The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, October 31, 1894, Image 5
WEDNESDAY, OCT. 31, 1894,
Entered at the Post Office at Sumter, S
(?., as Second Glass Matter.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Estate of Thos. W. Morris-Citation.
County Commissioners-Annual Meeting.
Estate of W. Burrows Mathis-Final Dis?
charge.
Electric Light Company-Stockholders
Meeting.
G. W. Egan, Charleston-Money to be Had
on Cotton.
Claremont Lodge, No. 64, A. F. M.-Re?
gular Monthly Communication.
Personal.
Mr. George H. Reid, of Bishop ville, spent
yesterday in the city.
Mr. Jimmie Dargan, of this county, left for
Florida Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. John W. Mciver, who have
been ill, are much better.
Mr. W. T. Brogdoo, who has been report?
ed very Ul, is much better.
Miss Lillie Delgar left for Bennettsvi?le
Monday ou a visit to friends.
Miss Hattie Doar, of McClellan ville, is visit
. ?og ber sister Mrs. George D. Shore.
Mr. R. S. Brad well, who hasoeen visiting
in Doctortown, Ga, has returned home.
Mr. Alva Smith, who has been quite sick
with fever, for about a week, is able to oat
again.
Mrs. Wylie J. McKain and children, of
Mann ville, went over to. Columbia Saturday
morning on a visit to relatives.
Mr. Emile E. Fox worth will leave for
Gainesville, Florida, to-morrow night to en?
ter the Express service again, as route agent.
Rev. W. W. Mood's many friends wili be
delighted to learn that be bas recovered
sufficiently to be able to sit up. Mrs. Mood is
also much better.
The friends of Mr. Joe Jones will, no doubt,
be pleased to hear that Joe is still living, or
was, op to a few days ago, anyhow. A letter
was received from bim last night from SAU
Francisco, Cai.
Don't forget Rev. C. C. Brown's lecture at
Y. M. C. A. bali on November, 8tb, on Court?
ship and Matrimony ; bow not to do it Dr.
Brown does not need any blowing to
draw a packed audience. An interesting
after-lecture experience meeting on tbe sub?
ject will be given by "our own bachelors."
Admission 25 cents. Number of seats are
limited.
Solicitor John S. Wilson, is quite ill again,
having suffered a relapse a few days ago. Bis
'' condition for several days baa been so serious
that bis many friends are deeply concerned
about his ultimate recovery, yesterday there
was a slight improvement. Be will be taken
ts Charleston for further treatment as BOOB as
his strength will permit him to undergo the
fatigue of ti e journey.
BALLOTS, BALLOTS.
There are 5,000 Constitu?
tional Convention Ballots at this office
fa distribution. Any person interest?
ed, may obtain ballots by calling at
this office. AU men who are opposed to
the Convention are urged to take hold
of the matter and see that these ballots
are placed in the hands of the voters.
City Council is having all of the old fire
wells filled in.
. An unusual hail storm is reported at Biah
opville Friday nigbt. Hail tienes the size of
a man's thumb are said to have fallen.
The green and flourishing Bermuda grass
lawns in this city, are object lessons to the
farmers who have an idea of raising stock.
Hailstones as large around as a dollar and
from a quarter to half an inch thick, fell in
and sear Camden in tbe storm last Friday
afternoon.
Hiram Spears colored, and old carpenter,
who was well known in ante bellum days,
died on Thursday sod was buried Friday.
He had passed his eighty seven tb year.
Delgar Reel Company No., 3, are hard
down at practice, aod are getting into pretty
good shape. The members say that as soon
as Columbia makes up her miod to have that
reel contest during the fair, they are ready to
go over.
A number of merchants, who have paid
their license, are complaining against Council
for not enforcing tbs law, by requiring all
persons to pay the license. They consider
that Council is doing an injustice to those
who have paid. That license ordinance seems
doomed to be a bone of contention for some
time to come.
The bail storm ia toe Bisbopville section,
last week, was more serious than at first re?
ported. Bail stones as big as a hen's egg are
said to have fallen in some places, and many
bales of cotton were knocked out and rained,
and the pea crops, in some pisces were com?
pletely destroyed.
Sam Jenkins colored, of Silver, S. C., was
given a preliminary hearing before ?. S.
Commissioner S. A. Norris on Friday. He
was charged with violation of Section 3242,
revised statutes, of the United States, selling
whiskey, in short. Deputy Internal Revende
Collector Stackhouse, swore out the warrant
upon information and belief. Mark Reynolds,
Esq., appeared for the defence, and the case
was dismissed.
Hot Supper.
The ladies of St. Matthew's Church will
give a bot supper in the school house near
Rembert's store on Thursday night, Nov.
8tb, and ask a liberal pa image.
An Oyster Supper.
Tbe ladies of the Jordan section will bold
an Oyster Supper and Ice Cream Festival,
at Jordan Church, about three miles from
Sumter on Friday nigbt, November 2d, for
tbe benefit of the Jordan Church. It is
needless to say that the ladies of Jordan sec?
tion will have things fixed np in the nicest
style, as they always do that. A good time
is guaranteed all who attend, and as tbe festi?
val is to be in the interest of a good canse-the
church-it should be well attended. People
from Sumter will find it a short and pleasant
drive out to Jordan Church.
Improved Order of Bed Men.
The Degree of Adoption will be conferred
on a Pale Face by Pocahontas Tribe at tbe
Council on next Friday nigbt. Members will
take due notice and be punctual in attend?
ance. AU Chiefs are requested to occupy
their stumps.
mm i i -mm**
The Tiger and the Stamps.
A Dispensary Constable tells a good joke
on an ex-whiskey dealer, of Sumter. The
whiskey dealer applied to Commissioner
Traxler for stamps to ship bis whiskey eut of
the Stale. When the constable went to stamp
the whiskey, the dealer put him off until the
next day, saying that be had draak most of
his whiskey and did not have much to ship
then. As only a few day had elapsed since
the application for stamps, the dealer must
have bad very little to ship, or he is a
very heavy drinker.
.Deaths
Mr. Francis Joye, for many years a resident
of Lynchburg, this county, died on Sunday
morning last at the home of his soo Mr.
Joseph D. Joye, of Darlington. Mr Joye
was in the eighty-second year of his age
at the time of his death. The interment was
made at Lynchburg where lie the remaiss of
bis wife who died several years ago.
Dr. S. E. McCiatcben, of Smithville died
on Wednesday night last, after an illness of
one week with typhoid fever. The funeral
services were held yesterday at Eepzibah
Presbyterian Church. Dr. McCutche:. was
about 32 years of age and actively engaged
io the practice of his profession up to the
date of bis ladt ?linees. He leaves a wife and
several children.
Religious.
The Rev. John Kershaw will conduct ser?
vices at the Episcopal Church next Sunday.
Hours of service ll a. m. and 7 30 p m.
Rev. T. 6. Herbert preached a strong and
forcible sermon at Mission Chapel, on Mill
Street, Suoday. H?s subject WHS "Cov?
etousness." He said tbat this sin leads to
many evils. It leads to lying, stealing,
cheating, swindling. It is degrading and
leads to crime, but promiueot among the
evils of the day that covetousness leads to, is
the sin of gambling. He says that Sumter is
full of gambling. That many of our young
men are being led away and ruined by it
Tbat its consequence will be dreadful, and
that the people of Sumter would some day
suffer from it. He said that gambling was
carried on in Sumter to a terrible extent, and
that while be cannot point eut the place be
caa prove the tacts.
Mr. Brown begs us ito, say that the special
topic, "The Sacrifice of our Daughters," an?
nounced for next Sunday night will be de?
ferred a week to make way for the union ser?
vice which will be held in the Baptist Church
on that night.
Mrs. Edgar C. Hainsworth was baptized
on Sunday night at the Baptist Church.
Y. MTC. A.
Beginning next Sunday, November 4tb,
the services will be held at 4.45 p. m.
The Price of Cotton.
The old issue of Camden paying bigber
prices for cotton than Sumter, bas been
revived. In fact it has never died out. An
old and well known farmer of this county
said to-day that a great many bales of cotton
nearer to Sumter than to Camden, go to
Camden, because of the impression among
the farmers that cotton buyers in Sumter will
not bid on cotton from the wagon, but wait
until the merchants have bought from the
farmers aod are ready to re-sell to them. In
tb ts way, it is claimed by tbe farmers that
the price of cotton, paid to producers, is
lessened, as the merchant makes a profit and
the cotton bayer? oro?t also have a margin.
That the merchant in order to re-sell must
bid lower than if there was only one margin.
In Camden it is claimed that cotton buyers
bid on cotton from the wagon of the producer,
thus putting the producer on a footing with
tbe merchant and saving for the producer
from 25 to 35cts., per hundred, or about 1.40
cents per bale. The writer talked with cer?
tain cotton buyers to-day on this subject and
they deny that cotton buyers all refuse to bid
oa cotton, and the merchants also deny that
they lower their bids to producers in order to
make a profit. J. Ryttenberg k Sons, who
boy for a foreign finn, bid on and buy from
tbe wagons, so do some of the other cotton
buyers. The merchants boy cotton upon the
advice of tbe regular telegraphic cotton mark*
et reports and oftito sell ont at a loss, at the
close of the day's business. Sumter merchants
claim to pay as high a price for cotton from
tbe wagon as any town or city in the State.
In the interest of truth and Sumter, the
writer took the trable to find out what the
merchants aod cotton buyers had to say on
the subject, and the above is the situation
according to their statements.
A Railroad Chango Desired.
Now tbat the Atlantic Coast Line has Sum?
ter under its con trol entirely once more, as
far as Rail Roads ar e concerned, it is to be
hoped that there will be some improvement
in the accommodations at their depot, at tbe
lower end of Main street.
This depot bas been for years, tbe bummest
public place for accommodations in tbe
Sooth, taking into consideration the size of
Sumter, and tbe money of the Company.
Never in the history of Sumter bas there been
a drop of water kaowo to be on the place for
weary women and children, aod travelers to
quench their thirst, io boiling midsummer,
aod winter. There are times in the winter
when the disgusting, smoke-beg ti med fire
places are not half atteoded to, aod the fires
are out, or so lo w that the rooms are cold.
The waiting rooms are small and have not
enough seats, in fact they are not near capa?
citated to accommodate the public, aid the
patrons of the A. C. L. Tbere are oooe of
the accommodations there that a depot in a
towo of sixthoosaod inhabitants should have,
and it is utterly devoid of all the conveniences
that contribute to the comfort of passengers,
ladies and children io particular.
This article is meant as a pointer to the A.
C. L , and is writteo io behalf of the public.
The officials aod employees at the A. C. L.
depot are oot to blame, bot some ooe higher
io antbority, who should look after these
matters. Any little depot in any village,
with not more than one store, or perchance
only the depot, cen supply a weary mother
or ber babe with a drink of water, but not
so at the A. C. L. depot at Sumter. A
mother bas to hunt or beg some ooe to hunt
water, or pay for its being brought to ber
there.
A change, a change, a change I
A COUNTERFEITER CAUGHT.
He Gets Drunk and Gives His
Game Away.
Sumter's Wide Awake Chief of Police, J.
K. Bradford, scooped io a young white mao.
G. W Mites, last Saturday night for attempt?
ing to pass counterfeit mooey, aod for pass?
ing counterfeit money. Mims was under the
influence of whiskey at the time. He induced
a white man to change a dollar for bim and
passed a lead dollar off on the man who gave
bim the change. His victim, however, caught
on to the counterfeit before ?irns got out of
eight, and reported the fact to Chief Brad?
ford, who promptly took Hims in and locked
him up. A prominent citizen saw Mims en?
deavor to rope in another victim and; made
some remark, and Mims very foolishly went
up to that citizen and handed bim a dollar
and told him to take the dollar and keep his
mouth closed. This citizen examined the
dollar for bis own satisfaction, and as be an?
ticipated, found it to be counterfeit. The
citizen turned the counterfeit over to Chief
Bradford.
Mims is a young white man about
24 years old, bas not a bad counte?
nance by any means, does not look over-in?
telligent, and is about tbe last mau from
general looks, who would make a success at
passing counterfeit mooey.
He said he got drunk Saturday night and
got some parties to change some money for
him. That the money he passed was received
by him from a man in Sumter during the
Carnival, and that he had no idea it was
counterfeit money.
U. S. Commissioner, S. A. Norris, com?
mitted 6. W. Mims, the counterfeiter, to jail
in default of $500 bail, until November 9th,
when be will te given a preliminary nearing.
In the meantime if he sees fit to make
application for bail it will be granted him.
SAFE CRACKERS IN TOWN.
Fifteen Hundred Dollars Secured
Sumter bas been visited by professional
burglars. Sunday nigbt tbe store of Mr. J.
Frank Pate on Main Street was entered by a
side window, in tbe rear of tbe store, and bis
iron safe opened by tbe combination, two of
the woorien money drawer* bored into with
an auger, and the locks chiseled out. The
drawers were of course easily opened and
$1,500 io cash taken from them. An attempt
was made to gain an entrance to the little
iron box usually found in every safe of the
Herring make, but for some reason this at?
tempt WHS a failure The burglars were
either unprepared, inexperienced or became
frightened before they got into the iron rox
The marks of a chisel, or some instrument,
are plainly visible on tbe door of tbe iron
box. It looks like the work of professionals,
as the combination and the lock of tbe safe
door are uninjured and tbe robber or roobers
understood working combinations.
Mr. Pate is confident that bis safe door was
securely locked with the combinations. A
bundle of papers were strewn about on the
floor in front of the safe. These burglars
are no doubt the same men who entered and'
cracked the sa'es of the Beonettsville and
Marion post offices, and King and Rhodes, of
Florence.
Sumter's Fire Department.
Pw niter's Fire Department is now pretty
well equipped, and with the fine system of
water works and Sumter's willing and
heroic firemen, it will be pretty hard for the
fire fiend to do much damage hereafter. Del?
ger Reel Company No. 3, received 500 feet of
new hose Saturday, a shut off nozzle, a tour?
nament nozzle, and a bose clamp for use io
stopping the waste of water when the hose
burst, thereby saving the time and trouble of
disconnecting, and putting on a new sectiou
of hose. Several nozzles for inside work
have also been received. Respirators for use
in a dense smoke bave also been distributed
among the pipemen.
Chief H. B Bloom and city Council are
doing all they can to encourage the firemen
and to supply them as near as possible with
all the necessary paraphanalia to fight fire.
There are seven Reel Companies with an
ample supoly of hose and modern material,
but they are not so well distributed as they
rc i ir ht be. Tn ey are entirely too close
together.
Io addition to the se veo reels there is one
steamer, two hand engines and a hook and
ladder company.
Th is fire department bas saved thousands
ot dollars worth of property. There are few
towns io the South of less than 10,000 in?
habitants that have as fine fire departments
as Sumter, and insurance companies should be
made cognizant of this fact. Insurance rates
should be reduced as the risks are not so
great. But the insurances companies have
proven themselves to be the greatest gouges
that is, as far as Sumter is concerned, upon
the face of the earth. A Home Mutual In?
surance Association should be started at once
and all insurance companies boycotted.
Reduced ratea were promised when we got a
steamer. They never got here.. Reduced
rates were promised as soon as we got water
works, and an improved fire department But
all these promises remain unredeemed. Sum?
ter should do something for herself like
Charleston, and not pay ont so much money
to these foreign insurance companies. If
a home mutual insurance association is got?
ten up you can depend upon it. that what it
tells you will be the truth aod not deceptive
promises to get your money when you are at
the mercy of a set of men, whose only interest
in Sumter is the amount of money they can
squeeze out of it.
Delgar Reel Company now have the same
kind of tournament nozzle, and also strap
for disconnecting hose that tbe Independents
of Columbia, used when over here during the
Carnival. The Sumter boys say they are
folly prepared for their Colombia friends
now.
The sound of wedding bells will be beard
quite frequently in this city at no distant
date.
A number of bunting parties ia being made
up for Thursday, when the open season for
game begins.
Native Red Rust Proof Seed Oats for sale
by W. M. Graham.
Native Hay for sale by W. M. Graham.
Hood's Pills are the best after-dinner pills,
assist digestion, core headache. 25c.
TbeMaeon Telephone Factory at thia place
is rushed with orders. It is doing a fine busi?
ness. The Item reporter has been shown
hundreds of orders from all over the United
States. The superiority of the Mason Phone
is testified to by the thousands that have
been sold. Their business is increasing daily
as shown by the order files, and it takes
hustling to fill all of the orders received.
An al liga ter cooter of unusual size for this
section, was captured in Loring's mill pond
and brought to Sumter last week. It measured
from tip of tail to bead about two feet, |and j
about one foot across the baek. It weighed,
so the Item reporter was told, about twenty
pounds.
Paper by the ream, half ream or quarter
ream is the real economical way to buy. H.
G. Osteen & Co., sell it that way.
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Courtship and Matrimony.
We learn that the lecture to be delivered by
Mr. Brown on the 8th at the Y. M. C. A.
Hali on "Courtship and Matrimony," is to be
followed by a sort of experience meeting,
conducted by Messrs. W. M. Graham, O. B.
Davis, Dan Young, and others. Mr. Brown
says he may ''slip up" on the lecture; but i
there will be no such casualty connected
with what these gentlemen have to say
concerning their experience aa worshippers at
the feet of the fair.
Communication.
COCCIL CHAMBER, SUMTER, S. C., Oct. 31, '94.
Editor Watchman and Southron : Replying
to a communication signed "Citizen," in The
Daily Item of 30th inet., respectfully say :
That no petition of citizens to City Council
regarding the enforcement of the Dispensary
Law bas ever been presented to City Council, j
or on file in this office AM that is said by !
"Citizen" about "the fears of the Mayor," j
"the petition of citizen!," etc., amounts to
very little beyond a desire to be sensational.
If tbe petition bad been presented to the
City Council, as petitions are usually pre?
sented, at a meeting of same, it would have
bad prompt and respectful bearing and ac?
tion, so far as might have been necessary.
The City Council bad already, enacted and
published an ordinance, for the very purpose
indicated, and neither the Mayor or any
other member of City Council, would have
done otherwise than to respectfully bear any
citizen or citizens asking for a "conference
with their servants." It is an open shame
and an outrage for newspaper articles to be
published, simply to create unfavorable criti?
cism.
Business pertainiog to City Council should
be brought to the attention of Council at
Council Chamber, and not to individual
members of Council on public street side?
walks C. M. HURST,
Clerk and Treasurer.
"I would rather trust that medicine than ?
any doctor I know of," Says Mrs. Hattie
Mason of Chilton, Carter Co., Mo., in speaking
of Chamberlain's Colic, Cboleraand Diarrhoea
Ramed j. For eale by Dr. A. J. China.
The best assortment of Toilet Soaps can be
bad at China's Drug Store from 5c. to 75c. I
per cake. Call and see.
Ml= For October.
Hen's D. B. Sack Snits, $7.50,
They are all wool and
well worth more money.
Boy's Knee Pants Suits, 6Se?
And nicer grades $1.50, $2.00, fcc. Knee
pants 4 to 16 years in size, 25c to $1.75.
All-Wool Underwear, $1,00.
Well worth $2 to $3. Sam
pie Lot. Come in soon, they
won't last long.
Our Hats and Cap?
Are good ?bargains and you can get what
you want, all sizes and prices.
CARRY THE REST LINE f
CLOTHING, HATS, ETC., IN SUMTER.
So if you fail to see us when you are here, you will lose
money sure. Call to see us.
Brown, Cuttino ? Delgar,
Corner Main and Liberty Street, Sumter, S. C.
Trade ^^?P'Mark.
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g? d? ? a)
Often proves the longest way.
BUT HERE IS A CUT
That is sure to make short work of all these goods. We place on sale
to-day an attractive and serviceable line of
NOVELTY DRESS GOODS,
36 to 38 inches wide, at 16, 18,21 and 25 cents per yard. Just a third
sliced off the price.
All of our Cashmeres, in black and colors, formerly sold at 25c. now go at
20c, and our 35c line for 25c
The Senate did this with its Little Tariff Hatchet, aud we hasten to give our
patrons the benefit of same.
To keep you posted is the object. Therefore,
watch for our prices weekly. We have the^oods and plenty to supply you
all. We mean what we say:
CHEAP GOODS YOU SHALL HAVE.
Note the following and profit thereby:
Domestics
1 case Calicos} at 4c. yard. 1] case Calico-Indigo, Blues, Mournings and
Fancy styles at 5c. Best goods made.
1 case Ginghams (good quality) in Fancy Dress Styles and Small Apron
Checks at 5c.
1 bale 36-in. Sea Island at 4c, worth 6c.
1 bale 36-in. Sea Island at 5c, worth.Tc
1 bale 36-in. Sea Island at 6c, worth 8Jc.
1 case Ladies' Fast Black Hose at 10c and K>c| worth double.
1 case Fast Black (Misses1) Ribbed Hose at 10c
Our entire stock goes at just such remarka?
bly low prices.
G-ive us a Call and save money.
SCHWARTZ BROS.
Millinery and Dressmaking.
i*
Will buy an all-wool suit,
sizes 34 to 42.
5?c.
I Will buy a Boy's Knee
I Pants suit
25c.
Will buy a pair of Knee
Pants,
-At the store of
D. J. CHANDLER,
The Clothier.
My Fall & Winter 8tock is now
in and I am ready for business.
I have as complete a line of
Men's and Boy's
Clothing, Hats and Furnish?
ing Goods,
as you will find io Sumter.
I also carry a very good line of
Men's and Boy's Shoes
from $1.00 to $3.50.
I have HJIY3 forMen&Boys
? At 25(% that wear very
fEBK?BBBKR we^ indeed,
Also the finer grades in the
latest and most popular styles.
in Clothing I can show
you most any style you want
from the cheapest to the finest.
The long " "Cambridge" and
"Oxford" Sacks and "Regent"
Cutaways, will be very popu?
lar this season.
I will appreciate your pa?
tronage and think you will
save money by buying your
goods from me.
Respectfully,
D. J. Chandler,
THE CLOTHIER,
Sepl2