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W--=== Spain Wants More Millions. The Home Government Re quests a Loan of Some Magnitude from France. HAVANA, Cuba, Dec. 1895.-Madri advices report that t?? Spanish govern ment is seeking to obtain a new juan of 57,000,000 francs from the French Republic. Despatches from Campos, cabled to the Minister of War, appear to confirm the report that Gomez and Maceo were totally defeated by Brigadier General Suarze Valdez beard tbe same report at Santa Clara and telegraphed to General Campos at Cienfuegos. The Spaniards are mach encouraged. Trinidad advinces report tbe seizure on the riverSaa Juan of a pilot boat carrying] revolutionary correspondence. The captain and crew were held as pris? oners of war. TheMarquis de Apezteguia, leader of the ultra conservative Spanish party of Cuba, in an interview said that he be? lieved that the American people were unfavorable to the idea of the annexa? tion of Cuba. He added, however, that in bis opinion a protectorate over the island would give them many prac? tical advantages and some satisfaction. On December 14 the Spanish Zaragoza regiment fought the bands of rebels un? der Bacallao and Nunez. The Span? iards, who were commanded by Colonel Brui!, defeated and dispersed these parties. The battle took place at Cruces. Another Spanish column has defeated the combined bands of Cepero, Cayo Alvarez and Zarduy, taking pos? session of their camps. The rebels fled and the troops are in pursuit of them. A telegram from Gui?es gives a brief account of the killing of the notorious bandits Plasencia and Angel Gonzales. The band of outlaws was surprised in a iane in the town of Gumarra and sur? rounded by a detachment of police un? der Lieutenant Guillermo Wasolowski. The outlaws were five in number. Two escaped, carrying, it is supposed, a third, who was wounded. The police captured their rifles, mach? etes, a dagger and three fully equipped horses. The bodies were transferred from Gumarra to the hospital at Gui?es and there were fully identified. Though the epidemic of yellow fever, which bas been fatal to so many in the Spanish army during the last six months, is subsiding, a new and even more terrible scourge has appeared in the form of viruela negra, or black smallpox, imported from Africa on the government troop ships lately arriving with reinforcements. About ninety per cent of the cases so far reported have proved fatal. The insurgents of the province of Santiago are establishing in the Maestra Mountains,important agricultural zones, where prisoners are employed in plant? ing yams, potatoes and beans to supply the rebel army. Squelched by Queseda. The Cuban Leader Answers a Spanish Pamphlet. WASUINTON. Dec. 15 -Io an later view to be published io the Washington Times to morrow, Senor Queseda, sec? retary of the Cuban Patriotic associa? tion, answers the statements in a ! pamphlet recently circulated among members of congress and government officials with a view to counteracting the growing feeling of friendliness for the cause of the Cuban insurgents upon the matter of the reports allowed to be sent from the island of Cuba. "Senor Queseda says : 4,We will leave the American press to defend itself of the two implied charges, duplicity or ignorance, but we cannot fail suggesting to the writer to recall that if the newspapers in this country have not been able to obtain exact news, it has been because the cable and mail have Leen in the hands exclusively of and tampered with by the Spanish authorities, who would not ^?pr-w any matter to go through, but -,/hat was favorable to the government. 'Did Martinez Campos give the order or not that all foreign correspondents should not go into the Cuban ranks ? j Were they not threatened with being shot immediately if they disobeyed ? Does the writer know of the experi? ences of every newspaper man who bas refused to sell his American manhood and to dishonor his calling by falsifying reports of battles, or concealing the horrible atrocities committed ia tbe fields by tbe Spaniards? 'There i.as been no absence of 'prc- | sentoent of the Spanish side,' on thc ; contrary, every opportunity was theirs, j "The Spaniards will not admit a single defeat and yet toe Cubans have \ armed their mer. with Mausscrs ririles, i used only by thc government. The government has killed, according to their official reports, more men already than they admit that x?e have in the j field. And how is it then that we hear of transports bringing thousands of un? fortunate recruits to fight fora tonpling ' monarchy in America? Enough of such mystification. Spain r.^vcr loses { but the last battle, and she v?iii lose it in Cuba. i 'If the truth is not known, it ?3 ; 'pain's fault. Let her wcicome fearless j incorruptible journalists to Cuba | ? 've them facilities. Let her ask che press of this couutry to oame a j committee of investigation. Otherwise | it will look as if she were afraid of the j power of the American peu " Vao and Trebizood are rapidly fiill- ! ing with refugees from the pillaged vii- ! lages adjacent to those cities. Hun-j dreds of women, almost completely ex i hausted from fear and lack of food, havo reached Van and Trebizond. Their condition is most deplorable. They have been robbed of about everything they possessed. Large numbers of them were barefooted, and the only cov- | ertog they had for their bodies was thia chemises which furnished no protection against the inclement weather. There is no doubt that many of those who escaped death at the hands of the j Kurds will die from the effects the ex- ? posure they have undergone, whiie many others will fall victims of starv acion. The promptest aid that can reach the sufferers from foreign coun? ties will not avail to preveut and enor? mous death list from these causes, but unless aid is promptly furnished from some quarter the deaths from famine will reach au appalling number. Erastus Wlman Free. Alabaoo, N. Y., Deo. 19.-The Court of Appeals to-day handed down a decision it the case of Erastus Wiman, charged by the Mercantile Agency of K. G. Dun & Co. with for? gery. The court sustains the opinion of the general term of the Supreme Court reversing the judgment of con? viction and sentence of five and a half years, and Mr. Wimau is therefore a free man. The conviction of Mr. Wiman before Judge Iugrabam, a year ago, when he was seutenced to Sing Sing for five and a half years, was re? versed by the Supreme Court at its general term last February ; and it was against this decision that the District Attorney of New York appealed. The points involved related mainly to wheth? er participation in profits constitutes a partnership. The defense of Mr. Wiman was that he was erroneously oonvicted of the crime of forgery. lu form thc indictment was for forgery, but the trial disclosed that the d?? fendent was tried and convicted, not for forgery, but for overdrawing his ac? count with R. G. Dun & Co MARCHING THROUGH' C?B?. Spaniards Cannot Stop the Progress of the Patriots. HavaDa, Dec. 19.-The advance guard of the forces commanded by Maximo Gomez and Antonio Maceo bas arrived in the Province of Matan? zas from the Province of Santa Clara, without apparently encountering any urther opposition. General Campos is understood to have .concentrated his forces on the other side of the frontier and in advance of Colon ; but con? siderable secrecy is maintained as to the disposition of the Spanish troops. According to one report, General Campos is at Colon, and according to s second rumor, be is at Matanzas. Everything seems to indicate a pitched battle being fought in the near future. The insurgents have burned millions of dollars worth of sugar fields in the districts of Las Cruces, Santos, Do? mingo, Esperanza and Sagua la Grande in the Provience of Santa Clare, on their way to the frontier of the Prov? ience of Matanzas. NOT MACLO's TROOPS. Havana, Dec, 19.-The news pub? lished in Madrid thatMaceo's insur? gent battalions and artillery had reach? ed Colon by railroad is iocorreot. It was the troops commanded by General Navarro which reached that city by railroad, and their arrival there unex? pectedly to take part in the attempt to stop the insurgent advance and de? fend Colon, caused the spread of the sensational news, the result of which was to cause a fall in stocks. HOR?A CASE DISMISSED. Kingston, Jamaica, Deo. 19.-The case against Captain Wiberg of the Danish steamer Horsa, suspected of conveying arms, ammunition and men to Cuba, has been dismissed. Walnut Trees. The tree for which $30 was paid in cash some time ago still stands in I Catawba river up at Bridgewater, j What we wrote about was advice to farmers and land owners to plant ; walnuts ?.r.d rear walnut trees. Wc ; took occasion to itc something on thc ? same lino about two years ago. We ? say now again, poor land can bc made rich by rearing wainui trees on ir. Look under sr. y walnut tree and sec if the soil is no* rich. As we said, ICO tress can bo planted cn each acre and the latid cultivated wiri: prout and alsc benefit to tiie trees. Wc said that in 20 years t~ecs could thus bo grown which would then bc worth ?75 or even moro per tree. We now sav furthermore, that of the 160 trees planted ou ea?h acre afc least 100 of them should arrvie at the stage of maturity without interference to crops and an i-'-tuai er: ri eh ?neut of soil ; and ai:-o, that if the mao study the nature of each tree ^rows he can itrain them to carat) ilso proba'' to produce a bij llicory ePijr{ "SUMTER." The people of Sumter, cit}' an county, may well feel proud of th position they take in the galley < pen paintings of the counties, citie and towns of the State prepared f(. The News and Couri-.r by its specii artist, Mr. J E. Norment. The: part in the thrift, prosperity an progress of South Carolina is mos important, and it suffers no deteriorj tiou in the hands of the experience and skillful descriptive writer, whos article is the piece de resistente c our columns to-day. Sumter, c course, is proud of its origin am history. Nobly in war and peace ha it illustrated the intelligence, courag and magnanimity of the famous Rev olutionary hero, from whom it take its name, but it is not so much witl the past that Mr. Norment deals a with the present, its indomitable en ergy, its intelligent enterprise, iti hustling business, its untiring in dustry, its steady progress arid itt increasing prosperity. True, he tell! of the glorious achievements of1(Sum ter's sons in the Revolution, in th< Mexican war and in the wai: foi Southern independence, but he ciwelh with interesting detail upon the cot ton factory, the telephone factory the electric light plant, the iroi: works, the water-works, the fire de? partment, the railroad facilities, the mercantile establishments, the church? es, the schools, the newspapers, and the handsome and comfortable hemes, which are the salient features ot a live and growing city. Ile also speaks of the fertile lands, the thriv? ing plantations of cotton, tobacco and grain and the wonderful orchards and vineyards and the magnificent forests of pine, oak, cypress and sweet gum, which are the pride of the county Mr. Norment's description of the charms of Sumter as a place of resi? dence should be read by everyone, and to call special attention to it, we reproduce it here. Mr. Norment says : "The city of Sumter makes a most pleasant impression upon visitors and when impressions deepen into con? viction because of fuller knowledge, then indeed is the charming city seen in its truest and best light It has many attractions peculiarly its own and is a rare type of a beautiful young city of our Southland Fresh, vigorous and growing to-day, mov? ing and keeping in line with all modern things, she has caught from the past that softly shaded back? ground of culture and grace which belongs to some places only by right of hereditary possession. One of the greatest of these charms to me was the homes of Sumter. Never have I seen so many quietly beautiful homes in a town of this size and what greater charm can anywhere be found. Old homes and new ones were seen on many of the principal streets, and nearly every yard-most of them were large and shady-was worth stopping to look at. They were filled with flowers and even on this 2d day of December I saw roses, chrysanthemums and violets in full bloom and beauly in these yards. Passing the telegraph office on this same day I saw a dispatch stating that freight traffic was entirely sus? pended in the North and West be? cause of storm and sleet In these i yards were the handsomest magnolia ! trees I have ever seen and they were almost everywhere Tall evergreen oaks and magnolias were so thickly scattered in so many directions that it made ono think of a citv in a dream of a forest. And in these : large shady yards, amid the trees I and flowers, were these Southern : homes, ideal in so many respects. As you entered the gate in the De? cember sunshine and walked up the moss covered path to where the home stood, stately and quiet, lhere was! speech in the silence, and you in? voluntarily thought of the old "hap-, py mixture of the happy days." The ivy green had its home ht rc ami ' you were not surprised to find old bronze knockers instead of a door boll. The parlor was the first room on the right, of course, and ?on the wall vere portraits in ci!-old paint? ings of fresh young ?aces and still older paintings o? old faces, willi ruffles and powdered hair, cli-an shaven men. and those raro oki faces of changeless Southern beauty. These home:-* are a strong point ai this city, so strong that nothing can ?iii their places, so very strong that to them can be easily {raced much of the strength belonging to ti e past ind the present history ol' Sumter." For those who prefer country to i :ity life Sumter County has no less j powerful attractions. The climate, of course, is the same as that of th city, the lands are fertile, the streams numerous, the water pure and the forests infinite in their variety. South Carolina is a great State. Nature has made it the best home State of the Union, and it is trying for any one part of the State to have its advantages compared with the rest of the State. Sumter, however, is not afraid of the comparison and Mr. Norment'fl description should be read by every one in search of a home or of a new territory into which lo extend business -News and Cou? rier Fatal Mine Explosion Many Men Buried m a North Carolina Colliery. Raleigh. N C., Dec, 19-At 9 o'clock this morning, shortly after the day force, numbering sixty-seven men. had gone on duty at the Cumnock Coal Mines, six miles West of here, a ter? rible gas or fire damp explodion occured, with fatal effect. Upon hearing the report the people of the village and re? latives of the entombed miuers hastened to the scene, but for some time they were unable to get in any tidings from below. After pumping fresh air inte the shafts for some time, several miners were prevailed upon to venture down and investigate. They found and brought out twenty-five men from slopes Nos. 2 and 3 Five or six of them were badly wounded and some of them will probably die. others were slightly injured A mule and two men were killed in slope No. 2 After considerable delay the searcb ?Dg party entered elope No. 1. where they were greeted by a most horrible and ghastly sight. Dead man fearfully mutilated were found, some of them partly covered up with pieces of coal, timber and other debries. The eearchir.g party came up and reported what they bad found. At 4 o'clock ten or twelve miners went down to bring up the dead bodies, but at last accounts none of the dead men It been rescued, had i s believed that forty-three men were killed. Their names are not ob? tainable at this writing. Several of them were Degioes and foreigners aod the rest natives of North Carolina. Several bad families living at Cum? nock. Eight of the dead miners were from Pennsylvania and expected to re? turn to that State to-morrow to visit re? latif os. A quantity of dynamite was in the mine and exploded, wrecking coal cars and splitting massive pieces of timber into kindling wood. Mothers, wives and sisters were around the mines all day weeping and wringing their hands with grief, expect? ing every minute to see lifeless forms of some loved ones brought up. Ex? citement runs high. At 7 oclock this morning sixty-seven men went down in the shaft to work and up to ll o'clock to-night but twenty-four of them have returned. The other forty-three are supposed to be dead in the shaft, but thc names of some of them are unknown. So much after-damp bas been in the shaft all day that no efforts have been made to get the bodies to the top. It is througbt that the bodies can be rescued about 1 o'clock to-night. Southern Fruit Co. W. H. MINSON, Manager, IMPORTERS AND WHOLESALE DEALERS IN FRUIT AND PRODUCE FRUIT i' VEGETABLE SHIP PIE PACKAGES, ETC. -217 EAST BAY, CHALESTON, S. 0. Oct. 16-v. Celluloid sheets, various lint?, tor fancy >vork, for sale by H. G. Osteen & Co. Sheet celluloid, various shades, foi sale by H. G. Osteeo k Go. 5 & Scientific Atnerisan j /% Agency Ser ^ i l m ?^J?fcSk X&mW?^ FATSHTS, ! - - CGPvri?.c?-'-Ta, etc.! MUNS .? CO..-GI ?:i;'".;'iv.'.Y. XEVT WBJC. O! '. c hm-oau for seoiirin : ixitenl ; America. Kwrv?p.-tt-;jttaterttoni l?y-u*-fs brought before i/ubii ; by ILs?ttecgivi-*1 ?c?of dargals. ?he f"*} o s ? ?so ? <r> g f%M%Mv? siff?tiWf ftff <7? .liv Vfo%*th$t e^w#*wJBW L rprost circulat ion of r-T pr?cntlfic paper in tho vrcritl. Splendider iHikitratcd. No intelligent ! . ian should be without it. Weekly, ?3.0? a year; $1.50 six months. Address, MUNN & CO,, ! POSUSESES, 301 Brqjtvvay, Nev.- York City. j The Leading Merchants, ; We have the largest and most complete stock of all kinds o goods we have ever carried and they must be sold. j Do You Want a Suit of Clothes? ? We have got it. Do You Wantha Dress, Hat, Pair of Shoes, Trunk, Valise, Under? wear, Shirt, Collar, Cuffs, "Necktie ? We have got it ? We Have Anything You Want 010 From the cheapest Homespun or Calico to the finest Silk or Satin. Our stock is so large and varied fe - Il WE CAN PLEASE ALL |||? TASTES and PURSES, mm ll If you want Groceries-We have got all kinds and qualities, If you can only eat corn bread and Bacon we have got it, or if you are fastidious, we have all the delicacies of the season. Here are a few articles we have fresh for Christmas : Apples, Oranges. Kaisins, Malaga Grapes, Currants, Citron, Almonds, English g Walnuts. Mince Meat, Preserves, Pecans, Brazil Nuts. Jams, Jellies, Loose Olives, Loose Pickles. Saur Kraut, Buckwheat, Maple Syrup. Have you tried our Fancy Creamery Butter? It is the most delicious ever sold in Sumter. Give us a trial. Ducker & Bultman, Main Street, Sumter, S. C. Job Lots in Hats, Overcoats and Ladies5 Capes. Webster's Unabridged FOR $2. In Full Leather Binding. For $1.50, Zn Heavy Cloth Binding. These prices are offered only to Subscribers to the Watchman and Southron Who pay one year in advance. It is an unprecedented offer and was never approached in this section. -FOR ?fe O You obtain the best weekly paper in the %P 9 State-eight pages of the latest news and miscellaneous reading and a Leather Bound Webster's Una? bridged Dictionary former price of Dictionary ?10. I have bought a lot of them at a reduced price and oiler them at a still greater reduction as a premium. Remember that it is the UNABRIDGED WEBSTER and not a cut edition. Come at once before the stock of Dictionaries is exhausted. dubbins: Rates % The Watchman and Southron has been able to make special Club Kalos with Inc following named, well known papers and periodicals. The prices enumerated are in addition to the reg? ular subscription ('?1.50 a year") of The Watchman & Southron: Kenn ar.G Farm Womankind, {.'arm News', Al SOc. Soc. S5c. Soc. Z?c. Washington Post, 15c. Cosmopolitan, 15c. Munsey's Magazine, 55c. Standard Delineator, N. V. Thrice-a-Week World, 60c. These prices are strictly cash in advance in coirjunction with subscription to the Watchman & Southron. Send remittances to SUMTER, S. C.