The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1895-04-24
NOTES.

The Sumter Manufacturing Company
is a good thing. Push 1T along
It would be an embarrassing coodi-
ton of affairs if Gov. Evans should be
ruled for contempt BY Judge Gof.
The rise 10 the price of oil is said to
be due to the organization Of a world
wide monopoly.
The phosphate business has been
overdone, as the shutting down of the
largest mines 10 Florida proves.
The Chinese indemnify of Two huo-
dred million tael will be paid 10 silver.
and in consequence of the demand for
the white metal the price is advancing
Egypt was best known iu ancient
times as the home Of Cleopatra, at pre-
sent for the large exports Of Onions, aud
both are rather malodorous.
IF a saving Of $4,000 per year can
be effected By the expenditure Of
$40 10 Increasing the efficiency of
the Ere department. would it not be
good business to make the expenditure!
We are glad to learn on the authority
of Gov. Evans that there is and has
been no trouble at Clemson College. 1t
is an institution that should be kept
clean Of trouble and politics.
Gov. Evans has employed General
Edward MoCrady to assist in defending
the Registration Law. Every time the
Reformers get into a tight place they
call in some Conservative to help them
out.
What disposition will be made of the
buodreds Of poll tax deliDquents !!
There is not room for them In Jail,
where many of them would like to
speed the summer.
The meeting Of the State Press
ASSOCIATION will be a much bigger
thing for Sumter than is generally be-
lieved. There will be between fifty
and a hundred newspaper men attend
ing this, the twentieth annual meeting.
and We should make an extra effort TO
show Sumter at her best.
Columbia is making an effort TO OBJ
tain the Epworth Orphange, and With
fair prospects Of success it the required
So, 900 can be raised. The City Attor-
ney has said however, that the
city cannot legally appropriate that sun
for the purpose.
The trade journals have been report
ing a revival Of business and a more
healthy tone for some weeks, but as yet
uei,her the revival nor the tone has
made itself felt in this section Of the
South.
It is with pleasure that we announce
today that Mr.. Clark Howell, editor
in-cbief of the Atlanta Constitution,
will attend the meeting of the Press
Association, and will deliver the annual
address before that body. Mr.. Howell
is a young man, but as the editor OF
the foremost Southern paper. is one of
the most prominent men Of the country.
The temporary Injunction Of Judge
GoE against the execution of certain
sections Of the Dispeusary Law that 10
.erfere With Interstate commerce, II
made permaoent, will bring the Law be-
fore the Uoited States Supreme Court,
aud those sections will be decided finally.
For the present matters will remain
practically unchanged, as it is distinctly
stated tbat 10 the event of the loJunc-
ton being dissolved those persons who
bring liquor into the State will be liable
to arrest aud prosecution.
The concerts Of the Choral Society OF
Columbia, which are to be given IN the
ball of the House of Representatives on
next Wednesday evening aud Thursday
afternoon aud eseniog, will be events of
the first magnitude in musical circles,
.,d u;)l he we'll worth a trip to Colum.