The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1896-11-11

The Peoples Ice Go. will be ready to sup.
ply ice when warm weather comes again.
The morning train for Columbia left the
depot yesterday with fonr extra coaches at
tached.
Pocabontas Tribe, I. O. R. NJ, is adopting
pale faces in large numbers. Several were
taken into sbe tribe last Friday night.
The State and Federal commissioners of
election net in the Court House yesterday and
commenced t1bulasiug the election returns.
The sportsmen are killing a great many
partridges now, bat the pot hunters rre said
to be oagging birds in even greater numbers.
The street hands have recently been at
work 90 Main street aud toe portion be-
tween Bartlett street and the depot has been
temporarily improved.
Mr.. 3. K DeLorme, o. 3ennettsyile, is an
extremely sick man and his condition causes
serious appreheasions in The niods of his
many friends in this city.
Cotton receipts are failing off every week
and it is the opinion of cotton buyers that
there is very little more in the country, except
what the large planters aud country mer-
chants are holding.
Horace Jackson, colored, was tried by
Magistrate Wells Friday for disPosing Of
property under mortgage He was convicted
and sentenced to pay 6ne of fifteen dollars
or serve forty days Oh the chain gang.
The 6nes trrned into the city treasury from
sbe Mayors court aggregate nearly as much
as in the palmiest days Of the barroom sys-
tenn. The model moral Institution is dcing q
rushing drunk and disorderly business
The Charleston Post says that Col. R. n .
Wallace will be candidate for appointment
as Collecto: of Customs at that port The
same paper says that Capt. T. B Johnston is
reported to be candidate for U. S. Marshal
or Collector of the port; that is, he will take
either of the two that he can get.
Mr.. E. W. A. Bultman has given Delgar
Reel Squad the Use o8his hall for the Bazar
to be held on the evening of the Is instant
The members of the squad appreciate the
liberality of Mr.. Bultmap, as it was volnn-
tary contribution on his part toward the sue
Gees of the Bazaar.
Delgar Reel Squad has, as yet, taken no
action on the challenge of the Florence reel
team, but it is probable that it will be
ignored entirely. Delgar Squad will, how
ever, always be represented in all contests
held in this State, and Florence will be af-
forded an opportunity of making good some
of the big talk now being INDUCED in.
The Sumter Cotton Oil Mill Co.. has been
buying seed ever since the opening of the
cotton season and now has large stock on
baud As soon as the remainder of the
piaot has been put in place the machinery
will be set in motion and oil making will
be commenced.
Magistrate Wells committed a negro named
Nance to Jail last Thursday under an indct-
ment for highway robbery. Nance held up
two little negro boys on the public road
about mile from this city, and drawing a
pistol on them, compelled them to give him
a dollar apd half. Mace has been il: the
courts before, and has an uusavory rsputa-
tiop.
A large banging lamp fell in ore Of the
rooms of the Sumter Club Thursday pightand
in nomen,tbs floor was covered with blazing
oil. Mr.. L. s. Carson picked up The lamp on
the eni: Of billiard cue and threw it out of
the window, and the burning oil was ez-
tingnished before any damage was done. The
accident created some excl:emen: io the cub
rooms, but it was all over so quick that no