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SUMTER, S. C, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1896.
Sew Series?Tol. XVI. No. 17
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The Banking Laws
Need Revision.
Edward Atkinson Speaks to
Southern Editors.
K?CHMO??d, Nov. 1$.?The Southern
Associated Press met in an o aal session
at the Jeffersoo hotel, this oity, this
morning, transacted considerable rou
tine business and re-elected the old offi
cers Mr. M. Glen nan of the Norfolk
Virginian was added to the executive
committee.
Mr. Edward Atkinson of Boston,
who was in the city, addressed the
meeting at some length and among
other things said: (,I need make no*
excuse for being here. I came here for
rest, but when I find myself before the
Southern Press association there is a
word which must be said. I have my
finger on the centre of the nerve of the
southland whence the iofluence may
come that may make or 'mar the
mighty future of this nation. know
not what all your views may have been;
with some of you I have held a some
what bitter contest in the late war ;
others have been with me?'let the
dead past bury ics dead At the begin
ning of the financial reconstruction of
this nation on you falls a stem respon
sibility.
"Several years siooe the president of.
the largest bank in-came to my
office. tTe put to me this question :
~ /What will be the end of the purchase
of silver bullion under the She: man
. act?' to which I replied : *A financial
panic such as shis conntry has n?ver
seen and a paralysis of industry such
as we have never witnessed.*
'* *Wheo will tuat happen V To
which I replied : 'No man can fix the
date ; when the doubt passes through
the land of the ability of the treasury
of the United States to maintain the
payment of all its obiigatioos of the
lawful unit of vaine?a dollar made of !
gold." He noted this prophecy and j
went away preparing, like myself for the
fature. That crisis has come and from
that paralysis we are now emerging? !
the verdict of the nation bas been ren
dered I impute no wrongful motives
to those of your section who have sus
tained the acts which bave brought on
this contest. It is ended ; 'let the
dead past bury its dead.' May we not
join together band to haod in the ef
forts to restore conditions under which
ail may make progress to prosperity
alike ? Years ago I thought that I had
fonod io the restrictions upon banking
the cause of the danger which we have
just surmounted. In our section of
the country we have more bankiog cap
ita) than we can use. In your section
and in the far west it is lacking. Your
people are distrustful of banks and
bankers, not knowing or believing in
the service which banks render, to the
community, yet subject yourselves to
the worst and most costly system, be
cause you have no other. Your people
depend upon traders at the four corners,
taking advances from them at excessive
rates of interest, put yourself upon ob
ligation to sell their products to them at
as much as they may fix and paying to
them, double price for all their supplies.
People cannot prosper under these con
ditions and the restrictions of the pres
ent bank act, suitable for the period of
war, and, perhaps, justifiable, prevent
ing that mutua* service which backs
and bankers might render to your com
munity.
"It has been difficult for the men of
the north and east to comprehend the
real grievance under which you have
suffered while they deplore your mistak
en effort io the recent election to bring
bad money not only upon yourselves,
but upon us, money which required a
force bill or act of legal tender to make
it circulate at all
"We now ask you to formulate your
needs, to state your case and to join
with us in such a reconstruction of the
banking system of the country as shall
make this nation a unit, knowing no
sectional wrong to prejudice, each serv
ing the other according to its ability
and its needs. There are many meth
[ ode by which this can be done. The
jfc adjustment is a matter of detail. Are
flfe we such incapables that, possessing the
H greatest resources of the world, we are
0 smothered in our own grease because
we cannot organize a system by which
we can serve each other?
J^^^^e^tawMjim^of vake. surviving
ceoturiee of 6traggle throagboat the
world is. now the unit of commerce, to
which this and every other couoty
must adjost its own conditions, or else
suffer loss. Shall not our unit of value,
the standard of our commerce, be the
equal of any in the world? Then, as
I said, Met the dead past bury its dead.'
Let us join hands. The solid south is
broken, even color line is broken. It
is the most hopeful period that I have
witnessed since the civil war. Right
minded men may now lay away their
prejudice with the straggle that has
just ended. Find oat wherein we ma;
reconstruct the financial system of the
country and then join together, and by
the force of the united public opio ion
bring about the removal of the artificial
construction to oar mutual benefit. Of
all the issues which must come to the
front in the immediate future, I believe
that the reconstruction of the* banking
system is the most important. Had
that been undertaken when it
became so manifest to the few
as it did a few years since, we should
have had no silver craze, or we might
bave been saved the disaster and panic
of recent years.
"Upon yoa rests the greatest respon
sibility. ?8 yoa may mould public
opinion of your press association, so
may be the welfare of the nation in the
immediate fatare. But let us remember
we differ, and that, through the
sparks that are elicited, the light of
troth is extended Whatever might
have been our errors in the past we
may now work heatrily for the honor,
the integrity and the welfare of our
common country. I thank you for the
opportunity which you bave given me,
and leaving you now I would again try
to get a little rest when I betake myself
to the sea in going home from Nor
folk." '
The members of the association spent
the afternoon vieitiog the points of in
terest in the city, and they were enter
tained at the Westmorland club To
morrow they will take a trip to Old
Point and dine at the Chamberlin hotel.
The local members are making it very
pleasant for the visitors.
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The Victim of an Initiation.
Des Moines, la., Nov. 18.? E. W.
Carry, chairman of the Democratic
State committee, died this morning in
bis room at the Hotel Savoy. The
death was a direct result of injuries re
ceived while being initiated into a Des
Moines lodge of Elks about two months
ago As part of the ceremony he was
blindfolded and placed on a chair with
an iron seat Then a lighted lamp was
placed under the seat with the expecta
tion that when it got too hot he would
jump. But be sat still until he was
badly burned. His trousers were burn
ed away and the flesh fearfully scorch
ed He was put in new clothes and
did not realize at the time that the in
juries were serious. Io a few days
blood poisoning set in and he grew
worse steadily. It was his desire that
the real cause of his injuries should
not be made public and aoothor cause
was assigned for the illness, the truth
only becoming public to-day. An
evening paper published a highly sen
sational story that the injuries were
caused by praciog him, in the process
of the initiation ceremony, io an elec
trical chair and turning on a ourreot
which burned him badly, but this is de
nied by the Elks.
Mr Curry lived at Leon and was a
leading attorney. The body will be
taken there to-morrow by a large es
cort of Elks and Masons and the funer
al will be held to-morrow aft.e^joon.
The South Carolina Vote.
The State board of canvasseis
has not yet gotten at the official re
sults ?f the recent elections in this
State. Approximately the figures
are about as follows for the several
electoral tickets: Bryan, 58,000;
Palmer-Buckner, 825 ; Webster Re
publican, 4,400; Melton Republican,
5,225. It is thus seen that the State
went even more overwhelmingly than
was expected fop free silver, and that
the Re-organized Union Republican
party is on top sn the factional fight.
The total anti-Bryan vote was only
10,450?less than was estimated?
while the total vote is but a very
little larger than was estimated. The
full registered Republican vote.lack
ed several thousaud of coming out.
Yesterday Chatfield, the Kepubli
can candidate against Colonel Talbert
in the Second district, filed a protest
with the board. He bases his con
test on the alleged unconstitutional
ly of the registration law. It is
said that when the contests come up
the point will be raised that the State
board has nothing to do with such
matters ; that all contests should have
been made before the county boards
If the State board thus disposes of
the contests, they will very likely be
taken on up to congress.?The State
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' The worst co!d I ever bad id my life was
cored by Chamberlain's Cough Remedy,"
writes W. H. Norton, of Sutter Creek, Cal.
1 This cold left me with a cough and I was
expectorating all the time. The Remedy
cured me, and I want all of my friends when
troubled with a cough or cold to use it, for
it will do them good." Sold by Dr. A. J.
China.
THE DEAL IS OFF.
Pres. Hoffman Of The S. A, L.
Euchres Thos. F. Ryan.
Baltitmore, Nov. 17.?The much
talked about Seaboard Air Line deal
received a knook-out blow this after
noon when the committee which bas
some 8,000 shares of the stock pooled
refused to turn it over to the syndicate
beaded by Mr. Thomas F. Ryan of New
York. The d?cision was a great sur
prise to everyooe except President Hoff?
man and a few of his associates It
was a signal victory for the Seaboard
president.
When the arrangement was made
at the Portsmouth meeting looking to
a sale of a controlling interest in the
Seaboaod company, there were few who
doubted its consummation. The an
nouncement this cyenicg that the deal
was entirely off and that the road would
hereafter be conducted as an independ
ent line as heretofore, was not at first
credited It was only after president
Hoffman confirmed the statement that
it was generally believed. Mr. Hoff
man declines to give any details but a
stockholder gave this view of the case:
"President Hoffman's opposition to
thesale was well known and as soon as
Mr. Ryan's representative began to buy
stock, Mr. Hoffman's friends came to
his support and purchased all they could
obtain with the view of pooling it for
his benefit We have really had the
upper band in the fight from the start
but bave said nothing. When the im
pression became general among the
stockholders that Mr. Ryan really rep
resented J. P. Morgan & Co , the New
York bankers who control the policy of
the Southern railway company, and
that the sale of the Seaboard would
mean its eventual control by the South
ern railway, we gained ground rapidly
and were favored rather than Mr. Ryan
in spite of the high price he offered for
the stock.*'
Just before leaving Portsmouth, Va.,
whither he went lats this afternoon on
business cooneoted with the system, the
executive of the Seaboard Air Line
gave out the followiog statement :
''Under the terms of the pooling
agreement," said President Hoffman,
"no sale of the pooled stock can be
made withont the assent of three
fourths of the stock pooled. There are
8,321 shares in the pool, and as less
than one-half of that amount gave their
assent there will be no sale.
"The vote also shows that the stock
holders have every confidence in the fu
ture of the property and in the present
management. The importance of keep
iog an independent line to the south
can scarcely be overstimated and no
doubt influenced the vote of Baltimore,
Norfolk and Portsmouth stockholders
Had this line got into the hands of the
New York parties represented in the
Southern railway there would have been
but one line to the south, and that io
the bands of New York, aod these
cities would have suffered accordingly
in their trade. The future of the sys
tem now looks very promising, as the
first three months of the current fiscal
year show large net gains over the cor
responding months of 1895, and the
fact that the Ryan syndicate has
been willing to pay par for even a
minority interest shows the results of
their study of the resources of the Sea
board Air Line.
"Under the present management,"
continued Mr Hoffman, "the road has
been hooestly operated in the interest
of its stockholders and of those hold
ing its securities, amounting to many
millions of dollars. Should such a
change throw its control into tbe bands
that seek only a personal profit or to
serve tbe ends of a co^petirive carrier,
it might be difficult to overestimate the
danger that would threaten all interest
ed in the system.
"The public, I think, is to be con
congratulated that this line is still in
dependent and will be run in the fu
ture as in tbe past looking to the inter
est of Baltimore and tbe southern cities
with which its trade relatations are most
intimate and important.'*
- m*mmi *>*>' ? *M?
Seaboard Affairs.
Baltimore, Nov. 18 ?The an
nouncement that the deal for the sale
of the Seaboard Air Line to Mr.
Thomas F. Ryan, representing a New
York syndicate is off, does not end tbe
matter, according to reports ourrect to
day in well informed circles. It is said
that Mr Ryan will institute legal pro
ceedings to oompel the pool committee
to deliver the 3,800 held by it previous
to aod at the time the agreement was
signed at Portsmouth, Va., between
Mr. McLane, representing* the pool,
and Mr. Ryan, representing tbe New
York people. It is said that tbe com
mittee has full control of this stock and
can dispose of it without consulting the
owners, who empowered it to act
The ?60,000 which Mr. Ryan depos
ited, aod which was to have been for
feited in the event he failed to carry
out his part of tbe contract will, it is
understood, be returned at once. The
question now interesting railroad aud
business circles in Baltimore and tbe
south is: "W(ill the rate war be re- j
suroed?" The companies are now free
to renew hostilities and it is believed in
some quarters that the Seaboard will
renew its demand for the wichdrawal of
the York river service to Norfolk and,
failing, will plash rates again.
There are still many who believe
that the Louisville and Nashville will
finally secure control of the Seaboard
Air Line system. It is known that the
Louisville and Nashville is anxious to
own an eastern connection, and it is
said that the knowledge of this may
have induced some of the stockholders
to withhold their consent for the sale to
the Ryan syndicate.
No Snam About Her.
At the Isles of Shoals they tell the
tale that a lecturer went thither to lec
ture to the assembled guests upon the
character and characteristics of the
Japanese, and in the course of his re
marks he dwelt upon the two facts that
the self-contained people do not use ex
pletives, profanity being unknown in
tbeir land, and that equally are they
ignorant of the goodly fashion of kies
ing. These statements had their due
effect upon the audience, it being ob
served that the masculine portion of the
hearers were the more impressed by the
former statement, and the feminine por
tion by the latter.
As the audience was dispersing, with
all the chatter of comment, gossip and
banter which belongs to such a gather
ing, one young woman was overheard
confiding to another ber sentiments in
a phrase which was at once most
human, expressive and picturesque.
"As for me,'' she said, "give me a
country where they kiss and cuss."
"It was felt that on the whole she
might be regarded as having pretty
well sized up the situation.
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Waited his Leg.
House Sergeant Dougherty sat in
the silent bearing room at the Tenth
District Station House on Friday night,
reading a few extracts from Lawyer
Jchn Fow's speech against the placing
of a citizen's ticket column on the offi
cial ballot. Hie occupation, so perfectly
in keeping with the solemn gloom of
the deserted room, was rudely disturbed
by a wild clatter on the patent pavement
approach to the bearing room door, and
the next instant a ludicrous figure came
unceremoniously into the room. With
out a bat and with coat on only one
arm the-man, for such it proved to be,
half hoppod, half rolled up to the desk.
He was minus a leg, and io lieu of
that very useful member employed a
a stout cane, with which he succeeded ?d
keeping up an awful clatter in his
efforts to maintain an upright position.
"Here," yelled Dougherty, "do you
want to wake up ail the sleepers?''
Quiet was partially restored, and then
the man blurted out: "No, I want
my leg."
"Well, go and get if; I haven't got
it," said Dougherty.
"Well, I want my leg, anyhow,"
returned the visitor. '*'Say, do you take
this for a museum?" ioterjected the
turnkey.
"No;, I want my leg, that's all."
"Where did you lose it?" asked
Dougherty. "In the war." "Well,
go back to the waj* and hunt it up, and
be sure you take your own," Dougher
ty said, as he grinned at his little joke.
The proprietor of the missing limb
was not to be pacified so easily, how
ever, and be became much excited as
he insisted that he must have the leg.
Finally it was learned that the leg he
wanted was an artificial one, which has
supplied the place of the real article for
years. Just then he was not wearing
it, beoause bis wife, after a little do
mestic infelicty, had captured the arti
ficial limb and locked it up in a bureau
drawer. The victim of the grim joke
tried force, threats and persuasion, all
to no avail, and then, hopping from
the house, he sought the police. When
the full extent of his trouble became
known, Sergeant Dougherty sent a
policeman famed for bis ability in lit
tle affairs of this kind with the com
plainant to his home. Thethree-legged
couple presented an odd sight as they
walked away, but tbeir mission was
successful, the wife relenting, and after
exacting many promises handing over
the leg. Once in possession of the kick
er, the little mac secured it in place,and
when last seen was walking out Girard
avenue with the sworn intenteion of
reachiog Kalamazoo or any other place
where there are no wives to steal his
leg ?Philadelphia Inquirer.
In his speech in the Reese case last
Thursday, Colonel Youmaos started to
make an attack on the undue influence
that the wicked newspapers have been
exerting on public sentiment, etc So
licitor Henry promptly called attention
to the fact that the newspapers had
been kept away from the jury during
the trial, and the vials of the eloquent
colonel's wrath were not allowed to be
uncorked. And it was a pity, too, for
the newspapers, however guilty or in
nocent, are always a convenient scape
goat.?Yorkville Enquirer.
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Sewing Machines and Organs cleaned and
repaired at the Sumter Music House.
Increase of Business Not
Realized..
Sent Oat by News Associa
tions to Boom Republi
canism Do Not Show
Practical Results.
New York, Nov. 20.?Bradstreet's
to-morfow will say: Jobbers and other
wholesale dealers'in geoeral merchan
dise do not report the anticipated in
creases io tbe volume of goods distrib
uted this week. There are increased
purchases of holiday goods and the tone
of the market for staples is one of en
couragement. Relatively, the heaviest
demaod has been for dry goods, shoes
and groceries, but even in these lines,
particularly dry goods, the volume has
been smaller than expected and disap
pointment is a result. The many in
dustrial enterprises which have started
up cootioue a feature of each day's
news bulletin, but there is reason to
believe the significance of these exhibits
has been over emphasized in some in
stances.
Tbe most favorable feature of tbe
business week is tbe increase in bank
clearings throughout the United States,
the total volume of which is $,1236,
000,000, nearly 4 per cent, more than
the unusually large total last week, and
nearly 10 per cent, more than the cor
responding week one year ago There
were 308 business failures in the Uni
ted States this week, 50 more than last
week, but 15 fewer than in the corres
ponding week one year ago.
Gross and net railway earnings for
nine months reflected tbe severe trade
depression which culminated io the
stagnation preceediog the late presi
dential election. Favorable returns
earlier in the year have not been main
tained and tbe tendency is to wipe out
tbe gains shown early in toe year, as
contrasted with 1895. Total earnings
of 136 railways embraciog 65 per cent
of the railway earning capacity of the
country aggregate ?576,982.922 for
nine months of the calendar year, an
increase over the like period in 1895 of
1.6 per cent , following a gaiu in 1895
ever 1894 of 5 per cent. Net earnings
for nine months of 1895 aggregate
?176,104.827, a gain over 1895 of 6-10
of 1 per cent , followiug a gain in 1895
over 1894 of nearly 8 per cent. The
largest percentages of gain in gross
earnings are showo by the grangers
and southern roads, the only decreases
being by central western and coal
roads. In net earnings, the southwest
ern, southern and Pacific roads show
largest gains, while the central, west
ern, eastern, coal aod trunk lines show
heaviest decreases.
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Tired By Mormons.
Salt Lake, Utah, Nov. 19.?Hon.
Moses Thatcher, a candidate for tbe
United States senate, incurred the dis
pleasure of high officials of the Mormon
oburch for running for a public office
without their permission, was tried to
day by the church dignitaries for in
subordination and refusing to tbe voice
of tbe church authorities.
Mr. Thatcher was not present and ig
nored the whole proceedings and the 10
apostles who were his judges, unani
mously decided that Thatcher be sev
ered from tbe council of tbe 12 apostles
and that he be deprived of his apostle
ship aod other offices in the priesthood
and a public notice to that effect was pub
lished this afternoon in the Desert News,
the official organ of tbe church. The
News and church officials keep up their
opposition to the electioo of Mr.
Thatcher to tbe senate on tbe ground
that his candidacy is based on bis oppo
sition to the church and that his election
would be a reward for opposing the
church in exercising authority over
its members, which in the eyes of the
Mormon cburcb dignitaries is a heinous
offense.
Anderson scored the biggest cotton
day Saturday last that she has ever had.
Wagons loaded with two, three, four
and six bales of cotton liberally packed
the Square, and extended back some
distance into tbe various streets enter
ing the Square, while from the cotton
platform at tbe Southern freight depot
to the Court House aod around it, a
string of wagons, so close together as
to have the appearance of being cou
pled like cars, passed the live-long day.
The number of bales visible were vari
ously estimated at from 850 to 1,200
bales. A careful survey of the field
Monday morning, however, revealed
the fact that no less than 900 bales
were brought to the city Saturday.
Highest of all in Leavening Po\
AB?OLUI
A Reporter Goes to Jail.
Jacksonville. Fla , Nov. 20.?J. P.
Clarkson/ a reporter of the Florida
Time* Union, was to-day giveD the al
ternative of goiog to jail or divulging
the name of a party who gave him in
formation of an indictment having been
brought in by the circuit court grand
jury and published in the Times-Unijo.
Mr. ClarkeoD went to jail in preference
to giving the name of the man who had
had given him the information.
Last Wednesday tbe grand jurv
brought io eeveral indictments, and
among them was one against J. D.
Allen, indicted for manslaughter. Allen
was conductor of a street car on which
ex-Policeman Jonas was a passenger,
on April 18, and who got into a row
with some negroes on the car. In tbe
row, it is alleged that Jonas was push
ed off the car and left to 'fight with the
negroes, four in number, and the row
ended in Jonas being killed. The in
dictment was withheld from publica
tion, but the information was received
by Mr. Clarkson from B. H. Hopkins,
foreman of the grand jury, and he pub
lished it. Tbe court began an investi
gation and Mr. Clarkson was summon
ed as a witness. He refused to give
tbe name of bis informant and was com
mitted to jail and locked up in the same
department with murderers, thieves
and forgers. Later in the day Mr.
Hopkins appeared before the court, and
explained he had given the information,
being innocent of having violated his
oath as a grand juror. Judge Call
then ordered the discbarge of Mr.
Clarkson.
Jacksonville Officials Black
mail Gamblers.
Jacksonville. Nov. 20?During.an
investigation by the Jacksonville city
council tonight of charges of collusion
between the police department of tbe
city and the keepers of gambling
houses, W. C. Fehrenbach, one of the
proprietors of tbe Duval Social and
Athletic club, declared that this house
bad paid out from $250 to ?500 per
month for police protection.
He declared that tbe money bad been
paid to Manning Smith, a notorious
gambler, as agent, and Smith was in
structed to pay Mayor Bostwick $100
per month, Deputy Sheriff W. D Vin
cent $100 per month, Police Commis
sioner George Burbridge $50 and Chief
of Police Jack Keefe $50 per month.
The officials all deny that they have
ever received one cent of hush money,
but three gamblers declare tbe money
has been paid regularly. The investi
gation is still in progaess and has de
veloped the fact that after a gambling
house was raided last fall, the imple
ments were secoetly restored to tbe
gamblers and been used ever since in
the gambling house from which they
were taken.
Councilman J E. Bowden, president
of tbe club that pulled off tbe Corbett
Mitcbell fight, is pushing the investiga
tion. Bowden asserts that tbe city offi
cials have collected thousands of dollars
out of tbe gamblers.
Bryan and "Bunch" Lectur
ing Tour.
Norfolk, Nov. 20?Mr. V. E.
McBee, superintendent of the Seaboard
Air Line, who has persistently refused
to say anything about hie connection
with Wm. J. Bryan, talked to-night.
Mr. Alex Comstock, who will be Mr.
Bryan's manager, reached here to day
from Lincoln, Neb., where he bas been
representing Mr. McBee. Immediate
ly after his arrival it was announced
that th? contract had been signed. Mr.
Bryan and Mr. McBee have been be
sieged with letters and telegrams ask
j ing that a lecture be [given in certain
! cities and large guarantees have been
offered for the lecture. A New York
syndicate has offered $25,000 for tbe
contract. The tour will be managed
from Atlanta by Mr. Comstock.
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