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H?8VJN STREET SPUR TRACK. The Question Considered at Special Council Meeting-Arguments Pro and Con. A special meeting of City Council :was held at 6 o'clock p. m., last Fri? day. Present : Mayor Stuckey, Aldermen Boyle, Dick, W. H. Epperson, G. F. Epperson, Finn, Hurst and Schwerin. The order of business was the fur? ther cordsderation of the request of Mr. "W. A. Bowman and associates for the ' privilege of running* a spui track from tho A. C. L. Railroad, across Harbin street, into the prem? ises now occupied by the Episcopal Church where they propose to estab? lish a wholesale commercial business. . Drs. Walter Cheyne and A. J. China, Messrs. S B. Divine, E. L. Witherspoon, R. N. Gentry, J. R. Lig?n, D. China and R D. Cuttino were present to protest against.grant ing the privilege. Dr. Cheyne submitted a petition signed by property owners and resi? dents of the city whose rights and property they claim will be damaged by the proposed track on account of the danger to persons and vehicles' passing to and from the A. C. L. de- j . pot, and by reaosn of the reduction of property values which will result. He said to build this track would be equivalent to condemning private property without compensation. Resi? dents of the immediate vicinity would have to abandon their homes at a personal sacrifice. Council are the guardians of the public interests and should act cautiously. He could see no benefit to the city ; and these busi? ness men might obtain entrance from another direction. Mr. W A. Bowman expressed the opinion that there would be rather an increase than a decrease of values by ?reason of the location of a wholesle house at that point and building the spur track as was proven by past ex? periences. The anticipated noise and danger was more imaginary than real. There would probably be not more than 15 or 20 minutes shifting .each day, which could be done at night or vat such times as would be of least in? convenience to the " public He doesn't see why this would drive peo? ple from their homes. This would be no more dangerous than a street car crossing, and nearly all cities have railroad tracks through their streets. He thinks in tea years, with proper encouragement, there will be a dozen wholesale houses in that section which is about the only available lo? cation for them. If Sumter doesn't encourage an extension and enlarge? ment of her commercial interests, other towns will grow and prosper on what she rejects. As business grows residences will have to give way to business houses; otherwise Sumter had as well build a fence around it to keep business out. " The matter was discussed fuUy by the Council and citizens. Alderman Dick said he was not. prepared to vote intelligently on the question and moved that action be postoned nntil 6 o'clock p. m., Sep? tember 2d and that Mr. Bowman be requested to have a survey made and a map showing exact position and direc? tion of the track. This motion, pre? vailed. Dr. Cheyne reminded Council that \ the question was not whether. the track be in a straight line crossing the street at right angles? or crossing j obliquely, or in a curve, but whether any track of any description should be allowed across Karvin street. He and his fallow petitioners were opposed to i any sort of track. .. Council then adjourned to meet at 6 p. m., September 2d. LOCAL NEWS PARAGRAPHED. The proposition to run a side track ^across Harvin street near the^ corner of Bartlette ..street seems to lack the approval of some residents and proper? ty owners of that section of the city. ' The First Baptist Church will begin the erection of a handsome parsonage on the lot west of the church within a short time. Cotton will begin coming in this week. One cotton buyer has bought fifty bales from Sumter county farm? ers for delivery this week, and there vwill be other cotton on the market ss a great many farmers have a good deal of cotton open and were picking last ? week. Dr. Mood's automobile lost a wheel Sunday afternoon. Mr. Asheieigh Mood was driving the ca\ and the ac? cident occurred just as he turned into Dugan street from Main. As the front wheels went into the gutter st the crossing the axle broke off at the hub. The car was stopped promptly and no -great damage was done. Monday was the last day of 6 o'clock closing until next spring, and night work is begun for the clerks. They ara the one class of salaried people who know nothingvOf the eight hour day. Most of them work ten hours, many twelve hours, mid some of them, fifteen hours a day, angil on. an average their pay is less than-that of the ordinary mechanic. Policemen Pierson and Sam Weeks had an exciting chase with the blood "hounds a few nights ago. They chased a negro through the woods and swamps ' south of the cityj but finally lost him in the swamp near Harby & Moses' farm ?the old Monaghan place.) The hounds followed the trail well and at - one time had the negro treed, but he cut one of the dogs severely and suc? ceeded in driving them back long ! enough to get into an inaccessible part go* the swamp and get away.. The high "wind Sunday night blew one of the movable' kiln covers at Ryt tenberg's brick yard loose from its moorings and landed it on top of one ef the kilns that was in process of be? ing burnt. The cover was ignited by the intense heat and was burned. The flames were seen by the policemen on duty on the streets and for at time there was some excitement as it was thought that the brick making plant was on fire. The: damage was not great. One Sumter county farmer who planted tobacco this year for the first time is not encouraged to continue the experiment another year. He sold 750 pounds a few days ago and the net cash returned above warehouse charges i was $17.60. This sum did not pay the expenses of harvesting, curing and lng the tobacco. The cost of cul ? tivating, rent of land, to say nothing ; of his own time and trouble and worry j with the crop, must be charged up as dead loss. The same tobacco last year or year before last would have sold for enough to pay all expenses and left a handsome sum as clear profit. The tobacco trust is taking the best i possible measures to "reduce the to? bacco acreage, for no farmer will plant tobacco at a dead loss. Some of the citizens of the Catchall neighborhood have made complaint of the condition of the Catchall public road leading from the Providence road to the Camden road. This road which has a length of four and a half or five miles is the main thoroughfare from that section to Sumter and unless it is worked and put into good condition they say that a good deal of cotton that ordinarily comes to this market will be hauled to Camden this season, for while the distance is greater, the road is far better, and distance is a small item in comparison with the al? most impassible condition of the four miles of the Catchall road. The com? plaint is referred to County Super? visor Seale. It is very desirable that the patrons of the city schools should not wait un? til the last day or two before the open? ing to see the Superintendent relative to anything that concerns school. He will be at his office every day from 9 to 12, and by seeing him now the pa? trons will be able to avoid the crowd? ed condition that obtains always on the days immediately preceding the opening of the schools. Realizing the necessity of beginning in time this year, on account of the institution of a new order of things. Mr. Edmunds has opened his office two weeks earlier, and the patrons should avail them? selves of the opportunity thus afford? ed. Twelve pupils appeared before tbs Superintendent this morning for ex? amination and classification. J If the general agitation for the stricter enforcement of the law against vagrancy amounts to anything more than talk the building of good roads will receive a great impetus. In South Carolina, Georgia and North Carolina the people are aroused on the subject and in some places where the officers of the law are active in the perform? ance of their duty and enforce the law rigidly the vagrants are already on the jump to escape to more congenial climes where the law is not enforced and where they can lead idle and dis? orderly lives unmolested. There is said to have been a -regular exodus of vagrants from Augusta and Savannah and Atlanta recently and it may hap? pen that some of the fugitives may drift into Sumter. If so, they could be used to advantage on the chain g*ng. CONOi?l?H OF COTTON. Monthly Report of the Journal of Commerce Shows a Marked Im? provement. New York, Aug. 31.-Tomorrow the j Journal of Commerce will publish its I September crop report, which shows a ! gain in condition of 2.9 points over August, to 79.6. This is 8.6 points ? better than September, 1902, and 9.4 better than September, 190L As August is usually a month of deteriora? tion the improvement is the more striking. The crop has recovered fully one week'of the backwardness reported a month ago, and it is now generally from two to three weeks late. Last year at this time the crop was early. Complaints of boll weevil are frequent particularly in Texas, which is the only State of consequence showing a decline in condtion, the crop there being 3.9 points. Picking will be general September L Ont of 783 replies 55 are now picking ; average date, August 24. Two hun? dred and eight will begin picking September 1, 65 on September 5, 155 on September 10, 166 on September 21, 87 on September 20 and 47 between September 25 and October 10. In North Carolina the improvem?nt in condiion during August is 3.8 points, to 83.5; South Carolina, 4.5 higher, at 78.5; Georgia, 3.3 higher, at 79.6; Alabama, 2.7 higher, at 79.9; Mississippi, 5 higher at 82.8; Louisi? ana,. L3 higher, at 80.9; Arkansas, 5.2 higher, at 78.6; Tennessee, 7.4 higher, at 86.4; Missouri, 2.9 higher, at 85.8, and Oklahoma, 10.3 higher, at 80.3. The onlytwo States showing de? clines are Florida and Texas, the form? er showing a reduction of 2 points, to 80.6, and the latter of 3.9 points, to 73.8. 9 Old Point Comfort, Va, Aug. 31. Private Valentine, of the 73d coast artillery, a .prisoner in solitary ccofi. finement at'F?rt Monroe, madehisiesr cape last-.hight, going through iron bars under the" nose of a sentinel. ^Sat? urday n?gfht,., when the officers.j?^^he fort discovered that five prisonersj.jvere gone, they immediately placed sentinels at guard over all the cells. Valentine, guarded in this manner, nevertheless escaped. As soon as it was ascertained by the colonel that Valentine had made his escape, he had the sentinel placed under ! arrest and incarcerated, pending a courtmartial. Nothing has been heard from the five who escaped from the fort on Friday night. 9 Fall River, Mass, Aug. 28 -Sales in the print cloth market for the week amounted to about 150,000 pieces, largely of narrow odds, along with a snail amount of regulars. The inter? est which was displayed by buyers a week ago has fallen off somewhat, rand as a result general conditions in ' the beal cloth market are not as active as those of the preceding week. The principal feature of the week's trading was an advance in the price of regulars from 3J4 to 3% cents on a sale of a small block, it is said, just sufficient to es? tablish a new price. St. Petersburg, Aug. 28.-In con? sequence of the inability of Dr. Lardy, the Swiss minister at Paris, and Prof, Matzen of the Copenhagen University, to serve as arbitrators at The Hague j in the claims of the allied Powers for preferential treatment in the settle? ment with Venezuela, the foreign office ! has requested the postponement of the ! date, which was Sept-ember 1, of the j first meeting of the tribunal until other arbitrators are secured. Richmond, Va., Aug. 31.-This j morning Herbert B. Bates, son of As ? sistant City Engineer Frank T. Bates, ! shot and killed Miss Rena Gentry at her home, 3,020 East Broad street, and then killed himself with the same weapon which he?used in killing Miss Gentry. STEALING FROM THE ?NBIfiSS. Stii! Another Scandal Unearthed in Washington-lt Seems That There are no Honest Office Holders. Washington, Aug. 31.-The gravity and magnitude of the Indian Territory land scandals Become more and more apparent as time goes on and it is free? ly predicted that they will far over? shadow the postal frauds when the facts are finally dragged to light. Prac? tically all the members of the Dawes Commission now appear to have been involved in schemes to defraud the Indians, or at least profit at their ex? pense, and have accomplished this end by becoming members of land and in? vestment syndicates. Several employes of the Department of the Interior have also been found to have itching and smutty fingers, notably J. George Wright, an Indian inspector, and Secretary Hitchcock's most trusted advisor, also a United States attorney, his assistant and other subordinates of the Attorney GeneraL Secretary Hitchcock, whose personal honesty no one doubts, appears to have been hopelessly hoodwinked and he even now seems to be grossly incompetent and at a loss to know how to deal with the rascallity in his own department Charges that the Secretary deposited a fund of ?700,000 acruing from the sale of lots in the towns of Hobart, Lawton and Anadarko, Oklahoma, in a St. Louis trust company in which he was interested have been entirely dis? proven, but it has been discovered that the Secretary did not pursue the usual method of handling these funds, but deposited them with the Treasurer of the United States, where they are subject to his personal cheek, and that he detailed the auditing of the accounts to the General Land Office, a subor? dinate bureau of his department which, it is claimed by Treasury De? partment officials is in clear violation of the law. It is further claimed that while the disbursements made from this fund have been audited by the Land Office, the receipts have not been audited at all and the appearances are that the Secretary has permited a personal antipathy to the Auditor for the Interior Department to seriously influence his judgment and to lead him into violation of the law. The president has ordered an inquiry and the Secretary has, at the sugges? tion of Mr. Roosevelt, requested a man who is in no way connected with the Interior Department to undertake a thorough investigation, but so arduous and thankless does the under? taking promise to be, and so difficult is it to get along with the irrascible Secretary that considerable difficulty is being experienced in getting the desired investigator to undertake the task The acting Attorney General is ' also trying to secure some one to make a special investigation of the employes of the Department of Justice who are charged with malfeasance, but thus far has been unsuccessful. There is the gre&test relief in official circles in Washington over the news that Vice Consul W. C. Mageissen at Pei rut, Syria, has not been murdered but merely fired at, the shots failing to take effect. When the news was first received that Mageissen, had been shot, the President ordered the Euro? pean squadron to Turkish waters, and that order will not be revoked as it is deemed essential to the safety of the American citizens in Turkey that there , take place a demonstration of/ naval 'force in the vicinity. The Euro? pean squadron, which is under the command of Admiral Cotton, consists of the protected cruiser Brooklyn which carries a crew of 517 officers and men, the protected cruiser San Francisco, which carries a crew of 383 officers and men, and the gunboat Machias, .which carries a crew of 151 officers and men. It is the belief of the President and Secretary Hay that the presence of the American fleet will act as a moral de? terrent against the violence of fanatics toward the Americans, and will im? press on the Sultan the necessity of projecting American citizens. The President has executed what is regarded as a very clever coup in deal? ing with union labor in the Govern? ment Printing Office. He has instruct? ed Pubilc Printer Palmer to administer to every employe the oath of allegi? ance, always exacted from employees of the Government other than laborers. When the bookbinders first talked of going on strike because of the rein-1 statement in the Government bindery, of their expelled member, William j Miller, it was announced that under ? the law any man who had taken the , oath of office and then conspired by I striking would never be able to get his place back. Then it was discovered ";tnat the printers, binders, etc. had never t?ken an oath. The decision in j the Miller case is still being delayed and meanwhile the employes of "the ! office are being sworn in, so that it is -, believed.that the President has found j no ground in the charges preferred j against him by the bookbinders' union for dismissing Miller, and there? fore the union men will be obliged to violate their constitution, or revise it, as they will be forced to work under a nonunion foreman. The investiga? tion of the methods prevailing in the Printing Office, ordered by the Presi? dent, has been completed but nothing is yet known of the results. President Rosevelt has from time to time been subjected to considerable j criticism because it was alleged that he had permitted the railroad com? panies to furnish him with the special train with which he made his western trip, but the more conservative news? papers have refrained from mentioning the subject because they could not as? certain the facts. Now, however, a "friend" of the President comes out with an authorized statement in which he admits that Mr. Roosevelt travelled complimentary, but defends that course on the ground that Mr. Roosevelt was merely following the precedent set by his predecessors, Cleveland, Harrison and McKinley. In his statement of the case the "friend" is mistaken, how? ever. Harrison and McKinley traveled at the expense of the railroad com? panies, but Mr. Cleveland always paid his own expenses, including, of coarse, the cost of the special trains cn which he travelled. Mr. Cleveland, appears to have been the only recent President who hesitated to place himself under obligations to the railroads. The Florence Times states that the tax levy for that city has been fixed at 15 mills for next year. POWERS SENTENCED TO MW. One of Kentucky's Political Mur? derers to Get His Due. Georgetown, Ky, Aug. 29.- The third trial of Ex-Secretary of State Caleb Powers for complicity in the murder of Governor -William Goebel, in January, 1900, closed shortly be? fore noon today with a verdict impos? ing the extreme penalty of hanging for the prisoner, who had been in the penitentiary for three years on a life sentence. The verdict of the jury: ' 'Guilty and the punishment of death, ' ' was reported in the Court at 11.20 today. Several hundred people crowd? ed the Court room when the verdict was read and the most intense silence prevailed. The jury was polled and each man declared the verdict of guilty to be his finding. Powers sat unmoved, while his attorneys asked for time to make a motion for a new trial. Arthur Goebel, the brother of the victim, and a prominent merchant at Cincinnati, who has spent his time and fortune for over three years in the prosecution of those accused of being in a conspiracy to kill his broth? er, broke down from the strain upon hearing the verdict Powers has been convicted twice before, this being the third trial in which the jury brought in a verdict of guilty against him. On his previous trials he escaped with a life sentence, as the evidence was not Fufficiently strong against him to lead the jury to inflict the extreme penalty. All three of the trials were held at Georgetown and in each of them he had the assistance of the most able lawyers who could be procured. The last trial was distinguished by the fact that Powers addressed the jury in his own behalf, and in a long review of the case showed himself to be a com? petent attorney, while his eloquence in pleading for his life astonished those who had watched him carefuly in the past trials of the case. Special Judge Robbins this after? noon formally overruled a motion for the granting of a new trial to Powers, fie then passed the sentence of death upon him. After a declaration of the prisoner: "I am not guilty, Judge," the Court fixed November 26 as the day for the execution. The at? torneys for the defendant secured the granting of an appeal for the case to the Kentucky Court of Appeals. Powers was immediately removed to the Scott County jail to be held there pending the appeal of his case. Ten Cents for the New Crop. From the Macon Telegraph. It is contended by those who have j been on the bull side of this move I ment, and with good reason, that the j increase in the price of cotton has not more than kept pace with the increase in the prices of all other commodities j in the United States, so that cotton at 8 to 10 cents in 1903 is not relatively higher than cotton at 5 and 6 cents a few years ago ; that the cotton farmer cannot continue to grow cotton &t former low prices and pay double price for all his supplies and everything he has to buy. Ten cents for the new crop -throughout-will not be a high price under the circumstances. We doubt i very much if they shall be able to get it, but nobody knows. The Chicago Highwaymen. Chicago, Aug. 31.-Of the eleven suspects arrested by the police follow? ing the murder of Frank Stewart and John B. Johnson, employees of the Chicago City Railway Company, and the looting of the company's safe early Sunday morning, seven are being held. An arrest, to which some importance is attached, is that of John Slender, a former employee of the company, and who is known to have been in the vi? cinity at the time the shooting occur? red. He is said to have contradicted himself several times while being questioned by the officers. After a careful examination of the suspects, the police declared their belief that they had captured the ring leader of the band of robbers and murderers, and it is reported that he has made a confession, in which he named his three companions. Frost and Cotton Growing. Mr. John G. Webb, of Osprey, Fla., whose communication to The New York Sun, recalling Calhoun's dictum that cotton can not be grown sucess fully in countries where there is no frost, attracted considerable attention, has written again to The Sun to answer its query as to whether there is frost in Egypt. Mr. Webb says: It is curious how an exception will .sometimes prove a rule. Cotton certainly is grown successfully in Egypt, and likewise there is no frost in that country. But also there is no rain there. After the Egyptian cotton is picked, irrigation is of course sus? pended and the plant dies and dries up so that the field can be cleared for the new crop. What the cotton grower wants is such a condition of the refuse of the last year's crop that can be easi? ly removed or destroyed, so as not to interfere with the cultivation of the soil for the new crop. The cotton plant is a perennial and it is a serious affair to destroy tons of green trash. That is why cotton can not be grown profitably in the tropics. And it is why the Southern United States have a monopoly of the cotton growing of the world, Egypt, from the reasons I have given, being an exception. "The following remedies," says the New York Commercial Advertiser, "will give a certain measure of peace and relief to mosquito-ridden house? holds: 'The evaporation of a small quantity of carbolic acid in the room is declared to prevent the incursions of these pests. A 5 per cent solution of carbolic acid in water, if sponged over the exposed parts of the body be? fore going to bed, is said to protect them almost infallibly from attack.' " Carbolic acid, however, has a vil lanous odor. A simpler and better plan is to rigorously exclude ali lights from bed rooms after sundown and keep the blinds closed. Norfolk, Va., Aug. 31.-John H. Day, aged 13 years, who Saturday con? fessed he had poisoned his step-mother a week ago, was arraigned on the j charge of murder in police court here today. The charge was continued in absence of counsel. QNS?L VIS il KILLED. Mageissen Was Shot at, Bat Was Not Even Injursd. A Blundering Cipher Dispatch From Minister Leishman Caus? ed the Excitement And the Situation is Now Relieved of its "Embarrassing Feature." Washington, Au*. 28.-A decidedly new turn in the case of United States Vice Consul William C. Mageissen, at Beirut, Syria, who was reported to have been assassinated last Sunday, developed tonight, when it became known that the report was incorrect, and that although Mr. Mageissen had been shot at he had not even been in? jured. This information came to the State department tonight in a dispatch from United States Minister Leish? man, at Constantinople, who said the mistake in making the original an? nouncement was due to an errror in the transmission of the cipher dispatch from Consul Ravndal, at Beirut, in reporting the incident to the minister. The dispatch from Mr. Leishman followed closely on the Associated Press bulletin on the same sabject, which had been shown to the prom? inent officials of the Government. The dispatch from the minister was com? municated at once to the president at Oyster Bay, but up to a late hour to? night nothing had been heard from him on the subject at the State department. Its contents were extremely gratify? ing to the officials of the Government here, as it relieved the situation of its extreme tension and leaves the way open for an amicable and peaceable adjustment of the incident. Acting Secreary Loomis declined to make public the text of Minister Leish? mans dispatch tonight, but he gave a summary of its contents. As stated in the press dispatch it shows that Mr. Mageissen had been shot at by some person, at the time unknown to the officials, but that he had not been hit. The local Turkish officials were prompt to express their regret at the occurrence and were exerting them? selves tc apprehend the assassi-n, but thus far had been unsuccessful. The minister's dispatch also said that Con? sul Ravndal had reported to him that some of the foreign consuls located at Beirut had reported to their Govern? ments that the situation at that place had become exceedingly unsafe; that this condition of affairs had existed for some time, and that something ought to be done to relieve the ten? sion. The opinion was expressed that the attempted asassination of Mr. Mageissen probably would bring mat? ters to a focus, the attenton of the Turkish Government being drawn to the matter in this forcible way, and some effort thus be made to avoid fur? ther trouble. The latest development in the Tur? kish situation was discussed in official circles, where the view is held that denial of the report of the killing of Mr. Mageissen relieves the situation of its immediately awkward and em? barrassing feature, but will not pre? vent our naval vessels continuing to tlie east. Minister Leishman in one of his dispatches to the department, suggested that conditions were such that it might be well to have some American naval demonstration in those waters. Reports also have come to the Government from the missionary in? terests of threatened destruction of i their property afc Harpoct, and be? cause of this Admiral Cotton will be allowed to proceed to Beirut. It developed during the day that, acting upon the first report cf Conusl Mageissen's murder, the United States intended to enforce its demands with vigor. If necessary it had been deter? mined to seize and occupy some Tur? kish port. In that event Minister Leishman would have left Tarkey and turned over the affaira to the British ambassador. "Washington, Aug. 28.-in his cable? gram to Minister Leishman last night regarding the report of the American board of missions that an at? tempt had been made to burn the Euphrates College buildings at Harpoot, Acting Secretary Loomis instructed him to demand of the Turkish Government that it take immediate steps for the protection of the lives of all Americans there. The Brooklyn and San Francisco will proceed with all speed to Beirut and will not wait for the Machias, which is a much slower vessel. Acting Secre? tary Darling this morning telegraphed the commanding officer of the Machias at Genoa to follow the Brooklyn and San Francisco to Port Said where he is to coal and await orders. Another urgent appeal has reached the State department from the Ameri? can board of missions at Boston that immediate steps be taken for the pro? tection of the American citizens at Harpoot. The board's dispatches" from there for several days past have repre? sented the situation as extremely ! grave. There are at the Euphrates : College at Harpoot fourteen American teachers, besides women and children, and property to the value of $100,000. L It is learned that there is an Ameri ! can college at Beirut, in which are a j number of American teachers. No I word has reached the State department regarding any attack on them. OFFICIALS HELD RESPONSIBLE. Seven Directors of a Trolley Line and Four Officials Indicted for Manslaughter. Newark, N. J., Aug. 31.-The seven members of the executive com? mittee of the board of directors of the North Jersey Street Railway Company appeared today in the Essex County Court for trial on an indictment, charging them with manslaughter. On February 19 last, nine Newark High School students were killed in a collision between a Clifton avenue trolley car and a Lackawanna express train. Indictments were returned against Alexander J. Cass?t, presi? dent of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company; John D. Crimmins, of New York; Edward F. C. Young, president of the North Jersey Street Railway Company: Dr. Leslie D. Ward, vice president of the Prudent? ial Insurance Company ; Elisha B. Gaddis, David Young and J. R. Rosevelt Shanley, all members of the executive committee of the street rail? way company. In-addition to these men there also appeared as defendants, Charles M. Shipman, James Smith, Arthur W. Pratt and Richard Sick, officials of the company. The indictment of these officials fol? lowed a verdict by the coroner's jury fixing responsibility on the North Jersey Street Railway Company. There was a large array of counsel on both sides. . A jury was sworn and the taking of testimony begun. * * The warm spell of weather we are now having keeps one in the notion of buying summer goods. We have a few in Wash Goods, Lawns and Embroideries. A few Shirt Waists to help you finish out the season. To clean up the stock we will sell at ridiculously low prices, rather than carry over till next season. A few Men's Summer Hats at 50 per cent, discount. When we want to clean up, price is no object with us. J. BYTT?NBERG & SONS. SUMTER, S. C.