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The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1894-08-15
Letter From dgefefd.
Wspesr1eLp.S GAae. IA. !

> WEDeErlElD. 8. O., Aug. II, 1894.
We hare just passed through the hardest
gear thas ourssfdsst inhaoitaats ean recall,
sud an happy 10 say that while il has been
hard. no Doe has been allowed 10 suffer for
aid andswe are blessed 10 many ways, for
while we have labored hard and many time
with a,faiEt heart, we are nearing the
harvests.time and it will be plenteous.
Our corn, which is made, is oery fine, large
acreage ana an abundant yields Some of
our bestand most conservative farmers say
there will be three times the amount of
corn made this year that they ever saw be-
fore and the cotton is ,s good as they ever
saw. This truly is Encouraging. The cotton
ia not like the corn made already, but we are
right now in the critical time with II, and it
is making as rapiaty as. possible We either
did not get the arnountsofI Iram here that
fe3a in some parts Of thecoun ty;aor drainage
,issvery much hatter, as crops except on very
iipht fand have not suffered ia5eobsequence.
Vsry eeldom water vas seen standing any
where and then it was very little and did not
last.
Pursuant to agreement our club roll, like
all others 10 the county has been examined
and am glad to say found to be correct.
Heard it remarked by men from other town
ships that we had the cleanest-politically
club roll in the county. We have one
Tillmanite yet, tho who walks around
as; hatoa.daya of primary4vwas
bearlxxto say that it was not worth his time
TOGO and vote, H was sooshot, and besides, he
did not knowsnow on what club roll his
name was and he reality looks as if he
.sFeels like one who treads alone,
Some banquet ball deserted,
Whose lights are fed, whose garlsnds dead
Aud ell but him departed.
He went on to say that be believed be had
authorized his name put upon our club.
Every one seems pleased with the ticket
put out BY Conservatives and expresses the
confident belief of its being elected.
.St.teburg team played Wedge6eld on 9Th
instant. When game was called score stood
to lS in favor Wedge6eld. Stateburg played
Brickbats on Wedgefeld grounds on llth
result II TO % favor of Stateburg.
Mr.. E. E. Aycock is spending some time at
Hot Springs in N. G.
III. Kershaw Lang, Of Camden, is on
visit to Mr. Charlie C.. Singleton.
Mr.. and Mrs. R. G. Wheeler are visiting
relatives in Mayesvil.e.
Mr.. /. ". Lane, our sufficient agent and
operator is off on leave of absence for two
weeks visiting at his home near Taison, N. G.
During q fierce thunder Storm on last
evening lightning struck iu the
ofice here seriously damaging things again.
Mr.sL G Nnnnesy killed rattlesnake on
Yesterday, which had nine rattles, just as it
was about to enter the front door of his
black smith shop. No welcome for such
visitors. He-the snake-was exhibited on the
street.
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Letter From Fulton.
Fulton, S. c., Aug. IL, 1894.

FULTON, S. c., Aug. IL, 1894.
After short duration of fair weather we are
having very acceptable rain for cotton, as
the sappy plant in its present stage of growth
cannot stand much hot sun. Sugar cane and
potatoes are doing we'll. Early melons are
about over, and the late crop. owing to the
excessive rains, is very poor. Fodder pull
ing is i'm vogue with most of u.s. while others
have finished.
Last Sabbath was 'sChildreo's Day." at
Calvary Baptist Church, but as the rain pre-
vented, the exercises will take place to-mor-
row night.
We hear that a protracted meeting will
commence there Monday night, conducted by
the Rev Mr.. COTE, of Manning.
Since the revival meeting held at St.
James's the last of July, we have been having
prayer meeting every Thursday night.
But for the present dissensions within the
Reform ranks, politics would be at stand
still. At to-day's Primary the Pinewood
Reform Club sent the following delegates to
the County Convention S. A. Graham, Jas.
Barwick and r. Il. Gridic. Apparently the
sentiment here is for Evans. and the dispen-
sary, without the revenue feature, and your
correspondent, though under age and having
no voice in it, is like the ignoble Agrippa
s'slmost persuaded to believe" that such a
modification would prove beneficial to the in
coming administration and the people at
large; uphold and give dignity to the law
without the constabulary, and please all
classes.
Mrs. Robt. Elliot, of Pamela, who has been
quite sick is convalescent.
Misses Emmie and Annie James, of Bishop
vile, after charming visit to Miss Fannie
Lide, of Pinewood, left on Wednesday to visit
the family of Dr. John H. Furmau, Of Priva-
teer.
One of our old bachelors informed US the
other day that as the feminine population OF
'90was less than the male, be intended getting
him wife before another census, or be might
miss the chance. S. b. w. u.
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The Voice Of Smithville is Against
the New County.
SMIrHv1LLE, S. c., Aug. l3, 1894


Mr.. Editor: Ny last article to you was the
voice of the people Of this section on the
new comfy. | still claim that the voice OF
the people of this section is against its
establishment, and furthermore every one
that have seen say they haze not heard anyone
else say they are IN favor Of 1t.
l, like some of the projectors:of the scheme,
have no taxable property, therefore, the
establishment Of the new county will not
affect me in the least; but as am in posi-
ton to knoao the sentiments of our people in
regard to the matter, and being centrally
located. they advised me to write for them.
My article was prepared and written after a
careful consultation Of their wishes.
Ia the joint meeting of the two clubs of this
section on July %, there was unanimous
vote of hundred or more of our meu against
the establishment Of the new county, thus
publicly making known their views by pass
ing a resolution to that effect. Yet in the
face of all this, D. E. Durant has the audacity
to say that am "egregiously mistaken ~
wish to ask how does be happen to know
more about our section than We, ourselves,
do? He need not base his decision upon the
supposition that they-the people-are 10
favor of new county through reading the
acts Of the General Assembly, for the pro-
liabilities are that not oae-twentieth of them
know anything about it, and as the people
think Mr. Durant is working as much or more
for his own interests, they cannot accept him
as authority.
From the correspondence l have seen, aud
the remarks have heard, i: seemed as il
Bishopville wished to establish conTe-
nience for her own welfare by the appropria-
ton Of The new county seat. Of course, from
such apparent se6shness, also her compari-
son to our present county seat, We had right
TO speak OF her as ''such place" Since Mr.
Durant states that such was not her intentions
and that she is really working for the public
good, then We are due her 40 apology
Some fair enough promises are made to the
new county, of starting out of debt, aud
about a few individuals bearing the expenses
Mr. Durant may also bring up statistics
showing that new counties have proven sue.
cess, but the condition Of our country at pre-
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that they are. They always prefer to speak
of their avericious feelings and sentiments,
in their own deceptive language.
If you tell them they are not Reformers,
they will tell you that they are no. only Re
formers but that you lie, forgetful that but
short time since they told the people
publicly in their own sweet, melodious
language, that they were corrnptionists.
Have not some of their number told their
working friends, to extract pledges from both
candidates and voters in their favor? Did
they not publicly make their corrupting
announcement? If proposals to corrupt the
ballot boxes on the part of candidates are
not deliberate avowals from their own
mouths that they are corruptionists, chen
confess that really do not know what the
word corruption means. Tell them that they
are politicians, and they will call you liars
again, and avow that they are 6rst-class
statesmen, not remembering Of course their
unbeeoming slang and understandable lao
guage. Tell them that they are not demo-
Gratis because of their numerieal majority
proclivities, aud they will open their mouths
that you may see that they have upou their
tongues, few more lies to spit at you.
When men get vexed, fume and spit their
lies 10 every direction at those, whose only
guilt consists in telling them nothing more
than what they had already said Of them
selves in their own favorl,e and vernaculsry
tongue, it had been far wiser and better for
them, to have reformed themselves and there
by deserve the name and distinction of Re-
former. But am no Reformer. would
bow submissively, only to the will and
wishes of the friends of the great inimitable
Hamptoo. am with our gloriously superior
old hero financially, as we'll as on every
other subject. am also with Gen. u. c.
Butler, against the shadow upon the wall OF
Sir William Howe of the old British army.
AS Hampton Democrat, neither want,
nor do l solicit, either the support or the
votes of those who are not his adherants
politically, or his generous and gfateful
friends as reformers. | am just as proud OF
our Hampton Straightout Democratic party
and its correct principles, as any mat within
its ranks. We have almost got down on our
knees to the Reform party, and implored
them in mercy to posterity aud our women
aud children, to unite with Us iu COM
promise. But they tell us they intend to
have the whole loaf What care men who
talk that way about negro votes Their sole
aim seems to be, to briog about such political
complications as will enable them to raise the
deceitful howl: "Niggerl Nigger! Nigger T.
Your fellow-citizen,
JOHN l.. EAsTERLING.
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A Delightful Dance.

The large and elegant bone of Mr. Wiley
J. McKain was all sglow, with its walls
beautifully and tastefully decora ted with ivy
and cut flowers its floors waxed smooth for
ball given In honor of Misses JAMIE Spann,
Of Mayesville, and Adele Dunno, of Sumter,
on Tuesday evening, August the 9Th. But
even the beauty and brillisncy of this scene
was eclipsed when the fair dancers began to
assemble within its halls The dancing COM
menced promptly at 10 p. m., and right
merrily did it glide 90 till the wee small
hours of the morning, and not until then did
a single heart (save possibly one) experience
q passing wave of sadness, but from the long
drawn-out parting, with the silent good
night, bore evidence of reluctant separation
We would say that none but our host and
hostess on that occasion can excel it in point
of brilliancy and pleasure afforded.
The ladies were Mrs. W. J. McKain, with
cream silk, lace aud diamonds; Mrs. E..
Alexander, white dotted swiss, natural
flowers; Miss JAMIE Spann, cream silk null,
lace and diamonds {; Miss Adele Dune, pink
silk, null overdress, diamonds; Miss Addie
DesChamps, pale blue silk, lace and natural
flowers; Miss Edna Keels, pink satin, lace
and diamonds Miss Mamie DuBose, crimson
silk, white lace and natural flowers Miss
Essie Dick, pink Grape de- Chene, ribbons and
pearls; Miss Dora Richardson, blue nuns
yelling, satin trimmings and natural flowers
Miss Mayes, white null, ribbons and natural
flowers; Miss McKain, white null, point lace
and diamonds.
The gentlemen were: W. ]. McKaiu, E.
Alexander, Dr.. C. P Osteen, D. V. Keels,
w. d. Mcleod, Dr. Edw. S. Booth, l.. F.
Kennedy, F. K. HOLMAN, Ed Dennis, Ad
Baskin, Guss Fludd, Eldridge Baskin, Ted
Gaillard, T. D. DuBose, J. K. Burrows,
Willie DuBose, Willie Burrows, j.. X. White,
W. B. Colclougb, W. N. White, jr., Arthur
Green, and Manning Moore.
There were two or three whom your cores
pondent regrets to say be was unable to secur
their names and costume BEs.
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Oswego Notes.
OswEGo. S. c.. Aug. Ia. Is

OswEGo, S. c., Aug. IA, 1894
The rain is over at last and the sun is
shining with all It's force, which will cause
the cotton to shed. After so much rain it is
tender aud full Of sap.
Fodder pulling has been commenced and
is progressing rapidly.
Cotton has begun to open and picking
the heecy staple will soon begin, which causes
the negro to rejoice, as it means bread and
meat to him.
Mrs. Lily Kibler and husband of Pember-
ton, Fla, are visiting her mother at Oswego.
Miss Ada Fullwood, who has been visiting
Miss Lula Lesesne has returned to her home
at Lynchburg, 3.
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RHEUMATISM.

TINE NEW FRENCH RHEUMATISM
LOTION, by an eminent French Physi.
clan, cures Rheumatism, Neuralgia, Lum-
bago, all Diseases of the Skin quickly, often
Immediately however, Rheumatisms of long
standing require some time to be cured; but
they are relieved whenever the Lotion is ap.
Piled Cramps in the limbs, hands, etc., pre-
cusorrs to partial paralysis, are cured imme-
diate!y. Price 81 0n Ut DeLorme's Pharmacy.
july IS.
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HEART DISEASE so YEARS ;!
Short Breath, PaIpitation.

Mr G. ". McKinsey. postmaster o.
Iaoi-cmo. Ind. and q brave eX-soldicr,
says: Il had been severely troubled
With Ecc1t disease ever since leaving
tie army at tne close Of tie late war
| YVES troubled with paipivation and
SE1rtneSs Of breath. J. could MT
sleep on my lett SIDE and had pain
around ny heart. I became so Ill
that I WIS much alarmed, and fer
Lunattly nv attention was c,ilied TO
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Hoods Pills &C; easily, yet promptly and
efficiently, on the liver and bowels. Csc.
a car load of fine mountain beeves aud
sheep will be received this week by Eugene
Hogan. Beef and mutton Of extra quality
can be had from him.
HTANTED-Every sick person in Sumter
w County TO 60 to Glenn Springs at once
aud get cured.
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DR.. Miles Heart Cure

I decided to try it. The first bottle
made a decided improvement in my
condition, and five bottles have COM
pletely cured me-;
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For sale by DR.. A. J. China, Sumter, s. c.
The record-union., 1894-01-22
THE FIELD TRIALS.
Sacramento Trained Dogs Won All the
Places at Salinas.

sacramento framed DOGS w on ALI the
Places at Salinas.
At the field trials at Salinas last week
every dog that won a place. both in the
derby and all-age stake. was either
owned or handled in this county. The
successful trainers were NJ. d. Walters
of Calf and Charles Studarus of Routier
Station.
Mr.. Walters is entitled to the credit of
being the only trainer and handler in
America whose dogs have won first place
in the derby at four successive trials.
None of the crack trainers in the East
have any such record.
1t is to be regretted that there are no
available grounds near Sacramento suit
able for the holding Of field trials. Ii
there were, at least one hundred and fifty
sportsmen from other parts OF the coast
would come here to attend the trials, and
the number of entries would be so great
that it would take two weeks to run OFT
the several stakes. This would mean an
expenditure OF at least $1,000 for hotel
and livery expenses.
Ii few thousand acres of fairly level
and uncultivated land, with light cover
for the birds, could oe secured within ten
or twelve miles Of the city, it would not
be an expensive matter to stock the pre-
serve with Arizona qualls. Ii this were
done. Sacramento would be the greatest
field trial center in the United States. In
such case there would be at least two
heid trial clubs, and two meetings each
season, each occasion bringing together
all the prominent devotees of dog and
gun in the State.
1t would not cost upward of $50 to
bring 1000 quails from Arizona, and the
increase from these would stock the sur
rounding country with birds and furnish
fine shooting for everyone.
The record-union., 1894-01-22
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Fred D. Bellows of Acampo was in this
city Saturday.
Sheriff D. H. Wyckoff of Yolo was in
the city yesterday.
J. Ii. Henry came up from San Jose
on Saturday evening.
Miss w. Dennis of Placerville is a
guest at the Capital Hotel.
Il. d. Davis Of Wasserman, Davis d
Co. left for the East Saturday on a busi-
ness trip.
Miss Alice Gates, formerly Of this city,
after spending four years in Eastern mu-
steal conservatories, has returned to her
home i'll Haywards.
Arrivals at the Capital Hotel yester-
day: K. b. Butler, Fresno; Thomas .
Turner, Woodbury., n. j.; Miss w.
Dennis, Placerville; e. w. Smith, Dia-
mond Springs; w. II. Reed, Cleveland.
o.; Fred j. Martin, Hardenburgh; d. II.
Wyckoff, Woodland I. j. Maxwell. Jr.,
r. Ross, San Francisco.
Arrivals at the Golden Eagle Hotel yes
terday: w. I. Solomon, Pasadena; Fred
d. Bellows, Acampo; Miss l.. Valeriens,
Denver; Z. ID. Lane, Angels Camp; Arch
Campbell Juneau. Alaska; William Gar
rard, Wyoming; e. w. Glassman, w. E..
Bothin, Z. Commins, Mrs. A. Steen, j.
| +. Swift, San Francisco; Charles La
wake, New York; w. B. Jenkins, st.
Louis; j. Il. Hodson, Fred Smith, Sacra-
! mentO
The record-union., 1894-01-22
IEFFERIs, EXPULSION.

What "a Member of the Engineers
Brotherhood says of 1t.
Referring to the expulsion of q. B. JEFF
ferris from the Brotherhood of Locomotive
Engineers, prominent member of that
body said to RECORD UNION reporter
YESTERDAY that it came about in the ordi-
nary way. Charges, he said, were pre-
ferred against Jetferis, and the action OF
the brotherhood was taken without die
tation or request from any outside source.
He also said the Brotherhood had never
taken any action. as body, in the matter
of Jefferis' defense in court against the
charges on which be was tried. Individ
ual members were at liberty 10 assist him
or not, as they saw fit. but the Brother
hood in no way obligated itself to assist in
his defense
The record-union., 1894-01-22
FINE BUSINESS PROPERTY FOR SALE.

CEALED BIDS WILL BE RECEIVED UP
= to IL NJ. TUESDAY, March 13, 1894, for
the purchase of that wellknown business
property known as the Grangers' Cooperative
Business Association of Sacramento Valley,
situated corner Tenth and K streets, Sacra-
mento. fronting so feet on X street and 16O
feet on Tenth street, bids TO be sent to or left
with H. H. Fassett, at the Office of the Board
of Directors, 1000 * street, Sacramento, Cal.
Bids will be opened at / O'Clock Tuesday,
March l3, 1894. and all bidders are requested
be required to deposit certified check of 10
per cent. OF the amount OF his bid Board re-
serves the right to take bids under ADVISE
ment, and right to reject any and all olds.
BY order of the Board of Directors.
GEO w. HACK, Secretary.
ja15-22-29f19-26
The record-union., 1894-01-22
Taken to Folsom.

On Saturday Charles Wieger was taken
to Folsom to serve out his sentence OF one
year. His wife and children are greatly
distressed in consequence of certain harsh
illusions that have been made to his
case. and while they are in no way to
blame for the trouble which be has
brought upon himself and them, they
feel keenly the criticisms that some per-
sons have INDUCED in. They should be
spared further punishment of this kind.
The record-union., 1894-01-22
RaDtiZad in the River.

A large concourse of people streamed
across the Yolo bridge yesterday after
noon and passed down the other side of
the river until opposite the freight depot.
Many had come to look at the rising
water in the river, and many others had
come with defined purpose.
The occasion which drew them was a
baptism in the river, the chilly tempera-
ture and angry surge of its waters not
deterring the convert from crucial test
Of faith
The record-union., 1894-01-22
ADJUSTMENTS.

At the Clunie Opera-house this evening
the beautiful play OF Little Barefoot"
will be presented, with Andrew WaIdron
and Jennie Calef in parts admirably
adapted to their style, while the regular
company will be cast to its full strength
and the production be under the personal
direction of Manager Ward.
In the production of the domestic COM
edy new scenery will be used largely,
mechanical effects introduced and spe-
cialty acts performed by members of the
troupe.
The box-sheet of the Metropolitan
Theater is open at that house for the
reservation of seats for Tuesday night
On that occasion the German actor
Maurice Morsison will appear as Othello,
supported by the German Dramatic
Company from the Baldwin Theater, San
Francisco. Mr.. Morisson comes indorsed
as one of the foremost tragedians of
Enrnna
The record-union., 1894-01-22
DRIVEN OFF WITH A PISTOL

An Unknown Man Makes Two At
tempts to Enter the Ridge Home.
About o'clock last evening tele-
phone message was received at the
police station from Ridge Home, that a
man had made two attempts to get into
the house. and had been driven off with a
pistol, but it was feared that he would
persist until he succeeded in gaining an
The record-union., 1894-01-22
Ruunl Bnist7tg 31p,unrr.

entrance. The patrol wagon was sent out
there with an officer, but no trace of the
man could be found.
sage was received from the County Hos
pital, stating that a patient named
Harwood, who was brought there on
Saturday, suffering from an attack OF
deliriuln tremens, had made his escape,
and it was coniectured he had come to
the city. Up to a late hour last night he
had not been captured. 1t is poss BILE he
may have been the man who annoyed the
inmates at Ridge Home.
The record-union., 1894-01-22
THE MAN AND THE CHECK

The Old Chestnut Trick Again Success
fully Worked.
There seems to be little use in warning
people against smooth-tongued strangers
who go about swindling the public with
bogus checks.
On saturday man entered one of the
largest markets in the city and purchased
70 cents worth of meat. In payment he
gave a $25-check and received S24 % in
money. on examining the check it was
found TO be worthless. Comment is un-
necnSSarY
The record-union., 1894-01-22

At Nagoya, in China, a merchant who
is in his sixty-tifth year has just divorced
his twenty-sixth wife and is about to
marry the twenty-seventh. He had re-
solved when young to marry thirty
wives, and is delighted that he has now
only three more to marry to keep his
The record-union., 1894-01-22
Residence Furniture Sale.

On Wednesday next, the 24th, Bell &
Co. will sell at auction, at 10 a. NJ, all the
elegant furniture in the residence at 6l9
j street. 1t consists OF complete house
hold outfit and is fully described else
where.
The record-union., 1894-01-22
NOT A STRIKE
Stage Hands Quit Work at Armory
Hall.

V1UTC DIX ATInOfy
Hall.
Members of the Stage Hands Union
who left the stage at Armory Hall last
night wish it stated that they did not go
upon a strike. They simply quit work
because the management stated to them
its inability to pay what was due the
bands, and they were unwilling to permit
the bill to grow any larger.
They add that they left the stage in
good order and set the first act of the play
for the company, that there might be no
obstacle in the way Of the management
going on with the performance with such
help as it could command.
The record-union., 1894-01-22
Hight OF the River.

The Sacramento River at this point is
beginning to show the result of the late
heavy storm in the mountains. Yester-
day it rose to 20 feet inches opposite this
The record-union., 1894-01-22
The nool shooting resulted
RovalIy Bred Youngsters

Rancho del Paso can already boast of
three foals this year. There is Maxim
Typhoon colt. a fiily by Daiebin and one
by Alexander, the brother OF the mighty
Fox ball.
The record-union., 1894-01-22
DuittRo.

WANTED AT TONCE-ENERGETICB BUSI-
w ness women for permanent, good paying
position. Address Z. ID. & CO., tins Office. PITS
TRAINED NURSE WANTS A POSI-
N ton. Apply WESTERN HOTEL, room
Is. ja19-3t*
NXTANTED-LADIES TO WORK FOR Us
w on good salary; no can vassing; work
sent to you and easy to do; send stamp tor
particulars. NOVELTY MANUFACTUK-
ING CO., Oakland, Cal. r. o. box 23S.
The record-union., 1894-01-22

Some man who is good on figures says
that ten billion tubers can be raised from
a single potato in ten years.