The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, January 13, 1897, Image 1
THE SUSITSR WATCHMAN, Established April, 1850. "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 jane. 1266
Consoliuated Aug. 2,1881.
SUMTER, S. C., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 13, 1897.
Sew Series-y ol. XVI. So. 24
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Published. Srsry Wednesday,
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SUMTER, S. C.
TERMS :
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ADVERTISEMENT:
Oae Square first insertion.$1 00
Beery subsequent insertion. 50
Contracts.for three months, or longer will
be made at reduced rates.
( All coramuoicatioos which subserve private
interests will be charged foras advertisements.
Obituaries and tributes of respect will be
charged for. ,
The State Prison.
Annual Report Shows It to
be in Pine Condition.
The annual meeting of the board
of directors of the State penitentiary
was held on Tuesday. The board
prepared its annual report and by
afternoon it was in the hands of Gov?
ernor Evans. As will be seen the
institution makes an admirable show?
ing for the year, reflecting much
credit upon Superintendent Neal
It starts of the new year with a hand?
some surplus after pairing for the
State farms :
*-To His Excellency, John Gary Evans,
Governor of South Carolina.
Dear Sir The board of directors
of the South Carolina State peniten?
tiary have the honor to submit here?
with for your consideration this an?
nual report for the fiscal year com?
mencing January 1, 1896, and end
ing December 31st, 1896, accom
panied by reports of the superintend?
ent, captain of the guards, physician
and chaplain.
The board of directors commenced
the^year's work with only four mem?
bers, the vacancy having been made
by death previous to the commence?
ment of the year's work.
The board was made complete in
March by the election of Messrs.
Blackwell and Tatum in the places of
Mr. T. C. Willoughby, a former
member, and Dr Sprott, whose va
cany was caused by death.
Appended to this report is a state?
ment embracing the receipts and dis?
bursements for the fiscal year ending
December 31st. 1896 The aggre?
gate receipts and disbursements are
as follows :
Disbursements, $63,570 83
Receipts, 62,125,17
Account overdrawn*. ? 1,445 66
Cash value of crop on
hand. $52,025.46
Amt due for convict hire
and other sources 5,108.46
Total $58,033 92
Account overdrawn 1,445 66
Leaving $56,578 26
Liabilities, including Reed
farm purchase money 18.370.93
Leaving on band, $38,270 93
We beg to call yoar special atten?
tion to the report of the special com
mittee appointed by your excellency
as chairman ex officio, to take stock
of the institution's effects, which we
have appended as a part of our re?
port. Everything has been pat at
cash value and shows that the in
situiion has been managed by careful
and competent officers.
We also beg to call your attention
to the condition of the real estate
as well as personal property of the
institution, which we are sure has
bee? increased in value by improve?
ments and good management at least
t?5 per cent.
Wheu the purchase money for the
eed farm is paid, which will be in a
ew days, the institution will have
paid for all the property under our
directorship and two of the farms,
DeSauasure and Reed, containing
about 4,700 acres,%which have been
bought and stocked in the last six
years, are worth, in our opinion,
with their stock of mules, horses,
cattle, hogs and crop provisions on
hand and machinery, together with
the improvements in the way of darn?
ing, ditching, terracing, clearing
building and otherwise improving
the lands by a system of rotating
crops and fertilizing, $101,565 40
Lt addition to the above mentioned
farms the State owns a small farm in
Lexington county, containing 404
acres, in good state of cultivation,
well stocked and provided with other
plantation supplies.
These three farms constitute all
the real estate owned by the State
for farm purposes. We are pleased
to say that each department in the
State prison shows efficient and
painstaking care having been ren
dered by each officer in charge. In
the last few years a considerable sum
of money has been spent on a system
of sewerage and various other sani?
tary improvements, which bas been
money well spent, as the report of
each of the subordinates will show.
The personal property of the in?
stitution, as shown by the report of
tiie special committee, is in good con?
dition and well cared for
Thit, property, including crops on
hand, aggregates $86,873 80 The
prisoners show that they are well
cared for. There are in prison 190
less than 12 months 3go.
The policy of the board of direc?
tors and management ia to utilize all
of the prisoners on the State proper?
ty and we are rapidly growing to
that end All conlrrcts for share
props have expired and will not be
renewed
In conclusion, we desire to thank
your honor for the assistance and ad?
vice given us during the year.
We are pleased to say that our re?
lations with the superintendent and
all officials and employes have been
very pleasant and agreeable.
Respectfully,
T. J Cunningham, Chairman, ..
J. W. Lyies,
S. P J. Garr?s,
W 0 Tantum,
J EL Blackwell,
Board of Directors.
A Waning Industry.
Phosphate Royalty Gradually
Decreases.
A Falling Off of Over $24,000
Prom Last Year.
< The Phosphate Commission met Moo
day, to consider this most important
industry to the State. Phosphate in?
spector Jooes made bis annual report
and the out look for the basinese is not
at all reassuring. Gradually the
amount of royalty has been decreasing
and the Legislature will have to give
the subject its earnest thought, if the
industry is to again be placed on its
feet.
The members present were Gov. Ev?
ans, Mr. J D. Montgomery, and Sen?
ator Williams of Horry. After hear?
ing the report of Iospector Jones and
tbe petition of the phosphate companies
for a reduction in the royalty, the board
adjourned without taking any action,
leaving the question to the Legislature.
Inspector Jones, in his report, says
the following companies have been en?
gaged in mining : Coosaw, Farmers'
Mining Company. Beaufort Phosphate
Companv. W. Y. Fripp, and James
Reid.
The total amount mined during the
year endiog- August 31, 1895, was
123.708 tons, a decrease of 73.069
tons, as compared with 1895, and 96.
767 tons, as compared with 1893.
There were shipped during the year
151,602 tons; 174.400 in 18g5, 249,
338 in 1893, and 236.149 in 1890,
showing a steady but continuous de?
crease The royalty paid the State
this year wa9 $60,853 76, against
$87,2000.13 in 1896, a decrease of
?26,346 37
There went to foreign ports 93.527
tons, and to coastwise ports 11,257
Coosaw shipped 37,421 toos; Far?
mers', 44,051 ; Beaufort Company, 30,
041, the remainder being shipped by
other firm6.
Io commenting on the situation, the
insDector says :
From the foregoing it will be seen
that there has been a very great fall off
both as regards the amount of rock
mined and amount of royalty paid. And
while it appears that the amount of rock
shipped equals very nearly that of the
amount mined during the year, the
profits, if any, to the companies, have
not been equal to the year before, for
tbe reason that thc price has not aver?
aged quite as much, while freights have
to some extent advanced.
The inspector refers to the statement
in the last message of Gov. Evans, in
which he states that from January 1,
1895 to January 1, 1896, the amount
of rock mined was 219,240 tons, as
against 152,286 for the year ending
Oatober, 1892. Mr. Jones says be is
at a loss to account for the Governor's
figures, and gives a detail- d statement
showing that the amount was only
164,479. Besides, be holds that it is
not fair to make a comparison with
1892, as that was the year of -he Coo
saw litiga. ion Mr. Jones, in the
course of his figures, shows that instead
of furnishing the bulk of phosphate
rock imported by European manufac?
turers, as was the case a few years ago,
the mines of Algeria and Florida a'one
pupply about six times a9 much ?.s that
furnished by South Carolina, to say
nothing of that furnished by other
mioeB.
From certi6ed statements maje by
tho Farmers' Mining Company and thc
Caroliua Company, the? price realized
per ton fur rock, after pajing the roy?
alty, is in the first instance $J.40 to
?2.72 per ton, and in the eecoc i $1.62
to $2 92. out of this is to be paid cost
of keeping plant in repair, cos, of min?
ing, washing, towing, drying etc.
The Carolina Company bas gone out
of business, because, vy?h the utmost
economy, thc compan?Buld not make
mooey. Th>a fact JBBk inspector, io
his last report, toj?| faa a rcduc
of the rojj? Its per too.
This nor. being done the company bas
gone cut of business.
This was one of the largest compa?
nies in the State, and the i"ss is a great
one to the State They had invested
about $350,000 in the J>u?incsa since
irs organization, io 1885. lr ha* paid
ro the State Treasury ?338,756 85.
The* way the business decreased is
shown from the fact that from Septem
fer 1. 1895. to May 1, 1896, they paid
in royalty only $3.468.
He repeats that the same circum?
stances that caused him to advocate a
temporary, at least, redaction in the
royalty in his last report existed to-day,
but he lays the facts here, leaving it to
the board to make whatever recommend?
ations they might see proper.--Colum?
bia Register.
- ? i -
Detected the Repeaters.
During reconstruction times in Ala?
bama, just after the late civil war, all
of the State and county officers were
administered by the Republicans.
This was from 1866 to 1874. when the
democrats again secured control of the
government, and have held it ever
since, says the Chicago "Times-Hea
ald."
The election of George S. Huston, a
democrat, as Governor in 1874 was
ooe of the hottest ever held in the State
and many were the tricks practiced on
both sides in that election. Possibly
the most novel was a device put toto
operation at Mobile .'Repeaters"
were common in those days, and this
device was used by the democrats to
catch the negroes, who had learned the
"repeating*" trick from the democrats.
All negroes voted the Republican tick?
et then,
On the election day mentioned the
polling places were opened aod the
voting commenced. The democratic
election offioers at the boxes had secured
a stock of small fish hooks with which
to carry out their new plan. When?
ever a negro voted a nffiaer stuck a
book in the voter's vest front, where it
could be plainly seen. After bavtog
exercised "hi.? coustitiooal right of vot?
ing, "Cuffy" proceeded to aoother poll?
ing place and fought to vote a secor-.d
time. He wa3 thereupon arrested aod
put in jail upon a charge of
fraud. The scheme worked like a
charm 'By noon 175 negroes bad
been arrested and in jail. The whole?
sale arrestes so frightened the negroes
who had not voted that they refraioed
from going to the polls that day, and
the democrats won the election.
?HIND TO DISGORGE.
Must Pay Baltimore People
$26,250 and Costs-Lancas?
ter Scored by the Court.
ANNAPOLIS, Jan 5.-The court of
appeals to day reversed the decision
of the court below in the celebrated
South Carolina bond case. The suit
grew out of a dispule between T
Edward Hambleton & Co. and other
Baitimoreans and Colder) Rhind, of
Georgia, and a banker named Lan?
caster, of New York and Richmond,
over a division of commissions for
floating a bond issue of the State of
Sout Carolina.
In 1892 Rhind obtained authority
from the authorities of South Caroli?
na to float $5,000,000 State bonds.
He applied to Lancaster for aid in
forming a syndicate to take them
Lancaster was unable to float the en?
tire issue and Hambleton & Co were
appealed to. It was agreed that
subscribers should share alike in the
profits of the transaction. After the
bond issue, Lancaster and Rhind, it
is alleged, entered into a secret
agreement whereby two thirds of the
interest due on July 1, 1893, should
be paid to Lancaster to pay "syndi?
cate expenses," which, it was hint?
ed, was political ifluence This, if
the whole of the issue were consid?
ered, would amount to more than
$118,000
The court holds that the syndicate
had a right to k.now what these syn?
dicate expenses were and says that
Lancaster not only suppressed ihe
truth, but deliberately uttered the
most unblushing falsehoods The
court finds against the claim of
Rhind that Lancaster was entitled to
this two thirds interest, and requires
Rhind to pay over $26.250 with in?
terest and costs to the applicants, the
Baltimore members of the syndicate.
Big Cotton Sale.
* J. E. Sc-runt of Wilmington, N. C ,
has bought the 626 bales of cotton
which the Penitentiary had to nell.
There were eight bidders, but their bids
were- salcd and w re not given out
This cotton was from the Reid and
DeSaussure farms, but the Peoiteniary
has 118 bales on hand, which it wili
sell later in the season.
The progressive ladie3 of Westfield, Ind.,
issued u ''Woman's Edition" of the West?
field News, hearine date of April 3, 1' 96.
The paper is filled with matter of interest to
women, and we notice the following from
a correspondent, which the editors printed,
realizing that it treats upon a matter of vital
importance to their sex : 1 The heat remedy
for croup, colds and bronchitis Cough Rem?
edy. For family use it bas DC equal. 1 glad
gladly* recommend it." 25 and 50 cent
bottles for sale by Dr. A. J. China^
Feeling in Washington.
By Alfred Henry Lewis.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 1.-The Jour
nal's Madrid dispatches from Mr. Crc?l
man have created a s'ir The seosa
tion ia decidedly profound. The plain
statement that the President and his
Secretary of State are io secret ar
raogeraeoi wirb Spain to suppress
Cuban revolt was not unsuspected here.
But it had nsver received decisive and
authoritative setting forth until it came
in this morning's paper. Today the
Creelcnan dispatch was the one topic
among both diplomats and home offi
cials, without reference to the arm of
government to which the latter be?
longed
The Journal's Madrid story is almost
as widely believed as it has been widely
read. It has excited, too, the un?
measured wrath of both Cleveland and
Olney, as well as much and testy un?
easiness at the Spanish Legation.
Nothing could have more aided the
cause of Cuban liberty at this crisis,
when debate in the Senate on the Came?
ron resolution sets in on the 5th, than
this story from Madrid. It is for that
Cleveland and Olney smoke with rage
and De Lome is troubled.
While the story has general cre?
dence, it is cot one about which publio
men like to talk. The charge of con?
spiracy between Cleveland and Spain is
not a light one Men hesitate to be
beard on it in confirmation. But it has
occurred to many that just such a con?
spiracy is exactly io liue with the Ad?
ministration impulse
It is not the first time that this tory
Administration, wholly monarchical in
iu its spirit and bent, has done much
the same thing. In the little case of
Samoa Cleveland sided with the mon?
archists, and to-day-through him
we uoite with Germany and England
to uphold a throne as against a repub?
lic io those far-distant islands.
Agaio, in the case of the mulatto
Queen "Lil." There Cleveland went
secretly to a point where a Congress
began to murmur for impeachment to
overturn a white republic aud reseat a
black queen and restore a goveromect
of dark age sort.
Even in Brazil when De Mello fought
to restore a monarchy and beat down
liberty and popular rights, Cleveland
was eager to the floger lips to recognize
the rebellion. He was eager for the
same reason he now refuses to recognize
Cuban independence and conspires to
put but the fires of freedom that insur?
rection has lighted in that island.
Cleveland aides with monarchy agaiost
Cuba in revolt just as he hungered to
sides with monarchy in revolt against
the established republic of Brazil.
Cleveland has the crown and sceptre
instinct; he ?9 un-American; that's
why be wants to do these uo-Americao
things. Luckily, he is cowardly iu the
broadest sense, fears the whip of public
opiniion, which ?9 why he did uot suc?
ceed in Hawaii and Brazil, and will
not succeed now.
But the Journal story came io the nick
of time to head him off. His disoissai
on the 4th of March will come io
another nick of time to end his poner
to make further bad plots against liber?
ty at home and abroad.
Odd Stories of a Day.
The New York Sun told last spring
of the curious means which Sarah
Bernhardt adopted to send back to
France the financial results of her ap?
pearances in this cour?*ry. During
her tour, which last**'* only from late
in January until April, she made
nearly $90,000, and this she sent
back by cable to Paris as she re?
ceived her share of the profits every
week. During that visit to this
country stories of her frugality and
suddenly acquired prudence were
told, which, in view of her reputa?
tion for extravagance, seemed hard to
belie\e. Recent reports from Paris
prove that these were not
well founded, and Mme. Bern
hardt is not only poor to-day,
but within a week aiter she
had arrived in Paris from this coun?
try she was compelled to pledge her
jewels in order to meet certain
pecuniary obligations All that she
made on her American tour was swal?
lowed up by her debts and by the
extravagance of her family. She
has a number of people dependent
upon her, chief among them being
her son. Maurice, who keeps up an
expensive establishment for which
his mother is said to provide the
means There are certain places in
Paris where Bernhardt is always able
to borrow money, and to these she
can always successfully appeal in her |
frequent emergencies. She pays 200
and o00 per cent ior the use of the j
money, but she always pays, and for |
that reason never fails to get it. But j
after her long- career she lias TH; for- !
tune whatever, and her only posses- j
sion is her chateau at Belle isle, on I
the coast of Brittany.
The Uoion liepublicans, of Delaware,
who were declared not elected to thc
Legislature have decided to form a
rump House.
A Tribute to Southern Fair- f
ness.
In the latest o? a series of open
Iettere that Edward Atkins is ad?
dressing to southern newspapers -
and which we do not print because
they are far too long and besides
would provoke that continuance of
the coinage discussion so much dep?
recated by our gold friends-the
Massachusetts economist says :
"There is one point in the treatment
of public questions in the south
which might well be observed* in
other sections. Being accustomed
to public discussions by representa?
tives of different views on the same
platform, they have learned to re?
spect the motives of those with
whom they do not agree It has
been proved to myself many times
that the more clearly, plainly and
earnestly one puts before southern
audiences the views with which they
may be very much at variance, the
more they esteem the speaker or the
writer and hold him in personal re?
gard and respect.
Under such conditions there ia the
fullest assurance that the right will
finally prevail Such discussions
lead to conclusions based on reason
and research. On the other hand the
objective point of the chief party
papers in the north and west is to
put the other side in a hole without
regard to the merits of the question at
issue"
This is a strong and not unde?
served tribute to the southern love
for fair play. Our people have so
long been held up to obloquy for
their "intolerance4' that Mr Atkin?
son's admission will be gratifying to
them.
There are exceptions to the rule in
both sections, but it is a fact that the
southern editor is far more liberal
than the northern in admitting to his
columns the arguments of those who
contest his views. The gold cr.se
w/as presented with very much great?
er fairness and fullness by the silver
press of the south than the silver
case was by the gold papers of the
north It may be "provincialism,"
but in this section the editor who
will not print a rational, courteous
and reasonably brief criticism of the
attitude of his paper ia held to lack
both fairness and sincerity.
We agree with Mr. Atkinson that
"under such conditions there is the
fullest assurance that the right will
finally prevail." The coinage ques?
tion has been more fully argued be?
fore the people of the south than be?
fore those of the east ; thc press of
this section has not ignored the
other side and sought to keep the
people in ignorance as the press of
the east has done. Wherefore our
people are much better informed on
that question than the eastern people
are ; and, being better informed, they
are naturally much more devoted to
"the right"-which is bimetallism -
Columbia State.
A Loyal Clansman.
The MacLaan was beicg examined
by bis pastor prior to his being admit?
ted to the kirk. It should be noticed
here that the Maclean held ooe Arti?
cle of Belief, not iosisted upon dog
matically by aoy theologian, the Mac
Lean excepted, and this was that his
clan was the most ancient in Scotland,
and, consequently, io the world. By
and by they plunged into the Deluge.
** 'Io the selfsame day entered Noah,
and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth,
the sons of Noah, and Noah's wife, and
the three wives of his sons with them,
?L?O the ark,"' quoted the minister.
H 'And all flesh died-' "
"Na," interrupted the MacLeau,
positively, "there was ane itber na
droond."
"The rscord is explicit, Mr. Mac
Lean," argued the minister, stiSy.
"No one was saved but those who went
into the ark."
"There was ane ither," asserted the
MacLean, imperturbably.
"What do you mean, MacLsan ?"
demanded the minister, explosively.
"Whom do you mean ?"
"I dinoa richtly ken his given
name," explained the MacLean. cau?
tiously, "but yon was a MacL?ac "
."Tut, tut. man," expostulated the i
minister. "You very weil knew that j
no MacLean went into the ark ; so, !
granting that a MacLean existed, how
could he have bein saved ?"
"Hoot, mon, minister, "retorted the !
MacLjan. disdainfully, "but ye iver j
ken a McLean who didoa own bis ace j
beal?"-Truth.
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THE OTRANTO MURDER.
How L F. Brown and Stephen
Mazyck were Shot.
.
CHARLESTON, Jan 7.-Details of
the story of the fatal shooting at
Otranta, 15 miles from here, yester?
day does not greatly lessen its hor?
rors. The inquest began to-day
showe.i that L F. Brown and Stephen
Mazyck were shot in an open boat
by John Poppenheim. The two men
killed had been on Poppenheim's land
against his orders. Some words
were passed and two colored witness?
es said that Brown raised up in the
boat with his gun as if to shoot.
Poppenheim shot him. The witness
said that as Brown fell into the river
Mazyck moved as if to get np and
reached his gun, and received the
contents of Poppenheira's second
barrel in his forehead. The inquest
was adjourned io order to secure
more witnesses. Poppenheim is in
jail and bas secured counsel. Brown's
gun was taken from the water this
afternoon . It was loaded .and both
hammers were at the safety notch.
Dorchester cotiDty is in peril. At
the election beld on the 2d instant for
the purpose of selecting a county seat
in the neighborhood of 1,200 votes
were cast, of which St. George's re?
ceived 595, Summerville 370 and
Ridgeville 195 respectively. It is
claimed that under the terms of the
Constitution and legislation applicabl
to the formation of new counties tbat
a two thirds vote is absolutely neces?
sary for the establishment not only of
the couoty itself and the fixing of its
name, but also the name and location of
the county seat, and as oeither of the
aspiring towns received a two-thirds
vote for the location of the court house
there, it is claimed that all the nrovi
?dons of the law have not been complied
with and that the new county scheme is
therefore defeated.
Gov. Bradley, of Kentucky, has call?
ed out the State militia to check the'
toll gate rioters who are raiding tali gates
io Mercer county.
The bubonic plague is spreading in
India and the police as well as all
other people are panic srricken and arc
fleeing from the cities
Thc expedition of the Dauntless has
been successfully concluded, the mej
and cargo of arms having been
on the coast of Cuba.
Tbe filibuster Three F.<
been seizad by the Federal
as a pirate.
Postmaster General Wii^
mored, will, unon his rotir?l
Mr Cleveland's cabinet accept the posi?
tion of President of Washington and
Lee University, which is now vacant.
Mr Wilsen is an alumnus of thi
famous educational institution and
would be an agreeable position for
The poet T. B. Aldrich, of
Eogland, is io luck. A rioh man^
loved his poetry has willed bim
OOO. That is the biggest
ever overtook a man of letters^
Small Banks Sus'
Preston, Mino , Jan. ; ^Th<
of Cantod, at Caoton, fith a capii
$10,000, aod the C'tizsos' Bini
Lanesboro, a small institution, tfott
owned and operated by Field, Kelsey
& Co , suspended business yesterday*
Eau Claire, Wis , Jan 7 -The Com?
mercial Bank of Eau Claire, capital
$30,000. closed to-day. The failure is
due to the Allemaoia Baok of St.
Paul.
Marvelous Results.
From a letter writren by Rev. J. Gunderman
of Dimondole, .Mich., we :ire permitted to make
this extract: ''I have no hesitation in recom?
mending Dr. King's New Discover}-, as the re?
suits w^cie almost marvelous in the case of my
wife. While I was pastor of the Baptist
Cburch at Rives Junction she was brought
down with Pneumonia succeeding La Grippe.
Terrible paroxysms of coughing would last
hours with little interruption and it seemed as
if she could not survive them. A friend
recommended Dr. King's New Discovery ; it
was quick in its work and highly satisfactory
in results." Trial bottles frea at J- F. W De
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