The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, August 27, 1890, Image 2

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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 27. The Sumter Watchman was founded in 1850 and the True Southron in 1866. The FRzlcibnaR and Southron now has tire wmbioed circulation and influence of both of the old papers, and is mani festly the best advertising medium in Samter. STJMTBB TO CAMDEN! An enthuaiastio Broad Streei broker bis been interviewing the News and Courier reporter on the subject of a fine of railway horn Samter to Camden. He rightly says such a line will greatly benefit Charleston. From this point to Camden in an air line is less than thirty miles, and a railway line may be built within that distance from here to Camden. > The broker states that the distance Croc Charleston to Camden is "about oae hundred and fifty miles " It b exactly 113 by the S. C. railway. By the- Coast Line, Sumter is distant from Charleston 94 miles. Add 30 miles for the connecting link between Sumter and Camden, and by the pro posed route, the distance will be re duced to 124 miles from Charleston to Camden, a saving of 20 miles, which is considerable. \ Whatever Charleston intends doing bad better be done at once, becaese, as bas often occurred before, schemes are on foot to sbat Charleston ont altogether from any benefit she might derive from the SCa, and turn trade towards Sa vannah and Port Royal. Prompt ac tion may save Charleston from being treated by the railways as she has been by the steamship lines?made only a of call, a sort of way station. Should a corporation hostile to Charles ton purchase tbe bankrupt S. C. rail way*, she will practically be dooe for, coless she get* another outlet to the Northwest. This she can secure be yond all possibility of failure by con trolling tbe little link of thirry miles, which shall connect the. Coast Line and the 3Cs, and fill the gap between Sum ter and Camden. One point overlooked by the broker is this: that Charleston, by this link, will bave connections at Sumter with tbe CS and if. railroad also, a line only a few miles longer than the Coast line, as between Snmter and Charles ton. She will then bave as competing lines tbe C. S. and N., tbe Coast Line, and tbe Sooth Carolina, which will give her, in reality, the key to tbe situation. Y IS THERE A TRICK IN IT? ' ? very prominent sop porter of the ^ftlifiin movement was in the city on Monday, and while here, bad an in teresting conversation with several gentleman about county politics. He said that be regarded the county as ^Serteio for Till m an ; that none of tbe Tilimanites desired office in the county; that be would like very much to see a proposition coming from tbe Samter City Club to tbe effect that all parties now unite to nominate a good set of county officers, including a Senator and members of tbe lower boose ; that -be felt sore that such a proposal would meet with acceptance from the Tiil mauites, aod that he said all this with a view ?o securing peace and harmony io the county. He also said that, so far as be was concerned, he would be wiilisg to see tbe same delegation that attended tbe Aognst Convention or one eimilar in composition, go to the Sep tember Convention, still is thz interest of peace. It may be worth while to inquire ' whether these are really tbe sentiments tl tbe Ttl'manites generally, before taking any decided and irrevocable action, which may cause tbe Tiliman ites to nominate a ticket exclusively composed of their own men, and make ibe Sgbt in tbe county very bitter. We give these statements and suggestions for what they may be worth. OH THE DEFENSIVE. It was hoped aod believed by many that tbe Irby Committee and tbe regu lar State Executive Committee would meet last week and confer on the situa tion, and agree on some plan of action that might relieve tbe existing strain on tbe party lines. But no such thing occurred. The Irby Committee did not bave a quorum, and therefore could not hold a meeting. Whether this was pre-arranged or not is unknown, but it has been suggested that the absence of. a quorum was possibly a clever piece cf tactics, owing to tbe existence of a oot an reasonable apprehension on the part of tbe Tillmaoites that they had gone too far io adopting a oew consti pation and electing a new Executive Committee, aod that to continue to force tbe pace might result in their having to carry tbe onus of any split, or other action in tbe nature of a split, whicb ibe Antis might feel themselves driven io take. So the Irby Committee folded Cbeir tents and left for. home by the ?ext morning s trains. That same evening after they had left, tbe regular State Executive Com mittee met aod passed the resolutions printed on another page. They simply declared themselves as believing that they have net been removed from office, and are therefore still the State Exec utive Committee. They then adjourn ed to meet on the night preceding the State Convention of Sept. 10. It is evident that tbe Hoyt Committee were oot to be caught napping. They plainly perceived tbe trap set for them by ibe asoigr?ig committee, and decided Mt to pat their ?collective foot into it? not jast yet. 5V?e think tbej acted I wisely. It is well that we have some patriotic men left, who thick more of the State's welfare than of-the triumph of faction, and who decline to intensify an already embittered contest by action that might rend the party into pieces and endanger the supremacy of the white man, by throwing wide the door and inviting tbe colored hosts to enter and help themselves to whatever they pleased. It is really a terrible state of affairs when men who have hitherto acted together iu all things pertaining to the interests of democratic control are found watching one another in tbe hope that a mistake may be made and opportunity given to lay the blame and heap op abuse on those making it? merely in order that a faction may tri a m ph. South Carolinians used to pro fees detestation aod horror of such methods, aod time was when to iosio uate that Democrats would ever con de scend to their ose would be construed as au insult. We presome oow that nothing more will be done until the Convention, by either Committee. ? strict status quo is likely to be preserved. Much better so, we think. This is oot a time for making more trooble. Bather it is a time for cool reflection aod considerate action?for peace aod faarmooy, oot war aod discord. THIRD CONGRESSIONAL DIS TRICT. The returos from the counties in the Third Coogressiooal District give Nor ris 4,758, Johostooe 2,396, Murray 2,167, Beoet 1,862, Boweo 555, Cal houo 208. Nor ris aod Johnstone will have to run over to settle tbe question betweeo them. Though Norris is far ahead of aoy other candidate, he may be defeat ed by a combination of the Murray aod Beoet vote being given to Johostooe, provided he holds his own. At present it is by no means certain that Norris will go in. Mr. Beoet is out, aod badly out. His swallowing capacity was oot large enough, we presume. Political parties are ungrateful, like republics. As an ezchaoge says, without Mr. Benet's services io the legislature last winter, the Clemsoo College would oot oow be an accomplished fact. He deserved better tbiDgs from the farmers. There is do more capable mao than Mr. Beoet, bot at this juncture be probably feels disposed to say, "Save me from my friends." GREAT ACHIEVEMENTS. The G reen ville Enterprise and Moun taineer says : * "There are two great achievements that have been attained through the State Democratic campaign which has just closed. One is the breaking of ring rule, which has so long controlled the State's politics, * * * * and henceforth the State will breathe easier Number two. The Charleston Daily World has beeD established. * * * This will redound in incalculable benefit to tbe more progressive counties, whose progress has been held back by the effete views of a few men who never can sympathise with the efforts of people who are imbued with the conviction that to stand still io this ever-stroggiiog age is death, aod that Sooth Carolina should offer io her political fields of effort, rewards somewhat corresponding to the power actually possessed. This the News and Courier bas ever denied to the white Democracy of the upper part of the State." We bave a few remarks to offer oo each of these rather startling proposi tions. Ig the first place, our esteemed con temporary is mistaken as to the break* tag op of riog rule. We oow have a ring within a ring, eoooting the Till maoites as one riog, aod the office con trolling riog among the Tillmaoites, as the other. How this does away with riog rule passes our comprehension In fact, it only intensifies the evil, by increasing the Dumber of riogs. We do oot admit, however, that any ring has loog controlled tbe politics of the State. That bas been denied through out, and we have never yet seen tbe proof of the alleged fact. But eveo granting it to have been true, it is surely worse to have State politics under the control of a fraction of a fraction of tbe party, as it will be if tbe Tillmanites have their way. As to the State's breathing easier, there is such a thing as oot breathing at all. If political death should set in as tbe result of Till man's campaign, the State will be freed from any necessity of exerting itself to breathe. Our contemporary would do well to consider this view of tbe matter. As to tbe establishment of the Charlestoo World, it will be no credit to that paper if it has succeeded io establishing itself on the ruios of a State's civilization ; if it bas prospered by drinking the life-blood of the body politic; if it has risen on the winge of a political storm which has stirred op ooly mire and dirt. There is an ebb as well as a flood tide. Perhaps the World is yet to feel the effects of the ebb tide Professional spite colors the spectacles of our contemporary, we suspect, in its remarks about tbe News and Courier. In addition to other compensations, the white Democracy of the upper part of tbe State have had A B Williams for years, thao whom there is no more fearless champion, fairmioded contro versialist, and journalist of better judg ment, in the State. Tbey surely ought to be satisfied with Mr. Williame and his paper, leaving the News and Courier out of the question altogether. The Tillman executive committee of Marioo County recognizes the illegality of its own election and submits to tbe calling of the couoty convention to elect delegates to tbe September .co? vantion by toe old .com m it tee. j THE STBAIGHTOUT CONFER ENCE. Four hundred delegates representing all but three Counties of the State, met in Columbia yesterday. Chancellor Johnson, oo taking tbe Chair, made an address counselling wisdom and pru dence. There was some disposition to aggressiveness on the part of certain of the delegates, but the majority favored a course of moderation. The confer ence went into secret session with closed doors, at 10 p. m., and at 2 o'clock this morning adjourned, after adopting the following resolutions. As "N. G. G." says in bis report to the News and Cou rier, as to the result of the conference, 'there is no change for good or ill." "Whereas, a convention of the D?mocratie party of this state, assembled io tbe city ef Columbia on the 13:h instant, pursuant to the call of the executive committee of tbe party, for the sole aod exclusive purpose of determining whether the delegates to the State Dominating convention to be held in the city of Columbia on Sept. 10, or thereafter, should be elected by primary or convention, and for do other purpose whatsoever ; aod "Whereas, Tbe said convention, when or ganized, proceeded to adopt a Dew constitu tion iovolviog radical changes in the fonda mental law of the party, and to elect a new state executive committee thereunder, against tbe earnest protest of a Dumber of its mem bers, whose loyally to the party is beyond question ; aod 'Whereas, fifty-oioe delegates from the counties of Beaufort, Charleston, George towoj Richland aod Sumter, after solemnly protesting against such action, and vaioly imploring tbe majority to pause io their usur pation of power, were finally impelled, by a sense of duty to their constituencies, to with draw from tbe convention, being uowiiliog, by their acquiescence, to commit those whom they represeoted to a precedent so daogerous ; and 'Whereas, this unauthorized exercise of power by the majority of said convention has caused confusion in regard to tbe organic law of tbe party and the executive committee of tbe same, which threatens to increase the un fortuaate differences now prevalent, and to produce still further division in oor ranks, aod "Whereas, it is tbe deliberate judgmeot of this conference that the action of said conven tion in these respects was not only unwise and unnecessary, but illegal, null aod void, and we therefore recognize the constitution under which the said convention assembled as being still of binding force and authority, and the then existing executive committee as being still tbe rightful bead of the party : and ' Whereas, in tbe anomalous social aod political conditions now obtaining in South Carolina, which render tbe continued supre macy of the white race in control and ad ministration of the government a consid- ! ?ration of paramount importance, to which the interests of individuals and factions should be unhesitatingly subordinated. We re gard tbe restoration of political harmony among our people as a high necessity, and cherish the hope that this may be consummated through tbe exercise of mutual forbearance inspired by the broadest patriotism; and, ' Whereas, while condemning tbe leaders of said majority, and reprobating their methods, we entertain only feelings of kind ness towards our fellow Democrats who are supporting them ; and "Whereas, The contest made doting the present campaign has been conducted with a view to its final decision in and by the Sep tember Convention ; therefore be it "Resolved, Tuat this conference of Demo crats hereby puts its solemn and emphatic protest against the illegal and usurpatory action of me majority of said convention, as instigated by its leaders, and condemns the unpatriotic, the intemperate and violent methods of said leaders. "2. That the course of the minority of del egates, who withdrew from said convention, in refusing to concur or summit to its illegal proceedings, is hereby approved." BETTER THAN TILLMANISM. An article follows as to the probable effect of the advance in the price of sil ver, which seems to contain good news for our farmers, and through them, to everybody else. Down here we are chiefly interested io the effect of tbe advance on onr cotton crop, while tbe north and west will be benefited by reason of their wheat and oil exports. With cotton worth ten dollars more per bale than before, our farmers are io danger of becoming plutocrats and bloated bondholders. Wo are inclined to believe that they can stand a good deal of that sort of* thing without being demoralized. The ooly caution we offer is that the increased demand for silver will stimulate its production enormously, so that in the course of a year or two the silver market may become glutted, and the price of the metal decline to the old figure, 94 cents per ounce. Meanwhile, if what the Sun says shall prove true, what a good time we will have I The Advance in the Price of Silver. New York San. The advance in the price of stiver from 94 cents to $1 20 per ounce bas a wider bearing than seems to be generally appreciated. There is a general disposition to see io this new departure merely a variation in the amount of currency or a speculative phenomenon incident to a gieat and sudden advance in the value of an important commodity. We have heretofore, in round num bers, exported about 20,000,000 ounces of silver per annum, the remainder of our product being absorbed by govern ment purchases and by use in the arts For these 20,000,000 ounces there is now opened a market at home, and it would seem at first sight as if for their former export to pay our debts abroad we should have to substitute a cor responding export of gold, but this is not the case. In our three staple ex ports, petroleum, cotton, and wheat, we come into competition with silver using countries exclusively, with the exception" of Australia. Egypt aod India supply cotton and wheat to Europe, aud, with declining value of silver in terms of gold. So long as we were on a gold basis those countries were competing with us?t a tremendous advantage. This is proved by the enormous increase in the exports of wheat and cotton from India during the last few years By causing the ap preciation of silver, as measured in gold, we make Indian wheat and cotton cost just so much more as the rise iu the gold price of silver measures. Of course we cannot expect to eet the full measure of this advance. The augmented price of wheat and cotton iu India and Egypt must, to a certain ex tent, react in order to meet the in creased competition from America But European markets will rise in sym pathy with the higher cost of these ex ports from those countries measured in terms of gold. Of our cotton orop we export in rouod numbers 5.00O.O0O bales, and of our wheat crop from 100,000,000 to 150,000,000 bushels. It is fair to assume that the advance under normal conditions In the price of ! the exportable surplus of these two staples would reach two-thirds of the advance in silver, allowing one-third to be taken off tbe increased standard for Indian and Egyptian wheat and cotton, to enable those countries to export at all. As against tbe export of 20,000,000 j ounces of silver bullion we have there- < fore the enhanced value of the exporta- < ble surplus of wheat aod cotton, to say j nothing of oil. Assuming that we receive two cents ; per pound more for our cotton out of i tbe now inevitable thirty per cent, rise : in tbe value of silver, we should thus % have $10 per bale added to the value \ of the exportable surplus of cotton, aod ! thus tbe oountry would receive from I Europe $50,000,000 more than it has , received for this staple previously. Tbe same calculation applies relatively to ; our surplus wheat and oil. We believe it will be found that this new value of stiver provides the true protection to our agriculturists. And the inference to be drawn from these 1 facts are plaio. Given ?100,000,000 ! more in the pockets of our farmers, and it is safe to argue that an activity such as we have not witnessed in years in 1 this couptry most follow in all lines ' and ramifications of business. (From oar Regular Correspondent.) WASHINGTON LETTER. Washington, D. C. Aug. 25, 1890. Boss Quay is again io supreme com mand of the majority of the Senate. He was lenient towards Senators Hoar, Spooner and the rest of bis opponents letting them down easy by allowing them to report a new resolution in place of the one offered by him. But it amounts to precisely the same thing as if bis r?solution bad been adopted. The tariff bill is to be voted upon dur ing tbe first week or ten days of Sep tember, and as a speoial sop to the radical element tbe most of the repub lican Senators have signed an agree ment to vote for the consideration of tbe Force bill io December next. This does not mean that all of the republican Senators will vote for that atrocious measure, for a number of them have stated that while they were willing to vote to have tbe bill considered they proposed votiog against it. The radical element hopes to gain four votes for it from the new Senators from Idaho and Wyomiog. Senator Gorman was asked what the democrats proposed doing in regard to the tariff bill He said: "No agree ment has been reached as to the close of debate upon the tariff bill. When there has been a sufficient, if not a thorough and satisfactory discussion of the bill, the democrats will agree, io accordance with the custom of the Senate, to take a vote upon it. The question has already been under con sideration, but no conclusion has been reached. The proposition for a closure must come from the republicans. None has yet been received. When it comes we shall decide whether it is satisfac tory. If not we shall make a counter proposition Senator Gorman intimat ed that in two weeks more the demo crats, having shown the most striking inconsistencies of the bill, would be perfectly willing to have the republi cans pass it, and let the voters of the country, at the Congressional elections, decided which party was in the right. Senator Carlisle presented an argu ment which no republican Senator could answer when he showed by price lists and actual bills of sale that certain American mannfacturers, who are given an increase of doty upon products simi lar to those manufactured by them upon their plea that they are necessary to prevent their being driven out of busi ness by foreiga competitors, are selling their manufactures in foreign countries much cheaper?in some cases 33 and 50 per cent less than they sell the same articles in the United States. Mr. Carlisle said he thought, and tbe con sumers will undoubtedly think with him that if these manufacturers could afford under the present tariff to send their goods to foreign countries to com pete with foreign manufacturers of the same articles, and sell tbem for less than they did at home, that it would be manifestly unjust to the home buyers to raise the duty in order to allow these manufacturers to make their American customers pay a still higher price. No republican attempted to make a specific answer to Mr. Carlisles argument?it can't be answered. "Protection" is the humbug of the age. If, in the face of the acknowledg ment of the Commissioner of Pensions that he borrowed $12,000 on notes en dorsed by George E. Lemon, the king of the Washington pension altornies, the republicans of the committee inves tigating Representative Cooper's charg es against, Raum, decide to white-wash that official they will prove themselves te be possessed of an unusual amount of "gall" even for Reed's henchmen. When this charge was first made, and before investigation was ordered, Mr. Raum aud his friends repeatedly stated that Lemon had never endorsed his notes. Finding that Mr. Cooper had absolute proof of the transaction he now boldly admits it. and yet attempts to deny that he has favored Lemon by ad vancing his business io the pension office. Lemon did not endorse those notes for nothing, and if be had not taken himself off to Europe to escape testifying, Mr. Cooper would bave made that fact even clearer than it is now. Tbe committee, which has taken a re ces to the first of September, has. by its rulings (voted against by tbe Dem ocratic member*-) made it almost impos sible for Mr. Cooper to prove tbe other charges, but what is admitted should be enough to make a vacancy m the head of the pension office. Speaker Heed c-^uld stand the press ure no longer, and on Saturday he agreed that Thursday and Saturday of this week should be devoted to the coo sideration of measures reported from the committee on Labor, and the House 80 ordere 11? heard from some of tbe labor organizations in his district. The late Senator Beck was eulogized in the Senate on Saturday. Senators Carlisle, Blackburn, Neet, Ingalls and Allison paid glowing tributes to the memory of the deceased statesman The bill for Government inspection of meats for export, which makes lit tle czars of the President and tbe Secretary of agriculture, has gone to the President for his approval. . . A Well Known Conductor Resigns. Captaiu G. M. flendrix, the popular con ductor on the Atlantic Coast Line, has resign ed on account of ill-health. In point of ser vice he was the oldest conductor on the road, having served in that capacity for thirty years. He will hereafter reside in Cberaw, where he will engage in the grocery business j with his father io-law, Major A. B. Horton, j ! C?p'ai? Hendrix's many frieuds throughout S i tbe State will regret to learn of bis retire ! nient, and will deplore sincerely the cause which led him to take his step.? Columbia \ Register^ Aug. 2i. I Resolutions. Armory Hall, \ Sumtes, S. C, Aug. 20, 1890. / Wliereas, Recognizing the high military ibility, the unswerving devotion 10 duty, the paramount luve for bis State, the con scientious and manly course of, the faithful manner in which everj doty imposed has t>een discharged by M. L. Bonham, Jr., Adju tant and Inspector General, Resolved, 1st. That the Somter Light [nfantry of Sumter, S. C , heartily endorse his nomination for the office of Adjutant and Inspector General of the State of South Carolina, . Retailed, 2nd. That a copy of these reso lutions be furnished, the Watchman and Southron, the Sumter Advance, and corres pondents of the News and Courier, Charleston World and Columbia Register with a request that tbey be published. Information Wanted by a Straight out Farmer. Mr. Editor : In looking over the adminis trations of Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren we find the following facts : Jackson ordered the deposits of public money to be re moved ?tfiv? the United States bank to certain State banks. In Van Buren's administration, For the collection and transmission of the pub lic fnnd, an act was passed, known as the Sub-Treasury System, without the agency of any banking institution. This financial sys tem was a divorce of the government from tbe banks. This measure was advocated by Mr. Calbonn with all of bis ability, and op posed by Henry Clay and Daniel Webster with equal ability. In April, 1837, came a great commercial crisis, owing to tbe exces sive issue of paper money by the State banks. Tbe Whigs were opposed to tbe "Sob Treasury System," and in 1840 ran Harrison and Tyler against Van Buren and R. M. Johnson. Electoral votes for Harrison, 234 ; for Martin Van Buren, 60. Down went the Sub-Treasury System, and a return to the original design of tbe constitution. If tbe present Sub-Treasury scheme be tbe same, take care farmers before you vote for your ruia and destruction. S. D. M. LaCostb, A Straightoat Farmer. Ross Cottage, August 24, 1890. Mr. Editor: Know thyself, is a good motto, and jonor to whom honor is due. I have known Col. Enrle since boyhood, I being his senior, a score or more years. In his boyhood be was manly, straightforward, pure, and unsophisticated. I have been for bim all night in the jury room, I bave been opposed to him in tbe jury room all nigbt, and now, with ray bead growing gray, and hi y face toward the grave, I wish to say to all tbe men of Sontb Carolina that be is pure, noble, self-sacrificing and without reproach, tbe greatest and grandest, "Roman of them all." . S. D. M. LaCoste, A Straightout Farmer. Clarendon Items. From the Enterprise. A dog ferociously mad with hydrophobia appeared at Mr. E. G. Dubose's residence one day last week and tried to attack persons even by going into the house. There not being a loaded gun on tbe premises it was with considerable trouble that be was killed, being shot at several times with a pistol, bat was finally despatched by Mr. B. B. DuBose. Mr. R. J. Bradham met with a very serious accident yesterday morning by being cut in tbe elbow with tbe butting saw at Mr. D. M. Bradlham's mill. Tbe saw went into the bone right at tbe joint and let out the lubricating fluid of the elbow, which may cause the arm to be always stiff Dr. Pack sewed up the wound and dressed it for him, but be will be disabled for some time, if be ever has any more use of that arm. Jefferson Davis, A Memoir, by His Wife. This valuable work, published by the reliable firm of Belford Company, New York, will be ready for delivery in July and can be bought only by subscription. It is the only complete work on our ex-President which pays a royalty to Mrs. Davis. Two handsome volumes, finely illustrated, and bound in best English cloth, price, $5.00. Parties desiring copies of tbe Book can procure them by subscribing at once through their agent, E. F. Miller, Watchman and Southron office. On Wine Dry wine is the only healthful wine from tbe fact of its containing no sugar and little alcbol. Claret should be drank at a temperature of from 65 to 75 degrees. Tbe decrease of drunkenness in California is due to tbe use of wine. Physicians in this city are recommending A. P. Levy's claret. Cheap wine with French labels is no wine at all, simply coloring matter, acids, tannin and water. Drink borne production which is pure, at A. P. Levy's. Always drink claret with meat. No liniment is in better repute or more widely known than Dr. J. H. McLean's Vol canic Oil Liniment. It is a wonderful remedy. Many people habitually endure a feeling of lassitude, because they think they have to. If tbey would take Dr. J. H. McLean's Sarsa parilla this feeling of weariness would give place to vigor and vitality. vljul THE MARKETS. SUMTER, S. C, Aug. 27, 1890. COTTON.?Receipts 40 bales. Middling 9f to 9|; Market steady. CHARLESTON, S. C, Aug. 28, 1890. Cotton?Sales, 150. Quotations: mid dling, lOj. WILMINGTON, N. C, Aug. 26, 1890. Spirits Turpentine.?Sales at quotation. Market opened steady at 38 cents per gallon. Rosin ?Quiet at 90 for Strained and 95 for Good Strained. Crook Turpentine?Yellow Dip, $2.10; Virgin $2.10, Hard $1.25. Cotton.?Sales, none. Market firm. Quotations are : Middling lcj. GIN SHARPENING. IWILL FILE UP, GUM OUT, AND CUT in, your Saw Teeth with despatch. Will ne glad to do jour work. Address me at Mayesville, S. C. J. M. REID, 23,000 Yards STANDARD Sugar Sack BAGGING as used by the Farmers' Alli ance?en route. Prices guaranteed lower than can be found elsewhere. 0DONNELL & CO. Aug 27._ MEETING OF STOCKHOLDERS. OFFICE OF THE SUMTER ELECTRIC LIGHT COMPANY. Sumter, S. C, Aug. 13, 1S90. AMEETING OF THE STOCKHOLDERS of the Sumter Electric Light Company will be held at the hall of tbe Sumter Steam Fire Engine Co., on the 13th day of Septem ber next, at 5 o'clock, P. M., for the purpose of electiug a Board of Directors for the ensu ing year. Also, for considering the advisa bility of increasing the capital stock of the company, not exceeding $8,000.00, and for tbe transaction of anv other business. *R. M. WALLACE, D. J. Auld, President. .Sec. and Treas. Aug 13. A Convention of the Governors of all the ?otton States has been called by Governor Gordon to meet in Atlanta September lOtb. The convention was asked for by the Georgia State Alliance in session last week. Each Governor is to appoint six delegates, naking seven representatives from each cotton State. The convention will consider matters )f direct trade with Liverpool, also questions elative to weights, insurance, freights and candling of cottcn. WANTS? WANTED?SEPT. 1st, TABLE BOARD ERS. For terms, apply to Mrs. SamM Cordes, corner Republican and Sumter Sts. Aug. 27?2 _ OFFER MY SERVICES to the business men of Sumter as bookkeeper, or in any atber capacity that will afford me a fair sal ary._C. M. Hurst. ADVERTISEMENTS of five lines or less will be inserted under this head for 25 cents for each insertion. Additional lines 5 cents per line. MACHINE SHOP. All kinds of MACHINE WORK REPAIRS can be bad in Sumter, at short notice, and in the very best class of work, at the shop re cently opened by the undersigned on Liberty Street, near the C. S. k N. Depot. Boilers Patched, and Mill and Gin Work a Spacialty. Prompt attention given to work in the country, and first class workmen sent to at tend to same. Call at the shop or address through Sumter Post oflk-e Aug 13 EDGAR SKINNEE. sheriff's sales. BY virtue of Sundry Executions, to me directed, will be sold at Sumter C. H., on the first MONDAY and day following in September next, 1890, and as many days thereafter as may be necessary, within the legal hours of sale, to the highest bidder, for cash, the following property : George W. Jones, 272 acres Land in Spring Hill Township, adjoining lands now or form erly of Mrs. M. S. Smith, Mrs. Maxcy, W. B. Colclougb and others. Bank of New Hanover, 428 acres Land in Mayesville Towusbip, adjoining Lands of T. B. Johnston, W. P. Plowden and others. Edward Harvin, 66 acres Land in Man chester Township, adjoining Lands of Estate Jno. Owens, Phillip Scott and others. M. L. Keels, 1 Lot in Shiloh Township, adjoining Lands of W. J. McLeod, J. W. Hodge and others. Mrs. Mary E. Keels, 1 Lot in Sbiloh Town snip, adjoining Lands of F. Joye, M. A. Pigete, W. J. McLeod and others. Charlotte Lockiair, 16 acres Land in Mayesville Township, adjoining Lands of Jos. McElveen, C. C. Wilson and others. John Williams, 26 acres Land, in Lynch burg Township, adjoining Lands of C. Brooks, W, H. Wilson and others. E. SCOTT CARSON, S. S. C. Sheriffs OflBce, Aug. 9, 1890. ~for sale! AT02ER & DIAL PORTABLE ENGINE. 7 inch cylinder 10 inch stroke, in good order and now iu use. ?also A 60-SAW BROWN GIN WITH CON DENSER. This property can be bought low and on easy terms if applied for at ooce. The only reason for selling is that it is too small for the business now engaged in, and the owner desires a larger engine. Apply to Aug. 6?4t INGRAM & S?DER. Estate of Mrs. A* E. Dennis* DECEASED. WE WILL APPLY to the Judge of Pro bate of Sumter County, on Sept. 6tb, 1890, for a final discharge as Executors of said Estate. WM. R. LAW, W. A. GREGG, R. E. DENNIS. Aug. 6?4t._ the SUMTER INSTITUTE. FOUNDED 1867. - - CHARTERED 1888. ?Tbe Twenty-Third Collegiate i Year of this school for young S ladies be?iQ3 THURSDAY, SEP TEMBER 4tb, 1890, and closes r JUNE 13th, 1891. Sumter has special advantages from its railroad connections, its bealthfulness and its social and religious privileges. It is the purpose of the Principals to make the Institute, as near as practicable, a well regulated Christian home and its course of study equal in ail respects to that of the best female colleges in this country. For terms and more detailed information as to course of study, and expenses, the public is referred to our printed Circulars. These may be obtained by addressing the "Sumter Institute, Sumter, S. C." AH communications thus addressed, will receive prompt attention. Mas. L. A. BROWNE, Miss E. E. COOPER, Joly 9_Principals. ST. JOSEPH'S ACADEMY. SUMTER, S .C. IEXERCISES will be resumed ou MON !j DAY, SEPTEMBER 1st. For terms, etc., apply to the Directress, SISTER M. JOSEPH. Aug 20?Oct U_ SUMTER GRADED SCHOOLS. THE SECOND ANNUAL SESSION OF the City Schools will open on Monday, Sept. 8th, 1890, at 9 o'clock. New scholars proposing to enter the white department will report to Mr. J. B. Duffie, Supt., at the Moses house on Monday, Sept. 2, at 9.30 o'clock, a. m., in order to be graded. Those proposing to enter the Colored department will report on the same day at the same bour at the Lincoln School bouse, for examination and grading. Terms of tuition for non-residents ?. ?ame as last year. JOHN KERSHAW. Chmn. Bd. Sch. Com'rs. Aug. 20?3t._ FURMAN UNIVERSITY. GREENVILLE, S. C. THE NEXT SESSION BEGINS THE 24th, of September, 1890. Courses in Aucientand Modern Languages, Mathematics, Science, Metaphysics, and Literature are pro vided. Instruction thorough. For further information apply to, Dr C. MANLY, Pres. July 30_or Prof. H. T. COOK. To Teacliers ai Contractors. SEVEN FEMALE TEACHERS?FIVE tfhite and two colored?are wanted in Privateer School District. ?also? Sealed bids are invited for one School house, specifications for which can be had from either of the Trustees, or the undersign ed. Applications and bids must be received on or before the first Saturday i^tbe 7th day) of September, next. By order of the Board of Trustees. J. D. BRADFORD. H ug. 20?3t Clerk of Board. FEMALE INSTITUTE Opens Sep. 18.1S90. One of the most Thorough an<t Attractive Schools for Young: Ladies in the Union. Conservatory course in Music. Unsurpassed advantages in Art, Elocution and Calisthenics. Full Commercial Course Situation grand. Climato unsurpassed. Pupils from nineteen States. Terms luw. Special Inducements to persons at a dis tance. For the low terms and great advantages of this Ce.ebrated Tireinia School, write for a catalogue to WM. A. HARRIS.Prea't.Staunton, Va. BETHEL CLASSICAL and MQJTA&T ACADEMY. $55 telSSSSiOa A Pit rares for Business, Univ. of Va., j#Y\ and West Point. Catalogue address &A ) iiaj.A.G.SBiTU^BcWocl Academ7, Vo ?Sfi WESLEYAN w w ?STAUNTON. VIRGINIA. REMOVAL THE SUMTER Tea and Coffee Emporium, T. B. CURTIS, Prop., Begs leave to call the attention of his patrons, and the trade generally, to his removal, into one of the new and commodious Stores just finished NEXT TO BANK OF SUMTER. Having now spacious room, polite and attentive Clerks, with ample facilities for doing a first class STAPLE AND FANCY GROCERY business, with Crockery, Tinware and Confectionery, we woul be pleased to have you call and inspect our new stock of good? which is daily arriving. We are headquarters on Teas and Coffees. Remember "We keep the best" ("W. K. T. B.5^ Thanking my friends for their past liberal patronage and hoping to merit a continuance of the same, Respectfully, T. B. CURTIS, Clerks : R. F. Jackson, Isham Moore, Jr., J. E. Gaillard, Jr. August 27 CHILL AND FEVER TONIC CUBES EVERY POP. One bottle guaranteed to cure any case of Malarial Fever or Neuralgia, or money refunded. PRICE, 50 CENTS PER BOTTLE. For sale by Dr. A. J. China, and J. F. W. DeLorme. . August 6?ly City Drug Store. DEALER IN Drags and Medicines, Soaps, Perfumery, Hair Brushes, Tooth Brushes, Tooth Powder, Also, Paints, Oils, Glass, Putty, Floor Stains, Kalsomine, all colors for rooms, Artists* Paints and * Brushes, Luster Paints, Convex Glasses. Nice line of Hanging and Stand Lamps, Lanterns, Shades, Wicks, Chimneys, &c. TOBACCO AND CIGARS. Keep the following popular brand of Cigars : "Plumb Good," "Custom House," "Rebel Girl." June 4 FRESH GARDEN SEED. Prescriptions carefully compounded. . , - PURELY MUTUAL. INCORPORATED 18?7. THE PENN MUTUAL Life Insurance Company of Ph?axlelpliia. ASSETS, $15474,078. January 1890. SURPLUS, WM. THE COMING INVESTMENT. 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It issues every plan of insurance, from the term "insurance," that costs a maa 30 years old $12 per ?1,000 up to the 6 per cent, guaranteed and annuity bonds. Terms and results of policies of any de-' scription may be had on application. FEATURES OF PENN MUTUAL They are Incontestable. After two years from issue of policy there are no conditions, limitations or res trictions. Tbe insured may travel or reside where he likes ; he may engage in any avocation, no matter how hazardous; he may die from any cause or under ^ any circumstances ; tbe only requirement is the payment of premium as stipu-^ lated in tbe policy. They are Non-Forfeitable. Every dollar paid the Company secures the member full value, in an equi table form, after three payments (in most cases after two). The Company's plans for "Extension" and "Paid-up" provide against loss to members who discontinue their policies. Cash Surrender. Many forms of policies permit a member to withdraw at any period of fire years, others at the end of longer periods, as selected, taking with bim in cash, the full reserve-value of his policy, inclusive of all surplus accumulation. Cash Loans. Certain policies contain the agreement to lend the member upon their security sixty-six per cent, (being not less than $100.) of the reserve value ; thus guarding against their lapse, and enhancing their value as Marketable Collateral. There is nothing which is safe and desirable in life insurance, no new and commendable feature, that is omitted from the revised forms and plans of this well-tried and enduring institution. Are you insured by an iocontestible, non-forfeitable policy, with liberal feat ures such as the Penn Mutual issues ? Is your estate secured, is your family safe were you to die ? Are your own later years provided for against want and care ? If not, get our plans?any form is open to you, and invest a few dollars with us annually, semi-annually or quarterly, and you may safely enjoy the balance of your income. For information apply to, A. C. PHEL.PS & CO., Agents, June 18 Sumter, S. O. HEADQUARTERS FOR WATCHES. JAMES AliLiAN & CO. Diamonds, Jewelry, Silverware, Specta cles, Drawing Instruments THE FINEST STOCK IN THE STATE. RELIABLE GOODS AT REASONABLE PRICES. Watch Repairing a specialty. Chief Inspectors of Watches for South Caro ina Railway, Atlantic Coast Line and Southern Division of Three Cs Rail Road. JAMES ALLAN & CO., Feb. 3 285 -King St., Sign of Dram Clock, CbaxJestoe, 6. C.