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mm ano Saufem THE 8UMTE& WATCHMAN, Established April, 1850? "Be Just and Fear not-Let al?the Ends thou Aims't at, be thy Country's, thy God's and Truth's." THE TRUE SOUTHRON, Established ?Tone. 1366 Consolidated Avg. 2,1881. SUMTER, S. C., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 6, 1894. New Series-Vol. XIII. ?So. 45. Published Sn?7 Wednesday, -BT SUMTER, S. C. TRIMS : Two Dollars per ao nam-io advaooe. IDT I STXfiSMKKTZ One Square first insert ?OD-.$1*00 Every subeeq nen t i oser t ?on........ -.~ 50 Contracta for three n on tbs, or longer will be made at reduced rate?. All communications v-bkh subserve private interests will be charged for as ad ver t isemen ts. Obituaries and tribunes of respect will oe charged for. FOR womm Despite tbe stringency of the times, tbe Institute bas bad a fairly prosper - ons year. With its foll corps of effi? cient teachers and high s tao dard of scholarsbip, it offers advantages for educating your ladies, equal to any col? lege for women in this State. We in? tend that it shall grow in efficiency as it grows in years, aod thus command the continued favor of its patrons, and commend itself to the favor of all who have daughters to educate. For terms, and catalogues apply to H. FRANK WILSON, President, March 21 Sumter, S. C. THE SIMONOS NATIONAL BAM OF SUMTER. STATE, CITY AND COUNTY DEPOSI? TORY, SUMTEti, S. C. Paid up Capital . . . * . $75,000 00 Surplus Fand. 12,500 00 Liabilities of Stockholders to . depositors aeccording: to the law governing National Banka, in excess of their stock ., . $75,000 00 Transacts a General Banking Business. Careful attention given to collections. SAVINGS 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, Joly and October. R M. WALLACE, L. S: CASSOH, President. Aug 7._Cashier. _ NEW COMMANDER & RICHARDSON, LIBERTY STREET, SUMTER, S. C. WE BAYE FORMED A CO-PARTNERSHIP For the purpose of working Marble and Granite, manufacturing Moments, Toiteies, Etc., And doing a General Business in that line. A complete workshop bas been fined up on LIBERTY STREET, NEAR POST OFFiCE And we are now ready to execute with promptness all orders consigned to us. Satis action guaranteed. Obtain our price before placing as order elsewhere. W. H. COMMANDER, G. E. RICHARDSON. Jone 16. JOS. F. RHAME. WM. C. DAVIS. RH?ME & DAVIS, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, MANNING, S. C. Attend to business in any part of the State Practice in U. S. Courts. Sept. 21-x._ G. W.DICK, D. D.S. Office over Levi Bros.* Store, laTftaXCS OS MAIS STBS BT. SUMTER, S. C. Office Hours-9 to 1 ; 2.30 to 5.30. DM IMI ?DI, DENTIST. Office OVER BROWN * BROWN'S STORE, Entrance on Main Street Between Brown k Brown and Dorant k Son. OFFICE HOURS: 9 to 1.30; 2 to 5 o'clock. April 9. 2 A. WHITE & SON, Fire Jasnranee Agency, ESTABLISHED 1866. Represent, among other Companies : LIVERPOOL & 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 1890. 1894. A. C. PHILPS ft CO., General ta? Apte, Sumter, S. C. Fire, Life, Accident, Steam Boiler, Piate Glass, Bonds of Surety for persons in posi? tions of trost, and Liability Insurance in every branch, written in the very best Amer? ican and Foreign Companies. Over sixty-five millions of capiial repre? sented. Office at Messrs. J. Rettenberg k Sons, 2d Floor, Front. Mch 14-0 Tomatoes. i From Bulletin No. 16, of S. C. Ex? perimental Station, Clemson j College, April, 1894. BY J. F. C. DUPRK. The Tomato belongs to the same order of plants (Solaoacea) as the Irish potato (Solanum tuberosum). Egg plant (Solanum mefongena,) and many others familiar to every gardener. Its cultiva? tion has retched vast proportions, and bas become one of the most important industries. Thousands, if not millions of bushels, are.canned every season for home and foreign consumption. It is one of the easiest and least expensive crops grown, requiring no special skill and a minimum amount of labor. As an esculent, either cooked or in the raw state, it is both delicious and healthful. It is also a profitable crop, and within the reach of the smallest farmer. If one is near a canniog factory, the fruit can be sold at a fair profit. If not near a market, a few neighbors joining together can with less than a hundred dollars buy a complete canoing outfit, with a capacity of one thousand cans per day. The products of this factory can be sold to the mer? chants at a very good profit. Nothing is more conducive to the health and happiness of our wives and children than an abundant supply of vegetables and fruits, and it is one aim of the Horticultural Department of this Station to awaken the minds of the farmers to this fact, and to demonstrate that they can be raised at less cost than corn or cot too. Much might be written on the origin, history and botany of the Tomato, bot as this would interest but few for whom this bulletin is intended, we will simply give the results of our experiments and experience in as few plain words as pos? sible. Forty varieties of tomatoes were grown side by side in competition with each other, with the same cultivation, same fertiliser, andas near as possible, the same character of soil. The ground selected was a sandy loam, with clay subsoil near the sur? face. A portion of it was fresh or new ground, buts the rows were so arranged as to take io a portion of both old and new. The land was poor, that is to say, without fertilizers it would have taken two and a half acres to make a bale of cotton. PREPARATION AND FERTILIZER. The land was broken deeply with long narrow plows-two furrows in one -then thoroughly pulverized with a barrow. Rows laid off four feet apart with two furrows of turn plow (twice in same). Into this trench or furrow, compost, at the rate of one thousand pounds to the acre, was put. This was mixed with the soil by running a nar? row plow io the same trench. The land was then bedded, making a fiat bed. On this bed the plants were set 3J to 4 feet apart. The "compost" was made as follows : One thousand pounds dry stable manure, 800 pounds acid phosphate, 600 pounds raw cottoo seed, and 600 pounds of water. All the materials were throughly mixed, and chopped fine aod packed io pile under shelter, and remained io that condition until fully ripe (eight or nine weeks). Allowing for evaporation, this gave about 340 pounds stable manure, 275 pounds acid phosphate, 225 pounds cottoo se?d, and 160 pounds of water to the acre. A second or late crop was planted from the 15th to 20th of July from limbs or cuttings from the old plants. In this planting no division of varieties was made ; the cuttings were 12 to 15 inches long, leaves cot off up to six inches of bud end. They were planted in boles dog with a hoe, slanting down to four and five inches deep, and the earth pressed down upon them with the feet. The advantage of cuttings planted at this time is three-fold. They begin to bear as soon as they start to grow. The plant is more stocky and upright than the parent, and they cootia ue in bearing OD ti i killed by frost. As a rule they also made larger and smoother fruit. WORMS. Folly ooe fourth of the first crop of fruit oo the early plants was destroyed by the Boll or Coro Worm (Helio this arm?gera). This is the same worm that bores into the cotton boll and eats the ?'roasting" ears of corn. As its habit is to hide itself in the fruit as sooo as it is large enoogh to crawl, it is almost impossible to reach it with poisons or insecticides, therefore we must look elsewhere for a remedy. We have two invaluable frieods io the common blue bird (Moticella sialis) and the toad. For the first Damed make comfortable boxes, say 5 inches square, and elevate oo poles teo or twefve feet high all over the premises, and especially near the vegetables. They will pay one thousand per cent, oo all cost io destroying moths, grubs, worms, bogs, etc. The toad needs no special attention except to be let alone. He will take care of all insects that walk late or rise very early. The effectual remedy that I have tried is to gather every fruit upon or in which a worm is found, together, with all that are faulty or io aoy way diseased, aod bary them at least two feet deep io a pit prepared for that purpose. If this is done carefully, you will have oo more trouble with them until late io the summer or early io the fail, wheo the picking should be dooe again. If it were not for the broods raised in the eorn field, tbe above processes would entirely rid us of this pest. For "Black Bot*' on the blossom end of the fruit, I use tbe esme remedy as above. The habit of pulling off these fruits and throwing them on the ground is ti at much waste of time, ss both tbe worms and fungi remain to reproduce themselves in greater abundance. (List of vari ties, kc, and tabulated statement omitted.) CONCLUSIONS AND REMAKES 1 That neither very rich soil nor high fertilizing is necessary to a maxi? mum crop of tomatoes. Ordinarily good cotton lard, with 200 to 300 pounds cotton seed meal per acre is sufficiently "rich.7' The plants may not be so vigorous, nor grow so large, but tbe fruit will be as abundant, and not so liable to rot. 2/ Plant in rows four feet apart, and three to foar feet on the row Cultivate the same as you would corn. Gather all wormy or diseased fruits, as fast as they appear, sod bury them deep or burn. 3. Trellising, pruning, tieing up to stakes, etc, ii all very well, if yon have only a few plants, or a small garden, but for a field crop of an acre or more, it will not pay for the trouble. If the ground is high and well drained (and there BO ou ld be no other) let the plants follow their own inclination, and lie on the ground. A handful of soil on the stem when it touches the earth will cause it to throw out roots and renew its growth, and continue longer in bearing. 4. Transplanting once or twice before they are put out in the field will make the plants more stocky, and incresse the number of roots, thereby giving them a better start. No plant (of any kind) should be polled up out of tbe bed, but carefully dog with trowel, or some similar tool, and the roots bandied as carefully as possible. Transplant no plant of any kind when the groud is wet. Tbe best condition of the soil is when it is in good plow order. Dig a bole with a trowel as deep as you want the plant, and large enough for the roots to be spread. Fill with fine soil and pack hard with baud or foot-the drier the land the harder the packing. If the grouod is very dry, fill the hole with water after the plant has been put in, bot not set. After the water has all disappeared, fill with light soil and pack tightly. Sur? face watering after plant is set out is time wasted and ao injury; better hoe around the plant and leave the soil fine and pack with back of hoe. 5. As a rule, tomato plants grown from cuttings make a better crop than from (late) seedlings. The plants are more stocky, they begin to bear as eoon as the growth begins, aod the cool oigbts of September seem to favor the outgrowth and maturity of the fruit. 6 Among the best early varieties are the "Early Ruby," "Chemin," and "Hathaway's Excelsior." For a gen? eral crop, and for geoeral purposes, we have grown none better than "Match? less," "Mitchell's New," "Stone," and "Red Cross." The "Drawf Cham? pion" is also an excellent variety. Growing erect, it takes up but little room. "Golden Sunrise" (Henderson) is the best yellow we have grows. The "Acme," while a good tomato, bas never missed having the "black rot" at blossom end. 7. The author will be pleased to give any information relative to growing vegetables of any kind, when requested to do so, and a stamp is enclosed jor reply. A Tornado in Marlboro. BENNTTSVILLBE, May 31.-This sec? tion was visited by a very destructive storm yesterday afternoon. On Capt. P. L. Breeden's farm tbe gin house, engine house and two tenant houses were blown down, while hie barn was moved four inches. Two tenant houses on Mr. James McDaniel's farm and the gin house on Mr. Barney Wallace's farm were also-blown down. Mr. W. P. Lester's gin house and Messrs. T. H. Be thea's and R. J. Tatum's barns were blown down. Messrs. J. F. Bol? ton's and C. T. Sasterling's crops were ruined by the hail. A telegram from McColl states that the house of Mr. J. W. Stone, who lives near that town, was literally torn L pieces, kill? ing his wife and three children. *mm i i ? i mmm Good for Kershaw County. The annual report of the Treasurer of this county was published last week. Daring the year $15,011.21 was spent in defraying the ordinary expenses of the county, while $9, 983.75 was spent for school purposes. We do not think aoy county io the State cao, proportionately, make a better showing, and wheo the amount spent for education is equal to two thirds of the amount for ail other souoty expenses it looks to us like education has a big place io the minds )f our people.-CamdeD Journal. The South the Coming Meld. The opportunities and the advantages the South presents as a field of invest? ment for capitalists are now becoming pretty generally understood in the North, where the commercial and financial papers especially have done mueh to throw light upon this question. Not long ago we quoted some extracts from the Boston Journal of Commerce showing the advantages presented by the South as a field for the cotton manufacturer, and giving some of the reasons why the South was making, and would continue to make, such rapid progress oot only in the number of mills erected But in the advance io the manu? facture of finer grades of goods which it was at one time, and until quite recent- ' ly, thought could not be successfully made in the South, for the lack of experience and of skilled labor. We herewith present an extract from the j United States Investor, giving some of , the reasons why the South is to be the ' coming field for the investment of 1 capital. After comparing or rather 1 contrasting the West, which until quite recently was the favorite field for invest- ! meot, and the Sooth, it says : "Bot leaviog the West entirely out of the questioo at this time, the time is fast approachiog wheo the Sooth will be a favorite field for the investment of Northern capital. The New England and Middle States bave for a long time been io the position of old countries, having more accumulated wealth than they could employ at home. Ao out? let must be found for this Not only i for this reason does the South promise < to be an attractive field for investment 1 but for another which may not, on the < first glance, be welcomed by a large part of the population of the North. < We refer to the fact that, in the opinion 1 of good judges, many industries now ] carried oo io the New England and < Middle States cao be more advaota- < geoosly prosecuted io -the South, or j nearer the supplies of raw materials. < In -pursuance of this idea, certain < Massachusetts corporations have receotly 1 asked for increases io their capitaliza- 1 tioo for the avowed purpose of erecting I plants io the Sooth. 1 The South had a good cottoo crop io | 1893, and fairly good prices were ob- . tained for it, in contradistinction . to the exceedingly low prices which farmers io other parts of the country have beeo, < and are getting. Therefore a bosiness i revival may be looked for io the South < as quickly as anywhere else, and this I fact of itself, to say nothing of its special < inducements to investers, is likely to 1 commaod the attention of the possessors < of money throughout the entire country. "Comparatively speaking, the South ; is io better cooditioo to-day than maoy other sections of the country. It had its "boom," bot the collapse occurred some years ago, aod as business bas < been conducted on conservative priori ci pies ever since then, the panic of 1893 was mach less keenly felt io that locality than elsewhere. Consequently the feeliog of discouragement is not as great there to-day as in the West and North. Theo, too. This is the statement of ao outsider, whose views are oot colored by sectional partiality, who surveys the situation from a business standpoint aod with the eye of a busioess mao. The same thing emanating from one of oar own journals might be suspected of being the utter? ance of sectional bias rather than of cool, deliberate judgment, based upon facts. We have long held the opinion that the South is and will continue to be the most inviting section of this coootry, oot only for the capitalist who seeks safe and satisfactory investment, bot for the workmao who desires to get a foot? hold in life, making a comfortable liv? ing aod work op io the fatare. It is not ao eldorado where a mao may fancy be can dig op a fortune in a week, or find it without digging, bot for him who is cooteot with reasonable gains on money invested in legitimate enter- ! prises, or for him who toils with his ! hands and is thrifty to save, there is no j section of this country which offers ! greater if as great inducements. The i speedy fortune-seeker might possibly be ; disappointed, as many have been io this i and as they have been in other sections, i The man who makes a fortune quickly ] generally does it either by a lucky < stroke akin to accident, by unusual . sagacity, or by stealing it, and there i are always the exceptions to the general i role. The fortunes that come by legi ti- I mate industry usually come slowly, and ] are the result of work and application t to business, with, of course, a know- < ledge of what one is doing. i The speedy fortune business has been ' considerably experimented with io the South within the past six or eight years, resulting in a lot of booms and a lot of bursts, both serving as a warning example against too much speculation in wind, and too much eagerness to make something out of little or nothing, and turning land that cost $50 an acre into town lots at $5 a foot. That bobble business has bursted, and the boom bas played out and been laid up. That's good for the South, for aside from the engineers of these things who got caught in the collapse, it was only the innocent, the honest and the credulous who suffered. Tbe South for ber success depends on ber real inherent advantages, and does not oeed the assistance of booms or any other forced process of development. All she needs ie to be known as she is and to have understood what she has to offer in the way of inducements to capi? tal or to industry. There is no section of this or of any other country which can present on such a colossal scale, BOCO a variety of the raw materials for manufactures whether of fibre, metal, wood, clay or stone, not confined to any particular section but almost universal throughout the entire-sweep between tbe Potomac and Ohio rivers and the Rio Grande. Some of these resources are pretty fully comprehended, as the extent and character of the timber, for in? stance, and whilst much is known of the others there is scarcely a week that does ?ot add to the discoveries and to the ways in which the materials already discovered can be profitably utilized. There are already indications that the South will ia coming years be the cen* ter of both the cotton and the iron manufacturing industries, and the pro* babilities are that she will also be the center of a number of other important industries, making this tho great manu? facturing section of the United States. -Wilmington Star. Bouncing of Trial Justice Milan-Chief Gaillard Appointed. It will be remembered that while Treasurer Walter of Charleston was in the city in attendance upon the dio? cesan convention, he was instructed by Governor Tillman to bring a suit against Vincent Cbicco for perjury. Phis was to be done upon the ground that Cbicco was reported as having boasted that he sold liquor daring dis? pensary days and on the strength of that made an affidavit that he had obeyed the dispensary law and thereby got $50 in license money from the Bounty. When Governor Tillman read the newspaper accounts of the trial, be got wrot hy and said that the time had come for Trial Justice Milan's head to go into the waste basket, so the fol? lowing little note went to Mr. Milan by the afternoon's mail : Mr. ?. Milan, Trial Justice, Charles? ton, S. C. Sir : Your action as trial justice in dismissing the case against V. Cbicco, ifter a prima facie case bad been made 3ut, necessitates your removal from of? fice and you are hereby removed as trial justice for the county of Charles? ton. You will turn over the books, etc., belonging to you as each to Theodore S. Gaillard, who has been appointed as your successor. B. R. TILLMAN, Governor. The notice of the appointment of ex Chief Constable Gaillard was forwarded oo the afternoon train. Governor Till? man said that he has for some time been wanting a trial justice in Charles? ton who was willing to look at things tn a different way.-State, June 1. / King's Mountain is the center of one of the richest mining sections on this continent, nearly every known useful mineral being found in it and most of them in paying quantities. In an interesting article on this subject last week the Shelby Review names gold, iron of several verities, tin, zinc, lead, silver, copper, sulphur, coal, mica, asbestos, graphite, and a half-dozen different varities of stone. The latest finds and perhaps one of tbe most im? portant of all, if half what is said about it be true, is the discovery, or rather re-discovery of a vein of plati? num, avery valuable mioeral, fouod but rarely io this country aod io but lim? ited quantities anywhere. The dis? covery was made, accordiog to the Review, about twelve years ago by a man from Boston who was prospecting , for tin. He kept his discovery to himself, but while negotiating for a lease of the proper'y be was summoned to his home by sickness io bis family. Since theo numerous deaths io bis family kept him at home. Bat receotly he returned, secured the lease be de? sired aod theo for the first time gave publicity to his discovery. Sinkings revealed a vein eight feet wide of un? known length and depth, in which the platinum of a high grade is found in a deposit resembling black lead. This rein had been previously discovered, but the discoverers bad no idea what it was ind gave it no farther attention, bat the Boston discoverer seems to have ?nown its value and is now confident that he has a bonanza, which he un* ioubtedly has, unless the reports are very much exaggerated.- Wilmington Star, May 21. Highest of all in Leavening Pov ABSOLVI Miss Barton's Letter to Mr. Barnwell. BEAUFORT. S. C. May 27, 1894. HOD. J. W. Barnwell, Chairman Relief Committee of Charleston, S. C. -Dear Sir : You will recall for your? self aod the committee of which you are chairman the fact that OD the 30th of March last the American National Red Cross, through me, presented to your honorable committee the reports then beginning to circulate relative to alleged suffering aod destitutioo oo the main? land of the State adjacent to the sea islands. It was pointed out that ao appeal to the country at large would be distaste? ful to the citizens and an injury to the fair name of South Caaolioa, that with very slight pecuniary or material assist? ance all danger would be averted and the situation relieved, aod that, while preparing to leave, the Red Cross could aod would if desirable undertake the necessary relief work which to the extent of its ability it was already doing, although. not included in the territory it had been called or requested to relieve. No action was taken. You will recall tba* no criticism has been made by us oo that non-action. The situation has BOW chaoged and very materially. What we theo feared bas more than occurred. Alarming aod iojoriojs reports are widely circulated aod unceasing accusations of neglect are beiog cade poblie ; aod singularly enough the Red Cross, the ooly body of persons in the State which made any effort or move toward averting the need? less, misleading and disgraceful condi? tion of things, is beiog publicly held for it. The Red Cross has been for some time closing its work oo the arduous held to which it was called by South Carolina, through its Chief Executive, to occupy. Conscious of the integrity of all our work, aod desiring to perform our full duty io every directioo, we re?pectfully suggest through you to your honorable committee at Charleston, who so kindly consented to serve as an advisory body, that yon will appoint one or more mem? bers of that committee to confer with us at Beaufort, as this place is the only point from which intelligent investiga? tion can be made. Hoping for ao immediate affirmative reply, I am with high regard, Very cordially yours, CLARA BARTON. President American National Red Croea. The South Carolina and Georgia. Of tbe $5,000,000 stock of the new South Carolina and Georgia railroad company, the successors of the old South Carolina railroad, Charles Par? sons takes $4,000,000, which carries control. Holders of the old bonds get a portion of the balance of the stock. Charles Parsons is president of the new company and Charles Par? sons, Jr.. is vice president. George Parsons, E. B. Wesson, William Lam? ra is, Edwin Parsons aod W. H. Platt, Jr., are expected to be oo the new board of directors, which will be an? oounced in a few days. The Parsons interest will oot be connected with' the active management of tbe road, but will oame a Southern mao as vice president and general manager in charge of traffic affairs. It will be the policy of the road to foster local indus? tries as mach as possible. - - -? The members of the Gould family appear to bave a bard time getting themselves married. During the past two or three weeks tbe newspapers have been foll of announcements to the effect that this and that member of the I family bad broken off ao eogagemeot I to marry. It seems according to the j will of Jay Goold that oooe of the sons or daughter* can get married unless a family meeting is held and the consent of all the brothers and sisters obtained The friends of Gen. Booth, the head of the Salvation Army, are getting ready to celebrate the fi f ti eb anniversary of his conversion, which occurs this year. He will be presented with a jubilee thanksgiving present of $50,000. Next mooth there will be an international Salvation Army congress in London in recognition of the event. Aod the general proposes to finish the celebration by personally conducting a jubilee salvation campaign io America, adding 1,000 officers to the army and starting various new enterprises con? nected with the army. irer.-Latest U. S. Gov't Report I Baking i Powder rELY PURE