The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, January 09, 1895, Image 7
Cutting Off Constables.
T?e Governor Makes a Big ;
Reduction in the Force.
-
Governor Evans has returned to :
the city and was at his office for the j
greater part of the day yesterday, ;
and was quite busy receiving callers,
attending to correspondence, etc. i
In talking with the newspaper men
he said that he wished to announce
that no applications for the positions
of constables need be made, as there
were no more to be appointed, and
the number of those already ap .
pointed was to be reduced as fast
as possible, and four or five were cut j
off yesterday
Speaking of the enforcement of:
the dispensary law the Governor said
that there has beeu recently shown a I
general effort on the part of the j
cities and towns in the State to en- !
force the law, and only those who
have not made any effort to enforce
the law would have the provisions of
the metropolitan police law applied
to them. In regard to such towns
he said : "They will have thirty
days to pass ordinances for the en?
forcement of the law and if they do
not we will have to pass them.''
He said that Charleston, Columbia,
Florence and a great many ?
other towns had taken the necessary
steps towards a better enforcement of
the dispensary law, and the mayor of
Greenville bad in an? interview with
him told him that the city authorities
of Greenville meant to enforce the
law, and the railro^f . of the State
had ail giveuh^- ^- assurance that
they woulrj^ '?p?fate with him in his
efforts to^^r?e it.
He said farther that hereafter there
would be bat one constable to a
county, instead of about eight that
have been heretofore employed, and
that these would be placed in rural
districts so that the country people
would Jhave the "foreign" police
about whom so much has been said,
and the cities would have their
domestic plice as usual He had
i summoned the chief constable for
consultation, and they were going
to "knock out the blind tiger
and particular attention would be
paid to those counties bordering on
North Carolina, from which liquor
was being constantly run into the
State, and those prohibition counties
would be called on shortly to con?
vict and punish the law .breakers
Governor Evans, in reply to a
question in reference to the seizures
of the dispensary constable in
Charleston of packages shipped by
the First Presbyterian Church to the
ThornweM Orphanage, said that he
had been told that the seizure would
not have been made but for the fact
that the church people used whiskey
barrels for their shipment, and if
that was so the suspicions of the
constables who made the seizures
were very naturally aroused-The
State.
mau i -
Kentucky's Disgrace.
CINCINNATI, I>ecember 31.-The re?
markable scene of a man begging and
pleading for his life, claiming fear of
lynching, was witnessed in Judge
Buckwalter's Court to-day. The pri?
soner was A. H. Hampton, alias Jack?
son, a tall colored man Jndicfed in
Marion County, Kentucky, for shoot?
ing and wounding a farmer who
accused him of robbing his orchard.
Hampton fled to this city a?d was
arrested this morning. W. W. Penn
presented himself in Court with
extradition papers, in which there
was not a flaw. When Hampton
was brought into Court his face
assumed- a sickly hue and he trem?
bled so violently that he could hardly
assume a standing position.
Stretching ont his long, gaunt arms
to * the Judge he moaned: "Oh,
Massa Judge, don' send me to Ken
tacky. I aint ho coward, but dey
wants to lynch me. Dats the way
dey do down dah I seed em do it.
?8e got letters from my friends
tellin me dey wud string me up
Doan send me back, Judge, I'll have
no chance."
Judge Buekwalter asked Mr. Penn
if he had heard of such threats.
"Yes sir,, was the answer. Then
the Court, with his finger pointed at
the deputy sheriff, said: "Four
months ago I sent on extradition ?
papers a fugitive from justice into j
Kentucky. He was Inyched soon j
after he left the train. The authori?
ties broke their word with this Court, j
The State of Kentucky broke faith i
with her sister State of Ohio in the ;
protection of human life. I will not |
send this man away from these '
Courts until I have a letter from your
Governor and from the presiding
Judge of your district that Hamp?
ton's life will not be placed in
jeopardly, and that he will be given
a fair and impartial trial." A mur?
mur of applause arose from the largo
crowd present. Hampton was re?
turned to jail.
One li remark in Governor
Flower's farewell address in Albany
yesterday revealed a fact o which
every citizen of the State eau take
special pride. It was the announce?
ment that the new administration will
find the State entirely free from debt,
and Governor Morton's warmest
friends can wish him no better fortune
than that be may be able to make the
same announcement when he turns
over bis high office to his successor.
Kew York Herald.
An Editor Loose.
Three C's Road.
"Progress" in Saturday's Post asks
for facts for the information of the pub?
lic in regard to the Three C's coming
to Charleston. There is no probability
of it doing so, oo proposition so far as
we kDow to bring it here, aod probably
never will be unless it comes from
Charleston The Post wants to see
the road brought here, wants to see the
merchants of Charleston make advances
to the new owners of this road, and do
something to complete it sod bring it to
Charleston. The $75,000 asked of
Sumter is to bring the road that far on
tue way. That amount will not com?
plete it to Charleston, but it brings it
a long way ; Dot near enough to stop,
but near enough to exert ourselves a
little more and bring it :o Charleston;
near enough to interest others in the
completion of the Hoe. That is the
oDly proposition now open. Let Charles?
ton make her proposition now to the
road
We unanimously agree that Charles?
ton Deeds roads, and by tacit cousent
we'agree to sit down aod watt until
they come of their OWD accord There
is little use to discuss what Sumter
might do or wbat any other town might
do if Charleston took the lead. Let as
t?ke the lead and find out what they
wi ii do -Charleston Post.
China's Greatest Danger.
Both the Chinese aod the Japanese
goveromeots were, from the outset,
averse to bavmg their war reported, and
both most by this time be satisfied that
their origioal plan of muzzling the press
was the wiser one Either that or the
supplying of reports written by diplo?
matic agents of each government would
have left them both in better odor than
the news of torturing on one side aad
massacring on the other has left them.
While I was in Yokohama, on my
outward journey, ? got a queer explana?
tion of why the correspondents of Cbris
teodom were waiting week after week in
Tokyo, with desperate patience for
some sort of permission or privilege to
dc their dangerous work. It was a well
ioformed Japanese who explained the
cool reception that the correspondents
met with. He asserted that while pro?
gress had beneficed the higher classes
of the Japanese, the great mass, saw in
it only & source burdensome taxes,
coupled with the surrender to Chinamen
and Englishmen of the control of all the
profitable commerce of the empire. To
avert revolution and to distract popular I
attention from the home grievances this ?
war was waged on China. Tbe people I
became enthusiastic fo* it, and peasants j
vied with thc nobles io contributing to ;
the war fund and in every expression of :
patriotism. But while the Japanese
were a warlike race, it had to be re?
membered that they knew nothing of
modern war. Their past fights under
their feudal lords had been petty by :
comparisoo with the contests of modern !
armies. Therefore, while the outcome j
of the war was uncertain, the govern- ;
ment feared the consequences of allow?
ing the people to learn the fearful losses
of life that might take place io engage- j
ments with modern arms. It was possi?
ble that thousands, even tens of thous?
ands, of Japanese might be slain io a :\
single battle, and none could foresee the j
consequences if such losses were reported
to a people used only to the petty !
consequences of hand-to-hand battling.
Therefore it was that the Japanese
government opposed the free publication
of news from the seat of war. It is
fair to presume that, now that China is
practically whipped, and is at her old
g;ime of offering to settle with money,
the Japanese no longer fear the publi?
cation of the truth. Thc once-tottering
goveromeot is intensely popular again,
and could stand the loss of tens of
thousands in battle. The danger nf
revolution now faces China. The Tar?
tar rule has lasted as long as dynasties
are accustomed to cud ure in China, and
thc effect of this historic fact on tbe
superstitious minds of thc people is a^
bad for the govornment as defeat in
this war-Julian Ralph, in Harpers
WeeUy
-- two .... -^mmm-~-- -?
Typewriter Papvr of ul! kinds for salt- by i
H. G. Osteen & Co. ;
Thic is the way the editor feels wbet.
he does up his sentiments in biank
verses :
"I would fly from city's rule and law '?
-from its fashions aud its forms cut j
lt>ose-aod go where tt.e Strawberry ;
grows on straw, and the gooseberry
grows on its goose ; where the catnip
tree is climbed by the cat as she
clutches for ber prey-the guileless and
unsuspecting rat on tho ratan bu.-h v\
play : I will catch ni case the saffron
cow and the cowlet in their glee : as
they leap from bough to bough on the j
top of a cowslip tree ; aDd list while
the partridge drums his drum, and tfie
woodchuck chocks his wood, and the j
dog devours the dogwood plumb io the |
primitive solitude.
"Oh let rae drink from the moss
grown pump, that, was hewn from the
pumkin tree ! Eat mush and milk
from a rural stump, from folly aod
fashion free-new gathered mush
from the mushroom vine, and
milk from the milkweed sweet
with pine apple from the pine.
Aod then to the whitewashed dairy I'll
torn, where the dairy maid hastening
hies, ber ruddy and golden red butter
to church from the milk of her butter
flies; aDd I'll rise at morn with tbe
earliest bird, to the fragrant barnyard
pass, and Watch while the farmer turns
his herd of grasshoppers out to grass -
Johnston Monitor.
Food for Nebraska.
The Young Men's Business League
Helping the Sufferers.
CHARLESTON*, Jan. 4.- A special
committee has been appointed by the
Young Men's Business League of
Charleston to collect and forward to
the suffering people of Nebraska
corn and other provisions The com?
mittee would include contributions
from all parts of the State for this
purpose and will undertake to forward
them to the proper destination. The
plans of the committee for carrying
out its charitable intentions wiil be
announced in a few dave, and in the
meantime contributions may be for?
warded to Robert P. Evans, chair?
man, in this city.
The Monitor greatly regrets the
suspension of the Colombia Evening
Journal lt was a sprightly paper, edited
with ability and deserved a better fate.
Really if three evening papers can live
in Augusta it. would seem to be a reflec?
tion on Columbia that its only evening
paper should beojjs wed to languish
and die for want of a proper support.
A Columbia merchant once said to the
writer when soliciting an adverfisemeot
for the Monitor. * I've been doing
business here for forty years a ? every?
body knows where I stay,'' and it is
this "hack number'' character of her
merchants, as a rule, which makes
Columbia a black number among the
progressive cities of the South. No
city can expect tn thrive while her
newspapers are languishing. Columbia
should wake up, read the signs of the
times, and strive to keep up with the
procession
S FOR
CURES SCROFULA,
BLOOD POISON.
S THE
CURES CANCER,
ECZEMA, TETTER.
BLOOD
TAX KETURNS
FOR 1894-95.
OFFICEiOF
COUNTY AUDITOR
SUMTER COUNTY.
SUMTER, S. C , Nov. 20, 1894.
Returns of all personal property
and Poll Taxes will be received at the
following times and places.
Mayesville. Tuesday, January 1.
Reid's Mill, Wednesday, January
2.
Mannville, Thursday, January 3.
Smithville, Friday, January 4
Mechanic8ville, Saturday, January,
5.
Kingman's Store, Monday, Jan?
uary 7.
Rembert's Store, Tuesday, J anuary,
8
Hagood, Wednesday, January 9.
Stateburg, Thursday, January 10.
Wedgefield, Friday, January ll.
R. I. Manning's, Saturday, Jan?
uary 12.
J. M. Tindall's, Monday, f **
14
Bishopville, Tuesday and Wednes
day, January 15-16.
Magnolia, Thursday, January 17.
Lyncliburg, Friday, January 18.
Concord, Saturday, January 19. I
Johnston's Store, Monday, Jan-!
uary, 21.
Shiloh, Tuesday, Januarv 22.
And at Auditor's office in City of j
Sumter from January 23rd to Feb
mary 20th, inclusive.
The law requires that all persons owning
property or in anywise baviDg charge of such I
property, either as agent, husband, guardian, j
trustee, executor, administrator, &c , return
the SH me, nuder oath, to the Auditor, who
i
requests all persons to be prompt io making
their returns and save the 50 per cent penalty !
which will be added to the property valua- !
tion of all persons who fail to make returns
within the time prescribed by law.
Tax-payers return what they own on the [
first dav ot January, 1S95.
Assessors and Tax-payers will enter the ,
first given name of thu- tax-payer in tull, also
make ? separate return for each Township i
where the property is located, and also in j
eacn and every eise the No of the School i
District taust t o giv< n
Every mi!- citizen, between '.he age of!
twenty-one ?md ?fty years, on thc first day '
o! January, 1895. except these incapable of j
earning ? support from being maimed or ?
from other causes, shall be deemed taxable
Polis.
Ai! returns must roade ot. i>?- before the ;
20th day of February next. '> cannot take re- j
.urns after that date and ail returns mude |
Kiter the 20th day ot February, are sun- ;
ject to a penalty off?1.! per cent.
A. U. STUCKEY, j
Auditor Sumter Cc...ty.
Nov. 20, 1894. !
Lb
2
timing Out
Sale,
Wo Fake.
Our entire stock of Dress
Goods, Clothing, Cloaks and
Blankets at actual Cost.
We want to sell everything in
this line before Christmas. So
come and get our prices before
buying.
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Wi
.
We are util! in the lead with every?
thing seasonable and at the lowest
prices.
Butter
We have secured the exclusive sale,
in this territory, of the products of one I
of the best dairys io the butter region j
of New York State aod can now sell j
you the best butter ever brought to
Sumter. We make no exception, aod
the price is
Only 30c. a Pound.
Try it and you will be convinced.
A beautiful lot of
Fresh Fancv Candies
Just received.
Our candy department is one of our
prides, aod we take a great deal of!
pains with it.
Another Pet
Is the LE PANTO CIGAR, than I
which there is nooe better in town. !
We have the exclusive sale. If you ?
ladies want to give ao acceptable present
to a gentleman you can find nothing
that a smoker would like better than a .
box of these cigars.
In Conclusion.
Wc are going to make greater efforts j
than ever to get your family trade and
keep it; and t uo so we know we have |
to hustle, so hustlers we will be.
i
You will always fiod our stock of !
Family Groceries
Full and complete, containing the deli- ;
cacies as well as the substantials, and j
they will only be of the
First Quality.
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Cotton Blight.
j Tests made by the Alabama Experiment Station and
elsewhere prove conclusively that
Kainit Prevents
cotton blight. Planters can prevent the immense loss caused
annually by this disease. Send for our pamphlets.
They are sent free. It will cost you nothing to read them, and they will save vou
d?llars. GERMAN KALI WORKS, 93 Nassau Street, New York.
AT PRIME COST.
This is the Weather to remind every
HAN AND BOY
Who has a Dollar to invest in Clothing,
that now is the time for him to
do so, and as we are
LARGELY OVERSTOCKED,'
in this particular Line, which must be
converted into Cash in order to pay for
it, we propose to supply your wants at
PRIME COST.
This is no Sham Offer, and we very
much regret the necessity of being
forced to do so.
Call and be convinced*
We are also offering big inducements
-- IN OUR
Dress Goods Department.
Those formerly sold at 50 c., now 33 1-3.
" "25 c, " 16 2-3.
Other Prices in Proportion.
If you need a CLOAK or Pair of
BLANKETS, it would be to your inter?
est to see us before buying.
A Rare Opportunity.
CO Pairs of the celebrated E. P. Heed & Co's. Ladies' Fine Shoes that form?
erly sold at,$2.50, $3, $3.50 ard $4 now at $2 pr. pair to close out.
The quality and style of these goods is too well known to require any comment.
Call early before the sizes are broken.
Respectfully,
O'Donnell & Co.
Nov. 14 _
*.f. J?V WT IJeLORJIE,
Agett.
-DEALER IN
Toilet Soaps, Perfumery and all Kinds ot Druggist's
Sundries Usually Kept in a
Fairst Class IDiruLg; Store.
Tobacco, Snuff and Cigars, Garden Seeds, &c, also Paints, Oils, Varnishes,
Glass Putty, ?fcc, Dye Stuffs.
Physician's Prescriptions carefully compounded, and orders answered with care
and dispatch. The public will find my stock of Medicines complete, warrarted
genuine, and of best quality. Call and see for yourselves.
Night Calls Promptly Attended To.
OTTO F. WEITERS,
WHOLESALE
GROCER,
AND
LIQUOR DEALER,
O F FICE A N D S A L ES RU ? M :
1S3 East Say, Charleston, S C
Nov. 7
FOE SALE.
npHAT TRACT ..! laud ir, Sumter Couuty,
I S C.. contamine 20u acres, more i :
[ess, and bounded as follows : North, by
public road frota Cuy of Sumter to Cane
Savannsvh ; East, by ?ands ot Jnb T. Baker
South, bv : ?:>: <'! Cane Savannah ; West, by
[anas of Jnu F. Gamble, a:..i of Miles ii.
Plowden : same heine arable land aud now
under cultivation. For terms applv io
C. G MATTHEWS ? Ci
Cotton Factors. Charleston. S. C.
Liberal advances made on consignments of ?
cotton. Sept. 19-3m. j
THE
SUMTER INSTITUTE
FOR WOMEN.
npHE TWENTY-SEVENTH COLLEGI
ate year of the Institute will bf gin
September ?Ith, 1S94. With its full corps of
efficient teachers and high standard of schol?
arship, it offers advantages for educating
young ladies, equal to any College for wo?
men in T ii is State. We intend that it shall
grow in efficiency as it grows in years, ind
thus command the continued f.nvor ot its
patrons, and commend itself to the favor '">?
all who have daughters to educate. Entire
expenses for the year from $150 to $2 ? ,
For particulars apply to
H. FRANK WILSON.
President,
July 5. Sumter, S. C.
RICE, m Vii. IC ICE.
We solicit consignments of
KOUGH RICE IN ANY QUANTITY.
All consignments milled and reship: e.ic:
sold promptly. Rates moderate.
\\ EST POINT MILLS Ci' .
Sept 26. Charleston, S. C.