The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1895-01-23
CHARLESTON, SUMTER And
NORTHERN RAILROAD CO..
MASTERS SALE
OF RAILROAD.

OE OA1AnOAO
Notice is hereby given that in pursuance OF
Decree of the United States Circuit Court
for the District of South Carolina, dated
January l4th, 1895, and made in the causes
entitled Alfred A. Hewlett vs. The Charleston,
Sumter i Northern Railroad Company, and the
Atlantic Trust Company vs. the Charleston,
Sumter & 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, AID. 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 &
Northern Railroad Company, wherever
situated. including all it's 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 hired lands, leased or hired
railroads, and all its locomotives, tenders,
cars, carriages, trucks and other rolling stock,
its machinery, tools, weighing scales, turn
tables, rails, wood, coal, oil, fuel, equipment,
furniture and material of every name, nature
and description. together with all the cor
porate rights privileges, immuniments and
franchises of the said railroad company, in
GLIDING the franchise to be a corporation,
and all the tolls, fares, Heights, 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 out
and described ia aud by certain mortgage
or deed of trust executed by the Charleston,
Sumter Northern Railroad Company to the
American Loan aud Trnst Company of the
City Of New York, Trustee, dated April End,
1890, and also in the decree in this cause;
and consisting among other things Ct the fol-
lowing railroad lines, to-wit:
All and singular the lines of railroad
owned, constructed and operated by the
Charleston, Sumter b Northern Railroad
Company over the following generally de-
scribed route namely: A line of railroad
which extends from Pregnslls Station on the
line Of the South Carolina Railroad, formerly
known as forty.one mile. station, in the
County Of Colleton, State Of South Carolina,
through HarleyXiAe in said lest mentloped
county Pecks, Holly Hill. Connors and
Eutawviile in the County Of Berkeley in said
State; Bulls and Vances in the County OF
0gangebusg .ip said State; Merriam, ST.
Paul, Summerton, Silver and Packs7ille IN
the County of Clarendon in said State, and
to the City of Sumter in the County of Sum-
ter, aud thence through the Counties. OF Dar-
lington and Marlboro, to or near Benefits
vile in eaid County of Marlboro, in said
State, q distance in all of about one hundred
and twenty-one and lilo miles also line
of railroad which extends from Eutawville
iu the County of Berkeley in said State Of
South Csroliaa, to Ferguson in the County
Of Berkeley. in said State of South Carolina,
distance Of about six miles; also line of
railroad which extends from Vanees, in the
County of Orangeburg, in the State of South
Carolina, through SHELLS aad Parers, IN said
last mentioned County, to Harlin City for
merly Elloree) in said last mentioned County,
distance of about eleven aud two-tenths
miles; and also the line of railroad
known as the Gibson extension or con-
tinuation of the track and other property
of the Charleston, Sumter & Northern Rail.
road Company, such extension or continual
ton, extending from the town ofBennetteville
at the former terminus of the Charleston
Sumter Northern Railroad, to point IN
the State of South Carolina, near the line
dividing the State of South Carolina from
the State IF North Carolina, the said point
being about four thousand feet from the
town Of Gibson, in the State Of North Caro-
lima said Gibson extension consisting OF
about ten S5-l00 miles, snd 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 a5ont one hundred and
forty-nine miles of railroad construction, and
in active operation, under and By virtue of
the charter, of the railroad company as now
amended.
The said Master shall receive at such sale
no 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 bis bid in case
Of its acceptance. the sum of $4,000 10
IuODeS OT Uy tluCu SuCCh w oOloS ASoPooo'0
BILE oank, or $50, 900, in Receivers certificates
of the Receiver, of the Charleston, Sumter &
Northern Railroad, or $500, 900 in bonds of
the said Railroad Company. The deposit so
received from any unsuccessful bidder, shall
be returned to him wheo the property shall
be struck down, and the deposit so received
from the successful bidder shall be applied er
account of the purchase price, if cash or Re
cevers certificates then at par, and if bonds
then at proportionate value, as further pro-
vided il this paragraph. Such further pay
ments oo the purchase price, shall be paid IN
cash, as the Court 10 this cause may from
time to time direct and the Court reserves
the right to resell, in this case, the premises
and property herein directed to be sold, upon
the failure Of the purchasers thereof or their
successors, or assigns 10 comply witbln
twenty days with any order of The Court in
that regard, and any defau,ing bidder and
any purchaser who shall detant, shall be
liable to make good any and all expenses aud
any and all deficiency, or loss occasioned by
the properly bringing less price at any
such resale aud the amount so deposited by
such bidder, shall be applied on account
,hereof Provided however that the Dur