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Cht M^dmmii mb Souljpn WEBNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25. Entered at the Post O?ce at Sumter, S. (7., as Second Class Matter. W ADVERTISEMENTS. Muller-Harness Maker, ice of application for R. R. Charter. 17 P. Richardson, Governor-Proclamation. A. A. Solomons and others-Holiday No? tice. Est. of J. W. Galloway-Notice to Debtors and Creditors. John D. Woody & Co.-Cotton Commis? sion Merchants. Eat^of Mrs. Charlotta Stuckey-Notice to lectors and Creditors. Personal. . Miss Rosa Brand is at home again. Miss Minnie Beckham bas returned from her visit to Columbia. Mr. W. S. Brand of Augusta, Ga., spent . last Sunday in Sumter. Miss Virginia lograra is at home again from a brief visit to Manning. Mr. A. A. Solomons and daughters have returned from the North. Miss Lem Nash left this morning for?the Conimbia Female College. Miss Belva Thomas left on Friday for her home ia Cedar Keys, Florida. Judge Fraser came home on Thursday last and returned to Greenville on Monday. Mrs. Dr. James, of Cheraw, is visiting the family of Dr. W. W. Framer, of Mechanics ville.' Mr. John A. Brow n, of Florence, brother of Mia. H. L. Darr, is in the city visiting his ? sister. Mts? Hattie McCutchen of Williamsburg, k8pent several days last week with relatives in pis city. >1. John S..Richardson and family are at again after an absence of about three iths, at the watering resorts. 'The family of Mr. T. B. Curtis has joined the latter in Sumter. They will occupy the boase next door to Mr. R. D. Lee. Miss Annie Prioleau of Charleston, after a pleasant visit of several weeks to Mrs. Geo. Shore, left on Monday last for her home. J. E. Scott, Esq., H. H. Lesesne, editor Vanning Enteryriee, and Mr B. Mavbin Earvin, of Manning were ia the city yester? day. Miss Edith DeLorme, Miss Mattie Mills, and Miss Estelle Cooper, all of this County, have (tered the Winthrop. Training School at Col? ima. Rev. Wm. Haynsworth left on Tuesday if for Louisville, Ky., where he will resume ms theological studies at the Seminary in that city. Mr. James Rowe of Manning is sow filling bis brother George's position as operator at the Depot while the latter is taking a short vacation. Mr. McC. Willis and wife have returned borne from Ashland* Virginia, where they nave been spending their summer vacation. Darlington News. Viss Nellie Kennedy arrived io the city to-day from Sumter. She will spend some days here as the guest of Mri. T. M. Ham? ilton.- Columbia. Record Sept. 21 si. Mr. John I. Green, of the staff of the Charleston World spen: Monday last in the city among his many old friends here. We hope to see John on the New York Herald yet. Misses Lida and Lou Davis who have been on a visit to the Misses Corbett of this city bave returned to their home in Columbia, much to the sorrow of their many newly made friends bere. "Col. L. Broadus has returned from an ex? tended trip out west, embracing a visit to relatives in Kentucky and one on business to Missouri and Texas. Col. B. is stili in busi? ness with Mr. Harby but will spend most of his time at their branch establishment at Camden, and the markets looking after the purchase of stock. Dr. S. C. C. Richardson, who has been in Western North Carolina during the past month, has left the Bromine Arsenic Springs. He went to Morristown, Tennessee, and theare on the 10th of September to Dangerfield, Texas, where he is now visiting bis brother, Prof John M. Richardson. ThWdoctor is expected back about the S 5th of October. Clarendon Enlerpri**. There is a movement on foo; among the young men to organize a German Club. There will He an important meeting of the ? Providence Alliance at the nsua! piare of eon- ] ven ti on on Saturday next, ?he 23th inst. The cotton honse of Woody & Currie, of j Wilmington advertise to-day, a branch bouse of their business established at Norfolk, Va. The two Alumni Scholarsb ips io the Uoi Tersity of South Carolina have been awarded to a Mr. Furse ol Barnwell and a Mr. With? er* of Winnsboro. We call attention to the notice published to-day by our Hebrew merchants, closing I '. their places of business next Saturday week ? ' C?til 6.30 P. M , of that day. Al a convention of -the Knights of Pythias j held at their Castle Hall on Monday "night ! last two candidates were iniatiated into the i i mysteries of the rank of Page, and five j < Esquires advanced to the rank of Knights. J Misses ?. C. Loushe and D. T. Davis of j Georgetown, will open a millinery establish- j ment on Liberty Street at an early day. ! Viss Loushe is now at tee Kor; h purchasing ; < their stock. Lookout for their advertisement iJ next week. The Governor has issued a proclamation published in this paper, offering a reward for LaFayette Woods, thc murderer of his step? son some time ago near Statcburg in this County. The amount offered by his ex? cellency is $75. We beg again to remind our readers that we are not responsible for the opinion of our correspondents, "Qui Vive" has a right to object to the Free School System and "Jacob" an equal right to bis mistases ia the use of scriptual illustrations. The 5th, Oct. next ?3 the great day of i Atonement with the Jews, a -day of intros- : peet i ve and retrospective meditations-and wc ; earnestly trust that the pious cogitations of our mercnauts on that day may result in much spiritual good to them. A Peaceful Picture. On the second page of The World to-day | Appears an article from the Sumter Watch? man and Southron which it would be just as well for those who have been writing so j learnedly upon rice fields, phosphate pits and potato barrels, to glance over and observe bow quietly and properly the colored people j are advancing their material interests. ; With no interference from ?or intrusion of the whites, they exhibit and compare their work, note their improvements and cultivate a pride in the achievements of their people along these peacef*.il lines of progress. 1 The reading of tbis account should encour- ; age the colored people to pay mn- - k;t a" ; tention th^p ever to matters c cati>-c .where improvement is permanent, while ^ contemplation of *hig picture should only Stimulate the whites to greater industry.- ; Charleston World. Colored Fair Premium List. Tbefollowing is .. ~ premium list of the Sumter Colored Industrial Fair Association: Mrs. Harriet Cureton, quilt; Mrs.Lucy Sharp, shams in outline: Mrs. Emma J. Carr, lace handkerchief, handmade; .Mrs. Margaret Brockington. hogs; Mrs. Lela Moses, Ply? mouth Rock chickens; Miss S- Edith Middle? ton, bread; Mies Jennie Walker, fire-screen: Viss Rowena E. Andrews, Jersey cow two and a half years old; Miss V. K. Jones, iri? descent painting; Miss Sarah V. Smalls, i drawing and painting: .^Andrew H. Dibble, peaches; Ben Hay ne, hammer, William Lone, art work on bottles: Joe Levan, colt fifteen months old; Ben Lowery, corn; EloeTotch berry, one Jersey Bull two years old; Willis Young, shingles. List for honorable mention.-Mrs. E. A. Andrews, Mrs. Elizabeth Grantham, Mr?. Celestine Martin, Mrs. W.T. Smith, forqmlts. : Mrs H. W. Williams, peach jelly ; Mrs*Wes? ley James, egg-puffs ; Mrs. Hannah Zone, Mrs. : Ingram Nell, for shams in outline; Mrs. Mar? garet Brockingtcn, one English cow ; Kev. J. B. Middleton, peaches and grapes in alco? hol ; Miss M. J, Cox, sham3 in outline ; Miss Martha Simons, painting; Miss R. K. An? drews, Miss C. C. Dibble, for sofa cushions ; ' Mr. VV. M. Kennedy, walking s'ick. Full line of Embroidery Silks at F. Levi s, i Chioile Cord at F. Levi's. ? AH shades of Arnt?ne at F. Levi's-. . ! Married. On Sunday evening-. Sent. 15t.h, by the Rey. W. H. Mahoney, Mr. J. W. Weeks and Miss Mamie Broughton, daughter of Mr. J. J. Broughton, all of Clareudon. At the Methodist Church in Wedgefield, on the 19th inst., Mr. Friendly S. Geddings, of Packsville, S. C., to Miss Henrietta Corbett, of Wedgefield, Rev. Watson B. Duncan officiating. Married by, and at the residence of, Rev. C. A. Plyler, in Lancaster County, on LTth inst., Dr. R". G. Elliott to Miss Lula Duffie, daug ter of Rev. R. L. Duffie of the South Carolina Conference. Death. Mrs. W. L. Crosswell, sister-in-law of Henry D. Cresswell of the firm of Cross well & Co", and of Mr. Johr Cresswell, a clerk in the same house in this place, died at Eastover on the 22ud iu&t., alter an illness of two weeks At his home near Sumter after a long and painful illness, in the fifty-fifth rear 0f his age, Mr. E. Rush Chandler departed this lite I ou Wednesday last, thc 18th inst. Death of Mr. Ladson Lawrence Fraser. Another of the oldest of the landmarks of j Sumter County has fallen. Mr. Ladson Law- ? renee Fraser, the hither (4' Judge Tho?. Boone Fraser, was born in 1804, died Sept. 21, 'S9, as we are informed in tneSGth year of his age. He was descended fron that first tide of the Scotch Clan cf Fraser, which came to Amer? ica some 50 years or inc re before the Revolu? tion. In Scotland the dan Fraser was Pro? testant on the stern religious principles of John Knox and therefore Presbyterian. But the Clan was weak as compared with the Roman Catholic ILghlai;d Clans which sur? rounded it, and was at oae time almost extir? pated by the forays of the latter.- Those who first came to the Westeru World made their homes in the wilds of southern Pennsylvania airifd the Indian tribes, migrated down the eastern foot of the Allegheny mountains uoiil they reached the headwaters of the Yadkin River in North Carolina and thence fioated down th?t stream until they reached the coast above Wilmington ; where a permanent j settlement was attempted to be made, but ? continual onslaughts by the Indians drove the survivors, few in numbers, across the ? Cape Fear River, above Wilmington, to the ? Pee Dee and Black Rivers in South Carolina, j Along the South side of the latter stream the Revolution found the ancestors of old Mr. Ladson Fraser, the WHsoos and Wi?her spoons, McFaddins, Muldrows, and other Scotch families cf Sumter District. This sec? tion, now known as Williamsburg County, was then the recruiting ground for Marion, between the Pee Dee and the Santee Rivers, j during the whole seven years of the war of Independence. ?t is said that four-fifths of j the Tory hunters who followed the Swamp i Fox were of Scotch descent. ' After the Revo- j luiion, like Ssh, they migrated up the streams till you can trace them by their names and j Presbyterian Churches all along to the head- ? waters of the Catawba in North Carolina, the j most notable probably being the "Hornets/' >f Charlotte, N. C. Thi3 was the stock from which Mr. Fraser was descended. He mar j ried a Boone of the same stock as that which j pioneered Kentucky. The deceased was married early in life and j moved into the Northern part of Sumter County, where he beca::,<> a large and wealthy ?lave holder. Before the war his home was the seat of a refined and profuse hospitality. The results of the war left bim an impover? ished but large land owner. At his country home he brought up and highly educated ten children, eight of whom survive him, some of whom hold positions of high honor, and all distinguished for their intelligence and the purijy of their lives. After sixty years of married life The wife of Mr. Fraser died about six !years ago, and at the time of" her death, the mother of ten grown ap children, had never buried a child. Late in life the deceased connected himself with the Presbyterian Church in which he became an Elder. He was a man stern and unswerving in principle, reserved towards all but intimate friends, but to these affable and pleasant, of ;reat benevolence and kindness of heart, cf ?net integrity, tenacious of his own opinions while respecting the opinions of others. Al? together, a man of marked and strong indi? viduality, characteristics which distinguish his descendants. * Retiring and diffident in public he never ?Oiightany position for the public eye, but ?till performed faithfully all the duties of a citizen i ti his section. His mind was logical, clear and eminently j practical ; ail who knew him respected him, j those who knew him best loved him more. ? He has neen gatheted to his fatlurs. but his J chancier and spirit still lives in his descend wus. The deceased was buried at Hephzibah Church. The funeral services were conducted by Rev. W. A. Gregg assisted by Dr. N. W. Edmunds. The immense congregation that followed his remains to the grave attest the ?steec? in which he was held in his community. Religious. Rev. E. D. Wells, pastor of the Baptist Church at Harviu's and Summerton, lately of i North Carolina, will preach iu the Baptist ? Ch areli o:: Sunday night. Petit Jurors. The icilo-wing are the Petit Jurors drawn to serve at the Uctooer Term of thc Court of C. P. and G. S , commencing ou Monday the 14th dav : . White-J. J. McKellar, W. E. B. Fraser, J. W. Cooper, J. S. R. Brown, Perry Mosts, J. | M.esesne, John W. McCoy, J. W."Goodman, James E He:?ot, John C. Shaw. John Des Champs. S. F. Lenoir. J. H. Freeman. J. W. Dixon, F. B. Bradford, S. T. Denni?, R. I. Manning, Jr., J. Harvev Wilson, T. J. Smith, W. L.Sanders, T. P. K??gore, W. J. Stuckey, j W. R. Dixon, J. Singleton Moore, Thos. H. j Rembert, James M. Caldwell, H. R. Strange, j J. M. Phillips, J (?liver Durant, L. R.Jen nings, W. S. Du kin3. Colored-Legrand j Jame?, Werry Ourant, Lawrence Harvin, Cato English, Willis Choice. M a- ^ - m mm Harmony Presbytery. Harmony Presbytery, composed of the ? churches in the counties of Chesterfield, Marl- i boro, Darlington. Marion, Horry, Kershaw, j Sumter, Clarendon ami Williamsburg, forty- j eight in number, with twenty-four ministers, i will convene in the Presbyterian Church at this platx- on ti;e4ih proximo. The member- j ship of the Presbytery n um uer screnty-?wo, i ol whom probably sixty will attend. Accommodations for thirty-one delegates ! are already provided, leaving a ?ike number ! yet to be placed. Those of the congregation and others who intend to take delegates will j have to notify Mr. T. B. Fraser. Jr., who has charge of the assignment of delegates, how many they they can entertain. Early atten? tion to the matter will facilitate Mr. Fraser's work. --^^?CE^- -?*.<>-. MI ?I A Puzzling Case. Trini Justice Stuckey has a prisoner taken '? up under the vagrant act whom he dots not know how to dispose of On Mondav last a colored man reported to Policeman Wkeks that a sti ;u;re^ri-^ro was in a cornfield near Rickers town demeaning j hirnseif in a peculiar manner ami asked that be alight be apprehended. We?-k* found the negro as reported to him, sitting out in the open field with a loaded gun in his hand, j When arrested and asked io give some ac-j count of himself, he showed signs of derided ; lunacy, and told the officer that he was beset by un army of opossums, lie was brought to town, v. hero, his gun being taken from him, he was locked up in th" city j.iir. The next morning he was released bu: lingered about the /ward house and refused to move ol?. When asked why in- did not hun! wuk he replied that ?ie did not \*<?tk but lived by hegging from white and colored people li was arrested under a wnrrant charging him with vagrancy and taken before the trial jus cice. Witnesses were summoned who testified that t:?e man had been acting in the same ! manner for Several months past The prison? er told his honor that he lived in the woods and carried weapons to protect him from the "possums that were constantly menacing him. LTpon being furthf r searched a large pistol loaded in every chamber wa? found on his person. He gave his name as Jonas Knot son ?ind sa)s he hails from Mechanicsville, and that he has been wandering about in this manner for two years. Un all othei subjects he appears as saneas other people, but can't ?et over the hallucination that 'possums ?ire threatening an invasion of his sacred person. Whether he is actually demented or whether he is ene of the many vagrant meudecants , merely pretending lunacy, it puzzles his ! '?onor. the triai justice, fo determine. The r.egro i* now in jail This is the best solu- ' :ion of the doubt. Stamped Tidies aud Scarfs at F. Levi's. Embroidered Laaibreouiusat F. Levi's. Wedding Bells. ' The marriage of Mr. Horatio D. Long to Miss Ximena G. Whitton, both of this city, announced by cards for the evening of the 10th iust, but postponed on account of the illness of the bride, was celebrated on last evening, Sept. 24th| at the Baptist Church in the presence of a vast concourse of the re? latives and friends of the popular young couple. Rev. C. C. Brown, pastor of the Church, assisted by Rev. John Kershaw, Rector of the EpiscopalCburch olliciated at the altar, and Mrs- John Kershaw presided with her usual grace and skill at the organ. The weather could not have been better, nature seemed to smile auspiciously on the happy nuptials. The Church wa3 beautifully, tastily and profusely decorated with flowers and ever? greens. The double rows of large pillars supporting the galleries were twined around with clinging ivy-beautiful type-symboling the mutual dependant relatiou of the couple in whose honor it was so fashioned-she, the beautiful, trusting clinging vine, he, the sturdy support. Arranged into a tasteful display about the altar were large vases of rare cut flowers. - The ceremony was set for 8 30 o'clock, and came off punctually at that hour, but long before the appointed time, the floor and galleries and every nook and corner of the spacious edifice were densely packed, and large crowds standing at every door and window on the outside, unable to find stand? ing room within. Before the arrival of the wedding party, at every little noise in the rear of the building, the fluttering fans were stopped, the tongues cease?! their chattering and a hundred bright eyes flashed back over as many fair shoulders to see if thc bridal party were coming. There is a something in a wedding that appeals to universal sympathy. No other aocial event equals it in importance or creates an equal sensation, and from our coigne of vantage our old bachelor heart thumped with quick and riotous beats, as we, like the others, eagerly watched the open portals for the com? ing bride. The groom, though a necessary, is yet avery insignificant, perssnage at his own wedding, all eyes focus on the fair face of his bride. However well he may deport himself, however handsome he may be, there is none save the trembling fair one on his Arm, so poor as to do him reverence. But, hark! the deep-toned organ peals forth its merry march of welcome, and eager eyes turn to watch the fair women and brave men move in couples with slow and stately tread, up either aisle of the Church. Thoroughly trained to their work they walk with the disciplined precision cf veterans, meeting, crossing and re-crossing, in a man? ner utterly bewildering to the mere "looker cn tn Vienna" uninitiated into the plans of the manuverings, until at last disentangling themselves from this labyrinth, the attendants assume their places, and we glance dowu to ?ee a handsome couple facing the r?ltar, and hear the clear tones of the celebrattts' voices reading the beautiful marriage ceremony of the Episcopal Church, and in a little while,' im\d a deep hush which has fallen upon the I crowd, Mr. Horatio D. Loug and Miss Ximena | C. Whitton are pronounced man and wife, j To mean so much, we thought the ceremony decidedly too short. The married pair did not wait for congrat? ulations, but were driven rapidly away to the hospitable home of the bride's parents where * sumptuous supper was spread for those who I assisted at the ceremouy. Many costly, useful and handsome presents j were received. Bo'h contracting parties are well known j ind very popular in the society of Sumter, i ?nd we feel assured that we voice the singlet md universal sediment of the community j when we wish fhem that abundant joy and j happiness that usually w*it on those who marry in love. The bride, dressed in white cashmere, while j showing unmistakable traces of recent illness, looked as delicately sweet as the orange bios- j >oms in her vail. The attendants, the ladies dressed in neat ?md simple white, were as follows : ?j Miss Virgie Whitton and Mr. L. B H. Darr. Miss Sallie Darr and Mr. L. S. Carson. Miss Annie Whitton and Mr. D. S. Moore. Miss Lillie Pate and Mr. E. W. Hurst. Miss Marian Kershaw and Mr. D. W. Cut tino. Miss Lula Hay cs worth and Mr. Moultrie DeLorme. * Mis3 Hettie White and Mr. D. J. Chandler. .Miss Leila Nash and Mr S. R W-nning. Ushers-Messrs. W. M Graham and Wm. I Meli wain, John Cross well aud Campbell Stubbs. - mm nu- -??- 4?? A New Enterprise. ______ i Every morning at the unchristian hour of j ?ve o'clock, while sleep .?ill prisses hard j upon the heavy ev did, before the turn i? ; made on the couch for the refreshing second nap, the drowsy inhabitants living iu the southern part of Sumter are awakened from their slumbers by aseries of } ells, scream?, screeches, shrieks, groans, cat-cries, bellows, barks, roars, a jangling diapason from a mouth organ to a cirrus calliope, ?ll going at once making a pandemonium of sounds unlike anything to be imagined on this e.irth -above. Were all of Barnum's menagery turned into into one cage and set to fighting, and each animal were to bit? to the music of his own bark, snare and yell, the resulting noise might faintly suggest something like this five o'clock row we are talking about, but by the side of the latter the discord of ! the mcnagery would melt icio mellifluous j strains of sweetest harmony. Those who have heard it will recognize in this descrip? tion Lukens & Riefsnyder's planing mills. This is only the festive and playful way it has of waking up the parly % black) birds to catch Tlie proverbial worm. These planing mills are a new enterprise just gotten under operation in Sumter and j "re the largest mills of the kind in the state. The machinery and work about the yard are under the immediate superintendence of Mr. J. F. Laughery, an old and experienced hand at the-mill business, and under the general supervision of Mr. J. A. McClure, who has charge of the Company's business in South Carolina. Cur own Mr. Norward Fleming occupies the 3tool at the bookkeeper's desk. Under these gentlemen a force of thirty hands are employed on the yard. We have always had great respect for machinery, about which we know nothing, but since our visit to these works under the courteous escort of the cuperintendent Mr. Liugbery, our respect has been so enhanced as now to ! amount to the profoundest reverence. Every thir:g works together with such precision [ regularity and methodical order as to make j one almost believe that the machinery is I endowed with human rct.ron. Boiler?, | engines, wheels, pulleys, piping, shaftings, cogs, be?ting, rods, pinners, saws, railroads, i cars, &c, in f*ct almost everything-and a I great deal besides,-that we ever saw before, j all blending harmoniously into one vast | system of machinery under a centra] control. ? The capacity of the machinery now in | piace is ovf-r 20,OOO feet per day; when com- j pieted as it will l<e in a few du_\s the capacity j will rc.wh .i figure beyond 25,000. The Di ving Kiln has a capacity of {tom eighteen i to tu cut v thousand feet per day. The lum- ? ber for the planers is taken e,r> eri from the j surrounding local mills and is carried first through ?he Drying Kilu before it is dressed ! by thc planer. Thc dimensions of ti e Kiln j is 51 by S."> fcc-: divided into three separate i apartments of equal dimensions by two par- ? tition wails running longitudinally through ? ?t. Each of these separate rooms hold? 1 "J i car loads of lumber. The lumber is taken j into the Kiln on the cars and not removed j from them until seasoned The car? are j pushed sideways into the Kiln from the side I where the temperature is lowest ami ?ire pushed I forward each day into gradually encrcasing ! heat ontii the fourth tiny, when tia' lumber I is taken ort' and carried to the planer, it j takes four days for a ear to make thc trip, i Needless to say these cars ha ve no conductor*: ! The exhaust stearn of theengine i.; earned into the Drying Kiln through ! \ miles of ? . j it?' h [dping. This piping is wound aud j doubled about so a? to occupy a space of 7 j by 6 by "i feet. Through this mi work of.j pipes, intensely heated, ?lie air is fanned upon the lumber. There i? a suction attachment ! for taking and carrying the shavings from ! nbout thi planer into a brick building where : they nre stored find thence removed to the fi; mac;-. Tii< re i? one wonderful piece of machinery j there in the way of a planer which can beso \ adjusted as to ?i<* lumber from one to six- ' teen inches Square* on four sides at once, or can be made to dress 'our stdes of a Sat ' plank. One is richly repaid for a visit to this wonderful little city of machinery. Had South Carolina man.) more stich enterprises within brr borders, her waste places would I build up and blossom ??kc the rose. Upright Piano, comparatively new. will be so'd very reasonably, .\!?(, Feather Ked?, Furniture, and large Bell suitable for school 1 or church. Apply at this office. Tassel Balls aud Tadels for laney work, at ; F Levi's, Happenings at Stateburg. STATEB?RG, S. C., Sept. 20, '89. The unloaded pun again goes oil" and its victim is a colored boy named Hicks Council. The accident happened tit the store of the Messrs. Sanders at Dinkins5 Mill. Mr. Burrill Moody, a clerk in the store, has had the boy about him for sometime, and yesterday about dinner time gave him some crackers, and then playfully took a rifle from the corner and, aiming it at the boy, laugh? ingly said he was going to shoot him. The ! boy, knowing he was joking, paid no atten? tion, but laughed. Mr. Moody, as stated by himself and others, took thc gun down and was turning to replace it where it was kept, when it went offand the bal! entered the back and passiug through the boy struck the oppo? site counter. Mr. Moody says he always un? loaded the gun and kept it unloaded in the store, and was certain it was empty when he took it up. It is thought one of the Mr. Sanders loaded the gun at eometime and for? got all about it. Dr. Moore was sent for and did all he could but the boy died this morning. Trial Justice Sumter wa3 sent for to hold au inquest. Ile arrived about three oclock and after examining Mr. Moody and several witnesses to the shooting besides those who heard thc boy's statement just before he died to the effect that Mr. Moody was only in fun and did not mean to shoot him, concluded not to summon a jury of inquest as there was no circumstance at all pointing to a crime, but gave a burial certificate. Mr. Moody is very much depressed about it. COMMUNICATED. Letter from Qui Vivo. PISGAH, S. C., Sept. 16, 1889. Mr. Editor: At the cloee of the Sunday School convention at Smithville, the pastor, Mr. Waite, commenced a protracted meeting which lasted about ten days and resulted in the addition of about eight to the church. Mr. Waite was ably assisted by Rev. E. 0, Watson of the Lynchburg Circuit and Rev. T. W. Munnerlyn. Mr. Watson's visit has made him many friends and admirers, who will be glad to have him visit them again f whenever he can do so. His sermons are j spoken of by all who have heard them :n the j highest maGDer, as abounding in the spirit %f j God. Mr. Waite deserves much praise io , having that quiet and order at his meeiing^, which are so essential to the good of all meetings. The Pisgah Baptist Church has pot a front to its church building. The pastor, Mr. Wil? liams will have a meeting some time thi3 fall. He wants to get Rev. R. W. Sanders, of Ches? ter, S. C., to aid him. Prof. J. P. Gibbes is teaching a private | school at Pisgah Church until the opening of I the public schools. Prof. Gibbes is a distin- j guished educator, strict and regular in his j discipline at school and requires perfect les- j sons. lu all of which he is endorsed by those I who have the good of their children at heart. I If we had a few more teachers like Mr. j Gibbes to teach the public schools, the pic- | lure, as drawn by Schcol Commissioner i Green in his address to the people of Sumter County some time ago, would t.~: be long >? j existence. If Mr. Green would try to get f trustees who could give some attention from \ their business to the schools, and try to im? prove the school sei vice iu every respect in conjunction wita his own work ju that line, instead of asking for more money, he would bc doing much to improve the public schools, which, to say the least, are the greatest farce that ever were fastened on a poverty-stricken people. The school fund is large enough in this State for the means of her people. The State goverument is already too costly to j warrant any more taxes. It is not for the lack of money that the schools are so poor, but for the want of better work. A teacher who will consent to teach a school for S25 per month and not do his duty, will not do it if you give bim $50 ; for any one who is actuated by a gense of duty will always per? form that duty, when they consent to do so, whether they get full pay or not. The mas3 of the people are tired of the present school syst?m, and if Mr. Green can see that the rising generation is more educated than they were before the war, when each one had lo educate for himself, he can see better than those of his same age can do. Mr. Massabeau is teaching the graded school at Smithville. He is highly spoken of by ttiose who are patronizing him. We wel? come him to our neighborhood. While Mr. Sam Gollins of Smithville was hauling a lor.d of colton across a mill dam to a gin, his horse got s-ared and backed the wagon off into the pond, which threw off tlie top ?heels, and with them Mr. L. A. While's litile boy who was riding on top. Mr. Col? lins had not praetieed swimming for twenty A ears, but he did not hesitate"to plunge in with his clothes on, and it is said, swam to 6hore like a fish, bringing the boy out safe and sound. The horse tore oui the wagon and left. We are truly glad no one got in? jured. If Mr. Collins had not had that pres? ence of mind so necessary in times of danger, the little boy might have drowned before as? sistance could have been rendered. The address of the Hon. Ben. Terrell, of Texas, at Camden, was highly satisfactory to the farmers. He put it to them and the mer? chants hot and heavy. All good Alliance men will foilow his advice given in public and secret t,o the Alliance. Cotton is backward in opening. The fields are kept picked up pretty clean. Cotton bagging will be more used than the jute trust thought. A good many farmers will usc jute because there is more money in it.- Well, a few have always had to make the reforms for the public good. Two of our cit'Zens are in a lawsuifahout a piece of road. I hopo uo serious results will foliow. Qui V?VB. - MBtO-~??' -OtSD Full assortments Braidine at F. Levi's. THE MARKETS SUMTER, S. C., Sept. 25, 1889. COTTON.-Receipts 1000 bales. The mar? ket strong. Good Middling 10J Middling 10* t0 10 3-16 CHARLESTON, S. C., Sept. 24, 1889. Cotton-Sales, 2.000. Quotations: mid? dling, 10 5-1 C. WILMINGTON, N. C., Sept. 24, 1889 SPIRITS TURPENTINE.-Sales at quotation. Market opened finn at 44^ cents per gallon. ROSIN -Firm at 75c. for Strained and 80 for Good Strained. CRCDK TUKPKNTINK.-Yellow Din, S2 25 ; Virgin $2 25, Hard ?1.20. COTTON.-Sales, none. Market firm. Quotations are : Middling loi. 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