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i W& ftm at WEDNESDAY, JUNE 14,1899. The Sumter Watchman was roucdec ia 1850 and the True Southron ia 1866 The Watchman dud Southron now has the combined circulation and influence of both of the old papers, and is mani festly the best advertising medium in Samter. Aguinaldo is not ready to sue for peace by any means, it seems, notwith standing the sanguine expectations of the Philippine commission. Gen. 0;is will probably bave need of many times the tea thousand recruits he is said to bave asked for. The revelations that have been made in the course of the Dreyfus revision demonstrate that there was reason enough for the officers of the French army to fear that France would lose faith to the 1 'honor of the army" if too much of its inside workings were made public. A more dishonorable and shameless set of rascals never disgraced any coun try than those French army officers who "protected the honor of the army" by swearing away the reputa tion of Dreyfus and condemning him to an imprisonment that was worse than death. * The McKinley clique are not con tent with having buncoed John Sherman oct of his seat in the sen ate and kicking him cut of the cabi net, are now endeavoring to muzzle him and force him to repudiate his anti Imperialistic utterances. They fear the old man's influence in Ohio, and would have bim make himself a spectacle before the country by kiss ing the bands that smote bim. ma Constable Crawford, who raided Stew art's house, slapped his face, shot bim dows and killed bis % wife, has been acquitted of the charge of murder, and sot free. The jory says the kiliiog of Mrs. Stewart was not morder. The law-abiding people of the State would have bees indebted to the jory bad it famished a definition of Crawford's act along witfc the verdict of cot guilty. It is Btated that thc prosecution was very weak and Solicitor Thormond's management of the case left much to be desired, material aod important evi dence being disregarded to such an ex tent that even laymen were surprised at tba neglect and carelessness of the proaecatiog attorneys. Cranford, it is said, expects to bc re appointed on the -constabulary, bet we do not believe the -dispensary authorities wtil tbos set their jeal of approval cs- woman kiliiog. 4 "It shall bc my aim aod steadfast parp se to give the people of the State a strictly busioess administration aod to be the governor of all the people." Governor McSweeoey. The people of the State believe that Gov. McSweeney means exaotly what he says and that he is the man to do exact ly what be says be will do. His record as a business man, as a private oitizen and zs a public effioial all go to prove that he possesses the qualities neces sary to give the State an ad ministration that wiil merit the approval of a majority of the people who desire good government and that wiil command the respect of ail. He assumes the du:ies of his office with the best wishes of ail parties and factions, and we believe that be will so cocdact himself while io effise that when he retires he will be moro firmly establish ed in thc good will and respect of all the people o' South Carolina than be is cow io that of bid friends and associates. Gov. MaSwoeoey bas decided to have the canece (bat was captured in the Spanish Americac war placed io the State House grounds That is the place for it, aod it was cheeky for any other place to ask for it. The peopie living io be vioioity of Atlanta, Ga , appear to be stark mad on the subject of oegro rapists and the Atlanta papers are fanning the frenzy. Within the past few days severai harmless aud uooffecdiog negroes have narrowly escaped lynching in conse quence of this mad frenzy. One negro was pursued by a mob, aod tho papers had lurid reports of ao attempted rape when the fact was tha negro weet to a boase and offered to trade a scuff box for food. Another newspaper rape sensation was founded on tbs hysterical fright of two women who saw a strange negro motioning to them as he passed along the road in front of their noose. . - - -. ! AnI IA ar on this species cf sensational and criminal j manufacture of crimes. The reality is horrible enough when a rape dees occur, and it is worse than senseless to raagci ( fy trivial incidents and the imaginings of hysterical women until they assume tho frightful proportions of attempted outrages The big'lumber oompany that recent ly located in Georgetown aod is now erecting an exteusivs plant, is also building a thirty-room hotel that is to be steam heated, handsomely furnished and fitted with all comforts and con* venienoes. Would that some such enterprising" and far-sighted capitalists would establish themselves in Sumter. Jeffries is the great American at the present moment, and Dewey, Schley and Wheeler are back num bers and in temporary eclipse. Charleston wants the next meeting of the National Educational Associa* lion, and has selected a committee designed to represent muscle, money and brains to go after it. It is a fine committee, and the combination ought to win. It was reported from Bennettsvilie some weeks ago that the telephone company that has lines connecting every town, hamlet, cross roads, store and many private residences in the Pee Dee section of the State would extend its lines to Sumter. We have been waiting to hear some thing more of it, but have not thus far. We trust Manager Moore who has made such a success of the tele phwne business in the Pee Dee conn* try has not abandoned his intention to put Snmter on his string. Something About Governors. Sicca the ratification of the constitu tion of the State, Jone '6, 1790, only two Governors have died in office. Charles Pinckoey was Governor at that time. Ia 1838 Patrick Nobie, of Abbeville, was elected Gevernor. The Legislature op to the civil war elected the Governor. That was done early in December and the ioangcratioa took place a few days after the eieotion In 11840 Patrick Nobie died aod was suc ceeded by B. K. Heoagan, Lien tesan t Governor. That was the first time io the history of the State when a Lieut enant Governor was called on to fill the executive office. No other Governor died while io offioe until the death of Governor Elierbe. So far as we kcow every Governor after Noble's time served bis fall time until Hampton's time He waa eleoted Governor io 1876 aod agaio io 1878. Soon after bis f cond election be was eleoted to the Senate cf the Uoited States aod Lieatenaot-Qoveroor Simp- 1 soo succeeded him. Before his term expired he was elected Chief Justice and J. B. Jeter, president pro tem, of < the Senate, took the oath of effioe aod was Governor for a few months Io < 1880 General Johnson Hagood was elected Governor. Wben'tbe election of 1882 came be announced that be ; was* not a candidate for re election. ' A scramble for the effioe followed and i when the ooveotion seemed to be tend iog towards a deadlock, Hugh S Thompson's oamo was put forward and ' he was elected, with John C Shop pard as Lieutenant.Governor. In 1884 Hugh S. Thompson and his entire ticket were re elected. Io July, 1885, . Governor Thompson resigned the J Governorship to accept the office of j Assistant Secretary of the Treasury ander President Cleveland Mr. i Sheppard then became Governor and , served until thc end of the term. In 1886 Jobo Peter Richardson and W. j L. Mauldin as running mate were ( elected, and re elected in 1888. Io 1890 tba Tillman regime came in and each Governor has servad bis foil term < oo'ii the death of Governor Elierbe.- j Carolina Spartan. Railroad Building in South Carolina. According to the Baltimore Manu facturers' Record the State of South Carolina is at present one of the principal centers of railroad con struction in the United States Three large railway companies are now surveying new lines within its borders, these being the Southern Railway Company, the Louisville & Nashville and the Seaboard Air Line. The Southern desires a connection between Columbi;., the capital of the State, and Savannah, Ga , while the Seaboard Air Line is promoting a branch from Cheraw, on its main system, near the North Carolina boundary, to Columbia, where it will connect with the Florida Central & Peninsular, giving it a new line to Florida. The Louisville <& Nashville is making surveys between Augusta, Ga., and Charleston with a view, it is stated, of having tracks of its own into the latter city. It is calculated that fully 250 miles of railroad wili be built by the three companies men tioned if their plans are carried out. Go to H. G. Osteen & Go. for pretty Paper Dolls. ladies, misses and babies. EFFECT OF DRINK ON ! HEALTH. i - Middletown, CODD., JUDD 9 -The j first official announcement of :be resal s j of Prof. Atwater8' experiments on the value cf alcohol as a food was made today io a circular issued by the Mid dletown Scientific association. Prof. Atwater, of Wesleyan Collegs, is the United States expert on alcohol, and bis elaborate experiments were made with the greatest scientific accu racy. They prove that two ounces cf alcohol taken in twenty-four hours have no bad effect on a man. More than two ounces acts as a poison. These particular experiments were oocduoted under tbe auspices of a com mittee of fifty for the investigation of the drink problem, of which committee the chairman is Seth Low, president of Calumnia University and delegate to the Peace Congress at The Hague. They establish the fact that two ounces (four tablespoonfuls) of alcohol in twenty four hours, and no more, supply the human body with fuel to produce heat and muscuUr power-that is, act as food,not as aa intoxicant. Prof. Atwater experimented with persons Rho have drank moderately, and with those who "never tasted a drop." The results were the S2mo. Ail doses below two ounces in twenty four hours produced no bad effect ; at the end of the day there was no trace of alcohol oo the breath, the body W3s io the normal condition, and thc alcohol was completely oxidized, having been turned into beat. As soon as Prof. Atwater learned j that more than two ounces were harmful, he went no further io that direction. He had no desire to learn how much a man can drink, but bow much he oan drink without hurting him. Prof. Atwater will tell of his experi ments more fully in a lecture before the Middletown Scientific Association, in lower chapel of Wesleyan College, next Tuesday evening. Scientific men the world over, physicians who prescribe or refuse to prescribe alcohol for their patients, the advocates of temperance, and their adversaries, will await this fuller exposition with intense interest. Tbe last ot the aeries of experiments, that on Mr. Oderberg, attracted attention everywhere.-New York World. Bank Taxation License. The Supreme Court of Louieana held, in the recent case of The State of Louisana vs The Citizens' Bank, that while a license is a tax, it is a tax on callings and occupations and not a tax on property, and that license taxation is governed by rules entirely different from those which control property taxation ; that decis ions holding a certain corporation exempt from taxation upon its capital are not res judicata on an issue as to whether it be liable to a license tax ; that a provision in the charter of a bank exempting its "capital" from taxation does not cover an exemption from license taxa lion ; that the grant of a charter to a corporation authorizing it to carry on a certain business during the term o : te charter does not import per mission to do so without contributing to the support of the government in ike manner with natural persons pursuing the same business, and that the only exemption from taxation granted to the appellee bank being an exemption from taxation upon its capital, there was no impairment of that right in requiring it to pay a license. We know of no law to keep us from yiviog Governor McSweecey a little idvice. At the sams time there is co law to compel him to take it unless be sraots to. Our advice to Mr. Mc sweeney is to give bis whole time for ibe oext twe've months to the duties of governor, and not to oommence running fer re eieotion until the opeoing of the sampaign next nummer. Governor McSweeney is a very capable man and will, we believe, make a gocd governor. Tbs newspapers and the people are disposed to bo very friendly to him. The greatest mistake bc could make would be to commence too ea/ly to lay plans to succeed himself If he will avoid this and give bis whole time for a year to come to tbe business of beiog governor, his administration will be a saccdS9 and bis re-election will follow n a matter of course and without any great effort on his part -Greenwood Index The Position of Nitrates. "The cable estimate of May ship- | ments lo Europe is 62.000 tons, against 50,000 tons io 1898. and only j 2,000 tons to the United States, against 22,000 last year, when much j powder was bumed in Cuba/7 says the Pall Mall Gazette. "Arrivals have ! been on a liberal soale, and the diffi- : oolty of quitting same is sufficiently j indicated 7 the rather thin device of ordering cargoes to secret destinations, j Thc market bas everywhere collapsed, j and with nearly twice as mach nitrate . afloat as a year ago, even another spell j cf east wind wili not prevent a further i fall. The Permanent Nitrate Commit- ; tee may bo relied upon to keep up its statistical reputation, but thc agrioal- i tural demand beiog parctically over, ! th2 bulk of thc deliveries will nowj merely go to swell thc "invisible supply available for next season. jj Secret of Beauty is health. The secret of heal, is the power to digest and assim ilate a proper qu nity of food. This can never be done when thc liver does not act it's part. Doy ou know this ? Tutt's Liver Pills are an abso lute cure for sick headache, dys pepsia, sour stomach, malaria, constipation, torpid li\ ei, pi ies j jaundice, bilious fever, bilious ness and kindred diseases. Tutt's Liver Pills Derelict Estate of Jos, T. An drews, Deceased. IWILL APPLY r0 the Jodge of Probate of Sumter County on June 24, 1899, for a Final Discharge aa Administrator of afore said Estate. SHEPARD NASH, May 24- ii_C. CC. P. & G. S. Derelict Estate of W. Smith An drews, Deceased 1WILL APPLY to the Judge of Probate of Sumter Couotj, cu Juoe 24, 1899, for a Final Discharge, 83 Administrator of afore said Estate. SHEPARD NASH, May 24-41* C. C. C. P. & G. S. FIRST SATIOKAL BISK OF SUMTER, STATE, CT TY AND COUNTY DE POSITORY^ SUMTER, S. C. Paid up Capital.$ 75.CG0 CO Surplus and Profits - - - - 23,000 00 Additional Liability of Stock holders io excess of their stock. 75,000 00 Total protection to depositors, S175.G00 OD Transacts a General Banking Business. Special at eation given to collections. SAVINGS DEPARTMENT. Deposits of $1 ao upwards received. In terest allowed at the rate of 4 per cert, par annum, on amounts above $5 and not exceed ing $300, payable quarterly, on first cays of January, April, July and October. R M. WALLACE, L. S. CABSON, President. Cashier. Everything in DRUGS, Soda Water, AND Cigars, -AT HUGHSON-UGON CO. Successors to J. S. Hughson & Co. XKONAGHANiBLOCK SUMTER. S. C. MARR OUR STORE YOUR HEAD QUARTERS WHEN YOU COME TO TOWN. THE BANK OF SUMTER, SUMTER, S. C. City and County Depositary Capital stock paid io, . . $75,000 00 Undivided surplus. . . . 16,000 00 Individual liability of stockholders in excess of their stock, . 75,000 00 Transacts a gen^r*! banking business : also bas a Sa?ing3 Bank Department Deposits of $1 and upward received Interest allowed at the rate of 4 per cent, per annux, payable semi-annuallf. W. F.'B HAYNS WORTH, President. MARION MOISB, W. F. FIHAMB, Vice-president. Cashier Jan 13 agkAAaltasfrastg RELIEF CAME. MRS. E. C. COLYER n of Salubrity, Ga. , Aug. jr fr 8th, 1898, writes: Ben edicta has certainly been a blessing to my sixteen year ^ old daughter. She F was in wretched jr health and missed four month Two bottles of edicta have entirely restored her health. . The monthly periods have returned g and are now painless and regular, w 3Do you suffer from Painful, Irregular jr or Suppressed Menstruation? Benedicta M has cured many suffering women andC . ^ will cure you in the privacy of your* j home, without the necessity of physi-| M clan's ex- fc, L 2 animations 5* tn. mi- I hwrpnur OMS action *^ l^P* -* - - & mine or- W 08; lifeFEMAlE Sf S J "~K6UfcAJ0R % Jj thens them so that the monthly periods h jj may he regularand painless. Headache, '? *3 Dizziness, Nervousness, That dragging? ; jj sensation and those terrible pains In ^ j ^tlie back, hips and abdomen quickly : ^ disappear. ! Sot. 1 liv all DrogsrLsts or sent post-paid fora ; *S1. A box of ?.Monthly" Keuul tina IMUs toi 1 Jj usc iu connection, is with each bottle 3* I x LADIES BLUE BOOK sent free to any ad- ; S dress. A sample i>o\- of '.Monthly" Re - r X ula tin ir Pills sent for 10c. in stamps. li Address. Woman's Department. New r M Spencer Medicine Co.. Chattanooga,Tenn.lt vj Mention *hl paper. W jfetajnqjt. y^sn^v 33gr5??r ^ ^ >*F V ^ Sold by Haghson-Ligon Co. 1 jp-Efl OF SOUTHERN SUMMER RESORTS Special Rates for June. A GREAT OPENING. The Glenn Springs Hotel has opened with most gratifying results for the season of '99. The list of visitors for the opening is not only mach larger than usual, but it comprises the best names in the State. This famous resort has come tc be recognized as the best, and the health and pleasure seekers from all over the South go there. Spartanburg takes a pride j in this great resort, and the indications point to the most successful season in the history of the Springs. The fact is, the water of these famous Springs is, for certain diseases, a specific, it is unequalled in the United States. The new hotel is provided with all modern improvements and conveniences, and whether for health cr pleasure, no finer place can be found. The reputation of this resort is made. Nothing The Herald could say can add anything to it, but it is gratifying to know that the prospect for the season just begun is most flattering.-The Herald, Spartanburg. Glenn Springs is an ideal spot for health or pleasure seekers. Beiog oce thoasaod feet above the sea aod oo the summit of ooe ot the maa? foot hills of the Blue Ridge mountains, the ai" is cool, light, and invigorating. The grounds comprise one hundred acres and are well-shaded hy magnificent native oaks. first class livery wjll be on the groonds for those wishing to visit t e many points of interest near the Hotel. Som? of the other amusements are Billiards and Pool, a new Ten Pin Alley, Shooing Gallery, Tennis Court, and ill ether amusements usually found at first-class resorts. J Those who do not care for the other pleasures and amuse ments offered will be charmed by delightful music by an Italian Band from Washington, D. C., which will play morning, after noon and night. I |Water for sale in Sumter by the Drug Stores. For rates of board apply to. : SIMPSON & SIMPSON, Glenn Springs. S. C. June 14 SPECIALS FOR THIS WEEK. 10 doz brown balbriggan Undershirts at 25c apiece. The best Shirt ever shown for the money. 10 doz bleached jean drawers, with double-seat and stockinet anklet 25c a pair. 5 doz Men's Golf Shirts made of No 1 Percale, with separate cuffs. 75c a piece. A few sizes left of the celebrated King Shirtwaist 50c a piece. Manila Straw Hats $1.25 and $1.50. The balance of our fancy Vests 75c, value $1 to 2.50. New Arrivals. A full line of Boy's Straw Hats, 25c and 50c A full line of Men's Straw Hats at 50c 5 doz silk Band Bows, assorted colors, 2oc 5 doz silk Olub Ties, assorted colors. 22c