The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1896-01-22

The sale otlerllllZerS continues 10 be n laTec
voInme. nnd il seems tolegone conclusion
that there viii he .n immense cotton crop
made unless lhe season should prove disas-
trous to the crop The price OF cotton next
tall will lie low in proportion TO the SIZE OF
the crcp.
The City Council has ordered t.so a,i(:i-
tiornl arc lighis 10 be put up by The Electric
Light Co. One wall be erected AZ tie corner
of Liberty and Washington streets, the Other
at Tie cogaer Of Republican and Church
streets Samler is already The he3! lighted
town in The State aai will continue 10 be- Tor
additions are made 10 The number oi lights al
frequent intervals
There was = small fire tt the resileuce OF Mrs
Mrs Emma DeLorme early Saturday morning.
The fire started under the hearth Ia one OF
the bed rooms and had nuTnt a small hole
in the floor before it WAS discovered. Tue
fire was rXiinguishei without much trouble.
The damage will be covered by q snail
amount TIE house had narrow escape
from destruction, and had the fire not been
discovered just al The right lime, the damage
would have been much greater.
Mr. W E Lea one OF the regular tobacco
buy ers ou this market, shipped Car load OF
tobacco to a Danvile manufacturer Satur-
day morning
Cona,y Sa 9ervisoc Dinkins has completed
an Inspection of all tie railroad crossings on
the public roads il the county He found
the crossings il fist class condition, with
few exceptions.
The record Of Tie increase in The tobacco
acreage in Sumte: couaty has nos raache.:
80 scrss, a Is yet veTy Incomplete From
the data now obta!nable, the increase IN to-
b: 20 acreage IN this county Will not ne
uudereslItaated at coo acres.
Very little interest has BEEN n.anfesleA II
tue approaching special municipal election
There are no regularly announced candidates,
aud all that the voters Will have 10 90 on Is u
few ioformai suggestions.
The losses paid by insurance companies 10
indemnify policy holders il Sumter and
ceeded $40, coo. The insurance companies
did NOT make very much money on their busi
ness in this section in 1895, nevertheless there
must be a large prcGt in the insurance bus:-
ness or The companies would not contlnue TO
accept The risks. 1t is true, however, that
great many Ok the old line companies are caa-
ceiling all country risks. and property own
ers are having some difficulty in obtaining
insurance on their country property.
TIE contract has not been awarded for the
construction of the new tobacco warehouse.
The plans and specifications have been pre-
pared and the contractors are q. work on
their estimates.
The circus advertised ioigive a perform
,,,na bara SoturS arrjva1 Erjdev kOt
the performance was not given, as the license
fee charged by the city is $500 and a little
more than this circus cared TO pay. This Is
the same aggregation that was published in
the News and Courier as gang of taklcs.
The City Coupcil is looking into The matter
Of licenses, aud before they have tiniShed the
Investigation that has been started, some
Interesting Developments may result. Tie
reason for the present complication Is that
several persons have transacted business
under one license, although each Of theEa
should have paid a separate license.
Mr Geo F. Epperson has sent TO this office
a specimen of the corn he raises on his farm
near this city II !s one large ear and SIX
smaller ears, each Of which was enclosed
within single shuck. With the corn specl-
men came the message from Mr.. Epperson that
it was Que Of seven from = single stalk OF
corn. Seven large ears 70 a stalk is hAe
yield but when farmer raises seven large
ears and forty-two small ears TO the stalk be
is ge'ling in fair way TO break The record.
No one ever thought of introducing so
expensive q feature as hhoraphlc color work
in the days w hen the leading magazines sold
for $500 year and IS cents q copy. But
times change, and the magazines change with
them 1t has remained for The Cosmopoli-
tan, sold at one dollar year, to put in an
extensive iihographic plant capable OF prln-
ting $40, 900 pages per day zone coor). The
January issue presents as f:outispiece u
water-color drawing by Eric Pape, iluStrat-
ing the last story by Robert Louis Stevenion,
which has probably never been exceld even
in the pages of the finest dollar French
periodicals. The cover OF The Cosmopolitan
is also changed, a drawing OF page length
by the famous Paris artist Rossi, in litho
grape colors on white paper takes the place
OF the MANILA back with is red stripe. Here
after the cover is to be a fresh surpgish each
mouth.
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