Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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mm mmm EXPRESS AGENT. Tram Was Held Up and Looted m California Friday. Sacramento, Cal., April L-Three ; ?asked men have held np the Oregon ^ejpress, southbound, on the Southern Pacific railroad, at Copley, near Kes? wick, killed W. J. O'Neill, the express messenger and carried off the contents of the express box. The train is known is No. 15 and stopped at Copley, a ?mail station, for water. As the/] train cama- to a standstill, three men jumped on and cut the train in two, taking the engine and express car down the track a short distance. "They stopped the engine and deliber? ately killed O'Neill by shooting him through the head. The bandits then robbed the express car of its contents laut it is not known how much they -obtained. After robbing the car the men cut it loose and getting on the engine com ? ypeiled..Engineer Joesink to go ahead. "When near Keswick the men dropped off the engine and disappaered with -their plunder. They have not been captured. CORRUPT JUDGE DEFENDED. -:--gr . The Minority of the Committee Oppose Impeachment. Washington, April 1.-The minority -views of Representative Gillett of Cal? ifornia, heretofore published to which are appended brief statements by Bepresentatives Littlefield -of Maine and Parker of New Jersey in opposi? tion to the impeachment of Judge Charles Swayne of Florida have been printed for use of members. The Gil? lett report is singed by himself and Representatives Nevin, Alexander and Pe arre. Mr. Littlefield prefaces his signature by the statement that al? though he has not had time to examine tte minority report he has carefully .examined the record in the case "and I hare no hesitation in saying that in my opinion it does < not disclose a state of facts that could justify im -peachment proceedings. ' ' Anti-Parker Move. Albany, N. Y., April 2.-Seeking to hit at ex-Senator David B. Hill and to injure the boom of Judge Parker -for the presidential nomination, the Albany County Democracy together . with the radical Bryan element of the Democracy in New Ycrk City have ?ranged for a banquet at the Sfonwix Hall in this city tonight The affair is announced as a dollar Jefferson dinner. The principal speakers of the ' evening are to be ex-Senator Charles A Towne, Judge Samuel Seabury of ^ew York City and Henry George, Jr.? ell of whom are known as warm supporters of Bryan'and antagonistic to ex-Senator Hill and his Parker boom. The underlying purpose of the gathering is said to be a plan to keep Hill from going to the national con ??Bff99 ? a delegate. "Austin, 3?ex?fl, Claren 3t.-Governor l>?h?m has issued a proclamation declaring quarantine in effect on the "Gtslf coast and along the Rio Grande S border, effective April 1. This proc : ?smation resulted from a conference of health officers of the cities and counties of that territory held here to? day. It was stated there had been ceases of yellow fever at Laredo and Monterey during the winter, one of them being found in March. Dr. Langanet, pf Laredo, stated that the patient discovered during March was -convalescent. Dr. Richardson, re -presenting the marine hospital ?er vice, stated that the National Govern? ment will at once place physicians at .Mexico points to issue certificates. mm ? i -? A Great Sensation. There was a big sensation in Leesville, lsd, when W H Brown, of that place, who was expertedi*?* had hi? life saved by "Dr. Kind's N -w Discovery for Consump? tion. He witts : 'Ienc'uied insufferable agonies from Asthma, but your New Dis? covery g*vf? me immediate relief ar d soon taerefter effected a complete cure " Sim? ilar cures ot consumption, pneumonia, bronchitis 9nd grip ?-re uumreous. It's the peerless remedy for all throat and locg troubles. Price? .r0c and $1.00. Guara"'eoe bj J. F. VV. De Lorine, Drug? gist. Trial bo.tie? free. Darlington, April 1.-Last night at Mon telare, a station a few miles from ?ere on the Bennettsville road, the residence of Mr. J. O. Durant, agent | at that place, was burned together with the contents. Mr. Dorant and family were away on a visit and the young men who were occupying the ?ouse on awaking barely bad time to escape. The loss is several hundred dollars in excess of tbe insurance, $1900, and falls heavily on this de? serving young man. Are You a Dyspeptic? If y na are a dyspeptic 7 ou owe it to yourself and your frinds to get well. Dys pepria'annoys she dyspep?ic's friends be? sante his disease sours his disposition HS veil as his stomach. Kodol Dyspepsia Cere will not only cure dyspepsia, indi? gestion and sour etomach. but this pal? atable, reconstructive tonic dige<tant -streng*, hens the whole digestive apparatus ^?od sweeten? the life a? well as the stom? ach. When you take Kodol Dyspepsia Ocre the food you eat is enjoyed. It is -sheeted, assimilated and its nutrient prop? erties appropriated by blood and tissues. Hee'th " is the result. Sold by Olin B. Davis. - min?- n m -- ?hMiP Sxeursion Eatei Tia South era Sailmy, The Southern Railway announces the fol? lowing very low excursion rates to the fol? lowing points: Sumter to Dallas, Texas, and return ac? count General Assembly Cumberland tVesbyterian Church May 19. to 27, 1904. tickets on sale May 15 to is, with final limit ?forains May 3!st. 19W. at the very low rateof!3a& Sumter to Chicago Ul., and return, account General Conference A. M. E. Church, M av 2 MSI; 1904. Tickets on sale April 29 and :J0, ?adMays. ISM, with final limit May 10. at tb? rerv lew rate of $25. 50. Limit may be .extecced to June 10,1904. Sumter to Los Angeles and San Francisco, Cal, account General Conference M. E. M%urcb sad National Association of Retail -Owcers- of V. S" May 3 to 31, 1904, at the very Sow rate of 365.65. Tickets on sale Ap-ii -JMd 30. with final limit June 30,1904 -Tbe Southern Railway offers most con visaient schedules with Pullman Sleepers and Baut bern Ballway Dicing Cars on all through trains. For fu?t information apply to any ^^ent Southern Eailway, or R. wi Hunt, i B?6H DIVE SUICIDE. Young Kentuckian Jumps From Top of New York Skyscraper. New York, April I? -Sydney Johnson Hayden of the Hotel Holley, this city, today jumped to the street ' from the top floor of the 21-story skyscraper at Broadway and New street. Nearly every bone in his body was broken. Hayden went into one of the unoc? cupied offices on the top floor of the New street side, raised a window, laid an umbrella he carried on the ledge and at once crawled out and jumped. His body made one full turn back? ward and struck the pavement with fearful force. Most of the persons who were passing in the street ran away in horror. New Railway in Wyoming. Cheyenne, Wyo., April 2.-The in? corporation of the Chicago & Pacific Railroad in Wyoming has caused con? siderable speculation in railroad circles as to the real backers of the project. The announced purposes of the incor? poration is to construct a line from Casper Wyo., to Ogden, Utah. The Chicago & Pacific project is a scheme of the Northwestern to build a connec? tion with the two new roads now under construction from Ogden to the Pacific Coast and thus become entirely independent of the Union Pacific from Omaha westward. TIME TO HEDGE. Bookmaker Wouldn't Lend .?! moy but Gave (?ood Advice. Several turfmen were discussing tut sharp methods of a certain bookmaker who adds to his income by money lend ing. He was conceded to be :i hard man to deal with. "But I'll bet $500 that I can borrow $1,000 from him on my personal re cognizance," said one. "Done!** answered the crowd simul? taneously, and as he could only stake one "bet 'hey pooled against . him. Thinking he had a sure thing, ho went off with an accompanying committee to see the money lender. "Mr. Cash** (that wasn't his name!, he said, "'these gentlemen have bet nie $500 that 1 cannot borrow $1.000 from you. I don't need the money, but you let me have it for a day. and I'll df vide the bet with yon." The committee gasped, but the effect of the cool preposition was unlooked for. Instead of jumping at the chance Mr. Cash buttonholed his interlocutor and said: "'Did you make that bet?" -I did." "You bet $500 that you could borrow money from me?" "That's what I did." "Then," in a whisper, "go and hedge." -New* York Press. "Where There'? a Will There*? a Way. "One of those things which go to show that where there is a will there ls a way ls well exemphi.od by s happening in a certain southern city." said a well known former railroad man.\"A mr,n before his^arriaj^ had purchased a beautifully located lot in the city cemetery and paid $100 for it. After awhile he married and some ten Or twelve years afterward died and was buried iu the aforesaid beautifully loo::ted lot. and his grave was care f'j'h' tended for awhile by hts widow. \Y':etl the big fair came off in Chicago and all the world was en route to that Mecca the widow took a notion she must see that show. As a result of a lona; cojrita?iou over ways and means she had the body of her deceased hus? band exhumed and railroaded fifty miles away and reburied at a cost of about when she sold the ceme? tery lot for $000 and had a good old lime at the big world's fair. Some? what of a financier, wasn't she':" New Orleans. Ti ines-Democrat. Study Them; Don't Kill! If. instead ef shooting" the birds, scotching the snake, smashing the beetle and pinching the tiny life out of the buttertly. we were to watch any one of these creatures on a summer day the day woe.Id pass like an hour. <?T|!:\cked with exciting experience it would seem. Throng!] what myste? rious coverts of the woodland, into what a haunted underworld of tunnel ed I KI ?ks and hidden ditches and sp? errt [K?ssages the snake would show us tlj!? way. and wc should haye strange heart? if. HS w.o thus waich-d il through ?ts mysterious day, we d d not lind our dislike of the clever lit le creature dying away and even chang? ing ?lilli a deep tenderness toward tho ?ma.l. self reliant life, se lonely a <po< k of Existence :ii so vast a wor.d Sn - cess. Whittier tWorc U'bfnCler. Mortimer ...ienv-es und the f<>.:?.?\ :<. _ story ef Whistler, who w.is \u deliver an address o.! ? <k:y to the Society i i British Aril>ts: 'The masler .-it length entered, faultlessly dressed, walk'ng with a swinging, ja un: y step. ev jd MI ly ijuite delighted with himself and the world in eeiieral. Ile passed down the gallery, ignoring rh?? assembled mem? bers. ?nd walked up to hi* own :nr<\ And there he stayed Tor t\n.v rifle.-? minutes, regarding it with a sato-fie?' expression, stepping now baekwa-d now forward, ean"ng his head ?ml dusting the surface of the glass with ;i silk pocket handkerchief. Wo wald.til him open mouthed. Suddenly he turn M round, beamed upon uv and uttered Ivi: two words 'l?ravo. Jimmy!'- then look my arm and hurried me out of the gal lery. talking volubly (be while." CASTORIA for Iafaats and Children. Tl? Kind You Han Always Bought Bears the Signature of CHANGING ONE'S NAME. _ The Method I? a Rather Coati? On* In Great Britain. Many people chance their names without asking permission from any j one or paying any fees whatever. This is certainly the simplest way of get? ting rid of a name you do not appre? ciate, but it is apt to prove expensive. For instance, such a course is strictly illegal, and the government co*M step in at any time and demand the pay? ment of a heavy tine; and, further? more, if the individual who changed his name without consulting anybody happened to come in for a large sum of money unexpectedly the authorities would decline to recognize his claim if he had failed to pay the fees due to the heralds* college for assuming a j name not given in baptism. ( There are two ways of changing your name, and they are both rather costly. One method is to have a pri? vate act of parliament passed for your benefit. This course is generally fol? lowed only by peers and people to whom money is no object, for it costs ?700. This nearly all goes in fees to minor officials for bringing your case before the legislature, inasrauctj as the actual passing of the bill costs prac? tically noihiug. And the only advan? tage you will gain from this expensive way of going to work is that inquiries will not be made into your past history, which by the other alternative are un? avoidable. The usual method adopted for legally changing the name is somewhat te? dious, if less costly, and you must have very substantial reasons for so doing or your claim will not be allowed. If, for instance, you inhei4t properly which makes it conditional that you change your name you can do so on payment of about ?50 in fees. In the first place you must com? municate with the home secretary, who, if he considers your claim valid, will refer you to the heralds' college and the king of arms. These officials will make full inquiries into your his? tory and satisfy themselves beyond j question that your reason for wishing ?. to make the change is in every way le -'timate. This done, they will again con- jnicate with the home secretary, w! will lay your claim before the king, for he alone has power to au? thorize the change being made. Even? tually, after some months of waiting, you will be informed by the heralds' college that his majesty has approved of your claim and the change of name is published in a remote corner of the London Gazette. Finally it is worthy of mention that no one can hold a public appointment under government who has changed his name without the consent of the king, however brilliant may have been his services to the country. The reason for this is rather curious. The name given you at your baptism is in theory ratified by the sovereign as head of the church, and by assuming another on your, own responsibility you are delib? erately breaking a law of the land. London Tit-Bits. -'-~v The PoTver of the Thunderer. A great change had followed the re? form bill: and the newspaper had im? proved as it became the organ of the middle class, which then rose to power. Delanc of the Times had to be courted by the statesmen who had professed simple contempt for his predecessors, and in the fifties the influence of the paper had culminated till it was taken to be the authentic incarnation of pub? lic opinion. Kinglake gives a graphic (I do not say an authentic) account of the secret of the authority which ena? bled it to order the siege of Sevastopol. It employed, he declares, a shrewd, idle clergyman to frequent places of com? mon resort and, discover what was the ! obvious thought that was finding ac- j ceptance with the average niau. Thc thought was then put as though it were the -suggestion of ripe political philoso? phy, .while the public so delicately flat? tered wondered at its own wisdom. Sir Leslie Stephen in Atlantic. Startled the Chaplain. An English clergyman tells many quaint stories of his experiences as a prison chaplain. One of these relates how he took a reformed burglar out for a drive in the country after an en? forced seclusion in one of his majes? ty's prisons. The burglar appeared to enjoy himself immensely, but when they passed a pretty house standing back from the road and bearing evi? dence of the taste and wealth of thc owner the burglar fairly gloated over it and. turning to the canon, exclaimed, "What a lovely little crib that would be to crack, sir, wouldn't it?" An Et en Break. "She's a girl after his own heart, he says." "Yes, and he's a man after her mon? ey." "But you know it's whispered on the J quiet that she hasn't any money." "Well, it's a notorious fact that nc hasn't any heart."-Houston Tost. Nothitift Dune. "You know, they say money talks," suggested the woman with the sui); scrip rio U paper, cheerfully. "Well. I never was any hand for ex? travagant speeches." replied the close fisted millionaire.-Syracuse Herald. "Quick as thought" is not very quick. While a lighl wave would travel ??round the equator in a second a nerve ?ave makes hut about IOU feet a sec ont!. VIee Yera*. "I hear Kate Green has married Jack Toper. 1 always considered her a girl of grit, but 1 never thought she'd mar? ry a man to reform him." "She didn't. She reformed .lack to marry him."-Town and Country. He Worten. "He never work?, does he?" **Oh. yes: he works any one lie can for anything he can:"- Chicago Post. A Doctor's Simple Cure. Somewhere upon British soil there is a young doctor who has within the last few days learned a lesson which should be invaluable to him in his future practice. Having accompanied his betrothed to a theatre, while the house was in semi-darkness, she sud? denly complained of feeling faint. The doctor took something out of his pocket and whispered to her to keep the "tabloid" in her mouth, but not to swallow it. She did as she was told and soon felt all right again. The tablet, however, showed no signs of dissolving, and in the end, being cur? ious to discover what the tasteless, in? disoluble substance that had proved so efficacious -could be, she slipped the undiminished substance into her glove for future inspection. When she got home she took it out of her glove again and examined it. It was a bone glove button. Without Mask is Eke onto your using some other ? ? S 9 ? . . COMPOUND sad to be "JUST AS GOOD" AS almatina When Yon Can Get, PALMATINA THE PUREST VEGETABLE FAT ,ON THE MARKET THE WESSON COMPANY r SAVANNAH. GA, How to Make Money. Agents of either sax should today write Marsh Manufacturing Co., 53b Lake Street, Chicago, for cuts and particulars of their handsome ALUMINUM CARD CASE with jour name engraved on it and filled with 100 Calling or Business Cards. ?v erybody orders them. Sample Case and 100 Cards, postpaid, 40c. This Case and 100 Cards retail at 75 cents. You have only to show sample to f-ecure an order. Send 40c. at once for case and 100 cards before some one gets ahead of you. Sept 16-8m Anyone sending a sketch and description may quickly ascertain our opinion free whether an invention 13 probably patentable. Communica? tions strictly confidential. Handbook on Patents sent free. Oldest aeeney for securing patents. Patents taken through Munn A Co. recelTe special notice, without charge, in the Scientific American. A handsomely illustrated weekly- Tersest cir? culation of any scientlilo Journal. Terms. *3 a year: four months, $ L Sold by all newsdealer* "ISP ? Co.3C,5r"MIow Tort ... .. ...^.s.., li V BUN AND LOCKSMITH. I take pleasure in giving no? tice to my friends and the pub? lic generally, that, having re? gained my health, I have re? opened my shop, and am ready to do any work in the line of Guns, Locks, Sewing Machines. &c. Prices reasona? ble, work done prompt y and satisfaction guaranteed. ?hop removed to No. 22 West Liberty street, two doors from Oteen's Brok Store. R S BRADWELL. THE LOUD TALKER SAYS - THE NEW KIND OF CHEW THAT WON ENOUGH CHEWERS IN A YEAR TO MAKE SWEEP-STAKES THE LARGEST COMPETITIVE BRAND OF SCHNAPPS TOBACCO. We have another Car Horses and Mules. We are also selling BUGGIES, WAGONS and HARNESS almost The usual stock of Lime, Cement, Fire Brick, Flue Pipe and Builders' Supplies generally. DIXIE STALK CUTTERS. We have secured the agency for these cutters in Sumter county. BOOTH LIVE STOCK GO, . GENUINE PERUVIAN GUANO, NITRATE OF SODA, flURIATE OF POTASH. HARBY Are Headquarters. WHISKEY I MORPHINE I CIGARETTE I ALL DRUC AND TOBACCO HABIT. i HABIT. ? HABIT. I HABITS. Cured by Keeley Institute of S. C. 1329 Lady St., (or P.O. Box 75) Columbia, S. C. Confidential correspondence solicit*d .Itt antic Coast Lime. Effective January 10, 1904. Passenger Trains arriving and leaving Sumter. Train 35 Florence to Augusta . Arrives 5 15 air ** 54 Columbia to Wilmintftoii 44 8 05 axr M *57 Gibson to Sumter 44 9 20 aD> * * 52 Charleston to Columbia and Gre*uville Leaves 9 21 aa 46 Orangeburg to Charleston (Tnesd'y, Thu rsd'y,Saturd'y) u 9 25 air 44 53 Greenville and Columbia to Charleston 44 6 15 p? 32 Augusta to Florenoe 6 30 po. 41 *56 Sumter to Gibson 44 6 50 pn; 11 47 Charleston toOrangeburi; (Tuesd'y, Thursday, Saturd'y) M S 15 pu . " 55 Wilmington to Columbia " 9 -6 Pn " *43 Florence lo Sumter, Arrive* 9 15 am Freight Trains carrying Passengers. Train *19 Sumter to Robbins, Leaves 3 40 au. " *24 Sumter to Hartville 44 1? (K) ?B " *11 Florence to Sumter Arrives 1 40 pr " *12 Sumter to Florence Leaves 3 lp pu " *25 Hartsville to Sumter Arrive* 7 40 pas M *20 Robbins to Sumter 8 00 pa: Northwestern, Railway. Train *70 Camdan to Sumter Arrives " *71 Sumter to Camden Leaves " *68 Camden to Sumter * ?' *72 Wilson Mill to Sumter Arrives " *73 Sumter to WilsonMill Leaves. " 76 Wilson Mill to Sumte?, Monday Wednesday. Friday, Arrives w 77 Sumter to Wilson Mill,Tuesday,Thursday, Saturday, Leaves " *69 Sumter to Camden ?" Trains marked * daily except Sunday ; all other trains daily. For further information, appl - to c J. T. CHINA, Ticket Agent A. 9 00 ait 9 36 aa 5 45 pB 12 30 ptt 3 30 pm 9 00 pw 4 50 pn 6 25 pu C. L.