Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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TIME CALLED. fi?to" More Patting Up With K Delays ci the Spaniards. $ Washington, Oct. 7 - President lltcKinJey bas cabled the United Stales military commission at Puerto : Sico that the island muet be evacu ?ted by the Spanish forces on or be fore October 18, end that the Spanish ^commissioners be so informed. In case of the failure of the Spaniards to complete the evacuation by that ^ date, the United States commission* ere are directed to take possession and exercise ail of the fonctions of! government, and in case it is ioond >to be impossible to secure tran sp or 'talion for the Spanish troops by Oc? tober 18, they may be permitted to go into temporary quarters until the transports can be secured to take k them to Spain Thia /act was developed at today's ^cabinet meeting, and it was also stated thal from this time forward a te vigor?os policy would be pur id with respect so the evacuation of Cuba The President bas notified the United States evacuation commie sion at Habana that the Spaniards "would be expected to have evacuated the ?land by December 1, with a trong intimation that in case of fail the United States would brook ir t her delay, but immediately mer take possession of the >rnment. At to-day's cabinet meeting two fracas were read fro LD Gen Otis Manila, stating that the Spanish >vernment bad requested thal Gen. J andern es be permitted to retorn to Spain where, it is understood, he rill be called before a court of inquiry to answer certain charges affecting his management of aftairs ?in connection with the surrender at Manila Gen Otis was authorized permit the Spanish general to leave, together with several other Spanish officers who are on the sick list In answer to inquiries, it was stated that nothing so far had been received from the United States peace commissioners that was in fany way significant, or that indicated that the peace negotiations were not ^progressing satisfactorily. ALL THE PHILIPPINES. The United States should possess itself cot only of the island of Luzon, but all of the Philippines |The Wash? ington correspondent of the New York Evening Post claims to be in a posi? tion to "assert with assurance that this government bas its eye fixed at the present moment upon the whole .Philippine group. The Luzon claim is to be merely the minimum. That much was determined upon a good while ago " The reasons presented for the ac qoisition of all the Philippines is that if the United States ie satisfied with Luzon alone, Germany will prob ably devise a pretext for taking Pala* wan, which is the next most desirable island in the group, since it ?hares with Lrzon the command of the .?aaiy fiist rate deep water passage from tho Mindora sea into the China sea-a passage traversed by a large portion of the shipping traffic from Jhe rich belt of equatorial islands ~south and southeast of the Philippine group and northward to the China cost. In order to shut Germany cat of the islands, therefore we most take them all -?ngusta Her aid. A boy wan oompelled by his teacher to write ao essay "OD the month" for some infraction of the school discipline, and thia is ?hat he ?rote : "The mouth ia the front door of rbe kee ; it is the aperture to the cold storage of oor aoa tbmy Some mouths look like peaches acd cream ; some look like a hole in a " brick wall to admit a new door or win? dow The moats is the crimson isle to oar liver, it is patriotism's fonotaio, and sooi chest for pie Without the mooth the politician weald be a wanderer oo ^be face of the earth, and go down to an uobooorable grave It is the gro? cer's friend, the orator's pride, the dentist's hope. It puts some men on the rostom and some io jail It is temptation's lunch counter when at? tached to maiden and tobacco's friend wheo a mao. It is the home of the on roiy member-the tongue. Without it married life would be like a dream, and a dade would lose half of bis attrac? tion "-Spartanborg Herald g auwMU - Three Doctors in Consultation. From Benjamin Fraoklio. "Wben you are sick, what you like best is to be chosen for a medicine io tbe first place ; ;'?Wbal experience tells yon is bess, to be chosen ia the second place; what reason (i. e., Theory) 9ays is best is to be chosen in the last place. But if yon can get Dr Inclination, -Dr. Experience and Dr. Reason to bold a consultation together, they will give yon tbe J ad ric* that can be taken." When you bave a bad cold Dr. Iodination j oold recommeod Chamberlain's Ccngb Remedy because it is pleasant and safe to le Dr. Experience would recommend it ause it never fails to effect a speedy and ^permanent cure D '. Reason would weeora ra-nd it because it is prepared oa scientific ^principles and acts os nature's plan io relier? ons tbe lungs, opening the secretions and restoring tbe system to a natural and bealtbv .condition. For sale by A. J. China. "The Lord Only Knows." We do not know who made the fol - lowing graphic statement, bat be was evidently some one who had "been there'* himself Moreover, he was tbe editor of a "country newspaper," as we are assured by the New York Tribune, aod if be had written for a year he eouid not have stated the case more clearly, and with such a wealth of philosophy : "The editor has a charter from the State to act as doormat for the commun? ity. He will get the paper cut some how, and stand up for the town, and whoop it op for you when you ruo for office, and lie about your big footed soo wheo he gets a four-dollar a week job, and weep over your shrivelled sou! when it is released from its grasping body, and smile at your wife's second marriage. Don't worry about the editor, he'll get along. The Lord iv knows bow-bot somehow." Tba: covers the case, and oovers it ail over. The country newspapers io (bis State do more bard and thankless service for their respective communi? ties than all tbe officeholders and pro? fessional sharps aod gentlemen of leisure who were created for some pur pose, we suppose They work early aod late, and ninety per cent of their work goes without reward It is a strange thing about the newspaper business generally that most people do not regard it as "business" at all. Customers go ioto a store and pay for what they get. They do not ask for a pound of crackers, a bunch of cigars, a box of caody, a bolt of cloth, or any of the many thonsand things wbioh are sold, bot they ask the prioe of the articles which they think they would like, and if the articles suit and the prioe is about what tbey can afford to pay for them, tbey pay for them in cash, or "have it charged." It is not co with newspapers If Joba Jones make a great speech, and it is reported at length by a mao who is paid for doing the work, and is printed in a newspaper which'ha-.? to pay for potting the story in type, Jones would like to get baif a dosen copies of the paper for distribution among bis frieods, aod : Jones generally tries to get them for ! .-.orbing. j If the lovely Mrs. Brown-Robinson ? 138 a tea aod ber parlors are crowded ; with the elite of the laod, and tbe ! society reporter writes a charming ' account of the delightful social funo j tioo, Mrs. Browo-Robiosoo would like j to have ten or twenty copies of the ; paper to mail to her ou-, of towo friends, and she would be shocked if anything should be said by tbe young mao at the desk about so common a tbiog as money io exchange for the* papers, which she would obtain for the gratification of ber own amiable wish io let ber frieods snow bow she figures io the great social swim. Several years ago, as we have beeo told, a oewr^-aper prioted a long story about the celebration of a military company. It filled a great deal of space, and cost a good deal of money to pot it io shape for the entertainment of the reading public It would seem that the newspaper bad done its full share is writing up the celebration, bot the next morning, all the same, a request wt*8 made for a hundred and fifty copies of the paper containing the tory for general distribution, and a hundred and fifty copies were worth according to the prices prevailing ar' that time, exactly $7.50 Besides the expense of writing up t he celebration, the newspaper was asked and expected to contribute $7 50 t o the admiration futd of the company. When men die who bave occupied a prominent place io tbe community, and who have done good work for tbe State or Church or Society in their day and generation, it is the invariable rule of newspapers to speak weil of them, aod to give an account of their iives. It would seem that io doiog this the newspaper bad discharged its ful! duty to the public and to the deceased ; bot there are societies and orders and or? ganisations that would also like to make some publio announcement touch iog ?he esteem in which the departed bad been held by his associates, and of bow deeply tbey wonder at tbe in? scrutable decree of Providence wbioh bad removed their frieod and associate, and their words of appreciation aod sympathy and sorrow are strong ont in tributes of respect which tb? news? papers are expected to print for noth? ing. We have known persons almost prostrated by surprise and indignation when tbey have found that the news paper attaches money value to eulogies It is in the religious press that the obituary writer finds the amplest scope for his talents, and his workof'*em balming"' tbe memory of tbe dead bas been pursued with such activity that the religious papers have been com? pelled for self protection to publish such reminders as the followiog which we take from the Southern Presbyte? rian : "Obituary notices not exceeding j five lines inserted without charge. Kz eess over five lines, five cents per line " And it is a remarkable thing how many obituaries are published that do not exceed five lines. Otherwise our Church contemporaries would doubtless be compelled to double the sizs of their papers in order to hold such wordy manifestations of grief, tban which there is nothing cheaper, even in these days of five cents cotton. We would like to suggest to our weekiy aod daily contemporaries that \ possibly they are to blame for tbe vaia? j wbicb the general public places upon j their work. Newspapers are business j enterprises jost as ?ills, and store?, and their stock io trade is the paper which they sell to their easterners, a?d each ppace as they offer to advertisers Newspapers are oot supported by public appropriations, they are not endowed institutions-, they have to live on the business that they do, and they should agree among themselves as to the meth? od of doing bois ness. Eve.'y weekly newspaper in Sooth Carolina, we ven? ture to say, wouid be' able to pay al' irs debts and declare a good dividend the first of every year on the space which is given to the public fer nothing, and for which the newspapers do not receive so cheap a reward as sincere thanks.-News and Courier. OEI INAli WORDS OF DIXIE. The spirited rnne of this old negro melody is really the essense of its in* epiratioa, bot the familiar words being so much under discussion, a reproduc? tion of them seems timely, hence we give the genuine article : 1 wish I WAS io the land of cotton , Old times dar am not forgotten, Look away, look away-look away Dixie land. Deo I wish 1 was in Dixie, Hooray I hooray ! Io Dixie land I'll take mr stand, To live and die in Dixie, Away, away, away down south io Dixie ! Away, away, away dowo sooth io Dixie ! Ole missus rtarry 14Will-de-weaber," William was a gay deceaber ; Look away, etc. Bot wheo he put bis arms around ber, He smiled as fierce as a forty pounder, Look aw?y, etc. His face was sharp as a bather's cleaber, But dat did net seem to greab'er, Look away, etc. Ole missus acted de foolish part, And died for a man dat broke ber heart, Look away. etc. Deo 1 wish I was in Dixie, Hooray ! hooray ! etc Now bera a health to the next oie missus, And ail tbe gale that waa!: to kiss as, Look away, etc. But if yon want ?o drive 'way sorrow, Come aod bear dis song tc morrow, Look away, etc. Deo I wish I was io Dixie, Hooray 1 hooray ! etc. Dars buckwheat cakes and ingen batter, ?akes joQ fat or a little fatter ; Look awav, etc. Deo hoe it dowo and sera' ch and grabble To Dixie's land I'm boond to trabbie ; Look away, etc. Den I wish I was io Dixie, Hooray ! hooray ! etc Nose Eight loches Round. New York, Oct. 5.--Dr George E Maurer, a surgeon of Gen Lee's staff, while on a furlough in the Ad? irondacks, recently met a lumber? man, Richard Smith, 22 years old, of Indian River, Lewis county, who had a nose fully eight inches in circum? ference Smith told Dr Maurer that some one had struck bim in the nose two months before he was born .At bis birth his nose was abnormally large, and had continued to grow faster than the rest of his body Dr Maurer became interested in ithe case and brought Smith to New York for treatment. Smith is now in Bellevue hospital, and will be operated on next week by Dr Bryant. One Hnndred Drowned at Butler's Island. Savannah. Ga., Oct. 5.-The Morning News' correspondent at Brunswick wires this bare statement to? night : "Martin Anderson, from Darien, Ga , reports that eight bodies have been found on Butler's island. This runs np the total deaths to 1G0." Butler's island was populated mostly by negroes. Savannah Ga., Oct. 5 -The Morn, iog News' correspondent at Hines ville, the capital of liberty county, says (bat an unconfirmed report bas reached Riceboro, near there, that t?t. Catherine island was swept by Sun? day's storm and that Supt. F. M. Weatherington and family were lost. The report, the oorresponedut says, is unconfirmed, but fairiiy reliable. It reached Riceboro by a negro who claims to have been the oniy person on the island woo escaped with his life. He climbed a tree and waited for the tide to recede Telegraph and telephone systems are still prostrated and connections with ooast towns are stiil cut off. In formation is only obtainable hy messen? gers who cao hardly pass the country roads McIntosh and Liberty counties sus? tained heavy damages, but nc estimate has yet been ventured. Washington, Oct G.-Admiral Kew? ell has teen relieved from the com? mand of the north Atlantic squadron and the flagship, the San Francisco, has been ordered out of commission ar Norfolk The command of the squad? ron devolves upon Commodore Pnihp. whose flagship, the New York, is now at the New York navy yard. The San Francisco wiil be thorough? ly overhauled and her battery brought up to date. New York, Oct, 6.-The Corbett McCoy fight bas been declared off At a meeting to day o? men interested in the fight Wm. B. Gray, manager for M(C"y, showed a letter he had receiv? ed from David Nugent, manager of the Hawthorne Athletic club of Buffalo, in which he stated that owing to ?be many ccmplica'ions that had arisen, the club bas decided to call the match off Pitts' Carminative Aids Digestion, Regulates the Bowels, Cures Cholera Infantum, Cholera Morbus, Diarrhoea, Dysentery, Teething Children, And all dLseasea of ?he Stomach and Bowels. It is pleasant m the taete and NEVER FAILS to give satisfaction. A Fear Doses will Demonstrate j its Suocrlative Virtues. J Is Highly Recom- = mended for COUGHS, Z COLDS, HOAESENESS, S SOBETHBOAT.BBON'- 5 CHITI3, ASTHMA, = WHOOPING COUGH, S and All Diseases of ; S the Throat, Lungs and Bronchial Tubes, s s ? POSITIVE SPECIFIC FOE CBOUP. ? ?iiiiiiiiiiifiaiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiir.!iiiiiiiiiiiiHiiiiiiii? COUGrf-CROUP EXPECTORANT THE BANK OF SUMTER, SUMTER, S. C. City and County Depository Transact: a general Banking business. a{SO bas A Savings Bank Department, Deposits of $1 and upwards received. In? terest allowed at tbe rate ot 4 per cent, per annum. Payable quarterly, on first day3 of January, April, July and October. W. F. B HAYNS WORTS, W F. RHAME, Cashier. President. Jan 13. Tie Largest ai lost Geo. S. Hacker & Son, -MANUFACTURERS OF DOORS, SASH, BLINDS. Moulding & Building Material office and Warerooms, King, oppo3iteJ Can? non Street, CHARLESTON., S. C, Pnrcbase our make, wbicb we gu?rante superior to any sold South, and thereby save money. Window and Fancy Glass a Specialty October 16-o BOARDING. HAVING TAKEN tbe Souse on Mr n Street second door eontb of the Nixon House, I am prepared to aero o mod A te a few ?egulnr boarders, and also lodging and meals tc transient customers Terms reasonable. Mas W. B. SMITH. Sept 8. WAR! WAR! WAR! But the "White" is vitcori ous. We are now selling sew? ing machines from ten dollars up We have a few machines that are slightly used that we will sell cheap. We also have a nice line of Organs that we will sell on eas}* terms. We are head quarters for Sewing j Machines and supplies. Old j machines taken in exchange j for new ones. I nr. B. RADDLE, Manager, ! Sumter Music House. j _ SUMTER, S. C. j HARB Y Sf CO., j WHOLESALE BROKERS, j -AND ... ' ?Cotton Storage Warehouse! PROPRIETORS. ?P-TOWI? 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