The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, December 30, 1896, Image 6
The Three Friends
THE PLUCKY LITTLE YES
SEL ON TRIAL.
JACKSONVILLE, FLA , Dec, 28.-The
case of the United States against the
steamer Three Friends, a libel for for
fei tn re of the vessel to the government
for alleged violation of section 5283
revised statutes of the United otates,
?as argued in the United States court
to-day. The 1 i bel is based upon tbe
trip of the vessel from this port last
May, when she was escorted to the
three league limits by tbe revenue cut?
ter Boutwell. The section tbe Three
Friends is charged with violating pro?
hibits the fitting out in the United
States of a vessel to go into the service
ol a foreign prince or state or of any
oolooy, district or people, to cruise or
make war upon another foreign prince,
state, colony or people.
The owners of the Tbree Frionds
contend io their executions to the libel
that section 5283 does not apply to the
Cnban rebellion, because the United
States has not recognized either tbe in
dependence or belligerency of the
Cubans, and the oourts cannot take
cognizance of the war until either the
President or congress recognizes the
existence of war. and therefore it was
impossible for the Three Friends to
have been engaged in the service of
one political power against another po?
litical power with wbiob tbe United States
?as at peace, the Cnban insurgents cot
constituting a political power recog?
nized by the United States, and there?
fore they are not "foreign prince, State,
colony, district or people*' as designat?
ed in the statute.
The United States district attorney
relies upon the fact that there have
been heretofore several confiscations of
vessels for violation of this section
F where no war had been acknowledged to
exist, but the defeose contends that their
point, now depended on. had never
been raised in any case of prosecution
for violation of section 5283. They
a.dmit that the United States supreme
court in the Weiberg Horsa oase recent?
ly held that section 5283, part of the
same act, can be violated without the
necessity of acknowledgement of bel
ligerncy, but maintain that the su?
preme court in tbe same case held that
section 5283 applied only to the case
of two recognized political powers en?
gaged in acknowledged warfare. The
case was submitted and taken under ad
vismeat by the court. If the defend?
ants win this oase they bold that it will
be of very great importance to the Cu?
bans, as the President will then have to
recognize the belligerency of the Cu
bans, or at least prosecutions for con?
fiscation of vessels ander this section.
ORDERED THE CURTAIN
DOWN.
The May Devonport Company j
too Tough for Athens, Ga.
"lt will be lecalled that the rnan
agment of the Grand Opera house
here cancelled to engagement of the
May Davenport Female Burlesque
company, but Athens got all she
wanted of it Saturday night. Au?
gusta is to be congratulated that such
scenes as were enacted there were
not permitted in our theatre A cor?
respondent in Athens, writing of the
sensation created, says :
"The ministers had heard that it
was not such a show as ought to be
permitted, and lodged complaint with
Mayor McMaban. Mayor McMahan
informed Manager Rowe that he
must see that the show people didn't
violate that law.
"Manager Rowe said that the
South Carolina managers of opera
bouses declared that the show was a
clean one, and that if it appeared
otherwise he would refuse to allow it |
to proceed at the opera house
"The opera house was well filled
with men when the curtain went up,
and they applauded the performance j
for a while. Manager Rowe dis?
covered that the couch?e couch?e
and other similar.things were to be
presented, and informed the show
people that they would have to cut
out that portion of the programme.
They didn't want to hack their play,
but were compelled to eliminate those
features.
"The performance as it was pres?
ented drew forth a great deal of
criticism.
"About half an hour before the
show was to have been finished, at
the request of Manager Rowe, Lieu
tenent Goodwin of the police force,
ordered the company to ring down
the curtain, which was done."-Au?
gusta Chronicle.
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M. Jacoby Dead.
FLORENCE, S. C , Dec. 28.-One of
our prominent citizens, Mr. M. Jacoby,
who has been a resident of this place
forty years and wa3 64 y<jarG old, died
this morning a 4 o'clock. He lek a
widow and oue soo and three daughters
and a large numbsr of true friend? to
mourn his death.
Leander Bosch, paying teller of the
suspended Bank of Minnesota, has
disappeared.
The Scandia Bank of Minneapolis,
closed its doors yesterday afternoon.
'ileBank of Superior, Wis., failed
\\e rda Y
Check to the Turk !
j Europe's Ultimatum to the
Moslem Despot.
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j CONSTANTINOPLE, Dec. 28.-M. Neli- ?
doff, Ru8Mao ambassador to Turkey, j
actiog as spokesman for tbe concert of
European nations, bas notified tbe
su ?tan that the agreeement of the pow?
ers upon the question of the enforce?
ment of reforms in Turkey is perfect
and that they demand that there .-hall
be no delay on the part of the porte in
giviog assent to the proposals for such
reforms submitted by the representa
tives of the powers. The ambassadors
will hold a conference to-morrow, the
purpose of which is understood to be
tbe discussion of the question of resort?
ing to coercive measures to compel the
sultan to put tbe proposed reforms into
operation, should such action become
necessary to their enforcement. The
matter of the time of putting tbe
measures into operation will also be di-s
cussed.
Tbe fioancial scheme formulated by
M. Nelidoff is understood to involve
tbe revision of the entire Ottoman
debt under a guarantee of the Euro?
pean- powers signatory to the agreement.
The plan also contemplates the full
i control of the European powers over
the Turkish revenues, with the allot?
ment of a fixed cum for the main?
tenance of the army and navy and for
fhe purposes of the sultan's private
purse, and further provides that the
sultan's appointment of bis ministers
shall be subject to the approval or veto
of the representatives of the powers in
Constantinople.
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Tbe Lehigh cotton mills, of South
Eastoo, Pa , has shut down with no
prospect of a resumption of work
Tbe mill bas been running nearly 100
years and this is the first shut down.
The.McCoy Banking Co., of Inde?
pendence, Mo., has gone into voluntary .
liquidation.
A cold wave has swept over the North
during the last few days and the ther?
mometer has registered a temperature
of 6 to 20 degrees below zero in many
places.
The bubonic plague still rages in
Bombay, India, and the deaths already
number thousands. Martial law is
threatened.
President-elect McKinley has de?
clared himself as favoring an interna?
tional bi metallic conference.
A census of Atlanta recently com?
pleted shows the population to be 83,
000.
Fifty-thousand dollars have beeu
appropriated by the Grant Monument
association to pay the expenses of the
dedication exercises lo be held on April
27th.
There were a dozen or more failures
of mannfacturing and mercantile firm?
with large capital in the vicinity of
Chicago yesterday.
SOUTH CAEOLIISIANA.
News Items of Interest From State
Exchanges.
Gov. Evans has commuted to date
the life sentence of Griffin Delagle, who
, was oonvicted of murder io Beaufort
county in 1887. W. E. Arthur, who
was convicted of misappropriating pub
lie foods io Aiken county and sen?
tenced to pay $100 fine or serve 30 days
in the chain gang, bas been granted a
commutation and will pay ooly $71 80.
The store and residence of Mr. Tom
Fender, of Norths, were burned early
Sunday morning. His family bad a
narrow escape.
Governor Evans has offered a reward
ot $100 for the capture and delivery to
the sheriff of Orangeburg county of
Hope Williams, the oegro, who about
a week ago killed Ed D. Smith, a white
mao, near Fort Motte.
The rumored resignation of Col.
Wilie Jones and Mr. W A. Nicholson
from the State Board of Control is un?
founded.
Wood Preservation.
In reviewing the various processes
and means of impregnating wood in
order to its preservation, a writer in
The Technical Review of Natural
Science, Jena, Germany, considers the
Carbolineum avenar?as to possess special
merits, offering in its use the important
desideratum of requiring no machinery
I or apparatus, but simply a brush for
painting or an iron tank for immersing
the woodwork to be treated. The use of
this article is based upon thc essential
fact that u good system of impregnation
must efficiently prevent every degree of
the rotting and decaying of woods, even
in unfavorable conditions. It must also
bo so cheap that no obstacle of this kind
exists to its uso in great quantities
must be easily employed and furnisher*
ready for use-another desirable point
being that the "Impregnation be such as
will give an attractive color to the treat?
ed woodwork. These qualities are com?
bined in the substance in question, it
being a carbonate of oil of 1.14 specific
gravity, and components which me
energetically antiseptic, its boiling point
being 557 degrees F. Impermeable coat?
ings, so much resorted to, are pronounc?
ed of little value when the wood at the
time of their application is not perfect?
ly dry and seasoned. They prevent, as
must naturally bc the case, the evapora?
tion, of the humidity contained in the
wood, especially in certain cases, and
rather promote decay. ?\
THE AEIZWNA KICKER
HOW THE EDITOR STANDS ON THE
ISSUES OF i HE DAY.
Jim Wheeler's Call a Failure - A Warning
to Mnjor Ranks-Tho Editor Held Up,
but Willing to Admit It-Had a Good
Thing:, but Didn't Know lt.
The mayor of this town (who is our
self) was sitting in his office in the eily
hall last Tuesday afternoon when a
cowboy named Jim Wheeler attempted
to ride his caynsc up the main stairway
to make an official call Jim had a bet
of ?25 that he would ride in on us and
jump his critter over our desk, but he
lost the wager. Hearing the racket on
the stairs we sailed out, and two min?
utes later Mr. Wheeler and his cayuse
were tangled up in a heap in the middle
of the-street. He shot at us three times
during the performance, but no one was
hit by the bullets. The horse was able
to limp away, but the man from Big 3
Ranch still lingers in town under the
doctor's care. His jaw and two ribs
BEGAN SHOOTING THE TIN* DISHES.
were broken and he was badly bruised,
but we are glad to learn that he was
not fatally injured. His honor the
mayor is a good natured man and does
not affect any particular dignity, but
the man who wants to see him on offi?
cial business at his office must leave his
cayuse in the street below.
About the Campaign.
The Kicker is in receipt of a number
of communications asking about its pol?
icy in the coming, campaign, and we
will answer all in one. This paper is
independent in politics, religion, poetry,
agriculture apel everything else. No
railroad corporation dictates, and no
syndicate pays its bills.- If we wanted
to weave a crown of -laurels for Captain
Kidd or pitch into the memory of
George Washington, no outsider would
have to be consulted.
In supporting one candidate we shall
not pitch into another. In this world
of change no man can tell who is com?
ing out on top, and if it happens to be
the man you've pitched into your posi?
tion is made somewhat embarrassing
for several years subsequent.
We have no decided opinions regard?
ing silver or the tariff, but we do stand
pat on the question of the Monroe doc?
trine. If necessary, let us go to war to
support it, but during the continuance
of said war we shall be found at the old
stand, as heretofore.
The campaign speaker who strikes
this town and starts in to lie about any
of the candidates will have to leave the
hall by a back window and get under
cover of the woods five minutes later.
As a people we love truth and poker
and insist on a square deal.
A Word to Major Banka.
For the last month Major Banks of
this town has been in the habit cf com?
ing into the posromce several times a
day and firing a pistol through the gen?
eral delivery window to attract the at?
tention of the clerk who serves the pub?
lic. While nobody has been shot and
the noise amounts to nothing, such ac?
tions serve to lessen the dignity which
should surround a postoffice, and we
now warn the major that he must let
up. If he persists in his course, we shall
esteem it our duty and privilege to re?
turn the fire and lay him up for a few
weeks. If he wants to shoot at us while
on the street, we have no objections ;
but, as the regular appointed postmas?
ter, sitting in our private room in the
postoffice, we demand respectful consid?
eration from the public. Any doctor
around town will tell Major Banks that
a bullet in the shoulder will keep him
thinking for several successive nights.
We Lay Down?
Our esteemed contemporary down the
street is out with a two column sensa?
tion regarding the little affair at the
bank last Tuesday, and he lies in the
most shameful and bold faced manner,
as usual. The facts in the case are as
follows: We had just left the bank,'
after making a deposit of $200. As we
reached the sidewalk a stranger, who
had been leaning against a telegraph
pole, stepped forward and thrust the
muzzle of a gun within a foot of our
nose and ordered us to throw up our
hands. Up they went. Under the cir
cumstances we were ready to throw up |
our hat, shoes, wallet and everything
else we held dear ea earth. The man
gave us his private opin'km of thc editor
of The Kicker (who is ourself), cfv the
mayor (who is. ourself), and the post?
master (who is ourself), and his lan"
guage was emphatic and to the point.
We had little or nothing to say. We
might have died the death of a hero,
but we preferred to remain on earth. A
large crowd assembled and witnessed
our humiliation, but we remained pas?
sive and placid. When the cuss had had
all the fun he wanted, he walked off.
So did we. Wc got our guns as scon as
possible and looked for him, but be
sould not ce found. There isn't the
slightest question about our "laying
down" before that stranger. We think
we know when we have a good thing.
It was a good thing to "lay down" just
then, and we entered into it with a great
deal of enthusiasm. Things may be dif?
ferent some day, but just at present we j
have very little to say and would like
to avoid the subject altogether.
He Was a Failure.
A man who gave his name as Thomas
Dayton registered at the Hotel Royal
last Wednesday and entered the dining
room for dinner. He first made?kick
because there was no cloth on JBfti
and next becausi thc waitcrBRin't
furnish ?him wjth a. .ir?}km,_ IHR .h*a
want?u'a ?ofTee cup \V?f?i ? llaiScC-1 to it
and soup in a bowl, and when given a
knife without a hanrlje he jumped up
and began shooting the tin dishes full
of holes. His fun was speedily inter?
rupted, however, and he was put out cf
the hotel and later on arrested and fined
$20.. The Royal hotel is not a riyal pf
the Palmer house'in Chicago or the Im?
perial in Kew York. It is just a plain,
everyday hotel, full of cockroaches and
mutton stew and thc odor of corn beef
and cabbage. Tablecloths and napkins
and crockery are all right in their way
and will reach us some day, but until
they do it won't do any good to kick.
When a man can sit down with his hat
on and eat his fill for 50 cents and throw
dishes at thc4waiter and cuss the land?
lord as he pays his bill, he has got a
good thing and ought to te satisfied
with it. M. QUAD.
Private Secretary Gunter is now en?
gaged in ojaking up Gov Evans' an?
nual statements of panions and com?
mutations granted during the year just
closi?g. so as to get the copy in the
bands of the State printer on time
The list will sho.v 64 cases upon
which the governor acted during thc
year. Last year he acted favorably on
not quite 50 applications The differ?
ence is probably due to the length of
the fiscal year jost, closing.
Well Satisfied with
Ayer's Hair Vigor.
"Nearly forty years ago, after
some weeks of sickness, my hair
turned gray. 1 began using Ayer's
Hair Vigor, and was so well satis?
fied with the results that I have
never tried any other kind of dress?
ing. It requires only
an occasional appli?
cation of
Hair Vigor to keep
my hair of good
color, to remove
% dandruff, to heal
itching humors, and prevent tho
hair from falling put. I never hesi?
tate to recommend Ayer's medicines
to my friends."- Mrs. ll. M. IIAIGIIT,
Avoca, Xebr.
igor
Prepared by Dr. J. C. Ayer ic Co., Lowell, ilass.
Take Ayer's Sarsaparilla fe: the Complexen.
TASTELESS
TONIC
IS JUSTAS COOD FORADULTS.
WARRANTED. PRICE 50 cts.
GALATIA, ILLS., Nov. 16,1893.
Paris Medicino Co., St. Louis, Mo.
Gentlemen:-We sold last year, 600 bottles of
GROVE'S TASTELESS CHILL TONIC and have
bought three gross already this year. In all our ex*
perience of ? years, in the drug business, have
never sold arran ide that gare such universal satis*
lacUon as your Tonic Yours truly,
ABKEy, CARE & CO
SOLD-No Cure, No Pay, by A. J. China
J. F. W DeLorme, J. S. Hughson & Co.
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ed atikie If you suffer trom any or UK- symp?
toms of dyspepsia ; your stomach is tired.
lt Leeds a crutch. .We must relieve it of all
work for a time, or until it is restored to its
natural strength, i'o do this :uccc8SfuIly,
we must u?e a tood which is already digested
outside ot' the body, and which will ?id the
digsetiou o' other foods ttiat may t.<? taken
with it. Such a jjrodu;: is the Sh?ker Di?
gestive Cordial.
Tte Shakers have utilizad the digestive
principles present in plants for the manufac?
ture of this article, and its success IKS teen
truly ph?nom?nal. You can try it for the
nominal sum ot 10 cents, as sample bottles
are sold by all druggists at this price.
L*xol is the best mediciueforchildren. Doc
tors recommend it in place of Castor Oil.
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A choice stock of fine stationery, leather :
goods, etc., at H. G. Osteen & Co's.
The Finest assortment of choice stationery
at H. G. Osteeo and Co's, book store.
The most acceptable present for a gentle?
man-a reliable fountain pen. A complete
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Tile Puzzlii
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city and all goods
It has always been a difficult ou
We will assist you by giving yoi
every one, with a
For Your Sister or
?oung Lady
A silver mounted Pocket Book.
A silver Manicure Set.
^ome of our fine Colgate & Co's Per?
fumery.
A fine Dressing Case.
A fine Handkerchief and Glove Box. |
A fine pair of Dresden China Vases.
Half dozen fine embroidered Hand?
kerchiefs.
Sterling silver Belt Buckle.
Sterling silver Scissors
A pair of fine Kid Gloves.
A box of fine Stationery.
For Your Brother or
Gentlemen Friend-:
A pair of our fine Kid Gloves.
Half dozen of our fine Linen Hem j
stitched Handkerchiefs.
Half dozen of our fine Silk Handker?
chiefs
Half dozen of our fine colored bor?
dered Silk Handkerchiefs.
One of our elegant Walking Sticks,
-silver mounted
A fine Silk Umbrella.
A Sterling silver Hat Mark, Satchel
or Umbrella Tag-we have these
at half the regular prices.
A pair of fine Link Cuff Buttons
we have the very newest thing in
this line.
A fine Leather Satchel or Grip
One of our special Holiday Neckties
-we have a special line of $1
and 50c Neckties for X'mas. You
should see them, they are beauties.
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few of the prices.
For Father
A nice all-wool Suit of doilies f
$5 io SS.
A good heavy Overcoat. We
offering cur entire stock at aim
cost
A serviceable Mackintosh-$3 to
A sum: pair of Shoes-we iiav
.prices and gi ados
A box o? ?o?-fait black or co/
6 pr ?1
A stylish Hal - Alpines-Sin:, ?1
?1 50. $2 00 and ?2 50
A line De.by Ea?-$1. ?1.50, $2
and ?2 50
A pair of heavy Woolen Gloves* 25c
to 75c.
For Motlier
^A nice Dress-we have the finee^
line of Drees Goods and Trim?
mings in the city
A fine Cloak. *
A handsome Cape
A fine Lace Collarette.
A serviceable Umbrella
A fine pair of Shoes.
An elegant Lamp.
A Work Basket.
Some of our Dice Chinaware.
For the Children
Dolls, Dolls, Dolls from 9c up
Tea Sets from 15c up.
Cups and Saucers from 14 cents up.
Fancy Plates from 10 cents up.
Chatterbox and other books
srybody*
)ks. Books
[ at half the usual price.
ms for Furniture consisting of Rocking
acks, Hat Racks, Writing Desks, ?cc,
presents.
nany things to be liad in our stores,
tve have all the choice Canned Goods,
c , that the New York market affords.
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