Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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WEDNESDAY, APRil 13, 1904. T?as Sumter Watchman was founded in 1850 find the 2*rae ?ntMoxm. in 1866. The : Watchman and Southron now bas tho com- j bined circulation as? influence of both of ?be old papers, and is manifestly the best advertising medium in Sumter. Former Judge O. W. Buchanan bas been thrown down again by ill luck that has f oHowed him since poli - iieal *1 drift wood" ceased to be'popu lar in South Carolina. His persistent and long drawn, out fight to mulch the State in the sum of $500 per year while h? was Judge bas been finally and most decidedly squelched by the Supreme Court, the decision handed down a -few days ago amounting to a declaration that the former Judge's claim had no standing in court Congressional Candidate S. G. Hayfield and'Attorney General Gunter iiave been lead into patting each other in a . dilemma. There is no way out Tor oue of them, for one or the other, according to tbsxr own statements, has - lied.. The Sed Men of South Carolina who are now assembled in Great Council in this city were here just ten years ago. In that time there have been | great changes in Sumter. The popu? lation has doubled in that time, the hasiness.of the city has more than doubled and in many other respects the town has. developed and expanded to thrice its proportions of a decade ago. Business depression and fear for the future nave given place to solid prosperity and a substantial confidence in .the.future of the city and State. The Bed Men who attended the former threat Council have been quick to note the changes that have taken place since last they were here and ail the changes have been for the better. The people oi* Samter are glad to have the Bed Men within their gates and ex? tend to them the hand of welcome and the pipe of peace and friendship. We trust their-?tay will be made pleasant and- that they will visit us again with oct deferring their coming so long. Hie Hearst boom in South Carolina is a weak and pony affair. Money ean.Tt boy some things and the old Palmetto - State seems to be one of them. The white primary settles the muni? cipal election so completely that even the white electors who were enthusias? tic voters in the rjrimary forget to vote in the regular election. This n?gli? gence works no harm, seeing that con? ditions are as they are, but a greater number of the electors should remem? ber their pledge to support the nomi? nees of the primary. judge Buchanan Wants Money. Columbia, April IL-The other case tras that of 0. *W. Buchanan, former . Circuit Judge, against the State for bick salary alleged to be due. The law reducing the salary of a Circuit Judge from $3,500 to 83,000 wont into effect a acut the time of the election of Mr. Buchanan and the plaintiff claim? ed that as the law was passed after bxs election he was due ?500 a j ear, it being unconstitutional to reduce the salary of a man while in office. The vConrt, however, rules that the law took effect Before the plaintiff was elected. It also rules * that the Legis? lature refused to approve the claim, it .having been before that body, and that' therefore it was not within the powers of the Court uo order it paid, and also that the case was a direct une against the Stare and that the Ssa te could not be sued under the circumstances. Therefore the appeal is dismissed. Pickpockets Forfeit Bond. Columbia, April ll.-The county of Bichland is richer by $1,000 by the order of Judge Gary this morning. The case against John Hays and J. H. I Bice will be remembered, as the second pickpocket affair during last fair week. Hays and Rice were arrested on a street car while endeavoring to rob Mr. Newnham and were erst com? mitted to- jail in default of $1,000 bond each. This was afterwards re? duced to $500 each, and this was de? posited in actual cash by the men's friends, the two men being released. It was remarked at the time that this was equivalent to a release and when the case was called at this term of Court neither was present. Solici? tor Thurman, Saturday, made a mo? tion for a forfeiture of the cash to thc county, and this morning Judge Gary issued the formal order requiring the elerk of Court to turn over the money to the county treasurer. Weekly Crop Bulletin. Columbia, April 12.-The week end? ing 8 a. m., April 11th, had a mean temperature of about 58 degrees which is nearly 3 degrees below normal, due to cool weather at the beginning and the close, and warm during tho middle of the week. The lowest temperature along the coast ranged from 40 degrees at Charleston to 31 degrees at Conway, with ari extreme minimum for the week of 28 degrees at Liberty, Pic county. Thin ice wa~ noted gene on the morning of the 4th, and 1 to heavy to killing frost on the The frost was very damaging at pi killing, or seriously injuring peac figs, plums, corn and garden tn In many localities fruit escaped ser injury, and in the commercial p< orchards of the "ridge" section, estimated that three-fourths of a crop remains. Apples and chei suffered only slight injury altho some correspondents report both stroyed. Corn and white pota were nipped, the latter killed in pla The frost was not destructive in j commercial truck raising districts, cept to cucumbers that will have t< replanted, and to strawberries in interior that were left exposed. Ti ly frost warning made it practice to cover a large part of the strawbe crop. Eains fell on the 6th, 7th, 8th 9th, but the week's rainfall was c? paratively light, averaging less tl -quarter of an inch. Scattered loci ties had amounts ranging from hall or' / an inch. The rainfall was en ti ly insufficient along the coast wh droughty conditions prevail, and the north central counties where ground is becoming too hard to pl< A general rain would prove very be ficiaL Farmwork made rapid progress, t the preparation of lands is well vanced. Planting operations were c? fined largely to corn, rice and 6 island cotton, although some upla cottcn has been planted in all parts the State. The soil is in excel!? tilth, but the temperature has bi too low for favorable germination cotton. Corn planting is nearly finished the eastern half, and is well advanc in the western parts. Considerable np to fairly good stands, with exce tions where worms and birds have be destructive, necessitating consid?rai replanting. Some corn has receiv its first cultivation. Rice planting made uninterrupt progress. Lands have been prepar for tobacco, but none will be trai planted until the moisture conditio are more favorable. The acreage w: be much less than last year. Plan are plentiful in beds. Wheat and oats continue to impro slowly, but, with few exceptions, a in good condition. Shipments of ear vegetables are heavy, and truck loo! very fine, but will soon need rain prevent .deterioration. Apple and cherry trees are now : full bloom in the northwestern com ties. GENERAL ? REPORT Weather Bureau's Summary ( Conditions of the Crops. Washington, April 12.-The weathe bureau's weekly summary of ero conditions during the week endin April ll were not favorable for fara: ing operations in che principal agrien! taral districts east of the Rocky mour tains, being unseasonably colder in th central valleys and southern State with too much moisture over th middle gulf States and a large part c the centra! valleys. East of the Mississippi river no cor has been planted northward of Tennes see and North Carolina, but a larg part of the crop has been planted i: the last named State, and this work i well advanced throughout the gul I States. Cotton planting has been interrnptei j by cold, wet weather in the centra ! portions of the cotton belt but ha progressed favorably in the souther] portions of the eastern and wester] sections. The early planted is up to satisfac tory stands in the southern portion of Georgia, Alabama and Louisiana and :.u Texas, about three-fourths o the crop having been planted in th south-western and central counties o the last named State. HOBSON DEFEATED FOR CONGRESS But His Friends May Contest Charging Frauds Against Bankhead's Supporters. Bifmiugham, Ala., April 12.-F?lle: returns from yesterday's Democrats primary election confirm the nomi nation of J. H. Bankhead for congres: and of B. B. Comer as preisdent of th? Alabama railroad commission, tb? latter b}- an overwhelming majority Comer has probably carried 02 out o the 07 counties. His issue was mad? on the question of lower local freign; rates similar to those in Georgia Comer is the first president of th? railroad commission to be elected bj the people. All of the present Alabama congress men have been renominated and J. Thomas Heflin, secretary of state, wil probably succeed the late Charlot Thompson, representative from th? Fifth district. Early returns indicate that a large majority of the delegates elected to the ? State convention will be in favor ol sending an uninstructed delegation tc i the national Democratic convention at St. Louis. ? The only close congressional race was that between John H. Ban knead and Capt. Richmond P. Hobson in the Sixth district. Present figures show that Bankhead will be nominated bj a majority of between 400 and 500. L. B. Musgrorve, chairman of the Hob? son campaign committee, said tonight that he was watching the returns closely with a view of contesting the nomination of Bankhead on the grounds of fraud. GOVERNOR IS VETO. His Position on Negro Education Declared, in Many Respects, Like Booker Washington's. ggggl From the Boston Herald. In your article on "Governor Vard aman's Veto," March 28, yon seem not to have caught the Governor's exact position on negro edcuation, which, strange as it may appear to you is in many respects similar to that of Prof. Booker Washington. I Washington thinks that the industrial education of the negro should come free before the classical education, and Governor Vardaman has similarly ; declared that the teaching presented fto the negro in the present condition is that of "the heart and hand"-? I teaching him industry and morality. The Herald and more of the northern papers have criticised Governor ; Vardaman savagely because he vetoed the appropriation for the Holly Springs < ! negro school, but I have net seen a word of praise from them for his act in signing, at the same time, the appropriation for the Alcorn Industrial College for negroes at Rodney, Jeffer? son county, Miss. The latter appro? priation carried four or five times the amount given the Holly Springs school and provided for the education of a still larger number of negroes. It antedates Booker Washington's Tuskegee Institute but is on the same model and bas done an immense amount of good work among the negroes of Mississippi. In giving his support to the college and refusing it to the Holly Springs school which provided a high school classical education, Governor Varda? man has caused no surprise in the South, for he has carried out precise? ly the views he has frequently express? ed on the subject of negro education. How near these views are to those of Booker Washington--that what the southern negro needs most to be taught just now is not Latin and Greek but how to work and how to improve his condition-you will doubt? less perceive without my calling it to your attentin, and perhaps you will recall the fact that Prof. Washington was mobbed by prominent negroes of your city because his views on the sub? ject were regarded as heterodox and a reflection and injury to the race. Whatever may be the case hereafter, all who have given the subject of the education of the negro in the South as he is today the consideration .' and investigation it deserves are of the opinion that the best results for the race are secured by schools like the Tuskegee, Ala., Montreal Institute and the Alcorn Miss., Industrial Col? lege, which Governor Vardaman approves and has provided for. Norman Walker. New Orleans, La., March 30, 1904. NEGRO MUST BE A CATHOLIC. Father Carroll Says Blacks are Lost Unless His Church Reaches Them. Washington, April 7.-At the confer? ence of missionaries associated with the new apostolic mission at the Catholic university today the Rev. Charles B. Carroll, of Baltimore, read a paper on the education of the negro and told of work being accomplished by the Society of St. Joseph. He characterized the work as successful and encouraging. He said the work needed 1,000 priest?, although there was barely one-tenth that number so engaged. '1 If there is any class of people which, needs the constant presence of mis? sionaries it is the negro," said Father Carroll. "The mission church, with its resident priest, is the best plan to catch and hold the negro in the South. Much of the old-time prejudice is passing and the negro is learning that one can be a Catholic and a Demo? crat or Republican, or either. There are 9,000,000 negroes to bo saved. Only 200,000 arc Catholics. Thc Catholic Church alone can solve the negro question, by teaching the negro his solemn duties as a man and Chris? tian. Catholic negroes aro purer in their morals than any others and de? test the crimes of the rapist and the profligate. "Without the Catholic Church the negro is doomed, body and soul." Chicago Chronicle. - ?Ill? I . ?WM Rural Free Delivery Inspector Vea /ey, who has boon in tho city for seve? ral days, went over the *propoeed new route from this city to the Stateburg neighborhood Thursday and it is pos? sible that this route may bo establish? ed. Several other routes are needed in the country adjacent to this city, and while here Mr. Veazey will look over tho territory and make a careful inspection with the view of recom? mending the establishment of such i-outes as are needed. The merchants have renewed the agreement to clcse their stores at 6 o'clock pm., Saturdays excepted, from May 1st to September 1st. Were it not for the vicious criminal class among the negroes this city could be policed for one half the present cost, and a police court would be con? vened at infrequent intervals. The meeting of the Legislative dele? gation called for last Friday for the pur? pose of recommending the appointment of the new county board of control was postponed until this week. The Elks Club has purchased the gymnasium oufit and bowling alley of the disbanded Sumter Gymnasium and will use this as a nucleus for a first class gymnasium which will be fitted up at the Elks Club house. White & McCallum have entered the insurance field and are the local agents of several of the strongest and best known fire insurance companies in this country. See their advertise? ment. The summary of the police court docket for the past year makes inter? esting reading, and students of the race problem in the South could find in it facts for serious consideration. ?The police are beginning to run in the license tax delinquents. Some days there are many callers at the Clerk's office, who do three parts of explaining to one part of paying. A decrepit old negro man who lived on Mr. John Boykin's place, near Dal? zell, fell into the fire in his cabin Sunday and wr.3 fatally burned. Mr. Boykin was the first to notice that the house was on fire and when he broke in the door he found the house burning around the fire place in which the old man was lying. His body was terribly burned, nearly all his clothing having been burned off. The regular city election was hold yesterday and it was so wanting in in? terest that few people remembered that it was election day. The vote was very light and the bulk of these who voted were passers by who were called in by the managers. Only 153 ballots were cast-151 by whites and 2 by negroes, and all for the straight ticket nominated in the primary. Not a single name was scratched. HELP WANTED-In our Dress Making Department at once. Have opening for 3 or mere., Competent help preferred. Schwartz Bros. April 13-2t J MULE STRAYEEM-Mediam size black Horse Mule, five years old, strayed from undersigned. Any in? formation will be appreciated and liberal reward paid for recovery of mule. Address Henry McLendon, Camden, S. C. April 6-2t THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA. C0X727T7 OF STTHTEB. By Thoa. Y. Walsh. Esq., Probate Judge Whereas, J. G. Ramsey, of Atlanta, Ga., made suit to me to grant him Letters of Administration of the Estate of and effects of Willis Ramsey, deceased, remaining un administered. These are therefore to cite and admon? ish all and singular tho kindred and creditors of the said Willis Ramsey, late of said county and state, deceased, that they be and appear before me, in the Court of Probate, to be held at Sumter C. H., on April 21st, 1904, next, after publication thereof, at ll o'clock in the forenoon, to show cause, if any they have, why the said Administration should not be granted. Given under my Hand, this 6th day of April, A. D., 1904. THOS. V. WALSH, April G-2t Judge of Probate. \ MACH IN ERY F ll IMMM ? MIlMOWW I--9 ll M ilUIW tll j . 'I Kinds? and for aH Purposes. : Kee? in the MarKet for |. . EtvSt??Si ?.?>?L?iiS, SAY** flT'LLS, \ ANO ! j WO0OWCRK!NS SfAfcffi&ERY, jj BRIGS KACKJSSKY, ET3-, f -WRITE TO- g 1 "THE MACKi&ERY PEOPLE" | P kV. H. Gibbes & Co? I COLUMBIA, S. C. *3 Thc Gibbes Portable Shingle ?liach?r.j.. In a large business much depends upon this word. Reputation either for success or failure, and if volume of business is any criterion, surely we are on the winning side of the word. Then, too, we are up to the minute in supplying every whim of D?ime Fashion Which, this season, seem especially ?numerous. To see the Novelties in Shirt Waist Silks, Foulards and black Silks would not only please, but satisfy. Then in the light=weight j Wool effects, such as the new Eta= mines, Voiles, Crepe Tissues, Aeolians and Grenadines we have perhaps the largest assortment ever shown in Sumter. At no previous season have the White goods been as beautiful and bountiful, and the same may be said of the colored novelties in Linen and Mercerized effects. i Our Millinery Department Needs no special mention, more than to say that it is still growing. The New Footwear for Spring and Summer is unusually pretty, and in the Russets we furnish the Hosiery to match in shade. Having enlarged the capacity of our Dress-Making Depart? ment, we are better prepared than ever to furnish high class work at short notice. Whether shopping for a Wedding Trousseau or a House Furnishing outfit after the wedding, we are the best people to consult. Yours truly, ?The Sumter Dry Goods Co. -A. Gr ??A- XIN"^^^^-^1? I beg to announce that I have just received a car load of ex? tra nice Horses and Mules, and want you and the public gen? erally to understand that they are FOR SALE_ The Horses are largely nice drivers for spring use ; also a few good farm Horses. The Mules are extra well broke with weight enough tor mill purposes. I A full line of Vehicles and Harness of every j description always on hand. ! A D. HARBY. Caldwell Drop Cotton Planters We are oft'erins: for salo awaiti this season the Celebrated Caldwell Drop Cotton Planters. The great advantage of these Planters aside from their decided saving of seed is that they space the seed at the exact distance desired, thereby insuring a uniform stand. With the present system of labor this is impossible without some automatic mode like that which the CALDWELL supplies. We could publish a number of certificates as to the varied merits of these machines Prom many of our leading tanners, O'Donnell tSL Company, South Carolina?