The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, April 19, 1899, Image 4
WEDNESDAY, APHIL 19, 1899
The Sumter Wotcuman was toundea
!? 1850 aod the True Southron io 1866.
The Watchman and Southron now has
the combined circulation and influence
of both of the old papers, and is mani?
festly the best advertising medium in
Sumter.
We desire to enlarge our corps of
correspondents, and are prepared to
set aside as many columns for this
use each week as they can fill with
?newsy letters. We have a proposi?
tion to submit to all who will act 88
regular correspondents that we be?
lieve will be ef mutual advantage,
and invite icqniries. We want cor
respondents to send us the news
regularly and as often as possible.
More often than otherwise a postal
card will suffice for all the news of a
week, bot when it becomes ceces
sary to write a long letter to give the
news we want a long letter. What
we want is the news that is of local
interest, the things and happenings
that are talked of and discussed when
the people of the neighborhood meet
at the postcfSce, at church or else?
where. What we don't want ii an
assistant editor It is a great deal
easier to write a column or two of
editorial matter than it is to collect
real live news matter, and we prefer
holding on to the easy job ourself.
We are in earnest about this matter,
and will not be satisfied uttil we
have a live correspondent at each
postoffice in the county. We wiil
say for the encouragement of those
woo consider corresponding for a
weekly paper would be a waste of
talent and time, that a number of the
ablest and most prominent newspaper
.men and women* r6 the coantry
began newspaper work only a few
years ago as correspondents for
weekly papers, and it was their
work as country correspondents that
first brought them into notice and
gave them a foothold from which
they have climbed steadily upward. .
We note with interest and pleasure
the energetic and progressive spirit that
pervades Bisbcpviiie aod Magnolia- ,
Lynchburg. ,
Bishop ville bas a new movement I
well nuder way to organize a cotton i
s=cd oil mill, and with the start that !
bas been made there is so reason under i
the SQQ why the movement should be
allowed to fail through. If the Bish
opvi?io can raise two-thirds of tbe cash i
capra: necessary to build the mill, ]
parchase the machinery aod build seed <
booses at tbs varions depots within j
reach of the mill, there will be no 1
dif?nalry in ber row io g tbs balance, i
and this can be repaid oat of the !
earnings of tbe mill, if it is ron for all
h ts worth, within two years at the i
outside. The history of the Sumter i
Cotton Oil Mili should point the way
to success, and the Bisbcpviiie people ]
should not let a good thing fail through i
for the want of push aod enterprise
The bosiQes8 meo cf Magnolia- i
Lynchburg are at work raising capital i
to build &nd operate a tobacco ware
boose, aod (hey should keep working <
until the warehouse is cpeo for bast- 1
ness. Magnolia is aa favorably located
with respect to (he tobacco producing
Vterritcry as Timmoosvilie, and the
position TimmooBvUie occupies as a
tobacco market ts knowe to all. The
a stablish meet of a tobacco warehouse i
at Magnolia wcuid be au incentive to
tobacco cohere ic thai section and
would benefit the ?arreundieg country
icily ss much, if not more than it
would benefit tbe town itself immedi?
ately. The diversification of industry
aod the establishment of enterprises
tba: either f reduce money or keep it at
boms ire the only things that wc can
rely epc? to create prosp?reos condi?
tions, ac? we welcome any evidence
that oar people are Oegineiogr io unite
and organizVfor mutual and individual
beseS: and tbS pobHo welfare. Bisb?
cpviiie and Manolis are co the right
line aod wc bopt to see their efforts
successful.
We have eeen it stated that Col
Neal expects to make\a proposition
to the investigating Committee to
make restitution of the t*j 0r twelve
thousand dollars thst he stole from
tbe penitentiary on conditio; that be
is not prosecuted in tbe cours. The
legislative committee is comped of
men of too mach sense to compound
a felony in this manner, besides t*ere
is no necessity for making terms wib
Col. Neal, as 'wis bondsmen are goot
for the full amount of his peculations
The way io deal wiih public officials
who steal money consigned to them
for safe keeping is to make their
bondsmen pay up the shortage and
put the embezzlers in the peniten?
tiary aiong with other thieves un?
fortunately for the public morals and
j the public conscience this plan is
but seldom adopted.
There is a fortune in truck grow?
ing, and within a few years the
farmers of this section cf South
Carolina will suddenly realize that
while they were slaving themselves
to death plastering their lands with
mortgages and growing poorer year
after year growing cotton, the more
wide awake farmer of adjacent states
were growing early vegetables and
accumulating a competence. Within
the past five years trucking bas
grown from an insignificant begin?
ning to immense proportions in the
eastern section of North Carolina
along the lines of the Atlantic Coast
Line 8ytem of railroads, and cotton
has been almost wholly abandoned
as a crop in the same sections.
Thousands of acres are planted in
strawberries, but asparagus and ail
other early vegetables are also grown
in the greatest quantity. What is
being done in Nurth Carolina can be
done in South Carolina, and just as
iarge profits will reward the truck
growers if they use the same indus?
try and intelligence in the cultivation
of their crops and the same care in
marketing them that the North Caro?
lina truckers have displayed. There
will be no conflict between the
truckers of this State and those of
North Carolina, for the crop in this
section of the State would be from
ten days to three weeks earlier than
the crop of eastern North Carolina,
and the bulk of it could be marketed
before the fir6t shipments from North
Carolina would be ready for market.
Every body cannot run truck farms, .
of course, but those who own lands
adapted to truck along the line of a ,
railroad can do so very profitably, ?
and as it becomes more evident every j
year that cotton as a money crop has i
played out, it is time for our people
to be casting about for a substitute
For those who are favorably situated
strawberries and truck are substitutes
that wiil yield larger returns in cash .
than cotton has at any time within
the past ten or twelve years An 3
idea of the price truck commands in
the north right now caa be gained
from the following clipping from a
Wilmington, N. C , paper :
Io New York Friday Charleston
strawberries sold at 25 to 50 cents
per quart ; Florida fancy varieties, .
55 to38 ; North Carolina asparagus
$2.00 to $5.00 per dozen bunches ; 1
beets, $3.00 to $9.00 per hundred f
hunches ; North Caroiina lettuce, 1
$1.00 to $2 50 per basket.
The magnitude of the trucbing '
industry in the Wilmington district 1
ts shown by statements made in the 1
Wilmington Star, concerning the
preparations being made to handle *
this year's crop :
"Now that the strawberry crop in 1
this section is beginning to ripen and 1
shipments in large quantities wiil be '
in order in a short time ali possible *
dispatch is being exercised by Mr
C. W. Woodward, agent for the C.
P. T. Company, and his assistants, <
in potting their refrigerator cars in 1
order for handling the crop. They
have a large force of laborers at
work thoroughly renovating the three
bandied cars which they have con
centrated here for the special purpose
of handling the strawberry shipments
However, Mr. Woodward does not j
think that his refrigerator cars ?will j
be brought into service before the {
25th inst j
The berry crop seems to be almost ,
two weeks later this year than last, <
the first refrigerator car of berries
hiving been shipped last year on April 1
16th with 88 crates on board. It ?
will be of interest to note that the
first shipment of berries by express
last year was March 31st.
The strawberry market conditions
have somewhat changed this year
from what thev have been io cast
years in that there ia to be an un
usually Iarge cumber o? local buyers.
That is many of the leading truck
brokers and dealers in the principal
cities of the North will send buyers to
this city and all the principal ship?
ping points in the Eastern Carolina
trucktng section, who wiil buy the
berries off the wagons and pack and
ship them direct to their respective
bouses A number of these buyers j
are already on the field and scores of
others will, so the Star is informed by
\
Secretary and Manager Baughman of
the truckers' Association, come just
as soon as the benies are ready, in
large quantities, for Ibo market."
Gen. Otis says the volunteers in
the Philippines are not anxious to
return home, preferring to remain
until conditions are more satisfactory
This statement may bs enti:ely
accurate, but it would be interesting
to have statements from a few pri
vates.
The Samoan Commission wili find
an easy way out of an embarrassing
situation if they wiil draw straws to
decide which country shall take a
title to the islands. The lucky gov^
ernment may then proceed to exter?
minate the natives at its leisure.
The talk of Tillman and Butler mak?
ing common cause against McLaurio is
too thin a&d there is nothing io it we
mayest assured. Tillman is not strong
enough to control all of the reformers,
and Butler's following is rather slim at
this time.
When private soldiers refose to re?
enlist for service in the Philippines for
a bones cf more than $500, each, the
service must be repulsive and irksome. It
is an outrage to keep toe volunteers in
the Philippines after their term cf ser?
vice has ezpired aaa the McKinley
cro7?d will have a hard job explaining
it satisfactorily.
Rev. Richard Carroll is doing more
for the negroes of South Carolina
than all of black and tan politicians
have done since the war ended. If
he succeeds with his in 'usti ial
schooi, and there is reason to believe
that he will succeed, the negroes
will have an opportunity to educate
their children along rational Hues.
A starch factory with a capacity
for a thousand bushels of potatoes a
day will cost about $40,000-301 a
very large sum If the Southern
Starch Company does not locate a
factory here, why cannot one be
built and operated by Sumter people '!
If the Charleston hotels, boarding
bouses and lestaurants charge no
higher prices than laid down in the
Re union Guide Book there will be
no complaint by veterans and other
Re union visitors, but, if such extor
lionale prices are charged as nave
been quoted by some of them to
those who have written to engage
board, there will be 6uch a kick that
Charleston and Charleston peopie will
regret that they ever heard of the
Re union. Those who have the
affairs of the Re union in charge
3hou!d ascertain right now and have
it positively understood what rates
the hotels and boarding bouses will
charge, so that there can be co mis?
understanding. Those who expect
to attend the Reunion will not object
to paying reasonable rates, but they
3o not propose to buy outright all
>f the hotels, boarding houses and i ?
restaurants in Charleston. If they
ire expected to pay famine prices
for lodging and rations while in
Charleston, a majority of them pre?
fer to remain at home. There will (
De an immense crowd in Chariestou '
buring the Reunion and there will be
so necessity for extortion, for the
motels will reap a rich harveet and
aake more money at reasonable rates
that they have in many a long day.
To double and treble prices would
be an outrage.
The aotivity in the southern textile
industry coatiooues to be remarkable.
New'-ooucn milis are being built in thc
Carolinas, Georgia and Alabama, by
Qortbero as well as ecutbero companies.
One very large enterprise is a company
which intends betiding a eerics of
eight cotton milis in Alabama, which
will aggregate 200,000 spindles and
Dearly 6,000 iooms, as well as a
bleacbery The mills are to be built
in succession and cot all at one time
Thia enterprise representa an invest?
ment of $2.500.000 alone. Fully
gi.000,000 is beiog invested in new
mills for mauufacturing cotton f-eed oil
in the south -Bradstreets.
The settlement of Ponce de Leon
at Caparra, near the 6ite of Pueblo
Viejo,across San Juan bay, is now by
more than fifty-five years the first
town established within the present
borders of the United States Ilisto
lians, therefore, must give the pres
tige of antiquity, not to the Spanish
town of St. Augustine, Fla , of 1566,
as formerly, but to Caparra, founded
in the year 1509.
?t?S CUBAN OIL cures Cuts,
Burns, Bruises, Rheuma?
tism and Sores- Price, 25 cts.
Sold by Hughfot-Ligoo Co.
The Cotton Crop.
Cotton prices bava Cee?ncd slight!?
io the past oaoQih, ?housh receipts
thaw a marked falling off
The difficulty of crop estimates is
weil illustrated rbis year by the fact that
outside of tbe Texas district the deficit
io the crcp is 613,000 balee.
Farmers l'viog io this territory koo??
the cottoo crop ?3 short, and they
caDnot understand why ibis fact does
cot influence ?h3 roarke:
Bat io the Texas district, iosludiog
iodiao territory., the gain has been
385,000
This makes a oct loss of ever
225,000 baies. Observing Texas
alone, the iodioatioos were for a larger
crcp than last year, which calculators
could not realize would be offset by
losses outside of Texas.
This year cottoo plan ting is one
month-late. Much of the land inteoded
for cotton shou!d be devoted to corn
and other forage crops.
If to a late season the firmers now
add a reduced acreage, cultivating
thoroaghiy the cotton planted, the
result should be much better prices
oex? fail for cotton, aod a better borne
supply of provisions. Io this direction
independence lie?.
-PU?--??- ll? -
Attorney Gsoerai Bellioger, io
rendering a decision elaborating a
previous ooe. held that beer dispensa?
ries must order their supplies through
the State B;arc only, , and that; the
Bjard has the rijjht to decide what
kiod thai! bc soid is su30 dispensaries
Now tbat the arrav contractors'have
worked off all the job ?ot brow . over?
alls they were able to secure, under
the more pretentious name ci Khaki
uniforms, the inspecter general, has
condemned them as unfit for soldier
drees in tropical countries and recora
mends linens, such as are worn by
Spanish soldiers. It is to be inferred
that the makers of tho white trousers
that flunked so disastrously on the
market two summers ago have gotten
a pull and are going to put in their
shelf worn rash at government prices
Twenty Years Proof.
Tutt's Liver Pills keep the bow?
els in natural motion and cleanse
the system of all impurities An
absolute cure for sick headache,
dyspepsia, sour stomach, con?
stipation and kindred diseases.
"Can't do without them59 j
R. P. Smith, Chilesburg, Va.
writes I don't know how I could
do without them. I have had
Liver disease for over twenty
years. Am now entirely cured.
Tutt's Liver Pills
-
Notice of lotion.
Iha State of South Carolina-Sumter Coun?
ty-Office of Supervisors of Registration,
Sumter County, Sumter, S. C., February
? l3f, 1899.
Notice is hereby given that in accordance
wilb an Act of the General Assembly, and in
conformity nub the requirements of the State
Constitution, the books for the registration
of all legally qualified voters, a-d for the
issuing of tracsters, etc,, will b; opeo at the
office of Supervisors of Registration in tbe
court boose, between the hours of 9 o'clock
a m . and 3 o'clock p. m , on tbe first Mon?
day of each month, until thirty days before
the next general election. Minors who shall
become of age during that pr "d of thirty
iays shall be entitled to regit>. ^tion before
the books ere clo.*ed, if otherwise qualified
Tbe requirements for a qualified voter are
ibat the applicant for registration ehall be
able to read and write correctly, or possess
in bis own name property to the ameunt of
Uiree hundred dollars, upon which he pavs
taxes. E. F BURROWS,
T. D CuBOSE,
J. M. KNIGHT,
Supervisors of Registration Sumter Co.
Mob 1_
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jj l^ilP^^^P^ m>* sixteen year|f
J cid daughter, She^
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Two bottles of Beni
cdicta have entirely restored her health. ?
The monthly periods have returned j?
1 and arc now painless and regular, w
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M has cured many suffering women and k
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Sold by Hegbeon-Ligon Co.
Buggies.
We can;t live on air, so we are trying to
sell
We have recently contracted for quite a ?
line of COLUMBIAS-the neatest and S
prettiest finished job that we have ever g
handled. An inspection will convince you. 5>
New Buggies from $25.00 up. g
Also a full line of other vehicles. Come
and see them. Money talks. cf
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In our Dry Goods Department
Mousseline DeSoie in exquisite patterns and
all shades of solid colors-50c per yard.
This will be a "WHITE GOODS SEASON" and we have
prepared for it. We can show you the largest line of white
goods ever shown in this city. Dimitys /rom 10c up. Piques
in Welts and Novelties at all prices.
In WASH GOODS we are displaying beautiful lines cf
Organdies, Ginghams, Silk Striped Cheviots, Madras, Duck
and Calicoes.
Our line of Silk and Cotton Draperies are neat and attrac?
tive. Prices right.
Ali styles of Ladies' Straw Sailors
In small and wide, and rough and smooth braids.
DUCK and CRASH SKIRTS from 50c up.
STAMPED LINENS for picture frames and other fancy
work, Wash Silk in all shades for same.
A complete line of Colgate k Co's Perfumery and Toilet
Preparations.
New Styles Ladies' Collars, 10c.
BACK 2 INCHES
BACK HUNCHES
10c a piece.
FR0NT2%MCHES
FRONT CINCHES
?IN OUR
ss Hon
CLOTHING-DEPARTMENT.
In MenVSuits we have Strouse & Bros. celebrated line-every
suit guaranteed. Prices right, "nuff said."
We also sell
Duchess Trousers,
Whcse guarantee is : ^
10c for a Butten- $1.00 for a Bip.
Our line of trousers is up-to
date in every particular. If
we camt suit you in the Trou?
sers we have a large assort?
ment of Pants Patterns for
you to select from. We make
them up and guarantee a fit
or DO sale. Prices ?5 to $10.
Fit and Workmanship Perfect,
he Appearance without the Cost.
:?T IN TMS WORLD.
< X PAiR.
10C. FOR A BUTTON.
S? FOR A RIP.
Claremont Mi? 164 A. I M. i Bs. ?gg s'ore Kinti
THE REGULAR MONTHLY COMM?- j but price thc same a* ordinary brands. Druggists
NIC* TION of Claremont Lodge. No* ! bu>' An%n Soda iu1,b.ulk attd foU ^ at rive cents an
. n " ,i u u ,j Tu.*\.*Aa~ ounce. Grocers sell it in packages ut 10c. a pound
64, A. F. M.. will be held on Thursday or? pounds for 25c.
Evening, April 20, Rt 7$ p. m. Brethren ?f - rv^fiv thf* C?^
will take doe notice and govern themselves n ts ?XfCtty tite Same Soda*
accordingly ap^??r^
Attest-H. C. MoLJScRcbA?1E' ** " \ % *TL TRADEMARK.