The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, December 13, 1899, Image 7
GUV'S SAVANNAH GOSSIP.
A Belated But Interesting Letter
From Our Veteran Corres?
pond Ciil
Savannah is now gorgeous and j
gay The parks and squares and
yards are still teeming- with luxuriant ;
growth and all the variagated shades ;
and colors of the flowery kingdom, ?
and there are but few signs of the I
biigbting touch of winter, only the
gradually browning grass and the ;
slowly crisping leaves of deciduous !
growths
The Pythian fair and carnival has
been in full blast the past week and
will contmue during the present
The Ks of P. have surely furnished
a surpassing array cf amusements,
foo and merriment The enclosure
;sj on the park extension, or vast
parade ground, and covers quite an
area, being several hundred yards in
length An imitation of castle walls
and gate forms the entrance and an
imitation of the world's fair midway
plaisance within the second and
third gates, and then come the
streets of India On either side of
these streets are booths and tents
and enclosures within which are
the numerous shows, entertainments
and displays "too numerous to men
tion and all at cost'*-very fair cost,
too. Though neither Damon nor
Pythias ourself we were kindly
taken through by a gallant and
knightly friend, and can truthfully
6ay that Savannah Pythians know
how to get up a good thing, as is
daily and nightly proven by the
merry throngs of pleasure seekers
who press through the castle gate
and crowd the streets since the first
days of last week.
On Wednesday, 22d ultimo, the
Confederate army of Georgia took
possession of this city without even
the slightest protest. Instead, this
beautiful metropolis was draped and
wreathed and festooned and looped
and entwined with that patriotic
bunting "the Red, White and Blue,"
and though we missed the falling
stare there are myriads of constella?
tions mingled with the bars and
bunting in the broad .daylight and
. brilliant constellations of electric
lights at night that cast their lustre
apon that more radiantly beautious
constellation, the blessed women of
Savannah, and indeed, of Georgia,
for tbis is the week of reunion of the
W. C. Vs of Georgia, and we've
again, for the second time this year,
.enjoyed a love feast with the old
boys who wore the gray, and are
fain to say that this reunion connot
be surpassed for open, cordial, lavish
hospitality In the shape of entertain?
ments and amusements, feasting
and flowing, too,-in the wide and
heartfelt appreciation of the tattered
Sags and their bearers-in the gen
. ?ral enten'.e cordiale aud bon jour
and bon soir and bon mots and every*
thing but boa ton.
Well we've reuned with the Geor?
gians and though we wore the pal
metto badge, can truly affirm that our
own Carolina brethren could not have
been more sincerely cordial and
heartily fraternal than these neigh?
bors across the Savannah, both vet
erans and sons of veterans The
number of veterans present is esti
mated at 2 OOO on parade, and it j
appeared as though there were half j
that number who did not -'fall in ;: i
Visitors thronged the city, and there j
has.been one week of huge holiday
carnival of mirth, and fun, and frolic *
and innocent revelrv Abuse of I
privileges was the rare exception,
and this wiii appear the more notable \
when we state that Savannah is a j
wide open town, and besides the 300 j
saloons and barrooms, the headquar- j
ters of all military organizations Kept i
open doors and there was feasting
enough to burst the belts and flowing
enough to embalm the bodies of rank
and file, and many of our dispensary
?ur8Pd veterans would doubtless
have enjoyed the embalming process.
The city is now greatly perturbed
in regard to a strict prohibition bill
which has already passed the House
of Representatives and is now before
the Senate in Atlanta It is a ques?
tion of death to Savannah Our own
State has experienced enough of these
drastic and sumptuary measures to
prove their utter fotility in accom
plishiog the ends pretended to be
aimed at The temperance fanatics
have the iaw and the whiskey drink
ere have the whiskey ali the same.
? couple of automobiles have been
io evidence here for some months
They are simply very neat horseless
and 8'naftlese buggies with rubber
tires, noiseless as a bicycle, and are
run at about the same speed, and the
Chinaman's description of them is
quite appropos, "No posheer no pul
lee. yun like hellee "
The weather here has been warm
and balmy Shirt sleeves and fans
were not out of place until yester?
day. A cool east wind made some
change and today the beavens are
lowering, and chilly showers have
been falling in torrents, but even now
no fires for, warmth have been start
ed Morniag glories, and even yel- j
?ow jasmine are blooming. Snap
beans, green peas, radishes and many
other summer vegetables are being
hawked over the streets
Leroy Wallace has been added to !
the Sumter contingent here. He ?6
engaged as telegrapher.
The Villeneuve brothers, Horace ?
Mitchell, Dave Moise and Jno Dor- I
rity are also here, and indeed very j
many Sooth Carolinians are in evi?
dence an^ form no inconsiderable
portion of the population of this beau
tifu! Forest city, now brought so
near to our own Gamecock city
Guv.
Nov 25, ?S9P.
PS-We will add that The Sumter
Daily hem ia the very first paper de?
livered to us by the early morn ino;
postman, and makes us feel in closer
touch with "over home," as it is
called here. Next comes the "old
reliable" News and Courier We've
also been complimented with a daiiy
copy of the Savannah Morning News,
a ten page paper during the week
and sixteen pages on Sunday The
proprietor, Col John II Estill, is the
Duke of Savannah and carries the
honors gracefully and easily. G
Thurston's Plagiarism.
Senator Thurston, from the wild
and boundir/g west, fell in love with
a yoong lady, and in spite of a bald
.ead and unelastic step wrote a poem
which won her and they have been
married to "live happily forever
afterward " Th? effusion reads :
I said to the rose, "Oh, rose, sweet rose,
Will you lie on my heart tonight ;
Will you nestle there with yonr perfume rare
And your petals pure and white ?"
I said to the rose, ''Ob, rose, sweet rose,
Will you thrill to my every sigh, ,
Tho' your iife eibale in the morning pale
And you'witber and fade and die ?"
I said to tbe rose, ''Ob, rose, sweet roFe,
Will you throb with my every breath ;
Wi?l you give me tLe bliss cf a passionate
kiss
Albeit the ecd is death ?"
The whir~ r^se lifted ber stately head
And ? red me fair and true :
"I am bt?r p3* and b'est to :ie on your breast
For the woman who gave me to you."
The poem saw the light of day in
Sterling J Morton's newspaper, and
Senator Thurston was much compli?
mented, but, on the authority of the
reliable Hardeman Free Prees, it is a
rank plagiarism. The journal named
says that when Senora Aguinaldo's
three barr?is of clothing were cap
tured these I?DSB were found among
them :
I 8??d to my bose, "Ob, hose, warm bose,
Will you lie on my limbs tonight ;
Will you nestle there with your perfume rare
And your stripes ol black and white ?"
I said to my boee, "Os, hese, silk hos?,
Will yon thrill to my every sign,
Though your life exhale in the morning's
pale,
And you ravel and rip and die ? '
? said to mv hose, "Ob, hose, silk bose,
Will you throo to my every breath,
Through the shadows dim will you grace my
limb, %
Albeit the end ia death ? '
My silk bose twiddled their dainty feet,
And answered me fair and true :
"In tbe shadows dim I will leave your limb
For 0ti3 will take me from you."
As our excellent contemporary ob
serves, this pilfering is so contempti
ble as to condemn Senator Thurston
to an eternity of disgrace. He rob
bed a woman whose husband is
engaged in a long distance footrace
out of her just fame and he presented
his sweetheart with the spoils of his
theft. Thurston should not be in the
United States senate -Atlanta Jour?
nal.
Great Eailroad Trust Next. I
Traveling agents of all the railroad.?,
and particularly the big trunk lines, i
cm see in the present drift cf things
the tims rapidly approaching wheo j
their services will be no longer oeces
ssrj Already pians have been prepar?
ed lor a giant consolidation of the roads i
which will be undoubtedly one of the j
rr.o?e formidable trusts ever devised by i
man It is the intention to divide up ?
trsffic cn a basis according to tho j
importance cf the differed lines io the
agreement, and theo, instead of em?
ploying ao army of men to go out aad
fiant each other for the business the
roads will simply take their share and
say nothing, says the Pittsburg Post.
Rapid strides bas been made io
arranging details for the big traffic deal,
which tc all intents and parp03C8 is to
he a pooi of the most irooolad character
bot regulated by a coterie of financiers,
oct by traffic officials
Go Jaoaary 1 more than 90 per
coot of all the commodity tariffs wilt be
abolished, sod io addition there will be
some significant advances io freight
rates. Qa that date there will also be
a readjustment of the import business,
which will put an end to the distur?
bance of international rates and prevent
steamship companies from demora'iziog
the railroad rates.
After Jaoaary 1 the per centages
now carried by the several trunk lines
will be lived up io more strictly than
ever before, and all agents and traffic
managers will be hold to strict account
for catting rates. These rales apply
to west-bound freight business, and for
some time agents have beeb working
under instructions not to deviate from
the existing tariffs on any account
whatever.
This will be a hard blow to the
freight and passenger agents, thousands
of whom are now employed and who
receive big salaries.
At a raeetiog held in New York not
tong ago, which was attended by the
presidents of several big railroads, one i
wealthy official who took a prominent ;
part io the last presidential campaign, i
made the statement, and bfck^d up bis j
argrjmeot with figures io show that 1
$50.000,000 could be saved annually
by dividing up the traffic Oo bis
road, he said, they had 120 freight
solicitors sod 200 passenger r?pres-n s
t i ves receiving ?-ein ries which avc-r-igrd
?150 per monrh with expense accounts
iDciud?d, or S60O.O?O ncr year rle
Ti ? J
went fur her ?0 prove tbat office reo?,
stenographic help uno telegraphic
expenses, as vr e ! i as stationery, vtoald
8wei? the som 10 over ?1,500 (?Ol),
lie urged upon the prefects a* d
managers <;f ail 1 he necessity of getting
:id ot tbi? burdeo, bus .-aid not a word
ir* sympathy for the men who. af'er
vears cf fa it bf O? service vrere to be
deprived o? the rnea03 of masing a
living.
Wheo the Joint Traffic Association
was orgarjized this object was aimed at.
and bad the association stood the
interstate " -^merce test tbe railroads
would hi . . ..-.shed their cootractiog
agencies -fore rbis time The travel?
iiog men fear that wbeo competition is
eliminated they will be let go and (bat
enly a few assistants to the general
freight and passenger agents will be
maintained in the serv>")
Philadelphia, Dec 7 -Peter A B
Widener, the millionaire traction mag
nate of tbis city, today aooouooed that
be had purchased 36 acres of laod at
Logan, a suburb of Philadelphia, os
which he intends to erect aod endow a
home, hospital and eobool for crippled
children, at a cost of ?2.000 000.
CHARLES C. LESLIE
Wholesale aod Retail Commission Dealer in
Oysters, Game and Poultry.
Stalls No. 1 and 2 Fish Marker.
Office, Nos. 18 and 20 Market Street.
CHARLESTON, S C.
Consienments of Couoiry Produce, Poultry,
Eggs, &c , are respectfully solicited.
Prompt returns made.
Fish picked in barrels and boxes for the
country trade a specialty.
Dec 6 x
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SEARS, . ROESI?CK & CO. (lr.c>. Fulton. Desclainsscr.dlVajmaiiSis.. CHICAGO. fLL,
Efas moved his stock of -
Hardware, Stoves, Cut?
lery, Crockery, &c#,
Into the large store next to First National
Bank, lately occupied by the Ducker &
Bultman Company,
And is now better prepared with a larger stocR than ever, to supply the public
with everything in bis line. Especial attention is directed to tnc very large
line of
Stoves and Stove Fixtures,
Both cooking and heating, and also to our large line of
CROCKERY, GLASSWARE, WINDOW GLASS, PAINTS, OILS.
Our regular lines of Hardware,'' Tools, CuMery, Guns, Ammunition, Harness, j
Saddlery, Houseiurnishing Goods, &c, wi? be found larger and more complete, j
We also carry Engine and Mill Supplies. Remember, all our stoves are
warranted. Call and see us. Very respectfully, j
L. B. DURANT. !
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TAX MRI FOR 1
O FICE OF
COUNTY AUDITOR c- UM TER COUNTY,
SUMTER, S C., Nev. 30, 1899.
l^pTICE?.-? HERESY GIVEN thai I will
?:?'r ci in p.-reori cr bi depoiy, M tba
cLcwing places on tbe days indicated re?
spectively, tor tie putpc?? of receiving re
?xijus cf Personal Property, snd Poll Teses
r r thr> f.s a vchr coimt;;c:^g January Isl,
ISO ) :
At office Sumter, S C., at all other
times up to Feb 2% 1900, inclusive :
Tindalls, Tuesday, January 2
Privateer, (Jenkins' Store) Wed?
nesday, January 3
Manchester, (Nettles' residence)
Thursday, January 4
Wedgefield, Friday, January 5
Stateburg, Saturday, January 6
Hagood, Monday, January 8
Rembert's Store, Tuesday, Jana
ory 9.
Gaillardes X Roads, Wednesday,
January 10.
Bos8ard8, Thursday, January ll.
Gordon's Mil!, Saturday, Janu?
ary 13.
Maye8vilie, Monday, January 15.
Scoitsville, (McElveen's Stoie)
Tuesday, January 16
Shiloh, Wednesday, January 17.
Norwood's X Roads, Thursday,
January 18.
Lynchburg, Friday, January 19.
Magnolia, Saturday, January 20.
Reidfs Mill, Monday, January 22.
Bishopvilie, Tuesday and Wednes?
day, January 23 and 24
Mannviile, Thursday, January 25.
Smithville, Friday. January 26.
The ?aw r? quires tbai all peraocs owning
property or in *n*wj3e havice charge of
such property, either as aged, husband,
guardiAD, trustee, executor, administrator,
etc , return the Sime ucder oatb to the audi?
tor, who requests all persons to be prompt io
making their returns and save the 50 per
csct. penalty which will be added to the
property valuation of all persons who -ail to
make returns within tbe tine prtecribed ny
law.
Taxpayers return what they own on the
6r8t day of January, 1900.
Assessors and taxpsjers will enter the first
given name of tbe taxpayer io full, also make
a separate return for each township where
the property is located aod a'so in each ?nd
every case tbe No. cf the School District
most be given.
Every male citizen between the age of
twenty one aod sixty yearp on the first day of
January, 1900, except tbose incapable of
earniog a supper: fro ID bei o g mids ed or from
other causer, are deemed taxable polls, and
exeppt Confederate soldiers ?0 ears cf age,
on January lat. 1900
All returns must be made on or before the
; 20th day of February next. I caooot take
retares after that date aod all retorus made
after tbe 2( th day of February t.re subject to
? a panalty of 50 per cent.
J. DIGGS WILDER,
Auditor Sumter County.
Sumter, S. C , Dec. 6, 1899.
Estate of Hartnell E. Stafford.
DECEASED.
IWILL APPLY" to the Judge of Probate
on December 15tb, 1899, for a Final Dis?
charge as Executor of afor6aid estate.
FRANK B. STAFFORD,
Nov 15, 1899 Executor.
FOR SALE"
ADESIRABLE FARM, noted for health,
containing 130 acres, more or lees, part
cleared oed ucd<>r cultivation, and part choice
timber lani Large two-story bouse with
kitchen attached, and outbuildings. Good
pastures. OJ a ocpii?Kr pur>i:c road, inter?
sected by State Ro*-i leading from, and 3
miles from Ly.'x-bb'jre, S C , known aa the
Miller Place Now occtitied by ene cf our
best ?armer?, Mr. Erby Trulurk. Apply io
VSS.-P.S FAYN?WOrtTH ? riATN'S'.VORTH,
Oct 31-'.rx* Sumter. S. C.
Claremont Mpl. ?4111
THE REGULAR MONTHLY COMMIT.
NTCATION cf Claremont Lodge, No
?4, A. F. M.. will he held cu Thursday
Evening, Otce^hor 14, at 7?p. rr.. Brethren
will tilka due noti'.-e and govern themselves
acccrdinglv
B. J. RH AVE, W. M.
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