The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1895-07-24

A large number of boys have lots OF sport
behind the food gates at Blandings mill
every afternoon.
A fine lot of attractions is being booked
for the Opera House this season. The mana
gers say that they will have the best on the
road and the best that have ever visited Sum-
ter.
Capt. A. C. Phelps and SIR. H. D. Noise
were before the mayor Saturday for rid
ing on the streets without lamps attached to
their bicycles They plead guilty aud were
fined 81 each.
Mr. Abe Schultz, of Newbern, n. c., has
rented one OF the stores III the McGuiones
block and will open general merchandise
business in September. It is said that be will
carry large stock cf goods and proposes to
make an effort 10 obtain share Of the trade.
The politicians are busly discussing the
situation in this county and already DOT less
than forty different opinions have been ad.
vanced Some of the politicians have four
or Eve different opinions, and none amount
to anything.
Dspensary patrons are already beginning
TO call for that l ! cents u half pint whiskey.
Dispenser Lee has not received the new price
list and until he does the old scale will be
adhered TO. The best be can do for the fel.
low who wants cheap drink is half pint
for fifteen cents.
James Montgomery, sixteen year old ne
gro boy, who has been an inmate of the Poor
House for some length of time, went crazy
last week and was so violent that it was
ho He
was accordingly sent over to Columbia
Sunday where: he was admitted to the
Asylum.
Sol Williams, negro boy apparently
about eighteen or nineteen years old, was
arrested Monday morning by Policeman Week:
and committed 10 the Guard House. The
boy stole TWO turkeys from the premises Of
Richard Thompson on Saturday night, and
sold them for one dollar. Since his arres,
he has confessed bis guilt and pleads in
e1tenuation that he was hungry. He claims
Florence as his home, and says that be has
been in Sumter less than two weeks.
An excursion train of FIVE coaches came up
from Charleston Monday morning. With the
exception OF ten or fifteen white people, the
crowd of excursloaists was composed entire.
Is of negroes. a very large crowd of ne
groes were at the depot 10 meet the train aud
when the excursonists poured of the packed
coaches there was jam on the platform that
sivaled circus dsys, when old John Robin
son and his show was the boss attraction.
The excur.onis,s brought a band along,
and headed by this they marched up Main
Stree. and scattered over the city.
A seven year old son of Dan Davis, a
coored labor employed at the mill Of the
Lukens Lumber Co., fell into The trough into
which the no. water pipe from the dry kiln
discharges and was terribly scaded Thurs
l.ay afternoon. The trough was flled with
boiling water and Que arm and side of the
10Y WAS 20 severely burned thai the skin peeled
of. ia .arge flakes. lie WAS almost crazed
with pain, and jumping from: the boiling
water be ran to The Ice Factory rear by and
syrang la;o . barrel OF cold water in The vain
etfor, to ulieyis;e the terrible PAIN tina, he was
suffering The boy is slll suffering intense
paio, Dat II is hoped that he Will recover
from his injuries.
That Tired Feeling should be overcome at
once or it may end most seriously Take
Hood 5 Sarsaparlila BOW and prevent sickness
and suffering later in the season.