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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY IS. Thc Sumter WatcJastesa was fonudcd io 1850 and the Ihrwe Southron in IS6?: The Watchmanatnd Southron DOW has the combined circulation and influence of bother the old pipers-, and is mani? festly tne bes? advertising medium in Samte?. AN EXPLANATION. Mr. Editor; Ts. *o editorial ia jour lastl fear you hare unlcteationai?y done rac an in? justice. You fia j- that the report as made out Sty me gives a? information. I agree with you in* this, bs* Feertaialy am not ?oblame. TSw accounts are made out and banded to, mid apjwored by the County Commissioners* Then, checks are issued for the accounts. I Kare nothing-to do with the issuance of these checks; that 13 the duty of the Courcy Com? missioners, and, after ? report to theta that r have so c? h money on h^ni fer certain I usooses, all I hs.ve to do is to cash their checks. Now, iel. me quote on-*i No. 77. . $93.75. Office of Go/ Com., Sara'.er Co. SuMTsa, S. C, Dec. 32n<t, 1883. To P. P. G*illard, Co. Treasurer ; Pay to 8. P. R:cker k Co. or Beartr, the ft?ur of Ninety-Three 75-100 DolUrs for claim Ho. 20$, 367, 2*8, 210, 296, 269, 681, 299, 233 for accounts of Van Buren, Chans, Shaw, Odoo, DesCfaatnps, Jenkins, Kelly Bros., Keels, Muldrow, Bridge work, ?c., &c Audited March 6 th, April 2nd, May 8th, Contracted months of March, 1888-, of tb? Fiscal Year 1887 and 1883 from any funds io the treasury of said County appro? priated to said par poses. (Signed) Ji M. ROSS, Gom., TROS. J. BAKER, ? Ch DURANT, flL.S.J Gb. Gommiaaioners. (Countersigned! T. V. WALSH, Clerk. New, I bare DO way of knowing, nor is it tty duty to know, for what these amounts are j drawn. When f report a fund on band, the j Coct?ty Commissioners are by law allowed to draw on mo- and, if I have the money on ! band, I honor and cash their checks. J * I I bare lopg 3eea that these check? were not j properly drawn (accordiog to my view of the law) and, in September, 1388, when a cctn miltee of the Grand Jury inspected my office, I called their attention to it, and stated to them that while it saved rae rauch work, it did not convey tbs information needed and expected, and I would very respectfully ad rise that the County Commissioners be re? quired to draw a cheek for each and every ac? count they approved. Very respectfully, P. P. GAILLARD, Treasurer Sumter Co. We certainly bad no intention of j doing Capt. Gaillard an injustice in j what we had to say concerning his re? port, but we are pleased to publish his explanation, especially as it affords ss an insight into the workings of hie ! office aa connected with that of the j County Commissioners, and enables j every one to know the origin of that very useless report. In looking over our exchanges we see that the Treas? urer's report in other counties (some of j them, at least) is all that can be desired. The name of every person receiving ! any part of the public funds is given, j together with the amount paid in each j instance. This is proper and th3 least j that will satisfy our people. ITor in- j stance, B. ia Carters Crossing or some j other township, may put down a drain j bridge worth ?2 00 and charge the County $10.00 for it. This can never j be ascertained by the people, unless thc i * account of B. is made out and paid j .separately, and thc transaction so re- j ported. So much for the report. But an ex-1 aminaticn of it brings to our attention a j / long standing evil which, happily . can DOW be corrected. It appears" that near J 04,000 of the public fuuds were paid j by the Treasurer to a single ?rm, sho*s- j rag that the claims of a large ?umber j of persons were cashed by this Srtr. at J % different times dcriDg the fiscal year, j It is well known "hat 10 per cent, is j the discount always received by the j purchaser of these claims. This is rea- j sonable, wheo we remember that the j ultimate collection of macy claims has j been attended with risk or difficulty, j The firm in questa, as well as others j that have done a similar business OD a smaller scale, is not to be blamed for handling Couoty paper. On the con? trary, k has beeo a God send to the creditors of the County ; but it may go j out of that business entirely if the j County Commissioners do their duty, j An Act was passed at the last session of the General Assembly, which author- j ises the Commissioners to borrow what funds msy be required to meet the cur- j rent expenses of the County. We have 1 not seen the Act, but are reliably in- j foraged aa to its scope and meaning, j By the grant of this power to the Com missioners, our County can now be run : on a cahh basis. Those, who hold j claims against the public funds, have a i right to demand that this bc done, and ? the whole people should join in the de- i mand, that the conduct of public affairs be upoo a bu.fincFS plan When ; rt becomes kaown that one who works ; for the County can be paid in every iu stance upon the presentation and op- i preval of his claim, there will arise ; competition in bidding for such work, ; and the prices charged will be no breer . r o *-'| than the cost of the work may demand. Heretofore there has been some dim- : cuity tn lettiog oat contra?is, and the j prices charged are in some iestaoces exorbitant-all because of uncertainty j as to the time of payment, possible1 difficulty i? di^osiog of the claim, and ! the discount which must bo made, ! should a sale be ejected. Those who think that the $400, more or lesa, made ; by the firm above referred to, was paid 1 by the creditors of the people are griev? ously mistaken. It comes out of the people themselves, and when mee have to add on to their proper bills, interest for certain delay tn payment, they rarely pay much attention to tho prohibitions of the usury law. When ; a merchant sei?s goods upon a lien, be Lever adds to the casii price tho legal interest only, but more often about 50 per cen?, additional. Thus it has boo i with the creditors cf the County, anc our tares have been wasted io paying double prices which would never hav< been charged had cash payment beer forthcoming. Wc think of ibis matter as one of the greatest importance ia the economic administration of County affairs ; anc wc speak cf it not?, particularly, be? cause there is not even money cn bane to pay jurors and witnesses at the ap proaebiog term of Court. Unless some j thing is doce ct once, there will be nc fu?d? for this purpose next week, anc .the result will be a state of dissatisfac? tion, which we do not desire to contem? plate. The Commissioners neglected, I on one occasion last year, to provide I money for the pay of jurors and wit? nesses. How it was obtained need nol bc told, as the modesty of some public ! benefactors is great, but there is DC I need to resort to the methods then eua j ployed. ! We have spoken plainly of the duties of cur Commissioners, bat without any intention to abuse or find fault. We know them >\t to be men entirely j worthy cf the confidence that has been placed in them, and feel that it would require a lon^ and doubtful search to discover three better or more deserving. "j?DGE ?LDRICHT The Camden correspondent of the News and Courier, writing coder date of February 5th says : Judge Aldrich's charge to the grand jury WAS elaborate and explicit, though not long. In his charge he spoke of what he designated asanonser.sic.il hue aud cry of high taxer?, and the demagogic demand for reduction i J salaries. He said that such men did not know what they were talking about. So far as the State tnxes are concerned, they are not onerous, and as to the salaries paid State, county and judicial ofiicers, they are not ex? cessive. For example, a Circuit Judge's sal? ary is S3,500 per annum. He is required to go over the whoie Stat? in the*discbarge of his dudes, pay his own expenses, ?c. From his experience he had found that it tock erery cent of $1,000 to go around the different Courts in three circuits during the year. This left only $2:500 for the uiainteuacce of his family and other necessary expenses of a Judge's family. Considering the social de? mand upon a Judge while at home, and on his family during his absence, a Judge did not hare many doiiars to Isy up at the end cf the year for a rainy day. He then mentioned sev? eral instances among State and county o?icials whose satanes barely gaTe them a living, and in some cases did not do that ; and said that if the grumblers would turn their attention to tbs expenses of their counties, retrenchment tn some instances might be made. He cited the fact that every county has a treasurer aud auditor, when one cfiicer for these two posi? tions combined would be enabled to attend to the duties appertaining thereto. We perfectly agree with Judge Al? drich in. what he says concerning the attempt of the legislature to reduce the salary of circuit judges, and we think it is at least a mooted question whether or not the consolidation cf the offices of Auditor and Treasurer in the several cocoties is feasible and would be a proper proceeding from the standpoint of economy. But we* submit that a grand jury is a singular audience and a judge's charge a most unusual vehicle for the publication of a political speech. When the orator appears, as in this icstance, as plaintiff against the unwar? ranted attempts of the law-making power to rob bim of his own hard earned dollars, the scene loses ali pre? tensions to good taste, and would be actually indecent, were it not so supremely ludicrous. We must net laugh, however, for tve know that the speaker is not Judge Aldrich, u)t the ! man whom in the prime of his man? hood and the vigor of his intellect, this State delighted to honor. Thc voice is that of a weak and querulous child. Let it bring out ryinpathy, not our ridicule. But this last exhibition of senility on j the part of one, whose public career j should have closed years ago, reminds ! us that the time is drawing on apace j when Judge Aldrich will be called upon j to administer justice in this city again, and some tb:.igs should be said which we would prefer to leave unsaid, and j which have been suppressed so far for j reasons that shall be given. It is mock- ! ery, a travesty upon justice, that this j old and broken man should be left in a j position where his duty requires him to i sit in judgment upou his fellow-man. j We eee that at Camden he has been i called on to pass senteuce of death upon i one man. lu all probability thc sen- j tence is just, but what a risk is run! ! We do not speak of Judge Aldrich as i an individua!. We like him personally, j and look back with pride upon tue time when he could serve his State and did '. s-o, manfully-wheo he was Speaker of ! the llou^e, and* when he held other high position?. l>ut we speak for the people, \ who, equally with ourselves, love him j for what he has been, and say that it is dangerous to administer justice through an aged and decrepit man, tho bright- ' ness of whose intellect h;:s faded into the latest afterglow of a ft inter evening. When Judge Aldrich last presided in Sumter, his conduct gave ?:eat offense to the people in more ways than one. What that conduct wa1*, 1: is needless to explain here. The city was full of people and they will remember it. So great was tf?e dt^satisfaction that the ' Watchman arni SoHihron was called on to suppress eom*:?un;or.in?n5i strongly censuring Iii.-? Honor. This was net a transient feeling, for nt thc urxt term of Court the Grand Jury proposed to incorporate in its present ment the grounds of complaint rued recommend ? a remedy. This came to the rars of Judge Pressley, theo presiding, and he, after vainly endeavoring, by the use of authority and persuasion, to prevail Upon the Gran ! dury to forego, tin ir iuteation, finally declared :?:%t t.? his 4 certain Knowledge, the restgeattoo of Judge Aldrich had Leen written and was ia the hand of the proper parlies ; and that theref re the proposed present? ment could effect nothing Upon -.'-ar- i ing this, thc Grand Jury very gladly said nothing. Of this resignation, if it ever existed, aa J thc character ci Judge Pressley preludes the idea that it never did, nothing has sicco been heard. Uoder these circumstances, is it nec? essary for as to say that It- will be better for Judge Aldrich, for the people, for all concerned, that he shall no!, agaiu preside in Sumter ? NO DRUMMER'S TAX. IQ the News and Courier for Feb? ruary 7th appears the following : SUMTER, February 5. To the Editor of The Neto* und Courier: Lust night Ht a. meeting o?' t??e city council it was determined to put a license of $25 per monti1, on all travelling salrsnien stopping at this place, whether for one dav or a week. The ordinance ifgenerally considered as being very unjust. A CITIZEN. The origin of this mistake or false hood, as the case may be, has not been ascertained. There certainly is no drummers' license imposed by the City Council, and, io view of this fact, we are almost tempted to say that the above clipping is a hoax, maliciously perpe? trated. At a?y rate the statement was promptly denied officially by the Coui cil, but not until it had done some damage, for wo koow of one traveling salesman who gave this city the go-by, to escape the supposed license. On the evening of February 4th a gentleman appeared before the Council with a request that he be allowed to sell i furniture, pictures, and all other house- | hold articles without iiceose. This j gentleman's method is to take bis .goods around to different house3 and either leave them on trial or sell them on the j installment plan, taking a bill of sale i and requiring weekly payments. Among j the negro population this plan worked ? admirably for the vendors. Cuffy j would come in, agree to pay ?10 for a j ?3 bedstead, pay one dollar down, take I the article home oo an agreement to pay j Sfty ceots per week and about the third j week default, with the result that the ! ! owner of the bedstead would appear j next morning, with a wagon, and re? claim his property. Now, .no one will claim that this is a legitimate business. There is nothing Sxed and stationary about "t. It does ; aothing to build upa city, and, like the patent medicines sold on the streets, tends to impoverish people whose ignc rance demands that some protection should be thrown around them. Con? sequently the City Council very prop? erly refused to grant the request of the gentleman aforesaid. It considered him j a peddler and charged him a license of j $25 per month, in accordance with the j ordinance. We can think of co other source, ! from whtch the article in the News and ! Courier could have emanated ; but for want of information, we forbear to charge any one, patiently awaiting de- j velocments. Allow us to suggest, however, that j Sumter will probably be an unhealthy place for r*A Citizeu" when he is dis- j covered. "M QUAD." The Wilmington (N, C.) Messenger i is elated by the news that Mr. C. B j Lewis, the familiar "M Quad" of the j Detroit Free Press, is to spend a month j or two in the old North State. It sees whole caravans of immigrants Hocking to ts ? , people the waste places of the tar heel j country, as a result, of the "write up," ? which *'4M Quad" is expected to give, j This may be natural but it is extremely j humiliating. The New York swells j imitate the English ; tho balance of the j country imitates New Yorj: ; aad the South, a sort of tail to the Union, tries I to imitate, placate or black the boots of j anybody who will cotice it. This is ; quite a change from the condition of! affairs thirty years since, when the ; habits of Southern society were the ! standard of elegance and propriety. C. B. Lewis won a reputation by writing sketches of the war, and very j good sketches they are. But for some j time past, ho has been grinding out j supposed incidents from the mountains i of the Carolinas. He never saw our ! mountains, and ought to be tied to a : stake and treated to a Delaware bath for j the slauders which he utters weckiy against the people who inhabit them. | According to "M Quad," the people there are idiots-not barbarians, but ! idiots. The men always begin a re- j mark with "whoop." Nobody can ' agree to anything without "snuggling"' to it. Ifc is the 6rst to inform these benighted regions that there is such a thing as education. Is this I man, who advertises an intelligent and j hospitable people to the world a* lack- : inc the rudiments of civilisation, who i uses a dialect that proves he never saw j i tilts people, to^be held up to usas a j probable benefactor of this people?; May the L ?rd deliver us from all such benefactors as M Quad, Bo gene Field, ' and Rebecca Harding Davis. Permit us to inform these writers that the average Southerner (white) does not. pay "yoL'' for you or your, and tl?:;t Asheville, Swananoa, Salisbury and < I>:aek Mountain are not in half a day*6 ride of each other. Mr?. M. M Howick, of South Car- : ?lilia. !.a.> been promoted from SSH) ru ?1.(W?Hri thc treasury department at i Kx Governor Hugh S Thompson has [f.ih altered by rresident Cleveland, a pus: ion on thc Civil Service Commis? sion, h ?s thought that he will not be con Sr m cu by the N'tiate lt vviil bo decide i t.? day whether IUI ?ott (>r Smalls t \i;?';\ represent us lu Regress. There is no doubt but that ti;.'. t;i Itter will bo decided in favor of. Kltiott by astriei party vote. The V,l<imt'hji\ K:tt> rpri.*" has begun its twenty-second volume with excellent srosticcts This ::. a goodly aire for a (Fron our Regular Correspondent. WASHINGTON LETTER. WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 8, 13; Governor David B. Hill, cf York, was tho lion of Washington, liticaliy speaking, this week. Ile c over fco attend a grand dinner givei Secretary Whitney in honor cf Mr Mrs. Cleveland, aud remained two < as a guest of Secretary Whitney. Wednesday a special reception given by him to Democratic mern of Congress, aud it was attended nearly every man of prominence in party. A fie: wards O ov. iliil callee Secretary Fairchild, Representa Samuel J. Randall, who he cal's 1 greatest living Democrat,'* and ni personal friends. Gov. Hill did meet Mr. Cleveland except at the < ncr at Secretary Whitney's, am great deal of gossip was started by fact that the day of the Whitney din Mr. and Mrs. Cleveland took a train for New York. Probably S Cleveland's arrangements had b made to go to New York before he c knew that Gov. Hill was coming lu but that does not preven* people fi saying that he went away to keep ft meeting that gentleman. I do not \ tend to say that the relations bctw these two prominent gentlemen are perfectly cordial, but if such is the c then public opinion here, as expr?s OD every hand, is dead wrong. Mr. Cleveland has announced t after the 4th of March he will becom member of a famous law firm in N York city, and will reside there, and Mrs. Cleveland went over to N York this week to perfect arrangeme for their residence in that city. Sc ety here deeply regrets losing M Clevelaad, who has been the most p? ular winjan ever in the White House The "small fry" of the Blaine ero in this city received a shock a day two ago that set them to ruuni around with wild eyes and blanc! faces. The shock was caused by a t egram from ludianano?a savio;- t! Blaine had dee?Ded to go into the ct inet. It was really amusing io see t consternation for several hours in ; gang, but it was not ioDg before offic news from the head center was pass around among thefi.ithful which cans them to resume the we own-thc eai manner which they have werne since was known that Biaine was to bc Sc retary of Srate. Mr. Blaine is evidently not sup* stitious, as he has just leased thc rc dence in which the attempt was ma to assassinate Lincoln's Secretary State, W. H. Seward. Marrying an English wife seems have somewhat confused Scnatur Ha ley's mind as to the kind of gover ment under which he is living. I has offered an amendment to the Su dry Civil appropriation bill, providii for a gift to the widow of Gen. Sher dan of ?50,000, '*in recognition of !: eminent and extraordinary services his country.' This is truly a remar! able proposition, and should it be adop ed would establish a precedent whir, would be decidedly dangerous. It b: been referred to the Senate committi on Military Affairs, and if the mombo of that committee have the good sen: with which they arc generally cr?dit?e that will be the last of it. Gen. She idan was a great soldier, that ever* body will admit, and that his wida should have a liberal pension for tb remainder of her life is no more tba right ; but that in additieu $50,000 ( the people's money should be eiven t her, smacks a little tro much of royall for this country. Gen, Sheridan's sei vices to the United States were greal and I wouid be the last, one to depriv his memory of one i-j-acf the credit du him, but ou the other hand, wore nc the services of tho United States eqtiali great to Sheridan ? What weald th poor Irish boy. Phil. Sheridan, eve have amounted to had he not been ap pointed to West Point and educated a the expense of the people of the Unitci States ? The line must bc drawu som where in disposing of the people" money, and it would seem that at sucl absurd propositions as this of Senato Hawley's is a good place to draw it. A remarkable political trust lias beet formed by thc republican members o thc Senate, nearly every one nf their being prospective candidates for th< presidential nomination. The purpost of this trust is to serve notice on Har? rison that unless lie agrees to forego i second nomination for the Presidency, the Senators propose to make his admin istration a failure by refusing to co-ope? rate with it. It was this tru?t tba! compelled Allison to decline being Secretary of the Treasury, and th?' same thing will prevent any member from accepting a position in Harrison's cabinet. The result of this boycott on Harrison will be watched with interest by the few people who make a study cf the undercurrents in politics. A New Bogging Trust. On thc l*2ih of January we an Dounced the termination by limitation of the bagging combination. Thc con? tracts with several of the mills, notably that of the Louisville Bagging Manu facturing Company, expired on January I, and they attempted to dictate moie favorable forms to the eight concerns which formed thc nucleus of the com? bination, hi consequence thc combina? tion quietly dissolved. The eight firms in question have since been quietly purchasing the entire supply of jute hut.s here, afloat and in Calcutta, lu this they have succeeded, and the entire world's supply of jure butts is now owned by th? m. Thc Lud? low Manufacturing Company, the only larg*' mill tint ha> never joined the j combination, in tully supplied with i material. Lut the mills that broke thc combination have new their eli -ice be? tween entering ir again on ;!,,; terms the eight choose to ??ive theta and cea*- ; ing to manufacture f.-r lack of material. At the close of the year the combina? tion liad a!.out, ]5, OOO JW' yards of j bagging left on baal Having now secured control ,.f ibo total available j supply of material, the illustrious eight are in a position tu dictate terms a Imo;-1 if ro'f finite as eln-tMivory as the old con? bin a i ion. The railroad facilities in India arc so much improved that the cutir? jute crop ?/.:..-: tn market before March instead o? slowly dragging al-'?g tili summer, j September is tho earliest date of ship? ment of thc crop from Calcutta. Ibe first arrivais of butts from thc new croo : of ISSI) will not. take place till January, 1MK>. Until next January, therefore, thc smaller combination of KS:-:) isl likely to be able to contr. 1 the inarki : for bagging quite as effectively as thc j larger combination of 1888. As thc incoming Congress is not likely to do- j strey thc jute batts manufacture of this ? country by threatening to hand over the covering of the cotton crop to the roc?an Jute Manufacture Association, it is impossible that cotton hagging will bc sold this year at a lower figure, the manufacturers being no longer forced to get back their entire outlay in ?. si a* hs year. Last year the combination charged os high as thirteen cents a y.:rd for two pound bagging. This price :iss already declined from two to three cents a yard. l?agging made from jute butts can be sold at from eight, to nine cents a yard and show a fair profit to rhe manu fact u rc r.-Commercial Bulletin. A YANKEE ARGUMENT IN SECTIONS. Kow Cheap are the Goods of Other Men. X. Y. lierait The Herald printed last Monday an inter? esting conversation wiih Governor Lee, of Virginia, on the race question in the South. On Tuesday it printed ex-Governor Clayton's story of the assassination of his brother, John M. Clayton, in Arkansas. SKC. 1 -Governor Lee is an excellent mm, with, we believe, the best intentions Ile i5 a white man. Mr. Clayton, of Arkansas, who was assassinated in January, was also a white man. The assassin of Mr. Clayton was also a white man. In Arkansas they are saying that murder is murder, and that it would be wrong to deal polities into this CUvton affair. But the curious thiner ?3 that nobody mur? ders Governor Lee. We have not beard of a democratic Congressman or candidate behg shot in the South. Mr. Clayton was a re? publican. He was looking into charges, well established, apparently, ot' democratic election frau.is and violence, and he was shot while on that lawful business, it if; at Ie?st awkward, ami we wish our correspondent had asked Governor Lee whether he con.sidtrs this assassination of a prominent white re? publican to be an outcome of the '"race prob? lem," which seems to trouble him. SKC. 2.-The other day we printed from Louisiana accounts of a long continued serios of outraces on colori d ps-ople ir. iberia parish. Men and women had been handed, stripped whipped, driven from their humes; and ail this by H gang of ruffi ans without pretence of lawful anthon ty-, mid with 30 little excuse that the correspondent of the New Orleans Times-Democrat wrote that ?0 peaceable citi? zen ever knew why all this w.-is done. This, also, Governor Lee would perhsps say w>is an incident of the ''race problem ' which troubles him. But we should net agree with Governor Lee. SEC. -if in the South the negroes were found frequently assassinating democratic members or Con cress or candidates tor office; I if they mustered in ?rangs and hangul, whip? ped or drove out white men and women obnoxious to them : if they formed themselves into banda of regulators, carried oif by vio? lence poll boxes and books, drove white voters away from voting places, committee! frauds on the ballot box, and, having done all this, assassinated a white man who came : to inquire into their frauds-then, -Governor Lee, in that c?3e the Herald would agree will, i you that the ;irace problem'' was a serious; matter for the South. SKC 4. - Governor Lee says: "Leave thc ne^ro alone ?mi he will thrive proportional lt with the rest of us. Upset him. rill his head with false and pernicious notions of assimila? tion and social fqtm?ty, and you destroy his usefulness as an integer." Well, since 1877 he has been left alone. Nobody, so far as we have heard, lias "??ed bis head with notions of assimilation and social equality." Gov? ernor Lee talks nonsense on this point, ard very tiresome nonsense, ll is not thc negroes in the South who favor or practice "social equality." SKC 5. -But tho Governor goes on to say that the negro pays no taxes, and yet sends his children to the public schools, lias Vir? ginia ever attempted to nscerti-in how much tuxes her colored people pa* ? Are her tax lists kept in separate columns for whites and blacks? If not. how docs the Coverxor know ? in Georgia '.his was wisely done long ago. and under democratic rule, and the re soil showed that the colored people owned a very considerable and c; edi table an,cunt of real estate-over eight million dolisrs' worth -so long ago as 137"). only ten years after the war ceased, aud paid taxes on it. What we should ii!%?' to see in the South ir. men like Governor Lee would be a disposition to see iii.it the negro h.as fair play. If it is true, as the Governor says, thai the negroes in Vir? ginia pay no taxes, that certainly is rm credit :?; the whites, in Christian land" it is the da:y of thc most btei?^e:.! and wealthy to take care that the poor and ignorant prosper -at lea;! in a degree. Selfishness is not a Christian virtue. SKC 7.-WC regret is the "race prob- j ?cm" turning up Sn quickly after the recent , democratic def-at. it d-.?es not look well. It j makes Northern men who arc entirely friend ly to the South feel hopeless contempt for j Southern whites. Thc South has in tbe ! negroes an admirable laboringclasss, patient, ? docile, used to hard labor and to narrow liv- j ing. if they were not voters tiley would not j be freemen. Being vo'ers, no doubt they j make mistakes-just as white voters do. We wili tell Governor Lee frankly ene thing the blacks could scarcely have sent a more stupid set ot men to Congress from the South, if they had stot the whole delegation, than thc whites have. done. SKC. 7.-The negro is a voter by the act of the nation. He ought to be a voter. It is the ditty of the whiles among whom he lives to see that he is in every way fairly dealt with and to so carefully instruct him in bis ouldie duties that he ?iii vote wisely. So lons; as he does not get fair play, so long as the atti? tude of his white neighbors persuades him that these would take the ballot from him which he rightly regards as ids best security against systematic wrong-so long he will vote the republican ticket. Ile is, in our judgjment, a great fool to do so, because Northern democrats would protect Ins rights as quickly and more effectively than Northern rf pub! kans have dons ; but the negroes horizon is limited, and it is the folly and in? humanity of the Southern white man which keep it so. Sa vation Oil, the greatest cure on earth for pain will always give relief at once. It wiil positively cure rheumatism if used as per directions. 23 cts. Good advice. If yen have ft friend with a cough or cold, tell him lo try Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup. . . - ? 11 .<-#-. - * The February number of the Southern Cul? tivator keeps i 1 tarin the lead of nil others. Its many departments are filled to overflow ing with the choicest matter suited to this Section, and to enumerate them would fiil a column. Tho Alliance Department ot which lion. W. J. Northen, President of the Georgia State Agricultural Society, devotes much of J his time and talent, nffords one a splendid insight i :. t o t lie workings and progress of that organisatioit, being very full and worthy of rhe special attention of the members of the Alliance. Hon. Felix Corput, President of the Georgia Alliance Exchange, wi!! haven very interesting article on the wot king, plans. ,.tc" of Alliance in the March number. Ja it* make up thc C?ftirator is the g<*m of Southern journals, ?nd relying upon thc merit of the journal itself and not the fame of yne Mian or any Set of men, it challenges the nd mira lion < f all as it is won!;;/ tho con? fidence and support of every citizen of tin So'.;':; v. bo loves !r.s ?-ction and cherishes its enterprises Univ $1 per year. Address The Cultivator Publishing Co., Atlanta, Ga. Thc biggtsi prizes ever offered to induce farmer* to.grow big'crops ?re the $2.000 in gold coin ? ;'.' red by the American Agricul? turist ii proposes to giv<- ??5u0 in gold coin for the largest yield of .-ii.died corn on one sere of mc:: ured land. A similar prize is lo be uiveti tor lb'- '-.l ayre of iv hoar, and also oats and potatoes. Many special prizes are it {?o ofiVred, so that it is possible for the grower ol' ?he larges! yield of one of these crops on one measured e.cre to g< t a prizc of Tl. vt te a Hundred Dollars in Coll. Special prizes arc ;;!"i announced for the other crops. This remarkable e flo ri to stimulate better farming h:?s rcs-.-ived the official endorsement i-t thc United States Commissioner of Agri? en I tu rc and m an v other agricultural officials and :. r<?mi nt ni farmers throughout thc coun? try. All subscribers to th-.. Itncrtcan Agri? culturist can compete. Pull particulars are ?j i v ; : 1 m the" Jan u ?ry is.sue, which will be-'sent ; to ail our rentiers who apply tor it. Address, ? willi six cents in nosiage stamp?. American Agriculturist, 731 Broadway New York. ? For t?:e restoration of faden and gray hair to its original color and freshness, Ayer's Hair Vigor remains unrivaled. This is the mos! popular und valuable toilet nn.pararior in the world ; ail who cse it are perfectly satisfied that ir is ihe list. Notice. The friends cf esl?cat on in Providence and the surrounding township? are cordially in? vited to meet the School Commissioner cf Sumter Comity, at ?ircah Presbyterian Church, on Friday, the lath ot' February, at ? o'clock P. M. Object of the maring.: To arouse a more- general interest in the cause o? education. - Hg. ? . From a Druggist PALATKA. FM., May "1, 1-337 The demand for Dulan ie, Blood Halm (B. B. ?.) is such that T now buy in half gross lots, and 1 unhesitatingly say that my cus? tomers are all well pleased. R. K?as??SC. 10 Years With Rheumatism. NEWTON. N. C , June 25, 1887. GEHTLBMES : I ari', pleasured in ??yit>g I have been a great sufferer of rheumatism fer 10 years, and I have exhausted almost every known remedy without relief. 1 was loid to try li. 15. B which I did after lon^ procras? tination, ami with the experience of three bottles, I am almost a healthy man. I take 11 as a part of my dutv to make known your wonderful Blood Purifier to suffering human? ity, and respectfully ask you io mail me o:.e of your books of wonders. Respectfully, \V. I. MOREHEAD. REPORT OF THE CONDITION OF THE mmrn WAI J At Sumter, tn the State of South Carolins?? at the close of business, February 8, 1889. RESOURCES. * Loans and discounts, SI09,743 95 C. S. 4 per cent. Bonds to secure circulation, 18,750 GO Premiums paid on Bonds, 5.065 G2 Due from other National Banks 18.377 46 Due from State Banks and" bank? er?, 3; 294 48 Rea! estate, furniture, and fix i tures. SOO OD i Current expenses and taxes paid, **~ 776 97 Cash on hand in Bank. 36,197 07 i Redemption fund With L". S. Treas? urer (5 per cent, of circulation) 625 00 Total, $198.430 55 . LIABILITIES Capital stock paid in, $73,000 00 Surplus fund. 4;'-'*0 00 Undivided profit?. 5,143 13 National Baak Notes outstanding 0,000 00 Individual deposits sut-ject to check, 102,SIS 27 Due io other Banks, 2.469 15 Total, S198.430 55 STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, ") ^ CO?'NTY OF SUMTER, |> I, Vv. ALSTON P/i ING1. K, Ja.. Cashier of liieabove named bank, do solemnly swear that the above statement is true to the best of my knowledge and belief. W. ALSTON PRINGLE, JR., Cashier. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 12th dav of February, 18S9. P. P. GA I'LL A RD, Notary Pub. Having recently increased our capital stock from ?50.000 to ?75.000, we would respectfully call attention to our superior facilities for the transaction of ail banking business. Correspondence invited on all sub? jects connected with banking. Amnle security for depositors. Collections receive prompt attention and remitted on the dav of pavment. "\V. ALSTON PRINGLE. Ja., Feb 13. _ Cashier. OEGANS. Best, yet Cheapest ! FROM $30 00, UPWARD; FOR CASH, OR IN INSTALLMENTS. ? Having bern appointed Agent for the Counties of SUMTER and KERSHAW, of the celebrated "CARPENTER ORGAN." I will he p.::id to receive order? for thrse m ag? ni ii ce nt instrument?, eiiher for CASFI or on the mn-?: libera! INSTALLMENT terms. The superiority of the "CARPENTER" is not only acknowledged hy all who have used or heard it. bat is fully established by the ?net. that it received the highest award ar the ' International Cort?n Exposition, at Atlanta. Ga. fur sweetness and evenness ia tone; ingenious combinations in all the ar? rangements and amen ; variety and general excellence in disipa and workmanship." Specimens sf Ll:15 super!) Organ can be seen nt the residences cf Rev. N. B. Williams, Bbhopviile; Capt. C. L. Williamson, Prov? idence; Mr. Harry H. Corbett, MayesriHe; Mr. J. N. Ir.2ram, P.cse Hill; and at the Bishop vi He Baptist Church. All persons wishing a fine instrument?t? low price will kindly address, H. DICKSON CORBETT. . Mayesville. S. C. Live agents wanted tn all sections of the County. Feb. 13,-3t. HOLIDAY NOTICE. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 22r.d, Wash? ington's birthday, being a legal holiday, .his Bank will be closed. All papers due on .hat day must be anticipated. W. ALSTON PRINGLE. JR., Cashier Simonds Nat. Bank of Sumter. Feb. 13, '89._ Estate of Philip A. Moise, Dec'd. [WILL APPLY TO THE JUDGE CF PROBATE for Sumter County on March 14th, 18S?. for a Final Discharge as Executor of the last will and testament of said deceased. .MARION MOISE, Feb 31. 1S89-4t Executor. Our Favorite Singer! Drop Leaf. Fancy Cvcr. Lr.rge Drawers, Nickel Rings. Tucker, Putter. Binder. Four Widths of fiann,ors. Pent on one week's !-; tl. Delivered in yourhomc fre? c f freight .rhas?f?i. Bay oh?yoi M?n??acturct?. Sive C tnv - . :C >'..?'. ls ' I* : Now Mael?:n?\?.. A...:;->s circi.Ltrs ano Tcstinu j:j.-?ls, Go-operativa Sowing Machine Co., .210 Quince Street, Philadelphia, Pa._ 20c, FOR COTTON. "CAROLINA PKIO.;' LONG STAPLE. We h tve Soid ?. . ir crop at above price and , ha- e 1.00(1 bushels Seed for sale at $1.00 per bushel, ct-h. If you can raise cotton at above price send vour orders for seed to CELY k BRO.. Feb. C Greenville, S. C. NOTICE T?^ TKE PUBLIC. ~ IFI A VE REMOVED MY BLACKSMITH Shoo from Liberty street to corner of Sumter* and Dingle streets, West of Curtis Carriage Co.'s shop Thanking my friends for their former patronage, I earnestly re mio.-t a continuance of thc ran:'. Terms liberal. RICHARD THOMPSON, feb. 5, I SSC. 4 ?Bli 'PERKINS MFG, CO.* ? ^T/XCI^S Gf?Pjr<?CE. . Keiv Striped Bose. Irl . f^? V THE GREATEST NOVELTY1 K\H \\1J<J Mr^~-^*'-^L> 1^ HARDT ROSES EVER OFFEREO. li original*.! with nt la ?La VTJ2-*'""'^~x-/S' . 3:;'* b*wi?*Jv nar??v. har :-? endive! th* '?^or o? ?c Nortb ^^^^^^?5^? ^-c^BPjgg^ <fn^ria^r?tw&ontproUctioc. WRITE I S ANO LEARN HOW Rrjr-i*i'_ *\f ??*?1&Z>T'-j"??^Jfc/ Floiws ]>-.;. ir.i fragrant; Coter i*ft, sat?sj rink, distinctly j K?i ? ?J^K ?^y^^^^y^KT'?"^t 3IiJ ?2>!i?I .>i:h wittie a:.J enroue ; irr? Moooi'r ; Bot aa HB XV^^^^^KT raS3?3r???3 VICK'S FLORAL 33? V vj \ (. ^^(v T'T T)T* {''R at?H?>> ?w Pt*?r Seed Cttalogu? of Aseries; j // Y?>>N\ i* am \I Dr**- C^ts:r.>.-.-.j:it>:ra!>!jar^<!t,.r;;..:^wf?crr;..pu!-ir plant, BAW-j BKS // \ \ f^Jrtiviy *-VvOv? ?"?sc v?>jetuJ>Je, ?ad prion of ea?*. >o 'UO^J? nf?^rs. See ocr ; rr?0; j'.OO asd tara copy canute* A CVW i r.-av. good foe slat anent ia Setdtj I t?a BOthstlb? lioo'? is practicad v fro-. I N! To orar friends of the city and country: We have just received a large invoice of Janies D, Mason's Preserves and Jelly, in five pound pails, and in bulk to retail. Dried Apricots. Peaches and Apples, all fresh and nice. New Ko. 1 Mackerel, Fulton Market Beef* Pigs Feet, Bologna Sausage and Dutch Herrings, W. P. Harveys' best Hams and Breakfast Bacon. A beautiful line of Gold Band Crockery, Tin Ware? Woodenware, &c* &c. CIGARS A^sTD TOBACCO. Coffee and Tea a Specialty, Send us a trial order to be convinced that our goods are fresh and nice. co. na AYS ?AND ."??5*1*?? ??SJ E Y DAT Can always be had at i Tim iiEADiero GJROCEJR. HEAVY AND FANCY GROCERIES, Crockery, Glassware, Tinware, Woodenware, fee* TOBACCO AXD CIGARS in all grades. Try the "Virginia Stogie Cigar," 3 for a nickel. Fine Confectionery and Candies, Crackers, Nuts. &c, &c, &c. Boasted Coffee a specialty. Agent for the Hazard Powder Co^ AU goods guaranteed arid delivered free. Dec. 5. a-a--na-??--gunn ni III ?.m II jia'iwnpMMWMK I am now prepared to oiler low cown for cash or on approved papers, the following brands of Fertilizers : Wando Ammoniated, Acid Phosphates, Genuine German Kainlt, Cotton Seed Meal, S. C. Ground. Give nie a call before purchasing. Jan. 2, '80. J. BARNETT, Main Street., in the Bend, Sumter, S. C. THE EQUITABLE Life Assurance Society of thc United States, SURPLUS JANUARY 1st, 1888, OVER 318,000,000.00. FIRST. FOREMOST. LARGEST. BEST, The Largest Amount Outstanding Business. The Largest New Business. The Largest Surplus. The Largest Income. Issues all kinds of the most desirable forms of Insurance. The Free Tontine Policies are unrestricted as to travel, resi? dence and occupation after first year. Incomestible after twa years, and Non-Forfeitable after three years. THOS. E. RICHARDSON, Agt., Jan. 2-0_Sumter, S. C. Blandina & Wilson, ' JNO. T. GREEN, ATT0T?c.I,AW' .dorney and Counsellor at Tlie undersigned have evered into a par?- ; T " /\ - iicrs'r:ip for the practice o?' law in Sumter! County, S. C. SUMTER, C. H.. S. C. J. D. RLANDING, . ... ll FRANK WILSON. ^^Ccilecltoa ct claims a epecia?tj, Jau. 1-1m. ?