The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, March 18, 1896, Image 2
No Dispensary Profits.
Columbia Robbed of $1,000,
Clear and Clean.
Columbia bas not received her portico
of the dispensary profits for some time,
and she evidently will not get them for
the months of November and December
of last year, owing to the fact, it is
said, that the State authorities are dis?
satisfied and vexed over the action in
regard to Morehead's dismissal from the
police force of this city. Chairman E.
C. Harlin of the county board of con?
trol yesterday received the following
self-explanatory letter pertaining to
the disposition of the profits for Novem?
ber and December last, which amount
to exactly $1,000. The letter is as
follows :
Columbia, S. 0 . March 12, 1896.
Mr. E C. Harlin, Chairman County
Board of Cootrol :
Sir-You are hereby authorized and
required to pay over to Coi. F. M.
MixsoD, state commissioner, the moneys
which bave accrued as profits io the
city of Columbia from the dispeosary,
and take his receipt for the same.
By order of state board of control.
W. W. Harris, clerk.
As this money will not be given the ?
city as her share of the dispensary pro?
fits it will have io be used io paying the
liquor constables as required by law.
Mr. Harlin, ic whose hands the mooey
has been placed, will deliver the thaine
to Col. Misson to-day as the letter io
structs him to do.
THIS LOOKS BULLISH.
New Orleans, March 10 -The
New Orleans cotton exchange has
ju6t issued a statement distributing
the movement of the cotton crop by
groups of States for the first six
months of the present season, from
September 1st, 1895, to the close of
February, 1896, compared with the
previous three years The statement
shows that the actual delivery from
the State of Texas has been 1,669,
,279 bales against 2.922,196 last
year and 1,795,279 for the year be?
fore last. The amount brought into
sight which includes interior towns,
stock in excess of September 1st, as
shown by railroad returns, etc., in
each of the three groups of the
States has been 1,691,396 bales in
Texas, 1,625,236 in the other gulf
States and 2,435,370 in the Atlantic
States -a deficit in Texas, compared
with ilie last year of 269,324 bales ;
witt? the year before last, 120,145
bales, and with 1893 (the 6,700.000
?rop year) of 202,566 ; a deficit in
.other" gulf states of 547,820 under
last year and 14.123 the year before
last and a gain over 1S93 of 369,
-529 ; a deficit in the Atlantic States
-of 717,766 under last year; 430,339
the year before last, and a gain of
.110,963 over 1S93
After February, the movement in
sight in three groups in the past
threeyeajs was a follows: Texas,
last year, 315/238 ; year before last,
247 520 and in the year before the
latter, 214,561 ; other Gulf Slates
last year, 527 12.7 ; year before last, '
279.913, and in the year before the j
latter. 308,S59 ; Atlantic States last j
year, 471.974 ; the year before last, ?
408,676, and the year before the lat- j
ter. 402,602 The three groups as
above set lort consist (if Texas, in?
cluding indian Territory ; the second
o? other Gulf States, embracing Ar?
kansas, Mississippi, Louisiana and
Tennessee, and the third, the Atlan?
tic States, embracing North Carolina,
South Carolina, Georgia, Florida,
Alabama, etc The amount contri?
buted, by each group a? above to the
past three groups were in round
figures as follows :
Texas, 1894-95, 3,276,000; 1893
94, 2,059,000 ; 1892-93, 2,108,000 ;
Atlantic States, 3,625.000 ; 3,235,
000, and 2.727,000. The total crops
were as follows : Texas, 9,901,000 ;
other Gulf States. 7,550,000, and
Atlantic States. 6,700,000
. An interesting feature of the state?
ment is that i he amount brought into
sight daring February this year in
the group of Atlantic States was
5,199 bales larger than last year, the
en?ire decrease for the monta having
been in the Gulf States and Texas,
the former of which fell behind 12,
128 bales and the latter 63,510 bales
Compared with February, 1894, the
Tsxa8 crop brought into sight was
36,667 bales more ; other Gulf
States, 62,526 more, and Atlantic
States 60,044 bales more ; and com?
pared with February, 1893, the
Texas crop brought ioto sight was
20,565 bales less ; other Gulf States,
7,978 bales more, and Atlantic
States, 95,857 bales more.
Another interesting point is that
decrease in the movement for the 6i*x
months from September, 1895, to the
close of February. Under the last
50 per cent, was in Texas ; 22 Jper
cent, in other Gulf States, and 28
per cent, in the Atlantic States.
DEFINITION OP A DAM
PHOOL.
A damfool is not a fool under the
sun, but one who has crawled into a
hole and left his heels yet in evidence.
A fool is a harmless idiot ; bui a dam
fool is au idiot io the way of civiliza?
tion, a fool, in fine, who dams civiliza?
tion. Most folks have had spells oi
damfoolishness, bat some people never
get over it.
Chicago Will Grin.
New York's "Blue and Gray
Parade Scheme Pails.
! New York, March 12 -The com
{ mittee of citizens headed by the Hon
! Chas. A. Dana, associated to make ar
! rangements fora reunion of Union and
! Confederate war veterans which was t.o
j have been held in this city on July 4,
i and a parade of tne boys in blue and
j gray which was intended to be a fea
j ture of the celebration to emphasize the
I disappearance of sectional feelings be
? tween the north and soutb, has finally
determined to allow the project to die a
natural death. The opinion of Ivan
N. Walker, commander-in-chief of the
! Grand Army of thc Republic put a
j quietus on the movement so far as the
? Grand Army of the Republic as a body
I was ooocerned. The committee theb
considered the advisability of askiog
the war veterans of the north, irrespec?
tive of their affiliations with the Grand
Army to take part io the parade, and
some correspondence ensued, but the re?
sult was not satisfactory for, although
! m?ny favorable replies were received |
from individuals, expressing approval of
the projec and their intention to take
part in the parade as individuals, there
were so few responses from organiza?
tions of veterans that it was apparent
that the demonstration would not be of
a sufficiently representative character,so
the matter has been dropped.
Col John J. Garnett, an ex Con?
federate soldier who was secretary of
the committee, when spoken to to-day
about the abandonment of the project
said :
"I regret very muoh that the commit?
tee has been compelled to drop the mat?
ter. It was intended to he a fraternal
and patriotic demonstration which would
have been of lasting benefit to this city
and the country at large. But in the face
of the'violent opposition expressed by
the commander-in-chief of the grand
army and his prohibition to the posts
to take part in the parade, it could not
be carried to a successful issue. The
Confederate veterans felt themselves io- ?
suited by the attitude and words of the
commander-in-chief of the grand army
and, under the circumstances, they
would not come north to take part as a
body in a parade such as was projected
It is a most unfortunate outcome of a
weli-meant and entirely laudrble pro?
ject. The date of the annual reunion
cf the Confederate veterans which was
originally fixed for May 22, 28 and 24,
was changed to June 30, July ? aud 2,
so as to give the veterans an opportu?
nity to come north from Richmond to
take part io the parade of the blue and
gray, which was scheduled for July 4, ?
but now maoy Confederate veteran
camps throughout the south Have
adopted resolutions asking Geo. Gor?
don, the commander of ?he organisa?
tion, to again change the date so ?hat
the reunion may be held at the ori?/i J
nai dates in May So the eomjjkree
determined that the best thing r..,be
done was to let the whole matter dr>?>>.*'
SHE HAS GONE,
Tho litt'e alleged filibusterer, i\mi- j
modore. which ha?? been exercising ?
the pubiic of Charleston for sume j
weoks past by her prolonged stay in j
this port, steamed ont of the harbor
at twelve minutes after 6 o'clock yes
terday morning Application had |
been made the evening before to the !
pilot's office for "? piiot to take the i
little steamer down to the sea. and
Pilot Peters was assigned to do so
The theories as to why the Corn
modore remained so long at Charles- !
ton are a6 numerous as the sands in f
the sea Everyone of those 6omi- j
amphibious beings who haunt the
wharves has a different one, and
each knows his to be the only truo
and correct one of the lot. All the
rest characterized as "bosh/'
The consensus of opinion ?S, how?
ever that the Commodore will not go
to Cuba at all, but will transfer her
cargo There was a rumor in the
city yesterday to the effect that a
number of prominent Cuban leaders
who have been in the United States
went on board the Commodore late
night before last, and are r?ow on
their way back to the "Ever Faithful j
Isle" at the rate of thirteen knots an
hour. The Commodore ie "no
slouch on speed," as ber handsome
captain (Hughes) remarked to a re
porter for the Newe and Courier just
after her arrival here, and can dis?
tance any revenue cutter in service
on this coast.
The friends of Capt. Hughes in
this city will be relieved to hear that
it is believed that he has really gone
to Liberia with his ship load of negro
colonists and is not mixed up with
any filibustering business just now.
-IVeics and Courier, March 12.
! "E" 's All Right, After Ail.
i
An exchange says "e" is the most
I unfortunate letter in the English al
? phabet, because it is never io cash,
! never out of debt, and never out of
j danger. The aforesaid exchange for
! gets that the letter <4c" is uever in war,
! but always in peace. It is thc begin
. ning of existeoce, the commencement
of ease and the end of trouble. With?
out it there would be no bread, no meat
no meal, no water, no beer, no gospel,
DO hell, BO heaven, no newspapers and
no advertising. It is always in mar?
riage, and yet remains in single bless?
edness.
A HEROINE.
In 1864 Cornelius Horn and his
wife Lucinda were living in Edge
field county, near Kirksey's. They
had only one son, VV. F. Horn, who
was grown up. Both men enlisted
in Co. K., I4t?i S. C., regiment They
were poor, had no home of their
own, and as these three composed
the family, the mother relnsed to re?
main alone in her loneliness, with no
j means of support, while her son and
I husband went to the front She ac j
cordingly accompanied them, was j
enlisted, and remained with them
until near the close of the war. The j
son was very severely wounded, and j
she brought him back from Virginia ?
and nursed him at the home of some |
relatives She met bravely all the
hardships incident to Confederate
camp life. She did all in her power
in nursing the sick and wounded in
camp, on the march, on the battle?
field, and everywhere that she could
help a suffering soldier. Uer son
died a few years ago of wounds re?
ceived in battle. Last Satujday she
passed to her reward at the home of
her grandson in Augusta Her re- I
mains passed through Greenwood on I
Sunday, and she was buried at Chest
nut Hill, beside the son she followed |
so faithfully throughout the entire
war. She was 82 years old, and has
left her husband behind to mourn
her loss.-Greenwood Journal.
A Giant Fraud.
New York, March 10.-Detectives of j
the district, attorney's of?;ce this after- j
noon arrested Graham McAdams, who I
was indicted several days ago for lar
ceny in connection with the Lloyds fire
insurance companies. McAdams is
charged with issuiog bogus charters for
Lloyds fire int-urauce companies and
selling them. Indictments were also
found against two other men, hui these
have not yet been arrested. It is said
that the premiums of the fraudulent
companies ?D one year amounted to $5.
000,000 and that there were 120'bogus
companies organized. The attorneys
declare that McAdam is interested' in
15 or 20 of them. The specific charges
which have been incorporated into- t'be
two indictment!? were both charges- of,
grand larceny in the second degree ia
selling bogus Lloyds charters. The j
methods adopted by the conspirators in< ;
issuing the bogue charters was to ante
date them so that it would appear that i
they were issued prior to 1892. This .;
would relieve the bogus company from
paying the deposits of $10,000 as re- j
quired roto the state department of ia-:
surance and of the necessity of having j
$25,0{M?> of subscribed stock. Late j
this afternoon, the prisoner was taken [
before Judge Newbnrger in general [
sessions chambers and committed to ;
the Tomb.*.
Mobile, AU., March II -Fire this!
afternoon ?estroyed the fertilizer ware- !
house and elevator and upper wharf
cotton shed belonging to the Mobile j
& Ohio railroad company, and 3,680!
bales of cotton stored in the>h?d await-?
ing shipment to Liverpool. The fire ?
started in tbs midst of the cotton ?cd !
spread from end to esd of the shed in- j
stan tly. With great dimculty the .
British steamship Corso, lying in the ?
slip-siongdsid-e was moved out into the ;
ricer. Sh'! h;id 24,000 pounds of pow- :
der and 300" barrels of pot roi ea tn or- !
board. The British ;-bip Van Loo and ;
the British burl: Ivitly and the Ameri- :
can schooner C D. Hall were rescued i
from tho slip adjoin in ?j thc fir?t slip on j
the south. The Hali was slightly dam-j
aged. Lo.^s On bandings and wharf is ?
about ?21,9'0O, and on the cotton ?
about $100,000 ; covered by insurance, j
blanket policies.
Paints, Lamps and a large stock of Feue j
Powder, also Stamps and Postal Cards at j
cost. China's drug store.
Mr. J. W. Hindmam
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KILLING AT A COLLEGE.
Montgomery, Ala , March 10 -
r Yesterday afternoon an encounter rook
place between Govan Moorer and Wil?
liam Byrd, which ended in the death of
j the former and the serious stabbing of
j the latter. They were students of the
Southwest Alabama Agricultural school
-which is located ar this p1acf\ Bad
blood had existed between the two for
some time. Yesterday Moorer went to
Byrd's room and complained to the lat?
ter of an insult This brought on an
altercation and Moorer drew a knife
and commenced cutting Byrd. Byrd
retreated into the yard and almost
around the house, when in self defense
he picked up a piece of scantling and
struck Moorer to the ground. The
latter rose and renewed the attack when
another lick from Byrd crushed his
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