The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, February 21, 1882, Image 2

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TUESDAY, FEBBTJARY 81. J. A. mood, m d. i E D. B. ANDERSON, j hdit0rs About ten colored emigrants left j Greenville last Tuesday for Arkansas. | Baltimore erected 1,629 buildings in I 1881. I New York city spent ?48,000,000 | last year in the construction of build- ! ings. j Georgia won 14 out of 24 fights iu in the cocking main with North Caro lina at Hamburg By May it is expected that 10,000 refugee Jews from Russia will have ar rived in the United States. There have been twenty fi?e deaths from small-pox in Corsicana, Texas; almost exclusively of negroes. The total visible supply of cotton in the world is placed at 3,127,706 bales, against 2,852,371 last year. A scoundrel name Gaitan has just been hanged in Texas. Guiteai: comes next. Among the mined in Paris by the j financial burst-up is the famous Chris-! tine Neilsson. Richmond, Virginia, is piniog for Oscar WHde and he has been invited to come. Ahl me. A young-man of Seneca, Kansas, eloped with the girl hia brother was to have married next day. Mr. Marvin, the man. who married fifteen wives, tried to escape from the Virginia Penitentiary the other night, bat failed. The New York Herald is authority for the statement that one of youngest babies in Minnesota has a mother who is 83 years old. In Wyoming, where woman suffrage it established, a man and his wife ran for the same office but on different tick- j ets. The hosbaud was elected. The majority of the Committee on Ways and Means are said to favor re ducing the whiskey tax to 50 cents a gallon. Sergeant Mason, who shot at Gui teau, is to be tried soon by court mar tial. The court has been summoned by Gen. Hancock. Rev. David Levy, of Charleston, is in Greenville in the interest of the Rus sian Emigrant Aid Society, of which he is Secretary. The Huguenot Cotton Mills'* is the name of a plaid Factory to be erected at Greenville, S. C- This is another sign of a cotton mill boom. At this late day Prof. Chittenden is engaged in applying analytical and other tests to portioos of the remains of Jennie Cramer, recently exhumed, for traces of arsenic. T?he National Cotton Exchange's statement shows the total amount of this year's cotton crop that has appeared in sight to be 4,079,013 bales, against 4, 372,352 last year. By repudiation in Virginia the Pea body.Fund will lose ?127,000, and by repudiation in Tennessee ?364,000. A half million dollars lost to the children. The break in high prices for bread stuffs and provisions that have ruled io Chicago and other important centres af fords much relief, it is said. Within a few days lard has fallen ?1.60 per tierce and pork 70 cents por barrel. Judge Mackey is said to be the soul of the Republican party in South Caro lina. He is to shape the next cam paign. Mac has ability aud more tricks than the trick-mule.? Wilming ton Star. The Head colony, in the wheat re gion of Dakota, is composed entirely of eight brothers named Head and their families, numbering, nearly a hundred persons. They have bought 10,000 acres of land in adjoining farms, but these are owned separately, and there is to be no communism in the enterprise. The Memphis Appeal is sure that a new day has dawned for the South, that in its light prejudices aie vanishing, and with them the hatreds and the narrow ideas of the past, and that intelligence, reason and common sense are ready to make available the resources which science and experience have brought within reach. Oliver John Kenyon's house at Asbantee, Wis., originaly had only one story. When his son married he added a story for the accommodation j of the new family, and a third was pot j on when his grandson took a wife. He is now 80 years old, and it is therefore unlikely that the building will be fur ther heightened for a great grandson, though he hopes so. Washington, February 16.?A tele gram from Chicago says : Mrs. Scoville, sister of Guiteau, the assassin, has writ ten Mrs. Garfield a Ion? letter urging ! her to intercede in behalf of the assassin. ! It is an agonizing appeal and implores ! the widow of the late President to look j upon Guiteau as 'brain-sick/ deluded \ and crazy.' Mrs. Garfield will not an- i swer it; she cherishes no malice towards i the slayer of her husband, but a&ks to ! be left alone with her sorrow. The Camperdown Mills have just turned out their first specimen of indi go yarn, which is much superior to a sample sent from the North for them to make it by. Large orders for this yarn j will no doubt be received by these mills j hereafter, as they have had calls for it j in the past, being unable to supply it iu j consequence of the absence of necessary I appliances for turning it out. The J yarn is exceeding pretty, being a com- j bination of blue and white threads.? i Greenville News. George C. Gottung of San Francisco j suspected that his wife was in love with j another man, and by means of a decoy j letter induced her to' go to a place j where she supposed her lover would j meet her. There she found her bus-i Land instead, and he cruelly stabbed ! her to death, as well as the infant that j she held in her arms. Gottung was j convicted and sentenced to be hauged. j Mary E Willis belonged to a church ; choir, and every Sunday afternoon she j went with some city missionaries to j sing in the jail. She met the condemn ed wife murderer, and it was soon no- i ticed that she carried him a bouquet at j every visit. Love letters were next ex changed, and a few days ago the couple ! were married in the doomed man's cell, i The bride is educated, re6ned, and has j considerable money, which she will spend in endeavoring to gain a n?w trial for ber husband. The year jnst ended is said to have developed more extravagance on the part of the people of the United States with respect to luxuries and ornaments than was ever seen before. The coun try generally is prosperous, and though the severe drought last year greatly in jured the South and portions of the West, it does Dot seem to have succeed ed in warning the country of impending dauger. All sorts of speculations are indulged in, and stocks and shares of all kinds are in demand at good prices. Those who hold that a panic comes every eleven years, are busy in their predictions of disaster year after next, if not before that time. Gold that has poured so plentifully into America from England in the past two years is now beginning to recross the water?a mil lion and a half dollars leaving New York for London a week or so ago. Another season of drought would be a terrible blow on the agricultural inter ests of the country, and would reduce many sections to want. It behooves os all to live closely and economically during the coming seasons, so that in any event no heavy debts may be incur red ; while, in case of prosperous sea sons, onr profits will only be so much the more. A penny saved is a penny gained. LENT\ To-morrow is Ash-Wednesday, the commencement of the penitential season of Lent, which will continue until Easter Sunday, when the ashes of sorrow will be exchanged for the white robes of rejoicing. The long Lenten season is one of fast, on only one meal a day. This might seem terrible enough in it self to gourmands accustomed to three or four meals a day ; but when it is added that even at this one meal in the twenty-four long hours no flesh meat of any sort is allowed, their woes accumu late. The first relief comes in the exception from the fast of all the Sundays. This relieves the devotees of the table from one-seventh of their privations; and by a liberal indulgence at a large number of meals on Sundays tbey can extend their gastronomic influence over a part of Monday. Next, they will dUcover that besides the main meals on each of the week days, 'a moderate collation is allowed in the evening.' This then, makes two meals a day, and thus half of the remaining difficulties are solved, as far as concerns frequency of meals, at least. Still further investigation shows that by a dispensation, the use of flesh meat is allowed at the main meals of Monday, Tuesday and Thursday, (except Holy Thursday,) of every week, so that the non-flesh diet is really lim ited to only three out of seven days. A still further step towards restoring the spirits of the gourmand is the discovery that, though eggs come from fowls, and though butter and cheese are not wholly disconnected with the product of cows, thej are all to be construed, for the pur poses of the Lenten fast, more in the vegetable than in the meat class, and, in fact, it is well known that grocers rather than butchers sell them. But, when at last, added to the allowance of eggs in their various forms, and butter aud cheese, comes the provision that dard and drippings may be used in the preparation of fish, vegetables, etc..' the most enthusiastic devotee of the table has really no just ground for cot keeping the Lenten rules, if he desires to do so. Still, less this be not enough, the reg ular number of meals is wisely allowed to growing children "and youth," to women nursing infants, to "those who are enfeebled by age," to the infirm, and, finally, to "those whose duties are of an exhausting or laborious charac ter." And to wind up, even abstinence from flesh meat is not prohibited "in special cases of sickness and the like." Thus it is clear that all who desire, may safely and cheerfully observe the Lenten fast. mm I I m\? The Science of the Farmers. The breaking up of the winter can not now be long delayed, and nobody is so deeply interested in the weather j of the next few weeks as the farmer, | because the success of many of his crops, J to no incousiderable extent, depends upon the way winter ends and spring begins. From time beyond memory the farmers have been weatberwise folk, through the necessities of their business, aud little disposed to consult other oracles than their own. Times have lately changed in this respect, however, aud many of the farmers who are now turning over in their inieds the best plans for meeting the exigencies of this anomalous season, and insuring success for the crops of 1882, will acknowledge their indebtedness to an education that is not altogether based upon farm traditions. While this coun try is apparently yet behind Europe in the facilities which it affords for ngri cultural education, yet it is gratifying to think that the time is not distant when the study of farming as a science will be adopted ir the South. Science and practice are inseparable for successful farming. No matter how much practical skill one possesses, it can never supply'the want of scientific knowledge in farming. Without science the farmer is like a blind man walking on strange ground, trustiog to chance for results. No matter how proficient he is, he must understand thoroughly the practical application of manures, aDd the strength and condition of the soil. Our farmers are sadly in need of such knowledge, and the material pros perity of the South is sufficient proof of this. The old time notion that any | fool could farm has been a great injury to the farming interests of the South. And the sooner this idea is disbelieved and acted upon practically the better for the country. From a financial point of view, it would be decidedly advan tageous to place fools at any other oc | cupatioos, in the South, than at fanning. The season of the year is at hand I when our farmers are begiouing to pre I pare for planting their crops, aud we think it well to remind them of the superior merit of small farming, and a well fertilized surface, over the large and thriftless management that belongs to old methods. Somehow people in almost every other avocation in life pro fit by experience, but in agriculture old methods cling, in the face of even the strongest conviction. The majority of our farmers are content to jog on in the same old way as their great grand fathers did, imagining that because they did not farm differently their system of farmiog is good for all ages. Agriculture is a noble pursuit, and should have the proud devotion of the hands and brains of the highest intel ligence. Instead of arranging to pro duce cotton crops on such large scale as to be a positive and expensive outlay, and anticipating in the result the where withal to purchase every thing needed to live on and sustain this ruinous spec ulation, let the farmers reverse the method, and test the virtue of producing first his own supplies with which to support himself, and rest the expense and risk on his principal money crops. It can make matters no worse to try this change, and we confidently believe, if old and young will try it, in a few years the change will be so great in the material condition of the communities interested that the wonder will be how such an effort, so clear in its results, could have remained so long paralyzed. Congressional Representation. The Apportionment Bill, fixing j the number of members of the U. S. House of Representatives at 325; an in crease of 32 over the present number, was passed iu the House last Friday, j Under this apportionment South Caroli- j an gains two members. Several other States gain one or two each, and Kan sas and Texas gain four and five re spectively. Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont lose one apiece. Now a chance is offered to all aspir ing Independents and sore-headed Dem ocrats in this State to form themselves into two patriotic colonies and settle in the two new Congressional Districts, and enjoy the political proportions. -mill 11 - Lyneh's River Improvement. j We are iu receipt of a letter from j Hon. John S. Richardson, requesting i us to publish the Report of the Survey j of Lynch's river. As the report has j failed to come to hand, we are unable | to comply with the request. This let- j ter informs us that the report is un- j favorable, and that there is not much \ likelyhood of securing an appropriation j from CoDgress for this river. Hon. John I S. Rdchardson, has worked hard to get | this appropriation, and if it is not grant- j ed, it will not be any fault of his --mm- ?. - Death of Bishop Wightman. Bishop William May Wightman, of | the Methodist Episcopal Church South, j died at his residence in Charleston, S. j C, on the morning, of February 15, j after an illness of over eighteen months; i aged 74. He was licensed to preach in 1827 and was successively Professor iu i Randolph Macon College, Virginia;' editor of the Southern Christian Adco- \ cote: President of Wofford College, ! South Carolina; Chancellor of the! Southern University at Greensboro, j Alabama. He was elected Bishop in 1866. He was a fioe scholar, a pulpit j orator of rare power and universally popular. Does Education Pay ? _ A Visit to Winnsboro by the Rev., A. D. Mayo, of Boston. [From the Fairfield News and Herald.J "The Rev. A. D. Mayo, of Boston, a gentleman of large and varied expe rience in educational matters and editor of the American Journal of Education, visited Winnsboro on Friday iu the in terest of education. Dr. Mayo has for j several years been engaged in the work } of visiting different States in the South and Southwest, inspecting schools and arousing the people to a just apprecia tion of their duties to the rising genera tion. He has the co-operation" of a number of philanthropists and educators and is warmly endorsed by Gen. Katon, United States Commissioner of Educa tion and the Rev. Dr. Curry, agent of the Peabody Fund. He will spend scv- j eral weeks in South Carolina uodcr the j direction of Superintendent Thompson. Acting in accordance with the wishes of the latter, Dr. Mayo visited Chester on Thursday and addressed a brilliant audience in the Court House that eve ning. "On Friday he reached Winnsboro and speut some time at the Colored Normal Institute in charge of Mr. Rich ardsoo, and then passed the rest of the school day at Mt. Zion, listening to the recitations and occasionally putting in a question or suggesting a charming way. At the close of the session he made a short address to the pupils, tell ing them the three schools that all must attend?home, school and life. His talk was heartily appreciated." In connection with the above, we pub lish the subjoined letter from the State Superintendent. Dr. Mayo's lectures are of absorbing interest and we hope Sumter will greet him with a full house. Due notice will be given of time, place, &c. Okfick Statk Sui?'t of Education, Colombia. S- G . Feb. 17. 1882. J>". F. Ithame, Es<j. School Covir, Snmter, S- C. Deak Sin: Dr. Mayo, of whose visit to the State you liavc already hrard, has accepted a good many appointments to speak at dif ferent points. I am anxious for him to visit Sumter and make an address, for he is certainly one of the most effective j speakers that I ever heard. If I find I that his other engagements will permit J him to visit Sumter. I will give you as j much notice as possible, and I hope ; that you will be able to secure a good i audience for him as he is well worth ! hearing. Dr. Mayo's lectures are free, j Very respectfully, HUGH S. THOMPSON, State Supt. Education. Gov. Cameron, of Virginia, with two companies of military, has gone to the mouth of Rappahaonock river, where serious trouble is threatened between cri zens and the oyster fleet at that poiut. i The Plan of Masterly Inactivity Among S. C. Republicans. Washington, February 1G.?Cool Leaded Republicans from South Caroli na say that, in the face of the amend ments to the election laws recently enacted by their State Legislature in the interest of the Democratic party, the best policy the Republican party of that State can adopt is one of masterly inac tivity, until the ^Democrats fall out among themsejvcs over an issue which will permanently split their party. The auiendments referred to practically put the Democrats in absolute coutrol of the registration books and the ballot boxes in the country districts In the cities Federal supervisors can and will be ap pointed, because the Attorney-General has money with which to pay them. He has none for supervisors serving in the country. Ex-Representative Robert Smalls think that, if the Republicans should absolutely hold aloof from poli tics for four years, the Democrats would, at the end of that time, be cut ting one another's throats, rendering coalition desirable to either faction, and power possible to the Republicans. - mMtm - ?- -am' The Races at Augusta. Augusta, Ga., February 18.-?The races opened to-day with a fair atten dance, weather fine and track in excel lent condition. The fir.-t race, a mile dash for two year olds, purse ?125, had four starters, Lilie Monroe, Clara, Guilford and i Leverage. Clara was the favorite, and | won in 1.51, Lilie Monroe second, Guilford third. In the second race, dash of three quarters of a miie for all ages, purse j ?100, the following started: Franklin, | Barney Lyon and Farragut. Barney Lyon was the favorite. He won easily in.1.22, Farnklin second. In the third race, miie dash for all ! ages, purse ?125, the starters were I Bonnie Castle, Col. Sellers, Keno and i Glenrock. Col. Sellers won by a neck, j Bonnie Castle second, Glenrock third. Time 1.50. The fourth race, three-quarter mile j heat, for all ages, purse ?150, had j four starters : Tom Montague, Sports man, Independent and Lyncbpin. \ Lynchpin won the first heat in 1 23J. \ Tom Montague second. The-second; heat was also won by Lynchpin. Sports- ' man second. Time 1.19&. Talmage on the Prize Fight. The prize fight figured eonspiciously j in Dr. Talmage's lecture upon secular j topics of the week, as viewed from a re- j ligious standpoint, in the Brooklyn j Tabernacle, last evening. As many of ; the newspapers had for two or three S days, he said, been largely occupied j with reports of the pugilistic encounter, | the whole country had been either will- j ingly or unwillingly looking on. It was j a shocking spectacle, but not so bad as I war on a large scale Of the two he j preferred the prize fight. It was a bad I thing to break one jaw, but how much ; worse was it to break ten thousand j jaws? Why should not Disraeli, after! he had instituted the Zulu war, have ! bt-en compelled to go forth and fight the j battle himself, instead of the thousands who did fight ? Why not let nations at war have each a champion to do the ! fighting ? It would be a great economy j of desolated hearthstones, a great econ- j omy of sepulchres. He did not advocate j prize fighting, but he thought it required courage to enter the twenty four foot ring in personal conflict. There is more exposure than in a con test in which Dahlgren guns and howit zers and swamp angels are engaged. He believed that the time will conic when the epics of war will cease to be sung over thousands of stacked up corpses, and the rolls of its drums will be replaced by diplomacy ; but if we must have physical war, he would have the men who make the battles be the only onesto fight. As it is, those who get up the wars usually stay at home and make money out of them. In the strife of this week two men were the ruffians; at Sedan two nations were the desperadoes. The music of the stars over Bethlehem on the first Christ mas night needs more thorough re hearsal by the nations.?New Yurie Herald February 11. One hundred and fifty-four business failures throughout the country during the past week; and of these the South ern States had forty-five. The latest from the oyster war report the Rappahannock blockaded by Gov. Cameron and the probable capture of che depredating fleet. The Mormon missionary is abroad in the land. It is stated that two of these Latter Day Saints have been 'about Black's Station, on the Air-Line Rail- | road, where they left tracts and pnpers with such persons as they could trust, j They were very quiet and secret in their movements.?Seneca Journal, Feb. 17. A fire at Ilaverhill Mass., Saturday morning in the business portion of the city, burnt out some eighty shoe firms ; over two thousand people are thrown out of employment and many families arc rendered homeless ; the loss is esti mated at ?2,000,000. The New Scientific American Offices. We arc gltd to announce that tlie Scientific j American came out. of l tie late fire iti New} York, like the fabled Phcctiixj with renewed j life. The suhscrption list?, account books, | patent records, patent drawings, and Corres-[ pondence were preserved in massive firc-proof | sates. The printing of the Scientific American ! and Supplement was done in another building; j consequently the types, press'-s, paper, etc., ! were unharmed, and no interruption of busi- j ness was occasioned. The now Scientific American offices are loca- j ted at 2C1 Broadway, corner of Warren Street, j a very central and excellent situation. The | building fronts towards the City Hall, the Court House, and the New P^st-officc?a mag- j nificcnt stnu-ture. which cost eight millions ! to build. Nearly opposite, find a few hundred j feet distant from the Scientific A werwmoffices, i v the entrance to the great Suspension Bridge i over East River, between New York and ! Brooklyn, which required ten years to con- j struct and twenty miltituis of 'dollars to pay [ for. Iu front, ah- >. of '.lie Scientific American j is the City li:i!l Park and Printing House j Square, with its statue oflleajatnin Franklin, | and the homesofemineni editors and news- | papers, such as the New York Tribune, New , York Times. New York Sun, New York \V>irld, New York Ihr old Mail and Esj'Ki'*, Zeitung. \ and others. Tht Scientific American unices are admirably j chosen for active business. Here, in addition j to the issuing of their interesting publica!ion, J Messrs. >7tinti & Co.. aided by trained exiirni- j nersand draughtsmen, prepare specifications ! ! and drawings fur American and Foreign pat- j i cnts. If any of our readers should happen to ' make a new discovery (we hope every one of I them may do so, and gain a fortune), ii.<-y : have only to drop a line In Munn & Co., 261 [ Broadway. New York, who will reply atouccj ! without charge, stating whether the invention is probably novel <>r paten table. A handbook ! of instructions, with full particulars, willaleo j he sent. free. Messrs. Munn & Co. have h?d j over thirty-live vcars' experience in the busi i ness. MAGAZINES, &c. " Golden Days for Boys and Girls, " pub lished by James Elverson, Philadelphia, is a handsome weekly, also issued in monthly parts, making an attractive magazine. Tbe press speaks in high praise of its purity of tone, and thorough adaptability to please and improve those fur whom it is intended. Terms S3 per annum in advance. " Wide Awoke" is brimful of interesting and instructive stories, chapters of history, trav els, and health and strength papers which convey nsefui information to parents on the subject of children's health and well-being. At$2.50 per annum this magazine is a cheap entertainment of childhood's liesure hours, which has nothing injurious as an offset to its interest. Published, by D. Lothrop & Co., Boston, Mass. The British Quarterly Review for January has been reprinted by the Leoxard Scott Publishing Co., 41 Barclay Street, New York. The principal articles are: "Literary Clubs in Paris." A history of literary clubs in tbe country where they most readily took root and most abundantly flour ished. ,:A Sketch of Individoal Development." A curious and interesting essay by George Mac donald, beginning with a child that is too young to have memory or consciousness, and tracing his mental development step by step. "The Culdees and their Later History." "Industrial Resources of Ireland." A sta tistical article to show that Ireland is natural ly one of tbe richest countries north of the Alps, but is suffering for lack of human indus try to develop its resources. "Count Campello." His life as a Romanist and reasons for withdrawing from that com munion. "Wescott and Hort'9 Greek Testament." These two volumes bid fair to form an epoch in the study of tbe Greek New Testament, and are not likely to be surpassed by any similar publication of our day. "Richard Cobden." This essay does not deal so much with personal narrative as with the workings of the mind, influence on poli tics, and a wise man's conceptions of govern ment. The remainder of the book 19 filled with notices of contemporary literature. The Westminister Review, also reprinted by the same establishment, contains as follows: ?1. Tbe Early Progress of Christianty: 2. Tbe Basis of England's Power in India: 3. The Stoics; 4. George Eliot as a moral Teacher; 5. Working Class Insurance; 6. Richard Cobden?an extended account of his Career and opinions ; 7. Town smoke and Town Fog ; 8. The Coronation Oath no Bar to Legislation; 9. India and Our Colonial Empire; 10. Contemporary Literature. The remarkable cheapness of these periodi cals, only S2.50 a year each, will enable many a reader who has hitherto only read them at his club or reading-room, to sub scribe for himself, and read the number in his leisure at home. The periodicals reprinted by tbe Leonard Scott Publishing Co. {41 Barclay Street, New Yot k,) are as follows: The London Quarter ly, Edinburg, Westminster, and British Quar terly Reviews and Blackwood's Magazine. Price. $3 a year for Blackwood, $2.50 for any one of the fie views, and only $10 for all. It's a funny old world anyhow, and taste is only a matter of education. Your baby contentedly gums candy, the native African picaoiuy is joyous over a mouthful of salt, and the young Esquimaux cries for a tallow candle. We gorge ourselves with oysters, while the Digger Indian would not give yoa one long, fat snake for all the oysters iu Chesapeake Buy. We. or at least you, chew tobacco, the Hindoo lime, and the unostentatious and not over fastidious Patigcnian, when he wants a chew of something real good, rolls a quid of guano into his cheek. That's the kind of a gum- drop he is; and you couldn't hire him to chew tobacco, un less, indeed, he may have learned the habit from the missionaries. 'Is?'t tbe moon beautiful this even ing ?' said Alonzo, as he snuggled his arm just as close upon hers as he could. 'Y-yes, but I know another moon that is perfectly ecstatic in its loveliness.' Do you ?' 'What moon is that, ducky ?' 'It's the honeymoon, Alonzo, and don't you think it is about time for us to have one ?' The cards are out. Fees and Doctors. The fees of doctors is an item that very many persons are interested in jest at present. We believe the schedule for visits is $3.00, which would tax a man confined to his bed for a year, and in need of daily visits, over $ 1,00*0 a year for medical attendance alooc ! And one single bottle of Hop Bitters taken in time would save the $1,000 and all the years sickness.?Post. Annoyance Avoided. Gray hairs are honorable but their prema ture appearance is annoying. Parker's Hair Balsam prevents the anoyance by promptly restoring the youthful color. ? ? - Living Witnesses. The hundreds of hearty and healthy looking men. women and children, that have been rescued fiora beds of pain, sickness and well nigh death by Parker's Ginger Tonic are the best evidences in tbe world of its sterling merit and worth. You will find such in al most every community. -??> ' ? o? Do not buy cheap medicines on the score of economy. The best are none too good for the sick, and are the cheapest. Such are the Cherry Pectoral, the Sarsaparilla, and other standard remedies of Dr. J. C. Ayer & Co. They are worth all they cost and should be in every house, Rhuematic Recovery. Asheville, N. C, Aug. 23, 1881. II. H. Wbrneb & Co.: Sirs?I take great pleasure in stating that I have been entirely cured of rheumatism by the use of your Safe Kidney and Liver Cure. N. P. Cheoester. A CARD. OFFICE OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS, SUMTER COUNTY. SUMTER, S. C, February 16, 1882. ! The Board of County Commissioners of Sumter County, would respectfully state for the information of their fellow citizens, that tb>y have been unjustly charged in the pre sentment of the Grand Jury, February term of Court 18S2, with extravagance, in paying: exhorbilant prices for bridges and footways. j No inquiry was made by the Grand Jury, j or any one of them, of this board as to its ac- j lion in letting out Bridge Contracts, etc. If; they had done so, we feel assured that the I Grand Jury would not have made the pre- j sentiment they did, and that if they will at j the next term make the proper investigation, 1 they will withdraw the geueral and sweeping j charge, which they made to the recent term of Court. JOHN O. DcRANT, Ch'n, F. M. MGLLETT, ELIAS CHANDLER, Cotintv Commissioners. Attest. T. V. WALSH, Clerk. Feb. 21. Toll of confederate" TROOPS. Ofkick ok The Aimutant and Inspkctor-Genbral, ' Columbia, S. C. February 13th, 1882. By an Act entitled an Act "to provide for : the preparation of Rulls of Troops furnished ! by the State of South Carolina to the army of J the (>nfi.deraii* States, and of the Militia, of I the State in active service during the war be- ! tween the Confederate and United Slates," approved January 31st, 18S2, it is made the j duty of ttic Adjutant-General of the Slate to "j prepare such rolls j In order to carry out this commendable ac tion of the General Assembly, and that the j result may be as accurate as possible, the un- j dersigncl requests that all officers and soldiers I from South Carolina, of the late Confederate j army, or citizens of the Stale, who may be in j possession of regimental battalion or com pa- j uy rolls, will communicate with him in refer- 1 ence thereto, or send to him, in Columbia, such rolls a? they may have, which will be returned, if desired, after beiug made use A. M. MAN IG HALT. Adjutant and Inspector-General The components of Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup lire daily prescribed by the ablest physicians, whose success is dus to the specific inluence of these components. Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup skillfully prepared for immediate use, is for sale by all druggists. THE MART?3T& SUM TER, S. C, Feb. 20, 1882. COTTON?About 100 bales have been sold during the week endiug February 20th. Market closed Stead v. We quote: Stained ~'$?H', Tinged 9^@9t; Inferior 5|@6j; Ordinary 8|(?9.*: Good Ordinary 9|@10; Low Middling 16j@10f:; Middling 10$? lOf; Good Middling 10?@10f-. CHARLESTON, S. C, Feb. 18,1882. Cotton.?Market firm. Sales about 1,000 bales. Quotations are: Tinged 10@,10i; Or nary 9J@10; Good Ordinary, I0$@10f; Low Middling, 11J@11$; Middling, 11Good Middling, ll|@llj. WILMINGTON, N. C, Feb. 20. Spirits Tubpentinb?Market quoted firm. Sales reported of 300 casks at 49 cents. Rosin?The market was steady at $1 65 for Strained and $1.90 for Good Strained. Crudk Tcrpentink?Market firm at $2.00 for Hard, $3.25 for Soft and $2 60 for Virgin. Cotton?Market steady. Sales of 113 bales. The following are the official quotations : Ordinary 8 9 16, Good Ordinary 9 15-16, Low Middling 1013-16, Middling 11$-, Good Middling llf. SUMTER, S. C. ONE EVENING ONLY. Wednesday, March 8tlu MADISON sliF TMTBE COMPANY. TN THE GREAT COMEDY-DRAMA, KIRKE Nearly 1,500 Consecutive Representation? Throughout the United States. THE LONGEST RUN ON RECORD. THE GREATEST PLAY. THF GREATEST SUCCESS. BRILLIANT OVATIONS. DAZZLING TRIUMPHS. THE WnOLE COUNTRY ELECTRIFIED. THEATRES PACKED TO THE DOORS. SUPERB METROPOLITAN CAST, HAZEL KIREE GOES HOME TO EVERY HEART, Seats can be secured at D, J. Aald's Drog Store. Reserved Seats, $1.00; Admission, 75 eta. Feb. 21._3U_ STRAYED OB STOLEN. LOST from the premises of Mr. F. L. Brunson, near the Poor House in this County, one evening last week, a WHITE AND LIVER COLORED SETTER DOG, { answering to the name of "ZEB." He is of i medium size, with liver colored ears, two j large liver colored spots on his body, and j some liver colored spots on his face and leg9. j The return of the dog to the uudersigned or j to the Store of D. J. Winn & Co., in Sumter, j or information as jo bis whereabouts will be ! thankfuilv received. j Feb 21? 2t. F. L. BRUNSON, Jr. j ASSIGNEE7SlAUT IN PURSUANCE of the direction and pow er in the Deed of Assignment from E. H. j Holman to me, dated January 13th, 1882, I ! will sell at public vendue, at MECHANICS J VILLE in Sumter County, on WEDNES | DAY the 8th DAY of MARCH 1882, for cash, the following real and personal property, subject, however, to the riyht of homestead I therein, or as may be set off therefrom : { ONE HOUSE and 9 acres laud, in Mechan icsville. STOCK IN STORE, at Mechanicsville. His interest (being 7-9} in one ten-horse power Poole & Hunt Boiler and Engine. His interest (being 7-9) in one Seofield Cot ton Pres.-. 1 Sixty-Saw Winship Gin. 1 Sixtv-Saw Winship Feeder. 1 Fifty-Saw Winship Gin. 3 Fifty-Saw Winship Feeder. Pulleys, Shafting and Belting. 1 Beam Cotton Scales. 1 Plaiform Cotton Scales. 1 Cotton Seed Huller. 1 Champion Reaper. 1 Four-Horse Wagon. 3 Two-horse Wagons. 1 One-horse Wagon. 1 One-horse Cart. 1 Ox Cart. 1 Carrige and Harness. I Buggy and Harness. 8 Head Horses and Mules. 1 Yoke Oxen. 4 Head Hogs. 1 Cow and Calf. 5,000 lbs. Hay, Fodder and Oats, more or less. 500 Bushels Cotton Seed more or less. 10 Bushels Peas. Farming Implements. Household and Kitchen Furniture. One Share in the Capital Stock of the Sum ter Park and Agricultural Association. W. W. FRASER, Assignee. February 14. 3t. SHERIFF'S SALES. published" fob information. BY VIRTUE OF SUNDRY EXECUTIONS to me directed, will be sold at Sumter Court House, on the HRST MONDAY and day following in March next, 1882, within legal hours of sale, to the highest bidder, for cash, the following property?purchasers to pay for titles: 318 Acres of land, more or less, in Sumter County, known as the Mat Ives Land, bounded by estate of L. M. James, estate of Washington Bracey and Jno. Cater, Sr., and by lands of G. W. Brown, levied upon and tobe sold a3 the property of the estate of C. J. Shannon, under Execution of j J. D. Dunlap, Commissioner in Equity for '[ Kershaw District, against Wm. M. Shannon and Thomas E. Shannon, Executors of C. J. Shannon. r. W. duraxt, S. S. C. Sheriffs Office, Feb. 10, 1882. -ALSO Sale of Heal Estate under Mortgage. Robert W. Durant, as agent for L. G. Pate, will sell at Sumter Court House on sale day in March, the following property, under Mort gages dated Jau. 2, 1879, Jan. 12, 1879, and March 15, 1877, made by J. S. Miras to L. G. Pate, and by John R. Luckey to L. G. Pate: One hundred and eighty acres of land more or less, bounded by lands of Mrs. Mary E. Wright, landsof Miss Martha Mims. lands of Timothy Mims, and by lands of Robert Low rey. One hundred and twenty-six acres of land, bounded by lands formerly of Est. of Thomas English, lands of Newell Scarborough, lands of Anderson Luckey and by lands of Mrs. Eliza English. SADDLERY AND HARNESS. -0 THE FINEST LEATHER ON HAND Ready to bj worked up at the lowest living figures. HARNESS of the latest style and of my own workmanship, at my shop to sell. I am prepared to do all kinds of Jobs in my line of business. All Orders received wiil be promptly attended to, and with the greatest care. -A full line of READY-MA DE HARNESS, SADDLES, BRIDLES, COLLARS, MARTIN GALES, and EVERYTHING ELSE pertaining to a First-class Harness Shop. OLD HARNESS made to look as good as NE W. COVERING and REPAIRING Old TRUNKS -A SPECIALTY. All WORK in mv line GUARANTEED to g 7n SATISFACTION. T, 0. WR0TEN, Corner of Main and Republican Streets larch 15. 1881. It. harby bros., SALE AND FEED STABLES. HORSES! MULES!! HORSES! MULES!! JUST RECEIVED, THIS 10th OF FEBRUARY, ONE CAR LOAD Horses and Mules, ALL BROKE. Selected with a view to meeting the wants of the planting community. -Also? On hand a lot of VERY FINE TURPEN TINE or TIMBER MULES. grahaW stables, REPUBLICAN-STREET, TO ARRIVE, OX OR BEFORE MONDAY, FEB. 20th, ONE CAR LOAD ?or? mm and HOLES. Farm and Timber Mules. Also, on hand, a fine assortment of BUGGIES, OF ALL STYLES AND GRADES, At prices to suit the times. CELEBRATED Old Hickory Wagons, Manufactured by the Kentucky Wagon Mann factoring Company, of Louisville, Kj. FebH_W. M. GRAHAM. NOTICE OF INCORPOnATION. AFTER THIRTY DAYS, the undersign ed will appry to W. H. Cuttino, Esql, Clerk of Court for Sumter Countyf for an act of incorporation for Concord Grange, No 30, P. of H., of Sooth Carolina, Febroary Otb, 1882, W. J. PRINGLE. J. J. BR?NSON, J. D. WILDER, J. C. DuRANT, E. B. SHAW, R. H. TISDALE, J. W. BR?NSON, W. J. DuRANT, S. J. NEWMAN, R % MONTGOMERY, H. M. REAMS. L. W. GORDON. Feb 14 _ 4t Estate of Richard B. Cain, Dec'd. IWILL apply to Judge of Probate for Sumter County uu the 2d day of March, J8S2. for a final discharge as Administrator of the afore said Estate WM. 0. CAIN, Jan. 27 Administrator. Estate of Rev. Elijah Hicks, DECEASED. IWILL APPLY TO THE JUDGE OF Probate f-r f-umtvr County on the 2nd dny uf March 1882. for a final discharge as .Administratrix of afore?yj<i K.?tate. K. A. HICKS. Jan. 31. 4t Administratrix. jMRDI??'S NOTICE. IWILL APPLY TO THE JUDGE OF Probate for Sumter County on the 7th dar of March 1882, for a final discharge as Guardian of Wm L. ?stren, (Minor.) JOS. A. OSTEEN, Guardian. FebT . 4t " JOHNSON-GRASS SEEOT This grass will grow in any climate. Will endure the long and intense heat of a South ern summer, and the rigors of a Northern winter. Grows on any kind of land. Hay rich, juicy and tender. After first year will bear three cuttings. Price, subject to fluctua ting, S3.50 per bushel; 2?c. per pound. JOSEPH HARD1E, Selma, Alabama. Feb 7 2ro removal; THE BARBER SHOP OP LAVAN AND EDWARDS HAS been removed to the room OVER SCHEWERIN'S GROCERY, where, any work in their line?Hair Cutting, Shav ing, Shampooing, Hair and Moustache Dying ?will be attended to in the most approved styles of the art. Razor Sharpening a specialty. Particular attention ^id to Ladies and Children's Hair Cuttint nd Ladies waited on at their homes. AHEAD AGaI Reports from all sections of N gia and Alabama sustain our clai m, m & co.' is the BEST AND MOST Rl Fertilizer in use, and that the Wilcox, Gibbs & Cc which we put out for the first tire celled by any Acid Phosphate or It is not necessary for us to say a reports which may be obtained froi whole subject, aud will amply repay p< We will have a moderate supply of Agents, payable in Cotton next Fall. Depot, get your merchant to order it. W1LCO Jan U SAV. J. THEO. The Ladi SENDS G To the People of ? rounding Cordially thanking the and pat AND INVITING THEIE FALL AND WINTER S Great care has been exercise AND THE PURCHASING THERKOI AT PRICES TO $ HE WOULD CALL SPECj dm goods id i\ Ladies' Neekwcar made Hoping to see you he begs i lies j. FarKerg H'k ?r-Balsa Satisfies tb?r h>o>t f*,H?'.inis a? ?w^ff< Ilair R**fc^"T7^ Xeror Fails to Bestoro (irM or Faaedliai;| Get lie ARKER'S GINGER TONIC Gineer. Bneha, Xandrak?,StiUlagia and many of tne iest nterScines known* are here com* bined into ?mediane of such varied and effective powers, as to make (1:? Greatest Blood Pirrifier&tae Best Health and Strength Restorer Cver Qsei< It cares Dyspepsia. Rheumatism, Sleeplessness, all diseasescf the Stomachy Bowel*, Lungs, Liver, Kidneys, and aU Female Complaints. If you are wasting away with Consompdon Of any disease, use the Tonic to-day. U trill surely help yon. Remember! it is far superior to Bitters, Essences of Cinder and other Tonics, as kba&ds up the system without in toxicatin j> JoCV and $r sizes, at all dealers m dmgs. Nooejpc?im without signature of H: >cox & Co., N. Y. Send for circular LARGE SAVING IN BUYING THE HOLLAS SX2Z. THE PEARL. 'THE BEST BAKING POWDER IN THE WORLD. WARRANTED STRICTLY PURE. Manufactured by S. H. WILSON, Grocer, 306 Kirrg, and 53 Society Street*; CHARLESTON, S. C. And for sale at . Dr. A. J. CHTNA'SJ DfttfG STORE* Feb H o Somtpr, 8. C* W. P. Bali, Diw S?. Jexw? Rathhi^ President, Chemist,. W. ?. Casoaa, Superintendent, * EDI8TO PHOSPHATE COMPANY^ CHARLESTON, S. C, Manufactcrers of EDISTO ACID PHOSPHATE, EDTSTO ASH ELEMENT, EDISTO AM.MONIATED FEUTILiZEB EDISTO GROUND BONE, ?od IMPORTERS OF GERMAN KAINIT, Special Brands manufactured to order. Car-load lots delivered free on board care. Any quantity delivered fret oa board road at Company's works. J. B. S. SLOAN, Treasurer and General Agent At Office of J. B. E. Sloan k Jan 10 ? . t MONEY SAVED " ?IS MONEY EARNED, I ASK ALL WHO Want to get the most goods for tbe least mouey to GIVE ME A CALL. It will cost yon nothing when you come to town to drop in at my store and take a look around. REMEMBER THE PLACE. SCHWERINS, ON MAIN STREET, OPPOSITE CHINA'S DRUG STORE. .. You will find always in stock Family and Fancy Groceries, Cora, 7h*at, Seed Oats,"Eye, &c. -also A Full Line of School Books, ALBUMS, SEASIDES, Blank Books and. Stationery, TOYS AND FANCY ARTICLES. I mean business, and will guarantee toy poodi as sound, fresh, and cheaper than the cheapest. New gcods constantly arriving?Clerks polite and attentive?and every honorable inducement is hereby offered. Sept 13_ 30 DAYS' TRIAL FEES "We send free on SO days' trial Dr. Dye's Electro-Voltaic Belts And other Electric Appliances TO MEN suf fering from Nervous CrbiUtr, IvObt Vitality and Kindred Trouble*. Ajjjo for Rheuma tism, Liver and Kidney Trouble*, and BUT other disease*. Speedy cure* guaranteed, innt trated Pamphlet free. Address VOLTAIC BELT CO., Marshall, fiUefc? AS USUAL! forth and South Carolina, Geor im that the 1.1 Ail 3LIABLE AND CHEAPEST ).'s Superphosphate, ie last Season, has proved unex i the Market. nylhing about these Fertilizers, as the n our agents or ourselves, cover tbo Husal. each, which can be obtained from our If there ie no Agent at your Railroad X, G-IBBS & CO., \NNAH, GA., and CA ARLESTON, S. C. SOLOMONS, f .es' Store, REETING fainter and the ?tir Country, m for their past favors ;ronage, I ATTENTION TO HIS TOOK NOW OPENING. d in the selection of Goods, INS??ES MS OFFERING THEM DTT THE TIMES, * IAL ATTENTION 70 HIS a Specialty tliis Season. to remain, I pectfullv yenrs, T. SOLOMONS.