The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, April 04, 1900, Image 4
<f be c^buljimm aub ^outbron.
W ft U N K8 DAY. APRIL 4, i900.
The Num<*r If an Aman wu touodeo
0 1860 Md toe'TVee Soul iron in 1866.
The Ha/rAma* and Simthron now has
lie oooibioeJ etroulatioo and iiiflucnoe
(*J both of the old papers, aod is mani?
festly tie beet advertising medium io
Bom tar
City Council, we ore gled to see,
?oo promptly ooted oo our sugges
tion relative to o more commodious
paeooogor depot for Somter A com?
mittee to be eppoioted by the Meyor,
tofotber with o representative of tbo
Bfjoioooo League, it io propoood obeli
o* oooo eedeevor to ioterest tbe At
lootic Ooooi Lioe ootboritioo io msk
log thin 01000 io bo deeired improve
?Mot. Now If tbe Isegue will oot
promptly, ood too matter io diligently
poreared, wo believe tbot o proper
ropreoootatroo of tbo mot tor to tbo
Ooeet Lioe will pwolt io o now build?
ing to too oear fat ore
Cooocil evidently forgot tbo anti
dog ordinance loot Wodoeodoy night
which wej thooght would be pasaed.
Other matt ere of importance, perbapa,
orowded tbio oot, bat tbo icgnlatioo
of doge ia oloo oo important matter,
ood wo hope will oot bo forgotten ot
too next meeting.
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Tbo onggootioo of Senator Tilmao
tftot tho oeoal politico) tour of the
otote bo dtepeooed with the year will
otrike o roopoaaive oord io many
beerte There io ootbiog oo demor
nHning and diotorhiog to tbo people
generally oo too ovorogo campaign
meeting While mach of tbo bitter
nooo ond vitnperotioo wbioh onoo
oherecierited thorn oo longer exiat
they ore even in tho improved ooodi
tion neither edify tog, nor calculated
to elevate the political morale of tbo
otote. There oao bo little if ooy
diversity of viewe oo to publio qoeo
tioos; yet tbeie must bo some die
tinotion hot woe o oaodidatoa; wbiob
gt orally fa of a personsl nature
Bach olaimiog virtue aod superiority
in himself which be denies to all
other aspirants for tbe plum be ia
trying to eh eke down for himself
By all meana let ibe campaign go
Tbe people will become better ao
qoaiotedj with tbe merito of men
ood meleurce by what tbey read
aod bear amoog ibemeelvea than from
paeaing campaigning thunder. It
will aleo be o great relief to can
didatee, of an enormous tax upon
to?> time, taleot, atreogth and
meaos
Toe summer institute for tbe leaoh
ere rf Sumter ooonty will be held
io July, Ihe session opening on July
3d State Superintendent of Educa?
tion Mc 14 ah an is already bard at
work making arrangements for tbe
State institute and for tbe varioue
ooonty iuntitotee Tbe Peabody ap?
propriation for ioetitutes thie year ia
$2 _00 agaiuat $1,1 U laet year
This increase Mi *.he appropriation
ia a very welcome addition to tbe
institute fund, ae the sum available
from toe permanent 'school fund is
much lege this year than laat, aud
without tbe Peabody appropriation
the ioetitute work would have been
eeriooeiy crippled The Stete sum
mt r school will not opan until July
Uth to avoid conflict with the meet
iag of the National Educational Aa
eociiation at Charleston July 7th to
18th
If tbe Probibitioniete are in earn
eet tbey will devote uiue tentbe of
their altentioo to electiog tbe right
sort of men to Ibe legislature and
tbe remaining one-tenth to tbe cam
paign for governor A Prohibition
governor with adiapeneary legislature
will not help tbe temperance cense
ooe iota, and tbe only pereoo to be
benefited will be ibe man whom tbe
prohihittoniete eleel?if tbey prove
oo strong at the ballot box The
prohibition committee ie compoaed of
very excellent gentiemen, end tbey
ere oodoubtedly eiaoere advocatea of
temperance, bot as loog as they atake
everything ou electing State officers
tbey will accomplish notbiog aub
atantial. A rock ribbed, dyed iu-the
wool, determined, well organized and
barmooiooa majority io both booses
of tbo general aooembly ia what tbe
probibitiooiato need io their business.
Tbs probibitioL oommittee may know
nil thie ood n great dool more aboot
their own boeioooo Ihne) wo dffcjnit
ao wo do shot ohgffgw Jew thin opinion
The secretary of ?Ute has received
since Jen 1st applications for char?
ters for ooiton mills with an aggregate
capital of more than five million
do liars The bulk of this capital is
co be invested in mills in the up
country, but not a few of the mills
are to built in the middle portion of
the State Nothing has been done,
however, toward building a new mill
in Sumter, and this city, conceded to
be one of the best towns in the State,
a fine cotton market, a growing busi
neaa center, with the local bauks full
of money, is legging behind in the
general movement to develop the
oottoo msnufacturing industry in the
south The little, old yarn mill,
long the most despised thing in
Sumter, aa It was the moat unsuccees
ful, it making money band over fist,
and burdened aa it has been with
debt, it baa made sofliolent money in
the paat three yeara to pay off tbe
floating debt and boy enough new
maohioery to almost double ita week*
Ij output of jam. If tbia small mill
baa done ao well, a large mill,
equipped with improved macbioey to
make yarn and cloth at the minimum
cost, would assuredly do better. It
would earn big dividends for the
stockholders, inoreaae the population
of the town, improve business and
make Sumter an even better cotton
market tbao it now ia.
Tbe candidates for governor op to
data ars M B MeSweeoey, A Howard
Patterson, 0 L Scbumbert sod Fraok
B Gary. Col Jss A Hoyt will run if
be gets the prohibition oomiostioo. The
obvaoss seem to be io favor of Qovsrnor
MeSweeoey sod Lieoteoaot Governor
Seerborosgb ?Spartaoburg Herald.
The Stokes Free Delivery
Bill.
Tbe bill providing for the 'res
delivery of mail aloog star routes
iotrodoeed ioto tbe Hoots by Coogress
?so J. W. Stokes, of South Carolins,
dessrvss favorabls coosideratioo.
Tbe bill makes it tbe duty of mail
aarriers oo star routes to deliver free of
obarge to lbs persooe addressed aoy
?eil eotrosted to tbe osre of the
oarriers by postmasters. It slso rs
quires that oarriers must take up sod
plaoe io lbs postcffioe mail given them
by pereoos aloog tbe route
Tbe ooly requirement of tbe persons
who wish to tsks advantage of tbe aot
is to pot ap bozee io a oonveoieot plaoe
sad to give the postmaster tostrootioos
as to tbe proper mail boz at whiob they
desire tbeir msil deposited.
Tbe Secood Assistant Postmaster
Geuera!, Mr Sballeoberger, warmly
iodorses tbo bill, sod ic Mr Stokes'
owo State. South Carolina, tbe Post
offio-3 Department has tried tbe experi
meot of advertising for eootraote, with
sod without provisions tbat oootraotors
should deliver the mail free aloog tbeir
router wherever farmers ehouid ereot
bozes, aod the difference io tbe oost for
the improved service for tbo eotire
Stato wee foood to be ooly (6,600
Tbe passage of tbe bill would bo a
booa to every farmer ia tbe oouotry.
It would briog them io oloser touch
with tbe outer world aod its affairs
and would be a benefit all rouod. Tbe
ooly objeetioo raised to its passage,
tbat it would ioterfers with tbe pleasure
farmers take ia goiog after tbe mail,
ie too puerile to warrant stteotioo ?
Nashville America.
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Spartaoburg, April 3?Lest oight
about 10 o'olook fire brooks out io tbe
cottoo warehouse of tbe Paoolet mills
aod buroed etoadly oo until this after
oooo. Tbe warehouse ie well stored
with eottoo, aod at last aoeouoleait was
stated tbat 1.305 bales were destroyed
by tt?4 fire Tbe origio of tbe disas?
trous fire ie unknown, aud most have
beeo oaueed by spootsoeoue con bust ion.
Tbe firs was checked aod practically ex?
tinguished tbie sfteroooo
B O'Dell Duncan Dead.
Charleston, April 8, ? Ez-Coosul B.
O'Dell Doooau died suddenly last
last night at his borne in Now berry, S.
S. He was a room be r of tbe recon?
struction oooveotioo of this State, aod
wss afterwards appoiotcd by Graot as
oooeol to Nsples, where be servod 11
years, la 1880 be wae transferred to
Bymraa aod two jeers later to Nsplos
Bftio, aod retired io 1884, having
siate lived quisily at Nswberry.
Dewey is Candidate
For the Presidency.
Ho has Rescinded His Decis?
ion of Last September.
New York, April 4.?A epecial to
the World Uom Washington, says :
Admiral Dewey authorizes the World
to announce to the American people
that after mature reflection and in
response to the earnest entreatiea
from all parte of the country, hie
former deoision not under any cir
oumatacces to run for the presidency
is rescinded.
A World correspondent saw the
admiral at hia borne at 6 o'clock last
evening.
Admiral Dewey aaid : "I realize
that the time has arrived when I must
definitely define my position.
"When I arrived in thia country
laat September I said then that noth?
ing would induce me to be a caodi
date fo * the presidency
"Sinoo then, however, I have had
the leisure and inclination to study
the mai ter and have reached a differ?
ent conclusion, inasmuch as so many
assurances have come to me from my
countrymen that I would be accepta?
ble as a candidate for this great office.
If the American people want me for
thia high office I shall be only too
willing to serve them.
'?It is the highest honor in the gift
of thia nation ; what citizen would
refuse (if
"Since studying this subject I am
coovinoed that the office of preaident
ia not luch a very difficult one to fill,
bia duties being mainly to execute
the lawa of congress
"She old I be chosen for this exalt?
ed position I would execute the lawa
of congress as faithfully as 1 have
always executed the orders of my
superir re V
Admiral Dewoy did not state what
party's nomination he would accept.
The reporter asked :
* On what platform will you
etsnd ?"
And the admiral replied :
"1 think I have said enough at this
time and possibly too much "
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PORTO RICO BILL
PASSED BY 40 TO 31.
Republicans, as Usual, Hold
Together at the Crisis.
Washington, April 3?This was a
notable day in the United States
senate It brought to a close the
sharpest and most prolonged debste
upon any measure since those dis
cussed during the memorable "war
congress," two years ago. At 4
o'clock this afternoon the votes were
begun upon the Porto Ricati tariff
and the civil government bill aod the
pending amendments, and in less
than an hour later the measure, about
which there baa been so much con?
tention in and out of congress, was
passed by a majority of 9, the final
vote being 40 to 31. Only commit?
tee amendments were adopted.
It h is been evideot for some time
thst the bill would command a ma?
jority in the senate, but, notwith?
standing that fact, tho interest in the
measure, both of senators and of the
public, has not flagged an instant.
Today the galleries were crowded,
and hundreds of people filled the
corridors, unable to secure standing
room in the galleries. From 11
o'clock when the vote began Demo*
orats sud opponents of the bill bril*
liautiy and eloquently ^maintained
their convictions, and tho auditora
wero kept in a state of constant ex*
citement.
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It is announced that seveial mil?
lion dollars will be expended at
Guam and the island converted into
an importsnt nsval base and coaling
?tttion.
To those living
in malr.rial districts Tutt's Pills
are indisponible, they keep the
system in perfect order and are
an absolute cu^e
lor sick headache, indigest* %
malaria, torpid liver, constip.
tion and all bilious diseases.
Tutt's Liver Pills
Estate of John S. Richardson,
DECEASED.
WE WILL APPLY to the Jucge of Pro
bate of Sumter County on April 9th,
1900, for a final discharge as Executors of
Estate of said deceased.
R. D. LEE.
MARIJN MOISE,
Ifarcb 8?II Executors
The Larpt anil Most Complete
Establishment South
6eo. S. Hacker & Son,
-MANUFACTURERS OF
DOORS, SASH, BUNDS,
Moulding & Building
Material.
office and Warerooms, King, opposite, Cao
non Street,
CHARLESTON, S. C,
*T* Pnrcbas* onr make, which we guaraoU
superior to any sold South, and
thereby pave money.
Window and Fancy Glass a Specialty
October 16?o
If you want
the best Seeds
Buy Vick's
OUR OWN GROWING
AND THE
WORLD'S CHOICEST
The handsomest and most com?
plete Catalogue we ever issued
sent free, if you state in what
you are most interested?Flow?
ers, Vegetables or Small Fruits.
JAMES VICK'S SONS,
ROCHESTER] N. Y.
Feb 7
0 HARLES C. LESLIE,
Wholesale aod Retail CommiB?ion Dealer in
Oysters, Game and Poultry.
Stalls No. 1 and 2 Fish Market.
Uftice, Nob. 18 und 20 Market Street.
CHARLESTON, S. C.
Consignments of Country Produce, Poultry,
Eggs, Ac , are respectfully solicited.
Prompt returns made.
Fish packel in barrels and boxes for the
couutry trade a specialty.
Dec G x
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of Salubrity, Ga., Aug.
8th, 1898, writes: Ben?
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my sixteen year
old daughter. She
was in wretched
health and had
missed four month*
Two bottles of Be
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tdfi?
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j The monthly periods have returned W
"and are now painless and regular, w
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~*\. A box of "Monthly" Refulattng I'llls ton
Jj use in connection, Is with each bottle ?
?LADIES BLUE BOOK sent free to any ad-1
dress. A sample box <>t "Monthly" Ken- B?
m ulatlna ruts sent for lOr. In stamps. |l
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PREPARE FOR EASTER
IT IS NEAR AT HAND.
In looking around for your
Easter Suit
don't fail to give us a call, as we are better prepared than ever
to supply your wants in this line.
In Boys' Wear
We have a nice assortment of Vestee Suits at $1.00, $1 25
$1.50, $2.00, $2.50 and $3.00.
Boys' D. B. Suits, sizes 8 to 16 at $1.00, $1.50, $2.00, $2.50,
$3.50 and $4 00.
In YOUTH'S LONG PANTS SUITS, sizes 14 to 19, our
prices range from $2.00 to $7.50.
Don't fail to see our line of
BOYS' PANTS
from 25 cents to 50 cents per pair. The price may seem low,
but the quality will surprise you.
In Men's Suits
We are showing an excellent line in
Black and Colored Clays,
Cassimeres and Flannels.
It is a little early to speak of
CRASH SUITS.
Of these we will have something to say later.
Ask to see our
FANCY DUCK VESTS,
In sing!? and double-breasted at $1 to $1.25.
O'DONNELL & CO.
Closing Out Sale
-OF
THOROUGHBRED HOGS.
Essex and Berk?
shire Hogs and Pigs for
sale, at my farm one mile
west of Sinister.
H. HARBY.
Sumter, S. C, Mch. 16,1900.
HERE WE ARE.
With ibe largeet stock of good* that we have bad sicca we bare been in business and
better prepared to serve our customers. It will be to your interest to see as or get oar
prices before buying elsewhere. lo addition to ?uppl>ing you from our immense stock on
band, will say tbat we are agents for manufacturers, packers and millers, and caa ship yoa
direct to your nearest stations, and in tbis way caa wave you freight. Ask as for prices,
wbicb we will furnish with pleasnre upon application.
New Arrivals.
1 car White Corn,
1 car best Pearl Giits,
1 car good Rice,
2 cars Flour,
1 car Meat and Lard,
t03 cases Canned Goods,
360 boxes Starch,
60 bags Coffee.
1 car Salt,
175 boxes Soap,
100 cases Star Lye,
Molasses and Sugar.
Tobaccos. Cigars and Cheroots.
f 00 lbs Schoaps, 34 add 35c per lb
500 lbs Viable Tobacco 34c per lb
300 lbs Sweet Apple, 34c per lb
400 lbs Cock Robin, 30c per lb
100 Iba Long Cotton, 30c per lb
ICO lbs Blue Jay, 20c per lb
10? Its Jay Bird, ?4c per lb
100 lbs Mablee, 33c per lb
100 lbs Dady's Dollar, 34c per lb
600 lbs l,Hilft Rookh, 33t per la
200 lbs Red Eye, 27c per lb
100 lbs Bsrly Bird, .T>c per lb
100 lbs Battle Axe, 34c per lb
Other brands not mentioned.
Old Va. Cheroots,
Old Glory Cheroots.
3 Rattler Cheroots,
World Best Cberoots,
B.g "T" Cigars,
Lady Bird Cigars,
Captain Cutler Cigars,
ALL AT FACTORY PRICES.
Duke's Mixture,
Duke's Cameo.
School Boy,
Ytllow Leaf, Maryland Club,
and
Powhatao with pipes?Smoking Tobaccos,
The Roller King fancy patent Flour is the
best?Try a barrel.
Crosswell & Co.
Phone 53.