Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Jl MmMjM%j* Our large and handsome stock, consisting as heretofore of fine Dress Goods and Trimmings, Cloaks, Linens, Housefurnishings and Shoes, is now being received, and our doors will be Formally Opened for Business on Sepi?mber first* The date for the opening of our new Millinery Parlors will be announced later, at which time we will give a forecast of all of the styles in ParisHats which will prevail the coming season. We are not forgetful of the liberal'patronage received in the past from our friends of Suinter and adjoining counties, and hoping we may again be favored with your frequent presence, we are, Very truly yours, S/CrO-U-SI1 SS, 1902. C?NGEESS8 AND COUNTY OFFICERS. SOcSS OFF.EPBESENT ?TT7ES. co. sup's. rarzners.'.? ?s X Rdsi ?h Hills. Laborers & ?Tch Masehester_ Mayesvi?le...... Pleasant Grove. teer..! Froridence.? Baf?ng Creek.. Salgci. Scarborough.... Shiloh. .. . Sta??burg. Sumter.. Taylors. Wedgefield. Zoar. & !_ 70; 43? 87i 70, ! 29 2 76 67 368? 402 35 39 3 I * co. sui^t of education. P. J. co. treas. a?d, b?o.i foe magistrate. no. 2. bo no. 3. no 4! no. 7. no 8 41 i 65! 38 I ; 61 ! 60 71 56 /I 32 11 S 43 ?\ 71 33 2-8? 60 35 12 407 42 60 24 4 45 208 42 ! 32 S7 11 42 443 51 27 48 17 12 10 60 13 ENGLAND AROUSED. Thinks That Venezuela Should be Severely Chastised. London, Aug. 26.?The Daily Mail, in an editorial article on Venezuelas' definance of European powers in main taining a blockade and seizing Dutch vessels, declares it to be impossible for Europe to allow a practical and predatory government of this type to disturb the commerce of the. West Indies and the security of the Carib I bean sea. "This time Venezuela must be taught a lesson," says the paper. After inveighing against the Monroe doctrine, the editorial concludes : * "America should keep her disorder ; 1? States in order to chastise them when, relying on their weakness and her protection, they offend against international law." Fast Maii Wrecked. Toecoa, Ga\, August 25.?The, fast mail on the Southern Railway, south bound was wrecked this morning by an open switch, near Harbins, S. C. The entire train, except the sleepers, turned over, but none of the passengers were hurt. Engineer Henry Busha, of Atlanta, was seriously, but not fatally, injured and a nergo tramp, who was stealing a ride, was fatally hurt. Slight injuries were sustained by Fire man Charles S. Williams, oi Atlanta, and Mail Clerks N. E. Lowenthal, E. E. Smith, W. A. Bagnali, J. R. Anglin and J. W. Gray, Jr. Three switches near the scene of the wreck were found to have teen tam pered with, intentionally it is believ ed. . An attempt is being made to discov er and capture the supposed wreckers. The Giving of Tip?. Tips were always out of harmony rrlth the independence and self respect cf true Americans. Good pay for good work, wirb no unearned gratuities, in hotels, restaurants and e very where else should be the custom. Tips are degrad- j Ing both to givers and receivers, and j the whole system of tipping is unsound and inexcusable. It cannot endure. No club of any real distinction and importance permits the giving of tips within its jurisdiction, and the prac tice of distributing gifts for services which have been amply and even gen erously remunerated has no basis which is wise and wholesome. Never yet has there been an argument in apology for this abuse which was [ worth a moment's cousideration.?New I York Tribune. Her Ilrand. A corn.-spondent writes: "Two wom en were strong supporters of a local co-operative store, but one day as one of them was passing down the street she was surprised to see her friend coming out of a licensed grocer's shop. thecht, Mrs. Broon, ye wis a mem ber o' the Co.?' was her remark. 'So I am; but. dae ye ken this, there's nae shop in Glesca I get sic nice beef ham as in here.' "Some days later Mrs. Broon's friend went into this shop to buy a sample of the beef ham. On entering the shop she asked the man if he would give her 'a pun' o' the beef ham Mrs. Broon gets here.' A quiet smile stole over the shopman's face. 'Oh, yes/ he said; can obleege you. Hiv you brocht a bottle wi' you?'"?Glasgow Times. Making History. While we read history we make his tory. Every great crisis of human his tory is a pas? of Thermopylae, and there is always a Leonidas and his 300 to die in it if they cannot conquer. And so long as liberty has one martyr, so long as one drop of blood is poured out for her. so-long from that bloody sweat of the agony of humanity shall spring hosts as countless as the forest leaves and mighty as the sea.?George William Curtis. Bee Line. The directness of the bee's flight is proverbial. The shortest distance be tween any two given points is called a bee line. Many observers think that the immense eyes with which the in sect is furnished greatly assisi: if they do not entirely account for the arrowy straightness of its passage through the air. Hadn't Heard It. "Money talks," asseverated Gilder sleeve. "I am not so sure of that," retorted Throckmorton. "It is not on speaking terms with me."?Detroit Free Press. 1 ,? - eitjtJmngn?.' A STORY OF C/ESAR. Tine Quality of Mercy a? Exercised by the Great Roman. C sar traveled -with the retinue of a man of rank, and on his way to Rhodes he fell in with an adventure which may be something more than legend. When he was crossing the JEgean, his vessel is said to have been taken by pirates. They carried him to Pbarmacusa, an island off the Ca rian coast, which was then in their pos session, and there he was detained for six weeks with three of his attendants, while the rest of his servants were sent to the n-earest Roman station to raise his ransom. The pirates treated him with polite ness. He joined in their sports, played games with them, looked into their habits and amused himself with them as well as he .could, frankly telling them at the same time that they would be hanged. The ransom, a very large one,- about ?10,000, was brought and paid. Caesar was set upon the mainland, near Mi letus, where, without a moment's delay, he collected some armed vessels, returned to the island, seized the whole crew while they were dividing their plunder,- and took them away to Pergamus, the seat of government in the Asiatic province, where they were convicted and crucified. Clemency was not a Roman characteristic. It was therefore noted with some surprise that Cessar interceded to mitigate the severity of the punishment The poor wretches were strangled before they were stretched on their crosses and were spared the prolongation of their torture.?James Anthony Froude. 3Ian?s "Wonderfcl Stomach, The human stomach possesses most wonderful powers of adaptation to cir cumstances. When Lieutenant Biigh and his eighteen men were cast of? from the Bounty by the mutineers in an open boat, they subsisted for forty one days on a daily Allowance of one twenty-fifth of a pound of biscuit per man and a quarter of a pint of water. Dr. Tanner in ISSO fasted for forty f days, subsisting, *it is said, on water alone, and Succi and other fasting men have since excelled this. Kaffirs, North American Indians and the fat boy in "Pickwick" may well be quoted as fearful examples of vo racity, but even their gastronomic feats are exceeded by the full grown Eski mo, who will daily eat twenty pounds of flesh and oil if he has the chance, while on the authority of Admiral Sar ; itcheff a Yakut of Siberia has been known to consume in twenty-four hours "the hind quarter of a large ox, twenty pounds of fat and a quantity of molte"! butter for his drink!" SHERIFF'S SALES. BY VIRTUE of sundry executions to me directed, I will offer for sale at Public Auction, in front of the Court House in the City of Sumter, on the first Monday in September next, and as many days there after as may be necessary, within the legal hours of sale, the following property : All that piece, parcel or tract of land situate, lying and being in Shiloh Town ship, county of Sumter, State of South Carolina, containing 52 acres more or less, bounded by lands of Wilson Davis, Mrs. Tomlinson, W. E. McElveen and Mrs. McElveen, levied upon and to be seid as the property of Elli L, Collins at the suit of the State for taxes. All that piece, parcel or tract of land situate, lying and being in Shiloh Town ship, county of Sumter, State of South Carolina, containing 25 acres of land more or les? and bounded by lands of M. J Alorris, Adeline Morris and H. Harby, levi ed upon and to be sold as the property of Mary Singletary at the suit of the State for taxes. All thai piece, parcel or tract of land situate, lying and being in Concord Town ship, Sumter County, State of South Caro lina, .containing 13 acres more or less and bounded by lands of L. D. Jennings, Sue Steadman, J. J. Britton and Sarah Mack, levied upon and to be sold as the property of Richmond James at the suit of the State for taxe?. H. W. SCARBOROUGH, Sheriff Sumter Co. Aug 14. GLENN SPRINGS WATER SssJifiisneilyilorKlcisaeblTrolbieSi For sale hv A. J. China, J. F. W. DeLorme. Mountain Resort Notes. It has been my purpose and desire, Mr. Editor, to make some sort, of re port, through your coin mus, t? my friends and constituents who stili , lin ger in the low grounds about Sum ter; out i have '*been let hitherto," as Paul said to the Romans. For a week or more after reaching* this '-'land of the sky, ' I hacl no desire to do any thing but sit still, and take in deep* breaths of the rarified mountain air, and rest?just rest -absolutely. I found, on arriving, that a climb up one of these high hills put me "out'en bref " entirely; but for two or three ' .? days past, I have found a new vigor, and a daily plunge in the river or a climb up a youig mountain merely i tends t? gend?r a good appetite or superinduce sound and refreshing sleep. If I dream at night or toss in my sleep, I charge it up to the cook whose tempting dishes have beguiled me into ? -eating too much for supper. To siti hero on our piazza, and read of a thermometer fit to burst itself with overwhelming degrees of heat, strains one*s credulity. I called on an anti quated friend yesterday, and found him sitting before a snug fire in the hearth, and night by night with a win dow only partly raised, a blanket adds wo one's comfort and rest. Whence come these b reezes and where do they find their freshness and charm ! The mountains are full of tourists from the four quarters of the earth. Every farmer who has a spare room has a guest to fill it The trains that pass are crowded twice daily, and it is said that there is room for no more. This fact does not seem-to reduce the upward flow of the seekers after a cooler climate. In our house, preach- j ers predominate, ? visitor passing j through the rear door, saw a goodly batch of slaughtered chickens, and demurely remarked, "There are six chickens about to enter the ministry." The' kids of two to four summers are the pest of the summer hotel in the mountains or by the sea. They yell like Comanche Indians and romp and run along the piazzas just about the time of the afternoon nap. The charming mothers snooze in ignorance and in bliss, and hear not a syllable o? the resounding confusion. An old bachelor, who was perplexed by the brats, was approached by a mother who feigned distress, and said, * ' O Mr. Rowley, what shall I do with these children?" He soberly replied, "Madam, have you ever tried a revolv- ? er on them?" Sometimes I am strongly tempted to sympathize with the crusty \ old fellow. The children are every- j where. They crowd the parlors and ] seize the dining tables by violence. \ They whoop ano: yell and raise cain and" all the evil spirits to which a resurrection is at all possible. We older folks forget that we were ever children with iron legs and heels of steel and stomachs of brass. For the populating of the waste places and the perpetuation Of our race, I presume we must bear with them, even if to do so we find it necessary to cultivate in a larger degree the grace of patience and the virtue of endurance. Clyde is a little mountain hamlet betewen Asheville and Waynesville. It has schools and churches and peo- ; pie, a large majority of whom work ! rive months and loaf seven. On Sun day last, a preacher, in his prayer before the sermon, thanked the Lord that we were allowed to retire from the toils and labors of the week, and enter thus upon a blessed day of rest ; a friend who sat in the pew with me, remarked that he had never seen any one engaged in toil and labor, and ; therefore felt called upon to question the. approprieteness of the preacher's ! thanksigving. It really does seem . to ? b6 true that toil and labor are not j necessary evils among these moun I tains. A litte corn and wheat on the hillside is all that the farmer has to cultivate. Sheep and cows and chick ens grow without cultivation in the valleys, and so the problem of bread and meat is solved. When the sum mer comes, the tourist shells out his shekels, and the purse of the moun tainer . is made fat and plethoric thereon. So the years go by. It is easy for him to live, and he cannot see the necessity of the aforenamed toil and labor. The wives only are the toilers of the mountains. They churn the milk and pick the chickens and fry the apples and onions, and are veritable slaves to labor. How much they get out of the tourist's money, I do not know. But they ought to have the whole tiling. The dreary routine of house work?washing the same cups and plates and pans, and cooking in the same pots, and going the same daily rounds for twenty-five years?these ex perience make up the woman's life, and it is an experience that a man never realizes and never understands. The mountain women, however, have no monopoly in this business. I venture there are dozens in Sumter whose life is made up of the same dreadful hum drum, and they win no sympathy and provoke no word of pity from those for whom they bear theii bondage so free ly. The nobliest experience I am hav ing is a diarnal dip in the Pigeon Kiver, in compnay with two or three clerical friends. We simply find a place where the river winds in among sheltering rocks and trees, ' ' far from che madding crowd's ignoble strife," and in we plunge in a state of nature. The water is of varying degrees of coldness, and after 30 minutes' immer sion, a coolness comes that tarries with you the rest of the day. It re quires a combination of courage and foolhardiness to make the initial plunge, but after that the bath is pleasant altogether. The women, hearing of our exploits, are talking of going out on a wading expedition, dressed in mother hubbards and such like light and flimsy raiment. That the rocks are slippery and deceiving has not yet occurred to them, nor do I feel called upon to forewarn them of what may happen when their feet slide from beneath them. Of this expedi tion I may report later. Until then, farewell. C. C. Brown. Clyde, N. C. Street Commissioner White is build ing a first class road on Harvin street between Bartlette street and the pas senger depot. The Henneman jewerly store on the square has been leased by Mr. L. E. LeGrand, of Sumter, who will open up a large jewelry store there about the middle of September. He is al ready engaged in this line of business in Sumter.?Spartanburg correspon dence LOCAL NEWS PARAGRAPHED. The A. C. L. mountain exeurison was well patronized last Wednesday, the two sections of No. 52 both carrying large crowds. The first section carried five handsome new passenger coaches and baggage car, and the second section was made up of three passenger coach- j es, mail and baggage cars. The first j section was the excursion train proper and ran through with the least number of stops possible, while the second' sec- ? tion did the local business. Both I trains were pretty well filled when they left this point, but the greater number of the excursionists came through from Charleston or got aboard at inter mediate stations. Only twenty-five ex curison tickets were sold that morning by Ticket Agent China.. A very large and very black negro wo man called on City Clerk Hurst Fri day for the purpose of enquiring, "If another pusson slanders yo' character, an7 yo' know it 'ent so, what kin yo' do wid 'em?" She was referred to Magistrate Wells who makes a special ty of such matters. Officer W. W. McKagen had a long, hot and unsuccessful chase of a negro yesterdaay afternoon who offered a silver watch for sale at about one fourth its value, and then took to heels leaving the watch in Mr. D. L. ? Rambo's hands when Officer McKagen | was called in. The firm . of Geo. D. Shore & Bro. has made application to the. Secretary of Scate for a charter. The capital stock of the company is to be $8,000. After the conclusion of the cam paign meeting on-the Green last Friday night the Second Regiment Band gave a very enjoyable concert. The election yesterday decided ly interesting, and the workers around the polls and the carriages for bringing in the voters more nu merous than at recent primaries. The interest seemed to be centered on the State and U. S. senatorial elections, there being little excite ment over the cbntests for county officers. The gubernatorial race was the one in which the majority of people showed most interest and in which the hardest work was done. The congressional race received little attention, it being generally conceded that Lever will win in a walk. Some of the sports who are always eager to wager their money on any sort of a contest got on their betting clothes Monday night and began walking up and down Main street hunting some thing to bet on. They finally made a banter to any and all comers to put up the stuff that Jim Ti liman would get more than one hundred votes in this city. The bet was quickly taken, and the money posted. The Jim Tili man backers formed a pool and all the money they offered was covered as fast as it was produced, and it is said that bots amounting to several hundred dollars were made. GLENN SPRINGS WATER f " For the liver. Or sale by A. J. CHINA, I J. F. W. DeLORME. FIRST DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY IN ALABAMA. Governor Jelks Renominated by 20,000 Majority. Montgomery, Ala., Ang. 25.?In the Democratic primary held in this State today for the nomination of the candidates for State offices and con gressional representatives, Wm.. D. Jelks of Barbonr, the present govern or, won over former Gov. Johnston of Jefferson for governor by a majority which will probably reach 20,000. Today's primary was the first held since the adoption of the new consti tution, by which the negro is elimi nated as a political factor in Ala bama, and the new organic ' law was made an issue in the campaign. To day's result is equivalent to an elec tion in this State. The new 'constitu tion was endorsed in its entirety by Gov. Jelks and ex-Go v. John ston also guaranteed to. uphold it, although he opposed its ratifi cation. R. M. Cunningham of Jefferson de feated C. E. Waller of Hale by almost 20,000 majority for lieutenant govern or. The naming of State officers by a general primary was an innovation in Alabama and the voting passed off quietly throuhgout the State. Freight Wreck Near Sligh. Newberry, August 25.?A freight train on the Columbia, Newberry and Laurens Railroad, which left Colum bia at 12 o'clock last night, bound for Laurens, was wrecked about a mile this side of Sligh, in the lower part of the county, this morning about 4 o'clock. Henry Burts, of Honea Path, the white fireman, was severely bruised and scalded and died later. The engi neer, Mr. Oscar Land, was seriously wounded, receiving several severe bruises, and it is thought that he was internally injured. William Lance, a colored train hand, and a negro hobo were also seriously injur ed. It is thought that the track gave away at this point and that this was the cause of the accident. The engine suddenly left the track, ploughing through a cotton field and turning squarely around. Twelve box cars, immediately behind, were completely wrecked. Conductor Nelson was in charge of the train. London, August 26.?Cabling from Brussels, the correspondent of the Daily Telegraph says lie hears that as a result of the conferences between former President Kruger and the Boer generals, De Wet, Botha and De la Rey, Mr. Kruger is to resign the lead ership of the Boer people. Gen. Botha, adds the correspondent, was unanimously designated future leader of the Boers. Memphis, Tenn., Aug. 25.?One person is dead and seven injured is the result of a trolley accident here today. Base ball bats, mitts, gloves and masks for sale by H. G. Osteen & Co.