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State Pensioners. Overa Thousand Increase OP. the Bolls. Co]arabia, Aug 12 -There has been a large increase in the ncmb^r of th? pensioners of the State this year. In all 1,127 new names ap? pear upon thc rolls This year great pains have been taken under the new act to care for all applications filed and there will hardly big any com? pacts Yesterday the clerks in the comptoroller's office were busy trans? ferring all the figures to the be final pension sheet, and the board hopes to have tbe checks for the individual pensioners in th? several counties go forward to the clerks of coart immedi? ately. This year almost half of the pensioners came under the head of j class C, No. 3-widows. Last year they numbered 1966 The total num? ber of pensioners of all classes is 5, 841 against 4,714 last year: The foUowing gives ihe total num? ber of pensioners by counties > 1896 1897 Abbeville, i 99 121 Aiken. 112 169 Anderson, 356 458 Barnwell, 87 125 Beaufoit. 12 19 Berkeley, 56 101 Charleston, 66 92 Cherokee, - 143 Chester, 43 59 Chesterfield, 156 180 Clarendon, 91 110 ColletOD, 169 306 Darlington, 118 163 Edgefield, 168 114 Fairfield,. 81 93 Florence, 86 133 Georgetown, 10 25 Greenville, - 62 Greenwood, - 62 Hampton, 154 ) 78 Sorry, 99 126 Kershaw, 63 86 Lancaster,/ ' 121 202 Laurens, 234 188 Lexington, 78 96 Marion, ,155 112 Marlboro. Si 98 Newberry, 125 16$ Oconee, . 140 172 Orangeburg, 93 106 Pickens, 134 219 Richland. . 157 184 Saluda, - 93 Spartanburg, 362 393 Sumter. 166 182 Union 159 124 Willliamsburg, 70 84 York, - 297 ' 253 Total 4,714 5.841 The following gives the number of | pensioners by classes for this year and last : Class A, 54 46 Class B. 329 314 Claw C. No. 1* 2,365 225 Class C. No a, 2,936 Class tf. No 2". 1,966 2,320 4,714 5,341 j *Inciudes classes Nos l.and 2 s The following facts about the $100, OOO appropriation which is the same this year as last will be of interest tc ! the pensioners : j Last year the class A pensioners re ceived $8 a month apiece or $96 for the year. The total amount paid1 them was $5,184. This year the ' class A pensioners will get nearly $1,800 less, the act having reduced j their monthly payments to $6 Last year the class B pensioners got $29.10 each, or a total of $9,573 90. The class C men drew $45.842 and the widows $38,140 40. each getting $19.40 apiece This year the class A pensioners will draw $72 apiece. The class B. men will get in.the neighborhood of $15.50 apiece The expenses last year were something over $800 paid to the several county boards of pensions. Tnis year the expeusions. This year the expenses w'ill run up to about $1,400, under the provisions of the new law. .TB i . i )Mm The Primary Tickets. State-Chairman Tompkins bas or? dered a supply of 94.000 tickets for tbe coming primary election, in ac? cordance with the agreement made by the candidates with him a few days ago. These tickets wilt contain the names of all the senatorial can? didates. lt is expected that the tick? ets wiK be ready for delivery to Col Tompkins by to-day, and he wiil at once begin the distribution of tbem all over the State through the regular channels of the organized Democra? cy. He will ask the county chairmen to see that none of the tickets are de stroyed According to the primary rules, separate boxes will have to be pro? vided in the counties of the Sixth congressional district, in which the ballots for the candidates for congress must be cast-State Johnson's Chill and Fever Tonic Cures Fever In One Day. Bradstreet^ View of the Situation. Evidences of a Demand for Merchandise so Nume? rous aa to Compel Recognition. New York, Aug. 13 -Bradstreet's to-morrow wiP say : Evidences of widespread revival io demand for oercb iodise and other pro? duces have become so numerous as to compel general recognition. The pre?3 has, therefore, ceased discussing wheth trade bas really improved or cot an?i have began measuring the volume of business compared with preceeding year* A buoyancy of feeling has appeared among buyers and Sillers at New York, Baltimore, Chicago, St Louis and Kansas City ; where interior merchants have thronged this week, the like of wbic^ bas Dot been for several years interior merchants are buding dry goods, clothing shoes, groceries and fancy articles far more freely than at any time since 1892 Crop conditions have improved at the sooth and southwest aod merchants there are encouraged. Southern lam? ber mills are not able to keep up with orders and innumerable small consum? ers of iron and steel throughout the centra) western States are buying raw material as they have not for years A nominal advance of 75 cents a ton for steel billets is more that* a fea? ture, as it means the confidence of makers in an early revival of the de? mand for iron and steel which has been so tong delayed. Wheat scored an sdvacce of ? cents on continued heavy exports and the ten? dency to decrease estimates of the size of the domestic crop. Wool is higher on speculative hold? ings and cotton yarns have advanced again. Hides and southern lumber are up as are wheat, Soor, Indian corn and cats, and last, but not least, print cloths, the market for which has been so long depressed,. prices for sugar, coffee and lard remain aecbaoged wb?e j pork is quoted lower. Exports of wheat (Sour irioluoed as wheat) from b^th coasts of the Uoited S ates ai.d from Montreal this week ag? gregate 4, 450,519 bushels, an increase over last week of more than 1,100,000 bushels, and compared with shipments in a week a year ago of 2,635,000 bosbels. 1. 824.000 bushels in 1895, of 2 979,000 bushels in 1894 and of 6.129,000 bushels in 1893. The world wide character of the demand for our wheat and flour illustrated by tbe export from both coasts of tb is country co such far off and infrequent customers as Rio de Janerio, in Brazil, Callao io Peru and Surayaba in the island of Java, not lo mention heavily increased shimpments to Europe, China and the east. The total exports of indian corn this week aggregate 3.275.652 bushels, agaiost 3,233,000 bushels last week, 2,367,000 bushels in the week a year ago, 944.000 bushels io 1895. 466,000 bushels in 1894 and 1.734,000 bushels in 1893 There are 214 business failures re? ported throughout the Uotted States this week? compared with 214 last week, 258 in the second week of Au? gust. 234 io 1894 and 270 in 1893. There were 31 busioess failures re? ported from the Dominion of Canada this week, against 41 last week, 35 in the week a year ?go and 29 two years ago - - - ? ? -M Came Close to a Riot. The First Blood the Great in Strike. .Pittsburg, Aug. 13.-Injunctions by the court have put a stop to marches by the striking miners against the New York and Cleveland Gas Coal company for a time at least. But tn the execution of the injunc? tion, the sheriff and his deputies nar? rowly escaped precipitating serious trouble As it was, first blood of the strike was 6bed. Henry Stewart, one of the sheriff's deputies, struck Jacob Mott, a drummer of the McDon? ald band, with the edge of a bass horn and cut a severe gash above his eye The sight of blood wrought up the 1,000 miners to such a pitch that a desperate conflict was immi? nent. The deputies also were excited and noisy. The strikers were jeering and yell ing, and urging a further rush down the toad In the crowd there were enough angry miners to annihilate four times the force of officers on the ground. Capt Bellingham, Sheriff Lowry, Chief Deputy James Richards atid Supt DeArmit were the only ecol men in the assemblage To them belong the credit for avoiding a riot. There was dauger of Bellingham's men getting beyond his control, and he commanded a halt and addressed himself to the task of restraining the more belligerent. So well were his efforts directed that he soon had re? stored comparative order. Sheriff Lowry had a difficult task to perform, but he handled it well, and by his coolness and good nature did much to neutralize the bitterness and strife invited by the behaviour of his subordinate* The strikers final? ly retired and marched back to their camp There were several other brushes with the deputies, but no actual collision. ?fter the miners returned to camp, the officers had a conference with their attorneys. What is Placer Mining? How tbe Miner Washes the Flakes of Gold from the Earth. To give a homely description of placer mining, lake a bushel of coarse eand mixed witb gravel, a bushel of earth, a considerable proportion of clay, a little cement, a doubie handful of j shot varying in size from the smallest j bird shot to the end of your little fin- j ger. and imagine al! tbe staff to be j mixed thoroughly together. How I would you go at it to extract the shot io tbe least possible time and at the least expenditure of labor ? If you bad beard of placer mining you would wa?h the earth away and save the shot. All you need is a pan and a plenty of water. Any sort of a fiat vessel, from a soup plate tn a dishpan, will answer the purpose. The miner's pan is shaped like a cakepan with a fiat bottom. When a prospector starts out he will take one made of copper. Gather with your hands or a pick or a shovel a quart of this mixture of of soil jost described and put it in the pan nearly foll of water. The earth will be softened into mud. Add more water. Then tilt your pan over a very little and the soft mud will roo out over tbe top of the pan. Contin? ue the operation, and in ten or fifteen minutes the earth has run off and all that you have left in the pan is the shot, which, being heavier than than the earth, have suck to the bottom, together with any gravel you may have thrown in originally. The work of separating the shot from the gravel after the earth bas been washed away is feryeasy. Substitute particles of gold for your ieadeo globules, and the wildest kind of ' a mountain country for Chicago, and j you know just' what the mee in the Gioadyks region have been doing all winter that bas electrified the world. Ia .the manoer above discribed they bave been cashing the precious metal from earth foucd on a very roogb, broken region larger than the city limits of Chicago The miners have had no other appliances but the pan and tbe creeks flawing through tbs Klondyke district. What makes the authentic reporrs from Alas- j ka f>o startling is the extraordinary yield of gold to the pan. Nothing like it or nearly approaching it bas ever been heard of before. ?n tbe creeks' bed s they have picked up chunks of solid gold as large as your band, single nuggets wjrtk $1,000 or more. In the language of miners, the earth from which gold is extracted is called **dirt. **r Any earth which yields ten ceots of gold io the psm is known as pay dirt;'' fifteen to the pan is *'good, and twenty cents is rich. A miner woakiog io dirt that runs six to ten cents td the pan earns from $2.50 to $3 50 a day, as he is able to wash > about forty panfuls a day, thc number depending on the character of the dirt Io Klondyke the lowest yield to the pan reported is thirty cents This would give the miner not less than $10 a day for his work. Some paofuls yield $100 in precious metal. The gold that re? mains in the pan after the earth has been washed away is called "dust.' Some of it is fine as the finest sand, some the size of a pinhead and some as large as a pea or tbe end of your little finger; but it is all known as dust Lumps tbe size of a bazel nut, a wal? nut and larger are called nuggets. The gold itself is the measure of the day's, or the month's, or tbe season's profit. An ounce of it worths, barring fractions, $20 any place in civilization. You can buy as much of anything ycu want for an ounce of the dust as you can for a $20 gold, piece. All stores j io mining districts are pi :vided with j gold scales, and the miuer's gold is ao- i cepted as so mach coin of the realm, j The quantity of goid it takes to make a ! dollar is surprising to one not accus- j tomed to handling the metal. So much i dust as you can hold on the largest table of your pocketknife is worth $5 to J $7.50. When you consider tbat this small quantity is the yield of thirty or forty pans, you may imagine how little bulk tbere is to the gold saved io one pan. A coined gold dollar is smaller j than a silver dime. Now, if a miner j can save in one panful of dirt tbe tenth i part of a gold dollar he is making fair j wsges. Some of tbe gold is in such fine par- j tides that it floats and does not sink to j tbe bottom like shot. A considerable j portion of such 3oatiog gold runs over < tbe top of the pan and is lost. It is j estimated that in the first placer mining j in California about one fourth of the ? gold was thus lost. To this day China men are engaged in panning the refuse dirt of early minera, and they make j from $1 25 to $2 a day io the opera- ! tiona. Io Klondyke, where 90 much of J the gold is coarse, the minors lose very i little of jhe precious metal by reason'' of its floating away. Placer mining is ; tbe simplest of ail processes for getting gold out of the ground and can be car- ? ried on only where there ii an ample supply of water. Ali reports from I Klondyke agree tbat the best "dig- j gings'' are in the beds of the creeks, and that the farther down they g<;t the richer tho dirt until bedrock is reached.- Chicago Times-Herald. J0r?lvS'0'N7S CU?LL AND FEVER TONIC Cures Fever ] In One Day. j An Epitaph. The following remarkable epitaph is from a tombstone io one of the rural districts of Georgia : "He kept a grocery ia the woods Uotil by deaih surprised ; His pa*rous always found bis ?oods Jus: as be advertised :' -Hawkins*ii!e Dispatch. oman's uistx z: Are as peculiar as unavoidable, and cannot be discuss? ed or treated as we do those to which the entire human family are subject. Menstruation sus? tains such import? ant relations to her health, that when Suppressed, Irregu? lar or Painful, she soon becomes languid, nervous and irritable, the bloom leaves her cheek- and very grave complica? tions arise unless Regularity and Vigorare restored to these organs. i^|Jt?Is a receipt AvlW O of one of thc i most noted re??ale physicians ^ of the South, Regulator sort prevail more extensively than in any other section, and has never failed to correct disordered Men? struation? It restores health and strength to +lie suffering woman. "Wo have for thc past thirty years handled Bradfield'^ Female Itegulator, both at whole? sale and. retail, and in no instance has it failed to give satis?action. We sell more of it than all other similar remedies combined." LAMAR, RANKIN & LAMAF., Atlanta, 3tIacon and Albany, Ga. TH: BRADFIELD REGULATOR CO., ATLANTA, GA. Sold by eli Druggists ot $?.00 per Bottle. ARE YOU NEEDING AN IRON SAFE? HAVING BEEN APPOINTED GEN? ERAL AGENT for the Alpine Fire aua Borglar Proof Safe Compeer. I am prepared to effer libera! te: rcs to those who are in need of a good safe For prices and terms address J. A. RENNO, .Mcb 24_Sumter, S. C. ?). M. YOUNG, ATTORNEY AT LAW. Prompt attention to ail business entrusted to him. Office on Court House Square, in Blanding office. DRUGS~ AND Soda Water. Toilet Articles, Drugs and Patent Medicines, PERFUMERY, EXTRACTS TOOTH BRUSHES HAIR BRUSHES, COMBS, TOILET SOAPS IN GREAT VARIETY Prescriptions Careful? ly filled day and night -AT J. 8. HUGHS & WI) DRUGGISTS, MONAGHAN BLOCK SUMTER, S. O. "TV" H ?j^ Dip so moro-wheo you be ^3 gifj let your peu slide 'till you're doDe-you can't do it ^ ^ without a Watt-ro?an Ideal 5| ^ Fountain Pen. 3 \vE SELL THEM. 5 ? H. G. OSTEEN & CO, ? 3 LIBERTY ST. jj j To Yon j Who Usc '.V I $ PENS, INK, Paper, Blank Books:! At H. G. OSTEEN & CO'S You can fret everything that you w>iat at the lowest prices. We are so situated that we cm afford to make prices closer than any one else. AU Goods' aro new and of the best quality. No'iskop I worn goods. 3) We mate a specialty of SchooL ?? d> Supplies And abo keep a full liDe o $ vo Stationery, Blacks Books, Etc. $ * Come and inspect our goods. $ ! items too.*. ? LIBERTY STREET, $ I SUMTEB, S. C. % Geo. S. Hacker & Son MANUFACTURERS OF , SASH, BLINDS, Moulding & Building Material. effie? ann Wfirerootcs, King, opposite Can? non Street, CHARLESTON S. C. ?3?~ PnrcfeHSf* our ruHke. which we gu?rante j superior to any sold South, ?nd thereby ?8ve money. Window and Paney Glass a Specialty I October 16 -o THE CHEROKEE INN, 1,000 Feet Above the Sea. A Perfect Summer Home. Cool Rooms. 800 feet of Wide Perches. Extensive Well-shaded Grounds. Tenr-is Courts, Dancing, Children's Play Grounds. Geed Drives. Reasonable Livery Charges, Cool Nights, Pure Air, Lithia Springs. Coolest and sweetest water in the State. F re-h Fruits and Vegetables, Cuisine Kf.c service the best Easy of ac? cess, rates reasonable, 8 mails daily. JNO. F. JONES, Jone 9- BLACKSBURG, S. C. RIB ? ot? ma 119 m Stt ,?!*><> >e Tie St?ief Pitforeta TH resilient, lifibt, durable aod guaranteed against puncture. No leather, steel or wire. STODDER P??NCTURELSSS T1R2 CO., 58 Warren St., N. Y. City. Also STANDARD BICYCLES, are high grade in every particular, price $100. Special inducements to clubs. Reliable agents wanted in all unoccupied territories. Address Tie Geo. Baste! Co., 7tb Ave., 28 & 23th St., N. Y. City. March 24. DENTIST. office OVSB STORE OF SUMTER DRY GOODS COMPANY ^utrauce on Main Street, Between Dry Goods Co. and Durant k Son OFFICE HOURS: 9 to 1.30 ; 2 to5 o'clock. April 9. 2 The State of South Carolina, COUNTY OF SUMTER. IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. Susan iS. Tindal, Individually and as Administratrix of the Estate of Mary E. find ll. Deceased, Plain? tiff, against John L. Nah diaries M. Neal, S. Lula McKnight, Charles L Cvitivo, Thomas P. Cuttino, David W. Cuttino a d S James Cuttino, Defendants SUMMONS FOE BELIEF. (Complaint not Served.} To the Defendants ibove-named : You ?re herrby Summoned and required to answer the comr>lrtir.t in this p-ct'oo, which has teen ibis day Sled in the office of the Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, for the said County, and to serve a copy of your answer to the said complaint on the subscrib? ers at their office in the City of Sumter in said County und STate within twenty days nftpr tbf service hereof, exclusive of the day of such service : and ir you fail to answer the comohint withi? the time aforesaid, tbe ilaintitf in ?his uriion will anply to the Court {or the re?ef demanded in the com? plaint Dited July 13th, A D. 1897. HAYNS WORTH & HAYNSWORTH, July 14-6t. Plaintiffs Attorneys? Fine Buggies- Surreys and Carriages. Do yu wan't a nice Vehicle to ride tn this Spring. If yu cr, ci! on mo and examine my stock, I have a large and weil selected Stock of Buggies. Surrey*, Carriages, etc., and my prices are ts low as the lowest. Office at Epperson's Stables.