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|: Cte Slatejnmn ia t Soiiiljroit WEDNESDAY, JTJNE 16.' 1897. The Sunder Watchman was rounded in 1850 sad the True Southron in 1866. % The Watchman and Southron DOW has Be combined circulation and influence K of both of tbe old papers, and is mani festly the best advertising medium in Snorter JSDITOEIAI, NOTES. The Daily Critic, which succeeds i the defunct Charleston Daily Sun, is j a bright and interesting sheet. There are two factions in Reform j circles, and the leaders are toting I knives for each other. It will be a ! jolly scalping party when active hos- j tilities break ont. The Independent Republic is Hor ry Coonty 's latest journal If is well . printed and well edited, and is a val nable addition to the newspapers of the State, y The great blocks of high grade phosphate rocks on exhibition at the Tennessee Centennial Exposition af ^ ford the most convincing proof that the Sooth Carolina Octopus does not require a targe amount of official and legal strangling to kill it dead. The dispensary system is a great, big humbug, and has served to cloak ' wholesale rascality, but it never per petrated a greater swindle on the State than when the treasury was \ promised $92,000 with which to meet current expenses during the present1 fiscal year. Eventually the State will have to i , pay the Blue Ridge scrip, at all j Reveals this seems to be the concen ii'-v': :f..' r : sus of opinion of those who have. . scrutinized the facts of the case most carefully, and this being the case, .what sense is there in putting off the Kevil day until payment is forced ? ;Why not meet the issue at once and make the best terms possible ? The metropolitan police system of Charleston is another humbug, and should be wiped out of existence, ^simply because it is a failure, if not for other and better reasons, which have been cited so often that they wo2 d be worn out, were they not based on sterling truths and the. un deniable principles of democracy and home rule. President McKinley saw a distinct ively Southern and Western exposi tion when he visited the Nashville Centennial. The most striking char act- ristic of this exposition is the great preponderance of exhibits from the Southern and middle Western States There are many things want ing o make the exposition fully rep lesentative of the South, but it shows the South to better advantage than any exposition we have attended. President cKi lev is bound hand ! and foot by ante-election promises to j office seekers, consequently he can not retain even Wade Hampton in office. The theory that 4Jto the vic tors belong the spoils" is still in tbe ascendant, and the greater part of the j civil service talk is the merest pre- j Senator Tillman's investif fer <<1 the senatorial sugar scandals is noth ; ing more than another of his shrewd j advertising schemes The Honora- j ble Benjamin R Tillman is the j shrewdest, as well as the most per si tent and successful advertiser ia j America to day, and he gets prefer- j red positions in ail papers at no cost J to himself Ile made himself poiiti- j ca'i y, using and abusing the newspa j prjs of South Carolina, aud now he is working the papers of the whole j country The Charleston metropolitan police system is still keeping the Greenville News" id an unsettled state of mind. Gov. Eilerbe is not worrying himself, j Marshal J. Elmore M lin is calm j and serene, and there is no use in ? The News getting hot in the collar, j Better run up to Paris Mountain and get cooi. I John Gary Watts was a political | accident and a very bad accident. His military career has been any : thing else than distinguished, and has been marked by unsavory noto- j riety that he himself may mistake for i fame. His sanguinary battle on the ! college campus, when he called in the police to defend him and his soldiers ! against the blood-thirsty, long hair- j ed savages from the unexplored fa t-1 ness of Legare and Elliott Colleges, j merits a place in Reform history in j juxtaposition to the tragic Darling- j too war. I Tillman is ''seconding'' the jut Senator's "able efforts" in the S ate. The Legislature should have kno better than to reiy on the dispens; profits when making appropriation The contest for McLaurin V sh in the Sixth District will have to narrowed down between fewer c j didates before it becomes interesti Maj 3arney Evans is authority the statement that his brother, Jc Gary Evans wili be a candidate the U. 3. Senate. We sincerely he he will, for we shall highly enjoy s ing him get the last vestige of poli cal 8tufEng knocked out of him. Lieut Stokes is a great creature a regular 'n'United" States offic He made an exhibition of himself refusing to answer questions befe the court of inquiry that appears, thia distance, to have been as absu and unnecessary as his conduct w discourteous. Solicitor John S Wilson wou make the best representative of t Sixth District of any man who name bas been mentioned in conne lion wiith the place If he ente the race he will have a strong follow ing from the start Unfortunate for him Sumter is not in the Sixt for the Game Cock County is soi for him every time. It is hinted by Washington cc respondents that Tillman will aga use his personal influence to mal John Gary Evans C. S. Senato When the primary election is he to choose a successor of Senator J 6eph Earle, Tillman's part in the coi test will be equivalent to his sayin to the people of the State, "Evans my friend, my political henchmar I want him in the Senate with rn you must vote for bini 1 am th \bos8, and have spoken. Do not dar disobey." Gen. John Gary Watts and Co Wilie Jones, both good Reformerg and supposed to be birds of a feathei do not recollect and relate t&e sam facts and circumstance** in connectioi with thc college riot. This is rathe unfortunate, for it gives one the un comfortable feeling that perhaps om of the two soldiers may be relating s revised version of the story. We an inclined, after reading the testimony of all the witnesses, to believe Col Jones's statement to be the, one most in accord with the facts bul accord to Gen. Watts the palm foi having produced the most artistic story and the one to be given th? benefit of all doubts. Senator John L. McLaurin is not a protectionist aod is not tainted with Republican heresies. He is a believer in the equalization of taxation and is work ing ably along practical iioes to relieve the South of the unjast burdeu hereto fore imposed hy Republican protective tariff law>. Every time a product of the South that is largely used in the North is put on he protected list a blow is struck ia the interest of free trade, and we believe McLaurin has already accomplished more toward {he ult male overthrow of the protection system than any other man lu Congress Vom this State. Eyer >ince the war ihe manufacturing interests of the North have received all the benefits of pxoicction for their produots and of free trade on articles consumed, while the South has had to contend against the unfavorable effets of both systems ol' trade regulation McLaurin is work ing along the right line, and he has a majority of his constituents at bis back The erroneous impression that the Court of Inquiry, which was in session last week, bad power to reprimand . r dismis.- Gen Watts from office has gaii; vd currency by some means Th J Court o: Inquiry has no i-uch power li dots nothing more than its o&me imp ts It simply makes inquiry ^nto the fa-ct and circumstances of the case which it is called to investigate and iiav tug taken testimony reports tts finding. The balure of the report of the Court of inquiry determines whether a court martial is or is not necessary. There is no power of action vested in the Court of Inquiry, and the friends and admirers of Geo. John Gary Watt.s need give themselves no further un easiness on account of the apprehenden \ that their military hero may bc sum marily kicked out of hts exalted otfioe into thc ehades of private life where it would be necessary for him to labor for sustenance. "the Delineator and lion Too for July re ceived by H. G. Osteen & Co. Base Balls, Bats and supplies at H. G. j Osteen & Co's. j -- THAT INVESTIGATION. ? - ! Tbe demand by citizens of Laurens i for an investigation of the charges that Senator Tillman received large sum? of ! : money in rebatos on di>peosary whis key partakes of the mock heroic, and I is not as amusing as ir is absurd. AD investigation that would reveal all of the bidden facts and secret his tory of the dispensary system would bc a most excellent thing, and we would hail it with a degree of eatisfaction greater ban produced by aoy political occurrence sioce tbe inception of Re form, saving only tbe defeat of John Gary EvaDS. But we need no more whitewashing matinees. There have been far too many such vindications of "persecuted Reformers'" already for the average citi zeo to bave much faith io investiga tions as conducted in these days. It will be economy to forego the investi gation, leaving Tillman, Traxler, Mix sen and others of the tribe to enjoy in peace whatever of spoils they may have mulct from tbe liquor men, for the committee of investigation would cost the State a considerable sum of money-mach more than can be afforded at this time, when a hundred thousand dollar deficit stares the treasury in' the face, and the rate of taxation is beadier that at anytia>e between 1876 and 1890. South Carolina is too poor t pay for a coat of whitewash for dispensary re baters, and their Laurens friends were inconsiderate in making the demand on Gov. Ellerbe. Weekly Crop Bulletin. The following is the weekly bulle tin of the condition of the weather and crops of the State issued yester day by Observer Bauer of the South Carolina section of the United States climate and crop bureau ; , TEMPERATURE. The temperature was about norma1, the mean for the week having been 76 while the normal is approximately 77. The fore part of the week was below normal while the last three days were very warm. The highest temperature reported was 100 on the 12th at Beaufort, the lowest 57 on the 9th at Columbia PRECIPITATION. The weather was showery on the 7th, 8th and 9th, and she ry condi tions prevailed in places on the 12th Heavy washing rains occurred dur ing the first of the week, with con siderable flooding of low lands,and ma terial injury to crops in Spartanburg, Greenville, Fairfield. Clarendon, Newberry, Edgefield, Orangeburg, Barnwell, Laurens, Greenwood, An derson, Yoik, Kershaw, Lancaster and Bamberg At tbe close of the wees it was still too wet to plow bot toma and in places uplands in Ches ter, Chesterfield, Berkeley, Spartan-1 burg;, Bamberg and Horry. Tbe average of 50 measurements for the week was 2 07, and the nor mal is approximately 1 04. Seven places reported le?s than 1 00 of rain, 24 places from 1 to 2 inches, 19 places over 2 inches, among them were the following heavy rains : Blackville, 3.60 ; Mount Clare, 4 18 ; Loopers, 5 93 ; Jefieries Creek, 3 10 ; Pinopolis, 4 44 ; Barksdale, 4 10 ; San tuc, 3 11. The correspondent at Inman, Spartanburg county, re ports nearly 15 inches of rain in six hours on the 7th. lt is described as having been in the nature of a cloud burst. Streams in the vicinity were higher than ever known and a great deal of injury to crops, etc , re sulted. Rail, doing material injury to corn, cotton, fruit and tobacco, occurred in Edgegeld, Fairfield, Anderson, Mar ion, Sumter, Chester, Pickens, Clar endon, Florence, Hampton and Oraugeburg Hail also fell, but without doing any material injury, in Spartanburg, Newberry, Barnwell, J Lexington, Richland, Chesterfield. Darlington and Saluda. Sunshine varied greatly in different, portions of the State, but aver aged about normal with 63 per cent, of the possible. CROPS. The adverse conditions of the past week were altogether physicial and therefore local, and consisted mainly of high water flooding bottom lands heavy tains washing slopes and hail beating dovn com, cotton and to bacco Comparatively speaking, the damage was confined to limited areas in the counties already named. From Abbeville and lower BarnweU reports were received of crops suffering for rain, and from Spartanburg, Chester, ! Lancaster and Chesterfield of too j much rain fer plowing and that crops ; are getting to be foui. Chinch bugs continue to destro}* corn and other vegetation over Ches ter and York ; cut woims in Dorches ; ter, Colleton, Hampton and Williams - j burg, but corn has generally made j rapid growth, and in many places is : being laid by. The corn crop does i not come UD to an average condition i in either size or stand, owing prin ; cipally to broken stands on bottom j lands caused by worms. Replanting j still going on Cotton made, fair and altogether satis factory progress " during the week. Grass threatens the crop io some local ise?, but the plant is of sufficient size, and the prevailing hot, suony weather will enable farmers to kill grass readily, and is also the weather best suited for the development of cotton. Squares are reported plentiful where the plant is large enough, but cotton is unseasonably small everywhere. Bltoms have been noted in Barnwell, but are as yet scarce. Lice infest some fields, but are not general. Tobacco ha9 developed rapidly lately and is now in excellent condition, ex cept that worms are numerous in Flor ence, while in Florence and Clarendon, and to a lesser extent in some other j counties in the tobacco district, bail bas done material injury to the plant. Rice is growing nicely, but io Colle ton young rice has been attacked by caterpillars with, however, but slight injury as yet Io the Georgetown aod j Horry districts rice is doing weil. Peas are bein^ sown on s ubbie land ; I .1 J and iu with corn Seed scarce in j ('hester and Georgetown, but reported : plentiful in Newberry county s Wheat harvest has made fair prog j ress, and the yield is generally reported j j up to aa average and very satisfactory, j Oats harvest nearly completed for j winter sown. The yield about up to an average. Spring sown bas im proved, but will be a poor crop never theless. Some oats shocked on the j fields were damaged slightly by the j rains early ic thc week. Melow are doing better 6 nce the ! rains, but bare a poor staod. and in places are attacked by bugs. Will be ate. Transplanting sweet potato draws cootinnes. Gne locality reports draws scarce, bot generally they are plenti ful. In the trucking districts the condi tions have improved very much, aod late vegetables are doing well. Pastures have revived, and now afford good grazing. Gardens io ex cellent condition. Minor crops, such as sugar cane, sorghum, pinders, Irish potatoes and other food and forage crops are fully up to or above average condition. H, the White Slaye. Mr. McDonald Furman Writes of Strange Evtr.ts of Many Years Ago. Mr. Editor : Sometime ago I had the pleasure of dining at the home of au old lady whose uncle, strange as the statement muy seem, once bought j and lor a time, owned a white man. This sale did not take place in any foreign country, but took place in the United tates, or to state facts more distinctly, it occurred in Sumter. The white man was sold as a vagrant at public auction. Th old lady at whose home I dined is Mrs. Martha Ardis, wife of Mr. J. L Ardis This couple live at Weeks' millpond, near the edge of the adjoining township of Mati chester. Mrs. Ardis is now an old lady of 63, and her maiden name was McElveen ; she was the laughter of j Mr. Philip McElveen. I w;Il not give here the name of j the white man who was sold, but will simply call him "ll.'' Mr. Jim A vin, of this township, who is him j 6elf an old man of about 65 years, j probably knows more about R's slavery than any other living person j and at my request, he has very kind ly given me the following informa- ; tiot), which besides being interest- [ ing, forms a unique contribution to ! the history ol' slavery in South Caro lina. Mr Avin's account is as fol lows : "I was about 12 years old when R was 6oId. He was bought by Dan iel McElveen, and 50 cents was the price paid for him. He was sold at public auction, at the Sumter Court House, and was sold for four years; at the end of four years !>e was to be sold again, but he was never sold j again. He staid at Daniel McEl-j veen's two years after he was sold, then he went to Phil McElveen's, j Dan's brother, and he worked for Phil for about 12 or 14 years Dat) McElveen did riot treat Iv. as a negro slave He staid in Dan's house, and was staying lhere before he was sold A lony: time after he was sold he married ll" was a good settled man : when he was sold Dan McElveen j was living at the Tom Davis house j when he owned R. Philip or Dan, : ' neither one, were hard to R, both cf j them treated him very weil ; ::e did pretty mnch as he pleased at both ? places R was a clear blooded white man When Dan Mcilwaine bought him I waa working at Phil McEl veen's, and when R came to Phil's, I went to Dan's, where 1 worked I four year ; me and R just swapped places Mrs. Ardis, as I mentioned above, ! was the daughter of Mr. Philip McEiveen ; she was raised entirely by her grand-uncle, but says that so ! far as she knows, Mr. Avin's account j is correct In his statement Mr. A vin speaks of the Tem Davis house. Some of j your renders may remember that '; early in 1889 I published a sketch of ! this house in the Sumter Advance. I This building- was the remains of an ; old tavern, which was put down as j ''Ben Evans' Tavern" on a map of i "Sumter District." made from a sur vey of 1821 From what I have beard, this tavern must have been a wicked and most rowdy place in I those long; ago days When I wrote the sketch of the house, it was noth ing but the shell of an uninhabited j building, and had about it an air of intense lonesomeness :; indeed I don't remember to have ever seen any other building which had such a look of sadness and utter desolation It was aftewards blown down. It stood to the left of the Charleston public road, about 250 yards below the Privateer and Clarendon line, and I suppose about a mile below the forks of the Charleston and Georgetown public roads, at which place stands the little plank church attended by the "old issue," or properly speak ing, "Redbone" people One after I noon recently 1 visited the spot j where this old house stood ; cotton I is planted there now, and all that^ re ! mained of the building were some j bricks. Mr. S R Cole has a saw ; mill not far from this spot. Il died several years ago. and if 1 mistake not, his death occurred down ; in Berkeley County. I remember seeing him once ; it: was in this township, and was only for a few j minutes I wonder how many peo- j pie who have eaten with Mr. Daniel j McElveeu's relative have ever thought of. the fact that they were eating with relatives of a man who actually bought a white man as a slave at public auction right here in South Carolina I MCDONALD FURMA.W --J .??-<i - Some people are constantly troubled wi:h pimples and boils, especially about th? fucp and neck The best rempdy. ts H thorough j course ot Acer's Sarsaparilla, which expels ( all humors through the proper channels, and 1 so raakes ihe sKio hecome soft, healthy, and fair. Riebest Man m the World Dead. London. Jane 14, Midnight-A special dispatch from Faocha, Island of Madeira, oil the west coast of Moroc co, says that on the arrival there to day of the British nieauiship Scott. which left Table Bay (Cape Town) on June 2. for Southampton, it was an nounced that Barnato, tbe South African "diamond king," who was among the passengers, had committed suicide by leaping overboard. His body was recovered. The late. Barney Barnato W3S in many respects the most remarkable speculator of tbe century. Of all the Englishmen who have taken part in th* development ot" South Africa two only have secured a world-wide reputation. These have been Cecil Rhodes and Bar- j nett Isaacs, uuore efren nd less respect- j iu-iy styled Barney Barnato, which j was an assumed natue. sort of stage ! name, for he beaut) bi;j "life io Africa j by exhibiting =i rick donkey onie 25 | years ago. He was then about 20 | years of age. Barnato was an Engiish Jew wirh j the extraordinary financial genius of his rac . Up t > sne point where bis fortunes began tu decline he made mon ey by leaps and bound- and in 1895, when his g^od femme was at its zenith it was estimated that hr controlled in tbe neighborhood ot a hundred million pound * It wa the fashion to cali him the richest man in thr world ; ar that time he was virtually the king of the London mouey market. We meet the public deijumd for a high-grade wheel at the right price WESTERN WHEEL WORKS CHICAGO-N: v.- Yosx 1 PAYI -TG FOR THEIR FUN. ! Tbs Lucknow Ejotera Pay AH Ex penses o I VO the C3se Compromised L .><.!;':o T. June 9.-Tne riot that occurred i bete Siturdny f-vening WHS compromiso-i ir. j Carndt-n >fsterday. The rioters paid a l ! COStS of m'iiiia, ere . $.> a? to Save tb*; Stute nd county from nv expense whatever, j Tiley H-i'f-e to abide ty the town and State j laws in tuturi Pills Cure All Liver ills. 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STIEFF, 9 N Liberty Street, Baltimore. 418 Main St , Norfork Va. Claremont Lote i. 64 A. F. E TBE REGULAR MONTHLY COMMU NICATION cf Claremont Lodge, No. 44, A. F. M.. will be held on Thursday Evening, July 8th, at 7 p. m. Brethren will take due notice and govern themselves accordingly WANTS. ADVERTISEMENTS of five lines or less will be inserted under this head for 25 cents for each insertion. Additional linea 5 cents per line. , AGENTS WANTED. Male or female in every county. Business respectable, compensation good. No trouble to make some money. Address Chronicle, Augusta, Ga., for particulars. THE CHEROKEE JUIN, 1,000 Feet Above the Sea. A Perfect Summer Home. Cool Roon:*. SOO feet of VT de Perches Extensive We -shaded Grounds. Teat-is Courts, Dancing, Children's Play Grounds. Good Drives, Reasonable Livery Charges. Cool Nights, Pure Air, Lithia Springs. Coolest auii sweetest water in the State. Fre.-h Fruits and Vegetables, Cuisine and service ibe best. E*sy cf ac cess, rates reasonable, 8 mails daily. JNO. F. JONES] June 9- BLACKSBURG, S. C. The State of South Carolina, COUNTY OF SUMTER. By T. V Walsh, Esq., Probate Judge. TT7HEREAS, JOHN J NEASON, made f f suit to me to crant him Letters cf Administration f the Estate of and effects of JOBN E. NE SON, deceased. These re then-fore to cite and aomoitish ali and singular the kin<ir*-ti md creditors of the s id JOHN E NE A SON, late cf said Coun tv and State, deceased, that they be and appear before me, in the Court of Probate, to be held at Sumter C. H., on June 21, 1S97, next, after publication thereof, at ll o'clock in the forenoon, to show c use, if any they have, why the said Administration should not be grunted. Given under my hand, this 9th dav cf June, A. D" 1897." THOS. V. WALSH, Judge of Probate jon o-2t. Notice cf Examination. rpHE NEXT EXAMINATION FOR j TEACH BKS in the public schools of Sur.i'er County will ne heid on the 4th Friday, the '25th cay of June, next, at the. usual places. No one less th.j.n 18 years of ge cnn take the examination. w j. DURANT. To. Sunt. Education. M av 26-4t. ATTORNEY AT LAW. Prompt attention to all business entrusted to htm. Office on Court House Square, ir: Blancing office.