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Cbe ^WdjiiuiiiauiSo??j|r0iL WEDNESDAY, MARCH 19. The Sumter Watchman was founded in 1850 and the True Southron in 1866. The Watchman and Southron DOW has the combined circulation and influence of both of the old papers, and is mani? festly the best advertising medium in Saniter. REGISTER! REGISTER! We call the attention of our people to the fact that the registration for the town election will close OD March 22ud, which is Saturday. We have heard it rumored that an eflort will be made, if practicable, to roo io a ticket other than that Domina? ted at the public meeting, lt will be well to anticipate this movement, if such exists, by a fall registration of the voters who will support the regular tick? et. This is a most important matter to the whole city, and it will ;ver do to j let a discontented element slip in two or more members of the city council, who may jeopardize the icterests of the city, ami prove to be obstructionists at this j critical point in her history, A SIGNIFICANT PACT. We regard it as a most significant j fact that lumber men from the north- j west should have eenie to this vicinity and purchased forty f-quare miles of swamp land, and are still calling for more. Lands that were financially valueless two years ago have been sold for aa average of three dollars per acre, and are now "stiff*' ic the hands of holders at four dollars. The number of these prospectors is larger than any, j even the well iuformed, know, and every week Dew arrivals are registered. lt meaos that the eyes of the most energetic, wideawake, and progressive j people in this country the citizens of the great northwest, are tarnee! in this direction, and they are availing them? selves of the opportunities to which oar own people seem singularly obliv oas, of making fortunes at their very doors It is also a most significant fact that railroad men are now investing largely io lands to the north and northwest of oar city, getting options OD some and purchasing others outright. If any one doubts it, let him listen to the talk OD tb? streets, and consult the records of the Mesne Conveyance office at the Court House. Fabulous prices are being offered for property ia town, needed for specific purposes, and io j view of the indications DOW so marked j ; of new and most important railway j < connections to be made at Sumter, it is j ' not surprising that sellers should be ' Dot at all anxious to part from their | holdings, bat are reserving them for a still further advance in price. A man who . had the money, the nerve, and the judgment, could make immerse sums of money io Sumter city properly withio the next two years, j Many are paving the way for fortunes I DOW. They do Dot ran around and j1 ?boat aloud to every fellow they chance i to meet, that they have seen a good thing and recognize it as each, bat in ?( a quiet way they are "getting there all j ' the sacie.^ j ] We regard oar opportunities of j becoming a large and important city j 1 ss second to none in the State, not j 1 even ezceptiog Columbia. Her caoal ! ought to doable her size if it is proper- j 1 ly manipulated, but Columbia has not ? 1 the back country that Sumter has. Many of oar readers are not aware of the fact that Sumter County pays more j ' taxes than Richland, and that because : < her property is a^essed for more, with j the city of Columbia thrown in. This ? revelation of the nature and extent of our resources should serve only to ! Miuiulare oar energies and invigorate j our policy as a centre of trade. There j 1 is no doubt about it that we are on the ( eve of a career of wondrous growth and prosperity. People everywhere who have money to invest, have their i * eye on Sumter Before thc election j 1 was helti ou ibe q'ies'.ioi? of issuing bonds for school purposes, bankers in ' New- York and Chicago had heard of it. ' and sent to make inquiries, and Wash- ' ington architects were wanting to sub- | mit plans for the building. This will ' give people an idea of how our booming city \n being watched, and wili furnish ! ... ' I a hint which we hope they will not be plow to avail themselves of, as to how money is to be made right at home. With the Southbound ro:id at our doors, W'.rh the M & A. extended into j Georgia, wirb, the Sumter & Wateree built to and beyood Camden, with the , C. S & S. extending itself t(? Darling j ton, Bennetts ville. Hamlet. Haleigh, , sad so on indefinitely, and with the ; gmid worthy patriarch, the old and j rich ? G L , we can picture to our- j selves the ?ir black with the Rmoke of tal] chimneys, looking down on the manufactories below, we hear the jingling of the bells as the horse and and electi ic *?9,v. rumble along Liberty j ' sud Main, we see the sidewalks fl-i^ed \ and the streets MacAdennzed. we ' behold the tall tower of ihe waterworks aud the hydrants at regular interval.-; along the squares and no hour cf the day when there may not be heard the j heavy roll of long freight trains ' and the rapid ru-*h of the passenger and expre-s trains with their Pullman pleepers and vestibuled cars, for we ; will be on fhe shortest and most direct ; ' route from the Southeast and West to I the North and Kast. ? < Col Jas. A Hoyt, of (i'eenville, has been elected chairman ot il- - ^tate Dem? ocratic Executive Committee to fill the place if (rn izl^r, win? resigned to fill another tinpot t&ttt position. TIME TO CHANGE. We indulged ourselves in a flight c fancy as to our city's future, in a pn ceding article, but it was fancy, base on great and striking facts In viei of them we suggest some changes one more, the muss continuing her Sight. Besides these fascinating sights, w see others, such as the removal of th numerous cotton bales which encumbe sidewalk and street, and their relegatio to some one place where buyers may re sort without causing a blockade of ve hides on the main thoroughfare, as wa often witnessed during the height o the last season. Many object to th idea here suggested on the ground tha such a scene presents the appearance o great business, and draws forth appre ciative compliments from the visitors ti our city To this it may be replied that barring the fact that most visit?n are not sufficiently discrimioitiog to dis tinguish between an appearance of bus iness and a reality of it, the objectiot reminds us of the incident narrated bj Mark Twain io the "Gilded Age," ai occurring to Col. Sellers and his young friend Washington Hawkins Wasn't father sent him to some mud hole oui West where the Colonel was tempora? rily domiciling, and he arrived on a day when the mercury was bunting the zerc point. With a prodigal and lavish show of hospitality, the Colonel invited Washing an into a room in bis house, io which were a small stove, two chaire and a peg or two to hang hats on. Asking him to take a seat and remove his overcoat, the Colonel sat-down by the little 6tove a?d while talkir.g away like a type-writer t^the instrument, not the pretty girl who operates it) appear? ed to busy himself making a fire in the said beating apparatus Finally suc? ceeding, apparently, in this laudable purpose, the Colouel proceeded to draw up a chair and, urging his guest to do the same, went ou talking about the future in store for the mao who should develop his great "eye wash" just in? vented. A pale and sickly glow from the stove shone through the isinglass in the door, which was propped up by a one-legged pair of tongs, and Washing? ton, enthused with the Colonel's talk, did not notice how cold be was, uotil the strikiog of the Colonel's big clock interrupted his flow of speech, and en? abled Washington to observe that he was nearly freezing. In the endeavor to hitch up his chair a trifle closer to the stove, Washington kicked the dilap? idated tODgs and they fell dowo, dis? closing a tallow candle about three inches long io the stove, as the sole illuminant and fuel of tbe same ! Dis joncerted for only a seend or so, the Colonel's toogae broke the embarrass? ing silence that ensued, and he inform? ed Wash that the method of beating ?hieb he witnessed was a little inven? tion of his own, by which thousaods, yes, millions of dollars, might be saved. Said the Colonel: What you want, my boy, is not heat, bat the appearance of beat. The family that uses this inven? tion will never have rheumatism," &c , kc. So with regard to this cross-roads method of doing cotton business in Sum? ter. Many seem to care more for the appearance of business than the fact, but why lay so much stress on the ap? pearance when we have the reality ? Washington would have greatly pre? ferred to have the reality of fire, rheu? matism or no rheumatism, and so here, where we have the fact and reality of a large and growing cotton business, we aeed not care particularly to have the ippearance of it so prominent, especial ly when it actually interferes with other business and with the comfort and safety :>f citizen?. Let cross-roads methods go ! THAT SUMTER MEETING. Such is the title of an article io Monday's Charleston World, in which the writer, as usual, justifies his paperas course and comments, but, also as ! usual, avails himself of the never-neg- i lected opportunity to hit the News and j Courier a whack over somebody else's ! ?boulder. That is the kind of thing j which the World ever uses a? a step ping stone to coveted nototiety. It is I ?mosing to watch it, but no less so to [>bseive the persistent ignoring of it by its bigger neighbor on Broad Street Strange rhat if the News and Courier be so absolutely and always unreliahle, more people do not prefer the unquali? fiedly arid uniformly accurate and trust? worthy World. 1> it we are not after j making the World feel b;tdly or irri tated, ut this time. We believe it i.- ' fulfilling a useful and important func- ? tion in Charleston and throughout the State, but that is on reason why it ' should manufacture winde ranges of mountains out of a single mole hill, cr : evolve a coo elusion wholly unfair ont \ i)f the ever widening spiral issuing from i the narrow apenare of a single and not material error. The World ought to be above such business. ? noiscience is a ' qualify which anything so small as the ! World in question, or even its editor .* i -houid not assume to have, nor should be or it. pose in the maj -stir role of the \ supremely indifferent and mildly apolo? getic sovereign who happens in his lordly walk, to s*-t his brogan or? some inferior's sore toe, thereby evoking a . howl. For our part we decline to ad? mit that his imperial highness has touch? ed our pedal vegetable?, or, if he has, his touch was so light, we were not iware of it, much lef?s that we were feeling the weight of the whole World's pressure. lie owes us no apology or explanation. There is nothing small ibout us, r.'ot even our fret or our sub? scription list Therefore, while ac? knowledging our contemporary's cour icou< but labored explanation, and boping he may recover from the regret bordering on despair whicb he professes to feel, by reason of our fatal neglect to publish our own account of the late farmer's meeting, we can only say that we weep tears of sorrow that he should have so disturbed and distressed himself. We are ready to fork over our towel or our sheet, friend, and if that will not suffice to contain your tears, we will offer, not our bottle, for we are above that, but our office pot which, in cold weather, sits on our stove and moistens the circumambient atmosphere with the rising condensations of the hot water it contains. The poet has said, This World is nil a fleeting show, For man's delusion given. We hope he had not in his mind this couplet as a suitable epitaph and com? ment on our esteemed contemporary and his fate. We would not like to think of his becoming a dead world, like the moon, or an exploded world, like one of those from which "moss grown fragments" fell ou this terrestrial ball, bringing with them, as some ma? terialistic sages, so called, have theo? retically supposed, the germs of life from which all other life on this planet has come. THE MONUMENTAL SQUARE. "Tax Payer," in our last issue, puts in a plea against the use of this square as a site for the proposed public school building. We are not informed as ^o exactly what are the plans of the Graded School Commissioners, but if their desire is, as we have heard, to place the building well in rear of the monument, which is to be protected by a substantial iron railing, and the grounds laid off and otherwise beautified, we can see no great force in the objection which some make to using the square for such a purpose. As to the matter of the use of the ?quare for a park, our opinion is that it is entirely too small for such a pur? pose, if the city shall ever grow to such dimensions as to require a park, it should purchase a place of not less than twenty-five or thirty acres for the purpose, so as to give room for walks, I drives, fouutaius, hedges, flowers and arbors. Besides, the location of the school house ou the square would not at all interfere with its use as "a greeu spot, a resting place amid the bustle and turmoil of life around.'7 On the other hand, it would serve as a protection to the monument, and prevent i's being desecrated as is now daily done by the thoughtless and the filthy-minded. It is also very near the centre of popula? tion, much more so than the old site on Republican street, and should the trustees of the Monumental Association decide to lease the square to the Graded School Commissioners, they eau impose such conditions as shall protect the square and the monument, and leave it unimpaired as a public park in-so-far as its very limited 6ize will allow. One object, as we understand it, of selling ibe site now owned by the School District, is to avoid the issuing of more I i than ?10,000 of bonds, which the sale j of this site at a good price, would most I probably accomplish. At any rate the ? Graded School Commissioners do not j propose io occupy Monument Square j except by thc cousent of the persons legally authorized so dispose of it. PUBLISHING THE LAWS. The Columbia Register has the fol? lowing to say on this subject : The people of South Carolina have precious little chance to know what the laws are. They are only published in book form, and the great body of the citizenship never see the Acts aud Joint Resolutions. The public laws should be published in at least three daily and weekly newspapers of the State, and then they might be considered as hav? ing publicity. We are opposed, on principle, to any more pap business, or feeding at the public crib, in the style and manner of bygone years A few papers, most likely the Register as one, would get the entire pecuniary benefit of such pub? lication as is here proposed We j would, however, not be opposed to hav ing a committee of the General Assem- | hly select such of their Acts and Reso? lutions as coucern the citizenship gen? erally, and have them published in four or five representative journals in differ j ent sections of the State. Xor would we object to su?h a publication being j given out to the lowest bidder in each Congressional District of the State In I fact, we think this the better plan, j though we are not inclined to believe j that mote than one out of ten of "the j citizenship" would tale the trouble to ! wade through column after column of ifs, ands, hereinhefores, aforesaid*, hereaf ters and provided* Besides the trouble, j tbestraio on a tuan uti accustom ed to xi ch ? reading w<?uld be considerable. He would be apt to get fearfully mixed, and ! give up the whole thing in disgust. Is the item we have copied 4 inspired," j tr is it merely a straw to ascertain the direction <>( tiie wind ? The decision of the Supreme Court in the ease of the Railroad Company j vs. the State of Mississippi, on ap? peal, is more far reaching that? has been generally supposed it goes to the root of the matter of separate accom? modations by quasi-public coporations for the colored race, and means that peparate schools, separate accommoda tions in cars, restaurantn Mid hotels, ?nd other public places m y be lawful? ly prescribed by the State or municipal laws. i - ? ? - mm Alnxaudr?r Doyle, who has furnished the design for Henty Grady's monu? ment at Atlanta, has been awarded the Contract to erect it It will be of Ge?r gia marble or gi an i te, surmounted by a bronze statue of \lr. Grady, and is to he completed within two years BISMARCK'S RESIGNATION. The great German Chancellor, the man of blood and iron, has resigned, and the Em? peror has accepted his resignation. The cause is not clearly stated, hut it is probable that it is doe to a decided divergence between the views of the Emperor and Bismarck, and the unwillingness of either to give way to the other. It is probable that we will see some exciting events growing out of tlie disappear? ance of the greatest diplomat of the century from public life. James Re-Couvicted. Joseph W. Janies the parricide has been convicted a second time. Now for another appeal to die Supreme Uourt. This is justic e delayed, if not defeated, and excuses for mob law made to appear reasonable. James has money and friends. Were he penniless and friend les?, his fate would long ago have been fixed. Wannamaker's Pets. Deputy Collector Deas bas had Albertus B. Hayes appointed postmaster at Packsville, Clarenden County. Hurrah for Cleveland aDd 1892 ! Official Figures of the Cold Snap. WASHINGTON*, D. C , March IT.-Special weather bulletin. The special office furnishes the following bulletin to the press : The re? port from the Western portions of Georgia and South Carolina, and from East Tennessee, show that Sunday morning was colder than any morning during the past winter. The coldest days previously reported were the se? cond and third insts. The follow ing aresome minimum temperatures with their relation to the lowest temperature of the past winter: Charlotte, N. C., 18 degrees. 2 degrees be? low ; Charleston, 24 degrees, 4 degrees be? low ; Augusta 22 degrees, 2 degrees below. Throughout this area, including also South? eastern Tennessee, Northern Alabama and the greater portion of Georgia and Fiorida the minimum temperatures of yesterday and to? day were Hie lowest on record for so late in | tbesea.-on. Killing frosts were reported this morning from Mobile and Tiiusvillp, Florida, and undoubtedly prevailed overall central Florida. Light frosts occurred at Pensacola, Florida, Cedar Keys and Jupiter, Fiorida. While the latter is nearly half way between Titusville and Key West this is nearly two weeks latpr than any previous period of frosts in the vicinity of this station. Reports coming from the great tobacco counties in Western North Carolina show that At last one third of the plants in beds have been killed by the cold weather which prevailed Saturday night and yesterday. The peach and apple crops are also almost wholly desToyed. The mercury stood at 10 above zero Sunday morning. Unprecedented Phosphate Figures. According to the report rendered the Agri- | cultural Department during the quarter end- j ing February 28th, there were 66,643 tons efl phosphate rock mined, against 52.667 for the ? same period in 1889. This is an unprecedent- | ed production and makes 126 100 tons mined in Six months ending February 28. The to tal for last year was 212,000 tons If the ratio of the past six months t e maintained the i amount mined this tear will be 252,000 tons. I - Columbia Register. j (From our Regular Correspondent.) i j 1 WASHINGTON LETTER. WASHINGTON, D. C., March 17. 1890. Ex-Sneaker Carlisle's statement showing that the appropria lions contemplated t?y the I repuMiran majority would leave H deficiency j in the treisurj has caused Mr. Cannon, chair- j man of ?he UotiSe Appropriation committee to ' make a statement which he calls an answer to I Mr. Cai ?irle. Mr. Cannon's estimate leaves i out a mininer of appropriations that the ie- i publicans generally have pledged their party j to make. Time '.viii tell which statement is ! Cortect. For the sake of the cou ii tn Mr. Cir- , lisle would not objsct to having Mr. Can nun j prove to t e right. Poor Mr Harrison, he is indeed tobe pitied | when even Jay Hubbell can com?; to I Washington and abuse him through the me dium of a newspaper interview. It isa mistake to suppose that the Okla? homa hill which pass- d i:.*- House Inst week opened the Cherokee snip to Sr ti lemont, and ! Mr. Harrison hns issued a proclamation of ! warning to people intending to settle thereon. A resolution passed by the House cails on the Secretary of war for information as to the : money and facilities he has for rendering aid | on the flooded Mississippi river. The World's F.dr bili has been perfected ac- ! cording to the ideas of the Chicago folks and j it will probably rome up in the House this ; week. Nothing has been agreed upon as to date. The Government appropriation is $1.500,000. The wonderful egg is ar last hatched, and the product-Repr?sentative Lodge's Federal election bil!, been reported to the House. It is a remarkable concoction, and is claimed to be based upon the Australian system of vot? ing The everlasting and eternal race question has been up again in the Sen.ne. Wtienever Some republican Senator has a Gt of indiges- ! tion and feels disgusted with himself and ; everybody else he gets up and fires off some- j thing about the poor 'nigsier.' Senator Voorhees and Judge Jeremiah Wil- j son will help in the defense of C. K. Kincaid, ; the newspaper man, who killed Ex-Congress man Taulbee, of Kentucky. There's a regular monkey and parrot time eoing on in the Navy department. Secretary Tracy has forced the head of one bureau to re? sign and it is said there are others to follow. Naval officers accuse Mr. Tracy of being whimsical in his ideas. Republican Senators have had ?he nerve to eridge in a revolt against Quay's bossing. Quay, according to the Story, demanded thal me present Sergeant at-A nus of the Sen? ate should be put out to make roora for one of his men, and n majority of the lepubiican j Senators, not only refused to agree to this, j but intimated in very plain language to Quay's I agent - the bo>S being Still in Florida-that I even if there was a vacancy in the 0fibre his j man could not have it. The question now is j whether Q lay will quietly pocket the alf: ont, I or whether he will attempt to whip enough of j the Senators into line to control a party eau- j cus and attempt to get revenge. According to high republican authority, j they will only r?quue about $50,000,000 a \ear lo pay the pensions under the bill that j they propose pasdng at this session. That ! will bring the [tension payments up to more i than $150,000,000a year, a mete trifle. A iepub:ican appointed to a 34.500 Federal | office in New York last week by Mr. Harrison is a defaulter for a large amount to the Government. The defalcation occured io this cit.* some \ears ago. Secretary Noble considers his authority greater than that ol' the Senat?1, and has ac? cordingly refused to furnish certain reports, relating io the withholding of land paient? in the tinton Pacific Railroad grants, asked for ; liv a resolution of the Senate He holds that j it i< a matter for him to decide upon. Mr fi-hus undertaken another big con- j tract. UH sa1, S he intends to attempt to 1 break up the practice of ex-members of Con-! gress acti Mg as lobb; ?sis. Another attempt i.- bei ri j? made to hare the \ Government adopi pap?T fractional currency for coo venience in small transactions through the mails Senator EMIT?S ronvie'ed Senator Ho ir of i rnakinu ? w i ? fa ! "? ifs' -i 'nen ? o ri t he Moor of* the Senate la>! week, hui that will not [?revett! ! ihr Massachusetts Senator doing the Same I hi tex again whenever it may happen io serve ! his pm pose. The Senat" is tn get rid nf the [Hair educa- i tional bill b\ voling on it Thursday. The minorh v of the ' I ouse ? ?< mimi I tee on Territories has mude a report against Wie bill I lor the admirion ot idaho. Sol Haas. Traffic Manager of ! lie I Associated Railways, has resigned from i he Coast Line and Seaboard <fc Roan oake. in order to give his entire ser? vices to the Richmond & Danville I nes, including the Georgia Pacific; he is succeded hy II. IX Carpenter, who, has hern his chief clerk for vears. The report comes from \ ermotit that lands are ti"w offered for sale at five dollars an acre that a few years ago were held io bc worth one bumdrcd dollars an acre. Farms with fine dwellings, brick barns and ail nccessiry j out buildings are lying unoccupied. . These are the homes to which the nc- ' groes in the South are to be invited to come, and these are the homes that have b"pn left bare by the ruin- ' uus war tariff. The Whites Will Lead Since the recent caning at Claflin an old colored preacher, one ot the few of j the ame bellum days, when he heard j how the students of Cafiiu had threaten- I ' ed a row iu case Professor DeTreville j I attempted to return to his classes, said j ? to his congregation : 'My bredriu, no j use for such foolishness as dat. We I niggers can't 'peels wid de buckra no i how. Wy, bred ri n, dey is gettiu ahead nf our good Lord and Master, for de I Master has to hab freezing wedder to j make ice, when de buckra make un? in ? de hot days of July and August. - Or an gob urg Spectator. ?- irT> KM - A few days ago a colored Professor in Claflin University called a white Professor a liar. The white Professor afterwards beat the colored Professor with a stick, and there is now a general j I rumpus in the camp. We don't care what becomes of a mao who calls an I other a liar, and we have but little con? cern for the troubles into which a white man may get in consequence of his con? nection with a negro school. As white people do net want a negro teacher for j their children, so wc do not think a Southern white man should be called upon to teach negro children.-Abbe? ville Press and Banner. Dispatches from New Orleans report that, the river is three inches above the high water mark of 1874, and is still rising ; one of the levees has broken, and a portion of the city upon the river front is entirely submerged ; water is all through the streets, which are lower than the river, and is being pumped out at the back part of the city into j Lake Ponchartrain. A large fire is re- ! ported, which destroyed much valuable j property ; reports from Arkansas represents that the rivers are still ris- ! ing, and that great damage has been done over a large extent of country; ail railway trffic is badly delayed. The postage stamp will celebrate its fiftieth anniversary this year. As everything in existence, so the postage stamp had to be invented, and this io- I vention is due to the printer James Chalmers, of Dundee, who died in 185'j j and who finally with his system, the j adtesive postage stamp, conquered the j whole civilized world. At first it was j England who, fifty years ago, intro- ; duced the postage stamp, and who, ac cording to a decree of December 21, ! 1830, issued the first stamps for phblic use on May G, 1840 A year later they were introduced in the United States and Switzerland, and agaiu, a ? few years later, in l>av?ria, ljelgium j and France. Suow of an unparalleled depth is re- i ported on thc Rio Grande Railway, and and it will in all probability be ten days before it is opened. --mp- -????-- Wi ADVJCE TO MOTHERS. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup should i always be used for children tet-thing. It j soothes tile child.. softens the gum?, allays all pain, cures wind colic anti is the best remedy for diarrhoea. 2'c a boule. FOUND. A LAP ROBE, WHICH THE OWNER /\ cnn recover by applying at this otlice. March ll). NOTICE TO TEACHERS. rpHE NEXT REGULAR EXAMINATION ? J of teachers bet?re th * County Board ot ? Examiners will be held on Saturday, April 5th. 1890 Fur White Teachers : In the Graded School building. For Colored Teachers: In the Lincoln School building-. JOHN T. ORKEN*. S h Com. Sunter Co. i March 19-3. F0BLI? NOTICE."I j CLERK AND TREASURERS OFFICE, j S?MTKB, S. (. . March 10 '90. ALL PERSONS HAVING I) KM A NUS . against the City of Sumter, are re- j quested io present same tor examination by i Council, and payment wheo audbed and ap- j proved. All person? indebted to City of Sumter, for j taxes, licenses. &c are requested to make ?ra mediale payment. Executions will be issued April Ut, proximo, tor collection of all delia- j quent taxe?, etc. then due. By order of CouuciL C. M. HURST, Cieik ?fc Trea. March 19 VALUABLE REAL ESTATE" FOR SALE I SUMTER Al CLARENDON. THE FINK TWO-STORY BRICK STORE, in City ot Sumter, corner Main and Liberty Streets, measuring 32 feet front on Main Street by K50 feet deep on Liberty. One Lot of about Pi acres, in Western part of city, 2 acres of which ure cleared, balance in oak limber. One Tract of 103 acres, about 2A miles from ? city, part cleared and under cultivation. One Tran of 107 acres, about 3 miles from i city, on W., C. & A. R. R., know n as the Chandler land. One Tract of 8 acres, about S miles from city, known as the Vaughan tract. (hie Tract of 8 acres, cleared, over Green , Swami?. One Tract of 1<." acre?, ?bout one mile! West of City, on toad to Bradford's Mill, j timbered. One Tract of '214 acres in Clarendon Conn- j ty, part of which cleared, balance well tim- : bereit, suitable for saw mill. One Tract of 2S8 ai res. in Clan :idon Coun tv, known as part of the Plowden tract. Possession for any or all of above given at j once. Apply tb Ft. \\\ DU It AXT, or A. A. SOLOMONS. March 12 J. D. KENNEDY, Attorney at Law, CAMDKN, S. C. Will practice in Kershaw ami ndja- ? cent comities. M ch. \ OPOPANAX. " I most rJe?chtf'jl and fragrant of J flowers. A pa.-h.?..;?. ol -?-ci and full di? rections tor cu 11 i v H ti f? y in any climate. Price '? 50ets. ; cn ont: h foi 20 plants. Now is t lie I lime tor pbmtinu. Address. SOI HIERN NURSERY COM . M ch. lf>. Charl? -ton. S 0._ ! Estate ol' Lawrence S. Carson, MINOR. IWILL APPLY To THE JUDGE OF I PROBATE tor Sumter County on April j ?rh, I'SPo. for a Final Discharge as ! Ouaidian of Said M ?nor. K. SCOTT CARS? ?N. March 5, 1890- lt. Guardian^ j FIHST ?S .1(11) WORE j AT BOTTOM PRICES? WATHAM* WD SOUTH RUN JOB OFFICE NOW ?S VOC li TIMK TO BUY A FARM. / j ACRES OF LAND for sale in R ifling O . "I Creek Tow* nsh i j-mos;ii Timbered'. Will se?l in whole, or. in lois of 100 acres each. A ?.{.ly to E. SCOTT CARSON, Sumter. S. C. Or to FI. 0. STROIiECKER: March 5 Charleston, S. C. FOR SALE. ' LANDS FOR SALE. J. R. Il ARVIN, March 12 Agent. MONEY TO LOAN. MONEY TO LOAN in su.ns over S>0 on improved (arming lands C?ual rutes of interest. Time-3 tn years. By* arrangement with parties we represent costs and commissions h ive b?*en sreatly re? duced and loans g ?iii ran teed within 30 days after ?nphcatiun INORA M k M A NN !Nfi, Attorneys at Law, Sum'er, S. C. March 5 ATTENTION ! Citizens of Sn inter and Vicinity ! At the old stand of John ? Brr.uson, on Re? publican Stree*, opposite Graham's Stables, guarantee to <)o !:rsi chiss work in cwrv de? partment of their business, ar..l ask the pat? ronage of the citizens of Sumter and vicinity. Give ns a trial. Come, and get iirst class work at bottom prices. Fei). 12. TEKEESSEE. On the Cumberland Plateau. 2. loo r't. above the sea level, offers the healthiest residence to voting men in its Grammar School, i's .Mil? itary, its College and i;s Theological Depts. For ?nec?al information w:ife t'> REV. T ELF A ! ll HODGSON, D.D., \'?ce-( ii -ncel-or, Feb. 2 G S E W A N E S, T K N N ESS E E C. I. HOTT. FL A. HOYI Gold and Sliver Watches, j Clocks, Jewelry, Spectacles, MERIDEN BRITANIA SILVERWARE, kc. j REPAIRING A SPECIAI/TY. Feb 1 MO VAL! nt j Son PIONEERS OF THE DW?RE BUSINESS Beg to announce to their friends of Sumter and adjacent counties that they have moved to their gnificent, 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 cf 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 HARDWARE. JLook! Mead! Buy! We 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. G-uns! 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 buying of us. Respectfully, W. DURANT & SON. Aug. 21 f>4 WE CAN BE FOUND For the Present at the Brick Store, Cor. Liberty and Harvin Streets. Good Stock and Low Pri? ces. WE ARE HERE TO STAY. Durant & Belitzer. OLL ARS! CAN BE SAVED BY THE PEOPLE OF THIS COUNTY. NOW J S THE GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY ! v."_J?_ ip il? Stores! Stores ! Stores ! PUMPS! PUMPS! PUMPS ! HOUSE FURNISHING GOODS. CROCKERY, GLASS WARE, HARDWARE, WOOD EN WARE, CHINA, FANCY GOODS, TOYS, TINWARE, in fact our immense assortment of ISTew Fall and AVinter Goods js now 'in stock ami opened for inspection and offered at extremelyhie prices. Willi.' RiainiainiKi! (he uniform standard of quality and excellence by good management, eareful buying and being contont with SMALL PROFITS, we have raided tl?e standard and lowered our price, until it is now a fact that the .nc- -t ?toek tit iroods in this ct ion i< now being offered for sale hy us for thc least money. COMi: YN?) CATCH ON NEW GOODS FC it EVERYBODY. GREAT VARIETY TO SELECT FROM. [tooling, Tinning Guttering and Repairing done at short notice. Pumps put down and taken un at lowest rates. Sole agent for the Safety Tether Machine for grazing stock. Thanking thc public for tin ir past kind patronage and soliciting a continuance of the same, I remain, respectfully, C. SCAFFE, Aus 2S Sumter, S. C.