The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1895-01-16
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Li.erateurs are asking who will take
Robert Louis Stevenson place in liter
ature. Nobody; anybody who could
take it has his own place to gil.
Miss Cora Benneson. a graduate of
the Michigan University Law school,
who has been already admitted to prac-
tice in Illinois and Michigan, has been
admitted to the bar 10 Massachusetts.
Gen. Cassius NJ. Clay, of Kentucky,
has hired governess for his l5-year-
Old wife. He wants to train her to De
ornamental as we'll as useful. Hereto
fore she has been mainly occupied in
running his kitchen.
Business men of all parties may we'll
unite to deaounce partisan delays at
Washington 90 the currency question.
A thousand important interests must
DOT be sacrificed to republican bourbon
ism.
The New York Tribune thinks it has
discovered ga difference between His
Satanic Majesty and the Democratic
party" That was very easy task.
Let Us direct the Tribune's attention to
a much harder oDe-the difference be-
tween His Majesty aforesaid and the
Republican party.-Atlanto Journal.
Only fourteen years ago the tota
capital invested in cotton manufacturing
iu the South was only about so, ,0o0,-
600. Now it is close on to $500, OO0.-
600. Is Dot this increase remarkable ?
What Increase will the next fourteen
years show? May we not reasonably
expect that within that period the South
will be doing the greater part of the
cotton manufacturing of this country?
Miss katherine Drexel, he Phila-
delphia bankers daughter, will make
her 6ual vows at the Convent of thc
Blessed Sacrament. pear Torresaale.
Pa. neg; Wednesday, and thereafter
she will undergo the rigorous self-de-
oial of the order. She will be knowo
as Mother Katherine Miss Drexels
income is estimated to be nearly $780,
900 year, aud it will remain under
her personal control. The convent at
Torresdale was built with her money,
aud she becomes its Mother Superior.
Gold because it was found pure aud
fairly tractable, was probably the first
metal used by mau. Copper, it is
true, is found as a metal, but only in
one comparatively restricted locality.
Occasionally gold 6sh-hooks have been
discovered IN graves in New Granada.
Iu mining a tunnel in Cauca, gold
hook was found in 1882 fifty feet under
the surface Of the ground and beneath
what must have once been the bed of a
river. Copper 6sh-hooks have been
found in many of the ancient burial
mounds of Peru
A warning has been sounded in the
way in which books from circulating
library should be haodled. 1t is con-
veyed 10 a suggestion: Don't wet the
| 6ngers to turn the leaves of such books.
The authorities among the circulating
Libraries at Dresden have been conduct
ing series of experiments to determine
if books 10 general use become a medl
um for the communication of infection.
Soied leaves were rubbed first with
dry fingers and then with wet ones, and
the results microscopically examined.
No microbes, or few, we're found on
the dry fingers, but many on the others
Bullock Times 1t is rot possible to
estimate the damage that Florida has
sustained from last weeks weather.
There we're perhaps DOT less than two
millions of boxes Of oranges oD the trees,
which may be safely put down as clear
loss to the growers Then the railroads
lose the transportation the mills lose
the sale of the box material /; the
laborers lose the work Of gathering aud
packing. Oe top Of this comes the
shortening Of the next crop, aud the
uncomputable damage done 70 the
groves A great many young trees
are cut to the grourd and will never be
brought out. while older ones will
require years to recuperate.
Lawson D. Melton, Esq. of Colum-
bia, has served notice of contest on
Stanyarne Wilson, who was returned
as elected to Congress from the 4th
District. Among the charges are !:
The registration of names after July l.,
when the books are required to be
closed conspiracy to prevent the
registration of Republicans the voting
of unregistered Democrats high bar
ricades at the polling places; prevent
lug free and open elections the un-
consti,utionality. State and Federal. of
the registration law, and the ilIegality
| of the Wilson ballots, because they did