The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, February 26, 1896, Image 2
It Sustains "The State.
The Report of the Investi
gating Committee.
Thc following report of the recent
investigation by a legislative committee
into the workings of Clemson college
was yesterday haoded a representative
of The State :
To the Honorable Senate and House of
Representatives of South Carolina :
"That a joint committee consisting of
two members of the senate and three
members of the bouse of representatives
be appointed to make an investigation
into the workings of Clemson college,
the service of its various departments
andas to the foundation of certain rumors,
reporting attack of harmony in the]
collaboration of the board of trustees.
That said committee have leave to sit at
such time and places as will serve their
convenience and that they have power
- to send for persons and papers and re
port to the present session of the gen?
eral assembly by bill or otherwise."
Under the above concurrent resolution
we, the undersigned members of the
commut?e, acting through the authority
of the same, beg leave to make the fol?
lowing report thereon:
First, as to the workings of Clemson
ooilege, we beg to say that the com?
mittee visited the college on Thursday,
Feb. 6tb, and remained there for nearly
three days ; that they personally inspec?
ted and examined all the departments
of the institution and so far as they
were able by diligent observation and
inquiry from the various heads and
assistants of said departments, would
say that systematic management and
apparent good order were clearly in?
dicated and especially was this observa
able in the chemical, horticultural and
dairy departments. It appeared to the j
committee that the mechanical depart-1
meot was also liberally equipped for
perfect instruction in mechanics, but
upon consultation with the president of
the college and a majority of the board
of trustees, we were told that to grad?
uate successfully the senior class (which
is large) other additions of machinery
to that department were absolutely
necessary, and should be made at once.
As regards the agricultural depart?
ment, in which connection the Hatch
fund for experiments in agriculture is a
valuable addition, we saw no reason
or necessity for further outlay, with the
exception of two additional instructors
which were elected at the recent meet?
ing ftf the board of trustees. We re?
gret to add, but are nevertheless firmly
convinced from the testimony taken,
tba/ suffiaieot attention has been sadly
lacking in pushing and perfecting the
two paramount departments of the in?
stitution-mecbancics and agriculture.
The evident intention of the projector
and founder of the institution was to j
give to South Carolina an agricultural
and mechanical college, per. se. We
believe, however, that the board of trus?
tees and the president are now thor?
oughly awakened to the importance
that specially attaches to those two de
partments which immediately concerns
and determines the future of the institu?
tion as such, and that they will work
vigorously and harmoniously to that
end. Your committee would further
report that as pertaining to the rumor of
the lack of harmony in the board of
trustees that the testimouy taken points
unmistakably to the truth that suoh
was a fact, and ?hat impediments were
io some instances interposed whian
impeded or stayed for a time the prog?
ress of the institution.
We believe, however, that the cause
which provoked said condition has now
been removed by a partial reorganiza?
tion cf the faculty and the discharge of
certain professors and instructors and
the election of others which impresses
us with the belief that hereafter the
board of trustees and the president and
faculty will work harmoniouly and that
we may confidently look for success and
progress in that great institution of
learning.
We would say further that a cursory
examination of the bookkeeping of the
college disclosed the fact that tbe books
of the institution were neatly and sim?
ply kept, and that the plan of auditing
accounts and making requisitions for
materials, etc., disbursing funds for
various payments showed perfect system
and simplicity.
We have considered also to some
extent the charge of extravagance in
expenditures and from close observation
and to al! outward appearances we are
led to conclude that while errors and
mistakes have doubtless been made, we
nevertheless believe that all the large
sums of money heretofore appropria?
ted by the State and controlled by the
college from other sources have been
honestly expended, but the college, now
that it is finished and nearly equipped
and no further appropriations being
necessary for building purpose, we be?
lieve a similar appropriation ia a*;jcunt
to that cf last year for the current ex?
penses of the present year will be fully
ample and we so recommend.
All of which we respectfully submit
and ask to be discharged from further
consideration of the same.-The
State.
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A western newspaper tells of a man
who: every time he gets drunk, insists
on paying a year's subscription to bis
town paper. He has already paid up
to the year 1964. Some of the South
Carolina editors are tryi?g to find out
what brand of liquor he uses and ii
they succeed will have it placed on sale
at the dispensaries throughout the
State.-Edgefield Chronicle.
The General Assembly.
The Metropolitan Police Tyr?
anny? Not Repealed.
Columbia, S. C., Feb 20.-The first
matter of interest considered at the
I morning session of the senate yester
I day was the house bill to provide for the
forfeiture of the charters of railroads
charging higher rates of transportation
than those fixed by the railroad com?
mission The progress of the bill has I
been watched by railroad men with i
interest for some time, and considering
tho importance of it, it ?3 remarkable I
that it was killed without objection.
Mr. Mayfield's metropolitan police
bill was the other important matter con?
sidered during the day, and the debate
on Mr Barnwell's amendment to repeal
the law was the sharpest of the session
-Messrs. Mayfield and Efird support?
ing the bill, and Messrs. Barnwell and
Buist, the latter taking occasion to re?
fer to local Charleston politics and make
au appeal for his bill to require regis?
tration in party primaries supporting
the amendmemts, which was rejected as
a matter of course.
The proceedings were opened with
prayer as usual, and the routine of the
morning hour, during which Mr. Finley
introduced bis bill to establish dispen?
saries for the sale of liquors for medi?
cinal, mechanical, scientific and sacra?
mental purposes only, gone through
with.
The bill, which is something of an
innovation in dispensary legislation
provides that by a vote of a majority of
the qualified voters of any incorporated
town where alcoholic liquors are or may
hereafter be dispensed as a beverage,
there may be established a dispensary
for medicinal, mechanical, scientific
and sacramental purposes only,for which
the county board of control shall make
provision.
The bill provides that, a physician on
whose prescription the liquors are sold,
shall be in actual attendance upon the
person to whom it is sold, and makes
any violation of this law a midsemeaoor
aod further that any person who shall
desire to purchase any liquors for scien?
tific, mechanical, medicinal or sacra?
mental purposes, shall file an applica?
tion with the dispenser stating what he
wants with the liquor, and imposes a
fine of not less than $100 for any false
statement in the application.
The House to-day considered and
acted upon several important matters.
The registration bill was fioally passed
by the House and sent back to the
Senate to see what it thought of the
amendments the House had kindly put
in tbe measure.
After a lively fight the House inde?
finitely postponed the bill to change the
present application of the entire priv
ilege tax fund to Clemson College
The debate brought out tbt existence of
considerable interest and scrutiny as to
the fioanoial affairs of Chemson Collage. I
There was an unexpected contest
against the passage of a repduiion
providing for the purchase of 106 acree
of land that is much needed by the
Hospital for the Insane.
The bill to provide for a reduction io
che scale allowed for State printing was
passed by a decisive vote. The bill
proposes a general reduction of about
10 or 15 per cent, and the announce?
ment is that printers stand ready to
make a sufficient bond that the print
ing can be done for the rates agreed
upon to day.
When the registration bill came up
for a third reading a number of amend?
ments were packed in again by Mr.
Townsend The Senate will hive a
merry time of it recognizing the bill
when it gets back to that budy,
Bring Them to Darlington.
As is well known, the Citadel ca?
dets go into camp, every year, select?
ing for that purpose two towns in
the State some thirty or forty miles
apart. The custom has been foi
them to go by rail from Charleston to
the Srst of these towns and after
camping there for a few days, to
march through the country to the
second town selected, where they
camp for a week or more. The Sum?
ter correspondent of the News and
Courier suggests that Sumter and
Darlington be chosen for the camp?
ing places this year, the corps going
first to Darlington and then marching
i to Sumter The suggestion is an
admirable one for all the patties in?
terested, and we would like the be6t
; in the world to see it carried out,
j with this one modification, that the
! camp be pitched in Sumter first and
i then in Darlington. The presence in
i Dallington of this splendid corps o?
j a hundred and twenty-five young
men would brighten up things con?
siderably for us in the month of
June. Our people always know how
to do a thing like that right, and we
believe they would give the Citadel
boys the best time they ever had in
their lives. The cadets have never
visited any portion of the Fee Deo
section on tho occasion of their an?
nual encampments. By adopting for
this summer the plau that has been
proposed, they would be afforded an
opportunity of becoming acquainted
i with two of the very best towns in
the Stato. The country through
! which they would pass in marching
j from Sumter to Darlington is one ol
! the most fertile fanning regions in
! South Carolina, and is the center ol
! the new tobacco industry. That
! crop would be at its best in June;
; and would prove quite a novel object
! lesson for most of "the boys in
? gray." If we are to secure this
prize, a delegation should be sent to
Charleston at once to see Col
; Coward before some other town gets
I ahead of us Who will undertake to
! set the bali in motion ? It seems to
us that the Darlington Board of l
Trade could get in some good work j
along this line if they would take j
hold of the matter immediately - j
Darlington News.
W. B. XJtsey Pardoned.
We clip from the Abbeville Press awl Ban- j
ner the following in regard to Col. VV. B. j
U?sey, who was at one time a resident of this j
city;
l,W. B. Utsry who was convicted of for-?
pery by a Pennsylvania court some time j
back and sentenced io tbe penitentiary, has !
been pardoned by tbe Governor of thai State, J
He writes that he has not only been pardoned,
but vindicated, as it bas turned (jut that he ?
was not the man who committed the crime. |
This will be a source of great comfort to Mr. i
TJtsev's friends."
Threw Away His Canes. .
Mr. D. Wiley, ex-posimaster, Black Creek, j
N. Y., was so oadly afflicted with rheuma?
tism that he was only able to hobble around
with canes, and even then it caused him great
pain. After using Chamberlain's Pain Balm
he was so much improved that he threw away
his canes. He says this liniment did him
more good than all other medicines and treat?
ment put together. For sale at 50 eents per
bottle by Dr. A J. China.
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All kinds of SewiDg Machine Needles at
Sumter Music House.
Sewing" Machines from ten dollars up ai
tiie Sumter Music House. Masonic Temple.
Untold Agonies
Every Limb Ached With Muscu?
lar Rheumatism
A Perfect- Cur? by Hood's Sarsa?
parilla.
The cause of rheumatism is lactic
acid in thc blood, which accumulates
in the joints, and gives the victim such
dreadful pains and aches. Hood's Sar?
saparilla neutralizes the acid, purifies
the blood and thus cures rheumatism.
"Fiveyears agc I had my first attack
of lumbago or muscular rheumatism.
?1 was in bed two
gk weeks. I had a
3h\ good physician
|M but he did not do
lill me any good. A
jag? friend recom
pf mended Hood's
?%J Sarsa]5arilla and
?4 I sent for a bot
^ tie. At that time
I ached in every
7 limb, especially
in my back and
k hip. I felt as
though I had a
fever and for a
5?S3& few hours at
Mr. Thoma* S. Pallier ...
Abbeville, s. c. night it was im?
possible o sleep. I suffered untold agonies.
Constipation was not the least of my
troubles. I commenced to take Hood's
Sarsaparilla ar.d felt a dee;oed change in'
three (Live. I "ras able to get ont of bed
Hood's Cures
9.TK: ?:'. r.'* tho i "1 r?<Mir-3 cf a week.
I jr .: t-co-V:: !. ? d if. '? ' l^i remedy for
in: ._.>.?. ioi, a; . \. I over 'cried."
nit'
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"AN ORDINANCE"
Entitled :tAn Ordinance lo require and regu?
late the Registration of Voters of City of
Sumter, S. C., for the Municipal Election
for Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Sum?
ter, to be held on 2d Tuesday, 14th day, of
April, A. D., 1896."
BE IT ORDAINED by the Mayor and Alder?
men of the City of Sumter in Council assem?
bled and by tbe authority ot' same.
Section 1. That Books of Registration for
the registration of persons qualified to vote
at the Municipal Election to be held in the
City of Sumter on the 2d Tuesday, 14th day
of April A. D , 1896, for Mayor and eight (8)
Aldermen, to serve for two years next eusu
iog, shall be opened, at the Office of the
Clerk and Treasurer of City of Sumter on tbe
13th day of March proximo.
That said Books of Registration shall be
kept open for registration of voters, during
fifteen (15) days thereafter, from 9 o'clock
a. m., until 2 o'clock p. m., each (tay, and
shall be finally closed on the 28th day of
March thereafter at 6 o'clock p. m., and only
such persons as are duly registered in said
Books of Registration, shall be entitled to
vote at said Municipal Election.
Sec. 2. That each person presenting him?
self for registration at said office of Clerk and
Treasurer shall be required to give his age,
name, residence and satisfactory proof of his
qualifications to vote, and shall be entitled
to receive a Certificate of Registration, which
Certificate of Registration may be required of
any voter at said ejection as a condition pre?
cedent to voting.
Sec 3. That at the next meeting of the
City Council of City of Sumter, after the
closing of the Books of Registration, to be
held on Tuesday, the thirty-first day of
March thereafter, at 4 o'clock p. m.. ali com?
plaints and petitions of any person or per?
son?, who may have been refused a Certificate
of Registration by reason of any doubt of
riir'nt to register, are hereby notified to be
:ind appear before said City Council, with
evidence necessary to establish such right to
register, as may be claimed, and ii so estab?
lished to the satisfaction of said City Coun?
cil, such pt or persons shali receive such
certificate.
Sec. 4. That after a certificate of Regis
tratioo has been i?;ued to any person, and
been lost or destroyed such person may apply
to the Clerk and Treasurer, for a duplicate
certificate, an i the ('?erk and Treasurer is
hereby authorized to is.sue such duplicate cer?
tificate upon proof of loss or destruction <;! the
Original Certificate of Registration, and upon
payment of twenty-live cents lor use cf City
of Sumter for every duplicate Certificate so
issued.
Dene and Ratified in City Council assem?
bled atid under the Corporate Seal of the City
of Sumter, S. C , this i&th dav of February,
A. D., 1890.
B. G. PIERSON,
[SEAL.] Mayor.
C. M. HURST, Clark & Treasurer.
Feb 19-21
Atlantic Coast Line.
WILMINGTON. COLUMBIA AND A?G?S
TA RAILROAD.
CONDENSED SCHEDULE.
TRAINS GOING SOUTH.
Dated Nov. 17- 1896. No.55 ?No 51
Leave Wilmington
Leave Marion
Anice Florene?
Leave Florence
Arrive Sumter
Leave Sumter
Arrive Columbia
P. Vf.
*3 30i
i
6 29]
7 io!
P M. ? A.M. I
*? 45 *3 29;
3 53 4 33.
So.52.
P. M. ! A.M. j
S 53: *9 48:
.o loi ii os!
No. 52 runs through fro m j Charleston ru
Central R. R., leaving Lanes.3.38 a. m., Man
nine 9 15 a. ra.
TRAINS GOING NORTH.
Ko.54.No.53
Leave Columbia
Arrive Sumter^
Leave Sumter
Arrive Florence
Leave Florence
Leave Marion
Arrive Wilmington
A.M. I P.M
*5 20! ?4 40?
6 43
A. M.
6 43
7 55!
A. M
8 25
9 06
ll 50!
5 58
No. 50.
P.M.
*6 05
I 7 20
*Daily. fDaily except Sunday.
No. 53 runs through to Charleston, S. C
via Central R. R., arriving Manning 6 35)
m., Lanc9 7 12 pm, Charleston 8 52 p. ra.
Trains on Wilmington & Conway R. R
leave Chadbourn 10 20 a. m., arrive at Coo
way 12 35 p. m., returning le^ve Conway al
2 30 p m., ar-ive Chadbourn 5 00 p. m..
leave Chadbourn 35 p. m., arrive at Hub at
6 20 p. m., returni ?eave Hub 8 lo a. m ,
arrive at Chadbourn 9.00 a. m. Daily ex?
cept Sundav.
JOHN F. DIVINE, Gen'l Supt
J. R KEN LY, Gen'l Manager.
T. M. EMERSON, Traffic Managpr
"THE CHARLESTON Lil:'
South Carolina and Georgia Kailroad.
PASSENGER DEPARTMENT.
Corrected to Nov. 10th, 1835
(Daily.)
Lv Charleston 7 20 a m 5 30 p rn
Ar Summerville 7 56 am 6 10 p a
" Pregnalls 8 28 a m 6 50 p ti:
" Georges 8 40 a m 7 04 p m
"Branchville 9 12am 7 50 pm
" Rowesville 9 25 a m 8 07 p ic
" Orangeburg 9 38 a m 8 24 p m
" St. Matthews 9 58 a m 8 48 p m
" Fort Motte 10 10 am 9 03 pm
" Ringville 10 20 a m 9 20 p m
u Columbia 1105 am 10 10 p rn
Lv Columbia 7 00 a m 4 00 p m
Ar Ringville 7 45 a m 4 44 p m
" Fort Motte 7 57 a ra 4 55 p m
" St Matthews 8 08 a m 5 09 p m
" Orangeburg 8 32 K ra 5 27 p m
" Rowesvillft 8 48 h ' 5 42 p m
" Branchville 9 05 f i 5 55 p m
" Georges 9 45 a i 6 37 p m
"Pregnalls 9 58 a . J 6 50 pm
" Summerville 10 32 a ic 7 22 p m
"Charleston 1110 am 8 00 pm
Lv Charleston 7 20 a m 5 30 p m
" Branchville 9 25 a m 7 50 p rc
" Bamberg 9 51 a m 8 19pm
.. Denmark 10 02 a m 8 31 p ni
" Blackville 10 20 a m 9 50 p m
" Williston 10 37 am 9 10pm
' Aiken ll 19 am 9 57 pm
Ar Augusta 12 01pm 10 45 pm
Lv Augusta 6 25 e. m 3 20 p m
" Aiken 7 14 a m 4 07 p m
" Williston 7 57 a m 4 44 p ra
" Blackville 8 14 a m 5 03 p m
" Denmark 8 28 a m 5 17pm
Bamberg 8 41 a m 5 29 p tu
"Branchville 9 20 am 5 55 p ir
Ar Charleston 1110 a m 8 00 p a
Fast Express, Augusta and Washington, witn
Through Sleepers to New York.
Lv Augusta 2 25 p m
Ar Aiken 3 05 pm
" Denmark 4 12 p m
Lv Denmark 6 16 a m
" Aiken 7 19 a m
Ar Augusta 8 00 a m
Daily except Snnday.
Lv Camden 8 55 a m 2 25 p m
" Camden Junction 9 48 am 3 55 pm
Ar Ringville 10 20 a ra 4 35
Lv Ringville 10 35 am 6 00 a
" Camden Junction ll 10 a m 6 40 a m
Ar Camden 12 05 pm 8 15am
E. S. BOWEN, L. A. EMERSON,
Gen. Manager. Traffic Manager.
Genera! offices-Charleston S. C.
CO-PARTNERSHIP NOTICE.
THE UNDERSIGNED have this day form?
ed a Co-partnership for the practice of
law, under firm name of VVilson & Hurst.
All business entrusted to them will receive
prompt attention. Will practice in Sumter j
and adjoining counties.
H. FRANK WILSON,
C. M. HURST, JR.;
Jan. 9.
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