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Cjj* ?itjmtau pfc ^ou?^rm J WEDNESDAY, MAY 14. Entered at4ke FostOfice at Sumter, S. I 0., as Second Class Matter. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. City Council-Notice. T. B. Curtis-New Goods. E. Scott Carson. Sheriff-Sales. J. W. McKiever-Contractor and Builder. Sumter Hot?! Co.-Books of Subscription. Personal. . Hiss Theo. Gregg ts Tinting Miss Bettie r Ay cock of Wedgefield. Miss Mamie Comerford, of Columbia, is on _ n visit to relatives in the city. Mr. B. Pollock, of Columbia was in Sumter last ?eek, on a visit to relatives. P. P. Vaughan, of Moody, Texas, a former resident of Sumter County is on & visit to Sumter. Dr. Geo. Dick-4S-4? Charleston in atten? dance at tb? Stawjies&l Association which meets in that City--to-4?y. Miss Alice White, of Zoar, returned home last week bom. Sommerville, where she bas * boee engaged ia teaching. Miss Elisa Bell has returned to her home ia Manning after a week spent ia the city as tb* tuest of Mrs. R. 0. Purdy. Mise Annie Lory ea, of Manning, spent several dava ia the city last week with the family of Mr. B. J. Barnett. Miss Estelle Newkirk, of Charlotte, X. C., who has been visiting friends in the city for Several days, left for her home last night. Major DeHon, representing the Charleston World and Mr. P. G. Bowman, editor of tbe Summer too Star, were in the city on Friday tatt. - Mist Erin Sanders, of Greenville, is the ' ?nest of the femilv of Co!. J. D. Graham. Miss Sanders visited Sumter last sommer and made a host of friends, who will be glad to hear that she is again in .the City. Private advices from Judge J. B. Kershaw ar? to the effect that he will be here on Mon? day next to dispose of the remaining business of Court. The Judge's general health is im? proved. Mrs. Harvey, sister of Mrs Epperson of Chm city, and daughter, of Danville, Va., - wbe have been spending several wer ks bere, - returned home on last Thursday, and were accompanied by Miss Betty Epperson who mill spend the summer with her relatives io the vicinity of Danville. Mrs. N. G. Osteeo has returned from her '? visit aa Alabama among relatives of that State, bringing back with ber Miss Louise Monroe, daughter of Mr. W 0 Moo roe Editor and Proprietor of the Eutaw Whig <?nd Observer, of Butaw, Ala. Miss Monroe will.be ?a the city for several months as the k guest of Mrs. Osteen. Tbe acholara of the white Graded School ave enjoying a holiday and big picnic to-day. Curtis toe grocert bas a new advertisement io this paper, naming some new and desira? ble goods at attractive prices, Read it. We were glad to note on Memorial day that toe Cemetery grounds have recently been worked over and the general appearance of the place greatly improved. Two very handsome monuments have been placed by Capt. A. H. Freeland over the graves of hit coilnrem at toe cemetery. The work is from the establishment of Mr. F. H. Hyatt, Columbia, S. C., and ts of a very creditable character. Mr J. W. McKiever, contractor and buil? der advertises in this issue. He is from Charleston and has left that city and come to 8limier to reap some of the fruits of ibe great boom setting tu bere. Mr. McEiever bas al? ready secured a contract to build a house for Mrs. Hewson on the lot opposit Dr. China's i residence. . Mr. L. M. Rem bert is again in charge of oar streets, which are already beginning to show the effects of his care and industry. "*"Mr. Rembert bas for many years been in charge of .a gang of laborers as section master on the railroads and is peculiarly fitted for his present employment. We con? gratulate the Council upon being so fortunate os to secare Mr. Rem bert's servl.es. Cotton Seed Oil M?h We call attention to the communication of Mr. B. W..Dubbs oo the above subject. We publish as much of the article referred to by Mr. Dubbs as we could find room for and will publish toe-balance next week. ?*?: ii A Ne* Well. Since WQtsa? <tbe article on Streets- and other matters" we bave been informed by tbe Mayor that the well in front of bur office has been condemned by-Cou na! sod steps will be taken at cace to sink a new well for drinking water. - i f am ? Delegation to Colombia. Tbe Committee appointed by the Board of trade consisting of Alt. Moses, R D. Lee, M. G Rettenberg,- John Reid, Neil O'Donnell aod T. B. farti*, conferred with R. R. Com? missioners in Columbia on Thursday in regard to R. ?. rites to Sumter. The matter is now nuder consideration by the Commissioners. Sumter Hotel Company. A Commission wasmeued on Monday last ia Columbia for the organization of the Sum? ter Hotel Company of mts City with a capita] stock of $35,000, io shares of $100 each, pay? able 20 per cent cash and the remander in equal successive mouthy fasta! tments. Tbe Corporators are J. Cohen Wilson, A. S. Brown and R. D. Lee of this City and John S. Silver sod Marcas G. Rytteoberg of New York. ,-i?im>??4^ aw* Attention Confederate Veterans. The unveiling of the Monument to Gen. Robert E. Lee will take place at Richmond, Va., on toe 29th, day of this month. Rail? road fare, round trip ticket for parties of 25 $7.80. Any veteran wishing to attend caa get full information by applying at thia office or to Dr D. J. Auld, or H. C. Moses. Local Improvements. Mr. Edgar Skinner is erecting a machine shop oo Liberty Street just beyond the C. S. ?9.&.R. Mr. J. B. Carr is putting up a planing mill and lumber yard between the C. S. k. N. 1 and the W. C. k A. Railroads, near the in? tersection. . Several stores have been erected near the C.S. kS. R.-R. Depot, and will soon be occupied. .Car sheds, 175 feet long are being erected by the C. S. k N. R. R. Company at their Depot in this city. -,- MO i i m t The White Graded School. At a meeting of the Board of Commission? ers of the Sumter Graded School, Mr Frank Niernsee, Architect of Colombia, submitted plans, etc., for tbe'proposed building of the white Graded School, and the Board accepted a plan which will cost between nine aud ten thousand dollars, embodying the latest im? provements io lighting, ventilation and beat? ing. Tbe committee of tbe Board appointed to float the bonds believe that they have suc? ceeded io placing them at par without cost in toe way of commissions to middle men. Mr. Niernsee bas been notified of tbe ac? ceptance of his plans and in about three weeks the work will be ready to be given out to a contractor. --w? New style Flower Pots-Duraot k Belitzer. Cleanable Refrigerators-Durant A Belitzer. Cleanable Refrigerators-Du ran t k Belitzer. Whose Duty is it To abate tbs nuisance that is and has been practiced by tue Atlantic Coast Line R. R. Co. for a very ling time? Tbe attention of former Cou ceils bas been called to it and the former Mayor, Dr. Mood, instructed Mr. Hurst then Clerk of Council, to write to the proper officials of the road, and inform them of the manner in which their employers blockade the street crossings-by leaving cars standing there sometimes for hours. (On one occasion I know of cars to stand there all j day.) On May the 1st the writer with several other persons, was detsineA for more than fifteen minutes by a train or cars loaded with ties at the crossing of Main St. and Manning Avenue, such carelessness ought to be punishable with a heavy fine. The Company ougbt also to be compelled to pot ap gates such as they have io other cities, to order to protect persons and property against accidents. CJTIZSN j Bay your Ice Cream Churns, Water ! Oolera, Hammocks and Fly Fans at E. E. j Rimbert k Go. Fishing Tackle of every description at E. E. Rembert k Co.'e. ?Death. . The death of Mrs. Mary Anderson Yates wife of Mr. Vf. H. Yates, and dangbter of Mr, Wi J. Anderson, occurred at her residence on Calhoun Street, in this city, on Friday last, 9th instant. Her funeral at the Presbyterian Church, at 9 30 A. M. Sunday last, was at? tended by a large congregation. Dr. Ed? munds preached a beautiful and touching sermon. After the funeral services at the Church the body was laid to rest in the Sum? ter cemetery. Mrs. Yates was greatly belov? ed in Sumter where her accomplishments and attractive manners won her many friends. ..On Saturday evening about 6 o'clock Chester, the infant son of Rev. and Mrs. H. F. Chreitzberg, passed away to a better land after a short illness. The remains of the little one were laid to rest yesterday afternoon at 4 o'clock in the church yard ol the Wash? ington Street Methodist church. The bereav? ed parents have the sympathy of a large number of friends.- Columbia Record, 12. Religious. On Sunday evening next the Rt. Rev. W. B. W Howe, D. D., Bishop of the diocese ot South Carolina, will make his annual official visitation to the Church of the Holy Comfort? er, Sumter, and will confirm a class of eight candidates now being prepared by the Rector. The services will begin at 8 30 o'clock. The Bishop will be at the Church of the Holy Cross, Stateburg, on Sunday mornicg, where also he will preach and administer con? firmation. Besides these visitations on next Sunday, the Bishop will be at St. Mark's, Clarendon, to-morrow morning, (Thursday,) at the Color? ed Mission ia St. Mark's parish to-morrow afternoon, and at St. Philip's, Bradford Springs on Friday. These are the points now served by Rev. John Kershaw. The Woman's Foreign Missionary Society for Sumter District, South Carolina Confer? ence, held the first meeting in the Methodist Church of this City on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. There was a large attendance of friends. The meeting was highly satisfactory and many of the papers read snowed careful preparation and familiarity with the subjects discussed. The Women's Foreign Missionary Society of S. C. Conference M. E. Church Souih will meet in Spartanbnrg in June next and the society for the whole M. E. Church South is now in session at St. Louts Mo. Next Sunday being the 3d Sunday in May will be observed throughout the South as children's day. This day has been set apart by the General Conference for the children to be observed with appropriate services. Col? lections taken up that day are for the benefit of oeedy Sunday Schools. The day will be ap? propriately observed ia the Methodist Church of this City. An adjourned meeting of Harmony Presby? tery, Rev. James McDowell, Moderator, was held in the Presbyterian Church in this city on yesterday for the purpose of examining a candidate for holy orders, Mr. George Mayes of Mayesville, this County. The can? didate in question having passed a satisfactory examination was ordained to the ministry. We congratulate Mr. Mayes upon the completion of bis preparatory studies, and wish him abundant success and happiness in his holy calling. Mr. Mayes' theological studies were prosecuted at Princeton. - mm9 i ? II i wmm Memorial Day. Promptly at 4 o'clock P. M., on Monday last our merchants closed their stores and the 1 rest of the day was wholly given over to ex- 1 ercises incident to memorial services. < Large wagons filled with lovely little girls, I whose arms and laps were freighted with < flowers scarcely less lovely than themselves, > passed through Main Street and on to the 1 Cemetery. In a little while afterward the road leading from the city to that silent ? abode of our dead was crowded with all i manner of vehicles pressing OD laden with ? flowers to be tenderly placed by loving hands .< on the sod tbat covers our heroic dead. ] The Sumter Volunteer Band of the Fourth Regiment, closely followed by the Sumter Light Infantry pushed its way bravely 1 through the blinding and stiffing dust and arrived at the Cemetery at 6 o'clock. The exercises of the occasion strictly con? formed to the program published in the W. k S. last week. Mr. Hodges, pastor of the Sumter Metho dist Church, offered a beautiful and touching , prayer, thanking the Great Giver of all good and perfect gifts for the lessons of patriotism, sacrifi?es and noble eodurauce taught by the ? lives and deaths of those whose graves were the object of such loving cate on this occasion, and for the peace that now prevails in the , land. M?jor Marion Moise, the eloquent orator of the day, was introduced by Mr. , Altamont Moses, in neat and appropriate ' terms. The selection of a speaker could not have , been more happily made than in the choice of Major Moise. The address, occupying about 15 minutes in its delivery was in the Major's IL?*:al chaste and eloquent style. We regret that our space will not permit us to give any extracts from the truly excel? lent address,. The speaker said that these , memorial .services were i J tended for the good of the living and not for the dead who need < them bot. He paid a glowing tnbute to Sumter's soldiers in that great struggle that gave birth to these memorial services. In the speech Major Moise fully sustained j bis enviable reputation for eloquence and chaste rhetoric. At the conclusion of the speech salutes , were fired over the soldier's graves by the S. L. I. We take this occasion to congratulate our young citizen soldiery upon their splen did haDd ling of their pieces. The firing was as one report at the word of command. --mm- ~mmmmm Reply of Mr. Bees to Col. Earle. STATBBURG, S. C., May 12, 1890. Mr. Editor: If Mr. Earle thought it only necessary to publish my name to make my > opinions of bis course unworthy of notice, , why did be not simply publish it and say notbiog more? I humbly admit that my name is utterly unworthy of the notice of all : politicians of bis stripe, as I control but one vote and have no offices to beg or give. As there was no significance in my name I did not sign it, and I also knew that be would have said that I was trying to gain notice by criticising him, as readily as be bas referred to my anonymous character, though he knew that he bad only to go to the paper to get my name. I am, however, humbly pleased to see tbat be does not now think an attempt at an explanation at least, beneath bis conde? scension, even to his poor .'enemies." And if. after the public showing be bas made, the people of the County, who can now vote in- i ?elligently, are willing to endorse bis course, ?, of course, and bis other "enemies," can do no more than cast in our mite against bim. i I regret exceedingly that 1 care no more i than I do what motives be may insiouate against me, and I consider my object entirely successful in making bim define bis exact po- i sition. If I understand bim rightly, be ad- ' mits that I was correct io my first two, and i most serious ' charges," and puts a new light, to me. on the last. Somehow I cannot take i any more interest in Mr. Earle's "persona! character" now than I did wheo I signed, with others, the letter be publishes, as hard as it seems for him to understand it and am coldly indifferent to his thinking mt captious, malicious aod inimical, so long as I do not make that impression on those whose public i servant be is, and is willing to continue. I admit that I was one of the d. Demo? crats (?) who took his name from ::he tor* of my ticket, but he must remember he bad no opposition. So long as I have been cruelly unearthed and dragged into public notice by this ireful Attorney General, I might as well give him my whole name, so here goes, WM. JAS RIBS. Stateburg Alliance. STATSBURG, S. C. May 6, 1890. 1 Mr. Editor: In accordance with my in? structions as Secretary of the Stateburg Sub Ailianre, I send tbe following resolutions to ? your paper for publication, as adopted by the said Alliance: Resolved, That we have seen with great surprise and regret the action of a number of Sub-Alliances endorsing a candidate for public office. That such action on the part of , the Alliances referred to is in clear violation of our constitutional compact and their j selemnspledges upon entering the order. i That it is to be deplored because it is bad j faith, and because it meaos sure destruction to our noble order. , That we call upon our members everywhere , to assist os in the effort to preserve the order from drifting into politics, acd thus going to ! ( certain destruction, . That a copy of these resolutions be sent to , ?>or Cotton Plant, the county papers, and , the daily pap?is of the state. W. WATIXS i-SSS. -- -- , Cleanable Refrigerators-Durant k Beliczer. New style Flower Pots-Durant k Belitzer. '. The Monument Again and Again. The article in your last issue of "One Still Interested" says truly that it is a burning shame that the monument to the Confederate dead of Sumter District should be left to be desecrated. The rising generation should go annually to the cemetery and there lay their offerings of flowers, as they hare done to-day on the few graves of the ooble dead buried there. But it makes me sad to see that not one person took even a passing notice to the memory of over 400 of Sumter's heroes, whose graves lie scattered from Gettysburg to Tex HS. Not one. flo wer, nota leaflet placed upon Sumter's monument, the representative of all those scattered graves. I do not won? der that they hurriedly pass the square, for it is not fir for any to go into it. But this should not be so. How can it be remedied? your correspondent asks. Let me state a few figures and suggest a solution. It will require $400 to re-letter and repair the damage done tp the marble slabs, and to put an iron railing round the monument suffi? ciently large and strong to protect it from future damage and desecration. It will re? quire $150 to repair the fencing and lay off* and beautify the grounds; $100 will be necessary to be annually raised to keep the fencing and grounds in order. How can these funds be raised? "The time for voluntary contributions has passed." No one would think of selling a part of the lot for private residences. The Board of School Commissioners of the City of Sumter have formally submitted a proposition, to lease for 99 years a portion (about one-third) of the lot and erect thereon the white Graded School building, to pay for tbe same $400 in cash, to he expended under the direction of the Ladies* Monumental As? sociation, in repairs of the monument and erecting an iron fence around it, tbat they will repair the fencing, lay off and beautify the grounds, plant shade and ornamental trees, and by the constant attention and labor of tbe janitor of the school will keep the square in good order. Their proposition commends itself forcibly to my mind and should be accepted. In a money point of view, it is equivalent to a cash payment of $550, and the annual outlay of $100 will, at 7 per cent, be an investment of about $1400, and together, be equal to a sale at about $2000 for less than one-third of the lot. ' A stronger reason is, there will be a per? petual Board, statedly elected, of five gentle? men of the city, (the Mayor being one) whose duty it will be to keep the monument and grounds in proper order, and we may feel as? sured will discbarge that duty. Should they neglect it, and be heedless of public sentiment the Courts will compel its performance nuder the terms of the written contract, lt may be added that the constant presence of the jani? tor will prevent the damage now daily done to the premises. Such a contract would restore at least a part of the lot to the purpose of education, to which Col. Miller devoted it, than which there is none higher. W hatever others may think, I feel that this purpose should be sacredly carried out. Nor will it violate, but on the contrary, carry out the terms of the trust in the deed of the heirs of Col. Miller, which, io short, are to bold the premises for the use and benefit of the Ladies' Monumental Association and convey the same for such uses, trusts end purposes as the Association shall direct. The purpose of conveying to tbe School Commissioners is to sell a part of the Miller lot for nearly $2,000 and apply the proceeds to the improvement and preservation of the Monument and grounds. This is cer? tainly nearer carrying out the trust techni? cally than converting the lot into a pleasure park for ice cream festivals under the shadow of a monument erected to the memory of so many who laid down their lives on fields of battle and in dreary hospitals. But the thought which most impresses me is that our children and children's children should be educated to latest generations in sight of tbat monument, and gather from it, is an object lesson the inspiration of doty and patriotism. Gen. Moise and myself are the survivors of the fire Trustees io the deed from the heirs of Col. Miller. He concurs in this article. J. D. BLANDIXG. COTTON SEED OIL MILL. MAVBSVILLB, S. C., May 9, 1890. Mr. Editor: I have been interested for some time, as you know, in working up an Alliance cotton seed oil mill. My plan was unanimously endorsed by the County Alli? ance at the meeting on toe 4tb of April ; and by orders of tbe County Alliance, each Sub Alliance was furnished with the estimates of cost and profits of a 30-ton mill, together with the plan of raising the capital stock. 1 boped that under this plan a meeting of cor? porators would have been held before now, and tbattbe mill would bave been an assured fact. But from what I can learn, tbe subscriptions are being made too slow to do anything this jr ear. Now, I regard it as very important that a mill be built in time for this season's crop. Enough seed were shipped from the county last year to run a 30-ton mill ; and as I ex? plained in the estimates sent to the Alliances, this mean s a net loss to the wealth of the county of thousands of dollars, and if a mill is not built the loss will continue to increase, for every season we see more seed told. True this is but one of the many leaks that are sink? ing the farmers' ship, but it is a big one, and yet we see the means to stop it. Will we do it? I do not think that any one will gainsay the assertion tbat selling cotton seed is a most disastrous drain upon the soil, and that it is simply suicidal to sell the best unmanipulated fertilizer that nature ever produced, and make a pretense of replacing it by buying so-called high-grade fertilizers with big sounding names, some of which, according to our State chemist, are not worth hauling from the depot to the farm. I am not condemning the use of commercial fertilizers ; they pay weil, judi? ciously used, as supplements to an abundance of home-made manure. Nor do I say that cotton seed meal is not a good fertilizer. I simply want all the seed I can raise and the meal from all the seed my neighbor sells, and I want the meal without its having paid freight two ways. If the mills can pay freight on seed from this county, and make money, and they do ; and if our farmers can pay freight on meal from the mills here, and obtain paying results, and some of them do; bow long would it take the farmers to get rich by saving this freight both ways, while they are making money by selling tbe oil ? For the purpose of stimulating the efforts to raise the capital necesary to build a mill, aod !o corroborate the estimates which I made, I request you to publish in your next issue the inclosed article on "Cotton Seed, and bow to get all the good that's in it," and the article on "Colton Seed Hulls and Meal as a food ration." Since studying up this matter, I have con? cluded that a big ginnery, a cotton warehouse and a fetilizer mixing department (for farmers will pay five dollars a ton more for ready mixed fertilizers tbat cost only twenty-five cents to mix) would be paying adjuncts. This would require more than the thirty thou? sand dollars capital proposed at first; but I have assurances that twelve to fifteen thou? sand dollars would be subscribed in your city, and I know the farmers can raise the balance if they are convinced it will pay. The money should be subscribed and the company organized by the first of June if anything is to be done this year. Tbe secretaries of Sub-Alliances have sub? scription papers in their several communities. Any further information can be obtained from Mr. R. M Cooper, President County Alliance, Mr. W. O. Cain, Chairman County Alliance Executive Committee, Dr. W. J. Pringle, or myself. Yours truly, E. W. DABBS. Mechanicsville Items. MKCHANICSVILLB, April 28, 1890. We have had some refreshing showers since my last, and all crops seem to be revived, on ts particularly. Cotton is nearly all plant? ed and from present indications I think there will be a good stand. Corn is looking very well. No further complaints from the fly. I have heard that some of my colored friends have been "miffed" at the comments I made in my former communication about the wives and children of those under con? tract as plow hands, having no employment. Now, I admire their "spunk" and hope that the sunrise born or bell will ever find them ready to render faithful service to their em? ployers and theieby earn the "wherewith" to Feed and clothe their "unoccupied" workers. One peck of corn and 3$ lbs. of bacon, to feed a family in a manner doing nothing, looks to a large reduction io wages wben settling; day comes. As old "John Boyd" used to say, I was merely looking to the "opposition cf the subject," but to their credit, be it said, the women do not look at the matter in the same light, they are ready, &8 a general rule, to work wben it is offered, and in this section there ate some, many in fact, as good workers as I have ever seen, and they can and will at auy time cut the wood, cook the meals, look to baby and shame their "Lord and masters" at ?ny kind of work. Aud the best of it is they du it cheerfully. . 1 Many of these women can and du get help on a future, when their husbands couldn't get a cent. Facts speak for themselves. The mother-in-law and sister-in-law of Mr. G. Alden Brown have returned home from their visit to Mrs. Brown. We hope they carried with them as pleasing impressions as they left with their friends in this section. Mr. Yt. N. Uammet is slowly improving from the injury he received in his ankle from the accidental falling of some machinery he was moving in a wagon. A few inches only saved him from being crushed to death. Mrs. James E Heriot is improving-conva? lescing from her late attack of sickness grippe. The bright and interesting little boy of Mr. R. L. Heriot has recovered from his super? ficial experiment with concentrated lye. He doesn't like the taste. A good old colored citizen, honest and true for many a year, a Samson to work and a perfect Chesterfield in his polite and obliging ways, bas taken it to heart tbat I did not mention that be had been "gripped," but so it is, and be is now "right side up with care." His name is Hiram Youug, on plantation of T. Scott DuBose. SATJS. ---?. ? i sa Crop Notes from Salem. SALEM, BLACK RIVKR, May 12, 1890. The farmers are bard at work taking ad? vantage of this fine weather. Corn has been put tn good condition, and now for a few days "all hands" are in the cotton field chop? ping out and siding. Our aim is to have everything ic trim for the next rain, and to be so well up with corn and cotton that the week necessary to harvest the oat crop will not be missed from the former crops. Corn is small, and as a general thing the stand is not good. This need not mean a short corn crop, however, if it is properly cultivated: the result depends more on the amount and kind of work it receives between this, and June 10th, than upon any, or all combinations of seasons. Work it rapidly, each time runing shallower than before: never let it stand from one plowiog io another long enough for the roots to approach the surface; and by all means quit it by the 10th of June, after putting at least one row of cow peas to each row of corn, and my word for it you will never think it cheaper to boy than to raise corn. More corn is killed by plowiog after June lOtb, than by all other causes combined. Stands of cotton are good, the best in several years ; although in one or two in? stances smail pieces bad to be planted over. The outlook is very different from what it was this time last year. Last year's short cotton crop is seriously felt, and will be for some ?.me unless tb is is an extraordinary year for cotton, and the price keeps up, both of which are not probable. Fall sown oats are good ; they are ripening rapidly, and cutting will begin next week. Hurrah for corn and oats, peas and hay, hog and hominy, beef, butter, and motton, and all the cotton that can be picked in addition I Yoors very lively, Dxw. Refrigerators-Durant k Belitzer. Wire stands for Pots-Durant k Belitzer. Hanging Vases at Durant k Belitzer. Wire Trellises at Durant k Belitzer. Cleanable Refrigerators-Durant k Belitzer. -^-?.?? i Get E. E. 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UNDER AND BY VIRTUE of a Com? mission duly issued by the Secretary of State, the undersigned Board of Corporators will open Books of Subscription to the Capitan Stock of "THE SUMTER HOTEL COMPANY" at the office of Brown k Chand? ler, in the City of Sumter, on Wednesday, May 2l8t, 1890, at 10 o'clock a. m J. COHEN WILSON, JOHN S. SILVER, A. S. BROWN, M. G. RVTTENBERG, RICHARD D. LEE, May 14 Board of Corporators. Second-Hand Gins and Ma? chinery, FOR SALE AT A BARGAIN, One SIXTY-SAW WINSHIP GIN -Latest improved. One SIXTY-SAW and one FORTY-SAW PRATT GIN. One CENTENNIAL COTTON PRESS. One WINSHIP COTTON PRESS. One EIGHT-HORSE ECLIPSE ENGINE. A lot of SHAFTING, PULLEYS, Ac. The above will he sold separately or in lots to suit, and ou fttvurable terms to approved purchasers. Can be seen at my place at Elliott's, Sum? ter County, on Bishopville, R. R. A. F. BYRD, April 9 Elliott's. S. C. rpHE COPARTNERSHIP formerly exiht I ing between George Ducker and Ernest \\. A. Bodman, doing business at Sumter, S. C., under the firm name of Ducker k Bull man, has been disolved. Mr. George Ducker bas retired from said firm, and all of the prop? erty belonging therelo has been transferred to Mr. Ernest W. A. Bulttnan who will con- i tinne the business under the same uame ss j heretofore. _. Sumter, S. C., April -'?, 'W.-4 AT Schwartz Brothers' Palace Dry Goods Emporium AND MILLINERY PARLOR. We have added this season to our already Extensive Business the most Complete Line of Millinery ever shown in Sumter. The same being under the management of a FIRST CLASS ARTIST, FROM NEW YORK, who will be pleased at all times to show our stylish assortment. All we ask is a careful inspection. As regards prices, We Defy Competition. OUR SPRING STYLES IN DRESS GOODS AND TRIMMINGS Are unprecedented in magnificence and unrivaled in style, showing evidence of thorough and artistic selection? In EMBROIDERIES AND WHITE GOODS our line is the most varied and complete ever seen in this city? Large assortment of Challis, Satines, Outings, Summer Weight Flannels, Linen Chambrays and other numerous wash fabrics in all the newest and most desirable colorings Complete stock of Fast Black Hosiery, Silk G-loves and Mitts, from 25c. up. We are sole agents for the celebrated Alexander Kid Gloves, in all Shades and Black. Every Pair Warranted A very large line of Mattings and Rugs, at prices to please all. To our Friends, Patrons, and the public generally, we extend a most cordial invitation to visit The Palace Dry Good? Emporium and Millinery Parlor. SCHWARTZ BROS. Dress Making and Ladies' Underwear a Specialty. BUY YOUR CLOTHING A-T Where you will find a Sp^BHIw Stock to select from, consisting of all the latest styles and best fabrics for Alen, Boys and Children. Straw Hats in all the latest and nobbiest shapes? Now is the time to get a Spring Suit, and at Brown & Chandler's you can get fixed up from head to foot? April 'J. _B