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The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1895-01-09

The Monitor greatly regrets the
suspension of the Columbia Evening
Journal It was sprightly paper, edited
with ability and deserved better fate.
Really if three evening papers can live
in Augusta it would seem to be reaec-
lion on Columbia that it's only evening
paper should beous wed to languish
and die for want Of proper support.
A Columbia merchant once said to the
writer when soliciting an advertisement
for the Monitor. '.I've been doing
business here for forty years d every
body knows where stay aud it is
this "hack number" character of her
merchants. as rule, which makes
Columb bia black number among the
progressive cities of the South. No
city can expect To thrive while her
newspapers are laneuishiug. Columbia
should wake up, read the signs Of the
times. acd strive to keep up with the
procession
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1895-01-09
Three C's Road.

progress in Saturdays Post asks
fer facts fo. the information Of the pub
lie in regard to the Three C's coming
to Charleston. There is no probability
of it doing SO, 90 proposition so far as
we know to bring it here, and probably
never will be unless it comes from
Charleston The Post wants to see
the road brought here, wants TO see the
merchants of Charleston make advances
to the uew owners of this road, and do
something to complete it and bring it to
Charleston. The $4,000 asked of
Sumter is to bring the road that far Oh
tue way. That amount will not CON-
plete it to Charleston, but it brings it
a long way : not near enough to stop,
but near enough TO exert ourselves a
little more aud bring it 70 Charleston;
near enough % interest others in the
completion of the line. That Is the
only proposition now open Let Charles
ton make her proposition now to the
road
We unanimously agree that Charles
ton needs roads, and by tacit consent
we agree to sit down and wait uutil
they come of their own accord There
is little use to discuss what Sumter
might DO or what any other towu might
do if Charleston took the lead Let Us
take the lead aud find out what they
will do Charleston Post.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1895-01-09
An Editor Loose.

This is the way the editor feels wben
he does up his sentiments in blank
verses:
II would fly from city's rule and law
from its fashions and its forms Gus
looSe--and 60 where tie Strawberry
grows ou straw, and tie gooseberry
grows Oh its goose ; where the catnlp
tree is climbed by the cat as she
clutches for ber prey-the guileless and
unsuspecfing rat 90 the rattan bush 9'
play: | will catca a: case the saftfon
COW and the cowlet in their glee: as
they leap from oougb to oough on the
top of a cowslip tree /; and list while
the partridge drums his drum, and the
woodchuck chuoks his wood. and the
dog devours the dogwood plumb in the
primitive solitude.
"Oh lie: me drink from the moss
grown pump, that was bewn from the
pumkin tree Eat rhush and milk
from rural stump, frou, folly aod
fashion free-new gathered mush
from the mushroom vine. and
milk from the milkweed sweet
with pine apple from the pine,
Aud then to the whitewashed dairy I'll
turn, where the dairy maid Fastening
hies, Der ruddy aud golden red butter
to church from the milk Of her butter
flies; and I'll rise at morn with the
earliest bird, to the fragrant barnyard
pass, and Watch while the farmer turns
bis herd of grasshoppers out to grass =
Johnston Monitor.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1895-01-09
Kentucky's Disgrace.

CINCINNATI. December 31.-The re.
markable scene of man begging and
pleading for his life, claiming fear of
lynching, was witnessed in Judge
Buckwalter's Court to-day Tie pri-
sonvS was A. n. Hampton, alias Jack
son, tall colored man indicted in
Marion County, Kentucky, for shoot.
ing and wounding a farmer who
accused him of robbing his orchard.
Hampton fed to this city ard was
arrested this morning. W. W. Penn
presented himself in Court with
extradition papers, in which there
was not flaw. When Hampton
was brought into Court his face
assumed a sickly hue and he trem-
bled so violently that he could hardly
assume a standing position.
Stretching out his long, gaunt arms
to the Judge he moaned: "Oh,
Massa Judge, dom send me to Ken
tucky- l amt no coward, but dey
wants to lynch me. Oats the way
dey do down dab l seed EN- do it.
1se got letters from my friends
tellin me dey wud string me up
Dosn send me back, Judge, I'll have
no chance.
Judge Buekwalter asked Mr.. Penn
if he had heard Of such threats.
Eyes sir, was the answer. Then
the Court, with his finger pointed at
the deputy sheriff. said: "Four
months ago l sent on extradition
papers fugitive from justice into
Kentucky. He was lnyched soon
after he left the train. The authori-
ties broke their word with this Court.
The State of Kentucky broke faith
with her sister State of Ohio in the
protection of human life. l will not
send this man away from these
Courts until l have letter from your
Governor and from the presiding
Judge of your district that Hamp.
tons life will not be placed in
jeopardy, and that he will be given
fair and impartial trial." \ mur-
mur Of applause arose from the large
crowd present. Hampton was re-
turned to Jail.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1895-01-09
Food for Nebraska.
The Young Mems Business League
Helping the Sufferers.

CHARLESTON, Jan. A special
committee has been appointed by the
Young Mems Business League of
Charleston to collect and forward to
the suffering people Of Nebraska
corn and other provisions The com.
mittee would include contributions
from all parts of the State for this
purpose and will undertake to forward
them to the proper destination. The
plans Of the committee for carrying
ont it's charitable intentions will be
announced in few davs, and in the
meantime contributions may be for
warded to Robert P Evans, chair
man, in this city.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1895-01-09
Cutting Off Constables.
The Governor Makes a Big
Reduction in the Force.

Governor Evans has returned to
the city aud was at his ofice for the
greater part of the day yesterday,
and was quite busy receiving callers,
attending to correspondence, etc.
In talking with the newspaper men
he said that he wished to announce
that no applications for the positions
of constables need be made, as there
were no more to be appointed. aud
the number of those already ap :
pointed was to be reduced as fast
as possible, aud four or FIVE were cut
off yesterday
Speaking of the enforcement of
the disr -nsary law the Governor said
that there has been recently shown a
general effort on the part 81 the
cities and towns in the State to en-
force the law, and only those who
have not made any effort to enforce
the law would have the provisions of
the metropolitan police law applied
to them. In regard to such towns
he said !: ..They will have thirty
days to pass ordinances for the en-
forcement of the law and if they do
not we viii! have to pass them
He said that Charleston, Columbia,
Florence and great many
other towns had taken the necessary
steps towards better enforcement of
the dispensary law, aud The mayor of
Greenville had in au interview with
him told him thas the city authorities
of Greenville meant to enforce the
law, and the raiirosa of the State
had all given hiys assurance that
they would efate with him in his
efforts to oSsfce it.
He said further that hereafter there
would be but one constable to a
county, instead of about eight that
have been heretofore employed, and
that these would be placed in rural
districts so that the country people
would have the foreign" police
about whom so much has been said,
and the cities would have their
domestic plice as usual He had
summoned the chief constable for
consultation, and they were going
to 'sknock out the blind tiger -
and particular attention would be
paid to those counties bordering on
North Carolina, from which liquor
was being constantly run into the
State. and those prohibition counties
would be called on shortly to con-
vict and punish The law breakers
Governor Evans, in reply to a
question in reference to the seizures
of the dispensary constable i'll
Charleston Of packages shipped by
the First Presbyterian Church to the
Thornweli Orpbanage, said that he
had been told that the seizure would
not have been made but for the fact
that the church people used whiskey
barrels for their shipment, and if
: that was so the saspicions of the
constabses who made the seizures
were very naturally aroused The
State.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1895-01-09

One little remark 10 Governor
Flowers farewell address 10 Albany
yesterday revealed fact D which
every citizen of the State can take
special pride 1t was the announce
ment that the Dew administration will
6ud the State entirely free from debt.
and Governor Morton's warmest
friends can wish him no better fortune
than that be may be able to make the
same announcement when be turns
over bis high Office to bis successor
New York Herald.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1895-01-09
China's Greatest Danger.

Both the Chinese and the japanese
governments were, from the outset,
averse to having their war reported, and
both must by this time be satisfied that
their original plan Of muzzling the press
was the wiser ore Either that or the
supplying of reports written by diplo-
matte agents of each government would
have left them both in better odor than
the news of torturiug on one side and
massacring on the other has left them.
While | was in Yokohama, on my
outward journey, got queer explana-
ton of why the correspondents ofChris-
tendon we're waiting week after week in
Tokyo, with desperate patience for
some sort Of permission or privilege to
dc their dangerous work. 1t was we'll
Informed japanese who explained the
cool reception that the spondeuts
met with. He asserted that while pro-
gress had benefited the higher classes
of the japanese, the great mass saw in
it only source burdensome taxes.
coupled with the surrender to Cinnamon
and Euglishmen Of the control of all the
profitable commerce of the empire. To
avert revolution and to distract popular
attention from the home grievances this
war was waged on China. The people
became enthusiastic for it, and peasants
wed with the mobiles 10 contributing to
the var fund and in every expression Of
patriotism. But while the japanese
we're a warlike race, it had to be re-
membered ,ha: they knew nothing of
modern war. Their past fights under
their feudal lords had been petty by
comparison with the contests Of modern
armies. Therefore. while the outcome
of the war was uncertain, the govern
ment feared the consequences of allow
iug the people to learn the fearful losses
of life that might take place in engage
ments with modern arms. 1t was posi-
BILE that thousands. even tens of thous-
ands, Of japanese might be slain 10
single battle, and none could foresee the
consequences II such losses we're reported
to a people used only to the petty
consequences Of hand-to-hand battling
Therefore it was that the japanese
government opposed the free publication
of news from the seat of war. 1t is
fair to presume that, now that China is
practically whipped, aud is at her old
game of Offering to settle with money,
the japanese 40 longer fear the publ
cation of the truth. The once-tottering
government is intensely popular again,
aud could stand the loss of tens of
thousands in battle. The danger of
revolution DOW faces China The Tar
tar rule has lasted as long as dyna>ties
are accustomed to endure in China, aud
the cfec; Of this historic fact on the
supers,itious minds Of the people is as
bad for the government as defeat IN
this war.-.hlian Ralph, IN Horpr''S
Weekly
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1895-01-09
Another Pet
In Conclusion.

We are going to make greater efforts
than ever to get your family trade and
keep it; and 40 so we know We have
to hustle, so hustlers we will be.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1895-01-09

- ~ ~ - ~ - - )-'s
oFFICE:oF
COUNTY AUDITOR
SUMTER COUNTY.
SUMTER, S. C Nov. 20, 1894.
Returns Of all personal property
and Poll Taxes will be received at the
following times and places.
Mayesvile. Tuesday, January l
Reid's Mill, Wednesday, January
Mannville, Thursday. January s.
Smithville, Friday, January 4
Mechanicsville, Saturday, January,
Kingman's Store, Monday, jan
uary I.
Rembert's Store, Tuesday, January,
Hagood, Wednesday, January 8.
stateburg, Thursday, January 10.
Wedge6eld, Friday, January IL.
R. l. Mannings, Saturday, Jan
uary IL.
J. NJ. Tindalps, Monday, 's
Bishopvile, Tuesday and Wednes
day, January 1916.
Magnolia, Thursday, January II.
Lynchburg, Friday, January Is.
Concord, Saturday, January 10.
Johnston Store, Monday, jan
aary, 2l.
Shiloh, Tuesday, January 22.
And at Auditors office in City OF
Sumter from January 23rd to Feb
ruary Goth, inclusive.
The law requires that all persons owning
property or in apywise having charge fsuch
property, either as agent, husband, guardian,
trustee, executor, administrator, &c +, return
the same, under oath, to the Auditor who
requests all persons TO be prompt 10 making
their returns and save the so per cent penalty
which will be added to the property valua-
ton of all persons who fail to make returns
within the time prescribed by law.
Taxpayers return what they own on the
first day of January, 1895.
Assessors and Taxpayers will enter the
first given name Of the payer in full, also
make separate return for each Township
where the property is located and also in
eacn and every case the No of The School
District must te giren
Every male citizen. between 'he age OF
twsn,y-oue and fifty years. Gu the lirst day
of Jnarary, 1895. except these incapable OF
earning u support from being maimed or
from other causes. shall be deemed taxable
Poiis
Al returns must be rn:ac ou OF beo-e tie
10Th day Of Feo1uary next. cannot lake re-
,urns after that da,e and all returns made
after the 2oth day OF February, are SUB
ect TO penalty Of so per cent
a. B. STUCKEY,
Auditor Sumter CoL-ty.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1895-01-09

We are still in the lead witb every
thing sessouable and at ,he lowest
prices.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1895-01-09

Typewriter Paper OF all kinds for sale b
H. G. Osteen & Co.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1895-09-26

paper basis and looking longingly toward
resumption Of specie payments adopts
the gold standard, although silver at the
time is worth more in the market than
gold and though there has been no pub
lie demand for such action, the people
and nearly every man in public life being
ignorant of the real scope and object of
the act no amendment to which, strik-
ing the standard silver dollar from our
coinage, can to this day be found of record.
Thus on resuming specie payments in 1879
we became an aggressive scrambler for a
share of the gold in the world which was
now becoming more and more the object
of the eager pursuit of nations. Between
1877 and 1875 we absorbed over $780, 900, 900
of gold as against about $50, 900, 900 in the
preceding eleven years.
1873. Germany changes from the silver
standard to the single gold standard; max
ing great demand for gold, so that by
May, 1881, she had coined over $414 600, 900
worth of it, and throwing upon the mar
ket for sale as bullion large masses of hen
worn and demonetized silver coin, selling,
by 1879, more than seven million one hun
dred thousand pounds weight Of fine sill
yer.
1873. Belgian parliament authorizes the
government to suspend the free coinage
of silver.
1884. France and the Latin union
Qtaly, Switzerland, Belgium and Greece
besides France,) suspend the free coinage
of silver, and France substitutes the gold
standard for the double standard.
1875. Holland formally demonetizes sill
yer, having suspended it's free coinage in
1S73 and adopts the single gold standard
for herself and her East India colonies
1885. The Bank of France retires $780,
100000 worth of paper and adds greatly to
its gold reserve.
1878. The United States enacts the Bland
law, compelling the government to pur-
chase from 100000 to $4,000, 900 worth of
silver monthly but to add it to the money
stock not as primary money, but under
the construction placed on it by
our government, virtually as
token coinage redeemable in
gold, thus increasing enormously the
strain on gold. This law, moreover COM
pletely nullifed the main principle of BIZ
metallism, which depends upon the right
of the debtor to, elect in which metal he
will pay, by enacting that silver should
be legal tender EXCEPT WHERE
OTHERWISE PROVIDED IN THE
YTNTN
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1895-09-26

payment and virtually completed the de-
monetization of silver.
1879. The United States resumes specie
payments and on a single metal, gold.
1879. Austria-Hungary suspends the free
coinage of silver.
1883. Italy resumes specie payments on
a gold basis, and borrows $50, 0OO 900 in gold
to do it with.
1890. The United States passes the Sher-
man silver purchase law, continuing the
vicious principle of the Bland act.
1902. The Imperial Bank of Russia in
creases it's gold reserve by $l2O,000OO0.
1912. Austria Hungary adopts the gold
standard and becomes borrower of gold
to an enormous amount
1892. Roumania adopts the gold STAN
dard.
1898. India closes her minis to the COIN
age of silver.
1S94-5. Chile and Brazil adopt the single
gold standard and join the ever fercer
struggle for the lessening supply of real
money.
1885, February. The United States, I'M
able in a state of profound peace and
unvisited by pestience or famine, to main
tain a sufficient reserve of the constantly
e-dificult-to-obtain golden metal
der the hand and seal of her chief magis-
trate, to the money-changers of the world;
paying as the price of stipulated "pro-
lection" to her treasury by those who if
they can "protect'' it for pay can certain
ly loot it for profit, premium of eight or
ten millions of dollars for sixty-tWo mil
lions in gold. The GROWING humiliation
of our history!
WHAT 1T EXPLAINS
This recital, my countrymen, of the
most important steps by which the world
is being crowded at an accelerating speed,
closer and closer upon the ever-narrowing
basis of gold, is sufficient to explain,
though it be not the only cause of them,
the financial cataclysms of the past
twenty years. The action of England in
going to the gold standard in 1916 did not
materially affect the interchangea biltiy
of gold and silver nor cause a noticeable
appreciation of the former. The neigh
boring powerful commercial people of
France, with minis open to both gold and
silver, performed the function of an equal
izer. But when France, led away in 1878
by the false reasoning of the time, and in
duced to believe, by the act Of Germany in
succumbing to the same influence and
dumping at her back door, so to speak,
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1895-06-18
MARTINS FERRY.
uara hnd MlslrpS ~ tnu rhrlvln, CITY
Across lhp yer.

Across thr nson
Tho funeral nj tho lalp Hiram Frazier,
sr, took place from the family rsiidrnco
on Walnut street yesterday morning.
Rev. 5. j. BOglc, Of tho PfcBbytrrinn
church, OBLIGATED. and tho pail bearers
wnrc Ia W. lnglObrlght. Dr. viii II.
Hall, A. W. Harris. George Ralston, NJ.
: Mcurow and L. J. a. Drenncn. Tho
Masons Ind charge oil tho funeral.
Tho Junior Mechanics aro already
making arrangements for tho dodiCn.
ton OF tho high school building. Tho
81 councils In Ohio and many Of those
IN Wcst Virginia and Pennsylvania will
hn invited TO pnrticl pate. Tho parable
will probably be thu largest over wit.
messed In Martins Forty. Tho exccu.
two committee numbcra ten.
llawatha council, Jr. O. U. A. NJ, will
have Jour initiation. to.ngh, week and
will receive three by card. A biz tlmO
IL expected. Tho council resolved Il
linc sword and bolt yesterday for par.
ado purposes.
Tho tWo-story brick rosideRcu OF
George bigger at Portland station was
burned OH Saturday NIGHT. Nearly all
Of tho household goods wcro saved.
Tho houso waa uninsu red.
The Senior Lillios oithe Presbyterian
church will give n concert and lawn icte
in the grove on Fourth street near Cap.
tain Smiths Friday evening, Junc2S.
Tho faro on the special train on tho
Whnnltut, Z. I aba Lie RAILROAD 81,
land to-day Is only So IS, gooi until
June 20.
Row. DR.. ]. W. Robins went to Scio
Yesterday to visit tho college and his
family to Blue Bell to spend few days.
Walter d. Brackeu, OF Maple Hill,
Kansas, aud Frod UpdegruU, Of Mt.
Pleasant, wcro in town yesterday.
Ne. Pleasant people In town yester-
dav were DR.. McGlenn, II. II. RatcliI,
Fred UpdograG and Ben Burris.
The BUNDLE bee Fishing club, OF
which Walter Duff is captain, will leave
in Il few days for Sardis.
The Martins Forty Kings Daughters
mot atthe homo OF Miss Ella Charuock,
on tho Island. last night.
The Old Mons club will DO enter.
tnined ut dinner to-day by Squire
McSioce. at Glencoe.
Yesterday Jane. Williams, colored.
was fined $40 and costs for carrying n
revolver.
The wood work was commenced on
the high school building yesterday.
Mrs. William Jono, drew tho gold
watch at Rothermund's store.
Charles Wood camc home yesterday
IRON school at Ann Arbor.
Henry Williams moved his family to
Cleveland yesterday.
Tho circuit court will convene at 81.
Clairsvile to-day.
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UNITED srArI.s COURT.
Many Victims s1ntrHcrd-A Witness Go
u salty Dose For Contrmp.,

Many Victims Srnt"ncrd--A Witness Cots
II salty Dose For Cont-mp.
'Pctiai h,Da'ea 10 he Iata'Lgenor.
PARKERsHuEG. June 1.-THE follow
ing business In tho supreme court has
been done:
United Statos vs. John W. Matthews,
verdict OF guilty; fined 500 and costs
aud thirty days in Marion county jail.
United Statcs vs.. james Gray, verdict
Of guilty; fined 500 and costs.
United States W.. William Booker,
plea Of guilty; fined 500 and costa and
thirty days in the Jackson county Jail.
United States vs.. George Morgan, yer.
dict Of guilty; fined 500 and costs.
William llouser. OF Cabell county,
who came here as witness, was sen.
fenced to the Cabell county Jail for so
DAYS for contempt OF court. 1t was
shown that he had bought q pint OF
liquor Of a neighbor for the express
purpose OF getting to make 4 trip to
Parkersburgh as a witness. There ap-
pears to be u groat many cases OF this
character, and Judge Jackson intends
to break 1t up II possible.
Ex-Poiiceman Bob Dyke. who was ar
rested for contempt OF court for arrest
ing deputy United States marshal,
had his case continued until the next
term OF court.