Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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WE"DNESMYT??6?ST"7, 1901. The Sumter Watcnman was roundec in 1850 and the True Southro?i in 1866 The Watchman and Southron now has ~ the combioe? circulation and influence of both of the old papers, and is rnani estly the best advertising medium in Sa ra ter Sumter County will be the battle ground for the Congressional candi? dates and each and every one of them will put forth their best efforts to secure a large share of the Sumter vote. After the first primary the sec? ond primary candidates will do the liveliest sort of campaigning in the highways and byways of the Game Cock county. * "We began agitation for a connection with the Seaboard Air Line as soon as the announcement was made that the road would extend its main line from Cheraw to Camden. This agitation was kept up without encouragement from home folks or the Seaboard capi? talists, brit being fully satisfied that a branch road from Sumter to the main line of the Seaboard would be valua? ble to this city, the country through which it would pass and to the Sea? board, we did not lose hope of con? vincing our people that the road should and could be built. Our work has borne fruit and. though the road is not yet built, we are satisfied that within a year or eighteen months the Seaboard trains will be running into Sumter. 'Che projected road will traverse the finest section of country in central South Carolina and it will not only give this city better rates and a most desirable outlet bnt will be a profitable property to its owners. It will not be expensive to build or main? tain and the local business will be large and continuous throughout the year. Senator McLaurin's ammunition must be running pretty low since he finds it necessary to go back several years in the history of the reform movement, of which he himself, was at that period, a conspicuous expo? nent, to dig up the whiskey rebate and bond commission scandals against Senator Tillman. The people have had a surfeit of hints and insinua? tions along this line, and if Senator McLaurin cannot give the proof that Senator Tillman corruptly lined his pockets, he is wasting time to no good purpose. Senator Tillman has been tried at the bar of public opinion on these charges and a verdict of "not proven'' rendered, and unless Senator McLaurin, can by reason of his one? time intimacy with "our noble lead '-ei" furnish the proof io convict, his charges are no better than mud-sling? ing-an art in which he is no match for his opponent. A Popular Appointment Made by Capt. Capers. Charleston, Aug. 5.-The announce? ment of the reappointment of Mr. B. A. Hagood as first assistant United States district attorney was made to? day by District Attorney John G. Capers. Mr. Hagood has served seve? ral terms as assistant district attorney. He is a young man of much ability and although he is a Republican, he has alaways had the good will and es? teem of the public, and especially of the progressive element of Charleston. He has never figured in Republican conventions and pow-wows, and it is safe to say that the new district attor? ney could not have made a more a poDular appointment. Capt. Capers said that he hopes to be-able to retain the services of Mr. Cochran, of Greenville, the other as? sistant attorney. Chief Clerk Johnn L. Heidtman, formerly of Orangeburg, has been informed by Capt Capers that he can "rest comfortable" for several months, as he will make no change within this time. The formal transfer of the Chicora park site to the government for the naval station will take place this week. A paymaster of the navy will be sent here from ,Port Royal to make the requisition on the government and tht-n pay out the money to Mrs. Law? ton and the city of Charleston. Not Annexationists. Habana, Aug. o.^-Gten. Maximo Go? mez his written to hla friend. Gen. Vega, regarding the reports that he had described himself and Senor Estra? da Palma as annexationists. After remarking that he had come upon a reference to the matter an local paper in Puerto Principe, he says: "To pretend that Senor Palma and ? are annexationists is madness. The best way to carry out a plan is to speak much of it. "For this reason it appears that many Cubans desire an? nexation and look to the most prom? inent chiefs of the revolution to sup? port the motive, but they have tried to convert to the doctrine some very old heretics. "The Platt law solved the question. The constitutional convention was not to blame as it had fired the last cartridge in defense of absolute inde? pendence. ' ' There was no meeting of the consti? tutional convention today, only 20 delegates presenting themselves. ,4I am indebted to On? Minute Congb Core for my present good health and my lire. I ! waa treated in vain by doctors for lang trou bles following, la grippe. I took One Min? ute Cough Care and recovered my health." Mr S H Wise, Madison, Qa. J S Hughson & Co. NEW RAILROAD FOR SUMTER. j Commission Secured for a Road to Tap the Seaboard Main Lina. Road to be 38 Miles Long and to Connect at McBee. We are glad to see that a movement has been started for the purpose of building a railroad from this city to connect with the main line of the Sea? board railroad. This paper has re ! peatedly urged the importance of such a road, and when it is opened we shall feel proud in being able to add it to the list of improvements secured by Sumter and for which we have earnest? ly worked. The following is the an? nouncement of the project clipped from the State of the 8th instant : There is to be another feeder rail? road line for the Seaboard Air Line. And another large town in South Carolina will be put on that system. A spur railroad running from Sumter to connect with the Seaboard at Mc? Bee, a station between Columbia and Kershaw is projected and it is under? stood that the road will be built at once. The road as proposed will traverse a very rich portion of the State and it is said will pass the towns of Bishopville and Wisacky. The first steps were taken yesterday toward the building of this line which will giive Sumter the third of the big railroad system and better rates. It came in the nature of an application for a charter presented to the Secre? tary of State. In the declaration the name of the company is thus set forth, giving the route of the new line : "That the nature of its business and the purpose of its corporation is to construct and operate lines of rail? road between Sumter, South Carolina, and a point on the Seaboard Air Line at McBee or Bethune, or some point on said Seaboard Air Line railroad between these two towns. That said railroad will pass through the town? ships of Sumter, Swimming Pens, Mt. Clio, Carter's Crossing and Bishop? ville in the county of Sumter, and Buffalo township in the county of Ker? shaw, and Cypress, Stokes' Bridge and Hartsville in the county of Darling? ton, and Alligator township in the county of Chesterfield, all in the State of South Carolina. That said contem? plated railroad will be 38 miles in length and will be totally in the State of South Carolina. The company is to have an initial capital stock of $80,000 with an ulti? mate capital of 8100,000. The corpora? tors of the company are well known business men : A. Brooks Stuckey, Julian E. Harby, Richard I. Manning, Marion Moise and Wm. A. Bowman, of Sumter : Robt. M. Cooper, of Wisacky and Geo. K. Reid and Charles L. Stuckey, of Bishopville. The Man Who Will Probably be Cuba's First President. General Palma, who has had his headquarters in New York for a number of years, is dear to the Cuban people, says the Washington corres? pondent of the Chicago Tribune. He has promoted their interests for many years past, and the freedom of Cuba is largely due to his unselfish work. During the last Cuban war he was the president of the Cuban junta, with headquarters in New York city. In this position he came into posses? sion of a great deal of money intend? ed for use in the campaign against Spain. General Palma was true to the trust reposed in him, and notwith? standing the fact that no restrictions were placed upon him every dollar of the money was accounted for, and he closed the transaction with clean hands. Just previous to and during the Spanish-American war General Palma conducted the delicate diplomatic negotiations which were necessary to arrange the details of the agreement between Cuba and the United States, as to the future of Cuba when the Spaniards were driver, from the island. In this respect he was the Ben Frank? lin of Cuba, and in the secret nego? tiations which he was called upon to conduct he acquitted himself admir? ably, and not only retained the respect of his own countrymen, but stained that of all Americans, who saw in him a broad-minded and noble man who was devoted to the interests of free Cuba. Some idea of the conrage of the man who will probably be president of the Cuban republic, and how devoted he was to the cause of the island, can be gained from some incidents of his career. During the ten years' war General Palma was captured by the Spanish troops and sent to Spain, where he was imprisoned until that prolonged conflict, which devastated the island and brought starvation upon its people, was brought to a close. While in Spain and suffering the hardships of imprisonment, he A\ias offered his freedom if he would swear allegiance to the Spanish crown. "No," was his answer to this proposi? tion, "you may shoot me if you will, but if I am shot it will be as the secretary of the Cuban republic." Another incident which demon? strated how thoroughly he sunk his own personality, and proved that he was working exclusively for the wel? fare of his country, occurred when his mother was captured by the Spanish troops. General Palma, who was with a body of Cuban troops, received word from "the Spanish commandant of a town a short distance from where he was in camp that his mother would be slowly starved to death. This revolting barbarity was prac? ticed because it was hoped by the Spanish that General Palma would go to the rescue of his mother, when he would be captured, put to death and thus bring about an end to the revo? lution, which was kept alive largely by the efforts of General Palma. His mother was actually starved to death, and this inhuman treatment made him more determined that Cuba should free itself from the Spanish yoke. There was a thrilling sequel to the inhuman barbarity practiced by the Spanish commandant. Soon after General Palma's mother had been starved a body of Cuban soldiers cap? tured the Spanish commandant who executed the orders of the Spanish j government, together with four Span j ish soldiers who participated in the i cruelties visited 1-7 Palma. ! They were brought before General j Palma by the Cuban soldiers, who asked how the Spaniards should be put to death. It was during this try? ing time that General Palma demon? strated he was a great man, as he? would not avenge himself personally upon the men who were responsible for the death of his mother. The Spaniards stood before the great-diplo? mat while he thought the matter over. Finally he spoke, and said : "This is not a personal matter with me. These men put my mother to death because they were fighting for the welfare of their own country. My surrender would have saved her life, I took that responsibility. They can? not bring her back to life, and it would not promote the interests of my country if I should order them put to death." He then ordered the men freed, much to their amazement and that of his followers, who could not under? stand the motive of the man who could not be guilty of revenging himself upon men who had committed a crime in the discharge of what they conceiv? ed to be their duty. GERMANY'S QUARREL WITH COLOMBIA. I "Washington, Aug. 4.-Delighted as I the Kaiser would no doubt be to sieze j upon the Murillo incident to exact indemnity, and possibly to sieze (as j in China) territory from Colombia, he I is debarred from so doing, in the ' opinion of State Department officials, if nothing else, by the complicity of his own consul in the so doings of the police of Cartagena. As the Kaiser is a law unto himself, however, there is no telling what he may or may not do, always supposing that his actions do not so violate the Monroe Doctrine as to call for the in? terference of the United States. The international law in the case is not well established. Of course, if the j Alleghany had been outside the three mile limit, the action of the Colum? bians would have savored strongly of an act of war. She was inside of this, however, and apparently subject to the local laws of the port where she lay. Certainly, if there were any reason to arrest a foreigner on a foreign ship lying at New York, for instance, he would be arrested without hesitation. Such was always supposed to be the law of nations in the matter until a certain case came up in the adminis? tration of ex-President Harrision. During the year 1890, Gen. J. Martine Barrundia. having failed in a revolu? tionary attempt to invade Guatemala from Mexico, took passage on the Pa? cific mail steamer Acapulco at the port of the same name for Panama. At Champerieo, Guatemala, the first stopping point of the steamer after Acapulco, an effort was made to secure his detention, but without success, and when the steamer touched at San Jose, farther down the coast, the Guatemalan authorities renewed their demand. The captain of the steamer refused to yield his passengers without a written order from the United States minister. United States Min? ister Mizner gave the order, stipulat? ing that Gen. Barrundia's life should be spared, and that he should be tried only for offenses growing out of his in? surrectionary movements. The mili? tary cornmnder at San Jose presented the order, Gen. Barrundia resisted the effort to remove him from the ship and he was killed. In his annual message to Congress in December, 1890, President Harrison said : "It being evident that the minister, Mr. Mizner, had exceeded the bounds of his authority in intervening, in compliance with the demands of the Guatemalan authorities, to authorize and effect, in violation of precedent, the seizure on a vessel of the United States of a passenger in transit charg? ed with political offenses, in order that he might be tried for such offenses under what was described as martial law, I was constrained to dis? approve Mr. Mizner's act and recall him from his post." This case fits that of the fugitive Murillo almost in detail, save that Murillo was fleeing directly from Co? lombia, whereas Barrundia was in transit around the country which claimed him, bound from one neutral country to another. Acting on this precedent, the Kaiser might have made himself unpleasant, had it not been that his own consul assented to Murillo's arrest. As things are, it being clearly evident that Murillo was a revolutionist who went to Colombia to engage in an insurrection and there? fore was not morally entitled to pro? tection, whatever he may have been technically, it is probable that Ger? many will do nothing further, possi? bly, than to dismiss her consul. Although the use of the telephone has increased rapidly here, there are countries in Europe in which tele? phones are in far more general use than here. In Stockholm, Sweden, one person in every fourteen has a tel? ephone, there being more that 20,000 telephones in a population of 271,000. Every tobacconist's store is a public call office and the rates are very low. England is far behind in the matter of telephones, there being only one to every 636 of the population. In lit? tle Switzerland there is one to every 172 persons, but far more business is done over the telephone in* Eng? land than in Switzerland. Admiral Cervera, the commander of the Spanish fleet in the battle of San? tiago, sums up the Sampson-Schley controversy in the following effective way: I have never met Admiral Samp? son. He was absent conferring with Shafter when the fight took place. What he might have done were he present I cannot say. It is a case of demonstrated valor against possible bravery. It is a case of difference be? tween the act and the possibility, or as the old philosophers used to say, bewteen the esse and thejposse. Thousands Sent Into Exile. Every year a larjre number <>f poor sufferers who*e lunps ar* i-ore and racked wkh coughs arc urged to go to another climate. But this is ostly ?mi n^t alway* sure. Don't be an exile when Dr King'.- New Discovery for Consump? tion will cure you at horns It's the mo?t in fallible medicine for coughs, colds, and ?11 throat and lung dire;i;es on e-?rih. The first dose bring.* relief. Astounding cureg result fr< m persistent us-. Trixi bottles free at J F W DeLo'dJeV. P.'ice 50c and $1 Every bottle guaran'eed. 4 The Southern's Strike. Charleston, S. C., Aug. 3.-Some time ago the striking machinists of Charleston appealed to the commercial bodies of the city to unite in an effort to adjust the differences which existed between themselves and the Southern Railway. The presidents of the Chamber of Commerce, cotton ex? change, the merchants exchange and the Young Men's business league gladly lent their good offices with this end in view. They drew up and.for? warded to vice President Gannon and to President Spencer of the Southern a petition soliciting a conference at which they might be allowed to set forward the claims of the strikers in the best possible light. President Spencer has just replied to ,this com? munication. He views the strike situation from its inception in a dispassionate man? ner and expresses his willingness to discuss this or any other subject with the commercial bodies of Charleston at length but he declines to officially recognize the strikers and holds out comparatively little hope to them of regaining their status with the South? ern Railway. It seems to be more than ever evident that the Southern Railway officials have spoken their final word upon the subject of the strike and their men who are reinstat? ed will have to recede from the atti? tude taken by the Union, and appear to the company purely in the light of individual workmen. Charleston, S. C., Aug. 3.-At two o'clock this morning Lewis Hackerty, private in the 10th company of the United States artillery stationed at Sullivan's Island killed his wife and immediately afterward shot himself. London, Aug. 5.-The military ad? ministration in South Africa, accord? ing to various dispatches from Johan? nesburg and Kroonstadt, has deter? mined to concentrate ;into camps na? tives who are outside of the garrison? ed towns, destroying their kraals and mealies, so as to shut off this source of food to the Boers. A HAPPY HOME Is one where health abounds. With impure blood there cannot be good health. With a disordered LIVER there cannot be good blood. -evivify the torpid LIVER and restore its natural action. A healthy LIVER means pure blood.- m. Pure blood means health. Health means happiness. Take no Substitute. AU Druggists. PEABODY SCHOLARSHIPS. Au nomination for tb* scholarships tn the Peabodf Normal Cocear* anr-onr.ced arms time ??0 CF j ll be held ar the frl'owine piaras: Columf M, Soar'anburtr, Greenvil e ?nd Cbaries O?J Tre qae-tions befornisbed by tba Peabody Norm*! Co!.rae Committee at N?*b7? ie Thfv wai tie ?~c: to tbeSrate Surerir-'^-'?^nT of EiucAHon ?hu will s-e-?d bess to tbc ??ri^03 c .rncornea Tte ques Mons wjl r-e ar-swef?-d bv the apu' can s io .he pr-?ser.ce of th* co n-ine*? and the papprs 4il forwr-jdf-d fo rb* central committee in Co iurar<t>j, ?no ?ul derrame *be successful applicants There are four apy.oinrobots to be made Toe scboUrsn-ps ar* ecoii for rwo TP&re and are wor-h $1C0 ?nd tbes'uircts r*'Irn*d fare o Nashville ard return Af er 'he first rear ?b* amnont Ne r-ductd frcm SlOO to S'P Trie eiamioanon t--!? r>egia a- 9 .-'clock, T?P?d-iy, Ju!y 23i The folio wing commit? tees will nfl-e crjar^e t f "he fxirt irja'io'-'S at the various pointa. Co urnr.i*, Profeisors A G rUcr-e-t -?ad <; W B-ic ; Greenville, Mr (J B Martin and Prof B ? Grer ; S?artanr>ure, Mr E C E!'i.ore and ^r Geo S Brigjrs ; Ctarles?oo, Mosers W K Fate and Ciaode L Legge' Instructions b-ire oe?-n reeaivrd from Mr Jobn .V Bass, Secrt-tar\ of ttte Coilece. that the appo nree ebait be required to make an average per cent not lower man 65 per cent. The State of South Carolina, County of Sumter. By Thos. V. Walsh, Esq., Probate Judge. Whereas, William Smith made suit to me to grant him Letters of Ad? ministration, with Will annexed, of the Estate of and effects of Winter Pinckney, Deceased. These are therefore to cite and ad? monish all and singular the kindred and creditors of the said Winter Pinck? ney, late of said County and State deceased, that they be and appear be? fore me, in the Court of Probate, to beheld at Sumter C. H. on August Sth, 1901 next, after publication thereof, at ll o'clock in the forenoon, to show cause, if any they have, why the said Administration should not be granted. Given under my Hand, this 24th day of Julv, Anno Domini, 1901 THOS. V. WALSH, , Judge of Probate. July 24-2t. 50 YEARSr" EXPERIENCE TRADE MARKS DESIGNS COPYRIGHTS ?LC Anyone sending a sketch and description may onlckly sscertam our opinion free whether an Invention is probably patentable. Communica? tions strictly confidential. Handbook on ratent? pent free. Oldest agency for securtngpatents. Patents taken through Munn & Co. recelvs rpecial notice- without charge, in the Scientific American. A handsomely Illustrated weekly. Lawst cir? culation of any scientific Journal. Terms. <3 a year: four montha, $L Sold by all newsdealers. MUNN & Co.36,Broa<,w"- New York Branch Office. 625 F St- Washington. D. C. m$\ CKICHESTER'S ENGLISH PENNYROYAL PILLS ? ,-<?""V Original ?ad Only Gemine. I^f?/1K^^8A^E. Alwari rt'.iabla. Ladle*, aaa Dru?rttt /My?v?? for CHICHESTER^ ENGLISH ?F/V'vffiA,n KED an t Gold metallic boxai, teated S?* Wr% ?ltb b,u"ribbon- Take no otter. Refuse VSJ Dawgerona Hubatltutiona and Imlta j / ff) Buj of yonr DroE?iU. or ??n l 4c in j <E ?f aurar?? for Particular*. Testimon?ala \V ff ?n,l "Relier for I.n.1 :-?," tn l-uar. br r?. L torn Mail. I O.OOO Te-itmootal,. .S.>':.< br " ,-' Ul r>run.?ti. Chichester Chemical Co., ! Mention tala papar. Madlen Square, PH ILA., PA. THE OSBORNE RIVAL DISC Has Never Been Equalled as a Pulverizer. I seil these Harrows on so little margin that my greatest comfort is in the Fatisfaction they give rather ihan the profit I make My dooss are open to all-My stock is re&dy for inspection. Gw. aod eee me io my rew quarter*, coroer of Liberty and Barvin Streets FIRST CLASS LIVERY, FEED AND SALE STABLES. W. B. BOYLE, Sumter, S. C. Inly Tl_ Ramsey & Co. Palmetto State Chill and Fever Core. A Guaranteed Cure. We take great pleasure in placing this sovereign remedy an absolute antidote for malarial poison-before a suffering public, and feel safe in asserting it will fill a long-felt want. PALMETTO STATE CHILL ANO FEYER CURE Will cure any and every case of Chills and Fever, no matter whether it is the product of Malaria, Mal-aqua or the Mosquito. A.11 we ask is that you give it a trial. Don't wait until you are broken down in health, but begin right away and see what the wonderful remedy will do for you. Wo will gladly refund the purchase price, 50c, for any failure to cure when the directions are strictly carried out. Mail orders a specialty. Yours to serve, July 24-3m Wedgefield, S. C THE NULITE. 750 CANDLE POWER ARC ILLUMINATORS ^ Product the finest artificial light in the world. ?^3,L2 Superior to electricity or gas. Cheaper than LAVT?. kerosene oil. A 2Qth Century Revolution ia the pa Art cf Lighting. *-- \ They darkness into daylight turn, ?^S^U^^vSs* Ande ir instead cf money burn. }v;r: yo Sm^ke. No Odor, yo Noise. Absolutely ?i?f\ Safe. They are Portable. Hang or stand them any p ?fe~?vgW where. We also manufacture Table Lumps, Wall y^J^ Lumps, Pendants, Chandeliers, Street Lamps, r Op Etc. The best and only really successful JTncaxiefes X cent Yapor Gas Lamps made. They sell at sight. Each burner 109 candle power. Nothing liice them. Good A ?'ts Wanted. Write forcatalogue and prices. w Chicago Solar Light Co. S?S: Hie Sumter School of Music SCHOOL OF PUBLIC PERFORMANCE, Sumter, S. C. Virgil Clavier Method of Piano Playing: taught. Voice Culture and Artistic Singing. Violin, Mandolin and Cornet. Highest Standard of Art. The only and largest school of its kind in the State where a thorough musical education from the beginning, ind in all its branches is obtained at moderate rates. Only serious students desired. First Assistant Piano-To be sup? plied bv Virgil School of Music, New York. Second Assistant Piano-Miss Rosa Gillespie, Sumter School of Music. Professor of Violin, Mandolin and Cornet-To be supplied by Conserva? tory of N. Y. City. Director-MISS A. P. EWELL. For catalogue address i until Sep? tember 20th) the Director, 29 East 22d St., N. Y. City, after that date address in care of tke school.^^|SBB AND We Have Added to our Milling Business new Outfit for mak? ing pure FLOUR. Send us your WHEAT. For samples and further in? formation address or apply to Dwight & Co., ? Wedgefield, S. C. I July 10