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?HWi ru the Posto-?Roe ai Svniter, 8. tt. ? Secopd Clips Mjjgg PERSONAL. Miss Louise Bracy is spending her vacation in W&ynesville, N. C. Miss Marie Lattimer, of Ports mouth, Va., is visiting relatives in the city, Mr. and Airs. William B. Daugh -rey, 109 N. Washington St. W. S. Pipkin has returned from his trip from Hew York, Ohio and other points north and says that conditions around Ohio look prosperous even if war is going oil ) The Misses Julia and Katherine Sughrue, of Charleston and Master John, are the guests of Mrs. Logan M. Allen Mr. and Mrs. A. P. Vinson, of Char leston, are visiting Mrs. Vison's sis ter, Mrs. E. S. Carson of this city. Rev. W. E. Thayer is attending the Lake Winont Bible Conference and will be absent from the city for sever al weeks. The First Baptist church will be closed for a month for the purpose of making repairs. Mrs. R. C. Richardson has received a message from Lieut. I. M. Richard son annuncing his safe arrival over seas. Miss Belle Quattlebaum is enter taining a house party with the fol lowing members: Misses Ida Belle Hughson, Celeste Hughson and Hal lie Cuttino of. Sumter, Hughson Green Of Sumter, Miss Ruth Head of Aiken, Miss Belle Allen of Dillon, and Miss Mabel Byrd of Eastoyer. William Quattlebaum is at home from Clem son and Joe Quattlebaum from his farm at BIythewood.?The State. Dr. T. W. Gunter, of Paxville, was brought to the hospital for treatment yesterday afternoon. Miss Annie Lynam and Mrs. Frank 'lomam left this morning for Waynes ville,' N. C. * "Sir. T. S. Joye, Mr. and Mrs. S. F. Stoudemire, and Miss Olive Sturgeon have gone to Baltimore, Philadelphia and New York. I Mrs. F. J. Bradley, of Charlotte, N. C.,~ is visiting her daughter, Mra W. C- Wolfe on Sumter St. The Misses Kirk of Hagood, and Miss Peoples are visiting Mrs. Gor don Bradley on Hampton Ave. ! xMrs. Bradley gave a delightful pic nic and dance at Pocalla last night in honor of her guests, Misses Kirk and Peoples. Mr. A. W. Bradford and family have returned to the city after spending several days at Marion and other points in the State. Mrs. R. S. Hood has received no tice that her son, Lieut. James Hood has arrived safely overseas. Mr. Joseph M- Chandler has return ed from Atlanta and T?te Springs. * Mrs. Joseph M. Chandler is visiting in Atlanta and Birmingham. ? Mr. and -Mrs. N. L. Gregg of Nor folk, Va., are visiting Mrl and Mrs. ?.E. Gregg. Mrs. C. A. Levy has received a message- announcing the safe arrival over seas, of her sons, Geo. D. and Waverly B. Levy. Miss Thelma Can* is visiting Misses Julia and Sarah Brunson in Florence. " Miss Hattie Boartfield has returned from Charleston where she spent a delightful vacation with her sister, Mrs/ W. L. Poplin. Miss Katherine Moses has gone to Philadelphia to visit her brother, Ma- j jor E. P. Moses. Mrs. William Moran, accompanied by her son and daughter, William and Andrena, have gone to Atlantic City for a two weeks' stay. Mrs. W. DeS. Boykin has received a message from her son, Lieut. W. DeS. Boykin, that he has arrived safely overseas. Mrs. C. N. Douglas, of Darlington, is the guest of her niece, Mrs. W. C Wo,lfe. f Mrs. T. D. Ravenel.'Jr., has receiv ed n.otice that- her husband, Lieut. Ra/yenel, has arrived safel> overseas. .Mr. L. E. White has been advised -of the arrival overseas of his son, Sargt% Turner White. Relatives of Private C. H. Willis have ^received notice of his safe ar rival overseas. v Lieut. S. Y. Dinkins is in the city. Dr. Carl B. Epps stood the exami nation at Camp Jackson yesterday for .admission into the medical corps of the. National Army. Mrs. R. F. MeLellan and children are spending awhile on Sullivan's Is land. Mrs. Henry H. Gregorie has gone to Sullivan's Island. Mr. Bartow Walsh, in company with Rev. W. E. Thayer, Rev. Triplett, Rev. Long of Heath Springs and Rev. Templeton of Laurens, are on an auto mobile trip to Winona Lake, Ind. A card mailed at Asheville, N. C, re ported a pleasant journey that far. Mrs. W. H. Bowman left Tuesday j for New York to join her husband, Lieut. W. H. Bowman, who has re-1 cently returned to this country after) several months sea duty with the American fleet in European waters. Dr. C. C. Brown who has made his home in Beaufort and Columbia since leaving Surnter a few years ago, was in the city today. He has decided tO| return to Sumter and has purchased a home on Kendrick Street. SUMTER COTTON MARKBI, (Corrected d&hy at 12 o'clock Noon P. G. BOWMAN. Cottoo Buyer. Good Middling 20 1-2. Strict Middling 20 1-4. Middling 30. NEW YORK COTTON MARKET. Open High Low Close Close Yes'dys Get . . 30.50 30.CG 30.'JS 30.49 3<>.47 Dec . . 29.90 30.13 i'9.cr, 29.<>x IP.*.S? Jan . . 39.S8 30.03 L'9.f>3 L'H.S?, ?jy.SL' New York spots 33.2:"?. American Casualty List. Washington, Aug. 15.?The army casualties reported number one hun dred twelve. Killed in action, seven teen, wounded severely ninety-live. M'ADOO'S TAXATION PLAN. Committee Finds Itself Short of Eight Billion Dollars Needed. Washington, Aug. 14.?Secretary McAdoo laid before the house ways and means committee today his plan for an excess profits tax with an al ternative war profits levy to be in cluded in the new revenue bill. The plan proposes thfce retention of exist ing rates in the present excess proat law with the alternative application of an excess profits tax with a max imum of 80 per cent, affecting about 90 per cent, of all the business cor porations coming under this subject. Secretary McAdoo estimated the treasury plan would produce ' from $300,000.000 to $400,000,000 more than under the plan tentatively agreed to oy the committe recently. The secretary was accompanied by Assistant Secretaries Leffingwell an 1 Love, Internal Revenue Commissioner Roper and other treasury experts. Messrs. Roper u.nd Leffingwell and Dr. 1\ S. Adams, chairman of the excess profits tax advisory board of the treasury, will return to the commit tee tomorrow to present further views and the committee hopes to reach a satisfactory agreement by tomorrow night. At the conclusion of the confer ence, Secretary McAdoo and Chair man Kitchin joined in the prediction th?y would get together on a plan. &nd Secretary McAdoo added that. "you can see that Mr. Kitchin and I have no bayonets for each other." Despite the increased revenue claimed for the treasury plan which Secretary McAdoo said would take care of exceptional cases like m the Ford industry, some of the Standard Oil subsidiaries and others, it was seated tonight the bill still falls short to the extent of between $500,000, 000 and $1,000,000,000 of the $8,000, 000.000 sought. A port tax on tea, coffee, tropical fruits coming through the ports may have to be resorted to it was said or some other new tax feature considered. The first break in the committee occurred when Representative Rainey of Illinois, after making a stand for increase of the taxes on estates in ex cess of $1,000,000 and being voted down, announced he would carry on the fight on the floor of the house. Hagood on The Mount. Altapass, N. C.^Aug. 12.?Every where the eye turned as we came up were the evidences of abundance. God is blessing us with the promise of abundant harvests of all good things, and we ought not to forge Him. Talking the other day we remark ed that it looked as if God was on oui side, when another said he did not like to regard it so, but rather that we were on God's side. "Wh is on the i<ord's side? Let him come tc me." That is just what we would b" assured bf beyond all peradventure. Years ago, when first we tro'" this soil, we tried to convey a faint idea to those of your readers who never came here what a land of fat things these mountains are, but this must be seen, enjoyed, to be appreciated. Tin finest Irish potatoes we ever saw grow are here, and are produced with little cultivation. They do not die. them until late fall, save as tbev need them. Daily the tables of the humbles: are groaning neath the good thing:, of earth. Yesterday, aside from thv grandness of r.arrre as displayed in its scenery, we beheld that other beauty that refresheth, nourisheth buildeth up, in acres of buckwheat, corn.^at beans, turnips, not in small patches, but sowed broadcast in corn, buckwheat, etc. some already large enough for salad. Then there are the fruits, apples, peaches, pears grape^s, apricots, black and whortle berries and what else I know not. These people are contented, happy, so different many, from two years ago when the flood had swept everything, even the homes of some, away. That heavy cloud that then hung like a pall upon them, has so completely disappeared that scarcely its memory remains. The other day we dined with a family, fine people they, the Davenports, where* five years ago. with a most tempting repast before us we did not dine but cast up ac counts, made sick by mountaineer's tobacco. What an ideal place It is, a home built in the valley of the North Toe, but far enough up the slope to be perfectly safe from floods. They have all the good things named above, with fine cows and hogs and chickens of the purest Rhode Island Red strain and such flora. One is sometimes tempted to think all the most beautiful flowers are to be found in the mountains. And they say that in most secluded spots, well? They are great to go to church, and when they get happy they shout, not peculiar tc Methodists : as we have seen with our own eyes. They have good schools, which they I patronize, and are fairly well inform ed on the great questions of the day. They are deeply interested in the war. staunch supporters of the administra [ tion. Slackers, such as we have, po ! litieal some, would have short shrift I here, for they are thoroughly patriot ic, holding in utter abhorrence and detestation the Hun and hi:: sympa thizer. As evidence of how thor oughly the war has our country in its grip little lx>uise Hand, under six years old. asked us about the war. When inquiry was made as to what ? she knew about it her reply was- | "We are fighting the Germans ovei j in Prance and they are fighting us." j A little mountain lad that could not read, when one in jest offered to buy his dog to sell the Germans for food, j replied: "The buzzards can have; 'him but never those durned Ger mans." We use his strong language , to show his feeling in the matter. Ib is doubtless the son of his father. It is raining here every day but this instead of detracting from the beau ty and charm of the scenery but adds to it a thousand fo'.d. But this for] another letter. "Brevity is the soul of! wit." "Hagood." j Many a man who seems perfectly I happy is wearing a shirt maae by his wife. A WONDERFUL STORY. Spoiled by Publication of the Hero's Picture?Arrested by the Police as a Fakir. Paris, July 25 (Correspondence of The Associated Press) The heroic ex ploits and hair-breadth escapes of D'Artagnan as narrated by Dumas in The Three Musketeers fade into com parative insignificance when compar ed~~wit.h the achievements of Rene Bertrand as told by himself. Minus an arm and a leg with nine medals glittering on hi sbreast, and asserting that his body bore more t > 30 bul let and bayonet wounds, "private Rene Betrand of the French Colonel In fantry" posed in Paris as the greatest hero of tUe war. Now he has been arrested as per haps one of the war's greatest fakirs and the police authorities declare that he lost his leg and arm in a railway accident and that live imprisonments instead of live citations compose his record. It was the , publication of Betrand's photograph in a French newspaper that led to his undoing. Meantime, while reveling in the fruits of his own romance, Betrand en joyed the confidence of army officers and the credit of the leading Paris cafes. One famous and fearless avia tor made private Betrand his godson and '"adopted" him for the balance of the war. The medals he wore included the cross of the legion of honor, the mili tary medal, the war cross with seven palms and five stars, the British mili tary cross, the Belgian war cross, the colonial medal, medal of Morocco, and the medal for saving life, and the medal for wounds. In addition h ? wore the "fouragere" of the legion 01 honor. Where he got them has not been disclosed but to account for them Be trand constructed a story of wonder ful incidents. According to this tale he won the military medal by saving the lives of two officers and was him ? self wounded in the thigh when sur rounded by natives while fighting with the French Territorial Forces, in Mo crosso, in 1913. ' Then according to his own story. Betrand won the war cross in a patrol expolit in the present war, when, af ter his companions were killed he cap tured a whole German cooking out fit at Laon, having killed most of the cooks. Next, fighting with the Erii ish on the Somme he won the military cross by capturing 12 Germans single handed. Meantime he had been cap tured five times by the Germans bui always managed to escape. In the next chapter of his biograph; Betrand appears in the light aroun. Monastir on the Macedonian fron: where he simultaneously operated four machine guns and wreaked sue! an awful havoc with the enemy th v their attack was beaten off. At the bat tie of Monastir he essayed to rescu an officer who lay wounded in No Man's Land and was himself woundei in the abdomen. Despite his pain iv dragged the officer back to safety am went out agair to rescue a wounded nurse. In the last trip his arm wa shattered by a bullet and later wa: amputated. Next we find Betrand a passenger oj j board a ship bound for France. Th torpedo which hit the vessel shatter ed one of Betrand's legs. Calml.\ amputating it with his knife Betrarc bound up the stump, dragged him self to the rail, threw himself over board, paused long enough to rescu the captain and swam to a piece o drift wood where he lived for thro cays and three nichts before heim rescued by a Spanish vessel. For thi Betrand said he received the medal o the legion of honor. Numerous stars and leaves of palm that Betrand wore upon his wa' cross had been acquired, according t< his tale, by 12'distinct acts of heroism worthy of the coveted cross but th< details of these incidents have not ye been given to the public. Paxville News Items. Paxville, Aug. >? 13.?A su' ssfui meeting was held last week at th< Baptist church, the pastor, the Rev J. D. Bowen, was. assisted by the Rev Bozemun of Greenwood. There wer? 19 accessions to the membership o the church. The ordinance of bap tism was administered on Monda: afternoon at Eaden's Mill. Mrs. W. L. Brunson, Jr., and chil dren, from Sumter, returned o. Tuesday after a week's visit to rela tives and friends in the community. Mr. T. R. Owen came home Tues day, after spending a few days at hi. father's home, the Rev. T. B. Owen at Wilkesbarre, N. C. Miss Emily Broadway is back fro; a visit to friends in Columbia. Mr. Aurelius Harvin and famil from Chattanooga, Tenn., are visitin. relatives here. They made the trip b; automobile. ^ ? Mr. Charlie Barwick is back fro:. Charleston, where he visited hi brother, Mr. Robert Barwick. Mr. Jeff Martin has moved, his fan: ily from St. Paul to make their bom with Mrs. M. S. Broadway. Miss Coline Campbell of Sumter i visiting at the home of Mr. It. \. Brad ham. Mr. P. C Geddings, the rural mai carrier, has recently purchased a cav and is now able to expedite his wor in a much shorter period of time. Mr. T. R. < ?wen has recently in stalled a lighting plant, and is nov having his residence repainted. Mr. G. H. Curtis has about con Dieted the remodeling of his bom and expects his land!;- to return fro; Bridgeport. Conn., seme time nc> Week. The regular be-ennial municipa election, to name :i councilman t<> til the vacancy caused by the expiratio of the term of Councilman Rowland was held Tuesday. Mr. I >. R. Me< 'a; lum, the nominee of the primary, wa the only candidate and was elected receiving all of the t. votes cast. In the circumstances there naturally wa little interest in the election arid y ma jority of the citizens forgot to vote. Love may make the world round, but money helps to push i along. Patriotic Duty in the Present Crisis Pointed Out by Governor Manning, Who Urgee Neighbors to Volunteer Part Time to Working Farms From Which Men Have Been Called Into the Army. Columbia.?As a war measure, to ba | applied individually where conditions demand it, and as a means of saving a vast amount of foodstuffs and feed stuffs as well as other crops, Governor Manning, in a call to the patriotism of the people of the rural sections of South Carolina, urges that neighbors lend of their time to help work the crops on farms from which men have been drafted into the army. The gov ernor's statement follows: "The necessity of sending men over seas as rapidly as possible is greater than ever before. More and more men must be drafted in to the army. The War Department finds it impos sible to grant furloughs to these men who have been called away from the farms. The need of men is greater In the army. I realize that the short age of farm labor is a serious handi cap. Crops must be cultivated. A little later the harvests will be on. hu this situation I urge that, in every community throughout the State, neighbors, who know local conditions, lend themselves and give of their time to help on the farms from which the operators and laborers have been taken into the army. In this way; and In this way only, will a great economic loss be avoided. In this way cam & great amount of foodstuffs and feed stuffs, too precious in view of war demands and war conditions to lose, but which will otherwise probably be lost, be saved. This kind of service Is, and should be regarded, as real war work. There exists a great op 'portunity to serve patriotically and unselfishly, in a way that will count heavily, and I hope that our people will be quick to see and grasp it MAXIMUM CANNING WITH MINIMUM USE OF SUGAR Columbia.?Fruits may be canned without sugar for next winter's use. This will be good news to many housewives who are handicapped in thejr_ canning operations by the limit that* the Food Administration has found it necessary to .put on the amount of sugar that can be purchas ed for canning and preserving. A bulletin has been issued by the United States Department of Agricul ture which tells how to put up fruits without sugar. Copies of this bulletin may be had by writing the Depart ment at Washington. Ask for Bulle tin Nc. 839. Full instructions will be found on page 15. Other bulletins issued by the De partment of Agriculture give instruc tions for maximum canning with mini mum sugar. Home canners should write the Department for Bulletins Noa. 859, 853, 900, and 984. EXPERT TELLS HOW TO SELECT SEED CORN ColumfbiaJ?Tb? Pood Admmistrar Won has issued a pamphlet, "A Mes sage to the Corn Club Boys of South Carolina," containing an article writ ten by James W. Draffin, second prize winner in the Corn Club contest for the State in 1917, and who is an ex pert on corn production and scientific selection of seed. The article is enti tled, "How I Select My Seed Corn in the Field," and contains some valu able information not only for boy farmers, but for their elders as well. Copies of this pamphlet will be mailed free to any person making request to the Conservation and Production Di vision, Food Administration, Colum bia, S. C. FARMERS MAY SELL HOME-GROWN WHEAT Columbia,?Farmers who have grown wheat may, under recently modified regulations of the Food Ad ministration, sell wheat or flour to their neighbors under certain condi tions. Purchasers of wheat from farmers may have it ground on the same basis as the farmer who raised it, but in such case3 they will be expected to use flour substitutes pound for pound with the flour. When farmers sell flour to individuals they must sell flour substitutes with it, or take miller's certificates from the pur chaser, showing that flour substitutes have been ground to. cover the amount of flour bought, pound for pound. NEW REGULATIONS TO APPLY TO COTTON SEED Columbia.?The Food Administra tion announces that all price agree ments or other masters affecting the price of the 1917-1918 crop will expire with the disposition of such cotton seed as Individuals mow have In their possession. No agreement now exist ing, as to cotton seed prices, will ex tend to the next crop, hut new ru!e.-< and regulations will he announced lat er to apply to the 1918-1919 crop. All differentials and margins of profit, zones a-njd rules, which have been jatablifcued will remain in effect until they have been replaced by other sim tfar ruling*. f Retail Dealers Required by t#ie Food Administration to Keep Accurate Records Which Will Be Carefully Checked Up by County Food Ad ministrators. Columbia. Aug. 3.?"It Is sternly necessary for the retailers to super vise the sale of sugar and prevent those who are greedy and unpatriotic from obtaining more than their share," says the Food Administration in an order requiring the retailer to keep a record of all sugar sales made. A carbon copy of this record is to be sent to the County Food Administra tor, and a check will be kept upon those who seek to buy more than their proportionate share of sugar. It is essential that an equal distri bution of sugar is made as the sugar situation is very acute. The profit on sugar will he closely watched by the Food Administration. The retail profit should not be more than one cent a pound, except where the fraction of a cent is involved. Sales of sugar should not exceed two pounds at one sale to a customer who lives in town, and should not ex ceed five pounds to a customer resid ing in the rural districts. For can ning purposes not more than 25 pounds may be sold to a householder ? on Home Canner's Sugar Certificates ex cept upon written permission of the County Food Administrator. _l_ HOW TO SELECT SEEO CORN IN THE FIELD Columbia.?James W. Draffin, of Leslie, York County, has made a re markable record in Corn Club work. He has been a member of the York County Boys' Corn Club for four years, and has been a county prize winner each year. Twice he has been a sec ond State prize winner. His article on "How I Select My Seed Corn in the Field, which is given below, makes very interesting reading. "One of the essentials of profitable corn growing is proper selection -of seed. Stalks of the predominating type in the row or field should be chosen, if equally resistant and well eared as others. Get the form of the ideal stalk well fixed in your mind, and look for it. Remember the type from year to year and don't change unless you should change tc a different strain or seed variety. "I don't wait until all the corn Is in the crib to select my seed for next year's planting. If you do, you will fail in the crop. The standipg plant will answer the question as to whether the selected ears have come from good stalks. I always try to be sure to gel plants that grow not less than two or j not more than three good ears to the stalk, and not more than half-way up the stalk. I select the well-filled ears, not too large nor too small, but me dium size, and sound. The shuck should be loose on the grain and should have a wholesome look. I al ways try to select my seed corn from the stalks standing where they grow, as soon as ripe, and before the first hard freeze. I select ears from the stalks that have produced the most corn without having any special ad vantages, such as space, moisture or fertility. The most important con sideration is to select seed from those plants which h^re the ability to fur nish the largest quantity of dry shell; ed corn. Early maturity is a desirable quality, and so are short, thick, wind-j firm stalks; top-heavy ones with ears borne too high are likely to mean loss-is. "I collect my plants that bear un seed ears and cut off the top and bottom and hang the part on which the ears are fastened, in some con venient place in the crib or barn. This will keep in mind how the plants looked in the field. "I go through my corn and cut the diseased and stunted stalks about July first or August first, so as to pre vent crossing with the good stalks that are to furnish my seed. Now, if I am going to plant on upland, I do not use seed that has been long grown on lowland, and if I am going to plant on lowland. I use my field se lected seed that has given best results on that kind cf land as far as possible. I plant seed that fwew cn the same type of soil that I am going to culti vate. I always try to procure my seed from corn that is known to pro duce large yields. It has been pretty well demonstrated that the prolific corns are the best varieties for the South. They do not make the largest and best show ears, but they do make the largest yields, and the greatest money value per acre. I prefer Good man's Prolific Variety." Columbia?The State Council of De fense has gone on record, by the adop tion of resolutions at the bi-monthly meeting held here, as favoring a gov ernment financed cotton corporation: and recommendation has been made to President Wilson and Congress that action be taken, through the forma tion of euch a governmental agency, to fix a minimum price which the farmer may be guaranteed for his cofr Registration Notice. ? The County Board of Regifltratioi will be in their office at the Court House, continuously from July 1st to August 31st, excepting July 4th, fo* :he purpose of registering all qualified voters of the county of Sumter, as the law requires. T. D. DUBOSE, J. M. N. WILDER, J. A. REAMES, Supervisors of Registration. Registration Notice. Qn the following dates, the Board of Registration will visit these sever al townships of Suniter county, for the purpose of registering all quali lied electors who have not already reg istered: Providence, September 3rd. Siateburg, September 4th. Middleton, September 5th. Manchester, September 6th. Privateer, September 9th. Concord, September 10th. Shiloh, September 11th. Mayesville, September 12th. Rafting Creek, September 13th. The books of registration will be opened according to the above sched ule, from nine o'clock in the morning, until six o'clock in the afternoon, at the usual voting places in the town ships herein designated.' T. D. DUBOSE, J. M. N. WILDER, J. A. REAMES, Supervisors of Registration. If the beauty of the average man's ! mind isn't more lovely than his face it is entitled to sympathy. GEORGE BELL TJJOfERlJtAX, Lexington, S. C. CANDIDATE FOB CONGRESS. j A. G. WARREN?Wants the voters of Sumter county to know that he is candidate for Judge of Probate for Sumter County and will appre ciate the votes of all considering him worthy. LOR SALE?in settlement McBride estate I offer 1,000 acres Jaque lands, tracts 47 to 16 acres, well located in famous Pudding Swamp tobacco section. The four 1917' pri::e corn clubs boys of Sumter and Clarendon counties live one to eight miles away and grow 70 to 90 bushels on same type soil. , A nearby tract of similar unimproved land was paid for out of last year's crop. Prices right and terms rea- ., sonable. E. W, Dabbs, Trustee; 1 Mayesville, S. C. _ BEESWAX WANTED?Any quantity large or small. Am paying best cash price. See me if you have any. N. G. Osteen._,_ FOR SALE?F. O. B. cars, Camp Jackson, stable manure; very little straw. Car load lots only. Chemi cal and Fertilizer value rated very high by Clemson college. A. A* Strauss, Sumter, S. C. MILLERS' CERTIFICATES?Can be obtained at Item Office at reason able prices in lots of 100 or more. Candidate's Cards. For Congress. I hereby announce myself as a can didate for re-election to Congress from the 7th Congressional District, subject to the rules and regulations o? the Democratic party. A. F. SEVER. THOS. G. M'LEOD Bishopville, S. C. Candidate for Member of CONGRESS SEVENTH DISTRICT ?House of Representatives. We the friends of C. J. Jackson hereby place his name in nomination for membership in the House of Rep resentatives: S. A. HARVIN, STANYARNE BURROUGHS, E. C. BROWN, J. FRANK WILLIAMS, T. S. DUBOSE. I hereby announce that I am a can didate for re-election to the House of Representatives, subject to the action or" the Democratic Primary. DAVIS D. MOISE. For Solicitor. * I hereby announce that I am & candidate for the office of Solicitor for the Third Circuit, subject to the ac tion of the Democratic Primary. FRANK A. M'LEOD. For Probate Judge. Thos. E. Richardson is hereby nom inated for re-election to the office of Judge of Probate for Sumter county, subject, however, to the wishes of his l\ Slow Democrats. At the solicitation of many of my friends. I have decided to enter the race for the office of Probate Judge for Sumter county, subject to the rules of the Democratic party. If elected i would discharge the duties of the office faithfully and to the best of my ability. All who enter the office, if I am elected, will be met with a smile and hearty shake of the hand. JOSEPH R. SINGLETON. Sumter, S. C, Rout? No. 2.