Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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WEDNB8DAY, SEPT. 1, 1897. The Sumter Watchman was rounded ia 1850aod the True Southron in 1866. Tbe Watchman and Southron now has Che combined circulation and influence of both of the o?d papers, and is mani? festly the beat advertising medium io Sister. Tba people of Soots! Carolina have aga ID demonstrated at fae ballot box that they endorse decency? ability and character, and repudiate mean par* t?sanahipand thc lack of character io men offering for position of high trust. John L. McLaurin baa been overwhelmingly nominated as bis rac .cesser to serve ont tbe unexpired time of the late senator Earle, and ??cbs Gary Evana and John L. M. irtry bare been once more utterly re? ptdiated and relegated to political cbecarity The people have chosen wisely, and wei! and happy it wi!! be for the State if suco men nev ?cr again rise to the surface in political circles, i Tbe vic? kery that Senator McLaurin bas i ,won is a high and distinguished ?irfcute to his ability and cbaracter, chewing as it does most decidedly 'that abe Democrats of South Carolina Aare confidence in him. His nomi? nation is not so much a personal tri? umph as it is a triumph of tbe better over baser elements of politics. Par* tisacahip, prejudice and class hatred .have ceased to be the prime qualifi ?cations for promotion to office, and we tiustithat the return of a better s ieetittg in political circles and a re anion of the good citizenship of the State, so happily inaugurated with thc election of Senator Earle, bas now ?been fully consummated by the norn -?nation of John L. McLaurin and the ?utter defeat of Evans and Irby. MoLaano Sweeps the State. A Great Big Majority Given H?m on tbe first Ballot ty Incomplete Betprns. AH the indications from the returns received last night point to his nomi? nation by a majority of ten thousand votes The telegrapnic .reports re ^nerved by Tbe Register op to 2 Relock this morning show that be is ; ahead of. both competitors by 13, .531 votes Districts yet to be beard i from cannot change the result. ? *iTfce big vote receivd by the sena lot was not a surprise to Senator McLauT?nrs friends or to bis burean tn this city They have constantly ^maintained that McLaurin would win fey 10,000 votes On the other band, .the friends and supporters of Gov \ Evans and Senator Irby were much surprised at the small vote cast for these candidates They thought, the ?contest wonld be mach closer. There was a small vote polled in .the l?tate, aod when the final figures -are received, it will show that not -over 50,000 ballots were cast, in ali probability The people seem to iiave taken little interest in the con *teet, ?though tbe fight was one for .the highest office in the gift of the state.-The Colombia Register. Th*> Vote in Sumter County. Scanter County gave McLaurin a handsome majority of tbe light Tote polled yesterday. He received a larger proportion of the rote east than waa exnected. Tbe fora? are closed ..thia morning before the fall returns are re ?med from tbe clubs io tbe county, but tbe -showing made is eofficieot to sbow that Mclaurin leads by at least 400 majority. Tbe following is tbe vote io the county so far st beard from : McL'rin. Evans. Irby. ?Sumter, 321 10 3 Laborers 4 Mechanics, 15 32 2 Jordan, 5 36 . 5 3oar, 29 28 o Wedgefield, 40 0 0 May es ville, 46 8 3 Rafting Creek. 50 4 0 ?andana, 2 12 0 Privateer, 20 0 0 Bishopville, 62 40 0 j Lynchburg, RTm, 6 9 9 Lynchburg, St'gbt, 13 1 0 Magnolia, 31 9 1 Ht. Clio, 36 18 0 Mannville, 22 0 0 Garter's Crossing, 12 8 0 flam p to D, 15 0 0 Gaillard'a X Roads, . ll 0 1 Scarboro, 23 0 0 Providence, 10 5 0 -Earle, 27 2 0 Atkins--No election. Shiloh, 23 13 0 Excelsior, 20 1 0 spring Hil!-No election. Batilesnake Springs-No election, Weekly Crop Bulletin. COLUMBIA, 8. C , August 31, J897. TEMPERATURE. The first of the week was below the Dermal temperature aod the lat? ter part decidedly in excess. Day temperatures were high, with a max? imum of 101 on the 28th at Liberty. During the early portion of the week tbe nights were cool, with a mini? mum temperature of 57 on the 23, 24, 25th at Walhalla. The weekly mean temperature of 46 leperting stations was 76, while the normal for the same period is about 77. RAINFALL There was but little rain during the week and was confined to light local showers over the extreme wes? tern, northwestern, northern, and southeastern counties on the 23, 24, 25th. The central counties were without rain the entire week. With the exception of the little rainfall noted-the measurements reported this week refer to the rain of the 21st, which fell too late to be included in last week's reports and should be credited to the previous week's rain? fall Twenty-one measurements of lees than one inch were received, ten of from one to two inches, and four of over two inches, with a maximum fall of 4 50 at White Hall. The noimal for the week is approximate? ly 1.48, and the average of all meas? urements is 1.00. Light hail accompanied a.rainstorm in Edgefi eld over Tolbert and adjoining townships, on the 23rd, doing con? siderable injurer to crops A severe hailstorm occurred about 7 miles from Charleston on the evening of the 29th? with hail-stones ranging in size from peas to chestnuts, and dam? aging corn seriously over a limited area. There were a few local high winds which, however, did no iojury. The sunshine wts largely in excess of the normal and ranged from 60 to 100 per cent of rbe possible, with an average per cent of 82 for the State GENERAL REMARKS The week's weather was very favor? able for harvesting rice, making hay, palling fodder, digging potatoes, pick iog cotton, and also favorable for grow? ing crops generally. Wo ros sod cater? pillars have almost entirely disappear? ed and are ooo fined to limited areas to a few counties only. Seasonable farm work advanced rapidly dorre g the week. CROPS. The reports on cotton are with few exceptions unfavorable to tbe crop and note deterioration io condition in every eounty except York, S partan burg, Oeonee, and portions of Marion, Ches? ter, Sumter, Laurens, Anderson. Abbe? ville and Greenwood, where on heavy soils the plant condones to grow and bold the fruit it pots on. Over the remainder of the State, generally, there is excessive shedding of squares and yoong bolls, and on light sandy soils the plant is apparently dying rap? idly and is done fruiting. Black rust is prevalent, and in places, entire fields are affeoted. Worms also did some . damage especially in Kershaw. Tbe prospects for a top-or op are poor, although over considerable areas, as already ooted a top-crop is making. Cotton opened rapidly during tbe week and over the eastern and central counties picking, ginning aod market? ing tbe crop has fairly begun and will become general over the State during tbe week. A few correspondents stated that the lint is of a high grade, aod a few reported some damage to open ootton by the raios of the pre? vious week. Sea Island cotton is not mate? rially injured and seemingly does not share in the general deteriora? tion of upland cotton. The first bale of Sea Island ootton, for the season of 1897 was received at Charleston on the 25tb of August. Coro is maturing rapidly and is all a?out made. Its condition and pron able yield varies greatly botb aa to early and Ute corn, but generally late corn is very fine, and early oom by oo means a poor crop. Worms are damaging corn in Beau? fort. Fodder pulling was general during the week and was favored by the weath? er. This work is about completed io the mc?t easterly counties and weil ad? vanced elsewhere. Much complaint is made of peas shedding their leaves, but peas are on the whole doing well. A heavy crop of pea-vine hay is being cut. Rice is maturing and ripening rapidly sod harvesting ia well under way. Rice OD the whole is a fine crop, ezeept that it was damaged io Colletoo by caterpil? lars and that upland rice is generally oot op to aa average. Tobaeco curing ts 5Dished. Turoip sowing still continues, sod io places good stands have been, while io others, notably Piokeos, some fields will have to be resowo. A heavy crop of meadow hay is be iog cot and coring favored by the weather Cane sod sorghum grinding ooo? tin u es sod a good quality of molasses is beiog made. Sweet potatoes seem to be doiog well aod io places early varieties are beiog dag with aosatisfaotooy yields while other fields are yielding ezeoediogly well. Scopperooog grapes are ripeoiog. J. W. BAUER, Section Director. ? mm i i*--a^ Chicago's Harder Mystery. The trial of Adol ph Leutgert for the morder of hts wife, which began io Chicago last Mooday, will doubtless prove to be ooe of thc most absorb? og morder trials that bas occurred io this or another country There are few oases io the criminal annals to compare with it. Circumstantial evidence will have to be trusted to from beginning to eod. There is oo proof, in fact, that a^murder was committed. Only a wo mao bas beeo missing, and the author? ities have a theory as to her disappear? ance, which may prove to be true or not. If*, with the proof now koowo to the public, a conviction cao be obtain? ed, the trial will become a landmark io crimina,' history. Oo the night of the 1st of May "last Mrs. Leutgert disappeared from her borne io Chicago, and there is oo au? thentic proof that she has been seen alive since. Her husband was a large sausage manufacturer, but had become embarrassed io business It was a oo torious fact that the couple did oot live happily together, aod that he had made vague threats against her. Oo the night of the soppoaed murder the au? thorities believe tbat the wife waa en? ticed to the sausage factory by the hus? band, murdered, aod her body dis? solved in some stroog chemical io one of the vats used io the factory. There is oo proof, however, that Mrs Leut? gert weot to the sausage factory, the last aokoowiedged sight of her having been bad by ber 12-year-old soo, Louts, who br de ber gooj-oigbt at 10 30 o'clock aod weot to bed. The facts upon which the authori? ties will proceed are these* A few days before the supposed murder Leutgert had had delivered at the factory a large package of tom- material which horned the hands of those who touched it, aod which had never beeo used io the es? tablishment before. The police be? lieve it to have beeo some corrosive chemical Oo the night of the allege/, morder it is koowo that Leutgert had a fire built under ooe of the vats, that be remained alore io the vat room until e?rly to the following morning, and that he ordered - the place thoroughly cleaned oot immediately afterwards Io searobing the vat which bad beeo" used oo that night the authorities foood two gold rings, both of which, it is said, bave beeo identified as having be? longed to Mrs. Leutgert, aod an arti? ficial tooth, such as it ia claimed Mrs. Leutgert wore, sod io tbe catch basin under the vat some small pieces of bone aod a small tangle ot blonde hair were also foood. To test their theory that the dead body of Mrs. Leotgert was dis? solved in some strong chemi? cal solution ezperimeots were made at the Rush Medical college, io Chicago, which, it ii claimed, proved that ao3b a result caa be obtained It is olaimed that these experiments proved tbat a dead body oan be dissolv ed in less than three boors Bot tb?re will be conflicting testimony, as is usu? al in such cases. Professors, aod expert ohemisiis will try to show tbat a haman body cannot be dissolved io tbe time gi veo, aod that this is especially true of the frontal bone of tbe skull aod of the teeth. Testimony will also be of? fered going to prove tbat Mrs. Lent gert bas beeo seen in different places since the alleged murder, and Loet gert himself stoutly asserts that she will walk into tbe court room dariog tbe trial. Bot as the production of Mrs. Leotgert alive and well would have cleared op the mystery at any time little trust oan be placed tn these claims. Tbe case ts cert&ioly a mysterious one, and it will test tbe best skill of the detectives and prosecuting attorney to weave the incriminating testimony to? gether, aod present it to a jury in snob a olear and connected light as to pro duoe conviction. It will be interesting to see whether two rings, a tooth, aod a tangle of hair are as effective in un? ravelling this murder mystery as some teeth were in convicting Professor Webster, of Bostoo, of the murder of Dr. Parkman many years ago. Pro? fessor Webster tried to destroy all evi of bis crime by burning the body of bis victim, bnt tbe discovery io the ashes of some gold-filled teeth, which were identified as baviog belonged to to Dr. Parkman, led to the dctectioo and punishment of Professor Webster, if the Chicago trial should have a sim? ilar result from nearly similar circum? stances :.t will mark it as one of the most sensational in the history of mur? der cases.-Philadelphia Press. i THE CONQUEST OP DIPH THERIA. Statistics Showing what Sero? therapy has Accomplish? ed in France. Paris, August 16 -Io a treatise on diphtheria and its treatment by sero? therapy, shortly to be published, Dr. Charles Riebet, who was the first to ap? ply the serum iojeetioos made famous by the work of Dr. Roux, at the Pas? teur Institute, gives some interesting statistics on the practical results attain? ed sinoe the discovery and application of the method Ile goes back thirty years for statistics relative to the mor tal i ty caused diphtheria. Io 1867 wken the population of Paris was jost half what it is DOW. there were 696 deaths from the scourge. From that year they iooreased gradual? ly uotil 1872. wheo they attained the number of 1,135, and did not fall again below 1,000 uotil after the dis? covery ot serotherapy. Io 187? diph? theria caused 1,500 deaths, and io 1877, 2,390 For three consecutive years then the average was over 2,000, It fell a little afterward, bot up to 1894 the annual average was between 1,400 and 2,000. In September. 1894, the Roux meth? od waa applied, aod at once became widely used. For the year 1894 (only four months of which should be count? ed) the deatbs fell to 980. In 1895 there were but 440, aod last year only 423. lt would seem, then, that aero therapy bas reduced the mortality io diphtheria to ao average of less tbao one-third of that which was maintained for a quarter of a century. Ifjtbe statistics be examined, not year by year, but by periods of two weeks, the improvement is even more marked, notonly in true diptberia, but also in diphtheritic affections In the years op to 1894. for iostanee, there were never less tbao 40 deaths from croup in any fortnight : but sinne that year there have never been more thao six for a like period In short, since the introduction of serntbe rapy, even in tbe most unfavorable weeks, the mortality bas been invaria? bly less than half ?ha average for the years 1867-94, aod many ri mr s only one tenth as great.-New York Sun. A New Use for Old Papers. The latest use to which old news papers may be pot, is to soak them io sour milk until reduced to pulp and feed the mixture to the hens This is the onpatented invention of a Michigan poultry fancier, who says it greatly increases their egg laying abilities. For fear it may not so well agree with the Bristol breed, we sug? gest trying it at first on your neigh? bor's fowls. P. S.-It is found to be useless un? less the subscription to the paper has been paid for in advance.-Bristol (R I) Phoenix WANTS. ADVERTISEMENTS of fire lines or leas will be inserted under this head for 25 cents for each insertion.' Additional lines S cents per line. LODGERS WANTED-Poor yoong men to occupy a large room, at 50 cents a week-they to famish same. Location on Post Office Block. Apply through P. O. to Mrs A. E Chandler, Sumter. 8 C_ WANTED-To rent or buy, good f*rm with comfortable d wei ha. . Address B B. L. Majesvil.e, S. C Aug 18-lt.?_ ONE STORE For Rent at Hagood, S. C., in thorough repair, and a 6ne stand for trade. Apply to Mr A. K. Sanders, Hagood, 8.C_Aog.|13. The State of South Carolina, COUNTY OF SUMTER. By T. V Walsh, Esq., Probate Judge WHEREAS, MRS. CLEO. TROUTMAN made suit to me to grant ber Letters of Hdmioistraiion of tbe Estate aod effects of JAMES R. ODOM, deceased. These are therefore to cite aod ada oniah all and siogular tbe kindred aod creditors of 'he said JAS. R. ODOM, late of eaii County and State, deceased, that they be aod appear be? fore me, io tbe Court of Probate, to be held at Sumter C. H., ot? September 16th, 1897 next, after publication thereof at ll o'clock in the forenoon, to sbow cause, if any they hare, why the said administration should not be granted. Given under cry band, this 1st d?j of September, A ooo Domini. 1897. THOS. V. WALSH, Jadge of Probate. Sept. 1-2t. lLo|el64A. F. ft THE REGULAR MONTHLY COMMU? NICATION of Claremont Lodge, No. 44, A. F. M., will be held on Tbureday Evening, September 9th, at 7} p. m. Brethren will take due notice and govern themselves accordingly ARE YOU NEE0IN6 AN IRON SAFE? TjEAVWG BEEN APPOINTED GEN Jjf ERAL AGENT for the Alpine Fire aod Burglar Proof Safe Company. I am prepared to offer liberal terms to those who are in oeed of a good safe For prices aod terms address J. A. RENNO] Mch 24_Sumter, S. C. BIRD DOG FOR SALE. As I have at present no use for ber, I offer for sale my _ wellbrokePoioter,,?DELL" j She is too well known to the Sportsmen of j Sumter to need aoy recommendatioo. See H. G. 08teeo, Sumter, or address me ; at Smithville, S. C. N. G. OSTTEEN, Ja. Crescent Bicycles THE CRESCENT IS A PERFECT WHEEL AT THE RIGHT PRICE. Its r?putation has been woo by its merit. You will be proud to compare it with any wheel made, and you will know that your neighbor paid just the same price for his Crescent as you did. Western Wheel Works. Catalogues Free ^ . XT ?tr AzeattEverywhere KJ?CZgQ-?NCW Yof .3CO Country Merchants* WE ARE DOING A LARGE ing Business Exclusive from our Retail Business, and can compete with the prices offered by any large house in or out of the State. Our prices are lower because we have no Traveling Salesm en* which is a big expense, and at the same time we save you your FREIGHT MONEY. OF WHOLESALE GROCERIES AND CANNED GOODS we have a large supply, and you can always* replenish your stock. TI^T WARE. * 1 qt. Tin Buckets, - . - 40 cents per dozen 2 qt. Tin Buckets. ... 60 cents per dozen 3 qt Tin Buckets, ... 75 cents per dozen 4 qt. Tin Buckets, - 90 cents per dozen 6 qt Tin Buckets, - - $1 20 per dozen OTHER TINWARE IN PROPORTION.* IN SHOES WE LEAD, Many who have compared our line with those of other cities, say that ours is cheaper and better. The same applies to Clothing, Hats, Shirts, Handkerchiefs, Dry Goods and Notions We have an immense assortment of Fancy Jewelry, Pins and Notions, exactly what is wanted in small stores. Pay us a visit before buying and you will be convinced. Yours, for business, J. Rettenberg & Sons. GLENN SPRINGS HOTEL, Glenn Springs, S. C. Hotel Open from June 1 to October L Special board rates for September. Large, well-ventilated rooms. Best sanitary arrangements, first and second floors. Baths and electric bells. Italian Band from June 1 to end of season. Glenn Springs Railroad runs within 300 yards of the Hotel. Glenn Springs Water has no Superior on the Continent. Write for Certificates. _+0+_ For rates of board, apply to SIMPSON & SIMPSON. Glenn Springs Water for sale in Sumter at the Drug Stores of J. F. W. DeLorme. J. S. Hughson & Co., and A. J. China Sold also by W. R. Dellar.