The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, February 12, 1902, Image 4
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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, I
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The SvjnSer Watcaman was t<
in 1 and.the True Southron in
The Watchman end Southron ni
the combined circulation and inf
of both of the old papers, and is
festly the best advertising medii
8r?: 'ff
. The redistricting bil-, as it 'i
the Senate, is a slight improvem
the House bill, but the arrange
of the districts is not as logical :
acceptable to the people of this si
of the State as that proposed ii
Freeman bi IL In this matter, a?
majority of the questions brougl
for action in the Legislature, pc
and the personal interests of legis
lg; and their friends had more to do
determining the result than the ne?
the whole people and the real me
the measures proposed. Si
county has never received much
sideration in-the formation of Con
sional districts, and we have be
accustomed to accepting the situ
philosophically.
The Ways, and Means Committ
the National House of Representa
has reported in favor of repe;
all the revenue taxes imposed at
outbreak of the Spanish war, w
will reduce the revenues by $77,'
OOO a year. The N. Y. Outlook
of this repe il bill:
"Nine million dollars of this re
tion will be obtained by the rem
of the tax on tea-a tax which e
body, one might think, would wis
see go. There was, however, a sti
remonstrance against its removal f
a few tea merchants, who ciai
that the tax did not raise the prie
tea, but who only convinced the r.
lie that th? tax did not rest u
the importers. It was charged 1
these importers desired the tariff
tea to be maintained because it 1
the business in fewer hands. Af
from this handful of people, h
ever, the removal of the tea tax g:
universal satisfaction. The ot
taxes removed, on the other hand, J
as a rule, the very taxes which on
to be retained. The' war tax on I
is abolished? and also the taxes
stock exchange and bucket-shop tra
actions, and the taxes on inheritan<
When the war tax bill was drafted,
remarked that it was the best tax b
from the standpoint of the public
terests, that had been framed by <
Congress in a generation. Not one d
lar of its revenues went t? ecr
favored private interests. Every dol
collected from the public went into 1
public treasury. In addition to th
. the burdens imposed, apart from th<
of the tea tax, fell upon the wealth
classes, or, if upon the poor, only wfa
they purchased luxuries. The tax
beer was of the latter class, while t
progress ve tax upon large inheritanc
was most wisely framed to compel t
richer classes to pay more nearly th(
just share of the National taxes. B
all these taxes are swept away, whi
the taxes on sugar and rice, wool ai
hides, farm implements and hons
hold utensils, are all retained, beean
the proceeds of these taxes on few
and clothing and other common nece
sities of the people do not go exol
sively into the public treasury, but ?
in part to enrich powerful private i:
terests, which lobby against their r
peal. And there is good ground f<
the suspicion, that this method of ts
reduction is hurried forward in ord<
to forestall and present any relief fe
imperiled Cuba. " '
Congessman Lever writes under dal
of February Sth, in reference to tfc
visit of Prof. Spellman, tho grass an
forage crop specialist of the Agrien
tural Department, to tho county:
"I nave - succeeded in getting th
Agricultural Department to send
specialist in grasses and forage crop
to our district with a view of investi
gating the adaptibility of our soil t
the growing {of alfalfa and other for
agf- crops. It is important that w
wor'.i up an interest in the matte
preparatory to an extended investiga
tier, by the department. I want ti
enlist your interest in this matter am
the influence of your paper.
"Prof. Spiliman, the Specialist of th<
Department, will call on you som?
time in the near future, and he wil
give you the scope of his work. ]
turst you will co-operate with hirr
and help him arouse the people to thc
magnitude of the grass question. Vor
wili find him intensely in earnest,
nr.H specially anxious to investigate
ou? snni lanc-s. Give him the names
C?i representative farmers, and intro?
duce him to different men in you!
town, who may take an interest in
this matter. "
We shall be glad to have the names
of farmers who are willing to co-ope?
rate with Prof. Spillman and lend
him their assistance in making the
investigation contemplated.
We have received from the South
Carolina Chickamauga Commission a
copy of the "Ceremonies at the Un?
veiling of the South Carolina Monu?
ment on the Chickamauga Battlefield,
May 27th, 1901." It is a handsomely
printed pamphlet of fifty pages, and
for the valuable historic material em?
bodied in the several addresses del iv
-g-a-BBWtagagaa ? I ?mi lia-aa-ai
ered by distinguished speakers at the
unveiling is worthy of preservation.
Anyone who may desire a copy can ob?
tain it by applying to the E. H. Aull
Publishing Company, Newberry, S. C.,
enclosing a two-cent stamp to pay
postage.
The Legislature has killed several
bills that should have become laws,
notably the child labor bill and the
compulsory education bill.
As a rule a member of the Legisla?
ture spends his first year as a_law
maker trying to learn the ropes, and
the second in pulling wire for re-elec?
tion.
To the General Assembly.
As a member of the house of repre?
sentatives of the general assembly, I
wish to call your undivided attention
to the bill for the formation of Lee
county which was unanimously passed
by the house, and met with a favor?
able report from the committee of the
senate, gentlemen of the senate, I am
officially informed that certain amend?
ments of that bill is to be proposed to
your honorable body, which will again
throw us into the courts in formation
of Lee county if admitted. We the
citizens and registered voters within
the limits of the said proposed Lee
county, by a survey for territory for
the formation of new counties in and
by the contribution therein provided,
did by careful survey make application
to his excellency, Gov. McSweeney to
order an election for said new county
of Lee, and declared in said election
bya large two-third majority their
desire for the formation of Lee county
and having complied with ali the re?
quirements of law and constitution, I
? trust that you will grant the passage
of said bill without amendment.
Having consulted high legal talent, I
was told that the act was all correct.
D. E. Durant.
A Combined Movement of Numer?
ous British Columns.
London, Feb. 9.-From Wolychock,
Lord Kitchener today telegraphed a
long description of a combined move?
ment of numerous British columns
with the object of securing Gen. De
Wet.
Lord Kitchener says the advance be?
gan the night of Feb. 5, the whole
force moving from various directions
and forming a continuous line of
mounted men on the west bank of the
Liebnbergs viet from Frankfort as far
south as Fannyshome and thence to
Kaffir Kop. The line then advanced to
the west and the following night the
British entrenched with their outposts
50 yards apart. They held the line
from Holland, on the Heilbron-Frank
fort blockhouse line, to Doornloof on
the Kroonstadt-Lindley blockhouse
line while the columns were also
working in advance of the blockhouse
lines to prevent DeWet's crossing.
The advance was continued Feb. 6 and
DeWet was within the inclosure, but
realizing his position he ordered his
men to disperse and seek safety dur?
ing the night. DeWet himself with
some men and a number of cattle
made for the Kroonstadt-Lindley
blockhouse line, and at 1 o'clock in
the morning when it was very dark, i
by rushing his cattle at the fence,
broke his way through the line, mix?
ed up with the cattle and lost three
men killed.
Many attempts were made to break
through the line on the night of Feb.
7, reports Lord Kitchener, the line of
outposts being attacked at various
places throughout the night. But
very few escaped, and 10 dead Boers
were picked up in the morning near
Heilbron.
"I did not get exact details of the
Boer casualties,'* continues Lord:
Kitchener, "but as far as I have as?
certained, they consist of 263 in kill-I
ed, wounded and prisoners, as well
as about 700 tired horses and many !
'cattle.
"Our casualties were only 10.''
Lord Kitchener's great plan which
he has been elaborating for months
past, failed by the escape of DeWet
but was successful in the greatest sin?
gle capture of Boers since Lord Kitch?
ener arrived in South Africa.
Altogether 23 columns were employ?
ed ia an immense irregular parallelo?
gram by the lines of block houses and
the railroads between Wolvehoek
Frankfort, Lindley and Kroonstadt.
It is estimated that DeWet's forces
amounted roughly speaking to 2.(XX)
men. Lord Kitchener personally su?
perintended the final preparations for
thc expedition and the great, move was
made over a front of forty milos, the
advance extending 60 miles, with the
object of driving the Boers against tho
railroad linc where armored trains are
patrolling anti were repeatedly in ac?
tion shelling tho Boors to prevent
their crossing the railroad. DeWet
succeeded in slipping through the lines
to the southward. The whereabouts
of Mr. Steyn is unknown though one
report says he is with DeWet.
Washington. Feb. 10.-Unless there
shall be a decided change for he better
in the condition of the president's son
before the end of the present week it is
probablo that Prince Henry of Prussia
may be impelled to defer his proposed
visit to the United States until later
in the year.
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY.
Redistricting Bill Passes the
Senate-Only One Slight
Change From Bill as it
Passed the House.
Columbia, Feb. li.-There was a
long and at times exciting debate in
the senate today over the redistricting
bill. The measure, as it passed the
house, finally passed its second read?
ing: in the senate, with the single
amendment that Clarendon is taken j
from the seventh district and placed I
in the first district. It is thought
that this amendment will be agreed to
by the house and that the bill will be
ratified in this shape.
At 10:25 the special order of the
day, Mr. McGowan's bill "to estab?
lish congressional districts and name
the same," was reached.
1 Senator Gruber offered an amend?
ment to substitute Orangeburg for
Colleton in the First district; Colle
ton for Edgefield and Saluda in the
Second district; and Edgefield and
Saluda for Orangeburg in the Seventh
district. This^ proposed amendment
affected only the first, second and sev?
enth districts as the bill came from
the house, but after a long debate the
amendment was lost.
Senator Manning opposed the
amendment. It will not make any
more compact or more homogeneous
distrcts; it will put people who have
no interests in common into the same
district.
Senator Sheppard again spoke in
opposition to the amendment, which
would put Edgefield and Clarendon in
the same district. It would take
longer to go from Edgefield to Clar?
endon than from Edgefield to New
York. He moved to lay Senator
Gruber's amendment on the table.
The vote stood 22 to 17, and the
amendment was lost.
Senator Manning then offered as a
substitute for the house bill what is
known as the Freeman substitute bill.
The terms of this bill have already
been published in The State. It
makes a radical change from the house
bill. Senator Manning called atten?
tion to the fact that it arranges the
districts more nearly equal in regard
to population and size than any other
plan, that the grouping of the districts
is more homogeneous than any other
plan yet offered.
Senator Sharpe moved to lay Sena?
tor Manning's amendment-the Free?
man substitute-on the table. The
vote was 24 to 15, and the amendment
was laid on the table.
When Senator Mayfield- undertook
to have Edgefield and Saluda placed
in separate districts. This brought
forth a spirited protest from Senator
Sheppard, who carried his point, and
Edgefield and Saluda remain side by
side in the second district.
The redsitricting bill, as it passed
the senate yesterday, arranges the
congressional districts as follows :
First District-Charleston, Berkeley,
Colleton, Clarendon and Dorchester.
Scond District-Aiken, Bamberg,
Barnwell, Beaufort, Edgefield, Saluda
and Hampton.
Third District-Pickens, Oconee,
Andersen, Abbeville, Greenwood and
Newberry.
Fourth District- -Laurens, Spartan
burg, Greenville and Union.
Fifth District-Cherokee, Chester,
York, Fairfield, Kershaw, Chesterfield
and Lancaster.
Sixth District-^-Marlboro, Marion,
Horry, Darlington, Florence, Wil?
liamsburg and Georgetown.
Seventh District-Richland, Sum?
ter, Orangeburg and Lexington.
Bold Bank Robbery.
Ac worth, Ga., Feb. 9.-Safe blowers
forced the vaults of the Lemon Bank?
ing company here early this morning,
securing So.OOO in gold, a Georgia
State bond and a large amount of
stock certificates. Between $45,000
and $50,000 in notes, stock certificates
and bonds were hopelessly mutilated
by the explosion and much currency
and small bills destroyed. A box fill?
ed with 320 gold pieces escaped the
notice of the robbers. The robbers
had to blow through four protections
to reach the money.
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Kingstree, Fob. 5.-Eli Sauls, who
was shot at Cades by M. D. Nesmith
Friday, died this morning from the
shock caused by the ball's perforation
of the stomach. The deceased made
a dying declaration, but it has not
! been given out. Coroner Burrows held
j an inquest over the body, and the jury
rendered the following verdict: "The
deceased. Eli Sauls, fame to his
death bv a gunshot wound at thc
! hands of M. D. Nesmith." Nesmith
has not been apprehended, but it is
thought he will appear in time for
trial.
After eating, persons of a bilious habit
will derive great benefit by taking one
of these pills. If you have been
DRINKING TOO MUCH,
they will promptly relieve the nausea,
SICK HEADACHE_
and nervousness which follows, restore
the aptetite and remove gloomy feel?
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PISGAH NEWS NOTES.
Pisgah, Feb. IL-There has been !
some oats planted over in this sec- :
tion. The prospect here for a crop is ;
the poorest for years.
The bad weather, rainy and cold for 1
the last two weeks has brought the
nsnal crop of colds, coughs and grippe, j
A good many are sick at present. It
is a wonder more do not die than do
from exposure, especially when their
clothing is not as good and warm as it
should be. Our hardest cold seems to
come after Christmas of late years.
A rural free mail service is being
agitated here, to commence at Rem
berts Post office and run by the Pisgah,
and Brown Post offices. An agent of
the government will soon be here to
look over the route.
I hear of no good man having any
difficulty in getting advances this
year. When one door is closed, an?
other is wide open to them. The rent?
ers are not succeeding in getting help
and the landlords are not waiving
their rents. So the prospect for them
is rather gloomy.
A good deal ?f guano is being haul?
ed, though it will not be used as ex?
tensively as last year.
Hands are getting scarce here. If
they keep on going as they have for
the last two years, there will be none
left for the farmers. A kind of la?
bor contract has been in use here for
sometime, something like those in
Anderson County. A minor or some
other person, wants a little credit.
They sign a labor contract not to
move without permission, or not more
than a mile and a half, work at 15 or
20 cents per day in discharge of the
debt bought at palace prices, &c. Then
these contracts are transferable: one
party buys a negro at so much and
works the debt out. Sometimes five or
six persons have claims on one darkey
and as he can't pay all, be takes to the
woods. That is the cause in part of so
many leaving. I am informed that
they are used as collateral for lien
debts a kind of mortgage or bill of sale
on onesself. It is amusing to re^d
one. I have never heard of one being
enforced. Of course they are not
worth legally the paper they are writ?
ten on, for nobody but a fool would
admit that a man has the right to
mortgage himself to secure a debt as
he would a piece of property. He
might do so but enforcing the mortgage
would be the fun, but then we have
wise ''Alecks" these days who want to
subordinate law, or constitutional
rights, to meet their ends, even if they
practice bull dosing methods to do
the same with the ignorant.
The survey, and re-survey, of Lee
County at this place, are a mile and
a half apart, where they cross the
Columbia road which runs by Pisgah
Chuch. The re-survey turned at the
stake in Bradley's field and went due
North which is in the bill, and in
Spring Hill Township. Lee County
went on further into Rafting Creek,
but gives no boundaries. There is a
mistake somewhere.
The legislature made no mistake
when it elected Hon. R. O. Purdy to
the Judgeship, and I could say the
same if Mr. Fraser had been elected.
The death of Capt. Pierson leaves
the County Board of Equalization
again without a Chairman. Two
dying in ene year.
The campaign will soon open and
I trust that all candidates will advo?
cate their claims for office on their
merits and not on some popular chord
as the "old soldiers," that was so ex?
tensively done in the last campaign.
We all love the old fellows and the
State is right in doing all she can for
them. A statesman will try to elevate
people to bis line of thought, but a
politician will pander to the lowest
wishes of a people, knowing them to
be wrong, in order to be popular, and
get votes. Hon. T. B. Fraser made his
canvass for the legislature against a
most popular measure, the dispensary,
but he was sincere and honest in his
belief and he got there all the same.
Congressmen Lever, and Feely of
Chicago, are the "babies" of the
House. Lever is 27 and Feely 26 years
old, while Grow of Pennsylvania is
the "daddy," 84 years od.
FOR SALE-A limited quantity of
Kin? Cotton Seed. Apply to W. B. Boyle
Oct i>-If
?TNEW
BUILDING g LOAj ?SSOGIATiON
In view of the fact that the Citizens
Building and Loan Association will in
the course of a few months wind up its
affairs, a New Building and Loan As?
sociation is being organized. This As?
sociation will be conducted upon the
same general plan as the "Citizens"
and thc "Equitable," that is, each
stock-holder will bo required to bor?
row the money in his turn, provided
same cannot be sold in the usual way.
An association of one thousand
shares, conducted on t his plan will pay
its stock-holders 8150.00 on each share
in 100 months: that is, each stock-hold?
er for $100.00 paid in will receive
$150.00 in 1<K> months: this will repre?
sent. 6 per cent on 8100.00 for 100
mont fis tiie entire time, or 12 per cent
for 50 months the average timi1.
Books of subscription are open at the
office of H. F. Wilson, and also at
the office of L. D. Jennings, Esq.
Anyone desiring to subscribe stock
in the new Association can call at
either place and do so.
Each share represents 8200 payable
81.00 per month.
H. FRANK WILSON.
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