Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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SEASON'S DEALING BB0U6HT SHALL FORTUNE. Mr. Sam Westfcrook, Formerly of Wilmington, Achieved Great Success in the Georgia Fruit Belt. Mr. Sani Westbrook, a member of / the famous Westbrook family which was one of the pioneers in truck grow ing in this section of Eastern North Carolina, has achieved phenomenal success this year in his operations in the Georgia peach belt and is reported to have amassed a small fortune as the result of one season's dealings as a member oi the firm of F. W. Hazle hurst & Co., of Macon,"Ga. A correspondent of the Atlanta Con stitution at Fort Valley, in summing up the fruit crop-in general this sea son, says of Mr. Westbrook's opera tions : "One of the most pronounced suc - cesses attendant upon this season's crop is the operations of F. W. Hazle hurst & Co., of Macon. Colonel Sam i Westbrook, of the firm, appeared upon the scene in early spring and begun buying up orchards and . payirg cash /therefor, when the crop was not fully assured. "The nerve 'displayed by tlris new Bichmond in the field attracted im mediate attention and many predicted utter ruin when they learned shat he had paid $2,500 for one orchard, but the sequel shows his judgment was good. "During the season Mr. Westbrook has purchased in all thirty-five or chards and paid out in cash for "same over $40,000. They have shipped to date over two hundred cars, besides several hundred cases via express. "While Westbrook took wonderful risks, his operations were based upon such a stupendous scale that a modi cum of success meant handsome profits. It is now conceded by conservative but knowing ones that when he leaves here next week he will have" as a re ward for his labor between $20,000 and $30,000. ? The peach business here is a pay ing industry."?Wilmington Star. ?A E FOB LYNCHING. White Man in Anderson County As saults an Idiotic Child. Anderson, July 30.?The news of an rait on a1 J 2-year-old idiotic dumb rl in this county, 12 miles from here, Saturday, has just come to light here. On that afternoon John Shaw, a big muscular boy of 20, caught Ella Bralcher, who was sitting by the road ide with her sister aged 9. and seized ?r and carried her about 100 yards ito the woods. The younger girl ran the house, a short distance, and ive the alarm and Shaw left. The child's father had no arms and unable to cope with Shaw. The ter went to a neighboring magis ite for a warrant, but for some rea the magistrats did not issue the it, and came here on Tuesday and an attorney to draw up the w?r mt. In the meantime Shaw had left, matter was kept quiet for some reason. The magistrate states that he iought Shaw would oson return, but up to this time he has not been1 heard of. Shaw is large for his age, dark skin and large, nose and left driving a black horse to a buggy. He is not over intelligent and is not likely to get far from home. All, parties are whites and in humble circumstances. Shaw is said to have made a similar attempt before on a white woman, but got a bulle???or his pains Bishop Coke Smith's Residence. " ? see that the good Methodist people of Asheville, Charlotte and various other towns are petitioning Bishop A. Coke Smith to make his residence in their respective communities. AU seem anxious to secure him and are extending gracious invitations for him to come and live with them. Now I don't see why Spartanburg should not have special claims on Bishop Smith. He was bom in South Carolina, almost ?ll' his life has been spent in her borders, all his family connections are here and nearly all his interests are bound up with this State. \_ In Spartanburg he would feel particu larly at home, as he was first a student and afterwards a professor in Wofford College and is acquainted with all our I people. Then with the railroad con I nections of this city he would gain all ' trie practical advantages of a residence in either North or South Carolina. The only possible hindrance in the way of Spartanburg as his residence is that Bishop Duncan is already liv ing here. But I believe it is often the case that two bishops live in the same city, and it is not objected to. By all means let us have Bishop Coke Smith in SDartanburg again.?Spartanburg Kerald. To the long list of strange deaths must be added that of James W. Car roll, a merchant of Lambertville, N. J. Mr. Carroll's death was caused by a rooster. He was taking two hens from the chicken yard when a rooster flew at him and thrust one of his spurs into Mr. Carroll's hand. The wound became very painful, but was not regarded as. serious. A few hours later he dropped dead. It is supposed that the rooster's spur pierc ed an artery, causing a blood clot which went to the brain. Washington, Aug. 1.?Miss Henriet ta Aiken Kelly, of Charleston, S. C, has been appointed a special field agent in the silk culture investigation of the department of agriculture. His Sight Threatened. "While picnicking laet month my 11-year old boy was poisoned by some weed or plant," says W. H. Dibble, of Sioux City, la. "He rubbed the poison off his hands into his eyes and for awhile we were afraid he would lose his sight. Finally a neigh bor recommended DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve. The first application helped him and in a few days h? was as well as ever." For skin diseases, cuts, burn*, scalds, wounds, insect bites, DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve is sure cnre. Relieves piles at once. Bewars of counterfeits. J. S. Hughson <fc Co. liTiMER RIDICULED AND PEOPLE LAUGH. George Johnstone Again Makes the Speech of the Day. Declares That Latimer is Just Like Mc Laurin in Fawning Upon Republicans for Patronage. LaUrens, July 31.?The senatorial j meeting was held here today in a grove : just behind the Atlantic Coast Line j track in the presence of about 500 peo ? pie. It was what may emphatically j be called a political meeting. There [ was no "monkeying" either on the. ! part of the candidates or audience. S The race is now to the swift alone I and he who spends the time allowed to him in making so-called academic I speeches?relying on dodgers and let ters with which the mails are now be ing flooded to do his real work?is waking up to the fact that he is being ontstrippd in the race. Among the incidents of the meet ing today was the innovation made by Mr. Hemphill to attack the lien law, a State measure, denouncing it as wrong and working an injury to the agriculturists. In reply to Mr. W. L. Gary, a prom inent lien merchant, Mr. Hemphill admitted that while he was in the leg islature he introduced no bilk for its repeal, but contended that he stood ready to support bills looking to its repeal introduced by other members. Another incident was Col. John stone's characterization, of Mr. Lati mer's policy of getting all the money possible out of the treasury by affiliat ing with Republicans as being the same policy adopted by McLaurin, and he declared that if this be the only incentive to action on the part of our representatives we would fare better by electing a straight out Republican " than by electing a Democrat whose helplessness is so great that he thought he could accomplish his mission by failing to antagonize the Republican game. In referring to Mr. Latimer's boast about what he had accomplished in congress, CoL Johnstone with with ering sarcasm turned to him and said : "It is said that the inhabitants of the Chinese empire and the American Indians bury with their dead some slight element of human food in order that on the resurrection morn the de parted shallfnot awake to hunger and fatiguge. Exclaims my amiable friend from Anderson?shades of McDuffie. of Hayne and Calhoun, to thee, I, thy sucessor, come to thee. I come, oh mighty dead, bringing to thee as my contribution, nutgrass roots and pumpkin seeds.' " The audience howled and yelled with laughter at this thrust. Henderson and Elliott seemed to have caught the inspiration today and both made ex cellent speeches." ,Latimer was entirely on the defen sive and stuck to his "business policy." . Uncle Sam seems to be having a fine time with the Sultans just now, in cluding, of course, his old friend, the sovereign of Turkey. Abdul Hamid has been advised by our minister at Con stantinople that Turkey must make vigorous efforts to, larrest and punish the brigands who abducted Miss Stone. The Sultan is too cunning to be caught in this trap. With an air of injured innocence, he protests that the abduc tion of Miss Stone was none of his bus?ness although it occurred in Turk ish soil. Bold, bad men, over whom he had no control, slipped into his dominions and carried off the Boston lady. The Sultan is sorry, of course, but his sorrow can not go beyond ex pressions of regret. Abdul Hamid was not born yesterday, and he knows how to give the soft answer which turneth away wrath. Next on the ?st comes the Sultan of Bacolor, in the Philip pine Islands. This Sultan is little, but loud. When he heard that Amer ican troops were about to visit his realm, he sent a haughty and insolent letter to the officer in command, threatening to wipe up the Philippine archipelago with the American army if the visitors entered his dominions. This Sultan, it will be seen, was a real ugly man, with a fighting mouth of big calibre. But the invaders were not intimidated. They sent word to His Majesty of Bacolor that they would attend to his case at the earliest possible opportunity. Then they con tned their preparations to pay a domiciliary visit to their inhospitable host. The Sultan of Bacolor there upon consulted his prime minister and sent a letter of cordial invitation to the American commander. His previous language, he explained, was purely Pickwickian. He wasn't mad, but only feigning anger in the sly old Oriental way. His place an^. his for tune were at the disposal of the noble Americans and he would be delighted if they would accept his hospitality. Our troops are animated by a generous and magnanimous spirit. They for gave the Sultanfand have been camp ing in the palace ever since they re ceived his invitation. The third and last Sultan with whom we have re cently established relations is the merry monarch of Binadayan, a ruler over a part of our Philippine domin ions. This interesting sovereign's subjects are not friendly to Ameri cans, and recently attacked two of Unce Sam's soldiers. The Sultan has been arrested and is now held as a hostage for the delivery to the Ameri can commander of the natives who laid : violent hands on our soldiers. There is little doubt that the offenders will be caught and handed over to the American authorities. The experience of His Majesty of Bacolor has made a deep impression on the monarch of Binadayan. If Uncle Sam keeps up his record he will become a terror to the tribe of Sultans the world over, and will be known as the champion Sultantamer of the century.?Balti more Sun. It Needs a Tonic. There are times when your liver needs a tonic. Don't give purgatives that gripe and weaken. DeWitt's Little Early Risers expel all poison from the system and act as tonic to the fiver. W. Scott, 531 Highland ave., Milton, Pa., says : 4iI have carried De Witt's Little Early Risers with me for sev eral years and would not be without them." Small and easy to take. Purely vegetable. They never gripe or distress. J. S. Hugh son & Co. TO EQUALIZE ASSESSMENTS. The State Board Gives It Up As a Hopeless Task. Columbia, July 31.?The State board of equalization, after three days of toil and figuring, gave up its job of equal izing the property under its jurisdic tion, and asked the General Assembly to help it out with laws that would permit the board or some other body to solve tho whole tax problem. The sum total of what was done is in this resolution, offered by Mr. Geer, of Anderson, and adopted by the vote of 21 to 12: "In view of the fact that the re ports on which action has? to be taken are somewhat incomplete, and in view of the further fact that personal prop erty, bank stock and railroad property are not available for reassessment this year, and the assessments upon per sonal property, bank stock and rail road property have finally been fixed for this year and under the law cannot be affected by any basis of assess ment agreed upon at this m?eting of the State board, be it "Resolved, That this board accept all returns of real estate as adopted by the county boards of equalization. I "2d. That the report on cotton mills be accepted, and that the valuation as given*by the committee be adopted, and that the percentage for assessment for cotton mill property be fixed at 60 per cent, as last year. "3d. That the report of the com mittee on eotton seed oil mills, ' as to value, be adopted, and that 60 per ? cent of tbat value, as last year, be adopted as the basis of taxation. "4th. That the report of the com mittee on fertilizer factories be adopt I ed as the basis of valuation, and that j 160 "per cent, of the values be used as | ! the basis of assessment for taxation, as last year. I "That this board respectfully urge the General Assembly to provide at j its next session some plan by which all classes of property, including real j estate, personal property, mills, bank I stock, railroad property and all other ! classes of taxable property, can be reached at one time, and so that the various classes of property shall not be variously affected by the action of the State board, as would be the case if this board adopted the 70 per cent, basis upon real estate and textile mills, and was unable to reach other classes of property already finally assessed for the year." The suggestion was made that this would bind the real estate valuation to four years, but' this cannot be so, as the provision is merely statutory and can be changed. The State board, while apparently going ?p the hill and down again, worked hard, but was handicapped with incomplete and unsatisfactory reports from some coun ties and lack of information, and the agitation is bound to do good, for this is the first time the glaring inconsisten cies of assessments have been pointed out. The State ought, from this ex perience, well afford to employ some competent and impartial officer to go to the various counties and really get at correct values and not leave so much to county auditors, who are more or less qualified, or perhaps bias ed, in their figures. The Legislature will indeed hare a problem before it, and one deserving of the utmost at tention, because no arbitrary or unfair system can long last. NO FUN HERL There is another turn in the koouth Carolina Senatorial campaign. Jim Tiilman, one of the candidates, is given the lie to his teeth by Editor DeCamp, at Gaffney. Tiilman took his medicine like a falsifier usually does. Those politicians in our sister State have a way of passing the lie and making all kinds of bluffs, but there is little fight in them. It is usually the man who does the most blowing who does the least fighting when the time comes. It is rather amusing to stand off at a distance and view the political disturbance in the Palmetto State.?Wilmington Dis patch. To My Friends. It ?3 with joy I tell you what Kodol did for me. I was troubled with my stomach for several months. Upon being advised to use Kodol, I did so, and words cannot tell the good it has done me. A neighbor has dyspepsia so that^ he had tiied most everything. I told him to use Kodol, Words of gratitude have come to me from him because I recommended it.?Geo. W. Fry, Viola, Iowa. Health and strength, of mind and body, depend on the stomach, and normal activity of the digestive organs. Kodol, the great reconstructive tonic, cures all stomach and bowel troubles, indigestion, dyspepsia. Kodol digests any good food you eat. Take a dose after meals. J. S. Hughson & Co. So Tired It may be from overwork,, but the chances are its from an in active L!VFB With a wel? conducted LIVER one can do mountains of iabor without fatigue. It adds a hundred per cent to ones earning capacity. it can be kept in healthful action by, and only by TAKE NO SUBSTITUTE. Kodof Dyspepsia Cure Digests what you eat. This preparation contains all of the digestants and digests all kinds of food. It gives instant relief and never fails to cure. It allows you to eat all the food you want. The most sensitive stomachs can take it. By its use many thousands of dyspeptics have been cured after everything else failed. It prevents formation of gas on the stom ach, relieving all distress after eating. Dieting unnecessary. Pleasant to take. It can't help . but do you good Prepared only by E. C. De Witt & Co., Chicago The $1. bottle contains 2 y~ times the 50c size J S.HUgHSON & CO The Best Paper Published in the United States for Demo crats and for all readers is the Twice-a-Week Courier-Journal : The equal of many dailes and the supe rior of all other semi-weeklies or weeklies. Issued Wednesday and Saturday. 104 copies a year, and you get it for only $1.00 A YEAR. The Wednesday issue is devoted to News Matter, the Saturday issue to Home Matters A liberal commission to agents. Sample copies cheerfully sent free to all who will ask for them. Write to COURIER-JOURNAL CO., Louisville, ?y. By special arrangement you can get Tie Watclman ail Smina AND THE f?ii?ti Courier Journal Both one year for only 2.00. This is for cash subscriptions only. All subscriptions under this combination offer must be sent through the Watchman and Southron office. nov 20 GUN AND LOCKSMITH. I take pleasure in giving no tice to my friends and the pub lic generally, that, haying re gained my health, 1 have re opened my shop, and am ready to do any work in the line of Guns, Locks, Sewing Machines, &c. Prices reasona ble, work done promptly and satisfaction guaranteed. Shop removed* to No. 22 West Liberty Jstreet. two doors from Osteen's Book Store. R. S. BR AD WELL. Wofford College, SPARTANBURG, - S. 0. . SNYDER, . A., PRESIDENT. Full College Courses. Favorable sur roundings. The best influences. Necessary expenses from $160 to $175 for the year. For catalogue or other in formation, apply to J. A. GAMEWELL, Secretary. Wofford College Fitting School, SPARTANBURG, S. C Elegant new building. Careful atten tion to individual student. Board and tuition for year, $110. All information given by A. M. DuPRE, July 23 Head Master. ATTENTION, DEMOCRATS ! Pursuant to resolution of the County Democratic Executive Committee, county campaign meetings, at which the candi dates for county offices will address the voters, will be held in Sumter county as follows : Privateer, Tuesday, August 5. Providence, Tuesday, August 12. Shiloh, Tuesday. August 19. Sumter, Friday. August 22nd (night.) and Saturday, August 23rd at 11 o'clock a. m. Each candidate for a county office and for Congress is required to file his pledge with the County Chairman and pay the preliminary assessment of $1.50 on or be fore Monday, August 4. Magistrates will be voted for in the pri mary as heretofore. Members of the County Executive Com mittee who have not yet sent in names of three Managers for the primary election will do so at once. JOHN M. KNIGHT, County Chairman. H. L. B. V.'ells, Secretary. Sumter, July 16. EARLY COTTON The indication are that we will have an unusually early movement of the* COTTON CROP s ?nd we are making preparations accordingly. IBaggfng and Ties? We have made large contracts for bagging and ties, having placed our orders before the advance. The price at which we bought, in com parison with the present figures, would be quite a saving to our cus tomers. Our purchases in this line embrace : New Jute Bagging, New Sugar Sack Bagging, New Arrow Ties, and selected Second Sand Jute Bagging and Ties, bought from mills which is very desirable for use again, and much cheaper than new goods. FLOITR We have in stock and in transit 1 ? Barrels Flour. This would almost lead to the impression that we are doing a wholesale business, but while we do not lay any claim to this, many merchants in the county are buying their flour from us, claiming that they can do so to better advantage than from the Our leading brands "Semper Idem" and "Jflilhourne" are too well,known to require any further comment from us. MEAL AND GRITS. These we buy in car lots direct from the mills, thereby saving the Middle Man's profit to our customers. The stock in UR ENTIRE GROCERY DEPARTMENT will be found in proportion to the items above mentioned. Persons who contemplate opening stores or replenishing their commissaries for The Cotton Picking Season will do well to get our prices before placing their orders. Our buyers are now in the North in search of stock for our DRY GOODS DEPARTMENT about which we will have something to say on our return. O'Donnell & Co.