Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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LOOKS LIKE REVOLUTION. The Disturbance in Cuba Has Grown in Magnitude and Gravity-Rebels Capture Cities. Havana, August 23.-The army of Pi uer Guerra, flushed with the vic? tory of yesterday over the loyal .geards and the capture of San Luis, is now before Pinar del Rio and an attack on that city is momentarily ex? pected. As the insurgent army out? numbers the government forces the fall of Pinar del Rio is likely. The situation is apparently growing worse all t ie time. New revolutionary ar? mies are springing up constantly and are apparently strong in the four western provinces. LYON'S BASELESS CHARGE. ?Representative Florence Citizens Re ply in Defense of Mr, Davis. .r ? - . Florence, S. C, August -20.-Mr. J. Fraser Lyon, candidate for attorney general, at Walhalla on the 16th inst, stated on the "stump" that Mr. F. - M. Davis, the ex-dispenser of this city ?city had been proved to have run a Jblind ?ger in the dispensary at Flpr * <ence. The only testimony taken during r~ the investigation affecting Mr. Davis I'* was at the hearing in Sumter Tth of ^September 1905. This testimony was igiven by Mr. Davis himself. On the subject of this/ grave charge this tes tiony was to the effect that some .Whiskey house had shipped cases of liquor with-more bottles than *he in? voice called for. Mr. Davis .de no personal claim to the extra bottles "but put them on the shelves, sold -them in due course, paid the state its full share and placed the county and . city's shares in bank to his credit as vdispenser. When Mr. Davis went out of office and the dispenser checked up his ac? counts he found that Mr. Davis had paid the State about 3160 more than its share of goods charged against him. and a $202 over deposit for j! -county and city, share. This $102 was .by direction of the inspector paid ?over to Mr. Davis, and the State board ?of control sent him a check for the 1160. ' - " . V ~ The most unreasonable partisan? ship could not contort or distort this into the running of a blind tiger, but such a feat was reserved for the en? terprise of a candidate who in his de? sire for office, does not balk at slan? dering a good private citizen. We have known Mr. Davis for many :years He is a law abiding citizen of veracity and high personal character; :and has the confidence of this city. 'The charge is utterly unfounded and indefensible. Mr. Lyon spoke in .Florence when Mr. Davis was present and the audience knew Mr. Davis' life* and character, and such a charge I would have been received with de- j Tision. Mr. Lyon reserved it for a strange audience that knew not the jman. J. W. McCown, Clerk of Court, "Florence county. J. R. McCown, ex-County Superin? tendent of Education, Florence coun? ty. S. B. Cooper, Coroner, Florence county. R. S. Smith, Magistrate, Florence, C. E. C. Harrel, Deputy Sheriff, Flor? een ce county. R. McLenden. member County 'Board of Control, Florence county. W. J. Brown, Cashier Bank of Flor? ence, and Mayor of Florence, S. C. W. H. Darby, Druggist, chairman I^oard of Control when ' Mr. Davis was disepnscr. F. H. Lucas, City Clerk and Treas? urer, Florence, S. '<j. E. H. Lucas, Jr., Cashier Farmers ?& Mechanics Bank, Florence, S. C. A world of truth in a few words: **Nearly all other cough cures are constipating, especially those contain? ing opiates. Kennedy's Laxative Honey and Tar me-es the bowels. Contains no opiates." You can get >it at all druggists. 51ssa a a a ^ I" asa 3 aaa 3 3 3 3 3-3 3 ? s a H H a 3 a IHGH LIVING is an everyday affair with those who .eat at our restaurant. The best of food is served at a modest cost. GQOD EATING .and our bill of fare go together. Well fed men dine here because they get what they want and as they want it It's a pleasure to pay fer good food. 'That's why we have so many good rpat^ons. THE SUMTER RESTAURANT, V. E. Brunsen, Proprietor. 3-21-6m LABOR DAY CELEBRATION. FLORENCE ARRANGES AX AT TRACTIVE PROGRAMME. Horse and Cattle Show, Fireman's Tournament. Automobile Parade and Races-Base Ball-Florentines Will Keep Open House and Every? body Will Be Welcomed. The progressive city of Florence r?as, for many years, celebrated Labor Day with appropriate ceremonies, and each year there has been a large| at? tendance. This year the programme arranged is more elaborate than, ever before and as the people of Florence are backirg the entertainment, it promises to be a great success. The programme is*as follows: Labor Day Celebration, Monday Sept. 3rd. CATTLE DISPLAY. 9 ito 10 a, m. Best dairy herd, not less than one bull and three cows, $15.00 Best dairy Jersey bull, registered, $5.00. Best dairy Guernsey bull, registered $5.00. Best dairy cow, registered, $5.00. Best dairy .cow grade, $5.00. Best dairy .cow, largest milk pro? ducer, $5.00. Best heifer under two years, reg? istered, $3.00. Best heifer under two years, grade, $2.00. An entrance fee of 50 cents pernead for each contestant. Entries to close at 9 a. m. September 3rd. Judge-Prof. John Michels, B. S. A., .Of. Clemson College. x> FIREMAN'S FREE RACE. IO to ll a. m. r^rst prize, $50.00; Second Prize, $25.00. Fastest 100 yards foot race by any fireman .contesting in the above reel races, $10.00. , Rules-To be used by the N. C. State Firemen's Association, g HORSE DISPLAY. ll a. m. to 2 p. m. i First, gentlemen's driving contest (double team) $20.00. Second, gentlemen's driving contest (double team) $10.00. Second, ladies* driving contest (single team) $20.00. Second ladies driving contest (single team) $10.00. Third, saddle contest (gentlemen's) $15.00. Seccnd, saddle contest (gentlemen's) $5.00. Fourth. Gentlemen's driving con? test (single) $20.00. Second, Gentlemen's driving con tst, $10.00. Fifth, Saddle contest (ladies) $15.00. I Second saddle contest (ladies) $5.00 Sixth, Saddle contest (girls and boys) each $5.00. Girls not over 15 years old asid not over 12. Seventh, Stallion contest to har? ness (State) $10.00. Second, Stallion contest to harness (St-.te) $5.00. Eighth, Stallion contest to harness (open) $10.00. Second, Stallion contest to harness (open) $5.00. Ninth, Best colt to halter not over 3 years (open) $$10.00. Second, Best colt to halter not over 3 years $5.00. Best pair of mules to harness, $10.00. Best single mule to harness, $5.00. Judges-W. M. Graham, Sumter, S. C.; C. W. Hewitt, Darlington, S. C.: Ed. T.Elliott, Dillon, S.C.; Jas. Stack house, Marion, S. C.; Dr. Benj. Mo Innis, V. S., Charleston, S. C. AUTOMOBILE RACES. 3 p. m. to 4 p. m. Four classes $?0.00 to winner of each event. Entrance fee $5.00. Xo: less than four entries to each class. Class 1. Runabouts costing not over $750, one passenger. Class 2. Light touring cars, costing not over $1,000, four passengers. Class 3. Cars costing not over $2, 000, four passengers. Class 4, Free for all. Music will be dispensed by the Sec? ond Regiment Band in full uniform. This bind will also furnish music for the Grand Dance 9.30 p. m. Refresh? ments. Tickets for same may be pro? cured from the Committee. Price $2.00. Base Ball by State League teams. '] ri ays; Carnival 6 days. Commencing Monday, September 3. In this state it is not necessary to serve a five day's notice for eviction of a cold. Use the original laxative cough syrup, Kennedy's Laxative Honey and Tar. Xo opiates. Sold by all druggists. The strike of the Brotherhood of Railway Carmen in Columbia has been settled. Why does the sun burn? Why does a mosquito sting? Why do we feel unhappy in the Good Old Summer Time? Answer: we don't. We use Dewitt's Witch Hazel Salve, and these little ills don't bother us. Learn to look for the name on the box to get the genuine. Sold by all drug? gists, j A COWARD'S DEED. Jones Slapped Branson, a One-Armed Man-Many in the Crowd Wanted to Tyke Branson's Place and Whip .Jori . Greenville S. C.. Aug. 21.-"Was A. C. Jones arrested?" There was room for doubt when that thrilling question arose after the Chester meeting, but nobody is asking that question here today as TOO persons saw him escort? ed by policemen from the campaign meeting under the orders of Sheriff Gilreath, to lock him up for assault? ing Mr. Joel E. Branson The affair is the talk of the town and the con? demnation of Mr. Jones is rife. Both men are candidates for governor. Mr. Jones-, from Newberry and Mr. Bran? son from Sumter. Jones has always spoken of pitching his canvass on a high plane and declared that he rep? resented, the Christian people of the State. Mr. Branson has often been looked upon as a minister by persons in the crowd. One of his hands was cut off at his saw mill eleven years ago and both from his peaceful demeanor and his physical condition one would suppose him im? mune from attack. Each man made his speech today. When Jones 'fin? ished speaking, he left the stand. Ragsdale arose to speak, but suddenly a cry arose, "stop that fight over there." 1 Everybody crowded in on the storm centre. Jones had sought Branson and the testimony of eye witnesses is that he told Branson /if he did not stop talking about him he would make him do it and that as soon as the calm reply came. "Well, you will have to make me then," Jones slap? ped him soundly on the left cheek. Mr. Branson told me that he did not take time to make any reply be? fore Jones struck him. He was al? most stunned by the sharpness and suddenness of the blow and did not attempt to return it. In an instant Jones was seized by bystanders and from the expressions heard it seemed as if they would do him injury. There were such re? marks as "That's a damn shame," "I'll take Branson's- place. Let me hit him." etc: , It is but the simple truth to say that apparently not a man sympa? thized with Jones and his protesta? tions had no effect, upon the crowd. Sheriff Gilreath reached Jones just in time to ward off a powerful blow aimed at him by some one in the crowd. Jones was carried by police? men to the police station and was re? leased on a cash bond of five dollars furnished by himself.-Columbia Record. Professor Tyler of Amherst Col? lege, said recently: "A man can live comfortably without brains; no man ever existed without a digestive sys? tem. The, dyspeptic has neither faith, hope or charity." Day by day people realize the neel cf the use of a little corrective af?er overeating. A coirective like Kodol For Dyspep? sia. It digests what you. eat. Sold by all druggists. The Winnipeg Commercial says that the wheat crop in the Canadian Northwest this year will be about 97,000,000 bushels, which is estimated will sell at 65 cents a bushel. The population is about 800,000. and the amount to be received from the wheat alone will be $03,000.00$. "Make Hay While the Sun Shines." *T!iere is a lesson in the work of the thrifty farmer. - He knows that the brigh sunshine may last but a day and he prepares for the showers which are so liable to follow. So it should be with every household. Dys? entery, diarrhoea and cholera morbus may attack some member of the home without warning. Chamberlain's Col? ic. Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy, which is the best known medicine for these diseases, should always be kept at hand, as immediate U?at.ment is necessary, and delay mf.y prove fatal. For sale by all druggists. Professor J. E. Wallace of Claflin University and Rev. P. G. Drayton of Biddle University. Charlotte. N. C., have been recommended for appoint? ment to succeed Thos. E. Miller, as president of the State Negro College at Orangeburg. There is'nothing so pleasant as that bright, cheerful, at-peace-with the-world feeling when you sit down to your breakfast. There is nothing so conducive to good work and good results. The h ea* thy man with a healthy mind and body is a better fellow, a better workman, a better citizen than the man or woman who is handicapped by some disability, however slight. ? slight disorder of the stomach will derange your body, your thoughts and your disposition. Get away from the morbidness and the blues. Keep your stomach in tune and both your brain and body will respond. Little indiscretions of overeating can be easily corrected and you will be surprised to see how much better man you are. Try a lit? tle Kodol For Dyspepsia after your meals. Sold by all druggists. As to Lynching. The Richmond Times-Dispatch centiy said this with reference to recent ocurrences in this State J South Carolina: "Lynching is lynching, no ma: the circumstances, and lynching unlawfully depriving a man of life, whether or no he is technic; 'in the custody of the law.' It become alarmingly frequent in South, not for one crime alone, for all capita1 crimes, and ocasi?n: for those which are not. Xor can reasonably expect it to cease so 1< as reputable newspapers defend ? justify it." The above calls forth a remarka editorial from the Richmond Xe1 Leader, and as it is both interest and states the actual situation as confronts the people of the South, Sar reproduces it. The Xews-Lea? says: "Xobody has a more profound r erence for law. a stronger conci for good order or a higher regard the sanctity of human life than 1 Xews-Leader. Tet we believe firr that in certain conditions the taki of human life outside the operath of the law is not only justifiable. 1 necessary for the well-being and sa ty of society, i:When a criminal or accused p sn of any grade -is in the hands the State, which is the people and ( law, the honor of the State is piedg for his safe custody and fair tri and an attack on him is an atta on the sovereignty of the Comme i wealth. So he is protected. In certi and special and specified and eas understood conditions we believe t j people of a community have the rig to consider their own necessities 1 fore delivering a man known to ha i done one certain crime to the custo j of the law. It is just as well to a little plain talking on this subje "3efore the war this crime was u ? heard of in the South. The wh: j men went into the army, leaving th< women in charge of the negro sla\ f without the faintest fear of any wro worse than a little petty thieving, i garded almost as the slave's privilej The habits of submission to author; and reverence for the white skin we so deeply implanted that they h: \ become nature. Since then conditio have changed. Authority has be< overthrown and reverence destroye and those negroes who are natural bad and malicious have been left irr sponsible and ungoverned except 1 fear. The great majority of the: people, justice requires us to say, a wonderfully good citizens, conside ing their circumstances and opporti nities In every community and neigi borhood of the South, however, thei is a proportion of negro men who ai brutes made far more dangerous tha brutes by the possession of some ht man intelligence. In many parts < the South the white population is thi or scattered, and the men canni stay at their homes They must t away in the fields or at their busines and their women and girl childre are left nearly every day unprotecte< "The bad and brutal negro know nothing of the pangs of shame or dh grace. Made the central figure of capital trial, he becomes magnified t a hero in his own eyes and his victir must tell in open court the hideou details which the law exacts. To hi limited intelligence the chances c escape seem many, and even whe condemned to death his emotional na ture is worked into ? religious ec9t'? cy Or* frenzy, and he dies triumphal ''These things are known to al Southern people. The conditions ar peculiar and peculiarly horrible, th class to be dealt with and its additio: to the crime to be dealt with are pe culiar. All the conditions are beyoin and outside the contemplation of an: written law Therefore remedies pe culiarly swift and drastic and warn ir?g?? peculiarly terrible are necessary Xegroes of the kind to which we refei can be ruled and deterred in one waj only, and that is by terror, by thc certainty of quick, unceremonious sure death if they take or attempt an? liberties with white women or chil? dren. That is a grim and dreadful fate, but it is a fact, and must be realized because it is present with us and concerns the homes and lives and honor of the majority of the Southe -n people every day in the year. "For the one crime-and for that only-w.e believe lynching, before the law can interevene, to be not only right, but necessary. The work of putting to death the dangerous brute should be done soberly and decently, oven, solemnly, but relentlessly, as C\ thing required for the protection of homes and families, but with circum? stances reflecting on the reputation of the community for propriety and humanity as lightly as possible. "In saying this, ugly and dangerous as it may seem, we believe we express the deliberate, earnest feeling and belief of the vast majority of South? ern white men who live in the coun? try, including many as good citizens, as sober conscientious and God-fear? ing as any land on earth knows." It is hard to create a sentiment against lynching in the face of the facts so strongly put by our e^te^med Richmond contemporary.-Wilming? ton Star. ? j CASTO I ? 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NEW YORK CITY. JUST RECEIVED Another Car Load of HORSES AND MULES. Booth Live Stock Co. Ring rip No. 30-That's the Daily Item's Telephone number wherf you "want to place an advertisement that will bring results. W. A. BOWMAN, Pres. ABE RYTTENBERG, V. Pres P. G. BOWMAN, Sec. & Treas. The Sumter Banking1 & Mercantile Company, Sumter, gi C. ^^^?Capital Stock $50,000*^*^** Wholesale Grocers, Fertiliz? ers and Farmers' Supplies. Sole agents for the celebrated brand of Wil? cox & Gibbs Fertilizers. Weare prepared to quote the very closest cash or time prices on all lines of Groceries. Fertilizers and Farmers' Supplies, And invite your investigation before makin? your arrangements for another year. Come to see us. We will save you monoy. and give you a hearty, courteous welcome. Sumter Banking I Mercantile Company, Masonic Building, 2d door from the Postof?ce. Sumter, S. C. AN ADVERTISEMENT PLACED IN THE ADVERTISING COLUMNS OF THE DAILYjTEM WILL BRING RESULST.^