The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, February 06, 1895, Image 4
WEDNESDAY, FEB. 6, 1S95.
The Sumter Watchman was founded
in 1850 and toe True Southron in 1860.
The Watchman and Southron now has
the combined circulation snd influence i
of both cf the old papers, and is mani- :
fest?y the best advertising medium in j
Sumter.
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EDITORIAL NOTES.
It is said that there are only 700 peo- j
pie in this State who will pay the in*
come tax. How we all wish we be?
longed to the Seven Hundred.
The loss of the steamer Elbe is a
most horrible tragedy, but it is proof
that the dangers cf the sea have not
been overcome by the great steamships
aod the modern improvements.
The gambling evil in this city is
beginning to excite the indignation of a
great many of the best citizens. It is
about time for faro banks and profes?
sional gamblers to draw in their hooks,
for something is going to drop pretty
soon, if talk means anything.
When the one hundred million dol?
lar bonds issue has been made, it will
be io order to i?*ae two hundred mil?
lion. These band issues are making
more converts to free silver than all the
arguments that could be adduced.
It is well for the Editor Baker of
New Orleans, that he is editor of a
great paper like the Times-Democrat
or he would s rend five months in jail
instead of paying a fine of ?1,000 for
'assaulting a personal enemy.
A find of sixty thousand dellars in
gold is reported in Mississippi. We
wish some one would make a find like
that in these parts. It would bring
about the much desired expansion of the
circulating medium.
The mao who invented Saratoga
chips has just died. Why not build
a monument to his memory. He did
humanity more good than many who
have monuments.
This is a sentiment that is be?
coming quite widespread in the com
m unity in favor of the dectives seeking
larger game than crap shooters when
they ser out to suppress gambling.
Augusta Chronicle And this senti?
ment prevails iu this community also.
The congressmen are kicking against
paying the income tax on their salaries
and mileage. They should consider
themselves lucky io escaping a year io
the chain gang for general incapacity
and failure to perform the duties to
which they were elected.
The scheme to build a double track
railroad from Je Hi co, Tenn., vt
Knoxville, Babuc Gip and Augusta to
Port Boyal is beginning to assume de- !
finite shape. Such a road would be
worth millions to the State of South
Carolina.
The growth of business at Port Boy
al within the past two years has been
phenomioai. We are beginning to be
lieve that there will yet be a great city j
in South Carolica-a city that will be j
the maratirne metropolis of the South
Atlantic.
The picture published in the Atlanta j
Constitution and labelled "Gen. R. R i
Hemphili*' does not look much like the
daughty reformer from Abbeville. Per?
haps, however, he had on his store
cio?bes while in Atlanta, and was think?
ing more about impressing the fair suf- i
fra gists, than the wool bats.
The Yaw Concert was well worth
attending. Mr. Dick is the greatest
master of the violin that has e7er been
heard in Sumter; Miss Yaw has a voice
of wonderful power, and compass but
we mest confess that we should rather:
hear either Patti, Emma Juch, or the
late Emma Abbott.
There are a few men in every place
who throw cold water upon every enter?
prise that is undertaken, yet can give
more directions as to running anything,
from a wheel barrow to a bank,
than a working man could carry
out if bis allotted three score and ten
should be doubled.
Fertilizer manufacturers are estimat?
ing the cotton acreage from the amount
of fertilizers sold. The sale of fertili-,
zers show a falling of 130,000 acres
thus far. It will be found, however,
that estimates made on this basis will be
v^ry far wrong, since a great many
farmers will plant cotton, but will not.
use ?fly commercial fertilizers.
TheN Governorship of Tennessee is
still unsettled. The committee to in?
vestigate the frauds will begin its work j
today. The committee will consist of
seven Democrats atd five Republicans, i
Evans, Republican, was elected on
the face of the returns, but it is claimed
that the returns were fraudulent, and
that a fair election would have given
the office to the Democratic candidate.
In the meanwhile Gov. Turoey ho ids
over.
The effort to raise subscriptions for
the Nebraska sufferers has brought
forcibly to mind the amount of real des- |
titution and want there is it. our very
midst. There are many people within
the limits of this city who are as nee
essitous as those in Nebraska, and it \
should be our first duty to provide for
these. Some organized effort for their
relief is required, for the unworthy are
most clamorous while those who have
the greatest need often suffer io silence.
Gov. Evans' letter to the Italian Con?
sol General reads like war. It's rega?
lar hot stuff, and the Italians are given
to anderstand that if thoy do not like
the dispensary law and the method of
enforcing it they can lamp it. Bat
honestly, without favor or prejudice,
that letter of the Governor's could be
improved. It is rather hard reading
io places.
Speaking of monuments recalls the
fact that this writer bas already worn
threadbare. The fact-and a disgrace?
ful fact, that the grave of Gen Sumter
is unmarked and neglected. Thc
United States can find money to build
magnificent memorials to every little
ten penny general who fought in the
last war and bas beeu steadily drawing j
a fat pension since; bat there is oo
money to erect a simple monument
over the grave of one of the greatest
Revolutionary warrior and a striking ex?
ample of patriotism, in a time when all i
men fought for a principle and not for
ante bellum bounties and post bellum
pensions. Merit is neglected and brass
is enshrined by the government.
The woman in Indiana, who wanted
one million stamps, has already received
some five or six hundred million, and
the chain of letters she started has not
got well ander way. She is now receiv?
ing more mail per day than any of the
largest business booses in the country,
and every letter contains stamps. The
town is deluged with stamps and the
receipts moltiply each day. She has
appealed to the New York Herald and
other papers to ask the people to let up
on the stamps. If she were to re?
ceive all the stamps she asked for, it
would require twenty to twenty-five
figures to express the number. Num?
ber thirty of the series of letters was
circulating tn Sumter ; and if there
were cone of that number missing there
are about 60,000,000,000,000 of them
floating around io the civilized world.
The meeting of the State Press As?
sociation io this city io May will be ao
opportooity for Sumter to display the
hospitality for which the place is noted
throughout the State. The people will
not be asked to entertain the
members who attend the meeting,
but we should unite in making them
welcome to the city, so that when
they depart they may carry with |
them a lively appreciation of Sumter's I
hospitality. Secretary of the Interior
Hoke Smith was expected to deliver the
annual address before the Association.
We are informed that Mr. Smith has
notified the Secretary of the Association !
that he would be forced to withdraw I
his promise to make the address. The j
Executive Committee will invite sume j
distinguish^ man to deliver the address !
and we can be assured that we snail ?
I
have aa oration that will be worth hear
I
iog.
Capt. Kolb, who pretends to believe !
that he was elected Governor of Ala?
bama is giving tho public a specimen j
of comedy, the counterpart of which is :
not recorded. He would make a '
delightful figure in comic opera of the ;
Gilbert and Sullivan order His
Gubernatorial inaugural from a dray ;
would be great dressed up as a comic
solo
The proposition to divide the repre- ,
sentatiou in tue Constitutional Conven?
tion all have the appearance of a desire
for a division in Conservative Counties
and co divikioo in the Reform coun?
ties Which is a division that we do ;
not desire, nor will we have anything
to do with such a scheme. We are j
heartily in favor of a fair division in I
all tho counties, but it is foolish to pro?
pose a division on any other basis.
The actiou of the Railroad Commis?
sion in postponing action on the fertili?
zer freight rates is regarded by many ?
as a surrender to the railroads. This j
action will force those wh? use fer tili
zers to pay the rates now in force, and !
they will have to content themselves j
with the hope that sometime in the j
III m .mn 1IIIMWIM. I
future rates will be lowered. A -jeni
ral redaction of rate? will undoubted!
bc a ?rood thing for all, but ri^ht no
a reduction ol fertiliser rates wou!
j be a great help to th? farmers. Th
railroads could not have obtained auj
thing more favorable to them than tb
postponement, for by the time tLe que;
tiou can be taken up and the propose
general reduction made the fertilize
season will be over and the moue
paid for freights in ;h- hands of th
railroads. What the farmers need an
want is present relief, not bright prom
ises of what they may get ia th
future.
Every day we hear of men who wii
plant tobacco this year for the first time
The crop will be largely increased I
this county, and the announcement tha
a warehouse will be built here has don
more to stimulate the farmers to plan
tobacco than any other siogle thing
We trust those who plant the weed wi!
be successful. They must expect t<
give the crop the closest and most in
teliigent care or they will fail to realizt
the profit they hope to obtain. A to
bacoo crop can be the most complet)
and expensive failure imaginable.
The Greenville News says that the feel
ii?g of the members of the military com
panie* is against re enlisting under th<
new law, and that thn indications an
that so few of them will be willing t<
take.the oath that both companies wil
be disbanded. This is what we an?
ticipated. We do not believe that one
fifth of the meo who have kept up thc
volunteer companies during the past
ten or more years will take the requir?
ed oath and re-enlist.
? A Cincinnati girl-and we imagine
she was a stylish girl, for she wore side
combs in her hair-came to grief the
other day while crimping her hair,
While 'leaning over the lamp the heal
ignited one of her celluloid side combs
and her hair was abalze io a secood.
If her father bad not come to ber assis?
tance she would have lost ber life.
As it was she will have to get a wig
if she wishes to wear side combs again
soon.
The few hills of cassava planted last
year by Mr. W. A. Spann, of Provi?
dence, has excited more interest than
any incident that has happened in this
county in a long time. The article
published in the Watchman arid South?
ron in reference to his success io culti?
vating this tropical plant has been ex?
tensively quoted, and may be the
means of securing the erection of a
large starch factory in Sumter. We
are in receipt of another letter of in?
quiry io reference to the starch factory,
aod we believe that it cao be secured
for Sumter by a little effort.
Several of the truest Democratic
papers io the South are demanding an
issue of greenbacks as a means to de?
feat the schemes of the capitalists who
are anxious to multiply the bonded
debt of the country.
j The Radical legislature of North
Carolina is a mongrel mixture of galva?
nized carpet-baggers and populists. If
the State survives the ordeal without
serious loss and injury it will be a great
surprise.
The whiskey trust is a wreck, but as
the State of South Carolina is backing
it up with a large patronage, it may
pull through after a time.
The stand taken by the Masons of
Louriana a 2 a i t: ^ r. whiskey selling by
members of the fraternity, is significant
cf the ::rowtb of ihe temperance scnti
Ingersoll's lecture on Shakespeare is
pronounced rather above the average,
but nothing extraordinary. This is
about the sort of mau Ingresoll is him?
self. If it were uut for the extensive
advertising be has received in religious
papers, that have taken it upon them?
selves.to denounce IngresolTs atheistic
opinions he would not bc such a. promi?
nent figure before the public.
?
Queen Lil, the colored womau who
was nominally ruler of thc Sandwich
Islands before the American adven?
turers tumbled down her throue and
turned her out of the palace, has now
been arrested for treason against the
new government. Reverence for
royalty, so-called does not exist in thc
latter part of the ccutury. Royalty is
toler?ted in some quarters, merely be?
cause many regard it as a bulwark
again>t worse evil?.
Cotton is said to bc selling at S
cents per pound in Mexico, where the
silver standard is in force, and from
this it is argued that the silver standard
is what the South and the cotton
growers ueed. If it can be demon- ,
strated that two pounds of cotton when !
sold for 1G cents under the silver |
il
st aricia: ? will bay a grenier amount o.
the necessari s of life than tv.., pound
of cotton wileri sold for 8 cents arider
the gold standar*], the question will b-j
settled in favor of siiv?-r in the minds
of three-fourths of ino inhabitants ot
the country, it is not sufficient to My
that two pounds of cotton under the
silver standard will pay a greater debt
thau under the cold standard, for this is
evident. Just as much *n as that,
bushel of sand will fi!! more space than
a half bushel of clay. Bui what it is
necessary to prove is either of two
propositions: 1st. That the change in
thc financial policy cf the government
has lowered the value of labor, and the
products of labor, to such an extent
thit all things, except the debts out?
standing prior to .the change, have
decreased more than one-half in value.
2d. That the adoption of the silver
standard would not work a hardship to
those who have loaned money under the
gold standard.
Thomas Jefferson said : "I have
but one system of ethics for man and
for nation : to be faithful to all engage
ments under all circumstances." And
he never laid down a sounder princi?
ple.
Louisiana Masons.
Important Meetings to be Held
The Matter of Selling Whiskey.
NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 4-The Grand
Lodge of Free arr] Accepted Masons of
Louisiana will meet at the Masonic
Temple in this city on Monday, Febru- j
ary ll, in regular convocation. The j
Grand Chapter Royal Arch Masons will j
meet on Tuesday and Wednesday Feb- j
mary 12 and 13, the Grand Council on j
Thursday. February 14. and the Grand I
Commandery on Friday, February 15. ;
The resolution making it an offence
against the order for a Mason to sell in-;
toxicating liquors as a beverage will be j
acted upon at the session of the Grand
Lodge. A proviso will be added grant?
ing one years time for Masons who are j
thus engaged to dispose of their busi- j
ness or seek other employment.
If you need a good medicine to purify your !
blood, nive nerve strength and build up your
entire system, take Hood's Sarsaparilla. It
prevents sicknes by making pure blood.
Gen. Rufus Barringer, a confederate i
cavalry brigadier died at his home in \
Charlotte, N. C., yesterday.
The revolutionists in Colombia have j
been dispersed, and a number killed,
including the leader Gen. Aldana.
A Milwaukee trolly car ran into au J
open draw and dumped a load of peo- j
pie into the icy wat T of the river.
Three persons were ki! ed, and eleven j
injured.
Gov. Evans bas appointed Mr. J.j
K. Henry Solicitor of t.ie Sixth Circuit j
to succeed the late Solicitor Hoagh.
A shooting scrape occurred in
Orangeburg County on Sunday be?
tween Ed. McMichael and Henry ?
Staiey. Staley was badiy wounded in
the chest and leg, and his recovery is
doubtful.
As Lee Davenport was entering his
brother's boase near Ocala, Fla., a i
companion snatched a handkerchief
from his pocket. With the handker?
chief came a pistol, which exploded as
it strack the floor. The bullet entered
Davenport's groin and he died within
an hour.
A negro named Willis Gordon duped
the negroes of Jackson County, Fla.,
out of several thousand dollars and
caused them to sell all their property,
on thc promise to carry them to Liberia
at $1 per bead They were to start
last Saturday, but no train came to
carry th-j 2,QUO who were camped
around the depot.
The coldest weather of the season is
prevailing in St. Louis and vicinity.
Forty-four miners were killed in ?
coal minc explosion in France.
President Cleveland has laid an?
other batch of Hawaiian corrcrpond
ence before the Senate.
Complaints are being made that the
Central Relief Committee of Nebraska
is mismanaging the funds and provi?
sions donated to the relief of the desti?
tute.
Mrs. Emily Thorne, who resides at Toledo,
Washington, says she has never been able to
procure any medicine for rheumatism that
relieves the pain so quickly and effectually as
Chamberlain's Pain Balm, and that she has
also used it for lame baek with great success.
For sale bv Dr. A. J. Chic-a.
Native Red Rust Proof Seed Oats for sai
by W. M. Graham.
Lead Pencils from 5 cts per dozen up, at H.
0. Osteen & Co'i;.
Native Hay for Sale by \V- M. Graham.
It May Do as Much for Y MI.
.Mr. I red Miller, ot Irvin?, III., writ*;; that
h j had a Severe Kidney trouble for many years, |
with ?evere pains in his back and ai.??, that his ?
bladder was affected. He tried many so called
Kin dey cures but without any good result
About a year ago he bogan u.<e -.! Electric
Bitters ;in i found relict af once. Electric
Hitter.-; ii especially adapted t> eure <>! all
Kidney anil Liver trouble and often gives al?
most instant relief <inc trial will j-r >ve our
statement I'ri-c onlv 50c. for large bartle.
At J. F. W. DeLornie's. .>
- ? ? ff HIM -
Success in Lifo
?
depends on little things. A Ripaos Tabule is a j
little thing, but taking one occasionally gives I
good digestion, and that means good blood, ?
and that means good brain and brawn, and
that means success, w 7-25-0 '
The Alliance to Meet.
Th'; Fertilizer Question Will Be
Considered.
ID respoDse to the demand of '.he
Newberry Alliance that, thc State Alli?
ance be called to meet io extra session,
the following call has been ordered :
"lu response to a request of Alliance
men from various parts of the Stare, ?
hereby cali a convention to be comprised
of two delegates from each county alli?
ance to be held in the city of Columbia
in th? hall of the House of Repret-eta
tives on Tuesday, the 19th instant, at
8 p m.
.'The object of this meeting is to
take into consideration the question of
fertilizer supplies for the coining crop
and such other subjects as pertain to
the agricultural interests of the State.
Wherever it. is convenient, the county
aliiauces will hoid meetings and elect
said delegates, otherwise the county
presiden's are hereby authorized to ap?
point.
"The expenses of said delegates
must be paid by the county alliances.
It will be well that no orders for ferti?
lizer* be placed until after said conven?
tion shall have met.
"Other agricultural organizations
and individual farmers, who feel an
interest in this matter are cordially in?
vited to participate in the deliberations
of this convention.
"W. D. EVANS,
"President F. A. of S. C."
Unlike most proprietary medicines, the
formulae of Dr. J. C Ayer s Sarsaparilla aod
O'her preparations aie cheerfully sent to
any physician who applies tor them. Hence
the special favor accorded these well-known
standard remedies by the World's Fair com
m ssiooers.
World's Fair
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AYERS
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COMPLAINTS
TAX RETURNS
FOR 1894-95.
OFFICE OF
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.
j Mann ville, Thursday, January 3.
Smithville, Friday, January 4.
Mecbanic8ville, Saturday, January,
S 5.
Kingraan'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, January,
14.
Bishopville, Tuesday and Wednes
day, January 15-1 G.
Magnolia, Thursday, January IT.
Lynchburg, Friday, January IS.
Concord, Saturday, January li'.
Johnston's Store, Monday, Jan?
uary, 21.
Shiloh, Tuesday, Januarv 22.
And at Auditor's office in City o?
Sumter from January 23rd t<> Feb?
ruary 20th; inclusive.
The law requires that ail persons owning
property or in anywise having charge of such
property, either as agent, husband, guardian,
trustee, executor, administrator, &c , return
the same, under oath, to the Auditor, who
requests ali persons tc be prompt in making
their returns and save theo') per cent penalty
which will be added to the property valua?
tion of ail persons who fail to make returns
within thc time prescribed by law.
Tax-payers return what they own or. the
first day of January, 1S95.
Assessors and Tax-payers will enter the
tirst given name of the tax-payer in full, also
make a separate return for each Township
where the property is located, and also in
each and every case the No cl the School
District must be given.
Every male citizen. ':>etwten the age ot
twenty-one and fifty year?, on the first day
of January, 1895, except these incapable of
earning a support from being maimed or
/rom other causes, shall be deemed taxable
Polls. !
All returns must be made ou or before the
20th day of February next. I cannot take re?
turns afi.er that date and all returns made
atter the 20th day of February, are sub?
ject to a penalty of 50 per cent.
A. B. STUCKEY,
Auditor Sumter Cootv. ?
Nov. 20, 1894. J
ABSOLUTELY PURE j
PUBLIC N0TICI?T
CITY LICENSES FOR 18?4-5.
CLERK & TREAS?P.ER'6 OFFICE,
SUMTER, S. C., Feb. 6, 1895.
MERC H A ii TS AND OTHERS liibleuo
der the License Ordinance nre here?
by notified that on and ?fier February 15th,
instant, all City Licenses, as required by
said Ordinance, now of force, then unpaid,
will be put into execution and lodged with
County Sheriff for collection.
By order of Ci tv Council.
C. M. HURST,
[L. S.J Clerk & Treasurer.
Feb. 6.
NOTICE OF DISSOLUTION.
THE DEATH OF ISRAEL REIFSN'YDER
has dissolved the late copartnership,
heretofore conducted under the name of
Lukens k Reifsnyder, and all bills will be
paid by the undersigned, surviving partner.
And all dues collected f>v him.
JESSE LOREN'S.
Feb. fi, '95. 3-t. Survivor.
. 64, A. I. M.
THE REGULAR MONTHLY COMMU?
NICATION of Claremont Lodge, No.
64, A. F M., will be held on Thursday
Evening, February 7tb, ?t 7i p. m. Urethren
will take due notice and govern themselves
?ccord i nely.
By order, A. C. PHELPS, W. M.
H. C. MOSES. Secretary.
Jan 23.
MONEY LOANED.
Do yon want to borrow money on equita?
ble terms?
Do you desire io pay off a mortgflge and
re-borrow the money at 5 per ceot. interest
annually ?
Would you care to be so situated that you
could reduce the mortgage against your
borne by paying off a small amount raoothly
and at the end of each year receive credit for
all paid? With interest being charged only
on remaining portion of loan.
Would you like to bny your family a home?
If so read the following :
I represent a Company that has embodied
in its plan all the features enumerated above
and many more. Can yon see any reason
why you should pay a large interest for
moDey when you have good security ? Can
you present any good reason why it is not as
well to receive profits yearly as to wait from
7 to 10 years as one does io many of the
Associations? Is not tbe reducion of
interest yearly better tban waiting many
years tor profits? Borrowers under the plan
represented by me assume absolutely io risk
as every dollar paid on tbe loan is credited
on the mortgage, thereby reducing it in pro?
portion to the amount paid.
Building Associations have benefitted
hundreds of thousands, so did the cid cars
that were propelled by horses. Our plan is as
far superior to Building Associations as tbe
trolley cars are to the old antiquated horse
car system. My time is too much occupied
to answer questions for the curious, but those
seeking information for the betterment of
their condition will receive full information
promptly. We offer an investment to those
who have H smail ?mount to save nontbly
that has no superior ns to safety and seldom
equaled fer Drofits. Call or write.
HENRY L !>. WELLS,
Jan 30. Attr.rnev, Sumter, C. H. S. C.
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