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Telegraphic Briefs. March 23. City Tax Collector Thomas D. Gilbert and ex-Auditor R. H. Fiermau. of Galveston, Texas, have beeu arrested for stealing city fuods. The Nebraska Legislature bas passed a law forbiddiog the sale of cigarettes to pepsons under 21 years of age. The Hungarian Parliament has adopted a law granting religious free dom. The State Dispensary has ordered a carload of standard whiskey from the Live Oak Distillery, Cincinnati, Ohio. Pickens and Georgetown counties have elected delegates the Forty Con? ference. Adjutant General Watts has an? nounced the order in which he will inspect the militia companies, begin? ning on April IS th. The contracts for the furnishings for the Winthrop Industrial College have been awarded. A motion was made in the English House of Commons yesterday providing for the payment of a salary to members. The motion prevailed. A bill bas been introduced in the Maine Legislature making it a mis? demeanor, punishable with fine or im? prisonment for a woman to wear a high hat at a theatre. The Japanese are making an attack on the Piscadore Islands, which lie betwen the mainland and Formosa, for the purpose of cutting off that island from China. Peace has been restored in Peru and a provisional government established. March 25. A party of hunters report that they discovered a party of Cubans loading arms and ammunition on a steam yatch at West Palm Beach, Fla. The conslabes seized a car of coal in Columbia on Saturday night, thinking it contained liquor buried in the coal. A severe gale swept over England yesterday. A number of person were killed and considerable property damaged. The Hotel St. James was burned at Denver, Col., Saturday night. Four colored firemen lost their lives. Niblo*s Garden, the oldest play? house in New York City, closed for good on Saturday night. The German Reichstag's refusal to congratulate Bismarck has thrown Germany into an uproar and that body may be dissolved. A passenger train waa held up and robbed near Cripple Creek, Colorado, on Saturday night by a gang of robbers. They went through thc passenger's pockets as well as the ex? press car. The bandits were run down by blood-hounds on Sunday and captured. Reid Bros., packing house at Armourdale, Mo., was burned yes? terday. The loss on buildings, ma? chinery and cured polk aggregates more than a million dollars. March 26:b. William Smith, colored, of Laurens, who shot and killed J efl Evans on Friday has surrendered aud put in a plea cf self defense. The Planters Oil Mill, of Greenville, Miss., was barned yesterday. Loss $150,000, insurance ?75,000." A national bi-metallic league h::s been formed in Paris, with ex-Premier Loubet as President, llr. Ma^nim, the Governor of the Bank ot France is one of the vice presidents There are 3,000 members in the league al? ready. The Kingtree dispensary has been re-opened and Ii. R Stotts appointed dispenser, vice McDonald removed. The Spanish Cabinet has accepted the resignations of the ministers at London, Washington and Paris. Twelve Japanese warships made concerted . attack on the forts a: MaKoog, Piscadore islands on Satur? day. A sensation has been developed in postal eircie?, Savannah, Ga., by a charge tba: the delivery clerks had formed a conspiracy to seeare the re? moval cf a negro clerk. Ex-Con^resstnan Outhwaite, of Ohio, has been appointed a member of the board of oridinance and fortifications The place pays ?7,000 a year. The wouod of Li Huns Chan^ is more serious than stated in the first dispatches, but is not necessarily fatai. The ball iodged in his cheek and has cot yet been found. Li Hung Chang Assaulted* LONDON, March 24.-The Central New? correspondent in Tokio says that an attempt was made to assassinate Li Huns Chang io a street of Simoooseki this afternoon. Li was returning from ' the peace conference, in which he con? ducts negotiations in behalf <,{ the Chinese mission, arid was accompanied by several cf his suite. When ce was a short distance from bis apartments, a young Japanese ran up to him and tired a pistol io iii- face. Tho youri*; man was seized and disarmed at once by the police. At the station house he gave his name as Koyama and his age as twenty-one. According to thc short report received in Tokio, Li's wound is not dangerous. j i Real People's Party. Col- Dargan Gives Notice tha? He Will Organize One. For several years past the organiza? tion of tie People's Party in South i Carolina has been looked for and j confidently expected. South Caro I lina has had for a long time such a ; party in nearly all but name, but it ! has never shown its head under its j j real name except in the last Presiden ; j tia! election. Now, however, conies i j Col. John J. Dargan, the Populist, ! ! who gives warning that as soon as i the Constitutional convention fight is I over he will undertake the organiza- j I tion of a bona fide People's Party in I South Carolina. There has been cou- j I siderable quiet talk about such an j organization for some time. Hore ! is what Col. Dargan says: SUMTER, S. C., March 21, 1395. To the Editor of The State-I , think it proper for rae to let it be j known now that as soon as the great j "convention fight" is over, I am go- ? I ing to work to organize the People's j Party in South Carolina. I cannot j consent longer to sit idly by and see j this great party suffer for want of an i active body of brave and faithful ex I ponents. It is the People's Party in fact as well as in name, and it needs bvjt to have its noble principles and purposes set properly before the peo? ple to?sweep over all opposition to victory. While ali who know me at all, j know I have long been an open and . earnest Populist, I deem it honest ! and wise to declare now that I ara j also going to become a working Pop I ulist. The first end to be achieved ! is a free ballot and an honest count ] 3?o mau who is, for the sake of any ; party factional or race triumph, I willing to commit or encourage oth j ers to commit, fraud or perjury, or ! resort to any election tricks of any ! kind, need expect leadership in this j ; party in *his State-not at least ! while I am ..bove ground. Respectfully, JOHN* J. DARGAN. This Should Not Be. On Thursday Miss Mamie Ashford, who is a sister-in-law to a brother of the State Treasurer, arrived in the city from Fairfield, stopping over to spend I a day in the city with relatives. She i left her trunk iu the baggage room at j the union depot, as she intended to j continue ber journey to St. Matthews j yesterday. No sooner had her trunk ; beeo placed in the baggage room than ! the liquor constables pounced down ! upon it, seized it, took it out, broke it ? open and made a complete search ' among all ber clothing and effects. Of ! course nothiog was found in the shape j ; of liquor among the personal belong-j ; iogs of the young lady. When she wem j I to the depot, io<comoany with a in aie i relative, yesterday afternoon to take j the train to St. Mat'haws, she was al- ; most thrown into hysterics f-o find what j had been done. Her male relative, j who is a most conservative man, said j ? ''Such things as this are enough to i make people go to war.7' Here is a 1 copy of what the liquor constable gave ! the baggage agent, as obtained from j the yoting lady's reiativr: COLUMBIA, March 21, 1895. This is to certify that I seized trunk bearing Va. Mid check 2540 and opened it, and after examining it re? turned it to C T. Goodwin, union bag? gage agent. A. T. DAVIS. State Constable. -Columbia State. The Cotton Movement, NEW ORLEANS, Match 22.-The Neve Orleans Cotton Exchange state-! ment from September 1 to March '22, inclusive, is as follows : Port re? ceipts 7,212,873 bales j against 5,390. 123 last year, 4,457,328 year before last and 6,*i?2,129 for same time in 1892 : overland to mills and Canada 882,564 bales, against 721,704 last year, 751,799 year before last and 1,084,077 for same time in 1892 : interior stocks in excess of Septem? ber 1, 277,215 bales, against 200,041 last year, 250,985 year before last and 360,275 for same time in 1S'J2 : Southern mill takings 519,309 bales, against 520.5UG last year, 501,874 year before las.t and 455,750 for same time in 1892; cotton brought into sight during 2Q'? days to date, 8,891,961 bales, against 6.838,374 last year, 5,9b!,year before last and ^,292,237 fur the same time in 1892 ; cotton brought into sight tor week, 143,105 bales, against 50,953 for the seven days ended March 22 last your, 00.500 year before last and 83.182 for the same time in 1892 ; cotton brought into sight for the first ' twenty-two days of March 424,306 bales, against 221,700 last year, 207,643 year before last and 335,283 for the same time in li5!'2, Com? parisons in these reports are made up to the corresponding date ol last year, year before last and in 1892,j and not to the close of the cones ponding week. Comparison by weeks would take in 20-1 days of the season last year, 205 of the year before last and 207 in 1892, against only 203 days of this year A ?argo Sock of ducks dash ? against t?ic glass lens of a searchlight on the steamer Nutmeg State, in Long Island Sound, ooo night Ia*r w.?> k and more thau a score were killed by fi.'- colli? sion. : Tillman on the new Party. Another Letter Prom "Caro? lina's Cromwell." - I Ex Governor Tillman is again talk? ing about the proposed new National party, to be composed of the people of the South and West. In fact, he has, from his home over in Trenton, written another letter on the subject. This time the letter is for the New York World, and it reads as follows: "lu my judgment the organization of a ne<v partv is inevitable: and it will present as the main issue the restoration of bimetallism and the conduct of our finances in the interest of the people. The poverty and mis? ery wrought by the fall of prices, directly traceable to the gold con? spiracy and the contraction of the currency, will break up both old par? ties-equally responsible for this crime against humanity-and cause a new alignment in politics. "The South and West wiil natural ly join in overturning a policy which robs them and tends to pauperize the producers and laborers for the benefit of a few thousand bankers and mil? lionaires here and in Europe. Party ties and sentiment will not hold men whose resentment of wrong and whose instinct of self-preservation j command them to seek new political i alliances "Populism in the West was a pro- I test against Republican misrule and Democratic imbecility. In the South it was largely a revolt against Bour bonism and bossism in State affairs; j but the progressive, restless element of Southern Democracy is strongly im? bued with the idea of national finan? cial reform, and nine-tenths of the Southern people are for free silver . and opposed to national banks. "It was necessary, however, before the Southern voters could be weaned . from the Democratic party to have : that party once control all branches of the government, and be in a posi- j tion to do what it promised in its platform. The test has been made, and such a disgraceful spectacle of. betrayal of the people and disregard for the pledges made before election bas never been witnessed in our poli-1 tical history. The Senate and House, ] with majorities elected as pledged to bimetallism, demonetized silver at, the command of the President, who unblushingly used the patronage of his office to debauch the representa tives of the people and carry out his compact with the gold conspirators. ; The tariff reform promised is an ? abortive compromise, reeking with the stench of sugar trust deals, and grants no relief from monopolies. "The cowardice and treachery of I Congress: its subserviency to White ; House influences; the subserviency of the President to Wall and Lombard streets, with its phases of partner? ship, and the disgraceful bond dicker with its nine millions of profit stolen from the people: the whole scheme of plunder involved in the issue; of; bonds in time of peace, and the bra zen and scoundrelly refusal to pro-1 tect the treasury by payment of sil-1 ver certificates in silver and green? backs, or ''coin,1' as provided by law-all these things have awakened and opened the eyes of the people to the necessity for a new deal. "Partv ties or niedres did not re strain or bind the so-called Demo? crats of the East and North in the last Congress. They voted with the Republicans on the tariff and money questions. Will the Southern Demo? crats and Western Republicans fol? low their example in tho next elec? tion aud vote together for the relief o' the millions whose interests de maud more money and a bimetallic standard-higher prices, in a word ? Are we Southern and Western far? mers idiots t" longer cling to the shadow when the substance is gorier - a Democracy which is not Demo? cratic and a Republicanism which is plutocratic. "It seems to me a very plain case. Five cent cotton and fifty-cent wheat are arguments which cami ot be an swered. The Populist* will readily merge their organization in tin.' new party, once it gets wei! under way. Tiie manufacturers and merchants, whose business has been so seriously injured by the impoverishment of the farmers ami the destruction of the "home market," will, if not wholly blind and besotted, lend their aid. ami we will sec another revolution like that of 1S2S. Instead of govern? ment by the hanks, through the news? papers aud paid attorneys, masquera? ding as Congressmen, for the million? aires, we will have government for the people and restore the standards of<Jefierson, Jackson aud Lincoln. "South Carolina opposed Mr. Cleveland's nomination in lb'.-*2. We predicted what followed it, but we loyally supported the ticket and gave him our electoral vote, and Weaver got only 2,200 votes in the State' We are Democrats of the straightest sect, hut wc no lunger love the name. Clevelaudism makes it stink, and this State will lend the South in join? ing the West next year for th" aboli? tion ol wiiite slavery, now pressed upon us by the plutocracy ol the Kant and England. "Tie' Republican party will not giant us relief. Th'- Democratic par? ty is ?h-.nl, though not buried, and wiil offend tiie nostrils ol htuiest ne o for two inore years. A union of Ito publicans. Democrats and Populists who think alike on tlc money ques? tion is the only sensible course left . us. Such a combination is inevita? ble and irresistible. "Trenton, S. C. B R. TILLMAN*." This letter appeared in the World on Sunday last, along with similar ones from men most prominently identified with the new movement for 1896-Peffer, Marion Butler, Con? gressman Sibley, Weaver, Howard, Thomas E Watson and Taubeneck. The World also proceeds to analyze the electoral vote of th? country and shows that the solid South and West, with other aid, could only secure in the electoral college 215 votes at the outside, while it takes 224 to elect a President.-Coln rn h ia State. After a Well Spent Life. GREENVILE, March 22.-A. P Abbell, one of the most prominent members of the Baptist denomination of this State, died at his home here this morning. He was on the streets yesterday, but his death was not unex? pected, as he was 78 years old and in feeble health. He was a native of Virginia, but before he came here, io 1878, he was very prominent in busi? ness life in Savannah, Ga., being at the head of a large banking house there. He devoted much of his life to church, Sunday School and temperance work, and was a Knight Templar and Mason. The body will be sent to Charlottes ville, Va., to be buried by the side of his only son, who was killed in the Confederate army in 1864. Joint memorial service in memory of Mr. Abell and Dr. Broadna will be held in the Baptist Church here on Sunday. These two men were intimate friends all their lives.- The State. Small Pox at Hot Springs. LITTLE ROCK, Ark., March 24.-R. G. Jennings, secretary of the State Board of Health, reports that at Hot Springs, Ark., the total number of small pox and varioloid cases ad? mitted to date is 59 ; total deaths at hospital to date IS ; total number of cases of small pox and varioloid in the city to date 125 ; total number of deaths in city to date 93. At the present date there are in the hospital 37 cases in the city. Seveuteen houses are under strict quarantine as a precautionao* measure to citizens and visitors During the last week, but three cases of varioloid have been reported and the citizens are more hopeful. The situation is im? proving every day, and a decidedly brighter and a more cheerful feeling prevails throughout the entire city. LITTLE ROCK, Ark , March 24. Every city of note on the line of the railroads in this State except Little Rock ha3 quarantined against all commercial travelers. The local authorities say the Camden case, wherein Buckale, the Kansas City shirt salesman, was taken with small pox, justifies the action. Several ex? posed parties were made to leave Camden to-day. --MM? Bloody Murder in Alabama. Ono Boy Killed and his Two Brothers Wounded by Angry Neighbors. BIRMINGHAM. ALA, March 25.-A special to the Age-Herald from Tuske? gee, Ala., says: Yesterday about du?k a shooting scrape occurred near Arm? strong Chapel eight mites from here, which resulted in the killing of Saeb Biddle, dangerously wounding his brother, Charlie, 1 wounding Andrew, aged S, in i. leg. The parties who did tho killing are Capt. John Christian and his son, William, who are now in jail. Both families have been on unfriendly terms for sometime. Itseems from what could be learned ot Willi,mi's statement 'hat ho was letting down the fence near Biddle's cow pen, when rho y>>ung men carno up arid ordered him oil. lie went home and told his father wliat had occurred, snd both armed themselves with gun atol returne(i On sering them ap? proach titi' Biddie boys commenced ti r *. : ; with the result as above stated. Tho Biddle boys stated har they were not armed, that r h cy were shot for nothing, and did LO* know Christian and son were near until they sprang our and commenced firing at them. No arms were found on the Biddles by several who were at thc scene immedi? ately after the killing. Andrew, it is said, who with his sister, preceded his father and mother, after hearing the report of thc guns, started towards his brother, when oue of the Christian men sai l : "There's another of them, shoot him."' The grand jury will probably investigate the case next week. STATE OK OHIO, CITY OF TOLEDO, V LUCAS Co?XTY.. j Fouik J. Cheney makes oath that he is the senior partner ol the firm of F. J. Cheney & Co., doing business it: t.V> City of Toledo, County a ri ?i State aforesaid, and that sa:;l firm will pav the sum cf Une Hundred I>o? Urs for Knell and every case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by the use of Hail's Catarrh Cure; FRANK .J. CHENEY/. Sworn to before rac and subscribed in my presence, this 'Jil: day <.i December, A. D i SSG. ) A . W GLEASON, ! E KAL . No ta rv Public. {_"j Hali's Catarrh (':::.. is taken internally and ac's -i ; r-.?: ! v on the ??iood and mucoussur i.if .-. o! system. Sra.J for testimonials; L".H 1 Pencils from 5 cts per :i a;.?, at b G. Usteen & Co's. Righi Arm Paralyzed! Saved from St. Vitus Dance. "Our daughter, Blanche, now fif? teen years of age, had been terribly afflict ed with nervousness, and had lost the entire use of her right arm. We feared St. Titus dance, and tried the best physicians, with no benefit. She has taken three bottles of Dr. Miles' Nervine and bas gained 31 pounds. Her nervousness and symp? toms of St. Vitus dance are entirely gone, site attends school regularly, and has recovered complete use of her arm, her appetite is splendid.1' MRS. R. R. BULLOCK, Brighton, N. Y. Dr. Miles' Nervine Cures. Dr. Miles' Nervine is sold on a positive guarantee that thc first bottle wi'.I oenefit. All druggists sell it at il. 6 bottles for $5, or it will be sent, prepaid, on receipt of price by tLe Dr. Miles Medical Co., Elkhart, Ind. for sale by Dr. A. J. China, Sumter, S. C. KAVANAUGH & AMNIONS, CONTRACTORS AND BUILDERS, OFFER THEIR SERVICES TO THE PUBLIC. Estimates furnished on all classes of work. Satisfaction guaranteed. Ooly first class ; work done. Workshop at Harvin's Mill. ZAVANAUGH ? AMMONS. | Feb. 9-r-tf_? SUMTER TII?SHOP, j HAVING PURCHASED the tools and j outfit of the shop formerly of E. ; Uardarelli, I will conduct the Tin business in ; its different branches at the same stand, on j Republican Street near Graham's Stables. Orders for Roofing, Guttering and general j Repair Work will have prompt attention. I have good workmen employed, and guarantee satisfaction Feb. 20._U.A. HOYT. Agent. Estate-of John E. Law, Deceased. IWILL APPLY to the Judge of Probate of Sumter County, on April 6th, 1S95 : for a final discharge as Administratrix of aforesaid Estate. MRS. ANNA E. LAW, Administratrix. ! Sumter. S. C.. March 6. 1S95 -4:._ NOTICE. I "WANT every man and woman in the United States interested in the Opium and Whisky habits to have one of mv books on these dis- | eases. Address B. M. Woolley, Atlanta, Ga. i Box 2S2, and one will be sent jon free. m mum, rpHE FLORIST A ND vj A RDENER informs j bis customers and ibe public that he is prepared ro furnish See articles MI FRUIT TREES, ROSES, AND ALL KINDS OF FLOWER PLANTS. ALSO CABBAGE PLANTS ANO OTHER VARIETIES OF VEGETABLE PLANTS. 100 Cabbage Plants 25 1,000 " " 2.00 He offers bis services to lay oat gardens and put them in good shape. Reasonable terms. Feb. 10. 1890. 1894. A. C. PHELPS & CO., General tarnee in Sumter, S. C. Fire, Life, Accident, Steam Boiler, Plate Glass, Bonds of Surety for persons in posi? tions of trust, and Liability Insurance in' every branch, written in the very best Amer can and Foreign Companies. Over sixty-five millions of capiial repre? sented. 0fa.ee at Messrs. J. Ryttenberg & Sens, 2d Floor. Front. Mcbl4-o PATRICK ANDERSON. S. C. Seventeenth Session OPENS SEPTEMBER 12TH. GOOD COURSE in English, Mathematics Latin. Greek, German. French, Draw og, Book-Keeping, and Tact;:?. Send for Catalogue. COL. JOHN B. PATRICK, Aug. 15 Supt. TO FARMERS OHLS" Th? above Planter vrill p!ur;t accurately any number of grain? in a place, a! any distance drsired. One mao and one horse can open the furrow, put down tbs- guano ind drop and corn. 12 acr?= ?n one day and do it to perfection. Sold by C?eo, F. Epperson, Sumter, ?? Office a; Geo. F Epperson's Livery Stables. ?lin MQ Hainsworth, AGENT FOR THE South and North American Lloyds.. New York and Chicago Lloyds. 1 CAN INSURE all classes of property at greatly reduced rates from the prevailing Fire Insurance Kates wit 1 equal responsibility on the part of the Company. Office at Havnsworth & Haynsworth's Law office. Feb. 6 Sumter, S? C. in, um... i11, ^1 ju ?7 aint Your Roof Now is the time to Paint your Roofs, and DIXONS GRA? PHITE PAINT is the sort to use. One painting has been known to last fifteen years. We sell the Paint, or contract to put it on, guarantee nu; satis faction either way. li" yon want a book on this subject lei us know*. MACH?HESY OF ALL KINDS. Belting. Oils and General Machinery Supplies. Sauiran Plumb? ing in all its branches. m SUMTER MACHINERY ANO SUPPLY HOUSE, H. B. BLOOM. Manager.' East Liberty St.. Sumter. 13. C. .Mareil 4.