Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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ONE NEGRO SAVED. TROOPS ESCORT ALKXAXDKR TO PLACE OF SAFETY. Pler?ful DU*piny of Fort?? Overawe* Rioter* of Illinois Town?Mayor Slept Through Lynching. Cairo. .111.. Nov. 12.?With Arthur Alexander, the last of the persona ar? rested In connection with the murder of Miss Annie Pelley. safely out of town and the Fourth regiment of the Illinois National Ouard In the street* and about the Jail tonight, the riot that kept Cairo abl?se with excite? ment for four days was quelled. No crowds were allowed to gather at any place tonight and every known danger point was occupied by troops Bayonets held sway where 24 hours before the rope, the torch and the pistol had been in evidence. Alexander. Implicated In the mur? der of Miss Pelley by the dying state? ment of "Froggy" James, one of the victime of last night's mob, was sent to an unannounced point north of Cairo late today. He was escorted from the jal] to a special on the Il? linois Central railway by seven com? panies of militia, two of which guard? ed the negro on the train during the trip. There were Jeers for the m^l tla from the small crowd that watch? ed the departure. Two sets of fours were In advance of the prisoner, who was handcuffed and flanked by deputy sheriffs, and two sets of fours followed. Three companies of bayonets cleared the street in ad vane* of the escort and a like number followed In the rear, keeping back the crowds that were augmented at every cross street of the half-mile march to the train. The display of force was greater than the Calroltes had anticipated, and while there '*ere murmurs all along the line of march there was no effort to break the line. Sheriff Davis, w!io made strenuous and repeated efforts for two days to save J*mes from lynchlna, tonight said that the disposition of Alexan? der had been left to State officers. He began Investigating the riots of last night. Tha coroner's verdicts today where renderd on the two men lynched last ni ght and in each case the Jury found that "he came to his death by in? juries at the hands of persons un? known to us." ? Sheriff Davis. In an extended inter? view today, told of recognizing sev? eral members of the mob which took James from his care last night. No steps to bring those implicated in the uprising to trial have been made yet. Mayor George Parsons today said he was asleep last night and heard no shot or other sound to indicate that the city of which he Is chief executive was In the grasp of the lawless horde. Whll the county authorities pre? viously declared that the evidence against "Froggy' James was purely circumstantial, they were Inclined to? day to lay stress on the evidences of his guilt The only ground for holding Alex? ander was declared to be the dying confession of James. In an effort to clear up the murder of Mise Felley. the police today searched the houses freqa? nted l?j Jain')* and Alexander for t|? mlss'n.r money, handbag and bracelet of the murdered girl. They found nothing. Blame for the riot is generally as? cribed to an Inadequate police force and the fact that many men accused of felonies have been acquitted de? spite seemingly strong evidence against them. HFAITIFVI, WOMEN. Bad Stomach Causes Vnslghtly Com pfexlon*-?1)< I/oruu s Pharmacy Has a Remedy. Bad stomachs mean had blood; bad blood means sallow, unattractive skin. Why? The stomach in a healthy condition separates the nutritious matter from the food and gives It to the blood to supply tlie entire body with nourishment. If the stomach Is not In a healthy condition It does not separate from the food the nutritious matter and It passes ?>ft with the waste. Thus the blood Is impoverished and has not sufficient nourishment to supply tlM i.i'iscles, skin and body generally. If peg have balchhH of gas. dis? tress after eating, nausea, biliousness, nervousness or tool breath, th' n your stomach Is wrong and you want tho best prescription for stomach troubles the world has ever known. You want Ml-o-na tablets, the great stomach remedy which DeLorsae'l Pharmacy's guarantees to cure Indi? gestion, no matter of how longstand? ing, or money bac k. Relieves stomach distress at once. Ml-o-na IS sold by leading drug? gists everywhere and In Sumter by I>el>?rme's Pharmacy for 50 cents a lurg.? ?><?t. Test samples free from Booth's Ml-o-na. Buffalo, N. Y. 10-19-28?11-??W. 11-17. TRAPPING A GORILLA Story of a Vicious Struggle In the African Jungle. A NET THAT FAILED TO HOLD. Th? Snared Monster Broke Through lie Meehee and Was the Cause ef One Death Bsfore He Was Himself Killed by the Attacking Party. Captain Frits Duquesne. the Boer ivory hooter, was com missioned by a German natura list society to capture ooe of each species of African quadru mana. Ha was entirely suocaaatol In the work, except that he could obtain 00 gorilla. Finally a pygmy pom ted out a portion of the dank >mgte to which a gorilla had been seen. The captain Immediately arranged his camp and laid his plana and made preparations to trap the monster and get him ullve if possible, though he folly realised the danger of the under? taking. "For four days," said the captain, -we camped to this hotbed of disease. Beaters want out in aH directions searching for the gorilla. At teat some daap. wide scratches were found oo ? cluster of Tinea, Oo close examination the unmistakable hair of the gorilla waa found oo a broken twig. "After *ome hours wa found the tree where too gorilla lived. Wa could tail It by ton greasy appearance of the bark, made so by the repeated rubbing ef the gorilla's body. Wo couid to* by the fresh marks, with sap still wet, that the animal hud recently ascended the tree. The scratches were short and deep, showing that It had lifted Itself op and had not slid doom, which would bare made a long, shallow scratch. "Wa spread a strong net around the true In a circle sloping upward oo the outer aide. Around the top of the net there ware drawn ropes from four di 1 actions, bald by half a dosen nattres hidden to the bush. These were to bring too top of the net together and thus bag our game, "After waiting Home boors the leaves above rustled and theo opened as a six foot mole gorilla descended un suspectiiigly and entered the trap, 1 signaled, the focr ropes were polled at once, and we had our animal?for a moment Be ioared In fury, twist lng. jumping and biting the rope into pieces. The natives were polled about like dolls as ha tiled to reach first one and than another. The professor Jump? ed about in excitement, trying to fo? cus a camera on the Infuriated animal. "At last the mighty arms of the go? rilla broke a holo through the not and he tore the rest from him as though It were a rotten rag. Most of the na? tives fUd in diiunay. The professor dropped his camera and tried to es? cape. Id a moment the gorilla grasp ad him in Its terrible hands. "1 seised my rifle and fired In the air to frighten the animal. In my po? sition I could not shoot at him with? out hitting my liiend. For a moment the gorilla stood still, holding the now unconscious man as though be were a baby, the brate's Hps drawn bock from his glistening teeth. "1 thrust another cartridge In my rifle. As I did so there was a buzz in the air, and an arrow, shot by a na? tive, pierced th<> gorilla's side. A roar burst from his ted throat, and he drop? ped his victim. Like a flash, before 1 could shoot, a native sprang from the leaves and, half throwing, half thrusting, drove an assagai Into the gorilla's heart With a groan the brute fell dead. "Examining the professor, I found that his right arm was broken and that some of his ribs were crushed into his lungs. We gave up the effort to get a live gorilla and, placing the in? jured man In a hammock, carried him back toward the east coast "He died on the road. Out on the veldt beside a native village a lonely little slab marked 'Carl Bloch* sticks up above the grass. It Is the profess? or's grave. Hunting is not all excit? ing adventure and laughing victory. It has Its tears, like other things,"? Hampton's Magazine. Chances In Gambling. Henri Polncare, the leading mathe? matician of France, declares that there Is no infallible martingale or method of doubling one's stakes after every loss. "All one can do," says M. Polncare, 'is to combine one's play no as to have a great chance of win? ning a little and a little chance of los? ing much or a few chances of gaining much and many chances of losing lit ti One can arrange his play so as to have one chance of winning a million francs and a million chances of losing a franc or a million chances of win? cing a franc and one chance of losing a million francs?and that's all." A 8uit of Ratekln. A thrifty Wulshraan at one time ex? hibited himself publicly In England at tired In a costume composed from top to bottom of rat ski ns, which he had spent throe years and a half In collect? ing. The dress was made entirely by himself. It consisted of hat, necker? chief, coat, waistcoat, trousers, tippet gaiters and shoes. The number of rats required to completo the suit was 570. Most curious of tho garments was the tippet composed entirely of rats' tails. At Close Rang*. "Who Is that neglected looking little boy with dirt over his face?" "lie Is the child of tho noted astron? omer who lives over tho way." "Oh, Is he? Oomo here, sonny. Run homo and tell your father he doesn't need his telescope If he wants to see spots on tho son."?Baltimore Ameri? can. THE CANNON BURST. Tragedy In a Celebration to Honer President Tyler. Id 1S44 an accident took placa in the American nary?the explosion of a big gun. the Peacemaker, on board tbe frig ate Princeton, off Broad bay. In tbe Potomac rlrer, eight miles below Washington. Those killed were Abel Upsbur of Virginia, secretary of state; Thomas W. GUmer. governor of Virginia: Commodore Kewiou of the navy, Rep? resentative Sykes of New Jersey, Rep? resentative Maxey of Maryland and Mr. Gardiner, an ex-member of con? gress from New York. The severely wounded were William Wllklns of Pennsylvania, secretary of war; Miss Wlckliffe, daughter of the postmaster general; Colonel Dade, Colonel Benton. Judge Phelps of Ver? mont, Commodore Stockton, command? er of tbe Princeton, and nine seamen. On Feb. 28, 1844, President Tyler, tbe members of bis cabinet and their families and many other prominent persona, said to number over 400. were Invited by Commodore Stockton to spend the day on tbe frigate Prince? ton, which waa lying at anchor off Alexandria. After tbe guests were on board anchor was weighed for a short ?all on tbe Potomac, and tbe ship pro? ceeded down the river to a point be? low Fort Washington. On tbe trip down tbe heaviest place of ordnance on tbe frigate waa fired several times, presumably aa a matter of entertain? ment for the company. Tbe gun bad been constructed from a model made by Commodore Stockton, and Presi? dent Tyler expressed a decided inter eat In tbe weapon, A4 2 o'clock In the afternoon en the return trip tbe Princeton anchored off Broad bay, and the company waa Invited to luncheon In the cabins below the gun deck. After luncheon Commodore Stockton proposed that the gun be fired once more aa a eaJute* be said, to tbe mem? ory of the great peacemaker, George Washington. President Tyler, hie cab? inet and a number of gentlemen re I paired to the gun deck. Aa tbe gun waa fired the breech end from the trunnion's back waa blown off, and this section waa split in twain. One-balf of it fell on Secretary. Up? sbur. Two sailors removed It, but tbe secretary expired to a few moments. Governor Qllmer had been struck and killed by this section of the gun be? fore it felled Mr. Upsbur. The party on the gun deck waa scattered, and tbe whole ehip shook under the force of tbe explosion. Tbe excitement was great. Tbe bod lea were removed from the Princeton, taken to Washington, placed in hearses at tbe wharf and carried to tbe White House, where they lay in the east room till the day of tbe funeral?a day of general public mourning.?Exchange. Just Before the Spanking. "Pop, does a chicken come from an eggr "Tea, my son.** "And does an egg come from a chicken 7" **Yes," -Well, if a chicken comes from an egg, and an egg cornea from a chicken, which"? "Now, see here, if you are going to prolong this line of thought you can go right to bed." "But, popp "Well, whatr MHow does a chicken come from an egg?" "Oh, any ben can sit on an egg and batch it" "Gee! I*m glad I ain't a ben. It must hurt to sit on a hatchet!" (Hasty exit.)?New York Times. The Oid Ones. "We'll have to give up the idea of put tin' pictures In the parlor, Jane," remarked old John Turnlpseed as he threw tbe bridle under the table. "Why?" asked his wife. "Too dear I Why, I priced one in town today, and the dealer sec, see he. That's an old master; it's price is ?500.' " 'Why,' sea 1, it looks like a second? hand picturV " Tes, it is,' sea be, "Then, thinks I, If a secondhand pictur* costs that much ifs no use to price a new un. So, Jane, I reckon well have to haDg up a few mottoes, *God Bless Our Home' and the like, and let tbe plctur's go."?Pearson's Weekly. An Anticlimax. "I Just dropped in to thank you for that medicine you sent borne by my wife last night," said the grateful pa? tient, grasping the doctor warmly by the hand. "I've been laid up off and on for years, have trietf all the patent medicines on the market and been treated by every doctor in the neigh? borhood, but your medicine was the only thing that ever did me any good." "It's a pleasure to have you come here to tell me this," replied the doc? tor, highly elated. "Most of my pa? tients are not so thoughtful. But that prescription is my pet favorite, and I never yet knew it to fall to cure a cough if taken in time.** "Cough?" echoed the patient. "Why, I didn't take it for my cold. I used it as a liniment for my rheumatism." A Thrifty Hungarian. A certain Hungarian peasant named Jan Hirsch made a business trip to Budapest, and while there he had the idea of ordering a hundred visiting cards. When he returned homo he found, to his dismay, that the cards bore the naino of Mavlsch instead of Hirsch. It was only a printer's error, but to Jan II Irsch it meant n loss of a shilling and sixpence unless he could make use of the cards. He according? ly purchased for the sum of a shilling an olllcial form of petition and tilled it with a request to he allowed to niter his name to Mavlsch. Ills prayer was granted. lie is now Jan Mavlsch.? London News. Queer Life In Johannesburg. Here is an amusing description of queer life in a Johannesburg residen? tial block: "Nearly every one has one room, and into this you cram nearly all your worldly possessions and learn all kinds of vanishing tricks and jug? gling feats, such as having a combina? tion bed and piano, using your wash? ing stand for your writing table and converting your hip bath by day with rugs and cushions into an armchair. In this abode of bliss you receive your friends, male and female, and, if the gentleman, sitting himself rashly on the bed-sofa, vanishes into the piano er the lady throws herself wearily Into the hip bath armchair and it falls off the packing ?case with her inside it no one will turn a hair. You will in? vite them to lunch or tea or dinner, which ever is approaching, and the gentleman will offer to go and buy chops or kippers and fetch the milk and when he returns will help you cook, and you'll sit together and eac it on the washing stand, which also does duty as a dinner table on such occasions."?London Standard. The Chief Justice. ?There are very few people who know the proper designation of the man who presides over the supreme court," said the secretary of the senate. "Generally he Is referred to as tht chief justice of the United States su? preme court In fact he Is the chief justice. That's his official title. Most of our presidents In nominating men for this office have fallen into the error of giving him the long title. When George Washington nominated Oliver Ellsworth of Connecticut for this post he described It ss chief Justice of the supreme court of the United States. Andrew Jackson made the same error in nominating Richard B. Taney. So did Abraham Lincoln when he appoint? ed Salmon P. Chase. Grover Cleve? land was the first president to give the correct designation. When he appoint? ed Melville W. Fuller ha nominated him to be chief Justice and nothing else. Future nominations will be framed In this fashion."?Washington Star. Fifty Dollar Dinners. "Dinners at $50 a plate are as com? mon in New York as five dollar ners are in London and Paris," sa ^ a chef. "Our extravagant dinners are no better than the cheaper foreign ones. Their cost Is caused not by the exquisite cooking of exquisite materi? als, but by the use of exotic foods whose expense is their chief recom? mendation. What do I mean by ex? otic foods? Well, I mean cane sugar instead of the ordinary beet root kind for the compote; I mean wild rice in? stead of the cultivated for the canvas back; I mean sole brought alive from England and Bterlet from Russia, when our own native fish Is better condi? tioned; I mean hothouse strawber? ries as big as apples, pears as big as cocoanuts and grapes as big as peaches, all tasting rather like raw pumpkin, but looking very fine in blizzard weather. Foolish foods; but then, it's only foolish people who eat fifty dollar dinners."?Cincinnati Enquirer. The Auctioneer's Hourglass. An auctioneer of Philadelphia col? lects all sorts of objects pertaining to his ancient calling. He has, among other things, an interesting set of auc? tioneers' hourglasses. The auctioneer a century or so ago concluded a sale not by saying "Going, going, gone!" and rapping the counter with his ham? mer, but It was his better method to turn up a free running glass toward the end of the bidding and to end the sale Irrevocably when the sand ran out This saved confusion and dis? pute. The auctioneers' glasses In the Philadelphia collection are picturesque One is of tortoise shell and mother-of pearl. Another is of amber and gold. A third is of teak and ivory. Appropriate. A clergyman went to have his teeth fixed by -a dentist When the work was done the dentist declined to ac? cept more than a nominal fee. The parson. In return for this favor, insist? ed later on the dentist accepting a vol? ume o* the reverend gentleman's own writing. It was a disquisition on the Psalms, and on the fly leaf he had in? scribed this appropriate quotation: "And my mouth shall show forth thy praise."?Harper's Weekly. Gave Him a Pointer. George Ado was once stranded in a small town. He went into the bar? ber's shop to get shaved and endured even unto tho end. When the barber had completed his operation the hu? morist arose and, putting a handker? chief to his face, said gravely: "Sir, you have missed your vocation. Vou ought to be an oyster opener." Why the Menu Was Changed. The culinary department of an East Indian household, if the story of an American traveler who has recently re? turned from Calcutta is to be believed, Is managed far differently from an American kitchen. "Here we employ an Ethiopian expert at so much a week," says the Philadelphia Record "There a cook would disdain to [dace a weekly valuation on his services. Illr, conditions involve a Mat rate of so many shillings weekly for the furnish? ing and preparation of provisions. This system of putting the culinary depart? ment out to contract causes a penurl ousness on the part of the chef which frequently is not for the best health and welfare of the household. Short? ly before last Christmas the above named American tourist had ordered his cook to have steak for dinner. Broiled chicken was served Instead. Pressed for his reasons for disregard? ing the command of the head of the household, tho cook explained that tho chicken had taken sick and if it had not been killed and served that day ho was afraid he would have lost It." SENATOR ATjDRICH. He Believes in the Divine Right of the Dollar to Rule. The divine right of the dollar to rule is the political creed of Senator Nelson Wilmarth Aldrich of Rhode Island, dictator of the United States Senate. Senator Aldrich Is a tory, but no fool. He is no messeinger boy for Wall Street spirit. He Is Just as sin? cere about the divine right of the dol? lar to rule as was Louis XIV over ab? solutism. The French King made a prosperity issue of the divine right of kings. Touch the dollar, such is the Aldrich attitude, and you have a Roosevelt panic. The man, at sixty-eight shows a strong face, ruddy with health, above a big frame, well padded with muscle, active middle age. Working over the tariff in the stoke-hole heat of a Washington summer, Aldrich wore out his colleagues, from the young? est Republican insurgent to the re? cord holding long distance orator on the Democratic side. When his lim? ousine stalled in the mud of a coun? try road last spring, the Senator swung a shovel like a boy and laugh? ed like a boy. The senate boss will bully a fellow senator, a cabinet officer, or even a president, but he is always courteous to a senate page. One of his col? leagues may hesitate to question him, but the youngest reporter never does. He talks at all times with amazing frankness. Stormy and domineering on the floor, reading Republican in? surgents out of the party with every appearance of Intense anger. Aldrich does not make public business a per? sonal matter, as does Speaker Can? non. Off his feet he is ready to Joke or gossip with the rebels. Declining j all formal functions, Aldrich keenly enjoys the society of his friends. He is an entertaining talker, and he has the advantage of every ruler who un? bends, that his unbending In this wise cannot but flatter the most sophlstl j cated. The personality of Aldrich is another of his assets. I The operation of the Darwinian I law made him senate dictator. He came to the senate twenty-eight years ago, grounded In the game through experience in a city council, a State legislature, and the house of repre? sentatives. Were he merely mediocre, the senate system and Its traditions of seniority would make him an in fiuenclal figure now. The system is log rolling buttressed by party regu? larity. The veteran senators, who are mostly New England senators, control the committ e assignments. When It comes to legislaticn, a tariff bill for instance, the control gives them the initiative and direction of it. They de? cide on what New England must have and they count the number of votes they need, added to their own, to form a majority. Those votes are se? cured by giving enough senators what they want out of i:he bill. Republican senators left out in the cold must go along or be guilty of party disloyaltj Aldrich is the greateest expert at this system that congress has seen. His present danger, and the sys? tem's danger, lies in the example of rebellion set last spring by Beverldge, of Indiana, and the Mississippi Valley senators. They bolted the Aldrich tariff. If such rebellion Is not only to go unpunished but even to pros? per, the Aldrich control and the old senate system will totter. Last spring the absence of effective Democratic opposition offset, to a large degree, the Republican defection. Aldrich himself has never furnished a more interesting study than now, when at thvi height of his power is so seriously threatened. Stand or fall, he will not compromise. He was never so arbi? trary as last spring.?American Mag? azin The Children's Right to Knowledge. The great Southern patriot, John C. Calhoun, once said: "I pity the man who is too poor or too mean to< buy books for his children. He might as well refuse them bread and meat." How any one'can have less ambi? tion than a desire to know as much and as well as any one else, is in? deed strange, and yet how many farm boys am! girls fall to receive any en? couragement to read and study and barn all about the things they are re? quired to do. No girl Is expected to teach music or attempt stenography Without a thorough study of these things. No boy attempts to practice medicine or law without a long course of study and preparation. The things wo know most of and can do best an those in which we are most Inter' St ed. An early knowledege of the facts and principles underlying household and farm practices and operations will du more to develop intelligence, industry, and a worthy ambition in our farm boys and girls than all other things combined. How Is this desire for useful knowledge to b<> inspired and the reading habit formed? They will rarely be accomplished unleesone or both parents possess them and then only generally when a Complete spirit of interest, sympathy and com? radeship Is maintained between the boys and girls and their parents or teachers. Just as we believe the mother wields the greatest influence over the character or the boy or girl, so we believe that the mothers of the South are most largely responsible for the lack of knowledge and inter? est in household economics among our girls and for the lack of desire for farm life among our boys and girls we fear the fathers and mothers will have to be regenerated or Inspired with a desire for knowledge for the power it gives to do life's work. DISPENSARY IS OVERSTOCKED. Liquor on Hand in Orangeburg to be Sold at Bargain. Orangeburg, Nov. 12.?The dispen? sary board of this county finding it? self overstocked v. ith liquors will have regular bargain sales of the stuff during the two remaining days of the life of the great institution, and will make the best disposition possible of what may be left over. Some extremists think it hardly the thing for those counties going out of the liquor business because the use of it is seriously harmful, to ask others to buy the stuff for the purpose of sell? ing it again. If harmful to our con? stitutions why not harmful to other people? This is logic that cnnaot easily be downed. Dump It In the gutter, they say. Just how the financial end of the dispensary will pan out cannot now be told. It owes a lot of noney. but has a lot of goods on hand. Everything depends on the prices received for the stock on hand. Some of It will no do jbt be sacrificed un ler the provi? sions of the law. W, J. ARANT DRINKS POISON. Former Charleston Ma i Commits Sui? cide at Columbia. Columbia, Nov. 12.?"Bury me in these," was the brief note pinned to the Confederate uniform of W. J. Arant, the story of whose death is told in the emptied bottle of lauda? num that was found it his side this morning. Mr. Arant was 65 years of age, and before coming to Columbia lived In Charleston, where he was employed ir. dry goods stores. He was with Tapp's here. Dirctior.s were left by the suicide to notify his son, Frank H. Arant, of Camden, who left for Co? lumbia by automobile and A. B. Dol ger and C. S. Hebrich of Charleston. A College Education Possible. Every boy and girl will not and could not get a college education, and it may be asked why a college educa? tion is necessary when knowledge has and may be obtained through read? ing, studying and observation, with? out the aid of the college. As the first thousand dollars is the hardest to make and save, so the first and fun? damental knowledge is most difficult to get. In fact, without help it will generally never be obtained. The col? lege is there best, surest and quickest means 0f getting a start in education and in most instances gives that of value which is not obtained else? where. If we are to do justice to our boys and girls we must do everything possible to inspire a desire to acquire a college education. We do not even need to furnish them money to obtain this college education if we can in spiie sufficient desire for it. To do this we must ourselves appreciate and respect such education. Any boy or girl with a sound body and mind who desires it sufficiently can without fin? ancial help acquire a college educa? tion. Our duty, then, is by example and precept to inspire our boya and girls with such a desire, and we may do this with complete confidence that it will pay. It may not supply the boy or girl with "common" sense but it will enable a better use of that al? ready possessed and tend to a broad? er, fuller and better life. Knowledge is power?the greatest power.?Pro? gressive Farmer. Pellagra ESxperiaeeata 0" Monkeys. New Orleans, La., Nov. 12.?In an effort to discover the cause and rem? edy for pellagra, a series of experi? ments on monkeys is being conducted at the local Pasteur Institute. Innoc ulated two weeks ago with the blood from a victim of pellagra, the sim? ians are being earefuly watched for a possible development of the symp? toms of the disease. Today it was said, however, that thus far they had tailed to respond to the infection. We congratolate Booster on having the negro fair in the tUtOSa. That or? ganization is doing a great work for the negTO race, and any aid that can be given to Uev. Richard Carroll In bis great undertaking is aid given for the improvement of the conditions which surround 08, and through Which we live. It v ill be a great af? fair for Sumter, h< r people will b* able to make it greater even than the good people of Bateaburg could Jo, so that the fair will be benefitted. We congratulate Sumter on securing that institution.?Florence Times.