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m n n an ?KE SUMTES WATCHMAN, Established April, 1SS0. "Be Just and Fear not-Let all the Ends thou Aims't at, be thy Country's, thy God's and Truth's."' THE TRUE SOUTHRON, Established Jone,1566 Consolidated Aug. 2,1881. SUMTER, S. C., WEDNESDAY, MAY 20, 1896. New Series-Vol. XV. No 43 %\i SM? at? cSou?|roiL Published Srery Wednesday, JKT. C3r. Osteen, SUMTER, S. C. TERMS : $1.50 per annum-in advance. ADVERTISEMENT: One Square first insertion.=.Si 00 Every subs?quent insertion.,. 50 Contracts for three months, or longer will be made at reduced rates. All communications which subserve private interests will be charged foras advertisements. Obituaries and tributes of respect will be charged for. Rhind and Meat. The 878,000 Commission on Our Brilliant Bond Issue is at Last to go Home. Baltimore Sun. Toe litigation over the commission j .^on ?5,000,000, of bonds issued by the I State of South Carolina in 1893 was j finally disposed of by an opinion filed to the Circuit* C>urt of Baltimore I yesterday by Judge Dennis, un- \ less an appeal is taken and the decision reversed. Phases of the controversy have been before the court for two years. Colden Rhind, of Augusta, Ga., was ! appointed by South Carolina as its j agent to negotiate the sale of the bonds j for a commission of !?> per cent., | amounting to ?"8.500. lie applied to I R. A Lancaster, of N"?w York, to as ist him in making the sale, agreeing to g:ve Mr. Lancaster one-third of the commission. -Mr. Lancaster then form? ed a syndicate, consisting of Xew York and Baltimore bankers, to buy the bonds. When the syndicate was organized Mr. Lancaster, it was alleged, rep? resented all its members that be had no interest in the commission ; that, he stood on the some footing with tbe others, and that the who'e commission went to Mr. Rhind. Wheo the bonds were about to be paid for the syndicate discovered that Mr. Lancaster had an interest of one third in the commis sion. Concealment of Mr. Lancaster's in? terest, the syndicate contended, ren? dered the whole contract for the pay? ment of commission void, aod they protested against thc payment of it to either Mr. Lancaster or Mr. Rhind. Before protest was properly served Mr. Lancaster had secured bis sitare of the commission, amounting to ?26,000 Then the syndicate contended that he should be made to refund what he had received aod that Mr. Rhind was not ; entitled to the share provided for him. About a year ago a decree was entered by Judge Wiekes dismissing Mr Lancaster from the suit on the ground that Air. Lancaster's liability could not be tested io the suit as insti? tuted. The cootrovesy then continued as to Rhino's rights to bis portion aod Judge Dennis' decision yesterday awarded the balance of the fund to Mr. Rhind. The Baltimore bankers composing the syndicate are represented in the litigation bj Archibald H. Jaylor, Fisher, Bruce & Fisher and Marshall, Marbury & Bowdoin. Messrs. Lancas? ter and Rhind are represented by Maj. Richard M. Venable and Edwin G. Baetjer. THE BOND COMMISSION MYSTERY. Greenville News, 6th. The funding of the South Carolina bonds cost $78.000 in commissions. Of this amount ?26,000 goes to R. A. Lancaster, of New York, who assisted ia organizing the' syndicate. The re? maining ?52.000 is said to go to Cold en Rhind, a broker, of Augusta, Ga. Mr. Rbiod did not orgaoiz; the syn? dicate to ta"ke the bonds. On the contrary he failed in hts efforts todo so. Those who did organize it and conduct? ed the negotiations received no com? missions. They found their profits in the gain in price ot the bonds and ic the interest on them. Mr. Rhind gave two curious bits of information. One of these was that no negotiations for the bonds could be considered ex? cept through him. The State was sup? posed to be offering her bonds for the competition of the world, but the truth was found to be that the world had to approach the State through Mr. Rbiod. The other was that Mr. Rhind would barely receive enough from the Iraosac tion to pay his expenses and loss of time. Estimating his expenses and time at ?50 a day and allowing that he spent three months at it, his share, on his own statement, would be $4,500. Yet oo the face of the returns he is ro receive $52,000. The interesting questions we have long poudered over and several times asked are : Why was Mr. Rhiod given a monop? oly of the hood negotiations, who gave j: to him and by what authority ? If he was only to receive from the ?78,000 commissions he expected to j ?et expenses and pay for his tkne, here was the rest of the $78,000 to go to and who was to git it. Between the ?4.500 for his expenses and time and 'he ?/S,000 there was a lone, glittering, beautiful difference of ?73. 500. Who gets that? ?ir Rhiud is said to have told the brokers and bankers of the syndicate, who were naturall- anxious to know where this nice siicc of fat had brm or would be absorbed, that part of if. had been required for "Legislative exien ses"-presumably the cost of getting the bood legislation through the South Carolina Legislature. As a matter of fact not one dollar was spent for any such purpose So the question remains, if Mr. ?tbind, baVi?g bee? given the mono? poly of the business of placing our bonds, did not get the whole of the $5*2.000 commission who did get it? B. li. Tillman was Governor of this State at that time. If he had beer, a citizen aspiring for office and somebody else had been Governor, he would have said, on this statement of undisputed facts and figures, there is something rotten io the State of Denmark." He said it on far weaker evidence . Why was Mr. Rhiod, of Augusta, given the exclusive right and the spe? cial privilege of placing ?ve millions of South Carolina bond*-.? If Mr. Rhind got only expenses and pay for time from the $52 000 commis? sion, who got the balance of the $5*2, 000 ? R S. V. P: Tillman the Brawler. That senatorial fomentar of sedi? tion, sectionalism and strife-who disgraces the United States Senate and tlie country at large-B. It. Till? man, whose hollow claim of democracy finds repeated illustration in the con? tempt with which he speaks of the respectable portion his.own state, as though it had been entirely subju? gated to his sway, yesterday again demonstrated his unfitness to repre? sent a respectable constituency any? where by attacking the President of the United States Tillman had the supreme insolence to assume to voice the feeling of the West, and his state? ment stopped very short of a treason? ous declaration. This is what he said, as reported: "I know the West as weil as the South, and I teil you that in the States west of the Miss issipi, there is more deep seated ha? tred of New York and Wall Street than there ever was againt the South in war times. I know how the agri? cultural interests feel about these things. You will drive them through starvrtion to bloodshed, and then may the blood be on your own head not on mine. This is what is coming of the policy of Grover Cleveland, who vetoes a bill giving a miserable pittance to a few poor tramps who were once Union soldiers, and then turns round and gives ten million dol? lars to one Jew." This is a cuning Iy devised slander against the great agricultural States of the Union, such as Illinois; Iowa, Ohio, Michi? gan, Minnesota, Indiana, Wisconsin, the Dakotas and at least one of the j more remote Western States. Kan sas has recently thrown off its Pcp I ulist yoke. Michigan, Uh Ms, Ohio, ! Minnesota and Wisconsin go for sound, hard money by a large major? ity of their voling strength, and when it comes to a test on ttiat ques? tion, New York city wil! ..nd strong friends in every principal town in the country, East, West, North and South. The image of starvation and blood, which this bogus South Carolina re pudiationist conjures up. is only the phantom of his diseased, contracted brain, and perhaps the best punish? ment fjr him would be confinement in a mad house. Ile does not pos? sesses the political knowledge and foresight to see that the course he is taking may compel citizens hav? ing substantial interests in the country, whether businessmen, bank j ers or fanner, to look for some presi? dential candidate unlikely to be awed by any of the "raw head and bloody bones" Populist politicians that-in ? fest the land The ' agricultural interests'' of this country, as a whole, want the very best money that it is I possible for them to obtain. And ! when the emergency requires they j will come down heavily on all poli- | j ticians of the Tillman stamp. What i j an utter collapse, political, mental I and mot al, is revealed in such utter? ances as the following by Tillman : "If the silver Democrats did not get a recognition of silver at the Chi- j cago convention, then the Demo? cratic party was dead and gone for- j ever. A new party would spring j into existence. If we cannot, beat you this time we will serve notice on ! you that we will have America for Americans And 'to hell with Great I Britain and the Tories ' (Laughter ) | I If we do not beat you in 1S96, we ? ' will interest von in 1900." The .'honorable senators" who i could sit still in their seats and not 1 rebuke such vulgarity as that, nu wit- j tingly furnish conclusive evidence ol i the degradation of the legislative j branch of which they arc members I -Boston Transcript. j UNPRECEDENTED i N CREASE. The board of regents ot the State hospital tor the insane held their re? gular monthly meeting yesterday at che institution, and a? previously indi? cated in The State they found it neces? sary to basten the arrangements for the accommodation of the greatly in? creased number of white female pa? tients The board found the population to be S60. This figure is unprecedented in the history of the ioetitution. Al? though the board discharged 20 pa? tients on trial, between the hours of 8 and Ila. m , five applications for the admission of new patients came in. After disposing of the ordioary rou? tine business the board instructed Dr. Babcock to have the work on rhe new public road commenced not later than Monday, [r also ordered the work of erecting the walls around the Wallace property to be commenced i tr? rued i -ate ly a-jd Dr. Babcock was asked to hasten the work on the houses on the Wallace property so that they could be used for white female patiente by thc time the wal! is ready . In a short time now the appearance of the hospital grounds will be entirely trans? formed.- The Stare. Must Balance to a Cent Several times recently references have been made to the faot that the county officials were; to be supplied with a new system of record books before the annual settlements would be made by the comptroller general. The following explanation of the new system and its purpose was sent out yesterday by the comptroller general, and it gives the public some idea of the scope thereof : "There has been shipped to your address by the Walker. Evans & Cog? swell company the following books, viz: For the county treasurer, one re? cord book each for State, county and school taxes, one record book for county supervisor for county taxes; and for school commissioner one re? cord book for school taxes "It is desired that these records be at once perfected for the annual set? tlement between the auditor and treas? urer for taxes of 1894-95. "All items of taxes must contain in debit columns all items of taxes chargeable to the treasurer, inclu ding all back or uncollected taxes from previous years, and iu credit side each seperate item paid for State, county and school purposes as indi? cated by blank forms as may have been collected from taxes levied each fiscal year embraced in the settle? ment for taxes of 1894-9-5 and from other sources. When all items have been properly entered in the proper book by the treasurer-State taxes in book for this purpose, county and school taxes in the respective books for these purposes-and the county supervisor and school commissioners have also entered each item belong? ing to their respective departments, then the auditor will check up vouch? ers held by the treasurer with re? cords of treasurer and school commisj stoner, for all schcol taxes must bal? ance with the record in comptroller general's office. '?The county officials having thus verified all charges and credits for the settlement of 1894 95 taxes, the auditor should notify this office and at once a timo will be fixed and tue foreman of the grand jury and other officials required by law to witness ti'.ese annual settlements will be noti ?ed, and pursuant to legal require? ments witness said settlement and sign ail papers accordingly. i?The design ot* this system of records is to Keep in permanent form in each office a complete itemized statement of the receipts and dis? bursement of ail State, county and school taxes and al! funds received on account of either of these funds to make perfect the checks and counter checks between the respec? tive offices. "'The county treasurers1 books thus will balance to a cent for all State taxes with the comptroller general's and State treasurer's books, for all county taxes with books of conrtty supervisor, and for all school taxes with the books of school com? missioner, as above stated. "Auditors are urged to press these settlements forward to the earliest day possible. Do not let matters rest until these records are in order and the settlement completed. "Tiie State pays for books for treasurers ; the county for those for supervisors and school commission? ers." SPRINGFIELD. Ill , May 13.-The Supreme Cr>urt ye*? .-rday rendered] a decidion sustaining the action of 'a Bloomington druggist who refused to sell soda water to a negro on account ?>: h:> color. The Court hol<U thai selling soda water doesnoc constitute the "fur? nishing cf lodging, amusement or meals,'' as provided for in the Act. / Tbe Chicago Exposition Ex? hibit Matter. The State, May 16. At the request of Commissioner Roche of the South Carolina Exposi? tion company, charged with getting up he exhibit from this State at the Chi? cago Cotton exposition, The State pub? lishes the following circular letter to the commissioners of the several coun? ties issued yesterday from the beadquar* ters in this city : COLUMBIA, S. C., May 16, 1896. Dear Sir-A convention of the peo? ple of South Carolina, io the interest of the State exhibit at the Southern States exposition in Chicago next fall, was held in the city of Spartaoburg io April last, at which it was decided to form the South Carolina Exposition company. His excellency, the gover? nor of this State was made president, and Hon. W. A. Courtney vice presi? dent. Mr. E. L. Roche, commissioner, and Messrs. VV A Clark. J. C. Hemp hill and J. B Cleveland, with the offi I cers named, were constituted the State executive committee. It was also de? cided to appoint an active, progressive man in each county as the commission? er for his county, who will have charge of the work in the county and who may associate with him such persons as he deems best to promote the work. A meeting of thc officers of the State Ex? position company aod the commissioners from the different, counties was held in j Columbia on the 6th inst for the pur? pose of considering the best means of pushing the work. The first question considered was the proper division of the amount to be raised for the exposi? tion, viz : ?10,000 The following was agreed upon as a proper apportionment of the funds to the several counties : Abbeville; $405, Aiken ?349, An? derson, ?384, Barnwell $373, Beau? fort, $211, Berkeley ?302, Charleston $1,216, Chester $223, Chesterfield $91, Clarendon ?151, Colleton ?251, Dar? lington $221, Edgefield ?200, Fairfield $211, Florence ?215. Georgetown ?119, Greenville $407, Hampton ?129, Horry $96, Kershaw ?158, Lan? caster $131, Laurens $230, Lexington ?198, Marion $249, Marlboro ?149. Newberry ?298, Oconee ?155, Orange burg ?410, Pickens ?125 Richland $443, Saluda ?165, Spartan burg ?643, Sumter ?377. (Jnion ?195, Williams? burg $155, York $365. Mr. W A Clark, president of the Carolina National bank, Columbia, was elected treasurer of the fund, and ali money should be forwarded to him as soon as collected. It is necessary to collect thc funds at once, as the time is very short in which to prepare the ex? hibit. The exhibit will represent all the re? sources of the State, and all produc?s, manufactured and unmanufactured. It will be arranged to represent the State as a whole, but companies or individ? uals desiring to make special exhibits will be allowed to do so in the space alloted to South Carolina. Each coun? ty o: town will get full credit for ail articles exhibited by it. The duty of the county commission? ers will be, first, to see to the collection of the money assessed to the counties, to assist the State commissioner in se? curing material for the State exhibit, and to induce manufacturers and others to make special exhibits. The commis sioner in each county may appoint such committees to aid him as he finds neces ? sary. There should not be less than one in each township, the commission? ers having charge of ail the details in his county. The women of the State are invited to help to raise the money I for the general exhibit, as there will be no separate woman's exhibit. Commissioners may prepare lists of j ali properties for sale in their respec ; tive counties, as farms, water powers, J manufacturing sites, fruit and stock i farms, truck farms, timber aud mine . ral lands, etc., and such lists should be I printed for distribution at the exposi? tion. 9 As this is to be a strictly southern exposition it affords us an unusual and valuable opportunity to make our re? sources known to millions of people who ! would never become aware of them j through other- channels. It will ad j vertise our State far more extensively j and effectively than has ever been done j bv any other means. We call upon the people of South Carolina to zealously improve the chance offered to them by Chicago's un? rivaled generosity. That city pays all j the expense for buildings and maoage j ment, and the South has only to pro ! vide the exhibits. j South Carolina should not be second to any other State in the character of her exhibit. E. L. Roche, Commissioner for South Carolina. The members of the Farmers' Mu? tual Fire Association, of Ivi^efieid, i held a meeting in Eigeficld last ! week and resolved that, an appe:tl bc made through the township directors if f.ho association- to contribute to tb? relief o? Dr. W H. Timmcrman, w;io Court decided was liable for al! ' looses sustained by the Association. The South Carolina Braiding Company at Work. Cheraw has the admirable faculty of working* in-a hurry while doing work. It does not waste much time in pre? liminaries, powwows and perambula? ting subscription work, but intro? duces and establishes new industries and turns out their products in first class shape, while the people of slower towns are holding down dry goods boxes and "figuring" out esti? mates and charg ing each other with having no public spirit. The an? nouncement that Cheraw .'contem? plated" a knitting mill was hardly cold before merchants in different part of the State were contemplating the goods of the mill neatly put up of? fered for sale at their counters. The canning factory was at work within j j a month, we believe, after it was j j'-'projected. " A very few days ago ! it was reported that the business men of the town and some Rhode Island parries were in correspond- j ence relative to the establishment of ; a factory in the town to make braided rope, corset laces, suspender ends and other such things, and we received ! yesterday a bank of the rope made by j the new mill! It is a very sudden j gaited community in business mat- j ters and has a way of lighting where it looks that is truly admirable. The letter of our local correspond? ent printed this morning, tells the j story of the success and importance I of the latest new enterprise in a brief j but business like and convincing way. 1 The mill began work on Tuesday, and its rope product is of unrivalled character and quality, as is explain? ed. Samples have been submitted to the United States Government and many manufacturers, "and all pro? nounce it the "best of its kind " It is so far superior to other ropes that it sustains more than four times as much strain, its exceptioal strength being due to the fact that it is a solid braid throughout, instead of being a braid? ed skin enclosing loose parallel strands. An important point is that the Che? raw company control the special ma? chines for making this kind of rope, and there is "no limit to the enlarge? ment of "the works.'' The product is sold at the same price as inferior products, and, as previously announc j ed, the mill has orders enough to keep it busy for the next six months ! Cotton rope of the same character j will be made, from yarn tobe spun ! in the mill, and there is an assured i market for this product also in the cotton mills. The new mill is an im? portant one to begin with, and holds a strong position, and there is no room to doubt that it will attain very j much larger and more important pro? portions Cheraw is to be congratu? lated on having captured so valuable I an industry and the Rhode Islanders j are to be congratulated no less on i their good judgment and good for? tune in the chice of a town for their venture. They have cast their braided lines in a pleasant place, and in a thoroughly live one as weli. News and Courier Trade Conservative. NEW YORK. May 15 -Bradstreet's j tomorrow will say : General trade j throughout thecouofrv remains quiet, wholesale merchants continue conserva-: five and the distribution of general merchaodiss is almost, u. hand to rcouth character. South aod northwest busi? ness are most dull and featureless-un? changed from last week. At Urger east ern centers travelers are preparing ro start out, but unfavorable features io recent weeks with respect to cotton and woolen aod steel and iron industries show no change. Collections io roes' directions continue unsatisfactory. SPANISH RELATIONS CORDIAL. WASHINGTON, May 15.-The Spanish minister, Mr. Depuy de Lime, being shown rbis morning dispatches from Madrid asserting that rho Spanish gov? ernment had authorizad a forma! re? monstrance to be presented against '.he attitude of the United States in regard to Cuba, replied that this was directly contrary ;o ail his information and io the explicit, statement contained in the (jueen1? speech He said that his gov- \ ernment had warned him to pay oo at? tention to disturbing dispatches in the press, as they would keep him fully ad- i vised on all points. Thc relations be- | tween Spaiu and the United States, be j added, were eut:.ely cordial, and there | was no friction of aoy kind. Highest cf all in Leavening Pew The Citadel Cadets Win. The First Prize of S6O0 Will be Sent Them. SAVANNAH, May 15.-At thecouclu siou of the military celebration to night the prizes were awarded by Col. Gar? rard. The total presentations amounted to just 55,000, not including the tro? phies. Lieut. Col. Wm. Gerrard, presi? dent of the association, first awarded the prizes to the tilting teams. The first team of the Liberty county inde? pendent troop won the first prize of $110 on a score of '250 points, and the first team of the Liberty County Guards won toe second prize on a score of 222 1-2 points The Liberty inde? pendent troops won the first of $110 for the largest turnout-41 men-and the second to the Liberty Guards withoO men. The prize of $1,000 offered in the zouave contest was awarded the Aurora Zouaves of Aurora, 111. This was the oniy company participating, the Neeley Zouaves of Memphis, Tone, having been ruled out at the last moment on account of a te legram from the Ten? nessee military authorities, which stated that they had no right to enter Geor? gia under arms. They were not allow? ed to enter the drill on specific orders from Governor Atkinson. The cadet companies had to return home iasfc night, but thc prizes won were awaded and will be forwarded. The first prize of ?G00 was awarded to the Citadel cadets of Charleston, S. C., aod the second prize of $400 to the Gordon institute cadets of Barnesviile, Ga. Theo came the presentation of the big prizes won in the interstate drili. Calling Capt. Edgar A. Shilling of the Morton Cadets forward, Col. Ger? rard presented him with a certified check for $2,600 amidst cheers which lasted for nevera! minutes. Coi. Ger? rard then delivered the second prize of $400 to Capt. Porter Llemiog of the Oglethorpe infantry of Augusta, whe put up a most excellent drill and whose percentage was not far below that of the Morton Cadets. Next came the award of the Galveston cup, which car? ries with it the title of championship military organization of the United States. Col. Gerrard received a tele gran: this afternoon in answer to a special letter written Adjutant General W. H. Mabry of Texas, iu which Gen Marby told bim to go ahead and award the cup to the wionicg company, whether the Thurston Rifles of Omaha or the cup were here or not. This Col. Gerrard did, awarding the cup to the Morton Cadets amidst prolonged ap? plause. With the award, Col. Gerrard pronounced the Morton Cadets thc champion military organization of the United States. Gen. Mabry is the sole trustee of the cup, and as he has de? cided it should be competed for here, ali the Morton Cadets will have to co ?viii be to take out a possessary warrant for it ;n some court in Nebraska. ^his concluded the military festivities of the week, and all the companies and commands will leave with more than satisfaction with the facilities and enter? tainments that have been afforded them. Wevler Tries Starvation. He Would Drain the Country of all Provisions. HABANA, May 15-Captain General j Wey!e~ has issued a proclamation orcer i ing the farmers and peasantry, during ' th-j next 20 dajs, to trac-sport to the : towns in.their vicinity all of the corn j and other grain stored upo:i their farms. I This order applies to the provinces of ' Pinar dei Rio, H habana and Matanzas. ; The military ouartermastcre are autho ! rized by this order to parchase the grain ! scot to the towns by the farmers at the ; current price, and if the grain is not j required by the government it will be I stored for the account o? its owncts. I After the period of 20 days hss elapsed, . the proclamation declare?, any grain I found upon farms io the provinces men : tiooed will be regarded as contraband of ' war and bo seized, and iho owners i thereof subjected to ennr.rid proceed ! ings. i Tho rebel leader Manu! Koetro was shot this morning at Cieefu?oes. - .? ' i .?O' II I I ??? - i Santa Barba, Cal , May 14 -The Oregon on her trial trip to-day mado j 16 and 78-100 knots per hour,. This, ! it is believed, breaks ali records fer , vessels of her class. - i. i m ? i - I AU kinda of Sewing Machine Needles a ! Sumter Music House. a-aa---a- ? -- P JI rer.-Latest U.S. Gov't Report 0