WEDNESDAY, JAN ?O.T??cT
The Sumter Watctiman was roundec
io 1850 and 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 io
Sam ter.
Tile Legislature Meek
Dispensary to be Investigated
-R?solutions to That Effect
Introduced in Both Sen?
ate and House.
Columbia, Jae 9 -The general
assembly of the State of -South Caro
lina convened today at noon. Both
branches showed a disposition to go to
work immediately. .
It was jost 18 minutes after the
boose ol representatives had been
called to order wheo Mr C L Wiokler,
of Kershaw, a staunch supporter of the
dispensary, introduced a resolution
providing for a commission of two
senators and three representatives to
investigate the affairs of the State
dispensary.
Tbe resolution was unexpected and
caused some discussion on the floor, but
was adopted.
Thursday was Axed for the day for j
the election of a justice cf the supreme i
ocurt, the term cf Mr. Eugene B Gary
expiring at /his time. No opposition
to him bas been heard of.
Mr. Wharton introduced a bill to
. extend the time for the payment of
taxes without penalty.
There were several local measures in?
troduced, and the caieodar consists of
a cumber of bills which could not be
acted upon at the la?t session.
Following is a detailed report of the
proceedings of the day.
In the senate the event of the day,
as in the other chamber, was the in?
troduction of tbe resolution for an in
vestigation of the dispensary The
resolution as introducer* in the senate
by Senator Aldrich is identical with
ihat offered by Mr. Winkier in the
house, and a3 both of these legislators
are orthodox dispensantes, the roo
tive of the measure is not difficult to
gue6S, it being generally understood
asan fffcrt to take from the oppo
nenis cf the institution the initiative
in the inauguration of investigating
proceedings based upon ecandate
with which the public is familiar lt
has been understood for some time
that the friends of the dispensary
would count on investigation in order j
that a decision might not be reached
before next summer's campaign, and
the oniy surprise iu connection with
tbe Aldrich Winkle: resolution was
the early opportunity taken for its in?
troduction It is not thought, how
ever, that this premature proposal
wii! have the desiree tiTect inasmuch
as it would bit impossible to organize
and complete withia foity days such
a thorough investigation as i.s pro?
posed in the resolution Under the
roles of the senate, the resolution
went over for consideration today.
Lii-ut Gov Scarborough, formerly
the sf-r.atoi from ilorry, presided over
the renate at its opening j esterday
for the first time since h:s elevation
to tb*? office vacated ty the promotion
of Gov McSweecey The election
of Ex Gov ^eppard as president pro
tem was another evidence of the
happy obligation of factional lines
since th? time wheo .^euator?hep
pard oop'-'Sed Gov Tillman for reelec
:ion. Senator Sheppard presided
over the senate coring hip term as
lieutenant governor and :s known as
ene < : the best parliamentarians
in the ?tate Toe other officers of
the senate who were selected last
yeai were on Land with the additions
men tioned below.
Thc senate did nothing of impor?
tance yesterday but will likely take
up the Aldrich resolution when it
assembles at noon today and there
may be some debate that v.*:ii prove
interesting. Senator Appclt prompt?
ly introduced his local option meas
ure which has already been publish?
ed. It will take its place on the
calendar. There are likely to be a
Tatiety of measures for the solution
Meares' Case a Mistrial.
Judge Buchanan's Remarka?
ble Lecture to the Jury
j In the criminal court Friday morn
ing the jury, in the case against J
C. Meares for bastardy, was relieved
from further consideration of the case
and a mistrial entered upon the rec
ords of the court
Judge Buchanan caiied the jury
out at ll o'clock and upon their
announcing that there was no possi?
bility of tbeir agreeing upon a ver
diet, proceeded to give the members
of the panel a "hauling over the
coals7' which was somewhat novel
and decidedly plain-spoken
He stated that the inability of the
jury to agree was a matter of regret,
and that nothing brought so much
reproach upon the administration of
justice as a mistrial The jury had
spent three or four days in hanging
out and bad cost the country about
$450, whereas even a verdict against
the defendant would have put upon
him a bond for only $300, that the
jury had spent more money by hang?
ing on and fooling around than the
amount that would have been exact?
ed by a conviction.
"You gentlemen,7" said the judge,
"probably will be the first to speak
lightly of courts and to say that
justice cannot be gotten, that the
lawyers fooi around in the courts and
delay justice, while the truth of the
matter is the ?awyears, the solicitor
and the court do their duty, and you
men have not the manhood to do
yours You have no one but your
selves to blame for the miscarriage of
justice The State 3nd the defend?
ant are entitled to a verdict, and you
have acted like a set of school boys,
locked up three or four days, when
you should have agreed upon a
verdict. If the publt<~ would cuiti
vate a high standatd of obligation
and men were to understand that
when they take an oath to do their
duty, they should do it honestly,
instead of frittering their time away
and vacillating by reason of a feeling
of kindness for a neighbor or some
fancied thing in the evidence, more
exact justice would be done and
there would be no more reproach
upon the administration of justice
through the neglect of the jurors to
do their duty They seem to think
it is a sleight of-haud thing when they
go on the jury. A man taking an
oath to peform. a duty on the jury
should meet his obligation as he
would his promise to pay a note.
Jurors don7t do it, and because of
the fact that we have to have jurors
to try this sort of cases, justice is
not done.
.T want to burn that idea into you
gentlemen, that justice has miscar
ried in this case, because you did
not have the manhood to carry out
the law and the obligation you took,
and I want you to know that ? know
it, and I want every juror to under?
stand when he comes into this court
where I am to preside and takes an
obligation to decide a case and does
not do it, that I intend to tell him
about it and intend to make it hot for
bim
"Another jury may have to go
over this same thing because of your
lack of manhood and nothing else
It is because you ail did not under
stand your oath and did not keep i
to decide th.3 case according to the
evidence I want you to understand
that I know it and everybody else
knows it, and when it becomes a
matter of opprobrium for jurors to
make a mistrial everybody will re?
proach them for it because they did
not keep the obligation they took to
agree on a verdict and further the
administration of justice "
An Outrageous Charge.
Mobedv respeots tee office of jad??
of thc courra of this Stale more than
this newspaper, but when a judge so
far forgets himself as to deliver from
the beach such a harangue as Judge
Buchacao delivered to tbe jury yester?
day, beoause they failed to agree upon
a verdict, it is a matter that cannot bs
passed o?er in silence It is a glaring
abuse c.c authority, a travesty on '
di^t.-i'v of tbe bench and a misoocccp
tioa uf the snirit and genius of the
jury -jstem
Twilve men sworn to hear the
evid'.-nce and to try the defendant
accordicg to law, retire to tbeir rooms j
and after discussing the case for several j
I days, about half or tbe jurors thiok the
j defendant is guilty and tho other half j
! tbink he is innocent. It io evid-.ot j
! rho? cannot a;free unless one sid-* or
i 3 0 . ..
' thc other is willing to consent to a
J tcrdic: which tbeir judgment and tbeir
consciences do uot approve And yet
; for this tb^v are ab?^> d ;.od riJicuk-d
. as if they had commited some crime.
! Wiis ever :ucb a thing heard ; ? before ?
j if it bad been foaed tba: some ot the
jurors had been bribed thc arraignmeni
: of Jud? . Buchanan couid n-1: have
i been severer, li-.it there was not toe
i slightest intimation of imp: 'per conduct
j on 'be part ct anyone
Judge Buchanan seems to bave a
very superficial acquaintance with in?
spirit of our jury system or bc ? uld
never have condemned jurors for being
true to their convictions and refusing to
bries in a verdict contrary io the '"?aw
and the evidence" as they saw it. Ile
should rather have commended them for
their steadfastness under the personal
diannmforts thev were forced to endure.
Tbe cost of the case certainly ougbt
nor to be considered wheo life a:;d
cbaraorer and reputation arc at s-aks
The result of that jury's deliberations
meant everything to the woman or ihe
mao. Two coaracters were oo trial,
and yet when the mea could net
booes'iy make up tbeir minds aod
agree on a unanimous verdict as thc
law requires and say whctrjrr the
dsfeodaot was guilty or not, they are
reprimanded and given to understand
that they ought to have blackened the
character of the woman by a verdict of
acquittal, or the character or the mac
by a verdict of guilty, because, forsooth
of the coft to the county. It i*vsucb
talk as this that weakens respect for
the courts and disturbs tho sacredness
of the jarors' obligation
Judge Bochar?an could scarcely have
made a more serions blunder. Jurors
act individually. They are each sworn
to follow their own convictions and if
tbeir consciences will cot admit the
writing of a verdict, they have nu
right to juggle with obaraoter to force
verdicts not approved by their ioteili
genoe and understanding.-Spartan
burg Herald, Jan 6.
No Limit to Cotton Mills.
In the interview which was pub
lished a few days ago, Mr. 1) A
Tompkios, of Charlotte, the well known
authority on cotton manafacturing,
gave some information which is of
special ioterest to not a few oommnni
ries in the South io which the idea ob?
tains, more or less definitely, that this
section may be overdoing the business
of building cottoD mills, and that they
probably bad better not add to the
number.
After stating that the cotton ma j
cbinery manufacturers io the United !
States can mase ooiy ? 500 OOO spin
dies a year, and thar ?IDOU' 2.000,COU I
will probabl; be added yearly for the I
next ten years to the cumber now io I
operation; Mr. Tompkins added :
' 'New England has 13,000.000 spin- j
dies, of which 7,000,000 are iocared io j
Massachusetts. There are cow 5 000.- J
0?0 soinriies in the South At the end j
ot 1900 tbe South will have 7,000,000
spindle* and New Eoglaod will still
have 13,000.000. in Massachusetts
new spindles are beiog put in on Soe
stuffs only, while the old ones are beiog
discontinued on coarse stuff
"Old Eoglaod has 46 000,000 spin
dies; the South 5.000,000; the United
S'atee, ioeludiog ,ths Middle Seues.
20.000,000 At the rate of 2,000,000
new 6piodles a year, tbe present rare
of increase, ten years from now the
United States would have about tbe
same number of spindles as England.
Of these. New England and the Middle
States would probably bave 20,000,
000, all oo fine goods, and the South
25,000,000. Io other words, rhe
United States io 1910 will have as
roany spindles as England, and the
South wili have more spindles than
New England and the Middle States
combinea."
Io other words again, even if New
England holds its present number of j
spiod:es, so that the South will not j
have to replace a great part of them,
the-e are still 20.000,000 new spindles
to be set io operation in this sectioo
within the next decade, without j
-'crowding1' the cotton manufacturing j
business in this coootry or elsewhere,
as ''there is not tse slightest fear cf;
overproduction if we properly develop
our markets." and we aro developing
them with all our might, military,
diplomatic, commercial and otherwise
The 20,000,000 will bc established
som-where in the Soutb, no doubt
The parr of wisdom for every town and
city in Sooth Carolina, would appear to
be to capture as many cf that number
as it can -News and Courier.
The Last Year of the Century.
Only twelve months remain in
which to set in order all the things
that belong to the expiring century,
to the end of giving it a decent dis?
missal and to eave the coming cen
tury from the handicap of an unfair
ly large burden of arrearage There
has been a rather cuiious misappre?
hension in the minds of many people
as tv the proper location of the year
upon which we are just entering ? J
and even in print there has been a
good deal of allusion to the year now
ended as a closing one of the nine
teenth century. A half minute's ?
clear thinking is enough to remove
ali confusion. With December 31
we complete the year 1899-that is
to say, we rouid out 99 of the 100 j
years that are necessary to complete j
a fuil century. We must give the j
nineteenth century the 365 days that j
belong to its hundredth and fina) j
year before we begin the year 1 o?;
the twentieth century For some j
reason the mathematical faculty usu :
ally works far more keenly in moue j
lary affairs than elsewhere ; and
none of the people who have propos?
ed to alLw ninety nine yearn to ?<>
for a century would s?poos-: that :i
nineteen hundred-dollar debt had
been lu Hy met by a tender ol ?1,
899 There would reniait: due just
nr..- hundred cent3.-Review of Re?
views
at?
, Dr {Juli's Co ut; is LS?.rup is ? speedj aod
I;efficacious CUT?-, for croup, whoopio? eoy^h
and ?iroTi.-.. H is No cbild sboaid oe '.?>' to
su&'?r tbe torturer ?>; ?LP?K nitoccots when
[parents c?u get tc".s wonder rt teed j for
only 2b c<?.
Popular stories for boj3 and Ltifis, He.:?ty
i feriej, aud msny o'.ners at H. G. ?steen ?
i Co's.
i WHY COTTON SHOULD GO
HIGHER.
New York, Jan 6 - We have the
j pleasure to 6ubmit for your informa
: tion tbe iollowing comparative posi*
tion of cotton and prices, on Jan 5th
i for the past four years :
Total visible supply in the United
States, Europe and al sea, 1900 3,
870,088, 1899 5,164,508, 1898.4 -
320,205, 1S97 4 232,533. .
Cotton come in sight to date, 1900
6 057,516. 1899 7,953,554, 1898 7,
550.074, 1897 6.508,276
Total exports, 1900 2,758,391,
1899 4,432,845, 1898 3,918,940, 1897
3,520,414.
Stock in all United States porte,
1900 1,067,300, 18991.243,883, 1898
1,265,068, 1897 1,274,359.
Stock in Liverpool (all kinds), 1900
720,000, 1899 1,365,000, 1898 864,
000, 1897 935,000
Afloat for Europe (American), 1900
185,000, 1899 972,000, 1898 804,000,
1897 650,000
Middling Uplands in New York,
1900 7 ll 16c, 1899 6?c, 1898 6
3 16o, 1897 7 5 16c
Middling Uplands in Liverpool,
1900 4 14 32d, 1899 3 3 32d, 1898
3Jd, 1897 3 3l-32d
Tbe prices of cotton for future
delivery in New York, basis mid?
dling, on Jan 5th, each year was as
follows :
1900 1899 1898 1897
Jan delivery, 7 32 5 52 5 75 6 80
Feb " 7 34 5 52 5 76 6 85
March " 7 37 5 54 5 79 6 92
April " 7 38 5 58 5 S4 6 90
May " 7 40 5 62 5 88 7 06
June " 7 40 5 66 5 93 7 ll
July " 7 43 5 68 5 07 7 15
Aug " 7 40 5 71 6 01 7 17
The price of May contracts is now
1 78 cents higher than last y^ar, 1 52
cents higher than in 1898, and 0 34
higher iban in 1897
The statement above shows that j
the totai visible supply in tbe world j
is 1,294,420 bales less than last year.
350,117 bales less than in 1898, and
362,445 baies less than in 1897
The exports this year are 1,674,
454 bales less than last year, 1,160,
?49 bales less tban in 1898, and 762,
023 bales iess than in 1897
The stock in United States ports is
176,683 bajes less than last year.
197,768 bales less than in 1898, and
207,059 bales less than in 1897
The total amount of cotton that has
come into sight from Sept 1st to Jan
5tb, 1900, is 1.896,038 bales less
than came in sight last year to the
same date, when the totai crop was
11.274,840 bales ; and 450,760 bales
less than in 1896, whsu the total
crop was S,757.964 bales
The percentage of the total crop
of the United States that was mark?
eted on Dec 31st, of each year, for
the past 12 years, was as follows :
1899, 5,891,076, Dec 31st
1898, 7,701,548, 68 31 per cent.
1897, 7,296,533, 63 15 per cent.
1896, 6,398.192, 73 06 per cent
1895, 4,044,220, 69 OS per cent
1894, 6.994,673, 70 64 per cent.
1S93. 5,466,092. 72 40 per cent.
1892, 4 790,455, 71 50 per cent.
1891, 6.446,08."), 71 34 per ceDt.
1890, 5,874.598, 07 89 per cent.
1889, 5,527,213, 75 60 per cent.
1888, 4,960,642, 71 52 per cent.
1?87, 5,393,912, 76 84 per cent.
The average percentage of thc crop
marketed to D?^ember 31st, for the
past twelve years was 71 ll per cent,
of the total crop, and as 5,891,076
bales were marketed this year to the j
saciti date, upon the basis of this aver?
age percentage tbe total crop this year
will prove to be 8,284.455 bales.
If the totai crop is figured on the
Oasis of 73 06 per cent., which was the
percentage marketed in 1876 to De?
cember 2l5t, the total crop would prove
to be 8.063 339 baies.
Since September 1st, to December
31st. the net ?ose ibis year as com?
pared with last year has been 1,834,
473 bales or 16 27 per cent if the
same peroentage of decrease should con?
tinue to the eod of the season, 3,549,
291 bales having been received from j
January 1st, to September 1st, last j
year, the total failing off io receipts j
would be 2,411,942 bales, making a!
totai crop ol 8.862,898 bales.
The year 1896-97 was similar to
conditions to this year-the crop was
early, forced to maturity by drought,
and a comparison with that year would
seem more conservative than with last
year, when the crop was late and
marketing retarded by bad weather the
greater part of the winter ; in fact, st
this date last year, a large part of the
crop was^still in the fields, much of it
ren?aii?i;.g unpicked until February and
March
it bas beo.n frequently remarked that!
thc heavy falling off in receipts can De
attributed to the iar^c holdings o? cot
ton in thc south, particularly at the un- i
counted inte rior towns ri;j?i that this :
cotton is likei} to como upon the market ?
with a rush
Through our large correspondence,
covering every section of thc south, we .
arc influenced to believe that thc per?
centage ot falling off io receipts from
now uot.! S? ptembcr 1st, wili bo ?reat
er :h:;t bas already been shown. Only
today we arc tn receipt o? replies to a
cir.valjr telegram sent to reliable par?
ties ur uncounted towns, a tabulation ol
which snows that while tit some points
ih* rc is a stock larder than last year,
ar many others the stock i** IDUCO
smaller than L>t yea?, and the ditjer
ccoe between thrm is too small io cut \
any figure of consequence io tbe total !
crop.
These same replies say while the j
j stocks may fae slightly larger at the
towns, the report is universal r.bat there
; ts ?;? conon in the Gelds and less held
I on plantations at this time than tor a
I great many years. Daring thc whole
i season conditions for marketing the
j orop have been unusually good, and it
j would not be natural that cotton should
j not have been sent to towns rapidly for
storage, insurance, &e.
Surprise ha9 been expressed bow
well prices have been maintained io
southerD spot markets, io face of tem?
porary fluctuations in Liveapool and
New ?orfc. Tbe cause seems obvioue;
the holders of cotton io tho south know
that tbe crop is to be a very small one,
that &U Europe is heavily abort of its
usual supply, while consumption con?
tinues on as large a scale as last year.
They are convinced that spinners have
been greatly deceived as to the exteot
of tbe crop and will not much longer
decline to supply their wants, wheo
they have profitable engagements to
fill, aod the prospects for a continued
large consumption daring the new year
were never more flattering than today.
Yours truly.
Latham, Alexander & Co.
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COUNTY OF SUMTER.
By T. V Wahrt, Esq., Probate Judye.
"\T7"-" ERE AS. WILLIAM H. INGRAM
y\ evade SOU io rae to srant him Legers
ot Administration of the Estate of aod effects
of AGNES JANE CHANDLER, deceased.
These ?re therefore to cite and admonish
ali and sincular the kicdred and creditors
of the s?id Agnes Jane Chnrd er, l^re of said
County and Stnte, de-ceased, that thpy
be aod appear before me, in the
Court cf Protate, to be held at Sumter
C H., cn Jaouary 25 h, 1900, next, after
publication thereof, at ll o'clock in tbe fore?
noon, to show cause, if any they hare, why
the said Admmistratioo should not be grant?
ed.
Gi*en under my hand this 10th'day of
January, A. D , 1900
THOS V WALSH,
Judge of Probate.
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October 16-o
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Again in "full blast,"
NEW SHOES ARRIVING EVERY
WEEK FROM HEADQDARTE >
All shoes that were on shelves
August 1st sold regardless of;
what they cost.
Walsh's Shoe Store
Under City Clock.
Sep 27-r
MRS. L. ATKINSON,
FASHIONABLE MILLINERY.
I have jost filled io my stock wi tb a com?
plete line of
Fall and Winter Mil?
linery.
The latest novelties io shapes aod trimming,
aod toe newest effects on St; eet Hats.
We can furnish a stylish bit at the loweet
price, aod gnaraoteeour work to be ceat aod
up-to-date io every respect
I have a Northern trimmer who bas beeo
working in targe cities for years Since oor
opening we have beeo so busy that it keeps
four bands basy with the work all the time.
Call io and er-? us. and you c^onot fail to
De pleased out of our large assortment of
trimmed bats, and comc'ete steck of fcoods.
Yours truly,
Mrs. L. Atkinson,
Oct 18 SUMTER, S.C.
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uary 6th, 1900
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POSITORY, SUMTER, S. C.
Paid up Capital.$ 75.0CO CO
Surplus and Profits - - - - 25,000 00
Additional Liability of Steck
holders io excess of tbeir
stock. 75,000 00
Total protection to depositors, $175 COO 00
Transacts a General Banking Buan.pss.
Special attention given to collections.
SAVINGS DEPARTMENT.
Deposits of $1 and upwards received. In?
terest allowed at tbs rate ot 4 per cant, per
annum, on amounts above $5 ?Dd oot exceed?
ing $300, payable quarter ly, co first days of
January, April, Jul? and Ocrober.
' R 5't. WALLACE.
L.S. CARSON, President.
Cashier.
FIRE ! FIRE !
is an ominous sound to the mao who
isn't insured, wheo he sees his hom"
disappearing in fiamos and 6moke.
We can ha?-diy have any compassion
on him. when it ts so easy and at sach
a small oauay io provide against such
loss A policy in the Hartford Insur?
ance Co. costs you but a small snm
i when we draw it for you. and gives
j vou security as sato as the Bank of
! England.
j A. 0, PHELPS G0=j
: Gen?iInsurance Agents, Sumter, S. C.
.Sich 15-o
Estate ol' Julius J. Myers, Bec'd.
?WILL APPLY .?> toe Judge of Probate cf
Sumter County ct: February ;f"0. for
., Fir.nl Discharge as Administrator of afore?
? SHid Estate. FRANK J MYERS,
.'.?-3- Administrator.
Estate o? Mrs, Leonora J. Mnl
dnw, Deceaseds
i 4 LL PERSONS i?>.v:rg claims against
/V enid Estate will present sarre duly at
! jesud, ?od all persoos rndtbted to eaid Estate
j will rn^ke natment at once to
JOSEPH MULDROW,
Dec 20-2t Qualified Executor.