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Ck i?aitan m? Soaf ipa. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 21. Tho Sxmter Watchman was founded in 1850 and the True Southron in 1866. Th* Watchiuan and Southron DOW bas th? combined circulation and influence of both of the old papers, and is mani? festly tho best advertising medium in Suiter. THE KILLING OF JUDGE TERRY. We eta see nothing criminal or even improper ia the shooting of Judge Terry fey Deputy Nagle. From all accounts of this tragedy it appears that Nagle was present with Justice Fisld for the purpose of pro? tecting him from Terry, and we cannot conceive that his duty or the law would require', .frat he should stand by and wait to ] see just how far Terry would carry his assault before shooting him. Tho plea of self defence is good in a case where, the defendant has reasonable cause io apprehend death at the hands of hi? assailant or great bodily harm. The old theory about "retreating to the wall" only exists as a basie principle which has been lo enlarged by recent ?eo??oos of oar oourts ts to be almost refined away. The law does not now require that a mau should retreat to the imaginary walt when assailed, bat rec? ognises that honor is sometimes as dear as life itself and so construe this ancient rale. The same circumstances that will justify a maa in taking the life of an? other who assails himself, will equally justify him ia shooting the assailant of a third maa. The result of a fair trial of Nagle cannot be doubtful. He ought to be promptly and triumphantly acquitted and will be if fall justice can be obtain? ed at the hands of a California jury. Justice Field is always a magistrate whether on or off the bench, and is an M sad feeble man. Terry, a turbu? lent, desperate and soured man of fine physical strength and comparative youth. His checquered career has been ace series of violence, turbulence and outrageous contempt of all the powers 3 and authorities of the law. This last and closing act of his violent career had as its-underlying motive a revenge, on the person of the judge, for an adverse decision of that magistrate in the world famous Hill-Sharon divorce snit, by which Terry, who had married the female party to the suit, lost $5,000, OOO. Terry had attempted the life of the Judge ia open court with a revolver, and ha? threatened vengeance at the first opportunity. All these circum? stances will have to be considered in making up a verdict in the case agaiast Nagle. The fact that the wife of Terry left the room on seeing Justice Field, and returned with a satchel ia which there was found a pistol, clearly indicates that the assault was made with a view of carrying it to a fatal extremity, and will go a long way to strengthen the paasamptloa that the prompt action of Nagle saved the Kfe of an honored and respected member of the Supreme Court of the United States, about to be taken by a desperate and disappointed man with a reputation for lawlessness equal to that of his intended victim for the Opposite character. We think the officer did his duty. Terry played a desperate game and lost. That ought to be the end of it. Justice Field bas also been put under arrest. This arrest of - a justice of the Supreme Court on the charge of mur? der and his probable arraignment and trial before a petit jury in a State Court constitute a sensational sod unprece? dented episode in the criminal annals of this country. Of ourse, this action against Jastice Field is the result of spite and enmity on the part of Ter-j's 'friends, and their desire to cause him all the humiliation they can. It is without excuse or reason. The formal trial of Nagle may be a proper compli? ance with the formal requirements of the- law, not so, however, the prosecu? tion of Justice Field. JOHN I*. SULLIVAN CONVICT? ED. John L. Sullivan has had his trial to Mississippi and bas been convicted of prize fighting. This cabe has excited a profound in? terest throughout the country in view of the faet that the court having juris? diction to try the noted pugilist was a little sessions court- "away down in Dixie." This interest,, at the North, took thc form and proportions of enthu? siastic ovations io honor of the Boston brute. Wild demonstrations of sym? pathy have been shown fur bim io that highly civilized and cultured portion of our country. The outraged law of Mississippi has been amply vindicated. The verdict of | thc jury convicting Sullivan was sus? tained by the Court, Judge Terrell promptly, and without bearing any ar? gument, overruling the defendant's motion in arrest of judgment and for a new trial. After all other expedients had failed Geo. Ford, Sullivan's counsel, read a petition for clemency, asking that in view of this being the first conviction | for the offence in the State, no other j penalty than the fine of $1,000 be io- j fiicted. This petition was signed by j sit the subordinate officers of the Court, j besides many prominent citizens, who j teemed to be satisfied that a fine would j be inflicted itsd thought it sufficient that it had been demonstrated that the power of the State was adequate to bring the off*?n<ler to justice and secure convic? tion. The judge disregarded this pe tition and inflicted the heaviest au< ?crest penalty the statute would pe -one years imprisonment in County jail. This extreme sent excites surprise but little opposi from the press of the country. In passing sentence Judge Ter after making the prisoner stand spoke as follows : "Gentlemen, passing sentence ah has been of considerable trouble concern to me, even in small cases, cept where the law has one abso punishment. It seems to me that prize fight at Richburg, of whuh stand convicted, was a gross affroo the laws of the State, where the anti ities personally forbade it. It seem have been accomplished with system arrangement and in the presence of vited thousands. It seems on the ] of all connected with it to have b studied disregard and contempt for 1 They came from aDd through m States whose authority and civilisai deterred them from any attempt at s public, lawless conduct within tl limits, and they chose the State of A sissippi as the only fit ground for si a combat, indicating their utter c tempt for the sentiments of her peo and tho laws of her statute books. "The sentence of the law is that the punishment for the offence which yon stand convicted, yon si suffer imprisonment for twelve mon in the county jail." The moral and enlightened sentimi of the entire country wi!' sustain i judge in the view he takes of t matter. Judge Terrell ought to get the " amond belt" since he is the only m who has proven himself able to "kno out" John L. Sullivan. This conv tion will probably have a tendency correct the erroneous impression whi seems to obtain at the North that t laws can be violated with impunity the South. Yeldell acquitted and Jno. L. Sui van convicted are good object lessons the way Southern justice is administe ed. If the law at the North, as admi istered, through ihe usual channels, powerless to cope with the brutal pra tice of prize fighting and similar d grading customs and institutions wbh bave become engrafted into the civil zation and fostered by the popular sys pathies and prejudices there, why, 1 all such characters as Jobn L. be sei down South and we will fill our jai with them. Kilrain has been arrested too an will receive a like sentence when coi victed as he surely will be. He an his late victor ought to be placed in th same cell, where they will have a wbol year to decide the championship que.1 tion. We are glad that the first sex iou check to the degrading sport of priz fighting has been administered by Southern Court. The brutalizing tendencies of tba sentiment at the North, which is rap idly making John L. Sullivan the typ of the young man's hero, will be some what retarded by the action of the Mis sissippi Court. When Kilrain bas been placed "ii durance vile" with his late antagonist the measure of our content will bi filled. Sullivan has given bond pending ai appeal to the Supreme Court. Thii will only serve to delay the execution o the sentence. A RENEGADE^ G. G. Alexander, editor of the Cam? den Journal, and Senator from Ker? shaw County, has been appointed post? master at Camden vice David C. Kirk ley. removed. Mr. Alexander has been heretofore regarded by some as a Democrat and was elected Senator on a Democratic ticket. He ran for the oifico of Clerk of the Court of his county last fall and after his defeat gave vent to some very bitter criticisms of the Democratic party. His political fidelity has since then been the subject of grave suspicion. This appointment strips from bim the lion's skin and reveals the af ses* ears in a way that is unmistakable. In himself, Mr. Alexander amounts to very little, and his appointment to a Federal office becomes important only because of its being the first instance of President Harrison's recognition of tue so-called independents of this State. To solicit and receive this appoint? ment while holding an honorable pub? lic position as a Democrat to the State Government, argue Mr. Alexander worse than a traitor-a renegade. The Watchman mid Southron 6mokcd Mr. Alexander :nany months siuco and is not surprised. BOULANGER] The career of this turbulent dema? gogue has uot ended in the way his ambition suggested and his followers hoped it might, but in ignominious exile from his country and indellible stains on his honor and honesty as well as his courage as a man. Boulaugefism is an extinct volcano. The French Senate understood the character of thc Kreuch nation better thau we did. Such persecution and prosecution of any demagogue of the Boulanger stripe in this country would have proven a boomerang to thc person j attempting it and raised up ten friends in the place of every one removed, i The papers in this country almost with One accord, protested against the in- 1 dictmcnt and trial of the little genera] I on the ground that it would smack of persecution and make him ten fold : more popular wifh the masses of France. ' Ile did attempt to pose as a martyr, but it did not work. The French Gov- j ernment went on treating him as a common malefactor and paid no heed to : the protests against their actions. The result? have moro than justified their course and demonstrated its wisdom. Boulanger is pow wtthout a follow convicted of peculation of the p funds. He is civily dead and bu His manifestoes that flood bis foi country excites only derision and eous oontempt. Unlike the great poleon, whom he tried to imitate goes from bis country into per rx banishment and disgraceful exile, ' wept, unhonored and unsung" am might add, unregretted. His poli demise will bo a great loss to the tr Atlantic cable-nothing more. A FEARFUL FLOOD. A Cloud Burst Devastates a Port of the Wateree Valley. The following account of the floo last Thursday, and the damage to railroads resulting, we clip from Columbia Register of 17th : At about 7 o'clock Thursday nig cloudburst near the Wateree B caused a tremendous fall of r"'n i practically inundated, temporarily section of forty square miles, which eluded Eastover, Gadsden and Ki ville of this County, and Wedgefield Sumter County. A graphic description of the see preceding and accompanying the ck burst was given the Register repoi by a gentleman who was on his plai tion near Weston s when it ocenrr Two immense masses of ominous clo were seen in the heavens, gradually proaching each other from the East t West. As the two cloud-banks met i commingled, the whole heavens seen covered with a sable pall, save wber narrow streak of light could be seen the direction of this city. A light rain had begun to fall so time before, and as the two masses clouds met, suddenly came a dov pour of rain in blinding torrents, wh seemed to fill the space between ea and sky with a continuous sheet water. AU things around were hid by 1 falling flood, which, as it fell, quid transformed fields to lakes, ditches brooks, and creeks and branches rushing rivers. Doors and windows had to be tigh closed, and the down-pouring flo pounded outside with deafening noi* In the fields every furrow filled and \ came a rushing stream. The ditch could not take away the flood, and ra idly it spread over the growing crof in many places standing two feet dec Wherever the slightest declivity affor ed an escape, a torrent was formed ai cotton and corn were torn up by t roots in its course, while the plants n uprooted were soaked with water ai smeared with mud. A negro, caught with a herd of coi in a little hollow when the cloudbui came, when half-drowned himself 'J went to look for them, found the coi swimming in the deep pool which h: been formed about them. The neg had to wade through water up to h neck to drive them to a safer place. A gentleman at Gadsden, who wei out upon bis porch to look about sou time after the downpour began, saw his dismay, a stream two feet in dept rushing along the paths of his flow? garden in the yard. At Eastover the station agent repor ed at 9 o'clock that there was throe fe? of water beneath and around the depo and the railroad track was covered wit water as far as one could see. At Acton, a few miles below, thei was the same state of things, and i some places the water was reported t be four feet deep. Two hours after the down mail trai over the Coast Line passed tho Waterc trestle, it is reported '.he water ha risen two feet above thc track, whic seems almost-incredible, as it would in dicate a rise of fifteen feet, which coui only be possible by the backing up c the river. The area visited by this deluge fror the heavens was limited in extent, and so far as can be judged, was cc ifined t the section immediately in the vicie i t of the Wateree Uiver. Eastover am Gadsden seem to have been the West ern limit of the flood visited section, n? heavy rain having falleu at Grovewood the station next this side of Eastover or at Hopkins, the station this side o Gadsden. Wedgefield seems to havt marked the Eastern and Ringville th< Southern limit of the fiood, but bow fa to the North, up the Wateree, the arei covered by the cloudburst entended can not bo learned. That extensive and most serious dam age to growing orops must have resnltec is very evident, and it seems certaii that the consequent loss to the farmer; will be very large, unless, as is to be hoped, the full force of the cloudbursi was not felt io but a few localities. DAMAGE TO TURKS RAILROADS. Thc first warning of the catastrophe here was received by the railroad offi cials of the three roads whose lines ex? tend through the district visited, thc many washouts rendering their roads im passable. On the South Carolina Railway a freight which left here at 7.25 could not bc heard from after it left Hopkins, and thc freight coming up from Charles? ton could not be heard from after it passsed Kiugvi?e. lt was, for a time feared, that a collision had occurred, though it could not bc understood how that could be the case. Telegrams re ceived soon showed what the trouble was, and as soon as the extent of thc damage was realized, preparations were at once made to repair thc breaks made Ou the Wilmington, Columbia and Augusta Railroad the damage resulting from thc cloudburst was more extensive and euch as tu cause a much greater in terruption to traffic. There, is a wash? out this side and another beyond Kast? over and a bad one a few miles from Wedgefield. No trains have passed over the road between this city and Sumter since Thursday evening, and the present prospect, is that the road cannot be put into condition before Monday. A serious accident resulted from an attempt to promptly repair tho damage caused by the flood at Kastovcr AnSmprovisetl construction train was sent out frx^ro Sumter Thursday night, soon after tliCv washout at Ivistover was heard of. \VWri this train reached Cane Savannah, slSi'O three miles from Wedgefield, it ran in\i an unsuspected washout there, and thc angine and cars tumbled into the gap in thcN^ack. Ou board the train were MrW'eorge Witherspoon, engineer, Mr "Sv W. Fort, conductor. Capt. A. N. Frcclihd, road master, and fourteen trainmen and] laborer?3. Capt Freeland and Mr. ? With* rs poon escaped with ^li^li? bruises ; and conductor Fort had a rib broken and received other injuries. Gue of the negroes, Wm. Smith, was killed, and ten of them were more or less in? jured. Three escaped unhurt. A number of passengers bound for Columbia over the Three C's Railroad on the evening of the cloudburst will be likely to remember the experience it caused them for the remainder of their lives, while Captain George Cleary, who was conductor of the train, will not be likely to soon forget it. The train after leaving Camden soon struck a light fall of rain, but after passing Claremont, which is about half way to Ringville, received the full ben? efit of tho cloudburst. Deeming it un? safe to proceed further then Conductor Cleary sent thc engine back to Clare? mont to wire the cause of his delay, and as well to examine the condition of the track. Just after the engine had ieft Claremont to return to the train a sec? tion of the track passed over was washed away. When the train was run on to Camden Junction, where thc W., C. & ! A. .track is crossed, just before that ; point was reached another bad -washout was discovered ; so the train was pre? vented from either going on to Ring? ville or returning to Claremont or Camden. There the train and* passengers had to remain for nearly twenty-four hours, being last evening able to reach Ring? ville on a caboose car sent out with an engine from that place to this side of the washout. A reporter of the Register took ad? vantage of the first down train after the breaks at Gadsden were repaired to reach the vicinity of the scene of the cloudburst's work. At Gadsden were seen the two cal? verts washed oat by the force of the flood, which was of such magnitude as to choke the openings provided for the passage of water under the track, and of such power as to sweep away, as if loose trash, the substantial brick work about the culverts. In each case a clear opening thirty feet wide by some twenty feet deep had been cut through the railroad embankment, and for a hundred yards beyond the bricks from the culvert were strewn about, having evidently been carried along by the flood and deposited where seen. The two culverts are perhaps a cou? ple miles apart, and Conductor Burns, on Thursday night, found his freight train confined between the two gaps. After passing one in safety, he found tho other washed away and when Le backed to the one passed so shortly before, he found that it too had given way to the flood's resistless force. In many places in thia vicinity the track of the flood could be traced over cotton fields, the plants of which were now covered with mud, and beside the railroad, where the marks left on the bushes showed that the water must have been four feet deep in many places. As the train neared Ringville thc traces of the flood grew more numerous and evident. Alongside the track was the bed of what bad been a rushing stream twenty feet wide in the morning when Capt. O'Brien's train passed on its way up. In all low places water wa3 standing several feet in depth and it was evident at many points that the track itself had been under water. At Ringville a busy scene was pre? sented. Colonel Averill, the Superin? tendent of the road, was engaged in laying out the work of repairing the flood's ravages. One material train was engaged in repairing a place where several hundred feet of side track had tilted up and partly sunk out of sight, and near at hand were six other material trains, preparing to start out to various points. Yesterday morning Ringville was surrounded by a veritable lake,' and when the flood was at its height the water was within a few inches of tho floor of Mr. Draft's store. Yesterday evening there could be seen hundreds of acres showing signs of having recently been submerged, and pools of water abounded everywhere in the vicinity. Near Hopkin's a gang of workmen were taken aboard and a negro named Johnson Richardson, who had been in? jured in the work on the track, was lifted in and taken to bis home at Hop? kins. Hts knee was badly mashed by a falling crosstic, and he seemed to be suffering greatly. (From our Regular Correspoodeot.) WASHINGTON LETTER. WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 16, 1889. Representative Tom Reed, of Maine, will be the next Speaker of the House of Representatives, at least that is what I have just been told by a promi? nent republican who is usually well posted on the inside news of bis party. He says that the coolness which has existed between Blaine and Reed for several years bas been all fixed up and that Blaine's influence will be thrown for him. This, he says, was brought about by Quay, Clarkson and other leaders in the party, who have decided that Reed is the only one of the candi? dates for the speakership whose par? tisanship is strong enough to make him decide in favor of his party on every coutested occasion, and owing to the narrow majority they will have in the House only such a man will fill the bill. Therefore it has been decided that the caucus should nominate Recd Congressman "Sunset" Cox is in the city whiling the time away telling miraculous stories of what he saw during his recent visit to the northwest. It, is now stated that the report of thc Commission engaged in investigat? ing thc Pension office will be readv about September 1. It is also said that this report will determine whether Commissioner Tanner will continue in office or not. It is remarkable how quick foreigners "catch on" to the American way of doing things. The French cook who was recently discharged from thc White Rouse, and who fur several ?lays had thc papers full of an intended suit to be brought against thc President for breach of contract, now says that fdic never had any idea of bringing any such suit, but as she and her husband are about to open a boarding house in this city she thought it would be a good j idea to get som*? free advertising in the ! newspapers. She believed it would ! pay. Smart, woman. A no!lier Washington girl has mar- j ried a full blooded indian. The girl ! went to Versailles, N. Y., the other day, j and thc next thing her parents hoard j was that she had been married to Nathaniel Patterson, a Senaca Indian, who is a fanner near that place. There is no acc;;un:ing for taste. The relic crank is abroad in the The latest freak nf one who j Hv-eAjn :IU.N city is io exhibit the seaf- | fold upoX whirh John Brown was hung ? He says lie will use the money received to build a monument to the memory of Brown. If every body was of the same mind as your correspondent it would take bim a life time to get enough to buy a pino board. Thc Indian bureau has sent a circular to applicants for teachers positions in the Indian schools informing them that no person will be appointed wbo bas not the ability to stand the examination required to secure a similar position in the best schools for white children. If this bureau lives up to the circulars it has of late been sending out the scan? dals in the Indian service are likely to be fewer. Contested Congressional election cases come rather high but it seems we arc bound to have them. Over ten thousand pages of testimony have been printed relating to those of the next House. It's dollars to little apples that we would not have one tenth of the contests, if the contestant had to foot the bills himself. The present methods offer a premium to the con? testant. The postmaster general has decided that the telegraph companies must ac cept the old rate of one cent per word for Government messages pending a settlement of the dispute. The tele? graph people havo not yet been heard from. It has been decided by the Treasury department that the four new states can have no part of the ?800,OOO appro? priated by the last Congress for estab? lishing experimental agricultural sta? tions in the different states. The democratic state ticket just nominated at Richmond is enthusiasti? cally received by Virginia democrats? hero. They say that it removes the last vestige of doubt as to thc result of the campaign. The Inter-state commerce commission wants to know all about the organiza tions of railway employees for insurance and other purposes, and bas sent a cir? cular letter to railroad managers asking for information. President Harrison has returned from Bar Harbor looking well He leaves for indianapolis next week to take part in the reunion of his old regiment and in the laying of the corner 6tonc of the soldiers monument. It will be bis first visit home since he has been President, and he will probably remain there several days. - - - ? i - Ayer's Sarsaparilla, by purifying and en? riching the blood, improves the appetite, aids the assimilative process, strengthens the nerves and invigorates the system. It is, therefore, the best, and most thoroughly reli? able alterative that can be found for old and young. C. I. Hoyt & Hro. have, as usual, a tull and complete line of Jewelry, gold and roll plate, Watches and Clocks. Engagement Rings a specialty. FOR SALE. ; 8-IIorse Power FRICK ENGINE complete. First class. To make roora for larger. Also WINSHIP HAND PRESS complete. W. D. SCARBOROUGH, Aug 21-2 Providence, S. C. ~MlLkT0WST0R~SALET~ SEVEN HEAD GOOD MILK COWS with young Calves, for sale. Applv to S. W. RAFF!ELD, Aug 21-1_Sumter, S. C. T. B. CURTIS Will open with a full line of FANCY AND STAPLE GROCERIES, ON SEPT. loth next, at the ?1I?RMDSTO, GOODS SOLD AT Charleston Prices, and Delivered Free. Call and see him for good values. Aug 21 ~R~W. BRADHAM, Wheelwright and Blacksmith SUMTER, S. C. IAM PREPARED TO REPAIR AND Rebuild, ad wcdUe? to build outright, all kiuds ot Vehicles. HORSE-SHuEING A SPECIALTY. Also repair nil parts of broken Machinery. Keep on hand a etock of Check and Globe Valves and Fittings. Also keep Pumps on hand and put th.-m down. I handle the SMITH'S SONS IMPROVED GIN, which is as good as any on thc market, and gives entire satisfaction. Aug 21 PUBLIC NOTICE. Assessment of Real Kat ate. CLERK AND TREASURER'S OFFICE. SUMTER, S. C , Aug. 20, 1880. 1VEAL ESTATE OWNERS IN CITY OF Y Sumter will please take notice that tho Hoard of Assessors appointed by City Coun? cil of Sumter July 8th, "to assess the value of KIM I Estate for taxation," for year 18S9, have maile their report and same is filed in this oilice for examination, as required by law. Sec. VI. of an Ordinance made in that behalf and published Maj 20th 18*'J, says : ,;The re? port of tiie assessors of real estate for taxation shall remain in the office of the Clerk and Treasurer ol' enid city for inspection of land owners for twenty days next after the filing thereof and it shall bc in the power of the Mayor and Aldermen of said city, for good cawse shown, m reduce such assessment, if complaint against the same be made to them, in writing, within twenty days next after the filing ot the assessments for taxation, but after the expiration of said twenty days such assessment for taxation shall be final. Bv oH^r <>f Mavor, C M. HURST, 2J. Clerk & Treasurer. PIONEERS OF THE HARDWARE BUSINESS Beg to announce to their friends of Sumter and adjacent counties that they have moved to their Large, Magnificent, New Store Adjoining A, A. Solomons. Our increased business necessitated our leaving our former CRAMPED QUARTERS. Now with LARGE STORE AND LARGE STOCK we are prepared the better to meet the wants of our friends. The Ladies, too, are especially invited to call and see us. We return thanks for past liberal patronage and solicit your future trade. We buy LARGELY FOR CASH and can offer INDUCEMENTS. Always come and see us before buying your HAEDWAEE. Look! Read! Buy! Wre sell Agricultural Implements, Tools, Wagon and Buggy Material, Plantation and Household Supplies, Table and Pocket Cutlery, Razors, Scissors, Glassware, Tinware, Lamps, Potware. Everything in the Hardware Line. Stoves! Stoves! Stoves! Fine Cookers for wood or coal. Low prices, best make, guaranteed. See us always before buying either a Cooker or a Heater. OIL STOVES from $1.00 up. Ladies these are the very things for convenience ! Try one. Guns! Guns! Pistols! Best make and cheap. Guns from $2.25 to $65.00. Pistols from ?1.00 up. SHELLS, CARTRIDGES, WADS, SHOT AND POWDER. Rubber and Leather Belting, best make. Packing in Hemp and Rubber. . Gin Bristles and Twine. HOLLOWWARE-POTWARE. We are POWDER AGENTS and can sell dealers cheaper than they can order it. Save freight by duying of us. Respectfully, E. W. DURANT & SON. Aug. 21 TO THE FARMERS. FARMERS WISHING TO BUY ANY OF THE FOLLOWING MA? CHINERY: HARVESTERS AND BINDERS, REAP? ERS, MOWERS, GRASS RAKES, Seo., Will do well to cali on me before buying elsewhere. I am handling the MCCORMICK MACHINERY, and it is not surpassed by any manufactured in the United States. It is very simple, Iig???, strocg and easy draught. My Prices are Low and Terms easy. Write to me for catalogue and prices, which will be sent free. Hoping to hear from the farmers of the country, I am, respectfully, GEO. F. EPPERSOJV, Agt. May 1-v-m-a-s. Office at Epperson's Stables, Sumter, S. C. FIRE BRICK. The attention of Mill Owners, House Builders and Real Estate Owners is called to the economy and advisability of using Eire Brick. Furnaces built of them are seldom out of repair and when once a fire-place is built with Fire Brick, the trouble, annoyance and expense of repairing it (which usually occurs about once a season) ceases entirely. I handle Fire Brick by the car load, and am therefore en? abled to offer them at prices as cheap as they can be bought in small quantities anywhere. When in want of them I hope to supply you. Lime, Cement, Plaster Paris and Cow Hair also on hand. Respectfully, July 24, '89. WILSON & SPAWN, INSURANCE AGENTS, SUMTER, S. C. Representing some of the best Fire Insurance Companies doing business io the United States, for Sumter, Clarendon and Williamsburg Counties, we beg to solicit a share of the patronage of our friends in these counties. FRANK N. WILSON, Manning. J. M. SPANN, Sumter, S. C. July 10-x K3-- ? nmM A NEW ENTERPRISE, NEWLY OPENED BY E. CA RD A KELLI, CORNER OF MAIN AND REPUBLICAN STREETS, MANUFACTURER OF TINWARE AND LAMPS OF ALL KINDS. Hooting and Guttering, Cornice Sheet-lion, Metal Work, Pumps, &e. ^JjCS^ Prompt attention given to all parties. ^^^ESjjf ICE!ICE!ICE! To be had at E. Cardarclli's all thc season at the usual price. Respectfully, E. CARDARELLI. April 17 Kingman I Co. SUMTER, St C. j We are selling lan elegant Tin Toilet Set of ?bree piece** for $1.25 per set, [ well worth ? $1.75, This is ari opportunity. - seldom offered, and those that desire these goodsjhad best call early and avail themselves of the opportunity. >Thejrarein all shades. \_? Having quite a large stock of < LADIES' SHOES in small sizes (ones to fours) we have concluded to ?ell them AT AND BELOW COST, which is from 95c. to $1.50. A well assorted stock of Handkerchiefs you will find \ here at 30c, 40c., 50a, 65o, ? 75c., 85c. and $1.00 per doss. These goods are worth 15a to. > 25c. per doz. more than we are selling them at We are still to the front in the S GROCERY LINE. Our goods as usual are always & of the best quality and guar- . an teed 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 Bufterever brought to Sumter ; come and try it and you will buy of no other. Goods delivered at once to any part of the city. It is our desire to please all those that call. We still handle the justly celebrated A. E. and Sod? Crackers always fresh. i KINGMAN & CO. Mav 29 ' St: LOOK HEBE! We have some b?autiful DRESS -IN Attractive Styles, - AND ~ " I:" CHEA We have some be Black Silks. A LOVELY ASSORTMENT OF JERSEYS, Handkerchief, Hoisery, SHOES, ETC. Ladies who buy of us SAVE money. The store is full of pretty things. FOR MEIST, WE HAVE CHOICE GOODSfc CLOTHING-, HATS, SHOES, NECKWEAR, Etc IN GROCERIES; REMEMBER WE ALWAYS KEEP THE BEST. ALTAMONT MOSES. Sept 26. Attention Cotton Ginnefe IAM PREPARED, with the beat racfcen-i ces, to GUM, RE?UT AND POrNTj^ saw teeth. Long experience ia th? business enables me to guarantee Satisfaction Out refer to 56 gin? worked on the past season, ia and out of the Conti ty. TOOT patroaafet : is respectfully solicited. Address, . J. M. REID, Mayesr?le, S. C. Residence Greggs X Roads, Mt. Clio To?orr ship. Jnue ;:- . 1 ?jr