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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 29, 1899. The Sumter Watchman was tonndec in 1850 and the True Southron in 1866. Thc Watchman and Southron now has the combined circulation and influence of both of the old papers, and is mani festly the best advertising medium ia Samter. It is time to taro the rascals into, sot ont of the penitentiary. Tiilmaa, Evans and EUerbe proved themselves to be farmers as wei! as refawmers. The Movement taros oat to be a rs eve ment after all, judging from the amount of public property that bas hz 2 moved. The magnitude of the misappropria tion of the penitentiary foods is not so surprising, coder the circumstances, as the variety and pettiness of the thiev ery practiced. It was a regalar grab game and nothing was too small to appropriai . Tbe incipient rottenness talked of io 1890 has given place to wholesale cor ruption and the noble 'leaders of reform give forth the stench of carrion to offend the nostrils of the honest . people of the State. Doesn't it begin to look as if the reform era has been eight years of good stealing ? The bond s ea , the dispen sary rebate steals, the chart and school bond scandals, the penitentiary steals, and the Lord only knows how many other steals that have not been laid bare m*Vc op a list that ought to darno the officeholders and leaders of the move ment. Cooley of the Reed farm seems to have been a trader,for sick cow3 as well as a doctor for sick horses The State lost money on both enter prises Neal lifted $10,000 and varions other things. The lifting process was general from governor* down, and al! who could and wonld partook freely of the good things provided by the penitentiary Pig Brick Garrie and Beckroge Trank Garr s are a fine pair of birds io hold responsible offices. It seems characteristic of the pair to take whatever is in sight witbont money and witbont price, bat when an in vestigation storm darkens the horizon ibey scurry for cover and make frantic efforts to pay a price for what they took from the pnblic crib. Superintendent Neal hogging Ten Thousand Dollars of the State's -money ! That is an achievement of "reform" no less brilliant than prac ticai, and no less practicai than brilliant.-Edgefield Chronicle. What abont the Governors' hog ging hams and coal, wood and other supplies and sending their dirty clothes to the penitentiary laundry to escape paying a washerwoman ? .'The offices of clerk of court and sheriff will no longer be furnished with lights, fuel and stationery by the 5 county. ~The new board say they mast famish their own material, as there is no law for them to furnish it '-Salada Sentinel. If this is law for Ss uda, why is its application not general throughout the State ? If it wee all right for Governors Tillman, Evans tod lierbe to rao farms with penitentiary convicts, males, plows and fertilizer, why would it not be right for Supervisor Dorn to ron bis farm with convicts from tbe chain gang? The same meo who would raise tbe loodest howl, shonld the County Super visor attempt to work obaic gang con victs on bis farm, pretend to believe that the farming operations of Tillman, Evans and Eilerbe were rigbt and proper. Na excuse is sufficient to pal liate the offenoe, nor ia whitewash thick enoogh to hide the venality and rascal ity of the transaction. The btgher the office, the greater tbe shame and the more odioas the corraption, and the faet that Tillman, Evans and Ellerbe occupied the Governor's chair renders their offence greater rather than less. If there is any law in the criminal code applicable to the offence, it should be stack to the oorrapt'onists with all possible severity. It is said that Gen Fioyd is pre paring to get after some of the former militia companies with a sharp stick. There has been much negligence in collecting and returning arms from disbanded military companies. He finds guns scattered over the State, and has notified several former com pany commanders that they will be held personally responsible unless the guns are collected and turned in. Most of these guns belonged to companies in rural communities, which were organized immediately subsequent to the Darlington riots for the avowed purpose of defending the dispensary constables, supporting Gov. Tillman and holding the disloyal and rebellious towns and cities in check. The reform chickens are gradually^ coming home to roost. Sit is not difficult for the people of the south to believe the worst that is told of the harshness and brutality of Gen. Otis and other officers com manding in the Philippines in their treatment of the Filipinos. There are residents of Sumter who have painful recollections of the years that this place was garrisoned and under the command of Federal officers. They have uot forgotten the outrages and petty persecutions to which they were subjected, nor that on one occasion ladies were arrested by Federal officers for a fancied disre spect shown a United States flag at a social entertainment in a private resi dence. Nor have they forgotten how many fortunes were made io those days by "looting" the war impoverished people of the south. There was little left in the south to steal in those days, save cotton ; but that was valuable, and thousands of dollars worth was taken from its lawful owners. As we say, it is not difficult to believe the worst we hear of Gen. Otis, nor do we discredit the report that American soldiers are bringing loads of "loot" from pr vale residences into Manila. There is small wonder that the Filipinos do not take kindly to American rule and are resisting with all the strength they possess. - The iovestig&tioD of Supt. Neal's administration of the penitentiary affairs is bringing to light a great deal more rascality than ven the most suspicious ever dreamed of. Supt. Neal, some of the directors, Gov. Ellerbe and perhaps others have been making as free use of penitentiary produc s as if the instila lion and its appurtenances were their private property. Things have coree to a pretty pass when the Governor's table is supplied from the penitentiary and his soiled clothes are sent there to be washed by convicts. The penitentiary seems to have been surrounded by a hungry crowd of leeches, and <?e regata it as a most fortunate circumstance that the investigation was ordered, for the people of the State have some few rights left, one of which is tbs right to know what public officials do with the moneys and other goods intrusted to their care. It is unfortunate that the investigation, so called, of a few years ago was converted into a job of whitewashing, fer bad the iovee tigaticn been fearlessly, honestly and thorough!? made at that time much of the pecuUtioB and abuse would have been exposed and thc abuses that have grown worse since theo would have been prevented. Wc are glad the presset committee .shows a disposition to unearth ali the irregularities and rasoaiity that has occurred, without regard to who the offender may be. If an example is made of ail who have abused the trust imposed in them aod disgraced the position they occupy, justice will be subserved. T. B. Rice, Druggist, Greensboro, Ga , writes as follows : f,In the past eight jears, I have sold more of Dr. Pitts' Carminative than ail the soothing syrups, colic drops, and other baby medicines com bined." Sold by J. F. W. DeLorme. Ian Maclaren's New York. [an Maolaren, who is now on a lecturing tour in ibis country, begins in an early issue of The Ladies' Home Journal bis latent piece of literary work. It is a eeries of popular articles in which he deSoes the relation that a minister holds to bis congregation ; how a preacher is helped by bis people ; h w a congregation can make the most of a minister, and other phases of the most satisfactory attitude of a congre gation to a pastor. --?> . . M - London, March 25.-The Berlin correspondent cf Jibe Morning Post says : "I am imformed that Germaoy regards the withdrawal of Chief Justice Chambers from Samoa as imperative, and that a refusal on the part of the United States to withdraw him wouid be equivalent to the abandonment of negotiations concerning Samoa." An Old Superstition. j An old soldier writes to the New York Times about fever and claims that the Cuban and southern maladies are the same and that they are prac tically incurable when once contract ed He declares that-he contracted fever at Gloucester Point, Va , ir: 1863. Quinine and whiskey only mitigated his complaint. A northern doctor afterward dosed him with arsenic, but to no good purpose He is still, after all these years, a physical wreck. So, he raises the lament : "My impression is that malaria proper is a liver trouble? and that quinine has no virtue whatever in effecting even a temporary cure. Abstain from meat, one remarks Eat plenty of fruit, another. I have jried everything recommended, but all to no purpose. I would advise 'X,' however, to use none of the patent medicines advertised to cure malaria. It a waste of money. Do as I have done. Grin and bear ii v There are many southern men who had the so called malarial fever and recovered from it completely Some got well on quinine, arsenic and iron, after long suffering. Others were speedily cured and permanently so by merely drinking such water as Glenn Spring produces The elimi nation of the poison by the action of the kidneys is the proper and speedy ! method. Bad cases of this disease j have been cured in less than a week ; at Glenn Springs and the patients are well and hearty, with none of the protracted agonies mentioned by this New Jersey soldier. If he has not altogether impaired his liver and kidneys by some imprudence of drugs and stimulants, we advise him to bny a ticket for Spartanburg, S. C., and take a trip of a few miles, by rail, to Glenu Springs. Dr. Simpson will put him on the simple diet of pure water and make him a sound man again, if, as we said, be has not ruin ed his interior department This man, like so many thousands of peo ple, thinks that the air of the south and of Cuba causes the disease, but he is mistaken, as many others are. The air of Cuba and the south is wholesome, but.. in some places, the water is not. The man who started that malaria theory, however honest or sincere, has done more uninten tional harm to the South, materially, than a series of war, pestilence and famine Great progress has been made of late years io undoing this injury, but the work of reparation is still incomplete. Somebody compar ed a prejudice or superstition of this kind to the scrub palmetto He said : "The scrub palmetto grows about two feet from the ground but it has a root verging toward China Traditional prejudice in a man's mind may appear small of itself, but its root decends his backbone, traverses his extremities and is clinched at his toe-nails "-Augusta Chronicle. - - i > i mm* Mr. S. P. J Garr s, railroad com missioner, has "done the State some service 99 First, he acciired the Beckroge trunk and thereby raised a scandal that resulted in some expos ure of dispensary methods. For that the people rewarded Mr. Garris by electing him a railroad commissioner. Now he continues the good work, by appearing as a material witness in the penitentiary scandal, wherein he has taken, apparently, a very unselfish part He got a car load of bricks from the penitentiary, paying nothing for them, of course. Sus picious folk declare this to be a most unwarranted acquisition, but hear the explanation. Mr. Garris eays the bricks were entirely woitbless, that no one would buy them at any^rice and Col. Neal, good, patient man, was sorely concerned a3 lo their disposition. Then Mr- Garrie, one of the directors of the penitentiary, came along and, seeiDg Col Neal's embarrassment, offered to relieve him by taking the brick bats off bis hand They were of no value to him, but for the good of the State he would take them. Was not that a fine action ? Mr. Garris deserves a bigrher office than railroad commis sioner. There were some other little attentions Mr. Garris paid to the penitentiary's affairs which show an appreciative mind. Mr Garris is a large minded and an open handed patriot and deserves high reward from his fellow citizens -Charleston Post The Poet has confused two distin guished limbs of Reform C W. Garris, Railroad Commissioner, is the Beckroge trunk man, and S. P. J. Garris, Penitentiary Director, is the Brick bat Pig man The similarity in acquisitive proclivities is to be accounted for on the ground of hered ity, Trunk Garr a *beiug a eon of Brick Pig Garria. Geo B. Secord, the well known contractor of Towaada, N. Y., says ; "I baTe used Chamberlain's Coogh Remedy m myfrmily for a long time aod have found it superior to any other." For sale by Dr. A. J. China. Go to H. G Osteen & Co. for pretty Paper Dolls, ladies, misses and babies. - m nv- -mm* Tho New York World (evening edition) will give 50 for tho oorrcct answer to this : A roan having three sens gives to ooe eon fifty apples ; to another thirty apples and to the other ten apples. They all sell them at the same price and all briDg home the same amount of money. How muoh did they sell chem for, and how much did j they bring home ? School Charts Again. The Attorney General Ren ders an Opinion. Aseistant Attorney Gen. Gunner ha3 for some time benn giving his at tention to the matter of paying for the school charts about which there has been so much said recently The queetion submitted to him is whether trustees are permitted legal ly to pay for charts by warrants on the |coming year's school fund. This has been done in a number of instances Mr Gunter had not I written out his decision this morning, but he said that he would hold that trustees could not do so. The question whether they had a right to expend school money for such a mpose has not been submit ted to him His ruling on the first point will go a long way in stopping the purchase of charts, for few school districts have any money to spare for the purpose It will be hard on the chart men, even if they wait until next year's money is available, as conditions will be about the same then as they are now-no money io spend upon such luxuries. Trustees will have to make some arrangements about them or the chart company will have to take back their goods as second hand. -Columbia Record. The Fighting Race. Driven oat of his own native land by British despotism, the Irishmen make themselves felt ail over the world. England's great geoerais, from Well ington to Wolsey and from Roberts to Kitobener, came from Ireland And now we are told, by Corporal E V. Mootalvo, of the Urah battery, that after the Spanish sarrender in the Phiiippioes, on August 13, 1898, "the Colorada men io part advanced on a company of Spaniards wbieb stiil held out Gen Hale sammoced to bis oommaod what Spanish be knew a- d demandad a surrender. Great was bis surprise when the reply oame in a broad Irish brogue, 'Divi'l a bit Til surrender." The Spanish captain was an Irishman. I met bim afterward, subsequent o the sarrender, which occurred, de&pite his protestations. He had married a Spanish woman, and so found bi:> way into the Spanish army. There are many Irish in Spain. Any number of Irishmen have married the fair daughters cf the proud Castillan race. Because of this inci dent the officers around General 0:is came to regard the proverb that 'the only Spaniards who can fight are Irishmen.' "-Augusta Chronicle. Slavery is Not Yet Extinct. It is generally supposed that slav ery no longer exists in the United States of America, but by those who make a close study of such matters this will be promptly recognized as a very great mistake* In San Francisco alone tbere are said to be 600 Chinese women who are, so far as they know to the contrary, the property of their masters In Brooklyn quite recently a rather attractive young woman was sold io a Chinese laundryman for $60u0. The remarkable phase of the Chinese slave:y which prevails in tais coun try is that the victims do not seem to realize the abjeclness of their condition and would very much prefer to re main here as they are than return to their native land and its daily grind for food, with the result of each day's efforts constantly in doubt-Fro vidence Telegram R NNING"O T"NEGROES. Litte Rock, March 24 -A mob chasing negroes in Little river coun ty came upon a gang early yester day It is reported almost direct from the scene that six more negroes were lynched, and their bodies left dangling on trees in the woods Thus far twelve have been lynched within 48 hours The mob is determined to drive the negroes out and are searching the swamps, but as the country is remote from railroads or wire it is bard to reach there except by round about routes. The effects of tbe Grip are overcome bj Hood's Sarsaparilla wbicb purines tbe blood, tones tbs stomach, streng thea 3 the nerve?, and makes tbe who. e system rigorous and heal tb j. A vegetable cathartic tbat can be repi'~d upon to do ita work thoroughly-Boud's Pills. NEW MAN IN TOWN. Blacksmith and Wheelwright. IHAVE OPENED ON LIBERTY Street near coroer of Harvin Street, and solicit any work in my line sad guarantee satisfac tion. Eorso3 Shod for SOc. all round, ix Horse is in good condition-Cash or Equivalent. General repair work of all kinds done at correspondingly low prices. I have references from best people of Mayes vi e where I worked tbe past year and from Caoideu, where I did business for 17 years. Special promptness given to work for physicians and cases of urgency. W. T. HALL, Wheelwright and Blacksmith. Fib 24-21 Mistrial in Hughes Case. Greenville, S. C., Ma<ch 26-A zn i e r r i a. I wa* ordered ibis morning io tbe case of pretty Mrs Mattie Hoghtfl for kiiliog her hu-baod. She took the ces* philosophically, remarking : "Weil, a mistrial is belier than a conviction.,; This case bas <xcitcd sensual inter est OG account cf a clever ecaiaa being charged ^i:h ibe murder of ber bus 03nd. Las! wiGtcr, Hughe's, who was a prominent merchant r.f Green~ii!e county, aod bis wife bad severs! quarrels, each charging the o:ber with fidelity. The feeling between them rau so high that io au open quarrel between teem Mrs. Hughes shot her husband, ile died fwenty-four boars afterwards, making a statement that his wife killed him without cause The woman's defense was that she threaten ed Hushes with a pistol. 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