The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1895-10-30

QEF uedtu WIS SOuiNC VI iNSt W :" "'NN
circle Of frieGds.
Saul Pfingle has been drawn as petit
juror to serve in the Us District Court It
i.s next session in Columbia.
The Sheriff is having q,iiet time, the peo-
ple throughout the county arc TOO busy TO
fight or steal. A state Of rffairs that every
body would wish TO prevail a, all times
Treasurer Scarborough is in his office re-
ceiyinp ,ases, hu, is no, KEEP, very busy. As
usual. taxpayers are disposed to postpone un-
til the las, day the payment of Their dnes 10
the State and county. There will probably
be no extension this year, and everybody
should pay up as soon AS possible.
The dog days are over and the golden 'od
mas come and gone. and yet the melancholy
days, the saddest Of the year, are not come.
How can the days be melancholy with cotton
at cents and upwards.
These bsrs1ed English spnrrows care moth
ing for the melancholy da's nor other SORTS
of days either. They have a supreme and
happy disregard for seasons that is amusing.
The7 GO about building nest in the last OF
October with as much cheerfuncss as they do
in the merry month OF May.
The Coast Line has had the Electric Light
Company put up an arc light above the cot
ton platform at the depot which is great
convenience TO the cotton men and draymea.
The larger part of the cotton that IL brought
o this city is hauled to the depot after dark,
iaad .thout the light the work Of hauling
the cotton wss difficult and the men were
Handicapped.
Cous,able Brown r.ded blind tiger near
the depot on Saturday night and the liquor
seized was, according to the report of dis
interested bystander who is, by the way, q
scholar and judge of good liquor. nea"
enough to give one < disr ensary corn bind
staggers The tigers are not having ali easy
time nov.
a co,ored individual wearing long top
beaver hat and short tail frock coat. got full
of chemically pure, or blind tiger pizen, the
effect aud the result being the game in either
case, and wound up n the guard hcus' Sat-
urdav afternoon This morning he was re-
warded With ter dollar 6ne or twenty da.. S
on the street.
Messrs. Eugene Moses aud A. C. Phelps,
who have the contract to erect The Posts!
Telegraph,line from this place to Camden,
commenced work Yesterday morning The line
will follow the Providence road TO Rembarls
aud thence i, will follow the Camden road 10
that place, where the Sumter wire will be con-
uected with The main line Of the Postal Com
pany.
The school of rbe colored Presbyterian
church, which has grown and prospered
under the management Of Rev. Watkins,
~ 1or Ay1
entity arranged school building, which is row
in process of construction. The school is An
excellent one and it is worthy of the new
building which ii will occupy.
Speculation in cotton futures on small
scale goes on in this city TO An extent that
the uninformed would never suspect. The
spectators Go not hazard their dollars 10 the
bands of the New York cotton sharpers. but
back their judgment at ten cents and up
ward point. They have small profits OF
losses and quick settlements, and at the same
time have all the fua that speculation affords.
T. B. Bruner, colored farmer Of the
Oswego section, is The owner of valuable
cow, ore that recently gave birth to twins.
Both calves are large and we'll developed,
and Bruner is considerably grati6ed over the
increase 10 his live stock
The price of cotton seed is 80 low that it is
folly for the farmers 10 sell any that they
have on hand The seed is worth much
more to them as fertilizer than they are
offered by the oil mills, and as there is good
reason to believe thar the price of CONNER
cial fertilizers will be higher next year, il
will pay them better tc keep their seed and
use them for manure instead of buying high
priced fertilizers
The petition to close the dispensary 90
circus day was signed ny uesrly every bust
ness and professional man in the city Every
BODY wants it closed aud if the Stare Board
of Control does not grant the request of the
people of Sum ter on this occasion it will te
proof positive that the chief end Of the dis.
pensary system is to sell wbiskey and make
money and not to decrease drunkenness and
improve the morals of the State.
There are only three prisoners in Jail al
present, one of whom will be discharged al
the expiration of his term, about The lst ol
November. There have been fewer prisoners
in Jail this year on an average than for a
long term of years, and this is attributed in
large measure to the operation of the law
enacted at the last term of the Legislature
requiring trial justices 10 have ell arrests
made by their Coostables, except in CAGES
where circumstances required the services Of
the Sheriff or his deputies. The law has
been the means of saving a considerable
amount Of money 10 the county, both in fees
and in the reduction of Jail expenses. The
law, when enacted, was recognized as true
reform measure, and the result OF its opera
-. thn ntof1 Of has
who favored it and of Mr. Manning, who
introduced it iu toe House of Representa-
tives.
FIRE.