WEDNESDAY, PEC. 19,1900.
The Sumter Watcnman was rounded
in 1850 and the Trite 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
8umter.
NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.
It is not necessary for us to seed a
1 ?talement to each individual sub
scriber who* ia indebted tous for
subscription, as the fabe! shows the
time to which each one bas paid.
Examine the (abel on your paper and
if you are i a arrears please call and
settle at yoiir* earliest coirvenience
If it is not convenient1 to call in per
SOB send the money by bank draft,
registered letter or post office or ex
press money order.
The amount due by each one is
small, but the aggregate amount due
us is large, and this is the reason
that we expect our subscribers to
make settlements We have carried
some ot these subscription accounts
over from year to year as an acccm
modation to our subscribers, but we
cannot do so ior ger as there is now
so. excuse for non payment with cot
ton selling for ten cents and over.
Next Tuesday wit! bo the last Christ?
mas of the nineteenth century, bal; tn
all respects tc will . differ from other
Christmas days , ta o o way . A great
deal has been etr.d and written about
the desi og days cf the century, tn a oh
that is beaattfal and true and hehful,
auch t hat; RP fe o*f faf \ and of co profit
to anyone. This Christmas ?ill be as
others a pot tod of good cheer and rest
and recreation,-and for tba children a
time of happiness aad delight, unalloyed
by care or warty over the mistakes of
the past and th? r eapoostbtitties of the
future. To the pessimist of today, as
cf a hundred years ago, the earea and
responsibilities ol life appear to grow
'greater year by year and they look for?
ward to the New ?ear and the dawning
Tweotietb Ceotary with dark forebod?
ings, bat the children acd optimists
believe that the future is golden and tbe
New Year bolds io its closed bauds
greater happiness aod mor?* of the
thing? that they desiro. Would that
we could all be optimists, for tho world
would be a better and a brighter place,
and every day of the year would be as
we wish Cbrisfcu-as to be. To cor read?
ers we extend the com pi im ec ts of the
season.
May their Cari-tm as be bright end
fcapry and may peace aod contentment
dwell withio 'their heurte and homes
May they took always for the bright
side of the pic:ors tod may the New
Year ace thc e?w ceo (cry give to them
more aod cs ore of happiness and pros?
per;:/
3: ?be buioess men of Somter will
use bt-roped envelopes exclusively dar
tog :ne coming year aod will use Post
Office money orders its ead of express
order* ?nd bank drafts the income vi
the ef?be. wit! be increased to a sufficient
exteDt to brtcg about tbe establishment
of tre? cuat? delivery wimbia the city
lim"d For severa! yesr? past the io
creaee hts beec a?most t>u??ei?rj? and i?
the ?-cogestion here wade is acted opon
we can obtato free delivery io 1902
Sumter holds the fifth place in the
State tn point of population, bot it is
an admitted fact that Unless the peo
pie of Sumter get to work with might
ace main to develop the resources
that we possesses and thereby pro
mote ?he growth of (he city tbe next
census will tell another story.
A coal mine bas been discovered
in Fairfield coaoty. and a large de?
posit of a fiae Quality of brown iron
ore has been discovered within three
miles of this city The extent of the
deposit has <aot been thoroughly
determined, but it has been found
already in jirreot quantity The
deposit has been examined by an old
and experienced iron miner who
says that the ore is cf the very best
quality, and that cheap fuel and
limestone is ail that is needed to
make the deposit a source of weaUh.
Perhaps Fairfield's coal mine and
Sumter's iron deposit may yet be of
great value to these counties.
Help is Deeded at once woen e person's life
is ia danger. A neglected cough or cold may
soou become serious and should be stopped at
oace. One Minute Cotz?h Cure qaickly corea
coughs and colds and the worst cases of
croup, bronchitis, grippe and o:ber throat
acd lang troubles. J S Haghsoa & Co.
Go to H. G. Gsteec & Co , for bocks cf all
iiads.
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WASHINGTON
NEWS AND GOSSIP.
Hay-Paunoefote Treaty-Ship
Subsidy Bili.
j Washington, Dec 17 -No admin?
istration has ever received a more
humiliating defeat at the hands of a
senate controlled by a majority of its
! own party than bas been administered
? ito the present one by the emend -
meats added to the Hay Pauncefote
treaty within the last few days
Instead of cringing to England, as
the treaty, as originally drawn by
Lord Paoncefote, and accepted by
Secretary Hay and Mr McKinley,
did, and begging the consent of
England and ali the other European
powers to our constructing the
Nicaragua canal with our own money
and then giving to all other countries
equal rights therein witb us, tbe
amended treaty serves notice on
Englard that the Clayton-Bulwer
treaty is thereby abrogated ; that we
are going to dig the canal and con?
trol and protect it in our own way
and without asking the consent of
any other power in the world. In
short, when the senate ratifies that
treaty it will be a thoroughly Ameri?
can document, as the public senti?
ment of the country has from the
first demanded that it should be.
When these amendments were first
talked about the administration toot
ers indulged in considerable bluffing
concerning the fight the administra?
tion would make to have the treaty
ratified without amendment When j
the time came for a show down did
the administration fight ? Net even
tbe tiniest little bit On the contrary,
Mr McKinley even gave his consent
to the amendment and promised to
forward the treaty to England after
its ratification, but he told the sena
tors who went to inform him that the
amendments would be added whether
be liked them or not that he was
afraid that England would never,
never accept the amended treaty
that Hay was positively certain it
would not Bot that doesn't seem
to be worrying the senators. They
?Bay that if England rejects the treaty
as amended, congress will adopt a
joint resolution declaring the Clayton '
Bulwer treaty abrogated, and that
the construction of the cana! will go
right along jost the same as toongh
England bad accepted the treaty
Senator Alien, of Nebraska, has
proposed an amendment to the ship
subsidy bili, authorizing payment of
bounties on agricultural product? ex?
ported, amounts named being, 10
cent8*a bushel on wheat, 50 cents a
barrel on wheat flour, 10 cent3 a
bushel on rye 50 cents a barrel on
rye flour, 5 cents a bushel on corn, 7
cents pei cental on ground corn, 1
cent a pound on cotton, 2 cents a j
pou td on hops, and 2 cents a pound
on tobacco There is, of course, no
probability that Senator Allen's
amendment will be adopted, but he,
and many others, regard the proposi
tion as on the same footing with the
object aimed at by the ship subsidy
bill, so far as principle ie concerned,
and being a much better way to give
away public mooey, because it would
be more widely distributed
The republicans of the ways and
means committee received two de?
feats while the bouse was sitting as
a committee of the whole to consider
amendmeats lo the revenue reduction
Bili The bouse by a vote of 9-i to
95 defeated the committee amend?
ment, abolishing one sixth and one
eighth beer barrels, on the ground
that it was a discrimination against
the smail brewers of the country,
and by a vote of 106 to 82, adopted
an amendment, proprosed by repre
eentative H 0. Smith, cf Mich,
requiring al! railroad and expresa
companies to make sworn statements
monthly of their business and to pay
one cent tax for each bill of lading
and receipt issued. Later the com
mittee assisted by senator Piatt, of
N Y , who is president of one of
the big express companies, rallied its
forces and got the latter ameudment
struck out just before the fiual vote
was taken passing bill
From being the Czar of the house
to being unknown to a member of
the house is quite a plunge for a roan
to take inside of two yearB, but the
drop bas been made oy Hon Themas
Brackett Keed, wbo9e law practice
now includes a little congressional
lobbying. Mr Reed was just coming
out of the house when representative
Cromer, of Indiana, asked one of the
door keepers, who that fat man was
Such is fame
Secretary Root wants to do all the
lobbying himself that is done by the
War Department ; consequently he
has sent a circular letter to the army
officers who are at the bead of bu
reaus in that department, calling'
their attention to an army regulation
.'Efforts to influence legislation affect?
ing the army should never be made
except through regular military chan
nels.'' and directing that all com
inundations that aimy officers desire
sent to Congress ehali be forwarded
tbroGgh him.
Although the Army Reorganiza
tion bill has not yet bec? reported
from the senate Committee on Mili?
tary Affairs, and is not likely to be
nut ii after the Christmas recess,
which wilt be from Dec 21, until Jan
uary 3, the republicans are already
swooping down cn Mr McKinley
with demands cf promises of appoint
mentB that wili be made when that
bill becomes a law, and it is said that
some republican senators have inti
mated to him that they will not allow
the bill to go through unless their de?
mands for pap are met
Senator Hanna is getting alarmed
about the ship subsidy bill, which he
said at the beginning of the session
he would get through the Senate be
fore the holiday recess. He has
changed bis mind
So?? to Cure Croup.
Ur R Gray who lives near Amenia, Dueness
county, N Y, sajs : Chamberlain's Cough
Remedy ts the best medicine I have ever used.
It is a Soe children's remedy for croup and
never fails to cure " When given es soon as
tbe child becomes hoarse, or even after the
croupy cou?h bas developed, it will prevent
tbe attack. Tbis should be borne in mind and
a bottle of the Cough Remedy kept at band
ready for instant use as soon as these symp?
toms apoear. For sale by Dr A J China.
Another Negro Lynched ra
Indiana.
Booceville. Ind, Deo 17.-John
Rolla, the third of the colored mea
implicated io tbe murder of Holli-;
Simons, was hanged to a tree is the I
court house by a mob of about 100 men ?
from Rockpcrt this evening. Two of
bis companions were lynched at Rock
port last night for the same crime.
Not a shot was 6red and everything
was conducted as quietly cs if the
execution had been one under the
sanction of the law
Rolla was brcngbt to this place tbii
afternoon abou? 3 o'clock io charge of
Sheriff Anderson, of Rockpcrt Upon
his arrival be was placed in a cell OD
the second fi >or of the jail aod his
pres2noe was known only to a few
citizens.
BATTERED IN THE WALLS.
A few minutes after 6 o'clock a body
of 100 men marched through tbe prin?
cipal street and demanded the prisoner,
j Raymond Cherry, deputy sheriff, was
I io oharge of the jail He declined to
give up the keys, and the mob at OD ce
began to batter in the wall of the jail
with a telegraph pole Six members
of the mob crawled through the hole
and with sledge hammers broke down
the door of Roiia's cell, aod soon the
thoroughly terrified negro was in the
hands of the mee-, who placed a rope
around bis neok All left, crawling,
again through the hole by which tbey
had eLiereo, dragging the negro after
them.
A few minute? was consumed io thc
march to tbe cour: boase yard, the !
rope .was thrown over the limb of a!
tree and a hundred b*nds *eot his body
flying into the air. The loose end of J
tbe rope was tied to a tree, and as soon j
as the mob was sure thar, its work bad !
been completed it left in as orderly a
manner as ir had entered thc town.
None of the mob wore masks, and
men apparently from every station io
life took part in tbe lynching. Except
for the exe;!ed groups of meu standing
on the street corners, a stranger would
have known nothing of tbe tragedy
tbat bad just been c-oaeted
Tba bill introduced recently in the
Georgia Legislature restricting ages
of children in cotton or other facto i
ries was killed. This bill has made
appearance quite a number of years
in succession, only to meet the same
fate The New York Commercial
says : The opponents of the measure
are largely the operatives themselves.
They argue that they are poor and
that their children must of necessity
work. The mill owners, too, have,
as a rule, opposed the measure They
say, aside from the poverty of the
cotton mill operatives7 families, the
South has no compulsory educational
law ; that these parents would not
send their children to school ii they
were debarred from tho mills ; that to
turn these children out into idleness
would be to make lifetime loafers out
of them ; aod that, bad as is the posi?
tion of a young working child. the
position of an idle, loafiug child is to
be the more deplored "
Commissioner Crom states that the
shipments of the dispensary aggre
gate $14,500 a day, and the dispen
sers throughout the State are clamor?
ing for more liquor and insistiog that
they ought to have more stock. It
is to be remembered that the State
now has on hand in the various dis?
pensaries turee or four hundred
thousand dollars worth of stock.
Commissioner Crum says that the
heaviest demands are for the cheaper
grades of liquor The demand for
"white" corn is particularly heavy
Mr. Crum says that it is somewhat
peculiar that the upper counties in?
sist upon having ' white" coro and
the lower counties of the State want
'yeiiow" com
Greenville, Dec 15.-Them ia a
bright prospect for a new and convenient
Court House for Greenville County, j
The pres-eot building is cot suitable,
lacking every convenience, and has
been condemned by nearly every grand
? jury for several years. A number of
j citizens of tbe county a^d city have
! been fi^uiit^ on a new butldiog and
? today Frank P. Milburn, architect cf
i Columbia, met a number of citizen?,
; showing plans for a fifty thoupaod dollar
j Court House, exciting gre.it eotbufi
: asm. Th'.: L"gi?iature will be asked to
I authorize thc county to ??stic bonds 'or
! the building, in order that tbe third
j city of the State may have a Court
j House convenient for tbe business
i cf the county.
in malarial districts Tutt's Pills
arc indispcnsible, they keep the
system in perfect order and are
an absolute cure
for sick headache, indigestion.
;nalaria, torpid liver, constipa?
tion and all bilious diseases.
Tutt's Liver Pills
: THE
Standard Warehouse Co.,
Columbia, S, C.
Cotton Capacity, 20,000 bales.
Storage and iosoraoce 15 cts. per
bale per mooth, or fraction thereof,
j Speoiai rates on large lots.
I Liberal advaooes at low rare of inter
? est OD cotton stored wirb u?. Write to
j EDWIN W. ROBERTSON, Sec,
or H. L ELLIOTT, Mgr.
j Sept 19-3m
THE BANK OF SUMTER.
SUMTER, S. C.
City and County Depositary
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Capital steck p.'iid ic. . . $75,0C0 00
Undivided surplus, . . 16,000 00
Individual liability cf stockholders
? io excess of their stock, . 75,000 00
Transacts a general banking business : alao
has H Savings Bank Department Depositsof
Si and upward received, interest allowed aj
the rats of 4 j cr ceot. per annum, payable
; semi-annually.
W. F. B. HAYNS WORTH, President.
MARIOK MOISE, W. F. REAMS,
Vice-Presideot Cashier.
Jan 31.
OpiBS if Boots of S?crii?ion
STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA,
COUNTY OF SUMTER.
PURSUANT to a commission issued to the
ondersieoed as corporators by M R
Uooper, Sa: re ta ry of State, on the 12tb day
of December, 1900,
Notice is hereby gireo that books of sub?
scription to the capital stock of the W. D.
Friersoo Company, will oe opened at store of
W. D Fncrsoc, 8 mile9 from Sua ter on the
road from Sumter to Stateburg, State and
Coooty aforesaid, on the 22d day of Decem?
ber, at 9 a m.
Tbs said proposed corporation will have a
capital stock of $5,005, divided into CO shares
of the par value of $100 eacb, wirb its prin?
cipal place of business 8 miles from Sumter
on the road from Sumter to Stateourg, and
will oe empowered to engage in the business
of a general country etore and mercbandise
and cotton gionioe and mil! business
W D FKIERSON,
RICHARD M. CA NT EY,
Corporators.
Dec 19 -lt
MONEY TO LENO.
WE *r-> prepared to negotiate loans oo
ii?.Kroved farming lands io Sumier
and Clarendon Couoties on long time iu
amounts of $300 and upwards ai? seven per
ceot ict?re-1, and with no <xpens? to "he
norrower except a smak brokerage commie
sion We cao also negotiate loao3 io anv
amouots at 8 per cent oo terms to PO it tue
borrower Apply to LE3_":?I3E,
Dec 19-2m Somier, S C.
Master's Sale.
BY VIRTUE of a decree of the Coart cf
Common Plea9 for Sumter County, in
icc State of South Carolina, in the case of
Robert B Dickies, in bis own riebt and as
administrator of the estates of Wtllia;netta
Dinkins, deceased, and Frances L Dinkme,
deceased, respectively ; Florence V. Jennings,
Ida V. Ices and Sarah R Burkett against
Winfield S Dinkies, Walter J. Dinkies and
Mary E Jennings, I will sell at public auc?
tion, to l?e highest bidder at the Court House
io tbe city of Sumter, io said county and
Stn'te, on sale day in January, 1901, Oeing
tbe seventh day of said mooth, at the usuai
boors of sale, the followiDg described ieal
estate, to wit :
"A tract of fifty-two and one half acres of
land in sa:d county, adjoining land of Mark
Reynolds Florence V Jenniogs, Jane Browo,
Paul Reese, Porter Chapman ar_d lands said
to belong to a church ; said tract of land
being in Sumier County in said State.'-'
Terms ot se Ie cash. Purchaser to pay for
parers sud revenue stamps.
H. FRANK WILSON,
Master for Sumter County.
December 18, 1,-00.
Blaster's Sale.
BY VIRTUE of a Decree of the Court of
Common Pleas for Sumter County, in
me State ot South Carolioa, io the case of
Johu F McNairand Philander Peais'jli co
partners trading as McNair &? Pear9ol?,
agaif-st Berj+mio M Carpenter, Roberson W
Cator, W;laam J. H Waiters, William H
Pagot?, J ti. Pagoo and Franklin P Ca;or,
tbe last five trading as Armstrong, Cater and
Companv and R. W. Hicks 1 will sell at
publ.t: auction, to the highest bidder, at the
Court House in the city cf Sumte., in said
County and State, oo Saleday in January,
1901, oeing the seventh day of sa;d montb,
at the usual boure of sale, the following de?
scribed real estate, to wit :
. ''Ail that lot of land in tb.? town of
Mayesviile, iu the State and Couoty above
written, conveyed by William H. Rembert to
the said B M. Carpenter by Deed bearing
date the twenty-third day cf April, 1897,
and dt-ecribed aa follows : Situated cn West
Main s'.reet in s?iid town, and froo'ing on
West Main street af-out tweoty-fiv.s feet (23),
u little n-cre or less, and runs btcl: tee same
width tor s:xfy feet, a little more or leis, and
is bounded t.& follows : Oo the southeast by
Wett >l?iu street lb the aforesaid town cf
Mayes7:ile ; on the southwest by let cf Km
maj Wilson (former,;. J. C. McCall's lot) ;
on the northwest by land o? Sue Witbei- !
epcon ; and on the norineast oy lands ot
Robert Sioglettiry and Sue Witherspoon.*'
Terms ot sale cash. Purchaser to pay f_r
papers and revenue stamps.
H. FRANK WILSON,
Master for Sumter County.
Dtc 13, 19C0.
J. RETTENBERG &
SV9ITEB, S. C.
Dolls, Tea Sets, Doll Furniture, Par?
lor Sets, Dining Room Sets, Bread Sets,
Fire Engines, Hooks and Ladders, Mag?
ic Lanterns, Cradles, Running Trains,
Automobiles, Ten Pin Sets, Wind Mills,
and just about 1,000 and 1 other things
OfTAS HOLIDAYS.
Our line of Dolls and Toys are from oe up, and ail we ask
is a call from you.
Come in and . look whether you buy or not ; they are all
displayed where you can see them, and perhaps after taking a
look you may find a thing or too you need.
Buying handkerchiefs ? If so, we have them, a dandy opes
j work embroidered as cheap as 5c.
See our embroidered and hemstitched handkerchiefs at 10,
! 15, 20, 25, 30 and 35c. They are the greatest values ever
j sold for the prices.
Take a look at the umbrellas in our window, every -one a
new one, the latest and swellest handles in the market, cover
as good as the handles, too. prices very low. Come and see
them.
Pocketbooks make a very useful present, an article every
lady needs. This line is the largest we have ever had, any
kind and any price you want here. Look at these, too, when
in the store.
Perfumery department crowded to its utmost for the Xmas
season. We handle all of Colgate's world famed perfumes,
soaps, toilet powders, etc. See our 25c boxes of extracts and
soap. This will please the children immensely.
Lots of useful and ornamental articles in
our Silverware Stock. Sterling Silver goods
as cheap as 10c. Every article marked at
the lowest notch.
J. Rettenberg ^ Sons?
SUMTER. S. C.
I j WE ll ERRICK SHOE FOR WOMEN j
?r I 1/^3 V 3 Here's a wa tran ted and guar- V %
/r -"n:ec^ perfect shoe fnr women
a O P i f ibathastheiiame*4 H errick "back of it- \
^st^TrJjCjC* :? nainc t?iat stands for thirty-ei.srht years
?^VIPT^^YT < experience ir. thc making cf women's
?[jA 3 ^jjjPj?j^& Thc dealer who docs r.ct sell them lias
P fi , a reason cf his own and perhaps i t's bc
L-fll 1 H Wk"* rxi cause there's no fancy profit to be made
fi nW"' M The Herrick Shoe is fionest-thoroughly
5^1 fl J!r 53 made, stylish, easy. It is the only aaver
422 ?j %i?&%^~-A Sx risen American shoe exhibited a: the
raorftfEF? ?P 1'aris Exposition.
?0? J^WUMBBWAY Kor walking, house cr dress occasions I
M^MMBrr8p s:y!e ?> '*i.ust .r>Knt-" Three j
'^?f^JBj?^ 52.50, $3.00, $5.50. I
?^'?^^^?^S V? Oxfords 50 cents a pair ?ess than J
i \&yb$2ffiir J kj prices quoted. \A
jj K -M
We s have s the
stock of
.
9
largest
HOLIDAY GOODS
We have ever shown and
we invite the Christmas
shoppers to visit our store
and inspect our line of
Books, Booklets,
Calendars, Christmas Cards,
Novelties and Fancy Goods,
Standard Books in sets,
Popular ^vels, Handsome Editions
of the Poets.
Books for Boys and
ToyBooks, Writing Desks, Toilette
Sets, Wedgewood-ware, Cut Glass, Pic?
tures, Picture Frames, Etc.
LIBERTY STREET, SUMTER, S; C