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GREAT SOUTHERN STORM. Alabama and Georgia Flooded Thursday-Serious Results at Columbus. Atlanta, Ga., Feb. 27.- The south? eastern Gulf States were deluged by rain last night and today. The pre? cipitation was very heavy and at Co? lumbus, Ga., a bridge was swept away at 5 o'clock this evening. The ranfail there was almost a cloudburst, the Chattahoochee rising at the rate of two feet an hour. Several washouts were reported on a number of roads and trains out of Columbus were an? nulled. There has been-no loss of life. The Columbus bridge broke in two about a hundred feet from the Geor? gia shore and went sweeping down stream at a frigthful pace, and just four and a half bloocks below it is the other bridge which crosses to Girard, Ala., and it also would have been carried away had not the fall over the Eagle and Phenix dam demolished the floating bridge before it reached it. The electric lights and telephone wires running over the Phenix fcijity and Girard went across on the bn?ge and they were snapped like threads. The water pipes which supplied the city with water were also on this bridge and they too were broken like sticks and carried away, leaving the city without water for a time. The water company has an old submerged main across the river and this was placed into commission tonight, sav? ing the city from a waterr famine. The rain had been falling in torrents all day. No trains except the Central of Georgia from Macon have reached Columbus since noon. A washout near Saale, Ala. holds the Mobile and Girard passenger train due this morn? ing and the departing train on that road was annuled. There are several washouts on the Seaboard * Air Line between here and Albany which stops trafile on that line. Several washouts are reported on the Southern between here and Shiloh. There is a large washout on the Southern in Colum? bus city limits. All trains since this, morning have been annulled and there is little hope of any tomorrow. To? night The Associ?ted Press wire is the only one in operation toward the north. After an intermittent rain of 20 days Birmingham was deluged early this morning. The rain flooded the streets and many awnings and street signs were torn away. Flooded tracks are interfering seriously with street . railway traffic and tonight the rainfall had not ceased. All streams are swol? len and rapidly rising. The total rainfall in Montgomery, Ala., to 7 p. m., was 4,50 inches and a heavy downpour is reported in other part of Alabama. The barometer re oorded 29.23, the lowest reading on record in that city. The excessive rainfall has caused a rapid rise in the Coosa and Alabama rivers. The director of the weather bureau has issaep warnings for points below Wetumpka and advised that stock be removed from lands subject to overflow at a 35 foot stage. At West Point, Ga., the merchants are busy tonight removing goods from stores to places of safety. The ?unprecedented rainfall there has ren? dered the recent improvements along the river utterly useless. Fancy prices are being paid for all kinds of labor. A patrol for all night duty along the river was established here at 9 p. rn. In Atlanta rain fell in torrents all -day. The wind damaged ventilators in the dome of the capitol and blew in several panes of glass. The water ^amaged many of the offices and the plastering fell in several of them. The telegraph companies were seri? ously handicapped by the rain and lightning which was at times inces? sant. _ The rainfall up to 8 o'clock tonight was 3.36. The barometer was the lowest ever recorded. The Atlanta weather bureau tonight sent out flood warnings to all points in Alabama and Georgia reached by'the Chattahoochee ?nd Alabama rivers. In the southwestern section of this state rain and wind storm almost at? tained the proportions of a cyclone and it is feared considerable damage will result. In Americus trees and fences have been blown down by the gale. THE STORM IN SEVEN STATES. Enormous Damages - Railroads Heaviest Sufferers. Atlanta, February 28.-Not in many years have the Southwestern Gulf States experienced damage so wide? spread by a storm as that "which on yesterday spread over a section of country embracing Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Florida. As far as known seven lives were lost and several persons injured. The damage is enormous, the railroasd being particularly heavy sufferers. Four lives were lost in a wreck near Griffin, Ga., which was caused by a washout. The other dead were negroes, Jwhose cabins were blown away by the storm. The rains raised the water to flood height in the Chattahoochee, Ala? bama, Ocmulgee, Savannah and the Oconee, but late tonight the stage in all of them was stationary except at Columbus, Ga., where the Chatta? hoochee was rising slowly. Colum? bus suffered severely. One bridge was washed away and another is expected to go at any moment. The city "of Athens, Ga., is in total darkness tonight, with two rivers sending volumes of water through some parts of the town. The North and Middle Oconee rivers passed the high water mark there early this morning, but tonight were station ary. The power plant of the Athens Elec? tric Street Railway Company was sub? merged to a depth of six feet. At the ! Princeton factory the river rushed through the building, doing great dmaage to the machinery. Chronic Diarrhoea Mr. C B Wingfield, of Fair Play, Mo., who suffered from chronic - dysentery for thirfcv five years, says Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera aed Diarrheoa Remedy did him more good than any other medicine he had ever used. For sale by Dr A J China, -?--MB-! Win t 1 POSTHIIMO?IS POEM BY ED8AR ?LLEH POE. Found in a House Once His Home in South Carolina. The New York Sun publishes some remarkable correspondence from Greenville, South Carolina, in which is given what is believed to be a poem by Edgar Allan Poe, never before printed. At present proof of its authenticity cannot be-given, but the circumsance surrounding its discovery- indicate that it is genuine. Part of Poe's disappointed career was passed in dismal seclusion in an old and ramshackle frame hovel at the extreme end of Sullivan's Island, one of the gateposts at the entrance of Charleston harbor, a weird habita? tion, and it was there that Poe, mor? bid and alone, is supposed to have written his famous story of "The Gold Bug." And, ir. all probability, others of his blood-curdling, wonderfully exe? cuted tales were evolved in this spot. It is highly probable that the poem given below was wrought out amid these surroundings. The history of the poem is this-so far as is known, or can be discovered, after careful inquiry: An old "maiden lady, Miss Mary Wilkes North, a member of an aristocratic South Car? olina family, was in the habit of j spending part of each summer on Suli van's Island. During one of her so? journs there she bought from an ig ? norant Covite-a native of the place an old battered copy of Dante's ' ' In? ferno," which, the Covite assured I her, he had found between the weath? erboarding and the edge of the floor? ing-the house was unceiled-of the shack, Poe's quondam residence. This find, with Poe's name on the inside of the front cover, would of itssif have been of considerable senti? mental value : but in comparison to what the book was found to contain, the' mere discovery of a battered old tome that had belonged to Poe "was as nothing. Upon the two sides or the first fly leaf of this volume, in cramp I ed and erratic handwriting, with sev? eral erasures and corrections, the ink all but faded away from the yellow, I moisture-rotten sheet, were found the verses composing the poem referred to, and below them the simple ini? tials, "E. A. P." Miss North is not disposed to expose her treasure to what she considers vulgar curiosity, but allowed her kins? man, the Sun's correspondent, to have it to read. He made surreptitiously a hasty copy of the poem, which is printed'as fol? lows : KELAH. In my hermitage I lingered Lone, and tremulously fingered Tapping nervously my table to the dull Neptunian roar Fingered o'er a leaflet yellow, Void of sign and void of fellow, Tossed up by a surf-broke billow, Flotsam on the foam-flecked shore. I could hear the breakers lifting, And the sand dunes-shifting, shifting, With the night-wind's fiftul moaning 'gainst the walls and at my door ; Far off, weird, and terrifying, I could hear a bittern crying, Storra-battered, perchance, aud dying Desolate upon the shore. While the faggots, gleaned from spindrift, Tossed by tide and dried by windrift, Flickering, threw fantastic figures from the hearth across the floor, There I sat and loosed my fancies 'Midst the firelit shadow-dances, Meditating on the chances That had cast my leaf ashore. Then I turned and fixd my vision On the leaf, curled in derision At my vanity in thinking I could pene? trate its lore: And my soul fell sick with fearing, For, always, and ever nearing, Loomed my life's lost aims, appearing Strewn like wreckage on my shore. Suddenly a voice came wailing: "See the creases"-screeching, rail? ing "See the creases:" strident hisses, seemed to pierce through the wails and floor I "Ah," I mused, some wraith unholy, Mocking me my melancholy. Chiding me for some past folly, Wings the night-wind from:; the shore." "Soul decayed," I fiercely muttered, With thy grewscme wheezing uttered, Wouldst thou haunt and taunt me as o'er this mysterious leaf I pore?" But a deep, sepulchral moaning, And a grim and ghastly groaning, : With the shrill-pitched winds intoning. Came my answer from the shore. While that spirit voice I pondered " See the creases"-racked, and won? dered. Flashed a corybantic fancy like a gleam my eyes before : For once more my leaflet scanning, I could see, the whole sheet spanning, "Kelah,"* creased by careful plan? ning Creased, and tossed upon the shore I Kelah : 'Twas the incantation I For a tottering soul's translation, Shibboleth for spirit's entry into words but dreamed before. "Speak," the shrieking winds were urging : "Speak," ? the wild seas' echoes surfring : "Speak"-one word a world's woes purging Thus my message from the shore. "Kelah I Kelah !" cries my spirit: "Kelah : to Nirvana bear it: Bear my cry, oh, sea-winds sweeping! Echo it forevermore! Mark my soul and body severed Where the quicksands heaved and quivered, Where the breakers curled and shiv? ered On the shelved and sloping shore!" Instantly my soul leaped, winging, Winging on the free winds, singing, Singing1 with a ringing laughter, lost to life lived long before: Lost to Earth's uneasing sorrow Fools, would ye escape the morrow? Would ye flee Life's fallow furrow? Seek vour message on the shore ! E. A. P. *Note that the letters composing this ' word are all formed with straight j lines. Which could be readily creased into a piece of paper or pamhrcent. A VICTORY FOR KITCHENER. I Alleged Disastrous Defeat of the Heroic Boers. i London, February 28.-Following j the precedent of Lord Roberts, who : announced Gen. Cronje's surrender 1 at Paardeberg on the anniversary of the battle of Majuba Hill, February : 27, 1881, Lord Kitchener apparently ; selected the same anniversary to ! achieve a big success by a combined ' movement, lasting two days, against the Boer forces within the Harrismith and Van Reenen line of block houses. The Boer losses aggregate six hundred killed or captured, and 2,000 horses an? 28,000 head of cattle fell into the hands of the British troops. This news was so welcome to the British that it was read out in the House of Commons today by the war secretary, Mr. Brodrick, from a dispatch of Lord Kitchener as follows: ''Harrismith, February 28.-Yester? day the combined operations of the columns terminated in driving the Boers against the Harrismith and Van Reenen block house line. The river Wilge was held by the Leinster regiment and Elliott's mounted infan? try from Harrismith, while the col? umns formed' on the Frankfort and Botha's Pass block house line and ad? vanced south, holding the entire coun? try between the "Wilge and the Natal frontier. On the first night a very severe' attempt to break through -gas made at a point beween Rimington's and Byng's colunms and the New Zeal? anders behaved with great gallantry. The fighting was at close quarters and the Boers, as usual, drove a large herd of cattle in front of them. Manic Botha, the boy leader, was killed and thirty-five dead Boers were found on the ground. Over 100 horses were killed and 6,000 head of cattle were' left in our hands. Other small at? tempts to break out were made and in two cases succeeded. On the last day 450 Boers with rifles and horses were captured. All the columns have not yet reported and the operations have been very wide, but over 600 Boers have been either killed orare prisoners in our hands: also 2,000 horses, 28,000 head of cattle, 200 wagons, 60,000 sheep, 600 rifles and 50,000 rounds of ammunition. The prisoners include Gen. De Wet's son and his secretary. Commandants Meyer and Truther, and several field cornets. These satisfac? tory results are very appropriate on the anniversary of Majuba." DE WET AND STEYN ESCAPED. London, February 28.-A dispatch received tonight from Harrismith shows that Gen De Wet and Mr. Steyn were within the net described by Lord Kitchener in his dispatch from Harri? smith, but escaped before the line was completed. Practically Starving. "After using a few bottles of Kodol Dys? pepsia Cure my wife received perfect and permanent relief from a severe and chronic case of stomach trouble." says J R Holly, real estate insurance and loan agent, of Macomb, 111. "Before using Kodol Dys? pepsia Cure she could not eat an ordinary meal without intense suffering. She is now entirely cured. Several physicians and many remedies had failed to give re? lief." You don't have to diet, eat any good food you want, but don't overload the stomach. Kodol Dyspepsia Cure will always digest it for you. J S Hughson & Co. COMPOSITORS WANTED. Civil Service Board Will Hold Examinations For Govern? ment Jobs. The Civil Service examining board announces that examinations will shortly be held of compositors in the government printing office at Washing? ton. This examination is to be held to establish eligible registers for the States and territories which are entitled to a number of appointments under the apportionment and which have not ample registers of eligibles. Legal residents of the following-named States and Territories only will be ad? mitted to this examination : Arizona, Mississippi, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oregon, South Carolina, Texas, Wisconsin and Wyoming. A Printer Greatly Surprised. "I was never so much surprised in my life as I was with the results of using Chamberlain's Pain Balm," says Henry T. Crook, pressman of the Asheville, (N C) Gazette. "I contracted a severe cass of rheumatism early last winter by getting my feet wet. I tried several things for it without benefit. One day while looking over the Gazette, I noticed that Pain Balm was positively guaranteed to cure rheuma? tism, so bought a bottle of it and before using two thirds of it my rheumatism had taken its flight and I have not had a rheu? matic pain since." Sold by Dr. A J. China. WANTED-Hickory, Dogwood and Persimmon Logs. SOUTHERN HAEDWOOD COMPANY, Charleston, S. C. nov 20 4m TI SUMTER SAVINGS BANK, SUMTER, S. C. ESTABLISHED SEPT. 26,1901. CAPITAL STOCK - $25 000. Does a Savings Bank business. De? posits received from 25 cents upwards. Interest computed quarterly on the first days of January, April, July and October, at the rate of 4 per cent, per annum. Deposits may be made by mail or ex? press and a bank book will be prompt? ly returned. Call in and see the Home Savings Bank. This is something new and will interest you. Wo lend it to you free of charge, the only condition being that you have a deposit of SI.00 with us. Try one of these Banks and the amount you can save will surprise von. HORACE HARBY. President, I. C. STRAUSS, Vice President, G. L. RICKER, Casnier. DIRECTORS: Horace Harby, I. C. Strauss, Marion Moise, J. M. Knight, D. J. Chandler, G. A. Lemon, B. G. Pierson. fyl2o AFTER THE TAX DODGERS. Comptroller Gen. Derham Pushes the Tax Returns, Especially in the Matter of Income Tax. Columbia, Feb. . 27.-Comptroller General Durham is anxious to have a very complete tax return this year, and is supplying all tax officers "with the requisite data and thunder. He has had printed in neat pamphlet form all of the tax laws of the State, so that the authorities will know exactly what to do. The following circular letter has also been sent to all of the township boards of assessors: To the Township Board of Assessors: I enclose you extracts from the tax laws for your guidance in the assess? ment of real and personal property. If any person in your township or tax district has neglected to make return of property, or, having made ? iurn, has omitted any property liable for taxation, it is your duty to list and assess the same and give written no? tice to the taxpayer of your action. In the assessment of real estate the law requires each piece, parcel or lot of land to be assessed separately. Give time and attention to this work and submit a bill to the county for the same, including postage. J. P. Derham, Comptroller General. Gen. Derham is making another effort to get after those who dodge the income tax law, which is now worse than a farce. In his circular letter he has this paragraph concern? ing the income tax statute : The county auditor is hereby in? structed to place in the hands of each resident of the county whom he deems liable for the income tax a proper blank for such returns. At the same time of placing other tax returns before the assessors he shall; submit a list of those who in his opinion are liable for the income tax, and a statement that such re? turn has or has not been made. The board shall proceed to assess them in such sum as they may deem proper and to notify them of such action, and the party so charged shall have the right of appeal to the county board of equalization. CASTOR IA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature of DEPARTURE OF TRAINS FROM SUMTER. The following is the scheduled leav? ing time of all trains carrying passen? gers from this city, including local freights : A. C. L. No. 35-Orangeburg, Augusta and Atlanta, 4.33 a. m. ' No. 32-Florence and Northern points, 6.19 p. m. No. 9-Local freight, Sumter to Robbins, 6.30 a. m. No. 12-Local freight, Sumter to Florence, 3.10 p. m. No. 54-Sumter to Florence, 8.20 a. m. No. 55-Sumter to Colnmbia, 9.15 p. m. No. 56-Darlington, Bennettsville, Gibson and Bishopville, 6.50 p. m. No. 24-Local freight, Bishopville, Darlington and Hartsville, 10 a. m. No. 59-Sumter to Charleston, Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, 8.25 a. m. ? No. 52-Sumter to Columbia 9.25 a. m. No. 53-Sumter to Charleston, 6.13 p. m. No. 35 makes connection at Creston for Eutawville and other points on Pregnai Branch. NORTHWESTERN R. R, No 73-Mixed train-Sumter to Wil? son's Mill, 3 p. m. No. 71-Sumter to Camden 9.45 a. m. No 69-Mixed-Sumter to Camden, 6.25 p. m. SOUTHERN RAILWAY. No. 80-Sumter to Charleston, and Columbia, 6.40 a. m. No. 82-Sumter to Camden, 10.20 a. m. No. 84-Sumter to Camden, 3.30 p. m. Tte Lamest ant Most Complote Mitt Soul! Geo. S. Hacker & Son, -MANUFACTURERS OF DOORS, SASH, BLINDS, Moulding & Building Material. office and Warerooms, King, opposite Cac non Street, CHARLESTON, S. C. J3BF Pnrcbasp our make, which we gu?rante superior to any sold South, and thereby pave money. Window and Fancy Glass a Specialty October 16-o I have one Cock and four Hens full blood Buff Plymouth Rocks for sale. They are large, beautiful birds; N. G. OSTEEN. I_..^8^^^_? l'or Infants and Ciuldren. &i^i|||;fTh8 Kind You Have Wm^^m Always Bought |? ssaSa?ng l?eFoodandBegub- ?t _ , # ?j s?^feeSjoBsacisandBowelsof | BeaTS tile / t |~"; -I Signature s Au H PromotesDigeslion.Cheerfur- Sj l?p :.? j ness and Itest.Contains neither m Ar s/L Jt%W :! Opiiim,Morphine nor Mineral, j: Ul #l\*\If m ?SOT NARCOTIC. tl I te'/xofOldilr 'ITLPITCIlZn Pumpkin ol Jix.Senna * ~ ?ioeheU* Sells yirdo Seed * Peppermint - El Car?onatejSoda * rien? Seed. f.Oni'ied Sugar li ?niryrtrttrlavor. i! i -. ?perfecl Remedy for Constipa? ron , Sour Stomach,Diarrhoea Worms .Convulsions .Feverish? ness and Loss OF SLEEP. Facsimile Signature of NEW YORK At b rnoalhs bid ^Dos^-^tl NTS For Over Thirty Years ?ovOvoovc*ov J.TA A V Ul We took in a lot of Good s Young s Stock e Which have since fattened up, and being acclimated are really more fit for present use than fresh ones. The time approaches when planters are pre? paring for the next year. Come and see them. They will be sold worth the money. HARB Y & CO. Deo 18 SOUTHERN RAILWAY THE GREAT HIGHWAY OF TRADE AJfD TRAVEL. Uniting the Principal Commercial Centers and Health and Pleasure '. Resorts of the South with the & & NORTH, EAST and WEST. High-Class Vestibule Trains, Through Sleeping-Cars between New York and New Orleans? via Atlanta. Cincinnati and Florida Points via Atlanta and via Asheville* New York and Florida, either via Lynchburg Danville and Savannah* or via Richmond? Danville and Savannah. Superior Dining-Car Service on all Through Trains. Excellent Service and Low Rates to Charleston ac? count South Carolina Inter-State and AVest Indian Exposition. Winter Tourist TicKots to all Resorts now on sale at reduced rates. For detailed information, Ute* atura, time table*, rates, etc., apply te nearest tickeUdgent, or address W. H. TAYLOE, Jisst. Gen. Pass. Jtgent, Jttlanta, Ga. J. C. BEAftt. District Pass. Agent, Jttlanta, Ga. S. H. HARDWICK, General Passenger Agent, Washington, D. C. R. W. HUNT, Dio. Passenger Agent, Charleston, S. C. FEBRUARY JO. 1902. Cabbage Plants ! ! Cabbage Plants ! ! 50.CC0 Cabbage Plants of de? sirable varieties now ready for putting out. TOMATO AND OTHER PLANTS IN SEASON. OTTO 6ARHARDT, feb 19 SUMTER, S. C. : mm Caveats, and Trade-Marks obtained and all Pat? ient business conductew for MODERATE FEES. ?O??. OFFICE ts OPPOSITE U. S. PATENT Ornee ?aria wc can secure patent in less time thoa ?bose (remote from Washington. \ Send model, drawing or photon tr?th descrip? tion. We advise, if patentable or not, free of I charge. Our fee not due till patent is secured. ? A PAMPHLET, ** How to Obtain Patents," with ?cost o? same in the U. S. and foreign countries (sent free. Address, C.A.SNOW&CO. OPP. PATENT Omet, WASHIRGT??. D. C.