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Telegraphic Briefs. August 14. Hamlet Swing, of Davidson county. N. Qit was drowned oo Monday while attempting to save a young lady who bad fallen into a stream. Another man saved the girl justas she was sinking for the last time. Jim Corbett pounded his sparring partner all over the riDg at ao exhibi tion i ?Buffalo, . Y., last night. The Maryland Republicans have split. The Spanish- Government has de cided to pay the Mora claims in Sep tember. Hon. A. J. McLaurin, Democratic nominee for governor of Mississippi, is being severly criticised for undertaking the defense of Dabney Marshall and the other men who bad a part in the murder of Diokins. It is said that if he per sists in defending Marshall his chances of election. will be diminished. A negro shot four negro roustabouts oc a steamer at ?he St Louis wharf and escaped. Samuel McCarney and R. McVeil ; were killed by a girder on which the*y were working, falling a distance of | 150 feet. They were at work on the; Coliseum in Chicago. A band of Bulgarians attacked the town of Janckli. Turkey, destroyed 290 bouees and killed 25 persons. The women of Georgia are making j an effort to induce Gov. Northen to commute ?he sentence of Mrs. Nobles, who hired a negro to kill her hus band. She is sentenced to hang on the 16th. The London Times prints a dispatch I from Tien Tsin saying that the Chinese government is io a state of helpless con- ; fusion and incapable of any decisive j action or of exercising effective author- j \ly The results, the correspondent j adds, will probably be serious, unless the powers take precautions. To the ukase ?y.whi?'h Czar Nich-1 olas II. guarantees the payment of the ? interest on the Chinese loan of 400, 000,000 francs ($80,000,000), he "commands" his minister of finance to pay the coupons whenever, for what ever reason, China fails to do so. A dispatch from Yakoma, Washing ington, says : Without intaoding to shoot either of them, Charles McGoni gle last night shot and killed his fa ther, a ranch owner, near this city, and fatally wounded an Anteoum black smith named Eaves He surrendered and was brought befe by th? neighbors. The mnrderer had slandered Eaves's daughter, and that caused the tragedy. Eaves, his wife and daughter, drove to the McGonigle ranch to force bim to retract. Young McGonigle first shot at Eaves, but killed his own father, and he then fired at Eaves' daughter, wounding her father. Henry Young and Joe Jones, color ed, were killed by a cave-in oo the cana! embankment near the Peniten tiary in Columbia. Several others were injured. August 15. There are nearly fifteen thousand i tailors ont on a strike in New York. The Southern Bibical Association, lately in session at Asheville, N. C, adjourned sine die yesterday. The indictment against President! O. P. Huntington, of the Southern i Pacific Railway, has been with- ; drawn A boiler of a steam thresher at work near Oakland, I. T., exploded ; yesterday, killing three men and wounding ten others. The old and new board of police ; commissioners of Omaha, Neb., have asked the State Supremo Court to | meet and decide between them at, once. The queen's speech will be read to Parliament to-dav. The tax collector and the superin tendent of schools ?n Je ?rson county, Teun., have been arrested on the charge of raising' school war rants. Marshall, Fox. Coleman aud Villars have all been indicted for the murder of Dinkins in Mississippi. The trial will come up next week Ex-Mayor Van Horn of Denver, Col , fell from a Window of the Grand Central Hotel yesterday morning arid was kilied Baron Christian Bernard Von Tau chintz, the celebrateli publisher of Greek and Latin classics, died yes terday, at Leipsic, aged T'j years. Gov Atkinson, of Georgia, has granted a sixty day respite to Mrs. Nobles, sentenced to b<' hatiged t< morrow for instigating the murdei : ber husband. The Whiskey Trust property was sold yesterday to the re-organization committee for ?9,800,009. Ex-united States Senator Ij. Maxey is lying at the point of death at his home in Paris. Texas. Ho was major-general i:i the Confederai?; army and also fought in the Mexie. war. He represented Texas in the United States Senate from l$*?4 till 1886. Charles Vincent and his father were lynched at Eilenburg, Washing ton, yesterday morning fer the mur der of Mike Kololiopp on Sunday. Mrs. Charles Williams, of Crown Point, Ind., has been arrested foi putting strychnin*.* ir? a buckel ol water at a dance on Monday night. ] She says she wanted to kill a crowd j of girls to whom lier husband was paying too much attention Ex-Trea?urer Taylor, of South Da kota, who absconded with over $100,000 state funds, has been sen tenced to five years in the peniten tiary. Rev Dr. William T. Richardson, senior editor of the Central Presbyte rian, died last night in Richmond. August 16. Messrs. W. Mills Moouey, P. D. Huff and R. W. Anderson have an- j nounced themselves as independent ; candidates for tbe Constitutional Con- j vention in Greeville County, in con- ; junction with Editor A. B. Williams. The negroes of Mississippi will make ; a creditable exhibit at the Atlanta Es posi tisn. The Southern coal miuers have ; formed a trust aud have entered into an \ agreement to regulate prices io the ; South Small pox has broken out at the j New York quarantine station. Ex-Congressman Sible^, of Penn- \ sylvaoia, and a free silver candidate for j President, is speaking in North Caro- j lina under the chaparonage of Senator Marion Butler. General John D. Imboden, C. S. A., j died at his home near Abiugdoo, Va., yesterday. Pugilist Jim Corbett got married ? yesterday to Vera Stanwood, notwith standing the order of the court, in tbe divorce case, prohibited him from marry- j iog while his wife lived. August 17. TweDty-three of the Italian miners j who participated in the riots in Spring \ Valley, III., have been arrested and lodged in jail. Gen. Samuel B. Maxey, of Paris, i Texas, died at Eureka, Springs, Arkan sas. yesterday. Returns from Kentucky indicate that Senator Blackbourn wili be re-elected to the Senate, having already received a sufficient number of pledges to insure bis re-election. . A negro answering the description of! Railroad Bill, tbe notorious desparado, I nf South Alabama, was killed on Wednesday at Chipley, Ga., by Willis Garner, a member of the sheriff's posse pursuing Bill. Garner was shot through the abaodomen. Miss Caroline Adams, of Springfield, Tenu., became "heartsick because her lover ceased his attentions. Yesterday she saturated her clothing with coal oil, applied a torch and burned to death. A bomb was exploded at the French Consulate in Rome yesterday by anarchists. The building was wrecked, but as the consul and family were away from home, no one was injured. Hon. Matt W. Ransom who has been minister to Mexico since his term in the U. S. Senate expired last March is without a job again. The post was declared vacant yesterday by a deci- j sion of Solicitor General Conrad, on the j ground that the incumbency of Mr. j Ransom was contrary to the Federal Constitution, which declares that '* Senator or Representative shall, dor- j ing tbe time for which he was elected, j be appointed to any oivil offibe uuder [ the authority of the United States, \ which shall bave been created, or the i emoluments whereof shall have been ! increased, during such time " Mr. Ransom was in the Senate when the salary of tbe Mexican minister was in- ? creased from ?12,500 to ?17,500 per | year, and was still a member when he ! was nominated for the Mexican mission j by President Cleveland and confirmed ': by the Senate. It is thought that Mr. : Ransom will be re-appointed by Presi- j dent Cleveland. ftabney Marshall, Harry Colecuao and R. C. Fox were committed to the Mississippi penitentiary for life yester day for the murder of Diokins. There is said to be uo hope of a pardon at present. August 13. A special to tbe Times-Union from Newberry, Fla., dated August lS:b, says : "A shooting affray occurred yes terday in the court room of a justice of the peiee at that place, in which four men were wounded, two fatally. The wounded are : Wiley Bailey, shot in the mouth and back, will die ; J. Harry Harold, shot \u the left lung will probably die. A man by tbe name of Williamsoa wa< shot in fin; right arm and James Bailey w?> .shot in the huno. The trouble was caused by a law suit brought by tbe Baileys agcirist th.? Harolds. Bach faction attended court hea7?ly armed and when ::.? Baileys won the run. the shooting i>"-??.u. The j latice of the peace trit?i to -./op the battle by shouting t? the combatants :h*t they were m contempt A special from the '"try nf Mexicu says: A boy named Gsrcia who twice placed stones on the track of t!:e Hidalgo Railway, the second tin:" causing the wr-oh of the trait', was <\\ ecuted to day at Pachuca, under the new law against obstructing the public mails or railway trios. Garcia's father has committed suicide by throwing himself in front of a train on fho same railroad, being frantic with gii- :' over the fate of his .^n. The new law is being universally enforced and th< penalty is about to be inflicted in the Sraf" f>{ Jalisco {or obstructing the Mack of a : ail way. Forest S res are still raging in Wash ington, atri immense damage is being done. James Hurd, a negro employed at tbe Birmingham Rolling Mills, was killed in front of his door in Birming ham, A!a , Saturday night, by a white boy about twenty years old. The white boy with a companion was cursiog in front of Hurd's house. Hurd a.-ked them to stop cursing. One of them said: "Come out and stop us." Hurd went to tbe door and was shot in tbe left breast aud expired almost instantly. No arrests have been made, as the white boys got away. The Japanese have completed the conquest of the Formosa, by the cap ture of the city of Shincheku, the stronghold of the Black Flags. Tom Halman, a barber, of Dayton, Tenu , was shot and instantly killed by his wife oo Sunday afternoon. Lord Dunraven's yatch, Valkyrie S III, the challenger for the America cup has arrived in New York harbor. August 20. Associate Justice, William Strong of the United States Supreme Court, who was appointed by President Grant in. 1870 and retired in 1830, died of pa ralysis yesterday. The Pall Mall Gazette bas a dispatch from Shanghai saying that the French gunboat has left Hankow for tbc pur pose of opening up the province of Hou nan. The gunboat, will proceed up the Yaug-tse-Kiaog River as far as Tieg Hoo Lake, over one thousand miles north of the district by the Franco-Chi nese treaty. The Times will to-morrow publish a dispatch from Hong Kong, confirming the report of the refusal of the Chinese government to allow the British and American consuls to inquire in;o tbe Kucheog massacre. The dispatch adds that the Chinese soldiers are plundering the people, who feel that tbe foreigners are the cause' of their sufferings and believe that it is necessary to destroy them Further incendiary placards have been posted in Canton. The Port Roy-i Dry Dock bas been pronounced a success by the board ap pointed to examine and test it. Col. James Kitterburn has declined to permit the democrats to nemicate him for Governor of Ohio. Bingbam, Utah, was burned yester day. Loss $200,000. The Liberty Bell will be sent to At lanta on October 6th. Mrs. John I. Young, of Madison, Mo., hanged herself and four year old child. Tbe natives of Madagascar are fight ing the French with Maxim machine guns. The Democrats of Nebraska are al most unanimously in favor of the coin age of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1. John Hopkins University was dam aged by fire yesterday. Tbe Atlanta City Council has denied tbe petition of tbe saloon keepers to keep open -until 12 o'clock at night during the Exposition. They will have to close at 10 o'clock, as heretofore. That Red Lane Road Again? Committee of Investigation Called For. Mr. Editor: In your issue of the 14'h August, Mr. J. R Phillips attempts to vindi cate himself, the members of the Red Lane Committee and the members of the o!d board. can not ser* why he should bring the old board into ibis controversy, as they have no more to do with the Red Lane thar. Judge Goff s injunction in the registration cases has. Mr. Phillips stated to his investi gating committee that 153 days work hftd been performed by hinds liable to road duty, and that SI04 43 had been paid. This statement was made to a committee appointed at the rtquest of Mr. Phillips, as complaint had been made against the managers of s-iid road. i have seen several of tbe^arties who were present at s?id meeting, aod they say that he did make tbe above statement to said committee. Mr. Phillips says now, that he could not state the exact number of hands reported by overseer at that time. In mak ing this statement the committee he should have been exact, as this meeting was for tbe purpose of vindicating himself mid Mr. Spann. He also stated to them that he had an itemized statement, but be failed to exhibit th*1 same for examination! After more than a month has elapsed, be says that he did not know the ex :'-t number of bands who had worked said rond, although having a statement of the same. He says now, that .',0 hands have been reported to him by the overseer as having worked six days. This would br- '2.?A days?at ~/> cents per day would give3167.00., to which add S104 4'.: (which he claims has been ;.*;d labor, &c .) and we will have $27I.0G paid tor working one mile of road, and the ?*me not compiei*?. Had tiiis work been advertised ind put out to ;;:?? lowest bidder, a? reo aire i by taw, ir couid h a v.; f?f r. dont- for :; good deui less. A re sponsible party c tiered to '.the work foi $225.00 Deduct ti;i? ?rom the amount paid, and there will ne a difference of Siti.OO Add to tir?3 about S!*> 00 0? OVer ?eej ?od we have lost $61.00 order h:s management. .Mr. Phillips d irs not Attempt to explain what was dort?- with the other hands liable to road duty. Will he explain why h?- ap proved the overseer's accodot t ;r hauling tools and tor building bridge before the work had been perfoi tr.'-d ? Why i id he, when ob jection was made by h member ot Count ;:<.:?'; to paying account of .Mr. Spann for hauling tools, state u, the board *har the hands would 1 ?r? the tools on :.?.' roadside leave thorn, after finishing th** dav's work? I atri prepared to prove that M: spann did no! haul ' ??"???1 tools to and ?rom the ruad. Why d id Mr. P.. allow the over - rr on the Red Lane to giv the bauds tasks that tbey would complete ?? ab-> it one half of a day, instead of requiring tbem to perform a full day's labor? Why was a 1 young and active man not appointed to take : charge of this road? There were several liable to road duty. Why were Messrs. Pbillip3 and Spano so anxious to convict one boy who failed to work road, while the hands on Mr. 's place have not been re quired to work at ail? Why did Mr. P. allow the overseer on the Queen's Chapel road to work 8 or 9 hands for rive days when ! he could have employed as many hands a3 I needed at that time? The said overseer was j paid $1.00 per day for services. I The hands on a certaio plantation on the j said road were due 12 days labor. The over j seer assigned the employer of said bands a ? certain piece of road which he worked in one i half of a day with 9 hands, thereby requir [ ing the county to hire Ih days's labor I through his ignorance or incapacity. Mr. Phillips says that ali claims against the countv must be itemized and annroved ! by the local board before being presented to tne County Board. Is tbe board in this township compose ? of three members, us in I the other townships, or dees the chairman j constitute the board, as hi5 name only is ! signed to certain accounts which have been pass'd upon, and according to his statement ; have been paid. The hand? on 'he Red Lane complain that ! they were promised 50 cents per day, and re : ceived but 40 cents. Who pro: the bene?: or ; this unjust discount, thereby depririr.g these i poor men of their just dues? j I have no persoH'il feeiings in this matter: I only desire to call tbe attention or" the board to these fact? and to show that there is something wrong in the management of the toads in this section. I: seems to me ? that those in authority have prostituted their offices, and are using tbeir influence and tbe ? funds of the county for the benefit of their ' friends, kinsmen and understrappers to f':;e : financial ruin of Sumter County. Will Mr. .Ph?iips stite how the County ' Board can give, information in regard to the ! affairs of this township, when the facts are : misrepresented to them? ; How will they be able to arrive at a coa ' elusion when ;':;e statements made on tbe Stb . of July a ?3 attempted to be made to have I another meaning o:; tbe 14th of August ? On behalf of- the taxpayers of Sumrer I County 1 respectfully ask that the County ; Board appoint a committee to investigate tbis : matter, and that justice may be given 'hose : interested. J. B. Ra?u-ueld. ; Ihrnld will please copy. Wedgefield Letter. Wedukkisld, August 20, i893. A game of ball took place on last Satur day between Brickbats of Privateer and W'edgefield's second nine, on ihe grounds of the former. Result, 14 to 15, in favor of the ! "kids." This is tbe second game between libera. Privateer should do about, as she is ! getting badly left. I Mr. Frean Mellett lost his 11 month's old ! infant with whooping cough on last Satur ! day. i Cotton bas began to open, corn is curing j and sorgum mills are running. Very e - couraging. Election passed off very quiet with a light ! vote. Compromise ticket, 61 ; Republican j ticket, 86; Keels ticket, 1. A Party at Oswego. ? A party was given at the residence cf Mr. j W.J.Andrews, of Oswego, last Thursday ! evening in honor of Miss Lottie Scctr, ofEast : over, who has h??en the guest o.' Miss Mamie ; Andrews during the past week. The evening was one of pleasure and enjoyment to every one of tbe large number of invited guests. To whiie away the time, voting cootest for the prettiest young lady and ugliest man was instituted. Miss Mary Alice Michau was voted to be the prettiest of the bevy or fair and charming maidens who were present. Mr. W. D. McLeod received tbe pj;ze as tbe bachelor of exteme ugliness?he received his degree cum supra lude, as it were ; yet he Dore his bonurs with becoming modesty. It is said that a certain young man received the prize as the handsomest man, and a young lady was declared, not the ugliest, but a whit less handrome than tbe others, Out tbese Were matters of such delicwcy that nothing will be said about them. Nervous Prostration Cured by Dr. Miles* Nervine. Prolonged derangement o? the nervous system not only affects the brain and men tal powers, bui. develops disease in some of the vital orpins. Tin- most dangerous of tbese indirect results is when the bear: is affected; This was the case <;f the Rev. N. F. Suri.uv, Fawn River, Mich., who writes under date of Feb. ! i. ISO?: im? ** w pl ( \ ' '???? ?? , -y x/^y/? ^ /?' /.-' ?fffl// i "Fourteen years ace ! bad a slight stroke of paralysis. Overwork brought on nervous prostration. ? was i xccedin?rly nervous and the exertion of public sneaking caused >:.-:;:t palpitation that threatened '.:,?/ life. ! :cd two iotties of l>r Miles' >"??.?.? Lie irt C'ivi- for r.-.y heart trouble, and tuo oi i?r. y.lU-? Restorative Nvrvine my nervoa^ riess ano* fee i better thar; ? < va ex >? ???; ?? ? ? ? fed a^a?? I C'iti speak ft;r hours without '.i:-.}:: <-r hav.fi my hoar: :!u:t-r as ir for rivrly did. and 1 have you to thank that ? am alive today. ' Or, !?? by ili dru:r?ists. F>r. ??liles' Ui'?.k on rieart an? Nervous i>:<.>r.i.'r- :?' Sy mail. Dr. Miles M?M?cal Co., Eikhart, Ind. 9r. Miles' Remedies Restore Health. The Opening Sale of "Of in QTTMTTT.R Will be Held at their Warehouse m Sumtes, s. a, ON August 5 8 3 We will have present Tobacco Buyers from all the principal markets in Virgin ia and North Carolina. The Tobacco Planters of Suinter and surrounding counties are requested to be present, and especially to bring some of their good grades of Tobacco. R. M. WALLACE, Presiden' ??E RYTTENBERG, Secretary & Treas. J. A. Brogdo>~, Manager. The Glenn Springs Motel Glenn Springs, 8. C, You can't afford to miss a season at GLENN'S. Everybody goes there, The Winter season with its rush of business, is near at hand ; and now is the time to get your system cleansed so that you can ! stand your Winter work. We haw- just added and furnished twenty more rooms, in f?rder that we might have ample a ceo m io da t i s for the increasing crowd. ixo to ( ^ > criiiK the best mineral watei on the continent, i' i? a ?.*uicx and efu< remeav ior Ali forms o? indigestion ano Dyspepsia. <?:: r?r men talion, Amte and Chronic Gastritis; intestina! trou bles, sudi as Constipation, (vriiieh is a frequent cause of e ? I i ? ? i t i s. ) i ) \ ' s e t e r and Diarrlnea (bv remo in*: ila cause of irritation, and subse-juent local eilect of the water) and Hemorrhoids ; Ali Functional Liver troubles, and General Debility following upon Malarial aileerions: Dysmenorrhea and other Uterine troubles: Rheumatism. Dropsy, and all Renal and Cystic troubles. AS A SAFE AND EFFICIENT DIURETIC IT HAS NO EQUAL. Write for special rates for September. Address. Glenn Springs Hotel, SIMPSON & SIMPSON MANAGER GKrEIV-.l SFJRIiWS HIAKMAL WAT S?R. PAUL SIMPSON, Manager Mineral Department