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"WEDNESDAY, OOT 3,1900.
The Sumter Wancn^nan was toundeo
ia 185? and the Tr-ie Southron in 1866.
The Watchman and Southron DOW has
the combined circulation and influence
of both of the old papers, and is mani?
festly the best advertising medium in
Sumter.
NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.
It is not necessary for us to send a
statement to each individual sub?
scriber who is indebted to us for
subscription, as the label shows the
time to which each one bas paid.
Examine the label OD your paper and
if yon are io arrears please call and
settle at your earliest convenience.
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If it is not convenient to call in per
soc send the money by bank draft,
registered letter or post office or ex?
press money order.
The amount due by each one ie
small, bot the aggregate amount doe
os is large, aod this is the reason
that we expect our subscribers to
make settlements. We have carried
some of these subscription accooots
over from year to year as an accom
modatioo to our subscribers, but we
cannot do so longer as there is now
BO excuse for non payment with cot
too selling for ten cents aod over.
? military company io a community
is the ounce of preveotion that is worth
a pound of core.
We direct special attention to the
cali for a meeting of the cotton growers
of Som ter county on October 17th.
As had beeo said heretofore the pr?tent
season is the best opportunity the
farmers of th# Sooth have ever bad to
crganize and make their power felt We
trust there will be a large and re pre
sentative meeting of oottoo growers on
the 17th instant acd that a permanent
organization will be the result.
The need for charity in Galveston is
today greater thar ever. Eight thou?
sand people are homelers, and of the
35,000,000 that are needed to provide
them with shelter less thao three quar?
t?re of a million have been contributed
Sumter county will be represented at
the State Fair by hundreds of visitors,
as csuai, bot the Sumter county
exhibits, unfortunately, have not beeo
numerous of reosnt years. The best
couuty io the state should have a more
representative exhibit this year.
If rumors are correct che oextsesaioo
of the L?gie?atnro will have several in?
vestigations on its bands
John 6 Carlisle, the one time lead
ins Democrat, free trader and free silver
advocate has gone over to the Republi?
cans bag and baggage As a trust
lawyer, this movement may be a part of
his cfofeesiooal esrvices
The Republican's "fall dinner pail"
is in the po93essba of the mins owners
tn Pennsylvania while the down?
trodden miners are on the verjje of
starvation This is the Republican's
idea of prosperity.
Philadelphia. Cht 2.-No break has
yet ocsorred in tbe ranks of the strik?
ing mioe worker?, although additional
notices of the offer of an iuorease of 10
per cent in wages were posted through
the regioo in fact there were many
indications today of ac intent on the
part of the strikers to insist on other
concessions and to remain out until the
operators give recognition to their na?
tional organization. The feature of
the day was thc parade and mass meet
in? of mice workers at Wilkesbare
arranged with the object of demonstra
tieg the streogth of the (Jotted Mine
Workers.
Two affidavits, made by residents of
Cabeli County, W Va., charge that
Senator Elkins bas defrauded the
government oct of the postal charge on
500,000 copies of a speech delivered
by bim at Charleston, W. Va., July
ll, by allowing it to be sent throogh
the mail, the envelopes bearing the
printed inscription : "United States
senate. Part of the congressional
record-free." Stamped with the
frank: "Stephen B. Elkins." The
speech was made opon the occasion of
the Weet Virginia republieao State
convention, of which Senator Elkins
was chairman^ one month after the
adjournment of congress. The speech
was no part of the congressional record
and the seodiag of it throogh the mail
was in direct violation of law.
LAST REPORT OF
THE CROPS ISSUED.
Director Bauer Summarizes
the Situation.
Thc following is the final report of
the season of tho weather and crops
io Sooth Carolina issoed yesterday by
Director Bauer of the Sooth Carolina
I 8eotioo of the climate and crop service
of the United States Weather Burean :
The week ending 8 a. m., Monday,
Oat 1st, was again very hot, the tem?
perature averaging over six degrees per
day warmer than usual, and had a
maximum of 98, and a minimum of 55
degrees, the former at Blackville, the
latter at Ch eraw.
The week was rainless. The ground
has again become too dry for plowing,
and but little oats or wheat seeding has
been done, the work awaiting more
favorable conditions for preparation and j
germination. The weather was unin?
terruptedly favorable for gathering
crops.
Corn ia being housed, and now it is
j certain that less than half a crop will
be gathered. Late corn isa oomplete
failure.
Cotton pioking made favorable pro*
gress, and from half to seven-eighths
of the crop has beeo gathered. Yields
are estimated at from half to nearly
three fourths an average crop Macy
correspondents state that picking will
be practically completed by Oct 15th,
whioh is unuasually early, due to the
continued abnormal beat and dryness.
There will be no top crop of any ac
oount. Sea island yields are also light,
and half has been gathered.
Peas, sweet potatoes, upland rice,
cine and hay crops are unusually poor,
io macy plaoes failures, except that a
few localities report an abundance of
grass for hay.
Early rice harvest is finished, and
Jone rice is ripening. The rice crop
is the only fine one cultivated this year.
Birds are destructive in the Georgetown
districts. Turnips are coming op
poorly, aod in many places no stands
have behn secured. Stock water is
scarce in places The fall beac crop
bids fair to be a partial failure.
Notice As the staple crops have
reaohed maturity, aod minor crops are
either ripe or gathered, and the proba?
ble yields no longer subject to weather
ioflaeooes, the issue of rhesc bulletins
will be suspended with this number
until the spring of 1901. Correspond?
ents will please aocept tbs thanks of
the weather bureau in appreciation of
their valuable weekly reports.
Hester's Monthly Statement
New Orleans,Oct 2 -Secretary Hes
ter's New Orleans cotton exohange
statement issaed today covers thc
monthly movement to the ciose of
Sept 30.
Compared with last year it shows a
decrease for the month in round figarcs
of 239,000 bales Toe statement
shows receipts at ports for the month,
619.986 against 788,428 last year ; net
shipment's overland 22,582 against
63,283 last year, southern mill takings,
exclusive of consumption at southern
outports 113,737 against 130,356 last
year ; interior stocks in excess of
amounts held Sept 1st, 123,071 against
136 645 last year.
American mills have taken during
I the month 155,200 bales against
236,454 last year, of which by northern
spinners and Canada, overland 38.738
against 102,792 j
Foreign exports for September were i
346,973, showing a decrease under the
same period IaBt year of 100,842
Stocks at the seaboard and the 29
leading southern interior markets at
the close of September were 499,688
against 1,053,341 last year.
Including stocks left over at ports
and interior town3 from the last crop
and the number of baies of thc now
crop brought into sight during Septem?
ber the supply to date is 1,001,861
against 1,737,610 last year.
I WASHINGTON LETT]
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j Washington, Oct i -There
! be a democratic majority of no
! than ten in the next house Tl
j the way the democratic congres*
campaign committee figures it
j and in doing the figuring allow
bas been made for every reaso
contingency Republicans priv
admit that these figures are
conservative, and that they
almost given up hope of reta
control of the house, unless the
a change in public sentiment ar.
ing almost to a stampede b
election day. Even the repub
congressional committee has
been putting out any claim, ei
in the most perfunctory way,
republican majority in the h<
On the contrary, its chairman,
resentative Babcock, bas been
paring his party for defeat. J AE
the contingencies allowed for by
democratic committee are los
seats in New York and Pennsylvi
which the party managers in t
states are confident of saving.
Mad as the republican leaders
with the lust of power and cocqi
and as determined as they are tc
to turn this liberty loving repi
into a world conquering em
founded on no higher principles
that which dominated the dark J
of youth-"might makes righi
they do not dare to publicly proc
that purpose as plainly as Ex-(
greesman Dangan, of Ohio, on(
j democrat, did in a speech madi
Washington, in which he attemr
to justify Mr McKinley and his
perialistic policy in the Philippi
i The following sentence from
Dungan's speech reveals the I
inwardness of the republican pol
which they have been so anxiot
trying to conceal by general I
about bettering the condition of
poor natives and improvement
American commerce : "In my oj
ion, title is fixed only by the suivi
of the fittest, and that is v
America is going to rule the earti
In other words, no people's title
their own country is good agai
the greed and avarice of a etronj
country. Surely a majority
Americans are not willing to en
the 20th century championing sucl
document
Rapreeentative Livingston,
Georgia, thus sums up the attitu
of the two parties towards trust
"In a recent speech made by Senat
Beveridge, this statesman says tr
the republican party, as well as t
democratic party, is opposed
trusts, only the republican par
proposed to limit and regulate trust
while the democratic party would <
nothing. Now. this statement w
made to intelligent people If tt
is so, how could Mark Hanna go
Baltimore and get from the trnsts
that city alone $80.000. while Brya
even had he tried, could not hai
got 80 cents. Senator Hanna h
said there are no trusts. He knov
and so does every thinking mao <
woman that this is false Here
evidence of the trusts. This year
takes 50 per cent more wheat to bc
a plow than it did last year,
takes 20 per cent more corn and
takes from $4 to $4 50 a month moi
to live now than it did a ar agi
Why ie this ? It is because of tb
trusts."
How desperate the republics
managers are getting may be judge
from their having ordered the part
press to try to make political capiti
out of the experience of Teddy i
Colorado
When the navy department reject
ed the bids for armor for warship:'
put in by the armor trusts, an
announced that Secretary Long woui
exerci?e the authority conlerred upo
him by congress to establish a
armor making plant, if better bid
were not submitted, it waB predict
ed that the armor trusts would ge
the contracts, if they made a satie
factory contribution to the rep?blica
campaign fund That prediction i
in a fair way to be verified Secre
tary Long has been dickering wit
the agents of the trusts, and it is offi
cialy announced that he expects t<
make a satisfactory contract witl
them for the armor, which doubtlesi
means that Hanna has already made
a satisfactory arrangement with thea
for campaign contributions
The Chinese minister to the Unite(
States having succeeded so well ii
getting the administration to act ii
accordance with his private advice
has gone a step farther and is now
giving the administration public
advice through the medium of news
paper interviews He wants thie
government to act as mediator be
tween the powers and China, and
says if it doesu't, it may in the end
find itself shut out of China com
mercially That "chink" has got
nerve to thus threaten the man who
has been as friendly to him and his
j government as Mr McKinley has
been
Lookout for preposterous republicac
i claims Orders have gone out from
j republican national headquarters to
j the party newspapers to print con
! tinually and conspicuously during the
: three weeks previous to the election
, paragraphs claiming states enough to
: give McKinley 25 or 30 more elec
i toral votes than he had in 1896. The
1 idea is said to be that 6uch wholesale
; claims persistently made, will catch
: voters who wirth to be on the wiu
j ning side
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No other pms cat? equal UeWitt'a Linie
. E-iriv Risers for promptness, cer'aioty aod
j efficiency J S Hughson & Co.
perfect Health.
Keep the system in perfect or>
!er by the occasional use of
utt's Liver Pills. They reg?
ulate the bowels and produce
A Vigorous Body,
ror sick headache, malaria, bil
usness, constipation and kin
-ed diseases, an absolute cure
UTT'S Liver PILLS
~ NOTICE TO TAXPAYERS.
OFFIC? OF
COUNTY TREASURERSUMTERCOUNTY.
SUMTER, S. C., Sept. 22, 1900.
""VTOTICE is hereby given tbat I will be io
L\ my office io tbe County Court House
ni Sumter from October 15tb to Cecember
31st, 1900 inclusive, for tbe collection of
taxes for the fiscal year 1900. Tbe levy ig as
follows :
For State purposes, ? mills
For Count? purposes, 2i mills.
For School t urposes, 3 mille.
Totnl levy, ll* mills.
Also the following special school levies :
School District No 1, 2 mills.
Scbool District No 16, 2 mills.
School District No. 18, 2 mills.
School District No. 20, 3 mills.
Mt. Clio, 2 mills.
Concord, 2 mills.
Privateer, 2 mills.
No. 5. 1 mill.
No 17, 1 mill.
Commutation Road Tax for 1901 $1 0C,
payable from Oct. i5th 1900 to Feb. 1st 1901.
H L SCARBOROUGH,
Treasurer Sumter Co.
Sept 26-13t_
Turnip
Full line of all desirable va?
rieties, new crop seed just re?
ceived.
Havana Segars.
Large line of fine * Havana
Segars.
Toilet Articles.
A choice line of Toilet and
Fancy G-oods to which atten?
tion is invited at
DeLorme's Drug Store.
TEACHERS' EXAMINATION.
, OFFICE OF
CO SUPERINTENDENT OF EDUCATION.
Sumter, S. C , Sept 19, 1900.
rpBE REGULAR EXAMINATION FOR
X teacher's CJUD J certificares will be held
oo Friday, Oct 12, 1900
For white-io Uounty Auditor's offica.
For colored-in my office
J. EDWIN REMBERT,
Sept .6-2t Co. Supt. El.
Estate of Jobo Martin, Bm*d.
WE *' I LL apply to the Judge of Probate
of Sumter County on October 12tb,
1900, for a Final Discbarge as Executors of
aforesaid Eitate.
JAMES D MARTIN,
ISAAC M MARTIN,
JOB JACKSON.
Sept 12, 1900-4t
New York Li Insurance Coipy.
OLDEST and largest International Life
lofuraoce Company io tbe world Op?
eration under the control of 82 zovernmeots
No shareholders. Assets over $236 000,0C0
AU profits pa'.d to policy holders Life Ordi?
nary. Accumulation Policies. Ten, Fif?
teen, Twenfv Payment Accumulation Poli
j cies. Ten, Fifteen, Twenty-year Endowment
Accumulation Poicies Policies nonforfti:a
tile, incontestable.
H. FRANK WILSON, Agent,
Sept 12-3m Sumter. S C.
JOINTS
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Caveats, and Trade-Marks obtained and all Pat?
ent business conducto* for MOOERATC-FEES.
OUR OFFICE IS OPPOSITE U. S. PATEN r OFTICEJ
and we can secure patent ia less ti rac th?\a ;hose*
remote from Washington. m m <
Send model, drawing or photo?, with descrip-j
tion. We advise, if patentable or not, free of J
charge. Oar fee not due till patent is secured. ?
A PAMPHLET, 44 How to Obtain Patents," with?
cost of same in'the U. S. and foreign countries*
seat free. Address,
C.A.SNOW&CO.
OPP. PATENT OFFICE, WASHINGTON. O. C.
The Largest aifl Most Complete
Establishment Sonto
Geo, S. Hacker & Son,
-MANUFACTURERS OF
DOORS, SASH, BLINDS,
Moulding & Building
Material.
orticcand Warerooms, King, opposite Can
non Street,
CHARLESTON, S. C.
JRSt" Purchase our nmke. which wr jruHrantt
superior to any sold South, and
the rob.- >>HVf? money.
Window and Fancy Glass a Specialty
October J6 -o
The Palace
Schwartz Bros.
The Real Dry Goods Supremacy
A Word ?f the Opening?
The Success of the Store is Cumulative.
Every anniversary marks a progress, and yet success can only
increase in proportion as we do deserve it. Our merchandise
must be truly worthy and truly represented. Our prices must
be the lowest and bear comparison. Our styles, our ideas just
a little different than others. Your appreciation is the electric
force working through this store to your own advantage.
There?s been no time when we had such stocks to serve you,
no time when we had more to show you of goods that can be
found no where else.
A Great Opening Day Was This-We
Thank You.
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Our departments are ready. They greet you with new mer?
chandise, more complete and more responsive to the demands
of every taste and service, and price than ever before in our
history.
JUST IN : Ladies "Rainy Day" (ur^ned) Tailor Suits. Made
of fine double-texture materials, plaid backs. Shades
Navy, Oxford, Grey, Black. Finely tailored, and a very
swell suit, see them !
Also : See this Shoe Stock of ours. It will pay yoUj both as
to style and price.
Our New Furs are Here ) Q, , . ?1 , .
Our New Cloaks, also }Styles stnctly exclssive'
We take pleasure in showing you.
Schwartz Bros.
Sumter's Fashion Emporium,
Dry Goods Leaders.
Do Yon Wear a Hat
a? good a? the
Howard Hat
HOWARD STYLE. HOWARD ALPINE.
They are the Best Made
9/
for the Money,
tit& 4k*& ?Q
3Po# tPo? ?pw*
Our line of Strouse & Bros. celebrated
"high art" Clothing is the largest we
have ever shown. We have them in
all the latest cuts Don't fail to ask to
be shown their close fitting Military Cut
Coat. It is something new.
PRICES RIGHT.
Our line of cheap and medium priced
Clothing is complete in every detail.
An inspection of them will convince you
of their superiority over all others.
J. RETTENBERG &