The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, September 08, 1897, Image 3
VOTE IN SUMTER COUNTS'.
The Result of the Primary Declared
by the Executive Committee
Tbe County Democratic Executive Commit?
tee met Thursday at ll o'clock aod Droceedd
to tabulate.the vote cist in the senatorial
primary held on Tuesday, Angnst 31st. AU
the clubs save two, Excesior aaa Gaillards X
Roads, were officeHy reported and tije rote
was tabulated as follows :
Brans, irby4 McLaurin.
Bandana 12 0 2
Bisbonville Coos 0 0 -47
Biahopvilie Reform 44 0 15
Bossard Reform 13 0 7
Carter's Crossing v 8 0 14
Mano vi] Ie 0 0 20
Concord 1 0 32
Earle 0 0 34
Farmers 36 5 5
Hampton ? 0 15
Lyochb? rg St'g' t i 0 18
Lynchburg Reform 9 9 ? 6
Magnolia Reform 8 I 9 ?
Magnolia Con 0 0 22
Manchester 5 0 9
Hayesvilie 0 1 41
Mayesville Farmers S 2 5
Mechanic and Laborer32 3 15
Mt. Clio 1 0 1L2
Mt. Clio Reform ll 0 14
Providence 5 0 30
Scarboro 0 0 22
Pleasant Grove 8 7 7
Privateer 0 0 20
Raton* Creek 4 0 50
Salem 0 1 18
Sum: er 10 2 321
Swimming Pens 0 0 14
Shiloh ? 23 1 13
Thermopylae 7 0 .6
Taylor? * 17 2 ll
Wedgefield 0 0 40
Zaar" 28 0 29
279 34 913
No election at Atkins, Hiph H?i?. Spring
Hill, Rattlesnake Springs. Wells X Roads.
Excelsior and Gaillard X Roads not jet in.
Tbe Tote at Excelsior waa, Meiari a, 20 ;
Evans, 10. At Gaillard X Roads, McLaurin,
ll ; Irby, 1. With tba voie of tbese dabs
added to the above totals, the vote stands
McLaurin, 944; Evans, 298; Irby, 35.
THE XalCEroS-OBDINAJTCB
PASSED.
The Tax. Finally Put Upon all
Professions and Pursuits.
[ The City Council met last week,'and, after
more than a mooth of filibustering, there was
a quorum present and the body got down to
business. It was s regular meeting and
Messrs. Fraser, Shore and Moses, the alder?
men who have been fighting the license ordi?
nance and have prevented its\pas8age by
breaking the quorum by absenting themselves
from every special meeting tbat bas been
called for the purpose of giving the Uce?se
ordinance a third reading necessary before it
could g3 into effect, were present. They
made the strongest fight possible) in the cir?
camstances, against the license tax, bnt they
state that they did not consider it their duty
in the premises to block all city business in
.definite?y by filibustering, so they attended
the regular meeting.
The majority present being in favor of
enacting the license ordinance, it was taken
up and read for the third time, thereby be?
coming the law of the City of Sumter.
The Council was in session tor several
boors and1 the regular business that h&3 been
accumulating since the filibustering began
was cleared up. Bills were audited and ap?
proved and all others matters were disoosed
of that were in shape for final action. There
was nothing done of especial interest to tbe
public, after the license ordinance was adopt?
ed, except the adoption of a resolution in
reference to the strict enforcement of the ordi?
nance concerning: to garbage. Herafter gar?
bage must be deposited in boxes or barrets
and placed, in the street. Persons piling
a beternogeoous mixture of all sorts of trash
in the street will be liable- to fine or im?
prison men 1 The polies and the street com?
missioner will be instructed to enforce the
!aw strictly and to make no exceptions to the
general rule.
The aldermen who have made the fight for
the re-enactment of the license ordinance
have carried their point and business and
professional occupations will have to bear a
share of the expense of running the city
government along with real and persona!
property. /The result of the imposition of
the license tax may be a decrease in the rate of
taxation, ?nd it is the prevailing opinion that
such wi!! be the effect, unless the increased in?
come received by the city should invite ex?
travagance in expendiatore. /
There are two.opinions both without the
conocii and within; the one that the license
tax is unequal and uojost, as well as un?
necessary, the other that it is necessary to the
proper administration of the city and is as
jost and equal as a license system ean be
made. Some few of the most decided oppo?
nents of tba system are talking of resisting
payment bf the tax and taking the matter
into courts, bat it is not known yet wbaj the
opposition will amoant to when the tese
comes to be made.
The Teachers* Institute.
The institute held in this county for the
weeks jast passed closed Friday night with a
inrtore by Professor Wardlaw, of the Soath
Carolina College. Prof. Wardiaw's subject
was Tbe Child Study Movement, and be ban
di sd it in such a manner as to evince a thor?
ough understanding ot bis subject.
Prof. Wardlaw is one of the most thorough
and distinguished educators ia the State, and
anything that he may sar is listened to with
attention and interest ; for bis fellow teach?
ers know that be always digests bis thoughts
before be gives them utterance, and his words
always have fbe clear ring pf troth. His
lecture on Friday evening was very instructive
and was very mach enjoyed.
All of tbe sessions of the institute were
well attended, aod the interest shown was
very gratifying to the instructors.
The lectures were instructive and inspiring,
aod from wbat we can gather the influence
will be for good throughout the county. It
is always profitable for teachers to meet to?
gether to exchange views and obtain new ideas.
If they do not carry home with them a siegle
new idea or fact they will be benefitted by
the renewed enthusiasm that is engendered by
such association.
The lectures of Dr. Joynes on Analysis and
Parsing were very clear and forcible, snow?
ing bis thorough acquaintance with tbe sub?
ject aod bis great ability to impart knowl?
edge intelligibly.
Tba institcte bas done good in this county
in many ways, and its effect, we trust, will be
lasting.
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Graded Schools.
The Graded Schools of this city will re?
open on next Monday. Entrance examina?
tions will be conducted by the superintend?
ent on Friday of this week, boors 10 a. m. to
2 p. m. There will be a meeting of the
teachers of the Washington Street Graded
School on Saturday at ll o'clock a. m. : of
the teachers of the Lincoln Graded School at
5 o'clock p. m. of the same day.
Writing paper 15 cents a pound at H. G.
Oiteeo k Co's.
PBOF. MOSES ON TENNYSON.
An Interesting J?ecture Last
Night.
! Prof. E. P. Moses delivered a thoughtful
j and interesting lecture on Tennyson io tbe
Assembly Hall of the Graded School Wedoes
I day evening before an audience composed of
I teachers and many others who took ?dvan
? tage of the invitation extended to the people
j of Sumter to attend Prof. Moses spoke for
\ about a half hour and io that short period
! discussed Tennyson and bis work and ioflo
[ ence ia a comprehensive, though concise
! manner.
Prof. Mose? treated bis subject from the
standpoint of a careful and critical student
? of the poets writings. &B well as that
i of an appreciative admirer. For what is
high, noble nod beautiful in the poems
of Tennyson he bas the sincerest admiration,
bot his faults and sfeort-cctuiogs are neither
overlooked nor denied.
The lecture was beard by many who bave
read Tennyson foi* years and there were none
who did not recognize in Prol. Moses not
only one possessed of a thorough knowledge
of the sobj:Ct bat of the poetical literature of
England as a whole. The audience v. as more
than pleased, they were* instructed and de?
lightfully entertained.
Ia the World of Art and Letters.
As the result of the development of our
public school system and the cheapening'of
books, there has grown up a large class of
meo and women wbo seek broader education,
or desire to extend their knowledge along
special lines. Their duties in life, or lack of
means, exclude them from the universities.
The Cosmopolitan Magazine bas undertaken
tbe task of bringing liberal education, in its
broadest sense, within tbe reach of those wbo
have the aspiration, but are deprived of tbe
ooportnnity. Doctor Andrews, late of Brown
University, has undertaken tbe Presidency of
Tbe Cosmopolitan's educational movement.
Tbe work, thus begun, is not intended to
take tbe place of regular university work,
.but to supply a gap io existing educational
facilities. Those who are really io search of
knowledge will find direction 'lied aid. It
can do nothing for those who bave not the
desire to study. An intending student eeads
to The Cosmopolitan, New York, bis name,
occup?t on, previous courses of study, studies
desired to oe pursued, objects and purpose
for which course is designed, and tbe number
of bouts', d?ily or weekly study which cen
be given. No charges of any kind will bs
made to stud eats.
THE TOBACCO METROPOLIS,
The Growing, Prosperous Town of
Timmonsville.
Special to the Daily Item.
Timmoosvii?e, S. C., Sept. 2.-Every store
boase in towt is occupied, and several more
coold be rented if they were*bere.
Mr. David Witcover, of Darlington bas
opened up a stock of geoeral merchandise in
the store formerly occupied by Samuel Heiss.
Mr. O N. Swanson, of Danville, Va , has
bought out the stock of goods owned bj Mr
W. S. Cook, and will deal principally in
shoes. .
Mrs. S S- Berger returned last night from
aMwo week's stay in Virginia and North
Carolina.
Mrs 3 A. Rollins and Miss Lizzie Rigs*
dale are borne again They have been in
Greenville, S. C., for a mooth or two.
S. W. G. Shipp, Esq , and Mr. Theo.
Knker, of Florence, are io town to-day.
Miss Maud Cobb, of Reids vi Ile. N.C., is
visiting the Misses Berger. E. B. T.
Tired people are. tired because they have
exhausted their strength. The oolv way. for
them to get strong is to eat proper food.
Bat eating is not all. Strength comes from
food, after digestion, Digestion is made easy
with Shaker Digestive Cordial.
People who get too tired, die. Life is
strength. Food is the maker of strength.
Food is not food until it is digested.
Tired, pale, thin, exhausted, sick, suffer?
ers from indigestion, can be cured by the
use of Shaker Digestive Cordial.
. It will revive their spent energies, refresh
and ft vig?rate them, create new courage,
"endurance and strength, all by helping their
stomachs to digest their food.
It Bids nature, and that is the best of it.
It gives immediate relief and, with perse
verence, permanently cures.
Sold by druggists. Trial bottle 10 cents.
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. Meteorological Eec ord.
The following is a report of observations
of the weather taken at Stateburg, by Dr. W.
W. Anderson, for the past week ending
September 5, 1897 J
Temperature.
TS
9
5"
> Condition.
89 . 69 I 79. 8
89
85
8T
85
79
81
73 81. s
68 76.6! 3
71 I 79 i 8
72 j 78 5 E
63 j 71. E
66 ? 73. E
.00
.15
04
.00
.00
.00
00
Clear
?Cloudy
Clear
Clear
.Cloudy
?Cloudy
Cloudv
?Partly cloudy.
Tbe past week has been very favorable for
cotton picking and h*y coring. Moderaie
rain would be of benefit to gardens. Ba?
rometer ranges bigb.
THE JINGLE OF MONEY.
My heney, my boney.
It's the jingle o' the money
The jingle o' the money every day
Tnat makes toe weather brighter
The step a little lighter- ;
It's the jingle o' the money every day !
My honey, ray hooey,
There's something tn the money
That makes the winter blossom like the May ;
The sighin' turns to singin'
When you hear the dollars riogia'
It's the ji?g?e o' tbe rxouey every day !
uy?oney, ray honey,
You mustn't live for money
It ain't tbe only flower on ihe way ;
But the brightest light is glaocin'
Where the merry wcrld is dancm'
To the jingle o' the monev every dav i
-FRANK STANTON.
SUMTER COTTON MABKET.
The market bas fluctuated considerably
during the week, the price of middling vary
iog from 6.80 to 6 40 Receipts for the week
about 600 bales. Middling is quoted to-day
at 6?.
JOHNSON'S
CHILL AND
FEVER TONIC
Cures Fever
Ia One Day.
Yellow Fever in NewOiieans.
New Orleans, Sept. 6.-The Louis?
iana ?tate board of health kept faith
with its sister bodies of the sooth and
the rest of the country this afternoon
when it made official announcement
as a resait of a careful autopsy that
Raoul Gelpi, 13 years old, had died of
yellow fever. Gelpi was the son of
prominent people here and had been
spending some time at Ocean Springs,
where he was taken down with fever
and brought here. Soon after arriv?
ing, despite the best medical atten?
tion, he died. Dr Theard, the physi j
cion in charge, immediately reported j
to the board of health and expressed
the opinion that d ?th was due to
yellow fever ?i?is afternoon an
autopsy proved that Dr. Theard's i
idea of yellow fever was correct.
Steps were promptly taken to pre?
vent a possible spread of the dis
ease.
As the case was one of importa?
tion, the doctors expressed confidence
that they would be able to check the
spread of the disease.
'The death of young Gelpi natural?
ly caused no little excitement in the
bity. Phyician8, however, expressed
no apprehension and state their be
lief that it was quite possible to ar?
rest a spread of the fever. The
board during the day had ordered a
rigid quarantine against ail points on
the gulf coast and had taken every
precaution to guard communication
against the entry into the city of any
person from Ocean Springs, ?iloxi or
other points on the souud, which it
was thought the-fever might reach.
Durfng the day the bulletin boards
bad been thronged about, the board
of health office besieged and the
Western Union wires freighted with
messages to and from the various
coast resorts. In the meantime,
however reassuring telegrams arrived
rom Ocean Spriugs that the Mieis
eippi board of health had taken every
precaution possible to circumscribe
the limits of the epidemic and pre?
vent its communication to the outside
world. We have no fear, said Dr.
Walmsley, acting president of the
board of heaith, that the fever will
Bpread in New Orleans The board
of health is prepared to spend a mil
lion dollars to stamp it out and we see
no reason to feel alarmed. People
ought not to get frightened. , T^his
one case was taken charge of in time,
and such scientific fumigation has
been applied as to warrant the hope
that we shall promptly and effectively
stamp out the disease We have
made arrangements to issue to night
a circular to every practicing physi?
cian in New Orleans, commanding
him promptly to report to the board
of health every suspicious case of
fever. We have made arrangements
to act promptly in every case and if
unfortunately, ether cases of yellow
fever shall be brought to our atten?
tion, we shall without delay notify
the world through the Associated
Press of the facts.
There have been at least four cases
in addition to the Gelpi one, of people
suffering frooT fever, who have come
to New Orleans from Ocean Springs.
Ten of the most prominent physicans
of New Orleans have been pressed
into service, and we give the closest
attention to each of these cases. In
every instance bacterological examin?
ations showed the existence only of
malarial germs and no evideuce of
yeiiow fever microbes. I am well
within the truth, therefore when I say
the Gelpi case is the only oue of yel?
low fever in New Orleans up to the
present time, and I am sure we have j
the city fuily covered.
South's Share of Prosperity, j
The prospeots point to a cotton crop |
of 10,000,000 bales, and the price is ?
now 8 1-16 cents per pound io New ?
York. At this price a 10,000,000 bale j
erop, 500 pounds to the bale, would j
bring the comfortable sum of ?403,
125,000. This would be about $181
per capita for tjie whole south, and j
would bring into the south nearly |
?100.000,000 more than any cotton j
crop ever produced, the most valuable j
crop up to dete being that of 1892, ?
which was worth ?309,696,500.
About 90 per cent of the cotton of j
the United States ts grown in seven |
states-South Carolina, Georgia, Ala- j
bama, Mississippi. Louisiana, Arkansas
and Texas. In 1860 the population of
these states was only ten and a third
million, and their percentage of the
crop wouid average ?35 per capita, or
?175 per family
Cotton is only pue of the products of |
the south, and taking the entire south,
it ia nqt alwajs even the principal one. |
As a role the ?outh produces as much j
coro per capita as the norh, and in fact
produces every crop grown in any part
of the country To many southern
farmers cotton will be a surplus crop
They have produced their supplies at
borne. The year promises to be a very
prosperous one to the southern farmer,
as well as to the wheat grower of
the west -Jacksonville Times Union.
According to The Observer "lems
are short lived. They spring from
some ingenious brain, rise to consider?
able prominence, draw the public gaze,
run their little course of popularity and
apparent triumph, and then cease to at?
tract, like a spent skyrocket, leaving
nothing but a descending, dry stick
for which nobody cares "
Excellent commercial note paper 15 cents
a pound at H. G. Oateen t Co's-two pounds
for 25 cents.
Washington Letter.
Washington, Sept. 6 -Such a hub
bub has been raised about the con
struction that should be placed upon
Section 22 of the Dingley tariff law,
imposing discriminating duties, which
was amended by the conference com?
mittee in a way alleged to be more or
less mysterious, and which has been
referred to Attorney General McKen
na for an official opinion, that Mr..
McKinley has been asked to return
to Washington at the earliest possi?
ble date, in order that he and the en?
tire cabinent may take a hand in de?
termining the opinion that shall be
given out by the Attorney General.
$30,009,000 a year in revenue is in?
volved in this construction, and a
possible demoralization of almost our
entire foreign commerce. It is un?
derstood that Mr. McKinley has
promised to return shortly, but has
set no date. Attorney General Mc
Kenna, probably thinking it a reflec?
tion upon his legal ability to have
the public know that this matter is
to be discussed by Mr. McKinley and
his colieagues of the cabinet, hzs
made a public denial that the opinion
was. being held back to await Mr.
McKinley's return. All the same,
nobody expects the opinion to be ren?
dered until Mr. McKinley retnrns and
approves of it.
A Kentucky democrat-John G.
Woods, of Louisville,-has put a
portion of the administration on pins
and needles by bringing a suit
against the Postmaster General to
prevent his removal, without cause,
from a position in the classified civil
service. He obtained a temporary
restraining order against his removal,
and the hearing was to have taken
place Saturday, but the government
asked for a continuance of one week,
and got it. The case will probably
be appealed to the U. S. Supreme
Court, ne matter how it may be de?
cided.
According to advices just received,
Senator Burrows has spent the entire
summer in trying to smooth the way
for his own return to the Senate, and
in placing obstacles in the path of |
Governor Pingree, who thinks he
would 611 that Senatorial chair much
better than Burrows does, and he is
not yet easy in his mind. Pingree
has got Burrows where he hz* all the
other Michigan republicans-afraid
of him.
The Civil Service Commission has
received such an avalance of corres?
pondence from the army of would be
recruits for Uncle Sam's Civil Ser?
vice, concerning offers made to furn?
ish information, for a fee, by private
parties, that it has issued a circular
letter containing the following point?
ed announcement : "No person has
any information of importance to ap
plicaots, concerning examinations
which cannot be obtained without
cost from the commission. All claims
to the contrary, therefore, are mis?
representations."
The receipts of the government for
the month of August, under the
Dingley tariff law, were, $6,538,582
less than the receipts for August,
1896, under the Wilson tariff law.
It may be that the claims of the re?
publicans as to the revenue-produc?
ing qualities of the Dingley tariff
will be realized at some time in the
future, but the above figures show
that they are, as yet, a long way from
being realized.
The republicans are showing how
confident they are of carrying Ohio
by colonizing voters from West Vir?
ginia and other adjacent States. The
democrats are fully aware of what is
being done in that line, and Boss
Hanna's henchmen will find it much
easier to carry men into Ohio and
give them temporary work than it
will be to register and vote them.
The Spanish minister is still keep?
ing the revenue cutters of the (J. S.
Government busy hunting for Cuban
filibusters He informed Secretary
Gage that the filibusters had aban?
doned Florida as a starting point and
were preparing to send several expe?
ditions from the Carolina coast, and
Secretary Gage obediently issued an
order to the commanders of all reve?
nue cutters in Southern waters to
keep an extra close watch on the
Carolina coast for filibusters. This
sort of work must be more or less
disgusting to the officers and men in
our revenue marine service, but they
have no choice in the matter. They
must obey the orders of the Secre?
tary of the Treasury, even if those
orders are dictated by the Spanish
minister.
Kichland's Chain Gang.
Lacks But Little of Being Self
supporting.
From the monthly report submitted
yesterday by Captain Siigb, superinten?
dent of the cbaiogang, to the county
board of commissioners, it is seen tbet
! Richland's roads are beiog worked at a
; minimauj east.
During the pa.*t month tbe average
! number of convicts worked was 32 at a
; co.-t of $9.25 per capita. Tbis iocludes
', the expense of feeding aod guarding
them and of feediog the mules eaipioy
: ed by the gang.
The law allows the sheriff SO cents
day per capita for boarding the priso
ers in the couDty jail, For a month
theo the cost of a single prieooer is $9,
or 25 ceots less than the expense of
maiotainig a prisoner OD tbe ebaijgang.
Io return for his board OD the chaio
gaog tbe prisooer gives tbe county tbe
benfit of his services.-The State.
A North Carolina Horror.
Raleigh, X. (J , Sept. 6 -A sp*
cia! from Mount Airy, N C., to tho
News and Observer says that yester
day afternoon near Friend's Mission,
Va., Miss Sadie Cook, a respectable
young white girl, was assaulted by
Henry Hall, white, aged about 21
After accomplishing his purpose Hall
dealt his victim several blows over
the head with a hoe, knocking her
insensible, and then, placing her
head on a log, crushed it with a four?
teen pound stone, which was left
lying bloody near by. Hall then cut
the girl's throat, severing the wind?
pipe, and, dragging the body some
fifty yards up a ravine, threw it into
a branch, where it was soon after?
wards found. Meantime he went to
a spriug near by and was found
washing the stains from his clothing.
The excitement became so intense
that this afternoon Hall was taken by
unknown parties from the officers and
lynched near the scene of the crime.
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Winnsboro, Sept. 6.-About 9
o'clock this morning Edward P. Mob
ley, Jr ; had a difficulty with a negro
carpenter named Moses Johnson, result?
ing in the death of Johnson. The
trouble arose about a settlement per
written contract for building a house.
A trial justice had been sent for to ad?
just matters when .the difficulty occur?
red The negro advanced toward Mr.
Mobley with a drawn knife, and was
met by a load of shot from a gun. Mr.
Mobley came to town to surrender him?
self to the sheriff, and news was re?
ceived later of the death of the negro.
Mr. Mobley is a peaceable and law
abiding citizen.
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Hammocks al! size3 aod prices -3. G
O3teeo & Co.
The Detective Wins
Yes, the detective won, and
the story of how he did it is
; " one of the most exciting ever
I' told. You can read it in these V
columns. It is entitled
A Conflict *
of Evidence
It was written by Rodrigues /
Ottolengui, the author of "An
Artist in Crime," and one of
the strongest writers of de?
tective stories living.
We have purchased the rights
for this thrilling tale and the
first chapters will soon appear.
This is Sure to Interest You.
f
Because it is a good op?
portunity to get a good
bicycle cheap.
Not on?y cheap, but very cheap.
I will sell for the next two weeks
\
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All of my high grade bi?
cycles at
ACTUAL COST.
Enough said, I have some good ones
to sell and you know I mean what I say.
Give me a call and see whether you
want to buy or not.
Respectfully,
I Sumter, S. C., September 8, 1897.
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