The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, July 17, 1889, Image 2

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C?t imitait atr? ^oulfertm. WEDNESDAY, JULY 17. The Sumter Watchman was founded m 1350 and the ?Vae Sotdkro* in i860. Th? Wafcaataw <JH<? Southrvn BOW has UM combined circulation and iuQueoce ol both of the old papers, and is mani? festly tho best advertising Bedlam io Suster. Mr. E. A. Oldham, oas withdrawn from the Charleston World, huviDg purchased the Durham, N. G , Pfon* which he wi!! eon vert into a daily ?oder the fi'Je of the Daily Globe. The country has beeb notified by Professor C. Hart Merriam, govern* meat ornithologie*, that tho English sparrow is officially and formally the pest he has for some time been suspect? ed tO be, tod bb extermination is rec? ommended* Three thousand employees of Carne? gie's Steel Mills, at Homestead. Pa., hare, quit work OW log to a redaction of wages, and ail attempt to fill their places with foreign labor. Ooo hun? dred Pinkerton guards hare been soot for, to preserve order, as the strikers hare become violent tod render it un? safe for any ose to pass through the tow?? Tba American sharpshooters who went over to Eogland this season to try eoodosioDs with the sharp shooters of that country, scored a brilliant vic? tory. There is nu novelty in this, for it ls a well-known historical fact that io a big shoot tog match that came off some? thing over a hundred years ago the American marksmen came oat decided? ly ahead of their English antagonists. Miss Gwendolen Caldwell, daughter fca?w^Ltsto Shakespeare Caldwell, of Va^?u9toftu?^of Gen. John C. Breck? enridge, of KyTTtfr tammany Prince Murat, of France, grandson of the fa? mous Marshal Marat, who married Na? poleon Y. beautiful sister Pauline* She is worth more than a million dollars, awl ia 29 years old. The Prince is 4>5, anti was boro io America. Both are Remsa Catholics. There ia such a thing as "Senatorial courtesyThis senatorial courtesy it seems entitles the Senator to name the postmaster who is to preside over his acme poa toft ce, regardless of change ill the political complex io a of the admmistratteu. A few days ago Mr. . Waueamaker removed the Democratic incombent of Laurel post office, Mary? land, which is Senator Gorman's post office. The Senator protested against this as a violation of the "Senatorial courtesy'' heretofore preraUiog, and the-appointment of the Republican was revoked; The rumor that Secretary Blaine is to resign is reaewed. Blaine deo tee most positively that he is about to re? sign the porfolio of Secretary ef State. The Green rille Ne tot, referring to the rumor, says; "We do out believe iL Brother Blaise has never in ail his career resigned anything that was not too hat for him to bold, and there is no heat about thia administration outside tho remarks of patriots whoso way to the treasury is blocked by bold overs or appointments." There is a great gathering of Chris? tian workers now in Philadelphia. It ?the Christian Endeavor Convention and the delegates are very nnmeroos. Before lt mot, as many as five thousand were expected. The Philadelphia Press mys : "Tts object appears to be to develop workiog Christians as dis? tinguished from professing Christians, speaking Christians ss distinguished from the silent sort. The enthusiasm and interest of the present convention and the numbers in attendance are something phenomenal and give an idea of the energy latent tn united Christian effort." The valoe of the cotton plant bas been wonderfully increased of late years through the utilisation of the seed, and a farther increase through the manufacture of the fibre of the stalk, ts among the possibilities, if not ??e probabilities, of the near future. A comm anicatiou published iu the News and Courier on Monday from the Hon. T. W. Woodward, of Rockton, Fairfield County, calls attention to two other means by which the value of the Southern staple may be enhanced for the benefit of the planter. These are the bleaching of the raw cotton, and the more thorough removal of thc lint from the seed. According to Mr. Woodward, the former of these processes will add two and a half cent* a pound to tho value of a very large part of the cotton crop, and tbd latter will enable the farmer to get the price of cotton for much of it that has been sold heretofore at thc price of seed. A DOO LAW NEEDED. Col. J. Washington Watts, io an a ticle published in thc News and Courier on the 15th, makes it clear that sheep growing is not a profitable industry io Laurens County. There are 1.827 dogs in thu county and only 1,829 sheep. Thc dogs are valued at $5 each and the sheep at J 1.09, one dog being worth about four and a half sheep, and nearly as much as three bog* ; "and this," as Col Watts puts it, "in a county where there is no valuable game, and lots of the best grazing for sheep that is going to waste for want of the sheep to consume it.'1 While Col. Watts was in the Legis? lature he made repeated efforts to secure thc passage of a law that would protect the sheep ; but he did not succeed iu his praiseworthy eodeavors, for the reason that the dogs had more friends ia the legislature tbaa the sheep hs South Carolina ought to be a prospi oas wool-growing State. Col. Wal says: "If we had a good, wholeson dog-law, so that the sheep would safe from dogs, thousands of she would be raised where now there a netre.,' What will the General A se rabi y do at*oat it ? SOT/TH CAROLINA SAND. A company has been formed in A gusta. Ga., to establish a glass facto near Aiken in this State. We wish to call attention to the fa that at a point three miles below Wedg field, ia this County, there is an e: hanstless bed of the purest and white sand in the world. So also in this vet town there are beds of sand of tl same cort. The plant of a glass fa tory is not expensive, the wages a high, but the profits are large, ai ?ages would be spent in the commun ity where the factory is put up. WI should not our Board of Trade loc into this thing and give to Sumter new and profitable industry ? There no better work that a Board of Trac can do. ROCK HILL'S NEW HILL. A fifteen thousand spindle mill about to be transferred from Chestei Pa., to Rock Hill, S. C. The same can he done here, if onl our people will work together for ii The Rock Hill people pull together they have enterprise, they are willin to put their capital into industries tha bring in population. The result is the have a town that they are justly proo of, a growing, solid town. We hav everything here that they have there soil, climate, railroad facilities, and a] the rest. What we need is united ac tion and enterprise, public spirit ao< foresight. The mills are surely cominj to the cotton. Whether we will profi j by their coming, or whether those wh* come here from abroad will secure th? j benefits, depends on ourselves. ?. PLAIN SPEAKING. _ j Pursuant to the resolutions adoptee at a recent meetiog of the Ministeria Union of Charleston, several very plait spoken sermons were delivered on Sun day last in that city. They bad refer? ence to the McDow affair, of course, aod were inspired by that event. Thc wisdom of such a proceeding may ad? mit of question, because the case against McDow bas been closed-it ie res adjudteat*, both in the forum ol justice, such as it is, and of public opinion, suet as it is. Nothing that any oze can say now, will disturb that verdict. To bring our people up to that high plane of morals in which crime ceases because there is no motive to commit it, should be the effort of every educational agency that is at work among ns, the pulpit ioeiuded. THAT BULL FIGHT. The Florence bull fight which has been so extensively advertised, is not to "come off." In fact, it appears that thc whole thing was designed and in? tended for a joke. The Florence peo? ple have heard a great deal that leads them to believe that it was not under? stood as a joke, and their reputation as a community has already suffered in consequence. We suggest to the party who first conceived and uttered this boomcrang?8h joke, that he label the next product of his eccentric brain dis? tinctly and plainly, so that others, not in the secret, may be able to know that it is meant to be a joke. And while we are on this line, we would also sug? gest that Florence advertise a grand gladiatorial fight, with Julius Caraar Pctrocius and Caius Alexander Pom? peian in the chief roles. On' the principle that 4 'like cures like,** the ill effects of the "bully" joke may be counteracted by this later and bullier one. Verb sap ^ CIGARETTE FIENDS. Our article of some two months ago bad a beneficial effect in modifying the smoking of cigarettes on the streets and about the doors of churches. We are informed, however, that the practice again threatens to become a nuisance, smoking having re commenced in the localities mentioned. It has been shown, beyond the shadow of a doubt, that cigarettes exert the most baneful effects ou body and mind, impairing vitality, deranging the fuuetious of the vital organs, sometimes causing death, ofteoer insanity, a living death, more terrible than death its?.if. These are facts. Every physician who has looked into the matter will say so. But the "smart aleck*" who know everything, decline to bo persuaded to cease using the poison. Why ? Because they like to smoke. Because tho habit is fasten? ed on them, and has them instead of their having ti. Ask us something hard ? We never saw a fellow who drank, smoked, chewed, cursed, gam? bled or" bet, who would not defend these things, one or all, if the habit had him, if he bad begun to reap what he had sown. Sime few quit after a hard fight, but so long as they keep up the habit, they will defeud it, wheu at? tacked. ! But if thc cigarette fiends will not listen to hart! facts?, let them at least hearken to the appeal to their gentle? manly instincts. Many ladies arc made sick by tobacco 6moke, so arc many men, especially by cigarette ' smoke. To smoko where people may be sickened by it is surely as gross a j I breach of mauuers as can bc conceived, j j Let it be stopped. B-?ys, show your | i breeding. I) n\ bring reproach as' j your name and family by doing un- j pleasant and disagreeable things. Tr and deserve tho * 'grand old name o geo tlc m an." Both Sides of the Story of His Al leged Desertion. The Baltimore Sun sums up botl sides of the case of Geo. Roger A Pryor, and draws its conclusions, a follows : ^Fhe charge that General Roger A Pryor deserted the Confederate arm} before Petersburg about the close o 1864 has been revived by the publica tion of the testimony of eight offieen and one private who were on the picke line at the time. This testimony wat collected by General Hemphill of th< Abbeville (S. C ) Medium, and occu? pies two colomns of the Charlestot News and Courier o? Monday last. Gen Hemphill vindicates the justification o his assertion "that General Pryor har. no right to speak as au exponent of thc South when interviewed recently for the ; New York Herald because he had aban? doned the Confederate army at Peters? I borg in the face of the enemy." Th? first person called upon to testify to thc fact is Major Caldwell, of the first South j Carolina Volunteers, commanded bj Colonel, now Jndge MoGowao. Majoi Caldwell, who was adjutant cf McGow? an's brigade, is now a citizen of New? berry, S. C. He states that he did not personally witness the affair, bat that all the persons present agreed that "Gen. Pryor was met about midway between the two liaes by a single Fed? eral soldier (whether officer or enlisted man I do not recall,) and that after a brief pause the two walked together into the Federal lines. Some accounts reported them as walking arro in arm ; others made no mention of that feature of the promenade. All accounts which I beard agreed that the two met each other courteously, so far as physical movement was concerned ; that nothing was said by either which could be heard on our line ;' -that no struggle took place between them ; that there was no appearance even of reluctance on Gen? eral Pry or's part to accompany his new companion." For himself be could not reconcile the fact of Pryor's deser? tion with what he knew of his position, his lineage, his traditions, his antece? dents, and- the whole character of the man. Major Caldwell's theory was "that the General had accepted an invi? tation to eat, or drink, or smoke, or chat, with some one or more people on the other side, as I was myself earnest? ly invited to do on one occasion while in command of a picket detail cutting wood between the lines, and that after being thus enticed beyond the reach of bis comrades he was detained by a treacherous enemy." But this theory found no acceptance among the indig? nant troops. Captain Boat wright says he recollects distinctly seeing a mao going towards the enemy's lines, "and was told it was General Pryor. As soon as he got to tue Yankee line he put his arm, or vice versa, (it was too far for me to see which it was,) and walked off with him. The opiuion of all was that Pryor had deserted." Colonel Hunt, in command of the picket line, saw General Pryor exchanging papers with some one, and "to my as? tonishment," he says, "the two men apparently locked arms and started to the enemy's lines." Col. Hunt issued orders to fire upoo them, but they were too far off for the shot to take effect. Major Dunlap, in command of McGow-. an!s sharpshooters. Private Chappell,, from one of the ride pits, Lieut. Hussell and Col Griffin all say that they saw Gen. Pryor cross the lines, approach and salute a Fede'ral officer, and walk quietly away with him, "To all," says Col. Griffin, "it appeared like a friendly promenade." These gentlemen are all of course, sincere in their impressions, but as they baso their impressions on movements merely, witnessed from a great distance-beyond the range of tho sharpshooters-such testimony would hardly be deemed conclusive of General Pryor's desertion by an unpre? judiced tribunal, even if there were no evideuce to contradict it. *. But it is now proven beyond all controversy that General Pryor did not desert. Col. Hollis 0. Dudley, of Manchester, N. H., was in command of the Union picket line on that day. He has given a graphic account of the elaborate plan by which he captured General Pryor in retaliation for the captare of Captain Burridge by the Confederates a few days previously T. 0. Furoald, who, with a number of Union sharpshooters, was so placed as to bo abio to fire on General Pryor if he made tho least re? sistance, gives similar testimony under oath. The habit of exchanging papers between the lines was the snare by which General Pryor was caught. The manner by which he was captured is stated by Dudley also under oath. "When we met," Bays Dudley, "he made some remark, to which I answered demanding his surrender. Ile replied, "No,-; or some such language, bat before the words were out of hi? mouth his right hand was grasped in my left and a six-inch Smith & Wesson six shooter was pressed against his shirt bosom, he wearing a low cut vest. I at once faced toward my Hue, saying : 'A word from you or a particle of resistance, and I shall drop you and go to my linc,' keeping my tevolvcr constantly at his breast. In that position we moved to my post immediately in front of where we stood Resistance would have been au act of sheer folly, and the slighest offer would have been met by instaut death. Unless Dudley and Furnald have perjured themselves, and thc other facts that General Pryor has stated in his pam? phlet are false, we do not sec how it i-? possible for any of his old associates to countenance tho theory of desertion in thc fice of thc declaration made by the Federal officer who captured them. Thc Now Y<>; k Herold also reviews the case, and is positive that thc Are"cs and Courier "has no ease when it charges" that (jen. K ?ger A. Pryor de? serted from the Confederate army during tho war. To this thc Nc ie* and Courier makes the following dignified and well-timed reply, which doubtless" voices thc senti? ments of every southern man who lias taken any interest in the publications on the subject. The Kenn and Courier has never made such charges. lt publisued the statement of Cen. Hemphill. of Abbe? ville; S G , upon the subject, ami is content to have 1< t the matter rcat where ?he w?tnoses have placed it. What the Seo s o nd Coiner has s?id, however, is that Ccu. Pryor docs not represent the South upon any public question, and that his views on the tariff, the race question, tho proper policy for the President to pursue in his treatment of thc South, mast be ac? cepted as Gen. Pryer's personal opinions in regard to matters of which be knows very little, and about which he can speak with no more authority than a hundred thousand other men who live in the North. Gen. Pryor says he did not desert from the Confederate army and has produced strong proof to sustain his assertion. He is entitled to the benefit of whatever doubt there may be upon the subject. We only ask that he devote his attention hereafter to the practice of his profession, and that he shall not mislead the people of the North about questions of opinion in which he is not directly concerned, and of whose immediate bearings he can have no knowledge. His residence of moro than twenty-five years in New York entitles thc South to thc grace of his silence. (From our Regular Correspondent.) WASHINGTON LETTER. WASHINGTON, D. C., July 12, 1889. Political sensations and very warm weather do pot usually go together in Washington, but this week is an ex? ception, for although the thermometer bas been dancing around in the nineties all the week we have bad a real genuine sensation. At first it was given out that Secretary Noble had peremptorily removed Pension Commissioner Tanner on account of the way in which he had been running the Pension Onice. Then it was stated that Tanner had resigned becauso the Secretary had reprimanded him and Assistant Secretary Bussey. Both of these reports turned out to have been wrong. Mr. Tanner has neither been removed, nor has he re? signed. But one or the other may yet occur, as the relations between the Secretary and the Commissioner are decidedly strained. The day after Tanner's return from bis western trip he received a summons from Secretary Noble to come at once to his private office. Arrived there he found As? sistant Secretary Bussey, who has charge of the appeals from the pension office and who is io sympathy with the Commissioners ideas, and Secretary Noble. An animated discussion was at once begun with Tanner and Bussey on one side, and Noble on the other, it is said that the Secretary gave them both to understand in the plainest sort of language, that they were subordi? nates of his. And right herc is, I understand, the root of the whole trouble. The Secretary has no serious objection to anything that Tanner bas done, but he objects to Tanner's way of doing them : He wants the fact im? pressed on the mind of the public that the Pension bureau is a part of the iepartmeot of the Interior, and that bc (Noble) is at the head of that depart? ment. Mr. Harrison has gone to join his family at Deer Park. It is given out it the White House that he will spend very little time here for the rest of the warm weather, not over two days a week at thc outside. This is taken to mean that very few Presidential ap? pointments will be made between now ind September. Public Printer Palmer has taken his jue from the President and is going very 6low in making appointments. He has just made thc most important io hts gift-chief clerk-and the mem? bers of his party do not like it, although thc gentleman appointed is a republican. Mr. Collins the lucky mau, entered thc office as an apprentice, ?crvcd his time and was afterwards detailed for clerical work. He has been for eeveral fears head bookkeeper and was not an applicant for the chief olerkship. Mr. Harrison has positively refused to give office seekers the names of parties that make charges against them. He says to do so would be to frighten other people and prevent their telling him of bad things they might know about further applicants. Secretary Blaine will be represented at the State department until Septem? ber by his son, Walker, who returned from Bar Harbor this week. I under? stand that Mr. Harrison will visit Mr. Blaine at Bar Harbor as soon as he can Sod time to map out his first message to Congress. A new division has been established in the department of Agriculture, and Wm. Hill, a Minnesota editor has been put in charge of it. Mr. Hill's duties will be to coodense and simplify the reports and bulletins issued by the de? partment so that they may be under? stood by those uot familiar with techni? cal and scientific- terms. Senator Quay's friend, Tom Cooper, bas captured the Collectorship of the port of Philadelphia. Secretary Windom has prohibited the use of thc steam plate printing presses tn the Bureau of Engraving and print? ing, notwithstanding the offer of the owners of them to accept the royalty named by Congress-one cent per thousand impressions. They received ? 1.00 per thousand previous to July. Washington is to have another at? traction added to thc many it already possesses. Thc historic old linc-of-bat? tle ship "Constitution" is to bc brought from Portsmouth New Hampshire, where she now is, to the Washington Navy Yard, when she will be used as a receiving ship. Thc Constitution has a proud history. Thc department of thc Interior an? nounces that uo more appointments will bo made in the Census bureau until September. Discharges of minor ( finials in tho department herc are quite frequent just now The Civil Service Commission was in New York City nearly all this week. Secretary Rusk denies that (?rn. Felix A g rus of the Bul li moro Ameri? can gave him a blooded horse, as was published. Admitted to Bail. Before Judge Pressley yesterday in Halmas corpus proceedings. Major Ben? jamin Pressley Barron, of Manning, counsel for B S. Dinkins of Clarendon ! County, lately brought back from Texas on a r?quisition, made argument fur thc admission of his client lo bail As will be remembered, there nrc two charges again.-t hinkins, one of for? gery and the other for breaking and entering the office and safe of the Clerk of thc C??urt of Clarendon County. Judge Press-ley granted the application for bail, and fixed it at ft .OOO in the lr forgery case and $1,000 in thc other. It is believed the prisoner will be able to secure sureties in the a mou ut stated, and will soon bc released.-Columbia Iinji ??Ur, I Uk. Words cannot expresa tbt> gratitude which people feel for the benefit doDC them by the use of Ayer's Sarsaparilla. Long-standing cases of rheumatism yield to this remedy, when all others fail to give relief. This med? icine thoroughly expels the poison from thc blood. ?ra? -??*. - A great many people feel themselves gradu? ally failing. They don't know just what is the matter, but they suffer from a combina? tion of indescribable aches and pains, which each month seem to grow worse. The only sure remedy known that will counteract this feeling and restore perfect health is Brown's Iron Bitters. By rapid assimilation it purifies the blood, drives out disease, gives health and strength to every portion reached by the cir? culatory system, renews wasted tissues and restores robust health and strength. WE CAN AND DO Gunrnnteo Acker's Blood Elixir for it has been fully demonstrated to the people of this-coun? try that it is superior to all other ?preparations for blood diseases. It is a positive cure for syphilitic poisoning. Ulcers. Eruptions and Pimples. It purifies tho wholo system and thoroughly builds up the constitution. Sold by J. F. W. DeLorme. mmm ? i -?a--? HAPPINESS AND CONTENTMENT Cannot go h?nd in hand if we look on the dark : fido ut every little obitacle. Nothing will so darken lite and make it a burden as Dyspepsia Acker's Dyspepsia Tablets will cure the worst form of Dy.-pcpsia, Constipation and Indiges? tion, and make life a happiness and pleasure. Sold at 25 and 60 cents by J. F. W. DeLorme. mmm > aw A HEALTHY GROWTH. Acker's Blood Elixir bas gained a firm hold on the American peuple and is acknowledged to be superior to all other preparation?. It is a positive cure for all Blood and Skin Diseases. The medical fraternity indorse and prescribe it. Guaranteed and sold by J. F. W. DeLorme. SHORTHAND. ACLASS FOR INSTRUCTION in Short? hand Writing will be formed as soon as a sufficient number of pupils are secured. For terms, ftc, apply to, L. I. PA ROTT, Stenographer 3d Circuit. July 17. GRADED SCHOOL NOTICE. CLERK & TREASURER'S OFFICE, CITY OF SUMTER, S. C., July ll, 1889. The Board of School Commissioners of School District, City of Sumter desiring to know what patronage the White Graded School now in process of establishment in City of Sumter will receive, have passed a resolution requiring that all parents and guardians who expect to send pupils to said School, will come forward and enroll them in a book kept for the purpose Ht Clerk and Treasurer's office by the 1st day of August proximo. By order of the board. C. Sf. HURST, July 17. Secretary. THE SAMPLE CAN'T BE BEAT. GRAPELAND/TEX , Feb. 27, 1888. GENTLEMEN: The Elliott Douglas Cotton Gin purchased of your agent, give3 perfect satisfaction. We have ginned over 500 bales of cotton on it without having to stop a sin? gle time on account of the Gin. We can safely say that it is far superior to any other gio, for the following reasons; 1st. It will gin wetter colton than any other gin. 2nd. It never gums the saws, we don't care how wet the cotton it. 3d. You can run it ata greater speed than any gin without knapping the cotton. 4th, and last, the sample can't be beat. We have used several kinds of gins, but none by any means equaling the Elliott Douglas Gin, and would advise all ginners to see it run before they buy any other. As for the Feeder and Condenser, we would not ex? change them for any other, this being the first we ever used, but have seen many run. We know it takes out more dirt than any we have seen. We forgot to say above, our Gin has never choked in ginning over 500 bales of cotton. Respectfully, T. T. & C. II. BEAZLEY, For catalogue prices and other testimo? nials, write O. M. STONE, Machiner}' Agent, July 17 Augusta, Ga. CITY OP SUMTER, S. C., July 15, 1889. PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN to all persons, owners or occupants of premises within the corporate limits of City of Sumter, that ail premises, privies, water closets, etc., must be kept clean and disin? fected, and that after this dale all premises, etc.. will be inspected monthly until 15th October next, by an officer appointed for the purpose, and all premises, etc., not found as required will bs reported to the Mayor, and the proprietor or occupant of such premises will be summoned for trial and upon convic? tion will be fined or imprisoned, for violation of "An Ordinance of City of Sumter entitled 'an Ordinance to prohibit and abate certain nuisances, etc , etc./dated 3d day of Septem? ber, 1888.' ? By order of Mayor. C. M. HURST, July 17. Clerk k Treasurer. Estate, Mrs. Vermeille Bradford, DECEASED. IWILL APPLY JO THE JUDGE OF PROBATE for Sumter County on August 17th, 1889, for a Final Discharge as Executor of aforesaid Estate. BEN J. HODGES, Jnlv 17-4t. Executor. STALLION MESSENGER. SEASON 1889. The High bred Stallion, MESSENGER, is now on the plantation of A. J. Salinas k Sons, Mayesville, S. C-, where he will remain nntil Oct. 1st. during which time he will be allowed to serve 20 mares. Terms $15.00, payable in advance. Messenger is a vesy highly finished black horse, 15$ bands high, with pure trotting action. His offspring are handsome, natural trotters, trot fast and mature early. One of bis fillies showed a mile in 3.10 in her two-rear old form. Apply to j. B. MCBRIDE, Supt., June 26 Mayesville, S. C. ~ THE SUMTER INSTITUTE. The exercises of the SUMTER 13 INSTITUTE will bo resumed on WEDNESDAY, SEPT.4th, 18S0. All departments will, as heretofore, bc filled with the most competent teachers. As the rooms are being rapidly eDgaged, pupils from abroad would do well to apply as soon as practicable. An additional proof of the thoroughness of the teaching of this school is afforded by the hurt that two of the last graduating class from different Counties applied for the Winthrop Scholarship and were successful for the first grade against all competitors. We think it proper to state that since the Institute has been chartered, its diploma en? titles those who receive it to teach in the pub? lic schools without further examination. For catalogues of more special information apply to etiher of the Principals at Sumter, S. C. Mus. L. A. BROWNE, Miss K. E. COOPER. July 17- 2m WESLEYAN i NI^UTE, ? ? STAUNTON VIRGINIA. Opens September Ii?th. li59. Ono of tho most thor oiiiili umfftttrnotive Schools for young la?lie? in i h?j Union. Di?t:n?ufcticd ?'Ivantapes in M Us*IO. A KT, ELOCUTION, &c. Climato unsurpassed. Pupils from nineteen Stnt.-s. Terms-low. Special inducements t<> peinons at a iHstunro. tt?5 'Kor the trr< :it indiici-monta of this CELEBRATED VJ HG ESI A SCHOOL, write for a Catalogue to Wm. A. Harris. D. D.. President, Staunton, Virginia. DRESSMAKING. I" ADIES' DRESSES CUT AND MADE j in thc latest style, fit and work war? ranted and satisfaction guaranteed, by Miss Adele Os teen, Republican street, opposite Harby Avenue. Prices as reasonable as good work can be done for. Feb 8 For Sala i VNUMBER OF DESIRABLE BUILDING ! Lota in various portions of the citv. THUS. E. RICHARDSON. Jan. 2-tf. WILSON & INSURANCE AGENTS, S IMITE Jt, S. ?. Representing some of the best Fire Insurance Companies doing business in the United States, for Sumter, Clarendon and Williamsburg Counties, we beg to solicit a share of thc patronage of our friends in these counties. FRANK N. WILSON, Manning. J. M. SPANN, Sumter, S. C. Joly 10-x ATT THIS TIME HORSES AND MULES MAY BE SCARCE, But I am still in the ring with Wagons, Corn, Lime, Carriages, Hay Cement, Buggies, Oats, Plaster Paris, Phaetons, Bran, Hair and Road Carts, Shorts, Fire Berick. TO ARRIVE : 2 Car Loads No- 1 Timothy Hay. Respectfully, May 8, '89. A NEW ENTERPRISE, NEWLY OPENED BY E. CARDARELLI, CORNER OF MAIN AND REPUBLICAN STREETS, MANUFACTURER OF TINWARE AND LAMPS OF ALL KINDS. Roofing and Guttering, Cornice Sheet-Iron, Metal Work, Pumps, &c tjggr* Prompt attention given to all parties. ?^S?f -ALSO ICEI ICE! ICE! To be bad at E. Cardarelli's all the season at the usnal price. Respectfully, E. CARDARELLI. April 17. New Advertisements. TO ADVERTISERS A Hst of 1000 newspapers divided into STATES AND SECTIONS will be seat on application-FREE. To those who want their advertising lo pay we can offer no better medium for thorough and effective work than the various sections of our Select Local List. GEO. P. ROWELL & CO., Newspaper Advertising Bureau, 10 Spruce street, New York. tole Female SS THE FALL SESSION OPENS September 4,1889, WITH THE LARGEST AND FINEST Corps of Skilled and Experienced Teachers the Institute has ever bad. The ad? vantages here otfered for instruction in Music, Art and the Academic studies are not sur? passed by those of any institute in the South. For catalogue or informa.ion address the Principal. REV. WM. R. ATKINSON, July 3-2m Charlotte, N. C. SURVIVORS N?flG?i THE REGULAR ANNUAL REUNION of Co. E, Palmetto Sharpshooters will he held at Swimming Pens on the third Friday ( 1 Otb inst.) Every member of this Associa? tion is expected to be on hand and contribute his share to the pleasures of the day. Ad? dress bv the Hon. II. F. Wilson. II. T. ABBOTT, July 3. Chairman Committee. GLENN SPRINGS, SPARTANRURG CO., S C This Famous R-sort will be Open to Visitors FROM MAY 1st TO OCT. 151 It is accessible from Spartanburg by a DAILY HACK LINE, making good connections with all trains. Telephone io operation to Spartanburg, and DAILY MAIL. GLENN SPRINGS* MINERAL WATER A Safe, Pleasant and Effective Remedy for all diseases of the KIDNEYS, LIVER, STOMACH, AND SKIN. IT ACTS ON THE BOWELS, CLEANSES THE SYSTEM, AND REGULATES THE LIVER, And is a specific for most FEMALE DISORDERS. SIMPSON & SIMPSON, Proprietors, Glenn Springs, S C. For sale by ail leading Druggists. July 3 SAVIN6S DEPARTMENT FOR Bank of Sumter. ON MAY 1st, next a SAVINGS DEPART racnt will bc opened in connection with "Thc Bank of Sumter," interest at 4 p*r cent, per annum, payable quarterly, according to regulations which will be furnished depos? itors. In addition to the regular daily banking hours, the Savings Department will be open for receiving deposits on Saturday evenings from G lo D o'clock. W. F. B. HAYNSWORTH, A. WlHTB, Ju., President. i Cashier. April 24. _ PIANOS, $100 to $1,000. ORGANS, $24 to $1,500. SEWING MACHINES, $10 to $100. All kinds of vocal and instrumental music. Smith & Egge Button Hole attachment. Orders filled at short notice. E. E. BRYAN, Office with C. E. Stubbs, Sumter, S. C. April 17-v _ FOR RENT. THE STORE now occupied by Messrs. R. W. DuRant k Son as a hardware store will be lor rent on Sept. lat. A fine stand. For terms, Ac, apply to June 5 D. J. WINN OFFICE" OF COUNTY AUDITOR, SUMTER COUNTY. SUMTER, S. C., Maj 6, 1889. THE FOLLOWING ACT IS PUBLISHED in accordance with Section 3 : An Act to allow unimproved lands which have not been on the tax books since 1875 to be listed without penalty. Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of South Carolina, now met and sitting in Gen? eral Assembly, and by the authority of tue same. That in all cases where unimproved land which has not been upon the tax books since the fiscal year commencing November 1, 1875, and which are not on the forfeited list, shall at any time before the 1st day of October, 1888, be returned to the County Auditor for taxation, the said Auditor be, and is hereby instructed, to assess the same and to enter it upon the duplicate of the fiscal year com? mencing November 1, 1887, with the simple taxes of that year. Section 2. That all such lands as may be returned to the Auditor for taxation between the first day of October, 1888, and the first day of October, 1889, shall be assessed and charged with the simple taxes of the two fiscal years comroencinp, respectively, on the first day of November, 1888. Section 3. That as soon as practicable after the passage of this Act, the Comptroller Gen? eral is directed to furnish a copy of the same to each Auditor in the State, and the Audi? tors are required to publish the same in each I of their County papers, once a week for three months during the year 1888, and for the same period of time during the year 1889; and the cost of such publication shall be paid by the County Treasurer, upon the order of the County Commissioners, out of the ordi? nary county tax last collected. Approved December 19, 1887. W. R. DELGAR, May 8-3ra. Auditor Sumter County. SUTER MARBLE WORKS, ESTABLISHED IN 1869. -BY W. P. SMITH, WHO IS STILL PREPARED WITH Improved Facilities, TO FURNISH MONUMENTS) HEADSTONES, -AND ?ll Siads of Cemetery Work, In First Class Workmanship. Dec. 21._ SAVE YOUR MONEY. ON and after May 1st, 1889, THE SIMONDS NATIONAL BANK of Sum? ter, will establish A SAVINGS DEPARTMENT in connection with their present business, and will pay interest at the rate of 4 per cent, per annum, payable quarterly upon such sums of money as may bc deposited, subject to the rules and regulations, usually adopted by Savings' Banks. W. ALSTON PRINGLE, JR., Apr. 24-v. Cashier. MONEY TO LOAN. MONEY TO LOAN in sums from $300 to $25,000 on improved farms, etc. COLIN C. MANNING, Attorney at Law, June 27. v Main St. Sumter, S. C. "FORERENT? POSSESSION GIVEN AT ONCE. THE STORE lately occupied by the late F. J. O'Connor, on Main Street, known as the Crane Store. Applv to June5 D. J. WINN, Executor. TO RENT. LARGE DWELLING, CORNER OF Liberty and Harvin Streets, Suitable for Private Boarding House. Possession July 1st. Apply to R. D. LEE. June 12. _ _ "A C0MPLET?1IEWPAPTR7 "Thc pride of the North Carolina Press." J. A. BONTTZ. 1 T. B. KINGSBURY, LL.D. ?-Editorial Staff. WM. A. HEARNE. J Do you want to aid in building up a paper that shall reflect the greatest credit on North Carolina, no matter where it may be seen? Then patronize THE MESSENGER, publish? ed in three editions. THE DAILY MESSENGER AND THE WEEKLY MESSENGER, Published at Wilmington, N. C. THE GOLDSBORO TRANSCRIPT-MES? SENGER, Published at Goldsboro, N. C. They are large eight-page papers. Do voa want a reliable paper giving you all the news of the world-a D?mocratie news? paper that equals the best-has the largest circulation and has for more than twenty-one years been a part and factor in the growth and development of toe Old North State? Then subscribe for the Messenger. Trial rates : Daily Messenger, by mail 4 months on trial, $2.00. Weekly Wilmington Messenger, "8 months, $1.00. Goldsboro Transcript-Messenger, 8 months, $?.?O. Cash in advance. Dr. Ta'.mage's Sermons are a feature of all three papers. Address J. A. BONITZ, Proprietor. Kingman & Co. inillM. GROCBHS, SUMTER, S. C. We are selling an elegant Tin Toilet Set of three pieces for $1.25 per set, well worth $1.75. This is an opportunity seldom offered, and those that desire these goods had best call early and avail themselves of the opportunity. They are in all shades. Having quite a large stock of LADIES' SHOES in small sizes (ones to fours) we have concluded to sell them AT ANO BELOW COST, which is from 95c. to $1.50. A well assorted stock of Handkerchiefs you will find here at 30c, 40c, 50c., 65c, 75c, 85c. and $1.00 per doz; These goods are worth 15c. to 25c. per doz. more than we are selling them at We are still to the front in. the GROCERY LINE. Our goods as usual are always of the best quality and guar? anteed fresh or money return? ed, prices in accordance with the markets. Have you tried Hires' Root Beer? It is a most delightful summer drink. We sell the finest Butter ever brought to Sumter ; come and try it and you will buy of no other. Goods delivered at once tb any part of the city. It is our desire to please all those that call. We still handle the justly celebrated A; E. and Soda Crackers always fresh. KINGMAN ft CO. May 29 LOOK HEBE! We have some beautiful DRESS GOODS Attractive Styles* : We have some beautiful Black Silks. A LOVELY ASSORTMENT OP JERSEYS, Handkerchiefs, Hoisery, SHOES, ETC. Ladies who buy of us SAVE money. The store is full of pretty things. FOR MEN, WE HAVE CHOICE GOOD& CLOTHING-, HATS, SHOES, NECKWEAR, Etc. IN GROCERIES, REMEMBER WE ALWAYS KEEP THE BEST. ALTAMONT MOSES. Sept 26. Attention Cotton Ginnery IAM PREPARED, with the be?t applian? ce^ to GUM, RE?UT AND PO?NT gin saw teeth. Long experience ia th? basinets, enables me to g uara o tee satisfaction. Cati refer to 56 gins worked on the past season, in and out of the Coanty. Your patronage ia respectfully solicited. Address, J. M. REID, MayesT???, S. ?fcxi| Residence Greggs X Roads, M?. Clio Town? ship, ?ose 13. .;