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Union Meeting. Tbe Sumter Union, Saotee Association, will meet witb the ?ishopville Baptist Cnurch on Friday, Marcb 27tb, 8 p. ra, After devotional exercises, led by Rev. S. .D.?Yates, tbe Union will organize. Subject for discussion-"What is Being Led by tbe Holy Spirit?" Discussion open? ed by Hon. J. S. DuPre. SATURDAY. 10 a. m.-So>jpcr: "What Constitutes Discipleship?" Di?cussion opened by Rev. -J. W. Davis. 11 a. m.-"What Constitutes a Live Church?" Discussion opened by Rev. J. R .Smith. SATURDAY NIGHT. Sermon by Rev. J. J. Mevers. Assisted bv ?* Rev. J. R. Smith. SUNDAY. 10 a. m.- Reports from the several Sun? day Schools, to be made by some one from -each school in the Union. Followed with ?addresses by brethreos Joel Hough and W. A. James. 11 a. m -Dedication of new church build? ing. Sermon by Rev. J. B. Parrott, of 'Barkesdale, assisted by- Rev. J. J. Meyers and Rev. J. N. Eotzminger. 8 p. m.-Sermon by Rev. J. N. Entz rninger, assisted by Rev. J. R. Smith. Pastors will please come, und insi.-t on every Church and Sunday School bending delegates. Fiue music may be expected. .Every Church in the bounds of the Union cordially invited to join us. A hearty wel? come to all. Fraternally, T. W. SCRUGGS, Pastor. AU county papers please copy. OONSECRATSITTO GOD. fThe following article should have appear? ed io our last issae, but was inadvertently ?omitted 3 Tbe con8ecratioo services of the Church of the Ascension, the recently completed Episco? pal church aear Hagood, were attended. Sunday by an unusually large congregation, many having come from Camden, Stateburg, Sumter and other sections of Sumter and Kershaw Counties. The church was filled to overflowing and many could not find even standing room within the church. The services were conducted by Bishop Ca? pers, who was assisted by the Rev. Mr. Stoney, of Camden. After the consecration services were concluded, Bishop Capers preached an earnest and deeply impressive sermon tbat breathed the spirit of piety and religious fervor. The key note of the dis? course was an appeal to tbe believers in Christianity, the true Christians, to be bea? con lights of religion aud soldiers of the faith in this age of skeptical investigation and experimental disbelief. The services were concluded by the admin? istration of the rite of the Holy Communion to the many communicants who were pre:ent in the congregation. Tbe boose of worship thus consecrated to the service of God is situated on the Camden road, about a mile from Hagocd and twelve miles from Camden. It is of the gothic order of architecture and is n substantial and taste? ful structure, well lighted,- comfortable and sufficiently large for the accommodation of any congregation that will gather on ordi? nary occasions. The building is a credit to the congregation that built il, and tbe con? gratulations of the Bishop were well deserved, for in building this church and furnishing it inside and out in so handsome a manner they have accomplished a work that would have been commendable ic a much iarger congre? gation. Tbe many visitors were entertained by the I hospitable people of the community, whose doors are ever ajar to the stranger as well as to their friends. To those whose privilege it is to know the people whose .?mi?es bave lived in that favored region along the Wateree ri ?er for generations it is a rare pleasure to spend even so short a space of time as a day among them. There is to be found true hospitality and all cf the social virtues that make life sometbiog better and more pleasant than mere existence. mn* i ? ? i - - Oldest Member of the South Caro? lina Conference. Information was received here Monday af? ternoon, by 'telegram from Raleigh, of the death of Rev. Samuel Leard, which occurred at 3 o'clock Monday morning, the result of a fali while descending the steps of his dwelling one day last week. At the time of bis death Mr. Leard was the oldest member of the South Carolina Confer? ence, Methodist Church, South, having com? pleted his Sis; year oo the 12th of February. He was received into the conference in 1835, and was appointed that year as junior preacher on the Wiosboro circuit, which theo embraced tbe whole of Fairfield and Chester counties and a portion of Richland and York -Chester Reporter. .Lieg a cy to the Church. The will of Miss H. Ellen Ridgeway, of j Davis Station, Clarendon county, whose death recently occurred, was probated yes? terday in the office of the Probate Judge, and she bequeaths her property to the super? annuated ministers of the South Carolina Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church South. Mr. Joseph Sprott, Jr., is the execu? tor. The property is worth several hundred dollars.-Manning Times, 11th. i i i-i - Important tc Pensioners. Under the new law the surviving soldiers will have to meet on the 1st Monday in April to organize and elect two members of the pension board. The board will then be composed of the two members so elected, the Auditor and Treasurer and a fifth man, a practicing physician, to be selected by the other four. The board so constituted will then meet on the third Monday in Ajr?! to ?consider applicatious, etc. Cubans Sign Under Duress. Forced to Protest Against Tiie Action of Congress. Habana, March 12, via, Tampa, March 12 -The protest, agaiost the action of congress being circulated in Habana for the signatures of commer? cial houses, presidents of clubs, corpo? rations? and merchants generally has stirred up a riot here. Many houses refusing to sign have been threatened ; others signed under duress. The mem? bers of the Union club threaten to de? pose tho president for signing the name of the club. The editor of La Discus? sion deoin-ed to sign the name of his p-jper on the ground that he had no authority during the absence of the di- | ractor, who i- ;n Madrid Given tb^ choice of signing or cease publishing, he signed. General Weyler's last proclamation providing for onfiscationj of the prop? erty of those in active or passive aid of of the rebellion is bitterly denounced by Cubans. It is said to furnish the p-tty officials a bas?9 for extensive blackmail operations ^nd also to wreak vengeance upon Cubans generally. Under its terms, the property of any person failing to present himself in 15 days must, be seized. Many are com? pelled to flae to interior towns, or to the cities of the coast and others who have gone ahmad awaiting quieter times, and left their homes deserted or in charge of servants, may lose ali. Thc elections ordered to take place April 19 attract little attention. The three parties will go through the form of holding an election, all voting for the same candidates, who have been named, not by the parties themselves, but by the Spioish authorities. The mockery of the elections will be appar ent when among the candidates are found the name9 of Ge?. Suarez Val? dez, now in command of the troops io Pinar del Kio ; Gen. Pola Aviega, who is in Spain ; Gen. Pando, who is in command of the second division of the army here, and Romero Robledo, who is in Spain and whom all Cubans bate Just how the voting is to be managed while the island is a vast camp aod a large portion of it in the hands of the enemy, bas not been divulged The wise men at the palace have been at work for days on a procla? mation covering the elections, which is waited with interest. A number of residents of Seiba Delugua, Habana province, have arriv? ed here and tell the following story : A large party of insurgents appeared near their town Saturday. The Span? ish garrison immediately took from their homes all the Cubans in town and at the point of bayonet compelled them to stand io a line io front of the garrison. They were in mortal terror, as the insurgents advanced to attack the town. The invaders seeing unarm? ed men standing in front of the Spanish troops, withheld their fire, and finally withdrew wi'hout makiug any attack After this oocurreuce, the best part of the residents of Seiba Delgua fled to this city [Signed] * Clark. - -MCP- f -? The Patriot Forces Capture Another Town. Facts About Some Recent Engage? ments. Rejoicing Over the Ac? tion of Congress-More Cru? elty to Prisoners and Non-combatants. Key West. March 13.-Private ad? vices received in this city by the steam? er Olivette Weduesday night from Ha? bana, dated Marsh 10, at General Aguirre's headquarters, report a battle at the town of Jiguiabo in which the rebels defeated a detachment of Span? ish troops, capturing all their arms and ammunitions. The insurgents under the command of Major Pani Arrango captured the town of San Antonio de Rio Bianco, half a mile from the city of Jaruco, which was guarded by a detachment of Spanish volunteers At the approach of the insurgents, the volunteers sent a com mission to the insurgent leader offer? ing to surrender. They delivered about 80 rifles and 2,000 rounds of ammuni? tion. Twenty volunteers deserted and followed the insurgents. ?rrango's force went in the direction of the Oviedo plantation. There they were ambushed by 300 Spanish troops. A small reinforcement coming up from Maoeo, they charged the troops, dis? lodging them and drove them in great disorder from the field. The troops left 20 dead and the insurgents six killed and two wounded. From Oviedo plantation the insurgents went in the direction of Campos de Florida, where they met a train carrying 500 troops. They wrecked the train, defeated the troops, killing many and captured a lot of arms and ammunition. The report of the action by the Unit? ed States congress has caused much re? joicing among the insurgents. Oscar Heid, a celebrated German i artist, has joined the insurgents and been commissioned color bearer to Gen- j eral Aguirre. SPANISH BARBARITIES. ?? i Jose Azoui and 127 other Cuban j sympathizers have been transferred fco the Morro castle dungeons, where their sufferings arc something terrible. They are fed on bread and water and are compelled to sleep on the damr* ground amidst a lot of filth. On the lUth inst., some Cuban boys ' were met on the public road by a de? tachment of Spanish troops, who fired on the boys, killing them At Palmas de Pedroso, the Spanish troops entered the town, killing every? thing in sight. lt is said that 15 per s)ns were shot, and that among the killed is a man by the name of Per domo, an American citizen. Ac Artemisia it is reported that Span? ien soldiers ravished many women and young girls, and entered the churches, carrying off everything of value. Alabama on Trial. The Investigation Into Elec? tion Frauds in 1894. Washingten, March 10.-Senalor Chandler, from the committee on privileges and elections, to-day Bub? mitted to the senate the majority re? port recommending the adoption of Senator Allen's resolution providing for an investigation of the Alabama State and legislative elections of 1894. Reference is also made in the report to the previous election of Thomas (T. Jones, regular Democrat as governor ( Reuben F. Kolb being the opposition candidate.) His election, the report says, was due to the "wholesale falsification of returns of dishonest election officials in pursuance of a great conspiracy deliberately organized long before the election for the purpose of changing the political complexion of the State in case it should appear that Kolb and his supporters had carried the State " Referring to the election of 1894 when Kolb was again a candidate against W. C. Oates, the report says that Kolb was elected as well as a majority of the legislative candidates on the same ticket, but thal they were not given the offices on account of the fact that a fictitious vote was returned The report calls attention to the fact that in 15 counties the re? turns showed that 50,000 votes were polled when in reality only 16.000 were ca6t Instead of Oates being elected by 27,587 votes, the report ddclare8 that he was defeated by about 7,000 majority. The Kolb legislature, the teport says, was counted out in the same way and in both elections, the fraudulent votes came mainly from the ' black coun? ties," that Kolb and his ticket car? ried a majority of the "white" coun? ties and that the negroes failing to register, false poll lists were made and false returns were certified to on behalf of Kolb's antagonist "The case," the report says, "is not merely one of local frauds which happened here and there over the State, but the case made is that of carefully planned and deliberately manufactured masses of fraudulent returns based upon no votes what ever, but made to apparently defeat a State government that was actually chosen and to give apparent title to a State government defeated by the voters. The report concludes with a de? tailed account of the particulars con? cerning the organization of tlie Kolb legislature and the election by it of W. S. Heese as a United States sen ator to hold the seat now occupied by senator John T. Morgan. The committee pay tho investigation should be held and the facts made known whether they are as have been charged or are unfounded. If the charges are well founded, the re? port says, it may be the duty of the senate to oust Mr. Morgan from his seat. The report takes positive grounds affirming the right of the senate to make the investigation. How the Day was Spent Movement of the Visitors in and Around Port Royal. Beaufort, March 13.-There is about to be another link in the rapid and substantial naval development of the United States Some time ago when there was talk of putting the battleship Indiana in a dry dock, it was said that the nearest available dry dock was at Halifax, the possi? bilities of the dock at Port Royal had not been tested. It was realized that it would never do to send the Indiana to Halifax, and so attention was attracted to the just completed dock, and. inquiry showed that the dock here as well as the port were in every way suited to the task. There are plenty of docks in the country, but the one at Port Royal seems to be the only one complete with a sufficient width of gate to admit such first class battleshi ps as the In- I diana The docking has been anxiously awaited and has been looked forward to with great interest by the people of the South Atlantic coast. The '[ railroads worked up large excursions, j and there was quite an invasion of visitors to see the docking and the ! noted vessel. They came by the j hundreds from South Carolina and ? Georgia, and by noon there were about 2,000 visitors on the ground. Those who went directly to Port Royal saw the Indiana lying out in the stream like a Moating brownstone fort. Tho docks were soon crowded with visitors, and the announcement] that the battleship would be open to them at 1 o'clock was well roeoivptf. The Indiana had quito :t rough time of it down from Hampton ' I Roads, encountering a gale and j heavy southwest winds. The hatches ? leaked a bit from the firing of the ; heavy guns fore and aft for the board of inspection. Captain Evans is delighted with the trip thus far Pilot Lee was brought down on the Indiana arid brought the immense vessel over i?,a.t as if she was a tug. The In? diana is drawing 24 3 and had she been drawing 29 ?he could have Come in as well. When she carne up to the dock she anchored. The' west winds were against the tide and cut it somewhat short, or the entry to the dock would have been made this morning. If nothing unfavor? able occurs and the wes?erly winds are not too high the docking will ; certainty occur in the morning on the j high tide at 9 The authorities of the naval sta- i tion. the dock people and all are I ready and anxious for the docking of j the Indiana and giving her bottom I the first cleaning it has received ' since she left the Cramp shipyard. The naval event has been given something of a social turn The visitors from Geogia and South Caro? lina were accompanied by their governors and staff officers Quite early in the morning the lighthouse 1 tender Wisteria had aboard, bound for the dry dock, the invited guests, among whom were Governor Evans, of South Carolina. Governor Atkin? son, of Georgia, and Congressman, Elliott who has a fatherly interest in the event, having been the first to propose the dock. Accompanying j Governor Evans were Adjutant Gen-1 eral Watts, Military Secretary! Stokes, U. S. A., and Cols. McCrady, McSweeney, Evans, is eal, Martin, j Lockwood, Appelt. Mauldin and! Behre. Accompanying Governor ; Atkinson were Adjutant General Kell, Assistant Adjutant General Brown, Cols. Harrison, Elliott, Wilkes, Cailoway, Messick, West, Inspector General Obear, Comptrol? ler General Wright, Clark Howell, editor ? f the Constitution ; H. H. Cabaniss, manager of the Journal ; C. A Collier, president of the cham? ber of commerce ; W C. Saunders, W. II. Inman and other representa? tive business men. Charleston sent a large delegation, headed by the city council, and among the party were Federal Judges Simonton and Brawl ey and Maj. J C. Hemphill, editor of the News and Courier. Augusta, Savannah and other neighboring cities were represented. Most of the day was spent in sight? seeing by the visitors, Upon the arriva! of the guests at the naval station they were received by Com mandant Rockwell, Chief Engineer of Construction McKay and the at? taches of the station. After beiig ?how:; about the Paris Island station. Governors Atkinson and Evans and party were received with salutes aboard the Indiana. After a nation? al dinner party to-day there was a call for speeches and short talks were made by Governor Atkinson, Govern- j or Evans, Congressman Elliott, Colo? nel Wilson, Adjutant General Watts, ? Adjutant General Kell, Captain; Brown, ?. S. A , and Major Lock- j wood. There was some merriment; over the cross fire of references to senatorial bees that are thought to | be in the bonnets of the two govern- : ors. The government coast survey boat ; Blake is now in port Royal bay to see whether there has been any changes ; in the courses of the channel since; the last eurvey. If the Indiana goes in the dock on | time in the morning, the expectation j is two large pumps will have the I basin empty by noon. The two main i pumps have a capacity of 35,000 gal- ? lon a minute, which means the clear? ing of the basin in an hour and 40 minutes Naval constructors, repre? sentatives of shipping yards, govern ment representatives, the press and many otherwise interested, are here in full force to see the docking to mor? row. To-night the visitors were tendered a reception, and the town people called on the governors and Congressman Elliott for speeches. The weather has been fine with the exception of the west wind. I Most of the visitors left for their homes this afternoon. Governor At? kinson and party left here for Atlanta at 11 o'clock to night. Weeds along railroad tracks are now killed by the "electric weedkiller. " It consists of a car carrying a dynamo which senda a heavy current into a rake of fine wires dragging among.tbe weeds on each side of the track. As the wires touch them, the weeds are "elec? trocuted'' down to their smallest root? lets It is proposed to introduce the same system in farming. All kinds of Sewiug Machine Needles a j Sumter Music House. The ideal Panacea James L. Francis, Alderman, Chicago, says: .'I regard .Dr. King's New Discovery as an j Ideal Panacea for Coughs, Collis and Lung Complaints, having used it in my family fur, the last five years, to thc exclusion of physi? cian's prescription ur other preparations." Rev. 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