Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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&1)? ?tt|maK at? jlm?ljram. WEDHESD?Y, MAKCH 27,1S95. A DIALOGUE ON DUCKS. "The country's going to the dogs, An' gittin' short on track." ("I'm hidin' oat behind these logs ; Wait 'till I kill that duck!") "Tbe people cry from east to west An' curse their heavy iuck." ("I've just escaped a hornet's nest: Wait 'till I wing that duck !") "They cry for bread, with bumbled head ; The wagon-wheeis are stack." ("I've jost shot forty of 'em dead, And just want one more duck i") "They fuss an' fight at New Orleans: There's little corn to shuck." ("I'm tired of eating pork and beans : Wait 'till I slay that duck !") "The country's ruined-sure as fate ; The people-they have struck 1" ("I know it, but-be quiet 1 Wait : I just want one more duck ! " ) -Atlanta Constitution. Carolina at Gettysburg. A State Commission to be Appoint ed to Locate Positions, Ste The government is now preparing to mark the famous battlefield of Gettys? burg just as the battlefields of Chicka manga and Chattanooga were marked last sommer. The following letter re? ceived bj Governor Evans yesterday, OD which be bas not acted yet, how? ever, shows what is being done to this end : To His Excellency the Governor of the State of South Carolina : Sir : The undersigned, constitntiog ?be U. S. Gettysburg Battlefield Com? mission, and representing the Union and Confederate soldiers of tbe civil war, are charged by the War Depart? ment with the duty of ascertaining and suitably marking, with permanent his? toric tablets, the several positions and evolutions of each aod every command of infantry, cavalry and artillery of the armies in the battle of Gettysburg dur? ing the three days' conflict. The re? sult, when finished, will be a monu? ment to American manhood, ?od this commission is anxious to perform its duty with accuracy and impartiality. To this end we invite your co-opera? tion, and suggest the propriety of the appointment of a State commission of intelligent and worthy veterans who were present, and, if possible, repre? senting each of the organizations from your State present io the battle, who will visit Gettysburg and locate the positions and movements of commands with which they served. We hope such a commission will be sent by each of the Southern States. These commissions will be welcomed and the information and data they fur? nish correctly noted, carefully recorded and permanently marked by historic tablets which are to be erected. We have the honor to be your obe? dient servants, John P. Nicholson, Wm. M. Robbins, Commissioners. As to Corporations. Further Instructions to Collectors About the Income Tax. The. national government bas sent out the following additional instructions to collectors of internal revenue : "Corporations are required to make income tax returns co the Collector or deputy colieotor of the district in which their principal office, from which all of their business is directed, and where their books and records pertaining to such business are kept is located. Branch and sub-agencies are therefore not required to make returns to collec? tors of that part of the business under ! their control. "In view of the foregoing collectors are instructed to ascertain from all agents, managers or other persons in control of the branch or local business of corporations situated in their respec? tive districts the exact location of the principal office of the corporation which j they represent and to forward the infor? mation received from such agents or j persons to the collector of the district I in which said priucipal office is lo- | cated." A large number of iocome tax re? turns are being received at the internal revenue office. Nearly all of the collectors throughout the country have made their February reports. They show a very satisfactory ? aiescense on the part of income tax payers io all of the regulations governing the collec? tion of the tax The utmost secrecy as to tbe amount and character of the returns is being observed, but it is be? lieved that the receipts so far are be? yond the expectations of the officials. The mayor of Sydney has refused lo ! allow the use of the Town Hall for a j meeting of the unemployed, on the ground that the resolution submitted to bim was likely to evoke a debate of a political nature. The Russian War Office has decided to use henceforth exclusively gray horses for artillery purpose?, the reason given for the innovation being that animals of this color have been found by experience to be stronger and more enduring than the brown oocs now used. Twenty Thousand Bales! A Great Cotton Fire ia the Crescent City. NEW ORLEANS, March 21.-At about 1 o'clock this morning fire destroyed Kearn'8 Coffin and Box Manufactory on South Peters Street, between Girod and Lafayette Streets. A high wind pre? vailed at the time and the air was filled with flying sparks. Finally, at about 3 o'clock these sparks ignited a number of uncovered bales of cotton lyi?g in the yards of the International Compress seveD blocks distant. The firemen worked hard, but were unable to do mere than confine the flames fo the press yards, which comprise an area of two squares, bounded by South Peters, Front, Calliope and Erato Streets. Cassius J. Meyer and J. H. Levy, lessees of the press property, say that nearly 20,000 bales of cotton were dam? aged or destroyed, and that they be? longed to the following firms: H. &. C. Newman, Adler & Co.. M. Levy &, Sons, The American TradiDg Society, H. & B. Beer, Lehman, Stearn & Co., Coate Bros., and Wm. Adler. Only one compartmet of cotton was saved. Lessee Meyer estimates the loss at con? siderably over a half million. The Brooklyn Cooperage Company, owned by the American Sugar Refin? ing Company, which covers an entire block opposite the press, and the large freight depots of the-Illinois Central Railway were considerably scorched, but escaped serious damage. No esti? mate of the insurance is yet obtain? able. The following firms are among the heaviest losere: H. & C. Newman, 7,000 bales; M. Levy &. Sous, about ! 5,000; A. Adler & Co., between 2,000 and 8,000; Lehman. Stearn & Co., about 2,200 bales; H. & B. Beer, about 2,000 bales; The American Tradiug So? ciety and Coates Bros., several hun? dred bales each. The total amount of loss OG the burned cotton aggregated about half a million dollars, fully insured. Twenty thousand bales were burned. The loss on the compresses and Machinery is $78,000; about two-thirds covered by insurance. ITEMS. The Order of the Chase^was intended as an honor for the nimrods of Wurtem? berg; it was founded in 1702. One of the most highly esteemed of the Bavarian orders is the Order of St. Anthony, fouuded in 1382. There are two orders of Pius, one es? tablished by the fourth, the other by the ninth Pope of that name. The number of unmarried men in Eogland and Wales exceeds the num ber of unmarried women by 200,000. Referring to the Manhattan "L,; . roads. Russell Sage says it is certain that electricity will soon replace steam. The word Turk is said to signify wanderer, but the Ottomans repudiate this with disdain. A receut military enactment in England declares that no mau under five feet four inches in height shall be admitted into the British infantry. The minimum chest measure will be 32^ inches. France has put a final quietus upon bull-figt.ting. The Cours de Cassation, to which the cases that arose last sum? mer were submitted, bas decided that a bull is a domestic animal and cannot be lawfully tortured. Chinese custom teeps women in the background. You seldom meet the wives of the nobility, and at big din? ners Chinese ladies are never invited and foreigners are not expected to bring their wives. Elbert, the center of the French ; woolen manufacture, is so well off that it has abolished nearly all its own taxes, and now petitions the government fur leave to do away with the octroi, the ; duty on provisions entering the town, j Parisian restaurant-keepers mix a j little hooey with their batter. This i gives it an agreeable taste and flavor, ! and makes inferior butter more pala- i table. Tschalkowcki's brother says the com - : poser left unpublished an eutirely I fiuished piano concerto and a duet ; between Romeo and Juliet, with orchestration. The people of Groat Britain consume j less tobacco per head than those of any ? other civilized country, only twenty- ! three ounces to the inhabitant. The total number of dances written by JoLunn Strauss is 455, of which 161 are waltzes. The first dance, written fifty years ago, is called "Sinuge dicbte." The most sensitive nerves are in the ! nose, tongue and eyes, because in these organs the greater sensitiveness is need ed than in any other part of the body. The taste is often the iast faculty to : be impaired by old age, because it is most needed for the protection of the individual against the use of unwhole? some food. Io the country districts Japaucse wo? men work iu the field-* like those of cou tinental Europe. This goes far to ac? count for their strength aud good health. The joint circulation of the Ameri? can and British Foreign Bible societies has passed the round number of 200, 000,OOM copi?s, and the receipts have aggregated $?4,000,000. 1 Lu the mountains of Sweden, } way, and Lapland ali vegetation wt o* utterly destroyed by the Nor rate were it not for the white fo: that make special game of the roden The drainage of the cup or basir. which the City of Mexico was pla has occupied three huodred years, cost two huodred thousand lives, mo of convicts, and is only now approa ing completion. Japanese shoes vary for the \ Mud stilts four inches high keep ti up iu sloppy weather. Woodeu cl are ordinarily used, but big s ti sandals, costing only a cent or s< pair, are used in walking or mount climbing. Edison is interested in th9 new c stituent of the atmosphere discove by Lord Rayleigh called "argon." rJ American wizard 6ays it "is a fr evidence of how little we really knoT He says : "Here ?9 a constituent isting in the atmosphere to a consid able percentage, and yet the air I been analyzed for more than fifty ye without its presence beiog suspected. An exchange makes this suggesti for business men : "In the towns wh< a newspaper is published, every bu ness man ought to advertise in, it, e\ if it is only a card stating his name a the easiness he is engaged in helps 8U8taio a paper-lets people a distance know that the town is a bu ness town. The paper finds its w into thousands of places where ba bills cannot reach. A card in t paper is a traveling signboard and c be seen by every reader. At a readiog by .George W. Cab at Pittsburgh, the other day, in 1 conversational style he asked thc a dieoce, "Lst's see, when I was he before did I tell you the story of S langadou ?" Promptly came the a swer in a woman's voice from the mi die of the hall. "Yes, . sir." Thea dience broke into Deals of laughte and when the merriment subsided, M Cable said, apologetically, "Bat want to tell that story again," whi he proceeded to do. It is the boast of Eastern Shore Vi giniaus that a man in those parts cs with a string, a piece of raw meat for bait, and a broken clam shell for sink catch in a few minutes enough crabs buy a complete fishing outfit; that wi hook and line he can soon catch eoou? fish to buy a boat, and that with a bo he can io a few seasons catch enou? oysters to buy a farm. With a far any Eastern Shore man is contented at I independent of the world. Pittsburg is thoroughly io earne about its ship canal from the Oh River to Lake Erie, and bas place j three parties of engineers in the fiel to decide on the route. It is admittc that the canal will benefit other lat and river cities <*lso, bot Pittsbur takes the broad view that what help other cities will help it even more i one of the terminal points. On 1st March the Agricultural Di partment reported that the wheat o hand amounted to 75,000,000 bushel; or about one sixth of the crop of 189^ This of course is something of a guesi The private investigators make the re serve more than double that quantity a big dif?ereuce. Ou 1st March th guess, called estimate, is that ther were 39 per cent, of the 1894 cor yield still on hand-or 475,564,45 bushels. That makes a very smal supply, and it is orobably a? uuderesti mate. Quite six months must pass be fore the new crop of corn is ready fo use. Mr Gladstone attributes his long lift to a faithful observance of the seveotl day of rest. It was a most blessed ant merciful ordering of Providence whet the seventh day was set apart for th( rest of man and beast Without th ii the machinery of manhood wears out it perhaps two thirds of the time it now lasts. When men overdo the thing anc toil seven days the seeds of deea} spring up and the life ends long-before the term of those who rest. It is a fac? that the clergy of Massachusetts average 64 years of age, while the.printer? who work at night last but 39 years. We remember in our boyhood to have heard thar the wagoner? from the up? per counties to Richmond aod Peters? burg did not accomplish as much in sev? en days as in six when their teams rested . Both men and horses wore out sooner when the seventh day was not observed by them -Wilmington Messenger. - m ?? ?> ? - Say ! You Bee-Keeper I Send for a free sample copy of Root's handsomely illustrated 36-page. Gleanings in Bee-Culture, Semi-Month Iv, (Si 00 a year) and his 52-pageS illus, catalog of Bee Keeper's Supplies free for your name and address on a postal. His A B C of Bee Culture, 400 double-column pp price $lv2c>, is just the book tor you.. Mention this paper. Address A. I. Root, the Bee-Man, Medina, 0. IwarninfltoExpectant... | I ^Mothers. I ?s Many internal remedies are being skill-SP *fully and glibly advertised, professing toS & Shorten Labor, Lessen Pains o' Child- Q ? birth, etc., and with wonderful inconsist S ency to regulate menstruation. Commong |jj sens?- should teach any woman that a prep- %\ A aration adapted for ips I MENSTRUAL DISORDERS g ?will not prepare the system for Child-s ? birth; on the contrary. INTERNAL REM?-S % DIES at this time may imperil her life. Wc m ?gearnestly say BEWARE of all such: they|js 3t cannot, at this critical p? ri.'ti. do any poss! S ble good, and their use may prove fatal. ^? git ?sonly by persistent EXTERNAL treat-?? Kment while enciente, thus relaxing and* Sf soiteuing all thc parts, that the hour of ?j KChild-birth is robbed of its terror; and no?!j * remedy on earth ??oes this but (fy S ... "MOTHER'S FRIEND."! Sys X For further information address ? I THE BRADFIELD REGULATOR COMPANY,! y ATLANTA, GA. Z s. Ii i ! iLIJMliS, DENTIST* Office OVER BROWN & BROWN'S STORE Entrance on Main Street Between Brown k Brown and Durant k Son. OFFICE HOI'RS: 9 to 1.30; 2 to 5 o'clock. April 9. 2 ^^^^^^^^ Maiu Street. Ne? to City Hall. SPECIAL ATTENTION Given to Compounding Prescriptions. THE SIMONOS NATIONAL BANK OP SUMTER. STATE, CITY AND COUNTY DEPOSI? TORY, SUMTE ii, S. C. Paid up Capital.?75,000 00 Surplus Fund. 12,500 00 Liabilities of Stockholders to depositors acccording to the law governing National Banks, in excess of their stock . . $75,000 00 Transacts a General Banking Business. Careful attention given to collections. SAYINGS DEPARTMENT. Deposits of Si and upwards received. In? terest allowed at the rate of 4 per cent, per annum. Payable quarterly, on first days of Jannarv. April, July and October. R. M. WALLACE, _L. S. CARGOS. President. Aug 7. Cashier. Order Your PROVISIONS AND GROCERIES FROM GEO. I. STEFFENS & SON, Wholesale Agents, Charleston, S. C, -Agents for MOTT'S CIDER, RED SEAL CIGARS, and DOVE HAMS. NEW MARBLE WORKS, COMMANDER & RICHARDSON, LIBERTY STREET, SUMTER, S. C. WE HAVE FORMED A CO-PARTNERSHIP For the purpose of working Marble and Granite, manufacturing Monuments, Tttties, Etc., And doing a General Business in that line. A complete workshop has oeen fitted up on LIBERTY STREET, NEARPOST OFFiCE And we are now ready to execute wiih promptness ail orders consigued io us. Satis action guaranteed. Obtain our price before placing an order elsewhere. W. H. COMMANDER, G. E. RICHARDSON. Jnne 16. *j) mi TT I t I Who Use I I ~ PENS, "INK, || i Paper, BlankBooks:? I-.--? At H. G. 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