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! shops io town-ooe of Mr. J. N. Nunnery and j ! the other of Tom McLeod (colored). Tbere . is a colored brass baod, composed of twelve i .' members ; the bund master is A. P. Fielder, ! '?? who is also the town butcher. Another col ! ored mao ho deserves mention here is Fran i eis Rhodes, the shoemaker. ' ! During cur visit we were the guest at tbe I pleasant home of that, genial gentleman - Mr. I Peter Meliett, than whom there is HO more 1 bosoitable man in South Carolina. Mr. Mel i lett not only belongs to the we known Mel j lett family of Privateer Township, but was ( ; himself a Privateer boy. ! We are much indebted to those who kindly J i aided us in gathering up our material for this j ! article, and we will state that our objact is I not to "boom" Wedgefield, only to describe | I the pretty little tov.n and its pleasant people j as they really are. The memory of th'u visit j will ever remain with us as a very pleasant j one MCDONALD FORMAN. Ramsey, Privateer Township, April 29. Oswego Ramblings. Mr. Editor: You have been faithful to me and can say I have not been true to you. We have bad a bard time on our flat lands this year getting ready aod planting. Lands btf.ve been plowed too wet and hastily pre pared for the best results, and yet we may make a fine crop. Dry weather has caused bad etands of cotton, but the late rains have counteracted to some extent tbe effect of the dry weather. When I get my cotton up every year I think of Capt. Jas. McLeod's saving, "8ixty days will decide our fate as to a crop," and I reckon price to . Oats are looking very well in some places. Good stands of corn, bnt it is suffering from sand by the former heavy rains. 1 don't think there is any tobacco aroond here, except what is being chewed and smoked, and a wise conclusion, I think. We farmers are too easily drawn from one crop to another that somebody else has made money ont of. Let our money-crop price go down and the last son of a man wants to try something else. A new grass, weed, berry, squash, sugar beet, and some take up the hog and corn, melons and fruit, and finally return to tbe beautiful white staple and oily seed, convinced that cotton will make more mooey per acre and get you more credit than any thing we can grow or raise. I favor diyersi fled industries, but do exempt me from planting everything that grows and promises a dollar. Some for one thing aod.same for another, is an established truth that cannot be downed. These agents are clever fellows areot they. Once in a while they condescend to stop a night with us and tell us bow to make a fine crop, and a paying one, and why we dor't prosper. This, tboogb, is only human nature, for I have often thought if I had my neighbor's farm I could do so much better than he, and men have often said to. me if they only had my land they would be independent. Now and then you stumble on a brag who thinks be has the best land and makes more on it than anybody else, with less manure and work. You want news Mr. Editor, not so much common talk you will say, but how can J give you what I haven't got. If there bas been anything of the kind in this commnoity lately, I have not heard anybody 3ay any thing aboot il. Tbe churches under Revs. Rushton and Richards are movfbg on nicely, with live Sunday Schools. Prof. Covington's school at Bethel will continue another month as a public school, and may run another month as a private school. Patrons are highly pleased and will employ bim for another year if they can. Children's Day-third Sunday in May will be observed at Bethel Church. Last Friday Mr. Clyde held his Second Quarterly Meeting for Oswego Circuit. The rain made the congregation small, but we bad as big sermon as a big crowd wonld have bad. Tbe lunch wa3 quite an attraction in our large and comfortable school house. To have our official members and friends all seated around a long table well loaded, is re freshing io more than one way. War seems to *e on in good earnest over the water. A christian war they say, but don't seem to arouse Christendom to their help. Tbe great powers seem to be afraid one of the other, and when the two little fel lows were about to bitch all the big boys ran up in their great ships to see the fight Why don't they do like we did, appoint a commission and make a settlement for them. I hope this letter will reach you in good time, for sometimes it takes from two to three days for a letter to go from Oswego to Sumter. TI MMONS VILLE KOTES. Meeting of Florence District Con ference. Timmonsvilie, April 30.-The Florence District Conference met in the Methodist Church here yesterday morning at 9.30 o'clock, Presiding Elder Hodges io the chair. ' Rev. Jobo O. Wilson preached last night. Prof. C. B. Smith of Wofford College, will lecture to-night. To-morrow closes tbe business of the Con ference, but tbere. will be preaching in the different churches Sunday. The Conference promises to be very inter esting and profitable to those who attend. $100, Reward, $100. The readers of this paper will be pleased to leam that there is at least one dreaded disease that science bas been able to care io all its stages, and that is Catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Cure is the only positive cure cow known to the medicial fraternity. Catarrh being a constitutional disease, requires a constitu tional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cnre is taken internally, acting directly opon the the blood and mucous surfaces of the system, thereby destroying the foundation of the dis ease, and giving the patient strength by building up the constitution and assisting nature in doing its work. The proprietors have so mnch faith in its curative powere, that they offer One Hundred Dollars for aoy case that it fails to cure Send for list of testimonials. Address, F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo. 0. Sold by Druggists, 75c. New York, May 3.-More demands for gold for export were made at the sob-treasury to-day with the results that $1.500,000 io gold coin was removed for shipment for steamers sailing to morrow. The total withdrawals since the movement began a week ago have been 7,977,000 Seoator Tillman aod Senator Morgan engaged in bitter personalities while debating the public land biil jester- j day. Mrs Marilla M. Rtcker, a member ! of the Wat-biogton bar, is aD applicant for the appoitjtmeut as minister to Colombia. I Fitzsiromons has declined to fight I ?! Joe Choynski, who must first whip I ! Corbett and Maher, Fitz says. CLEMSON DOTS. rhe Annual Inspection By Maj. Garlmgton-Basa Ball and Glee Club K>ws. Clemson College, May 9.-For the past week we have bteo kept busy cleauiog our guns and polishing up our accoutrements, so as to have everything in good condition for Mirj. Garliagtoa's inspection, wbicn was to have come off on May 1st, but as be failed to put io aa appearance we had to wait until May 3th. Oa the mort/iog of that eventful day we were drawn up in battalion formation. The old cadets of the six companies, A and F, B j and E, C and D, beinj combined so as to ! form bree companies. We were theo march- j ed in revi-w at both quick nd double time, i inspected, drilled in the setting-up and bayo- j net exercises, battalion and company drills. After this we were dismissed, and the rat3 (new boys) were inspected. The san:or class then met in tb'e Physical Laboratory, where they were questioned by the msjor, on mili tary tactics and the science and art of war. Major darlington seemed well pleased with the appearance we made, and several times complimented cs during our company drills. We have beea of Ute having several class games of base bal!, bat on a bole base bal^ bas been a failure with ns this year. How ever, we wiii make it ap on foot ball next fall. Our Glee Club gave an entertainment i a j the college chapel on May 1st, and another in Anderson oa May 7th. Bo.'.h were big suc cesses. . The club contemplates giviog an en tertainment in Greenwood and io Greenville also. Many of the leading State papers send copies to oor reading room, Ont none would be more welcome to we bovs from Sumter than the Dally Item. SOPHMORE. Take JOHNSON'S CHILL & FEVER TONia Pisgah News. The recent heavy rains and cool wei the have given cotton the black faca. A great i deal of it first showed its bead, so dear to the farmer's heart, turned black and went away, and carried sorrow with it. Alas ! bow we do grieve when it leaves U3 in this way. Notwithstanding the wet spring, the crop prospect is an average one, and our people are about op with their work for the season. Talking about being afraid of guano-wby, Mr. Editor, it is loved better tbao a fellow ever loved his best girl, especially, if he thinks she don't care much for him, and is just a litije distant, for you know that "dis tance leno's enchantment to the view." But it will take an abler pea than mine to-de scribe their loveliness-a pen like "Guv's." It is said be can talk for hours about them, and then jays he has uof commenced. I saw j "GUT" not long since, and he looked as if be | was going to lead a forlorn hope of some j sort. Speaking of guano as a permanent im provement to land, a gentleroao of Fairfield showed me what fbe cow pea has done as a fertilizer on a piece of reeky, clay iacd bringing the yield up frcm 500 Hs. seed cot ton to 1,200 lbs. per acre. His mode was this : The land was broken as deep HS it could be, and the peas sown broadcast. Very little fertilizer was used. Just enough to stimulate the growth. The vines were cut j off, and oats planted in the fall. When cut j m.the spring, peas and fertilizer again. In I a few year the land turnad from a red clay { to a deep black mould. The pea is the be3t j fertilizer we hive for permanent improve- I meat. The rapid cutting down o; our wood- i land, year by year, is already showing bf.c j results, in drought?, fioods, ho: and cold i weather. If each acre of l .nd was improved ; so it would do double duty, there would be j no necessity to widen out the acreegel The big Baptist Convention now in session at Wilmington,^. C., is composed most y of j ministers. The laymen are fast going to the j rear. In a few years one of them will be a rarity in our religious bodies. The doth j think they mu3t do it all. In Congress the1 lawyers have have got it ail. Poor'fellows, j they do nothiog hut talk Senator Earle's roany friends here are dis- j tressed to bear of bis sickness. It is so bad , at the beginning of his senatorial career to be 1 sick. I am indebted to Senatoi Tillman for valu able public documents, and to Senator E*rle" for choice seeds * * * Pisgah, S. C., May 7. ~ As the strength of a building depends upon tbe solidity of its foundation, so health depends opon the blood. To expel impuri ties and cause the vital fluid to become vigor ous and life-giving, Ayer's Sarsaparilla is the most powerful and effective medicine in oee. Ayer's Pitts are recommended by ieadiog pbysiriaos and druggists, HS the most prompt and efficient remedy for biliousness, nausea, costiveness, indigestion, sluggishness of the liver, jaundice, and sick headache ; also, to relieve colds, fevers, neuralgia, and rheuma- { tism. Chamberlain's Eye and Skin Ointment Is unequalled for Eczema, Teiler, Salt Rheum, Scald Kead, Sore Nipples, Chapped Hands, Itching Piles, Burns, Frost Bites, Chronic Sore Eyes and Granulated Eye Lids For sale by druggists at 25 cents per box. TO HORs ToWNEKS. For putting a horse in a fine healthy con dition try l)r. Cad;''s Condition Powders. They tone up the system, aid digestion, cure loss of appetite, relieve constipation, correct kidney disorders and destroy worms, giving new life to an old or over-worked horse. 25 cents per package. For sale by druggists. For sale in Sumter by Dr.A. J. China Imported Stock. H.G Osteen c Co. received this week a full assortment of the latest and prettiest de- I signs in Dennison's Imported Crepe and Tis- ! soe Paper for making lamp shudes, flowers i and ali sorts ot fancy work. This ia guaran- j teed to be the germine imported paper and ; far superior to any and all imitation.1!. We sell at New York prices, as we buy direcs from the importers. The stationery stock it complete and up to date. The best bargain offered in Sumter is a j pou ad of excellent writing paper for 15 cents, j two pounds for a quarter. You get this at the book store of H. G. Osteen & Co. An Advance on Volo. The Turks Pushing Their Ad vantages. - Headquarters of the Turkish Army io Thessaly, Pharsalos, May 6, (Delay- ' ed in transmission) -The Turkish army to night is bivouacking io the eighty villages surrounding Pharsalos, captured from the Greeks. The battle begao at 9 o'clock io the moroiog After skirmishes betweeo the advance posts of the opposing forces, the Greek artillery opened fire with great preci sion. But the Turks pushed forward, j exposing themselves to the enemy' fires j with the greatest sang froid. The Greeks theo made a fatal error j io leaviog thc commanding positions j which they occupied and retiring upon j a plaio which wa3 commanded on all j points by our batteries, that were brought ioto action as soon as the Greeks left the bills. The scene which followed was both ioterestiog and cruel. The Greeks frote all parts of the plain were converging towards a stone bridge epao log the ricer, and which was the only meaos of gettiDg over. The mass of humanity at this point was constant ly growing wheo the roar of the Turk ish artillery began. The Turks obtain ed the esact range of the enemy, and shell fells and exploded io the midst of the fugitives. The havoc caused by the schrapnel was terrible. Gradually, however, through this decimating fire, the greater part of the Greeks crossed the river The Turks, who were then covering the plain like bees, met with a stroog resistance while attacking Ya6 ia, where the Greeks from hidden positions opened a furious fire. In the face of this Turks advanced with mar velous temerity and captured the vil lage, oot so much by force of arms as by the fear which their splended iosou cience inspired in the enemy. Owing to the fact that it was not designated to commence the decisive engagement until tomorrow, the Turkish division iotended to take tbe enemy io fiaok, only arrived half an hour before the combat to-day, having marched 39 miles. \ The Greek guns while they opened well, ended badly, whileours wereterved even better than usual. The Turkish attack upon Vasaii was made without any previous plan. The men were or dered to capture the place and they ad vanced, quietly shooting as though banting. The Greeks maintained a witheriog fire. I saw a Turk wouoded io the leg, advancing to the attack on all fours. The correspoodeiat of the Associated Press is wrrtling this dispatch io the midst of the bivouac at Edbam Pasha's beadquaters. The general and bis staff of officers, at the same time, formiog a little group arouod a lantern, studyiog the war maps for tomorrow's operations. Daring the day the Turks captured a mountain battery and 18 mules, a great quantity or ammunition aod Divi sions and the Greek princes Constan tine and Nicholas. The Terms of Peace. | ! -, Credited Report That Greece j Asks for Mediation. Athens, May 9 -The correspondent : of The Associated Press learns on the j very best authorit}' that Greece has j made a written application to the pow- j crs. through their representatives at Athens, sor mediation. All the repre sentatives have promised io their re plies to use their best nices, except the German minister who bas merely ac knowledged the receipt of the note j from the cabinet. The porte is inclio- ! ed to support the powers, with a view j to the facilitatioo of negotiations, but it j declioes to coDseot to an armistice on ! the grouod that this would enable \ Greece to recognize her forces. As a j matter of fact, Turkey cooticues to send troops from Caliooica homeward, I and it is probable that Osman Pasha has returoed to Coostaotioople from Salooica. In view of both facts it may be assumed that nothing serious is expected, but the continuance of a state of war is regarded as the very best means of hasteniog the efforts of diplomacy. Without doubt hopes have j beeo raised io Turkey that the Ottoman | government might annex Thessaly and | restore the old frootier of 1881, but the sultan is not ioclioed to risk such a step. Oo the contrary, he opposes it oncompromisiogly and will not yield to the pressure of tbe war party at Coo staotioople. He will be satisfied with a reasooable iodemnity and a slight rectification of the eastern Thessaliao j frontier, such a one as wouid give ! Turkey several strategic positions io j the vicinity of Neseros. A dispatch from Lamia, date yester day, says that Crown Price Coostantine is still at Domokos and that Gen. Smolenski is at Almyros. Riccotfi Garibaldi and the Italiau volunteers have arrived it Almpros. The dispatch says that the exodus of inhabitants from Domokos, Lamia and the surrounding conntry continues. Greek torpedo boats still patrol the gulf of Volo, lt is probable that more flighting will occur at Domokos. The telegraph is still working to Do mokos and the latest, dispatch from that point says that the Turks are half way between Pharaspls and Domokos and are believed to be planning ao attack upon the latter place. The Turks do not molest the inhabitants of tbe vil lages they hove occupied, but they have bcroed houses and plundered sev eral churches at Pharsalos. In the coarse of an interviaw tc-day, Col. Vassus said : "The uuion be- ! tween Crete and Greece is now ac ac- I tual fact aod nothing is lacking but the conseot of Europe. The foreign admirais recently asked my authority t s advance their troops io Crete beyood the zone previously occupied The powers oiav do what they like. The uoioo of Crete and Greece is inevitable and a necessity." It is reported in official circles that the Qaseo sent a telegram to the czar so- j licking the meditation ol' Russia. - mut- oo-mim Papers For Peace Have Been Drawn by the Powers. Athens, 10.-The conditions insisted upon i y Germany, the chief of which is that Greece shall give her for mal conseot to the priociple of autono my for Crete, will be accepted by the Greek government. The note of the powers has not yet been presented, bat it has been drawn and is to the following effect : Upon a formal declaration by Greece that she will recall her troops and agree to such an autonomous regime for Crete as the powers in their wisdom shall deem best aoceot unreservedly the counsel of the powers, they will intervene io the in terests of peace The note will probab ly be presented tomorrow after the Ger man minister has received final instruc tioDS. It is understood that Greece io her reply will asseot to all of these con ditions. At 6.30 p m.-M. Raili, premier, and M. Skeuloudis, minister of foreign affairs, badi a ioog interview this after noon with M. Egerton, the British rep resentative, which has caused consider able comment. It is believed to be ooonected with the expected interven - j tioo of the powers. A dispatch from Dmokes say. that the heavy raios there prevent fighting. THE GREEK l&FENSES. LoodoD, May, 10.-Apar* from the peace oegotiatioos, the principal feature of the eastern situation is that Turkey is pressing reinforcements forward acd prepariog for a rapid advance. Unless the powers succeed io quickly arrang ing a settlement, the Greeks are likely to suffer further disasters The exact disposition of the Greek army is un certain, but, roughly speaking, the first line of defense extends from Almyros to Lamias, the second follows the old frontier, aod the third is drawn at "Thermopylae. Fighting is probable in the next day unless the powers inter vene. The Greek fleet is at Lamia and the transport and other services are still I deficient, while a serious outbreak of! typhoid fever and dysentery theateos. | SPANIARDS. TREMBLE! ! i - Glenchester, Mas3 , May 5.-Yes- j terday after a party of Cuban pym - j palhizeers and electrical experts from . Lynn, the location of the general I electric companies works, came to ! this city and repaired with a lot bf mysterious bundles to Coffin's beach, i about seven miles from the city and protected on the landside by Hills. ! The bundles proved to contain 100 dynamite cartridges of light calibre j and certain electrical appliances for exploding them all simultaneously. The cartridges were buried in the ! sand, the connections made and the j current turned on. The experiment j was a complete success and hereafter | the Cubans will have in their posses- ; siom a weapon against which a mere number will be unavailing, the Know!- j edge of which will strike fear to the \ Spanish troops. GOMEZ HEADING FOR XOTANZAS. Habana, via Key Wsst, May 5. Gen Gomez is now moving to the west, probably with the intention of ; entering Matanzas province. Four days ago he was surrounded at Santa j Clara province by almost all the re- j gular Spanish forces there, number ing more than 30,000 men. After a series of fights he successfully broke the Spanish lines with his cavalry. At Lomas Pedrose, Santa Clara province, a Spanish column in an engagement against Brigadier Ale man lost 31 killed and 28 wounded, besides a large supply of ammuni- | tion at:d rifles. At Laberinto, Matanzas province, the local Spanish guerrilla force lost 21 men in a fight with the insurgents. ace War in Georgia. Waycrose, Ga.. May 10 -The race war at Delmar, a little town j near here, resulted in bloodshed i to-day. C A Demory. a store j keeper, refused to wait on William j Simmons, a negro politician of some repute. Simmons attempted to brain him with a scale weight, whereupon Demory 6hot and killed him. About -I o'clock the store was at tacked by a mob of negroes, who kept volleys of bullets pouring through the thin sides of the building until 8 o'clock to night. They seri ously wounded Demory, Wm. Hor se!!, James Boyd and two brothers named Williamson. The sheriff and a po se from Valdosta drove the mob away and placed a guard about the wounded men for the night. A num ber of negroes were shot, but none were killed, so far as can be learned. GOV. ATKINSON RETURNS, He is Pleased With What He ! Saw of Our Prison. Yesterday Governor Atkinson of! Georgia and Governor Ellerbe. who ! accompanied him, returned from the I State farm at Jlagood's Governor i Atkinson and the Georgia superinten- j dent did not stop in Columbia, but went on through to Atlanta after j thanking Governor Ellerbe for the j courtesies shown them in the past few days. Governor Ellerbe says that the State farm was found in fine condition. Ile ; says that Governor Atkinson ex- j pressed himself as being very much I pleased with his inspection of the j South Carolina State prison. He ! does not know what recommendations ' Governor Atkinson will make to the I Georgia legislature about the estab j iishment of a State prison, but it looks as if the Georgian was much im pressed by the contrast between this State and his own.-State, May 10. j Greater New York. Albaoy, N. Y., May 5 -Goveroor Black signed the Greater New York charter to-day. The following is a brief syoopsis of the main provisions of the new charter. The municipality is divided ioto five j boroughs-Manhattan, Bronx, Brook lyn, Qaeeos and Richmond-which are io turn 'each sob-divided into teo council districts. The mayor will be elected for four years, at a salary of $15,000 per aooum, iostead of for two years at 10,000 as at present. With the exception of the comptroller, who will bc elected by popular vote, all mu nicipal officers will be appointed by the mayor, who may remove at will during the first six months of bis tenure There will be only ooe police force, under a bi partisan board of four, as at present. The department of public j works is abolished, and water supply, sewer, bridge, and street bureaus will replace it. their heads to be appointed by the mayor There will be a mooi cipal legislature of two houses-the council of 28 members, elected from designated districts, and the assembly of five members from each, of the 21 senatorral districts in thn Greater New York. Brooklyo and Long Island City are names no looger known oe the map. Greater New York covers a territory of 359 3-4 square tailem, 32 uiiles long, and 16 miles wide, with an estimated population of about 3.400,000, second io both respects only to London. The first mayor will be elected November 2 j next. World's Record Broken. Memphis, Tenn., May 7.-A special | match race arranged between Zimmy ; McFarland of California and Jack ! Michaels took place to-night at the Col- j iseum track for a prize of $300. The j race wa> ten miles and a "large crowd :; was in attendance. After geing three . miles McFarland abandoned the race. ; Michaels broke thc ,world's record for! ten miles, covering, the distance in 20 j minutes 8 2 5 seconds. The previous i world record. 20 minutes IS 3 5, was j made by McDufib at Boston Sase Sep tember. The new railroad bridge over the Danube at Czarnavoua is a great i achievement. For more than nine miles this bridge crosses the Danube ! proper, the so-called territory of ioun- ! dation, which is annually uoder water ' for a certain period of time. The I largest spans are over thc main current ' of the river, there being one of 620 ! feet and four of 455 feet each. Thc total length ot the bridge proper, with out approaches, is 13,325 feet. This beats all records. 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BOOKS Containing invaluable information of _"_- interest to all women, will be sent rntt to any address, upon application, by The BRADFIELD REGULATOR CO., Atlanta, 6a. ! shops io town-ooe of Mr. J. N. Nunnery and j ! the other of Tom McLeod (colored). Tbere . is a colored brass baod, composed of twelve i .' members ; the bund master is A. P. Fielder, ! '?? who is also the town butcher. Another col ! ored mao ho deserves mention here is Fran i eis Rhodes, the shoemaker. ' ! During cur visit we were the guest at tbe I pleasant home of that, genial gentleman - Mr. I Peter Meliett, than whom there is HO more 1 bosoitable man in South Carolina. Mr. Mel i lett not only belongs to the we known Mel j lett family of Privateer Township, but was ( ; himself a Privateer boy. ! We are much indebted to those who kindly J i aided us in gathering up our material for this j ! article, and we will state that our objact is I not to "boom" Wedgefield, only to describe | I the pretty little tov.n and its pleasant people j as they really are. The memory of th'u visit j will ever remain with us as a very pleasant j one MCDONALD FORMAN. Ramsey, Privateer Township, April 29. Oswego Ramblings. Mr. Editor: You have been faithful to me and can say I have not been true to you. We have bad a bard time on our flat lands this year getting ready aod planting. Lands btf.ve been plowed too wet and hastily pre pared for the best results, and yet we may make a fine crop. Dry weather has caused bad etands of cotton, but the late rains have counteracted to some extent tbe effect of the dry weather. When I get my cotton up every year I think of Capt. Jas. McLeod's saving, "8ixty days will decide our fate as to a crop," and I reckon price to . Oats are looking very well in some places. Good stands of corn, bnt it is suffering from sand by the former heavy rains. 1 don't think there is any tobacco aroond here, except what is being chewed and smoked, and a wise conclusion, I think. We farmers are too easily drawn from one crop to another that somebody else has made money ont of. Let our money-crop price go down and the last son of a man wants to try something else. A new grass, weed, berry, squash, sugar beet, and some take up the hog and corn, melons and fruit, and finally return to tbe beautiful white staple and oily seed, convinced that cotton will make more mooey per acre and get you more credit than any thing we can grow or raise. I favor diyersi fled industries, but do exempt me from planting everything that grows and promises a dollar. Some for one thing aod.same for another, is an established truth that cannot be downed. These agents are clever fellows areot they. Once in a while they condescend to stop a night with us and tell us bow to make a fine crop, and a paying one, and why we dor't prosper. This, tboogb, is only human nature, for I have often thought if I had my neighbor's farm I could do so much better than he, and men have often said to. me if they only had my land they would be independent. Now and then you stumble on a brag who thinks be has the best land and makes more on it than anybody else, with less manure and work. You want news Mr. Editor, not so much common talk you will say, but how can J give you what I haven't got. If there bas been anything of the kind in this commnoity lately, I have not heard anybody 3ay any thing aboot il. Tbe churches under Revs. Rushton and Richards are movfbg on nicely, with live Sunday Schools. Prof. Covington's school at Bethel will continue another month as a public school, and may run another month as a private school. Patrons are highly pleased and will employ bim for another year if they can. Children's Day-third Sunday in May will be observed at Bethel Church. Last Friday Mr. Clyde held his Second Quarterly Meeting for Oswego Circuit. The rain made the congregation small, but we bad as big sermon as a big crowd wonld have bad. Tbe lunch wa3 quite an attraction in our large and comfortable school house. To have our official members and friends all seated around a long table well loaded, is re freshing io more than one way. War seems to *e on in good earnest over the water. A christian war they say, but don't seem to arouse Christendom to their help. Tbe great powers seem to be afraid one of the other, and when the two little fel lows were about to bitch all the big boys ran up in their great ships to see the fight Why don't they do like we did, appoint a commission and make a settlement for them. I hope this letter will reach you in good time, for sometimes it takes from two to three days for a letter to go from Oswego to Sumter. TI MMONS VILLE KOTES. Meeting of Florence District Con ference. Timmonsvilie, April 30.-The Florence District Conference met in the Methodist Church here yesterday morning at 9.30 o'clock, Presiding Elder Hodges io the chair. ' Rev. Jobo O. Wilson preached last night. Prof. C. B. Smith of Wofford College, will lecture to-night. To-morrow closes tbe business of the Con ference, but tbere. will be preaching in the different churches Sunday. The Conference promises to be very inter esting and profitable to those who attend. $100, Reward, $100. The readers of this paper will be pleased to leam that there is at least one dreaded disease that science bas been able to care io all its stages, and that is Catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Cure is the only positive cure cow known to the medicial fraternity. Catarrh being a constitutional disease, requires a constitu tional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cnre is taken internally, acting directly opon the the blood and mucous surfaces of the system, thereby destroying the foundation of the dis ease, and giving the patient strength by building up the constitution and assisting nature in doing its work. The proprietors have so mnch faith in its curative powere, that they offer One Hundred Dollars for aoy case that it fails to cure Send for list of testimonials. Address, F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo. 0. Sold by Druggists, 75c. New York, May 3.-More demands for gold for export were made at the sob-treasury to-day with the results that $1.500,000 io gold coin was removed for shipment for steamers sailing to morrow. The total withdrawals since the movement began a week ago have been 7,977,000 Seoator Tillman aod Senator Morgan engaged in bitter personalities while debating the public land biil jester- j day. Mrs Marilla M. Rtcker, a member ! of the Wat-biogton bar, is aD applicant for the appoitjtmeut as minister to Colombia. I Fitzsiromons has declined to fight I ?! Joe Choynski, who must first whip I ! Corbett and Maher, Fitz says.