Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Condition of tb New Cotton Crop. Latest Report From the Sev eral Southern States The weather concilions last week were generally more favarable to rel ton than during the previous week except over the western portion of both North and South Carolina, but general rains have fallen in thal region, breaking the drought and preventing farther deterioration In Tesa , also, less favorable reports perdominate, claiming damage to the crop from shedding and various insects. More or less shedding is reported from all bot two States, but this is not an unusual condition at this season of the year, and is the effect of varions causes. Cotton is opening in places but nowhere has picking become general. In North Carolina in the droughty districts cotton is blooming to the top before it bas formed sufficient weed. Lowland . crops, however continue good. In the remainder of the State the week was favorable ; crop conditions have improved and the outlook is promising. Where showers occurred cotton is forming bolls nicely, through pisan are eraftli. In onth Carolina cotton failed rap id?, and drought has stopped its growth, it is turning yellow as though maturing, and is shedding leaves and fruit. The plants are blooming to the top. These are the prevailing conditions, but in spots cotton continues to do well. Sea island cotton, while generally in ex cellent condition, is blighting -to a considerable extent. In Georgia cotton is generally small, blooming to the top, and in many sections being injured by boll worms and shedding its fruit and leaves, In a few counties it is open JE g prematurely. In California rains were geoeral during the latter half cf the week, breaking the drought in northern and central counties ; the rainfall was j heavy in nearly all parts of the State, j acid excessive in central and east cen-1 irai portions, doing some local dam-1 age, but, as a whole, greatly reviving ali! vegetation Cotton continues generally clean and healthy, and is i>w fruiting well, though shedding of forms seems to be increasing/J while there are fewer reports of rust ; some early plated cotton is open in a few of the southern counties, where picking will begin soon In Mississippi the crop reports this week shew no material change in current conditions except there is a demand for more moisture in the middle and northern counties, while j some localities have been drenched with precipitation Cotton is report ed as growing nicely in about every part of the State ; although the plants are small, they are blooming to the top and are well fruited ; this crop has been very generally laid by. In Louisiana more or less rain fell in portions of nearly every parish from which reports have been re ceived!. Generally, the cotton crop is doing but fairly well ; dry weather and hot sunshine has had a tendency to retard or step growth and the plants are fruiting aU over while yet very email No serious trouble from insects is reported. .In 'Tennessee the drought which had become general was broken by abondant rains Cotton seems to ba fruiting well and may be considered a fairly good crop at thi3 stage Fruit is generally jgcarce and the meros, crop is not turning out weli. The week closed with a much more favorable outlook for crops in gen er&l Io Texas the g nent showers over the northern portion of the State have re a:ded some classes of farm work, but have favored the growth of some crops Cot too is no in as good condition as at last report The crop is doing weil over the northern portion of the State except that the caterpillar and boil worm are damaging the crop In the southwestern portion of the State be crop is shedding in several localities as a result of the dry vea ber following the heavy rains at the close of last month Besides shedding lhere are always complaints of damage by the boll weevil and the boll worm io southwest Texas The damage from pests bas been very little op io the present lime, but much uneasiness ia felt by farmers in some localities Cutton is maturing and some picking is being done here and there, but it will be several days yet before picking becomes general. In Arkansas the general and copi ons raina which occurred during the latter part of the week were benen* cial to growing crops- Cotton looks weil generally, is growing rapidly and fruiting nicely. Io Oklahoma the past week has been cloudy and sultry with heavy rains ever nearly every county, except in Indian Territory and some of the extreme southeastern counties of Oklahoma. Cotton continues in good condition and is making good growth. A few correspondents note the appeearance of worms and ex press fear of damage from them. ^CUBAN'RELIEF cures Colic, "tttyS* Neuralgia and Toothache in f live minutes. Sour Stomach and bummer Complaints. Price, 25c. Sold bj Kgg>3on-LigoD Co. McKinley's Responsibility as to the Philippines. j There are msny republican, inde pendent and democratic newspapers that are holding McKinley responsi ble for what ever of wrong has been done and what failure in war opera *tion8 may have occured in the Philip pines. McKinley's course ia dealing with Secretary Alger was false, vascillating, paltry. Even so ST m pathetic a paper as the Philadelphia Times is has not refrained from speak ing a ' plain word to McKinley f "The war department does not be long to the president, nor does it be long to the secretary of war, nor to the Algers, the Eagans, the Carters and others who wielded its power lo the nation's shame. "The war department belongs to the people. It is a great bulwark of safety or a fruitful fountain of sacri fice of life and treasure in time cf war, and war ia here "The country has been dishonored and President McKinley belittled by the political shuffling that ba8 thus far hindered the dismissal of Secre tary Alger from the war depart ment.'7 At last Alger was dismissed, but that does not relieve McKinley of censure and responsibility. He must shoulder all the bad for hs could have prevented it. He could have found a faithful, capable, strong man in the north if he had elected to search for one McKinley is fuiiy as guilty and as deserving of severe censure as Alger is. He kept him in his place all through the disgraceful and dis gusting period of failure and abuse and de bauchery and utter incom petency. The scarfdal was great and inexcusable. The war department was corrupt and disgraceful to the American people. The recent infor mation given to the country by the newspaper correspondents in the Philippines revealed to the people what they had strongly suspected, that the war news had been so "doc tored" as to be a repetition of lies, and that the real facts in the distant islands were systematically conceal ed. If not all so suspected, there were very many who did suspect, j The country has really a very j gigantic elephant on its hands. It is said there is a crisis in the McKinley gang Professor A C. Wheeler, of Yale University, says that the fate of the Philippines will be that the commer I cial sharks will get them. Here are j the words of this acute observer : "We will forget a little while! about the Philippines, as we have forgotten about the Alaskans Who caress about the Alaskans now 1 We will forget ali about the Cubans We j I will absorb ali our energies and con ? centrals- all ocr attention upon our selves The commercial sharks w.ill get bold of the Philippines as the seal sharks have got hold of Alaska, and as the sugar sharks have got bold of Hawaii already and the great multitude of people like you and I will care very little about it." That is but one able man's view But oxhers see that commercial schemes are at the bottom of the war upon 12,000,000 Filipinos of average intelligence and es weir j educated generally as the white people in some of the states of the American nation It used to be "ninon " It is announced from Washington that Gen. Otis will have a free full swing-that the department will not interfere farther as to what he sends or withholds-that all censorship will be lifted Weil, the country wiii see how this will be The news is that McKinley & Co will in no event any more interfere with Gen 0 is Of course McKinley dare nGt censure Otis for his lies sent out as war news, when the little major was a party to it all, and knew what was doing and how falae and misleading. The Bal limore Sun says : "For months the censorship at Manila has been a matter of notoriety. Its effect in depriving the people of the United States of fuil or accurate information as to events/actually occurring io the Philippines, and of the true situation of affairs, has long been suspected, and has long been the eubject of widespread comment and complaint The extent to which the news has actually and willfully been mutilated, falsified or wholly suppressed, we may now infer from the statement of reputable and responsible me , the correspondents of the leading journals of this couu try, who say : 'The ceriBorehip has compelled us to participate in this misrepresentation by excising or altering * uucontroverted statements of facts, on the plea, as Gen. Otis stated, that they would 'alarm the people at home/ or 'have the people cf the United States by the ears.7 ' " This is the 6tate of affairs w! ich the administration, it appears, has formally decided to ignore, and to allow to continue unchecked in the discretion of Gen. Otis, a? the Amer ican people have long had reason to suspect. - Wilmington Messenger. - ?> . ? . ?4m>^--- - He Fooled the Surgeon*. All doctors told Rcnick Hamilton, of West Jefferson, 0 , after suffering 6 months from Rectal Fistula, be would diu unless a c-itlv oporatioa was performed , but Le cured himself with five boxes of Buck en V Arnica ir ;! ve, he surest Pi'o cure oa carib, and thc best alve in thc tforiJ. To cents H box Del.orui , Druggist Sol i bv J. F. W 4 INGERSOLL'S LAST. The last public utterance of Robert G. Ingersoll was not an attack upon the Chiistian religion ; it was a de nunciation of the Philippine war. Here it is : I have one sentiment for the sol diers-cheers for the living and tears for the dead. If it were meet to weep over the sacred dust of the brave who died to render our flag stainless and keep it in the sky, it is now in order to flood the graves of the boys who are falling in the Phil ippme islands For they are not fighting to add luster to "Old Glory;' or to save the Union, but as mere machines at the behest of tbs admin istration, which for the time being is the government of the United States. War with Spain, for which the volunteer took up arms, has long since ended. Congress has not de clared war against the Filipinos nor voted money to carry on a foreign war of conquest. Then why this thunder of guns, the flying thunder bolts of heil, and these new made graves as numberless as the stars ? Our arms are not adding glory to the flag, but instead are staining thai starry emblem of freedom with the blood nd tears of a people fighting for the rights of self government. The soldier is not to blame It has alway*; been considered a glorious thing lo die fighting for truth, liberty and eternal right. But when one falls in the Philippine war there burns no halo of glory above his dost, but his sad, uncalled for death causes tears to moisten the eyes of every patriot ia the iand Therefore, when be falls tn such a war his bier should be draped in the deepest mourning and drenched with the tears cf his fellow countrymen. Take Coi Stolzenberg as an example. No braver, truer soldier ever wore uni form or marched in the shadow of a flag. He only recently remarked that he was sick of such a war and looked forward to the near future when he and/his brave volunteers would be relieved from killing men who were fighting for independence He arrived on the battlefield fresh from the arms of his wife at Manila ; at the head of his regiment, leading a charge, he fell, pierced through the heart What great principle did he die fer ? Will the administration please answer ? Butter and Cheese Making. * A letter received here from Prof. J. VY. Hoffman, who has charge of tbe agricultural department of the Colored State College at Orangeburg, gives interesting details of Mr. Hoffman's visit to Canada and of thc important investigations which he is makiDg there. When writiog be was at Guelph, Ontario, and he expected to be back in this State about tbs latter part of this month, so that he might begin holding institutes among the colored farmers cf South Carolina early io August. Mr. Hoffman said in bis ietter : "I have been in Caoada for the past two wteks visiting the leading butter and cheese factories in the province of Ontario for the purpose of getting some of the very latest ideas ia butter and cheese making. I came to this town about five days ago to visit the Ontario Agricultural Coilege and tbe Canadian Government experiment station It is considered one of the finest on the American continent. Io the cheese making rooms of the college they are conducting a series of very interesting experiments in the making of a extra grade of Cheddar cheese under aiffetcDt kinds of temperature in the curing room. The directors of the cheese department have kindly permitted me liO^Se a part io "the experiments. Tbe director, by the way, was educated in Europe and received his speoial train ing ia cheese making at Copenhagen I shall leave here on July 5 for the province of Qaebeo to visit the French Canadian cheese and bu;ter factories. I find that the farmers are taught the science of butter and cheese making ic i summer farmers' institutes. They con duct the entire work before them, thereby giving them the rignt method." At the institutes to be held amocg the colored farmers in this State next month Prof. Hoffman will doubtless make good use of thc valuable informa tion he bas been acquiring in Canada. News and Courier. Sick headache, wind on the stomach, bi! liouB(je83, cause*, are quickly cured bj a few dos 8 of Dr. M A. Simeons Liver Medicine. Convulsions, cramps, chrome female dis eases and coteries are cured bj the use of Simmons fcquaw Vine Wine Tablets. Baltimore, July 28.-Upon one scaf fold and simultaneously four negroes were at 9 48 a m today ushered into eternity io the Baltimmorc city jail yard. Three of the men, Cornelius Gardner, John Myers and Charles James, paid with their lives for crimi nally assaulting Annie Bailey, a 13 jcar old negress Jos. Bryan, the fourth member of the quartette, killed Mary Pack, a negress with whom bc had lived. A fifth negro, Daoiel Rodgers, convicted of killing bis brother-in-law, Charles Lewis, was to nave occupied the hame scaffold, bur hts fcotcoce was commuted to life impri.^onmtnt by Governor Lowndes. - - ? ? -MMm - A Newberry, S. C , daily paper c r reepondf-ut writes that "A $10,0C0 cotton mill is being built by J. S. Bia lock ou the Goldvilie farm " If ttue, tbis is taking the spindle still rearer to the cotton cld. * f More Valuable Documents. Chief C erk Gantt of the cfnce ot the secretary of state continues to find ! valuable revolutionary documents in the I capitol. Io addition to those recently mentioned, he yesterday came 3cro?s several o'bers of real value. One is a bill introduced in the general assembly in 1789 providing for the inspection of tobacco io the Cheraw district. The text of the bili will te interesting to those now raising the weed in the Pee Dee reef ion. Another very interesting paper is a petition to the general assembly, signed by notable American prisoners io Charleston, in behalf of a British officers who had treated them kindly To this is attached some valuable auto graphs. One of the documents show that the legislatures of the iast decade have not been the only ones worried with bills about fish. This document is from the people of Abbeville, and is in the natore of a petition. It bears the date 1788. There is also a petition to the gene assembly, dated in 1814, relating to the establishment of a manufactory - for arms, the objeot being to supply citi zens so that they could be quickly formed into State milita. Another valuable paper is the original message of Governor Matthews sent to the general assembly on January 27, 1783. -The State, Juiy 28 HU- - -i I ll ? - i our stomach is ooe of the first symptoms of a coming billious attack. Cure it with a few doses Dr. M. A. Simmons Lirez Medicine. Lavioia Baker and her ve children who left Lake City at the time that her husband, Postmaster Fraser Baker was killed, arc residing on the outskirts of Charleston and arc said to be in very reduced circumstances They sre the objects of charity of the colored minis ters and people. - ?..,~ -??-^?ii1 II - T. B. Rice, Druggist, Greensboro, Ga , writes as follows : "In the past eight years, I have sold more of Dr. Pitts' Carminative than all the soothing sjrup3, colic drops, and other baby medicines com bined." Sold by J. F. W. DeLorme. Manila, July 27, 7:40 p. m -An expedition made up of troops from San Pedro Macau, Pasig and Morong, under Brig. Gen. R. H. Hail, cap tured Caiamba, an important trading town on thc south shore of Laguna de Bay. There was two boura of sharp fighting, during which four soldiers were killed and twelve wounded. The trenches commanding the harbor were j under water, bat the swampiness of the j land made the work harder. Probably you use If Neariy everyone docs, and if so yoi know all about how far superior it is to either baking soda or baking powder. is the latest advance in baking prepara tions, and if you don't use it you should. It Is Better Than Soda because it will make biscuit just right every time. No more yellow* spots or soda taste. lt Is Better Than Baking Powder because it half as strong again and one heaping teaspoonful will do the work o;" two rounded teaspoonfuls of thc best baking powder ever made. Ti Don't Spoil but i- so prepared that with ordinary care il will retain its full strength for years. We clo not have to pack it in tin c;ms like baking powder, and this saving enables us io give you better value f< r your money than yon ever had IK fore. \ 1 liftli leaven leaveneth thc whole ivvtp." ? oene < ' corr.*. -S ounces o - five centA 50 YEARS'^ EXPERIENCE TRADE MARKS DESIGNS COPYRIGHTS &C Anyone sending a sketch and description may quickly ascertain our opinion free whether an Invention is probably patentable. Communica tions strictly confidential. Handbook on Patents s.ent free. Oldest asency for securing patents. Patents taken through Munn & Co. receive special notice, -without charge, in the Scientific American. A handsomely illustrated weekly. Largest cir culation of any scientific Journal. Terms, $3 a year: four months, fl. Sold by all newsdealers. MUNNS Co.36"-* M Branch OflBce. 625 F SU Washington. D. C._ Good Flottv and Good Soda Make Good Cookery* Poor soda will spoil good flour while um*! .-<->ly will make i>oor flour better. ANVIL BRAHD SODA is a good sml:t. Kol I i kt- the ordinary kin-i.-, some* times irotH1. ixi 1 tin.- next time poor, but _GOOD EVERY TIME-_ FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF SUMTER, STATE, CITY AND COUNTY DE POSITORY, SUMTER3 S. C. Paid up Capital.S 75.0C - CO Surplus and Profila - - - - 23,000 00 Additional Liability of Stock holdt-rs in (xrr?3 of their stock. 73,01/0 00 Toui piotcction to depositors, S173 COO 00 Transacts a General Hanking Bt)3:ucC3. Special audition iven to collections. S V VIN ( i S DI : PA R T M KN T. Deposits of $1 and upwards received. Ir. lerest allowed nt the rate ot 4 per cent, per annum, on amounts above $5 and not exceed ing $30?, pajablft quarterly, cn first days of Jaucarr April. Julv .-;r.d October. It M. WALLACE, L. S. CAUSON, Pre3:dent. Cashier. (richman mw .Southron SUMTES WATCHMAN, Established April, 1850. 'Be Just and Fear not-Let all the Ends thou Aims't at, be thy Country's, thy God's and Truth's.' THE TRUE SOUTHRON, Established Jnoe, JSftS Consolidated Aug. % ISSI. SUMTER S. C., WEDNESDAY, MAY 17.1899. New Series-ToL XTIII. No. 42 Caveat-, mil Trade-Marks obtained and all Pat ot ba nesscondecteufor MODERATE FEES. OUR O FRC c ts OPPOSITE U.S. PATEN rO>-icE< ;d wc caasccurc paten: jn less t::::c thaa .hose] [remote frorn Washing: Send model, drawing cr photo., vr th descrip-i >tion. We advise, it patentai lc or not, free o * icharge. Onr Icc not C;.J tiil patent secured. A PAMfH LET. "How to Ol tain Patents," with >cost of saaic ia thc U. S. mid forcira countries! |scnt free. Address, C.A.SNOW&CO. OPP. PATENT OFFICE. WASHINGTON. D. C. lyUVWt VVWWW THE BANK OF SUMTER, SUMTER, S. C. City and County Depositary Capital stock paid io, . . $75,0C0 CO redivided surplus, . . . 16,000 00 Individual liability of stockholders io excess of their stock, . 75,000 00 Trsrjsacts a geofriil bankiug business ; also h^s :.. Savings Bank Department. Deposits cf $1 and upward received. Interest allowed at the rate ot 4 ter cen', per annum, payable semi-annually. W. F. B. HAYNSWORTH, President. MARI N MOISK, W. F. RHAMS. V;cc-Pr sident. Cashier. Jan 31.