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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 2, 1899 The Sumter Watchman was rouadea io 185 nd the True Southron in 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. SCHOOL CHART SCAPEGOATS. The situation io whieh the county treasurers find themselves in conse quence of the school chart swindle is one that ia disagreeable and embarrass ag. By the ruling of the attorney general come months ago the oonoty treasurers were forbidden to pay the outstanding warrants issned by school trastees in payment for sobool charts. The holders of these claims are now demanding payment and some of them threaten to sae the county treasurers to compel payment. Io this dilemma the county treasurers hare applied to the attorney general to ascertain if the State will defend them in ease snit is entered against them to enforce the payment of the school ohart warrants, which were declared by the attorney general to be illegal. Now comes Assistant General Gunter, who says: "This is a local matter, to be settled between the interested parties. * * * If a treasurer pays an illegal claim his bend is responsible. To this the publio looks for protection." This leaves the county treasurers between the devil and the sea, so to speak, and through co fault of theirs they are now confronted with a series of suits whieh they must defend at their own expense. It seems io ns that it would be but fair and just for the school trustees who issued the school ohart warrants to pay whatever expense the county treasurer may be pat to, and if there is o provision of law by whioh they can pay court expenses ont of the school foods, they should go down into their own pockets and pot up the money to defend the snits that may be brought against the treasurers. It looks like a great hard ship for one public official to be put to an unusual and needless expense by the ig a or an oe or carelessness of other oil niais, who go scot free of trouble and -?'expense as do, ia this instance, the -State and county superintendents of - education, the State and county boards -of education and the school trustees, .?-who are al! to blame, and bat for whose carelessness or igooraoce there woald a?e been no Behool chart swindle and no illegal claims to cause the county treasurers needless trouble and ex pense. THE SCHOOL CHARTS. COLUMBIA, S. C., August 1.-The attorney general's office yesterday rendered tne following opinion in regard to soother question that has arisen over the school chart matter : Hon H B. McSweeny, Governor Dear Sir : The communication of J. H Thompson, county superintend ent of education of Lancaster county, refetred to hie office by you for advice, has been considered Your correspondent desires to know if the State will defend an action against the county treasurer and stand between the county officials, and all cost, for amounts claimed by parties as due for school charts, if the coanty treasurer refuses to pay the same. This is a local matter, to be settled between the interested parlies The State is not and coonot be made a di rect party to such an action. The revenues of the State are not involv ed. Snch an action does not come within the duties of this office as prescribed by statute This office has given an opinion as to the lia biiity of a certain class of school chart claims at the request of proper officials, but the State cannot any more stand responsible for the refusal of a county treasurer to pay a claim of this nature than any other kind fj^fit sL If a treasurer pays an illegal claim his bond is responsible. To this the public looks for protec tion. Respectfully, U. X. Gunter, Assistant Attorney General. - ? i a An examination of a sample of roast ed "coffee berries1' reoently seized io Paris showed them to be entirely arti Ssiai. A chemical analysis diselosed be presence therein of ashes gum, destrioe, etc., and the microscope showed grains of etaroh, wheat, vege table debris and animals' hairs. The 'terries wore beiotifally moulded. Climate and Crop Condition. U. S. Department of Agricul ture, South Carolina Section. COLLYU, S. 0., August 1, 1899. The week ending Joly 31st, was slightly warmer than usual with little temperature variation from day to day, except Saturday and Sunday, ; which were very hot and humid. Tbe close of the week was marked by slightly lower temperature. The drought was effectually broken i by general rains over the entire State, ranging in amounts from about aa inch to 5.68 inches, the latter at Santue, Union county. There are a few scattered localities that did not get enough rain for the present need of crops, while over portions of Pee Dee section, and in Williamsburg, and Oconee counties lowland crops were damaged by excessive rains Stock water continues scarce in many places. Cloudy and humid weather accompanied the showery conditions which together with the prevailing high temperature, made the week a very favorable one for all. crops. The rain and high temperature started a new growth on cotton. Early planted was, however, too far spent to be much benef tted. Cotton is small, generally fruited, but is shedding badly. Rust has appeared io six counties, boll worms reported from one. Excessive rains injured it in Marion county. Sea island cotton badly blighted in places, but general ly it is blooming profusely and fairly weil fruited. Old upland corn was too nearly matured to receive much benefit from the rain, over the central section of the State,where in places it is almost a failure. In the extreme eastern counties, the crop of early corn is extra fine, while in the extreme eastern portions the recent rains were very timely. Young corn is being damaged by worms and cater pillars in the Pee Dee section, and in isolated localities elsewhere, but gen erally it looks very promising. Some corn being planted largely as an experiment. Tobacco is ripening faster than il can be gathered m places. Curing progress favorably. In places the leaves have "fired," and horn worms are injuring it in Darlington county. Rice is heading fairly well, bat more rain would prove beneficial. Upland rice does not look promising Peas are now doing well Sorghum cane is topping, but is a poor crop. Sweet potato slips continue to be set out, Pastures show slight im provement General crop conditions much improved. EXTRACTS FROM CORRESPONDENTS' RE PORTS. . Sumter-Statesbarg : The light rains of Tuesday and Wednesday were of great benefit to all crops, as weil as gardens, etc., but they did not supply moisture enough and rain is again needed as muon as ever, ander the increasing temperature -W \\ Ander son, M D Orangeburg-Springfield : Offing to the recent dry spell cotton foliage has sbedded badly in places ; rain has now fallen sufficient for the time : late corn will be greatly improved ; early planted is about matured; stiff and cotton will te benefitted -D E Sturkie. Floreaos-Ebenezer : Good rains sioce my last report ; all crop3 revived, ba- old cora damaged by the drought at least 50 per centum, and cotton promises three quarters of a crop; yoaog cora iojared to some extent by worms.-J C Wilson. Darlington-Darlington : Very sea sonable for all crops this week and show the good effects of the warm rainy weather ; tobacco ouriog pro gres8 og rapidly ; horn worm numerous and increasing, notwithstanding efforts to destroy them ; eome rutabagas plant ed -E R Molver Clarendon-St Paul : Rain eaoh day, beneficial to ali crops which show a wonderful improvement; fodder pelling will commence next week and a good average expected ; beginning to plant fall gardens under favorable conditions. -A J Richbourg. ---MM --? The Orungeburg County Democrratio Executive Committee bas ordered a primary fer Tuesday, August 8th, for the purpose of naming a candidate for the Legislature to fill Dr. Starkie's unexpired term. Messrs. T. F. Brant ley, Wm. W. Wannamaker and Joe. B. Stromao havs announced themselves as oiadidates.-The State. FARMERS' ENEMIES. Worms Sweeping the Fields of Forage. The Peniel correspondent of the Times writes that the army worm bas made its appearance in that lo cality. A reporter for the Times knowing that the army worm was one of the most dreadful pests that could attack the farm, made inquiry and from a farmer of long experience gathers that the worm complained of is not the army worm, bat one that is next to it in point cf ability to devastate the country. The worm complained of, this farmer says is the grasi3 worm, it eats grass first, and if no, satisfied then will feed on peas and corn to some extent, enough often to completely min them. The army worm attacks everything that grows and makes a clean sweep on the earth. The grass worm is said to be lighter in color that the army worm besides differing from it in several other ways. It has says, oar infor mant, a black stripe running down its back. The army worm is black all over. It bas never been in this section of country The grass worm come? about every eight or ten years. It does its damage in one seaon and disappears for a loDg period. Oar Penial correspondent writes that W. H Purvis, J. N. Purvis, and P. N. Gee have had acres of corn and peas destroyed, and that others in the neighborhood have suffered. Some of the farmers tried to kiii off the post with Paris green, but were not satisfied with the result. Some of them have used powdered black pepper with very satisfactory results. Oar correspondent says that one can stand at the edge of the field and hear tie worms eating with a slight cracking noise. There has been complaint of the ravages of this pest in other sections of the county also. The farmers are are very much concerned about their forage crops.-Florence Times. SCHOOL TBUSTEES. - The fallowing are the appointments, made Joly 4 th, of trustees for tbe sereral school district: ia Sumter Couoty, to serve uotil 1901 : Sumter, No 1-Peter M Pitts, Willie Shaw, E F Miller. Concord, No 2-Joo I BrogdoD, R C Brand ing, Wish Mahoney. Privateer; No 3-W O Cain, Sr, J W Broadwiy, A J Pipkin. Manchester, No 4-J H Christmas, A D Harvin, Alfred Owen. Middleton, No 5-A S Aycock, F E Thom as, W B Troufch eld. Sutebnrg, No 6-S E Nelson, J S Pinck ney, P F Mellen. Providence, No 7-W H Seaie, W D Car son, J P Booth. Sinca the election W H Seale has resigned. Rafting Crtek, No 8-W J Young, T P Sanders, J E Sanders. Spring Hill, No 9-W S Smith, C L Wil liamson. R L Heriot. Cartel 'a Crossiog, No 10-J H ChewniDjr, D L Davis, H W Rembert. Bi3hop?ille, No li-Joo F Kelly, W W Kelly, Spencer James. Mt Clio, No 12-J H Cooper, H A Scarbor oogh, H W Scott. Lyncb&urg. No 13-Capt E M Cooper, Ed win Wilson, H V Anderson. Shiloh, No. 14-R W Green, W D Truluck F F Cold. Mayesnlle, No. 15-W D Rhodes, EW Dabbs, >' J Boykin. Swimming Pens, No. 16-D G Rembert, W S Chandler, L D Winkles. City or Sumter, No. 17-Neill O'Donnell, cbairmar, John S t agbsoo, (Mayor,) Marion Moise, P P Gaillard, E C Hayneworth. Town of Mayesville, No. 18-J R Mayes, W D Mayes, Dr CE King. MecbanicaviUe, No. 19-Dr W W Fraser, J A McCutchen, J E Heriot. Town of Biehopville, No. 20-Dr R E Den nis, Samuel Bradley, W L l'arrot, R 0 Dixon W R La v. Argylo, No. 21-J B Ryan, D B McLaurin S W Wi son. - -wm- '??.-^^- - Farmers Urged to Hold Cot ton Natchez, Mich., July 29.-In its leading editorial tomorrow, the Nat chez Democrat will make an appeal to cotton farmers to hold back one third of their ginnings until after December or January. "The two thirds will bring nearly as much money, marketed in this way, as the whole crop marketed in the usual way," says the editorial. "The government says the July condition is three and four tenths per cent, less, or a total depreciation of eleven and fo-jr-tenths per cent. "Estimating the current crop at 11,200,000 bale , it means shrinkage of 1,277,000 bales or a crop of 9,923,000 bales for 1899 1900. THE IRONY OF FATE. Laurens Man Sends to New York for Goods Canned in Tnat Town. A good story ie being circulated at the expense of a Laurens merchant who would not patronize a home en terprise The Laurens Canning fac tory, one of the most successful con cerns in the state, ships its goods to all parts of the country, but toe mer chant :D question persistently refused to place his order with it because it was a local concern, whose goods, were not as hs thought, of the quali ty he desired to handie. Recently, the story goes, he placed an order with a New York house, giving them instructions to send the best canned goods in the house. When the goods came the merchant, to his surprise, learned that they were goods from the Laurens factory, put up within half a mile cf his store. Aside from the freight, he paid considerably more for the goods thao they woutd have cost him at Laurens Moral Patronage home industry.-Columbia Record A CLEAR1 HEAD; good digestion; sound sleep; a fine appetite and a ripe old age, are some of the results of the use of TuttsLiver Pills. A single dose will convince you of their wonderful effects and virtue. A Known Fact. An absolute cure for sick head ache; dyspepsia, malaria, sour stomach, dizziness, constipation /bilious fever, piles, torpid liver and all kindred diseases. Tutt's Liver Pills Everything in DRUGS, Soda Water, AND Cigars, -AT HUGHSON-LIGON CO. Successors to J. S. Hugbson & Co. MONAGHAN BLOCK SUMTER, S. C. MAKE OUR STORE YOUR HEAD QUARTERS WHEN YOU COME TO TOWN. ARE YOU NEEDING N IRON SAFE? HAVING BEEN APPOINTED GEN ERAL AGENT for ibe Alpine Fire aod Burglar Proof Safe Company. 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BY VIRTUE ot suDdry executions to cai directed, I will offer for sale at Pub J lie Auction, io front of the Court Bous io the City of Sumter, on the first Mon day io AUGUST, next, and as many day. thereafter as may be necessary, wi'hin tb< I legal b :s of sale, the following property : in the city of Sumter, Suratei Gouu.,,, State of South Carolina, bounded bj landi of Dr. Auld, Mrs. Monaghan and bj Manning Avenue cf said city, levied upon and to be sold as the property of Jarors Mani gault at the suit of the State for taxes. . All that piece, parcel or tract of land situ ate, hing and bein? in Springhill Township, Sumter County, State cf South CaroiioA, containing 25 acres more or less and boncded on the north by laods of G. W. Murray, south and west by lands of Horace Harby, east by lands of J. E. Rembert and C. L Williamson, levied upon and to be EOld as the property of Nora Butler at the suit of the State for taxes. AU that piece, parcel cr tract of land situ ate, lyiog and being in Springhill Towoship, Sumter CouDty, State of South Carolina, contaioing 10 acres more cr less sod bounded north by lands of Lydia Jeffersou, south by lands of Annie Chins, east by laods of Miss Ellen P. Gaillard and west by lands of Mrs. Neill O'Donnell, levied upon and to te sold as the property of Jimmie Deas at the suit of the State for taxes. j All that piece, parcel or tract of lacd situ ate, lying and being io Mayesville Township, I Sumter County, State of South Carolina, j containing three acres more or "less Rod ! bounded by laods of Eugene McCutcheo, J. I E Mayes, trustee, acd Smart Wilson, leviep I upon and to be fold os the property of Brun ' son and Wilson at the suit of the State for j taxes. All that piece, parcel or tract of land situ [ ate, lying and being in Springhill Township, I Sumter County, State of South Carolina, containing 51 acres more or Isss and bounded north by lands of Primus Botler, east bj lands of Paul Wilson, south by lands of Willis Blanding and west by lands of tho estate of Jane Scott, levied upon sad to be i sold as the property of February Brus9on at ! the 9uit of the State for tax e. All that piece, parcel or tract of land situ ate, ljicg and being in Springhill Township, I Sumter County, State of South Carolina ; containing 62 acres more or less and bounded .by lands of Bill Shiver, T. H. Burkett and i B. F. Burkett, levied upon and to be sold aa the propety of R. W. Burkett at the suit of the State for taxes. All that piece, parcel or tract of land situ ate, lying and being in Springhill Township, Sumter County, State of South Carolina, containing 23 acres more or less and bounded by lands of Bob Mathis, A. J. Marten, Mra. -Smith and Fi. L. Herriot, levied upon and to be sold ai the property of Israel Pogue at the I suit of the State for taxes All that piece, parcel or tract of land situ j ate, lying and being in Springhill Township, j Sumter County, State of South Carolina, i containing 18 acres more or lesa and bounded : by lands cf labam Scott, estate of James ! Scott and by lands now or formerly of Pip i kins, levied upon and to be sold aa the prop erty of W. C. Sholl at the suit of the Stats ' for taxes. ; All that piece, parcel or tract of land sita j ate, lying and being in Sumter Township, ' county of Sumter, State of South Carolina, ' containing 15 acres roore or less and bounded ! by lands of Ransom Dick, Dandy Simmons, ; R. C. McFadden and othere, levied opon and to be sold as the property of Jane Burch ct ! the suit of the State for taxes. One red cow levied upon and to be sold as ! the property of Robert M. James at the suit ' of the State for taxes. B..G. PIERSON, j July 12 Sheriff Sumter County. I For Rent-From Sep tember 1st. rpHE STORE cn Main Streit, occupied bj j W. B. Burn?. One of the best stands in ths citj. D. JAS. WINN. July 12-tf DR. W. B. ALFORD, DENTAL SURGEON, SUMTER, S. C. OfFiCB He URS-8 a. m. to 2:30 p. BI.; 3: IS ;o 6:30 p m. Office orer Bultraan'a Sbo- Store. Maj 2-6tn