SOllfl?? OOBRESFONDENOE. AEUS? LETTERS FROM OUR SPE? CIAL CORRESPONDENTS. Items of Interest From all Parts of Sumter and Adjoining Counties. aOTICE TO CORRESPONDENTS. Mail your letters so that they will reach this office not later than Tues? day morning. When the letters are 9- received Wednesday it is almost an impossibility to have them appear in the paper issued that day. STATEBURG. Stateburg, October 1.-Miss Annie M. Barnwell returned to Florence "this morning after having spent Sun? day at 'the Recotry. Mr. Matt Moore left for Charleston this afternoon where he is to resume his studies at the medical college. Miss Mary Burgess of Sumter spent Sunday with Miss H. Lee Moore at The Oaks. Dr. and Mrs. John Johnson re? turned to their home in Charleston today after a pleasant visit to Mrs. ?. M. Cantev. Mr. Guy Warren of Sumter spent Sunday with friends here. Miss Julia A. Holmes after a month's stay at home returned to Macon on Safurday. Messrs. Early and Cain Mellette spent Sunday at the home of Mr. Frean Mellette. Miss Virginia Saunders left on Wednesday for Columbia, where she is attending college this year. Mr. Frank P. Burgess spent Sun? day at home. . Mrs. James Pinckney and Miss A. 3?. Moore spent several days in Sum? ter last week. Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Saunders and 3iaster Harrison Saunders are spendr aug today in the progressive town of Sumter. Mr: M. H. Boykin of Sumter spent Sunday with Mr. W. J. Norris. Miss Gena Dargan is visiting rela? tives in Darlington. PRIVATEER. Privateer, October 3.-A few of the school teachers were on hand Monday and opened their schools. 2Iiss Eliza Geddings, of Paxville, is teaching the Red Oak school again this session; Miss Daisy Lide the Bethel school, Miss Hattie May Har deer of Chester, the Ingram school, Miss Hennie May Bradford the Pip iins school. We have not heard who will teach the other schools in Priva * teer. Mrs.% Kemper Covington of Ben aettsville, after a pleasant visit to laer father, Mr. W. G. Wells, re tunhed home Sunday afternoon, ac? companied by her sisters, Misses Annie and Inez Wells, who are going to teach in Marlborough county this cession. Mr. R. B. Barkley and Miss Amy Ingram were married Thursday in Sumter. Miss Winnie Rivers is visiting in iEHoree. MAY. Max, Oct. 8.-Mr. Joe Kirby and two little daughters, of Ashton, at? tended church at Bethel Sunday. He said that he went up to Columbia in a buggy and spent a night in ?the capital and returned home the next morning, ate dinner and went to work. The Florence County Inter-Denom? inational Sunday School Convention -convened at Mayesvilie church last Friday and Saturday. Preaching will be held at Beulah Presbyterian church at 7 o'clock p. -m. instead of 10 a. m., on account of the pastor, Rev. Trenholm, having to perform a marriage ceremony at I-ake City. Bethlehem union meeting will oe "held at Bethel church in December, j TINDAL. Tindal, Oct. 8.-Mr. Thomas A. Bradham, one of our most highly re? spected citizens and an old Confed? erate soldier, died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. James T. Brogdon, -on Friday morning, October 5 at 7 o'clock. The funeral services were held in Manning on Saturday at4 ll o'clock a. m. Mr. Harry Hodge spent Friday in Sumter. A ?mall son of Mr. W. L. Osteen wits kicked by a mule on Friday, causing a very painful wound on the head. He was taken to the Mood Osteen infirmary in Sumter for treat -anent. Mr. T. M. Witherspoon was in Sumter on Friday. Miss Dora Bistow spent Saturday and Sunday with Miss Edith Rich? ardson. Mrs. Cassie Hodge returned to her home in Manning on Sunday. Mr. T. E. Hodge spent Saturday in Sumter. Mrs. B. R. Hodge and Miss Rosa Hodge returned home on Saturday ?rom a visit to Bessie. Ga. I?AGOOD. Hagood, Oct. 5.-Cotton is being gathered now and it begins to appear that the crop is even shorter than St seemed. The rainy weather since the storm was a Godsend because it bleached it np, making it give a very "good sample. It has been hard in? deed for peole not to worr/ and yet it was nor impossible. Our Gr?a* Teacher has exhortad us "Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, etc... nor your body what ye shall put on, "he then reminds up of the birds, who, though they neither reap nor gather imo barns, are fed by our Heavenly Father, and says ye are of more value than many spar? rows" How utterly we are in the hands of God; to one the fact brings comfort, while to another it brings anything else. The boat was gliding down the stream approaching :he rapids. All on board were filled with anxious concern as to whether they would have a safe passage. Down near the rapids it drew to shore where sitting on a rock, bent with many years, sat an Indian chief, whom when some beheld they cried out "all is well now; the old pilot is here." Stepping on the boat the old Indian stood to the wheel and with eagle eye fixed before he guided the craft steadily, safely out into the ? .deep and placid stream." "Can we trust God?" /The pea crop is very nearly a total failure here, potatoes are said to be very inferior, and corn is much dam? aged, while any quantity of hay has been ruined. I made a crop on paper once and when I got through (it was a buster to be sure) a man remarked, "You have left God out; take care that in the harvest time your crop does not materialize," and it did not, it was a failure. Between me and you, Mr Editor, between me and you, there are some green people in this world. Yes, present company always excepted; we are fine fellows, at least that's the way we think about it when layin it on other folks. To be sure though, all of us are peculiar, but some are odd, unique in this respect. Xo two trees have grain eactly alike, so of men, but in some people it is all grain. Verily '* the good Lord saves some of us II. will have to overlook much. Shall I specify, etc? Better not, perhaps, lest some one else might be so moved. Just here I will remark, that it is a truth past de? nying that the uncharitable need more charity than the rest. There is considerable sickness of one or another kind among us but nothing particularly serious. "What is the President of the coun ty Cotton Asosciation doing these days? Let us hear from him, as uncle "'Jim J?rvey would say, red hot fom the gun." GRFJEIJEIYVILI?E NEWS. Greeleyville, October 5.-Last nf?ht there, were guns shooting around the neighborhood where your correspond? ent was and he later learned this morning that two colored men got overloaded with bounce and H. Rob inson is suffering with a slight wound from No. 8 bird shot inflicted by a double barrelled gun in the hands of M. Rollerson. Clear Robinson, a colored farmer, was painfully cut in the left hand in a difficulty with Mr. Wollie Mixon It seems as if the negro shut up two or three of Mr. Mixon's hogs that were damaging his crop heavily. Mr. R. H. Footman, one of this county's most successful farmers, is quite sick from the effects of pleurisy All of the farmers in this section seem to take their loss caused by the recent storm very well. The telephone lines are about ready for service again. Everyone seems to be very much pleased with the rural free delivery service. Master Geo. G. Tutle, is some bet? ter, after having fever for a day or two. Miss Florie G. Flagg, of Foresten, is in charge of the Mount Hope school and is much liked by all who know her. Mr. E. B. Rhodus, of Kingstree, spent last Sunday here. S. J. Tutle, of Jacksonville, Fla., is on a visit to his father, Mr. W. C. Tutle, in the Mount Hope section. Ke went to Sumter today on business. The Baptists of this community con? vene here tonight, and will hold ser? vices the remainder of the week. Quite a large crowd of young folks went to Kingstree this morning to witness Cole Brothers' shows. Mr. E. Taylor Keels who has been quite sick for the past ten days is get? ting all right again and will return to his duties in Georgetown in a few davs. STATEBURG. Stateburg, Oct. 8.-Miss Sarah Moore, who is attending school in Sumter, spent .Saturday and Sunday at home. ? Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Anderson are on a visit to Dr. and Mrs. W. W. An? derson. Miss Janette McLure, who ;s teach? ing in Sumter, spent Sunday with Mrs. D. Bull. Mr. Early Mellette spent Sunday at home. Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Dick and Mas? ter James Dick, of Sumter, spent Sun? day with Mr. Screven Moore's fam? ily. Misses H. Lee Moore and Emma Barnwell were the guests cf the Misses Holmes on Saturday and Sun? day. Rev. W. H. Barnwell visited friends at Hagood today. Miss Bessie Murray, who is teaching school at Hagood spent Saturday and Sunday at home. ETHNOLOGICAL CONGRESS. Pawnee Bill s Historic Wild West and Great Far East Snow. There is something about the Wild West that excites in the minds of all a tendency to magnify. This is probably because first impressions made by the Wild West, when seen by youthful eyes, upon plastic minds and brains not yet hardened by ex? ercise is a lasting one. Men as they grcw old, cling their icols of childish fancy as a sort of relief lu the prosaic ulitilarian things of life which work up this resistance in later years. This idea is given birth by the extraordinary announcement of the coming of the famous Pawnee Bill, America's big and only histlri cal Wild West and Great Far East, will appear in Sumter, Friday, Oct ber 19, in all its entirety. Or course there could be no stupendous show without a huge parade, and no pa? rade where it could be announced in plain, matter-of-fact, everyday speech. The atmosphere of artificiality is al? ways alluring, whether in the theatre or upon the street. If you simply announce a street parade without giving detail of the processional fea ! ture, it would be entirely inadequate. For this lesson it -may be well said, that Pawnee Bill's mighty modern holiday pageant will pass the prin? cipal streets of thu city on the fore? noon of the day during which the powerful Wild West will give its ex? hibition here. . v Everybody or nearly everybody hereabouts, have aranged to be in town as this will be the only big show coming this year. The great parade promises to surpass anything ever at? tempted with a traveling organiza? tion, and will be a superb spectacle of sunlit splendor. Bewildering and all-amazing and inspiring-embrac? ing an army of people from all na? tions, showing the shimmer of satin and the sheer of silk, the shining of bright armor scintillating like the glowing irridescence of the rays of the sun or twinkling lights of the stars on a cloudless night in June. This tremendous parade will be two combined cavalcades of Pawnee Bill's Wild West and Great Far East ex? hibition. The first section will be formed as follows with additional features added: Mounted Military Couriers. Detachment of the United States Cavalry. Major Gordon W. Lillie, (Pawnee Bill), the Monarch of the Plains. Miss May Lillie, the World's Cham? pion Equestrian. Indian Warriors, Squaws and Pa posses in their Aborginial Costumes Prof. Gregori's Royal Italian Band The Peerless Princess Wenona, the Heroine of the Plains and Champion Rifle Shot, followed by a group of western cowgirls, Mexicans, Vaqueros and South American Ganchos. BUTCHERY OF JEWS. Massacres Resumed With Accustom ed Brutality In Far Off Siberian Towns. St. Petersburg, Oct. 8.-Private dispatches received here ie1! of an other Jewish masacre. The dis? patches state that serious programs have occurred at Irkutsk and Tomsk during the past six weeks, u.-ws of which is kept from the outside world. I ] The most serious occurred at Tomsk, where Russian soldier? and Calumks made a conceited attack on the Jews, killing many. The at'aeks were accompaned by horrible bru? talities, especially against the women. Four hundred Jews, including women and children took refuga in a factory, | 1 which was set afire by thc soldiers. More than a hundred were burned alive. Since then almost daily at? tacks have teen made on thi: lews who are in a state o_ pani;. Private news dispatches have also j > reached here of a serious mutiny on September iBth at lrkntsV, whera a pitched oaUle t *ok place in the streets between mutineers and ?oyal soldiers with casualties approx" innately a hundred. The mutineers were defeated an J next day were summarily courtmartialed and or? dered executed. Forty one, including seven officer*, were si1 ot. Th3 e'ead bodies wer 3 then c?ed i: the w oui tied and thrown 'mc A uer:? ra River. Comptroller General Jones will re? new his fight in the coming legisla? ture for a llexible tax levy, and along with this he will repeat his recom? mendation that the presen system of assessing property by county and township boards of four or five mem bers, who will be paid a salary to so over the state and get the property