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The Nail Trust Broken. Expenses Exceeded the In come and the End Came. Chicago, Nov. 22 ?A morning pa per Bays: The great wire nail trust which has levied tri bate on the people of the United States and Canada since Jane 1, 1885, has collapsed and will endeavor to wind op its affaire Dac. 1 Sale agents representing mille within the pool were yesterday scrambling to sell nails at ?1.70 per keg in Chicago, which is precisely ?1 per keg below the trosce circolar pnce, aod jobbers ?? were selling in lots of from one to one tboosaod kegs from stores at ?2 ~C per keg Before the end of the present week prices will oodoobtedly be down to 01.25 per keg or witbiu 30 cents of the jowest prices ever sold here." The trust has thrown up both bands, and in a circolar to the jobbers gives them liberty to sell at aoy price they please. Troubles have multiplied oo the trust's head very rapidly during the last eight months. In that time the stream of dollars which poured into its coffers daring the early months of its career had ro be used to bay ap at s? round prices the opposition mills wbioh sprang up on all sides, as well ae to meet a multitude of other expenses. Not the least of these was the maiote nance of a regular force of inspectors ?I: almost as large as the govern ment secret service to keep all tbe members of the pool "totiog fair." :-?,,?. f For this and kindred purposes the >' trust imposed a poll tax of $1 50 per keg on all the o ails sold by its mem HEhers and rebated to them tbe difference Bfcafter the objects bought were accepted. A fund of ^1,500,000 was return ed to members on the showing made four months ago, bat siocee that time tbe trust's officials and committees have io fiteurred liabilities of much more than r; this in their desperate fight to keep the trust going. These liabilities will have to be met by the individual mills com posing the trust, and a long period of litigation is highly probable. The advance of 15 cents per keg or dered by the trust at its last" March meeting in this city was the last set which marked the trust's doom. This . pot the base price of nails at Pittsburg at $2,55, which, under the peculiar terms of its nail card, meant that tbe towest figure at which any nails could be bought there was $3,05 per keg. This meant $3.20 in Chicago aod made the range of commercial nails to west ern consumers $4 to ?5 per keg. This resulted in an immense curtailment of the demand and in tarn forced the trust to close up 90 per cent of its mills and^ throw its workmen out of employment and reduoe the output to comply with consumers' needs. The entire sale of nails by the trust mills duaiDg July were 30,000 kegs", in August but 25,000 kegs, though tbe output agreed apon for those months was 60,000 and 50,000 respectively. The March output reached 950,000 kegs. . J. P. Parks of 508 Sears building, , Boston, was the originator of the pool and was its commissioner. To him -was ; delegated tbe task of holding tbe asso ciation together aod for this service be collected 1 caot.per keg on each keg of nails sold in this country. v Besides an application for secretary's salary and mainteoanoe of the inspec tion bureau, the association now has on its hands a large collection of leases of factories which it closed up, also numer ous contracts with manufacturers of nail-making machinery, who were pre vented from selling to the trust's com petitors. Voted Against Salem. To tbe Editor of the State : We notice in your jssue of the 20th inst. a statement in'reference to the vote oast at this place on the 17th inst. for the formation of a new coaoty to be called Salem to the effect that 49 votes were cast for the new county aod 26 against it. This was claimed to be the tabulated vote carried to Colombia by Messrs. J. L. Parrotta?d W.K.Cross well of Bishopville. Of course Messrs Parrott and Crosswell of Bishopville thought this to be a true and correct statement, it having been carried over to them by, we presume, some over ardent supporter of the new county. The fact of the matter is, there were 49 votes oast for the new county and 77 against it. Our box was carried to Darlington and we sappose the othe two boxes in this county (Darlington) have also been carried in for tabulation As to irregularities, we suppose our coaoty supervisors of election will be tbe first to pass oo such matters. W. J. Joye, Manager of Election. Lamar, Nov. 21st 1896. Secretary Jacoway of Dawes' com missor. left Vinita, I. T., Thursday night for Fort Smith, where tbe com mission ?3 in conference with the Choc taws. The Indians of all the five tribes have entered into a joint agree ment to offer to surrender their tribal autonmy for $500 per capita, to be paid by the United States to them im mediately. This amount in the aggre gate would reach nearly $40,000,000 and would make the Indians the rich est'community on the contioeot. They also demand the whole amount of their land and be allotted to them equally, and that the title be made inalienable for a period of 25 years. The full-bloods in the interior of the Indian county are stil! violently opposed to aoy changes whatever in the present form of govern ment. Weyler Retreating. Spaniards in Habana Indig nant at the Result. Key Wlst, Nov. 21.?PasseDgers who arrived from Habana to-night re port it is currently admitted that Wey ler has failed io his campaign against Maceo. Though no accurate data is obtainable as to the latter's mcvemeots. all reports agree he has divided his forces into small bands, who barrass Spanish troops, but present no chance for pitched battle or decisive results. Weyler's marches bave beeo painful, and bis soldiers have suffered great hardships. In consequence 1,300 sol diers bave been sent to Candelaria sick. Most of Weyler's staff ar? ill and are retaroing to Habana, f?e is also fall ing back aod will establish headquar ters near Artemisa, at tho estate Pilar, which be claims is a better base of ope rations? The Spaniards in Habana are indig nant at Weyler's inability to crush the insurrection io Pinar Del Rio, and mut terings are heard. Geo Pando, who is coming with new reioforcemeots, is iodicated as Weyler's probable succes sor. Ail are despondent io Habana and consider the outlook gloomy. Ac the ueetiog to take part in the popular loan of Spaio oo spirit was sbowo. All held back aod ooly through tbe pressore of tbe civil governor, who was present, was $55,000 raised as a free gift to Spain Not a cent bas beeo added since. Luciano Ruiz, a promi oeot baoker, aod Queseda, mayor of the city, left the meeting without con tributing to the fund. Rebels io other sectioos of the Uiand cootiDue active. It is said tha.t the important town of Victoria de las Tuoas, io Santiago pro vince, is besieged by a strong force of iosurgeots. The train gtartiDg from Gardeoas yesterday was obliged to re toro oa account of large masses of re bels crossing the line. They are said to be tbe vanguard of Gomez, who is reported already in Santa Clara pro vince, marching west. - IIB?'- ? ? i Churches and Schools. "And now abideth faith, hope and charity ; but the gteatest of these is charity " That is a distinctly Chris tian sentiment culled from the Book to which the churches lookvfor their creeds and their inspiration. "Chari ty begius at home.'* That is a dis tinctly pagan sentiment, born of hard common sense and experience. The ^ econciliatioE of these two senti ments.. Christian and Pagan, in prac tice is easy, and its results are al ways benificeni. Nevertheless many thoughtful men find grave difficulty in accounting for the frequency with which the churches fail to effect that reconciliation. Yet church congre gations are largely composed of men who display practical sense in the conduct of temporal affairs, and who seem to be led into illogical or senti mental ways of thinking only when I they are asked to handle church mat ters in a business-like way. Mayor Strong appealed to the chrches very recently to remember that charity begins at home by help ing the city in the solution of its public school problem. All that was asked was that the churches give the city the use of their temples of wor ship as school houses for a brief pe riod. The churches have refused Now it does seem that there is a large inconsistency in this refusal. The church is itself only a higher school house. There could be no desecration of the shrines of the Father of Mankind in permitting children therein to learn to read and write. "Suffer little children to come unto nie" would have been an admirable solution to accompany the wide opening of ail the temple doors To have given the city the use of the church buildings as temporary schools would have been a big and beautiful charity. Ignorance and idleness are two of .the most potent factors in the development of crime, yet the churches, confronted with an opportunity to take tens of thousands of unschooled and unemployed chi I dren off the streets and set before them the benefits of school discipline, have refused To be sure, there would have been a considerable amount of wear and tear, but even if the city could not have paid for it, these churches not already burdened with debt might easily have made their own repairs, and counted the outlay as given to the poor and, therefore, lent to the Lord. It is very difficult sometimes to compre hend the processes of reasoning which guide religious bodies. The converted heathen in India, however, will not outshine the saved children of New York in that next world, where there is neither race ncr ; creed.? Y. Journal A negro boy by tbe name of Abram Keooedy, a eoo of Char/es Kennedy, colored, was brought to town oo Moo- ' day, charged with killing aoother negro boy by the name of Fiemmtog Taylor. | Taylor was about fourteen years old. J The sister of the dead boy claims that there was a quarrel about some locusts, j but it is stated that sbc was too far away to hear any words. The boy in jail claims that the killing was acciden tal.? Winnsboro News and Herald. ? mm - Killians, S. C, has a nine-year-old suicide, Willie Grimsiey, who shot himself becaase bis father whipped him. Estimate of the Cotton Crop of the United States 1896-1897. New York, November ?, 1896 ? Messia Latham, A?exande & Co hav? issued the following estimate of the cotto. crop : With the view of securing reliable information upon which to base an approximate estimate of the cotton cioo of the United States for this cotton year, on November 5th we mailed 3 500 letters to select corres pondents?banks, banker*, cotton commission merchante, brokers, pro prietors of public gins, railroad offi cials and planters, covering every cotton growing county in the South em States, asking their opinion as to the probable yield in their respective localities. At this date in response to onr let ters we have received 2.240 replies, of average date November 10th, from which we make the following esti mate of the cotton crop, for the year 1896-1897 : Average of 255 letters' makes Ala bama crop, 946,000 bales. Average of 191 letters makes Ar kansas crop, 657,000 bales Average of 39 letters makes Florida crop, 55,000 bales. Average of 357 lettere, makes Geor gia crop, 1,220,000 bales. Average of 96 letters makes Louisi ana crop, 494,000 bales. Average of 247 letters makes Mis sissippi crop, 964,000 bales. Average of 22? letters makes North Carolina crop, 434,000 bales Average of 212 letters makes South Carolina crop, 717,000 baleR Average of 144 letters makes Ten nessee, &c , crop, 283 000 bales. Average of 478 letters makes Tex as, &c , crop, 2,251,000 bales. Average of 2 240 letters makes total crop of the United States, 8,022,000 bales The great mass of these letters in dicates that the crop this year is from three to fi\e weeks earlier than usual that it has been marketed with great rapidity, on account of strin gent moneyr and urgent demands of merchants to make collections pre vious to the election, and that pick ing at this date is nearer completion than ever before known. Where any top crop is reported it has been seriously injured, if not destroyed by froet, and from a large area of country no top crop is re ported at all. The foregoing information is con fidently submitted to cur friends and the cotton trade, as being the most reliable that can be obtained at this date by earnest effort from responsi ble correspondents living in the cot ton growing section. Very truly, Latham, Alexander ? Co. Bank Deposit Payment. In the case of Hutchison vs. The President and directors of the Manhat tan Company et al., decided recently by the New York Court of Appeals and reported in the New York Law Journ al, it appeared that the piairftiff on the 4th day of May indorsed a draft gener ally to a firm of bankers and biokers, with oral instructions to deposit it with the defeudant bank for collection. The firm on the same day indorsed the draft generally, and deposited it with the de fendant to their own credit. As the draft was payable in Massachusetts the d?fendent did not at the time credit it to the firm mentioned further than to make a * 'short'' entry in their pa?s book and theo immediately forwarded it to its ageot io Massachusetts for col lection. Oo May 5 tbe draft was paid to tbe defendant's agent in that etate, and on tbe same day, shortly after banking hours, the firm mentioned made a general assignment for the bene fit of their creditors. On May 6 the defendant received the proceeds of tbe draft in New York, and the plaintiff immediately demanded tbsm of the de fendant on the ground [bat the firm were holders of the draft for collection only, and that the 'short'' entry made by the bank in their pass book was an admission tbat it was received by it for that purpose The firm in question bad an account of long standing with the defeudant, and at the time of the deposit in questioo a large balance was due from them to the d?fendent on de mand notes. There was also ao agree ment between them whereby tbe bank was given a lien upon all their securi ties and deposits tu its possession for obligations present and future. It also appeared that ou the 5th day of May the d?fendeur, had made a further loan to the firm mentioned, presumably re lying upon the draft and its proceeds a part of its security therefor. In an action by the plaintiff to recover of the bank tbe proceeds of tbe draft, the court held that the action could not be maintained ; that the rights of the par ties became fixed on th3 5th day of May, when collection of the draft was completed by payment of the proceeds thereof to the defendant's ageot in Massachusetts, and that the defendant having no notice at that time of tho plaintiff's claim, it could hold the pro ceeds as agaiost the 6rm mcationed under its agreement wiih them. A dispatch to tbe Central News from Madrid says that the Duke of Tatuau, minister of foreign affairs, has cabled to Senor-de Lome, Spani(?h minister to tbe United States, to make an energetic proteet to the American government against the insult rece?:iy offenj^ to the Spanish flag at New Castle,; ware. ernment rerj? to W Weyler Returns to Habana. Left His Troops in Camp?No Information Obtainable. Habana. Nov. 23.?Captain Gene ral Weyler arrived here thie evening from the province f.f Pinar dei Rio His return has caused much comment, but as yet it is impossible to learn the true reason for hi* leaving his com mand and returning to the capital The military authorities will vouchsafe no information on the subject The official reports concerning the movement.* of the troops on the field give only accounts of skirmishes with tri?ing losses on either side No news of any moment has bseu received from Pinar dvl Rio. By an explosion of dynamite a pas seoger train was wrecked to-day Dear Cardenas, province of Mantaoz3S The eogioeer and fireman of the train and two passengers were hurt. The six cars composing the train were set on fire by the rebels who caused the explo sion. As is custom&ry, a pilot engine was running in front of the passenger traio. This was allowed to pass the point where the dynamite was placed, but a little further on a rail had been loosened and when the pilot engine struck it, the eogine was thrown into the ditch. Consul for Luis So?me, a naturalized American citizen, who has been arrest ed some time ago on the charge of be ing a rebel and conspiring against the Spanish government has petitioned the court for the release of his client ou the ground that there is no evidence to convict The 38 political suspects and prisoners convicted of ordinary crimes, wpre sent, to tbc penal settlement on the Isle of Pines to-day. SPECIFIC For scrofula. "Since childhood, I have been afflicted with scrofulous boils and sores/ -which caused me terrible suffering. Physicians were unable fco help ine, and I only grew worse ?under their care. At length, I began AVER'S Sarsaparilla, and very soon grew bet ter. After using half a dozen bottles I was completely cured, so that I have not had a boil or pimple on any part of my body for the la.-' ?velve years. I can cordially recommend Ayer's Sarsa parilla as the very best blood-purifier in existence." ? G. T. Reinhart, Myersville, Texas. TEE ONLY "WORLD'S IT AIE Sarsaparilla Ayer's Cherry Pectoral cures Coughs and Colds $500 REWARD. We will pay the ahove reward for any c*se of Lifer Complaint, Dyspepsia, Sick Head ache Indigestion, Consiipaiion or Costiveness we cannot cure with West's Vegetable Liver pills, when the directions are strictly com plied with. They are purely Vegetatile, and never fail to gire iatisfatioo. Sugar Coated. Large boxes, 25 cents. Beware of of counter feits and imitations. The genuine manu factured only by The John C West Compa ny. Chicago, III. For sale in Sumterby J. F. W. DeLorme. IE*BDfll!i'G FOR EITHER SEX. LCMJIjjin 3 This remedy being in ... ? jected directly to the G" 0hk seat of those diseases Q Of the Genito-Urinary Ki IB Organs, requires no VU El change of diet. Cure ? - 9mW guaranteed in 1 to 3 .,- days. Small plain pack - fVTTIIT1^ by mail, Sl.OO. Vt%J JKiXlSoid only by J. F. W. DeLORME, Sumter, S. C. J F DR. FELIX LE BRUN'9 Steel ? Pennyroyal Pilis are the original and only FRENCH, safo and reliable curo on the market. Price, $1.00: sent \ by mail. Genuine sold only by W. DsLORME, Sum ter. S. C. ' ' puv v* ?u.TVisnotiV sn 01 mu? m?noi J! v . ,??101 um 3k "ql 1 ? -o? 'avari ??SotPP10? ..pitia * '3100(I iSiVi IVHI rgC KOIIISiOa? ,y?J a3ii noi mm. DB. ULVA IMI DENTIST. office over store of sumter ort gooos company wuiiauce on Main Street, Between Dry Goods Co. and Durant k Son OFFICE HOURS : 9 to 1.30 ; 2 to5 o'clock. April 9. 2 Furman University, GREE>'VILLE, S. C. Restore full, regular action of the bowels, do not irri tate or inflame, but leave all the delicate digestive op- ? ? ? ? ? . panism in perfect condition. Trv them. 25 cents. ' P'^Slaent, C. MANLY, D.D. Prepared only by C. L Hood & Co., Lowel? Mass. ' Aujr. 19. The next session will bepin September 23d. 18i)o Courses of instrucnor. extensive und thorough. Expenses moderate. Full ccrps j of instructors For particuinrs, nppiv io ;he OF Through our INew York buyer We have secured a por tion of the stock of a bought cheap and will be sold accordingly e Men's Overcoats, Boy's Overcoats, Children's Overcoats, Men's Suits, Boy's Suits, Children's Suits. Just at the right time as the weather is turning cold, comes this good opportu nity to buy a good article cheap. Don't miss it as they will not last long. Sumter, S. C. A I School Books. s i 2 ^ST?* are prepared to 4supply the Schools of t 2 " Sumter County with School Books and ? Stationery at the usual 2 % 2 2 2 Lowe I*vice s. t s s -s % 4f??g9 Stock of Goods in* other departments is j " " lars;e and the assortment will suit all j s s s s s s taste: 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 9 POUND^PAPERS. BOX PAPERS. Inrthese we lead. $ ? ?. i ? Tissue and Crepe Paper. s s 2 We have just received a large] assortment of Denni 2 son's Imported Crepe and Tissue Paper. Also a com- | $ plete assortment of American Tissue Paper. Every j f shade you can think of. If you don't want to buy ? come and look at it?it's beautiful. o s o *9 s ? STATIONERS AND BOOKSELLERS, J 2 * LIBERTY STREET. I Sumter, S. C.