun ished by the law. The continuance of the tijal of the Heffernan murderers at the last term of Court has consider ably aggravated the peop:e, and doubt less led them to this revenge. It is impossible to find out who were in the mob, and where theylcame from. The negroes here do not believe that the Barnwell people had a hand in it. This wholesale massacre of to-day will attract the attention of the whole coun try, and Barnwell's bloody record of to-day has never been equalled. This is the first lynching that has ever tak en place in the county. A LAwYER'S STATEMENT. Mr. Duncan Bellinger, who is one of the attorneys for the defence of Ripley and Adams, says that there is now on the records of the Court at Barnwell an order directing the Sheriff to piotect the jail. He said that, not withstanding this, there was no guard at the jail on Friday night. He fur ther stated that it was well under stood that if the prisoners had been: taken out of jail for arraignment they certainly would have been lynched. Mr. Bellig~ir further said that this condition oTlaffairs was represented to the presiding Judge (Kershaw) in the presence of the solicitor. That the Judge appreciated the danger. That an informal order was framed asking for a continuance, and that on that paper the cases were continued. Mr. Bellinger believes that the comnmuni ty of Barnwell knewv, or should have known, that the prayer of continuauce was not to defeat the ends of justice, but in order that a crime might not be perpetrated, perhaps in the pres ence of the Court. Judge Kershaw i reported as having said that if such a thing should happen he would never visit the county again. Mr. Bellinger said that originally an order had been passed by the Court instructing the Sheriff to guard the prisoners. After the adjournment, when it was believ ed that all danger was removed, th e guards were withdrawn because the county commissioners refused to pay the sheriff's deputized officers at the jail. A new order was then gotten out instructing the sheriff again, but the commissioners refused to pay the deputies. It was an easy thing, therefore, for the lynchers to enter on Friday night. The responsibility for the crime has, therefore, many pha ses; the intensified feeling against the prisoners on account of the multipli cation of murders in the county ; the withdratwal of the guards, and the be lief that justice woukd never be attain ed. Whether any or all of these is a justification is another question which will probably be settled by' public opinion. Proiminent Citizens Explain thme Caus~es that Led to the Lynmching-. BAuinvEL,, S. 0., Dec. 28.-In conse quence of the lynching which took phlace here last night, the undersigned were thisj morning reque-sted by the Sheriff to act as anI ad' ising comipi!ttee to co'unsel such steps as nmay be deemed best to secure order. We at first proceeded to invesitigate, and deem it right to put the public in (possession of the facts of the occurrence and the causes which we believe led to it, as far as we have gathered them.shtI On the 30th of October last, John J1. Hef fernan, a prominent young merchant-and brave, public-spirited citizen, was sho o and killed in ]Uarntwell by negroes. Public indignation ran very high ;threats of lynch ing were freely made, but diverted by cooler counsel. At the last term cf court the grand ury found true bills against the murderer and his access;ories, but the ceases were con tinued. The white pecople were disappoint cd, and the negrocs, it is thought, were em boldened by this disposition of the matter. On the 19th of December, Mir. James S. Brown, a prominent planter and leading citien of Fish Pond township, was shot to death on his own premlises by negroes, with ont thie slight-est justification or ecuse. T'he murderer has not bee.n arrie-ted. On the 18th of D~ecember, while going from his store at MIartin's stationi, to his honme a mile away, M1r. Robert MIartin, a young man of the must exemphilry charaeter and of the highest standing as a man and ciien as followedt by a negro and shot in thle back with a gun loaded with slugs, in the putblic road wvhi pasees thj-'ghm his father' p1lantation, in hearing of many no groes who were all around the spot when he was sd. and who admittedi that they heard of whom went to his relief ; and none of them went to his body, although it lay in the road all night and for several hours af ter daylight, in plain view of them all. It was satisfactorily established that his mur der was the result of a conspiracy to remove him, in order that their license upon the planttation of his father might be greater. The negro who fired the shot, and his acces sories, six in number, being identified by the coroner's jury, were arrested and lodged in jail. These several brutal murders of promi nent white men by negrocs caused a stato of indignation and resentment amiong our pco ple that can be better imagined than describ ed, but cannot be imagined by any one not present in our mi dst. This m orning about 2 o'clock a large body of armed men in disguise called at the jail, overpowered the jailvr, took out the six mur derers of Martin and the two of IIelffrnan, took them to the limits of the corporation and shot theim to death. IROBhaT ALDRI:1r, MImE BnowN%, GEoRGE DATES, WILLIAM NICNAn, JAMEs A. JENKINs, Comniittee. Mercurial Rheumatism. 2Ir. J. C. Jones, city marshal of Fulton, Arkansas, writes: "About ten years ago I contracted a severe case of blood poison. The leading physicians of the city were called in, and they prescribed medicine af ter medicine, wlhich I took without afford ing me any relief. I also tried ireurial and potash remedies, with the same uisuc cessful result, but which brought on an at tack of mercurial rheumatism that made my life one of untold agony. After suffering for four years, I gave up all former reme dies and commenced taking Swift's Specific (S. S. S.) After taking several bottles, I was entirely cured and :;le to resume work. I consider Swift's Specific (S. S. S.) the greatest medicine for blood poisoning to day on the market." A Prompt Cure. Two bottles of Swift's Specific (S. S. S.) cured me of a breaking out all over my body, caused by blood poisoning. Vic-ror STEWART, 24 S. Royal Street, Mobile, Ala. For thirty years I was afflicted with blood poison, from which I suffered untold ag onies. I commenced taking S. S. S., and fter using five bottles, I am entirely cured. Wnsu.r ScrsENE, Flushing, L. I. I suffered for twenty years from blood poisoning. Three bottles of Swift's Specific (S. S. S.)cuared me entirely. CVAvmILuNE 1osHER, Mineola, L. I. 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When they find out that they must obey the laws and pay taxes just the same as under an Emperor, there saay be bloodshed and riot. Republics are not so easily established as Brazilian leaders seem to think. 4A DUTIF UL SON Is a pleasure to any parent. Hie brings joy to the home of the ol people and in every way seeks to make it cheerful and to make easy the faltering, feeble steps of age. This son was a wise one: ImolNxIA, TENNESSEE, & GEolnoru R. R Office of Western .Agent, Atlanta, Ga. Gentleman--MIy father, who is in the eighty-second year of his age, has been inn terially strengthened and relieved from suf fering by the use of one bottle of Dr. West moreland's Calisaya Tonic. Please forward to his address (Jonathan Welsh, High Point. N. C.,) six bottles of the same, and send bill for the amount to me. Very resp'ectfully, 31. 31. WELtsH, West. Agent. Dr. Westmorrland's great tonic and blood renovator can be brought from D~r. L. W. Nettles, Foreston, S. C., or J. G. Dinkins & Co., MIanning, S. C., at 50 cents and $1.00 a bottle. It is said that J. Gould is richer by $10, 000 each night than he was in the morning, by the natural accumulation of interest and divideuds and when he rises at '7.30 the next morning, another $10,000 will have ac cumulated from the same source. When beating up the whites of eggs, add a tiny pinch of' salt, because this will cut, and make thems frothy isuchi quicker, as well as make the froth more "heady" than it otherwvise wvould be. What is Scrofula It is that impurity in the blood, which, accumu lating in the glands of tho neck, produces un sightly lumps or swellings; whisch causes painful running sores on the arms, legs, or feet; which developes ulcers in the eyes, ears, or nose, often causing blindness or deafness; which is the origin of pimples, c'mcerous growths, or many other manifestations usually ascribed to "humors." It is a more formidable enemy than consuamption or cancer alone, for scrofula combines thu wourst possible features of both. Being the most ancient, it is the most general of all diseases or affections, for very few persons arc entirely free from it. How can it be cured ? Dy taking Hlood's Sarsa parilla, which, by the cures it has accomplished, often when other medicines have failed, has proven itself to be a potent and peculiar medicine for this disease. For alt affections of the blood Ihood's Sarsaparillais unequalled. and some of tlC. cures it has effected are really wonderful. If you suffer from scrofula In any of its various forms, be sure to give Hood's Sarsaparilla a trial. Hood's Sarsaparilla Soldbyanldruggists. Sl; sixfor55. Preparedonly by C. I. HOOD & CO., Apothecaries, Lowell, Mass. 100 Doses 0O Dollar HOUSEHOLD NOTES. Mis. S. A. NETTLEs. A pretty and convenient article of furniture for a boy's or girl's room is a little book-case of three shelves. It is covered with red chintz, and from each shelf a little band of red felt is iun- over, covering the edge of the sbelf ; i! is only a few inches wide and is notched on the edge. This book case can easily be made from a fruit crate, one of those made with narrow slats and with solid ends ; a solid-di vision in the centre, and hung up leng thwise. An easy method of renewing old gilt frames which have become discol ored, is to})ureSe for ten cents one package of Dianiond Wood Paint, a little varnish and spirits of turpentine. Mix the varnish and turpentine, one 'easpoonful of varnish to one ounce of turpentine and keep in a well corked vial. Mix only a little of the paint at once, and apply with-a camel's hair brush. Those pretty, bright bordered hand kerchiefs which we all like to carry, but whose prettiness so suddenly dis appears after a few visits to the laun dress, should never be put into the wash, but should be "done up" by themselves ; after being carefully rub bed they are put into a washbowl and scalding water is poured over them. Rinse in bluing water in which a lump of starch is dissolved, and iron quite damp. We real some time ago, of a nice way of fitting up a room in early spring. The walls were papered with blue paper with a border of red and yellow, and the floor painted in stripes of blue, red and yellow. A handsome ruw hich harmonized in color with -alls and floor was placed before th earth. The curtains were ecru tied back with ribbons. A tidy made of ribbons sewed in the shape of a fan and edgcd with lace, finished this quaint little room. Small cane chairs that are discolor ed look ivery pretty painted white without a bit of gilding, but with bright ribbon to ornament them. 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E NOTICE OF SALE. Etate oj Robert(I J. llaibdaU EXt VITt~TIE OF TIlE POWERt AND AU-. 1thoirity therefor, vested by the last wvill of the said'Ilabert J1. Lollaiay, in the uin (t-ritned Executors of said last will, which said last will is oni tile in the oflice of the Judge of Probante of the county of Claren don, we will sell to the highest biddler, tor Fcash, at the court hiouse at MIanning, on the frst Mlonday. in Jfanutary 1890), at 12 o'clock, noon, the f dh wing described real estate, of the said est.ue ac ll of wxhich is .situated in the sad county of 4Clarenidon:i L Thai t tract of latnd conitaining three hundre d .n-1 seventy acres, miore or less, fomely had of the es tt of Jame~s S. indal and~i botundedi norithb lahnds, of . L A'ndrews and Iland of J. L. Stukes east by the run ei Sam 111waVmp. o itt lby land of the esI tt' of 31rs. Sara ii IohlIay ..nd west h v aIs( climeitd by soil Iobetrt . Ifoladar in Ist lifetimet., anud bhe pblic rodiading to Suimter, in said State. II.Tht pre.1or traict ofi Ian ontatin ing i 'er ., m*5iore or less, situated tin the northt side of Samy 5vwaip andt east of the pulic road k-alding to Samter, and omerlyI kinown ams tihe S. N. Thameus land, and~ boun11del oin the north Ly~ landits of es ~ta-i I.f tail ttrtiJ. Ittdy In the~ eas s'n the t l as' formerly o t T h ain . jilThh: me on th he wes bte pup ywill Thcit tr- or parc ofit~ttr dandscontin or iets, bound .wi nthe orth by tiland. o H. Curadnt h b 1 !an-- frely kI'nown coveane thou t warant of. ltitl. 1H, H. WINOHAM, Cabinet Work and Upholstering, MANNING, S. C. I have charge of 1 evi's furniture store, and will sell any and vcery kind of at lowest prices. Manufacturing and repairing oft furniture and upholstering attended to prolitly. We have a very large stock of collins, of all size. styles, and prices. Old Furniture -Made Good as Now. To Arrive at Silver This Week! ONE CAR-LOAD OF Texas Colts! i On the :rd day of January 1890 call at the il stablsc of T. A. Way. You will buy the 1 r Cheapest and Best Colts if1 ever brought to this market. BOBO & rRO. December 28th, 1889. at SHERIFF'S SALE. g' STATE OF SOUTH C AROLIN A, COUNTY OF CLARENDON-( Corier oV Co'Mn>N PLoAS. R. L. COOPER, Plaintiff, ropduitst WESLEY STEVENS, Defendant. L TNDEr AND BY VIRI' UE OF AN OR der to me directed in above stated case bearing date November 2nd, 1S89, I will sell at the Court House at M1anning in said conn ty within legal hours of sale on Monday the (th day of Januarv, 1890, to the highest bidder for cash, the following property, to wit: That parcel of land situated in the said county of Clarendon, on the waters of San tee tiver, containing one hundred acres, bounded on the North by the premises of Samuel Lemon, on the East by the premises of Fortune Prince, on the South by lands of A. J. White, and on the West by lands of James Barnes. Purchaser to pay for papers. H. H. LESERNE, Sheriff Clarendon County. December 9, 1889. HENRY CURTIS, PLAINTIFF, against Shadrick Roberson et al, De fendants.-Under an order of court there will be sold by the sheriff at Manning, with in legal hours, on Monday, January 6, 1890, to the high'est bidder foi cash: All that tract of land near Packsville, in Clarendon County, bounded as follows: far North by lands of Mrs. Josephine Hodge, by, east by lands of John Boswell, west by lands of Mrs. Josephinc Hodge, and south by lands of R. M. Harvin, and containing one hundred and .forty-one acres. Par chasers to pay for papers. Assessment Notice. AUrITon's OMcE, CLAENDoN CorNTY, Manning, S. C., Dec. 9, 1889. THE AUDITOR'S OFFICE WILL BE Lopen from the first day of January, 18U0, to the twentieth day of February, 1890, to receive returns of real and personal prop ertv for taxation in Clarendon colnty for the year 1890, and for the convenience of tax payers will have deputies at each of the places named below to receive returns for the said year: Pinewood, Wednesday, January 1, 1890. Panola, 1'hursday, January 2, 1890. Sumumerton, Friday, January 3. 1890. David Levi's Store, baturday, January 4, 1890. Brunsons X Roads, Monday, January 6, 1890. Jordan, Tuesday, January 7, 1890. Foreston, Wednesday. January 8, 1890. Harvins, Thursday, January 9, 1890. W. M. Youmans's, Friday, January 10, 1890. Packsville, MIonday, J1anuary 6,1890. Midway, Monday. January 6, 1890. Sardinia, Tuesday, January 7, 1890. New Zion, Wednesday, January.8, 189.& W. J. Gibbons's, Thursday, .January 9, 1890. R. E. Smiith's, Friday, January 10, 1890. 1teal estate is assessedt this year, 1890. And all parties owning laud, lots, and build ings will lease look up) their dleeds, where 3 necessary, and get the right number of acres, lots, and huilings that they may own on thc Iirst day of January, 1890. All build ings of any sort, that are worth ten dollars sto or over, are to be returned. A good way for the taxpayer, who has much property to return, is to make a mem oran dumi of each butlding and its value, the number of horses, cattle, mules, sheep and goats, hogs, watches, organs and pianos, . buggies, wyagens and carriages, dogs, nmer chandise, machinery, nmoneys, notes and ac counts (above indebtedness), furniture, &c., which will save the taxp~ayer time, and ena ble the assessor to progress in the work. Ta::payers return what they own on the irst d.ty of January, 1890. Asse sscers and taxpayers will enter the first given name of the taxpayer in full, also make a separate return for each party for the towvnship the property is in, and where the taxpayer owns realty to insert the post office as their place of residence, and those who only own piersonal property to give the party's name who owns the land they live on as their residence, wvhich aids the tax payer as wvell as the county treasurer in making the cllection and preventing errors. joh Every male citizen between the ages of twenty-one and fifty years on the first day of January 1890, except those incapable of earning a support from being imainied, or from other causes, shall be deemed taxable polls. All returns that are made after the twen- in tieth day af February next have to be placed voi on the additional list and fifty p~er cent. penalty added thereto, unless prevented by sikness or out of the county during the time of listing. Not knowing the time of listing is no excuse. And all owners of! real estate might do their tenants, who can- ft not read or take a newspaper, a great favor byx making their returns or telling themr the time of listing, and that if they fail to make their returns in time illt thre valuation has to be. increased tifty per cent. unless th y have a good excuse. TIhe assessing and collecting of taxes is all done nowv in the same year, and we have to aggregate the number and value of all the horses, cattl', moub-s, ke., as well as the acres of land, lots and buildinrgs and their value, that there is in the counuty and hi:Lve the samre on tile in the Compltroller Genuer al' otlice by the thirtieth day of .June each He year. And froim that time to the lirst day cht of October each year the auditor's an:d t reas urrs duplicate hias to he c'omplettd and an abstract of the work ini the Comptroller's c'lice by that timea, which wdrl shrou; at a - glance that the auditor has no time to take in returns%, or do anything else mouch, he tween the tirst day ol M1arch and the lirst day ot October each year, but work on the ooks anid blinks. 'Therefore hope that all tapyrs will 1o us thre fauvor of iking 7bo their returns in time. DJANIEL JT. BRADHIAM, R Auditor Clarerndoni County. La 20WELL PURCHASE oI 2O A CHAMBER S~lT, 'i" all -.m > - tie: $:2 -Will Purchase a Eeautifurl $2 dci -IPARL4OR SUIT, - AT---r BroWn & Oo.'s Furniture Store, 29> King street, 0pposite Society street CHARLESTON, S. C. -Fi FOR RENT! Sut R) ESTDENCE IN 'THE TOWN OF MAN Ining, four rooms and necessary out buildings, elegant orchard containing uper-. pac~hies, apples. pears, plums11, &c. Apply to JQS. F. lRHAME, I Manning, S. C. ie URAINT & BELITZR SUMhTE]R, S. C. URNITURE AT ,IVINF PRICES, we ca Ir the ri-cst and finest le of all grades A st y les of Fur ture everl seen these parts. id can ,-:ell YOU prices that ve oua hance to Live. RY US AND Convinced. WALL PAPER AND SHADES IN ABUNDANCE. E. RZEMBERT. P- P.ALLAID INEW DEPART LISTEN! ardware Can Now be Bought at Prices Within the Reach of Everybody. ,mong our complete assortment the housewife can find everything she needs. The ner his implements and the carpenter his tools. Having secured the agency for the fol -ing goods we are prepared to offer them at figures that will astonish you: Doors, Sashes and Blinds, Studebaker Wagons, Carts, Buggies, -AND Pierce's Unrivaled Paints. Davis Turbine Water-wheel. TH E CELEBRATED DUPONTS POWDER. Sporting Goods a Specialty. A Full Line of Hardware, Cutlery, Guns. s-to-es, o iS Hiubs, Rims, Spokes, ~SdlrHres ~eady Made Wheels, a Tinae BELTING, E. W O EN A E E. E.VREMBENTS& Co., SaddleryS Haress HARDWAENWRE .HN STSND 7IL MUPLES* , POTARCTC reO wilalways We aorer nout for our LARGoErs suGFChEood as Stma ore hae-i kig . Ca. andLexmiNe. om wilnot complaien aowuto onies.fth HansomeHadwar Sto.. HhAtt.Wesl vrytigiDtehRW AR IE rmail oayh need,.nvrt PnESs1.SL. STOVES! STOVES! STOVES! ~st Makes and Cheap. Crockery, Glass and Tinware. and Hiar ness. Finie Line Table and Poeket Cutlery, SeissOrs. &c. Guns and -Pistols lIn Great Vai ety. Caritridges. Sels -1 c. IN BELTING! Ve can give you bargoins. We are Headqnartrs for it. Packing in Rubber and mp, Lace Leather, Gin Bristles, &~c. WAe are Powder Agents, and can sell it 'aper than you can order it. Ciome and see us, we'll do you good Respectfully, R. WV. DURANT & SON. TIME EXTENDED. L AST CAL L OFIC F iCOMrroU.01En GENERAL, Columbia S. C. Diec 14, 1800 I - -FOR lihe ('mmaly Treasurers: ~ Che General Assembly, by a concurrent solution, passed December 13th, 18~89, CunyPsInetdss re extended the time for collection of the es for tiscal year commencing Novembler 1X88, and cendin~g October :31st, 1889, OFFICE COUNTY COMMIISSIONERS, ) hout penalty, to February 1st, 1890), in CLnnox Cous-ry,'. the counties of the State. MAhNNI~i, S. C., Dec. 19, 1889.f :he Treasurers of their respective con- LL PERSOSHLIGCUT ;n wbe st. thi nSt eI P a I claimsagaihnst Clarendon county, ap ,m pteo.le , pen r o i ved for fiseal years prior to Nov. 1, 188 Comproler eneal.including bonded andl foating indebted n acoranc wih te a~ov noice Iness, are he-rely noti zied to present the same i cntintoceiexs withut ve nl- , to the Board of Ceunnty Commnissioners of i clilfle o reLl~ tasWtl~i U'ii-( larendon county, on or before Jan. 10i to and including Ian. :tI- l,'-I 180, or they~ will'h Il, arred paytoent of said JOS. PI9 l '~claims. These old claims include all coun-. County'Il ~lrrer ty bonds, andj all balances for the fiscal years HOTEL, fromi Nov. 1. 1883j to Oct. ZJ1, 1s88, inclusive. PAVILION HO EL B order of the board. CHA\RLESTN [( . C. P. G. RENBOW, st ~ Clas i il kpinnn. Clerk CountyCos.C.i1 >plied with all M1odern Improvements 3IONEY TO LEND. xcellent Cuisine, Large Airy Roonms, Otis Passenger Elevator, Elec- Hf lE ATLANTA TRUST AND BANKING tric Bells and Lights, Heat- 1Companyfl~ will make loans on iin,roved ed Rotunda. - farmos on easy termis. i. r particulars ap RA TES, $2.00, $2-50 AND $3.00- ply to L'JUIS APP ELT. .'i noJed /w Mai/ or Telearaph .Jnly 9thb. 1889.