fas SU51X2B WATCHMAN, Kstabiiehed April, 1S50. "3e Just and Fear not-Let all the Ends thou Aims't at? be thy Country's, thy God's and Truth's." g THE TR?E SOUTHRON, Established jnne i?6>
>:o. 48
HAVE ONLY ONE HUNDRED OF THESE ?1ACHINES
s.
But while they last they will go for Five Bollars each, six records to go with every ma?
chine. This is the genuine Columbia Graphophone, and every record bears the Columbia trade
mark, as well as the machine itself, which is of the latest design. Do you work hard all
through the hot summer days ? A little recreation and amusement in the evenings will cheer
you up and make happiness in the family circle. As you are not to enjoy a thousand years' so?
journ in this land of flowers you may as we. 1 pick up a few lines of pleasure in passing, espe?
cially when the cost does not exceed the five dollar mark. I am not living ten thousand miles
away from you, and have the goods for sale, open for your inspection ; come and see them.
T. B. JENKINS, Tr.
belling New Home Sewing flachines, Columbia and Cleveland
Bicycles, and a high-class line of Sporting Goods.
Wyt Wf&?ftm ??? Sonftron.
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Pablis?ed. SYST? Wednesday,
SUMTER, 8. C.
TREKS:
gl 50 per annum-is advance.
49T18TI9IIZ1T;
One Square first insertion.....*.......$1 00
Xvery subsequent insertion...... 50
Contracts for three tnouths, or longer will
Be mad? at reduced rates.
Ail comtaasiiations which subserve private
interests will be charged for as advertiements.
Obituaries asid tributes of respects will be
charged for.
FIRMES QUOTH BIS PASS.
Saw the Show Ewy Night and
Co?fd Not Set Home.
"As to deadhead passes," remarked
a veteran theatrical manager to a De
?troit Free Press wirfcer. "Years ago,
when I. was on the road and my com?
pany was playing in Illinois, an old
farmer hunted me np at the hotel and
proceeded to become friendly. He
bought me drinks and cigars, and
would have presetned me" with a load
of hay if I had any use for it. After
he had hong around all day and still
patting me on the back, I asked him
how it came about tnat he had taken
such, a liking- to me. In his honest
way he replied :
" 'Wal!, you are the man who gives
out free tickets to the show, and I
thought mebbe I could work in on
you. *
"As a reward for his honesty I
gave him a season pass, and took'
pains to explain to him that although
we would be in that town only two
nights the pass would be good wherev?
er we played for the next three months.
The old chap was tickled half to
death, and that night he was first one
in the theater and the last one to
leave. It was the same the next night,
and 1 thought I had seen the last of
him, as we had a jump of sixty miles
to another town, bat when we took the
train he was right on hand. We play?
ed one night and made another jump,
but he was still with ns. In fact, he
followed us for a week, and was ready
to stand freat at any time. At the end
of a week he began to get uneasy and
count np his change, and as I saw
that he was about ready to let go,
I said:
" 'Well, Uncle Rube, have you had
enough of theatricals?'
"It's my money that ?has give out,'
he replied. Tm right down to 66
cents and have got to walk 200 miles
to git back home. If Pd only had
time to prepare for it I'd have sold
my oxen, mortgaged my farm and
gone right through to California with
yon. By John, but I hate to give up
this pass."
"flow much will you take for it?' I
asked, curious to know what value
he set on it
" 'Wall. bein1 as you give it to
me in the first place, and bein' every?
body has used me first rate, I'll tell
you what I'll do. Grimme my fare
home and $50 in cash and she's
yours.' "
Poe and the Manager.
A well known theatrical manager,
says Harper's Weekly, who is dis?
tinguished rather for his business
ability than for his knowledge of liter?
ature, was visited not long ago by an
aspiring playwright. He had with
him, he explained to the manager, the
manuscript of a play baned on one of
Edgar Allen Poe's stories, which he
was sure was destined to make a sensa?
tional hit on the stage. The manager
consented to hear the play and listen?
ed with increased interest as the play- i
wright read from his manuscript.
He was enthusiastic when the end
war reached.
"That's fine!" he exclaimed-"fine I
Now I'll tell you what I'll do : you and
Mr. Poe come in tomorrow and we'll
talk this thing over."
Former Judge Buchanan, now of
counsel to J. H. Tillman, has evident?
ly sat at the feet of Gov. Pennypacker
of Pennsylvania.-Charleston Post.
"The town with a future cannot
afford to give away franchises for pub?
lic utilities. "-The State.
THE CONFEDERATE ROLLS.
Gol. Tribble and Gov. Candler Score
Point Against Secretary Root.
TO GO BEFORE CONGRESS
In Getting up Roils For Confed
erato Roster "Original" Lists
are Exacted Under Present
Law.
Columbia, S. C., June 2L-Coi. M.
P. Tribble of Anderson who has been
appointed by Governor Heyward to
collect the Confederate rolls of this
state for the war department, reports
considerable progress made so far in
his work. Col. Triable has appointed
an assistant, Mr. T. J. Pyles, and
recently issued a letter to the vari?os
Confederate camps calling for the rolls
which resulted in many being sent in.
The great trouble, however, is that
the act as passed by congress cali
only for the "original" rolls. The
commissioners for the various southern
states have all made it clear to Secre?
tary Root and Brigadier General Ains?
worth, who is doing the work for the
war department, that securing any?
thing like a complete roster from the
original rolls is out of the question as
many of them were destroyed by the
northern armies on their raids through
the south and many regiments after
the second year of the war did not keep
hardly any record of enlistments. On
the other hand the northern troops
kept records and short histories of
every man enlisted and they have no
difficulty in turning these over to the
war department at once. Governor A.
D. Candler of Georgia, and Col. Trib?
ble took the matter np with Secretary
Boot and the latter advised them to
go ahead with the work, getting up
the rolls where they could and where
these were not obtainable to secure
copies or information from officers
who have survived. Secretary Soot
advised ex-G?v. Candler to take the
matter up with the other commission?
ers and at the next session of congress
have the word ."original" struck out
of the act.
Considerable correspondence ?has
passed bteween Messrs. Tribbie and
Candler, as Georgia and South Caro?
lina have more trouble with their rolls
than the other southern states, and
these commissioners along with com?
missioner Owens of Alabama and Com?
missioner Dixon of North Carolina
will meet shortly and memorialize
congress along the lines suggested by '.
Secretary Root.
On the rolls now in the possession :
of Col. Tribble, there are 66,606
names, but about two thousand of
these are repeated and Col. Tribble
does not think that in the roll sent to
Washington there will be over 61,000
names. _
The Anti-typhoid Serum.
Dr. Chantemesse, the ehief exponent
of anti-typhoid inoculation in France,
has prepared a series of comparative
statistics showing the results of treat?
ment by ordinary methods at the Paris
hospitals and the results of treatment
by anti-typhoid serum at the fever
hospital under his care. His figures
show that in the Paris hospitals the
mortality from typhoid fever over a
period of twenty months was 19 per
cent. In the same period the mortality
at the Chantemesse Hospital was only
3.7 per cent. Dr. Chantemesse's in
oculatory methods have also been tried
at the naval hospital at Toulon. Of
171 typhoid cases in which the Chan?
temesse serum was used 13 succumb?
ed. This result is less favorable than
that obtained under the personal su?
pervision of Dr. Chantemesse-though
it is better than that achieved by the
ordinary methods of the Paris hos?
pitals-but the smaller degree of suc?
cess is explained as being due to less
intimate knowledge of the proper doses
to give in individual cases.
A comparison made by Dr. Chan?
temesse with the mortality in the Ger?
man army last year from typhoid is
considerably in his favor. From be?
ginning to end some eight hundred
cases have been treated by the Chan?
temesse typhoid serum, and the mor?
tality was less than 6 per cent. In
the German army last year there were
999 casesof typhoid and 87 deaths, or
about 93^ per cent.-New York Times.
The Catawba Water Power company,
of Rock Hill, has increased its capital
stock from $250,000 to $650,000.
THE POSTAL SCANDALS.
Grand Jury Indicts Machen, the
Groffs, Mr. and Mrs. Lorenz,
But They Will not be Reindicted or
Made to Give Additiooa! Bonds.
Washington, Jnne 22.-The grand
jury, which has been investigating
postal affairs, today returned an in?
dictment against August W. Machen,
Diller B. Groff; Samuel A. Groff,
George F. Lorenz and Martha J.
Lorez, the two latter being residents
of Toledo, Ohio. As previously stated
in the dispatches the specific charge
is conspiracy to defraud the Govern?
ment. The indictment is based on
Section 5,440 of the Revised Statutes,
which provide a penalty of $i0,000 or
two years imprisonment Or both, in
the discretion of the Court. *
It was said by Assistant Attorney
Taggart today that the indictment was
found against Mrs. and Mr. Lorenz
because the evidence before the grand
jury showed them to be the go-be?
tweens for the Groffs.and Machen.
There are twelve counts to the in?
dictment, eleven of which are substan?
tially the same as those found previ?
ously against Machen and the Groffs.
The first count of the present indict?
ment, which relate to the conspiracy
charges, sets forth that on June 29,
1900, in the District of Columbia,
Lorenz, Mrs. Lorenz, Machen and the
Groff brothers "conspired, combined,
confederated and agreed to defraud
the United States Govrenment of its
moneys,", by the following arrange?
ment ; Machen advise and recommend
io the first assisant Postmaster Gene?
ral the purchase from the Groff broth?
er of a large number of the Groff- fast?
eners for mail boxes at Si. 25 each and
should procure payment thereoff, upon
which the Groff brothers should retain
60 per cent, of such payment, or 75
cents for each fastener; and the Groff
brothers should then pay to Mr. and
Mrs. Lorenz, either or both, the re?
maining 40 per cent, which was to
be "converted, appropriated and ap?
plied to the use" of Mr. and Mrs.
'Lorenz and Machen. The indictment
says that this agreement was carried
out by Machen on JuneSO, recommend?
ing the purchase of ?,<000 of the fast?
eners at the price mentioned ; that the
Groff brothers on the same date pre?
sented a bill for these ^000 fasteners,
at the price mentioned ; that on Sept?
ember 13, the same year, Machen re?
commended to the first assistant Post?
master General the payment of that
bill, and that the Groff brothers
"having thereafter and on September
22 of that year receired from the
United States $7,700 in pavment of
bill," Diller B. Groff, on* October
20, same year, paid $3,000 to George
E. and Martha J. Lorenz. The testi?
mony upon which the indictment was
found was given by Postoffice Inspect?
ors Walter S. Mayer, Paul E. Williams
and Joseph F. Farrell, and Theodore
W. Warner and William R. Lewis, the
twc latter being bank men. The Groff
brothers and their counsel and the
counsel for Machen were in Court
when the indictment was returned.
Machen was not present. It was an
nouncd that neither Machen nor the
GrofTs could be rearrested ; also that
they would not be required to give a
new bond. Assistant District Attorney
Taggart announced that the investiga?
tion into postal affairs by the grand
jury will continue, but the indictments
presented today complete the work of
his office so far as the grand jury has
acted.
New York, June 23.-One of the most
exciting and spectacular upturns of
the cotton season in the cotton market
occurred right after midday. The
weekly crop report from Washington
had just been read and received bearish
interpretation resulting in moderate
declines, but almost immediately buy?
ing orders were received from New
Orleans and July was pushed to 12.75,
August to 12.29 and September to
11.39, all of these prices being new
high records for the season. The new
crop positions responded only partial?
ly to the strength in months said to be
controlled by the bull pool.
A New York judge recently re?
marked on the prevailing and growing
practice of carrying concealed weap?
ons in that city. So it appears that
this evil is not confined to the south
by any means. There are laws
against the practice in nearly every
State, but the trouble is that the
penalty is not severe enough, and the
evil is great enough to warrant the
severest penalty.
SILVER KING FALLS
INTO LAW'S CLUTCH.
Gambler Well Known Here Con?
victed in Georgetown-Local
Sports Haye "Chipped in"
"Silver King" is in trouble. Nearly
everybody around Columbia knows
"Silver King," the dapper little
gambler, who was so conspicuous be?
cause of his almost snowy locks, so
much at variance with his quick tread
and his bright eye, from which have
not departed the fire of youth and the
excitement of the game.
"Silver King" is in trouble, but
the "sporting fraternity" of Columbia
will get him out. The "gams" were
out yeterday taking up a collection for
their fellow, venerable in appearance
yet evidently unlike the proverb of
Soloman, "Wisdom is the gray hair
unto men and an unspotted life is old
age." For had "Silver King" been
wise, he would not have run through
with what he had, but would have
saved a little bit for a rainy day.
The following from the Georgetown
correspondence of The State yester?
day tells the tragedy of ' ' Silver King :'9
"True bills were found by the
grand jury against? "Silver King,"
alias Hugh Flynn, J. M. Cannon and
Mike Roon, all white men, for
violations of tbe dispensary law. The
punishment inflicted by the jury was
severe in these cases and should be a
warning to others who may be engaged
in the "blind tiger" business here.
The sentence was a fine of 8500 or li
months' imprisonment in each in?
stance."
Whatever else may be said of gam.
biers, they are impulsive and gener?
ous in a way, and when they saw that
their old associate was in trouble, from
which he could not extricate himself,
they immediately passed- around the
hat.
Columbia cannot proudly claim
"Silver King" as one of her sons, for
he has played star engagements in
Charleston and other towns, and when
the news of his misfortune was passed
around the "gams" ther? chippd in
to help him out.
Five hundred dollars fine, and for
violating the dispensary law ? It was
almost past belief. In Charleston,
Sumter and Columbia enough was
raised yesterday to guarantee "Silver
King" his liberty, after contributions
have come in from the "perfesh" in
Augusta and Savannah.
The contributors from this city in?
cluded business men who dc not gam?
ble, as well as the regular gamblers,
for when the subscription list was
passed around to some sportive if not
"sporting" naen, they could not de?
cline for fear of losing the trade of
the "united sporting fraternity'" of
Columbia.
Of course no gambling is done in
Columbia, except among negroes, 17
of whom were run in Saturday night,
but there nevertheless appears to be a
long string of names of members of
the sporting fraternity signed to the
subscription list rto raise funds to get
Hugh Flynn out of the prison wiiere
he was placed upon conviction of
violating the law.-The State, Junie 26.
Want a Railroad.
The TimmonsviKe Enterprise says:
At a recent mass meeting of oar
citizens a committee was appointed to
see what could be done in the way of
getting another railroad through to
this place-something badly needed.
A surveyor has been over and map-.
ped out a line from Hartsville to McBee .
on the Seaboard Air Line. The busi?
ness people of Hartsville want and are
going to have connection with the
Seaboard. It is only about twenty
miles from here to Hartsville and if
our committee would look into the
matter and offer some inducements it
might be possible to get the proposed
road continued on down to Timmons
ville.
The Greenville News suggests that
the dam of Lake Toxaway be examin?
ed by engineers to relieve the appre?
hension of people living in South Caro?
lina who fear it will break. That
would do no harm unless the South
Carolina engineers thought the dam
insecure when it wasn't. The engi?
neers of the Toxaway company declare
it is absolutely safe and it cost enough
-$33,OOO-to have been made secure.
By the way, the dam is not 27 miles
in circumference as The News says
that would be a great b*g double-dam ;
the lake is 17 miles around. -State.
IRISH IMMIGRATION.
Those That Came in a Rush Fifty
Years Ago Suffered Hardships.
Writing in Donohoe's, about the
Irish population in this country, Ed?
ward F. McSweeney says: When the
Irish began to come to the United
States in large numbers, about fifty
years ago, New England was beginning
to branch out from an agricultural into
the manufacturing and commercial
centre of the country. The Yankee
farmer was changing to a business
man ; he neded labor. The Germans
pushed inward as far as their means
would allow, to take up holdings for
themselves, when possible. If they had
any money at all they did not desire to
become laborers or farm hands. The
Irish were fleeing from a famine.
With them it was not a question of
buying land; most of them had noth?
ing but their hands and a sincere
willingness to work at anything that
was offered. The hardships of the
voyage and the cost of transportation
did not permit any but the strongest
to come. The sufferings of the im?
migrants of that early period have never
been fully told. The emigrant path
across the Western plains in those days
was marked by the whitening bones of
animals, and the rude crosses and
headstones of those who succumbed to
the hardships of the journey. If the
ocean path could be marked in like
manner, vessels would travel between
a continuous line of monuments form?
ing an avenue of death between here
and Europe. Those who survived be?
gan at the bottom ; they entered evers?
field of labor, and under the guiding
Yankee brain and enterprise made Mas?
sachusetts what she was from I860
until 1890.
It was not easy sailing. Religion
and racial prejudices were strong.
They have not wholly disappeared yet.
As a result of the coming of the Irish
"Knownothingism" made itself felt
in the early 50's. The Irish peasants,
delighted with the liberty they found
here, attempted to assume all the
duties of citizenship; many joined the
militia. A "Knownothing" Governor,
in 1855, disbanded the militia in order
i to get rid of the Irish. Happily,
when the need came, in 1861., this
temporary insanity had burned itself
out, and the War Governor welcomed
! with a glad heart the Irish" volunteers,
who literally poured into every regi?
ment sent to the front. Two of the
regiments were so distinctly Irish that
the State permitted them to carry the
flag of their mother country. Thus
it was that "the Sunburst" floated in
companionship with the Stars and
Stripes above the bayonets of the fam?
ous 9th Massachusetts volunteers and
the equally famous 2Sth, the ''Faugh
a-Ballaoghs. " ,
New Orleans Cotton Market.
New Orleans, June 23.-Cotton fu?
tures steady: June 13.80 bid: July
I3.87a&3.90: August 1.3.80al3.S2: Sep?
tember 11.90: October 10.23: Novem?
ber a32a9.81: December 9.S0a9.Sl:
Jauary:9.81a9.83.
The spot market was very firm.
Quotations of good ordinary and grades
above were advanced i^c.
Futures opened very quiet at about j
last evening's closing figures except
September, which was -1 points up.
The market remained fairly steady
until the government report was read.
The report was generally considered
bearish but the advance in the Liver?
pool market and the asurance that on
Friday nest, which will be notice day
for July contracts, every notice would
be stopped by the long side, prevented
a decline. The bulls apparently have
the broadest confidence in themselves
and state positively that every bale of
cotton tendered will be taken. Soon
after the noon hour the long came to
the support of the market and sent
prices skyward. July advanced 49 points
above Monday's closing ; August 56 :
September 26 ; October 18, December
14 and January 13. Before the close
there was recession of 13 points upon
July, August 10, September 10, Octo?
ber 3, December 5 and January 4. The
board at the close showed net gains
for the day of 30 points on June, 36 on
July, 44 on August, 16 on September,
16 on October and the other months 9
each.
I Mr. Machen will claim, it is said,
that he was a full partner in the mail
box fastener concern and not a mere
take-off grafter. The gentleman
doubtless wishes it understood that he
went the whole hog.-Atlanta Consti?
tution.
THE DELAWARE LYNCHING.
Morbid Curiosity of Crowds of
Sight-Seers.
Wilmington, Del, June 23.-The ex?
citement attending the tragedy enacted
last night outside the city limits,
where George White, negro ravisher
and murderer of the seventeen-year
old girl, Helen S. Bishop, was burned
at the stake, has subsided. Public
sentiment appears to deplore the resort
to mob violence, but the consensus of
opinion is that summary vengeance
alone could atone for the
brutal outrage, upon the life and
honor of the young girl. It
is generally believed that had the
Courts brought the murderer to speedy
trial last night's tragedy would have
been averted. It is not ?nown as yet
what action the State authorities will
take. Governor Hunn says he* will
confer with Attorney General H. H.
Ward. The latter made a brief state?
ment tonight, and he said the State
will await the result of the coroner's
inquest, and that every effort will be
exerted to ascertain the names of the
lynchers. The coroner has not fixed
the date for the inquest.
Deputy Coroner Killme::, who visit?
ed Price's Corner, the scene of the
lynching, found little to view. All
semblance of the human in White's
body had been obliterated by the
avenging fire and the morbidly curious
relic hunters. A small portion of the
trunk and one or two charred bones
were recovered and taken to the
morgue. Of the hundreds of people who
visited the spot where the funeral pyre
was lighted, scarcely one left without
some ghastly memento. One man
carried away a foot that had not been
consumed. Fragments of clothing,
piece cf wood, cinders and any article
that bore mute testimony of the mob's
work were eagerly sought.
One arrest was made tonight by
State Detective Francis. The
prisoner's name was not divulged by
the police," but it is said :.\e is charged
with having been a party to the lynch?
ing. The police officials have little to
say regarding the affair. It is said that
State and city detectives were in the
crowd last night and recognized some
of those who participated in the burn?
ing. Other arrests, it is believed will
follow. During the show of resist?
ance by the police and jail officials,
when the mob attacked the Newcastle
County work house, Peter Smith a
twelve"-vear-old boy, was shot in the
back. The bullet which struck him
evidently came from a pistol in the
crowd, as it is claimed by the prison
warden that his guards lired ever the
heads of the lynchers. Smith's condi?
tion is critical and he is not expected to
live. Another young man, whose came
is unknown, was slightly injured.
Mexico City, June 24.-lt is believed
in well informed circles that the new
modified gold standard, with a peso
valued at fifty cents will be adopted by
January 1 nest year. Some large
transactions involving heavy invest?
ments of foreign capital have been
made on information that this is the
outcome of the present deliberations of
the monetary conference ?and the e^ens
of Mexico's commissioners abroad.
Belgrade, June 23.- The British
minister to Servia left here this morn?
ing for London. It is understood the
? first bill to-be submitted to King
f Peter will be one prepared .by the
Minister of Justice, granting amnesty
for all political offenses.
Kile, June 23.-The United States
European squadron. Admiral Cot?
ton in command, reached its anchor?
age opposite the yacht club house at
noon today. The fleet, here, com
mand?d by Admiral Prince Henry
of Prussia, consisting of eight battle
ships and the cruisers, saluted the
American vessels and a band of the
German flagship played "America."
The commanders of the American ships
called on Prince Henry, who imme?
diately returned the calls.
One of the arguments of Tillman's
counsel for a change of venue for the
trial of their client is tba;:- some of the
good people of Columbia prayed for
the recovery of Gonzales from the
pistol wound inflicted by Tillman:
another is that The State, which for
twelve years was the public manifesta?
tion of Gonzales' thought* and aspir?
ations, bears at the head of its columns
a commemoration of his connection
with the paper. Evidently Tillman is
unwilling to stand trial in anv com?
munity that would not blot out the
memory of his victim completely ex?
cept to rejoice at his death.-Char?
leston Post.