The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1894-11-07

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tributor, 81, nap illustrating certain
phases of the Chinese-Japanese War.
I'VE never touch upon such mat
.ers." laid the editor '.This fashion
paper
Good. = cried the enterprlsiug con-
,rlbutor. That being so. you eau use
this same map for pattern. Cutting
up here along the Korean boundary.
aud running down here and ending up
at Pekin, will give you the finest pat
tetn for winter dolman, suited to a
woman Of forty, you ever sa".-Hor'
pey's Bozar
Petitions are being circulated among
tie faithful" of Spartanburg. pray
ing" for the pardon of Bladon, the dis
pensary murderer.
KANSAS CRY, Mo, Oct. Sc
NJ Phal, foreman OF the diamond
elevator, met frightful death last night.
He was taking in the slack of "a wire
cable which ran around au iron drum
aud drew cars up an incline His arm
was caught between the cable and the
drum The cable began to slowly coil
about his body. His hand was cut off
6rst aud dropped to the floor. Then
the cable cut through the body In
several places and the legs fell to the
floor. Horri6ed, his fellow workmen
watched him die Phalt's brother
stood beside the drum powerless to aid
him When the drum stopped, Pball's
body had been cut to pieces aud the
maugled limb and chunks of flesh lay
in pool of blood on the floor.
Ii Hung Chang. in behalf Of China
has offered to purchase the British heet
now in the East He, OF course met
with refusal to sell
Capt. Dreyfus of the French Army
will be shot for selling information TO
Italy. Germany and Austria.
Kansas CRY. Mo-. Nov. Twenty
boys celebrating Halloween halted in
from. of Mr.. Haywood's home in lu-
dependence at midnight Haywood
raised window and fred both barrels
of shotgun into the crowd Five
boys we're dangerously wounded. Her
bert Anderson had au eye shot out. 9.
c. Childs, Jr, hand mangled Frank
Anderson, sealp and face filled With
shot; Ernest Wood. shot In band;
Tom Kennedy. shot in abdomen
The prize Of one guinea recently
offered by London Tid-Bits for the
most amusing "bull' has been awarded
for the following specimen A certain
politician, lately condemning the
government for their recent policy
concerning the income tax. is reported
to have said They'll keep cutting
the wool off the sheep that lays the
golden eggs until they pump it dry"
Dr.. Edward Everett Hale. aud not
uureasonably, thinks the fact significant
that five distinctly American poets
Whittier. Longfelow. Bryant, Lowell
and Holues-were Unitarians. Aud
with this should 60 the declaration of
me Rev. NJ j. Savage { Boston, that
he believes that mo Unitarian can be
found who disclaims that tie is Chris
tain"
Standard grades Of tin, which sold
in New York at s. 121 box in Au-
gust, are now selling for S4.123a box.
Here is dollar box saved to the
people who buy tin. and yet the tin
business survives in this country.
Lee Zanders was taken before a New
Hampshire squire few days ago,
charged with passing counterfeit half
dollar. He protested his Innocence Oh
the ground that the date of the coin.
1859, showed that it could not have
been in circulation so many years with
out being detected, fit was counterfeit.
The justice thought this logical
defense aud the prisoner was discharged.
The half-dolar was afterwaFd melted
with the light Of a candle.
Mr.. A. J. H. Landaner. of New
Orleans. one Of the largest exporters of
cotton and recognized authority. has
issued circular estimating the cotton
crop at S,885.000 He is confident
that the crop has. been greatly over
estimated.
Accident insurance companies claim
that within the last two years the riding
Of bicycles has increased the amount of
iudemnities fully 25 per cent.
While republican papers are CRITICS.
ing William l.. Wilson's London speech
none of them has yet printed the fol-
lowing extract from speech made by
Gen. Cant while be was being enter
tanned 10 England: Il believe that we
shall become one of the greatest free
n Al