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Letter Fro?n Hagood. HAGOOD, S. C., May 28tb. 1894. This is the dry district of the county. There is a streak of several miles here that not more than ooe inch of rain has fallen on since the snow in February. As far as we have heard, every other section io the county bas been blessed with copious sea? sons. It is getting to be a serious matter with ns. Wells are going dry, a good deal of replanted cotton is still in the ground, and several acres remain un plan ted on ac? count of the land being so hard that it could not be plowed. Cotton that .is np and has been worked looks well, though it was .lightly nipped and retarded by the recent cold weather, but not as badly as where they have had rain. Coro is very small for this season of the year, but looks healthy and vigorous. It seems impossible to get stands in bottoms or low places. The bulk of the oat crop has been harvested, and the yield is mach better than was anticipated. The spring planting will be almost a complete failure. We heartily approve your article upon the subject of encroachment, by private parties, upon the pablic highways, and hope that something will be done to abate the nuisance. There is no reason or excuse for it, and it is a source of grear anoyance as well as incon? venience to the travelling public to thus have the highways ploughed up and planted. A few years ago this section was noted for its wide roads and beautiful drives. Where the road-was once from thirty (30) to forty (40) feet wide there is now only enough left for one wagoo track. It would be impossible for two vehicles to pass each other without driving over a growing crop. The County Commissioners have tried to do their duty by giving public warning, bat it has not done any good. We now think that the only thing that is left to be doue is for the County Commissioners to bring up test cases from each township. Don't make a scape goat of the negroes io this matter, but take some of the leading citizens, present tbem to the Grand Jury and have them vigorously prose? cuted.. If this was done it would not be very long before we would hare a great improvement in the present state of affairs. Push the matter, Mr. Editor, for the people are with yon and demand that an * improve? ment be made. Court convenes next week, and if the County Commissioners will not act, we hope that the Grand Jury will take bold. We read with interest, Mr. Dab b's letter, published some time ago in the Watchman and Southron, on toe subject of convict labor, and the improvement of our public highways. We are sure that if Mr. Dabbs was acquainted with that kind of labor he would soon real? ise that bis scheme was impracticable. In the first place there are only thirty-five (35) counties in the State, and about one thousand convicts in the penitentiary. Divide them equally among the several counties and it would aot give to each more than twenty Bine bands. Allowing for longterm (life) prisoners which be said should be confined within the prison walls, and the sick and infirm, it would not give an average of more than twenty bands to the county. Divide them among the different townships, build stockades, employ guards, kc, and we will see at once that the scheme will not work. The best and most healthful employment that can be given them is farming, and there is no other work that they eau be put at that will come in less competition with free labor. The young men of the neighborhood are speaking of organizing a base bali team for the season. If so they will be open for a challenge from any club io the county. Mr. Crawford Sanders, our champion pitcher did good work for Sumter in ber games with Darlington, fie will pitch against Florence this week. Mrs. T. 0. Sanders, Jr., will go on a pro? tracted visit to ber old borne in Barnwell County this week. Mrs. H. R- McLeod of Providence, has been os a visit to ber daughter, Mrs. A. E. San? ders. Miss Minnie Young, of Kembert, is on a visit to friends ?a the neighborhood. Capt. Itbam Moore was brought home from the asylum this morning. His stay there was not aa beneficial as was expected, and bis numer?os friends will regret to learn that his condition is regarded as very precarious. ^ G. C. Letter From Fulton. FULTON, S. C., May 29, 1894. The recent cold damaged cotton very mucb, but subsequent showers, and close work bas revived it. Corn was beautiful. Oat bavest ing is ou band. The Falt?n High School, taught by Prof. Carpenter, of Houston, Va., held its closing exercises, consisting of recitations, charades, etc., to-day-an exhibition of which teachers and scholars should justly be proud. The marriage of Mr. Chas. Griffin to Miss j Lizzie Moore tock place last Thursday at j Wedgefield. The Pinewood Base Ball Club re-organized I last Friday evening, and elected Mr. Wm. ? Richburg, umpire. The club will soon have new uniforms and be ready for business. S. B. W. G. j Letter From Wedegfield WEDGEFIELD, May 29, 1894. 1 Our little town was full of most curious j people oa the 24th, inst., when news spread j in the p. m., that a wedding bad been j solemnized at ll o'clock a. m., at the resi? dence of the bride's father, Mr. Wm. Moore, the contracting parties being Miss Lizzie j Moore, of Wedgefield and Mr. C. L. Griffin, j of Pinewood, Rev. J. C. Chandler, ?of the ? Methodist Church, officiating. No one was j present but the immediate family. The j bridal party left for their future home in Pioewood, Clarendon County, after dinner. Mr. Griffin is a successful merchant at Pine? wood. We wish for the happy pair every thing that is good and worthy. Dr. W. E. Sparkman was summoned by telegraph last Satarday to the sick bed of Mr. ? Harvey Simpson's little child at Glenn j Springs. He returned on yesterday with the t good report that bis little niece was better. j Miss Caro Belser left on last Saturday for Columbia, where she will spend some time visiting firieads. Misses Hallie and Lessie Singleton and Miss Fannie Brailsford will leave on the 31st for Sumter to attend Commencement exercises of the Graded School and the Sumter Insti? tute. The cotton crop is very good excepting damage done by cold which in some places seems considerable. Mrs. J. J. Conyers, of Sumter, is on a visit to her father Capt. J. H. DuPont. Letter From Boykins. BOYXINS, S. C., May 28, 1894. The exercises of Line Academy closed on Friday. Mr. T. G. McLeod of Lynchburg, has conducted the school since last September and has given satisfaction to the patrons of the school. Under bis instruction the pupils have nada good progress, and we feel that we were fortunate in securing his services. He is a polished gentleman and most agreeable company, and we will all miss him socially. His many friends here will always be inter? ested in his success wherever he may locate. Dr. Spain and Miss Nonie Williamson, of Darlington, spent a few days with the family of Mr. T. P. Sanders last week. Work is progressing nicely at the State Earm. The dams, which were broken last fall by the unusual high water after the August storm, have all been repaired and made stronger, and the swamp land is all under cultivation. The crops now look well, and give promise of a profitable yield if we have ordinary seasons, and no disaster like last year. The upland crops also look well ; bot, like the crops on all other farms in this immediate neighborhood, are suffering for rain. The tmall grain crops have nearly all been harvested, aed oats are much better than was expected. The wheat crop is very poor. There is no donbt about there being frost on Monday the 21st. We see that you doubted it in speaking of it in the last issue of your paper. It was very perceptible at the time, and its effect is very evident now. All cotton shows that it was injured, and in some places, where there had been good rains, we hear that the cotton was killed. I. A. H. Letter From Clarendon. CLARENDON, May 20, 1894. We have had rain enough both for health? ful and agricultural purposes. It rained tbe day before yesterday, sometime during the night following that day, and also a part of yesterday. After yesterday's showers the wind suddenly shifted, and the weather then became quite cold. The weather is at the same temperature to-day, wind somewhat boisterous. I have been informed that there bas been bail also. I hope this "cold snap" has not been as general as I fear it has been. Cotton and other plaBts of agricultural care and culture, wear nature's green and beaute? ous robe, in all its springtime richness of color. They seem sluggishly sleep y, yet there is no spot upon their uniform and com? mon garment. I have met with some conservative Re? formers in good old Clarendon County, who will join hands and hearts with some of their St rai g h tout brethren, io favor of a straightout candidate for Congress in the Seventh Con? gressional District. They have found their man and will run him sure. Why should not such a course of political conduct become universal throughout South Carolina? I will answer the question. It is simply be? cause we have too many hungry numerical majority men, and quite too few of the con? current-majority kind. The first set affect to believe that numbers alone should mle and distribute all offices among themselves, whilst the latter set maintain that every Democrat is worthy of both office and notice at the bands of bis Democratic peers. When the Republican party "throw down the glove," and preach numerical-majority rule, and a distribution of offices to snit so unconstitutional a political creed, we pick it up and face them like men in defense of oar National and State Constitutions. But when Democrats imitate such perversiooists we caa only pity such mimickry, and blush at their corruption. We feel like saying to them : "0 foolish Gallatians, who hath be? witched yon?" Nnmercial-majority mle is the parent ' of such discord between the majority and the minority, as must demand a very strong government to keep the peace be? tween the two parties. The purest republic under such mischievous guidance must inevit? ably end in monarchy. The people would not be to blame for such a catastrophe. They very naturally listen to the artful teachings of their demagogoish deceivers who lead them step by step into revolution, and from thence to poverty, slavery and humiliation. Au ap? peal to tbe passions has ever been the argu? ment of unprincipled demagogues. To instruct the passions in tbe human bosom is but to plunge men into confusion and blood. It is but to prepare them for masters instead of rulers. It is but to snatch them from 'the peaceful arms of constitutional liberty and hurl them down into the abyss of consolida? tion or monarchy. None would do such dirty and unpatriotic work but a set of poli? tical monsters. They are not men. They are only monsters in human shape. Lord Mansfield has very aptly said : "Many who have been by the popularity of their times, held up as spotless patriots, have neverthe? less appeared upon the historian's page, when truth bath triumphed over delusion, the very assassins of liberty." Without adapted brain (even under a constitutional republic) manual labor must ever be hopelessly unpro? ductive. Hence, South Carolina, as well a3 other civilized states and countries, have ever been reliant on the guidance of adapted brain for the support of our women and children, but also for the clothing, feeding and hous? ing of every laborer in each respective employ? ment in their native realms. The men who do the work successfully must necessarily look to some superior outside directing guid? ance. There are different species in all races, but less of the inferior in the higher orders. The constitutions of women are quite too frail (general) for excessive manual or mental labor. Hence God bas wisely given to them different orders of talents from those of men. Life is quite too short for more than one voca tien to each individual. More than that must end in quackery-"a Jack-of-all-lrades." If we impoverish our people by excessive tax? ation (already too unduly taxed) will they not become too poor to give employment to those educated so extravagantly at their ex pt.se? O let us be merciful as well as generous I VERISSIMB. -- - - - r^mmmm A Primary for IT. S. Senator. Mr Editor : As chairman Irby has called his committee to provide for the coming cam? paign, I renew my suggestion made a year ago that the State Committee provided a box at each polling place in the State so the peo? ple can express their choice for United States Senator. This will comply with tbe popular demand that the people elect the Senators by a direci vote, and will do away with wire pulling, and combinations when the legisla? ture meets. Of coarse the legislature will have to elect, so as to comply with the law, but they can simply carry out the mandate of their masters, the people. Let each candidate for the legislature pledge himself to vote if elected for the person getting the largest vote in the State, and that ends it. The fight will be by the people, and not for members of the legislature, and in the legislature. This plan is reform that all fair-minded men can agree to, and an improvement on the present custom. United States Senators represent the State at large, and their election by a primary should be by the State and not by counties. I hope oar member on the Committee, will advocate this plan, or something like it. Let us continually improve and not retrogade in our campaigns. J. E. D?PBB. Pisgah May 26. To the Prohibitionists of Sumter County. BRETHREN : The following biblical sentence, copied from the Sumter Herald and quoted I have no doubt by a political man, is well timed : "Beware of lawyers, says Christ ; they hunt the high places in the synagogue and lade mea with burdens grievous to be borne." Let os net forget that we have a lawyer who aspires tobe a "Pharisee" in the State synagogue. Bat the lawyers are not the only ones to be warned against. Ijsay unto you "Beware of political devils," without principles, or self respect who walk to and fro in the land sow? ing dissensions. We have seen his foot-printa, he has be? stowed his smiles upon us, and bis dagger has struck us in the back. As the prince of liars, and kit g of deceivers, he has no equal. He i3 working now; forgetting the most sacred obligations of brethren, members of the same commonwealth, whose interests are so clearly identified to each other, that un? less they work in unity ef purposes and ac? tions, the very sap of life will be undermined. He is trying to convince you, that the present prohibition movement is a scheme to defeat present institutions. He is judging us by himself, being a friend of darkness, the light is repulsive to him. Therefore, stay in, don't come out to tbe prohibition meetings, there is too much light says the "political devil." In bis estimation, the conscience, the soul, the self-respect of men are only nominal, but man as a voter arouse in bim ail his debased and ?Dsanc?ified qualities and be pushes darkly to his object not caring what means he employs to attain bis ends. In the last few weeks, he has realized that the accounting day is near, and feeling his cowardly feet sinking, be has led yon away from the real issue. We will meet this "political devil" where ever be may be, at anytime and under all circumstances except io "darkness." We are ready to consign bim to the "bottomless pit" by turning upon bim the light of truth, honesty and uprightness of actions and pur? poses. Brethren, let us stand on our rights of free? born citizens, and shun the idea to be driven like sheep. Let our motto be, "Principles, not men." G so. MASOTTS, Chairman Prohibition Movement. Harper's Magazine. Haper's Magazine for June contains 84 pictures. Few books have eo many. But the charm of these pictures is not in their number; it is in their beauty and variety, as well as their appropriateness to the text. Harper's Weekly. Perhaps the shortest of short stories is a cartoon ; for at a glance, and sometimes without a single word, it must truly charac? terize all the people it depicts and make sure that you do not miss the moral. The poli? tical story of a week or of a month is told in tbe cartoons that from time to time stand upon the first page of Harper's Weekly. i- > ? -m Harper's Bazar. Among the features of Harper's Bazar for Jone will be the "Story of a Garden," told in letters by Elizabeeth Bisland Wetmore, a new series of "Coffee and Repartee" papers, by John Kendrick Bangs, and letters from Paris, giving the fashions and gossip of that capital. - The Best mutual insurance policy against j attacks of sickness is to be fouud io taking ! Hood's Sarsaparilla. If you are weak it will ! make you strong. Excelsior Baking Powder is the best, be? cause it is pure, try it. Prepared by Dr. A. ; J. China. Extra fine beef at D. M. Campbell's, oppo : site oid post office. . What is Kingman's Honey Dew ? It is the j latest thing out for a cool aad refreshing ! drink. ! Every person interested in Music should j eet a catalogue of 10c Sheet Music and Music ? Books from Kennedy's Book Store. I Why do the people go to Kingman & Co's ? i Because they get prompt and courteous atten I tion. ; Go to M. A. Kingman & Co's. Soda Fount i .or Wine Cocoa, the latest drink out. Guar : anteed to cure headache and relieve exhaus I tiuO. - mm - *? ?tr . mm - Cure For Headache. As a remedy for all fortes of Headache j Electric Bitters bas proved to be the very best. It effects a permanent cure and the most dreaded habitual sick headaches yield#to its j influence. We urge all who are afilieted to I procure a bottle, and give this remedy a fair trial. In cases of habitual constipation ! Electric Bitters cures by giving the needed ; tone to the bowels, and few cases long resist tbe I uee of this medicine. Try it once. Large j bottles only Fifty cents at J. F. W. DeLorrne's ! Drug Store. 2. Hood's Pills are the best after-dinner Pill?, j assist digestion, cure headache. Trv a box. I 25c. China's Soda is the best, and every one should test it. Where is that crowd going? To China's Drug Store for some of that floe Soda Water. If you owe Winburn, the photographer, anything, you will oblige him by paying the same at once. Meteorological Eecord The following is a report of observations of the weather taken at Stateburg, by Dr. W. W. Anderson, for the past week ending May 27, 1894 : Temperature. a Condition. 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 56.5 65.5 68.5 6G.5 66.5 70.5 71. 67. 75. 78. 76. 78. 82. 81. 46. 56. 59. 57. 55. 59. 61. s S sw w w sw s 00 .00 .05 .00 .00 .00 Trace ?Cloudy. ?Cloudy. ?Cloudy. ?Cloudy. Clear. ?Cloudy. Clear. ?Partly Cloudy. Oats are turning out better than was ex? pected. Cotton looks well. Rain is needed. Go to D. M. Campbells for ice cold meats. China's Soda is cold and fine, and good enough to quiet any one's mind. Something that has long been needed and can now be had, a full line of 10c Sheet Music and Music Book. Catalogue free upon application, at Kennedy's Book Store. ? ? -? Guaranteed Core. We authorize our advertised druggist to sell Dr. King's New Discovery for Consumption, Coughs and Colds, upon this condition. If you are afflicted with a Cough, Cold or any Lung, Throat or Chest trouble, and will use this rem? edy as directed, giving it a fair trial, and ex pe rience no benefit, you may return th? bottle and have your money refunded. We could not make this offer did we not know that Dr. King's New Discovery conld be relied on. It never disappoints. Trials bottles free at J. F. W, DeLorme's Drug Store. Large bottles 50c. and $1.00. 2 Buckleu's Arnica Salve? The Best Salve in the world for Cuts, Bruises Sores, Ulcers, Sait Rheum. Fever Sores, Tetter, Chapped Hands Chilblains, Corns and all Skin Eruptions, and positively cures Piles, or no pay required. It is guaranteed to give per? fect satisfaction, or money refunded. Price 25cent8 por box. For sale by Dr. J. F. W. De Lorme TIRED, WEAK, NERVOUS, Could Wot Sleep. Prof. L. D. Edwards, of Preston, Idaho, says: "I was all mn down, weak, nervous and irritable through overwork. I suffered from brain fa? tigue, mental depression, etc. I be? came so weak and nervous that I could not sleep, I would arise tired, discouraged and blue. I began taking Dr. Miles' Nervine and now everything is changed. I sleep soundly, I feel bright, active and ambitious. I can do more in one day now than I used to do in a week. For this great good I grive Dr. Miles' Bestorative*Nervine the sole credit It Cures." Dr. Hiles* Nervine is sold on a positive guarantee that the first bottle will benefit. All druggists sell it at tl, 6 bottles for ts, or lt will be sent, prepaid, on receipt of price by the Dr. Miles Medical Co., Elkhart, Ind. For sale by Dr. A. J. China, Sumter, S. C. Harper's Weekly. ILLUSTRATED HARPER'S WEEKLY is beyond all question the leading journal in America, in its splendid illustrations, in its corps of distinguished con. tributors, and iu its vast army of readers In special lines, it draws on the highest order of talent, the men best fitted by position and training to treat the leading topics of the day. In fiction, the most popular story.writers con? tribute to its columns. Superb drawings by the foremost artists illustrate its special articles, its stories, and every notable event of public interest ; it contains potraits of the distinguish? ed men and women who are making the history of the time, while special attention is given to the Army and fcavy, Amateur Sport, and Music and the Diama, by distinguished experts. In a word. Harper's Wtekly com bines the new features of the daily paper and the artistic and literary qualities of the maga zine with the solid critical character of the re? view. Harper's Periodiccils. Per Year : HARPER'S MAGAZINE,.$4 00 HARPER'S WEEKLY,.4 00 HARPER'S BAZAR,.4 00 HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE..2 00 Postage Free to all subscribers in the United States, Canada, and .Mexico. The Volumes of the Weekly begin with the first Number for January of each year. When no time is mentioned, subscriptions will begin with the Number current at time of receipt of order. Bound Volumes of Ii'arper''g Weekly, for three years back in neat cloth binding, will be sent by mail postage paid, or by express, free of ex? pense (provided the freight does not exceed one dollar per volume,) for $7.00 per rolume. Cloth Cases for each volume, suitable for binding, will be sent by mail, postpaid, on re? ceipt of $1.00 each. Remittances should be made by Poet Office Money Order or Draft, to avoid chance of loi-s, Sexcspapers are not to copy this advertisement without the express order of ti ARPER & BROTHERS' Address : HARPER ? BROTHERS, New York. Call or write and get a catalogue of 10c Sheet Music, Music Book asd Instructor fer Piano, Organ" and every kind of instrument from Kennedy's Book Store. How's This ! We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for any case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. P. J. CHENEY, & Co., Props, Toledo, 0. We the undersigned, have known F. J. Che? ney for the last 15 years, and believe bim per? fectly honorable in all business transactions i and financially able to carry out any obliga? tions made by their firm, i West&Truax, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, 0. Walding, Kinnan & Marvin Wholesale Drug? gists, Toledo, 0. ? Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Price, 75c. per bot? tle. Sold by all Druggists. Testimonials free. May 2-lm. Master's Sales; By J. E. Jervey, Auctioneer, State of South Carolina, COUJNTY OF SUMTER, IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. PURSUANT to the judgments and order of the Court aforesaid, severally made in the ; following entitled cases, I will offer for sale ! at Public Auction, before the Court House ? in the City of Sumter, County and State aforesaid on the FIRST MONDAY in JUNE, next, (being the 4th day of said month,) between the hours of eleven o'clock in the forenoon and five o'clock in afternoon of said day, the real estate in each case described, on the terms in each case specified. In the case of Maude C. Solomons Plaintiff, against Susan Peters Defendant. That lot of land ia the City of Sumter in said county and State, represented as "1" on a plat, dated February, 1891, made by H. D. Moise, C. E., and recorded on page 636 in Book."CCC" in the office of the Register of Mesne Conveyance for said County*; said lot being a parallelogram in shape measuring forty-seven and six-tenths (47 6-10) feet on each of its Eastern and Western boundary lines and one hundred and fifty feet on its Northern and Southern boundary lines each: Bounding on the North on what is desig? nated on said map as "Solomons Street," to the East on lot numbered "9" on said map ; on the South on lot numbered "2" on said map, and to the West on "Sumter Street," of said city. Terms-Cash. Purchaser to pay for papers. In the case of Aaron D. Richer Plaintiff, against William P. Smith and the Kennesaw Marble Company. That lot of land in the City of Sumter in said county and State containing one and one-half acres, more or less, bounded on the North by land now or formerly of the Estate of-Folsom; on the East by land of Joseph H. Earle, on the West by land of J. J. Muller and on the South by Hay BS wort h Street, fronting and measuring on said street one hundred and eighty-four feet, being the same lot which was conveyed to the said Wiiliam P. Smith by W. E. Dana Stiles and others, on 22d March, 1879. Terms-Cash. Purchaser to pay for napers. W. H. INGRAM, Master for Sumter County. May 9. Just Received! and very nice at this season -AT DUCKER & BULTMANN Edam, Pineapple and Switzer Cheese, Boneless Codfish, Evaporated Codfish, Leggett'-* Wine Jelly-a delicacy, Leggett's Improved Fruit Jelly, if at Pickled Salmon, Felton Market Beef, Fresh Oatmeal and Oatflakes, Try "Moaiaja" the finest Roasted Coffee, "Ceylon" Tea-an extremely choice Tea-40c. and 75c. can. Florida Mallet, Dutch Herrings, Seed Irish Potatoes. Mch 14. DOLLARS PER MONTH itt YOUR OWN LOCAUTY made easily and honorably, without capi? tal, during your spare hours. Any man, woman, boy, or girl can do the work hand? ily, without experience." Talking un? necessary. 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Life insurance under the Tontine Plan of the EQUITABLE UPE is an investment, not an expense. The returns mature during life, as well as after death. If you are a single man you owe it to yourself. If you are are a married man you owe it to your family. The time to act is now. Interesting par? ticulars can be had by addressing W. J. RODDEY, Manager, Department of the Carolinas, ROCK HILL, S. C. H. A. HOYT, MAIN STREET, SUMTER, S. C. 60LD ANO SILVER WATCHES, FINE DIAMONDS, Clocks, Jewelry, Spectacles, MERIDEN BRITANIA SILVERWARE, Ac. REPAIRING A SPECIALTY. Feb- 1 NOTICE. LANDS FOI) SALE. 1. One ?ot with two story dwelling, new house, on Washineion Street, between Cal? houn and Republican Sireets. 2. One lot, with dwelling bouse, on New Street, formerly property of M. H Wells. 3. One lot in the town of Bishopville, on Dennis Street, formerly property of C. S. Davis. 4. 90 acres of laud consisting of two tracts, one ot 20 acres and one of 70 acres, on Provi? dence road, rix miles from Sumter. 5. 250 acres of land, 3 miles east of Sumter, formerly owned by Miss Julia R. DeSchamps. 6. 40 acres of lard on Turkey Creek, for? merly owned by W. \V. McKagan. For particulars apolv to A. J. CHINA, Jan. 24. Pres. Sumter B & L. Asso. PURE VINEGAR. T MADE LAST SUMMER for my A owu use a lot of Vioegar, from a mix? ture of FRUITS (mostly grapes) AND HONEY. It is very fine, both in flavor and strength. I have about ten gallons to spare, and persons who will send to my residence can get it for 50 cents per gallon. Satisfaction guaranteed or money returned N. G. OSTEEN. .