The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, March 27, 1895, Image 3
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.
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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.