Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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NEWS ITEMS. The sugar trust has reduced the price on the fine grades of sugar. There have been five cases of plague and two deaths at Liverpool. Noera Brittain, white, was found murdered in Atlanta. Burglars secure from the bank vault in Blackrock, Ark., $2;OOO in cash and * $10,000 in pearls. A 13-year-old girl and a 16-year-old boy are married at Durham, ?. C. : The fog in London on Monday was the densest in many years and all traffic had to be stopped. Four men believed to be train rob? bers have been arresed in Florence. An attempt has been made to kill the prefect of police of St Petersburg. Robbers secure $20,000 worth bf diamonds from a jewelry store in Cincinnati. Virginia went Democratic by a ma? jority of 25,000. Danny Maher, the famous jockey, gets $55,000 a year, $5,000 more than i the President Dallas, Texas, Nov. 5.-Reports f from thirty-four points in Texas show He that there was frost last night. This practically ends the top crop of cotton in Northern and Central Texas. Grover Cleveland is right when he says the world would be better off if men would fish more, hunt more and * chase thc dollar* less. But Grover didn't make any remarks on that line until he had accumulated a pretty large pile of dollars.-Star. Paris, Nov. 5.-An official dispatch announces the arrival of Admiral Caillard's squardon this morning at the island of Mitylene. Admiral Caillard has occupied the three principal ports of the island of Mity? lene. EdgeSeli, Nov. 5.-Mr. Henry C. Watson was shot and it is thought mortally wounded on the pubilc square of the town last night about 9 --o'clock by Dr. Luther W. Jones. Both parties run livery stables and there is sharp rivalry between them. No eve-witnesses to the deplorable tragedy have yet been found. Sofia, Bulgaria, Nov. 5.-United States Consul General Dickinson of Constantinople, returned here from Samakov today. He authorizes the statement that he is satisfied' that both Miss Ellen Stone and her companion, Madiam Tsilka, are alive and well treated. Mr. Dickinson's return is not due to any interruption in the ex? change of communications. Hester's Monthly Statement. New Orleans Nov. 1.-Secretary Hester's New Orleans cotton exchange statement issued today covers the monthly movement to the close of October and the weekly movement of Nov. 1 inclusive. It shows the total for ?ctober was 2,146,927 bales against 2,154.225 last year. The movement from the 1st of September to the close of October includes total receipts at all United States ports 2,004,673 against 2,142,156 last year, net over? land movement by railroads across the Mississippi, Ohio and Potomac rivers 155,076 against 195,045 last year; southern mill takings, exclusive of con? sumption at southern outports 329,000, against 68,915 last year, and interior stocks in excess of those held at the commencement of the season 352,864 against 427,436 last year. These make the total amount of the cotton crop brought into sight during the two months ending the close of October 2,841,613 against 3,033,552 last year. Northern spinners took during October 261,786 against 267,799 last year. Foreign exports . for the first two months of the season hay^e been 1,389, 037 bales, showing a decrease under last saeson of 38,070. . Stocks at the seaboard and 29 lead? ing southern interior markets on Oct 31. were 1,142,444 against 1,147,836 the same date last year. Including port and interior towns stock left over from the previous sea? son and the number of bales of the current crop brought into sight during the two months, the suppl v has been 3,201,300 against 3,156,086* last year. In addition to the monthly figures Secretary Hester issued today a state ment of the weekly movement for the seven days ending Nov. 1 inclusive, showing total brought into sight this year 559,308 against 450,901 for the seven days ending Nov. 1 last year. Printer's Blunders. Chambers' Journal. Printers are responsible for many charming mistakes and some of them admit the fact. "Witness the volume of sermons recently published which contained the startling admission: ?"Printers have persecuted me without a cause." Of course it should have been "princes;" but no doubt the compositor was satisfied, but I don't complain. Parsons are especially butts for the jokes of the merry typesetter. A Methodist minister is reported to have said: "Methodism is elastic, expensive and progressive. " Was it sheer wick? edness that made the printer substi? tute e for a, altering "expansive" to the more shocking term ! The bishop of St. Asaph, addressing his old parishioners some time ago at Carraat then, referred to his "younger and rasher days. " He was naturally re? ported as having spoken of his "'younger and masher days." No wonder John McNeil said that when he took up the daily papers and read his reported utterances he always sigh? ed, "Verily, we die daily!" Unfinished Work-Baby May was having a hard time cutting her last teeth. One day her mother found her crying and asked her what was the matter. Little May said: "God made me, but He didn't finish me. He left me to cut my toof all by myself.-Life. Last winter an infant child of mine had croup in a violent form," says ?lder John W Rogers, a Christian Evangelist, of Fil ley. Mo. k*I gave her a few doses of Cham? berlain's Cough Remedy and in a short time all danger was past and the child re? covered." This remedy not only cures -croup, but when given as soon as the first symptoms appear, will prevent the attack. It contains no opium or other harmful substance aDd may be given as confidently to a baby as to an adult. . For sale by Dr A J China. Hint For Press Agents. Many people have wondered why Zaeo, the once daring aerial preformer, disappeared so soddenly from our places and halls of public entertain l ment, says the London Express. Possibly nine out of ten people who read the story she told the other day to an Express representative of a man of mystery who manifested himself in the audience whenever accident or dis? aster occurred will say that the whole of the mysterious circumstances she relates are merely coincidental. The coincidences, however, are remarkable. "My first accident." said the lady, "occurred at the Alexandraa palace, when the machine, which was modeled on the lines of the ballista of the an? cients, shot me too far, anud it was on that occasion that I first felt the in? fluence of the man who has haunted me for years. "When I first saw him"-she shud? dered slightly at the recollection-"it was just prior to my accident at the Alexandraa palace-he stood close to me, and his sallow skin, closely crop? ped red hair, and black clothes gave him a very Mephistophelean appear? ance, and do what I would I could not forget him. "He wore bangels, fashioned like a snake coil. I in no way connected "him with the mishap, and I was fortu? nate enough to escape with only a scalp wound. "Two years later in Valencia, I saw the same man in the audience as I was balancing in mid air and the wire ?napped and I fell. "In May, 1882, I was performing at Santiago. One of the supports of the trapeze broke, ' throwing me violently forward against the wall of the theatre, and rendering me insensible. No one observed the man with the bangles until he pressed forward in the crowd and asked if I was hurt. "His lean figure, his height, his ghastliness and the bright red light in his eyes made him conspicuous. He was the image of the Vampire Count in Bram Stoker's.. awesome novel, 'Dracula.'" A year passed. On October 7, 1SS3, I was giving a performance at the Theater Rossetti, Trieste, when a huge piece of iron balustrade detached itself from the gallery and fell into the pit. I saw it fall while I was balancing sixty feet from the -floor of the theater. The thing fascinated me: I watched it. 1 saw the upturned face of a woman below. I saw terror in her eyes as it . killed her. I forgot where" I was and with a prayer on my lips raised my hands to my eyes to shut out the sight and lost my balance. "The man with the bangles had been seen at the theater that night. "Subsequently . the mysterious stranger turned up at Cairo, . and was seen by Zaeo's manager in the streets. Precautions were taken to prevent him from entering the Cirque, but one night he was seen in the build--j ing and was politely requested to withdraw his patronage. He express? ed surprise, received back his money and went away. "That night," said Zaeo, "two of my circus men had quarreled and one murdered the other," The mysterious stranger also made his appearance when Zaeo was giving her serpentine dance in London, and the lady strained her foot the same evening-. Zaeo's manager spoke to him and he gave a Spanish name, though he spoke English perfectly. Fear of this strange man has been largely responsbile for the artist's ab scene "from the stage. "I don't think, however," she said, * ' that we shall be troubled with him again, for I received the other day an unsigned letter from Madrid, inclos? ing a check ticket on which was writ tne in a delicate hand : " 'October 7, 1883. Trieste. " ' I have gone before von, after all. ' " 'August 2, 1901. Madrid.' "So, you see, unless he is the 'Prince of Liars, I am rid of him as far as this world is concerned." Reliable and Gentle. "A pill's a pill," says the saw. But there are pills and pills. You want a pill which is certain, thorough and gentle. Mustn't gripe. Dewitt's Little Early Risers fill the bill. Purely vegetable. Do not force but assist the bowels to act. Strengthen and invigorate. Small and easy to take. J S Hughson <fc Co. SOLOMON'S POOLS. The ancient aqueducts and reservoirs of Jerusalem testify to the abundant provision that was made for running water in the Holy City when it was the metropolis of the Jewish state. It is only within the last few weeks that they have been brought again into the services of the city, which during intervening centuries, has been depen? dent upon the scanty accumulations of rain water. The droughts of the pres? ent summer led to distress, which happily, the new governor of Jerusa ! lem, Mohammed Pjevad Pasha, had ! the will and energy to combat. He ! secured the sultan's consent to lay im ? mediately a pipe from Solomon's pools, j nine miles south of the city. The pipe draws from the sealed foun? tain mentioned in the song of Solo? mon: "My beloved is like a spring, j shut up in a fountain sealed, " the deep down subterranean spring, which, from the time of Solomon, flowed through an arched channel to a distrib? uting chamber. The tunnel is roofed with stones in the shape of an invert? ed V. It is one of the oldest struc? tures in existence. It passes through the valley where the beautiful ancient gardens of Solomon are mentioned in Ecclesiastes. It passes the snot where Elijah is said to have rested in his flight from Jezebel, and crosses the plains of Eprahriam, where David, in the heat of battle with the Philistines, longed for water from the well of Bethlehem. Finally, after passing round the slope of Zion, it enters the city through the mosque of Omar, which is in the old temple area. This drawing from Solomon's pools will enable the use of twelve ancient fountains in the city. It will require 20 kilometers of piping, ten centimes in diameter, when finally installed. The governor has also successfully repaired the virgin's fount, in the val? ley of Jehosaphat, outside the city walls. Its waters pass to the pool of Siloam to a tunnel built by Hezekiah, as his workman recorded by a rough hewn Hebrew record, which is the oldest inscription extant. It was stolen but afterward recovered, and is new in a museum in Constantinople. ? Wealth Won by Luck or Pluck. Some men get rich by hard work, some by lnck and some by pluck, says The New Y.ork Press. George Bris? tow, who died in Paris recently, leav? ing many millions, laid the founda tion of his fortunate by a daring piece of prospecting in the Mojave desert. He was one of a party of forty men who started to cross the desert to look for gold. The heat was fearful, dust storms frequent and water scarce. All except Bristow became discouraged. I One day they came to an immense j gorge running north and south as far as the eye could reach. There was j no way of crossing and the other men turned back, learing Bristow with lit? tle food on the edge of the chasm. He set to work to find a place where ; he could descend to the bottom of the gorge, and after a day's walking, he came to a break in the walls where he was able to scramble down 2,000 feet of almost sheer precipice to the bottom, where a stream ran. The next day he found the lead of gold and platinum which made him rich. When he attempted to climb back np the side of the gorge he found the task impossible and so traveled on down the stream, meeting with many adventures and suffering many hard? ships, swimming the stream, being bruised against bowlders, living on crawfish and moss. He still was not discouraged and after three weeks of hardship reached the town of Meriton, at the mouth of the stream. David Smetton is now living happily in Palermo on $40,000 which he earned by a piece of plucky work in diving. He was the man chosen to go down and explore the. wreck of the steamer of Esmeralda, which sank near Gibraltar in 125 feet of water with over half a million dollars in specie on board of her. Eight divers had tried the job, .but the depth was too great. Smet? ton was promised 10 per cent of all the money recovered and went down. He found the vessel iying across a sand bank and was obliged to use a blasting charge to get at the hold, when the vessel suddenly broke in two and the diver sank to the bottom, a depth of 140 feet. A timber fell on him, mak? ing him unconscious, and another tim? ber broke his life line. But the men on the wrecking boat continued to supply him with air, and other divers finally got a line to him and rescued him. Not in the least daunted by his ter? rible experience, Smetton went down again and managed to bring up 8400, 000 in specie. When paid his 10 per cent he abandoned diving for good and all and settled down in Palermo, in which beautiful Siclian city he lives in comfort upon his well-earned for? tune. Francis Livingstone, an English lad, recently came into a large fortune because be voluntarily submitted to a series of painful surgical operations. He was living with his aunt, a Mrs. Williams. The annt conld not bear the sight of the boy, and when he was 16 fae learned the reason. As he grew older he resembled more and more his father, who had married. Mrs. William's sister, and brought ruin and disgrace upon his wife and family. When young Livingstone learned the reason for his aunt's dis? like for him he did not come home from school for the usual holidays, but wrote that he would go to Germany to study German. His aunt cheerfully and promptly gave her con? sent and sent him money to pay his expenses. When he came back, -after some months, the old lady received the greatest shock of her life. She did not know her nephew until he spoke, so completely bad his physiognomy been changed. He then confessed that he had induced a German surgeon to operate upon his face. The muscles controlling the eyelids had been cut, so that they opened a little more widely ; his upper lip had been short? ened by removing a piece of the jaw, and his nose, ears and chin altered in shape by being compresed in' tightly fitting fcames. He had suffer? ed much, but was no longer "the image of his dad;" and when the old aunt died recently she left him all of her large fortune. He Was a Trump. "He had been hanging around my girl for some time," said a well known resident, "and I saw that un? less something was done before long he would soon become a member of the family. I had frowned on the matter right from the start, as I did not think he was good enough for my daughter. But from the beginning 1 constituted a hopeless minority, as my wife thought he was a perfect para? gon. I thought I knew better and when one Sunday I saw him at a ball game I was sure of it. "Now, I am a great lover of the American game and Sunday is the only day I have time to' attend. ' I have alwTays been very care? ful to keep from my wife the fact that I ever attended a game of ball on Sunday, as she is a very strict church member and views with horror any one who seeks pleas- j ure on the Sabbath. So when I saw the young man there at the game I thought I had found a way to bring her over to my side, knowing full well that if I did his chances of becoming a member of the family were mighty slim. I hadn't the slightest idea that he had seen me at the game and I thought that I could startle an ad? mission from him that would show him up in his true colors, without dan? ger to myself. So when he called the other night, I said suddenly : " : Young man, where were von last Sunday?' " *Oh, I sat just three rows ahead of you,' he answered easily. "That threw explanations b?ck on me and left me gasping for breath. " 'Fine sermon, wasn't it?' he add? ed a moment later, coming to my rescue like the trump he is. " 'Oh, you dear old fellow, did you go to church and say nothing to me about it?*' cried my wife. "How lovely ! What was the text?' "I was simply incapable of answer? ing, and again that young trump fill? ed the breach. " 'Ninety and nine,' said he. 'The score wasn't quite as bad as that -almost though. Say ! he's the finest young man that ever drew breath and he can have anything that belongs to me I" Perrv Pictures at H. G. Osteen ?fe Co's, book store. Oct. 30-4t MILITARY ARDOR QUENCHED. Why President McKinley Didn't Make Gov. Bob Taylor a Brigadier. Ex-Governor Robert L. Taylor knew William McKinley personally. They served in the Forty-Sixth congress to? gether and met several times in after years to renew their acquaintance and to forge the ties of friendship. When the president was shot, Mr. Taylor was personally grieved. Xo higher eulogy was ever passed on a man than I that which "The Merry Governor" of Tennessee passed upon his dead friend, j Tuesday night Governor Taylor was telling a party of friends an amusing incident whch occnrred at one point where his career and that of the dead j president touched. "I served in the Forty-sixth con? gress with Major McKinley," said the governor, "and knew him very well. Later on I met him and we renewed our friendship at the Tennes? see centennial in 1897, when I was governor of the state. "When the Spanish-American war j broke out there was so much beating of drums and marching of soldiers that I became imbued with the military spirit. It grew on me as the war pro? gressed and I finally came to the con? clusion that I was a born soldier, a military genius, a leader. So when President McKinley announced that he would appoint several brigadier-gen? erals I thought he almost singled me j out as one of them. I consulted with some of my friends, and they thought the president must be hinting on me to come to the front and get some shoulder straps. I could hear the drums and see Old Glory floating everywhere, and I was wild to be a soldier and ride a splendid horse over the bloody gronnd. "At last I could stand it no longer. I went to Washington to see the presi? dent. He at once agreed to an audi? ence with me. I was so ashamed to think I had not come sooner to offer my services to the country in peril. I was afraid the president would not like it. But I don't think I ever saw a better pleased man in my life, and I have seen some few fellows in a capital good humor in my time. "Such a cordial grasp of; the hand and such a kindly reception I don't think I ever had from"a man that did not want an ofiice from me. I thought he had divined my intention? and as delighted to know that I had come out to serve my country in my natural capacity-war. He must have noticed my military appearance: but there was nothing stiff or formal in his recep? tion. He met me just like the cheer? ful boy he was 25 years before in con? gress. But it did not break through my military dignity. As soon as I en? tered the room I reared back and as samed a military air that would have jarred the 'Iron Duke.' "I don't suppose any one thought McKinley a great actor: but I think he was the greatest I ever met. I was not long in telling him I wanted to be made a brigadier-general, so that I could lead my brave Tennessee troops to the front. I will never forget the smile he gave me and the expression of extreme delight that came into his eye when he put his hand on my shoulder like a father and said, in a voice of the greatest solicitation : " 'Governor, I'm afraid you might get killed. ' '^We both laughed and my military spirit was gone. "-Knoxville Sentinel. - mm . I j- - To the Public. Allow me to say a few words in praise of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. I had a very severe cough and cold and. feared I would get pneumonia, but after taking the second dose of this medicine I felt better, three bottles of it cured my cold and the pains in my chest disappeared entirely. I am most respectfully yours for health, Ralph S Meyers, 64 Thirty-seventy St. Wheeling, W Va. For sale by Dr A J China. . She Felt Wicked. Revivalist-" Is it possible that von dance?" Fair Sinner-"Oh, yes, often." 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NEW YORK CrTY. r #s# We wish to return thanks to oiir many friends for the liberal patronage given ns in former years, and to inform them that in our New Quarters North of the Court House We are better equipped to serve them than ever before. A cordial invitation is extended to our former customers and the public generally to visit our new store and inspect the large and carefully selected stock of General Merchandise we are now showing. Dress Goods and Trimmings, i ? AND A ; ? ?j GENERAL LINE OF DRY GOODS. Notions, Clothing, Hats, Gents Furnishing Goods, Shoes, Etc. These stocks are new and complete in all lines and we are offering goods At Prices That Will Appeal to the Careful and Discriminating Buyer Who wishes to obtain the best values for his money. A full stock of Standard, Staple and Fancy Groceries, Can Goods, Etc The stock is kept fresh and new by frequent replenishing? We pay the Highest Price for Cotton? Levi Bros Main Street, North of the Court House, Sumter, 8. C. Feo ll-3m strawberry 3Rl?30LtS ! : THE LARGEST STOCK IN THE WORLD Nearly 100 Varieties. All the choice, luscious kinds for the Gar? den and Fancy Market. Also Shipping Varieties. Also Dewberries. Asparagus Rhubard, Grape Vines, etc., etc. Cur 120 page Manual, fros to buy? ers, enables everybody to grow them mth success and prout. All plants packed to carry across the continent fresh as when dug. Illustrated catalogue free. Specify if you want cata? logue of Shipping Varieties or Fancy Gar? den kinds. CONTINENTAL PLANT CO., Strawberry Specialists, ZittTOll, IT. 0. Sept 25-4 I Land Surveying:. WILL GIVE prompt arteotion to all eilis for eurveyine and Dlatr? g Junda. BANKS H BOYKIN, Oct 10-o Catchall, S C. THE BANK OF SUMTER, SUMTER, S. C. City and County Depositary Capita! stock ps:d in, . . $75,000 00 rjLdividtd surplus, . . . 16,000 00 Individual liability of stockholders in excess of their Gtock, . 75,000 00 Transacts c. general banking business ; also j K Savings Bank Department. Deposits of $1 and upward received. Interest allowed aj ibe rate of 4 j er cen?, per anno^:, payable semi-annually. W F. B. HAYNSWORTH, President. MARICK MOISE, W. F. RHAJI?, Vice-President. Cashier Jan 31.