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The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1895-09-11
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Attempt to Wreck a Train.

FLORENCE, September e.-An attempt was
made last night on the Wilmington, Colum.
bia and Augusta Railroad TO wreck train No.
35, the fast mail from the North, due here AT
3 O'Clock this morning. The spikes were
pulled from the entire length on the outside
of pne .hirty-foot rail leaving nothing out
the 6sh bar clamps to hold it. The rai was
then pressed out about six inches from its posi-
ton. Fortunately pedestrian noticed the
wcnld-ne death trap and reported it TO the
operator at Pee-Dee, who reported it to head
quarters. The trains over that road were
ordered last night to run carefully and keep
sharp look out for traps. The place where
the trap wss set last night was at the south
end of the Zig Pee-Dse trestle, twelve miles
north Of here. Had the train not been stop
ped by the operator a, Pee Dee the result
would have been horrible, as At that point
trains usually run at the rate of sixty miles
40 hour.
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Scholarships For the South Caro-
lima Co-Educatlonal Institute,
Will1ston, s. c.

W. h.ve decided 10 offer one scholarship Of
free tuition 10 each county in this State and
one scholarship worth $l0O TO toe State At
large Those who win the free tuition schol-
arship can attend the Sonth Caroliaa Co
Educational Institute tn, entire session Of
nine months for S72 25. This amount will
cover all expenses except books and clothing.
The winoer of the Sl0o scholarship csn attend
the South Carolina Co-Educational Institute
the entire session of nine months by payiog
the small fee of S25 co. THIS will cover all
expenses except books and clothing. Those
who win scholarships will have to enter The
Sonhomore class The scholarships Are good
for one session, but if the President sees
proper they may be extended. The School
Commissioner will correct the papers and
send the best paper 10 F. N. X. Bailey, Presi-
dent, South Carolina Co-Educatioua Iosti-
tute, WilIis,on, S. G..
These scholarships are to be obtained by
competitive examinations held by the School
Commissioner of each county. OF the sue
obtaining the highest average shall be award
ed the Sl00 scholarship. The examination
shall consist of questions 10 Spelling, En-
glish Grammar, Arithmetic. Geography and
U. S. History. The examination will take
place in Sumter on the 10Th day Of Sep,eu-
her, ut the School Commissioner Office. 1t
you wish TO try the examination notify the
President of the South Carolina Co-Educa-
,icnal Institute. Respectfully,
F. N. K BAILEY,
Pres. S. C. Co-Educational Institute.
Sept. 4-3t
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HYG1EN1C Precautions.

Now of all times should our citizens see
that their premises are clean, and that all
places where slop, etc., are thrown should be
treated with lime, chloride OF lime, csrbo-
lie acid and similar disinfectants. II weeds
are cut they should be burned AS soon rs dry
and the soil should be disturbed as little as
possible until after frost Care should be
taken about exposure TO the sun and also TO
the uight air, sleeping iu draughs shoaId be
particularly avoided, and people should he
careful what they eat that it should be thor
oughly cooked Such simple precautions
will 20 far to prevent sick kness.
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Revolutionary Soldiers.


Mr. Thomas E. Richardson has furnished
us with the following list Of Revolutionary
pensioners living in 1910, in Sumter District,
So. Ca: Obadiah Spears, aged IS; Redden
M'Coy, aged 80; Jobu China, aged 76; John
James, aged 80; Joseph West, aged 80
William Vaughan, aged 7s; Charles Spsnn,
ST., aged 88; Samuel Higgins, aged 81
John A'Donald, sr., aged 80; Peter Dubose,
aged 70; Ripley Copeland, sr aged ~;
William Mcintosh, aged 76; Samuel Chan.
dler, sr., aged II.
In Kershaw District: Adam Team, aged
7e ; Delilah Williams, aged &C.; Lewis Cook
aged "a; John Steward, aged Sc; Nathaniel
Jones, aged SO; Samuel jones, aged 7s.
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country will be said to be prosperous
but it would be in much better copdl-
ton 10 every respect if those who have
outstanding debts would begin by pay
ing what they owe instead Of buying
quantities Of goods The greatest
draw back 10 the continued and solid
prosperity of this section is the habit of
spending all that is made as soon as it
is made and often before. If the
policy Of buying only what is needed,
saving money for future necessities and
giving debts contracted in the past the
preference over present wants We would
in a short time rid ourselves of the
credit system and attain to solid pros
perity There is too much Of plnchipg,
enforced economy, that ia next akin to
actual want, in years when the crops
are poor, and too much recklessness,
extravagance aud disregard of honest
debts when money is made compare
lively abundant by favorable seasons
and large crops. Debs-payiug has SO
small place in some mems code of
morality as Senator Ingalls, said moral
ity had iu politics. These men eusge
their prosperity by the amount of
their purchases aud the amount Of
debts they can contract and new
er pay. This may ue pros
perisy for the individual, but it is
the reverse to the unfortunate creditor,
and is injurious to the last degree to the
true business interests Of the country.
We would great deal rather see this
year marked by general debt paying
than by the largest volume Of trade.
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Revolutionary Pensioners.
SUMTER, S. c., Sept. 10th, lse

SUMTER, S. c., Sept. lob, 1895
Mr.. Editor:-Since the publication Of the
list of Revolutionary Pensioners" haoded
you few days since, our worthy mayor,
Capt. B. G. Pierson, has kindly furnished
me With the following particulars in regard
to one of them, whose funeral at Midway
church, was the first funeral be ever attended.
William Mcintosh wss born April 7th,.
1854, joined Marion's brigade when but II
years of age, and died June 23d, ls43, agea
70 years.
would like very much Indeed to obtain as
full particulars as possible in regard to each
and every one of those old heroes, as we'll as
in regard to every other Revolutionary sold
ier. Such information would be interesting to
your readers generally and prove valuable
additions to the history of Old Sumter Dis.
trict. A list of the privstes, the men who
bore the burden and heat of the day during the
Revolutionary War has never been published.
They fought, bled and died for our country
and gained our independence, and their
names and deeds should not be allowed to
psss into oblivion, ''unhoxoysd and ansung, .
neither should the memories of our Revolu-
,iouary graudmothers be forgotten. They
did their duty nobly while their husbands
were in the field, and in their own particular
way helped also to fight the battles of cur
country. Respectfully yours,
THos. 4. RICHARDSON.
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Notice to Exhibitors.

We have been requested by Mrs. Kershaw
to give notice 10 the ladies Of the city and
country who propose to exhibit anything at
the Atlanta Exposition that after Thursday
of this week it will be too late to arrange to
forward their exhibits, and that all who de-
sire TO send an exbibi, will please notify her
IN person or through the mail BY Thursday.
Mrs. Kershaw will then arrange 70 collect,
pack aud forward the exhibits from Sumter
county, which must be in Atlanta by the
l7th, the opening day.
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The Weekly Bulletin.

WASHINGTON. Sept. 10 The follow
iog is the weekly weather crop bulletin
issued by the weather bureau:
South Caroioa-Hot and dry week !;
bolls opening rapidly aud picking gen.
eral except III western portions few
boil worms reported.
Georgia-Favorsble week for crops
and farm work rainfall scattered. but
generally sufficient: cotton opening
rapidly and picking becoming gen neral,
except 10 most northsrly counties );
shedding and rusting still reported, but
no insects
Florida Rainfall deficient and week
favorable for harvesting cotton still
zavaged by rust; is generally in unsat.
isfactory condition :; it is opening rap
idly on highlands.
Acknowledgements high and
showers frequent. though conditions
more favorable for cotton than for
some time past: lover crop Of cotton
opening rapidly and picking becoming
general. but slow on account of dam-
age by worms. rust aud rot, top crop
back ward.
NIississippi-No material Improve
mept 10 condition Of cotton. Paris
green add other stuff being successful
ly used 10 some sections to check raw
ages Of worms and other insect pests
Louisisna-Week hot and sunshiuy,
With showers on the Bird. but only sea-
tered showers siuce cotton opening
rapidly and picking general; some
damage frou worms; poisoning con-
tinues
Texas-The weather has been favor
able for cotton picking. which has pro-
gressed rapidly worms and other in-
sects are damaging cotton in some To-
ca!ities; rain is needed for late cotton.
misunderstanding Of cotton re-
mains unchanged except in northeast
section. where it has improved /; COM
plants of rust. shedding aud boil
worms continue, and the army worm
has appeared in localities (; cotton open
ing fss, aud picking will become gene
raj within two weeks.
Tenuessee-Drougbt IT. extreme west
ern portions seriously affe"'ed cotton.
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Sent it to His Mother in Germany

Mr. Jacob Esbensen, who is in the employ
Of the Chieszo Lumber Co, at Des Moines,
Iowa, says: 81 have just sent some medicine
back to my mother IN the old country, that l
know from personal use to be the best medi-
cine in the world for rheumatism, having
used it 10 my family for several years. II IS
called Chamberlain Pain Balm. 1t always
does the work. so cen, bottles for sale by
Dr. A. J. China.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1895-09-11

In spite of the lack Of special signals from
the Weather Bureau, everything indicates
the fact that that we are nearing the autumn
al equinox Heavy clouds, great atDospher-
ic moi5ture, tropical rsinfalls and sudden
thunder storms all point to the prevalence OF
the dreaded season of gales and foods We
trust that we shall be spared any unusual
inhiction of the kind this season.
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ern portions seriously affe"'ed cotton.

Ayers Hair VIqor tones q: 'e weak bair-
roots, stimulates the vessels tissuea which
supply the hair with nutri1i u, strengthens
the hair itself, and adds the Oil which keeps
the shafts SOFT lustrous, and silky. The mos,
popular and valuable toilet preparation in the
world
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1895-09-11
Gin. Grist Mill and Rice Huller.

Messrs. ". E. and J. l. BruDson have put
up at their foundry and machine shop cot
ton gin, grist mill aBd Rice Huller, and after
September lst will be prepared TO turn out
6rst-class work from each machine. Charges
reasonable, and prompt dispatch given. Try
them
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1895-09-11

Messrs N. F. Nixon and J. A. Sch werin
will open first class restaurant at the old
Brunson House within Few weeks. II Will
be handsomely furnished and everything will
be run in the best style.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1895-09-11

The Princeton Sack will be woro
good deal this season It is ioog
4.Bu,ton Cu,away Sack. square shou!-
ders. corset waist ard perfect 6ttiog 10
every respect. have them OF the
most popular fabric
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1895-09-11

The Sumter Watcamon was founded
in 1850 aud the True Southrom iu 1856.
The Watchnso,, and Soushrom now has
the combined circulation and influence
of both of the old papers, and is mani
festly the best advertising medium in
Sumter
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1895-09-11

Hoods Pills are the best family cathartic
and liver medicine. Harmless, reliable, sure.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1895-09-11

The new county sgisators will spare
no effort to have the constitutional area
reduced 90 that they may form counties
of which ambitious and growing towns
will be the center. Smaller counties
are desirable, but there will be no sense
or reason in multiplying the division
infinitely. Nearly all the growing
towns and villages iu the State have
an ambition to become Court House
towns, and if this ambition should be
grati6ed in every INSTANCE there woald
be twice as many counties in the State
az there now are. Wherever major
ity of the residents within the territory
Of the proposed oew counties will be
seusibly benefited and desire the for
nation of new county it will be we'll
to create new county. But where the
desire for new county is confined to
town and will not be beneficial to the
residents of the territory. no county
should be formed. even tboug b the
ambitious town will guarantee to
donate all necessary public buildings
without cost to the new county.
There are various ways Of estimat-
ing the prosperity Of individuals aud of
the country as a whole. Many guage
prosperity by the amount of goods a
man purchases but We believe the
truest estimate is to be made from the
pumber of debts man pays. There
will be large trade this fall, aud the
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-10-26
CAUSE FOR EIGHT.

The dispatches from the cities along
the Puget Sound, from Seattle and Ia
coma shows that there is much feeling
over England's attempt to change the
boundary line OF Alaska in her own in
tereSt. The spirit of the people of the
northwest seems that of 1S4I when il
was ''Fffty-fOur forty or fight" and
there promises TO be more than silent
opposition 10 the annexation by British
Columbia of the richest and most yalu-
able portion of Alaska, as is proposed
England some fifteen years ago drew
an arbitrary ''Schonburg line
through Benin channel. instead of
Portland channel, where il has been
admitted 10 have been for over a hun
dred and tweury years. and prolong ed
II northward 50 as 10 deprive the
United States of strip Of land over
sixty miles wide. cutting of the heads
OF several important estuaries and thus
giving England access to the rich min
ing fields Of the interior. aS well a.
several Islands. Britain knows that
her groundlesS claim must be recogniz-
ed before the ciosse OF this adInini.s1ra-
ton. il at ali. hence the haste with
which the commissioners have been
urged 20 establish plausible boundary
line nearer the coast
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-10-26
A CUBAN REPUBLIC.

The insurgents of Cuba have dis
appointed their friends in America by
the constitution which they have sub
mitted as proposed fundamental law.
A government under the instrument
submitted would be a Republican gov
eminent in no sense. 1t would be a
hierarchy, the rule of a ring, more
despotic than could be that of a king
A cabinet" no make laws, which the
Judiciary would be authorized to con-
end and soon. There can be no such
a thing as a free government where the
ultimate power is not vested in the
electorate. The people must say, and
Such a Republic as their proposed con-
stitution contemplateS would be an
ariStocratic government to all intents,
and such q government would be of no
advantage TO Cuba or to the United
States in their commercial relations.
There would be no end of trouble be-
tween the two countries over their
trade. If the people of Cuba should
win in the present rebellion and should
then adopt the proposed constitution
they would in Stultifying themselves
prove to the world that they We're not
capable of government. Better a
king and independence of Spain, than a
so-called Republic ruled by a cabal
called a cabinet"
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-10-26
JIM LANE WAS RIGHT.

The Union Pacific railway muddle
will be up in congress for some kind Of
settlement this winter. 1t is in the
hands of receiver, and owes millions
of dollars additional to the immense
sum due the government Henry
Kirke White of Chicago, has compiled
history Of the road, which will prove
valuable reference book for congress
men and senators. One fact brought
out by the book has generally been
forgotten in the discussions and
charges and Onslaughts, in a political
way, INDUCED in in the past few years.
At the time the subsidy was valid the
leading statesmen at the time declared
that if granted it would never be re-
paid and they did not expect or hope
for any such thing. Messrs. Clark of
New Hampshire, Morrill, of Vermont,
Wilson Of Massachusetts, and others
We're of this opinion. They voted for
the subsidy, not because they thought
that the government would get its
money back, but because they consid-
cred it good investment for the gov
eminent in other ways. The only
senator quoted by Mr.. White who be-
leyed that the road would be a paying
investment was Lane of Kansas. He
was nearer the truth than any of them.
Lane said in 1852 that the road when
completed would be zone of the great
paying thoroughfares Of the world
OF course. he did not contemplate that
six or seven other Pacific railroads
would be built in competition with this
one. 1t was his idea, and that Of the
other senator's Of that period. that there
Womb be only one, and all of them ex-
cept lane thought that that one would
not pay. Yet the UnieB Pacific alone,
with its western termfpus at Ogden,
earned $4,000, 900 gross and $4,000
600 net in the year 1880. and paid divi-
dendS on It's common stock.
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THE VOTER AND HIS PARTY.

The voter. who follows his own party
in all its vicisSitudes in contests with
out, and in all its conflicts in opinion
within, is bound to swallow some
things he doesn't like, some time. Yet,
at the same time if he does remain in
his party, he has the feeling of having
been loyal. But if man breaks away
from his party, either in grievance or
temper and finds later that hesshas
made a mistake, he has neither the
feeling of having been loyal or the
feeling of having been ordinarily SEN
sible
Just as sure as the AUTHORIZATION.
pro-Wichfta voter votes and helps elect
the PopuIist ticket this fall in Sedg-
wick county just So sure viii he see
the day he will regret il.
IL will not take long. The sensible
business man Of Wichita who votes for
the Populists and voting aids in elect
ing them. and lives until next fall, Will
hive to see the men whom he put in of
fee supporting men and measures he.
the business man. utterly despiSeS
One year from today the great national
contest viii be on. Mental giants like
Reed, Mckinley, or Allison and Whit
ney, Carlisle or Cleveland. will be en-
gagged IN conflict, and with one or the
other, the business man OF Wichita
viii take sides. Where then viii the
present Populist aggregation in Wich-
tia he,-taking sides in the great CON
test? No Where then? Battling.
like gnatS. at a. distance. holding them
selves up to ridicule 10 the whole world
by advocating the election OF Coxey or
some such man.
And in the Stste election where will
these PopuiSts stand: Behind Rev
erend Jerry Botkin. the most rahid
PToAihiioniSt that ever trod the sod of
Kansas not excepting John Peter 81.
John Every spare cent from their
Golfers. every spare minute OF their
time, will these PcpuhSts give for the
nomination and election OF Reverend
Jerry Boskin fer governor o. Kan.
Sas> Bo;kin HATES Wichita. He Saeers
at il in all his speeches. Il has lans
been his beast that if he was governor.
he would chain Prohibition 10 W:.hisi
IN a way that would bring il 10 time.
This IS the man the PepuIlst party
OF SedgwicS county VIII be supporting
next year. This is the man Whose
nomination and election yen viii al i
yeu veie foT the ropUlis, ticke; now.
When another year hiss gone. when
che present campaign Is well night for
gotten whea other candidates are sra
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-10-26
THE TEST OF SILVER.

That Bankers association at Atlanta
! might just as appropriately have been
called a goldbug convention, for that
| is what it was. They talked about the
crazy silverites, but some of the GRAZ
| lest talk ever INDUCED in touching
money was perpetrated by the social
ed financiers of that convention. 1t
was nearly all dogmatic clap-trap from
start to finish. The facts Of history
and experience were ignored for the
ipse dixit of bank cashiers and the
like. Argument and evidence were
beneath their notice One Aldredge, a
Dallas. Texas. banker was cheered to
the echo for saying things that he
could have been called down on by a
tyro. He said among other things,
amid great enthusiast n, that the lead
ing nations of the earth, after testing
silver for hundreds of years. volun-
tarily adopted the single gold STAN
dard" Here, then, is a confession
that silver stood the test for hundreds
of years." but there was suddenly and
simultaneously discovery made
twenty years ago that 1T wouldn't
do. But in what respect had silver
failed 90 stand the test? Mr.. Aldredge
calls it "cheap money" But it wasn't
cheap when it was demonetized-it
was made cheap by demonstration.
What single fact could have been truly
oil l,of ieS
forward to excuse the policy of gold
contraction? Had the people suffered
under the test? On the contrary all
the leading gold monometallists admit
that great and general prosperity exist
ed up 10 the year 1873. The reasons
for demonstration, then, were not
found in the condition of silver nor
in the condition of business. 1t was
spirators who reversed the policy that
had stood the test for hundreds of
years" and under which the people
were prospecting when the deed was
done. How has the single gold stan
dard stood the test for its twenty-five
years of life? The leading champions
of gold recommendation all admit that
widespread depression in trade, in
dustry and commerce began with the
very year Of its existence, and with
fluctuations and fitful periods of par
tial recovery have continued to the
present time. Silver triumphantly
stood the test for hundreds of years;
the gold standard has proven a failure
in twenty-five years.