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WEDNESDAY, MAY 12. 1S97. ODD CHARACTERS. * 'I thin Tif ail tne'cranks in this coun try were corralled," remarked the clerk in the treasury department, ' 'and put nuder a shed somewhere it would re quire one bigger than all the buildings at the World's fair. ' ' * 'Would there really be anybody to do the corralling?" inquired a pessimistic ?' old party, who thinks there is none good -no, not one '"As I was saying," continued the treasury clerk, "it would take the big gest shed on earth, and still there is a new kind.- This time it is a man or wo man who has been sending in 10 cents at a time as a contribution to the con science fund, with a name signed ia full, and there is no such name on tb.3 treasury books and never has been. I suppose *it is merely some crank who thinks he or she will get that name in the papers and have that much fame out cfit" "That's silly enough," chipped in a ^ 'postgffice inspector, "but I heard of the oddest chap on my last trip down south . You may not knew, or, if you do, don't pay much attention to the fact, thas there is a fine of $10 for sending written ..matter through the mails under any jj rate except 2 cents an ounce. Very like ly you have sent enough stuff written on papers, books and so cn to bankrupt you if you had the fines to pay, but Un cle Sam is easy, and I don't know of a case where anybody ever had to pay the fine. In this instance a man came into a certain office down south and gave the postmaster $500, being the amount of fines he owed the government for .viola tion of postage laws as far as he could recall them. He was a young man, and he stated that he had violated the law while in love with a girl to whom he sent papers and books occasionally, and, though he wrote to her every day, he couldn't let the others go without writ ing something on them. The postmaster didn't knowhow to act in the premises, and just what he would have done final ly nobody knows, but the next day the I young man's father' came to the post master and told him that his son had - been jilted by his sweetheart, and it had -crazed him. This was an " explanation which satisfied the official, and the mcn y was returned." "Ugh!" grunted the pessimistic old party, in no wise affected by the pathes" cf the little story. " Only a crazy perafei or an idiot would ever think of settling square with Uncle Sam for a little bun ko game like.that. "-Washington Star. 1 MARCH HAS ITS VIOLETS. And Tiere Is & Bright and Cheerful Sid to EverytLin^. Edward W. Bok, under the title of "The Odor of Spring Violets," writes "most forcibly in The Ladies' Home Journal on the theme that there is a bright side to everything-even to March, the mest disagreeable month of the year, for it has its spring violets, " t is true/' he write?, "that it is diffi cult sometimes to see the bright side cf sorrow, sickness and death. And yet? there is distinctly a bright side. Iso sor row ccmes to us without a reason. We never snow cur friends until sorrow or illness comes to ns. Wc never know What lovjng kindness "and thonghtful ness mean until we stand in need of - them, and cur hearts seem to beat agr nst tho walls cf a edd, merciless world. Wc leam something from every - grief and from each p2in which ccmes te us. We leam to distinguish between friends, and what more priceless posses sion is there in the whole range cf knowledge than this? What develops us more than trouble? Virtues cf heart, which we never dreamed of as existing within us, reveal themselves when we are sorely tried. That is why sorrow and trials are given us-net to give pain, but to develop us, to better equip us for something unknown which lies in the future, and which we ccnld not meet or understand unless we had first gone through certain experiences. "We are far tco apt to regard actual blessings as calamities, to look upon the dark side of things. Some sorrow comes to us, and we rebel. It never oc curs to us that perhaps we need the ex perience which sorrow alene can give. Illness comes, and wo fret. But we can not always be well. Ailments arc very often given to us to make our apprecia tion cf gcod health the keener. God has an aim, a direct purpose, in everything he does. His blessings come in different forms. Nc; are these forms always such as we would choose. Lessons can be more effectively taught in innumerable cases through sorrow than through pleas ure. Wo should never know what a pure, beautiful color white is if we did not have black to bring out the contrast. We want only pleasure in our lives. When sorrow comes, we rebel and re fuse to recognize it for what it so often is-a blessing in disguise. We cannot i always have it June. There mast be March. Yet March has its spring vio lets." _ The King's Joke. King of thc Fijis-Say, Arabella, I've discovered a fine new dish for our bill of fare. Arabella-How do you make it? King cf the Fijis-Wo put a Chicago man and a Besten man in the pot to gether. Arabella-What do yon call that? King of the Fiji?-Why, pork and beans of course.-2s cw York Journal. ' Food and Drink Ccnsnmt d lu a Lifetime. The average man takes Z}..z pounds cf feed and drh;k each day, amounting to a ton cf i=olid and liquid nourishment annually. In 70 yearshc Cats and drinks 1,000 times his own weight.-Ladies' Home Jon rn al. A horse is mere liable to scare wi iii than without blinders. He is seldom afraid of what he can fairly see. / Bread which is to be kept leng should be kneaded longer than that which is meant only for tomorrow's use. $500 BEWARD. We will pay the above reward for any case of Liver Complaint, Dyspepsia, Sick Head ache Indigestion, Constipation or Costiveness we cannot cure with West's Vegetable Liver Pills, wheo the directions are strictly coa plied with. They are purely Vegetarle, and never fail to give iatiefatioa. Sugar Coated. Large boxes, 25 ceots. Beware of of counter feits and imitations. The genui e ronnu factnred only by TH JOHN C WEST COMPA NY. Chicago, ill. For sale in Sumter by J. F W. DeLorme. ICiftBIIU'Q FOR EITHER SEX. LE'Duwil o This remedy being in Jectfed directly to the Kfe fa seat of those diseases I* fi H Bi of the Genito-lrinary ?H Xi 19 Orgrans, requires no Bl yo H change of diet. Cure Xffk guaranteed in 1 to a -days. Small plain pack - fVTTIIVi^ by mail, S 1*00. %*9\J Ha Sold only hy J. F. W. DELORME, Sumter, S. C. DO YOU K W DR. FELfX LE BRUN' Steel! Pennyroyal Pills are the original and only FRENCH* safe and reliable cure on the market. Price, $1.00; sent by mail. Genuine sold only by Forsale bv J. F. W. DeLorme, Sumter ,*S.C HARB Y $ CO. y WHOLESALE BROKERS, -AND Cotton Storage Warehouse PROPRIETORS. TJP-TOWN OFFICE: COURT HOUSE SQUARE, 1,000 Tons High Grade Am noniated Fertilizer, 1,000 TODS Acid with Potasa, 500 Tons Dissolved Bone. 500 Tons German Kainit, 400 Tons C. S. Meal, For Sale. , We are prepared to meet j my and all prices for STAKD- j iRD GOODS. Get our prices j before purchasing. Respectfully, H ARB Y & CO. ! Dec. 16. j WM id Sum & R. ! In ;efifect January 15ib, 1896. TRAINS GOING NORTH. No. 72* eave Wilsons Mill f9 10 am " Jordon, 9 35 a a " Davi3t 9 45 m 11 Summerton, 10 10 a m " Millard, 10 45 an " Silver, ll 10 a ES *. . Packs vii le, 11 30 p m " Tiodal, Il 55 p m " 4 W. & S. June, 2 27 p m Lr. Sumter, 2 30 p m TRAILS GOING SOUTH. No. 73.*: reuve Sumter, 2 30 p m " W.&S.Jucc, 2 33 ora " Tindal, 2 50 p 25 j " Pscksvilie, 3 10 p a !i Silver, 3 35 p si " Millard, 3 45 p m " Scrsmertcn, 4 40 p m i; Dari?, 5 20 p 15 41 Jordoo, '5 50 p sa Lr. Wilson Mill, . 6 30 p m - ^ Tra na between Millard and St. Paul lcav i lard 10 15 a m end 3 45 p m., arriving j t. Paul 10 25 a m and 3 55 p m. Returning ave St. Paul 10 35 a m and 4 10 p rn, aad j rrive Miilcrd 10 45 a sa end 4 20 p sa. Dal- j j except Sunday. ?Daily except Sondav THOMAS WILSON Predsient. Fast Freight . Line -^nong ?oro BETWEEN Sumter, S. C., foe KortH, Northwest, South and Southwest, -VIA-. AGOSTA GEORGIA R. R. RateS;Snd*information furnished \hy E , ^JACKSON,.T. F. A. Columbin, S. C. A. G JACKSON, G. P A., Augusta, Ga Dec 8 THE BANK OF SUMTER, SUMTER, S. C. 3ity and County Depository ["rsnsacts a general Banking business, also has I Savings Bank Department, Deposits of l and upwards received In- j erest allowed at the rate of 4 per cent, per ; innu'C. Payable quarterly, on fi ist davsofi fanuarv, April, Juiv and October. W F. B BAYN3WORTH, W. F. RHAMB, Cashier. President. Jan 13. -I te&.-s- '-'.:.?> ; - ?. ' - Iii-' . v-l F'- Sr* . :"' '?" .. .*53#$V. '5< " . . :Mmm- - ; : - ?! * t/V "fe * C C p Y p ; j. j - ? g ^c Anyone sending a ?!..'.* h anc! oscr pt cn j ."?j.ctiy ascertain, free, v ! ? i ...* M. U;-. MI. ::I j probably patentable. Couimiiuications sr. coD dentiaL Oldest ageucy fortecurrn!* < in America. Wc : .w * ;i .,'.'::.-?.!. .;. .. .. Patents taken t'trcu;.''-; Muna . Co. ry; ; vo rpecial notice in the j 8GIERTIFI0 MSmmi, beaut ful y iilnstratcd, la.r~c->t circulation ci any scientific jnarnal, weekly,terms$3.(l n year; ?1.20siz months. Specimen copiesanJ^ A^n li os, oy. 'AT::STS ;sect free. Actress MUNN CO., 361 Croadwuv, Kew York. Atlantic Coast Line. WILMINGTON, COLUMBIA AND A Q 8 TA RAILROAD. CONDENSED SCHEDULE. TRAINS GOING SOUTH. Dated Feb. 7, 18S6. Leave Wilmington L?a<re Marion Arrive Florence Leave Florence Arrive Sumter Leave Sumter Arrive Columbia No.55. P.M. *3 25 6 05 6 45 P.M. .7 15 8 42 P.M. 8 45 10 05 No.51. A.M. 3 25 4 30 No.52. A.M. *S 35 10 55 No. 52 runs through from Charleston 19 Central R. R., leaving Lanes 8 26 a. m., Man oiDg 9 05 a. m. TRAINS GOING NORTH Leave Columbia Arrive Sumter Leave Sumter Arrive Florence Leave Florence Leave Marion Arrive Wilmington No. 54. A.M. *5 50 7 12 A. M. 7 15 8 25 A. M. 8 55 9 34 12 15 No 53. P.M. *5 15 6 35 No.50. P.M. ?6 40 7 55 ?Daily. fDaily except Sunday. No. 53 runs through to Charleston, S. C., a Central R. R., arriving Manning 7 10 p. m.. Lanes 7 48 p m., Charleston 9 30 p. m. Trains on Conway Branch bave Chad bourn 10 40 a. m., arrive at Conway way 1- 00 p.m., returning leave Conway at 2 25 p. m., ir -ive Chadbourn 4 55 p. m* leave Chadbourn > 20 p m., arrive at Hub at 6 00 p. m., returnee eave Hub 8 30 a. m., arrive at Chadbourn 9.15 a.m. Daily ex cept Sunday JOHN F. DIVINE, Gen'l Supt. J. . KENLY, Gen'l Manager. T. M. ICMERSON. TratFc Manager Atlantic Coast Line, Manchester & Augusta Eailroa CONDENSED SCHEDULE. In effect January 19, 189 . TRAINS GOING SOUTH. JNo. 35. .No. t/57. Lv Darlington, Lv Elliott, Ar Sumter, Lv Sumter, Ar Creston, LT Creston, Ar Pregoalle, Ar Orangeburg, Ar Denmark, P. M. A. S . 4 30 i 22 5 4? 6 20 A. K. i. il 7 53 8 40 9 25 5 45 9 15 A, M. TRAINS GOING NORTH. No Tab A IC. Lv Denmark, Lv Oraogeburj, Lv Pregnails, 10*00 Ar Creston, 3 50 Lv Creston, Ar Sunter, Lv Sumte-, 6 55 Ar Elliott, 7 40 Ar Darlington 8 30 p. J*. No. *32 P. K. 4 55 5 25 5 47 b 40 . v. ?Daily. fDfcily except Sunday. Trains 50 ar,d 51 carry tbroagb Pullman Palr.ce Buffet Sleeping Cars between Nf? York and Atlanta via Augusta. T. M. LM EKSON, K.M. EM SRSON, TraSc Manager Ass't Gen, Pasa. A gt J. R. KENLY. Gen'l Manager. OMo Siver& Qiarlestoii Railway Co SAMUEL HUNT, Agent for Purchaser. In effect January 4, 18S6. CAROLINAS DIVISION. NORTHBOUND.-(Daily except Sunday.) No. 33. N" il. Lv Camden. Lv Kershaw. Lv Lancaster. Lv Catawba Junction Ar Rock Hill. Lv Ro-:k Hill. Lv Yorkviile. Ar Blacksburg. Lv lacksburjf. Lv Patterson Springo Lv Shelby . Lv Rotherfordton. Ar M rien. SOUTK BOUND.-(Daiiy excer-t Sunday.) j No. 3i. No. 10. i Lv Marion. Lv Rutherfordton. Lv Shelby. Lv Patterson Springs Ar Blacksborg.-.. Lv Blacksburg. Lv Yorkviile.... Ar Rock Hill. 10.10 Lv Rock Hill.ll 00 a m Lv C3.tawbaJunction.lll.30 a m Lv Lancaster. 12.05 pro Ar Kershaw.,. .12.45 am Lv Kershaw. 12 45 p m Ar Camden ..1 .:J0 p rn Dinner attershaw. [CONNECTIONS No 22 has connection with th Chester k Lenoir I? . road :;t Yorkvilif, S. C., wi'li thf Southern Railway KT. Rock hill, S. C , with the Seaboard A r Lino at Catawba Junction, S. with the Lancaster C :e?trr Railroad ai Lancaster, S. C.j 'ir... \;\:\\ the. South Car olina and Georgia Rn:is?a? at Camden, S 0. Ko. 33 Noni, bound train : i5 M J;- connex ions KS No. 23. SAMUEL HUNT, Presid S. B. LUM PK IN. Oft., pf,- . it/ K.l. Mliiffllil DENTIST. o iii ce OVER STORE OF SUMTER DRY GOODS COMPANY outrance on Main Street, etwe o Dry Goods Co. and Durant Son OFFICE HOURS: S to 1.30 : 2 to5 o'clock. April 9. 2 Order Your PROVISIONS AND GROCERIES FROM GD. f. STEFFENS & SON, holesale Agents, Charleston, S C -Agents for MOTT'S CIDER BED SEAL CIGARS, AND DOVE HAMS Notice! THE co-partnership existing between Peterson & Cuthbert has beeo dissolved by mutual consent. Ned Peterson will con tinue the business at the same stand. With an experience of twenty-eight years in the Cabinet Shop of Mr. J. D. Craig, be is well qualified tc conduct a business of th 13 kind. Cleaning and repairing furniture a specialty. The preparing and dressing of dead bodies lor bunal will be promptly and carefully at tended to. Shop opposite the Episcopal Church. NED PETERSON.* Mcb 17. "THE CHARLESTON LISE." SOUTH CAROLINA AND GEORGIA RAILROAD. PASSENGER DEPARTMENT. Corrected to Jan. 24tb, 1897. Lv Charleston Ar Summerville " Pregnalls " Georges 11 Branchville " Rowesville " Orangehurg " St Matthews " Fort .Motte . Ringville Columbia Lv Columbia Ar Ringville " Fort Motte " St Matthew's " Orangebcrg " Rowesville " Branchville " Georges " Pregoalis " Summerville " Charleston DAILY. 7 10 a m 7 46 a m 8 18 a m 8 30 a m 9 00 a m 9 15 a m 9 28 a m 9 48 a m 10 00 a m 10 10 a m 10 55 a m 7 00 a m 7 40 a m 7 51 a m 8 02 a m 8 24 a m 8 33 a m 8 55 a m 9 35 a m 9 48 a m 10 22 a m 1 i 00 a m DAILY 5 30 p m 6 10 p m 6 50 7 04 7 50 8 07 8 24 8 48 9 03 9 20 10 10 p m 4 00 p m 4 44 p m 4 55 p m 5 09 p m 5 27 p m 5 42 p m 55 p m 6 37 p m 6 50 p m 7 22 p m 8 00 p m Lv Charleston ;< Branchville " Bamcerg " Denmark " Blackville *. Willistoa '* Aiken Ar Augusta Lv Augusta " Aiken " Wiiliston " Blackville *' Denmark " Bamberg " Branchville Ar Charleston 7 10 5 15 941 9 52 10 10 10 27 11 09 ll 51 6 20 7 08 7 49 8 OS 8 20 8 33 9 10 ll 00 a ni a m a m a m a rn a m a m a m a m a m a m a m a m a m a m a u 5 30 p m 7 50 p m 8 19 p m 8 31 p m 9 50 p m 9 10 p m 9 57 p tn 10 45 p m 3 20 p m 4 07 p m 4 44 p m 5 03 pm 5 17pm 5 29 p m 5 55 p m 8 00 pm Fast Express, Augusta and Washington, with Through Sleepers to New York. Lv Augusta Ar Aiken " Denmark Lv Denmark " Aiken Ar August.-. Daily Except Sunday. Lv Carecen 8 45 a m " Camden Junction 9 35 a m Ar Ringville 10 C5 a m Lv Ringville 10 25 n m " Camden Junction II CO a m ir Camden II 55 a rn 3 05 p m 3 44pm 4 59 p m 8 25 a m 7 28 a m 8 IO a m 2 25 p m 3 55 p m. 4 3D p m 6 00 a m 0 40 a m 8 15 a m E. S BOW KN. L. EMERSON, Gen'I Man'g'r Traffic Mno'g'r 3enersi cruces-Charleston, S. C. Atlantic Coast Line. North-Eastero R. R o S, ?" TRAINS GOING SOUTH. ?ated Aoril INO 35'NO 23INO.53 15, 1896. 1*1*1* .>e. Florence " Kiog8tree ir. Lanes je. Lanes ir.Cbarl't'n A. M. 3 25 33 33 02 M. P X. 7 15 8 25 8 42 8 42 10 20 P. M NO 51 IA. re 9 00 !10 131 1 . 10 34 52 IO 34 25 12 20 M.I P M. TRAINS GOING NORTH NO 78 * A. M. >. Charl't'n 5 30 5 20 I 7 00 ir. Lanes >. L-tces " Kinysirpe ^r. Florence I 7 05 ! 0 45 7 05 ; 6 45 NO.32 * P. M. A. M NO. 52 * 7 23 8 25 A. M 8 26 NO.50 * P. M. I I 4 00 M. 5 45 5 45 6 05 P. M. I ?. M. ?uaiiy. uiiy exe -pi fcuoaay. Ne. 52 russ through to Columbia via Cen ;ra! R. R. of S. C. Trains Nos. 78 *r .i 32 ruo via Wliso" a;v Fayetteville-Short Line-acid make ;.i'.^e ;oonection iorf.1! points North. Trains on C. D R R. leave Florence j 55 a m, arrive Darlington 9 2S a m, Cbe :HW 10 40 a rn, Wadesbcro 2 ll p m. Leave Florence, daily except Sunday, d 10 p n;, ar r i v e Darlington 8 40* pm, Hurtsville 9 35 p tn, Behnettsvilie 9 36 p rn, Girton 10 00 p ru. Lea VP Florene^, Sundi, y on iv 9 00 p rn, ar rive Darlington 9 27 a m, Hartville 10 10 i m. Leave Git-son daily except Sunday 6 15 a tn, Bennettsville C 41 a m, arrivp Darlington 7 40 a or. Leave Hartville daily except Sun lay 6 30a ra, arrive Darlington 7 15 am, leave Darli'JCton 7 45 a ni, arrive Floret.ee 3 15am Leave Wade?r oro, 0 ;, .- <;;-,;-<. Suodat 3 00 p ci . Cheraw 5 ID p l)*; ifigtn-i G 27 p '.' . F n'uirn 8 55 - ri L>-;ve Hurtsville, Sundav o"lv 7 00 rr. , [).t; !>::;. o:> 7 45 a m . hrrivr- Ft*>r<?., <- 8 I1 m. . ! 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. ! 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. 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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. i wmm i mi iii lle li fe BUi\i Fire Insurance Agency, ESTABLISHED 1S66, Represen*, among other Ccmp;ir.ies : LIVERPOOL . LONDON & GLOBE, NORTH BRITISH & MERCANTILE HOME, of New York. UNDERWRITERS' AGENCY, N. Y. LANCASTER INSURANCE CO. CaDital represented 75,000,000. Feb.2S