Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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_----r - "WEDNESDAY, JUNE 1, 189? =- " = 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: ??'--V . 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 ?'?V' . 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 Good Sewing Machines from $10 00 op at Randie's. . Pitts9 . I I Carminative j fe Aids Digestion, J Regelates the BOTTCIS, )| ?? Cures Cholera Infantum, J)' } Cholera Morbus, <?| $ Diarrhoea, Dysentery, (| \ Teething; Children, ^ \ And all diseases cf t-be Stomach ^ J> and Bowels. 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