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1 W)t tDatcfylMttl Mid 00?tl)fM| _._?_ *s.'* -~-_ rac SUMTER WATCHMAN, Established April, issu. "Be Just and Fear not-Let all the Ends thou Aims't at, be thy Country's, thy God's and Truth's." THE TRUE SOUTHRON. Established jone, 1366. SUMTER, S. C., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1893. New Series-Vol. XIII. No. 17. Ito SSattfomaa w? jsmit&niit. PW. C3% Osteen, SUMTER, S. C. TKRMS : Two Dollars per aniMjni- io ad va nee. A3VBRTIS?XKKTv One Square first insertion.............-..$1 00 Every subsequent insertion-. 30 Contracts tor three tnontbs, or longer wifl be made at redueed rates AH commttoications which subserve private interests will beeharged for as advertisements/ Obituaries and tributes of respect wilh be< charged for. FOR -FOLL ASSORTMENT stm --FULL LINE Purest Ump ai CALL. ON ? S. MMS8N ft eO.J Monaghan Block. HAIN STREET, Fe* 8. SUMTER. S. C. I lo INSURE YOUR -WITH THE MUTUAL LIFE OP NSW YORK, TBS LARGEST MOXIE*) INSTITUTION IN TBS WORLD. , Take vour Accident Policy in the , EMPLOYERS' LIAMLITT OT EKGLAND. \ . Tusos* jgiitwt Fire in . THE CONTINENTAL OF ?SW YORK. THE MERCHANTS, QT NEWARK, N. J. THE INSURANCE CO., OF NORTH AMERICA THE QUEEN OF AMERICA. THE PHONIX ASSURANCE OP ENGLAND. THE NORWICH UNION OF ENGLAND. THE MECHANICS AND? TRADERS ofN. 0. M Tirst Class aad represented ?7 ?LTAM8MT MOSES. A. WHITE & SON, Fire insurance Agency ESTABLISHED 1866. Represent, among other Companies : LIVERPOOL & LONDON & GLOBE, NORTH BRITISH & MERCANTILE, \ HOME, ot New York. * UNDERWRITERS' AGENCY, N. Y., LANCASTER INSURANCE CO. Capital represented $75,000,000. Feb 12 NEW f MAIBLE WORKS COMMANDER ft RICHARDSON LIBERTY STREET, SUMTER, S. C.| WE HAVE FORMED A CO-PARTNERSHij For the purpose of working Marble and. Granite, manufacturing \ liiiA Tutete, lt] And doing a General Busings? in that )\M A complete workshop has neen r.?ted up o LIBERTY STRRET, NEAR POST OFFtCS And we are now readv to execute witlj promptness all orders consi??ned to us. Satis! faction guaranteed. Obtain our price before placing an ord?*r elsewhere. < W. H. COMMANDER, 1 G. E. RICHARDSON. Jane 16. Order Your PROVISIONS AND GROCERIES FROM GIO. I STEFFENS & SON, .Wholesale Agents, Charleston, S. C. -Agents for TSCIDSB, BSD SEAL CXSABS, and DOTS HAMS. ?TT0F. WEITERS, WHOLESALE GROCER, LIQUOR * DEALER, UFFiCE AND SALESROOM: 183 Hast Bay, Charleston, S. C. . Nov. 7- o THE SUMTER INSTITUTE. The next session of the In? stitute will begin on SEPTEM BER 12th, 1893. For terms and catalogue apply to H. F. Wilson, President, .Jone 21 Sa ra ?er, S. C. PATRICK Military Institute ANDERSON, S. C. AMILITARY BOARDING SCHOOL, opens SEPTEMBER 12th. Foll corps of experienced teachers. Healthy location. Social moral and religious influences good. Rates reasonable. Terms accommodating. Apply for catalogue. GOL. JOHN B. PATRICK, Principal. June 23-3m W Office end Hills at Junction of W. SUMTER, S. C. CIT! AND COUNTY DEPOSITORY Transacts a general Banking business Alto hat Deposits of $1 00 and upwards received, nterest calculated at the rate of 4 per cent. 1er annum, payable quarter]?. W. F. B. HAYNSWORTH, W. F. RHAKB, President. Cashier*. VE SIMONOS NATIONAL BINK OP SUMTER. S'ATE, CITY AND COUNTY DEPOSI? TORY, SUMTErt, S. C. Pad up Capital.$75,000 00 ?StrplusFund. 11,500 00 Labilities of Stockholders to depositors acccording to the aw governing National Banks, n excess of their stock . . $75,000 00 Transacts a Geneial Banking Business. Careful attention given to collections. SAYINGS DEPARTMENT. Deposits of SI and upwards received. In? terest allowed at the rate of 4 per cent, per annum. Payable quarterly, on first days of J aa uar v. April, July and October. R M. WALLACE, L. S. CARSON, President. Aug 7. Cashier. TAX NOTIC?T OFFICE COUNTY TREASURER,} SUMTER CGUHTY, ? SCMTIR, S. C., Sept. 20, 1893. J THE TREASURER OF SUMTER County gives notice that bis books will be open from the 15th dav of OCTOBER, 1893, to the 15th dav of DECEMBER, 1893, for the collection of Taxes for the fiscal year 1892 and 1893, for Sumter County. The following are the rates per centum of the levy : For State purposes-five and one-half mills on every dollar of the value all taxable proper?}'. For ordinary county purposes-two and three-fouthe mills on every dollar of the value of all taxable property. Special county tax for past indebtedness ione-fourth of one mill. Special county tax for new jail-one ill. Constitutional school tax-two mills. Mi} fsvillf, two mills extra levy for school rposes in the town of MayesviUe. Iwimming Pens, two mills extra levy fur ool purposes in the township, umter (outside of city limits), two mills 9??l?w for school nurposes in the town ?ollar on each Poll between the ages ?*9*3 50 years. levy in this couuty is eleven and o?^fcf mills. D. E. KEELS, County Treasurer. ft NOTICE. rpt lUPEIiViSoR oF REGISTRATION 1 Moeia his office on SH?esduv of each j nior.rlkm^ p'jqo-eot i>s'iin;r certificates j or tie K-rttion ..' ail persons who have ne- 1 ! c<?me| l.tj-oc- years of age sit;?;- the las: . I Genet: J??ctioT:. Also transfers to ti; )-e ; ..bsri2" ' place of' residence. W. S. J A.MKS. * . ? ??? I Sunervisor or Registration. who :i. Easy to Take And prompt to cure, Ayer's Pills act on the intestines, not by stimula? ting, but by strengthening them. They promote the natural peristaltic motion of the bowels, without which there can be no regular, healthy operations. For the cure of consti? pation, biliousness, jaundice, ver? tigo, sick headache, indigestion, sour stomach, and drowsiness, Ayer's Pills are unsurpassed. They are equally beneficial in rheumatism, neuralgia, colds, chills, and fevers. Being purely vegetable, delicately sugar? coated, and quickly dissolved, they are admirably adapted for household use, as well as for travelers by lar.d or sea. Ayer's Pills are in greater demand, the world over, than any other pill, and are recommended by the most eminent physicians. Every Dose Effective Prepared by Dr. J. C. Ayer& Co., Lowell, UM* Sold by Druggists Everywhere; Contractor and Builder, Sumter, S. C. DEALER IN . Rough and Planed Lumber, Doors, Blinds, Sash, Laths, K Cypress Shingles, Lime, Glees and General Building Supplies. Mill Work Of all kinds made to'order, such as MANTLES, DuOR AND WINDOW FRAMES, STORE FRONTS, MOULDINGS AND TURNED WORK OF EVERY DESCRIPTION. C. *: A.; and C. S. k N. R. R's. H. A. HOYT. MAIN STREET SUMTER, S.C. GOLD AND SILVER WATCHES, FINE DIAMONDS, Clo&s, Jewelry, Spectacles, MERIDEN BRITANIA SILVERWARE, Ac. REPAIRING A SPECIALTY. Feb. 1 .Monterey. 1760. Tte Hoots' Remedy. 1845. A TOXIC, NERVINE, BLOOD PURIFIER. Like Cure3 Like. The Poison of the Swnrop has irs Antidote in th?* Swamp, For Malaria, Nervousness, Indigestion Dys? entery- and Bowel Comiilnint. Hsk your dealer for MONTEREY. If he does not keep it, we wiil send you a large r?ottle, express prepaid, on rei-eiut of $1 00. MONTEREY Co , Florence, S. C , Props, and Mfr?. F W. WAGENER & Co , Oct. ll. Charleston. State Agents. G. W. DICK,D. D.S. Office over Levi Bro3.' Store, ENTRANCE OTU MAIN STREET. SUMTER, S.C. Office Hours-9 to 1 ; 2.30 to 5.30. DR J. MU SOLOMONS, DENTIST. Office OVER BROWN & BROWN'S STORE, Entrance on Main Street Be: ween Brown ?t Brown and Durant & Son. OFFICE HOURS : 0 to 1.30; 2 to 5 o'clock. April 9. 2 A. M. MA?IGAULT" 21, BROAD ST., CHARLESTON, S.C, STOCK AND 3O::D BEOKSR, Libera! advances on Securities ?.?;; ici'": or s>?ie. // ' >A XS XE O' '. > Tl ! T FJ) The Coming Tariff Bill. Scliedules Agreed Upon ly Mr. Wil? son's Committee. WASHINGTON. NOV. 15.-Ao air of profound mystery surrounds that por? tion of the Honse of Representatives where the ways and means committee room is located. The members of the committee have been pledged to the strictest secrecy regarding the proposed changes of duty, sud this pledge bas been as faithfully respected by them as is consistent with human frailty. Newspaper men are carefully avoided. One of the members, who was cornered by a reporter this morning, hastily jumped iuside the elevator, drew the door to with nervous haste, and grasp? ing the rope, helped the conductor to propel it basementwards, and thus made bis escape. Notwithstanding these precautions, some of the details of the committee's work are gradually becoming public. There is apparently no doubt thar, wool, coal andiron ore will be placed on the free list. Upon these points there is now practical unanimity, although, uutil recently, it was a mooted question whether it would not be advisable to retain a fair duty on the two articles last named. It is understood that a material re? duction will be made on steel rails. When the McKinley bill was before the Senate, three years ago, one of the largest manufacturers of steel rails in Pennsylvania appeared before the finance committee and assured Senator Sherman that a duty of $8 a ton would be an ample protection to the manu? facturers. Notwithstanding this assur? ance, the duty was placed at $13 44 a a ton, and this rate is still in force, Remembering this, some of the Democratic members of the ways and means committee have ar? gued that the rate be lowered to $8. It is expected, however, that the doty which will finally be agreed upon will be a compromise between the present figure and $8. The duty on tin plate ?ill probably be reduced from two and two-tenths cents to one cent. The schedules of textile fabrics have been substantially agreed upon, in ac? cordance with the D?mocratie theory of free raw malcr?ala and redaeed do* ties OD manufactured gooda. The woollen duties will he similar to those io toe Spring bill-sot above 40 per eent. advalorem, aod at 25 per cent, oo only a few items. The rate on manufactures of cotton will be about 40 per oent , including cotton hosiery as well as fabrics. The duties on linen goods and laces will suffer a considerable reduction, in view of the fact that flax aod the other raw materials of the industry are going upon the free list. The represent? atives of the linen manufactures have been bringing strong pressure to bear upon the committee to maintain the existing duties, but the compound duties are likely to be abolished in every case, and some of thc advalorem duties reduced A meetiog of all the Democratic mem? bers of the committee will be held tomorrow, at which time the sub-com? mittees having in charge the various schedules will submit their reports. Toe work of adjusting and harmonizing the reduction will then be continued until the bill shall have been com? pleted. It ts expected tbat this result will bc reached the last of next week or not later than the Monday follow? ing. The bill will then be reported to the tull committee and made public tt e same day. Chairman Wilson believes that the bill will be taken up in thc House and generally debated for about ten days preceding the holiday recess. Mr. Wilson will make the opening speech in support of the measure, and it is un? derstood that Burrows of Michigan, one of the leading Republican members of the co.'ii mitt ce, will speak first for his ?ide. An effort will be made to close genera! debate as quickly as possible, iu order that the House may proceed to consider the measure under the five minutes rule. There is no intention on the part of Republican members of the House to filibuster against the bill <*r unneces? sarily delay its passage. They recog? nize the futility of filibustering, inas? much as the committee on rules may at any time report an order fixing a date when a vote shall be taken, thus cuttiog off further debate. Aside from this fact, the Republican minority have no desire to prevent the majority from passing the bill. While they regard any modifications in the existing tariff law as hurtful to the business interests of the country, they are philosophical enough to agree that the Democratic party was placed in power on a plat? form, which declared in favor ot tariff reduction, and that they, and not the Republicans, are responsible for the jonsequences, whatever they may be. The iron and coal men of Alabama ?viii not be accorded a formal heariug \.*y the Ways ami Means committee. For a week or two past. Congressman Wheeler, Senator Pugh ami others lave h^cn interviewing members of the ! IVays rind Means committee, vn'l: :i of having -i hearing accorded <o he renrcsentativ: s of th" ?m tu f-. !:i i Mun of Birmingham. w;?o desire-.! f"> >r .:< -it .?^::inst f',rt proposition now ! ? peodiog io the committee to place iron I ore and coal OD the free list. At a re? [cent inseting of the Commercial Ol ab of Birmingham, which is composed of capitalists and manufacturers of that city, resolutions were adopted calling I upon the Alabama Senators and Repre ? sentatives in Congress to vote against any bill reported bj the Ways and Means committee to place iron ore and coal on the free list. As Birmingham is the great manufacturing city of the "New South,'' the stand taken by these manufacturers is having considerable weight upon the Alabama members in Congress. Congressman Wheeler has had several conferences with Chairman Wilson of the Ways and Means com? mittee, and Senator Pugh has been telegraphed by the Commercial Club to request that a delegation from that body be accorded a bearing before the Ways and Means committee the 21st instant. But the Alabamians will be disap? pointed, for after consultation with other Democratic members of the com? mittee, Chairman Wilson bas declined to accord any formal hearings to the Birmingham manufacturers, stating that the committee bas long ago closed its public hearings, and that now to make an exception for the Commercial Club of Birmingham would be to open the way for' numerous other gentlemen and j delegations, which are demanding to bo heard in apprehension of legislation that may affect their interests. A telegram to his effect bas been sent by Senator Pugh's represtative of the Commercial Club of Birmingham. If the delegation still persists in coming to Washington, they will hare to content themselves with informal interviews with the various members of the com? mittee, instead of receiving a public hearing. Congressman Magner of New Fork is protesting vigorously agaiost the plac? ing of cotton bigging on the free list, and bas to non need to D?mocratie mem ben of the ways mod means committee that be will vote against their bill if it coo tai ns thia provision. Congressman Bland of Missouri hoe also come to the front lately io the role of one of those dissatisfied with the pro? posed tariff bill, and is reported aa threatening to vote agaiost the bill aod fight it oo the floor of the Howe if it places wool oo the free list. Work of Incendiaries. SPABTANBDRG, S. C., NOV. 15. The new Windsor Hotel one of the finest hotel structures in this part of the State, costing over $30,000 was par? tially burned this morning at 1 o'clock. There was less than $5,000 insurance, which will not cover the loss. It was evidently the work of incendiaries. The house was fired in three separate aud distinct places-near the kitchen on the first floor, and in the bath rooms on the second and third. The fire was put out by the department, and shows that there was no connection between the three places. The room aloogside one place and immediately above another was occu? pied by Postoffice Inspector Fred D. Peer, who bas caused the arrest of thirty or forty defaulting postmasters in this county. In the room be bad all the records of the cases, bogus bonds, forged bonds and several trunks full of documentary evidence against the prisoners. These papers were arranged on a table in the room, and a nnmber of the witnesses bad seen them there when they came to be examined. Mr. Peer's room was more seriously dam? aged than any, and be procured these papers with the utmost difficulty, mak? ing three, attempts and being driven back by the smoke. All the records were saved finally. This, together with the fact, that the home of one of the witnesses for the Uni? ted States was burned a few weeks ago in his absence, and some evidence di stroyed, leads to the suspicion that the Windsor fire was a direct attempt, if not to burn the inspector, to destroy his papers. --marnte -- In 1887 there were 9 230 failures in the United States only 1,709 being in the south. In 1888 there were 9.747 failures, 1.S95 being in the south. In 1889 there were ll 023, 1,730 in the south In 1890 there were 9,842, 1,467 in the south. In 1891 there were 11,620 in the United State?, only 2.158 being in the south. During the recent panic 549 banks failed in the United States of which there were only 84 in the south, with 394 at the west. This is a most creditable showing for our section as a factor in finance in the general government. Highest of all in Leavening Pow ABSOLU! Shall We Remain Slaves, Lest We Become Slaves. L?ureos Advertiser. White people not only should but will continue to rule. Racial superiority cannot be overcome. Intelligence is impregnable, and negroes io power are mere creatures of frighted imaginations. Whenever the test comes, this paper and its editor, cost what it may, wtfl do their part in maintaining the govern? ment by white men, "Reconstruction" as we knew it was an appendix to the war and a part of that cruel record lt was made possible and inflicted upou us by the mistaken North. It cannnot return. The war is over and good government in the South bas the sympathy and commands the aid of all Yankeedom. We are not ready to confess that the white people of the South are incapable of disagreeing and voting against each' other without consenting for themselves to sink into a race of scalawags. If we cannot take issue with each other on questions of public economy ' unless to end in anarchy, we are all slaves.., if we cac suppress the negro and are yet helpless to restrain oar own greed and passioo. thea we are collectively a set of beastly, crazy and irresponsible foots, aod eotitled to no more respect than brute force inspires. The Advertiser bas not always believed as it does 00?. Touching these matters H has'felt with the Greenville News. Now it thinks differently, boping that its vision is clearer sod its perspective of oar embarrassing political condition is seen . io a stronger light. . Are we to have 00 political con no? tions ? Are those of os who are Demo? crats by instinct aod training to stand j ready to surrender oar opinions and . become the flunkeys of others who out? number us? Must we wear thia gar ment of Democracy, whose texture of troth we hooor aod trust, only at the bidding aod by the indulgence of Pop? ulists ? Sn Omitting in meekness aod . tame servility shall we tear rt off while Mr. Tillman eries: "Down, you dogs, be quiet while I protect yeo iron the nigger!" What confideoce shall we place | io Tillman, who treated" wi* negro < State Senators for their votes md aided aod abetted the disposai of Mr: Moise's congressional majority to Ooo. #7 Morrey! Aod io the meantime what shall we say for ourselves erben the | patriotic Democrats of other Sutes demand of us the vote of South Carolina | in the struggle against Republican fraud | and robbery ? Do circumstance* justify us now in becoming ingrates to all our Northern friends ?od in cancelling every political obligatio? that we owe to the country 'i The Greenville N-^ws once drew a painfully graphic picture of the times ; that South Carolinians saw before ; Hampton came in 1876. and it is not. pleasant to contemplate their recurrence. But the question now is one of free thought. The slavery of opinions;: is infinitely worse tLan the aervi-:~ tude . whieh simply exacts labor. The liberty of thinking and speak? ing and voting as one's conscience tells ; bim is not to be idly flung away even at the menace of ? ?ark apparition, which to some is as real as to OB it is disgusting. We should not say that it is oot worthy of defeose though we ?new that it would bring a? time when "a white man could not show bis face 00 the streets unless he ww prepared to fight his way through aoW shoot quick aod straight.** A Queer Habit. The mules of Sumter county most, have a very queer habit or else a colored man, who was arrested here 00 Thurs? day last on the charge of stealing one of those animals, belied the character of the one he took. Mr. J. P. KU-. ? gore of Bishopville. recently had a mule stolen from him and on Thursday isaac Mack, colored, ?as arrested in Darlington for having the animal in his possession. Wheu questioned about the matter Mack denied that he had stolen the mule and said that it had met him on the road and "just took on to him " Mr. Kilmore who came over for his mule, thought, however, that Mack had better tell the Court about thc queer "taking on1' habit that the mule has and "just tookron to him*' (Mack) and carried him back to Sumier.-Dar? lington News Congressman O'Ferrall, Governor elect of Virginia, thinks the Populist movement is ended, at least in Virginia and the South, and that it has seen its best days in the West. The contest of the future, be thinks, will be between the old parties. ---?SP ir.-Latest U. S. Gov't Report/ Baking EDT PUH?