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. .., ,_., ; 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. eure <>! all Kidney anil Liver trouble and often gives al? most instant relief 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 MEDAL ?nd Diploma Awarded AYERS CHERRY PECTORAL FOR THROAT and * LUNG 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. ?5j Nine times lout of ten whemveare out of sorts our trou? bles can be removed by thai: re? if} liable old medicine, iron Bitters, which for more than 20 years has been curing many people cf Dyspepsia, Biliousness, Ma? laria, Impure Blood, Neural? gia, Headache, Liverand Kid? ney troubles. It's the peculiar combination of iron, the great Strength-giver, with selected vegetable remedies of true value that makes Brown's iron Bitters so c;ood for strengthen? ing and piirityin