The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, June 24, 1903, Image 2
An Ante-Bellum Letter That Got
Mr. Perry Moses a Job.
In the course of a recent search in
the postoffice department at Washing?
ton for a document wanted in connec?
tion with tiie present postal investiga?
tions, there was found in a coal bin of
the department an old file of papers
. which contained some interesting let
te rs. Among them were autograph
letters from Horace Greeley, Charles
Sumner, Roscoe Conklin and James
A. Garfield, generally recommending
appointments of friends to office.
One of the most interesting papers
in the collection, says the New York
Sun, is a letter written by one Perry
Moses, who lived in that hotbed of
secession,' Charleston, S. C. The cir?
cumstances surrounding the writing
of the letter and Mr. Moses' appoint?
ment to a $2,000 office in the postal
service are somewhat peculiar.
Mr. Moses applied for a place just
at the close of Buchanan's administra?
tion. He had. prominent backing for
the important place he desired, and
Horatiio King, who was then First As?
sistant;-Postmaster General, wrote him
a personal letter suggesting that he
send a communication to the depart?
ment on the state of the Union. Mr.
King selected this subject because it
happened to be the first that came in
his mind, and the letter from Mr.
Moses was desired merely to show the
latter's qualifications in the line of
penmanship, composition, etc. The
following was the result :
Washington, D. C., June 15, 1860.
Sir: You asked me this morning
for an expression of my opinion on the
state of the Union-the subject is one
of grave and vast importance, involv?
ing as it does the interset of probably
over 30,000,000 inhabitants.
It is at this time engrossing the
thoughts of not only every thinking
man and patriot, but even women and
children-for the interests of all are
indissolubly connected by links of
the same chain. Our political horizon
is shrouded in gloom and darkness
and the ship of state hangs hovering
on the verge of death ; none can say
if she will weather the storm or be
engulfed in the awful abyss that yawns
around. We hear the breakers and
we feel the storm, but God alone who
rules the whirlwind can say if she
will reach a harbor of safety or be
shattered into a thousand fragments.
, Section is now unhappily arrayed
against section ; November 6, the big
day that the destinies of our country
and our institutions will decide
whether or not we shall pursue the
even tenor of our way, peaceful and.
prospering, under a Democratic rule,
or witness the triumph of a party
whose policy it is feared, may be bit?
terly, hostile to the South and her in?
stitutions; an event which from pre?
sent appearances we ha ve but too much
reason to expect.
New York is new the palladium of
.our safety ; may she in her conserva?
tiveness, hurl bask the advancing tide
of sectionalism and dispel the dark
clouds of anxiety and trouble which
now lower around us. Should* the
fates decree it otherwisev I fear the
agitation that will ensue may sever
the bonds that now unite us as one
people.
The state of excitement prevailing
in my native State and other sections
of the South is more intense than I
haye ever witnessed and perhaps upon
. the -.first news of Lincoln's election,
will induce measures that may eventu?
ate dissolution. Whatever the result
of the election I . trust in God that
affairs may so shape themselves that'
the people of the South may find that
neither their safety or their honor
demand such extreme measures.
I am very respectfully,
.Your obedient servant, -
Perry Moses.
Hon. Horatio King, First Assistant
Postmaster General.
Despite the expressions contained in
the letter Mr. King immediately ap?
pointed the writer to an excellent place
in the Postoffice Department. Post
master'General Payne read Mr. Moses's
letter the other day when it was
brought to him by the appointment
clerk, and then looked up the record
of the case. When he found that
Moses had been appointed to a good
place at a liberal salary he whistled
and remarked :
"'Good Lord! How any one in
authority in tbose dark days just pre?
ceding the civil war could appoint a
man to a Federal office after he had
written a letter containing such rebel
sentiments as those expressed by Mr.
Perry Moses of Charleston, S. C., is
more than I can see. Then, if at any
time the country needed good and
faithful servants, servants true and
loyal who would standby the rudder?
less ship of state, so feelingly de?
scribed by the rebel applicant, until
it either ran on the rocks or reached
the haven of safety.
"But I presume that the letter
showed what was desired-that Mr.
Moses was an excellent penman, a
good composer, a gentleman of feeling
and imagination-and that was all
that was desired. After reading the
Moses letter I wasn't a bit surprised
to find on looking up the records in the
case that he served a short five
months as . an employee of the Post
office Department and at the end of
that time resigned his position to
espouse the Southern cause."
Mr. Moses, on leaving the depart?
ment, did not forget his Southam
courtesy The following is his letter
to Mr. King, who admired the pen?
manship and wi nked at his sentiments :
Washington, D. C., Feb. 26, 1861.
Hon. Horatio King, Postmaster Gene?
ral.,
My Dear Sir: In leaving the Post
office Department allow me to ten?
der my thanks for the uniform courtesy
and kindness with which you have ever
treated me.
I have repeatedly expressed my
sense of the obligation to others, and
beg to assure you personally that I
shall ever hold you in grateful remem
brnce. With esteem and respect.
Perry Moses.
Washington, June 18.-The federal
grand jury which is investigating pos?
tal affairs probably will bring in five
indictments in a few days against per?
sons involved. It is learned on un?
questioned authority that the jury has
voted to return indictments against
\ugnst W. Machen, Diller B. Groff,
Samuel A. Groff, George E. Lorenz
and Mrs. Lorenz, the two latter
being residents of Toledo, O. The
specific charge,, it is understood, will
be conspriacy to defraud the govern?
ment.
PROSPERITY OF THE SOUTH.
The Products ofits Soil and Bus?
iness of its Ports.
Baltimore, Jane IS.-The import
ance of the South, both as a base of
outward-bound commerce of the coun?
try and as a handler of that com?
merce, is revealed in the figures of
exports of domestic produce for the
eleven months of the present fiscal
year, as analyzed in this weeks' issue
of the Mnufacturers' Record. The
total value of domestic exports of
merchandise was $1,299,026,382, an
increase over the same period last
year of $30,015,314. Of this total
nearly 24 per cent., or $308,747,095,
represented cotton, an increase of $26,
900,080. Referring to certain classes
of exports the Manufacturers' Record
says:
"The total value of breadstuffs, pro?
visions, mineral oils and cotton ex?
ported was $739,797,427, an increase
over the same period last year of $4, -
189,503. There was a falling off in the
value of mineral oils exported of $5, -
268,299, in the value of cattle and
hogs of $1,737,885, and in the value
of meat and dairy products of $21,
727,097. Against these decreases, ag?
gregating $28,733,281, were increases
in the value of cotton of $26,900,800,
and in the value of breadstuffs of $6,
022,704, a total of $32,922,784. Not
only was the value of cotton exports
more than 41 per cent of the total val?
ue of the exports mentioned, but its
increase was within $1,833,201 of bal?
ancing the combined decreases in the
values of provisions and mineral- oils.
"Moreover the increases in the val?
ues of breadstuff exports from two
Gulf ports more than counterbalanced
the total decline in values for all other
ports Of the country. ] The decreases
were as follows:
Boston, $4,264,959; San Francisco,
$3,531,656; Newport News, $2,745,091;
Philadelphia, $1,212,705; Baltimore,
$715,219; Willamette, $715,219; Nor?
folk, $552,476; Mobile, $260,568; Chi?
cago, $148,237. Total, $14,078,921.
"The increases, excepting those at
Galveston and, New Orleans, were as
follows :
New vfork, $2,029,819; Portland, $1,
865,287; Superior, $836,665; Puget
Sound, $479,008; Duluth, $152,412;
other districts, $691,714. Total, $6,
054,905.
"These figures show a total decrease
of $8,024,016 for all ports, exclusive of
two Gulf ports. The increases there
were as follows :
New Orleans, $7,043,321 : Galveston,
$7,003,399. Total $14,046,720.
** Substrae ting the total decreases
for ali other ports from the increases
at these two ports leaves an aggregate
increase of $60,222,704. The, increases
at Galveston and New Orleans were so
great as to make the total increase for
all Southern ports $9,773,366 while
the increases in the group of six men?
tioned above were sufficient only to
reduce the decrease at ail ports except
the Southern ones to $3,750,662.
"During the eleven months New
Orleans led the ports in the combined
quantities of corn and wheat exported,
with 31,128,667 bushels, New ?ork
being second, with 27,735,177 bushels,
and New Orleans showed the largest
increase, from 2,031,558 bushels in the
eleven months of the last fiscal year
to 14,212,026 bushels for the same
period this year in exports of corn,
Baltimore being second, with an in?
crease from 3,898,244 to 16,002,243.
PEONASE IN GEORGIA.
Macon, Ga., June 18.-In the United
States Court today Judge Speer, in
his charge to the Federal grand jury,
sprung a surprise, fie called attention
to the fact that it had been charged
that a system of peonage existed in
certain parts of the Southern district
of Georgia. He quoted Article I,
paragraph 21, Constitution cf Georgia,
which-provides "there shall be no im?
prisonment for debt," and that the
Constitution of the United States pro?
vides that neither slavery nor in?
voluntary servitude, except as a
punishment for crime, whereof the
party shall have been duly convicted,
shall exist in the United States, or
any place subject to this jurisdiction.
He called the attention of the jury to
a case presented to him, where an em?
ployee left an employer and engaged
with another, and the first employer
and others armed themselves, took the
employee while at work, tied him,
carried him back to his former em?
ployer's place, whipped him, forced
him to work and he is now being
held practically in servitude. He
charged the jury to make diligent in?
quiry and if it found the statement
true, it was its duty to return an
indictment against the guilty parties.
William V. Shy, Robert F. Turner
and Arthur Glawson, farmers of Jasper
county, were arraigned tonight before
a United States commissioner on a
warrant issued by the United States
Court, charging them with forcibly
deporting William Walters, a negro
farm hand, from a plantation in Jones
county, to Jasper, whipping and other?
wise misusing him. The three de?
fendants were held in $10,00 hail to
answer. Each gave bond.
London, June 18.-Fourteen men
were killed and thirteen injured by an
explosion in the lyddite factory at the
Woolwich arsenal this morning. Seve?
ral of the victims were literally blown
to pieces.
The building was completely wreck?
ed. The roof was blown off and the
interior collapsed.
The explosion is attributed to the
bursting of a shell.
There were many pathetic scenes
about the gates of the great arsenal,
where thousands of relatives of the em?
ployees besieged the officials for in?
formation.
Six additional men are missing and
it is believed they were blown to
pieces.
Washington. June 18.-The postoffice
department has resumed the establish
men of rural free delivery routes, which
were held up on account of the deficit
in the appropriation for that service,
and a large number of routes will be
put into operation on July 1, the be?
ginning of the new fiscal year. The
policy of the department hereafter
will be to establish routes as rapidly
as possible, consistent with the best
interest of the service and economic
adminsitration. The rules requiring
one hundred families on the route, in
order to secure the service, will prob?
ably be more strictly adhered to and
fewer exceptions made.
MILITARY RULE DECLARED.
The Courts to be Defied-Work on
the Galveston to Go On Despite
the Injunction.
Richmond, Va., June 18.-Judge
Grinuan, of the Richmond Chancery
Court, today granted an injunction
restraining Lieuts Theiss and Groes
beck, United States- navy, from pro?
ceeding further with the launching of
the cruiser Galveston, under construc?
tion in the Trigg ship yards here.
The injunction was granted on peti?
tion of S. H. Hawes & Co, of this city,
supply creditors of the Trigg Company,
now in the hands of a receiver and re?
strains the Government officials and
all other persons from in any way in?
terfering with any of the property
at the Trigg yards, under control of
Lilburn T. Myers, the receiver, and
especially the cruiser Galveston and
the dredge Benyard, under construc?
tion for the Government. Lieuts
Theiss and Groesbeck were sent here
by the navy department to superin?
tend the launching of the Galveston,
which it was the intention of the de?
partment to send to the Norfolk yard
for completion. All preparation had
been made for the launching of the
vessel on Monday next.
GOVERNMENT DEFIES THE
COURT.
Washington, June .18.-It is stated
here that proper respect will be shown
the mandate of the Courts so long as
they keep within their jurisdiction,
but that the navy department cannot
submit to any interference with its
rights. The cruiser Galveston, at
Richmond, it was added, will be
launched when ready. Secretary
Moody is' not at all disposed to act
hastily regarding the Galveston, but
indefinite delay upon the construction
of that vessel in the event of an in?
ternational emergency might prove a
grave matter, and the department,
therefore, feels bound to proceed with
the work as rapidly as possible. It is
hoped that the vessel will be in condi?
tion for launching next Monday after?
noon.
Secretary Moody was informed to?
night of the action of the Richmond
Court restraining the Government
from further work on the Galveston,
but declined to talk on the subject
until after conferences to be held
tomorrow with the President and the
Ajtornej General. Attorney Gene al
Knox also was unwilling to be quoted
in the matter until his opinion, ren?
dered to the President, as to the juris?
diction of the Government over the
Galveston, has been made public. It
can be stated, however, that the At?
torney General regards as eminently
well taken the contention advanced by
Rear Admiral Bowles, chief of th?
bureau of construction and repair,
that no Court has the right to interfere
with work on a war vessel, and that
the Government would be warranted
in calling Federal troops to protect
its agents engaged in such work.
Instructions have been sent Lieut.
Theiss and Naval Constructor Groes?
beck, in charge of the work on the
Galveston, to proceed with all possi?
ble dispatch in the effort to get the
ship ready for launching on Monday.
An invitation has been sent Miss
Ella Scaley, of Galveston, Texas,
selected as sponsor for the vessel, to
be present on Monday to christen the
Galveston with the traditional bottle
of champagne. Capt. Charles Train
will act as the representative of the
Government.
When the Trigg Company failed last
spring they also had under construction
an hydraulic dredge for the war de?
partment and a revenue cutter for the
treasury department. These vessels
will be taken to the Norfolk navy
yard, together with the Galveston, for
completion there.
Locks, it is feared, may have to be
constructed in the channel leading
from the Trigg yard before the Galves?
ton can be got out and this work may
require six weeks' time or more. The
Government has no objection to the
supply creditors of the Trigg Company
proceeding in the Court to protect
their rights, but it takes the position
that work on war ship is too import?
ant to the nation at large to be delay?
ed while private firms are adjusting
their financial difficulties with one
another.
The plan of action decided on is
practically unique in the history of
the navy department. It was decided
on only after the President, the At?
torney General and the Secretary of
the Navy had given the subject their
careful consideration.
It is not expected that the people of
Virginia will regard the action of the
navy department as in the slightest
degree reflecting on the sovereign
rights of that State. The department
feels that it has acted with unusual
leniency toward the Trigg Company
and regrets that financial embarrass?
ments of the company should have
necessitated seizure of the vessel.
2 When the Galveston is launched a
gunboat probably will be sent to ac?
company her to Norfolk. It is not ex?
pected that the department will have
to resort to a show of naval or military
force to execute its orders.
Knoxville, Tenn, June 18.-In a fight
which occurred on an excursion train
returning to Huntdale, N. C., from
Johnson City, Tenn., Deputy Sheriff
Garland, of Mitchell County, N.
C., was shot and fatally wounded by
John Williams. Constable Bailey was
severely cut and bruised. Williams,
who is regarded as a desperate charact?
er, jumped from the train and escaped.
Washington, June 18.-Maj. Gen.
Frank W. Wheaton, U. S. A., retired,
died here today, aged 70 years. A
widow and two daughters survive
him. Death resulted from a general
breaking down in health.
Do You Enjoy What You Eat?
If you don't your food does not do you
much good. Xodol Dyspepsia Cure is the
remedy that every one should take when
there is anything wrong with the stomach.
lhere is no way to maintain the health
and strength of mind and body except by
nourishment. There is no way to nour?
ish except through the stomach. The
stomach must be kept healthy, pure and
sweet or the strength will let down and
disease will set up. No appetite, loss of
strength, nervousness, headache, constipa?
tion, bad breath, sour risings, rifting, in?
digestion, dyspepsia and all stomach trou?
bles are quickly cured by the use of Kodol
Dyspepsia Cure. Sold by J. S. Hughson
& Co.
Story of Ancient Rome.
[Translated and applied for the Daily
Item. ]
Once npon a time an old Roman
citizen lay sick nnto death.
"Nothing but a thrush can save your
life," said his physician.
"'Then get me the thrush" said the
old Roman citizen to his servants.
"But the thrush is out of season,
and can be secured only from Lucul
lus," was the reply.
"Go ask his price," said the old
citizen.
Now Lucullus was an epicure who
raised delicacies of every sort, not
for the benefit of his neighbors, but
for his own profit-that Js to say, sole?
ly for the delectation of his own pre?
carious appetite, for tho' he evidently
had the only thrush to be found, he
never even thought of "offering" them
for sale.
When the servants of the old citizen
set their master's case before him how?
ever, he agreed to forego his "con?
tract" with his appetite, and did con?
sent to sell a few, but asked a very
exorbitant price. The servants report?
ed, whereupon the old citizen caused
these words to be written to the epi?
cure.
"I must respectfully decline your
"offer" to sell me thrush, and shall
treat further with you only on condi?
tion that you materially reduce your
price and promise never again to raise
thrush out of season, as such extra?
vagance is an offense against the
gods. ' '
The epicure read and stood dumfound
ed ; he read again, and smiled, a gentle
smile; then he laughed; loud and
heartily and long, he laughed as the
humor of "decline your offer" fully
dawned upon him.
Now the old citizen could have pur?
chased the thrush, and he might have
lived had he done so; he declined
the "offer" and died.
So, the city of Sumter had an oppor?
tunity to extricate itself from the dis?
astrous effects of a short -sighted
policy by which ten years ago it bound
itself with hooks of steel to the Ameri?
can Pipe Co. In preference to the
essence of municipal life-ownership of
water, lights and sewerage-it has
chosen perpetually to debar such own?
ership, failing to recognize that the
business of the American Pipe Manu?
facturing Co., is to raise thrush not
for the cities' benefit but for their own
profit; not to sell water plants, but
water franchises more valuable, as a
city of Georgia found out when i? em?
ployed Hon. Hoke Smith, a man of
some fame, to '' bust' 'an American Pipe
Co's, contract, similar, in every es?
sential feature, to the one which binds
and will always bind our city to the
same company.
In effect the Hon. Hoke, we are
told, said, "only a thrush will save
your life." Two thousand dollars was
the price paid for the advice. This,
of course, is ancient history. It is
recalled now only to cause reflection.
Verbum sat sap.
Few Farmer Graduates.
We print today the list of young men
who have graduated at Clemson college
this year. It is a splendid list-sixty
is the number-and we are sure the
young men will reflect credit upon
their alma mater, the State and them?
selves.
We do not want to be understood as
criticising or discounting Clemson col?
lege. It is in every way a first class
college, and is doing a valuable work
in educating young men.
But in looking over the list of
graduates we have been impressed by
the fact that so few of them have
taken the agricultural course in the
college. Clemson was founded prim?
arily as an agricultural college, and
yet, judging from the list of graduates
and the courses of study they have
pursued, it would seem that the
science of agriculture has a very small
place in the curricuium.
Out of sixty graduates this year only
four have pursued the agricultural
course. It is not certain that all of
these will become farmers. The other
fifty-six graduates have studied for
something else. The textile course
leads, with engineering second
Why is this? Do we not need college
graduates on our farms as well as m
other vocations of life? Is there not
opportunity and inducement for a
college graduate upon a farm as well
as elsewhere? We have not the statis?
tics before us, but we presume that the
majority of the boys who go to Clemson
college are farmers' sons, and we can?
not help but regret that so few of them
are to become farmers, too.
We do not want to be unjust to the
management of the college, but we are
forced to the opinion that if the agri?
cultural course was made more prom?
inent, and that if young men on enter?
ing college were impressed with the
fact that there are just as good chances
for success and wealth for college
graduates in farming as in other call?
ings, there would be more graduates
in the agricultural course, and in a
few years we would have a better class
of farmers and farming in the State.
Anderson Mail.
State Lands for Sale.
Columbia, June 16.-Some time since
the Secretary of State went to George?
town county to look after thc State's
interest in about 5,000 acres of public
lands. He found that some of the
land is valuable and he so reported to
the sinking fund commission. The
land lias been advertised for sale and
bids have been asked for it in bulk. A
number of bids have been received and
the sinking fund commission, when it
meets on the 25th inst., will turn it
over to the successful bidder. One
bidder, in writing, speaks of an inten?
tion of setting a colony on the land
to raise cranberries on the low lands
and sugar beets on the high lands, to
which, he says, the land is adapted.
The land eould be put at other uses,
but this is just one instance showing
its possibilities. TJie sugar industry
especially is a growing one in this
country, and if lands in this State are
found available the industry will, no
doubt, increase. These lands have
been in possession of the State since
Radical days and have been practical?
ly idle for years. They were obtained
by the State by purchase or practical
confiscation, owing to the high Radi?
cal taxes, and it is only recently that
the real value of the tract has become J
known.
Petit Jury.
Charles Pinckney, Stateburg.
W. E. Kolb, Privateer.
S. A. Harvin, Privateer.
Samuel Sanders, Sumter.
0. H. MeKagen, Sumter.
W. E. Jennings, Sibley.
B. M. Allen, Catchall.
R. B. Dinkins, Sumter.
J. F. Reid, Sumter.
A. C. Thompson, Sibley.
T. E. Flowers, Sumter."
M. B. Witherspoon, Sumter.
T. M. Allen, Catchall.
Ernest Wactor, Catchall.
W. R. Murray, Sumter.
E. H. Moses, Sumter.
S. Newman, Sumter,
B. Randal, Sumter.
W. S. Dinkins, Bossard.
E. B. Hogan, Sumter.
J. C. Geddings, Sumter.
L. W. Folsom, Sumter.
C. W. McGrew, Sumter.
Peter Jones, Sumter.
L. F. Kennedy, Sumter.
J. E. Gaillard, Jr., Sumter.
F. N. Tomlinson, Shiloh.
J. E. Rembert, Providence.
A. R. Flowers, Sumter.
Li. B. Yates, Sumter.
J. J. Britton, Jr., Sumter.
L. D. Sanders, Sumter.
S. W. Mobley, Jr., Sumter.
Noah Benenhally, Catchall.
F. B. Grier, Sumter.
W. J. Jackson, Sumter.
Sumter Methodists Will Celebrate Wes?
ley's Birthday.
On next Sunday, the 23th"? inst.,
Methodism throughout the world will
celebrate the two-hundredth anniver?
sary of the birth of John Wet* .y. The
services will be conducted according
to the pleasure and judgment of each
congregation. The First Methodist
Church here will make this a Mis?
sionary Rally Day, and every member
will be waited upon by a canvassing
committee appointed last {Monday aft?
ernoon, and a special contribution to
this vital work will be solicited. The
pastor earnestly desires that every
name on his Church register be
credited with some amount. Surely
every Methodist in Sumter will be
glad to make a substantial and liberal
contribution to this important in?
stitution of the church so providential?
ly founded by that great Missionary
who struck the keynote of Methodist
effort. "The world is my Parish I"
Bishopville News Items.
Mr. Robert D. Reid, a prominent
business man of Atlanta and Miss
Eleanor Hazlehurst a lovely young
lady of Savannah, Ga., were married
on June 11th in the Episcopal church
of Savannah by the rector, A. W.
Scally. The bride and groom reached
here last Friday and-were tendered an
elegant reception at the home of the
groom's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Geo.
Reid, where they received the con?
gratulations of their many friends.
Dr. A. C. Spain, of Darlington,
has been in town several days pros?
pecting with a view of opening a den?
tal office here. A warm welcome awaits
all goods citizens like the Doctor.
The typos made rather a provoking
error in our little write up last week
of a ride we took round the ctiy of
Sumter behind Mr. Chandler's "fine
$100 horse. It should have been 2.10
minutes a mile instead of a $210 horse.
The Bishopville Guards have been
putting in some gopd drilling for the
past ten days getting ready for inspec?
tion which took place last Monday.
Gen. Frost and Col. Morris of the re?
gular army came over and viewed the
company and administered the oath to
them. Gen. Frost complimented the
company upon their fineapperance and
said he hoped to see them one cf the
banner companies by the time of sum?
mer encampment. There were 56 out
of an enrollment of 79 that answered
to roll call on inspection. Gen. Frost
adnCol. Morris, both made short ad?
dresses after which Capt. Parrott call?
ed for three cheers which was given
with a vim.-Lee County Vindicator.
WESLEY'S BI-CENTENNIAL
Savannah, Ga., June 17.- The mem?
orial tablets to be erected in Savannah
to John Wesley, in connection with the
lr* centennial celebration, June 25-29,
are expected in a day or two.
One will be placed on the custom
house, one on the postoffice and the
third on a building on Drayton street,
to the rear of Christ Church.
The Methodists have completed their
arrangements for the celebration of
the bi-centenary of the birth of John
Wesley. This celebration is unique, as
Savannah was the only place in Ameri?
ca where Wesley ever lived. Whitfield
and Charles Wesley also resided here,
and the programme includes a pilgrim?
age to Whitfield's Orphanage and ad?
dresses on Whitfield's relation to
Wesley. Three Bishops, Goodsell,
Galloway and Candler, will take part
in the exercises. Two leading clergy?
men of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, Drs. Goucher, of Baltimore,
and Thirkield, of Cincinnati, will de?
liver addresses; also two distinguished
laymen, Judge Samuel B. Adams and
former Congressman J. C. C. Black.
Machen Charged With Forgery.
Washington, June 17.-It is believed
that the grand jury will shortly be
asked by the postoffice authorities to
find another indictment against A. W7.
Machen, the former superintendent of
the free delivery system. The charge,
it is said, will be forgery, based upon
the cashing of a check for $369, drawn
by the cashier of the New York post
office in 1S91 in favor of Henry L.
Lorenz, cf Toledo, Ohio. It is claimed
that the money was to have been sent
to Mr. Lorenz in care of Mr. Machen.
The check was cashed in this city, be?
ing endorsed by Frank K. Raymond,
who says he bad the check. These
facts were brought out at a Congres?
sional investigation, but Mr. Machen
said at the time that the signature
was that of Lorenz. Mr. Lorenz has
declared that the signatures, both on
the check and voucher accompanying
it, are forgeries. He declares that he
has not received a cent of the money
and has no knowledge of the transac?
tion.
The general impression about the
Court House is that the indictment
will be returned before the close of the
present week, and it is intimated that
other indictments will be returned at
the ?-ame time.
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IKE SUMTER SAVINGS BINK.
HORACE HARBY, President.
X. C. STRAUSS. Vice-President.
GEO. L. KICKER, Cashier.
Capital Stock, $25,000
Liability of Stockholders, 25,000
The amount grows quickly after the
first deposit. Before the account was
opened money was spent without thought.
Now it is sent to
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where it draws interest at the rate of 4 per
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Savings deposited here cannot be taken
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THE BANK OF SUMTER;
SUMTER, S. C.
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Capital stock paid in, $75,000 00
Undivided surplus, 16,000 00
Individual liability of stockhold?
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annum, payable semi-annually.
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R. L MANNING, . . W. F. RHAME,
vice-President. Cashier.
Jan. 31.
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