The Sumter watchman. [volume] (Sumterville, S.C.) 1855-1881, 1870-05-18

I. - Gov. Scott holds woman suffrage
in bis hand as an eaioneering trump.
Illinois is rapidly purifying
herself Of Radicalism, as is proven by
the almost universal success Of the
Democracy in the recent town elections.
There are two lovely young
ladies in May h Rogers paper mill at
Leo, Mass, who have worked within
ten feet Of each other fifteen months
,saud have not spoken together mad as
March hares all the while.
One of the most singular sig hts
growing out of the war is continuous
line Of peach trees, of nearly fifty miles
A, in length, around Petersburg and ex.
tending towards Richmond. They are
growing from the breastworks thrown
up by the Confederate army.
- A gentlemen of Monktou, VT,
is engaged in raising poppics, from
which he produces opium. In 1868,
he raised $40 pounds of the article,
which he sold to druggists and physi-
oians at the rate of from SS to $40 per
pound. The increasing demand for this
drug is sad sign. Druggists tell us
that in the country farmers wives use
it largely.
- After the South, the North. -
Congressional tink ering is to be con6u ed
no longer to the satrapes Of the South
There is movement now Oh foot to
give the President power to use troops
in any State, on almost any prctext, and
without the interference Of either tn e
Governor or tho Legislature.
- "Ho has kept among us in time
Of peace, standing armies, without the
consent Of our Legislatures ?-D Declures.
tion Of Independence.
1t was the King of Great Britain VIII o
did that. So George Washington I'm d
his fellow patriots went to war With him
to stop it.
Grant is now sending the standing
army to Tennessee, to break up the
State government, or to prepare for
that interesting job.
Where is your free government, men
Of the United States /? Where are YOUR
State governments Under the heel of
the army.
This work does not bring confidence
and peace. 1t is disturbing and ruin
GUS. No wonder that business is stag
nant, that merchants and manufacturers
arc losing money, and that laborers feel
Uarttord Times.
- a student at Ann Arbor having
remarked that men had more endurance
than women, a lady present said she
would like to see the youn, men of The
University laced up in steel ribbed
corsets, with hoops, heavy skirts, truils,
high heols, panicrs, cbignons, and
dozens Of hair pins sticking in their
scalps, cooped up in the house year after
year, with no exhilara'ing exercise, no
hopes, aims or ambition in life, and scc
if they could stand it as we'll as the
girls. Nothing" said she, "but the
fact that women, like cats, have nine
lives, enables them to survive the
present regime to which custom dooms
the sex"
- The editor Of the Americas
(Ga.) Weekly Republican speaks thus
Dauehtily:
"Some Of these old editors who are
near sighted arc trying to make the
ladies believe that wearing low nccked
dresses. produces sore throat. It's all II
colnfSaoded humbug got up by the old
buzzard's who CAN'T see."
But, ftpm the following, it would seem
that it is just as weN to be "a blind
ibnzzard" "someiimes, as not. However,
II IL q weman's opiuion. a man might
have thought quite differently:
A lady wJtcs II saw at the opera
the Princess Alice, daughter Of Qnceu
Vicfora. She is very plain an'l homely
She wore low pecked whi,o silk dress,
trimmed in blue. She had ohesnut
curls and woro blno feather aud 70.
diamonds in her hair; adiamond neck
lace gljsfened about her throat. ilor
shoulders arc not pretty, aud her back,
which was- visible half way to the waist,
h ugly"