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Fires.

The house of Julius Edwards, the barber,
situated on Council Street was burned on last
Saturday morning. The alarm was rung al
255 a. N aud the Gre department responded
80 promptly that the FIRE was extiaguished
and the water turned off at 3.]3. The fire
had made considerable headway before dis
covered and the rear portion of the house
consisting Of two rooms and kitchen were
in flames when the reels got there. The
front rooms were not seriously injured. The
house was insured for $500 and the fuTni-
ture for $500.
The stables of Richard Thompson who lives
near the A. c. l.. Depot, were burned this
morning about 30 o'clock. The FIRE was
too faT advanced when the alarm was given
for the department to do more than prevent
the FIRE spreading.
. In this connection u remark on the ef6-
cheney of the Gre department is not out of
place The Edwards FIRE is proof Of what
will be said. This house was situated
between TWO other houses, which were
distant not more than ten feet. When the
reels arrived the whole back portion of the
house WAS ablaze, yet the fire was put out
and neither OF thez adjoining houses were
iOjuted. Sumter has y 6resdepartment that
gives protection.
The efficiency of the departments is trace
able to two things, the energy and enthl-
siasm of the members and the fact that Mr..
Bloom is the man fer the position of chief.
Quite a number Of 6remen have asked the
writer to make public mention of the fact that
chief Bloom speaks of refusing reelection. so
that the people may bring pressure to bear
upon him and induce him to continue in a
position he has filed to the satisfaction of all
parties
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teen or twenty were nominated, but when
the election had been held By roll call, seven
Johnston delegates were safely elected.
While the election WAS going oD there was
continuous hub-buh Wheeler was so
insistant 10 bis questions of information and
correction that the chairman sent tor the
police and asked them 70 take Wheeler out II
he did not sit down. Wheeler made few
remarks about his rights as delegate and
and not letting them run the bull over him
and then left the hall, but returned in few
minu'es.
The delegates were then instructed to
stick to Capt T. B. Johnston, "6rst, last and
always" over the protest OF Albert spears
The meeting adjourned.
It was circus of the first order, but out oi
it Capt Johnston and his followers came OF
vr,ors They whipped Richardson and Mur'
ray, who was on hand to aid bis lieutenant,
and then worked the rem ainder of the crowd
just as they SAW fit.
There will be, of course, two delegation:
to ST. Matthews, one declared elected by
Richardson and the one by the Johnston.
Walker crowd.
There are already Eve candidates out in
this district, T. B. Johnston and 4. b.
Richardson, of Sumter, J. H. Fordham and
E. A. Webster, of Orangeburg, and +. M
Brayton, Of Richland.
Unless all signs fail there will be monkey
and parrot time at ST. Matthews, for at
Wheeler remarked several times: "There is
monkey in this, and they are trying 10 ru1
over Us viudictively."
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A Great B1cycle Meet.

The President of the League Of American
Wheelmeu has requested the Sumter Track
Association to haze Bicycle Meet here dur
ing the second week in October.
The officers of the Association have decided
to hold the meet and it will DE the biggest
thing of the Kind ever held in the State. A
majority of the famous bicyclists of America
will be here and fast time is promised.
johnson, Sanger and other men Of Glass B,
will oe here, and Adams and Baird will meet
again.
1t would be good idea for all Of the peo.
pie to get together and make the second week
of October sort Of gala occasion and get Il
big crowd to come to Sumter. A Fireman {
Tournament would he drawing card, and q
FIRST class company playing in the Opera
House would also help. The matter is worth
consideration, al least.
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State of South Carolina,
COUNTY OF SUMTER.
In THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS.
Supplemental Summons for Relief.
Compliant Not Serued.)

Richard c. Richardson-P Plaintif, against Jane
Moody, Lensuel c. Noody, Nary j. Flatman,
james B. Tsndal, n. r. Lenotr, Ann T.
Moody, E.. p. Touehberry, Dora Golnieh,
Robert Moody, William Moody, Thomas e.
Moody and Burrel1 Moody-Defendents.
To the Defendants allowed named:
You are hereby summoned and required to
answer the supplemental complaint in this
action, which was filed iu the Office of the
Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for the
said County on the eighteenth day OF July,
A. D., 1894, and to serve copy of your an.
swer to the said supplemental complaint on
the subscribers at their Office in the City of
Sumter IN said County and State within
twenty days after the service hereof, exclusive
of the day Of such service; and if you fail to
answer the supplemental complaint within
the time aforesaid, the plaintiff in this action
will apply to the Court for the relief demand
ed in the supplemental complaint.
Dated at Sumter, s. c., 18th July, A. D.,
1894.
HAYNSWORTHS b COOPER,
Plaintiffs Attorneys.
Juiy l8-6t.
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What is Beauty ? Question Of a
Blind Man ~

Replied Aristotle But Mrs. Sherwood
saws that it is dynamite in her article
which opens the interesting pages of the July
Cosmopolitan Beauty is always fascinat-
ing subject, and Mrs. Sherwood's discussion
is an especially interesting one. That the
July Cosmopolitan is a midsummer aumber is
shown in many directions. Three short
stories, including one of sport and adventure,
two travel articles, and other light matter,
make up 1913 pages of charming summer
reading.
The July Cosmopolitan marks the close of
the first year since the revolutionary an
nouncement was made that the price of thai
magazine, already low, had been cut to one
half of three dollars year. All sorts OF
predictions have come to be unful6lled during
the sear-it would be impossible to maintain
the rate-the quality would be lowered-tbe
size would be decreased. But even severe
critics admit that with each succeeding num-
ber there has been bettermeut 10 the quality
of articles and illustrations, and the size has
remained unchanged, except the always
growing advertising pages. The magazine
printed, for the six months embraced 10
Volume XVI, one million four hundred and
nineteen thousand copies, an entirely unap-
preached record, aud has doubled its already
large plant of presses and binding machinery.
The walls of the magazines new home are
rapidly rising at Irvington-on-the-Hu Hudson.
Aris.ically designed by McKim, Mead &
White, the new building, with its eight great
porticos, will be 279 feet long by rs feet wide,
and one of the most perfectly lighted build
ines in the world, having l60 large windows,
each nearly double the size of the ordinary
window opening.
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The New County.

Messrs. John R. Haynswor,h, of this city,
and Pate, of Florence, commenced the survey
of the proposed new Salem or Rutledge
County on Nooday. They were employed.by
the Salem County Committee Of Bisbopville.
The lines of the proposed county are as fol-
lows in Sumter County Beginning at
Lyucbes River near Woods Mill, below
Lynchburg, thence to Swimming Pens, then
up Scape Ger to McGirt's Branch, then up
McGirt's Branch and in straight line uatil
the Kershaw line is reached at the point
where Rafting Creek Township and Bradford
Springs Township comes. The line will eX-
tend hence up into and across the soath-
eastern portion of Kershaw to Chesterfield.
The southwestern portions OF Chesterfield
County and the northwestern portion OF Dar-
lington will be cut off, The line will cut the
Sumter line at Fields Bridge on Lynches
River, and from this point the river will be
the line to the starting point.
From what can be- learned the people IN the
territory adjacent 10 Bisbopville are nearly all
in favor of the new county, but how the peo-
pie of Lynchburg, Swimming Pens and
Spring Hill will look at it we have not heard.
The next question is whether the required
territory is available.
atNOtOtbk " SuS SoA'Sy OA AsSoSAs NAS~"3
as given on the map of Sumter County,
published in 1878 by 81. H. McLauriu, the
area of Sumter County is $50 square miles.
The census statistics of 1890, credit Sumter
County with $40 square miles.
Darlington, according to the census Of
$780, has an area OF 67S, Chesterfield e86
and Kershaw IT'S. From these figures it
would appear that the required area can be
obtained, so this objection~is removed.
The last question is in regard to the shape
of Sumter, Darlington, Kersbaw and Ches-
ter6eid after Bisbopvile has secured her
territory.
Speaking for Sumter, it must be said that
the shape would not be at all satisfactory.
Let all parties interested get map aud go
to studying the question. Let those who
live in the proposed new county ascertain
whether they would be benefited by the
change in any respect, whether they would
be nearer the Court House than at present, or
whether they would not rather come few
miles farther and have the advantage of a
better market both to sell and buy.
o.
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THE M. & A. RAILROAD.
Something About the Coast Lines
New South Carolina Line
The New Road to be
Opened for Traffic
August lst.

General Manager John R. Henley, and
General Auditor W. A. Riach, of the At
! laotic Coast Line, returned to the city yes
,erday from trip over the Coast Lines new
branch, the Manchester and Augusta Rail-
road, recently completed from Rimini,
Clarendon County, S. c., to Denmark, at the
junction of tie Augusta division of the
South Carolina Railway and the South
Bound Railroad, in Barnwell County. S. c.
They left here II few days ago, and on
Carolina Railroad commission. made tour
of inspection over the new road. The
inspection proved very satisfactory in all
particulars, and accordingly the new line
will be opened up for traffic on Wednesday
August lst.
Toe Manchester and Augusta Railroad, as
completed, embraces sixty-three and hall
miles of track. including nineteen miles
completed in 1888 from Sumter to Rimini on
the Santee River. That portion just bulls
from Rimini to Denmark is forty.four and a
half miles in length. and runs through q
magnificent country that is already well
settled and largely developed. 1t is q
particularly ine agricultural region, and We
are informed that the crops along the new
line are simply splendid. The country is
also well timbered and we'll watered, and is
one Of: the richest cotton districts on the
South Atlantic, besides being admirably
adapted to other crops aud aoounding in the
resources so peculiar to this favored part oi
the South.
The track of the new road is laid with
70-pound steel rails and the rivers and
waterways over which it crosses are spanned
with splendid steel bridges of the most
approved make. The principal streams
crossed are the Santee and the North and
South Edisto rivers, while there are numerous
smaller streams along the line
The principal towns connected by the
Manchester and Augusta are Sumter, which
contains population Of $3.50, Rimini with
$50, Orangeburg with 5000 and Denmark
with 500. The road traverses portions of
Sumter, Clarendon, Orangeburg and Barn
well counties, and at the city Of Sumter it is in
junction with the other roads of the Coast
Line ramifying in all directions traversed by
the system. At Denmark it forms Junction
with the South Bound Railroad running to
Savannah aud Florida and with the South
Carolina Railway running from Charleston
to Augusta and there making connections
South and West. 1t will thus he seen that
the new road is an important link in the
Atlantic Coast Line system, and its construc-
ton during the period of financial depression
that has paralyzed all industrial progress in
America, shows that this great Southern
railrod system is in the very front rank as a
factor 10 the development of Southern re-
sources.
The Coas: Line people are now building
six miles of belt line around Petersburg, Va,
and that work, We learn, will be completed
at an early day Wilmington Messenger,
July IL.
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State of South Carolina
COUNTY OF SUMTER.
IN TIE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS.
SUMMONS FOR RELIEF.
Complaint Not Serued
{ Complaint Not Serued.

John McLauchlin- Plaintiff, against Martha G
Wright, William 4. Wright, Mary S. Alien,
Weszeyaaa S. Kenady. Leonora G. Dixon
and Dessie Miller-Dsfendants.
To the Defendants above named:
You are hereby summoned and required to
answer the complaint in this action, which
was fled 10 the Office Of the Clerk of the
Court of Common Pleas, for the said County
on the t-.,niy-sixth day of June. A. D.,
1894. and to serve copy Of your answer to
the said complaint on the subscribers at their
Office in the City OF Sumter, in said County
aud State within twenty days after the ser
vice hereof, exclusive of the day of such SER
vice; and if you fail 10 answer the complaint
within the time aforesaid, the plaintiff in this
action will apply to the Court for the relief
demanded in the complaint.
Dated at Sumter, S. c., 26.h June, A. D.,
1894.
]. B. MCLAUGHLIN,
HAYNSWORTHS b COOPER,
Plaintiffs Attorneys.
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Upper Main Street.

The funds for the improvement on Main
Street are now available. The County Com
missioners have appropriated 500, the
citizens living on that end of Main Stree,
have subscribed more than the amount agreed
upon and the city is able to do her part.
Therefore the work should be commenced
at once. The street needs improvement, and
there is nothing 70 be gained by putting of
the work If the city has ltbe work in
charge, We are sure there will be no unneces'
sary delay.
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Y. M. G. A.

Until further notice, the Reading
Room of the Y. NJ. G. A. will be open
daily from $50 to 10 P. NJ.
Dailies, weeklies, monthlies, will be
found there. Also, the Library from
the S. L. I. has been removed to the
rooms of the Y. NJ. G. A.
An earnest Invitation is extended to
all to visit the rooms and take advan-
age of the reading matter.
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Go to D. VI. Campbells for ice cold meats.
Chinas Soda is cold and fine, and good
enough to quiet any ones mind.
Campbells porter house steaks are the best
on tho market. Call and see them before
purchasing.
The h. of P. will confer the rank of Page
on Mr. l. A. Ryttenberg next Monday night
The new paraphanalia will be used. All are
requested TO attend.
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The dials of the City Hall clock have beer
placed in position and show up we'll.

The dials of the City Hall clock have been
placed in position and show up we'll.
Several communications of interest which
are crowded out of this issue, will appear
next week.
Sheriff Green, of Marlboro, spent Monday
night in the city. He was on bis way to
Columbia, with an escaped convict be had
captured
The C. S. IN. R. R. will sell round trip
tickets to Bennettsville, good between July
2lst and 9th, on account of meeting Of
Grand Lodge, l. 0. G. T. The fare from
Sumter will be 1925.
Mr. D. u Campbell has been furnishing
bis customers with extra 6ue Wateree River
Beef. He had one yesterday that was cover
ed with fat, and weighed 756 pounds net.
The meat vas delicious. He has more to
butcher, and be knows where he got them.
There was fight Monday evening on Main
Street, near Lewis store between Spencer
Barr and Beauregard Davis, both colored.
They fought until satisfied az there were no
police around. The lockers on pronounced
it very pretty draw 6ght with the odds q
little in Davis favor.
In another column is given an extract from
the Y0TKcts<e Le0zenn IN regard 10 the u
R.R. There seems to be strong probability
that the road will be extended to this city.
A gentleman who is a director of Sumter l.
Wateree R. R., has been approached concern.
ing the matter by interested parties. The
charter of this company grants the right to
build road between Sumter and Camden.
The crowd of young men who have been
camping on the beach near Wrightsville,
NC, returned home last night well sun
burned and thoroughly sailed. They all had
big time and speak in the highest terms OF
their treatment by the members of the Caro-
lima Yacht Club, whose club house was
thrown open to them. They were the recipi-
ents of many conrtes;es and attentions that
will not soon be forgotten.
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State Of South Carolina.
COUNTY OF SUMTER,
In THE CoURr OF COMMON PLEAS.
SUMMONS FOR RELIEF.
George " Broom, B. f. Broun and Julia 4.
Bracey-Plaintifs:

George " Brown, B. F. Broun and Julia 4.
Bracey-Plaintifs:
AGAINST
Emily s. Nc Call, Plaeidia Reynolds, Julia E.
Norton, John Berry, William Berry, Ben
nett Berry, Hd7ris Berry, Richard Berry,
Laure Berry. Martha Ella Berry, Do7cas
Elizabsth Berry, Wesley Weeks, Josephine
Hodge, Olain D. Haruin. Pauline Broad
s0ay, Ea,card Broscn, Ftliz Broacn, George
BYoa0n, j. e. Baumgartae7, John S Rica-
ardson, Octavia II. Noses and Jas. d.
Blanding-Defendants.
To the Defendants above named:
You are hereby summoned and required to
answer the complaint in this action. which
was filed in lhe Office OF the Clerk of said
Court on the 7th day of May, 1891, and to
serve copy Of your answer to the said COM
plant on the subscribers at their office in the
City of Sumter, in said County and State,
within twenty days after the service hereof,
exclusive of the day of such service; and if
you fail to answer the complaint within the
lime aforesaid, the plaintiffs in this action
will apply to the Court for the relief demand
ed in the complaint.
Dated Sumter, S. c., May I, A. D., 1891.
HAYNSWORTH & COOPER,
Plaintiff Attorneys.
Inne 27-6t
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Having confidence in my ability to perform
acceptably and efficiently the duties Of the
position, announce myself as candidate
for the Office of County School Commissioner,
subject to the action of our democratic pri-
maries. Believing that the Office of School
Commissioner is 10 no sense politica! one,
but that, for the best interests Of the whole
people, it should be removed as far as posi-
BILE from the strife and bitterness Of party
faction, shall solicit the votes of all of those
who feel themselves interested in the cauae Of
popular education, and in the advancement
aud continued improvement of our public
schools Character, capability, and fitness
for the efficient performance Of official duty,
should be the tests required, and, judged by
those standards, shall hope to merit the
votes Of my felIow-citizens.
". W. ANDERSON, Js.
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Hide out, Little Office {!

41O0 OGtS AAttA0 SA~0
Git out o. the way, little Office
The candidates come with shout;
You'd better skeedadle-
They're all in the saddle
Hide out, little Office, hide out
Git out o. the way little Office /!
There's no use to preach or to pout;
The brass bands drummin'-
The candidates comm!
Hide out, little Office, hide out!
Gil. out o. the way, little Office!
The mules, they are rearin' about;
When the candidates charge you
They'll have to enlarge you!
Hide out, little Office, hide ont!
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Deaths.

Mrs Il. P. Jackson, {nee Miss Carrie
Folsom) daughter of Mr. F. A. Folsom,
died at her home, Glover, S. c., on last Fri
day morning. Mrs Jackson had been mar
ried less than two years.
Miss jamie Wingate, a daughter of Mr.. J
N. Wingate. died on Thursday last, of
typhoid fever, after long illness. The
funeral services were conducted by Rev. I.
G. Herbert, and the interment was made in
the old Nettles burying ground on Friday.
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Religious.

The Rev. John kershaw expects TO keep
his appointment mex, Sunday at the Church
of the Holy Cross, Statehurg. Hours Of
service IL 80 a. M, and 6 p. N
There will he an early celebration of the
holy communion at the Church Of the Holy
Comforter next Sunday morning The Rev.
John Kershaw will of6cia,e. Hour of ser.
vice. I 80 O'Clock There will also be service
NJ I o'clock
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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Personal.

Personal.
Miss May Joye is visiting friends in john
ston.
Mss Sophie Warren is visiting friends in
Mt. Zion.
Mr. F. A. Tradewell is spending some time
10 Summerton
Mr. F. u. Beckham, Jr, of Orangeburg
is in the city.
MIR. Hemby Smith has accepted situation
with Schwerin l. Go.
Miss Nina Gregg is visiting the Misses Full
wood, of Magnolia.
Miss Teresa James, of Hagood, is visiting
Miss Emily. Sanders.
Miss Lois Wilson, of St. Charles. is visit
ing the Misses Gregg.
tives in Florence ccuaty.
Mr. 3. w Busler will move to Brown l.
BraRn fromo' 'Donnel l. Co.
M Isaac Harby Is at home from Union
College, Schenectady, n 7.
Mr. Courtenay Carson has gone to Sum-
merton to stay several weeks.
The family Of Nr. Eugene Hogan are visit
ing relatives in Fairfield County.
Aitera pleasant visit to St. Charles, Miss
Tbeo. Gregg has returned home.
Aessrs-. A. D. and E. ?. Kicker are at
Cleveland Springs for their health.
Miss Johnsie ". Ken, OF Philadelphia, is
Wishing her aunt, Mrs. T. B. jenkins.
Hr Lucins B. Dnrant has gone to High
land, N. O, for y few weeks recreation.
SIS Nrs. T. G. Proctor, of Montgomery, Ala,
issisiting her father, Mr. John |. Brogdon.
Dr. Geo. VI. Dick left on Saturday for
Rock Hill, where he will remain t. . weeks.
ars. u. j. Hill aud family have returned
from q stay of sevsrai weeks in the couatry.
Nessrs Walter Duraat and Ellis Green Gao
Be fonnd with Ducker l. Bultman this
season
Rev. J. W. Daniel is assisting Rev. u. L.
Carlisle Of Gamden, in q revival meeting this
week.
Misses Georgis Edmons,on and Carrie
Arson are visiting the family of Maj. 81. F.
Wilson
Hrs. E. SsKenneay has gore to, ,Rdseway,
Sc on asisit ID her daughter, Hrs. W. E..
Baxter.
Rev. c. c. Brown is a, Pacoles s.. c., con-
ducting a revival meeting. Mrs. Brown is
with him.
Rev. T. G.. Herbert is assisting Rev. C. W .
Creighton In revival meeting at Pinewood
this week.
Mr.. Ben Wilder, son. of Mr. j. N. n.
Wilder, Of the Zoa1 peighbordood left last
week for Clemson.
Mr. and Mrs L. S. Carson have gone to
Rutherfordton, n c., to enjoy the breezes
from the mountain tops.
Miss Katie Mccarthy, charming young
lady from Charleston, is visiting the family
of Mr.. ". q. Epperson.
Messrs. R. K. and J. &. B. Wilder lett on
Saturday for St. Matthews, to remain two
weeks visiting relatives.
Nr. ". D. Mcleod, who was with Rytten-
beg i Sons last year has entered the employ
of A. Strauss Of Mayesyille.
Mr. Cbas. L. Shore, from St. Augustine,
Fla, has moved to this city and has entered
the employ of Mr. T. C. Scaffe.
Mr.. W. S Jones who has been with Brown
u O(OWu lux SesS1~i JeoiS baS oSSeppeu q
position with B. J. Barnett for the ensuing
year.
Trial Justice L. D. Jennings. of Provi-
dence, will discharge the duties of the Office
Of h. l.. B. Wells ESQ.,, during bis absence in
the North.
W. H. Ingram, ESQ ,.and wife will spend
the ensuing month Ell Mechanicsville. Mr..
Ingram,s address will be Aechanicsyille until
August Is.
Mrs. a. E. Kennedy, accompanied by Miss
May and Mr. Frank Holman has gone to her
place at Mechanicsville to spend the remain
der OF the summer.
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The ''last game of base ball of the season, !"
played on Thursday afternoon by Sumter and
Providence, was not much of a game-a sort
of last rows of pea-picking affair. The score
was 81 to Is in favor of Sumter.