The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, January 10, 1914, Image 2
INTIMATE SKETCH OF THK LATE
OQt* !> I>. <. A II.LA lil>.
IV-pmred by Mr*. Ksthcrinc CtalUnrd,
W ulow oi 11i? ,,llon? of Cnlebra," at
the R*m|U?*m of 4 ol. August Kuhn.
News und Courier.
Rldgeway. 8. C. December 19. 1913.
My Dnr Mr. Kuhn: My brother. Jau
Q I* vis. asked me If I could tend to
you any notes on the personal side of
my hus \nd*s life. particularly his
early life, when he was In the MfcftJOl
and later "in the store" ut IfJongl
He simplv did his duty so simply, so
qulstly and o efficiently that al?
though he was always ths Idol of his
family and friend* there Is little to
tell not too personal to he Interesting.
He was? always a wit of the first or
der. and "Dave Oalllard's" sayings
were always rspeated.
I never knsw htm until later, and 1
his wit and originality and charm |
were always recognised. In Wash?
ington I used to laugh and say we
would die of Indigestion, we were of?
ten Invited to dinner. He could
malts any dinner "go." Could en?
tertain any kind of an audience?old
ladles adored him, and children came
to him as companion of thslr own
age. His comrades in arms and his
subordinates always loved him. I
have seen hundreds of letters this
summer from people whom we had
net end whom I had forgotten, from
voung men saying what an insplra
'Ion he was to them, from the old sol?
diers of hie regiment besides all of our
personal frlenda. Of course there is,
here a great deal more than you will
want, hut I sedd it Just aa 1 have
written it; you may use what you
wish and then will you kindly re:urn
It to me. for I wish to write later
some reminiscences.
Since we were msrried I have rone
everywhere with him, the desert, the
tropica, have lived In tents and In
palaces (Cuba) with him. so I know
all of his life. Everyone recognised
his wonderful versatility, and once In
Waehington, Just before the Panama
detail. I was complaining of our
many moves and short stations. "Nev?
er mind.'' said this officer. Col. Wlll
cox, "Some time when they Want
some one of wide experience to do
something great they will pick Da
vie." am. fa lees thai a week he was
put on the Isthmian Canal commis?
sion and given chaige of Culebra
Cut.
Thanking yoy for wishing to write
something of my huiband, I am, with
kindest regarda, most sincerely yours,
Katharine Oalllard.
Mrs. David D. daillard, Ridge way.
S. C.
Col. (.alllarri'i Boyhood.
David DuBose (iaillurd. son of Sam?
uel Isaac and Susan Richardson Du
Me Oalllard. sjsjsj torn at Fulu u. P.
4?. Mumter tgejBfi the summer hOBH
of his parents, September 4, 18&9. j
Until 1S73 ha. with his parents and
elutera, lived with his grandfather.1
David St, Pierre Du Pose, at his hi nv
In Clarendon The tine character anil
lofty Ideals of hla gWkndf.ither was an
inspiration to him. also he ever held ,
hla memory dear, naming his only son
David St. Pierre. In hla honor.
The school there being very poor, in
1172 ha left Clarendon and went to
Wlnnsboro. Falrfield county, where he
lived with his grsndmother. Mrs. Da?
vid Oalllard. and attended Mount
Zlon Institute for three years. But
hla family, aa with many others, had
lost their all for their loyalty to the
Lost Cause, so In that pitiful strug?
gle with poverty which tnoae early
years of '7 0 saw It became necessary
for him to do something for himself.
Hie high sense of duty already de?
veloped. Impelled him to accew what?
ever he could get. which ?ai a posi?
tion aa clerk In the general store of
Fleming McMaeter.
There early and late ha worked
swept out the store, waited on cus?
tomers whatever there was to Ik*
done but alwaya with tho asme ac?
curacy, seal, light-henrtedness and
efficiency which he has ahown in his
later achievements.
Hut he alwaya hoped for better
thlnga and when In 1871 H M-?unj
Pavi*. who was alwaya Interested 1?
him, told Mm of a competitive exam?
ination offered for a vacancy at Weat
Point from the congressional district
of the Hon. J. 8. Richardson (Sum
ter) he gladly took out those neglc-ct
ed but not forgotten sehool book*.
His mind was nrlUtor.l. taking In
knowledge "in the whole" and seem?
ingly already aealmllated, #o when
the examination was held, under Prof
Leland. a Weat Pointer and one tim**
professor at the Citadel, he eaally
won.
Soon a rloud appeared on the horl*
son of hla hopes, for some one had
raised the question of hie eligibility
for ?ppolntment from Sumter, when
he li\ed in Falrfield
This question wa* taken up by the
law nrm of H A tlalllard and It
M?ane Davis. They wrote to Col.
Itirhardaon, "ho had cancelled th'
appointment, but he was not com Int?
el Then R Means Davl* wrote t"
Hobt Lb eoln S#er?tury of W.ir a:
Immediately eggea the reply that the
M..OOI aoii lakes the reeld' n'e of tit*
father. Convinced, Col. Richardson I
again appointed him. He left the store
and went seriously to work on his
Studies, Ills oid-tlme friend, Prof, R.
Mt I Pmvifl, now principal of Mount
MOB, sitlstTfl bin in every way. e\?m
letting him teach some of the classes,
laughingly saying there was no hotter
way of studying geography and his
wry than by teaching thorn. One of
his classes was "D" third, made up
of all the incorrigible and ineliglbles
si A" third.
Later be left Wlnnsboro and with
n ion vy saved from his slender salary
as ? c'a rk he entered a preparatory
school near West Point, at Highland*
Falls. There his Instructor was Lieut
Charles Breden, who has only recent?
ly written Mr. H. A. Oalllard that Col.
Halliard was In the first class he
taught
Lieut. Breden was of the 7th cav?
alry, having been stationed In Cuba la
18 76. A few months after leaving
he. In the Rosebud Cueter-maasacre
campaign against the nioux Indians,
waa almost literally idiot to pieces, and
was carried for hundreds of miles on
a pony trailer before his wounds
could be properly dressed. He was
retired and began teaching.
Enters Went Point
Oalllard, successfully passing the
entrance examination at West Point, I
ontered as u cadet In September, 1880,;
He was much handicapped by lack of
preparation and usoc often to say howl
easy it seemed for those of his class-'
mates, college graduates or carefully i
prepared In high schools. But in spite |
of all of this, he graduated No. 6 In
a olass of 31, conceded by every one to
hate been the most brilliant class ov- ?
er graduated from the Point. Ho was
cadet quartermaster, waa known by
all aa "David" for being tall and I
slender and rooming with W. L. Slbert'
of Alabama, who waa a giant and ap?
propriately called Goliath. No better \
nick-name than what happened to be
his own, could be found.
"David and Oollath" later met at
Panama on the nontmlaelon,
After graduation, Oalllard was as* i
signed to the corps of engineers, th.
training corps of the army, und was
sent to WlUetts Point, L. I., to at?
tend the Engineer School or Applica?
tion. TlilS school waa under Gen. I
Hurry L. Abbott, WnO has sine bees
catied tne "Father of the 1 tame
Canal " He was a member of tne
"New Company" (French) and of the
First American commission. has
written a classic, yearly revised by
htm, though ?t years old. on the
'Problems of the Panama Canal." He
always spsal.s affectionately of "his
boys" as he terms the engineers in
charge there. Ooethals, Hodges, Qall
laiV and Stbert. After two yean at
w (Jetts Point Oalllard was assigned
to duty us assistant to Capt W. M
Blsck, In charge of rivers and bar
? ? ft of 1 "lorida.
'n Oetober or that year (Oct. 6) hi I
married Katherine Boss Davis, sister
of H. Means Davis, who had been sc
instrumental In starting him on hlrf
army career.
While In Florida, stationed at ft.;
A Jgustine. he repared old Fort Ma-'
rlon, had charge of the survey of St.'
AtfgjUStlne hurbor. where be began hil
interesting series of experiments With]
eta waves, completing them 15 years t
lster, but at the first opportunity for
again observing them. These experi?
ments are embodied in a book called
"Wave Action and lta Relation to en?
gineering Structures," which Is the
authority on the subject and receiv?
ed recognition from engineers all ever
the world.
tu November, 1890. he only a first
lieutenant, waa appointed a member
of the International boundary com?
mission to re-run the line between the
Unltsd States and Mexico.
In the burning heat of Death Valley
and over desert sands, still showing
traces of Emory's survey in 1864, so
rainless is the country, he worked I
early and late, enduring hardships
anil trials with cheerfulness; he al
WSJfS ma le the best of everything,
could always se? thut bit of human In ,
.all things, that bit which if seen U
like the Celtic salt and will save any
situation.
Hotel Clerk SueplohutM.
Once he and Lieu*.. W. P, Jackson
rode across the desert to San Diego1
from Nogales, Arizona. This was a
I reconnolssanee scout for the surveying
> parties which were all under him
. They arrived In Ssn Diego in tnch
! condition from the alkali dust and
?cactus thorns that the elefkf a! tit
hotel did not wish to rssfistei thei
until they showed their money i ir
posely not telling him horn the:
were. And later wtl ( m
down clean and sbavi d ked fo
mall for Lleuts. Qall
I son, the now smllir . . i ? .
ilng them, turned the register to them
1 to sign- His recreation there was
hunting, and many delightful stories
1 ha had to tell of his experiences
! with Dr. Edgar A. Means, medical of?
ficer and nat uralist of the expedltl Ml,
and who later went with Boosevelt
to Africa.
Dr Mesns waa one of the pell
I ' carers In Washington on Dscomber
I,
t 'ol. Oalllard's beer sense of humoi
end wonderful ability as a raconteur
t
would keep a room full of people!
atniiw'd, but with the telling he put j
mo much of his own personality that
it is almost impossible to retell hie!
stories.
An experienc e on this reconnoissance
trip across the desert particularly de- (
lighted him. Hot, tired, thirsty and'
dusty they were Hearing the ranch of
Honor-, noted for his hospitality, j
Hero they hoped for everything. But,
when they arrived the Senor was ab- (
sent; but the Senora would set- them.1
She appeared and they asked politely
and In their best Spanish whore they
could net a drink of water and u
bath. The Senora pointed to the .
horsetrough, and when asked where
they might sleep, she waved her hand
over towards the corral and said,
"Out there."
They looked to see if they had
grown hoofs, but there was nothing
else to do but comply with her gen?
erous (?) permission.
80 undreeslng and selecting a soft
spot on the corral ground, they rolled
themselves In their blankets and
went to sleep.
Over-sleeping the next morning
they found that though the Mexicans
were not hlspltable, they were curious,!
and a large crowd had gathered to see j
the Americanos dress. It was only
after urgent appeals to the Senora
that they had the crowd "called off."
Not being ancient kings of Frunee.
they declined the honor of dressing to
an audience.
Work at Fort Monroe.
The survey ended, Lieut. Oalllard in
February, 189Q, was ordered to Fort
.Monroe, Va., where be erected some
important batteries. In October,
HIS, ho was ordered to Washington |
as assistant to Col. Charles E. L. B. i
Davis. Later, though only a first
lieutenant, be was put In charge of
the aqueduct and water supply of.
Washington; was also on the board lor
consideration of Increase of watei j
supply.
The abondoned Lydecknr Tunnel,
abe OfhU h had been such a scandal,!
v.iug to be reopened and this bazar-'
dous ta.sk, for there was much faulty
masonry, v?as given to Capt. Gaillard.)
Ho also cleaned out the aqueduct, itsj
first cleaning for thirty years. While
in Washington, ths settlement of the
Alaska boundary hanging over the
diplomatic okies, Secretary Laraont or?
dered Capt. Gaillard to Alaska on a
secret mission. He started at a day's
notice and finished in three months
what was considered eight or nine
months' work.
Secretary Lam on t waa so gratified
that he recommended Capt. Gaillard
for the place of engineer commission?
er of the District of Columbia and was
qulto Indignant when told that it was
Impossible, for the engineer commls
lojaer must, by law, have served morej
years in the army than Capt. Oail
land could muster. "Put him In any?
how," said Secretary Lamont, but bi?
ter, seeing It would create a danger?
ous precedent, he gave it up. Both
-.ecretary Lamont and Secretary Onley
complimented him officially on the
?. ork. Lamont becoming a great per- (
sonal friend.
in the excitement of the blowing up
of the Maine in February, *98, and In]
the mad rush of every one to get off,
he was the first officer to leave. Gen.
Wade having telegraphed the chief of
engineers asking that Capt. Gaillard
be assigned as engineer officer on his
staff, as he was slated to go at once to
Cuba. Secretary Alger, wishing to
send Shaffer, his personal friend, In
command of the Cuban army. Gen.
Wade got no further than Tampa. In
the many vacillations and changes
there Capt Gaillard used laughingly
to say that on Mondays, Wednesdays
j and Fridays he loaded himself and
horse on the transports, and on Tues?
days, Thursdays and Saturdays un?
loaded them. e
When Oen. Wade went to Chicka
mauga, Instead of Cuba, Capt. Gail-1
lard went with him. When the order
' was given for the raising of three
volunteer regiments Of engineers Capt.
; Gaillard on Juno 7, 1893, was ap?
pointed colonel of the 3d, recruited inj
the South and Southwest.
? The Very Best It. -Iment."
fteaatoi TUlman recommended him
\nd his own brilliant record seconded
' it, and the :*d engineers, mustered in
in St. Louis, became, under his com?
I mand "the very bent regiment, vol?
unteer or regular, r have ever seen.'
1 (Jen. John C. i} i?as.> There wa
' much t ilk of Incorporating it in iti en
I tlrety In the regular army. On i>'?t
talion of this regiment, under Major
R Ignr Jadwin, C. B., received the flag
of surrender from the Spanish army
1 : .. riy thousand ou Ken Tear's Day,
1 v?!?( 01 Mntausas, Cuba, Gen. '.
to i and others who were to have boci
there wer.- detained by a norther on
the ship.
J Another battalion under Col. Gail?
lard cleaned up Cienfuegos so effect?
ually that during the American occu
' patlon there was no fever there. He
also selected tho alte for Camp Bowell
' on tho Point and away from tho in?
fections of the city. On May 17, 1R99.
i the 3d engineers were honorably mus
l tered out of service, and Col. Gaillard
j one*: mors a captain, tool: station !r
, Washington as assistant to the engin?
eer commissioner <"m March f?. 1101,
he was ordered to Duluth, Minn., In!
charge of the improvements of the*
Duluth Superior Harbor, built the
huge concrete pier at the entrance
and begun and tlniahed largest dredg- 1
ing contract, 1,000,000 cubic yards,
over at that time undertaken by the,
United States government.
On the concrete pier he erected hie
instruments and completed the export
iments on waves, begun fifteen years
before In St. Augustine. When the
general staff was organized his ability,
so well know, put him In the first de- '
tai of officers for that duty and on j
June 6, 19Oil, he was ordered to Van?
couver Barracks as chief of stiff of
the department of Columbia. Later!
he went to St. Louis on special gen?
eral staff duty under his old com?
mander, Oen. John C. Bates. In No- \
vember. 1104, he was sent to the War
College 1n Washington and in Oc?
tober, 1901, was sent to Cuba with the
"Army of Pacification" aa assistant to
the chief of staff and head of the bu?
reau of military information.
In February, 1907, he and Col. Ooe
thals were the first officers selected
when Roosevelt decided the Panama
Cabal could be dug by the army en?
gineers, "who would stay there until
ordered to leave."
Col. Oalllard knew nothing of this
selection, being still in Cuba, and'
crime to Washington in a blinding*
snow storm, dressed in his tropical
clothes, In obedience to an order from
tho Secretary of War and not knowing
of the honor awaiting him until the
Secretary told him.
Departure for the Isthmus.
In another blinding snow storm he
left Washington with Col. Ooethals
Pot Panama In February, 1907. Much
hag been written of his work there.'
but unless one could have seen his
animated face, his telling gestures, no'
one crtn realige how much his heart
was in the "work."
fcarly and lato he was at it. Preak
fffftting at 0.80 and going out over
some part Of the work, walking any?
where from five to fifteen miles, he
wan thoroughly conversant with every ,
detail. When urged that he spare
himself and make his observatiom
frrcrn the motor car devised to run on
tho railroad tracks ho would say that
his insp< lions were not "motor car
ins? .lone." He was everywhere on
the work and his personal note book
shows such entries aa there: 'No hand
brakes set on 4 down-hill cars.'
"Bridge tower, no conductor till 7.M.'
"Joseph Canchey loafing."
Gordon about 300 yards, no e?; |
at bridge," was the last entry ho sjtt U
beforo going to hospital July 2b.
The great Interest In "making the
dirt fly" felt by all the country reach?
ed Its culmination in Col. Oalllard t
home.
Every night, so soon as the returns
were made up at the office in E.npire, 1
the total per division and per shovels
given was telephoned him at his home
in Culebra. The telephone calls always
came during dinner, generally coinci?
dent with the salad course, and onl>
once, when President Taft was dining
with him, did ho fall to excuse him?
self, leave tho table and receive? th?.
"yardage." When the amount first .
reached the 'total of 500,000 cubic
yards there was great enthusiasm. Inj
March, the height of the dry season, j
the highest point was always reached.'
The yardage later rose to over 80,
001 cubic yards per day. Col. Gail
lard was such an economist that his
wife used laughingly to say that if he
tried to run the house as he did the
1 central division she would get a di?
vorce.
Every penny was considered and by
rearranging the system of loading
trains he so increased the output anu
lessened the expense that there was
practically a saving of f 17,000,444 over
I the estimated cost, although the slides
had increased the amount to bo taken
out by many million cubic yards. The
estimated cost was supposed to in
, crease as the cut deepened, but in the
twelve months prior to col. GalMord's
supervision the cost was $1.50 per
cubic yard; in the last twelve months
it was only 0.47 per cubic yard.
When the slides threatened his of?
fice in Empire so that it literally hung
, over the cut, he refused to build B
i now office on account of the expense!
' involved, but had a "surgical opera
' tion" performed on the old, having
three rooms nearest the break sawed
off, and then onl> because he conoid
I < red the safety of the office force,
. "i d<> nol mind slipping down," i?
said. "I" slide one always sees the
trees Btill upright, thoui i they ma)
i?e L'tM? yards from their original site,
.fo why cannot .-> house go down t li
?l.illle Wtt) .'"
Acquired Much Knowledge),
He was u man of wide reading and
, Interested in many things apart fron.
' his profession. On the boundary sur
I vey he collected many specimens for
j Dr Means, among them a new species
of mountain sheep and a jack rabbit,
afterwards called Lapus Oaillardl in
his honor, and of the characteristics of
his namesake ho made many witty te
marks. Memoirs and history, Pepys's
and Evelyn's diaries, everything show?
ing the human side of history inter?
ested him.
Ills collection of Panamanla is prac-j
ttcglly complete, the early history, the
deeds and misdeeds of the old pirates
he had at his linger tips. From an old
map given him by President Obaldia,,
taken from the archives of Panama, i
he had located every building In
'Panama Viego," and it used to bo
said that of his numerous guests none
were really persona grata until they
had seen the remaining bastion of the
old city wall and had read Esqueme
llng, the chronicler of the buccaneers,
the source of all pirate lore, a copy of
which was always placed under the
hooded electric light on the bedside
table of all who spent the night.
While on the boundary survey he
became interested in the Salton Basin,
and made a 'saddle reconnoissance"
of that locality, predicting Just the dis?
aster which afterwards occurred
should *n irrigation ditch be opened'
from the Colorado River.
When the disaster came his recon?
noissance Bketch was the only thing
available, so it was used and publish?
ed; a inoro careful survey later i
changed scarcely a detail of it. Col.
Oalllard's personality was a large fac?
tor in his life. It was most unusual
and most winning; inheriting a spark-1
ling wit from his French ancestors
and the keenest sense of humor, but
hs innate gentleness and courtesy ev?
er prevented the slightest sting to his
wit or allowed him even to say or do,
on unkind thing.
His soft, Southern voice, with his
Charleston accent, never changed, al?
though he declared he had lost it,
not convinced to the contrary until he
had been recognised as a "Charles
tonian" in accent by the veriest
strangers many, many times.
Only last spring, when in Winns
boro, the scene of his early struggles,
the laurel leaves already on his brow,
he greeted his old-time friends, none
too humble to be remembered, with
the same wonderful simplicity and
cordiality which had been his when
:< lad 'in the store."
To the world he will be a great en?
gineer, but to those given to know
him personally even h'.s great achieve?
ments must tatiA a secondary place to
that charming personality, and sim?
plicity and beauty of character.
The officers of his old regiment, the
3d U. S. volunteer engineers, are
speaking of erecting a monument to
his memory. There could be no more
appropriate place for this than a
well-known spot on the slopes of the
Culebra Cut from which he has polnt
ed out to many of tto< groat o* this
world the slg'it of the wonderful j
man-made canon, the child of hisj
brain.
Ob one side may be given a list of i
his great engineering achievements,
but somewhere could be copied an In?
scription I once saw on an old stone:
Sacred to the memory of Wm
"Born, lived and died a gentleman."
JOE HOG AN IN JAIL,
Upon the announcement of the Su?
preme Court decision Wednesday af?
firming the sentence of the recorder In
the sentence of J^e Hogan the cash
bond of $1,000 which had been put
up in the case was withdrawn by
Hogan's bondsmen and Hogan was
again placed under arrest, later to be
taken to jail where he is held.
Up to the present time, so far as
known, no arrangements are being
made for the payment of the fine of
$4,500. Hogan, unless the fine is paid,
will have a sentence of nine years to
serve. As he is a city prisoner, and
not under the jurisdiction of the gov?
ernor, a pardon cannot be granted by
the governor, it is understood.
Boy Injured in Runaway.
Wednesday afternoon a negro boy
by the name of David Dutton was in?
jured in a runaway on North Ms in
street. The mule he was driving ran
away, the wagon striking a telephone
pole at i:he corner of Main and War?
ren streets, throwing the boy
against ihe pole. His head struck the
pole with considerable violence and
he was knocked unconscious. He was
I taken to the hospital and it is re?
ported that he was getting along nice?
ly.
Mr. Eugene Hogan of this city last
week butchered one of tho largest
hogs which has over been killed in
his county and protably in the whole
-t?te. r.?ho hog weighed 64 8 pounds
net.
WHEN BV MAD CAT.
Eugene Benenhnley, Son of WUlie
Benenhaley, Suffers Sefferns Wound.
Willie Benenhaley, who lives near
Dalzell, is in the city having his so:'
Eugene, a boy of five years, treated
with the Pasteur serum for rabies.
The boy was bitten by a mad cat last
Sunday and has suffered considerably
lrom the wound since that time. Since
commencing the treatment the swell?
ing has gone down in the hand end
he is somo better at present
He was playing with the cat Sun?
day, when it ran off from him. Fol?
lowing to catch it, it Jumped at him
and bit him in the hand. Later in the
day the cat ran at him and tried to
bite him again. The cat waa then
killed. Later it was remembered that
the cat had been bitten by a mad dog
last September and the head was
brought to Sumter, where Health Of?
ficer J. H. Forbes sent it to Columbia
for examination. The examination
proved that the animal had rablee and
the father of the boy was notified to
this effect and the proper method of
treatment. The serum was sent for
and is being given the child.
OflLANTA DISPENSARY CASE.
Cornea TJp on Its Merita nt Next
Term of Court In Florence.
Columbia, Jan. 6.?The Olanta dis?
pensary case was aired in the Supreme
Court this afternoon on a motion for
supersedeas. The Florence dispensary
board ordered the establishment of a
dispensary at Olanta, in that county.
A case was brought to question the
right of the board to establish the dis?
pensary in that town. The legality of
the appointment of two members of
board was questioned. The case comes
up on its merits at the next term of
court in Florence, unless the appeal
now pending should be settled in such
a way as to dispose of the matter.
The dispensary was opened for a
short while and was closed under a
temporary restraining order.
VITAL STATISTICS FOR lfls.
Report of Health Statistlos for Sum?
ter During the Past Tear
The health officer of the city of
Sumter has arranged statistics ef
health for the year 1913 in the city
of Sumter. As the reports of other
cities have not been seen by him. It
in Impossible to .say how this health
record compares with other towns.
Deaths reported, tctal, 147; 45
white; 102 colored.
Deaths from tuberculous, 1$; 1
white; 16 colored.
Deaths from Pellagra 5.
Deaths from contagious diseases t.
Deaths from suicide, 1.
Deaths from train accidents, 1.
Death from natural causes, 122.
Births reported, total 118; 60 white
?8 colored.
Contagious diseases reported for the
year: Smallpox, 19; typhoid fever 18;
measles, 9; dyptheria, 8; scarlet fever,
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Cases of tuberculosis in the city
January 1, 1914, 1 white, 1 colored; 2
I uspicious cases, white.
M MTKR COTTON MARKJDT.
?rre?*ed Dally By Fl sat VWnf
Cotton Bayer.
Sumter, Jan. 8.
Good Middling 11 3-4.
Strict Middling 11 5-8.
Middling 11 1-2.
Strict Low Middling 11 1-1.
Low Middling 10 1-2.
Strict Good Ordinary 10.
Staple co'.ton nominal.
ve? Vor* Cotton Marken.
New York, Jan. 8.
Open Close
Jan.11.80 11.79
Mar.12.13 12.14
May.12.02 12.04
July.11.97 11.99
Oct.11.45 11.45
Real Estate Transfers.
H. J. Harby to Frank K. James, lot
on Pierson Street, 1120.
Julian Dultant to E. W. A. Bult
man, 50 acres in county, $2,454.56.
, J. L. McCallum to Frances C. Brad
i ley, lot on Chestnut street, $1.660.
j Wm. S. Belk to Laura L. Cato. 40
, acre tract in Rafting Creek township,
j $225.
Simpkins* Prolific Cotton.
Puts the farmer at an advantage because he
is first to the market with his crop.
EARLIEST COTTON in the WORLD
Ninety Days From Planting to Boll. Grows more
Cotton to the Acre. Supply is Limited. Order
Quick. The Only Genuine Sold in this State.
W. H. Mixson Seed Co.f - Charleston.
Sole Distributor* For South Carolina.
Also All Other Seeds. Write for Catalogue
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