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.-r -i i i.un.,", i i fy Whkfymx aub Smiiljrmi J WSD2 BSDAY, P B. 1, 1889. The Sumter Watchman was rounder KB 1850 as i the True Southron in 1866. : The H^oic &ja and Southron now has the combined circulation and influence : cf both of the old papers, and is mani festly the best advertising medium in Ssmter. '-. - ?. Col. Neal's defeat on the first bal lot was a gena?ne surprise, and per haps greater to the Mark Hanns of Sooth Carolina politics than to any sae else. Defeat bas au acrid taste in the mouth used to public pap, -but ICol Nea) should refieci; that "rota Zion" is sound Reform doctrine. The management of the affaire of the penitentiary, the State farms * especially, daring the superintend ency of Col. Neal bas been good, but 4t great deal of the credit that bas been given bim for tbe s uccess of the DeSausaure farm is due Mr Thomas " Sanders, of Hagood. Mr. San ders managed this farm for the State for several years immediately after its purchase, and be laid the founda ion for the success that Col. Neal reaped. When Mr. Sanders took Bg harge of the farm it bad been ruo -down to the lowest ebb by many years of neglect and abuse by negro tenants. Tb dams were broken and in places entirely washed away, the Hptcbes were choked, and a great deal of land had grown up Mr. Sanders rebuilt the dams, opened the old ditches and dug new ones where seeded, cleared the fields that had .grown up, and when his contract was cancelled he turned over the farm in fine condition to the State. Mr. Sanders' work on the BeSaua scre farm bas not been recognized, or properly appreciated, bot the writer visited be farm a number of ?times during the years was under Mr. Sanders' management, and it is with e knowledge of the magnitude of the work accomplished by him that ibo above is written. The Legislature wiH never enact a tw on the lines of the McCraw ie bill, for although the Legisla has bees guilty of putting a of very useless and vexatious in the* statute book, none have iver approached the McCraw bill in adh rence to unadulterated ^foolishness. Be Application has been made for an amendment to the charter of the Hampton & Branchville railroad, the -amendment granting permission for ?the extension of the road from its present terminus at Branchville to -Sumter and thence to some point on the North Carolina line. Senator ..Mardis, of Hampton, the owner of the Hampton & Branchville R R , is a mau who succeeds in all that he undertakes, and 2 he has determined to ex tend his road to Sumter, we are very apt to have another new rail road before many years have passed This road, if extended to Wadesboro or Hamlet, will give the Seaboard Air Line a sboit route to Florida rand seems to be fostered by the dispensary and exposure has little or no effect The latest revelation is that the State has been defrauded of * $500 in premiums on bogus insur ance policies on dispensaries The man or men who took out this ia ouranee and the agent or agents who ? issued the bogus policies should be feeld to a strict accountability, and if they were parties to the fraud they should be prosecuted crimioally The proposition to turu all of the receipts from the privilege tax on fertilizers toto the State treasury in tead of giving it to Clemson Col lege meets with our approval Clemson College has an assured income of more than thirty thousand dollars per annum from the Hatch nd Merrili funds and the Clemson "bequest, and it is extravagance to turn over to it the entire privilege tax which amounts annually to sixty j jo seventy thousand dollars. The college does not require so much I Boney for its support, and it should <aot be permitted to squander money. The other State colleges are main turned by direct appropriations, and there is no reason for placing Clem* Bp on a different footing. The opinion of Attorney General j Bellinger on the right to vote of per j SODS holding certificates of registration j issued by the Lee county supervisors of registration, will be'read with interest. The citizens of that* portion of Sumter county included ia Lee county will not be permitted to Tote in the special election on Saturday unless they have registration certiorates issued by the supervisors of registration of Sumter county. While this appears to be a hardship to the people of Lee county, it should not prevent as great a cumber from voting as would be thought at first glance, for a majority of the voters of Lee county were registered by the supervisors ot registration of Sumter county and they cac vote without ques rion. Only those who were registered for the first time during the period that Lee eonoty was io existence will be disqualified. ________ In expressing regret .hat Mr: R ! E. Carnes, of Bishop vii le, has de- ; dined to be a candidate for election to the House of Repr sent t!ves, to fill the vacancy in the delegation from this county, vre are confident that we are in accord with the sentiment of a majority of the voters of the coun ty It is conceded by ail who have considered the matter that the Biso opvi e section ie entitled to repre sentation, and had Mr. Carnes con sented to be a candidate he would have been elected without opposition worthy of mention Since he is not a candidate aad Bisbopville has not, as yet, put a candidate forward, the choice of the fifth representative is narrowed down to Hon Altamont Moses, who has been nominated by his friends in response to a generally expressed desire that he be elected. Mr. Moses is not in the city and will not retare outil the Jatter part of the week, consequently his accept ance of the nomination cannot be published. The writer had a con versation with Mr. Moses one clay last week in reference to the election and oe slated that he folly endorsed the nomination of Mr. Carnes and hoped that he would be elected. He was asked if there was any founda tion for the rumor that he wooid be a candidate. He replied that be bad no such intention, certainly not if Mr. Carnes consented to be a candi date. Mr. Moses stated that he c ad been requested by a number of peo* pie, many of them from the Lee Coun ty section to be a candidate, and that.be bad made the same reply to each of them : "I am not a candi date and do not expect to be. I will not go into a scramble for the posi tion-under any circumstances, bu. ii the people wish me to serve them in the House of Representatives and elect me, I shall serve them in this instance, as I have in the past, to the best of my ability and with an eye single to the interests of those whom I represent " Mr. Moses was not talking for publication aod had not the least idea at the time that he would be nominated, for it was then regarded as settled that Mr. Caries would be a candidate. Mr Moses was nominated because be is qual ified by experience to render good service and because his election will give general satisfaction. Ile will not be in the county to take any part in the election, and if he is chosen to represent the county it wiii be ac expression of the feeling that he served the county well in the House and Senate and is the man for the position now vacant. Frank Sherwood was owo towo to-day, the first time since be bad bis tussle with cholera morbos. He says he drove tbirtj miles af>er be was ukon, sod never came so neir dying in bis life. After this when be goes oat in the country he will take a Dottie of Chamber Iain's Colic, Cholera and Diar rhoea Remedy with bim - Misses ri Valley (luwa) Times For sal. by Dr. A J Chica. Confederate Cemeteries. Washington, Jao. 57 -Senator Pritchard to-day gave notice of ao amendment he will offer to the sundry oivil appropriation bill, appropriating $ 10,OOO to enable the secretary of war to gather information concerning Con federate cemeteries and as to the num ber of Confederate dead buried in pri vate cemeteries. If John D. Rockefeller would only take a day off and let ns sub for bim on his inoome of 25 a minute, we migbt alto agree that prosperity is abroad io the land -Augusta Chron icle. A.J.Gill. Jr., Scotia, S. C., writes: I have used Dr. M. A. Simmoas Liver .Med cice in my family IO years. It bas cored ind - ges tion. Dyspepsia, Constipation, aod tnaoj other ailments. Mother's Trusted Frieod, Simmons Squaw Vine Wine or Tablets, Prepare the System for Confinement, Shorten Labor and make Childbirth Easy. FINAL ESTIMATES. Acreage, Production and Val ue of Leading Crops. I Washington, Jan. 30 -The fina! estimates of acreage, production and value of the following crops in the United States for 1898., made by the statistician of the department of ag riculture, are as follows : iVheat-Acres 44,055.278 ; bush els, 675,148,705 ; vaioe, $392,770, 320 Corn-Acres, 77,721,781 ; bush els, 1,924,184,660 : value, $552,023, 428. Oats-Acres, 25,777,110 ; bush els, 730,905,643 ; value, $186,405, 364. Bye-Acres, 1,643,207 ; bushels, 25,657,522 ; value, $11,875,350. Barley-Acres, 2,583,125 ; bush els, 55,792,257 ; value, $23.064.359 Buckwheat-Acres, 678,332 : bush els, ll>721,9-27 ; value, $5,271.462 Potatoes-Acres, 2,557,729 ; bush els, 192,306,338 ; value, $79,574, 772 Hay-Acres, 42.780.827 ; 66,376, 920 tons ; value, $398,069,647. The acreage of winter wheat for the present season is estimated at 29,953,639, which is 2,311,968 acres greater than the area sown in the fall of 1897 and 4,208,809 acres in ex cess of the winter wheat area actually harvested in 1898. The acreage of winter rye is esti mated at 5.7 per cent, less than that of last year. An Aftermath of the War, Washington Jan. 13.-We shall not be through with the war bills wheo we have paid off the volunteers and given Spain $20.000,000 for the Philippines, as the treaty of Parts rf quires. That treaty stipulates that all claims of citi zens of the United Staten against Spain shall be settled by our Government, and reciprocally that all Claims of subjects of Spain against the United States shall bc settled by the Spanish Govern ment. Oo its face ibis looks like a fair deal, bot we shall, no doubt, get the worst of tbe bargain in the end. The unsettled Spanish claims are mostly old affairs dating back to our civil war, and are diffioult of being substantiated by proof and, as Spain is never in a burry to pay ber debts it is not at all likely that many of tbe claimants will ever sea the ooior of her money. On the other hand, the claims of our citiz908 against Spain are of compara tively recent date and are mostly on ac M net of the seizure of sugar planta tions io Coba during the first aod second rebellions on (bat island. Of these claims there are already 26 000,000 on file io the State department, aod the oases aire sufioieotl? well sup ported by documentary evidence to entitle them to consideration* by any Court or commission which Congress may authorize to adjudicate such mat ters.-New York Evening Post. To Confer With Gomez. The Projected Independence Party-Gen Lee Has a Plan. Habana. Jan. 27.-Dr. Castillo is going to Remedios in order to confer with Gen Maximo Gomez regarding the formation of the projected Coban independence party. The plan has beeo discussed at small meetiogs herc of notable Cabana. The platform has one idea, the ter mination of the military occupation of tbe island as soon as poesible. The Spaniards have been invited to join in the movement, and will be given pro portionate representation on the com mittees. The general purpose is to draw ioto the party the educated sod wealthy and aot allow the military element to oontrol it. GEN. LEE'S SCHEME. Maj. Gen Lee proposes to recom mend to Washington, as one step io hastening pacification and the restora tion of order in the provioce, the formation of a regiment of 1,000 pick ed Coban soldiers, to be used as a provincial constabulary. Aa a second step he will recommend tbe establish ment by the military government of banks that wou ld loao at a moderate rate of interest on land oeonrity, so as ta enable Sand owners, for themselves or their tenants, to get a yoke of oxeo 20 chickens, a ooople of pigs and about 50 cents a day until a orop ooold be raised. ANOTHER MEAT SCANDAL. lt is reported that a quantity of dressed beef brought here by tbe United States transport Miobigao and bung np on the dooks last night was found in a slimy condition this morning, lt is also reported that a quantity of oaoced beef whioh bas been issued to Coban sufferers was canned for the Japanese j army io thc Japan-China war. The sooner a coogb or cold is cured with out harm to tbe sufferer toe better. Linger ing colds are dangerous. Hacking cough is distressing. One Minute Cough Cure quick ly curc3 it. Why suffer when such a cough cure is within reach ? lt is pleasant to the j teste -Hogbson-Ligon Co. Go to H. G Osteen & Co. for pretty Paper j Dolls, ladies, misses and babies. MEXICAN WAR SURVI- j VORS. To the Editor of the News acd Cou rier : The inclosed list is the resait of diligent icqairy as to the survivors of oar regiment, at which I bave beeo engaged since April last. I am iu ciioed to think it is accurate, or nearly so. Should any of your readers detect errors I beg that they will write to me, oorreotiog the same. At my first lei sure I propose to mail a copy of the list i to each of my old comrades. Very respectfully, etc , Jobo L Cantwell, Private, Company H. Wilmington, January 24, 1899. The following Hst shows the rank, company and present postomce address of the survivors : James D Blandiog, lieutenant and A C S, Co A, Sumter, S C. I Sebastian Sumter, lieutenant, Co A, ! Stateburg, 8 C j James Powers, private, Co A, Co lumbia, S C. John Williams, private, Co A, Downs, Osborne County, Kansas. Patrick Stanley, private, Co B, ! Silverton, San Joan County. Colorado. 0 T Gibbs, sergeant, Co B, Augus ta, Ga. Garland H. Smith, corporal, Co B, EmbersoD, Lamar county, Texas. James B Hardwick, private, Co B, Elgin, Bastrop county, Texas. Gottlob 0 Greiner, private, Co B, Paris, Limar County, Texas. Samuel Terrell, private, Co B, Gar rett's Bluff, Lamar County, Texas. Sanford Horton, sargeant, Co C, Macon, Ga. William R Claoton, corporal, Co C, Laooaster Court House, S C Davis C. Phillipe, private, Co C, Kershaw, S C Ransom L Logan, private Co C, Manning, S C John W Knight, private, Co C, Fiocaatle, Campbell county, Texas. Joseph A Jones, private, Co D, Woodford. S C. William H Burrell, private, Co D, Trenton. S C. William P Betsell, private, Co D, Augusta, Ga Anderson Howard, private,. Co D; Parksvilie, 8 C. Edmond Melton, private, Co D, Hep zibab, Richmond County, Ga. Thomas B Norvell, privat , Co D, Augusta, Ga. J J Martin, private, Co E, East Point, Fulton County, Ga. James A McKee, private, Co E, Stewart, 8 C. John Wilkinson, private, Co , Bradley, S C. William Spruel, private, Co E, Hodges, S C. Lewie F Robertson, lieutenant, Co F, Charleston, S C. Constant H Rivers, sergeant, Co F, Charleston, S C. Thomas H Thayer, sergeant, Co F, Charleston. S C. Orlando L Levy, private, Co F, Charleston, S C. Henry W Wieoges, private, Co F, Savannah, Ga. T J Mackey, private, Co F, New York, NY. Miser L Braden, private, Co F, Stone Mountain, Ga Charles H Pratt, private, Co F, Bear Creek, Scioto County, Ohio. Samuel F Row, private, Co*G, Red dick, Marion County, Fia. James A Wyie, sergeant Co G, Thompson, Buwock County. Ala. Osmond S Reynolds, private, Co G, West Poiot, Ga. Riley Clauton, private, Co G, Lan caster, S C. . Matthew B Stanley, private, Co G, Centenary, S C Solomon A Alexander, private, Co G;Fort Lawn, S C. Bscoin ll Robertson, private, Co G, Horeb, SC Thomas J Meyers, M D, private, Co G, Bowling Green, Fia Samuel P Newmao, private, Co G, Ridgeway, S C. Hugh J Reynolds, private, Co G, Huotsville, Walker County, Texas. Spencer L Percival, sergeant, Co H, Warren's Turnout, York County, S C. John L P Cantwell, private, Co H, Wilmington, N C John T. S. Price, private, Co B, Macon, Ga. Edwin B. Moore, musioiao. Co H, Jamaica, Queen's County, N Y. Aaron Adams, private, Co I, Pri mus, Laooaster Connty, S C. W L Belk, private, Company I, Waterloo, Union County, N. C. Samuel P Massey, private. Company I, Fox Tuscaloosa County, Ala. Amos MeManus, private, Compaoy I, Lanoaster, Lancaster County, S. C. R W Gardner, private, Compaoy I, Kershaw, 3 C. Miel Hilton, sergeant. Company K, Tennessee Colony, Anderson County Texas. Henry M Jackson, private, Company K, Buck Greek, 8creven County, Ga. Joseph Culbreatb, lieutenant, Com pany L, Johnston, S C. Benjamin H Mathis, corporal, Com pany L, Chappell'*, Newberry County, SC. John F McLsUand, private, Com pany L, Newberry, S C. Dr. Bull' Cough Syrup will care throat aad luog trouble without fail. For grippe, influ enza aod a deep seated cough or cold, it is the beat remedy offered to ibe public. The doses are small aod a bottle costs only 25c.~ If jou wast your machine made Dew j briog it to Randie. Cow Feed for sale at W. B. Boyles MB 8CKXXB WATCHMAN*, Establish eil April 1350. "Be Just and Fear not-Let all the Ends thou Aims't at, be thy Country's, thy God's and Truth's." . THE TSUE SODTHBOM, Established Jone 1266 New Series-Vol, XVUI. So. 27 MB 8CKXXB WATCHMAN*, Establish eil April 1350. "Be Just and Fear not-Let all the Ends thou Aims't at, be thy Country's, thy God's and Truth's." . THE TSUE SODTHBOM, Established Jone 1266 New Series-Vol, XVUI. So. 27