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Privateer Personals. PRIVATEER TOWNSHIP, S. C., Feb. 3. 1896. According to appointment, the Amusement Club met at Mr. Sep. Wbilcen's Friday Dight and the feature of the evening was a topic party. A number of topics were arranged ior the occasion, and were writtec on slips of paper, which were distri? buted among the audience. We think the most popular topic (whose w>pu larity, by the way, is not confined to young people) was "sweethearts." The moonlight Friday night was cheering, the weather delightful and the young people en? joyed themselves greatly promenading in the yard and discussing the subjects. The next meejing of the club will be held at ex-Sheriff John M. Tiodal's, Friday night, Feb. 14, and among the features of the evening will be a Valentine party. The Privateer Amateur Troupe expected to give an entertainment at Packsville next Friday night, but on account of measles raging in that section, the entertainment is postponed. We recently gave an account of a remark? ably large oak tree which is standing in Dr. F. M. Beckham's yard. There is another oak tree in our township which we find to be a little larger than the one in Dr. Beckham's i jard. This latter oak ?9 in Mr. Sep. Wal? den's yard. Mr. Richard Cain is secretary to Prof. F. N. K. Bailey, the President of the S. C. Co Edncationa! Institute at Wiiiiston. Mr. Cain has filled this position since be gradu? ated there last spring. The Kolb family have a remarkable record io connection with Bethel Church. Mr. Willie Kolb is a deacon there ; his brother Holl?n is Sunday school clerk : another brother, Mr. Mack Kolb, is a former clerk of the church, and still another brother. Mr. Robert Kolb, now of Clarendon, is an ex deacon of Bethel. It appears that the Redboce children don't attend the colored public schools in the township. If it were practical, we would like to see this isolated people have a public school of their own, just as they have a church of their own. Speaking of the Red? bones, it may be mentioned here that tbs Bureau of Ethnology of the Smithsonian In? stitute at Washington is taking some inter? est in them as a race. We were recently icformed that the Mona? ghan public school (colored) of this town? ship, has a hundred pupils. This is probably one of the largest public school? in the State. The teacher, Eliza J. Green, is from Sumter. She bas two sisters also teaching public schools in the township. McD. F. LAMAS LOCALS. An Artesian Well-The Warehouse to ba Rebuilt-Society Notes. LAMAR, Feb. 4-Senator DuBose returned to Columbia this morning. Mr. LeGrand Joye and family, of Sumter, are visiting the family of Mr. J. D. Joye of this place. The contract for building the Baptist j Church was awarded to Mr. J. H. Taylor, and the work is being pushed as rapidly as possible. Mr. Thomas McIntosh, of Darlington, spent Sunday here. Our enterprising town council is having an artesian well bored between the Baptist Church and Mims' Hotel. The well has reached the depth of 150 feet. Our eaterprising saw mill man, Mr. E. C. Reynolds, sustained a heavy loss on Friday last by having a tree cut on'two of his mules while hauling to his mill. One of the mules was killed instantly, the other being fatally injured. Mr. Boulding, one of Sumter's tobacco buyers, was io town yesterday. One of the most enjoyable socials of the season waa giveo the young folks of the , town at the residence of Mr. J. D. Joye, on the evening of the 13th. Among those present , were Misses Jude Hodges, May and Carrie , Joye, Mary Killinswortb, Bessie Massey, |, Geneva Mims and Annie Andrews, Messrs. j H. M. Murray, W. S. Reynolds, B. G. Pitts, 1 S. B. DuBese, R. F. Starr, E. R. Murphy 1 and M. J. Spears. j It is reported that the tobacco warehouse ; will be rebuilt at an early day. > The sale3 of fertilizers continue phenome? nally heavy in this section. B, G. P. A drowning mf.r. would have little use for ! a method of rescue which would require days. A dyspeptic dosen't want to bother with a | remedy that is going to take weeks to show j its beneficial effects. Tbe Mount Lebanon Shakers are offering a ? product undsr the name of Shaker Digestive Cordial which yields immediate relief. The j very first dose proves beneficial in mo3t cases ; j and it is owing to their unbounded confidence I in it, that they have put 10 cent sample bot- ! ties on the market. These can be had through any druggist and it will repay the afflicted to invest the trifling sum necessary to make a trial. The Shaker Digestive Cordial relieves by resting the stomach and aiding the digestion JQ? food. Laxol is the best medicine for children. Doctors recommend it in place of Castor Oil. Ionia Items of Interest. IONIA, January 3?st, 1S96. For WHnt of news I bave not written sooner, and the trouole is I have none yet. We aie so quiet and law-abiding ?bat I never get hold of anything strange. Farmers are going ah?nd as usual prepar? ing for another crop. No tobacco planting in this immediate neighborhood. Some of us had rather risk cotton at five cents than to experiment with tobacco. I am fearful that farmers are going to mike a slip-up this \ear if they do what they ?ire goiDg to try to do, that is, make a big crop of cotton. I never heard of so many horses and mules, wagons and buggies being sold one winter; in all my life, which means something, whether for better or worse. I am not able to say. Well, I reckon it is all in our life time. Something has to be done. Changes must be made, and it won't do to keen in the old ruts 1 all the time. We must get out,'sif it costs i somebody something, which it surely will, j And of all people to learn seose, I will put the farmer against every other class in the world. We are so curious. One thinks that if his neighbor reduces his c'ton crop, that that is his chance to make more and get the benefit. So there is nothing like union with j the farmer. We are all glad when we hear that the acreage is to be reduced. But hew many are willing to help reduce it? We are like the old man helping his wife kill tba bear. I was very glad that cotton went up to S cents last fall. It surely did the farmer and merchant both good, but I knew that we did not know bow to receive the blessing, or if we know we act agaiost our knowledge. I do wish Tex4S would go iDto grain and stock and everybody else would plant rice and to? bacco, so that I could get a good price for what little cotton I can make. But that is tbe way with us all. Miss Agnes Richardson's school closed :o day on account of her sister's illness. She got Mies Irene Galloway to teach two days for her, Thursday and Friday. I have heard of five young ladies that are going to marry soon. Know all Dames and who they are going to marry, but will not say just now any more about it, as I might get into trouble. DRY JIM. From Brogdon. BROGDOX, Feb. 4, 1898. Cards are out announcing the marriage of Mr. John T. Brogdon to Miss Dora McFaddin, of Oakland. Mr. W. T. Brogdon is having an artesian well bored at Brogdoo. P. M. News from St. Charles. ST. CHARLES, Feb. 4, 1896 Mr. John Prescott died at his home on the night of 31st January in his seventy second year. He was buried at Wells Church on Sunday, February 2d. He was a member of the Methodist church. He was a private soldier, Company K. 23rd Regiment. Mr. C. 0. Wheeler had a fine mule to drop dead in the public road last week Miss Helen LaCoste killed ber big pig last week. It weighed 280 pounds. Rev. Mr. Wolfe, of Carthage, N. C., is supplying the Mt. Ziou pulpit at present. Mrs. C. J. E. Shaw is visiting at Capt S. D. M. LaCoste's family. Simon Wilson, colored, whom many Con? federate veterans will remember as a good cook in Capt. Hugh Garden's Battery, died I about two weeks ago. S. D. M. LaCoste. ? - mma x- - In 1S34 Eugene Field wrote a story which he called ':Tbe Werewolf." When it was finished be laid it aside and a year afterward entirely rewrote it. In 1886 be again took it up and revised it, and during thenineyears between that time and his death in Novem? ber last, be rewrote it eight times. His last revision pleased him and he decided to print it. But death came too suddenly, and the story was fcund, unpublished, among his effects. Mrs. Field, concluding to have the story appear, gave it to the editor of The Ladies' Home Journal, in which magazine all of Mr. Field's work, outside of his news? paper articles, was presented to the public. The story will be printed in the next issue of the Journal, strikingly illustrated by Mr. Howard Pyle. Threw Away His Canes. Mr. D. Wiley, ex-postmaster, Black Creek, N. Y., was so badly afflicted with rheuma? tism that he was only able to hobble around with canes, ana even then it caused him great pain. After U3ing Chamberlain's Pain Balm he was so much improved that he threw away bia canes. He says this liniment did him more good than all other medicines and treat? ment put together. For sale at 50 cents per bottle by Dr. A. J. China. The ideal Panacea James L. Francis. Alderman, Chicago, .<?ays: "I regard Dr. King's New Discovery as an Ideal Panacea for Coughs, Colds and Lung Complaints, having used it in my family for the last five years, to the exclusion of physi? cian's prescription or other preparations." Rev. John Burgus, Keokuk, Iowa, write: "I have been a Minister of the Methodist Episco? pal Church for 50 years or more, and have never found anything so beneficial, or that ijave me such speedy relief as Dr. King's Now Discovery." Try this Ideal Cough Remedy j now. Trial Bottles free at J. F. W. DeLorme's Dru? Store. 6 Tissue p*per, all shades, at H. G. Osteen | fe Co's. How to Attain ii.' A Wonderful Now Medical Book,wri? t di for Men Only. One copy may bc had ireo on application. ERIE MEDICAL CO. BUFFALO, N.Y. 1 Epilepsy 20 Years. Cured by Dr. Wiles' Nervine. A few years ago, Mr. L. W. Gailaher, was a;: extensive, successful expert manu? facturer of lumber products. Attacked with epilepsy, he was obliged to give up Iiis busi? ness. The attacks came upon him most in? opportunely. One time falling from a carri? age, at another down stairs, and often in thc street. Once bc fell down a shaft in thc mill, bis injuries nearly proving fatal. Mr. Gallaher writes from Milwaukee, Feb. IG, '05. "There arc none more miserable than epi? leptics. For 20 years I suffered with epilep? tic fits, having as high as five in one night. I tried any number of physicians, paying to one aione, a fee of 5500.00 and have done little for years but search for something to help me, and have taken all the leading remedies, but received no benefit. A year ago my sen, Chas. S. Gallaher, druggist at 191 Heed St., Milwaukee, gave me Dr. Miles' Restorative Nervine, and I tried it with gratifying results. Have had but two fits since I began taking it. 1 am better now in every way than 1 have been in 20 years." Dr. Miles' Remedies are sold by druggists on a positive guarantee that the first bottle will benefit or price refunded. Book on the Heart and Nerves, free. Address, Dr. Miles Medical Co., Elkhart, Ind. Dr. Miles' Remedies Restore Health. Southern Fruit Co, W. H. HIXSON, Manager, IMPORTERS AND WHOLESALE DEALERS IN' FRUIT AND PRODUCE FRUIT ai VEGETABLE SHIP? PING PACKAGES/ETC. -21T EAST BAT, CHALES - ON, S. C. Oct. 16-v. siaao ? ?oj SJ 9 A OD [op Jdd?d qijM siaiqnx aJO?g jpog S.-OQ ? UMISO "Q H t* Sia;qBi ui \vu\2uo pu*? Mdu Suiqisraog Master's Sale. By J. E. .Jer tey, Auctioneer. State of South Carolina, COUNTS' OF SUMTER. IN THE COCUT OF COMMON* PLEAS, j PURSUANT, to the judgments and order | of the Court-, ?foresaid, made in the following entitled case. I will offer for sale at Public 1 Auction, before the Court House in the City ; of Sumter. Count*,- and State aforesaid, on ihe FIRST MONDAY in MARCH next, 1896, \ (being the 2d day of said month,) netween ? the hours of eleven o'clock in the forenoon i and five o'clock iii afternoon of said day, the i real estate dfscrihed, on the terms specified. 7/i thc case of Thc Dundee Mortgage \ and Trust Investment Company, j Limited, Plaintiffs, against Harriet '. Rebecca Saunders. William L Saunders. Ann Catherine Saunders, \ Robert C. McFaddin and Marion j Moise, Defendants. I. All that plantation or tract of land, j know as the "Wash Bracy Plantation," | situate, lying and being in Rafting Creek Township, in the County of Sumter and ? State of South Carolina, cont-aing four hun? dred and twenty seven and one-half (427?) acres more or less, bounded North by lands formerly of Benjamin Gerald, East by lands now or formerly of Burrell Cato and South and West hy lands formerly cf Marion San? ders. II. All that plantation of tract of land, known the "Moody Tract," situate, lying and being in Rafting Creek Township, in the County of Sumter, and State of South Caro? lina, containing three hundred and one acres (301 ) more or less, bounded on the North by lands formerly of T. H. Sanders, South by Raftine Creek and lands of Mrs. M. F. Moore, and West by lands now or formerly W. W. Anderson and T. H. Sanders, together with I the buildings a?d all the improvements there- i on. Terms of sale-One-half cash. Balance on a credit of one year from date of sale, se? cured hy bond of pnrchassr bearing interest from day of sale and a mortgage of the prem? ises sold. Buildings on last uaraed place to be insured in such reasonable sum as Master may determine and policy assigned, or be made payable to him. Purchaser bas option of paying the whole amount of bid in cash. Purchaser to pay for all papers, recording fees and insurance. W. E. INGRAM, Master for Sumter County. Feb. 5, 1896. THE COURSE BEGINS April 1, 1896. Hospital instruction with ample facili? ties for studying special branches will be given. For information-apply to Dr C. M. Rees, Wentworth Street, Charleston, S. C. Yours respectfully, W. PEYRE PORCHER, 38 Meeting St., Charleston, S. C. Jan29 -2m. NOTICE. I WANT every man and woman in the United States interested in the Opium and Whisky habits to bave one of my books on these dis? eases. Address B. M. Woolley, Atlanta, Ga, Box 382, and one will be sent you free. Webster's Unabridged PO In Full Leather Binding. For $1.5?, In 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 A* fl) You obtain the best weekly paper in the j ^pOo^PTI gtate-eight pages of the latest news and' miscellaneous reading and a Leather Bound Webster's Una-1 bridged Dictionary, former price of Dictionary ?10. I have bought a lot of them at a reduced price and offer 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. J Clubbing Rates s The Watchman and Southron has been able to make special Club Kates with the following named, well known papers andi periodicals. The prices enumerated are in addition to the reg- j alar subscription ($1.50 a year) of The Watchman & Southron: [lome mid Farm, 30c. Washington Post, 30c. I Womankind, 15c. Cosmopolitan, 90c. j Farm Nows, 15c. Munsey's Magazine, <S5c. Atlanta Constitution, ? 55c. Standard Delineator, 85c. j N. Y. Thrice-a-Week World, 60c. These prices are strictly cash in advance in conjunction with, subscription to the Watchman & Southron. Send remittances to ,' TS. fi. ?STEEN SUMTER, S. C. SHEPHERD S 2S'? Mating Street, Charleston, -S. C. WHOLESALE DEALERS IN STATE AGENTS FOR SALE OG TIN PLATE, SHEET Iron, Tinners Supplies. STOVES, TINWARE. House Fur? nishing Goods. Galvanized Gutter and Rain Water Pipes-in 10-foot lengths. We manufacture TOBACCO BARN FLUES and deliver them, freight pre paid to any station. 22 Varieties of Oil Stoves and Oil Heaters. Oct. 16-c. SUMTER The Sumter Tobacco Warehouse Has sold more tobacco and at Higher Averages than any Warehouse on any new market in the State. A. TRIAL WILL CONVINCE THE PLANTERS -That SUMTER IS THE PLACE to get the highest market price for their tobacco. WE ARE READY AND WILLING TO DO THE TO? BACCO PLANTERS GOOD. Do not be deceived by the sugar-tongued solicitors from other state and foreign mark? ets, but Bring your tobacco direct to headquar? ters Where there are the largest orders direct from the largest manufactures and exports in the tobacco trade. Try us with a load and be convinced. YOUR * FRIEND. J. A. BROGDON. Mgr. HEADQUARTERS FOE Bargains IS AT T. C. SCAFF FOR THE NEXT SIXTY DAYS WILL SELL AT IO per cent. ABOVE COST All of his stock of China, Glassware, Willoware Sc Woodenware. Also entire Stock of Toys. -[loll CB A magnificent assortaient at 25 cents per piece. This i.- a leader. The Peerless Oil Cooking Stove is the latest mode! and best manufactured. The Wilson Trash Burner is the mest convenient and economical heater ever invented. As in tlie past, a full stock of the best STOVES AX1D RANGES Always on hand. Housekeepers ran be suited, no matter what they m ;y need in any of the iine:: handled by Scaffe. The Workshop is better cn .tipped than ever and every variety cf Sheet Iron and Tia Work turned out promptly. Stove Piping 2od Tobacco Flues manufactured to crder of the very best mate riai. Piping made by Scaffe guaranteed *..> last longer than any other. Am prepared to estimate on Tol>aeeo Fllie?9 Furnaces, Doors and Frames. All sizes of Iron for Flues-Nos. 10 to 28. DRIVEN WELLS put dorcu in any part of the county. Best pumps and ma? terial used, thirty inch points. Guarantee a good flow cf wa'er. Remember the old reliable and stive him a cull. Dec 4.