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utan THI 3U9TSB WATCHMAN, Established April, 1850. "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, 1266. Consolidated Aug. 2,1881. SUMTER, S. C., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1893. Sew Series-Vol. XIII. No. 19, Cb Sf?tatdnrcm at? Sontjiron. .J ' s INT. s C2k i Osteenj SUMTER, S. G. TBEsts : Two Dollars per annum-io advance. ADVERTISEMENT:* * One Square first insertion-.$1 00 S very subsequent insertion....... ~.- 50 Contracts for three months, or longer will be made at reduced rates. AH communications wb?ch subserve private interests will be charged for as advertisements. Obituaries and tributes of respect will be charged for. rpHS SUPERVISOR OF REGISTRATION J_ will bis m bis office on Salesday of each month, for the parp?se of issuing certificates of Registrat too to adi $eaooit who have be? come twenty-one rears of age since the last General election. Also transfers to those who have changed place of residence. . " I t W. S. ?AMES, Supervisor of Registration. fly? fj ._I_ Office and Mills at Jonction of W. THE BM UP SHIM, SUMTER, S. C crry AND COUNTY DEPOSITORY. Transacts a general Banking business ; Also ha? : mt, Deposits of $1.00 and upwards received. Interest calculated at the rate of 4 per cent, per annum, payable quarterly. W. F. B. HAYNS WORTH, W. F. RH A KB, President. Cashier*. THE SHMTOS RATIONAL BINK OF SUMTER. STATE, CITY AND COUNTY DEPOSI? TOR^ SU UTE ti, & C. Paid np Capiiifffl if W f? $75,000 00 Surplus Fund . . Z \ 11,500 00 Liabilities of Stockholders to depositors acccordiog to the law governing National Basks, fh excess of their sleek . . $75,000 00 Transacts a General Banking Business. Careful attention given to collections. SAVOTGS DEPARTMENT. Deposits of $1 and upwards received. In? terest allowed at the rate of 4 per cent, per annum. Payable quarterly, on first .days of January. April, July and October. R M. WALLACE, L. S. CARSON, President. Aug 1._Cashier._ TAX NOTICE" OFFICE COUNTY TREASURER, ] SUMTER COUNTY, >. Soma, S. C., Sept. 20, 1893. j THE TREASURER OF SUMTER County gives notice that his books will be open from the 15th day of OCTOBER, 1893, tothel5tb 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 property. For ordinary county purposes-two and three-foutbs mills on every dollar of the value of all taxable property. Special county tax for past indebtedness one-fourth of one mill. Special county tax for new jail-one roi?l. Constitutional school tax-two mills. Maye8vii!e, two mills extra levy for school purposes tn the town of Mayesville. Swimming Pens, two mills extra levy for school purposes in the township. Sumter (outside of city limits), two mills extra levy for school purposes in the town? ship. Oae dollar on each Poll between the ages of 21 and 50 years. The total levy in this county is eleveo and one-half mills. D. E. KEELS, County Treasurer. Sep. 27._ Order Your PROVISIONS AND GROCERIES FROM 610. f. STEFFENS & SON, Wholesale Agents, Charleston, S. C. -Agents for MOTT'S CXDSB, BED SEAL CI&ABS, and DOVE HAMS. Ay ER'S Sarsaparilla life Ipil CURES OTHERS, Will CURE Vou. Contractor and Builder, Sumter, S. C. DEALER IN Rough and Planed Lumber, Doors, Blinds, Sash, Laths, 1 Cypress Shingles, Lime, Glass and General Building Supplies. m Work Of all kinds made tu order, such as MANTLES DOOR AND WINDOW FRAMES, STORE FRONTS, MOULDINGS AND TURNED WORK OF EVERY DESCRIPTION. C. A. A.. and C. S. A N. R. R's. H. A. HOYT, MAIN STREET. SUMTER, S. C. SOLD AND SILVER WATCHES, FINE DIAMONDS, Clocks, Jewelry Spectacles, MERIDEN BRITANIA SILVERWARE, Ac. REPAIRING A SPECIALTY. Feb. 1_ .Monterey. M Tie Moils' Remedy. 1845. A TONIC, NERVINE, BLOOD FUR?FIER. Like Cures Like. The Poison of the Swamp has its Antidote in the Swamp, For Malaria, Nerrousntss, Indigestion Dys? entery and Bowel Comnlnint. ask vour dealer for MONTEREY. If he does not keep it, we wiil send y OM a large bottle, express orepaid, on receiotofSl 00. MONTEREY Co , Florence, S. C , Props, and Mfrs. F. W. WAGENER & Co , Oct. ll. Charleston. State Agents. DR. ILIUM DENTIST. Office OVER BROWN A BROWN'S STORE, Entrance on Main Street Between Brown A Brown and Durant A Son. OFFICE HOURS: 9 to 1.30: 2 to 5 o'clock. April 9. 2 NEW LUMBER YARD. IBEG TO INFORM MY FRIENDS AND the public generally that my Saw Mill located on the C. S. A N. R. R., just back of my residence, is now in full operation, and I am prepared to furnish all grades of YTellow Pine Lumber from unbled timber, at prices according to grades. Yard accessible on North side of residence. Feb 18. J. B. ROACH. Letter Prom Senator M. C. Butler. The editor of The Greenville Moun? taineer, believing that tbe views of Senator Butler upon the proposed Organization of Democratic Leagues would prove interesting to the public, addressed a letter to that gentleman not long ago, to which the following aoswer has been received. WASHINGTON, Nov. 22od, 1893. Col. Jas. A. Hoyt, Greenville, S. C. My Dear Sir : I am in receipt of your letter of the 13th inst, asking my 4'views on the proposed organization of Democratic Leagues io Sooth Caro? linaI am not well enough advised of the object of the "proposed organi? zation" to give a very intelligent opin? ion io regard to it. My understanding of the objects of the National Demo eratic Association or League, of which the Hon. Chauncey Black, of Pennsyl? vania, is president, and Mr. Lawrence Gardner, of this city, is secretary, is that they shall be auxiliary or supple? mental to the regular organizations io -the different States and Territories, and are rather educational than strict? ly political. That is to say they are instrumentalities for the collection and distribution ot Democratic literature, and are convenient organizations to as? semble aod hear addresses on financial or economic topics by distinguished Democratic speakers. If that be the purpose.of the "proposed organization io Sooth Carolina" I can see no objec? tion to it. We all oeed instruction in sound Democratic- doctrine, and I should welcome any movement that would promulgate or encourage lt. if, on the other hand, the object be to organize Leagoes or Associations in? dependent of aod-in antagonism to the regular Democratic organization of the State, I think it would be unwise and impolitic. What we most need in South Carolina is harmony and good feeling among the Democratic masses. We cannot disguise the fact that there are two factions rn oar party. Sin? cere, hooest Democrats are to be found in both, and I think it only needs pa? tience and toleration and forbearance, for differences of opinion one with the other to bring our people together. It is for the ?nteres*- of nome men to keep op dimension, wrangling, angry recriminations and abase, bat the great body of Democrats io both fac? tions are tired of it. Of course there are those who live and thrive ou con? fusion sod dissension. They have nothing else to sustain them, and when party strife is- ended and matters settle do wo to a normal state, they sob side aod disappear. Bot, as I have re? marked, our people are at heart con? servative aod waot peace. Peace cao be secured ou perfectly honorable terms to both faction? if oar people are allowed to get together ? fear the organization of the pro? posed Leagues would operate as a fire? brand rather than a sedative-woold be seized apon by agitators to wideD the breach. That at least is my apprehen? sion. Whatever reform may be desired in the regalar Democratic organization must aod can be effected inside the organization. I trust, therefore, that we shall go aloog io thc regular way and close up our ranks to make common cause for-.good government, I have heard it hinted that one fae? tioo or the other has,or may appeal to the negro vote to defeat the other. I sincerely and devoutly pray that no such calamity may ever befall my native State. The degradation of the ballot, the demoralization of the white people, not yet cured from the experiences of '76, would be something too terrible to contemplate. With such a great pre? ponderance of negroes, we can draw no comfort or encouragement from experi? ences io other States, with white majorities. For myself. I have strug? gled for white supremacy and shall continue to struggle for its permaoency. Whatever ? am I owe to the white people of South Carolina, and by them aud with them I shall survive or perish. Above all things, let me implore our people to bear with one auother. coun? sel with one another in a spirit of pa? triotic toleration aud enlightened for? bearance. The political fate of any mau or se* of men is of small concern, when balanced agaiu>t the welfare of ali our people. Young men are coming to the front full of political ardor and honor? able ambition. They should be en? couraged on the lines of such political methods as will ensore good govern? ment and ready obedience to law justly administered. Upon their shoulders will rest the burdeos and responsibilities of maiotaioiog social order and admin? istering the affairs of the government. They cannot do this satisfactorily with the ballot degraded, as it most be by an appeal to the negro vote, uotil this race has made more enlightened progress io the scale of civilization. Some of them are equal to the duties of citizenship now, but as a whole they are uot. Very truly yours, M C. BUTLER By order of Attorney General Olney, all the Chinamen arrested in San Fran? cisco for violation of the Geary act have been released from jail. Bad Bookkeeping. A critical correspondent sends us thi following : To the Editor of The State : I bej to call attention to some misleading figures in the statement of assets of tbi State dispensary. The item "amoun due by dispensers, $82,953.70," re presents not the cost of the liquor t( the State, but that cost with the Stalte'i profit added. As the State owns thc liquor until sold by the county dispen sers-who are simply agents of th< Stat?-it is manifestly improper, ir "taking stock.'' to add any profit to the unsold goods in the county dispensaries otherwise all that would be necessary tc enrich the State would be for it to bu j millions of dollars worth of liquor aud charge it to the county dispensaries with profit added BOOKKEEPER The propriety of this criticism will be recognized by every one who is ac? quainted with business methods. Gov? ernor Tillman, in order to make a show of remunerativeness for the dispensary system, has simply included among the assets of the business its anticipated profits. Mulberry Seilers worked on the same principle when he igured out his revenues, from the sale of eye-water to the Orientals The dispensary law permits a profit of 50 per cent to be charged by the State dispenser on the liquors shipped by him to the county dispensers. The $82,953.70 shown ty Governor Till? man as assets includes this hoped-for profit of 50 per cent. The real assets amounts only to two-thirds of that sum, or $55.302.46. The profits improperly included are $27,651.23 Let us recast the account ; Deduct? ing $27,651.23 from the ''amount due by dispensers," and from the total of the assets, we baie an apparent profit on four months1 business cf $4,546.93, or at the rate of $13,640.79 a year. And this on a business which requires $50,000 worth of spy labor to protect -or fail to protect! Any material increase in the number of spies-and the number would have to be multiplied by tea to deal even with the whiskey wagons which pour in across the border -would wipe out this pitful profit and leave the State in debt for whiskey. Promise, $500,000 annual profits. Performance, $13,000 annual profits. A high license law would bring the State a sure revenue of at least $100.? 000, sans spies, sans "breakage," sans blind tigers, sans tyranny. Will the Legislature be longer fooled by this shallow and pretentious sham of a "reform ?" Since the foregoing was written we received the following letter, ?hieb represents the conclusions of three bookkeepers who met together last evening and tried to sift the dis? pensary figures: To the Editor o? The State : What does the dispensary report show 7 What does it not show 7 it is an extremely difficult matter to make bead of tail of of it. From a business .standpoint it is unique and befuddling, to say the least. It is claimed that there is a profit, but the figures certainly do not snow it. Who ever heard of a business man putting down as assets profits that have never been realised or. siock undisposed of? What ie this done for? Is it to mislead the casual reader, or is it a new system of bookkeeping V We may be in error, but the report seems to claim what the figures do not prove. The figures, as furnished by the report show a small loss, wiping <>ut all available assets, includiug the $50,000 appro? priated. The detailed statement shows, in round numbers, stock purchased-in? cluding bottles, corks, etc -$158,000. Deducting stock ou hand, $39,000, leaves a total of $119,000. Add 50 per cent, for the State dispensary's profits, and the amount is $178,500. But $185.000 is claimed as the sum which the State has received and is to to receive from the county dispensers. Received from dispenser*, $100,000, State appropriation, $50,000 ; total, $150,000. Running expenses, $72, UOO: paid on merchandise. $70,000: total expenditures, $142,000-leaving, in round numbers, $8,000 in cash ou band, with $61,000 in bills payable What remains in the shape of assets to pay this $61.000 and $50,000, $111,000 io all ? Why, $82.000 in stock on the shelves of the county dispensaries, which would probably be disposed of during the next three mouths, $10,000 advanced to distillers, which it is hoped will be returned. $39,000 in stock in the State dispensary, and $7,500 cash in the State treasury a total of $138,500. This is nominally a profit of $27,500. But deduct from the $82.000 "due by dispensers," $27,600 of profit that bas not yet been made, and will not likely be made for three mouths, and a small but actual deficit is sbowo. So there it is in another form, and by another method of calculation ! Putting figures aside, the common? sense way of looking at the Governor's bookkeeping is this : He bas claimed as assets $27,600 of profits which are only anticipated as yet and cannot be realized until the end of the next quarter. Then, at the end of the next quarter, the dispensary will be able to show not a dollar of these profits, for they have been appropriated io advance. During four months the local dis? pensaries have sold $100,000 worth of liquors at the dispensary's validation. With the railroads hauling competitive liquor io to the State, the wagon trade booming and the blind tigers multiplying, can they dell $82,000 worth in the next three months ? Hardly ! Yet if they should succeed io clearing off this stock oa haod io that time, the Stare, accord io g to the Governor's method of bookkeeping, would oot make one dollar. Indeed, it would lose heavily, for it must maiotaio its force of spies, irs Liquor Hall pay roll, aod meet other expenses-the whole aggregatiog over $30,000. Were the State's liquor business to be closed out today it could oot pay 100 ceots oo tte dollar. It is living co credit, aod trying to set off its past indebtedness with its hope of future pro? fits. We hope the Legislature will appoint a committee to look into the dispensary's financial condition aod investigate the Governor's method of bookkeeping, Some inquiry of the sort should be made before aoy attempt is made to patch up the system.-The State. Tillman i >nd tbe Judges. Governor Tillman's salty criticism io bis recent message of the federal judges who are obstructing the peculiar liquor law of South Carolina reminds The Bal? timore Sun of a good story. Our coo temporary says : Io the good days io St. Mary's county. Maryland, long before the war, the bench was occupied by three estim? able gentlemen, remarkable for their mild manners and ge ni al sociability. One day the court was aonoyed by the disorderly coodact of a mao io the court ball who bad gazed too intently upon the whiskey while it was amber. Again and again the presidiog judge rapped his gavel. Finally, wheo patience ceased to be a virtue, the sheriff was ordered to ?ake the man to jail. As the culprit staggered out of the door be turned around, aod with all the scorn aod indignation io his voice which bis condition would allow, he addressed himself to the judges : ''Tibia is a pretty court," be said, "to send a gentleman to jail. Two of them have taken advantage of the in sol ven1: law and the other one has the itch." The Sun admits that the governor'^ com ?ients are couched io more classi? cal laoguage than the Marylander employed, but it thinks that be is equally severe. It is an interesting situation. If uoder the rulings of the federal courts the "railroads uoder their control in the hands of receivers, must carry whisky shipped from other states and deliver it into the bands of the consignees in South Carolina, it goes! without baying that the state dispensary law cannot be generally enforced. The final resuit is doubtful. The federal courts are powful, but Governor Tillman is a man of original expedients great determination, untiring energy and absolute fearlessness. Since Troup ! was governor of Georgia no state has ? had a stronger champion of local home rule in the gubernatorial chair.-Atlan? ta Constitution. A Sumter County Muddle. There is a sort of muddle io Sumter County just now. The Conservatives carried the county last year, and Sena? tor Abbot is the only Tillmanite on the legislative delegation. A few days ago Colooel Mellett, ooe of the County Commissioner, died, aod instead of the choice of bis successor being left to the delegation the Tillman? ite executive committee undertook to make a recommendation hut failed to agree, and there is a good deal . of irritation in the faction in that county on account of it The practice has been for the Gover? nor to leave it to the delegations from each county to make recommendation for appointments iu such cases, and the Representatives from Sumter County do not like it because a departure from the rule and discrimination have been made against them. Senator Abbot was seen by a Regis? ter reporter last night and asked about, th** matter. He says that the Conser? vatives carried ?he county io the last election, and he is opposed to the Re? presentatives of the county be ignored and discriminated io this matter, fie has written to Governor Tillman and will see him and make further efforts to induce Governor Tillman to refer the matter to tbe delegation as is the usual custom. He says if that is not done it will cause a good deal of friction aod Highest of all in Leavening Pow ABSOUS) irritation io tbe county, not only among tbe Conservatives, bot among the Tillmaoites as well. In facL he says it bas already done this Senator Abbot says he believes in doing what is right and jost, even though his whole faction may be opposed to bim. He says the Conservatives of Sumter Coooty have always treated him with the utmost courtesy aod he wishes that they shall be treated justly.-Col. Reg? ister, Nov. 29. - I I jil ? Sea Island Sufferers. Miss Barton's Appeal to Secretary Carlisle. WASHINGTON, NOV. 28.-Miss Clara Barton, president of tbe Red Cross Society, in an official letter to Secretrry Carlisle ander date of Beaufort, 3. C , November 26, says : I am informed by telegram from Mr. P. V. DeGraw, of the United Press that you have directed some boats to report to me for service at these Sea Islands. No words can tell yon how oeeded they are, oor bow welcome they will be. Io my dispatch to Mr. DeGraw, asking for a boat, ? said that without such facilities death from exposure might result ; desiring to avoid sensation I withheld the fact that the last three deaths reported to us were from that cause. We have 30,000 people scattered over 250 miles io length, destitute, not only of the comforts bot the necessaries of life. Six thousand houses have to be built or made to take them up from the Wioter ground ; not one in fifty bas a bed, blanket or cover, not one tn a hundred bas food for two days save tbe remnant of tbe weekly issue of charitable provisions we can make for them, which is the pitiful amoont of a peck of homioy and a pound of pork for a family of seven persons for a week and the sword of Damocles over oor heads pointing to the mouths beyood when we shall fail of that These seventy islands are cot and crossed by rivers, ofteo too narrow aod shallow to navigate, too wide and too deep to ford, aod again sweeping swift and dangerous. Their boats were nearly ail lost : the bridges are gooe aod neither lamber, nails or tool to make others ; whatever we have to give, we must Jlargely carry to them. Even if they had their little boats, io the long row of twenty to forty miles, te come for their provisions, in the frost and cold, half clad and half fed, they would perish. The families at home would starve. I bring these fact? to you, Mr. Secretary, oot to move you to greater pity, bot" "to show yu how needful a provision you have made, tbe suffering bodies you will barn saved, the faint hearts cheered. There are six months of this till something grows The privilege of a boat will be needed all tbe time-it is our only conveyance, we we cannot procure it or ourselves as ali our available fonds in sight for this field are less than 50 cents apiece for the next six months. The great cry of ali these meo is, after all. not so mach for food as for work. Seven o'clock of every moroing finds a gang of 150 to 200 men ?n frent of the headquarters waiting to learn .if we have shovels or hoes to let them go to work, either ditching the land, build? ing their houses, or preparing the ground for the oext year's planting and this without a cent of money ; only for the little '*^ation8,, of meal and meat, which they all know is already their own If we bad the suitable tools, or the means to purchase them, we could put 5.000 men at work in three days, under their owu foremen at seventy-five cents a day. payable in meal and meat for themselves and families, upon improvements which would make the sea islands the garden spot of the Eastern coast. Hereafter let no one say that the sea island negro is not wilting to work. , Occupied as your time is, Mr. Secre? tary. I wil! nor apologize for this long letter, for it is my 'inty to let the state of things be known and to those who have the ability to comprehend the situation, if not to relieve it. May I kindly ask of you the favor to pass this letter also to our hooored President Mr. Cleveland, whom I have not had the pleasure of meeting personally siuce his return to usa* Chief Magistrate With sentiment of the highest esteem and gratitude I have the honor to remain, v ry respectfully, CLARA BARTON. Pres. Anio. Na?. Red Cross. --^^~>-?~?* - TOADIES Needing atonic, cr children who want build? ing up. should take BROWN'S IRON BITTERS. It is pleasant to take, cures Malaria. Indi. Zeation, Biliousness and Liver Complaints. er.--Latest U. S. Gov't Report Baking Powder [ELY PURE