The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, June 01, 1898, Image 4
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"WEDNESDAY, JUNE 1, 189?
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g Tee Sumter. IFaferAma? vas roam
i c 1850 sod the TV? Southron io 1$
SsslSk'Srs:.'' '
The Watchman and Southron nov
he combined circulation and influe:
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cf both of the old papers, and is ma
fest) j the best advertising m edi am
- Saunter
HHHnamBBnaiMBOnanai
Tbe Waiterboro Company that v
so anxious for service that it filed
formal protest against the accepta:
of the Sumter Light Infantry, shoi
basten to Columbia to fill the gap
" the regiment. Only one fall co
piny is needed to complete the qm
of South Carolina.
Gov. EUerbe will have anott
batch of appointments to make for t
second detachment of volonte
troops, and he will doubtless pat
op a few more weak places in i
political fences by selecting men w
have influence and friends.
Tbe Board of Strategy is receivii
unmeasured and unreasonable ce
sure for the failure of Sampson ai
?- Sooley to catch and destroy the Spa
ssh fleet The newspapers that a
the freest with condamnation ha'
done the American cause a gre
deal more injury by the premato
publication of the movements of ti
American fleets than the Board
W Strategy. The Board may hai
hampered the commanders of tl
fleet by unnecessary instructions as 1
|J -details ; but such a body is esseoti.
io the conduct of the war, inasmuc
as it collects all information possibl
relative to the movements and plan
| of the enemy and keeps the cono
manders of oar fleets and army in
formed We have no idea that th
fe-. Board of Strategy is guiity of aller
I . rots and follies charged against it.
I The law abiding people of Ander
sou County now realize the disgrso
of mob murder, and we trust th?
%v brutal killing of Elbert Harris wil
arouse public sentiment in tba
Hp' county against lynch law and mol
. violence This case does not cal
Sp-- for particular or lengthly coromeo!
I since, like others that have occorrec
in the recent past, it is clearly a case
p; of murder, participated in by twenty
|p -or more white men, who palliate theil
I-. 4criffle by setting op the plea thal
p ?heir victim was a criminal
"iT&w w:r will not be brought to a
t /cU$e at an early day, for it is better
fe; than a half drz3a Klondikes to tte
p r shipowners, railroads, arm and ammu
|V. nitica factories, powder mills and all
who cac get a . floger io tbe contract
?;:* pi? It id already charged that proo;
.f :. iaeot Senator??, Congressmen and de
partmeot officials are making fortunes
ly: by getting big contracts for people who
I ?iii divide with them While the
money sad credit of the government
Kl bolds cat, why eod the war 1
Io the event of ao issue of bones by
the government. Col John Gary Evans
I wooli doubtless provo invaluable, pre?
lim'. wi?ed ne can re-discover Coldeo Rhin i
I":;.;' &cd obiaif toe benefit o?' his advice,
p Col. Evan? baa fxprrienoe ia bond
U/~ floating, while his a.i:? ary talents and
I fighting qaa?t?ss ute uokoowo quanti
W?jt IKS.
Lieut GA. Tillea! is said to be a
W- candidate for appoiotmeot to shs col??
lo " oelcy of the regimcot that is to be raised
I auder the second call of the President.
Col. Tillman should not be so very SID
bilious for a higher rank by appoint
; ment, being io a position to win i; bp
P merit ?ben bis command goes to th J
: front. Besides there ere others who
s| want a pla??, and others whom Gov
% Ellerbe may wish tu appoiot.
We are decidedly of the opinion
that Governor EUerbe should give
the negroes a caance to raise a regi?
ment ander the fast call for voian
leers. Many negroes are anxious to
; enter the army aud they should not be
denied the privilege of fighting and
|| dying for the country.
Short wot k should be made of ev?
ery Spanish spy captured in this
country They should be tried by
a drum bead court martial and bang?
ed out of band. That is the quickest
and surest means of putting a stop to
jj| the spy business.
The Spaniards are remarkably
H nervy chapa to send a scoot boat to
course around Key West, when they
Sf know that tbe Americans maintain a
I constant patrol off the Florida Straits
fl They are light weights in a stand up
H fight, but they take desperate and dar
rap log risks in scooting ' around the j
I American fleets.
BOMBARDMENT
OF SANTIAGO
BY SAMPSON'S SQUADRON
The American Fire Directed
Principally Against the
Forts and Harbor.
Gape Haytien, Haiti, May 31, 5 15
p m -Advices jost received from
Havana say that since 2 o'clock this
afternoon the American fleet at San
tiago de Cuba bas been cannonading
the batteries of Morro Castle, La
Socapa and Panta Garda At the
same time, it is added, the American
ships have been engaged with the
Spanish warships. The firing was
extremely heavy. At 3.45 p m. the
connon ?ding became less heavy
against the fortifications, bat was
more accentaated in the locality
where the fleets were engaged
Moro Castle is at the entrace of
the harbor of Santiago de Coba, La
Socapa (also shown on the maps as
La Socapa Castle) is a short distance
inside the harbor entrance, and Pan*
ta Garda is situated on a point well
inside the harbor of Santiago de Ca*
ba, showing that the American fleet
has entered the harbor, accordiog to
the Havana advices, " via Cape Hay?
tien, and has engaged the Spanish
fleet in those waters
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Cape Haytteo, May 31.-6:40 p.
m -At this hoar the Santiago cable is
still workiog from Santiago
Private messages iotimate that there
bas been a severe fight between the
American fleet and the oater fortifica?
tions and the Spanish fleet. The fight
lasted the greater part of the after?
noon The advantage appears to have
been with the Americans. According
to f he latest advices, the eombat is still
in progress.
Discredited in Washington.
Washington, Jane 1,12 m-Unless
Oervera attempted to escape there
was no fight, so says Secretary hov g.
BRAD STREETS WEEKLY
REPORT.
New York. May 27.-Bradstreet's
will say tomorrow :
A total volume of business faiiy pro?
portioned to or ia excess of that usual
ly noted at chis season of the year io .
dicated by reports to Bradstreet's thia
week
tb most sections of the country the
situation generally remains satisfactory.
The volume of bank dearing*, as was
to be ex peor ed. shows the con trac'ion
usual toward the close of the month of
May, boc with few exceptions the crop
situation, the voiome of railway earn
inga and thc reports from a oucnbor of
leading industries point to a maximum
volume ot bosioe?9 doing io mo^t part*
of the country. Relatively tho best
trade reports continue a? for some ??QBP
past, to come from the central west and
northwest, where regard? croo yield
and price*, continues eminently satis?
factory t-*> agricuitral interests Thy
wheat situation shows little change on
the week, but this sud next year'* de?
livery appear to have par?eJ com - any,
as shown by the increased stringency ot
wheat for immediate ose, pricing to
unimpaired strength in the nearby sta
tisticai position, while, on the other
hand :bc large yi*ld foreshadowed tends
to eatress in prices of nex? year's crop
deliveries The price of corn reflects
lesa ansivty shoat che cop, induced by
the i'jtnro of weather fav^r^ble to
plantiug and growth Weather condi?
tions do not altogether fav??r the outto o
crop, dry weather bei??g complained
of throughout the sou-b Atlantic and
Gulf States The possibility of over?
selling cototnoK upon tho realization of
a large orop is rt fl teed io the io croas
ed interests mtoifsied in spot and
August delivery oottoo, the latter sell?
ing at a: a considerable premium over
next seasec's delivery Reports from
the iron attd steel industrses are of very
larg?? business being done by the mills
and faanances
Signs accumulate that thc long look?
ed for improvement ic the wool trade is
near realization
Central exports still continue unpre
cedently heavy, wheat shipments fer
thc week aggregating 4 309,133 bush*
els, against 4 064.000 busbois last
week, 2,081.000 bushels in this week i
year ago, 2 064.000 bushels in 2896,
end 2,426,000 bushels io 1895. Corn
exports are among the largest on
record, aggregating 6,164,456 boshets
this week agaio?t 5.550,000 bushels
last week, 2,185,000 bushels in this
week a year ago. 1,720,000 bushels io
1896. 1,040,000 bushels in 1894 aud
812.000 busbcN in 1894
Business failures in the United States !
this weeek number '231, au increase of
20 over las: week, but compare with
257 in this week a year ?go, 227 in
1896, and 183 in the corresponding
week of 1895 and 1894
Business failure in the Dominion of
Canada this week number 18, only one
half of those of last week.
THE TRI ALS OF
LEE COUNT
Argued Before the Suprer.
Court Last Afternoon.
The fight for and against Lee coi
ty continues with unflagging det
urination. The opponents seek
deal the solar plexus of all times, 1
he defenders are shifty and the ar?
uaent still gees on
Yesterday morning the followi
order was issued in the Snprei
Conrt :
This was a petition, addressed
this Court in the exercise of its ori
inal jurisdiction, praying for an
junction to restrain the responder,
from doing any act or performing a
duty imposed upon them by t
terms of an act, entitled 'an act
establish Lee county," approved 21
day of February, 1898, upon vario
grounds set forth in the petition.
"One of these allegations is th
tile proposition to establish L
county did not receive the vote
two thirds of the qualified electors
the section of the several coonti
proposed to be cut off for the purpo
of forming said new county To th
petition the respondents have filed
demurrer, thereby admitting all tl
material allegations contained in tl
p?tition The particular allegatit
above referred to being thus admi
! ted, it is manifest that the pe ti ti one
? have stated a case which entith
them to the relief demanded, becaui
it thus appeara that one of the coi
stitotional requirements necessary 1
authorize the formation of a ne*
county, has not been complied witl
and if this be so then the act purport
ing to establish Lee county is witt
ont constitutional authority, an
hence the respondents have not bee
invested with any legal authority t
do any of the acts, or to perform an
of the duties, provided for by sail
act, end hence the petitioners are en
titled to an order of injunction r<=
straining the respondents from doinj
the acts or performing the duties prc
vided for io such act.
"Under this view it becomes nenes
8ary io oonsider the other point mal
as to whether the former election to de
termine the qaesiiou as ro . ib<
establishment of Spleen oouo
ty ?crbid* an election to de
termins whether L9e C>anty. when ii
claimed to be substantially the same, ia
less than four years after the fennel
election ; and the court ia not to be un
derstood as deciding anything either
one way or the other at to that point.
'-AH to what may be termed the for?
mal objection to the jurisdiction of tbh
court, it ia sufficient now tr say that we
do not ooosider any of these objections
as trouble. The reasons for these
conclusions will hereafter be set
forth in an opinion, which will be sub?
sequently prepared and tiled.
"lt is therefore ordered that the de?
murrer filed by respondents be over?
ruled, with leave to answer ovar, if
they ehall be so advised
"Henry Mciver,
..Chief Jos iee "
31*t May, 1898
Argument was taken up in the after?
noon. The petitioners, or those op?
posed to the new county, are represent?
ed by Robert Sband, Boyd & Brown. E
Keith Da-gan and the other sile hy
Po'dy & Reynold*, LsRoy F Yeomans
and T. rf. Moorman
The richest man in Guatemala was
born a slave in Alabama Iiis name
is John Knight, but he is known in
Guatemala as Don Juan Knight. He
got in the swim with the late Pres
i^ent Barrios, and is estimated to be
worth about $7.500,000 When he
lived in Alabama he wasn't worth
more than about $1,500.
Some of our valued Republican
contemporaries who ire declaring
against providing sinews of war by
issuing greenbacks evidently forgot that
the greenbacks habit in this country was
originated by the Republican party
under circumstances not wholly unlike
the present.-Chicago News, Ind.
- in i ? -
Washington, May 27 -Represen?
tative Stroud, of North Carolina, in?
troduced a bill to day granting a pen*
sion of $40 a month to Mrs Adline
VV Bagiey, of North Carolina, moth?
er cf Ensign Worth Bagley, who was
killed in the bombardment of Car
denas, Cuba, recently.
London, May 29.-In view of the
plethora ot the money market a fur?
ther reduction of the Bank of England.
rate of discount to 3 per oent ia expect
! ed within a fortnight, unless the Amer
! can demai.d for gold revives. On the
'S'ck Exchange during the week a j
j fair amount of business was done, and
thc tone wa* cheerful. Toe fall in the
value ut mont y caused a demand for ail
?rs'-ciaKs f-ecurrics. American rail
i road neuritics were steadily bought and !
! chowed improvement all around.
?. S. DEPARTMENT
OF AGRICULTURE.
Climate and C?op Bulletin of
the Weather Bureau, South
Carolina Section.
For th.9 Week Anding Monday,
May 30, 1898.
COLUMBIA, S C , May 31.
The temperature continued high dur?
in g the week, win day temperature
ranging between 80,. and 100, the lat?
ter extreme was reached on the 28th
at a few places, on he 29th at many
and on the 80th quite generally.
The night temperatures ranged be?
tween 54 and 75 The minimum oe*
ourred at Walhalla cn the 25th. The
mean temperature of the week was 78,
the normal for tho ss.me period ia about
74
Scattered showers, heavy io places,
but generally light, occurred oo the
! 24th, 25th and 2Gtb. The weekly
j rainfall was unevenly distributed. In
Darlington, r/lorenoe, Marlboro, Hor
ry, Marion, Clarendon. Sumter, Pick
ens and Greenville counties the rainfall
was tn places quite heavy and nearly
all portions of those counties received
enough rain for tb ; present needs of
crops
In Williamsburg, Sumter, Chester?
field, Orangeburg, Berkeley, Lancas?
ter, Oeooee, Bamber^, Richland, New
berry, Hampton, Charleston, Aiken
and Chester counties the rainfall was
very partial and rarely heavy enough
to do much good, while in Anderson,
Fairfield, Greenwood. Edgefietd, Lex?
ington, Barnwell, Laurens, Kershaw,
Union, York, Chester, Gaffney, Spar?
tanburg, Aiken, Abbeville, Dorches?
ter, Hampton and Beaufort the show?
ers were light and widely scattered,
and gave bot little rel af from the pre?
vailing drought. In portions of An?
derdon, Abbeville, Greenwood, Aiken,
Edgefield and Saluda counties no rain
of measurable amount has fallen in
from 4 io 5 weeks.
The average of the measurements fir
the week is 0 70 and tbe approximate
norma! is 1 80 inches
Fourteen places reported measure?
ments of one inob or more, and 41
places reported measurements of less
than ene inch ranging between 0 03
and 0 91. In many c?dions wells are
beginning to fail and streams are at
extremely low stager-. The records
of former years encourages the be?
lief and sustains the hope that the
drought will soon be relieved.
Damaging bail storms occurred in
Bamberg, Greenville. Spartanburg
counties, and without doing any appre?
ciable damage, in York and Sumter
There was slightly more than an
average amount of br.ght sunshine ;
the estimated percentage for the State
was 81 per ceot. of tbe possible. The
winds were generally light, hot and
dry westerly or souther y, and variable
on two days
Whore showers feil to any extent,
orops made rapid improvement, but
where the rainfall wa < light or there
was none, crops made little or no
growth and even deteriorated, except
cotton which made slight improvement.
The corn ;^*op is in a rery unsatisfao
tory condition over most of the State.
In the southeastern counties the stands
are very uoeveo with some hills large
enough to tassel, and rqially as many
where the plants are bu: a few inches
high. The same irregularity in stands
prevails over the State Cat, bad and
wire worms are darnagiog corn veiy
much. Lite planted and re planted
corn slow to come up except where plen?
ty of rain fell Too dry in most places
to plant bottom laods Some oat stub?
ble planted to oom. In northeastern
counties corn is generali? in fine cou
dition.
Corn bas been well cultivated and
fields are clean and free from gra-s.
Wiltiog during the heat of the day
There was a general improvement in
the condition of ootton,very slight io
the counties where drought prevails,
aod marked where thc rainfall was
heavy enough to soak the ground
Cat worms have damaged cotton io
plaoes. Late planted, and re planted
fields not up yet io tba western counties
the ground being too dey for germi?
nation. Over the eastern, east central
and Pee Dee sections of the State cot?
ton is doing well, and chopping to
stands about finished, while over the
west central and western couc- j
tics cotton is undersized, of irregular j
and inoomplcc stands, aid muoh not :
yet up, wbile chopping tr* to stands is j
hut partly finished
Fields are clean and in tine tilth.
Sea Island cotton Io ks miserable from
thc effects of the prevailing drought.
Wheat harvest bas began io a few
localities and ?iii be general by tbe
5th or Juoe The prospects oootinoe
to indicate a large yield. Rast coo
fined to blades
Oats harvest hae extended to the
more western counties and is nearly
fiuisbed, for winter sown, in eastern
countries Yields continue good,
and on most hinds the yield is heavy
Spring oats are either very poor or
else complete failures owing to lack
of rain at the right time. A few
localities report the ctop not turning
out well while other localities say it
is tbe best crop in many years
The continued warm weather bas
improved rice, which is doing well.
Some grassy fields io Berkley. There
is danger of salt water reaching the
rice fields on account of low stage of
water in the rivers
Tobacco was gieatly benefitted by
the showers which visited a large
portion of the tobacco raising
sections, but there 13 urgent need of
a general heavy rain for this crop
Worms are already numerous and
have damaged the crop to a slight
extent. In Florence county bad
stands are reported; elsewhere stands
are quite even and fnll
Field peas are being planted on
stubble lands and in with corn.
There is much delay in setting
sweet-potato slips, toe ground being
too dry, although many slips were
set during the week, in places enough
rain fell for this work and some wa?
tered the plants by hand
Irish potatoes are not doing well
They need rain Colorado beetles
are numer?os a 3d destructive, in the
northern counties
Melons are doing better than here
tofore, bot are somewhat later than
usual.
Pastures are failing and so are gar?
dens.
Grapes are doing very well and
promise a large crop. Peaches are
beginning to ripen in the low conn
ties With limited exceptions over
small areas, the peach crop will be a
large one. Peaches dropping freely
in places, but to the benefit of tbe
fruit remaining on the trees.
It appears that blight has become
general on apple and pear trees.
The prospects for these crops vary
greatly, but are nowhere very bright
Plums plentiful in the low counties,
also blackberries Sugar cane is
doing well everywhere
Farm work ia well advanced and
up to the needs of the crops.
A correspondent sends tbe encour?
aging proverb **A dry May, a good
crop year 91
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a nice line of Organs that we
will sell on easy terms. We
are head quarters for Sewing
Machines and supplies. Old
machines taken in exchange
for new ones.
M. ?. HANDLE,
Manager,
Sumter Music House.
SUMTER, S. C.
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