The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1895-02-06

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raj reduction OF rates will undoubtedly
be good thing for all. but right now
reduction of fertilizer rates would
be great help to the farmers. The
railroads could not have obtained any
thing more favorable to then. than the
postponement, for by the time tie ques-
ton can be taken up and the proposed
general reduction made the fertilizer
season will be over aud the money
paid for freights in ID" hands of the
railroads. What the farmers need and
want is present relief, not bright prom
ises of what they msy get IL the
future.
Every day We hear of men who will
plant to bacco this year for the first time.
The crop will be largely increased in
this county, and the announcement that
warehouse will be built here has done
more to stimulate the farmers to plant
tobacco than any other single thing.
We trust those who plant the weed will
be successful. They must expect to
give the crop the closest aBd most in-
telligent care or they will fail to realize
The profit they hope to obtain. A to-
bacco crop can be the most complete
and expensive failure imaginable.
The Greenville Ne~s saysthat the feel
ing of the mem bers Of the military coo-
panies is against re- enlis'iug under the
new law, and that the indications arc
that so few of them will be willing to
take the oath that both companies will
be disbanded. This is what we an
ticipated We do not believe that one
fifth of the men WOO have kept up the
volunteer companies during the past
ten or more years will take the requir-
ed oath aud re-enlist.
A Cincinnati girl-aud We imagine
she was stylish girl, for she wore side
combs 10 her hair-came to grief the
Other day while crimping her hair.
While leaning over the lamp the heat
iguited one of her celluloid side combs
and her hair was abalze in second.
If her father bad not come to her assis-
tance she would have lost her life.
AS it was she will have to get wig
IL she wishes to wear side combs again
soon.
The few hills of cassava planted last
year by Mr.. W. A. Spann, Of Provi-
dence, has excited more interest than
any incident that has happened in this
county iu long time. The article
published in the Watchnaan and South
ron 10 reference TO his success 10 culti-
vatiDg this tropical plant has been ex-
tensively quoted, and may be the
means of securing the erection of a
large starch factory in Sumter. We
are in receipt of another letter of in
quiry iu reference to the starch factory.
and we believe that it Gao be secured
for Sumter by little effort.
Several of the truest Democratic
papers in the South are demanding an
issue Of greeubacks as means to de-
feat the schemes Of the capitalists who
are aaxious to multiply the bonded
debt of the country.
The Radical legislature Of North
Carolina Is moogrel mixture OF galVa-
pized carpet-baggers and populists If
/ the State survives the ordeal without
serious loss and injury it will be great
surprise.
The whiskey trust is wreck, but as
the State of South Carolina is backing
it up with a large patronage. 1t may
pull through after time.
The stand taken By tie Masons of
louisiana against whishey selling oy
mem oers Of the fraternity, is significant
CT the Growth of the temperance senti-
me@1
IDgersoIl's lecture ou Shakespeare is
pronounced rather above the average,
but nothing extraordinary. This is
about the sort of nan Ingresoll is him
self. If it were not for the extensive