The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1894-11-21

Ci,ys,.xes sse now duo. Be prompt and
save trouble.
While the filing in of the FIRE wells is
nrd.rs sv.y.it would not be bad idea to I'LL
IN aome ff the mud holes on Main Street.
Henry Bright, colored, was committed to
;aii last Xonday for obtaining goods under
false pre,enses by Trial Justice Wells
NE secure protection from the City Couocii'
50 bepronpt in paying your city taxes wnlcn
are NOW due.
Pa, Horn was brought over from Wedge
6eld NoDday and committed 10 JAN anoeI q
varrant from Trial Justice Aoseley, Tor
burglary and larceny.
Mrs. Agnes S. Osborn (white) has been
adiudeed insane, and was taken over
10 Columbia and committed to the Lunanc
Asylum by Sheriff Sanders Thursday.
The business and professional men OF the
city are not prompt in paying up tnelr IL
censes and unless they come up within q lew
days executions will be served on them.
Hi,liard Deas was before the Mayor Monday
morning for wrangling, quarreling, disorderiy
conduct. Five dollars or ten days on the
streets. He is now working out his sentence.
Tom Flowers, coloree, was committed to
iail Saturday night for assault battery OF
. high and aggravated nature. de Was a
!, railroad hand and assaulted fellow WORK
man with piece Of iron.
III. VI. 8. Jones has pear tree in his front
yard that is full of a second crop. Some OF
the pears are tbree-fourtbs grown, and appear
10 be almost st for preserving. There Is q
great deal of second crop fruit this year IN
Sumter County-nore than ever noteo oe'ote.
A number of farmers inform the writer
that wheneyer possible cotton is being held,
but that there are 80 few men who are able to
hold their crops, that, when the prices do 60
mn. if they do, there will be little cotton IN
the hands Of the farmers.
The luekiest man who attended the Oid
Hoss Sale on Saturday last, was Capt.
Charley Williamson. He bought two or
three packages of '93 almaoacs before he got
his hand in; hut when be bid OF little box
for 81 .05 be struck it rich. He got oox
full of:jewelry, worth not less than 800.
The brick drains on Main street to Eash's
corner. are completed AID an underground
drain is;now being laid from Nssh's corner
to the A. C. L. B. B., At the South OF Harvin
street. to carry off the water from the MAIN
street drain to the ditcbes along.sloe tne n;
r. track. Sumler b very we'll drained and
Improvements are being made daily.
HI. B.. Wells, Esq !, Attorney tor Fred
Singleton and Lewis Cole, arrested ana
placed in Jail under indictment for disPosing
Of crop uuder lien, argued writ OF Haoeas s
Corpus, before Judge T. B. Fraser, in court
Of Chambers Friday, for release Of defend,
ants. 1t sppearing to the Judge that ss'd
defendants we're arrested on day upon which
sale of crop under lien was made, instead OF
waiting ten days as required by law, the
prisoners were ordered discharged.
Deputy Sheriff Gaillsrd went out to seize
a neero's crop under lien and mortgage,
and was met by the mans wife with mus,
ket in her hands. She de6ed the officers aod
threatened to shoot the first man that at
tempted 10 take possession of any of the
crop. Nr. Gaillard took the musket from the
wotoan and no harm was done. 1t would
NO. be at all surprising to hear at any time
that some serious difficulty bad occurred
while crops were being seized.