The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1895-01-16
CHARLESTON, SUMTER And
NORTHERN RAILROAD CO.
MASTERS SALE
OF RAILROAD.

Notice is hereby given that in pursuance of
Decree of the United States Circuit Court
for the Distric. of South Carolina, dated
January l4th, 1895, and made in the causes
entitled Alfred 4. Hewlett vs. The Charleston,
Sumter l. Northern Railroad Company, and the
Atlantic Trust Company vs.. the Charleston,
Sumter l. Northern Railroad Company, the
undersigned as Special Master, named in the
Decree, will sell for cash at Public Auction,
to the highest bidder, at twelve O'Clock,
noon, at the Depot of the Charleston, Sumter
l. Northern Railroad in the City of Sumter,
IN the State of South Carolina, on the fifteenth
day of FEBRUARY, A.D. 1895, the follow
ing described property Of the Charleston,
Sumter l. Northern Railroad Company:
All and singular the lands: tenements and
hereditaments of the Charleston, Sumter 4
Northern Railroad Company, wherever
situated, including all its railroads, tracks,
right of way, main lines, superstrnctures,
depots, depot grounds, station houses, engine
houses, car houses, freight houses, wood
houses, sheds, watering places, work shops,
machine shops, bridges, viaducts, culverts,
fences and fixtures, together with all its
leases, leased or bired lands, leased or hired
railroads, and all its locomotives, tenders,
cars carriages, trucks and other rolling stock,
its machinery, tools, weighing scales, turD-
tables, rails, wood, coal, oil, fuel, equipment,
furniture and material Of every name, nature
and description, together with all the cor
2orate rights privileges, iumunlments and
franchises Of the said railroad company, in
cuding the franchise to be a corporation,
aud all the tolls, fares, freights. rents, in-
come, issues and profits thereof, and all the
reversion and reversions, remainder and re-
mainders thereof.
The said property being more fully set ou.
or deed of trust executed by the Charleston,
Sumter & Northern Railroad Company to the
American Loan and Trust Company Of the
1890, and also in the decree in this cause;
and consisting among other things of the fol-
lowing railroad lines, to-wit:
All and singular the lines of railroad
owned, constructed and operated by the
Charleston, Sumter 4 Northern Railroad
Company over the following generally de-
scribed route, namely: A line of railroad
which extends from Pregnalls Station on the
line Of the South Carolina Railroad, formerly
known as forty-ope mile station, in the
County CT Colleton, State of Scatb Carolina,
through Harleyville in said last mentioned
county Pecks, Holly Hill, Connors and
Eutawville in the County of Berkeley in said
State Bulls and Vauces in the County Of
Orangeburg in said State; Merriam, ST.
Paul, Summertop, Silver and Packsville in
the County of Clarendon in said State, and
TO the City of Sumter in the County of Sum-
ter, and thence through the Counties of Dar-
lington and Marlboro, to or near Benpetts-
vile in said County of Marlboro, in said
State, distance in all Of about one hundred
and twenty-one and lilo miles also line
of railroad which extends from Eutawville
in the County of Berkeley in said State of
South Carolaa, to Ferguson in the County
ef Berkeley. in said State Of South Carolina,
distance Of about six miles; also line of
railroad which extends from Vances, in the
County of Orangebnrg, in the State of South
Carolina, through Smell, aad Parlers, in said
last mentioned County, to Harlin City (for-
merly Eloree) in said last mentioned County,
distance of about eleven and two-tepths
miles; and also the line of railroad
known as the Gibson extension or con-
tiuuation of the track and other property
of the Charleston, Sumter l. Northern Rail
road Company, such extension or continna-
ton, extending from the town ofBennetteville
at the former terminus of the Charleston
Sumter 4 Northern Railroad, to point in
the State of South Carolina, near the line
dividing the State of South Carolina from
the State of North Carolina, the said point
being about four thousand feet from the
town OF Gibson, in the State of North Caro-
lioa; said Gibson extension consisting of
about ten S5-l00 miles, and having been con-
structed by the Receiver Of the Charleston,
Sumter & Northern Railroad, with funds of
the trust estate, by orders Of the Circuit
Court, of the United States, passed in these
causes; the entire railroad lines being alto
gether distance of about one hundred and
forty-nine miles ofrailroad construction, aud
10 active operation, under and by virtue Of
the charter, of the railroad company as now
amended.
The said Master shall receive at such sale
10 bid of less than the sum of four hundred
thousand dollars, and shall receive no bid
from any person offering to bid, who shall
not first deposit with him as pledge, that
such bidder will make good his bid in case
of iis acceptance, the sum of $4,000 IN
money or by certified check on some response.
BILE bank, or $40, 1000. in Receiver S certificates
of the Receiver, of the Charleston, Sumter 4
Northern Railroad, or 5000, 600 in bonds of
the said Railroad Company. The deposit 80
received from any unsuccessful bidder, shall
De returned to him when the property shall
be struck down, aud the deposit 80 received
from the successful bidder shall be applied On
account of the purchase price, If cash or Re-
ceivers certificates then at Par, and if bonds
then at proportionate value, as further pro-
vided in this paragraph. Such further pay
mems 90 the purchase price, shall be paid in
cash, as the Court in this cause may from
time 70 time direct, and the Court reserve,
tbel t to resell, in this case, the premises
and pl ,perty herein directed to be sold, upon
the failure Of the purchasers thereof or their
successors, or assigns to comply within
twenty days with any order of the Court in
that regard, and any defaulting bidder and
any purchaser who shall default, shall be
liable to make good any and all expenses aud
any and all deficiency, or loss occasioned by
the property bringing less price at any
such resale, and the amount 80 deposited by
snch bidder. shall be applied on account