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m .^ottt jurait TSTBDNESDAY, OCT. 5% 1892. Opening of tire Darlington Tobacco Warehouse, Darlington had her first "break0 4a tobacco on Tuesday September 25, %nd a great break it was. Over ?forty thousand .pounds were swld. Tuesday wan the opening day for sales iu the Darlington Tobacco warehouse. The occasion bad been looked forward to with great .inter est not only by people in and about (Darlington, but by the tobacco powers in the neighboring counties and by buyers iu this and other States, consequently when tiie great day arrived there w?s a large crowd gathered at the warehouse anxious to see Darlington's first sale. The tobacco was placet! upon the ?oor in piles, each pile being labelled with its weight and the name of its owner The warehouse was filled with-tobacco thus .piled in heap-. Iti was a novel sight to our people and many who were not .personally inter ested iu tobacco were pleased specta tors. There were ? large number of buy ers, from tFlorence, Virginia and >orth Carolin?. Tl?e sales begar: about eleven o'clock. Mr. G. E. Webb, the auctioneer, is a "hostler." i Tie followed up the 'bids of the j buyers with a sonorous ^ofce aoS j with a rapidity aud volubility that ?azed the novice *an? wystrliedj the j uninitiated. He went through the j rpdes with a wish, followed closely J iy the buyers, aud l>y shortly after: one o'clock he had K?eo|p?e?ed the! sale of the entire hit. Going through the piles we piofeed out a number -of sales for .prtblicatron. We made the aeleccions arbitrarily with no reference *?> total amounts ; Consequently in many cases the; {price we give that a Kran (?btained for a lot may not be the highest price he; Teceived nor. tor the same reason,:| lhe lowest, but just the price for lhatJ particular lot. We merely selected .sales at random, in order that oar readers may see the various jmces tobacco will 4>rmg. W>rile ?most of the tobaoeoetn? was grown in this county there was a good supply from {Florence county and some from Sum terand Marlboro. From the sales we give it will be readily seen that some of J>)arr>iigton county's best farmers are Engaged :u the cultiva lion of tobaccos A large number of our tobacco growers were present ?nd we noticed among the growers present from other counties Messrs F. M, Rogers, Jr., T. II. McCal!i % and M. S. Ilaynesworth, Florence; Qeo. McCuteheon, Suinter ; T. S. *nd Wallace Evans and Capt Drake, of Marlboro. The first lot sold was two pounds of very fine tobacco belonging to Jno. ?. McCall which brought $1.05 per pound, the highest pnee paid during the day. Sonie of the other sales were R. 'S. Iiatchell 72 lbs at J7c's. W. T Rose (Florence) 213 at 6? ; E. E Khveu, 255 at 5 4 5 ; E. E. McGiU, SIS at 9 ; W. E .James, 20 at 18 ; K. II. Rogers, 25 at .32*; W. D. and T. S. Evans (Marlboro) 600 at 21? ; J. L. Rose ?(Florence) 84 at 7| ; E Cottingham, I 297 at 4J ; C. B. Edwards, 41 at U '< '' JF. C Hill, 238 at 5 : 0 II and "J II. Edwards, 576 at 6?; B F Williamson 36 at 14 J ; D M. Smoot, 417 at I Of ; R M Cooper (Somter) 433 at 13| ; E. A. Brown, 68 at 1? ; VR II. Rodgers, 2?u at 33; E. E.j McGiH. 31S at 9; R. M. Nettles! -(Florence) 152 at 10* ; E T. Coker, 251 at 4 9-10; N S Gibson (Florence) 75 at 11 3 10, J. T. Rogers, 135 at 5 liaynie and Coker, 105 at 8 ; M. T. Rollins. 216 at 73 ; N. S. Gib?on (Florence) 205 at 7| to 16* ; P Whipple, 115 at W A. Law, 31 at 11 ; Il J Settles, -235 at 5 4 10 ; McCu lough and Reid, 170 at 11 ; W. F. ttargan, 20 i . at 5 910. The|average price may be safely placed at 10 cents per pound. It is estimated that there are one thousand acres in this county planted in tobac- j co and the yield per acre is about one thousand pounds, which at 10 j cents a pound, w?ll bring $10o per I acre or $100,006 This sum made | out of tobacco in this county during j the year, when tobacco is yet but a aide issue, speaks for itself. Promt Bent tobacco men from this section and from North Carolina say that laud in this country can yield fifteen huit- ! dred pounds of tobacco per acre, which is equivalent at 'he average j price of ten cents, U) $150 p**r acre j This beats cotton by far. Verily, to bacco is a bonanza. Of course with our inexperience in the cultivation <>f tobacco, we cannot expect it* raise an \ average of fifteen hundred pounds to ihe acre just yet, but one thousand i pounds to the acre we can {raise and this puts the weed far ahead of the ! fle?cy staple. Indeed it i?? said that ! />ur country is much better adapted ! to tobacco than North Carolina, j where the highest yield does not ex ! ceed one thousand pounds to tin* j acre. ] The following are some of the to- j bacco buyers who were present at the Bale : J R. Bowles, J G Slaughter, j W. M. Fallon. .J. II Ilirkey, W M ! Howard, }l. C. Sc>tt, Danville, Vn ; | John Coletnan, Winston. X C ; W. Penix, Wilson, )$ C j Ohas Skinner, Frank Meadows, Oxford, N. G ; R. A. Oroxton, F M Rogers. Jr, W. W. Wood. The ?aies were continued next day, ! the second opening day with the same success ?Darlington News. ? mt?&K?- ? ? w?"?? An Unheard of Proceeding. The Presidential electors, elected by the convention last we< k, will ail be required, according to a resolution passed by that body, to file a pledge binding them to support Cleveland and Stevenson, 'fhe precaution was suggested by t|?e conservatives, and the convention in. passing it. showed conclusively that the Tith?janites had grave doubts as to whether the elec tors elected ooald be implicitly trust ed io vote for Gleveland. Such a proceed ng as causing the electors to sign pledges to vote for certain oadidates, wo believe, has never been practised or heard of be- | fore in this country, but it shows that the necessity must have been great. r^Cberaw Reporter. Dv not make h ? matter of moment Is this a Case of Hypnotism A special from Pittsboro states that Louise Phillips, 14 year* old, who so myseriously left'her home in Chatham county wifb a stranger a week ago has been returned to her parents. The stranger drove by the girl's home and in the buggy with him was a boy. He told the boy to get out, called the girl I to bits and spoke a few words to her i She stepped into the buggy and was ! driven away. It is believed that she was j hypnotized by the man wh??, it now turns out, stole the horse and boggy. He was captured at ?arlington, S. C. There the girl was also found. She telle ! a pitiful story, saving ?be was twice as suited. Sheriff Taylor, of Chatham, ! has procured a requisition from Gover nor Holt for the criminal. The people in that section are greatly stirred up and there may be lynching. The girl says she never before saw or heard of the man and ean not tell what impelled her j to go with bitn.?Kdeigh t(N C ) Spec ial to Atlanta Constitution. Another exciting race, similar to that j between the Chilian ship Itafa and the j American ship -Charleston, last year, is on. This time the start was from New York As is well fenown, Venezuela if iu a state of cw?? *war. The revolu tionists have the best-of the struggle so far, having overrun almost the entire couuny. The reguiUr government still has possession *of the navy, and control all of the seajeorte Recently the revo lutionists purchased in New York, and fitted ourt -es a war vessel, the South Portland. The Venezuela authorities at'first tried to secure the detention o! I the vessel, bet were unsuccessful. The South 'Portland sailed about ten days ago, aud as the next best thing, the Venezuelan authorities purchased another vessel, aud after arming and epuipping it, started it off iu pursuit of j the South ?Portland. The (pursuing i vessel left N*?w Y??rk irsrbor 4ast Fri I day night, and hopes to overtake aDd I capture ??he South Portland 'before she I can reach a Venezuelan port' A hot Sght is expected if the two vessels get together. There are 300.U0? commercial trav ?elemiu the Suited States. ; The ?Bell tek^hone patent expires j next March, and-after that date it if \ free to the public, and any person can m sou facture 'the ins t m met ta described in tbeip&tect. Three men in TVauce ccnapeted to see who could (tainfc tire most water. One swallowed tweKve quarts, the second nine, and ffee third seven. All three died from tbe effects. i it is annouooed that the postmaster general of the United States bas de cided to issue a new series of p?s'age stamp* with designs appropriate to the commemoration of the discovery of America. I The total colored population, as re turned under the ceosut* of i'SS'O. i; 7. 638 360. Of this nuatber, 7.470. 040 are person** of African descent, 107,075 are Chinese, 2,0?? are Jap* nese, aud 23,800 are civilized Indians. The Philadelphia Titses thinks Geu eral Weaver will iutrdly ?Jaia i&at be iug hit sitii rtf-tfesi eggs, xs a presiden tial eaudidate, make*] h<m any stronger or puts him is any better odor with the couutry. Easy Divorce in Turkey. "Marrying in Turkey," said L. T. Stotha* ,of London,to a Chicago Inter Ocean reporter, "is a different thing e?t;rely froj? ? marriage in America or England* 5*he kuowe nothing of her prospectivehusband** tauten, char acter or habitaud hae possibly ohIj caught Ait ocea-torn*. glimp e ?f Uhu through some screen work. She is ?iter.iily taking a jump i<* th<* daik. I?er fat he t ha? chosen for her sud hei only course is tu trust in tais wisdom Nor ? this her only source of trouble. She knoJCS weli that her husband has never seen her, and that while she, on her icide, relies on father's judgment, he has chosen her only from hearsay and because Jos ?Millier happened to be pleased with her. She may well fear that they will be an ill-mated j couple. Still, strangely cm??igii, tLie j is a ran; occurence in Turkey. I "At a Turkish marriage the bride j kisses the hem of her husbaud's coat j in token of submi-vaiou. In Turkey a t w fftati diviveed from her husband is not treated wilti contumely, even in the highest elasseg, and tdteu marries agaiti.this being caused by tbe facility with which a man may divorce his wife. There is no court tx> go to and j no trial to ensue A man simply I states to his wife that he has divorced j her, on wir ich she will go away, and j the man, on repeating this to the cadi, ! will have an act of divorce written. ; which he will send her. He may ! take her hack twice without any for I tOaUty and divorce her again, but it is only a/ter the third divorce that j she is lust to him forever "This is less common iu the highei than in th? lowerclas?cw, where a man often divorces Iii? wife for a badly cooked dinner or a poorly sewed on button, knowing if he wants to he can take her back before evening. "1 know a Turkish woman/' con eluded Mr Slot hart, "'who has been divorced ihre? tines from eacli ?d fm* husbuids, and is now living with th'* sixth." Tnri?J?x Tin Rc?tinp to Profit. For a long time the owuers of sardine factories were at a Joss to know what to do with the mounds of tin clippings that accumulated at their docks, Theclip pings are now collected and sorted ac cording to their shape, those made by the dies which r- flip the bottoms and cov ers of the cans being pounded into suit able shape for handling, while t ho strips made by the shears in cnttiiig * he tin for tho side* are bundled and boxed. Tbe clippings are smelted down iu a furnace, tbe tin with winch they are I coated being melted and drawn off sep arately, while the mol ten mass of metal which composed the plato ; run into molds and formed into w:..r->w weights I and other r.eefnl artic?cs. The bright j tin strips of various sizes are utilized in ! sundry ways, forming tin tags for the ornamentation of plug tobacco, button molds, ornamental baskets and dozens of other article-.,?New York Telegram. l?irtl?, MurHsn;?* ??><! I>??atb. A most roiimrkahle case is reported from KentuckjE Rev. ?. II. Morrow, a prominent Baptist minister of Simpson county, reared a family of six daugh ters. He received all of them into the church, baptised them nil, said the mar riage ceremony for each of them, and buried ?hem all. lie survived ;bc last HOW A WOMAN CAUGHT A THIEF. It XVum on Shipboard, tend She Nearly Scratched His Kyos- Out. When you can't set a thief to catch a thief the next best thing to put on his trail is a woman. A woman who bas , recently returned" from Rio Janeiro tells with great glee how during the voyage to this port she caught a thief who had been pilfering all the passengers' cabins, and until she took him in hand had suc cessfully-eluded the detective tactics of the entire crew, from the captain down to the cabin Ik>v. "We had about thirty passengers on board when we left Rio," said this ama teur detective, "and a very nice lot of people they were too. For the first two or three days out everybody was so busy getting seasick that we hadn't time to think of anything else. "But after that, when we were com mencing to revive -a'bit, first ono woman .and then another would come on deck with a face as long as your arm and re j>ort -that some one had been in her cabin ^during the night and had stolen some of ther jeweiry. For.a day or two the cap tain pooh poohed the ddea, -but finally the complaints ibecame so frequent that tliere <was no gainsaying them. The thief, -whoever ;hewas, seemed to ha<ve a passion "for rings. "By the end of the ;?rSt^veek there Twas scarcely a woman on board except myself who wasn't mourning the toss:of at least one. A watch was set anfi-every ^possible {precaution taken, but without the slightest effect. Every morning a*t Jeast one passenger would report another iioss. The men fared scarcely (better than the women. At lastthingsjeached such & pass that every woman <on iboard used to ge^to-bed at ?night \with all her jew ?elry on. '<Qne fat old ?Sparrisn -woman, <whose husband owned a gold mine somewhere, usedtogoto bed in a regular-blaze of glory. Her fingers and arms, almost up to her elbows, were covered with gems, and she used to pxit-on her'diazncndioor onet and then wind -a tcwel mbout iher brow, so that the ?robbar coulent .possi bly drag the coronet ?ff w?thont taking her head i&s well. I used to hear the poor ol2 thing groaning aK through the night. Sire must hj?^ 'been dreadfully uncomfortable. Well, finally ^cmecngbt my turn came. I had a-cabin ?te airy self and had taken the upper <berth from 2hoice. ?One night I awokeand ifelt cer tain I heare some^one 3noving about the room. "My right-ann-was hanging over the side of tho berth when I woke up, and by this time i was in such a stage of tfright that I didn't care to move it. I Jfoift 'believe I moved a muscle. And all this time, mind you, I felt instinc tively that this man, or whoever it was that was in the room, was grafvcally drawing nearer and nearer. Suddenly I felt a hand touch my hand and pull gently at ono of my rings. For .abtrat an instant I thought I'd die. Then?lt cf.a j sudden something inside of me seemed j to say, 'Scream and scratch ? Just then the man let go of my hand for a mo ment. -"The rings, ho evidently saw, were .a pretty tight J?t, d it would take some time and skill to get them off without waking mc. I waited breathlessly, say tag my prayers to myself over and over, it must have been fully five minutes be fore he touched ray hand again, and during that time, in spite of my fright, i had sense enough left to comprehend that if 1 wanted to catch the thief I most scratch first and scream afterward. And that's just what I did. I waited until he had g#t bis operation well under way again. Then I nerved myself*. * ? knew the direction in whkl his face was, because I could feel his breath on my hand as he leaned over it. I drew a Jong breath, and letting my hand fly ont I scratched him with ail my might across tho face, ami then shrieked with all my lungs. The next instant every body came tumbling into my room, but the thief had vanished. We could not find so much as a trace of him. After the excitement had subsided I took the j captain aside and o?jd him to look out j j for a man with scratches on his face the I next morning. At breakfast everybody I turned up except one very engaging I yoxmg man, who had been quite the lion of the ship. He had been suddenly taken ill, the steward said. "The steward also reported that he lay in his berth with his face turned toward the wall. " 'Ah, ha!' Faid the captain, tippingme the wink, "I'm something of a doctor, j i think LT1 go and have a look at this young man.' "Well, hp. went, and thereon his face, cure enough, were the scratches, four of them, and fine long, deep ones the cap tain said they were too. Subsequently the young felloe broke down and made & confession, and restored all the articles he had stolen. He was put in irons and handed over to the police as soon as we arrived here. By this time 1 suppose tho poor fellow is in Sim; Sing."?New York Evening Sun. lion* Two Painters became Acquainted. When in Haarlem, Vandyke called upon Frank Hals, and without making I himself known said that lie was anxious to have his portrait painted, but as he was in a great hurry he could spare but two hours, at the end of which the por trait must be done. Hals went to work and finished it. and Vandyke was much pleased. But portrait painting seemed j a very little thing, said Vandyke, and he asked Hals to change places with him. Hals did so. and as Vandyke fin ished his work Hals hngged him enthu- j Plastically, saying: "You are Vandyke, j No one but he can do what you have done." And so the two great masters ! became acquainted.?Harper's Young j People. ??????? i Electric Swiiitf. Brighton, the English watering place, ! bas a decided novelty in the way of an electric swing. The to and fro motion is produced by means of powerful mag- j nets, the current being three-quarters of an ampere at 1 GO volts. The motion of the swing is said to be peculiarly smooth and pleasant.?Exchange. How jin A rat) Love*. An Arab loves as none but an Arab <^?j. love, but he is also mightily excit able and easily w<>:). An Aral) sees a girl bearing water or brushwood and in ; a moment, almost at a glance, is a< madly sn love as if ho had passed years of courtship. He thinks of nothing else, eares xivl dreams of nothing else but tit? girl he. Jovcs. and not infrequently, if he is disappointed in Iiis affection, he j pines and dies. In order to commence his Mut h<r sends for a meml>er of the: girl's tribe.and first insuring his secrecy by a solemn oath confesses his love and j entreats his confidant to arrange an in- j terview. Tho confidant goes to ihe girl, gives 1 her a flower <>r a Wade, of grass and i Kaya: "Swear by him who made this flower i and us also 2h;it you will not reveal to anyone that which 1 am about to un fold to you." If the girl will not accept Die pro pos;.". sh?? wild not take the oath, but j nevertheless keeps the matter perfectly secret (jvvtu all. If she is favorably dis- ! posed to the match she answers: "I swear by liiim who made the flowe* 1 you hold and uas," and the place and time ^f meeting. Digging for Diamond? in India. In India diamonds aro found in allu vial workings and in the original gangue or bedrock. So far diamonds have been found in situ, both in the upper and lower Vindhyan rocks. These consist of a series of shales, limestones and sandstones, cut up and much mixed with intrusions of trap. A species of con glomerate made up of what looks like felted hornblende, with embedded peb bles of jasper, serpentine, quartz and sandstones is the matrix in which the diamond is found. When exposed to the action of the weather, as in shallow workings, this conglomerate is of a rusty brown color and very friable, so that it can be readi ly broken arid the gangue washed away, leaving the pebbles, which are of a white, red, blue and green color. A load of gangue yields about a quart of pebbles, and if from this a carat weight ot diamonds "is recovered the mine is considered worth working. Overlying the diamond conglomerate .are beds of hard sandstones and shales, which have to be cut through before the diamond gangue is iaet. In the deep mines the gangue as *cxtremely hard And tough and of a green bltie<color. It requires months of exposure *to the at mosphere and frequent sprinklings with water beforo the matrix 'becomes sufl? cie?try .friable to obtain the pebbles without breaking them. All -attempts to'crush the matrix>with out destroying tho included diamonds have hitherto failed, and owing to the long delay before the .results are known, the native? seldom work the conglomer-! ato in tho Tock -workings unless it is somewhat decomposed and softened -by *?he -weather. The pebbles are -about the size of hazelnuts -and are generally opaque. The .presence of green ;pebbles is considered a good sign by the native miners.?Alining and Engineering. j - j $nha*M'itznts of the Caacasos. The '^Georgians ?of 'the Caucasus are nice Hooking men?one or'twodecidedly -handsome, ;in -an mnkempt sort of way.1 IFeatn?es -of am 'oriental cast, but fair rskina, .'gray eyes mid remarkably broad, thick eyebrows are their most promi nent ^characteristics. Looking at them, one -can l>elieve that the Georgian woin en deserve their fame better than a good many reputed beauties. Their dress consists of three principal garments?a long outer coat of serge, called a tcho cua (not kaftan, which is a short coat); a lighter one of linen underneath, called archaluch, and confined iby -a leather belt or kamari, aud & pair of tight trousers thrust iinto high :boots -of the regular oriental pattern. Some-of them have invested in patent leather shoes, ^wbich shows that -the}- have an eye for western .glitter. The length of thG tchocha and ihe high boots make them 'look taller than they ?are. They -seem big men, but the tallest hardly reaches 5 feet 9 doches. arcd most of them are considerably srresrter??us indeed befits a race of h&3rsemen. They tarry three weapons?sword-, dagger-and pistols?all*of antique make, and for the most part -elaborately inlaid with silver. The s*word, or chmali, is very muck curved, almost the shape of ? Persiaa scimeter, with a beautifully worked haft. The dagger, or hanjali, is a weapon in tho use of which they are peculiarly expert.?London Saturday Review, Scaring a TVic?r-cd ?oy? One of the irrepressible small boys o? the tough species started in to haro J some fun in a crowded car on the .Sixth avenne -elevated road the other night. He sat in the middle of the car and first attracted ?attention by mowing like a cat. Thea he yelped like a dog and grunted like ? pig. At first his noises caused a smile, but their persistent rep etition caused annoyance, which in creased with each succeeding noise. The mewing, the yelping and the grant ing becamo so aggravating that each man in the car felt that he would like to throw the boy out of the window. Manly dignity, however, forbade their getting into un altercation with a small boy. But there was one person in tho car who was not restrained by manly dignity. That person was of the femi nine gender, a trifle advanced in years, but with a muscular figure and a stern expression on her face. She tried for several minutes to silence the boy with frowns and gestures, but those were of no avail. When her pa tience reached its limit she stretched out one arm. and seizing the boy by tho col lar exclaimed in a wrathful voice: "Sec here, my lad, you stop your yelping and your grunting right away or I'll give you. something to yelp and grunt for. Do you hear me?'' The boy was as quiet as a kitten for the rest of the journey.? New York Times. A Curions I*eo?l?. A curions people have been described by Dr. Paul Ehrenreich an inhabiting tho rivers Araguaya and Punis, in Brazil. These are the Karaya, the men and women of whom speak different dialects. Their love of animals, not a common trait in the savage character, j is peculiar. Their villages, he tells r j resemble menageries. Dogs, fowls, cats, peccaries?beasts of a most unamiablo character?parrotfs even turtles, alli gators and tapir.* meet the astonished tra veler. Tho native* do not look upon them as "lower animals," In their opin ion these playmates are quite o>i "the [ same plane ?>f existence*' as themselves, I and are to be treated accordingly.? ! Yankee Blade. I <)<><! Looks. Good '.iv ks' :ire a.ore than hkin dorp.depend I ing r.fmh adtealth" c??: dit ion <>1 the vital i.f trans If the hiver l>* inactive, y>n bave n bili<.us Lu.]*, if ymvt Moiuarii disordered vi.? have a l)ysi?epthr *>>. > s-nH if v???* Kidney* l?c affected yoa-lian-e a ji'ache? ].-. >s. ?eeure ^( ( dhealth andyrxu wi-t'lfei ve*r??n] Sleetrir l?Mit-r.? i> the ??r.ii twCt-rairve an?l Tonic art? directly r-n thcvn v??a1 orgar*. Cn?en Pimpte?, Iil??r?-:>e>. >ir: \ fpro* n good c apJesion. I Sdd :it J. F. W. ?tt-vTZi?'? Drug .-5-i.rc. 5J?c 1 {>"r Uoiile. 4 Tor kidney nod lirer uonlde Glenn Springs water is a (Tire. Ou dra&?&r. ?\ Hog h sou k (Jo's ill w/. s'ot e. There is no nse talking, neither Harrison or Cleveland *i?l lie electfd utiles* ?hrj ta!;e De Witt's little Early Risers. They bnTe a "eet there" quality po.-sessed by dj> vther pill. J. Hughson A Co. Drin!-: Glenn Springs Water for headache, indigestion and gem ra! debility. 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ChII :tt the shop or address through Sumter Post olft'-e Aue 13 EDGAR SKINNER. L D. J?H?ST0N, SUMTKll, S. C, -THE I Pradkal f arpenter. Contractor A?D BUILDER, TXTOULD RESPECTFULLY inform the J W citizens of Sumter und surrounding j country that he is prepared to furnish plane, and estimated on brick and wooden buildings All work entrusted to him will be done Srst class. SATISFACTION GUARANTEED. A tig 19 o SHAVING DONE BY ELECTRICITY ?AT?! G. G. REDIC S. ' Is" the name erf a new Quarterly Magazine of great merit that is rapidly coming to the front as ono of the most aseful publications of the century. Its object is to re cord the news of the world in a convenient and systematic form, and present it to the readers clcar , Ty, concisely, with everything su perfluous culled out, every three months. To busy people, in a busy age, " it is a perfect god send." With this in hand, no one can have any excuse for not al ways being well posted. It does for you all the labor of compila tion and study which you have not time to do yourself, and it is the only public ai ion that does sv. If any publication ever had a dis r tiuct mission to fulfill, it is surely this new departure in journalism. Start it for lour Boy Bow, , When he comes to be a man ho * will have an encyclopaedic history of his own times, and be able to talk on any question. It is pure in tone, and unbiased by any pre judice, political, moral, or religi ! cus. cm' SUMTE Our cnnutsm? ?fm hat? heen? j to please as roany ?>f the people us possible at m?) tiroes, and wr -generally succeed. We are receiving an im inense stock of Fre$ll CrOOdS ?f cve,7 variety. Fine Groceries -bave always been, and still is our specialty, but you*)} find all 'departments compl?te and gnodaj sold at prices to plrase ail tr'asa- \ 4?s Whether yon make a pmM chase or not vnt never consider | time lost in sbovrz&g imr stock, j; j: Seeing is beHer?n.?. Call and j be convinced i>f i?ut aJtmve facts,| i I I ! EfTj OPPOSITE M08SE, r fc 1, f Fine Dress Goods and Trimmings to match. Full line Hosiery, Notions, &q. Gents', Ladies' and Children's Shoes. Largest stock in city of staple and Fancy Groceries. Seed Rye, Barley *nd R. R. P. Oats, Bagging and Ties. e n On any goods, mall figures made >8 laj^e quantities. TAX NOTICE. THE TREASURER OF SUM TER COUN* ty hereby ?ivca notice that his hooks wili l>e ojten *t his office in the City of Sura* 1er from the tSth day of OCTOBER to the i5ih day of DECfiMBSR, 1892, except 0u the following -tamed days, when be will attend at the places named, either in person or by deputy, for the collection of Taxes fef the fiscal year 1891 and 1892: On Saturday, Oct. 15, at Shilob. Oo Mouday, Oct. 17. at Lynchbarg, front 8 o'clock a. m., u: til 1 o'clock p? m.( and at Magnolia from 2 o'clock un* tii 6 o'clock p. w. On Tuesday, Oct. 18. at Birhop ville. On Wednesday, Oct. 10, at State burg. On Thursday, Oct. 20, at Rembergs Store, Raffing Creek. On Friday, Oct. 21, at Spring BUK On Saturday, Oct. 22, at Kiogman's Store, Providence. On Monday, Oct 24, at WedgeBeld. On Tuesday. Oct. 25, at Tindal's Store, C. S. & ST. Railroad. On Wednesday, Oct. 2t>, at Bossard PostofSce On Thursday, Oct. 27, at Manu ville. On Friday, Oct. 28, at Reid'a Store, Mt. Clio. On Saturday, Oct 29, at Mayesville. On Monday, Oct. 31, at Gordon'* Mill. On Tuesday, Nov. 1. at Bislmpville, D K KISELS. CcuDty Treasurer. Sept 9. TAX NOTICE. rpHE TR5ASCRSR OF SUMTER COOT X. ty gives notice that his books will oe open from the Fifteenth Day of October, 1892, to the Fifteenth Day of December, 1892, for the collection of Taxes for the fischt year commencing November 1st, 1891, in Sum ter County. The following are the ratrs per ceotam of the levy : 1. For State purposes?four and one-ba'f mills on every doltar of the value of ait taxa ble property. 2. For Cottnly purposes?-two and three fourth mills on every dollar of the value of aU taxabh property. 3. For the support of public schools?two mills on every dollar of such value. 4. Cue dollar on each taxable poll, (to wit, between the ages of 21 and 50 years.) 5. Mayesville, two mills extra levy fof school purposes in the town of Mayesville. 6. Swimming Pens, two mills extra levy for school purposes in the township. ?. BisbnpvdJe, feur tnilis extra levy for chool purposes in School Dist. No. 20. 8. Mechanicsville, two mills extra levy for school purposes in the township, 9. Providcr.ce, two mills extra levy for school purposes to the township. 10. Sximter, No ?, (out of city) two mills extra le-y for school purposes in the townsbip. 11. Concord, two mills extra levy for school purposes in the township. 12. For building county jail? one milt extra levy. D. E. KEELS, Sept. 7. Treasurer. GAMECOCK CITY MARKET IT. J. DAWSEY, Proprietor. Having made arrangements with reliable dealers in this Statt and Vir ginia for a reguktr supply of the bust BEEF CATTLE AND MUTTON by the car had. I will be able to offer the choicest quality of meats to be had, and solicit the trade of City and County. 1 can mil Wholesale or Retail as cheap or cheaper than any other parties in the market Especial attention will be given to ORDERS FROM THE COUNTRY and meats will hn *>!?] in large or small quantities at srnail pr.-tits. Special arrangements will be made with housekeepers Give me a cull, W. J. DAWSEY. S'EXT TO POST OFFICE, SUMTER, S C. Aug. 3. TREATMENT M HALATION! 1529 Arch St.. P?ila. Penn. I\>r Consumption, A--;:.Bronchitis, Dyspepsia. Catarrh, Hay Fever, Headache, Debility, Rheu matism, Neuralgia, !iid all Chronic and Ufervoiis Disorders. It has been in use for more than twenty ears: thousands of patients have been treat i and over one thoasand physicians have 3?d it and recommend it?a very significant LCt. It Is agreeable. 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