Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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fell* fftiiiumiuuiiuiii Son?koi? WEDNESDAY, OCT. 30,1895. Entered at the Post Office at ?"linter. X (?,, as Second Clous Matter. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Gold Watch Lost. H. Harby?No. 3. City of Sumter?-License Tax. City of Somter?An Ordioauce. Estate of Friday Watsoo?Citation. Pordy & Reynolds?Real Estate for Sale. Wants?Sheep for Sale?Wanted Sidesman. City Board of Health?Roles and Regula lions. Personal. Miss Mary Born, of Georgetown, is visiting Mrs. N. G. Osteen. Rev. Henry M. Mood, of Manning, is visit ing his son, Dr. J. A. Mood. Col. and Mrs. R. G. Howard, of F'?reoce, after a pleasant visit to their daughter, Mrs. Willie White, returned home Monday evening. Mr. W. T. McLeod, of Magnolia, spent yes terday in town on ousiness. Mr. J. IL. McCftllum left on Monday for Kooxville Tennessee, wbete he has a position offered him. Mr. W. F. Smith and wife, of Spring Hill, -visited the family of Mr. R F. Willeford this, -week. Miss Marion Girardeau, after spending sometime in this city, left Monday for Denmark, S. C. Miss Agnes Dick left Mondnj- morning for Atlanta, Ga., company a ith her brother in-law, Mr. w'?T. Gee, of Florence. Mrs. Jas. L. Rast and son, ct Cameron, S C , have returned home after spending a.few days with Mrs. J. S. Thompson, sister of Mrs. Rest. Mr. Geo. L. T. Mano t te. who has been a resident of this city for several years, left Mon day for Lowell. Mas?. Mr. Menotte bas been active io Y. M. C. A. work and in his new home will fill a permanent position io the Association work. Mrs. D. X. LaFar, wbo bas been visiting her mother, Mrs. Bartlett, returned to her home in Charleston Monday. Mrs. Levy, of Philadelphia, wbo h-s been on a visit to ber mother, Mrs. C H Moise, left Mocd*y for her home. Mrs. Phillips who has- been visitiDg her father, Mr. A. H. Weeks, left for her home Monday afternoon. Mr. J. E. Ncrment, the talented special corresponden t of the News and Courier, was in town yestfrday. Mr. D. Rvle, ot the Seaboard Air Line, was in the city last week. Rev John K>rshaw returned from Minnea polis last Friday afternoon. He held regu lar service at the Church of the Holy Com forter Sunday. Mr.O. B. Davis,Jof Darlicgtool was in town Saturday and Sanda He was en route to Atlanta to visit the Exposition . Mise Mag Graham and Master Lou Hoy l*?ft Saturday morning for Atlanta to attend the Exposition. Dr. E. J. Rembert is in the city Satuiday. Capt. J. M. Ross, of Spring Hill, was in the city Saturday. Mr. W. D. Rhodes, of Mayeeville, epent Saturday in the city. Mr. J. N. BraBd, of Wilmington, spen Sunday in this city. Messrs. E. 0. Ingram, M. A. Strauss, Myron Mittle and Dave Mittle, of Mayesville spent Sunday in town. * Tje members of the Constitutional Conven tion from this county returned home on Sat* urday and spent Sunday at borne, returning to Columbia Monday morning. Dr. and Mrs. Walter Cheyne, of Wisacky, are guests of Dr. G. W. Dick Mr. Wilton Barrett left Monday morning for Atlanta to spend several days at the Exposi tion. Mr. W. D. Barrett has been at home for the past week from tbe S. C. College, recovering from an illness, but is now able to be out again. Mies Eliza Cooper and Miss Bessie Pittmau left last Wepnesday for Atlanta to spend a week at tbe Exposition. Messrs. Eugene and John Miller returned from Atlanta last Wednesday after spending two weeks taking in tbe Exposition. Mrs. Jacqueline Baker will leave for Newark, N. J., within a few days to visit her daughter, Mrs. H. W. Beali. Kev. J. B. Hoily and family, of Camden, visite tbe family of Mr. R. F. Williford last week. Mr. E L. Grey, of Lamar, Darlington county, was in tbe city last Friday. He rough t a large lot of tobacco to the ware house for sale. Mr. J. W. Brice, of Yorkville, S. C, was in tbe city spending a few days with Col. R. M. Wallace !ast week. Cotton is climbing up again, and was self ing yesterday for 8jc and better. More than 300,GOO pounds of tobacco have been sold a: the Somter Warehouse al ready, and there is great deal more to come. The small boys and all the school children want holiday circus day. Is this an out cropping of tbe innate depravity of human nature or a yearning after knowledge? A telegraph line to Camden is in sight ; now for the railroad to the same place. It will be a good thing for Camden, Somter and tbe intervening country. Ducks are beginning to appear in numbers on tbe Wateree swamp, and on some of tbe large ponds. Tbe scant population of tbe jail is attri buted to the trial justice constables not push ing tbeir business for all it is worth. Tbe market price of corn is now forty cents per bushel, with an abundant supply. A good deal ha3 been sold at thirty-five cents, but this price ?3 tbe exception and not tbe rule. The beneficial effects of tbe present sched ules are perceptible every day and it is the unanimous desire of Sumter that there will be no more changes soon. Claremoot Lodge No. 64, A. F. M. meets Thursday night. The degree of Entered Apprentice will probably be conferred on sev eral candidates. A stranger asked a Samter man why there were no crossings on Main Street. Tbe reply was : "Ob, there's no use in putting cross ings down, the 3treets will be paved from end to end - after a while." Dispensary Constable Brown, wbo has been stationed ?r. Charleston during the past two months, bas been sent back to this place and is now on duty, looking out for contra band liquor and keeping a watchful eye on the blind tigers. The experimental strawberry farm of Mr. W. M. Graham is in a flourishing condition and bids fair to be a success. The plants have grown vigorously throughout the sum mer and fall and are now large, strong plants. The stand of plants is as nearly per fect as possible which insures a large yield per acre, should tbe seasons prove favorable oext spriog. If the experiment undertaken by Mr. Graham* proves profitable, other farmers will undertake berry culture a?> oooe. j DEATH. Mrs. Annette J. Hclbert, relict of the late 0. C. Halbert, died last Thursday night at her residence od Main street, after a brief illness. Mrs. Bulbert was one of the most aged resi dents of this city, having attained the ripe old age of 85 years, every ye-ir of which : rested like a benediction upon her brow, for j she never wearied in performing charitable deeds. The funeral services were held at 4 o'clock Friday afternoon according to the j rites of the Catholic Chinch, <f which Mrs. i Hnlbert was a faithful and zeaiom mem tier. \ I Miss Elizabeth Plowden, of Clarendon j ' county, died on last Friday ?nd whs t-uried j "at Brewington church cemetery on Saturday ? afternoon. She whs a sistpr of Capi E-igar : Plowden, and Mr. E R. Plowden. She whs j a lady of tbenob est Christian character, and her.death fra a source of regret to a wide I circle of friends. -Saal Pringle bas been drawn as a petit juror to serve io the U . S District Court at its next session in Columbia. The Sheriff is having a quiet time, the peo ple throughout the county are too .busy to fight or steal. A state of nffair? that every body would wish to prevail at ni! timen. Treasurer Scarborough is in his office rp CPiving trt?ew, but ?3 not kept very busy. A? usual, taxpayers are disposed to postpone un til the last day the payment of their dues 'o the State and county. There will prnbaMv be no extension this year, and everybody shmiid pAj up as ?non as possible. The dog days are over and the golden >od has come and gone, and yet the melancholy days, the saddest of the year, are not come. How can the day? bp melancholy with cotton at 8 cents and upwards. These bNrstpd English sorrows care noth ing for the melancholy da's nor other sorts of days either. They have a supreme and happy disregaid for seasons that is amusing. They go ahout building a nest in the last of October with as much cheerful orse as they do in tbe merry month of May. The Coast Line has had the Elpctric Light Company put up an arc light abov? the cot ton platform at the d?pot which is a great convenience to the cotton men and drayme.i. Tbe larger part of the cotton that is brought this city is hauled to tbe dppot afier dark, iaad w.thout the Hebt tbe work of hauling the cotton was difficult and tbe men were bandicaped. Constable Brown r?!ded a blind pger near the depot on Saturday night and tbe liquor seized was, according to the report of a dis interested bystander, who is, by tbe way, a scholar and a judgp of good liquor, meati enough to give one X d isr ensary corn bi nd Staggers Tbe tigers are not having an easy time now. A colored individual wparing a long top beaver hat and ?bort tail frock coat, got full of chemically pure, or blind tiger nizao, the effect and the result being tbe same in eithpr case, and wound up in the guard hens* Sn?> urdav afternoon. This morning he wa* rf warded with a ten dollar fine or twenty days on tbe street. Messrs. Eugene Moses and A. C Phelps, who have the commet to erect the Postal Telegraph/line from this place to Camden, commenced work vesterdav morning The line will follow the Providence roa?J to Remoprt? and thence it will follow the Camder? ro?d that place, whpre the Sumter wire will be con nected with tbe main line of tbe Postal Com pany. The school of rbe colored Presbyterian church, which has grown and prospered under tb.e management of Rev. Watkins, will soon be housed in a laree and conveni ently arranged school building, which is row in process of construction. The school is an excellent one and it is wonby of the new building wbicb it will occupy. Speculation in cotton futures on a email scale eo^s on in this city to an extent that the uninformed would never suspect. The speculators do not hazard their dollars in tbe bands of tbe New York cotton sharpers, but back their judgment at ten cents and up ward a point. They have small profits or losses end quick settlements, and at the same time bave all the fu? that speculation affords. T. B. Bruner, a colored farmer of the Oswego section, is tbe owner of a valuable cow, one tbat recently gave birth to twins. Both calves are large and well developed, and Bruner is considerably gratified over the increase in hie live stock The price of cotton seed is so low tbat it is folly for tbe farmers to sell any that they have on band The seed is wortb much more to them hs a fertilizer than they are offered by the oil mills, and as there is good reason to believe that the price of commer cial fertilizers will be higher next year, it will pay them better to keep their seed and use them for manure instead of buying high priced fertilizers Tbe petition to close tbe dispensary on circus day wae signed t>y nearly every busi ness and professional man in the city Every j body wants it closed and if the State Board of Control does not grant tbe request of tbe people of Sumter on this occasion it will te proof positive tbat the chief end of the dis pensary system is to sell whiskey and make ! money and not to decrease drunkenness and ; improve tbe morals of the State. There are only three prisoners in jail at j present, one of whom will be discharged at \ the expiration of his term, about tbe 1st of November. There have been fewer prisoners io jail this year on an averege than for a loog term of years, and this is attributed in a large measure to the operation of the law enacted at the last term of the Legislature j requiring trial justices to have all arrests ' j made by their Constables, except in caees 1 where circumstances requirtd tbe services of1 ! the Sheriff or his deputies. The law has ; j been the means of saving a considerable ? amoudt of money to the county, both in fees ? j and in the reduction of jail expenses. The : I law, when enacted, was recognized as a true ! j reform measure, and tbe ?esult of its opera- ; j tion has borne out the expectations of those ; j who favored it and of Mr. Manniug, who I introduced it iu the House of Representa j tives. FIRE. Mrs. E. H. McCutcban's barn and stables, ; about two miles from the city, were burnt I down at seven o'clock last night, October 29. Three hundred bushels of corn and a quantity ! ! of oats, hay and rough feed, were also burnt. J Origin of the 6re unknown. No insurance. ! Tbe residence of Mr. Eugene Hogan, which was situated on the Providence road in the j suburbs of the city, burned Tuesday night ' of last week. The burning house made a ? blaze and the fire alarm cailtd out the reel squads and hook and ladder truek immeai ately, but when the locality of the fire whs discovered the firemen returr.ed to the reel bouse3. The fire was so far beyond the fire limits that it would have been impossible to throw a stream on the blaze and it was use less for the reels to proceed tbe long distance to it. The fire was of accidental origin and had gained a considerable hold on the structure, before discovery. The loss sustained by Mr. Hogan was quite heavy, as onlv a portion o? the furniture was saved from the bouse. The house was insured for $250 with the A. iy Phelps Co. Agency, the policy being drawn in favor of H. Harby. "I have taken six bottles of Hood's Sarsa parilla and it bas improved my health, and giveD me a good appetite," Jas. M. Me Dougall, No. 1731 Columbia, S. C. Hood's PiHs cure all liver ills. Our Grand Selling -OF fire** Goods, rT.fl?TTS= ? A PTES, Blanket*, Linen* -AND House-Furnishings, That has marked the past weeks, will go on with increased force. AU of these stocks have been added to with new fresh goods, bought by our Mr. I SCHWARTZ, while in New York last week. Ladies who know Merchandise say we are ''setting the pace/'* for the whole town in everything that touches the most progressive goods-getting and selling. Don't Miss These?Come before they all go : 40 Ladies' Fine Cloth Capes, nicely trimmed, full sweep?the $4.50 kind at $2 98. 22 Ladies' Fine Cloth Capes, nicelv trimmed."fall eweep?the $5 00 kind at ?3 48. Ladies' Jackets fiom $1.50 up These are genuine bargains and positively cannot be duplicated in Sumter. Just ArriTefl?The Second Lot of Blankets and 20 pairs 10-4 white Blankets, $1 25 quality at 89c. 25 pairs 10 4 white Blankets, ?1 25 quality at 98c 20 pairs 11-4 white Blankets, worth $2 50 at 1.89. 25 Comforts ?t 58c, 73c. and 89c ?Genuine bargains OCTOBER NOVELTIES ARE JUST POURING IN. See the beautiful illuminated effects. Wool and Silk mixtures at 48c. New line of Plaids at 25c , 35c , 42 and 45c. Just see what 3tyle there is in each piece. See the New Novelty Effects we are showing at 25c. per yard, 38 inches wide 30 pieces New Fancy Dress Goods at 10c. 20 pieces 36 in Fancy Novelties, worth 26c, at 15c 25 pieces 38-in all-wool Habits and Serges worth 48c at 25c 15 pieces 40-in all wool Flannels?sold last season at 50c , now 25c. 10 pieces Black Henriettas, 36 in . at 19c and 23c 5 pieces- Black Henrietta, 46-in all-woo] worth 60c. at 39c Other Black Dress Goods, 36 in., at 15c. L? B?lle Crepoli?The prettiest cotton goods shown this season, at 12|c , a cloth that looks like Silk Gaufre Cloth Another new C repon fabric just in. We expect a big trade on these, come early and gets first choice at 10c. We welcome you to look, to enjoy, whether you buy or not SCHWARTZ BROS, Palace Dry Goods Emporium. II STILL ON TOP s Ducker ?Batanan We are at the same Stand and leading all. We have the largest stock of all class of goods we have had for years, and we are going to sell them, if right prices and fair dealing will sell them. All goods have advanced except Staple Groceries, which are still cheap. We bought our Dry Goods, Hats & Shoes, Before the advance and can actually sell them cheaper than you could buy them from the manufacturer or wholesaler to-day. - - You Have Done Without as long as you can, now COME J?WD BUI. Don't cry hard times anymore, they are past. We keep every thing you want from a paper of pins tu a saddle, and are boned to suit you, whether you want something to wear or something to eat, we have got it. Ducker & Biiltman, Main Street, Sumter, S. C FROM Monday Morning UNTIL Saturday Night, We are busy selling Goods! WHY IS THIS? We know and you do also. We are, Honest, Straightforward and square in all our dealings. We give you a dollar's worth for a one dollar piece?And our friends and patrons appreciate this fact. We have a lot of Men's Sack Suits, formerly sold at $10, $12.50 and $13.50?You can take your pick for $8,00, This is a gen uine Bargain, also 20 doz. Boys' Shirt Waist?ages 5 to 14?for 20c. formerly sold at 35c. 50 doz. white H. S. Handkerchiefs at 10c. Best Black half Hose in the city for 10c. 25 doz. sample Undershirts, worth $3 to $4 per pair, our price to you $1.50 to $2. Remember?When you want Mens7 and Boys1 Clothing Hats, Furnishing Goods. &c, of any kind and at any price, visit The Clothing Emporium. BROWN, GUTTINO & DELGAR Leaders in stylish Clothing, Hats,&c, Suinter, S. ? Oct 16 Dress Dress Goods ! Goods ! Tell your wife not to buy a dress till she looks at the dresses in the store of TH? SUITER DRY GOODS GO, Bargains to be offered for the next 10 days : 1 case 38-inch all wool Flannels at 25c. 1 case 38-inch all wool Serges at 25c. All wool 36-inch Cashmere at 25c. Our 46-inch Serges at 47c. and our 60 inch Whipcord Serges at $1.00 are the best that can be had at that price. 1 case of 8 cents Ginghams at 5c. 1 case of 6 l-4c. Ginghams at 4 l-2c. 1 case of Ladies' Seamless ?lack Hose, worth 15c. at 10c. Misses at the same price. We solicit an inspection* umter ilry lioods I o., In the A. A. Solomons store.