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THE TR CE SOUTHRON, Established Jane,1366
Consolidated Aug. 2,1881
Sew Series-Vol. XV. No 30
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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 use of
"HOME tfEBTILIZESS."
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 the 5ve farm?
ers in 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 Aooual Circu?
lar; and
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 all farmers, no matter
what quantity they buy.?
RV LES FOR THE CONTEST.
The laud to be measured and crops weighed
bj two disinterested parties, who are to report
in full to the dealer from whom the goods
were bought; he to forward the reports to us
on or before 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 5tb, 1896.
Boy kin, Canner & Co.,
BALTIMORE, MD.
FOR SALE BY
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SUMTER, S. C.
Dispensary and Schools.
The Politicians Smarter Than
the Educationalists.
Colombia, Feb. 10.-There seems to
be very mach of a tangle about the
.dispensary profits going to the State
fand. To-day a member of the Con?
vention gave some "inside" history
about the fand, and how Mr. Scruggs,
of the dispensary, is the discoverer of
the fand for general purposes. Said
the member of the Convention ;
"The most serions objection to the
scheme of giving the dispensary profits
to the school fand was that it was ne?
cessary to have the benefit of every dol?
lar that the dispensary would pay into
the State treasury this year io order to
keep down the State levy to a point
where widespread dissatisfaction would
not arise. Satisfied of the correctness
of their position the gentleman said
that after it passed its first reading the
opposition determined to kill it when it
again came up.
<4I called on Chief Bookkeeper
Scruggs, at the dispensary," he con?
tinued, "to obtain what information I
could from him as to the status of the
dispensary, at the ssme time telling him
my intention to fight the provision for
turning over the profits to the schools
when it again carno up. Mr. Scruggs
agreed with me thai: it would be unwise
to give the dispensary profits to any
specific fund until two years hence, or
until we could get rid of the increased
expenses of the Convention without a
higher tax levy.
"After reading the clause which I
had handed him Mr. Scruggs advised
against reopening the questioo m the
Convention, stating that my opponents,
with Senator Tillman in the lead, were
too powerful, and farther advising me
to let the clause pass in its present
shape, as there was nothing in it retro?
active, and that the general fund of the
State would get nearly ?250,000, be?
fore the school fund would get a cent.
Relying upon his judgment as a busi?
ness man, I took his advice and allowed
the matter to pass in its present shape
without further objection from me, and
I am now satisfied that Mr. Scruggs j
was eminently correct io the premises." I
Your correspondent asked Mr. Scruggs I
about the matter to-day, bat he posi?
tively refused to discuss it, but
Drcmptly consented to elucidate the
unearned profit feature of thc- dispen?
sary that seems to confuse so many.
So as to get ii succinct, and clear
statement of the history of this fund,
that it is intended to put in the general
food, I asked Mr. S. W. Scruggs u
review ihe mattr. and he said :
''The contention is that the genera
fund a D d not the school fund is e o r i tl ec
to the ?243,816 57 net profit, whicl
has accrued to December 31, and no
the school fudd as provided by the nev
Constitution. No part of this amoun
is an unearned profit, as has been pub?
lished, but, on the contrary, it is at
'earned* profit. On. December 31
there was aa 'unearned' profit of ?25,
571 85, which is all the main profit ex?
isting outstanding, which repr?sent?e
the State's profit (added at the time ol
shipment) on goods unsold in hands ol
county dispensers on December 31.
This 'unearned' profit will not go tc
the general State fund, but will go tc
the school (und wheo it shall have
accrued, as it will have accrued aftet
the new Constitution becomes operative.
"The new Constitution provides thal
the net earnings of the State dispen?
sary shall go to the school fund from
January 1. As that clause of the Con?
stitution making this specific provision
is not retroactive and only makes pro?
vision for a specific application of the
net earnings of the State dispensary
from January 1, then it is reasonable to
assume that all net income to the State,
from any source, not set apart bj
statutory enactment or constitutional
ordination for a sp?cifie fund goes to
the general (or unspecific) fund of the
State. Well, a net profit to the State
to the amount of ?243,816 57 had
accrued to the State to December 31,
and before the new Constitution bad be?
come a thing of life. On January the
1st I closed my profit and loss account
and passed this amount to the credit of
the State treasury-general fund-and
it stands to-day on the books as a lia?
bility due the general fund. In No?
vember a loan was made to the treas?
ury of $50,000 from the surplus fund
of the dispensary. This amount was
charged to State treasury, general
fund, and the diff?rence between the
two sides of this particular ledger ac?
count is $193,816 57 in favor of the
State. This balance is a net earned
profit-not an unearned profit, as has
been erroneously stated-and my con?
tention is that tbe school fund cannot
become the beneficiary of any part of
the cash surplus of the State dispen?
sary hereafter to accumulate until this
liability of ?193,816 57 has been paid
into the general fund of the State,
which will be eighteen mooth or two
years. Of course all net profit accru?
ing from the State dispensary from Jan?
uary 1 will bf entered to the credit of
the school fund from time to time as
the profit arises, and when the general
fund account, which stands on the dis?
pensary ledger as a liability, shall
have beeo liquidated, then it will be in
j order to turn over to the school fund all
I ca?h surplus as rapidly as it accumu?
lates.
"It must be remembered that the net
accrued profit of ?243,816 57 to De?
cember 31 does Bot represent that
amount of profit io cash, but only cash
in part. It represents that amount io
assets io excess of the total liabilities
of the dispensary. Those assets con?
sist of cash, merchandise, supplies and
other quick assets, and are as much of
a net earned profit as if every dollar
was io cash. So you will readily see
that probably there will be to the credit
of the school food of the State as pro*
vided by the new Constitution two hun?
dred thousand dollars before a dollar of
actual cash is paid into the sohool
fund."
LIGHT ON A DARK SUBJECT.
There is always a tangle about the
j time a levy takes place OD account of
the differences in the time of making
j appropriations and levies. Comptroller
General Norton has given me an in?
teresting statement on the present situ?
ation.
"The real condition which con?
fronts the State is this, he
said : "The appropriation for
1896 will amount in round numbers to
?950,000. The General Assembly is
now appropriating moneys collected
from 1894 and 1895, and from such
other revenues as the State may have
during 1896, which will not be over
?15,000. The total revenues from all
sources at present are $775,000, which
it cao be seen at a glance, will leave a
deficit of $175,000. They propose to
meet that by using the unearned dis?
pensary profits, which they report to be
$193,000, which would, of couse, put
the State on a firm basis for 1896.
But we have no assurance that the
same conditions will not exist in 1897,
and the question arises as to bow the
matter must be dealt with then. A
tax levy of 5 1-2 mills, or thereabouts,
will raise it, as you can see, by estimat?
ing the taxable property of the State
at $170,000,000, and then there is a
proposition tc make a levy of 4}, mills
and raise the other ?150,000 or"?200,
000 necessary by imposing a graduated
occupation license, as provided for in
thc new Constitution, which will do no
material damage to anyone. To put
the thing in a nut shell, they have ?
j cither to make: a levy of 5?, rriii?? or ;
have a deficiency of one hundred and
j fifty or two hundred thousand dollars. :
I or to supply the deficiency from r.cw :
j sources.n
The Legislature is now to consider a .
? levy for S'.ute purposes for 1S97, while j
the appropriation bill is for money to
be paid from the moneys derived from
the levy of 1894-1895, plus the insur?
ance and Secretary cf State fees dur?
ing 1896 and plus the dispensary fund
of ?193.000 that has been fixed for
1896. The levy and appropriation are
distinct. The levy is for future pur
popes, while the appropriation bill is for
money already collected or available.
A. K.
Dillon's Denunciation.
London, Feb. 12.-In tbe course
of the debate in the house of com?
mons to-day on the address in reply
to the queen's speech John Dillon,
Nationalist, demanded that a state?
ment be published showing the allot?
ment of shares of the chartered com?
panies, especially those of the Brit?
ish South African company. He
said hp made this demand because
tuc was a widespread convic?
tion that members of the press and
men of prominence in the financial
world and in parliament were not
free from suspicion.
Mr. Dillon protested against an
increased expenditure of money for
naval purposes unless a just propor?
tion of the surplus from the budget
should be handed over to Irelaud.
Referring to the Venezuelan diffi?
culty, Mr. Dillon said that England
had accepted the principle of arbi?
tration after menacing the United
States. It would have been much
more decent, and a great deal
wiser, he said, if England had ac?
cepted arbitration six months ago,
and it would also be better for Eng?
land if she adopted toward weak
and unarmed nations the bame meas
nre of civility which she had shown
to America.
Mr. Dillon concluded by moving
an amendment to the address de?
claring that the absence of a bill
providing for the 6elfgovernment
of Ireland had aroused discontent
among the Irish and increased the
excepting in foreign affairs The
motion was seconded by Mr. John
Redmond, the leader of the Parnell
ite section of the Irish party.
Sir Frederick Pollock, professor
of jurisprudence in Oxford univer?
sity, who has for some time been
engaged upon the preparation of
Great Britain's case in the Venezue?
lan dispute, lias completed his task,
and the result of his work will be
submitted to parliament next week,
when concurrent statements intended
to define the procedure for a settle?
ment of the Venezuelan dispute will
be presented in the house of lords by
Lord Salisbury and in the house of
commons by George N. Curzon, par?
liamentary secretary for foreign af?
fairs.
Honesty in Elections.
The bill introduced in the House at
Columbia by Mr Manning, of Sumter,
"to "promote the independence of elec?
tors and "to esforc? the secrecy of the
ballot'7 will doubtless fail to pass. It
is not a factional or political measure,
and is only designed to reduoe fraudu?
lent practices in the conduct of all elec?
tions in this State to the minimum.
This is reason enough why such a bill
should receive scant favor in the pres?
ent State Legislature. The purpose of
that body apparently is not to promote
the independence of electors and hon?
esty in elections, but to dodge, shift
and evade any and every step which
would lead to these worthy and desirable
ends. The public conscience of South
Carolina has become so degraded in all
matters touching the suffrage that the
popular measure seems to be the meas?
ure that offers the greatest opportunity
for fraud. Under the circumstances it
is a well-nigh hopeless undertaking in
which Mr Manning has engaged, but
we trust that he will press his bill and
make the reasons for its passage so plain
that, refusing to provide for "a free
ballot and "a fair count." tba Legis?
lature will have to declare in effect for
fraud in elections as the vital principle
of government in South Carolina.
Mr Manning's bill provides for the
adoption of the Australian ballot sys?
tem, a system which has been tested
with good results in about thirty
Skates and in other countries. It will
be objectionable, of course, to the
Legislature because among other things
it provides that the the commissioners
and managers of election shall not be
confined to one party or faction. At
the last session of the General Assem?
bly one of the Senators from Charleston
proposed that the election officers should
not be chosen altogether from one fao
tion or party, but he was voted down,
and so will Mr Manning be voted down
unou this proposition at the present
session. The spirit, the intention, the
whole purpose of the present State Ad?
ministration is to perpetuate itself by j
the very methods which Mr Manning's t
bi!! i> designed to remove. Honesty in '
elections i.-; thc last thing that would ;
meet witt] approval from the present .
Administration and tur; Legislature ,
which was cno3en to do its will.- 1
News au;i Courier.
Some Spanish Stories.
Singular Uniformity in the
Results of Battles.
Weyler Still Talking.
Staff Correspondent of the United Press.
Habana, Feb. 12. Yesterday morning
a party of rebels under command of the
insurgent leader Castillo attacked the
town of Managua, in the Habana pro?
vince. A detachment cf volunteers
who were stationed in the tovtn sur?
rendered to the rebels, after having
made a weak resistance, and joined the
insurgents, taking with them all the
arms and ammunition ?B their possession.
A force of Spanish regulars made a
strong defense, repulsing the enemy,
who, according to the official report of
the engagement, lost four killed and
many wounded, including the leader
Castillo. The Spanish troops report
that they sustained no loss.
Bands of insurgents under Perez
and Martinez attacked a detatchment of
40 Spanish soldiers in the vicinity of
San Nicholas, in the province of Ma?
tanzas yesterday. The Spaniards re?
treated to Chicao Chico, where they
were reinforced by the Cuenca battalion
of volunteers, with whose aid they suc?
ceeded in defeating the rebels. The
official report of this battle says that
the government force lost five killed.
General Prats reports an encounter
between the troops under his command
and rebels at Jesus Maria, province of
Mataozae, resulting in the defeat of the
insurgents, four of whom were killed
The rebels fled and the Spanish troops
pursued them so closely that they were
again obliged to give battle, this en?
gagement taking place on the Eugenia
estate. Here the rebel lost 15 killed
and 6 prisoners were captured by the
government troops. The Spanish loss
was one killed and one wounded.
GRACIOUS GENERAL
WEYLER.
General Weyler, the new captain
general and commander-in-chief of the
Spanish army in Cuba, received the
American newspaper correspondents in
a body to-day. He greeted the press
representatives in a cordial manner, and
offered to aid them in every possible
way in obtaining reliable news of the
war. General Weyler said that no
interference with cabling of reports
would be made except when the matter
contained in them was grossly false or
of such a character as might tend to
excite public alarm.
THE "ENEMY OF PUBLICATION."
When asked to define his programme
for the suppression of the insurrection,
the captain general said :
"Notwithstanding the reputation
which has been built up for me by the
filibusters, I can assert beforehand that
my conduct will surely be more deserv?
ing ; that whatever I may do the Unit?
ed States would do under similar cir?
cumstances."
Wheo asked to give an expression of
bis views oo the situation of affairs io
the island be replied : "I am ao
eoemy of publication. I prefer to act
rather than to talk."
HANDICAPPING THE REPORTERS.
Madrid, Feb. 12.-A dispatch to
The Imparcial from Habana says Cap?
tain General Weyler has announced
that he will issue no permits to re?
porters or correspondents of foreign
newspapers to accompany the operating
columns of the Spanish army.
General Pando, tho dispatch says,
will probably be assigned to the com?
mand of operations in Eastern Cuba.
The Spanish in Mexico have offered
the captain general 1,000 horses and
200 mules for the use of the Spanish
array in Cuba, and General Weyler has
accepted the offer.
Risks m Bicyle Riding.
Boston Feb. 12.-The conference of
mutual accident insurance companies
of the United States, which sssembled
here ?-o discuss the bicycle rider as an
accident risk, has finished its delibera?
tions. The companies have unani?
mously resolved that bicycling is a
hazardous occupation, which they can?
not insure against at the present rates
of premium and that in the future, the
cycler, will pay double for his in
surance or receive less indemnity, or
give up cycling, so far as his accident
iosurance is concerned. The following
resolution was unanimously passed :
Resolved, That the use of toe bycicle
should be covered by additional cost or
reduction of deaih and indemnity bene?
fits ; and that it is recommended that
this be provided for by either of thc
following methods : The adequate in- !
crease of premiums to cover the added !
risk, or the classification as an occupa- !
(ion of bicycle riders in ii class twice |
:>.s hazardous as the "preferred*7 risk : j
and i h a benefits in accidents by bicycle ;
riding i-:; specifically reduced.
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<>;.] P?anos t?ken in exchange r'or nev ones
at il." Sumter Music iious.*.
The General Assembly.
Adjournment Not Yet in
Sight,
Columbia, Feb. 12.-The house of
representatives had a dull and un?
eventful day session yesterday. The
members were given a test as to
their desire to adjourn and go home
in a fortnight from Saturday next,
but as yet the day for the final ad?
journment is hanging on the distant
calendar of time, without even a
number upon it to provide for its
identification. And what is more no
further effort will be made to num?
ber it until one week from to-day,
when the house will talk about the
matter again. When this conclusion
had been reached the registration
bill was taken up and after the
house had voted down an amend?
ment offered by Mr. Patton to pre?
vent the possibility of fraud in the
issuing of registration certificates,
and an endless variety of committee
amendments were made. Then Mr.
Bacot, acting as editor in-chief for
the house, took his blue pencil and
an hour or more elapsed while he
made verbal amendments one after
another, changing a word here and
there and every now and then put?
ting in a comma or a semicolon
all without even a dash of general
interest
THE SENATE
This was calendar day in the sen?
ate, and as the calendar was a small
one, with the excpption of the spe?
cial orders, which were passed over,
the session was a short one The
only matter of any interest whatever
was the bill to repeal the law in re?
lation to exemption to road duty,
over which there was a somewhat
lengthy debate, which was seasoned
with humor of au unconscious nature
and interspersed with amendments of
various sorts and kinds, some of
which were offered twice in succes?
sion. The great object of the would
be amenders seemed to be to exempt
boys and ministers from road duty,
the idea seeming to prevail that the
company kept while road working
would te damaging to the minds of;
those classes. But Mr. Moses
solved the whole question at one
lick by making a neat little motion
that killed the whole bill and left
matters in statu quo. The home?
stead bill with the ?300 exemption
for bachelors was the only matter of
any general interest considered.
Mr. Harrison presided during the
greater part of the session and the
calendar had dwindled down wonder?
fully when the welcome motion to
adjourn until ll o'clock to-morrow
prevailed.
American Tobacco Com?
pany.
Newark, N. J., Feb. 12 -The anDual
meeting of the American Tobacco com?
pany was held there this afternoon.
Out of a total of 447,000 shares, 370,
000 were represented. The report of
Georgia Agents, treasurer, gave total
assets $40,782,607; liabilities $32,
182,235, which includes ?342.340, as
quarterly dividends, payable February
5; 1896. Surplus, per statement De?
cember 31, 1894, ?7. 198.290 ; net in?
crease for 1895, $1,402,081 ; total
?8,600,371 The meeting approved
the reports of the treasurer and th?
board of managers.
Paying up the Bids.
Boston, Feb. 12.-To-day was "yel?
low" day at the Boston sub-treasury,and
at the close of the ofiSce at 2 o'clock
?1,700,000 in gold and gold certifi?
cates bad been received from bidders
on the United States bonds recently of?
fered by the government. It was the
second day upon which the banks and
bidders could make the first payment
of 20 per cent, Every State in New
England, with the exception of Con?
necticut, which is connected with the
New York sub-treasury, was represent?
ed in the gold that came to Mr. O'Neil
It came from banks and bidders far in
Maine and from adjacent toWDS of Bos?
ton. This city, too, contributed a
large, amount, but it is expected that
on Thursday, the banks in this city will
turn in their first payment. One con?
cern alone will deposit $500,000 in
gold io payment of the bonds it person?
ally bid for and also for its customers, j
T"'^~ ** - j
Jackson, Miss, Feb. 12.-Mr. Jacob j
Kansler, a native of Maryland, but a
resident of Jaokson since 1841, died
to-day. He was the oldest landmark of
Jackson.
The Cabinet Killed.
Another Bloody Revolt m
Seoul, Korea.
Yokohama, Feb. 13.-Dispatches from
Seoul, capital of Corea, say that a re?
volt took place there on February ll,
during which the prime minister and
seven other officials were murdered.
The king and crown prince were com?
pelled to take refuge in the Russian
legation where they are now being
sheltered. The king had ordered that
ail of the Corean ministers be killed.
The Russian legation is being guard?
ed by a force of 200 Russian soldiers
and marines.
The Cotton Exposition.
Governor Evans has received a letter
from the provisional committee of the
Chicago and Southern States exposition
as follows :
.'At a meeting of the executive com?
mittee held Feb, 8, the following was
unanimously adopted :
" 'Resolved, That in addition to the
delegates provided for from the south*
ern cities as suggested and agreed upon
by the mayor and council of Chicago,
the governors of the Southern States
be authorized to appointed 10 delegates
at large from each State to represent
the agricultural, manufacturing, com?
mercial and railroad interest of the
south in the convention called to meet
at Chicago on the 19th instant and that
the governor of each State to accom?
pany bis delegation.
"In accordance with this resolution
you are requested to appoint delegates
on behalf of you State."
Governor Evans appointed the follow?
ing as representatives from this State
to attend the convention on the 19th
inst.: E. L. Roche, M. B. McSweeney
D H. Russsell, W. A. Clark. J. C.
Wilborn, W. D. Evans, G, B. Kittrell ;
at large, W. A. Courteney and T. H.
Remmie.
Free transportation to Chicago and
return will be supplied to delegates by
the principal railroads.
Mr. Howard H. Stafferd is the secre?
tary of the provisional committee with
headquarters at Augusta, Ga. All de?
sired information can be obtained by
corresponding with b.'m.
Jackson, Miss , Fer. 12-A party
of Western men, woo recently pur?
chased lOjOOOj acrer of land in this
county, are here to-o^y to inspect the
same. They wili divide the land into
tracts of twenty acres, and colonize
with truckers and fruit growers.
Thousands of westerners have located
in this State during the past six months
and all declare their old neighbors
would come if they could.
Rochester, N. Y., Feb. 12.-A ter?
rible wreck occurred oo the Central at
midnight, io which three men were
killed and three severely injured. Aa
eastbound stock train of 23 cars col?
lided with a westbound train of 17
cars. The dead are: Fred Hasford;
fireman; Thomas Welch, engineert
Charles Wood, fireman.
San Francisco, Feb. 12.-Theodore
Durant has been given another respite..
His counsel appeared in court yester?
day with an application for a 10 days*'
stay of the proceedings in order to
allow the time to prepare their bill of
exceptions on ?be appeal from the or-*
der deny'cg a new trial. They were
granted 20 days.
The little daughter of Mr. Fred Webber,
Holland, MHSS , hud a very bad cold and
cough which he had not been nble to cure
with any thing. I gave him a 25 cent bottle
of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy, says W. P.
Holden, merchant and postmaster at West
Brimfield, and the next time J saw bim he
said it worked ?ike a charm. This remedy is
intended especially for Heute throat and lung
diseases such as colds, croup and whooping
cough, and it is famous for its cures. There
is no danger in giving it to children for it
contains nothing injurious. For ea!e by Dr.
A J. China.
- - ---- ni.? -
How To Prevent Croup.
Some reading that will prove interesting
to young mothers. How to guard against
the disease.
Croup is a terror to young mothers and to
post them concerning the cause, first symp?
toms and treatment is the object of this ?tera ?
Thfe origin of croup is ft common c< id.
Children who are subject to it take culd very
easily and croup is ?lmost sure "o follow.
The first symptom is hoarseness; mis is si.on
followed by a peculiar rough cough, which is
easily recognized and w?l never Le forgo IUD
by one who has heard it. The time TO act i9
when the child first becomes hoarse. If
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy is i.-eely givi
fill tendency to croup will soon uL-appe^r.
Even after the croupy cou^rh has develope< ir
will prevent the attack. There is no dao^r
in giving this remedy for u contains notb pg
injurious. For sale "by Dr. A. J. China.
Consolidated Aug. 2,1881.
SUMTER, S. C., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 29, 1896.
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