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WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 23. 1896. The Sumter Watchman was rounded io 1850 and the True Southron in 1866. The Watchman and Southron now has the combined circulation and influence of both of the old papers, and is mani? festly the best advertising medium in Sunter. EDITORIAL NOTES. When the prosecutions of dis? pensers who are short in their ac? counts begins there will be another wai!. The? will pray tor deliverance from the hands of their friends. Bryan is making the greatest cam? paign on record and his success is so striking that some Democrats, who prefer either Palmer or McKinley want him to stop speaking. Tillman has been howled down in Pennsylvania. How the recollec? tions of 1890 must have crowded into his memory ! The Republicans in this State are * re-organizing for the campaign, and they will make an effort to elect con? gressmen in several districts if they have an opportunity they will co? operate with the goldbug democrats The Genet al Assembly bas the power to investigate the dispensary scandal and an investigation that does investigate should be held un? der legislative sanction. The inves? tigation yesterday was a tiresome subterfuge. The papers that supported Evans for the Senate are protesting*against further remarks concerning his Ex? cellency,since he is down. This is high ground and is very well taken, but how would have these identical papers treated Judge Earle bad he been the one to go down ? That's the question Messrs W. R. Davie, W. W. Ball and Frank Evans, the representative gold standard democrats of South Carolina, have issued an address to the people of Swath Carolina The key note of the address is, "Make no mistake, fellow Democrats ; Bryan ism is but Tiilmauism on a national scale." The address will have but little effect in this State, or outside of it. The attempt to convince the masses that the election of Bryan meaHS anarchy and worse evils will be as futile as was the attempt to convince the majority of the voters of this St*ate that the triumph of! Tillmanism would ruin the State The people ?re filled with unrest, the result of conditions that deprive them of the just rewards of honest toil, and they are convinced that te lief can be ob?aied only through a change in the financial system and an expansion of the currency. There is no ase attempting to stem the tide ; the centest is between the producing classes and the class that lives on the tribute exacted by the power of entrenched capital. The address condemns Bryan for appeal j ing to class feeling, passion and prejudice, and yet the address appeals to the feeling against Tillman, ai d | the eliott throughout is to establish j tbe assertion that Tillmanism and j Bryauism ate one and the same, aiui ? that anarchy and communism will be j the inevitable result of the triumph j of democracy under the leadership of j Bryan. VVe do not understand what the ac? tion <?f Council on the tax license pe? tition may indicate Postponing ac? tion until the City Clerk can prepare a report exhibiting the amount of taxes paid by the signers of the poti tition may mean that Council will not grant t be request unless the peti- ; tio;> represents those who pay at least one half of the taxes received by the wily. If this surmise be cor? rect, Council has established a pre? cedent of attaching a value toa man's vote proportionate to the the number of dollars he represents if Council ?oes not intend taking this view of the matter it seems that instead cf calling for a report as to the amount of taxes paid by the petitioners the call would have bee? for a report show? ing whether a majority of the tax? payers of the city had signed the pe? tition. The determiuation of George W. Murray and his associates to carry the election law of the State into the courts croates DO surprise. This course has been aotcipated for some? time and the result is not looked, for? ward to with any uneasiness The law itself is beyond the reach of the j coutts, and unless a case can be es? ! tablisbed that the law has been un ! fairly and illegally enforced to the in? jury of a particular class of citizens the action to be instituted by Murray and coadjutors will fall flat. And it is more than apt to fall. The nomination of Col. R. M. Wallace for Governor by the regular Republicans is consistent with their professions. He is a regular, old line Repulican and has been identi? fied with the party since the recon j struction era. So with the nomina? tion of Dr. Samps Pope by the Lily White faction. Dr. Pope has a va? ried political record. Within the past six jears he has been a rabid Reformer, a reformed Reformer, an independent and now a Republican The faction he represents at present is made up of a motley aggregation of recruits from all political parties and factions, and they are not second to any organization on the face of the earth in the intense eagerness for office and spoils that urges it forward to the contest in the political arena. Both orgar itions are living and laboring in hope of the election of McKinley, and the nomination of a State ticket is but a preliminary skir? mish to the battle that will rage over the division of the spoils in the event of the election of the Republican ticket. Then the fun for onlookers will begin in earnest and the way the black and tan and lily white fur will fly will be a most amusing and delect able spectacle The gold standard advocates are fond of ouoting the great bankers of the world in support of the assertion that a currency system based on gold is much more stable than one bared on gold and silver. It is noticeable, however, that they do not quote the opinion of Baron Rothschild, the greatest banker it) J the world. In 1887, Hon. Edward! S. Pierrepont, the American minister! to England, asked Baron Rothschild "if a single gold currency was real ly more stable than one composed of gold and silver t" The Baron replied "that the con? trary was the fact, aud cited Eng? land and France in cc urination of his statement, that where there was but a sijigle standard the fluctuation was larger ; that when gold was dsawn from England to the continent for any cause all the solicitude c(<n centiated upon the siagle gold standard; gold being the sole legal tender and no one knowing to what extent il would be drawn away, all the panic and alarm fell upon it, but with a double currency like France, if gold was drawn to England it caused no panic in France, because she had a large rese?e of legal ten? der silver upon which she couid fall back, and which of course would not be drawn to a gold country ; and he repeated that a bimetalic currency was more stable that a single cur? rency.'' Mr. Pierrepont published a resume of his interview with Baron Roth? schild in the North American Re? view in February, 1S^9 ; therefore the Baton's opinion is a matter ol record and the gold advocates have ; : cj i xcuse for ignoring it TEa! DISPENSARx INVESTI? GATION. The investigation of the dispen- ! sary scandal by the State Board ol ? Control was held Us* week. Thc re- J port of the investigation would fill more than twelve columns, and it all ? i amounts to exaetly nothing. Gov j j Evans, Commissioner Mixson. Secre I tary of State Tompkins, S W ?Scruggs, B. B Evans, J. W Mix j son and W. T. M?XSO?I were ex j arnined. No new facts were brought ? out, and the matter ?ow stands in the .saine shape that it did immediately I subsequent to the publication of the I Evans and Mixson letters The Board did not render a dec?s ' ion, postponing action until ihn next meeting. Ali of tn? witnesses confined themselves to explaining what had already been told and made no new revelations. The investigation has been produc? tive of nothing and it may as well have no.t been held. Neuralgia and Nervous Prostration Charleston, S. C , Sept. li, 1896-I suffered with neuralgia and nervous prostration, but Hood's Sarsaparilla has entirely cured me. Ida L. H. Bright, 16 Water St Hood's Pills are easy to take, easy to ope? rate The celebrated Jackson Square Cigars for sale by H. G. Osteen k Co. KING COTTON'S SLAVES. Mr. Wallace P. Reed, for many years a leading member of the staff of the Atlanta Constitution, recently contributed an article under the above caption to the New York Inde? pendent, which, while not a libel in toto on the South, conveys a most enormous and misleading idea of the industrial condition in this section and will tend to discourage those who contemplate removing from the North and West to the South, ile I draws the most gloomy picture of the financial condition of tho aver cotton planter and predicts that those who come to the South from other sections will ultimately and inevitably fall into a bondage of debt and misery from which there is no escape. He says : "The farmer from New Englaud or the Northwest, who settles in the cotton belt on an average farm, with cash enough to run him for the first year, will pro? bably find himself in debt at the end of ten years ; and worse than ail, he will be some country merchants slave, doomed to toil without hope of reward for the remainder of nis life. * * * They will be lucky indeed if they save enough out of the wreck to carry 'them back to their old homes " The motive or animus of the writer cannot be conceived It is true that many cotton fat mers have been brought into the deplorable condition I he describes by an unreasoning ad j herence to the single crop idea, j planting cotton only and buying everything else they require, but for tunately this class of farmers has steadily decreased year by year dur? ing the last ten years, and to-day there are many farmers, who were, ten years ago, struggling beneath what appeared to be a hopeless bur? den of debt, independent and free of debt, producing provisions in abun dance living at home and selling their cotton as a surplus m?n*?y crop What has been accomplished by these men against such great disad? vantages can be achieved also by others who labor industriously and intelligently and live economically Fortunately for the South the biased and jaundiced views of Mr. Reed hav* not been pennitted to pass unchallenged to her detriment at a time when thousands of Northern and Western farmers, the very class of settlers most to be desired and most welcome in the Sooth, are tun? ing their eyes southward with the serious intention of making their homes here. Several influential and widely circulated journals have con trovote?! his statements with an array of convincing and irrefutable facts Several prominent and abie men who are known from one end of the couti- j try lo the other and whose words carry weight and conviction with then) have prepared and published ar? ticles demonstrating the (?me sideness of Mr Reed's statements and- the un? soundness of his conclusions Of j these articles that from the pen of Mr. li II. Edmonds, editor of tho j Southern States Magazine is the j most comprehensible and convincing. lt covers the ground fully, and leaves j Mr. Reed a convicted pessimist of j the worst type and false prophet of I the section for which he assumes to speak. ... mi. -mil . Av ?r 'y S-.:-.'.pin!IM I< not ?i .?evr??; prepara- ? ?io??. A'} phrjiicisui ??!Hj iiitw th? forran In ou 4tiin?t?Minn The -vo-ifi r.f it? socc?-*:? ?s ? j nitrilici::?* ?.'fS id Ita ex?raof ?ienr?" I.:?wt-r,t.O j 1 - -* -. r - tnt ?'J>O?1 of ni:; iii t;:!t' :?-??i con? tbs? j ms??** t?-pi' S"-?ted ?ynsea of hiood-dwe-.se. wesi satisti?u wiro Apr's Hair Vigor. "Nearly forty years nero, after some weeks of sickness, my hair turned gra.y. I begun libing AVer's Hair Vigor, and was so well satis? fied with the results that I have never tried any oilier kind of dress ?t requires only i^^Jj^^^i ail occasional appli 1^1! AVER'S j Unir Vigor to keep Vs_^ .. ' ^k^ny hair of good ^^^^^^^da:u I ruff, lo heal itching humors, and prevent tho hair from falling ont. 1 never hesi? tate to recommend \\er's medicines to my friends."-Mrs. li. M. IIAIGIIT, Avoca, Nebr. Hair Vigor* Prepare! by Dr. J.C. Ayer ;v: Co., Lowell, Mass. Take Aysr's Sarsaparilla tor liss Complexion. "For five weeks I lived on cold water, so to speak," writed a man who suffered terribly from indigestion. He could hardly keep anything on his stom? ach. What stayed, wasn't properly digested and gare him terrifde pangs. Thia is not an uncommon case Dyspeptics don't get enough nourishment They are generally thin and weak They may eat enough, bnt they don't di? gest enough. Much of what tbey eat turns into poison If this Keeps on there's no tell? ing what disease thry m*y get oext. That's why it is be3t 'o tak<- Shaker Di? gestive Cordial, as soon aa symptoms of indi? gestion appear. It cures ?ll ?he evils of indigestion, andi preven?s the evil* which indigestion onuses Sold by druggists, price 10 cents to ?1,00 per ?'onie. Pianos, Organs and Sewing Machines sold on easy terms, and exchanged for old ones a ? the Sumter Music Hnus-, in Masonic Tempi*. A choice selection of high grndlf G ve and ten cen; cigars for sale by H. G. Osteen & Co. Ball players supplied at catalogue prices by 1 G. Osteeo & Co. Buy from them and 8 ?ve money. Tutt's Pills Cure All Liver ?Hs. Twenty Years Proof. Tutt's Liver Pills keep the bow? els in natural motion and cleanse the system of all impurities An absolute cure for sick headache, dyspepsia, sour stomach, con? stipation and kindred diseases. "Can't do without them" R. P. Smitlj, Chilesburg, Va. writes I don't know how I could do without them. I have had Liver disease for over twenty years. Am now entirely cured. Tutt's Liver Pills TASTELESS IS JUSTAS GOOD FOR ADULTS. WARRANTED. PRECE 50 cts, GALATIA, ILLS., NOV. 16.1893. Paris ??edlc?ne Co., St. Louis, Mo. Gentlemen:-Wc ?old last yeas, 600 bottles o? GROVE'S TASTELESS CHILL TONIC and have bought three .cross already thia year. In all our ex? perience of 14 years, in the drug business, have never sold an article that gave raen universal satis* Saction aa your Tonic. Yours truly, ABNEY, CAP.R & CO? SOLD-No Cure, Nc Pay, h\ A J. China J. P. W Dehorme, J. 8. Bngbson ? Co. State of South Carolina ! By T. V Walsh, Eng., Probate Judye j TIT ll K lt KA S, HENRY ? SOU \ RY, bas VI :u:iiii? snit I" me to ?rt:.', ti im Letters ! of Administration, cum Us ts men to ?mnexo. <>? i the Estafe ?fand t?Teets.of JAMES T. SOUR- ! KV, deceased. These arc therefore tu eire uu? . uun-nish ?il! j and singular the kix:ilrc?i and creditor? of the ! ..?aiti Jumes T. Scurry. !a?e o:' said Cauri- j ty and fc'atc, decease'!. i?:;it they b-; and i bc and appear before me. ia the Court of Pro ? bat?;. i<? in; he.Iil a! ?uniter >'. I! . "ii October S, j lS'.itj. after publication htri !'. ;ir ll o'clock in the forenoon, to cause. ?I any they ? have, why the ??aid Au.tiini>tr;:iioti .-hou;d not j be "ranted. t?veri under thy nan i, this TS i d:iy <.! | Sep:e:abcr, A. 1) . ?^Wi THUS. V. WALSH. .Jud?;?. ?.f Pr>?b.ite j Sept 2'A- 2t j The State of South Carolina, COUNTY OF SUMTER. By T. V. Walsh. Esq., Probate Judge j TTTiiEREAS, MRS M E. REM BERT, j ff (Widow) S)HS RI^? snit io toe to' f> rv ttl hf; Le;ieis <>{ Administration cf the; Estate of ?md effects of THOMAS H. REM- j BERT, iteeeai'rd. '? ?y-" ure therrfore to civ nnd admonish all . U?;?I singular the kindred and creditors of the j id THOMAS H REMKRRT, late of, said County a:ol Stets?, deceased, thtt i they be and uppear befor? *;e, in ibe Court of j Prone, t?, t i tra lirld <i.:>.:'er ?. H., on Oe- ; tof,*r S, 189b", after put.-iicaiiott thereof, at ll j o'clock iu tie forenoon, to ?hov." cause, if any t>v h i vt, why the s-?id Administration . ::.'>; :! .?::>: (:>? gi .t. !<-.! ti i ^ 1* under toy hi Hutten er. A i) .189 . <:, :?:l? 2."5.l day of V WALSH. .; :iiii;e o' Probate. SALES OF REAL ESTATE. rpHS EXECUTORS ?H A F. Cousar, JL deceased, will receive propositions ?or tile purchase of t.:? va'tracts of ?and of Ids Eitute, in and near Uisbopvi?e, in whole or :n p?rtele to s::it pinch ..-:tTs. Good titles will be m ide, the ?.Homeys cf mortgages consenting. JAMES E COUSAR, JOHN E. COUSAR, JOHN R. COUSAR, Q lahfied Executers. Bishopville, Sep. 10, ie'iM3 0-23-5t. A New York daily World or Journal is given free to every parcbajcr of a five cent cigar at H. G. Osteeu & CO'B. A Terrible Collision. Hard Times Struck Low Prices. There has been an awful smash-up among manufacturers, And importers lately, who, finding themselves suddenly in a tight squeeze, have been compelled to let go the lever of prices and jump for a place of safety. Some of them have landed right on our premises and have begged us so hard to help them out of their difficulty, allowing us to name our figures, that we haven't been able to resist. We have bought as much as we needed that escaped injury and we now offer the same to our patrons from l? to 25 per cent, less than any other houses ask for the same goods There may never be such a collision again. Avail yourself of these Low Prices. You are cordially invited to call whether for the purpose of purchasing or not, and get posted on the Cloak and Cape, Blanket and Carpet, House Furnishing and Domestic Stock. umter ilry lioods g o., Corner Main and Liberty Streets. Sept *23 "WHAT IS THIS V rn, ^ -. / or 'It is a cut of a Horse and Buggy. 55 "Where can you best buy horses and buggies?" "From a ?jarty who says he is selling them lower than ever before " "How do you know this is so ?" "Well, he says words don't count.much, but come around and see. He says he buys for cash, discounts his bills and takes advantage of everything which will enable him to buy cheaply, and is therefore in a position to meet and compass competition. His name is AMBY. September 21. Sumter, S. C. FIRST SATIOK?L BIM, OF SUMTES. STATE, CITY AND COUNTY DEPOSI TORY, SUMTEri, S. C. Paid r.p Capital. S75,000 00 Surp-?as and Profit? .... 14,500 00 Addition*! Liability of Stock? holders in excess at' liieir stock $75,000 J0 Tctal protection ti.- Depositors $1-64,500 o? Transacts a General Banking Bunnes?. Careful attention ^i??.':: to collections. SA V ?7?G S DE PA RTMEK T. fiflposits of Si up ..var?*? ? received, In? terest allowed r.i 'ht* rali of J ; > r c?*nt. i^r ..?.:inum. Payable quarterly, on ii:si days of Januarv, Atril, Jn!v and Uctcber. ' R M. WALLACE, I, S. CARSON. President. Aap V. Cashier. Notice! ?1 FTER an exi-^riecce :wef?ty-?-ight j XjLyears io the Cab're! st.op of 'ir J. D. I Urnijj, the undersigned Rave gone : : ; ? o ti e ; busiotss nf repairing :.o,d : icanin? furuitute, j ; on their own account, and t'e!::.'? confidtni j cf their anility io ^'.VP perfect satisfaction, t I iespectfuli) tttlicii ?he patronage ?;>' ?he peo- j pie cf Sumter :;nd vicinity. The preparing and dressing ot deud bodies i lor minni will oe promptly ned carefulJj at ?ended tc. Shop oppasite the Episcopal chi;rch. PETERSON & CUTHBERT. . Sept. 1st. 1896. Sumter, S. C. OJcambeaiaiii's and Sinn Ointixent ls unequalled for Eczema, 'loiter. Sfa.it Rheiun, Scalf? Hoad, Sore Nipples, Quipped IT:;;:';.-:, Itching Piles, Hums, Frost Bites, Chronic Sore Eves ant? GninulatedEyeLids. For stile by diuggists af -5 cents por box. TO HOSSE OWXffZBS. For putting a horse in a line healthy con? dition try Dr. Cad;''-: Condition Powders. Tiiey tone i:p the system, aid digestion, cure loss of appetite, relieve constipation, correct kidney disorders and destroy worses, giving nev/ life to an old or over-worked horse. 25 cents per package. For sale hy druggists. For sate? ir-, Snnirer, by Dr. A. J ;"!iina. Ctaijl Loie flo. UL I? rpnE RStiULAK MONTHLY COMMU N?CAT?ON of C!*remori; ly. dje, No. '.'.4. A. F. M.. v.-1 ; i t ,. >.??\.\ on Thursday Eve::ic<r, Oct. )5th, at li ra. Brethren will take due notice and m themselves accordingly. By order, I\ M. SPANN, W. M. ii. C. Mosxs. Secretary. ;ui*2?-iw BUY NONE BOT THE GENUINE. 8.000 Merchants ?-eil Hawkes' Spectacles successfully. Half cf them handle other Spectacles without success, Showin?: the Great Popularity of HAW? KES' GLASSES ovc-r all others. These Famous Glasses are fitted to the eye Dr.A. J. China's Drug Store, Sumter. S. G Dec. ll-c.