Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 26, 1903. ?he Sumter Watchman was tount?et ia 1850 and the True Southron in 1866. The Watchman and Southron now has the combined circulation and influence of both of the old papers, and is mani? festly the best advertising medium ?D 8 um ter. RETRIBUTION. A. B. Williams in Richmond News Leader. Thirty-eight years ago tomorrow two mer* were walking side by side on the ramparts of Fortress Monroe. One of them was Jefferson Davis, 57 years . old, the defeated, crushed and captive leader of a government overthrown, a country desolate and beaten, the rep? resentative of a people's brigbt dreams vanished and hopes blotted out in their best blood. He was feeble, wast? ed, stooping and helpless, barely able to walk, compelled to pause now and then for rest, gasping at the free air which he was permitted to breathe as a special favor and after long denial. The other of the two men was Nelson Appleton Miles, stalwart and sturdy, 2t> years old* in the very flush and prime of vigorous young manhood, having risen from the ranks to brevet major-general, commander of an army corps, one of the favorite heroes of a triumphant country and a conquering army. At the order of General Miles, about three; months before, on May 23, 1865, Mr. Davis has been shackled. The former president of the Confederate States of America was physically a weak, worn and sick man. He was confined in a fort with great thickness? es of stone wall, with many locked iros, doors, trebled lines of armed sen? tinels and a.deep moat with high walls between him and the possibilities of escape or rescue. Yet he was thrown to the stone floor of his cell by four strong young 'soldiers while guards stood by with cocked and loaded mus? kets:, and shackles were fastened on his emaciated ankles. Thus degraded and tortured, he was kept day after day in a hot;, slimy and feotid cell, denied a moment of solitude or peace, with a light blazing in his eyes all night and an armed soldier standing guard over hiim every moment of every hour. He wsis denied the commonest comforts and necessities allowed to the vilest convicts in our penitentiary. Private soldiers were given, the right to insult him. and it was part of their duty to offend his natural human in? stincts and tastes in small and large -details of lifo. All this was done by -.the order of General Nelson A. Miles. Z Now, after these thirty-eight years' Mr. Davis si 3eps peacefully in Holly? wood, with'the rushing waters of the Janes river, singing endless requiem nearby, with the love and reverence of his own people for his memory ex? pr?s sd daily in. a thousand ways, with the growing respect of the world for his character, and principles demon? strated daily. General Miles, after a career of apparently brilliant success, after years in which, to do him right, he did good and valiant service for the country, is dismissed from the com? mand of the army of the Union, with scant courtesy, with curt words from his commanding officer, which must sting and rankle in his soul and which will stand to belittle his record all through history. He is wounded deep? ly in his vanity, a sensitive part for ?very man, but in him abnormally de? veloped and peculiarly sensitive. There is f or the moment some outburst of ? '..ii sympahy for him-or rather of simu? lated sympathy from those anxious to find cause for. quarrel with the presi? dent But he is doomed to obscurity, to mortification, to humiliation. We wonder if the memory of those days at Fortress Monroe comes to him in these times of his own? disaster and suffering in his old age, and if he thinks now and then that perhaps it may be retribution. Be it remember? ed, as he knows well, that the torture of the prisoner was Miles' own act and will He and his friends attempt-1 ed to throw the shame on the secretary i of war, but the documents stand to show that the commander at Fortress. Monroe was left free to follow his own judgment and feeling in the treatment of his prisoner. # * * In the flash days of the reconstruc? tion period in South Carolina there was a burly, broad-shouldered, well dressed carpet-bagger, who held some profitable local office. Men and wo? men used to look at him with shudder? ing repulsion and. hate, for it was whispered that he was the man who actually performed the execution of Mrs. Sorratt. By some marvel he es? caped, the vengeance of the people among whom he moved, hundreds of whom would have killed him with no more hesitation than they would have killed a noxious animal. He survived the great political revolution and the downfall of his party in 1876. Twelve yeaxs later he was being helped, groaning, about the streets of some of the up-country towns, a miserable, poverty stricken, crawling wretch, every joint and bone of his body rack? ed with endless pain, so that even those who hate*' him most bitterly I were forced to pity him. An awfni, subdued rnmor went around that he did not dare to sleep alone, that he was denied the wholesome repose usually granted by nature to the poorest men, that his days of physical anguish were followed by hours of frightful fear and misery, that Mrs. Surratt was on his mind always. However that may have been, he was a horrible and a de? plorable object, and wherever he went that grim word "Retribution," fol? lowed him in the thougths and on the lips of those who saw him. *' * * What is it, and how and in what fearful storehouse is it gathered to await the times when it shall descend upon the guilty head and crush the proudest and strongest heart with calamities which wno care can avert or avoid, which no power can resist, no courage may calmly meet or valiantly endure? Some seem to escape while others are overtaken. Is it ordained that those who have invited and defied wrath and who end their li ves here un? scathed, have reserved for them things more dreadful than those who suffer here, after all, are the more fortunate? Of these things we may know. Nor may we know certainly by what ? mysterious power retribution is order? ed. Some of us believe that a patient, tireless, omnipotent Intelligence deals with us as justice may decree and at its own time and in its own way. Others hold that the laws of nature are left to work out automatically their legitimate and sure results and that vengeance and retribution are brought to men as the result of their own acts, following directly, even if obscurely and by courses and methods impossi? ble for human vigilance to prevent or human wisdom to foresee. * * * It is impossible for us to know cer? tainly. Those of us who have watch? ed life and the careers of men are forced to believe that there is some law and plan of retribution. We may hope with all the solemn earnestness with which we are capable that this law is- guided by an Intelligence which can comprehend penitence and by a Mercy which may be moved by .sorrow and prayer. No one of us, look? ing back along our lives, can avoid the knowledge of deep guilt. The more carefully we scrutinize the record the'blacker it is. The more faithfully and honestly we follow out the tangled web of our acts ,^ and words and thoughts and their consequences, reaching inimitably through living humanity and the eternity coming, the more must we be oppressed with the conviction of the evil we have done. If all this must be paid for by suffering and misery in this world, by inexorable operations of fixed and un? changeable laws, we may well shudder at the prospect. If, by like inexorable ordinance, darker and more frightful retribution is to come after this life, then it is for most of us to look into the hidden beyond with dread unutterable, know? ing that its blackness is crowded thickly with horrors. Let us most humbly hope that we are not the crea? tures of an automatic and unchange? able law, but are the objects of a Care and Watchfulness. Let us hope and believe that we are beneath a Power, the Wrath and Retribution of which could not be stayed a fraction of an instant by all the granite of the globe placed orderly in one gigantic wall or swerved a hairs-breadth by all the gold .and jewels of the world condensed in one cast bribe but against which a single tear may be a sure defence, one inpulse of mercy or love or peni? tence an abundant ran sc m. Local Weather Kepari. For 24 hours ending 7 p. m., August 25. 1903: Temperature: Maximum, 99; Mini? mum, 73; Mean, 86. Precipitation, 0.C0. Character of day-Clear. Direction of wind-West. Sun rises, 5.30; sun sets, 6.32. Forecast for 36 hours ending 8 p. m., Tcurssday, issued from Washing? ton, D. C. : For Sumter and vicinity-Fair to? night and Wednesday. Stationary tem perature. WEATHER CONDITIONS, The barometer pressure is lowest over the lake regions and"on the entire Pacific slope, and it is the highest over the South Atlantic States. Mod? erately heavy rains occurred in the lake regions, the lower Missouri val? ley and in Texas. There was light scattered showers over the central and eastern parts of the cotton belt;. The heat wave continues to occupy the central valleys and southeastern States with the area of greatest heat over the Carolinas Ohio valley, Illi? nois and Missouri. It is cooler in the lake regions and upper parts?|of the central valleys. The highest tempera? ture reported was 96 at Cincinnati, Richmond and St. Louis, the lowest 48 at Winnemucca. Z There was quite a little meteoric display at 8 o'clock last evening. F. Prescott-Bullock, Local Observer, U. S. Weather Bureau. Ask your physician if Glenn Springs Mineral Water is not what you need. Weekly Crop Bulletin. Columbia, Aug. 25.-The week end? ing S a. m., Monday, August 24th, had a mean temperature of 78 degrees, which is 2 degrees below normal, due to low day temperatures during the first four days, that were entirely cloudy, humid and rainy. The last three days were clear and dry. There were local high winds in Oconee, Pickens, Anderson and Fairfield coun? ties that did some damage, and there was a light hail-storm in Oconee. Generally heavy, in places excessive, rains occurred over the whole State during the first four days, with local amounts ranging from one inch in the western counties to over six inches in the southeastern counties. In, ! places lands were badly washed and crops damaged, but where not exces? sive, the rains were beneficial on all crops except cotton. The average amont for the State was 2.38 inches. The condition of young corn con? tinues to improve, except on bottom lands that are too wet, where corn is firing. Old corn is about ripe, and fodder is being pulled from it in all sections. The rains damaged some fodder while curing. The rains of the week were harmful to cotton by causing increased shed? ding of squares and young bolls, ano! rust has appeared in nearly all sections. In places the rains caused too rank a growth of weed at the expense of fruit? age that was already on the stalks. These unfavorable conditions were general, whil6 caterpillars, sharp? shooters and boll-worms appeared locally, but have as yet caused small damage. Cotton is opening slowly in the eastern and central counties, and has not begun to open in the western ones. Picking is as yet sporadic. Sea island cotton continues to make sea sonable improvement. Rice improved rapidly, and early rice is ripening. Harvest will begin next week. Sweet potatoes and cane are improving steadily. Grasses for hay and pastures are making good growth. Tarnips sowing continues un? der favorable conditions for rapid ger? mination. There was too much rain for truck just coming np. Fruit con? tinues plentiful in the extreme wes? tern counties. Weather and Crops. Washington, Aug. 25.-The weather bureau's weekly summary of crop conditions says: Cotton has suffered materially from heavy rains and lack of sunshine over a large part of the central and eastern districts of the cotton region, where, as in the previous weeks, rapid growth, and in some localities too much stalk* excessive shedding and rust are reported. The plant, how? ever, is generally well fruited through? out the belt. In Texas the boll weevil is doing much damage, except in the northern counties, and boll worms are more numerous and destructive. A little picking has been done through? out the southern portions of the belt, but this work is not yet general. The condition of tobacco in Tennes? see is exceptionally favorable and a fair crop is promised in Kentucky, where an improvement is indicated. A fair to good crop is being cut in Maryland and Virginia. In Penn? sylvania, though backward, tobacco has made fair progress, but drought bas materially lessened its condition in Ohio. EDUCATIONAL MEETING AT PISGAH. Pisgah, Aug. 24.-The educational rally at Smithville, on 21st inst., was quite a success. The speeches were all on a high plane. Rev. W. A. Rogers spoke of his early pastorate there 28 years ago, and the faces that have gone to the great beyond. Said he had married his first couple here, and a daughter of that marriage was now married. His was a touching and tender speech. Paid a high tri? bute to the dead. Profs. Cook and Sheridan spoke on high educational lines, urging their hearers to educate their children if tliey could do nothing else for them. A recess for dinner was now had. In the afternoon Dr. Daniel made a masterly address in behalf of female education. He showed the importance of this in plain language and facts. At his close County Superintendent of Education Davis made some remarks endorsing what had been said. J. E. D. If the sewerage system costs $65,000 and if 50 year bonds are floated at ? per cent, the annual cost of the sewer? age system for interest and sinking fund will be $3,900. What the cost of maintenance, cannot be positively stat? ed. But it is safe to say that the an? nual total cost of a $65,000 sewerage system will not necessitate less than a 2^o to 3 mill additional tax levy on the present taxable valuation of proper? ty in the city. At S o'clock last evening there was quite a little meteoric display extend? ing from Northwest to Southeast in their flight, which appeared very low. The thermometer registered 85 de? grees at 7 o'clock last night, the high? est reading recorded at that hour this season. MAGNOLIA NEWS NOTES. Magnolia, Ang. 24.-Now that we have some .solid fair weather after such a long wet spell, our farmers, and ? merchants of course-are looking much more cheerful. Cotton is opening ' right along now, and in six or eight more days "picking season" will open up, and then small change will be in demand. Guess the opening price will be 40 cents per hunded, but hands may contend for more-no telling. Miss Mattie Tarrant, after several days visit in this place left for Orangeburg Sunday morning. . Misses Anna and Eva Stuckey after spending several days at Mrs. *M. L. McFaddin's, have returned to Bishop ville. Mr. Tommie McIntosh is now with the Sumter Dry Goods Co. Tom is a fine salesman and is at home when behind the counter; but he hated mortally bad to pull out from Magno? lia, and no one can blame him, un? der the circumstances. Mr. Gordon House, brother to our popular Railroad Agent, left several days ago, to be gone quite a time, but couldn't stay away from Magnolia -who can? Mrs. House, after several week's absence, returned from North Carolina last night. Mrs. J. A. Rhame, returned this morning from Bennettsville^ Our bachelor friend, Capt. S. C. Kilpatrick is acting of late, in such a way as cause suspicion. We'll keep an eye upon him, and report, if neces? sary. Old Mr. Luther McIntosh's little son, Plummer of Sumter is over here and a race between him, Magnus Watts Herbert Hickson, and Jack Griffin is pending. You see, they are rival can? didates, and we await results with in? terest. Will report the "new church choir" later. The picnic at Shiloh on the 22d, was a grand success, as might have been expected, lt was well patronized, between 1200 and 1500 persons attend? ing. Splendid speeches were made by Hon. E. D Smith, Congressman A. F. Lever, Col. J. Harvey Wilson and Mr. Hyatt of Columbia, to an ap? preciative audience. The best of ra? tions were in abundance. A protracted meeting was commenc? ed at the Baptist Church in this place ; opening sermon preached by Rev. Phil lipps, former pastor. The length of the meeting will depend greatly on the encouragement. Rev. Phillips is a zealous worker, and can be depended upon to do his part in full. Educational rally at the graded school building on the evening of the 27th inst A large attendance is ex? pected. Occasional. September Everybody's. Everybody's Magazine for Septem? ber reaches the highest standard of magazine publishing it has yet attain? ed. A glance through its pages con? vinces one that the publishers are at least approximating their expressed purpose to make a magazine for Every? body. The 144 pages which they are running enables them to cover a vastly larger number and a vastly wider va? riety of subjects than is possible to the average ten-cent magazine with its 96 pages. In this September num? ber of Everybody's it would seem as if every phase of human activity and human interest has representation. A happy faculty is shown by the publish? ers in selecting their writers. Thus for the article which appeared in the August number entitled "A Successor to Pope Leo," a matter of intense in? terest to Catholics, was secured F. Marion Crawford, the most eminent Catholic writer in the world and the official biographer of the Pope. And in the September number each writer is especially well fitted to handle the subject he undertakes. The politi? cal int?r?ts of the number is sustain? ed by Emily Crawford, who displays her intimate knowledge of the games of nations in an article on the diplo? matic relations of the various courts of Europe. Biographical interest is supplied in a striking character study of Joseph Pulitzer. "Radium and Human Life," by Theodore Waters, discusses in simple style this wonder? ful discovery of modern science. The children's feature and the stage fea? ture are embraced in one article, en? titled "Children of the Stage," by Alexander Hnme Ford. Of intense interest to "The Men who Toil," Lawrence Perry tells how W. J. Miles, the lower director, swings 500 trains a day in and out cf the Grand Central Station, New York. And for the "The Women who Toil" there is an account by Marian West of how Dr. Dunning, the first woman ambulance surgeon, won her appointment. In "The Gods and their Feet of Clay," Alfred Henry Lewis tells several good stories of Lin? coln, Grant and Blaine. Among Inti? mate Portraits this month there is not a single picture of a rich man. On the other hand, "Servants of the Rich," by Mary Manners, discusses a class that is always interesting. "With the Procession," as usual, brings up to date the most important events in all lines of progress, covering books, music, art, business, finance, religion, commerce, sociology, inter? national questions, etc. The fiction in the September number is by well known authors. It is strong and wholesome. South Carolina at St. Louis. CoL J. H. Averill was in the city yesterday. He came here to have a conference with Governor Heyward relative to the state's exhibit at St. Louis. The exposition authorities ad? vise Governor Heyward that forty-one states will have exhibits and state buildings at St. Louis and that there is a desire to have a South Carolina building. Governor Heyward went over the matter with Colonel Averill, but nothing definite could be outlined. Most of the members of the commis? sion that are at work on the matter are away just now, but just as soon as they return home it is Governor Hey ward's desire that the matter be attended to.-Columbia Record. Reports from the district around Mayesville give a most favorable ac? count of the cotton crop. It is claimed that Mr. Walter S: Eves, living just beoynd the town, has an acre, which will produce two bales, each stalk having from 75 to 100 bolls and stand? ing nearly six feet high. This was raised from Georgia seed. Glenn Springs Mineral Water is a safe and sure cure for kidney troubles. MURDER ON EXCURSION TRAIN. Big Excursion lo Augusta Winds Up With Killing. The big excursion from Florence to Augusta which passed through this city Monday, returned yesterday morning. Going to Augusta the crowd was pack? ed into nineteen cars, but returning there were twenty-five cars and all crowded. Some of the excursionists filled up with Georgia booze in Au? gusta and returning that night there was a rough house and a rowdy time. None of the white passengers were killed or wounded, but some of them amused themselves by shooting out the windows. In one of the cars of the first sec? tion of the train which was filled with negroes, two negroes got into a fight and a negro from Florence cut the other to death and threw the body from the train at a way station about twenty miles out from Augusta. The train was stopped and nearly an hour was spent in trying to find an officer to take charge of the body of the dead negro and to carry the murderer to jail. But no officer could be found, so the body was left at the station near which, as it happened, the dead man bad lived. The murderer was over? powered and securely tied and was taken on to Florence to be delivered to the sheriff of that county for safe keeping. Passengers on the train who saw the body of the negro, say that his throat was cut from ear to ear and that his chest was also horribly cut and hack? ed. They did not learn the name of either the dead negro or of the mur? derer, j WANTED-A Policeman, at MayesT i ville. Apply to M. C. Mayes, Clerk J and Treasurer, Mayes vi lie, S. C. Aug. 26-2t. WANTED-A first class Ginner to take charge of Ginning Plant. Apply J. Ryttenberg & Sons, Bose Hill, S. C. Aug. 5-tf. FOR RENT-One storehouse, with three room dwelling attached, with necessary out buildings, for five months. Three and one half miles ' from Sumter in the fork of Providence j and Stateburg roads. For terms apply j to R. M. Edens, Sumter, S. C. | July 29-tf._ i WANTED-To sell good young grade I Jersey (nearly full) milch cows with young calves. And several Fine Berk? shire Gilts. E. W. Dabbs, Goodwill, S. C. July 29-tf. THE NEW CLOTHIN WILL SOON BE RE? A Big Day at Shiloh. Shiloh, Aug. 24.-We had a picnic at Shiloh Saturday the 22nd instant, which -was called "Old Soldiers' Day." There was a large crowd of people present who looked upon the old veter? ans with tender compassion while they were falling in line to march under the old Confederate^ag of Company H. After the March the day was spent very pleasantly and enjoyably by all of the large number present. Interesting and instructive speeches were made by the following gentlemen : Congressman A. F. Lever, Col. J. Harvey Wilson, Hon. E. D. Smith, Kev. W. E. Gibbons, of Clarendon county, Mr. F. H. Hyatt, President of the South Carolina Good Roads , Association ; and Mr. L. L Parrott, of , Sumter, presided as chairman. F. W. Player. ' ^ Court convenes in Bishopville early ' in September and there is a heavy j criminal docket to be cleared. In ad ; dition to the Kelly and Jones murder j trials there are several other impor i tant cases that will probably be called for trial. ! DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP. I NOTICE IS HEREBY given that i the partnership heretofore existing j between the undersigned, doing busi , ness at Smithville, Lee county, S. C., has been dissolved by mutual consent, , J. C. Kirkley withdrawing from the j business. All outstanding accounts ! must be settled with W. S. Smith. ! W. S. SMITH, J. C. KIRKLEY. I Smithville, S. C., August 21, 1902. j THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA S??tfTEB COTOTY. I By Thos. V. Walsh, Esq., Probate Judge, j Whereas, Robert J. Mayes, Sr., made suit I to me to grant him Letters of Administra? tion of the Estate of and effects of Mrs. I Naomi F. Mayes, deceased. ? These are therefore to cite and admon? ish all and singular the kindred and ! creditors of the said Mrs. Naomi F. ! Mayes, late of said County and State, I deceased, that they be and appear ? before me, in the Court of Probate, to j be held at Sumter C. H., on Septem? ber 10th, 1903, next, after publication j thereof, at ll o'clock in the forenoon, to j show cause, if any they have, why the j said administration should not be granted. Given under my hand this 26th day of August, A. D., 1903. * THOS. V. WALSH, j August 26-St. Judge of Probate. : SUMTER, B" ) ' S.e. I LDY FOR BUSINESS. < F. We are now prepared to make contracts for Bagging and Ties for August and September Delivery., Our stock is complete, includes 1 3=4 and 2 lb. 5ugar Sack,* 2 and 2 1=4 lb. second hand Jute, 2 and 2 1?4 lb. new Jute Bagging. New Arrow Ties, standard 45 lbs. to the bundle. We are not handling second hand ties, as our experience has not been satisfactory with them. Our second hand Jute Bagging is very desir? able, there being no holes in it, all neatly patched, and put up in rolls of 50 yards each. There is no reason why this should not be as satisfactory as new bagging, and there is quite a saving in the price. It will be to your inter? est to see us before buying. O'DONNELL & GO.