Consolidated Aug. 2,1881.
SUMTER, S. C., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 22, 1896.
Sew Series-Yoi. XV. >"o 2G
PnblisjiQd Eirery TSTedaesday,
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SUMTER, S. C.
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Handsome 2-Horse
Farm Wagons
GIVEN AWAY.
To induce farmers to keep a record of the re?
sults they get from the U3e of
"HOBS FERTILIZERS,"
and to impress upon them the advantage it is
to compost their fertilizers at home, we have
decided to give as prizes
Five Handsome Two
Horse Wagons?
Which retail for $65 each, to tbeSve farm?
ers io the States of North Carolina, South
Carolina aod Georgia who make the largest
yield of COTTON per acre exclusively from
the use of "Home Fertilizer," composted by
either formula printed in our Annual Circu?
lar; aod
5 Handsome 2-Horse
Wagons,
To the five farmers who make the largest
yield of CORN per acre exclusively from the
use of "Home Fertilizer," composted by
either formula printed in our Annual Circular.
This offer is open to ali farmers, no matter
what quantity they bay .J
RULES FOR TEE CONTEST.
The land to be measured and crops weighed
by two disinterested parties, who are to report
in fall to the dealer from wbom the goods
were bought; he to forward the reports to us
on pr belora December 1st, 1896.
The wagons will be distributed as soon as
the reports are in and it can be ascertained
which ones have made the five largest yields
per acre. No reports will be considered which
reach our office after December 5th, 1896.
Boy kin, Canner & Co.,
BALTIMORE, MD.
FOR SALE BY
DUCKER & BULTM?N.
SUMTER, S. C.
The New Election Laws.
The Bill Providing for Them
to be Introduced.
Below is given the full test of the
important new bill "to provide for hold?
ing elections in this State." which will
be introducted in the house to-day by
Judge C. P. Townsend :
Be it enacted by the general assembly
of the State of South Carolina.
Section 1. That the geueral election
for Federal, State and county officers in
this State shall be held on the first
Tuesday following the first Monday in
November io every second year, reckon?
ing from the year one thousand eight
hundred and ninety-six, and at such
polling precincts as have been or may
be established by law; and all general
and special elections held pursuant, to
the Constitution of the State shall be
regulated and couducted according to
the rules, principles and provisions
herein prescribed.
Sec. 2. For the purpose of carrying
on Buch election it. shall be the duty of
the governor, and be is hereby authori?
zed and empowered, at least thirty days
prior to any8uch election, to appoint
for each county three cemmissiooers of
election for governor, lieutenant gov?
ernor. State officers, circuit solicitors,
member cf the general assembly and
county officers, and three other commis
sionets of election for the election of
Presidential elections and members of
congress, or either of said officers, who
shall continue in office until their suc?
cessors are appointed and qualified.
The commisioners of election for State
and county officers shalt appoint three
managers of election for such officers,
and the commissioners of election for
members of congress and Presidential
electODS, or either cf said officers, shall
appoint three other managers of election
for said officers for each polling place at
each election precinct of thc county for
which they shall respectively be ap?
pointed. The said commissioners and
managers shall take and subscribe, be?
fore any officers authorised to administer
oaths, the oath of office prescribed by
section 30 of article ll, of the Con?
stitution, and the oath with respect to
duelling, and the same shall be immedi?
ately filed in the office of the clerk of
the court of common pleas of the coun?
ty in which said commissioners and
managers shall be appointed ; or, if
there be no such clerk, in the office of
the secretary of State.
Sec. 3. The mauagers may appoint a
clerk to assist them in their duties, who
shall take the ohat of office prescribed
i by section 30, article ll, of the Con?
stitution, and the oath with regard to
duelling, "before the chairman of the
board of managers. The commissioners
i and managers at their first meeting
j respectively, shall proceed to organizo
: as a board by appointing oDe of their
number chairman of the board ; and
such chairman, in each instance, is em?
powered to administer oaths.
Sec. 4 The polls sbsll be opened, at
such voting places as shall be desig?
nated, at 7 o'clock in the forenoon, and
close at 4 o'clock in the afternoon of the
day of election, t:od shall be kept open
during those hours without intermis?
sion or adjournment ; and the managers
shall administer to each person offering
to vote an oath that he is qualified to
vote at this election, according to the
Constitution of this State, and that be
has not voted during this election.
Sec. 5. The deputy State constables,
and other peace officers of each county,
are required to be present during the
whole time that the polls are kept open,
and until the election in complete:! ;
they shall prevent all interference with
the managers, act under their direc?
tions, and see that there is DO interruption
of good order. If there should be more
than one polling place in any county,
the State con?tabe is empowered and
directed to make such assignment of his
deputies and other peace officers, to
such polling places, as may,
io his judgement, best subserve thc
purposes of quite and order. AU the
barrooms, saloons and other places for
the sale of liquors by retail shall be
closed at 6 o'clock of evening prodd?
ing the day of such election, remain,
closed until 6 o'clck in the morning ot
the day thereafter, during which time
sale of intoxicating liquors is prohibit?
ed.
Seo. 6. The votiog shall be by ballot
which ballot shall be of plain white
paper, two and a half inches wide by five
inches long, olear and even out without
ornament, iisignation, mutilation, sym?
bol or mark of any kind whatsoever,
ezoept the name or names of the per?
sons Toted for, and the office to which
such person or persons are intended to
be chosen, which name or names, or
officer or officers, shall be written or
printed, or partly written or partly
printed, thereon, io black ink ; and
snob ballot shall be so folded as to con?
ceal the name or names thereon, and so
folded, shall be deposited in a box to be
constructed, kept and disposed of as
hereafter provided ; and no ballot of any
other description found in any election
box snail be counted.
Sec 7. There shail be separate and
distinct ballots for the following officers,
to wit: 1. Governor and lieutenant
governor. 2. Other State officers. 3.
Circuit solicitor. 4 State senator. 5.
Members of the house of representa?
tives. 6. County officers. 7. Repre?
sentatives in Congress. 8 Presidential
electors, on which shall be the name or
names of the person or persons voted
for as such officers, respectively, and
the office for which they are voted,
respectively. Whenever a vote is to
be taken on any special question or
questions, a box shall be provided,
properly labeled for that purpose, and
the ballots therefor shall be depos?
ited therein.
Sec. S. The commissioners of election
shall provide for each election precinct
a sufficient number of boxes to meet the
requirements of the foregoing section.
In any case in which a votiog precinct
contains part of more than one congres?
sional district, if no other provision be
made by law, the commissioners of
election for the county in which such
precinct is situated shall provide there
for separate boxes for every congres?
sional district within which the said
precinct may be, and each voter at
such precinct shall deposit his ballot for
member of congress io the box pro?
vided for the congressional district
within the limits of which be may re?
side. An opening shall be made in
the lid of each box cot larger than
sufficient for a single ballot to bc
inserted therein at one time, through
which each ballot received proper to be
placed in such box shall be inserted by
the person voting, and by no other.
Each box shail be provided with a suf?
ficient lock, and shall be publicly open?
ed and inspected, to show that it is
empty and secure, and locked just be?
fore the opening of the poll. The keys
shall be returned to the managers, and
the box shall not be opened during the
eleotion. Each box shall be labeled in
plain and distinct Roman letters, with
the office or officers voted for, and the
managers, on the demand of the voter
shall be required to read to him the
names on the boxes At each precinct
a space, or enclosure, such as the man?
agers of election shall deem fit and
sufficient, shall be railed off, or other?
wise provided, with an opening at one
end or side for the entrance of the vot?
er, and an opening at the other for bis
exit, an a polling plaoe in which to bold
the election for the State, circuit and
county officers. A similar, but sepa?
rate and distinct, space or enclosure
shall be railed off, or otherwise pro?
vided, as a polling place for congres
man and Presidential electors, at such
distance from the polling plaoe for State
officers as the commissioners of eleotion
for each county shall determine and
appoint for each election precinct.
i Bat one voter shall be allowed to enter
j any polling place at a time, and no one
; except the managers shall be allowed]ro
! speak to the voter while io the polling
j piace castiog his vote
j Sec 9. Managers of election shall
require of every elector offering to vote
at any election before allowing him to
vote, in addition to the production of a
registration certificate, proof the pay
otnt of all taxes, including poll tax,
assessed against him aod collectible
during the previous year. The pro?
duction of a certificate or of the receipt
of the officer autharized to collect such
taxes shall be conclusive proof of the
payment thereof.
Sec. 10. Each clerk of the poll shall
keep a poll list, which shall contain oue
column headed "Names cf Voters,"
and the name of each elector voting
shall be entered by the clerk in such
column.
Sec. ll. At the close of the election,
the tuanagars and clerk shall immedi?
ately proceed publicly to open the bal?
lot box and count the ballots therein,
and continue such count, without ad?
journment or interruption, until the
same is completed, and make such
statement of the result thereof, aod
sign the same, as the nature of the
election shall require. No ballot shall
be counted upon which i:here shall
appear the name of an office or the
Dame of a person in connection with an
office, other than that for which the box
in which such ballot is found shall be
designated and labeled. If, in count?
ing, two or more like bailors shall be
found folded together compactly, only
one shall be counted ; the ethers must
be destroyed ; but if they bear different
names, all must be destroyed, and none
counted. If more ballots shall be fouod,
on opening the box, than there are
names on tbe poll list, all. the ballots
shall be returned to tbs box and thor?
oughly mixed together, and one of the
managers or the clerk, shall, without
seeing the ballots, draw therefrom, and
immediately destroy, as many ballots
as there are in excess of the number of
names OD the poll list Within three
days thereafter, the chairman of toe
board of managers, or one cf them, to
be designated in writing by the board,
shall deliver to the coma issioners of
election the poll list, the boxes contain?
ing the ballots, and a written statemeo
of the result of the election io his pre?
cinct.
Sec. 12. That all acts, or parts of
acts, io conflict with this act be, aod
the same are hereby repealed.
Heavy Work in the House.
About Four Score Bills Yes?
terday Touched Upon.
The floodgates were thrown open in
thc house and the stream of new bills
came iu with a rush, the result beiog
that already nearly all of the most im?
portant, new bills are already before the
body, being well advanced cn their way
through the various committees. Again
the house tackled its calendar of old
biils yesterday and a great many of the
pending measures met a prompt death.
The first debate of the session took
over the subject of seed eottoo, the
bone of contention being a small bill
relating to that product insofar as Flor?
ence county is concerned. Mr. Finkins
made a speech ou the subject of cotton
seed, making frequent references to
"cotton-seed-pops," whatever that term
may signify. During the session some
very important new biils were intro?
duced, many of them carrying out the
provisions of the new CDCstitution.
At one time the bill to abolish the
Citadel academy came very oear re?
ceiving consideration. It is the bill
introduced by Mr. Williams of Edge
field at the last session.
When the house met at noon yester?
day the proceedings of the day were
opeaed with prayer by the Kev. L. T.
Carroll, of the Second Baptist church.
When a portiou of the journal had been
read, the reading of tbe remainder was
dispensed wich on motion of Mr. Pol?
lock.
Speaker Jones aunounced the ap?
pointment of .Robert Flynn as assistant
doorkeeper and laborer.
Several leaves of absence were then
granted.
Judge Townsend then started the ball
rolling in the matter of the introduction
of new bills in the house, by sending to
the speaker's desk a whole armful of
new measures, after Mr. Gadsden [had
sent io his bills relating to : he matter
of allowing surety companies to give
j bonds, and providing that Stonewall
? Jackson's birthday shall be a legal
holiday, theretofore menticned, had
been presented.
The Engrossing Clerks.
The following is the list of clerks in
the engrossing department of tbe legis?
lature, in charge of chief af Depart?
ment P. F. Convington : Miss Sophie
Swearingen, of Edgefield ; Miss An?
nie Burgess, of Clarendon ; Miss
Caldwell, of Sumter; EE. Smith, of
Sumter ; Miss Rachel Hemphill, of Ab?
beville, Miss K. F. Maher, of Barnwell;
J. S. Harden, of Chester ; Capt. W. G.
Hionant, of Fairfield.
Insolence of Turks.
WHY THE RED CROSS
SHALL NOT GO ON A
MISSION OF
MERCY.
Washington, Jan. 14.-Movroyeni
Bey, the Turkish minister io the
United Slates, this afternoon author?
ized the publication of the following
statement in regard to the reported
intervention of the Red Cross sssocia
tion :
"You ask me," said the Turkish
minister, "what I have to say about
the statement that the Red Cross society
has decided not to pay any attention to
the communication until it is officially
transmitted to it by the Turkish govern?
ment or the Turkish minister. My
answer is very simple and it is the fol?
lowing : The Red Cross has never
communicated with this legation. It
has only communicated to my knowl?
edge with the press and the public ; its
president, Miss Clara Barton, assisting,
without protest, at public meetings
where the most gross and unjust abuse
was made of the Turkish government,
religion aod race. As the Red Cross,
or any of its representatiuos, never
visited this legation, it is clear and logi?
cal that this legation has nothing to
communicate to said society. This le?
gation sent its communication to the
press, because it is the public that the
Red Cross took into its confidence.
But, naturally, I will always be ready
aod pleased to give the Red Cross so*
ciety any explanation it may think
proper to ask for.
"This whole question," added the
minister, "is a question of right.
Suppose for one moment that your own
Indians were to revolt against your
legitimate authority. Suppose that you
put down their revolt, and suppose
that tn some foreign country some for?
eigners were to calumniate publicly
your civilization, your race and your
religion. Not satisfied with that, sup?
pose that those foreigners, on the
strength of such false accusations, were
to raise money and bring it for dis?
tribution, through their own channels,
however respectable the latter may be,
to the very people that revolted against
your government. Would that money,
raised on hatred and denunciation,
would even a moral aid from foreigners
be welcome to this great country of
yours, however welcome it might be,
for obvious reasons, to your Indians?
As you see, this whole question is a
very clear one. But I wish you at the
same time to understand that even to?
day, notwithstanding the contrary
assurances interested parties, the
Turkish government has no animosity
whatever against the Armenians, and
only wishes to see them prosper under
its legitimate and rightful authority."
A POWERFUL TURKISH
FLEET.
London, Jan 14.-The vessels com?
prising the new flying squadron, the
duties of which are still problematical,
were put in commission to-day with all
the ceremonies that attend that naval
function. The fleet is composed of the
first class battleships Revenge (flagship)
and Royal Oak, the first class cruiser
Theseus and Gibraltar and the second
class cruisers Charybdis and Hermione
and six torpedo boat destroyers. The
fleet, exclusive of the torpedo boat de?
stroyers, mounts 72 guns and has a
total tonnage of 52,072. The officers
and crews number over 4,000 men.
Rear Admiral Alfred E. Dale com?
mands the squadron. The destioatiou
of the squadron is still unknown.
But little reliance is placed in the state?
ment that it is to proceed to Turkish
waters.
The arrival to-day at Malta of 13 of
the British vessels which had been at
Sal?nica as part of the combined Eu?
ropean fleet whioh it was supposed was
to make an effective demonstration
against Turkey, but which did nothing
but ride anchor week after week, miles
from the Turkish capital, is taken as a
pretty strong indication that the new
squadron is not going to Turkish
waters.
Washington, jaD. 16.-Geo. D.
Stinoon, of Pittsburg, and W. H.
Grimshaw, of New York, two colored
men, have been appointed assistant
doorkeepers and are stationed at the en?
trance to the men7s gallery of the house
of representatives. It is said they are
the first colored men ever appointed to
a position cf this nature at the capitol,
though there have been frequent ap?
pointments of colored men in the libra?
ries and in ether capacities.
A dispatch from Massowah, cap?
ital of Erythrea, states that ou Sat?
urday the Abyssinians renewed their
attack on the town of Makalle, where
they had been defeated with heavy
loss the day previous. The Italian
garriscn fought bravely and again re
pulsed the enemy with heavy loss.
The War in Cuba.
Railway Traffic Suspended.
"Extras" Prohibited.
A Skirmish.
li.ABANA, Jan. 14.-The rebel forces,
under the command of Maximo Go?
mez, attacked the town of Bejucal,
15 miles south of Habana, but
were repulsed by the government
ment troops. Before they retired
the insurgents set fire to several
houses on the outskirts of the town.
They also set fire to the railway sta?
tion, but the flames were extin?
guished by eight men. A passenger
train was destroyed. In the fighting
the troops lost two killed and ten
wounded. The insurgent loss is un?
known.
Owing to the disturbed condition
of the country through which the
railroads pass and thc danger of an
attack by the insurgents, no trains
are being dispatched in any direc?
tion. The authorities here have
started a popular subscription for the
relief of plantation people whose
crops have been destroyed by the
rebels. The sum of ?61,000 was
raised the first day. Captain Ge?
eral Campos subscribed ?2,000 to
the fund, and other officials also sub?
scribed liberally. Thousands of peo?
ple whose homes have been destroy?
ed are flocking into the cities. In
order to avoid creating alarm to the
people of Habana the newspapers
have been notified by the authorities
that they will not be allowed to issue
extras.
HARE AND HOUNDS.
Washington, Jan. 14.-The Span?
ish minister to-night received the
the following dispatch from Habana :
General Gomez, after the engage?
ment at Quivian, in order to avoid
persecution, divided his forces, send?
ing them in two different Erections.
One part has gone to Melena and the
other to Guira. An army column is
closely following each section, and
three other columns are ready to re?
pair where necessary.
General Maceo is in the Vuelto
Abajo district, having also divided his
forces. His main body is closely fol
lowed by five columns The insur?
gents do not stop in any place.
Railway and telegraph lines are cut
and repaired at every moment.
In the Zi 11 as district there have
been several smali engagements with
bands of insurgents In Mondoncas
the column of the Clazara battalion
had an engagement with a band of
Aulet numbering 400 men, putting
them to fight, taking horses and arms
and killing and wounding some of the
insut gents.
Captain Rrobandon has had a fight
with a band of 300 men in Auchea,
killing nine including tho leader, and
wounding many.
The Kazajas district is reported
neary free of insurgents,
BANDITS IN MISSOURI.
Nevada. Mo. January 16.--A bold
robbery was committed last, eight at
9:30 at Nassau, ODe and a half miles
south cf this city. It was pay day on
the Missouri Pacific and five robbers,
with handkerchiefs over their faces,
boarded a Missouri Pacific freight train
at this city, and when the train stopped
at the juoctioo they beld up and robbed
Engineer R. G. Campbell and Brake?
men J. O. Summer, Kioskill and
Frank Roberts. Conductor Robert G.
Trickett, of Butler, was also among the j
robbed, and during the hold up one of
the robbers shot bim through the nose
and in the face. Five gold watches
and something like ?200 in cash and
checks were taken from the railroad
men. The robbery was undoubtedly
committed by railroad men, judging
from their knowledge of the traio and
their free use of railroad si ai, g. The
train was at once backed up to this
city aod the robbery reported. Officers
went to the scene of the robbery on an
engine, but the highwaymen had made
good their escape. An organized gang
of thieves are no doubt working in
this seetion. On Tuesday night the
ticket agent at Richards was held up
and robbed by three masked men, who
were heavily armed. It is thought by
the officers that the same gang com?
mitted all these robberies.
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Roasted by Judge Brawley.
Charleston, January, 15-In the
United States court to day Judge
Brawley delivered a very sensational
charge to ihe grand jury just complet?
ing its work. At this term of tiie court,
the jury have had to find no bills
against many of the parties indicted,
and it was becoming notorious that
United States commissioners and
marshals were making cases on flimsy
testimony in order to get the lees.
Judge Brawley devoted his attention
to this subject. In the course of a
very striking charge he said : "Your
findings have demonstrate 1 that nine
tenths of the prosecutions under sec?
tion 3,242 have no merit in them ;
that they have not been inspired by
any proper desire to advance the
cause of justice, but by the greed of
miserable wretches who have sought
to make money out of them. Some
of these men have already been
brought to this court and convicted
of purjury, and others doubtless will
be, but this evil, which has reached
the proportions of a gross public
scandal, cannot be eradicated by the
punishment of a few obscure rascals.
A new crop will undoubtedly spring
up unless some means can be devised
for reaching the root of it. This lies
in the fee system.
My observation on this bench has
satisfied me that more than half of the
prosecutions under this section in the
lower tier of counties-I would say
nine-tenths of them-are instigated
or promoted by the deputy marshals.
I must do Marshal Hunter the justice
of saying that he has promptly re?
moved every deputy who has been
known to be engaged in this kind of
business, but there are undoubtedly
many persons now on his lists who
ought to be removed, and would be
if the truth could be discovered, and
Ido not despair of seeing the badge
of a deputy marshal one of honor, as
it should be Those who hold the
commission of this government ought
to be above the suspicion of deceitful
acts, and (he men who disgrace the
service should be removed. They
impair the usefulness and bring dis?
credit upon the brave and honest men
who are on the rolls. These faith?
less officials and these worthless wit?
nesses would be powerless for evil if
the commissioners did not lend too
ready an ear to the tales that are
brought to them. The circuit judge,
whose long experience on this bench
opened his eyes to these evil prac?
tices, as mine have been opened in
the last year or two, joined with me
six months ago in a circular letter to
the United States commissioners giv?
ing advice and instructions in t li is
class. These instructions have had
Ittle effect. Human nature has bren
too strong for us I say it with
pain, for 1 would ir ot willingly hurt
their feelir.gs, and they are all quite
up io the average in character and
conscientiousness, but the wretched
system which makes their income de?
pend upon the number of warrants
issued makes it very hard indeed for
them to tum a deaf ear anda stern
face to those who brins: grist to their
mill.
From the Wires.
January 17.
The Irish American Bank cf Min?
neapolis was cloecd yesterday.
Another revolution is iaipeudiog in
Hooduras.
Six prisoners overpowered the jailer
at Sparta, Ga . and escaped yesterday.
Perkins & Welsh, of New York,
sugar and coffee importers have resign?
ed. Tbe failure was caused hy the Cu?
ban war.
The firm of Kolin, Schoenbrun &
Co , wholesale clothiers, of Chicago,
failed yesterday.
The Senatorial deadlock in the Mis?
sissippi Legislature is still unbroken.
MoDey is the favorite caodidate, with
Alien aDd Lowry next.
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