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utclnmut ano IHK WATCHMAN, Established April, 1850. "Be Just and Fear not-Let alEthe Ends thou Aims't at, be thy Country's, thy God's and Truth's." THE TRUE SOUTHRON, Established Jone, 1366 Consolidated Aug. 2,1881. SUMTER, S. C., WEDNESDAY, MAY 23, 1894. New Series-Vol. XIII. No. 43. Published fiver? Wednesdays .5 SUMTER, S. C. T6RMS : Two Dollars per annum-in advance. ADVSBTISSHSST: One Square first insert ion..................$1*00 Every sobseqnent insertion........ ......... 50 Contracts fer three months, or longer will be made at reduced rates. All commanicarioDS which subserve private interests will be charged for as advertisements. Obituaries and tributes of respect will be charged for. ~T TALE ~ SUITER INSTITUTE FOR WOMEN. Despite the stringency of the times, the Institute bas bad ? fairly prosper? ons year. With its foll corps of effi? cient teachers and high standard af scholarship, it offers advantages for educating your ladies, equal to any col? lege for women io this State. We in? tend that it shall grow in efficiency as it grows in years, and thus command the continued favor of its patrons, and commend itself to the favor-of all who bave daughters to educate. For terms ?od catalogues apply to I. FRANK WILSON, President, March 21 Sumter, S. 0. TBE SIMMS NATIONAL BIM OF SUMTER STATE, CITY AND COUNTY DEPOSI? TORY, SUMTE ci, S. C. Paid up Capital.$75,000 00 Surplus Fund. 12,500 00 Liabilities of Stockholders to depositors aeccordiog to the law governing National Banks, 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, July and October. B. M. WALLACE, . * L. S. Cissos, President. Aug 7._ Cashier._ NEW MARBLE WORKS. COMMANDER & RICHARDSON, LIBERTY STREET, SUMTER, S. C. WE HAVE FORMED A CO-PARTNERSHIP For the purpose of working Marble and Granite, manufacturing Innis, Msties, ic, And doing a General Business in that line. A complete workshop has been fitted up on LIBERTY STREET, NEAR POST OFF?CE And we are now ready to execute with promptness all orders consigned to us. Satis action guaranteed. Obtain our price before placing an order elsewhere. W. H. COMMANDER, G. E. RICHARDSON. Jnne 16. -. JOS. F. RH A ME. WM. C. DAVIS. KB AME & DAVIS, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, MANNING, a C. Attend to business in any part of the State Practice in U. S. Courts. Sept. 21-x._ G. W. DICK, D. DTST Office over Levi Bros.' Store, EHT&AXCK OK MAIN STREET. SUMTER, S. C. Office Hours-9 to 1 ; 2.30 to 5.30. DENTIST. Office OVER BROWN & BROWN'S STORE, Entrance on Main Street Between Brown & Brown aad Durant & Son. OFFICE HOURS: 9 to 1.30; 2 to 5 o'clock. April 9. 2 A. WHITE & SON, Fire Insurance Agency, ESTABLISHED 1866. Represent, among other Companies : LIVERPOOL & LONDON & GLOBE, NORTH BRITISH & MERCANTILE, HOME, of New York. UNDERWRITERS' AGENCY, N. Y., LANCASTER INSURANCE CO. Capital represented $75,000,000. Feb. 12 1890. 1894. A. C. PHELPS & C0M General Insurance Apts, Sumter, ?. C. Fire, Life, Accident, Steam Boiler, Plate Glass, Bonds of Surety for persons in posi? tions of trust, and Liability Insurance in every branch, written in the very best Amer? ican and Foreign Companies. Over sixty-five millions cf capiial repre? sented. Office at Messrs. J. Ryttenberg & Sons, 2d | Floor, Front. Mcb 14-0 i Our Political Chart i The State Constitution as Adopted in State Convention at Columbia S. C., September 10, 1890, and Amended in State Convention at Colum? bia, September 21, 1892. Article 1. There shall be one or more Democratic Clubs organized in each Township or Ward, each of which Clubs shall have a distinct title, "The - Democratic Club? and shall elect a presi? dent, one or more vice-presidents, a recording and a corresponding secretary, and a treasurer, and shall have the following working committees, of not less than three members each, viz. : A Committee on Registration, an Execu? tive committee, and such other com? mittees as to each club may seem expedient. Art. 2. The meetings of the clubs should be frequent after the opening of the canvass, and some member, of the j club or invited speaker deliver an ad? dress at each meeting, if practicable. Article 3 The president shall have power to call an extra meeting of the I club, and one-fourth of the members shall constitute a quorum for the trans ! action of bas i nee 8. Art. 4. The clubs in each county shall be held together and operate un? der the control of a County Executive Committee, which shall consist of one member from each club, to be elected by the respective dabs, but these powers to the said Executive Co min it tees do not carry with them the power to pass upon the election of members of the county convention, or their qual? ification to sit as members, for this power belongs to the members of the convention through the appointment and action of a committee on creden? tials, whose report shall be acted upon as the members of the convention may deem proper. The Executive Com? mittee, when elected, shall appoint its own officers, who shall not necessarily I be members of said Committee, and fill all vacancies which may arise when the convention is not in session ; pro? vided that any officer so elected, who is not a member of the committee, shall ! not be entitled to a vote on any ques? tion, except the chairman, and then only in ease of a tie vote. The tenure of office of the Executive Committee ?ball be antil the first Monday in August of each election year, at which time the County Conventions shall be called together to reorganize the party. Every Presidential year County Con? ventions shall be called by the County Executive Committee in May and shall elect delegates to a State Convention called for the purpose of electing dele? gates to the National Democratic Con I veotion, and to elect the member of the National Democratic Executive Commit? tee for this State, and such State Conven? tion shall exercise no other power. This State Convention shall be called by the State Executive Committee to meet every Presidential election year on the third Wednesday in May, and the State Democratic Nominating Convention shall be called by the State Democratic Executive Committee to meet on the third Wednesday in September of each election year. Art. 5. County Democratic Conven? tions shall be composed of delegates elected by the several local clubs, one delegate for every twenty-five voters, as shown by the poll list made at the preceding first primary election, and one delegate for a majority fraction thereof, with the right to each County Convention to enlarge or diminish the representation according to circum? stances. The County Conventions shall be called together by the chairman of the- respective Executive Committees under such rule, not inconsistent with the Constitution nor with the rules adopted by the State Democratic Exe? cutive Committee, as each County may adopt, and when assembled shall be called to order by the Chairman of the Executive Committee and the Conven? tion shall proceed to nominate and elect from among its mem? bers a president, one or more vice-presidents, a secretary and a treasurer. The clubs recognized bj the respective County Conventions which sent delegates to the State Convention which met on August 13, 1890, shall be recognized as the only legal clubs : Provided, however, That any County Convention may permit the formation of a new club or clubs by a majority vote of its members : Provided, further, That in all cities with a population of 5,000 and over there may be two clubs in each Ward ; they shall be organized in obedience to this Constitution, as are the clubs elsewhere in this State, and in organizing said clubs they shall have representation in the County Conven? tions, respectively, as said Conventions shall declare in accordance with the provisions of this Constitution. Art. 6. The Nominating Convention for the nomination of Governor, Lieu? tenant Governor and other State offi? cers, in 1892 and thereafter, and for electors for President and vice-Presi? dent in the same year and every Presi- ? deolial year thereafter, shall be coin posed of delegates from each county, double the number to which such county is entitled in both branches of the General assembly. Said delegates are to be chosen by primary elections to be i held oo the last Tuesday io August o? each election year, the delegates elected to receive a majority of the votes cast. At this election only white Democrats shall be allowed to vote, except that negroes who voted for General Hamp? ton in 1876 and who have voted the Democratic ticket continuously since may be allowed to vote. >The club rolls of the party shall constitute the registry list and shall be open to inspection by any member of the party, and the elec? tion under this clause shall be held and regulated under the Act of the General Assembly of this State, approved December 22, 1888, and any subse? quent Acts of the Legislature of this State. Second primaries when neces? sary shall be held two weeks later. Art. 7. The officers of the State Convention shall be a president, a vice president from each Congressional Dis? trict, two Secretaries and Treasurer. Art. 8. The State Executive Com? mittee shall be composed of one member from each county, to be selected by the respective delegations and elected by the Convention. When elected said Execu? tive Committee shall choose its own officers, not necessarily members thereof prior to said election ; Provided, That any officer so elected who is not a mem? ber of the commitine shall not be entitled to a vote on any question, ex? cept the chairman, and then only in case of a tie vote. The Executive Com? mittee shall meet at the call of the chairman or any five members, and at such time and places as be or they may appoint. The member of the National Demcratic Executive Committee from Sooth Oarolica shall be elected by the May State Convention in 1892, and every four years thereafter, and when elected shall be ex officio a member of the State Executive Committee. Va? cancies on said Executive Committee by death, resignation or otherwise shall be filled by the respective County Execu? tive Committees. The State Execotive Committee is charged with the execution and direction of the policy of the party in the State, subject to this Constitu? tion the principles declared in the plat? form of principles, and such instructions by resolution or otherwise as a State Convention may from time to time adopt, and shall continue in office for two years from the time of election or until the assembling of the State Nominating Convention which meets in September of each election year. If any vacancy oecur on the State ticket or for electors, by death, removal or other cause, the committee shall have the power to fill the vacancy by a majority vote of the whole committee. Art. 9. When the State Convention assembles it shall be called to order by the Chairman of the State Executive Committee. A temporary president shall be nominated and, elected by ?the convention ; and after its organization the convention shall proceed immedi? ately to the election of permanent offi? cers and to the transaction of nosiness. When the business bas concluded it shall adjourn sine die. Art 10. There shall be a primary election io each Congressional District in this State on the last Tuesday in August, 1892, and every two years thereafter, to nominate candidates for Congress, to be conducted and managed as is hereinbefore provided io the elec? tion of delegates to the State Con ven tioo. The vote to be received, tabulated and announced by the State Execotive Committee, to the chairman of which the result is to be transmitted by the respective County Chairmen by the first Tuesday in September, 1892, and every two years thereafter. The elec? tion for Solicitors of the different Cir? cuits shall be by primary, subject to the same rules and regulations, and to be announced in the same way as be? fore set forth for Congresmen. Art. ll. Before the election in 1892, and each election year thereafter, the State Democratic Executive Commit? tee shall issue a call to all candidates for State offices to address the people of the different counties of the State, fixing the dates of the meetings, and also inviting the candidates for Con? gress, United States Senate, delegates to the State Convention, and for So? licitor, io their repective Districts and Circuits, to be present and address the people. At such meetings only the candidates above set forth shall be al? lowed to speak. Art. 12. It shall the duty of each County Executive Committee to ap? point meetings in their respective counties to be addressed by the candi? dates for the General Assembly and for the different County offices, all of whom excepting Trial Justices and Mas? ters, shall be elected by primary on the last Tuesday in August of each elec? tion year under the same rules and re? gulations hereinbefore provided. Art 13. Each county delegation to a State Convention shall have power to fill any vacancy therein. Art. 14. This Constitution may be amended and altered only by the State Nominating Convention which meets in September of each election year. Art. 15. Any county failing or refusing to organize under thc provi? sions of this Constitution shall uot have representation in the State Democratic Convention. J. L. M. IRBY, Chairman State Dem. Ex. Com. D. H. TOMPKINS, Secretary. I Help Needed at Once. A Deplorable Condition on the Coast. A Pitiful Appeal from White People to Governor Tillman-They are Dis? criminated Against by the Red Gross Society. Colombia Register, Maj 18. Many complaints of destitution in the coast regioo of the State, which suffered so mach from the storm of last August, are still being made. Strange as it may seem the majority of those complaints are from white people. The colored people appear to have been well provided for. At any rate white people are suffering in that section from the lack, of the necessities of life and the situa? tion is made more terrible by the state? ment that there is no way for them to help themselves. Grave charges have been made that the Ked Cross Society has discriminated in favor of colored people in its distribu? tion of charity. These charges have been whisped for some time but have been given little publicity because there was appreciation of what Miss Barton and ber society were doiog, even if there was partiality to colored people. Governor Tillman has received numer? ?os letters makiog bitter complaint against Miss Barton's management, but he has not said anytbiog about it. He has just received an appeal from the coast section for aid which he feels should meet an early response. The writer of the letter is said to be a man of standing and veracity and his picture of affairs can be depended on as correct. The Governor will be glad to receive subscriptions from charitably disposed and will do anything be can to aid in the relief appealed for. The following is the letter and does not need to be read a second time to see that help is wanted and oeeded quickly : "Bluffton, S. C., May 12. "Governor B. R. Tillman, Columbia, S. C. "Dear Sir: On or about April 20th tbs citizens (wbite) of our township, that is Blufftoo, held a meeting and resolutions expressing their destitution and need were passed. Although not personally present at the meeting I understand from the committee that copies of these resolutions were sent to you ; also to the New York World, Charleston News and Courier, The State, to the Savannah Board of Trade and Cotton Exchange. As a resident of this township for years I am, I think, folly acquainted with the condition of its people. The response made to the cry of our people for aid bas been so lukewarm that I take the liberty of writ? ing you. The situation as it exists now in this community is worse, if possible, than it was just after the August cyclone. Your appeal then to people of our country brought its reward. That the white people of this community did not receive the help and assistance from the thousands of dollars and provisions sent to our coast is not their fault, but the fault of those who were charged with its proper distribution. It is oct my purpose here to array the officers of the Red Cross Society. That has been done by those who wield a better pen than I do. Still the fact is known to every one here and has been known for months that the Red Cross authorities had disgracefully misused their author? ity and that they were more than partial in the distribution of the charity. I am well within the limits when I state that the white citizens of this community have not up to date received $300 in supplies, while thousands have been issued out to negroes, many of them in nowise needy, for they hold pensions from the United States government. And now, sir, the situation as it exists here to-day is simply this as near as I can get at it: There are 150 white families in the township, carrying over 600 souls and that to-day they are without means-means to feed the women and children or the farm ani? mals. The farmers of this community have struggled as few people have ever been called upon to struggle. The cyclone destroyed their cotton and left them with little corn and that damaged ; met with rebuffs by the Red Cross they have bore their sufferings as best they could, using every means they had : trading what little they had until now it is all gone and starvation and no farm animals faces them. Un? less they can get food for themselves and for their animals the result will be fearful. Crushed as the farmers were by the cyclone they set to work in good heart to prepare for the crop of this year and the larger portion of it is now planted. How they are to work the crop without feed for animals is what faces them now ; as much as feed for themselves. I am well aware that with your many ties you are doubtless nar? rated beyond measure, but, sir, we must ask your aid. How the help is to come must be left to your judgment, but come it must and quickly. I could cite to you, if necessary, dozens of families who have not a week's provi? sions and no earthly means of getting them.. As I have said above, the response to the call made in the resolu? tions has been very like warm. Still there were two answers, one from a gentleman on our coast here who suffer? ed like all the rest and more than many, who Bent us out of his little. The other response came from the "relief commit? tee of the New York Evening Post," who are stationed io Beaufort. This committee, consisting of Drs. White, Gibbes and Prioleau, and Mr. Thomas Talbird, answered once and their aid was charity indeed, for they fed the hungry. Is there not some way of calling the attention of the farmers of our State to the condition here ? It is probable that the farmers in the upper part of the State, now that the season is well advanced, may be able to spare some corn, especially if their oat crop is safe. Thc oat crop here is a failure, for we bad only half an inch of a rain in April, at the time the oats were shoot .iog If donations could be sent to Charleston, consigned to the care of the agent of the steamer Pilot Boy, they will carried to BlofFton, or rather Beaufort, free of charge, and the rail? roads from the upper portions of the State would no doubt bring them down here free. In behalf of the suffering people of our townships I ask your earnest and immediate aid. If 1 can aid you by giving you positive evidence of the suffering here I will be glad to furnish it. "With the hope that you will be able through your influence to obtain speedy relief for these people, I am yours truly. "THOMAS R. HEYWARD." Still Another Appeal. Alarming State of Affairs on the Coast. Register, May 19. Still another appeal for relief has been receiv 1 by Governor Tillman from the coast region of the State. The situation is becoming alarming and a generous public should respond quickly and liberally. Governor Tillman, is powerless to do anything except to make an appeal to a humane people and ask them to give what they can. He bas no power over the Red Cross Society, which is distributing charity as it sees fit. The appeal printed in yesterday's pa? pers resulted in some money being con? tributed. None was received by Gover? nor Tillman, however, but it is probable that contributions will begin to come in in a few days The following is the latest appeal received by the Governor : "HENDERSONVILLE, S. C., May 15. To His Excellency, the Governor. Dear Sir : By urgent request, and in the interest of suffering humanity, I respectfully address you. There are many families in this community in destitute circumstances, with no means to secure needed supplies. Of course some of them have a little property, but it is mostly under mortgage for advances made to them last year not having been able to pay out. Some of them have applied to the Red Cross ^Society, but were told that the Charleston and Savannah Railway was the line above which aid could not be extended without orders from you. I am satisfied from my own knowl? edge (having seen most of this section) that for ten miles above the said rail? way, from the Edieto to the Salkahat ebie Rivers, the people suffered as much damage from the storm of 1893, as they did below said line except on the immediate coast. The poor we always have with ne. These heretofore have been helped by the communities in which they lived. Now the great majority of the people have want and destitution scaring them in the face, which no local assistance can relieve. There are; I suppose, fifty or more families in this section that will have ^to abandon their crops, without aid from some source. These are facts as I see and know them to be. Hoping that your Excellency may de? vise some means of relief and give direc? tions to obtain the same, I am, Your obedient servant, R. R DEWITT." The Gait he Traveled. The following interesting colloquy is said to have occurred between an ex-spy and his wife juBt after the late unpleasantness at Darlington, in which the couple addressed each other by their pet names : Wife-"Sweet, how far did you walk after leaving Darlington ?'' Spy-"About three miles, Baby." Wife-"About three miles? Well, how did you get here, then ?" Spy--"Well, you see, I ran the balance of the way, and those three were the last coming into Columbia. -Columbia Journal. Highest of all in Leavening Pow ABSOLU) Court of Inquiry. Will Meet at Charleston on the 22nd of This Month. Governor Tillman bas at last taken some action in reference to the "mutin? ous" companies who refused to obey his orders during tthe Darlington "insur? rection." The following order has been issued : EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT. Office of the Adjutant and Inspector General. COLUMBIA, S. C., May 15, 1894. General Order No. 9. A court of inquiry consisting of Brigadier General R. N. Richbourg, Brigadier General E. J. Dennis, Col. Wilie Jones, and Capt. J. T. Barron, Judge Advocate, is hereby ordered. Said court will convene in Charleston, S. C , on Tuesday, the 22nd day of May, 1894, to make inquiry and re? port to these headquarters on the fol? lowing points : First. As to Brig. Gen. T. A. Hu gnenin, commanding the Fourth Bri? gade in failing to report with his com? mand at Darl;*>gton on March 30th, under orders from these headquarters. Second. As to whether any of the brigade, regimental, or commanding officers or men of said Fourth Brigade are responsible for said disobedience of orders ; if so, who and in what degree,. Third. To examine into the beha? vior of the officers and men belonging to the Naval Battalion in Charleston and at Mount Pleasant during that occasion and since. Fourth. As soon as the inquiry herein ordered shall be completed the said court will convene in Columbia and investigate the conduct of the officers and men of the Second Brigade of infantry and the Gordon Volunteers, Capt. L. T. Izlar, commanding, who failed to respond to orders from these headquarters on March 29th, 3Otb, and 31st, 1894. Such inquiry will be searching and opinion of the court as to the degree of guilt in each case will be reported io these findings. By order Commander-in-Chief, B. R. TILLMAN, Official, Governor. J GABY WATTS, Asst. A. and I. General. He Planted His Own Coffin. Fifty years ago Almeron Higby, of Watsoo, N. Y., when he was nine years old, planted in his father's dooryard the stone of a cherrry that fae bad eaten. A tree sprang up, and in a few years began to bear fruit. Higby eold the fruit from year to year, saving the money, even after be was married and had children. Last summer his health became poor, and as the tree began to show signs of decay he cot it down and had the trunk sawed into boards, with which he mada a coffin for himself. His eccentric: actions caused much comment at th* time, but Higby only laughed when, questioned about the matter, and said he could see no harm in a mao making his own coffin. He seemed to have a presentment that be was soon to die. and a short time ago be was taken seriously ill. A few days later he died and by bis request was buried in the coffin made with his own hands, and the expenses of the funeral were paid from the money saved from the t>ale of the cherries borne by the tree from whicb bis coffin was made. Hard on Charleston. If you will make a critical exami? nation of the American Declaration of Independence you will ?ot find South Carolina represented by any of the Chiceos, Nolles and Cantinis now so much esteemed in Charleston. Later on you will not find any General Chicco in the War between the States. Neither will you find any Judge Cantini presiding over our courts. You will find such names ia whiskey riots, whiskey parades, in the running of blind tigers and in the newspapers which glorify them for resisting the law. It is not the TrenSiolms, Ravenels, DeSaus*utes, Middletons, Rutledges, Rhetts and Haynes that give tone to Charleston now. The Chiceos, Noltes and Cantinis fill the public eye and com? mand the admiration of that degen? erate city.-Abbeville Medium. For Over Fifty Years. MRS. WINSLOW'S SOOTHING SYRUP has been used for children teething. It soothes the child, softens the gums, allajsall pain, cures wind colic, and is the best remedy for Diar? rhoea. Twenty-five cents a bettie. 'er.--Latest U. S. Gov't Report Baking I Pomler HELY PURE