The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, April 27, 1887, Image 2

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yfa&wnfor .Watchman was founded ; ? ? I85fc**d the True Southron in 1866, ?3Se>^to?fo?w? awc? Southron now has ^ >^?; the, combined circulation and influence ? 2 of the old papers, and is mani ai; ;7 :, ^ festlryMhe jwsfc advertising medium in ?C^''. Sumterv ?8 Attention Advertisers. 2$? Watchman emd Southron will hereafter be published on Wednesday, and advertisements should be sent m not later than Tuesday afternoon. Changes of contract advertisements most be made Mondey Tnorninf. CALHOUH DAY. The ceremonies attendant upon the unveiling of the statue of -John C. Cal houn in .the City of ' Charleston, earn e off yesterday according to programme, & except-tbat fome of the most prominent B||!?- expected guestsv including President; 'ill"'-/ Cfevelsnd aiid Hoflr; W. W. Corcoran, ||||^ of JffasKngton, were prevented from :; . attending, '.^retary of the Treasury r?i " ~ Fai^?^h^?|*n??ter General Vilas, Senator V?erhees, ?fin diana, and vari ons;?ther prominent personages from Other; States; together with our IL S. Senators and various State officials were there-i -Tie military of the State was well represented, anda large concourse of visitors fi??ed - the ? city. Secretary l?mar made the oration5 of which the jRewz- axd CWier says it would be worse than useless to attempt a review. The oration is published in full by the 2$cw* and Courier to-day, together with :_?. ?>". < a full account of the entire proceedings, Ss. the whole occupying about seventeen ~ ? i' columns of dose matter in that paper. '?"' ':[- .;' Our readers will- understand that it would be impossible for us to give any thing i;Ve a synopsis of the day, and therefore we do not undertake it. ?umter was represented by the Light Int?lrv, 30" strong, and about one hundred -ci viiians. ----- ' 0& THE gCftTOB ATO DIGNITY OF '"':':? THE STATE. The controversy betweeutfie^overn ors of South Carolina and Georgia, growing out of the kidnapping of the the forger Black wood is still pending. - ^ There seems to be no Taw bearing upon the ease, and such matters have always *>een arranged upon a basis of mutual courtesy. So far Governor Gordon has failed to accord to this State the cour tesj-that'Penneylfania did to New York in a similar case, snd one which '*:?.?? Nis considered as a precedenfe bearing V"; upon this. .l?e eopy the following from ;/ ... the Col ambi a Record, and second the remark that "in such hands the honor j^plp^ .-> a?3 dignity of tbe State are altogether ; safe-* ~ , The course of Governor Richardson in the Black wood matter has been characterized by a degree of prudence and dignity that must commend his con duct to the people of the State. There waa temptation to immediate, action, '5*?7\\'- without perhaps fully realizing to what such action m?g h lead. The capture of Black wood by Georgia officers who are, in this matter, simply kidnappers, was calculated to irritate, if not to excite. Without yielding to any such feeling. Governor Richardson, taking counsel of -* . the^chief law officer of the State, has done all that the i?w enabled him to do. Attorney-G?n?ral Karle has given to .the matter all study that it deserved, '->- and his counsel to the Governor has been founded as well upon pre cedents as upon principle. The people of South Carolina may rest assured that icLsacb hands the honor and the dignity olthe State are altogether safe. .The'^nifeato* by "Judge Lynchn of Yo?kviHe, has been copied by most of the State papers and commented upon. It will be fonnd upon our fourth page, and While we agree with the Berkel y Gazette, that it is a dangerous paper, we hope that its publication will do good. The attention of the State at large is calledf to certain facts, the ex istence of which may be termed the root of the evil and it is to be hoped . that th?s "manifesto" may have the ef fect of impressing upoa our whole people, the importance of stopping this growing tendency to lawless- ? aess, and that the best way to do it is te rigidly enforce the law under all circumstances. In a word "let no guilty man escape." If there is any defect in our Jury system or in any thing else pertaining to oor courts of j justice let it be corrected, and then let cur people determine to punish ail law breakers?Judge Lynch included. THE COLOR LINE. Because a man is black that is no reason wby he is not just as eligible as one who Is white to compete for a prize at the great national drill which is to take place in Washington in May. Two or three compauies of colored men are booked to appear at the drill, and, it is Stated, that this is the sole reason why j eertaio Alabama companies intend to withdraw from it. How very silly. The Washington drill will be a national tS?r, and it ought and will include all class?e who are citizens of the United States. To prohibit these colored compa nies to enter this drill would he andern- j ocratic, and the principle thus estab- ' linked would militate against the trae genios of a bread and liberal form of government. The test is one of mili tary efficiency and not one of social j Status. Qualities of character are the needful requisites to soldiery and not the peeuHarttie* of the skin. So, Ala Lama, don't he foolish about this matter, j If ynar companies withdraw from this ! drill on account of the color Hoe, it j wHl not sneak well for the broad and j liberal views of our Southern companies. . MAKING OF S?IiK. The cultivation of silk, says the Wil mington, N. 0., Star may yet become profitable in the Southern States. There is in this country a Women's Silk Culture Association that has al ready held six annual meetings. 7t ought to interest the women as it is surely in their line to grow cocoons and. make silk. In 1850, there were 67 silk manufacturing establishments in this eonntry. In 1880, there were 382. The goods manufactured amount to $34,00.0,000 in round numbers. We do not know whether or no any of these establishments are in the South. The time was, long ago, when the silk cul tivation was an industry in North Caro lina and Georgia. In 1733, the Swiss worked in this direction in South Caro lina, but the product was small. As early as 1732-it was made in Georgia. By 1750^9,300 pounds of cocoons were producedr Raw silk to the amount of $8,800 vas. exported from that one Sute. What bas been done can be don? again. It is not. improbable that in the years to come the mulberry tree will again be cultivated and the silk business be one of the multiplied indus tries. North Carolina may again try its hand. Since preparing the above we find a short editorial in the Greensboro State m the subject of producing silk. It tays: "It is said that no place in the world s superior to some parts of North Caro ina for the silk worm. The climate suits the mulberry tree and the silk sorm prospers here. A letter from Mr. Brown, of Ink, in Wilkes county, which we forwarded to Washington, brought the letter which we pri?t be ow." The letter is from the U. S. Depart ment of Agriculture and is to the effect :hat the needed instructions can be ob tained from that Department free of charge and that after the 1st of July aext.cocoons will be purchased by the Department at market prices. It says : ?fThe coco?ns\tnust, however, be dry tnd this"* ?ijTDg takes about three nonths after the stifling. Before ship ping any lots samples should be sent to is in accordance with circular 36." What has become of the ?amter Silk Association ? If it is still in existence ire wonld be glad to receive for pub ication a report of their experience so ar. .8 Fair of the Manning Guards. .Correspondence of the News and Courier.) Manning, April 22.?The Guards' air is over at last, and everybody is lorry. It was the grandest social event ever held in the town, and socially, as reli as financially, was more than a sue :ess. Yoor correspondent has attend ed some of Columbia's and Charleston's grandest military entertainments, but ione that surpassed that of the Guards. Early Wednesday morning the vehi cles fro m the country began to roll in, ind by 3 o'clock, the time appointed for he shooting-match, the town was well 1 Uled with strangers from the country tod elsewhere. The shooting match vas held at the range of the Guards, ust below the depot, and the prize, a tande?me cup was won by them, though I bey found contestants worthy of their : iteel in the Hampton Light Dragoons md Connor Mounted Riflemen, the two cavalry companies of the county. The fair proper opened at 7 o'clock, the Courthouse, which had been gor geously decorated for the occasion by iie ladies of the . town. Such a scene is was there presented has seldom been witnessed. "Couples of beautiful ladies ind handsome men, crowds of happy children, and even the old folks looked ?appy. The inspiring strains of the italian band lent a charm to the occa sion. The flag of the old Manning Guards was presented to the company i>y Capt. John C Manning, through Judge John S. Wilson, and was re ceived by Capt. A. Levi. Capt. Man ling's father, Col. Brown Manning, iras the first Captain of the original Graards and had the flag in his posses sion at the time of bis death. Upon :he reorganization of the company Capt. Manning signified his intention of pre senting it to the company, and the fair iras made the occasion for the formal presentation. - On Thursday the raffling for the beau tiful articles was begun, and continued ctotil last night, when all were disposed }f After the fair was over the young Folks adjourned to Loyn's Hall and tripped the light fantastic for several bours, when the Manning Guards Fair became one of the pleasures of the past, but one long to be remembered in the history of the town. The amount real ized will be- sufficient to procure the uniforms for the company, and we hope soon to sec them on dress parade. Too much credit cannot be given the ladies who so generously gave their services ind donations to the soldiers, nor to those merchants whose contributions were so freely made. Among the visitors to the fair were Misses B ssard, Blanding, Graham and Newton, of Sumter, Miss Fur man, of Greenville, and Messrs. Tindal and Graham, of Sumter. President McBryde to Resign. Dr. John M. McBryde, President of the South Carolina College, has for some time been considering the offer of the Presidency of the University of Tennessee. The people of South Carolina will regret to learn that be has signified his acceptance, to take effect at the close of the current session of the College bere. The post to which President McBryde has been called is an important one, and he is well quali fied to SU it ably and honorably. His salary has been fixed at ?5,000 per annum. Dr. McBryde's departure will be a loss to the College and to the State. -~Columbia Record. ,-???--? - ? Mr, Bcoct, .Secretary of the State Bar Association, announces that Hoo j Joel Prentice Bishop, of Cambridge, Mass . has consented to deliver tho next j annual address before ths State Bar As- ? eociation. Mr. Bishop is quite* a dis-j ttoguished jurist, being a law professor j at Harvard and the author of several j works on criminal law which ?re every where regarded as authority. A canning factory is soon to be es tablished in Columbia, DAVIS AND BEAUREGARD. The Ex-Confederates Conducting ?a War of Words. General G. T. Beauregard, io a foar colunin letter in the New Orleans Pica yune, replies to what he considers re flections on bis coarse at the battle of Shiloh, contained in the speech of the Hon. Jefferson Davis at the unveiling of the statue of General Albert Sidney Johnson in .New Orleans. General Beauregard claims that he did the best be could with men who were absolutely worn oat by hanger and fatigue. His reply is severe, and discloses the exis tence of a bitter enmity between him self and Mr. Davis. At the same time General Beauregard gives the following estimate' of General Albert Sidney Johnson : am one of the many in the South who believe, even to this day, that had he been at the bead of the Confederate government duriog the ter rible ordeal we had to go through from 1861 to 1865 the resalta of the war would have been altogether different, and if not a complete success, at any rate not by far such an overwhelming disaster.*. mr. datis's severe reply to general bbacregard. New Orleans,. J?a., April 23.? Jefferson Davis, in the Picayune of Sunday morning, replies to the com munication of General Beauregard in that paper of last' Sunday animad vert ing on the remarks of the former de livered at the time of the unveiling of the bronze equestrian statue of Albert Sidney Johnston at M?tairie Cemetery, in this city, ?n the 6th instant. The President of the late Confederacy says : ' In your issue of yesterday there is a communication signed G T. Beaure gard/ in which is a special reference to my remarks at the unveiling of the statue of General Johnston, and I ask the privilege of replying through your j columus to that portion of the communi cation. As you are aware my remarks ? were unpremeditated, and under the circumstances, it would have been very , difficult, if not impossible to make an ! exact report. It seems, however, to ! have been sufficiently clear to be under stood by the writer of the commanica- ? tion, who undertakes to reduce a quota- ? tion to 'plain language,' and then in a quibbling explanation of his 'plain lan guage* shows that he knew the trae j meaning of my remarks. If he did not I will aid his understanding by special-' j Iy stating that in my opinion- the only t mistake of General Johnston in relation to the battle of Shilob was in not per- j \ sonally making the .order of march from -j Corinth to Pittsburg Landing, for which his large experience in the movement of droops peculiarly qualified htm, .in stead of intrusting that duty to General Beauregard, his eecond in command, and who bad s"?-en comparatively little j service with troops in the field. ( 44If in this way, ac appears by con temporaneous statement, a day was, needlessly spent on the march/it was a , mistake with serions consequences. Then follows the bold assertion that J was mistaken in supposing the ' tele graphic dispatch bad been lost in which I General Johnston explained to me his I plan of battle. To prove my mistake ? the emphatic announcement is made, *It isuotlost.' . ( 'One might reasonably expect, after 1 each a declaration, that tbe dispatch ' described by me would be produced ; 1 but instead thereof there is given a .1 dispatch reciting the order of march 1 from Corinth and the assignment to 1 positions on the field, and this is offered 1 as tbe telegram 'now occupying our ' attention'?a poor fulfillment of the hope suggested by tbe round assertion that the dispatch referred to by me had not been lost. In regard to tbe lost dispatch stated nothing new in my ( remarks on tbe 6th inst. Substan- , tially and more fully the same matter ( was published by me in 1881, in my 'Rise and Fall of the Confederate Gov eminent/ Both dispatches were lost, ( but the one published was supplied from - the original in the possession of Col. W. P. Johnston. It gave the order of march ( aod the general disposition of battle. The other, as stated, was in a cipher * agreed upon by General Johnston and { myself and only used on special occa sions. The original, for obvions rea-. t sons, was not therefore to be found in bis letter book I shall not notice in detail the self-laudation of the long communication under review, but will merely say that if General Beauregard was the author of the plan of battle ; if he was present throughout with the troops who fought it ; if be was on tbe field when Johnston fell ; if the enemy had not then been driven from point to point, and if General Beauregard , 'throughout the whole day, before as , well as after the death of General John ston,' did 'direct the general movements of oar forces' and did, after the fal) of his chief, actively press the attack so that tbe right and centre of the enemy only began to give way in confusion after General Beauregard had assumed command, and if the order to retire was not given until after an attempt to make a concerted onslaught had been made, but, as he states, 'was desultory, with out spirit or order, and failed in effecf/ and if it was not until just before sunset that he ordered a cessation of hostili ties, then many eye-witnesses of good repute have greatly misstated the iih Dortant facts in regard to the battle of Shiloh, and especially as to how a victory was well uigh woo and how it was forfeited Mere assertion will not rebut that mass of weighty evidence which has been adduct-d. I have no disposition to enter into this controversy, and did not mention General Beauregard either by name or official designation in my re marks oo the 6'h instant. He under took to make plain as a reference to him self what might have been generally supposed to belong to some staff officer, j but he knew tho rightful ownrr, and claimed his own, and proved that it would cot referto anything which hap pened on the field of Shiloh. It would have been more pertinent if he had shown that the order of march had not ? been the cause of delay in the arrival of the troops at the point of junction. In j the effort to pay a just tribute to the j memory of General Albert Sidney John ston there was certainly no wish to de- j tract from any one. His merit raised j him above such need, and it would have ? been an offense to his moral nature to j have mingled his praise with detraction. Envy,?*jealousy, or a desire to appro priate the glory of another could never have found a resting place in the mind of Johnston. He was a devotee to duty and a worshipper at the shrine of truth. He died for his country's cause aod is embalmed in the hearts of a grateful people. RespectWy yours." Depth of the Charleston Earth quake. Io a communication to the National Academy of Sciences, Captain C. E. Datton gave on Tuesday a calculation of the depth of the Charleston earth quake centrum, which puts it at the enormous distance of twelve miles below the earth's surface. The calculation by Robert Mallet of the depth at which the Neapolitan earthquake of 1857 origi nated was the first attempt to solve such a problem. Working on the as sumption that the earth wave radiates in straight lines from the origin, and hence at different distances from the centre of surface disturbance it has different an gles of emergence. Mallet found that lines drawn parrallel to these angles, if projected, would intersect each other at a mean depth of about five miles under the surface. From seismometric and other indications the mean depth.of the Yokohama earthquake of 1880 was calculated to have been about three and a quarter miles. While much greater depths of centrum have been assigned to some earthquakes, the accuracy of the calculations has been doubtful. Captain Du tton's new method of deter mining the depth of the focal cavity at Charleston gives, therefore, a most re markable result. But his conclusion is in harmony with the observation, of Mallet, that 'earthquakes which have a very great area of sensible disturbance have also a very deep se mal focus.7 ><mm $ I ' mum Death of an Old Citizen of Co lumbia. Capt John McKenzie, a resident of Columbia since 1840, died on Saturday evening last, in the 78th, year of his age. He was a native of Port Glas gow, Scotland, but left the land of his birth when a mere lad, and resided in New York for a number of years, where (after the death of his father) he learned the business of a confectioner and baker, and was united in marriage in that city to Miss A. W. floff. Mr. McKenzie was a charter member of the Governor's Guards ; was connected with the Independent Fire Company for about forty years, as an active mem ber, President and afterwards on the honorary list ; filled the highest posi tion in Mansonry and Odd Fellowship ; had been Alderman and Mayor of Co lumbia; was one of the citizens1 com mittee which bore the flag of truce and surrendered the city . to Sherman's forces on the ever memorable 17th, of February, 1865 ; took an active part in political matters until the release of the State from Radical rule ; was an aarnest member of the Presbyterian Cb-^rcb, and as far as his means would xllow aided many charitable objects. His wife departed this life nearly seven years ago, and of a. family of seven children only four daughters survive bim. Mr. McKenzie was highly res pected by ell who knew bim, and be had literally hosts of friends, old and young, throughout the State. His remains were interred in the family lot in Elmwood Cemetey this afternoon.? Columbia Record, April IS. ?I t I ?i A Marriage on Horseback. The ceremony that united Miss Bessie Clas?? and Or'. Trippett in J;holy wedlock i>aods' C&s performed while bride and groom sat upon horses, the officiating ?inister standig on the porch of Col. Cash's residency, several witnesses to :he marriage?iucjoding the bride's father?also occupying positions on the porch. The style is soou^hat an in novation on custom but, we t?'ink, quite sensible one. Now, somebody will isk : Is it proper to call the borsette ride that so appropriately succeeded the marriage ceremony a bridle tour ?? Roclcingham (iV. C ) Rocket. Penitentiary Population. The spring term of Court in the different counties have thus far sent to the Penitentiary 195 convicts, appor tioned as follows : Abbeville 8, Ander son 3, Barnwell 7, Beaufort 6, Berke-' ley 7, Charleston 7, Chester 10r Ches terfield 3, Clarendon 6, Colleton 7. Darlington 15, Edgefield 8, Fairfield 11, Georgetown 2, Greenville 3, Hamp ton 2, Kershaw 8, Lancaster 5, L?ureos 11, Lexington 2, Marion 7, Marlboro 6, Newberry 4, Oconee 3, Drangeburg 4rRicbland 5, Spartanborg 12. Sumter 8, Union 2, WilHamsburg i, York 9. Total 195. The counties of Aiken, Horry and Pickens have yet to be heard from. There are now in confinement 1,047 convicts, against 985 at the time of the last annual report, Oct. 31, 1886.? News and Courier 16th. A special correspondent jf the Colum bia Register writing from Camden says: W. A. Schr?ck has charge of and owns an enterprise of which Camden can justly be proud. I mean the DeKalb Poultry Yard, on the corner of DeKulb and Littleton street. This was started over three years ago, and after learning by experience what is the best, Mr. Schr?ck now breeds black Leghorns, silver-spangled Ham burgs and Wyandottcs, and contem plates adding to his list of breeds white-crested black Polish and white faced black Spanish. Mr. Schr?ck, who is prominent in the National Poultry Association, and who by the way is a young man, has met with gratifying success in his poultry ven ture, winning firsst prize wherever he has exhibited. He takes pleasure in showing to other poultry fanciers his finely arranged yard of beautiful and valuable chickens. -mum 11 ?mm?mmmm.-? The New York Sun prints this in re gard to Mr. James R. Randall, and A is ton's new paper, the Hot Blast: One of the new journals of the South whose advent is worthy of special record is the Hot Blast, published at Annistoue, Ala. Annistoneissaid, by the Courier-Journal, to be 'not list among the coming cities of the iron belt.' The editor is Mr. James R. Randall, author of 'Maryland, My Maryland,' a famous song of the civil war. jNow he is a journalist of a reunited country and a promoter of the great boom of pro ductive industry The Southern iron belt is a great thing. It will fill the South with prosperity, it extends into Kentucky, and it will knock the spots out of the idea of a tariff for revenue only. What help that will be to the Democracy it is needless to say. We present our warmest compliments to our new, important and esteemed contem porary, the Hot Blast. Long may it blow. A sensation has been created at Ridge Spring, S. C, by the reported discovery of an electric pit (Mr. Wrn. Merritt's flower pit) which cured Mr. Merritt who has for fourteen years been a dreadful sufferer from chronic rheu matism and dyspepsia. [From our Regular Correspondent^ WASHINGTON LETTER. Washihgto??, D. April 22, 18S7. The week has been a quiet one ap parently iu Washington, but when one comes to think of it much of interest has transpired, and the President, at least, can testify that the drafts upon his attention have been sufficient to oc cupy every moment of his time. In the 6rst place be reviewed the wet bedrag gled Emancipation parade, which was well-nigh divested of all its glory by torrents of rain. He accorded a special reception t? the Madison Square the atrical company, and attended their performance for the benefit of tbe 'Ac tor's* Fund* ; he made several import ant appointments, had a conference with the new Pacific Railroad Commission ers who have arrived in the city, and. never neglecting bis tri-weikly hand shakings for tbe public, has been in terviewed each day privately, t>y a score or more of public men, politicians and friends. The Inter-State Commerce Commis sion now occupy their permanent quar ters in a handsome new building with a white marble front, on F street. At last the Commission has decided upon and appointed its Secretary, Mr. Mose ly, who was found in Boston. He is a Democrat and a member of the Massa chusetts State Legislature. He is also a lumber merchant and has had valu able experience in tbe railroad business. Th? time of the Commission is taken np with the .consideration of the numer ous complaints and petitions before them, and with the reception of visi tors, the petitioners and complainers, who come in person. The Commission bas been receiving letters on all sorts of irrelevant subjects from different parts of the United States, and. becoming tired of answering conundrums, not arising from specific complaints which tbe law authorizes them to consider, they bave just published a statement of the limits of their jurisdiction and powers. This important utterance of the Com mission, while it apparently avoids the questions to which it is applied and re fers the questioners to the railroads and courts for the preliminary and ultimate constructions of tbe law," points out the methods by which such questions can come before them, and makes a sugges tion*', which, if observed, will prevent ninety-nine out of one hundred of such questions from ever arising. The fruitful cause of these conun drums is the attitude of tbe railroads, which enforce vigorously, promptly and liberally everything in the law that can possibly tend to swell their revenues, endeavor to suspend or avoid every thing which can reduce their charges, and fall into a panic-stricken condition at the idea of running the risk of a penalty by giving a liberal construction to tbe clauses authorizing reduced rates in certain cases. With many of the roads tbe purpose is twofold, to make money and to create discomforts which may be attributed to tbe law, bringing to it if possible unpopularity and re peal. The Commission say that there is nothing novel in the provisions of the law establishing the general principles, under which interstate commerce must now be conducted. They simply bring back the business of the common car- . riers to tbe well settled principles of the common law. Since I last wrote you Spring has , arrived in Washington and with it re newed interest in the National Drill which takes place next month. Pre parations for tbe event are being carried briskly forward and it is learned that some the companies will arrive con siderably "n advance of the time of the < Encampmenf . The Monument grounds are being put ic Teadiness for the camp, and grand stands are .being erected for spectators around tht elipse on which the contest for prizes wi?? be held. Nearly one hundred organizations will participate, and they will come from almost every State in the Union. Some of the citizens of Washington ? are completely frustrated over the en- j ? forcement of some old laws which it was thought were so useless from disuse , that they could not be used. They are the old Sunday closing laws, which require that all places of business where anything is done or sold for profit, ex cept apothecary shops and undertaking establishments, shall be hermetically sealed on the first day of tbe week. The authorities have resurrected these laws from tbe statue book which has been so long ignored, and are enforcing tbem vigorously. In view of the great influx of strangers expected here during the 1 time of the National Drill, some earnest appeals have been made by the leading hotel proprietors and other public spir ited citizens for relief from tbe opera tions of that ordinance agaiost Sunday shaving, passed, as they say, when this extensive metropolis was nothing more than a good sized country town. Who Gets"Cotton Profits. A citizen on yesterday sold several bales of cotton at the top of tbe market to a well known buyer. The purchaser turned to another buyer standing with in a few feet of him aod disposed of the ticket representing his purchase at a profit of four dollars. The second buyer walked across the streets to a manufacturer's agent and in a minute or two returned, reporting a profit of three dollars and a half on the same lot of cotton. The original seller observed the trans action with evidences of intense disgust and rapidly figured out that the two buy ers in five minutes and without turning a hair divided more net profit than he had received for many days of hard work and an indefinite amount of per spiration. Then and there he register ed a geutle but effective swear that he would never, never sell a pound of his cotton to a buyer. All he makes, here after, will go to the manufactory direct.?Greenville Xeas April, 21. When you consider the question of necessary food for a field hand you will see that it costs little. A hand can live well on $1 75 a month provided his cooking has not to be paid for. A bushel of meal costs 80 cents, a fourth of a pound of meat a day will cost 55 cents, and that leaves 40 cents for molasses, salt and other extras. That will bring the living up to ?21.00 a year. The farmer who boards his hands can do it at this price, if he at taches no value to his vegetables and fruit and tbe occasional chicken pie on extra occasions. If any one should hire a dozen bands and hire a cook for them, they could be bearded at ?20.00 each a year^ Living is now cheap. It is waste and extravagance that ruin most people. NEWS ITEMS. A colored woman and child were killed by lightning near Conway, S. C, on Friday, April 15. The citizens of Sullivan's Island are raising a sum of money to place a monument over *Oeeola.' It is hoped to have the on veiling ceremonies some time this summer. Was there a pre-bistoric city under the site of the present city of Ashe ville, N. C. ? Remains of pavements, curbing, cobble-stones, <&c. bave been found several feet below the middle of Patton avenue. The inter-state commerce bill, says an exchange, isn't bad. We have ex amined it carefully, and can find no clause that requires a newspaper to give a railroad cdmpany $7 worth of advertising for forty cents. Five Southern companies still decline to compete in drill with the negro com panies. Tbey are tbe True Blues and the Grays of Montgomery, Ala , the Rifles of Atlanta, the State Rifles of Jackson, Miss., and the Independent Light Infantry of Fayette ville, . C. The contest for United States Sena tor from Florida has assumed the form of a yery stubborn deadlock. Ballots to the number of 57 have been held, with neither result oor indication of any result. It is suggested that love sick Jones might ran in as dark horse, but of course this a joke. Angosta is to have a grand hotel built upon tbe ruins of the old Globe, with an elevator and all modern im provements. The new hotel is to be cabled 'The Coskery,' in compliment to one of Augusta's prominent citizens. Mr. Wm. E. Goode, the father of the victim of the recently lynched murder derers in York ville, and was taken to the State Lunatic Asylum several weeks ago, is said to be very much improved in his mental condition and he is now allowed to stroll about she groun *s of the Asylum. It is thought that he will soon entirely recover. The Atlanta Constitution is authority for tbe statement that the Birmingham boom has finally collapsed and that more than a million dollars, of real estate notes have gone to protest. This gives as a dawning confidence in the stability of the Birmingham boom. A Russian dispatch says tbe Czar's Palace is guarded by four batteries of artillery, one battalion of infantry and two Cossack regiments and hundreds of detectives are on tbe spot disguised as laborers, coachmen, gardeners and ser vants. From this it would appear that the poor Czar is having a pretty lively time. This is the season of cyclones. Last week an account was published of a destructive one in Isle of Wight and Southampton counties, Virginia. On 22nd a cyclone passed over Paris, Ken tucky, doing considerable damage* On the same day a most terrific one swept over Vernon county Missouri, destroy ing everything in its course. Of five members of the Miller family four were killed. O the* persons are known to have'been killed. It is thought that twenty-fi ve perished. The application for a charter for the Mount Pleasant canning company was sent to Columbia several days ago. and the charter is expected by every maii., As soon as it does arrive notice will be given of the opening.of books of. sub scription. In the mean time applica tions for stock have been received from Georgia, Florida and other Southern States. The board of incorporators feel sure that the factory will be turn ing out hermetically sealed fruits and vegetables by the first part of June.? Berkeley Gazette. \ During the thunder storm on the afternoon of the 15th instant, says the Pee Dee Index, published at Marion, while Mr. Henry Shelly was riding through a piece of woodland, about three miles from Marion, a large, heavy limb from a tree on the side of the road fell across his horse's back, killing tue apimal instantly A branch of the limb struck Mr. Shelly on the face and shoulder, tot fortunately he escaped without receiving any serious hurt. It was a narrow escape for him. The Clearing Hou?^ returns for last week showed a great increase over the preceding week. The number of busi ness failures has diminished. Mi*?tey is lower?the average in New York being 4? per cent. The gross earnings of j 58'railroads for January and February increased ?6.894,879. Southern roads show a gain of 19 per cent. The earnings for first week in April show a gain of ?878,577, an increase of 30 per cent, over the same week for 1886. Flour aod meal firm. Specu lations in wheat feverish and unsettled. Corn dull. Oats declined. Dry goods jobbing trade in New York very light. If anti Protectionists were to sur render and all Americans were to ac cept the Republican doctrine of taxing a people to death to'make them rich what Would happen ? In a few years the United States would be completely isolated. A great Chinese Wall would surround this country completely. All foreign goods would be entirely ex cluded, aod all American productions would be kept at home. Our people would barter and trade with each other. The countries of the world of course would retaliate. They would put up a Chinese Wall so as to shut out Ameri can fabrics and farm products and oar people would repeat the experiment of growing rich like the two boys in the barn loft who spent their time in swap ping knives with each other.? Wil mington Star. A Big Pile of Bees. A curiosity could have been seen in Mr G. G, Alexander's bee yard on last Thursday in the shape of a tre mendous pile of bees. During the morning several large swarms came off, and all or them settled together near the gfouud on a bush. Nr. A. was not'at home at the time to attend to them, and before he arrived a great many more came off and settled upon tbe same pile, forming a bunch of bees about four feet high and nearly three in diameter. There must have been at least twenty swarms in the bunch, and they would have filled two flour barrels to overflowing with bees. When Mr. A. did arrive be went to work and divided the pile into eleven hives, several of them being filled to the brim with bees, it was the largest bunch of bees we have ever seen.?Camden Journal. Save Your Umbrellas. Your name neatly put in your umbrella with White Lead for only 25 cents. Leave at Watchman and Southron office. Providence Items. Providence, S. C, April 20, 1887, Mr. Editor: This section was visited witir a heavy rain on Friday afternoon, accom panied with a bail ; but there was no damage done. The weather has been quite eool ever since. - . Abad stand of corn is reported all over ! the neighborhood, "and some of the planters are talking of plowing up and planting over. I am glad to report that the fruit crop is not entirely destroyed in this section. There will be over a half of a crop. The Rev. LeGrand Guerry, of Summer ville, preached at the Bradford's Spring Epis copal Church onS?nday morning, April 17th. On every third Sunday in the month during the Summer, Mr. Guerry will bold services at that place. Messrs. Spann, Jackson and Ricbboarg South Carolina immigrants to Florida bave returned home. It looks as if there is no place like South Carolina after all. Mr. Spann reports that the South Carolinians in Florida are sick, very sick of Abat place. The Rev. W. 0. Wat3on will deliver a Temperance address at Providence Church on Saturday, April 23d. Yours, Providence. We hear from Johnston, says the Edgefield Chronicle, that during the late holiness meeting there, ? rathTer fashionable young lady professed to Mr. Leitch that she had been sanctified; and that he replied to her, with con siderable emphasis, *Oh, no, yo.u haven't; no, you haven't. Because if you bad, you would have pulled off that bustle For a severe and aggravated cough accom panied by a sore chest, I have used Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup with the most satisfactory results, obtaining, as I did, speedy relief. John Glover, Portsmouth, Va. Salvation Oil once tried, always used. 25 cents. An Expensive Delay. Is failing to provide the proper means to expel from the system those disease germs which canse scrofula, indigestion, debility, rheumatism, and sick headache. The ou?y reliable means is Dr. Barter's Iron Tonic. THE MARKETS. SUMTER, S. C, April 27, 1887. COTTON.?About 10 bales were sold dur ing the week ending the 27th. The market closed firm. We quote : Ordinary 9 ; Good Ordinary 9J ; Low Middling 9j; Mid dling 9| ; food Middling 10. CHARLESTON, S. C, April 26, 1887. CoTTos.?Market closed firm. Sales 25' I bales. Quotations are : Strict Low Middling 10? : Middling 10} ; Strict Middling 10}. MOMOBIAL ASSOCIATION. The Ladies Memorial Association will .meet at Music Hall on Monday evening, May 2nd, at 6'o'clock, to make arrangements for _Me mofial day, the 10th inst. AH interested in doing honor to our Soldier dead are requested to Le present. By order of the President. L. W. Dick, Secretary. BENEFIT I .?OF? , A, Literary Society, THERE WILL BE AN ORIGINAL MAY CANTATA Performed bv the papils of the Eclectic Col lege at"the MUSIC HALL on the evening" of MAY 5th. Doors open at 8 P. M. Performance to begin at 8?. ADMISSION 25 CENTS. Tickets to be bought at Schwerin's Book Store. - April 27. SPRING AND SUMME! MILLINERY, -AT Mrs. Ws ani Miss S?llers, Consisting of Trimmed and Uotrimmed HATS AND BONNETS FLOWERS, RIBBONS, FEATHERS, GAU ZES, RUCHINGS, 4c, Children's Lawn and Lace Bonnets in variety. ZEPHYRS AND CANVAS. Orders solicited and will receive prompt attention. April 20. _ WRSALE. \ HOUSES AND LOTS IN THE TOWN ?? of Sumter, near the business portion of town. Also, ONE SECOND HAND PIANO in good condition. Apply to JOHN . GREEN, Sumter, S. C. April 19, 1887._lm "insurance license. State of South Carolina. EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT, OFFICE OF COMPTROLLER GENERAL,. COLUMBIA, S. C. April 1, 1887. ICERTIFY THAT Mr. GEO. A. BROWN", of Mechan i csvi ile. Agent of the .VALLEY MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE CO., of Virginia. Has complied with the rtnuisitioDS of the Act of the General Assemby .entitled "An Act to regulate the Agencies of Insurance Companies not incorporated in the State of South Carolina," and I hereby license the said Geo. A. Brown, Agent aforesaid, to take risks and transact all business of Insurance in this State, in the County of Sumter, for and in behalf of said Company. Espires March 31st, 1888. W. E. STONEY, April 7 Comptroller General G. S. SEAL Y S Drug Store, Under Music Hall, sumter, s. c PORE DRUGS AND CHEMICALS constanly on hand. A fine assortment of TOILET ARTICLES, PATENT MEDI CINES, LADIES' REQUISITES, and all articles kept by first class druggists. Soda Water in season with choice cream syrups. Personal attention given to tbe compound ing of physicians' prescriptions. G. S. SEALY, Apr 13_Graduate of Pharmacy. THE AMERICAN MAGAZINE. BEAUTIFULLY ILLUSTRATED. This Magazine portrays Ameri can thought and life from ocean to ocean, is filled with pure high-class N literature, and can be safely wel comed in any family circle* PRICE 25c. OR $3 A YEAR BY MAIL Sample Copy of current number mailed upon rt~ ce i pi of 25 cts.; back numbers, 75 cts. Premium List with either. Address: B. T. BUSH * SON, Publishers, 130 & 132 Pearl St., N. Y. CEIMU New Advertisements^ a Tonart'? Settcer yo* . behold * . Acertain eme for yoongf and old ; Por ConedpatUn wffl And Indigestion <piick!y start; Sick Headache, too, w?f ?oou *u?*lde.-> > -, mea TarranTs Seltzer aasbeeqtrled. _ DR. J. . PATRICK, JR., SURGEON DENTIST, rrriLL visit mayesville on th# YV 11 th of May aod will remain ooeweek. - Office at Capt. J. F. Biaod's. He has all of tbe very latest im provenants and cao gire the very best references. All work thoroughly first class aod guaranteed. Nitrons Oxides or Laaghing gas used iff extracting teeth: MILLINERY; would invite the attention . of . their patrons - and. the publi? generally io .their_new : jjockjs?.A Spring&Sm^^m: This stock includes a foil Hue o% %? "'^? .IMPORTED 'S^r^^&i Rats and ~ ?ALSO, A Large. Stock of . ~\. - Zfntrimmed $1 a $ s? aU Color*, Together with a Great Taritty of ?J? FEATHERS, PLOWEBS, FANG* GAUZES- % RIBBONS, ORNAMENTS, etc, B0- . CHINGS, I/ADIE? COLLARS, AND CUFFS. A Full and Complete Line of . CORSETS, A nd tbe Latest Styles m BUSTLES, INFANTS' DRESSES, CAP^tft. Always on hand. ^ Prompt attention, given to Orders, ~~ ?P"l f .?..- '." S SHERIFFS SALES. BY virtue of Sundry Executions, to me. Erected, will besoSd at Sumtex C. IL,. \ on tbe first MONDAY and day following ta - MAY next, 1887, asd as maay days '. thereafter as may be necessary, within me , legal boors of sale, to the highest bidder, for I cash, the following properly : Al?that tract of land containing ninety' /oar acres, in Snmter County, adjoining landr now or formerly of R. S Brown, M. Cfctoy - :' W. L. Sanders and lands belonging to tfie ? children of E. Scott Carson : as shewn byn plat thereof, made by T.'K Cantey, D. - levied on and to be sold as tbe property of Washington Cato, deceased, ander the execu- , ?OXX of Samuel' R. Marshall and ether*/: against James D. Graham, C C P., as ad ministrator of Washington-Cato, deceased* ' MARION. 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It presents in a compact form every passage of Scripture contained in the largest ?difions, and forms a complete dictionary -and index to. the Holy Scriptures. It is ackaowledgsd-by theologians and Bible-readers to be the stand ard and oo-lv complete concordance to- the Bible. Superb colore! plates of the TaberracWtu the Wilderness, holy vessels, garments of the High Priests and furniture of the Tabernacle. Four thousand questions and answers on the Old and New Testaments. Intended to open up the Scriptures. For the use of stu dents. Sunday-school teachers and all Bible readers. And many other Important and, Useful Mis to the Study of the Raly Scriptures^ All written to increase the interest in and simplify the Study of the Word of God/ Dear Friends, and <dl others, o/ Sumitr, an4 ' Adjoining Counties: Having adopted the calling of introducing this very excellent Bible, and .several otbtr? next best books published, I would be glad to | serve you at once ; I bare engaged in a eye* \ tematic canvass, yet would be pleased to go direct to yoa, by your special .re^Wij% . and show you the many excellencies of oar-book*. Your bumble servant, . . / . ?7 " ./ HAHY?Y W. BAK?~<- . -My address l ^J*?'^ ?g?? * Snmter ?oea^^tC* April 5, 1387. :?