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mured. A hesitating touch on the gate latch thrilled her with the knowledge that for the first time since her father's death he was voluntarily approaching her. She trembled, waiting expectantly. When he reached the step, he paused, hoping she would make the meeting easier by a friendly word of greeting. But her mood had changed She had tried so often to overcome his hardness and been repelled that she had become skeptical and feared a deep laid scheme for her future discomfiture. Daniel Macquirk coughed; then see? ing that, if the ice was to be broken, he must take the initiatory step, he said quickly and in a strangely humble tone, "I've come, Matildy, to ask your opin? ion censara in something.1' Matildy would not be beguiled by the soft tone lest it should tempt her to an admission which might result in confu? sion. She straightened her tall, stiff figure and pressed more tightly together her thin lips. "I'm usually paid in advance," she said laconically. Her visitor hesitated, not that he grudged the coin, but its presence seem? ed to give too practical an import to the conversation. His hesitation annoyed her. "I thought so," she commented iron? ically as she turned to enter the house. He caught her dress with one hand, while with the other he extricated a dime from his. breeches pocket "Here, Matildy," he ejaculated as he laid the money in her outstretched palm. "Herc's yer ten cents, Dan'ei." "What is itv she whispered huskily, conscious at last that he was in earnest and fearful of herself and him. . "I wanted ter ask yer, Matildy, " he went on, "ef yer * think there's any chance of yer ever consentin to be my lawful wife?" A long silence ensued, during which the prospects of Deacon Smith and his large family, the hopes of her officious neighbors and her own loneliness were buried to rise BO more. Then she turned and in embarrassed accents said, "Here's yer 10 cents, Dan'eL " Daniel Macquirk took the coin, hand and all, and so they stood, regardless of the prying eyes of a possible wayfarer, while they discussed her last unaided opinion. ' THE EXD. THE CZAR IS DEAD! A New Buler Beigns Over All the Russians. Livadia, Nov. 1.-The Czar died afc 2:15 o'clock this afternoon. * London, Nov. 1.-The Daily News correspondent in Yalta, who, through? out the Czar's sojourn there has ob? tained the most trustworthy and inter? esting ioformatioo, has sect this dis? patch : "The Czar died at 2:15 o'clock this afternoon. He was fully conscious. When he felt that his last hour was approaching be asked for extreme unc? tion. This was administered by Father Ivan, who afterwards conversed with th? dying man for some time. The Czar next asked that his family should | gather round bim. He spoke with I each member separately, but at the j greatest length with the Czarina. He j theu gave all his blessing. Finally be ! bade farewell. Little by little he grew j weaker His voice at last became j hardly audible. Soon after he passed ! away quietly. The oath of allegiance j fco Nicholas II was then administered j to the whole family aod afc 4:30 o'clock canoon were fired to announce the fact lo the world." After confirming the death and the j funeral arrangements already described, j the correspondent; says : "The entire seventh army corps will pay military honors to the dead Emperor when the body shall be embarked at Yalta. The train from Odessa to St Petersburg will sto.. at every important station, where the local garrison will be drawn up to render military honors to their dead commander. ..The Czarina is quite broken down and the doctors are again fearful that ber health may not withstand the weight of her grief." ? Cotton is pretty low down these days, and not many of us down in this section have more money than we know what to do with, but when we think bow the South has been blessed this year, no epidemic dis- , eases, no starvation, no riots nor bloodshed, and nothing worse to vex ; us than Pope-Rep. mongrelism, we ought to be able to pull through and be reasonably happy. 1 i Executive Committee Meeting. i Tbe Democratic Executive Committee c i j Sumter County met last Friday at 12 o'clod j* Very lit ile was done save to give out th j ballots and ballot boxes j Mr. Altamont Moses vms accorded th j privilege* of the floor. He leferred to th I rumor that has been circulated to-day tha the Reformers would put out a ticket al tb last moment. He expressed a disbelief of tb rumor, but brought it up for the purpose c obtaining au authoritative denial. Mr. H. R Thomas, speaking for his faction denied the report emphatically, pledging bim self aod faction to tbe support of the en tir j ticket nominated at tbe primary. it was agreed that the typographical error be not considered and all the tickets shoulc be counted. mmm II mm* Another Man Fooled. ? A prosperous farmer living about half ..waj between Camden and Sumter, who had beet selling cottou in Sumter for years, hearing so much about Camden payiug higher price: for cotton than Sumter, went to Camden, together with bis son, last Saturday and sold bis cotton. On comming to Sumter Monda? be went to a merchant, with whom be usual? ly deals, and was shown a sample of cotton, which the farmer said was just the same grade of cottou be sold in Camden on Satur? day at 4.70, for which the merchant in Sum was paying on the same day, 5 to 5 1.16. He says he won't take any stock hereafter in Camden's high prices. Frequent comparisons of this kind not only show that Sumter pays higher prices for cotton than Camden, but higher than most places, and as high as the highest. Beel Contest Prizes. The State of last Thursday bad tbe follow iog to say in reference to the Reel Contest to be held in Columbia during the Fair : "The chairmen and the firemen have prac? tically agreed upon a -programme as to tbe reel cootests, which the board of firemasters will have to approve to-morrow night, it is proposed to have two contests, open to all teams applying, no prize being given unless there are three contestants.. The first will be the regular race-first prize, $30 ; second, $15. The other will be a "grab" contest-first prize, $20 ; second, $10." What's the matter with Columbia that she only offers $30 and $15 in the reel, and $20 and $10 in the Grab Contest. Sumter put up $50 for the first and $25 for the second, and $15 for the third in our contest, $90 in all. In the Grab Contest Sumter put up $25 for the first, $15 for the second. As will be seen, Sumter offered and paid $130 for ber total, while Colombia only offers $75 in all. In one contest alone Sumter paid, $50, $25 aod $15, total $90, which is $15 more than Columbia offers for two contests, lt looks tunny that Sumter should offer so much more than Columbia, when Columbia is twice as large a city, but then Sumter is the most wide-awake city in the State. Oh, well, just the same, Sumter's firemen wilt go over and run in the contests, and help Columbia out, just as Columbia helped Sumter out in ber first Carnival. - - II * mmm* Cotton Prices Again. As proof that tbe report about Camden paying higher prices for cotton than Sumter is false, comparison of prices in the two places for yesterday bas shown that for Liverpool Middling, Camden's highest figures were 4? against Sumter's 4 15-16@5. This is a fact beyond dispute, with one of the largest Cam? den cotton buyers as authority for the state? ment. Another thing about prices of cotton in the two places : lu Camden there are only about three cotton buyers, and the merchants pay j little attention to cotton on the wagon and j let the cotton buyers have their own way iu a great measuie. Now in Sumter there is a great deal of competition and more demand than in Camden. The merchants here bid on and buy cotton. Another strong feature in favor of the farmers is that when a Sumter merchant cats a bale of cotton in which be bas ao in? terest, be lets the farmer go around to all the , merchants and cotton bu vers, who bid on the sample, and when the seller bas gone around and obtained tbe highest bid he can, in nine? ty-nine cases out of every hundred the mer? chant with wbom be Ieins or deals will raise tbe bid ia order to get the handling of tbe cotton himself. It is a frequent thing to see a merchant and a cotton buyer both re? quest a farmer to call back and see them be? fore selling, which shows that the cottou buyer and tbe merchant both desire to pay j as high price as possible and that there ie j strong competition, which necessarily keeps ! prices up to the highest market value in j Sumter.-Item, Nov. 1. -^m^^^mm The G. O. P. The Republican County Convention yester? day was a quiet affair compared to some others. No election for County Chairman was held. It was decided to let the present County Chairman and ethers hold over until the State Executive Committee orders a re organization. The action of the State | Executive Committee in declaring Col. T. B. j Johnston tbe Republican Candidate for Con- j gress, was endorsed and other matters ap? pertaining to the election were discussed. The Republicans are well organized io this County and will poll tbe fullest vote for Johnston that, they have polled since 1876 -Item, Nov. ?. It is a fact that an agreement or contract was made with the south-Eastern Tariff As- ! sociation, which does now regulate the rates '. of insurance for Sumter; in which agreement, j or contract, it was set forth that if the city of Sumter would secure a good water work ; system, that insurance rates would be j reduced. The gentleman who got the agree- ! ment signed, and who was the first mau to ; ever do anything in favor of water works, is ; the informant. This agreement was in pos-| session of city of Sumter, and among the records in the Clerk and Treasurer's office before i a old Opera House and city hall were j b?'.ned duwn. ! THE EXTENT OF LIABILIr - j We note the usual number of f closure ?ales advertised for Noven; sales iu the weekly papers of this other towns. In this connection we wish to call attention of mortgagors and judgm debtors to some features of these judi sales that appear to be little knot The impression seems to obtain amoD most mortgage debtors, that, a sale the mortgaged premises under fo closure discbarges the debt, howev little the land or other security it bring. This is not the case ; the d is discharged only to the extent of amount of bid ou property sold. ] example ?. owes B. $1000 and secu it by mortgage of laud worth ?30( (These figures are arbitrary, but rep seot the usual ratio that tbe loans b( to the value of securities.) B. defau in payment and A. brings suit to fo close mortgage. The costs in ordinary case is usually about ?50. T creditor, or mortgagee, by bis attorne usually bids the amount of these cos Almost invariably this is the only t made at the sale. This amount is pai It will be perceived that the priucit of the debt has not been lessened. T creditor gets for his ?1000, not ou the land worth ?3000, but iu additi? thereto a judgment and execu>i< against mortgager (debtor) for the ft amount of the bond and mortgage, ( which any property other than th already sold, which the debtor mi have, or may hereafter acquire, will 1 liable for the balance of his lif< This statement is made tu ordi that debtors may know these han ships of the law and by bidding on the own property or procuring others to c so may avoid them. We understand steps are now bein taken to cure some of these evils, is to be hoped that something eau t done which, while working no dil advantage or injustice to the lendei may, in a measure, protect the poe borrower from the barrassments ( future judgments, executions aft? having given up his property. A FOOLISH LAW. We refer to the law requiring Count Treasurers to go from place to plac while making collections, for the con veuience of the citizens. The risk t the individual is so great that it ough not to be required to be run by any one The moral of the murder of Mr. Copes Orangeburg's County Treasurer, i simply this: that the section rcquiritij Couuty Treasurers to collect at varion points, should be repealed, before otbe good men are ruthlessly murdered b\ outlaws aod assassins. It seems to re? quire the sacrifice of some good citizei or citizens to crystalize public opiuiot and bring it to the point where it will reform abuses. We hope that time ha> arrived with regard to this extraordi? nary provision of the law. Our Solons should see to it, that at the next session of the legislature the law is repealed io this particular. Good men like Mr. Copes are rare at all times, and certain? ty the State has none such to spare, especially when takeu off iu so foul a manner. We have been informed by a gen? tleman from the tobacco region of North Carolina, who has been engaged in the culture and sale of tobacco all bis life, that a tobacco warehouse that will serve every purpose can be built at an expense not exceeding ?2000. He said, further, that a warehouse would prove profitable to those owning it, while requiring little capital. The buyers furnish all the capital that is needed, and the profits of the warehouse are derived from commissions ou the sales. A tobacco warehouse will retain trade that is now drifting to Florence and Darlington and draw additional trade to an amount not less than $15,000 in the aggregate. Therefore an investment of ?2000 in a warehouse would be a good thing for Sumter. James C. Curry has died iu Chatta? nooga a raving maniac. A few years ago he won the capital prize in the Lottery, started a saloon, lived a fast life, committed murder and died a ma-1 niac iu a felon's cell. - -i ???~^ Judge Townsend has instructed tbe clerk of court, of Georgetown, to adjourn court until Wednesday, so that officers of the court could be at home to vote. The regular time for the court to couvene is next Monday. It is rumored that tra?ic on the Bishopville R. lt.. from Elliotts to Atkins, will be aban? doned soon, and all freight and passengers for points on the Bishopville R. R., will be transferred from theO. S. k N. to the Bisbop vilie R. R. at Elliotts. Both of these rail roads pass through Elliotts, and are now under the control of one system, the A. C. L., hence this change. There are no stations between Elliotts and Atkins, the latter on the W. C. & A. R. R. .?Let The Hanging Proceed. Princeton, Ky, Oct, ol.-N>ws"j reached here ibis morning of tbe lynch- j mg of Eddy Martin in the Repton j neighborhood in Orittendou county, j yesterday morning, by a mob estimated at 100 tuen The scene of ihe lynch? ing is remote and the best obtainable information is that Martin wau called j upon ar. his home, after midnight j Opening the door, he was seized by a dozen men, who asked for information of Bill Goode, the pauper commissioner of Critt?udou county. The mob told him they had como tu hang him, but if he would turn State's evdeuct* upon j Bill Goode, he would be spared If these are the only tenus, gentle? men, said Martin, "let the hanging proceed. Bill Goode has been my friend and I will shield him " The mob quickly did the work and left ?he deid body swinging from a limb upon a lone country road. - mm i ? ? -? A Plethora of Money. While the populists are demanding a great increase in the volume of the cur? rency, bankers in New York and else? where do not know how to employ profitably thal! which they have on hand. The banks of New York on last Saturday held $62.500,000 in excess of their required reserve, aud during last week the total average daily deposits of the associated banks of that city were $590 859,100. being and increase of $17?,-102.900 over those nf the came period of last year The batiks of New York are glad to loao money on CH ll at 1 per cent per aniiuu?, and it can be obtained on ac? ceptable security for six months at 1J per cent, per annum, lt has been a very long time since there was so much idle money Last week the New York bankers agreed they could not continue to pay 1? tu 2 per cent, on deposits of out of tu wu banks, as has been customary for a long time, and they have practically decided to pay only 1 per cent, on such deposits. If the volume of the currency should be greatly increased as the populists de maud, bow could it be profitably used ? The people couldn't get it uti less they had something to exchange for it, and they can get all they desire now on those conditions. A greater volume of money at this time would mean bigger unused balances ju the banks. Are the populists sincere in demand? ing a great increase in the volume of the currency, or are they igooraot? Surely they must know that there is more money in circulation that there is any use for.-Sauannah Neica. THE COTTON STATEMENT. NKW ORLEANS, NOV. 1 -Crop state? ment for tbe mouth of October issued by the New Orleans cotton exchange: Port receipts 2,117,847 bales, against 1,678,781 last year, 1.526,754 year before last and 2,195.513 for the same time io 1891 ; overland to mills 253. 260, against llO,611 last year. 147, 433 year before last aud 269 .987 for the same time in 1891; interior stock in excess of September first, 241,829, against 217,271. 184,114 and 270, 324 ; Southern mill takiugs. exclusive j ot consumption at Southern mills out- . ports 142.911, agaiust 145,955, 140, 755 aod 127,136 ; crop brought into sight at the close of October 2,755,947, against 2,152.618, 1,999,076 and j t 2.862,960 ; crop brought into sight for | '. October 2.110,706, against 1,647,369, 1.462,798 and 2.030,643; the move? ment into sight from October 27, to October 31, inclusive the five days that have elapsed since the last report bas been 437,301 bales, against 335,455 last year, 273,588 year before last and 327,862 for the same time in 1891. An insane asylum in Sweeden was burned and fifteen inmates perished. Count Hubert Bismark may be re? stored to power in German affairs. He will probably be made ambassador to of the great powers. Captain De Prus, an officer in the French army, has been arrested for treason, it being alleged that he has sold plans of frontier forts to the Italian war office. j i Capt. John G. Capers, of Columbia, j 1 was on yesterday appointed one of the i j assistants to Attorney General Olney. Two menageries recently arrived io Bologna, one of which was under the management of Signor B., and the other under that of his wife, traveling respectively on their own account. Here they decided to join their forces, and the fact was announced on the bills as follows : "Owing to the arrival of my wife, my collection of living animals is considerably augmented.-B."-Con? versazione. The great De Lesseps, Panama ditch is a melancholy wreck. The wharves are falling into the water, and acres of machinery are rusting to dissolution. On the isthmus are nearly 1,000 miies of steel track, with locomotives and thousands of dump carts, now half hidden io the tropical growth. Seven? ty six great steam shovels ?and side by side ?D the excavation, buried io lix uriaut vegetation. Secretary Smith of the Interior De? partment will effect a saving of ?14, 281,000 to the taxpayers in the run? ning of his department next year. The appropriation for the present fiscal year for the department was $169, 554,950. The Secretary, who has just completed his estimates for the next year, says ?155,805,278 will be all needed for the department during i the next fiscal year. "This," said the enterprising con? tributor, "?T> a map illustrating certain phase* of the Chinese-Japanese war.'' "We never touch upon such mat t^rs/' >aid the editor "This a fashion paper ..Good !" cried the enterprising con? tributor. "That being so, you eau use this same map for a pattern. Cutting up ber? along the Korean boundary, and running down here and ending up at Pekin, will give you tbe finest pat tetn for a win'er dolman, suited to a woman of forty, you ever saw."-Har? pers Bazar Petitions are being circulated among the "faithful," of Spartanburg. "pray iug" for the pardon of Bladou, the dis? pensary murderer. KANSAS Cur. Mo , Oct. 31.-C 51 Phall, foreman of the diamond elevator,met a frightful death last night. He was taking in the slack of a wire cable which ran around au iron drum and drew cars up an incline His arm was caught between the cable and the drum. The cable began to slowly coil about, his body. His band was cut off first and dropped to the floor. Theu the cable cut through the body in several places and the legs fell to the floor. Horrified, his fellow workmen watched him die Phall'a brother stood beside the drum powerless to aid him When the drum stopped, Phall's body had been cut to pieces and the mangled lim ht* and chunks of flesh lay in a pool of blood on the floor. Li Hung Chang, in behalf of China has offered to purchase the British fleet now in the East He, of course met with a refusal to sell. Capt. Dreyfus of the French Army will be shot for selling information to Italy, Germany and Austria. Kansas City, Mn., Nov. 1 -Twenty boys celebrating Hallowe'eu baited in front of Mr. Haywood's home in In? dependence at midnight Haywood raised a window and fired both barrels of a shotgun into the crowd Five boys were dangerously wounded. Her? bert Anderson bad au eye shot out, C. C. Childs, Jr., hand mangled; Frank Anderson, scalp and face filled with shot; Ernest Wood, shot in band; Tom Kenoedy, shot in abdomen The prize of one guinea recently offered by London Tid-Bits for the most amusing "bull' has been awarded for the following specimen : A certain politician, lately condemning the government for their recent policy concerning the income tas. is reported to have said : "They'll keep cutting the wool off the sheep that lays the golden eggs until they pump it dry." Dr. Edward Everett Hale, aud not unreasonably, thinks the fact significant that five distinctly American poets Whittier. Longfellow, Hryuot, Lowell and Holmes-were Unitarians. And with this should go the declaration of the Rev. M. J. Savage (Boston) that he believes that "no Unitarian can be found who disclaims that be is a Chris tain." Standard grades of tin, which sold ?o New York at $5 12J a box io Au? gust, are now >elliog for ?4.12? a box. Here is a dollar a box saved to the people who buy tin, and yet the tin t>usiuess survives in this country. Lee Zanders was taken before a New f?ampshire squire a few days ago, charged with passing a counterfeit half lollar. He protested his innocence on he ground that the date of the coin, 1859, showed that it could not have )eeu in circulatiou so many years with? out being detected, if it was counterfeit. The justice thought this a logical iefense aud the prisoner was discharged. The half-dollar was afterward melted with the light of a candle. Mr. A. J. K. Landaner, of New Drleans. one of the largest exporters of :otton aud a recognized authority, has ?sued a circular estimating the cotton :rop at 8,885,000. He is confident hat the crop has. been greatly over estimated. Accident insurance companies claim hat within the last two years the riding )f bicycles has increased the amount of udemnities fully 25 per cent. While republican papers are criticis og William L. Wilson's London speech lone of them bas yet printed tbe fol owing extract from a speech made by jen. Gant while he was being enter? tained in England: "I believe that we ihall beeome one of the greatest free rade nations on the face of the earth, icd wheu we both come to be freetraders i think that probably the balance of he nations had better stand aside and lot cootend with us at all in the mar [ets of the world." The President's holiday at Gray fables was well earned, and it is [ratifying to know that he returns to tis desk in Washington improved in i eal th and mentally refreshed. There s probably not a harder worked man in be government's service than Mr. Cleveland. Even while he was "rcst og" at Gray Gables he studied an lo? ricate question of boundary rights that ?ad been referred to him for arbitrat? ion by two South American republics. -Savannah News. It May Do aa Much For Yon. Mr. Fred Miller, of Irvin*, 111., writes that j had a Severe Kidney trouble for many years, rith severe pains in his back and also that his ladder was affected. He tried many so called I lindey cures but without any gooii result, ibout a year ago he began use ot* Electric s titters and found relief at once. Electric titter? is especially adapted to cure of all < Lidney and Liver trouble and often gives al- 1 lost instant relief. One trial will prove our tatement. Price onlv 50c. for large bottle. I ,t J. F. W. DeLorme's. 6 | Burning Pain Erysipelas in Face and Eyes Inflammation Subdued and Tor? tures Ended by Hood's. "I am so glad to be relieved of my tortores that I am willing to tell the benefits I have de? rived from Hood's Sarsaparilla. In April and May, I was afflicted with erysipelas in my face and eyes, which spread to my throat and neck. I tried divers ointments and alteratives, bot there was no permanent abatement of the barn? ing, torturing pain, peculiar to this complaint I began to take Hood's Sarsaparilla and Felt Marked Relief before I had finished the first bottle. I con tinned to Improve until, when I had taken four HOOD'S Sarsaparilla CURES bottles, I was completely cured, and felt that all signs, marks and symptoms of that dire com? plaint bad forever vanished." MES. E. E. OTTAWA, Hillsboro, Wisconsin. Hood's PAls are prompt and efficient, yet aasy in action. Sold by all druggists. 25c. ^0 NRKD OF A COTTON TRUST ! MONEY CAN BE HAD ON COTTON ! Oo Reasonable Terms from ihe uocer?iened who is prepared to make advances on Cotton and furnish Storage for the same at Reason? able Rates to any person desiring to hold Cotton. Write for terms to 6. W. EGAN, Warehouseman, ACCOMMODATION WHARF, Oct 31-Ira CHARLESTON, S. C. 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JOHN B. PATRICK, Aug. 15. Supt. I Question j of Life Assurance is not "Can ! you afford it ? " but " Can you J afford to do without it ? " WOODWARDS, S. C., July 3,1893. J Mr. W.T. RODDEY, Rock Hill, S. C. [ Dear Sir : - I have before mc a J statement of the various options of- I I fercd in settlement of my maturing ' i Tontine policy in thc Equitable Life - Assurance Society. I have con } eluded to accept the surplus and j continue the policy. Thc results are f ! highly satisfactory and I heartily | commend the Equitable Society and thc Tontine system insurance as practiced by it, to persons desiring safe and profitable life insurance. Yours respectfully, T. S. BRICK. The above letter is but one selected from many received from happy policyholders in the Equitable Life If 's a word to the wise-a con? vincing proof to the doubtful. I'oi full particulars address W\ J. RODDEY, Manager, I department of the Carolinas, ROCK HILL, S. C. ANNUAL MEETING -OF COUNTY COfflSSMEBS, OF SUMTER COUNTY. THE BOARD of County Commissioners will hold their Annual Meeting on thursday, November 8tb, 1894. All persous holding bills or demands igainst Sumter County not already present id, are required to file same with Clerk of Board on or before that date. Bv order of Board. THOS. V. WALSH, Clerk. Oct. 31, 1894.-2t.