The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1894-11-28

Pay your city taxes. There is no use to
put this important matter off.
The run made by Delgar Squad to the FIRE
yesterday morning shows that practice makes
perfect They got there in great shape and
had a stream: on the blaze before it could make
any headway.
Wiley johnson, the self-styled penitea,iary
detective WAS up. before the Mayor yesterday
morning charged With disorderly conduct
and carrying concealed weapons. he was
given $40 or twenty days on the street.
Scip Williams, colored man, was arrested
and put in Jail Saturday. Heis charged with
burning the barn on one Of Mr.. A. 8. Brown.
places some time in February or March ol
this gear. BE had been hard to catch. so il
lie said, but when be ventnsed into the city
he vas caught.
Mr. J. B. EdRerton passed through the city
yesterday moraiog ona special train to attend
the sale OF towa lots by the Pee Dee Land Co.,
st Pioewood, Rimini and ether new towns
on the Manchester and Augusta Railroad
There is considerable excitement over the
sale along the line Of the d. b A. road and
i. is thought that the lots will bring fair
prices. Affection is directed to their adver.
tisement in this paper.
More cotton has been bought in Sumter this
season than up to the same date last year, bat
the receipts are beginning to fall off, and it is
said that little or no cotton remains in the
fields. It is safe prediction to make, how
ever, that Sumter will hold her own as cot
ton market.
As Greenville has the same system of water
works that Sumter has, and good pressure
can be secured, thereby guaranteeing quick
flow of water through the hose and conse-
quently faster time. Suppose the contest
between the Independents, of Columbia and
Delgar reel squad of Sumter, be pulled of in
Gseepyilie. Thea there won't be any trouble
or delay in getting water through the nozzle,
no lost time and 90 kink in the hose, as was
experienced in Columbia.
Mr.. W. L. Saunders, of the Palmetto
Stock Farm, has returned from Charleston's g
Fall Festival very much disgusted with the
treatment he and other horsemen from be-
yond the city limits received. he carried
down horse to enter FOR the purse races, out
when he arrived, learned that the unheard Of
precedent had been established Of closing the
entries on Tuesday morning before the races
on Wednesday, whereas it is the custom, of
the force Of rule from long standing, to peg
NIT entries on the night preceding the race.
No notice of the fact that entries would be
closed was given until Sunday previous to the
races, when it was published in the Sunday
News. Dir. Saunders haying no idea that
special rules would be adopted for Charles.
toms parse races, that would exclude all
but Chaslestou horsemen, took his horse
down and had the expenses there ssd back
to pay for his pains.
It has been suggested that the city OF Sum-
ter should have regular city detective. A
man to do sothing else but ferret out crime
and robberies. A policeman cannot be To-
cumbered by bis duties as an officer on GER
tain beat, at certain hours and run down
criminals as successfully as man whose
whole time is devoIed to this business. Of
course some very 6ne work has been done and
a great deal of it by our efficient policemen,
but they cannot walk beat and catch 'bieves
at the same time. As an instance, when
Assistant Chief Weeks told Messrs. Minis and
Winn to 20 back into the swamp the night
they were after Roy, the subsequent events
showed that be knew Roy to be the thief, but
he was due on duty at one o'clock
A. M, and had to leave. Now, If
Assistant Chief Weeks could have stayed
on, tbere, be would have no doubt captured
Roy and saved all Of tnis subsequent sensa-
ton, trouble aud expense.
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