The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, December 27, 1893, Image 1
THE SUMTER WATCHMAN, Established April, 185U.
"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 Jane, 1266.
Consolidated Aug. 2,1881. SUMTER, S. C., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1893. Sew Series-Vol. XIII. No. 22.
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Published Ehrery Wednesday,
-BY
r*T. CSV. Osteen,
SUMTER, S. C.
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Office and Mills at Junction of W.
MM OP SOM IM,
SUMTER, S. C.
CITY AND COUNTY DEPOSITORY.
Transacts a general Banking business
Also bas
A Savings Bank Department,
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. RHAJW, President.
Cashier*.
THE mom NATIONAL BASK
OF SUMTER *
STATE, CITY AND COUNTY DEPOSI?
TORY, SUMTE ti, S. C.
Paid up Capital.$75,000 00
Surpius Fund ...... 11,500 00
Liabilities of Stockholders to
depositors acccording to the
jaw governing National Banks,
v in excess of their stock . . $75,000 00
Transacts a General Banking Business.
Careful attention given to collections.
SAYINGS 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, Julv and October.
* R M. WALLACE,
L. S. CARSON, President.
Au? 7. Cashier.
TAX NQTIC?T
OFFICE COUNTY TREASURER,
SUMTER CGUSTY,
Sr/jrrrB, S. C., Sept. 20, 1893.
THE TREASURER OF SUMTER County
gives notice tbnt bis books will be
opeo from the I5th dav of OCTOBER, 1893,
to the 31st day of DECEMBER, 1893, for
the collection of Taxes for the fiscal year 1892
and 1833, for Sumter County.
The following are toe rates per centum of
the levy :
For State purposes-five and one-half ?
mills on every dollar of the value all taxable
property.
For ior??nary county purposes-two and
three-foo tb* mills on every dollar of the value
of all taxable property.
Special eounty tax for past indebtedness
one-fourth of one mill.
Special county tax for new jail-one
mill.
Constitutional school tax-two mills.
Mavesviltr, two mills extra levy for school j
purposes in the town of Mayesville.
Swimming Pens, two mills extra levy for
school purposes in tbe township.
Sumter (outside of city limits), two mills
extra levy for school purposes in the town?
ship.
One dollar on each Poll between the ages
of 21 and 50 years.
The total levy in this couuty is eleven and ;
one-half mills.
D. E. KEELS, j
Sep. 27. County Treasurer. j
A. WHITE & SON, !
Fire Insurance Agency, j
ESTABLISHED 1866.
Represent, among other Companies :
LIVERPOOL k LONDON k GLOBE,
NORTH BRITISH k MERCANTILE,
HOME, of New York.
UNDERWRITERS' AGENCY, N. Y.,
LANCASTER INSURANCE CO.
Capital represented $75,000,000.
Feb. 12_?
NEW LUMBER YARD. |
IBEG TO INFORM MY FRIENDS AND
the public generally that my Saw Mill
located on the C. S. k N. R. R., just back of
my residence, is now io full operation, and I
am prepared to furnish all grades of Yellow
Pine Lumber from un bled timber, at prices
according to grades.
Yard accessible on North side of residence.
J. B. ROACH.
Feb 18.
RICE MILLS, CORN MILLS,
SAW MILLS.
RICE PLANTERS and RICE MILLERS can
boy a single machine, that will clean, hull
and polish rice ready for market for $350.
Corn millers ?an buy. best FRENCH BURR
MILL, in iron frame, fully guaranteed-ca?
pacity ten bushels meal per hour for $115.
Saw millers can buy. best variable friction
FEED MILL from $?90 ap to the largest
size, also Gang Rip Saws, Edgers' Swing
Saws, Planing Machines and all other Wood
Working Machinery. Also
Talbott'8 Engines and Boilers.
Special discounts made to cash purchasers
CaD meet any competition, quality considered
F. C. BADHAM,
Apr 19-o COLUMBIA, S. C.
J . B# C ARK9
Contractor and Builder,
Sumter, S. C.
DEALER IN
Rough and Planed Lumber, Doors, Blinds,
Sash, Laths,
* Cypress Shingles,
Lime, Glass and General Building Supplies.
Mill Work
Of all kinds made tu order, such as
MANTLES
DOOR AND WINDOW FRAMES,
STORE FRONTS,
MOULDINGS AND TURNED WORK
* ' OF EVERY DESCRIPTION.
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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,
June 21 Sumter, S. C.
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A TONUX NER^V^^
Like Cures Like.
The Poison of the Swnmp has its Antidote in
the Swamp,
For Malaria, Nervousntss, Indigestion Dys?
entery and Bowel Complaint, ask your dealer
for MONTEREY. If he does not keep it,
we wiil send vou a large bottle, express
prepaid, on receipt of Si .00.
MONTEREY Co ,
Florence, S. C , Props, and Mfrs.
F. W. WAGENER & Co ,
Oct. ll. Charleston, State Agents.
DR. I M\ SIMMS,
DENTIST.
Office
OVER BROWN & BROWN'S STORE,
Entrance on Main Street
Between Brown & Brotfn and Durant & Soc.
OFFICE HOURS:
9 to 1.30; 2 to 5 o'clock.
April 9. 2
Hampton's Reply to Evans
and Stokes.
WASHINGTON, D. C , Dec. 16, '93.
Messrs W. D. Evans and J. Wm.
Stokes, Gentlemen : I was ont of the
State when your open letter to me
waft published, and I did not see it
nntii a friend sent to me a copy of a
paper containing it, it, a few days
before I left Columbia This has
been the cause of my delay in reply?
ing to it, and 1 do so now with entire
frankness
Let me say, befoie discussing the
questions you propound, that I
have never charged that Alian ce men
were not Democrats, nor have I ever
denounced the Farmers' Alliance,
though I do not agree with some of
the demands announced in their plat
form I am in full sympathy with
every legitimate effort to relieve the
burthen of that great class-our
farmers-a c ass to which I have
always belonged, and I shall always
co-operate heartily in any movement
for their relief.
It would make this communication
too long should 1 enter into a discus?
sion of all the questions you have
asked me, so 1 shall endeavor to give
my reason for sayingf that "No man
who upholds tile Ocala platform can
properly claim to be a Democrat."
lu your letter you ..summarize the
several planks in the Ocala platform,"
but it strikes me that you have
omitted in your summary some of
the most important planks in that
platform, and in order that I may
supply this omission on your part I
subjoin the Ocala platform in full
As 1 have seen no modification of this
declaration of the principles upheld
by the party you represent, nor any
repudiation of the doctrines enuciated,
I take it for granted that this plat?
form embodies the demands and
declares the creed of the Ocalaites.
THE ORIGINAL OCALA FLATFORM.
1. (a\ We demand the abolition of
the National banks
(6) We demand that the Govern?
ment stiall establish sub-treasuries in
the several States, which shall issue
money direct to the people at a low
rate of tax, not to exceed 2 per cent
per annum, on nonperishable farm
products, and also upon real estate,
with proper limitations upon the
quantity of laud and amount of
money
(c) We demand that the amount of
the circulating medium be speedily
increased to not less tkan $50 per
capita.
2. VVe demand that Congress shall
pass such laws as will effectually
prevent the dealing in futures of all
agricultural and mechanical produc?
tions: providing a stringent system
of procedure in trials that will secure
prompt conviction, arid imposing!
such penalties as shall secure the
most perfect compliance with the law.
3. We condemn the silver bill
recently passed by Congress, and
demand in lieu thereof the free and
unlimited coinage of silver.
4. We demand the passage of laws
prohibiting the alien ownership of
land, and that Congress take prompt
action to devise some plan to obtain
all lands now owned by aliens and
foreign syndicates and that all lauds
now held by railroads and other
corporations i ti excess of such as is
actually used and needed by them be
reclaimed by the Government and
held by actual settlers only
5. Believing in the doctrine of
equal rights to all and special
privileges to none we demand
(a) That our national legislation
shall be so framed in the future as not
to build up one industry at the
expense of another.
(6) We further demand a removal
of the existing heavy tariff tax from
the necessities of life that the poor of
our laud must have.
(c) We further demand a just and
equitable system of graduated tax on
incomes
(d) We believe that the money of
the country should be kept as much
as possible in the hands of the peo?
ple, and hence we demand that all
national and State revenues should
be limited to the necessary expenses j
of the Government economically and !
honestly administered.
6. VVe demand the most rigid,
honest and just State and national !
government control and supeivision!
of the means of public commtinica- j
tion and transportation, and, if this
control and supervision does not
remove the abuse now existing, we
demand the Government ownership j
of such means of communication and j
trasportation.
7. We demand that the .Congress j
of the United States submit an amend- j
ment to the Constitution providing for j
the election of United States Senators
by direct vote of the people of each !
State.
Now, I shall compare this platform j
with that of the National Democratic j
party, and I think that all intelligent
and impartial men will admit that the
two platforms do not conform, and
are in many most important principles
antagonistic. j
Your platform demands "the aboli?
tion of national banks ;" No such 1
demand is made by the Democrat!
party. It may have escaped you
memory, if you ever knew the fad
that these banks hold charters whic
will not expire until 1907, so tba
there would be some difficulty in th
immediate "abolition of the nations
banks."*
You demand "the establisfimen
of sub-treasuries in the severa
States." Every lawyer of pi omi
nence whom I'have heard express ai
opinion on tins proposition declare
it to be unconstitutional. The Demo
eratic party can scarcely adopt ai
unconstitutional measure, and. i
seems to me that this cardinal demain
might at least be called "a fallacy."
You "condemn the silver bill recent
ly passed by Congress, and demain
in lien thereof the free and unlimite<
coinage of silver." is this demain
in accordance with the Democratic
platform ?
Your platform demands the owner
ship of railroad and telegraph line
by the Government, under certaii
conditions. When the people tak>
into consideration the fact that th<
amount of capital invested in rail
roads is twelve billions of dollars
and that the Government would hav<
to pay that enormous sum to semi ri
possession of these loads, th
proposition that the Governmen
should purchase them-for I take i
you would not advocate the confisca
don of this property-will strike al
sensible people as a decided fallacy
Seould the policy advocated in thi
plank of your platform be adopted
the people of the country would b
saddled with a debt several time
greater than that caused by the war
and the burthen of taxation, already
too onerous, would paralyze all indus
tries and entail ruin on the tas
payers.
Your party has, I believe, place?
itself in opposition to the repeal o
the prohibitory tax on State banks
and yet one plank in the Democrat^
platform advocates this measure.
Now, you must admit that you
I platform is not in accord with that o
the Democratic party, and I thin]
that I was fully justified in sayin<
that no mau standing on the Ocah
j platform could claim to be a Demo
erat. I do not question the patriot
ism of the men who agree with yoi
as to the true principles of JeiTer
somali Democracy, but 1 do not
construe those principles as you do
yet I have always regarded myself ai
a Democrat. There are severa
planks in your platform with which
concur, as does every true Democrat
as, for instance, your fourth and fiftl
questions Your seventh lias ?
I rather potent objection against it?
. adoption The Constitution pre
j scribes the mode of electing (Jnitei
\ States Senators, and until three
fourths of the States choose t(
change that mode the present methoc
must obtain.
I hardly think that the change will
be made in time to allow any of tht
present young aspirants of thi
Alliance to test their strength before
tiie people. However, I should not
object to that test in South Carolina,
and a primary might possibly expres?
the wishes of our people as weil, ii
not better, than the General Assem?
bly ; but I am quite content ta
stand in this matter, as in others, on
the Constitution, where my party has
always stood.
You have, I suppose, read the
Democratic platform, and if you
comprehend it you must see how
greatly it differs from yours. Very
many Demociats think that the
similarity of your platform and that
of the Populist is more marked
than that between Democratic and
the Ocala.
Your letter to me seems to have
been brought out by mine suggesting
the formation of Democratic clubs in
South Carolina. As vice president
of the National Democratic League
I was asked to authorize the organ?
isation of these clubs, and I wrote to
ascertain the wishes of the true
Democrats in the State, lt never
occurred to me that any white man
in South Carolina would be ashamed
to join a Democratic club. Should
there be any such, all can find their
alignment, for the Republicans,
Populists and the Ocalaites all hold
out allurements for recruits and
proselytes. There was a time when
it was the pride of our people to hold
au honorable place in the grand
Democratic column as National
Democrats, supporting their national
administration, and standing fast on
the platform of the Democratic patty.
"Times have changed, and we
have changed with them " It is the
fashion now to abuse our President,
to ignore the platforms of our party,
to promulgate new and strange
doctrines, and to worship false gods.
I am too old to change my faith for
piace or profit. I seek nothing at
the hands of our people ; but I can?
not forget that I am a South Caro?
linian, and my only ambition, my
sole aspiration, is for the welfare, the
dignity and the honor of th.e State to
who-e service many of the beet years
of my life have been devoted.
I have answered your courteous
and respectful letter frankly, and it j
may be my misfortune " to differ
radically with the views you advo?
cate, but ? claim for myself, what 1 j
accord to 3*ou, periect freedom of
opinion and of action. I am,
Very respectfully yours,
WADE HAMPTON.
The Hon. W. H. Brawley Ap- j
pointed to Succeed Judge ?
Simonton.
WASHINGTON, December 20 -
Special : Representative Brawley h'as
been nominated to the District Judge
ship made vacant by the promotion of
Judge Si moo ron; His appointment
was sent tu the Seoate this afternoon,
together with several other Presidential
nominations, it is probable that be
will not be confirmed uotil after the
holiday, recess although Senator Butler
will make an effort to-morrow to bave
the judiciary committee take immediate
action. The judiciary committee is a
very conservative budy, and it does nut
act hastily in dealing with judicial
nominations It bas its regular order
of procedure, and as there will be no
regular meeting of the committee until
after the recess, Major Brawley may
have to wait a few weeks bet?re be is
entitled to be addressed as .'Judge.1'
It is uoderstood the President tendered
bim the appointment at the same time
that Judge Simonton's promotion was
agreed upon. Mr. Brawley was given
a few days to consider the matter, aod
at first be was disposed to decline the
honor. He consulted his friends at
home and in Congress, and tbey were
almost unanimous io urging bim to
accept it. His career in Congress bas
been particularly bri li ant and his re?
tirement from the House will be
generally regretted by bis associates,
who have teamed to regard him as one
of tbe ablest and most distinguished
Representative from the South. He
will shortly send his resignation as a
member of the South Carolina delega?
tion to Governor Tillman
A Meteor Atter Daylight.
From The News an<l Courier, Dec. 21.
Mr. H. H. Corbett, of St. Charles.
Sumter County visited the office of
The News and Courier yesterday after?
noon tu call attentioo to an astronomical
phenomenon of which he was an eye?
witness He said that yesterday
morning while he was on a train on the
Wilmington. Columbia and Augusta
Railroad going from Sumter to Florence,
and while in the immediate neighbor?
hood of Timraonsville, the passengers
were startled by a great and sudden
; light illuminating the country and
the interior of the car. He looked out
of the window and ^aw in the sky pars?
ing over the train an object resem?
bling the moon in size and color, but
with a long vapory tail. The object
passed very rapidly in a northeast
direction, but finally seemed to stand
still in the sky about 15 degres ab>ve
the horizon. The tail was not steady,
but assumed different Miapes, at one
time looking like tbe letter S aud a
another time like the letter G but it at
last became nearly perpendicular. The
object was still visible at sunrise look?
ing like a small moon, but. tbe tail had
disappeared.
Mr. Coi bett says that the negroes in
the country through which the train
passed on its way to Florence were
wild with excitement and terror caused
by the meteor, and that when he
arrived in Florence everybody was.
talking about it and trying to account
for the phenomenon. A lady who was
on the trian with Mr. Corbett, and who
said she had travelled a great deal,
acknowledged that she had never seen
the like before, and said that if she bad
not still seen the nucleus of the meteor
in the sky she would have supposed
that it bad fallen in some large body of
water, and that the tail was the ??team
arising thereform.
Io regard to the meteor passing
rapidly over the cars and then at a
great distance appearing to stand still
in tbe sky, the explanation seems to
her that while tbe motion was directly
across the angle of vision it was easily
perceptible but that when the meteor
had passed so far that the Hue of its j
motion became perpendicular to, or j
bisected the angle of vision, its motiou,
however rapid, was no longer per?
ceptible.
TIIK PHENOMENON AS SEEN IN NORTH
CAROLINA
WILMINGTON, December 20 -A
curious phenomenon was seen in the
heavens here from balf-past 6 to 7
o'clock this morning, lt made a
magnificent display, but no one seems
Highest of all in Leavening Pow*
ABSOUS!
i ble to determine jost what it was,
jome describing ir. as a meteor and
Dthers as a comet. Ooe eyewitness says
it had the appearance cf a large star
with a tail which, to the naked eye,
seemed about one hundred yards loog.
The business end of it finally burst,
leaving a train of fire behind ' many
and beautiful colors One colored
istrooomer sajs he paw the letters **W
W W" distinctly outlined while another
avers that the word .. Prepare'* was
there plain as day.
RALEIGH, December 20.-Passengers
on the train near Borlington saw an
unusual phenomenon in the western tky
this morning from 3 to 6 o'clock. It
looked like a flash of lightning, a zig?
zag, 30 degrees long, fixed in the
heavens At 6 40 it was seen at
Raleigh, but then not so brilliant, but
luminous
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Legal Antiquities.
In Virginia, where tobacco was the
chief prodnction, it was early used, as
money. Taxes were collected and fines
assessed in tobacco by weight. In 1624
it was enacted that any person absent?
ing himself from divine service any Sun?
day shonld forfeit a pound of tobacco,
and if absent fonr consecutive Sundays,
50 ponnds of tobacco. The law extend?
ed to ministers, who were required to
"preach in the forenoon and catechise in
the afternoon of every Sunday," under a
forfeiture of 500 pounds of tobacco. But
for any "popish recusant" who should
assume to exercise public office, or even
remain in the colony "above five days
after warning," the penalty was 1,000
ponnds of tobacco.
Clergymen were paid in tobacco, but
in-1632, owing to the low price of that
commodity, there was added to their al?
lowance "every twentyeth calfe, kulde
and pigge." The value of tobacco and
almost everything else was regulated by
statute or judicial decree. In Maryland
(1699) it was enacted that every tavern
keeper who demanded above 10 jjounds
of tobacco for a gallon of small beer, 20
potmds for a gallon of strong beer, 4
pounds for a night's lodging iu a bed or
12 pounds for a peck of oats, should for?
feit for each offense 500 pounds of to?
bacco.-Green Bag.
An Indian on tbe Creation.
In the beginning God made Adam out
of the earth, but he did not make Glus
kabe (the Indian God). Glus-kabe made
himself out of the dirt that was kicked
up in the creation of Adam. He rose
and walked about, but he could not
speak until the Lord opened his lips.
God made the earth and the sea, and
then he took counsel with Glus-kabe
concerning them. He asked him if it
would be better to have the rivers run
up on one side cf the earth and down on
the other, but Glus-kabe said, "No, they
must all run down one way."
Then the Lord asirul him about the
ocean, whether it would do to have it
always lie still. G:as-kabe told him,
"No!" It must rise and fall, or else it
would grow thick and stagnant.
"How about fire:'" asked the Lord,
"can it burn all the time and nobody
put it out?"
Glus-kabe said, "That would not do,
for if anybody got burned and fire could
not be put out they would die, but if it.
could be put out then the burn would .
get well."
So he answered all the Lord's ques*
tions.-Popular Science Monthly.
Through a Woman's Efforts. .
"Friedenheim, the Home of Peace For"
the Dying," is the name of an institution:
opened by the Duchess of Teck in No?
vember, 1892. It opens its doors to those
for whom human aid can do nothing
further toward restoration to health. 1st;
this haven of rest intelligent care taking'
does what it can to alleviate the last,
Bufferings Ox hopeless disease. Frieden-:
beim is supported by voluntary contri?
butions. It was founded through the'
efforts of Miss Davidson.
A Dainty Amulet.
If your name is Margaret, you have the
right to wear the little "Canipanello Mar
gherita," after your royal namesake,
the queen cf Italy, who set the pretty
fashion. And the canipanello is a tiny
four sided gold bell with an inscription
in Greek, "I-little bell-was made
against fascination." a copy of an old
Roman amulet. A slender chain holds
the charm around neck or waist. It may
be added that other than Margarets
wear this latest trinket of fashion.
New York Times.
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tem an?! prevent :is wwi a? cur? alt malaria! fe?
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indigestion try Klectric Bitters-entire satis?
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