The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, July 23, 1902, Image 4
WEDNESDAY, JULY 23, I?K)2.
The Sumter Watcmaan was foundec
?n ?8?0 and the True Southron in 1866.
Ths Watchman and Southron cow has
.the combin?e circulados and influence
of both of the old papers, and is mani
festly the best advertising znediam in
Sauner.
STILL SUPPRESSING FACTS.
The Wateree Messenger proves itself
to be unworthy of respect or courteous
treatment, and a fit vehicle for the
- dissemination of false and slanderous
charges against an entire community.
The Messenger now denies that it
published a slanderous charge. This
denial is: as false as the original publi
cation that the Gamden team won first
prize but was cheated out Of it and
that the Gamden team had deficient
water pressure. In the same article in
which this charge appeared there was
a demand that Sumter explain. The
explanation has been made and facts
produced sufficient to prore conclusive
ly that the charge of cheating was
faise and slanderous, sjid now the
Wateree Messenger with smirking self
complacency declines to irive publicity
in Camden to the facts that convict it
of publishing and end-oreing a false
charge detrimental to the good name
of another community.
The Wateree Messenger has already
received too much notice, too much
consideration, and more weight has'
been attributed to its charges than the
character of the sheet warrants. Had
we known beforehand what character
of journal we had to deal with, its
landers would have been treated with
. ;;ntempt.
If it is willing to'dismiiss the signed
statements of the captains of every
visiting hose wagon : company taking
part in the tournament, save Camden,
with the assertion that Mr. Graham
has made, a partisan statement of the
the Sumter firemen can afford to
>fe their case. The Wateree Messen
pubiished a false and slanderous
trge against the Sumter firemen and
Diaasded an explanation. The expla
nation was made and every statement
of fact made by Chief of the Fire
Department Graham was substantiated
by the signed statements of reputable
men, residents of Sumter, Columbia
^and Charleston. The charges against
iter-firemen were fathered by the
it?r?e Messenger and backed up by
person who was ashamed to sign
name but hid his identity under
?he? nom-^e^plume, " A Camden Fire
man. "
I"We are in receipt of a request from
Mr. W. S. Graham, chief of the
Sumter Fire Department, to publish
several columns of matter from the
Sumter Item of the ?Sth Last The
letter is couched in very courteous
language, but we do not feel called
> upon to p?bish the voluminous mat
ter hi question, and therefore must
decline to do so. Chief Graham
says the Camden Company was the
only one "detected in'the attempt" to
violate the rules and regulations of the
contest, hut not one word is said about
the Sumter company that was ruled
out on account of having eil in its
hose. What good could be accomplish
de by publishing the partisan state
ments? The Camden firemen, ' detect
ed" "in an attempt at wrong-doing,
have been " branded" by the Sumter
papers as a "disgruntled," "ill
nature," "disappointed," set of
"slanderers," and the Watchman and
Southron also includes the Wateree
Messenger as having made "slander
ous charges. " This is the first time in
our newspaper career that we have
been accused of * * slander, ' ' . but there
is some satisfaction to us in knowing
that the charge is absolutely untrue.
We have made no charges against the
Sumter firemen, and defy the Watch
man and Southron to point to a single
charge we have made.
. "No, Mr. Graham, in view of the
very low estimate your people put
upon the young gentlemen who com
pose the Camden Fire Department, and
their having been already "branded"
by the Sumter papers, The Messenger
included, it would be "preposterous"
for us to be expected to publish three
and a half columns of certificates
to ease somebody's conscience."?Wa
teree Messenger, July
A commission has been issued to
the Columbia and Georgetown Steam
boat Company, of Columbia. The cap
ital stock of the company at the outset
is to be $50,000 and the right to in
crease to half a million dollars is askd
for. The corporators are all prominent
business men- of Columbia.
John Gary Evans has a devoted ad
mirer in the Spartanburg Herald,
which says of him that," no man in
this State has ever been more maligned
and misrepresented. " If that be true
the Spartanburg Herald is largely re
sponsible, for it in the forefront of
those who heaped upon him what it is
now pleased to call mi lignant misrep
resentation. The very nickname,
"Jaggery," that has stuck to him so
long was of The Herald's invention.
If our contemporary shall persist in
its slurs at those who believed what
it said in 1894-? 7 sonie one may be
tempted to republish what it did say,
as of its own knowledge and virtue,
against Evans before he washed his
\ sins away by taking himself and his
I money to Spartanburg.?State.
$100,000 FIRE IN CAMBEti.
Block of Business Houses in Heart
of Town Destroyed?Flames
Fought by Bucket Brigade.
Oamden, July 23.?This city suffer
ed the most serious conflagration in
its history last night, the loss amount
ing to more than $100,000. The water
works having been destroyed by fire
several months ago the city was totally
without fire projection and the fire de
partment was helpless without a water
supply.
The fire started in the store of B.
E. Appleby by the explosion of a
lamp and the flames quickly spread to
the ' drug store of F. L. Zemp,- the
clothing store of W. H. Zemp,
Jenkins Bros., S. E. Matthis (shoes'),
Gersehheimer (furniture), J. C. Man
{two stores), the postoffice and store
of C. J. Shannon, in which is also
the Bank of Camden.
The loss was estimated at $100,000.
The. citizens had fought the fire with
buckets of water.| The best business
block in the town was destroyed. In
addition to the Appleby store the fol
lowing places were burned:
W. E. Zemp, shoes.
F. L. Zemp, drngs.
Jenkins Bros.,, bicycles.
S. E. Matthis; shoes.
Wm. 'Geisenheimer, furniture.
J. C. Man, two buildings, one unoc
cupied, the oth T occupied by the own
er in a hardware and general mer
chandise business. In tnis building
were the postoffice and i?nglish Bros,
barber shop. The mails and contents
of the postoffice were saved.
Very litt-Le was saved from the
other places named.
The plate glass windows of the stores
across the street were all ruined by
the intense heat.
WEEKLY CROP BULLETIN.
Columbia, July 22.?The tempera
was above normal, durng the week
ending Monday, July 21st, with an
average of about 84 degrees. The
highest was 103 degrees at Heath
Springs on the 17th and at Seivern on
the 8th, the lowest 62 degrees at San
tuc on the 7th. This, the second hot
wave of the month, was of compara
tively short duration, for by the end
of the week the temperature was again
normal or below. The winds were
generally, light, and dry, but without
the wilting effect so noticeabe during
the previous hot wave.
Showers occujred in every county,
but they were partial and generally
light, and at a few points only did
they supply enough moisture for the
need of growing crops. The rainfall
was heaviest in the southeastern por
tions, but was not general in that
section. Over the greater portion of
the State, crops are suffering for rain,
severely in piac res, and in others not
so much. This has caused a great di
versity in the condition of crops, so
that now there are places in every
county where they are doing well, and
other places where they are partly
ruined. This applies particualrly to
corn and cotton, while other crops are
affected in like manner," but in vary
ing degrees. Showery conditions pre
vailed at the close of the week.
Fieids crops have been laid by in
clean condition, except some cotton
that is receiving its last plowing, and
stubble corn that is yet small.
Some early corn has reached ma
turity and is a fair crop, br/.t hot
weather and drought cut short a large
portion of early corn, while late corn
is generally promising, and in a con
dition to be benefitted by timely rains.
Ctoton improved in a number of
localities, but generally it deterio
rated during the week, depending on
the ranifall distribution. Over by far
the greater portion of the State there
are reports of blooming to the top,"of
shedding, of the plants turning yel
low, and a few reports of rust. Gene
rally the piante are small, but bloom
ing freely, and in a few sections there
are nearly full grown bolls. The crop
as a whole is in a condition to be
greatly benefitted by rains, should
they occur within the next two weeks.
Tobacco cutting is being rushed to
j the neglect of other farm work, and
I the crop is curing nicely. In a num
I ber of localities, this year's crop is the
best ever raised, while in other locali
ties it was damaged by heat and
drought. Rice is threatened by salt
water in some districts. Caterpillars
have nearly all disappeared after dam
aging young rice. Peas continue to
look well. The majority of reports con
tinue to indicate an inferior fruit crop,
with much premature ripening and j
dropping, except grapes which are fine
where not rotting. Minor crops, such
as sweet potatoes, cane, pastures, j
grass for hay, and gardens, need rain. |
A charter has been issued to the
Clinton Furniture Company, of Clin
ton. The officers of the company are :
J. A. Bailey, president and treasurer :
P. S. Bailey, vice ^president and |W.
B. Farr, secretary. The capital stock
is to be $22,500.
CURSING HE WENT
; _JJ J&EET HIS ?0 ?
Heart Rending Spectacle at Green
ville, Mississippi.
Greenville, Miss., July 22.? With
curses on his lips, with eyes bloodshot
and with the expressed wish that the
people of Greenville perish in the fires
of hell, Ashley Cocke died here today.
With him, but silently, Tom Lau
derdale also met his end. Both were
convicted of the murder of Engineer
G. M. Wray and were hanged from
the same gallows and the swing of a
double trap seni; both men to their
doom. The fatal trigger wr.3 snapped
at 11.27 this morning. At 11.41 Cocke
was pronounced dead. At 11.43 the
pulse of Lauderdale ceased to beat.
Both bodies were cut down 10 minutes
later and turned over to their respect
ive families.
I Cocke died boasting [that he would
be in hell in a few minutes and damn
ing everything and everybody. He
said that those who had planned his
murder would meet their end and that
?11,000 had been deposited in bank,
$L0OO of which would be paid for the
death of each of the 11 men who pros
ecuted him. The execution was wit
nessed by 6,000 people.
This morning before the time for the
execution both men appeared defiant,
Cocke especially being very abusive
to everyone around him, while both
cursed continually.. After the death
warrant had been read to the men in
their cells^Coeke yelled through the
window to the great crowd which had
gathered outside to witness the execu
tion :
{ "Damn you, don't be impatient,
we're coming."
When the sheriff and the doomed
men mounted the scaffold Cocke again
began to berate those about him, and
turning to the crowds, said :
"It's all a plot to kill me; damn
you all ; damn everybody. I'm going
to die like a man. I am killed for
nothing, but I am the bravest man in
the State of Mississippi. There is
$11,000 waiting for any one who will
kill the 11 men who made this plot.
I will be revenged, for every one of
these 11 will be killed and no ques
tions will be asked. They have
murdered me, but revenge, revenge,
revenge."
Before he could say any more the
blackcaps were adjusted.
"Are you both ready?" asked the
sheriff.
"Yes," yelled Cocke through the
folds of the black cap. "Damn you
people of Greenville, go to bell all of
you."
The trap was sprung and the men
dropped into space.
?? The crime for which Cocke and
Lauderdale paid the death penalty was
committed on a railroad train Dec.
30, 1901. With them were Will Black
burn and G. M Phipps. All were
intoxicated. G. M. Wray, an engi
neer, was also a passenger and was
asleep when the drunken quartete
entered. They ordered Wray to leave
the car and as Wray, realizing their
condition, started to do so, Cocke,
Lauderdale and Blackburn opened fire
on him. He was riddled with bullets
and fell dead. The murder created
great excitement. Blackburn, helped
by his previous good character, escap
ed with a life sentence. Cocke and
Lauderdale fought their cases to the
supreme court, and powerful influence
was brought on Gov. Longino to com
mute the death sentence to life im
prisonment. The governor yesterday
refused to interfere.
Hagood News Notes.
Hagood, July 2L?Mr. Henry Da
vis, after a protracted illness, died at
the William Atkinson homestead on
Tuesday, July 15. He leaves a wife
and three children to whom we extend
our sypmathies.
Mr. G. W. Wingate has taken an
extended trip with his family to the
old "North State." They left on the
afternoon of the 15th instant.
Dr. Algie Alston, the only son of
Mrs. Emma Alston, sustained very
serious, if not fatal, injuries, by a
runaway Saturday night, the 19th,
while returning from Sumter. He
had just graduated, as we hear with
distinction, in medicine. Every one
deplores the accident. Dr. Alston is
a fine young man with a host of
friends. He was found on the above
named night near Thompson's hill on
the Catchall road in an unconscious
condition. We have not been able to
learn just what his injuries are. We
sincerely hope they are not serious
and that he will speedily recover.
Crops are looking fairly well, but
are needing rain now. Quite a cloud
passed just north of us last night,
the "20th ; we fear there was a storm
attending.
We passed up to Camden the other
day by way of Hagood returning by
way of Rembert.
Mr. T. P. Sanders as is usuai with
him has fine cotton and corn at Rem
bert. We saw fields of corn and cot
ton that were pleasant to behold in
the fields of D. V. Keels and E. E.
Rembert.
Mr. C. L. Emanuel has completed
his store house at Bord?n where he
will soon open up a fine stock of
goods.
The children and young people at
tended a most enjoyable occasion in a
moon light picnic at the. grove of
Rev. H. C. Bethea on the night of
Friday, the 18th.
The health of the community is fair.
Most of the people are now at Provi
dence.
Mrs. L. L. Emanuel is at Wades
boro N. C, and Mr. Emanuel will
follow soon. Ilagood.
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Pisgah News Notes.
Pisgah, July 21.?After another week
of hot weather we had a light rain last
night, which has relieved the heat to
some extent. North from this point
the clouds indicated heavy rains. The
efforts of corn to recover from the dis
astrous heat with only partial success,
show how severe it was. Cotton has
suffered, too, more than we thought
it would. It is safe to say that only
medium crops of both will be made.
One thing is demonstrated that the
farmers will have to prepare for these
extremes of weather that we are sub
ject to in later years, more than ever.
Deep ploughing, and'good width for
corn, seems to be the only remedy
with good manure to enable it to
stand such heat as we have experi
enced.
There is some fever through this
section, but of what type I can't say.
Mr. William Dees has several of his
children down with it and last week
he lost one of his daughters. Measles,
have broken out afresh among the
negroes.
The crops are about all laid by . and
several of our neighborhood spend
their time fishing with good success, j
For being asked for a few cents !
that he owed Mr. Davis Brown, Henry
Scott got mad, and struck Mr. Brown
on the back of his head with a hoe,
inflicting a wound. A little lower
down the lick would have been fatal.
After knocking Mr. Brown down, he
hit him several times. For this Scott
is in jail. A time spent on the public
works of Sumter will no doubt teach
him a lesson for his future good.
This is not the first time he has been
in jail for hitting pepole. Mr. Brown
is a very quiet and peaceable man.
The protracted meeting at Pisgah
will commence Aug. 3d.
MEET THE HIGH PR2CE OF MEAT.
How Farmers Can Make Money Out of
Cattle. The Best Food Right at Home.
What makes the price of beef so
high? The price of anything is high
either because the demand outstrips
the supply, or because of some combi
nation of dealers to artificially raise
the price.
But whether a price is naturally or
artificially high, the remedy is the
same?greater production on an inde
pendent basis. Fortunately for con
sumers of beef, and fortunately for the
southern farmer, there is no trust or
combination that can prevent a most
lavish production of beef, if only the
way is pointed out.
The breeding of cattle on a farm, at
least in an unsystematic manner, is
natural and almost spontaneous. But
in the absence of some systematic way
io follow up the subject, and select the
proper animals, and care for them
through the winter, and finally prepare
them to make fat, tender beef, there
is no proper beef production on the
farm. The farmer in the cotton region
is- surrounded with all the elements to
make beef raising successful. The
climate is such that there is natural
forage most of the year. It requires
just a little forethought to provide for
the few winter months. The mate
rial?cheap material?is always at
hand, cotton seed meal and cotton seed
hulls. The meal and hulls are offered
just as you want them by the Southern
Cotton Oil company, of the Carolinas
and Georgia, and may be bought at
any of the local mills or from head
quarters at Columbia, S. C, Atlanta,
Ga., Savannah, Ga., or Charlotte,
N. C. Mixed in the proper proportion,
this makes the most nutritious and ac
ceptable feed that is now available. It
is a feed, which by varying the propor
tions will answer equally well for a
sustaining ration or for a fattening
ration. It contains all the ingredients
of nutrition, namely, fat, nitrogen and
carbohydrates. The cotton seed meal
contains fat and nitrogen and the hull
contains carbohydrates.
A good sustaining ration is made up
of 24 pounds of hulls and 4 pounds of
meal per day, and a good fattening
ration is 20 pounds of hulls and 5
pounds of meal. These proportions in
both cases must be varied to suit in
dividual cases, according to the con
dition and taste of the animal. In
fattening cattle, the ration should be
gin with more hulls and less meal and
the proportion of meal gradually in
creased. A steer may be fattened ano
put in good condition for the market
on 400 pounds of cotton seed meal and
one ton of hulls. At average prices,
the cost of this feed in the southern
States would be about $9.00.
There is great profit in fattening
beef for the market, even at ordinary
prices, but at present the industry
should prove unusually attractive. The
following estimate of the profit that
can easily be made in this business is
taken from a book which has been
carefully prepared on this subject,
"Cotton and Cotton Oil," by D. A.
Tompkins.
AVERAGE PROFIT IN FATTENING
. A STEER ON COTTON SEED
PRODUCTS.
Cost of steer, 100 lbs, at 2 l-2c..$25 00
Cost of hulls, 2,000 lbs at $4.00
per ton. 4 00
Cost of meal, 400 lbs, at $20.00
per ton. 4 00
Cost of attendance and sundries., CO
Total, cost of fattened animal ? $30 00
Sale of fattened steer, 1,31)0 lbs,
at 3 l-2c. 45 50
Profit per steer.$ 6 50
The price quoted for the fattened
steer, it will be noted, is very low, con
sidering present prices.
WANTED?To sell 15 or 20 Pigs,
suitable for breeders, or pork. Pure
Berkshire from Vanderbilt's celebrat
ed strain. Prices reasonable. E. W.
Dabbs, Goodwill, S. C. July 23?It
SECOND HAND MACHINERY for
sale?One 20 horse Liddell Engine and
Boiler and sixty feet of Shafting for
sale. Apply to
J. E. COUSAR,
July 23?It* Bishopville, S. C.
GLENN SPRINGS WATER
For the liver.
For sale by A. J. CHINA.
J. F. W. DaLOEE.
j Items of interest From Weiigefield.
Wedgefield, July 23.?Our dry spell
still continues, we have had one or two
showers which did not amount to
much. Cotton is shedding aadcorn is
not filling out well.
The collectors are making it interest
ing for delinquent taxpayers. - ?
Magistrate Kelley sent ur Charley
Lane to shovel twenty days ; some
were fortunate enough to raise the
necessary funds.
Miss Sarah Seay, of Columbia, is j
spending some time with the family
of Mr. J. S. Dwight.
Mr. Eugene Aycock is at Harris
Lythia Springs enjoying the water
and rest.
Messrs. J. S. George, S. R. Cain
and Mrs. J. S. George and children of
Pineopolis are visiting relatives in
town._
STOLEN--An open-face, stem wind,
I nichle case watch, Mo. 10 38391 works,
J size 16, with L. W. Folsoin, Sumter, S. C,
I on face, and "C. W. M." engraved on back,
! was stolen from my house on J one 26. A
reward will be paid for its return, with
j evidence to convict the thief. G. Weston
I McGrew, Sumter, S. C.
I
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GREENVILLE, S. C.
_
Will begin the next session on WEDNES
! DAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1902. Location,
convenient and healthful. Courses of
study, elective or leading to B. A. and M.
A. degrees. Full corps of instructors and
ample mess accommodations for lessening
cost of boarcling. For details apply to the
President.
A. P. MONTAGUE, LL. D.
July 16?2m.
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For sale in Suinter by
FOR DISEASES OF THE
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Liver, Kidneys, Stomach
and Skin.
Physicians Prescribe it,
Patients Depend on it, and
Everybody Praises it
A. J. CHINA,
J. F. W. DeLORME.
The balance of our
Embroidery stock will be
sold at Actual Cost.
The assortment is not
large, but there are some
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