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0l? iUotcljm?n awl Soutfyron. TBK SUMTES WATCHMAN, KstftbUshed April, 1850. "Be Just and Fear not-Let all the Ends thou Aims't at, be thy Country's, thy God's and Truth's." THE TRUE SOUTHRON, Established jane. 1=66 Consolidated Aug. 2,1881. SUMTER, S. C., WEDNESDAY, JULY ll, 1894. New Series-Vol. XIII. So. 49. Published Every Wednesday, 2M. C3r. Osteen, .SUMTER, S. C. TER2?S : Two Dollars per an QUOI-io advance. ADVERTISEMENT: One Square first insertion..................Si 00 ' Every subsequent insertion... 50 Contracts for three months, or longer will be made at reduced rates. AU communications which subserve private interests will be charged foras advertisements. Obituaries and tributes of respect will be charged for. THE SIMONOS NATIONAL BANK OF SUMTER. STATE, CITY AND COUNTY DEPOSI? TORY, SUMTEri, S. C. Paid up Capital.$75,000 00 Surplus Fund. 12,500 00 Liabilities of Stockholders io depositors acccordiog 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, Jolv and October. ." R M. WALLACE, L. S. CARSON, 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 talents, Miles, Ic And doing a General Business in that lise. A complete workshop has been fitted 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 oefore placing an order elsewhere. W. H. COMMANDER, G. E. RICHARDSON. June 16. JOS. F. RHAME. WM. C. DAVIS. RH AME & 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, ENTRANCE OH VAIN STREET. SUMTER, S.C. Ofice Hours-9 to 1 ; 2.30 to 5.30. DENTIST. Office OVER BROWN & BROWN'S STORE, Entrance on Main Street Between Brown & Brow a and 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. A7?~PHELPS & CO., M tar? Apis, Sumter, S. C. Fire, Life, Accident, Steam Boiler, Plate Qlas?* Bondajpf. Surejj for ^persons in posi? tions of trust, ?nd "Liability" Insurance in every branch, written in the very best Amer can\??dr foreign Companies. ' .' Over sixty ?fi ?e millions of,capiial repre? sented. Office at Messrs. J. Rytteoberg & Soo*, 2d Floor, Front. Mch 14-o_ DAVIDSON COLLEGE, DAVIDSON, NB CI PETTY-EIGHTH ISAS BEGINS SEPT. 13, 1894. NINE MEN IN THE FACULTY, CURRICULUM IN LOWER CLASSES, HIGHER CLASSES ELECTIVE, THREE DEGREES CONFERRED. CLASSICAL, MATHEMATICAL, LITERARY, SCIENTIFIC, COMMERCIAL. Terms Reasonable, send for Catalogue. J. B. SHEARER, President. Jone 27-3m. Reviewing the S. C. Cam? paign. Correspondence Augusta Chronicle. COLUMBIA, S. C., July 2-The poli? tical temperature of the State is much lower than it was two weeks ago. When the campaign opened at Kock Hill there was a general pricking of ears. It was expected that something would drop with the force of a steam hammer, and for two or three days newspapers were really interesting things to most peo? ple. At the Chester meeting Sena? tor Butler was inclined to be vicious towards Governor Tillman and the debate at Lancaster on the following day showed some evidences of life. Governor Tillman took his turn and reciprocated the Senator's ferocious compliments. Ou one or two oc? casions in the earlier meetings mis? guided persons in the crowd rushed headlong to the conclusion that the speakers were in earnest and got mad, but after a little jostling and ecrouging they were in all cases appeased or removed. Both Tillman and Butler are now behaving in a comparatively seeming? ly maimer. The Governor, of course, continues to belch worth words of consuming and burning wrath, but he is considerate enough to aim most of his attacks at Cleveland and Wall street and nobody is at hand to take up the guage of battle for either the one or the other of them. Unless the* Governor should train his guns on some enemy nearer home there is only the faintest likelihood that even the turbulence of the first week will be repeated. At nearly all the meetings the de? monstrations have been favorable to the "Blinker** as Governor Tillman's rustic followers affectionately and admiringly denominate him. The Governor s friends are demon strative people. They have immeas? urable lung power, and throats like steam whistles, and when "Marse Ben,*' works himself up to about 212 degrees Fahrenheit and begins to sing like a tea kettle on a fire of hickory limbs, the "wool hats,** invariably shatter the walls enclosing ail the the demons of hideous sounds* Then the Governor isa man of "hand primaries " It is his old trick and he clings to if with the tenacity of a whist player to a favorite suit "Now all of you boys who think I am right,'* he shouts in the brief inter? vals that now and then occur between ?iteir cheers, "hold up your right hands," and always up they shoot, the two or three hundred horny palms of the plough boys usually densely packed about the platform down in the front and beneath the platform from which he is burling his declamatory and ireful thunderbolts. Thus it has been at York and I Lancaster, Camden and Sumter, Darlington and Florence, and on and on from couuty to county. Senator Butler's friends, when the Governor puts the negative, make it a rule to do and say nothing, looking on the antics of the opposition with sullen silence. The hand primaries have their iutended effect. The news? paper reporters trim their pencils and say, "tbis was another Tillman day** and away on electric wings across the country speeds the news that South Carolina's pyrotechnic Populist is as usual carrying ail things before him with his fiery eloquence. A BUTLER VIEW OF IT. But Senator Butler's friends talk confidently. "Why, there is scarcely anybody at the meetings,'" the}7 say. The crowds number from 300 to 1,000 at most, while two and four years ago when Tillman was doing the State, always from two to five thousand were out to 6ee and hear him. Besides these hand primaries prove nothing. Fifty or a hundred of the rabid and rampant shoot up both fists at the bidding of the boss, to do which they have been carefully train? ed, in order-to make a great impres? sion. The people, the real bulk of the people present, whose hundreds and hundreds of silent ballots will weigh down the boxes and count, are standing back and thinking Thousands of other people are tired of Tillman, say the Butlerities, and in spite of tremendous efforts made to rally them they are biding their time at home and when the primaries arrive Governor Tillman will feel the torrent of their votes sweeping his feet from under him. When one hears a Butler man discuss the cam? paign in this way he cannot but be impressed that there is not a little truth in that] analysis of the situa? tion. SENATOR BUTLER HANDICAPPED. Senator Butler goes into this race handicapped. All the odds are against him. The anti-Tillmanities eye him coolly with an inquiring look ou the faces, which asks why he did not on Cleveland's inauguration "chuck off his coat"' and assist them in the scramble for all the Federal patronage to the everlasting dis? appointment of the Tillmauites '! "Why did he endeavor to put some of the most blatant and oflensive of all the Tillmamte? into easy berths while we who have fought for hi cause in the ranks are left to sh i ve in the cold ?" The Anties are not i good fighting trim anyway. The; have out no State ticket, many, c them are disgusted with Clevelan and Congress, and scarcely two c them can be found agreeing on a! political points. lu many counties it will be difficult task to induce men pledge? to Butler to run for the Legislature The Tillman cause being looked upoi as invincible, men will not care t< risk losing the chances of futun preferment by leading what they fea is a forlorn hope. It is for this rea son that Senator Butler insists s< strenously on a separate box in th? Democratic primaries in which the popular choice for Senator may b( registered and by the results of whicr both candidates bind themselves tc abide. Such a proposition, althougr the primary has always until non beeu one of the constant hobbies, the Governor declines, protesting that it is a matter not for him but for thc State Democratic Executive Com mittee alone to determine. Governoi Tillman doubtless believes that he has the Senator at a great disadvan tage as matters stand, and is naturally reluctant to yield any assistance, in the meantime, regarding constancy as a pearl to be thrown to swine. NATIONAL ISSUES NOT IN* IT. Strange as it may seem National issues find little place in this Sena torial campaign. Governor Tillman to be sure is spectacularly grand in his attacks upon the National Demo? cracy, the money power and all that embattled host of monsters, but most of his oratory is expended upon the beauties of "reform" in South Caro? lina, and in replying to Senator Butler's onslaughts, lie advocates, though, free silver and a greenback currency and cries "more money, more money with ever increasing unction. Sometimes he expatiaties on the necessity of joining the South and West against the greedy East, and his enemies interpret him as nominating himself as the National standard-bearer for a new party look? ing to this union for strength. Senator Butler in a regretful 6ort of way speaks of the differences between himself and Grover Cleveland on questions of finance and mildly defends the President as an honest, if misguided, politician. He urges the necessity of ?tate bonds of issne, and manfully champions the tariff bill as the best measure of the kind that has been before Congress since the war. The Senator too, intimates that the country could stand a larger green? back issue. But these arguments are not the burden of his song. They are merely incidental to his warfare on the dispensary seheme and the charges of corruption in connection with it, which he fires at the Tillman administration. Senator Butler will have the sup? port of the Confederate veterans. At Chesterfield the other day au old fellow in shabby gray jeans and fiat brimmed white hat shambled up to him and held out his hand. "Why, how are you, Brantley?" said the Senator, as he grasped it, as he did so the ragged oldex-rebePs emotion overcame him and he ctied like a baby. In Butler's brigade thirty years ago his humble duty had been to drive an ambulance across Virginia's hills and this was the first time since then that the General had seen him. Senator Butler was never known to forget the face of a soldier. Tiie Senator inquired into the man's con? dition, and finding that he was poor and struggling for a livelihood offer? ed to take him to his Edgefield plantation, and give him a home for his declining yeats And if Butler is defeated for the Senate, fighting over his many battles with the warworn ambulance driver will not be the least pleasure that he will find in retire? ment to private life. ?RACE FOB GOVERNOR. The race for Governor is a frolic confined to Reformers. They have arranged a plan for a State conven? tion to which delegates are to be elected from clubs whose member? ship shall be composed exclusively of those who will agree to stand by Reform nominees. This convention will meet on the 14th of August and nominate either Comptroller General Ellerbee, a young farmer of Marion county or Secretary of State, Tindal, an old farmer of Clarendon county, or State Senator John Gary Evans, a young lawyer of Aiken county, or Clerk of the Semate, Pope, an old doctor of Newberry county. Then in the primaries of August 28th, when all the Democrats, includ? ing auti-Tillmanites, have a right to vote, the Reformers of high and low degree will support this nominee to a man. It will be seen from this that the Reformers, or Tillmanites, are practically a party to themselves and have arranged to elimiuate their op? ponents from figuring in the selection of a Governor. Young Ellerbee, in his campaign speeches, pitches into young Evam whom he accuses of being a Iattei day convert to Tillmanism and whore he says snuggles up to the Governoi now because he is a greater man, Then Evans replies and eloquently paints his own portrait before the eyes of the multitude as a better friend to Tillman than Ellerbee and ever and anon says a good word for the dis pensary But the issue which both emphasize a tear passions into tatters over is, "Who of the true believers is the truest believer in Ben.*' So it goes and the outlook is that the one of the two who can hold the tightest grip on the Governor's coat tail will preside over the desti? nies of this Commonwealth for the next two years. Candidate Tindal, who is a gentle? man and a well-versed scholar, is really not in the race. Candidate Pope has waked up to the realization that rings have found their way into the Reform organiza? tion and now he is clamoring for a free-for all primary. But candidate Pope, like Tindal, has too little of the demagogue and speaks with too much moderation and liberality to? wards the Conservatives to stand the slightest chance for success. Can? didate Pope is probably the first Democrat in South Carolina to advo? cate a high protective tariff from the stump There are still six weeks of cam? paigning. Not a man in the field has played Iiis hand yet, and many a big card is yet to fall before the Palmetto knows "where it is at." J. WILSON GIBBES. Epedemic of Typhoid Fever. The Charlotte News says that re? ports from all quarters show that ty? phoid fever is raging in a most peculiar manner this year. It seems to show no discrimination against climate or height above sea level. For instance ; Taylorville, N. C., a mountain town at the foot of the Blue Ridge, is seriously stricken with the disease. It has been so common there as to almost paralyze business. Another place is Georgeville, Cabar rus County, N. C. There the fever is raging again as it did last year. The river and a big creek pass close by this place, and that was always sup? posed to be the cause of sickness But this year it has been no worse than the disease has been in Taylor? ville, which town has perfect natural sanitation. Men who have made a study of the disease attribute the extraordinary amount of typhoid germs to the singularly mild winter which prevailed in this section last season. The fever is also reported to be in several towns in South Carolina. Will "thelmur Ply. Governor Tillman may have un? wittingly put his hand on a hornet when he said in his Sumter speech that Col. Cal. Caughman, announced candidate for congress, had made an indecent exposure of his mind. Colo? nel Caughman can talk louder, hard? er, faster and more fiercely than anybody. Also he can say things. His oratorical and political stomach craves stronger meat than the meek and much mashed and martyted Williug Jay Stokes is likely to pro? vide. We would not be at all astijn ished to see him tackle the Governor himself. If he does so, Senator Butler may simply step to one side, hoist au umbrella and watch the mud and fur fly. It will be black gum against thunder, the devil against a witch, a Kansas cyclone encountering a West Indian hurricane, a mountain ram in combat with a rock headed goat. Everything would go-both barefooted and gouging, hitting, bit? ing, kicking, hair and whiskers pull? ing, chin cutting and auy holds allowed It would be the fight of the century between two past masters in that style of fighting.-Greenville News. New York Town Topics : I under? stand that Senator Matthew C. Butler and Governor Benjamin R. Tillmam, of South Carolina, have received an offer of ?1,000 a week each from the managers of Hagenbeck's trained an? imals to do their act at Manhattan Beach every afternoon and evening. Mr. Butler, in one corner of the cage, will hurl four thousand, three hundred aud twenty-seven epithets, seventy-two inuendos and eight bushels of mis? cellaneous hard words at Governor Ben, who will catch them all on the fly, at the same time whirling around on his axis till his clothes catch fire and have to be put out with a hand hose. Sena? tor Butler will also eat fire, throw knives, sword canes, revolvers and Winchester rifles nut of his mouth, and the performance will end with an elegant living picture in which the Senator will represent Ajax, and the Governor, with streams of lighted Palmetto Dispensary whisky issuing alternately from the right and left corners of his mouth, will be the light? ning. It will be a great show, but I fear the other auimals will go on a strike. Our Executive Anarchist. In a certain sense Governor Till? man is as rank an anarchist as there is in America. He would not ally him? self with a body of madmen or affiliate with bomb throwers or assassins, but his illtimed and intemperate addresses are calculated to foster strife and intensify the bitterness among the political factions of South Carolina. Ile has given expression to public utterances in his debate with Senator Butler that would shame Dennis Kearney or the most blatant and ignorant Tammany politician. Ile has made public statements about President Cleveland and Congress that are seditious and unreasonable, and has on every occasion in which he appears on the stump displayed such revolutionary spirit that no State and no people would passively sub? mit to except South Carolina and her sons. Language such as he adopts and capable of being construed and applied as he intends is as dan? gerous and as wanton as the expres? sion of Most, Schwab and the Gold? man woman. In no other State in the South is there such a chief execu? tive and possibly in the country, with the exception of Colorado and Kan? sas. There was a time in the history of Carolina when such a demagogue would be recognized under no circum? stances and when he could in no man? ner possible be raised to the dignity he now enjoys. South Carolina has within her borders knights as chivalrous as ever drew a sword, orators as persuasive and eloquent as ever trod a rostrum, statesmen as pure and unselfish as ever graced the halls of Congress, and men as manly and upright as ever lived and main? tained a sovereignty, but they have to passively submit to the insults visited on them through the stubborn? ness and the egregious vanity of Governor Tillman. All his promi? nent public acte have subjected him to derision and contempt. His open defiance of the mandates of the Supreme Court for his interference with the railroads, his intemperate zeal in the maintenance of State dis? pensaries, bis employment of tramps and vagrants for constables to apprise and harass his people and his cruel and wanton persecution of his citizens at Darlington, stamp him as a man wholly unfit to administer the affairs of a great State -Savannah Dispatch. How They Waltz in Ken? tucky. A Danville girl tells the Advocate the following with regard to waltzing : "No one waltz, even when danced with the same partner, is exactly the same. It is always a new sensation, j The music is not in the same key, and | the waltz does not touch the same j chords of one's soul. If I dance twenty waltzes in the evening I have twenty different thrills of pleasure. With one partner it is a soft, insidious measure ; with the next, a long and languorous movement ; with the third, more of a hop, that gently jars the brain into a delicious, dreamy forgetfulness ; while the fourth cava? lier, with a heroic tread, bears you away .with strong and vigorous rhythm into still another world. The lights of this go out, you lose consciousness but you feel no dread as you lie with? in those herculean arms like a child rocked to sleep in his mother's em? brace. Your feet are no longer on the earth. It's a celestial rotation out into space, and when you light on earth again you feel like a tired bird stoppiug from a long flight." What the Democrats Have Done. There is no man connected with this administration who has been more unstintingly abused, more em? phatically denounced, more sweep? ingly misrepresented or luridly "cuss? ed" by Republican politicians and their organs on the other side of the line than Hon. Hoke Smith, Secre? tary of the Interior. Judge Lochren, Commissioner of Pensions, has with him been subjected to more or less of this abuse. The fact, however, that Secretary Smith is a Southern man sharpened their darts, and gave them an opportunity to play upon sectional prejudice and to make a wholesale misrepresentation of his acts and the motives that inspired them. But if there is any man connected with the administration to whom the American people are uuder special obligations than man is Secretary Smith, who when he saw the frauds that vere being perpetrated upon the people through the Pension Bureau, resolved to do what he could to wipe them, out and to make the pension roll is as far as he could a "roll of honor."* Ile was somewhat hampered in this by the restraining acts o? Congress, but etil! he with the efficient and hon? est co-operation of the Commissioner of Pensions has saved the people $25, 000,000 out of the $165,000,000 ap? propriated for the current fiscal year. Mr. Raum said it would require $180,000,000 and was about to ask for that sum when it was represented by the Republican managers that this might have abd effect on Mr. Harri? son's chances . .e-election, and he asked instead for $165,000,000. Had the Republican party remained in power and in charge of the Pen? sion Bureau there is no doubt the $165,000 would have bee!) expended, and the $180,000,000 or more called for, but under Democratic manage? ment $25,000,000 are saved and the appropriations recommended for next year will be $140,000,000 instead of $165,000,000, thus saving to the peo? ple in two years $50,000,000 That's what the Ameiican people owe Sec? retary Hoke Smith and Commissioner Lochren, who have gone on attending to business and weeding out the frauds, regardless of the partisan abuse heaped on them. Here is a practica! illustration of the striking contrast between Democratic honesty and retrenchment and Republican plundering and extravagance. The Negro's Jack. Few white people know what a "jack" is, as understood by the ne? groes and perhaps the custom of carrying a "jack" is not popular with the negroes of this section of the country ; but in the South Atlantic States, it is said, you can hardly find a negro without one. A negro was found dead, hanging in the woods near Charlotte, N. C.. the other day, and thc first question that the coroner asked was " Whefe is his jack ?" At this question the negroes, who had congregated around, fell back as though a bomb were about to ex? plode, and the white men present asked what it meant. "I will show you," 6aid thc physician, and feel? ing in the dead man's pocket he brought out a tin box. When (his was opened it was found to con? tain a snake's head, a scorpion, a bit of iron, a rusty key, a bunch of "witch's yarn," and a package of salt. The doctor said this was the jack and that it was used by the negroes to "conjure"" their ene? mies with and throw a spell over them, and that the majority of the negroes held the jack in mortal terror. To show its power the doctor offered to give any of the negroes present a dollar to put the jack into his pocket, but none of them would touch it He took it home and tried the negroes in the city with it. He put it in his back yard and says that it will be a bet? ter guard for his chickens and wood? pile that any dog that he could get. New Orleans Picayune. 6?rms and Jelly. When physicians want to secure minute organisms for investigation, they expose gelatine to the air or in places where they have confined the malignant germs. The gelatine speedily attracts and holds them. This is a fact for housekeepers to know. Jellies of any sort placed in the air to cool should be covered with a piece of broken window glass to protect them from these germs. The Cultivator and Country Gentle? man. It is"no looper the Richmond and Danville Railroad hut "The Southern Railway Compauy." We gave it as our opinion in last week's issue that uncle George Tillman was out of politics for the present. We have since heard, as cotniug from him. that he is undecided, bat that he will keep posted as to the time allowed him to come our, aud his decidion will depend entirely upon information receiv? ed between now and then ss to bis chaoce of election. Ile has no ob? jection to serving the people as a democratic Governor of the whole State, not as the candidate of tither factioo.-Johnston Monitor, July 6. ---a^MK^'H^^ Excelsior Baking Powder is the best, be? cause it is pure, try it. Prepared by Dr. A. J. China. Highest of all in Leavening Power.-L atest U. S. Gov't Report Baking Powder ABSOLUTELY PURE