Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Telegraphic Briefs. Augusts The Representatives of the Southern Railway and Steamship Hoes have made au agreement to quit cutting rates and to maintain the standard rates of last year. Th? Cuban situation is unchanged. There are occasiona I skirmishes between email bodies of men and the oasualitiee are slight. Tbe British Government has made a peremptory demand on China for protec tion of English residents in that country, and the punishment of the criminals who murdered the missionaries. A special train containing a party of Greensboro,. ?. C:, fireman .was wrecked near Haw river yesterday. A drummer named Durham was fatally injured and several firemen were hurt. The . firemen were'going to the State tournament at iiawbern. The Democratic State Convention is in session in Jackson, Miss., and the crowd in the city is estimated at 1,500 to 2,0??. The hardest fight known in, the political history of the State will' be made by th? various candidates. A convention^composed of-both Con servatives and Reformers was held io Union od Monday and a ticket nomi nated to be run in the general election on the 20th. Tbe ticket is as follows : Judge W. II. Wallace, T. M. Little John, C. H. Peake and W. H. Jeter. Albert Tillis, aged twelve, killed Annie Avant, aged nine, at Houston, Fla., by knocking her in the head with ! a lightwood knot. The secret service officers yesterday captured a gang of five counterfeiters in Hoboken. An extensive outfit and nearly a million dollars worth of un finished U. S. and Canadian notes were captured. Richard Leach, a wife murderer, was electrocuted at Sing Sing yester day. The Missouri Democratic State Con vention, in session at Pertle Springs, tyo , has declared for free coinage of silver. Bland is taking a prominent part. The Texas State Democratic free silver Convention bas adopted resolution favoring free coinage *ad condemning the present-financial policy. . August 9. u Maria Reynolds*; colored, was struck by lightning and killed while walking along tKe" street in Colum bia yesterday afternoon. \ W. L. Ingram killed Jobo Fewell at Bainbriige, Ga., yesterday. Fewell was a bad. character, and the ; killing was the outcome fcof Fe well's ' running away with Ingr?m'e daugh ter. ~ ? ? Tbe riots between Italians and negroes at Spring Valley, HI , have been stopped and the negroes will be permitted to return to their homes. < Mr Thomas Materly, of Rich- ? mond, Va., was drowned at Virginia Beach yesterday while attempting to rescue his daughter who was carried out beyond her depth. The young lady was saved. The State Agricultural and Me chanical Society held the regular sommer meeting in Columbia yester- ; day to consider plans for the State ! Fair. The Fair will be held at the | usual time, if the railroads will give I favorable rates. Ex-Senator McLaurin has been nominated for Governor of Missis sippi by the Democrats on a free sil ver piatform. The iron miners and furnace men j at Bellefonte, Pa , have been given j an increase in wages of 10 cents per j day. Peter Marchetti was killed by the ; explosion of a soda water generator j at Richmond, Va., yesterday. August 10. The British steamer Catterthuo, j bound for Sidney from Hong Kong, j was totally wrecked between Sidney and Brisbaue. Many lives were lost. The officers of the Catterthun were | English and the crew were Chinese. lo a trato wreck near Mitchell's, Ari- I zona, yesterday, one man was killed j and six persons injured. President Diaz, of Mexico, says that ? the Corbett-FitzsimmoD6 priz2 fight shall not be held in Mexico. An unfinished eight-story buildiog collapsed iu New York yesterday. Sev eral workmen were killed and others injured. Ten men are missing and are supposed to be buried in the debris. Four people were burned to death in a hotel fire in Peodleton, Ohio, yester day. A dispatch to the Pall Mall Gazette from Shanghai, it is stated in that city that further outbreaks against Chris tians have takeo place at Chiog Chow. Tiaptng, Hupeh and Anhuhi. It is staged that ali tbe foreigners escaped without injury No confirmation of this report has been received. The State ticket was completed by the Democratic Conventio'n at Jackson, Miss., yesterday. All the nominees are strong free silver men. The Italian miners at Spring Valley, j III., have re-commenced rioting and the negroes are again in danger. A lunatic in the Lexington, Ky., Asyium, killed another inmate with a j brick. The receipts of the post office de- j partment largely increased during the j secood quarter ending July 31st. Dr. EHietoD, of Rock Castle, Ky.. killed R. A Diekiuson at Ellistoo, Ky., yesterday. Three men were killed io a railroad wreck near Plymouth, . , yester day. Several passeogers were iojured. August 11. Thirty-three thousand troops will be j sent from Madrid, Spain, to Cuba this mooth aod tweDty thousaod more in October. The explosion of a boiler at a steam mill near Allensville, N. O., caused the : death of George Parh^.m and serious j iojury of several others. Rev. T. Dewitt Talmage has filed for probate the will of his late wife. Her estate is valued at gloO.OOO. Jacob Gigax, a retired bauker of1 Zaneeville, 0., committed suicide yes terday by lying down on a railroad track : in froot of a passenger train. Twenty people were iojured in a j street car accident at Iodianapolis yes terday. The woods in Western Wasbiogtoo ! are on fire and a number of towns a?d cities are in danger of destruction. The yacht Defender ran aground at Newport yesterday, but was not serious- : ly damaged. Advices received here from Asia j Minor stt :e that the American mission j school at Tarsus has been attacked by j a mob, and that some of the students were maltreated. The missionaries i also were threatened with violence. No details of the affair bave been re- ; ceived. , The venire was exhausted yesterday j without completing the jury for the j Durrant trial at San Fraocisco. The ; case was adjourned astil Monday, when Judge Murphy will give a decisioo on ; the motion of District Attorney Barnes, i made to-day. to excuse Juror Brown, j Fremont Smith was hanged at San Quentin prison, San Francisco, yester- j, day morning for a murder commmitted near Colusa in December, 1893 ; , Smith aod two companions, known as j ? Dolph and Charley, were fishermeo aod lived in a cabin together. The mur- j ? ierer chopped Dolph to pieces with an I . axe aod shot Charley. Following are the weekly cotton ; ] statistics : Total sales of the week, 38,- ! ? DOO ; trade takings, including forward- j sd from chip's side, 39,000 ; actual ex- j < port, 4,000 ; total import, 3.000 ; j < American, 1,000 ; total stock 1,366, WO; American. 1,131,000 ; total float, j 29,000; American, 21,000; specu- j, lators took 100 ; exporters took 2,100. j < August 12. j The Central Stamping Company, ! ' an establishment owned by the Tin | Trust, was burned in Newark, N. J., j yesterday. Loss estimated at ?500,! 000. ? The citizens of Marion, Ind , at- ; j tempted to drive away a gang of: tramps, who were committing depre- j1 dations, and, in the fight which re- 1 suited two citizens were killed. The election commissioners for : Richland County gave the Republi cans a representative on every board ; of managers in the county. A coal train on the Ohio Southern ( Railway went through a bridge on the :, Paint River near Springfield, O , yes-: terday, killed the engineer, fireman and brakeman. Sam Lewis, a Florida outlaw who : murdered Tax Collector Hugh Smith , ' and his nephew John Davis at Lemon ; City, about three weeks ago, was | captured at Palm Beaci), Saturday, Before taken he killed Richard Mc Gregor, a deputy sheriff. The town of Lockport. III., was almost entirely destroyed by fire yes- ' terday, loss $250,000." J. W. B. Chaplin, a prominent merchant, of St. Matthews, Orange barg county, shot W. F. Banks to death on Sunday night Banks was in Chaplain's back yard and tapping on his wife's window. Mrs. Chaplin called her husband, and told him that some one was trying to get into the bouse lie went around'the house, and discovered Banks, whom he shot in the back with a double-barrelled shot gun. The jury of iuquest de- : clared the killing justifiable. The first bale of Georgia cotton was sold at Columbus, Ga , on Satur- . day The price of cotton went up 17 points on Saturday. August 13. A negro named John Harris was lynched in Colquitt County, Ga., on ! Sunday. The Tobacco Wokers National j Union has declared a boycott of the ! products of the American Tobacco Company, One hundred Italians carrying a j red flag, commenced a riot in Pitts- ? berg yesterday by firing on a gang of workmen who had taken the places of striking Italian laborers. Judge Simonton hss pardoned R. i M. Wright,'the dispensary constable ? who was sent to jail for eight months for contempt of court. Wright was1 in th? Anderson jail and the pardon ' was granted through the importunity of the constable's daughter. R- A. Barnes, treasurer of Sumter county, Ala., shot himself dead yes- i terday morning at Livingston, Ala. ! lie was short in his accounts ?2,500 ' and was suffering from gall stone and was soon to undergo an operation. The combination of troubles was too much for him to stand and he there fore took his life. Dective Holland has been lodged in jail in ' Edgefield charged with forgery, bribery and with turning a United States prisoner loose after having arrested him. The trial of B. L. Jones and his son Luther Jones, for the murder of J. C. Swearinger, is now in progress in Edgefield. There are about one hundred witnesses in the case and the trial will last for several eays. The defense has five law firms re tained and four lawyers are retained to assist the Solicitor. The Chronicle prints an Odessa dis hispatch concerning the persistent circulation of rumors of the with drawal of Czar Nicholas II from ac tive guidance of the affairs of the ; empire and the gradual assumption of power by the ex-Czarina, headed by M. Durnovo, minister of the in terior, M. Pobiedouostzeff, procurator general of the Holy Synod. The I change of attitude, the dispatch says, I is increasing the power of the an ti- ; German party. The Treasury gold reserve was de creased yesterday by the withdrawal of $1,600,000. LeRoy Cardiff, a boy nine years old, committed snicide at Warsaw, Ind , Sunday night. He left a note saying that he could not staud the taunts of his playmates concerning the recent divorce of his parents. The British Parliament, the four- j teenth of the reign of Queen Victo ria. assembled yesterday. Mr. Wil Ham Court Gully, was re-elected I speaker of the House of Commons ? without opposition. Tammany Hall is being re-organ- ! ized for the next campaign. Privateer Personals _____ Privateer Township, S. C, Aug. 12, '95. According to appointment tbe Amusement ; Slub met at Mr. R. S- Wbildeo's last Friday J aight. Miss Mertie Hiott was elected secre- ! tary in place of Miss Carrie Cain (resigned). ; Tbe following programme was rendered : j Music, arranged by the .Misses Whilden:; Reading, Mr. Edgar Hiott, Masic, Misses ? Mabel {Beckham, Lizzie Whilden, aod Mr.' Jiramie Whilden ; speech, Mr McL). Furmao; Reading, Mr. W. O. Cain; music, Misses Su- 1 rie Bradford, Edith Wells and Mr. Henry j Wells; music. Misses Alice Mellichamp, Do- j ria Wells aod Mr. Willie Wells. Miss Meili- j :hampwas visiting in tbe community and took part by request. This meeting of the club was an unusually pleasant one?the most pleasant since its re Drganization. Several new members were idded to tbe roll. Tbe next meeting will take place at the residence of ex-Representa tive W. O. Cain, on Friday night, August 23. -Mr. D. W. Alderman, jty invitation, de- ! livered an interesting address at Bethel j :hurch, yesterday afternoon, in favor of Go3- j pel Misions, which, he said, commenced about 25 years ago in the heart of Dr. Crawford, I tbe missionary. This kind or tuissien bad ! oeen persecuted, bat that persecution was dy- ? ng out. Under the missionary board, the j mission work was drifting away from gospe' 1 methods, but under the Gospel Mission s; tern, the churches were enlisted in direc? j work. Another feature of tbe latter work i was that missionaries had to receive the en- . _orsemtnr. of tneir home church, ?md were not selected by ->i noard a long dis.-.?ce c:f. One of Privateer's ladies, Miss Ca??y Wells, awns an exceedingly infere3ti'jg collection of miner:'.!?. Yo-.:r correspondent requested ; permission to write an Account of it for pub- ; [?carian, which request was kindly granted, iod I wil! now attempt some description o? it. Miss Wells has two petrified shark's \ teeth ; one from the Columbia Canai, the ? other from Utah ; several pieces &f quartz ! rocks from Kersbaw ; a handsome piece of ? mica from Connecticut ; piece of quartz rock i from New Hampshire; petrified woods from : California ; gold ore ?rom St. Juan's mines ; ! iron ore from Alabama ; rock from Nova \ Scotia; beautiful speciman ot amethist ?rom 1 Lake Superior; garcett rock from Connecti cut ; petrified cotton wood from Platte River; pink fieidspar from Connecticut; gold speci men from North Carolina mines ; dolomite from Niagara, rock from Greenland ; petri fied moss ; crvitalized gypsum ?rom cave o? ? the winds, Niagara. An interesting feature of this collection is a box of rocks from Limestone Springs, Spar- . taoburg County, some of which came from by Gov. Johnson's old home. Among the other interesting features of the collection is a little Bible carved ny a convict out of a rock from a quary near Co lumbia, also rocks from the graves of the distinguished educator, Dr. Curtis ani' that : burning Carolina orator, the Demosthenian j McDuffie; a quartz rock from Mi. Vernon ; a Stalactite from Osceola's Cave; anda rock : from Webster Lak?, New Hampshire, near the old home of Dai.iel Webster. The above is only a summary of Miss | Wells's collection, for your correspondent is ; not geologist enough to do justice to tne subject. Any college could be proud to have such a comprehensive collection as this to ' add to its museum. Hr. Hiott has returned from assisting in tbe religious meeting at the Carter's Ford ; Baptist Church, in Colletoo Couoty. Besides ; him, another minister assisted tbe pastor. It 1 is estimated that tbe congregation numbered I one thousand the Sunday of the meeting and \ six hundred tbe following day. One afternoon last week the Privateer nine j crossed bats with the Wedg?eld nine, iu this township Tbe result was 13 to 11 in favor : of tbe Privateers. *'Gamecocks" is the suggrstive :-:nd stirring name of a new base bail team in the com munity, of which Messrs. Jim Griffin, John and Talley Ingram are respectively captain, manage: and treasurer. Mr. R ('. Tisd'al. may rightly be classed among tbe champion watermelon growers of Sumter County. Recently h - lias bad two sue- iraecsof this delightful fruit which w?ig!i e i respectively titty-tour and ?: ?cd sixty . pounds. Pretty good for Privateer's mel?os Mrs. Anna M. Cain and little Miss Katie Bradford are both visiting in Wedgefield. Mre. F. M. Beckham is visiting at St. Charles, and Miss Laura Beckham has return ed from her visit to Clarendon. Lisbon Dupre, a worthy negro of the com munity, loit his wife last week. McD. F. Statement by Mr. Pnilips. Editor Watchman and Southron :3 Allow me space, injustice to myself and friends, to make a statement, to which I refer I the Red Lane Road committee, the county I Board and the members of the old Beard for the past sixteen years. I stated to the committee at Horeb church that there had been 153 days work done on Red Lane, a distance of About cue mile from Mr. Cumraings' house to Horeb church, at a cost of ?$104.43, and $6.70 on balance of road, about three miles, which the road hands have worked. I could not state the exact number road hands then, that had been reported to me by overseer (since I find 39 to j be the number), they having been reported to 1 me as haviug worked six days. I wish to stale just here that ail claims I against the county have to be itemized and j approved by local Board before being pre- i sen ted to the County Board for payment. The above mentioned accounts have ail passed j and been paid, and are subject to inspection j at clerk's office, by the grand jury or any' one else. \ The Providence and yueen Chapel road is eight miles long and has been divided into ? two sections for years, aod tbe bands re ferred to some time ago by "Taxpayer,"* "on ' a certain large plantation,''" have never | worked on the Red Lane, and no bands liv ing as far as said hands are required to work on said road. Any other information will be cheerfully given by applying to County Board ou first Moaday in October. J. R. Phillips. The New Woman in Alabama. A friend of Mr. R. H. Baker has had sen t him a specimen of the permit married men who live in Selma, Ala., have to obtain from their wivrs wbeu they desire to remain out later than 9 o'clock p. m. The following is a copy of a bona tide permit : permit. This is to certify, That i. El try Smoke, the legally wedded wife of Wm. 1. Smoke, do hereby permit my husband to go where be pleases, after 9 p. in., drink what he pleases and when he pleases. I want him to enjoy lite, as he will be a long time dead. This permit is subject to tbe approval of ! the Mayor aod City Council. [Signed.] Elvira' Smc?e. i Be Not Deceived. It behooves every democrat in the county to be vigilant and alert on election day, for there are plots of all sorts beiug hatched to defeat the will of the white democrats. Ev ery man should scan his ticket before voting and see that it is correct. Along this liue the following circular was issued to-day : To the Democratic Voters of Sumter County : It bas come to our knowledge that in all probability spurious tickets will be circulated on election day by designing persons, con taining a portion of our oamesrand the names of other persons. Wedtsire to say that tbe joint ticket of Con servatives aod Reformers was nominated in good faith and we desire that the same be elected as an entirety. All of our names wili appear upon the same ticket and in tbe order named below. None others are genuine. Reso ctfully, T. B. Fraser, Shecael? Nash, R. D. Lee, R. P. fcTACHHOUSE. Jas. H. Scarsosod Geo. P. McKagen Sumter. S. C, Aug. 12, 1895. ?h, Heart Disease Cured By Dr. Miles' Heart Cure. Fainting, Weak or Hungry Spells, Irregu lar or Intermit?* t Pulse, Fluttering or Pal pitation, Choking Sensation. Shortness of Breath, Swelling of Feet, and Ankles, arc symptoms of a diseased or Weak Heart. MRS. N. C. MiLLER. Of Fort Wayne. Ind., writes ou Nov. \?A: "I was afflicted for forty years with heart trouble and suffered untold a^uny. I had weak, hungry spells, and rny heurt would palpitate so hard, the pain would be so acute and to:turing, that I became so weak and nervotts I could not sleep. I was treated by several physicians without reiief and gave up ever being well again. About two years ago I commenced using Dr. Miles' Remedies. One bottle of the Heart Cure stopped all heart troubles and the Restorative Nervine did tLo rest.and now I sleep soundly and at tend to my household and social duties with out any trouble. 8oid by druggists. Book sent free. Address Dr. Milts Medical Co., Elkhart, Ind. Dr. Miles' Remedies Restore Health. THE SUMTER INSTITUTE. The next session of the Sumter Institute ? will begin on September 5th, 1395. A full ? corps of efticit'Ot teachors, a thorough cur- i riculum, high standard of scholarship, a , well regulated bo".rding ^department, under 'le- immediate supervision of the President : and his wife, a healthy locality, (not a case ' of sit-tne.-* last year) commends the Institute to rhose who have daughters to educate For catalogue or particulars apply to B. FRANK WILSON, President, June 21. Sumter, S. C. OPENING SALE. The Opening Sale of THE SUMTER Will be Held at their Warehouse IN SUMTER, 8. -ON THURSDAY, August 29, 1895. We will have present Tobacco Buyers from all the principal markets in Virgin ia and North Carolina. The Tobacco Planters of Sumter and surrounding counties are requested to be present, aind especially to bring some of their good grades of Tobacco. R. M. WALLACE, President. ??E RYTTENBERG, Secretary & Treas. J. A. Brogdoiv, Manager. CENTS.