The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, March 11, 1903, Image 4
WEDNESDAY, MARCH ii, 1903.
The Sumter Watchman was toundec
io 1850 and the True Soirthron in 1866
The fPafcfanan arce Southron now has
the combined circulation and influence
of both of thc old papers, and is mani?
festly the ?best advertising medinm in
Sam ter.
Senator Tillman's speech on the
negro question and his decided stand
in forcing Congress to pay the just
claim of this State have made .friends
among people who have always been
antagonistic to him and who never
expected to be able to give him their
approval. When Senator Tillman re?
strains himself and resorts to argu?
ment rather than sensational effects
he accomplishes moxe in the Senate
* and wins stronger support at home.
Gov. Hey ward's letter in reference to
the Wisconsin effort to have a conven?
tion to discuss* the race issue meets
with the unqualified approval of all.
South Carolinians. His remarks were
as pointed as they were brief, and he
could not have covered the subject I
more fully if he had written volumes. |
Equally as strong and to the point
was Gov. Hayward's letter to Mayor
Smyth, of Charleston concerning the
enforcement of the dispensary law in
Charleston. That a sincere, earnest
and business-like effort is now tp be
made to suppress the blind tigers in
Charleston -no one can doubt. Already
Gov; Heyward has made all thinking
men arrive at the conclusion that a
man with backbone and the determina?
tion to enforce the law, not a politician
nor a vindictive partisan is in the
Governor's chain, and that he will do
his full duty as he -sees it, without
partiality or enmity or consideration
of how his acts will.effect his political
future.
Congress has made large appropria?
tions for the erection of monuments in
North Carolina to Generals Davidson
and Nash, whose services in the Re?
volutionary war justly entitle them
to fame and the grateful remembrance
of all patriotic Americans ; yet an ap?
propriation for a monument to Gen.
Thomas Sumter, whose services were as
?reat as those of any of the Revolu?
tionary soldiers, Washington except?
ed, is refused.
The Northern States are dotted with
.monuments to men who rendered not a
^hundredth of the service of Sumter,
Marion or Pickens, and whose ?claim
^fco fame and recognition rests principal?
ly upon their place of birth and resi?
dence, and it seems strange that the
men who make ap Congress, men who
?re supposed to be acquainted with
3he history of the Revolutionary war
cannon t rise above a spirit of narrow
sectionalism to do equal justice and
honer to the memory of one the great?
est soldiers of the war for indepen?
dence.
The Virginia and North Carolina
newspapers appear to be of the opinion
that the price of tobacco will be much
lower this season than last, and [that
farmers would be wise to decrease
rather than increase the acreage de?
voted to this crop.
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How Negro Labor' Was Spoiled.
After the war was over and the ne?
gro was given his freedom and the
crime of the ages was committed in the
bestowal of the elective franchise upon
the ignorant ex-slaves, who belonged
to an immeasurably inferior race, while
men representing the intelligence and
integrity of the land were deprived of
any say-so in local government, there
was for a time chaos and stagnation.
The negro during this period became
imbued with the idea to "hire out"
was beneath the dignity of a freed?
man, and after absolutely wasting
the best part of a year in such
childish celebrations of his new con?
dition as marching and countermarch?
ing up and down the highways with
drums and fifes and flags, to be
harangued by the escaped criminals
that flocked hither from half the
wcrld, a soiC of compromise was reach?
ed, under the terms of which the negro
agreed to go to work if he were permit?
ted to be his own "boss." There
were those who foresaw the bad re?
sults of this arrangement, but the
merchants favored it, and with the
landowning class it was "Hobson's
choice."
The outcome was the parceling up
of the plantations with a negro tenant
on every plat susceptible of supporting
a family. Mules and implements were
provided by the merchants, to be paid
for out of the proceeds of the crop.
Food for the negroes and mules was
likewise sold, and, not only food, but
"finery," since the negro's vanity had
to be administered to as well as his
necessities. Cotton was fetching from
forty to fifty cents a pound, and it
was to the interest of the merchant
t3 encourage the negro to buy every?
thing to eat and raise cotton alone.
Thoma P. Grasty, in Southern Farm
Magazine.
Farm work has been seriously delay?
ed by wet weather and the prepartion
of land for planting is not as advanced
ns usual.
? THE GREAT MISSISSIPPI FLOOD.
Government Issues Warning, and
Farmers Fly to H?ls.
ALL RIVERS STEADILY RISE.
(The Low Lands are Completely Inun?
dated and in Many Places Stock are
Suffering.
Washington, March IO.-The wea?
ther burean tonight issued the follow?
ing special river bulletin :
The Ohio river at Cincinnati has
risen 1 foot since morning and is now
at a stage of 48.1 foot and rising at the
rate of one-tenth of a foot hourly. The
lower Ohio continues to rise, the stage
at Cairo being 48.3 feet, a rise of 0.6
foot since morning.
The Mississippi at Memphis is at a
stage of 35.05 a, rise of 0.3 foot since
morning. No material change has
occurred in the lower Mississippi.
Heavy rains in Arkansas have caused
the White river to rise rapidly and the
prospects are that it will reach the
highest stage ever recorded.
Moderately heavy rains have fallen
in the ?JOhio basin and in Tennessee.
The present indications are for fair
weather for a day or so.
Memphis, Tenn., March 10.-The
river tonight is above 35 feet on the
gauge and rising. The current is
swifter and more driftwood is running
than at any previous time during the
present rise. These sign are taken.as
indicating that there will be a rapid
increase in the speed of the rise to?
night and tomorrow. Between S
o'clock this morning and 4 o'clock this
afternoon a rise of three-tenths inches
was recorded.
Ali of these conditions tend to give
a most gloomy view of the flood situa?
tion and uneasiness is increasing on
every hand. The officials of the levee
boards and the United States engineers
continue to say there is no immediate
necessity for excessive anxiety but
further than this they give no encour?
agement and say that a grave state of
affairs seems inevitable.
Tfie government steamer Atlee left
tonight for White river with a cargo
of material and a large body of patrols
under arms.
Memphis, Tenn., March ia-The
river situation shows but little change
here today. Refugees from the low?
lands are arriving at this port by ev?
ery boat and many have sought the
higher land in the vicinity of their
homes, awaiting developments. The
government engineers have stated that
the situation is very serious and pre?
dict that within a week the the high?
est water ever experienced will be
rushing through the levee, channels.
Reports from points in Mississippi
say that the low lands are completely
inundated and in many cases stock is
suffering. The negro farmers have
abandoned their homes for high
ground. Capt. Lucas, chief of the
government forces, has furnished the
St Frances levee board the use of the
steamer Abbott, and this vessel under
the direction of Capt. Lee Vasseur,
assistant engineer, will patrol the
levees stretching along the river be?
tween Cats Island and Pecan Point.
From Pecan Point north the steamer
Graham will do sentry duty. In ad?
dition to these vessels the government
boat Chisca will be used as a reserve
vessel.
The condition of ?he embankment
20 miles north of Memphis, where the
water is flooding around the end of
the levee in the T7-mile gap where
embankments, have never been built,
is serious. It is believed to be one of
the most dangerous places along the
river. It is reported that the water
is slowly washing away the levee there
by running around it. The engineers
in charge have put in temporary revet?
ments but not before the counties of
Lee and Crittenden, in Arkansas,
were overflowed.
Capt. Potter, chief engineer of the
third levee district, said today that
his force was prepared for the flood
and that the embankments are all in
good condition. Three steamers are
patrolling the territory with all the
necessary emergency supplies aboard.
THE COTTON MARKET.
New York, March 10.-Flood news
gave the upper hand of the cotton mar?
ket to the bull party after the bear
leader had prices of 2 and 3 points un?
der the closing basis of yesterday.
The shorts became badly frightened by
fears of the overflow. The bull party
bid prices up to 18 points or 30 points
up from the low point of yesterday.
There was a scramble to cover short
contracts, but public speculation was
comparatively flat. May, the leading
month, sold up from 9G6 to 9S4.
Still later the clique bid with energy
and forced covering with the dose
strong at a net rise of S and 25 points.
This brings cotton to within Wc. of
the top of the late bull movement.
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Smallpox is epidemic in Walhalla
and the bar and county officers of that
place have requested Judge Purdy to
issue an order postponing the session of
I court.
TERRIBLE AUTOMOBILE ACCI?
DENT.
Buffalo, N. Y., March 10.-More
terrible almost than the death of E.
T. Burdick, was the tragedy that oc?
curred late this afternoon when Arthur
R. Pennel, one of the chief figures in
the investigation of the Burdick mur?
der, was hurled headlong into eternity.
Mr. Pennell was riding in his electric
automobile with Mrs. Pennell. They
were on Kensington avenue near
Fillmore avenue, skimming along the
edge of the Gehrs stone quarry, a huge
rockribbed hole in the ground. Mr.
Pennell's hat blew off. The automobile
swerved and in some inexplicable man
nei it leaped over the curb into the
abyss below. Pennell was killed in?
stantly, his head being crushed to an
unrecognizable mass. Mrs. Pennell
was injured so severely that the sur?
geons at the Sisters' hospital, to which
she was taken, say her chances of re?
covery are very slight.
Battle in a Baptist Church.
Augusta, Ga., March 9.-At Mount
Pleasant Baptist Church, six miles
from Johnston, S. C., two factions
sprang up in the church. One faction
forbade the Rev. Kit Jones to preach
last Sunday night. The other faction
insisted on preaching and the minister
went into the pulpit. As he announced
the hymn the opposing faction enter?
ed the church and fired upon him.
Two of the preacher's friends were
in the pulpit with him and they re?
turned the fire. Joe Hammond was
shot dead and his three sons serious?
ly wounded.
Darlington, March 10.-Mr. R. Kel?
so Charles, a native of the county and
for many years a practicing lawyer
at this bar, died last night. He went
into a barber shop to take a bath and
remained in the bath room so long that
the attendant went in to see if any?
thing was the matter. He was found
in the bath dead.
MUST H?NG BROWNFIELD.
Negro Who Has Been Under Sen?
tence of Death Since 1899 Must
Now be Executed.
Washington, March 9.-The United
States supreme court today affirmed
the opinion of the supreme court of
South Carolina in the case of John
Brownfield vs. the State Of South
Carolina. Brownfield is a negro who
resides in South Carolina and was
convicted of murder. He alleged .that
he had been denied the equal protec?
tion of the law under the constitution
because that notwithstanding, ,jfour-:
fifths of the people of the ornmunity
are colored, all negroes were excluded,
from the grand jury by which he was
indicted. Justice Holmes, who de?
livered the opinion of the court, said
there is no proof of;the allegation) and
therefore sustained the judgment of
the State court,, which was adverse
to Brownfield. ,~ .
Judge Purdy, who presided over the
court of common pleas here last week
and over the court of -sessions two
weeks ago, made a splendid impression
on Anderson people-lawyers as well
as laymen. He is a learned and able
lawyer and an affable gentleman, and
is so honest and conscientious in all
that he says and does that he is an
ideal judge".-Anderson Mail.
Mazatlan, March 9.-There was, only
one death from the plague today, and
that in the lazaretto. Jose de Arvi
ala, a medical student, while conduct?
ing an autopsy on the body of a patient
who died of the plague, innoculated
himself and fell ill at once, but is now
recovering. The plague at Siqueros
was caused by people emigrating from
this city.
Richmond, Va., March 9.-J. M.
Webb, a prominent farmer of Floyd
county, and his son had an altercation
last night which resulted in the son's
shooting the father twice and fatally
woe Lcling him.
Local Weather Report.
For 24 hours ending 9 a. m., March
ll, 1903:
Temperature: Maximum, 72; Mini?
mum, 62; Mean, 67. Precipitation,
0.00. Character of day : Cloudy. Di?
rection of wind, East.
Sun rises, 6.15; sun sets, 6.05.
Forecast for 36 hours ending 8 p.
m., Thursday, issued from Washing?
ton, D. C. :
For Sumter and vicinity-Showers
tonight. Thursday fair.
WEATHER CONDITIONS.
Over the cotton belt continuous
cloudy and threatening weather con?
tinues. In Florida and the south?
western states clear weather has been
the rule for the last 24 hours. From
the North Pacific coast comes a storm
of considerable energy. The highest
+emperature was 84 at Tampa, the
lowest 6 at Bismark.
F. Prescott-Bul lock.
Local Observer,
U. S. Weather Bureau.
Itchiness of the Skin and Eczema
The only remedy in Inc world that will
at once stop itchiness of Hie skin on any
part of the body that i? absolutely sale
and never failing, 13 Dean'.- Ointment.
Free sample at China's Drv.? Store Thurs?
day, Mardi 19th.
TERRIBLE OIL EXPLOSION.
Collision of Oil Tank at Olean,
N. Y.--Fifteen People Incine?
rated and Thirty Injured.
Bradford, Pa, March 9.-Tonight an
extra freight train on the Erie Road
broke in two in the Olean, N. Y.,
yards. The detached parts crashed
together and six tank cars containing
oil ^caught fire. A large crowd of
sepctators gathered about the place
to look at the flames, when an ex?
plosion occurred in one of the tanks.
Burning oil was hurled over the crowd
and the consuming heat enmeshed
many victims. The exact number is
at present unknown, because the in?
tense ' heat renders it impossible to
reach the bodies which are being in?
cinerated. One estimate is fifteen
dead and twice that number burned
seriously.
Sydney Fish, a prominent business
man, returned from the scene of the
fire at midnight. He said :
"I was attracted to the scene of the
fire between 9.30 and 10 o'clock. When
I was within a quater of a mile of
the wrecked train there was a terrific
explosion. Flames shot outwards and
upwards for a great distance. I saw
several persons who started to run
away drop on the railroad tracks and
they never moved again. Others who
had been standing close to the wreck?
age were hurled through the air for
hundreds of feet. The scene was aw?
ful. Half a dozen young boys ran down
the tracks with their clothing afire,
resembling human torches. I could
hear their agonizing screams distinctly
from where I stood.
"They ran some distance down the
track and threw themselves to the
ground, grovelling in the "ditches in
their frantic efforts to extinguish the
flames. Then they lay still, some of
them unconscious, others dead, I don't'
know how many were killed, but I
counted twenty "bodies before I came
fcway."
Word was sent at once to Olean
police headquarters by telephone.
Every doctor and ambulance in the
city was summoned. Grocery wagons
and carriages of all kinds were pressed
into service, and everything possible
was done to bring the injured with?
out delay to the hospitals for treat?
ment.
At midnight the first of the injured
arrived at the hospital. They were
four young boys. Their injuries were
frightful. Great patches of flesh were
burned off and hung in shreds from
their bodies.
TWENYT-TWO BODIES RECOVER?
ED.
Olean, N. Y., March 10.-A report
from the scene of the accident at 1.01
o'clock this morning, {Tuesday,) says
twenty-two bodies have been taken
from the wreckage. Some of them are
burned beyond recognition, only the
trunks and skulls remaining.
Itching Piles.
Any one who suffers from that terrible
plague, itching piles, or from eczema, will
appreciate the immediate relief and per?
manent, cure that comes through the use of
Doan's Ointment. It never fails. Free
samples at China's Drug Store Thursday,
March 19th.' . J .
Nashville, Tenn, March 9.-The
house of representatives today adopted
a resolution requesting the governor to
ignore' the request of the governor of
Wisconsin to appoint delegates to a
convention to settle the race question
declaring that the race question
will settle itself.
FREE! FREE!
TO KIDNEY SUFFERERS.
An Opportunity Worthy of
Your Notice.
If you suffer with kidney disease or any j
ailment arising from an improper action j
of the kidneys or urinary organs, this offer
we make to the people of Sumter should
interest you. In the advancement of med?
ical science, the kidneys, the organs of the
greatest importance to human health, have
not been neglected, and in placing before
you such a cure as Doan's Kidney Pills
the proprietors recognize how far so many
statements of the makers of similar prep?
arations have fallen short of their claims,
being convinced that no remedy for kid?
ney complaints in existence equals Doan's
Kidney Pills for such ailments ; strength?
ened in these convictions by letters that
are daily received of the work they are
doing for mankind's benefit, old backs
and young backs are being constantly
freed from never-ceasing aches, and many
a lame and shattered one, stooped and
contracted, is strengthened, invigorated
and infused with new life. With such a
medicine an offer of this kind can be !
made without hesitancy, for while we lose
the box we give to you, we make a friend
that assists us in the sale of many others.
Full Boxes
of Doan's Kidney Pills will be given away
free to every person suffering with kidney
ailments at the undersigned address. First
come, first served, and only this one
chance offered. For those in the country
who cannot call in time a box will be
mailed upon receipt of 4c to pay postage.
Remember this is not a sample box, but a
regular size box of Doan's Kidney Pills,
which retails at 50 cents.
Remember
Free Distribution One Day Only.
Thursday, March 19th,
At Dr. A. J. China, Druggist,
Main street, Sumter, S. C.
Cut this advertisement out and bring
with you.
Sole Agents for the United States Fos
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Victims of the Oii Explosion.
Olean, N. Y., March 10.-Fourteen
charred and half consumed bodies ly?
ing in the undertaking establishments
or in their late homes, 14 people lying
in the hospital and a dozen or so not
so seriously injured at their homes is
the result of the accident on the Erie
railroad last night when an oil train
was wrecked and several oil ?;ars ex?
ploded and scattered death and de?
struction in every direction. Several
of the patients in the hospital are seri?
ously burned, one of them, Richard\
McDonald, aged 9' years, fprobably
fatally.
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China's Drug Store.
hamrock
TT
ose.
We have recently added to cur stock a new line of ladies
hose under the above brand, and from the limited experience
we have had with them we regard ourselves as extremely for?
tunate in securing their
Exclusive Agency
and unhesitatingly recommend them to our patrons, as they are
at least
33 1-3 Per Cent Better Values
than we have ever offered before. You might think from the
name that we had something to do with suggesting the brand on
account of its association with our nationality, but such is not
the case.
he Shamrock Mills
are probably the largest manufacturers of hosiery in the south
and the brand is distinctively their own. It may be that the
manufacturer had a leaning towards the
Land of
hamrock
on account of some pleasant ancestral connection, which caused
him to give to his mill its name, or like many others of us, he
may have been a direct production
Of Erin's Isle.
He seems to be quite an admirer of Lord Lipton, as every pair
of the product of his mill has woven in them a cut of the de?
feated
Shamrock II?
and while the Yankee boat defeated our friends from across
the water he may have wished to retaliate by showing them
that he was their superior
I Io the Manufacture of Hosiery
In which he has certainly succeeded. It only remains for you to see the line, ladies, to
endorse our statement.
- We have recently bought 2,500 pairs of % hose that vere made by the now farnotts
Manning Mills to sell at 10 cents per pair, but on account of a slight defect in the
?weave, we closed out the lot at a price that justifies us in selling them at 5 cents per
pair. The def ects are hardly perceptible.
Our buyers leave this week for the Northern and Eastern markets to buy Spring
stock, and our friends may rest assured that we we will be prepared to show them
complete a line as the market affords or their return.
O'Donnell & Co.
THE JV'MZ. Ut it
May produce the conventional rabbit from the empty hat, but
we challenge him or the most experienced painter to produce a
finish that will preserve and beautify, with the paint sold for
just as good as ?
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The mere fact . that such paint is sold for 'just as good"
should be sufficient for you to insist upon receiving Moore's
Pure House Colors, a pure linseed oil paint for interior and ex?
terior painting.
Before purchasing any paint, whether a half pint or enough for your house, just
call upon or write our representative?, THE BURNS HARDWARE CO., SUMTER,
who will show you a beautiful line of colors that don't fade, and refer to standing test?
imonials right at home.
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