The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1897-03-24

The popular occupation last Friday was
the reading of the N. Y. World and Journal
The people want the most minute particulars
of the great prize fight.
Why will you buy bitter nauseati1g tonics
when Groves Tasteless Chill Tonic is as
pleasant as Lemon Syrup. Your druggist IS
authorized to refund the money in every case
where'it fails to cure. Price, Sc cents.
Sumter is credited with three dispensary
coostables in the re-orga lied force, nut as
matter of fact oolv one is Sumter coaDty
man The other two were brought to
Sumter as members of the old force.
Mr. W. l.. Dick, son of Mr.. W. W.
Dick, Of this city, has cen elected as junior
orator TO represent the Euphradian Society
in the annual oratorical contest to be beld
during commencement week at Davidson col.
lege.
Mouoghan Hose Co. was called out twice
Friday by the accidental ringing of the
electric alarm bell in the reel house. The
wire was in contact with telephone wires
which c45sed the false alarm.
s'Succpas is the reward of merit" not OF
assumption. Popular appreciation is Whit
tells in the long run For City years, people
have been using Ayers Sarsa parilla, and tc.
day it is the blood-prri6er most in favor with
the puslic. Ayers Sarsapa'ila cures
The roads throughout the county are re-
ported to he in fearful condition and are
impaesab'e in places In the vicinity Of this
city the condition Of the roads is fully as bad
as elsewhere, especially where work has been
done recently and the road bed has not bad
time to settle and become hard. They have
been cut up by heavy hauling until they are
little better than bog boles.
Exper' judges have recorded the opinion
that the worst piece of road in Sumter Csun-
~ is tha, section of the Mayesville road lying
between the point where the c. S & N. track
crosses Liberty Street and the track of the
W. C. & A. R. R As this road is in the City
limits, the attention Of the City Council is
respectfully directed thereto.
Dr. Steele's lecture, ''Home Life in Dixie
during the late war, was delivered Thursday
night in lhe Methodist Church before large
and appreciatige audience The lecture was
a narrative of the personal experience and
observations Of The speaker as boy 90
plantation in Mississippi during the war, and
while intensely interesting was full of haror.
The Doctor has pleasing and remarkably
clear voice, aud spoke for fully two houra,
during which time rot a word spoken bs
him could not have been herd BY those in
the most distant parts Of The building. The
closing part of the lecture, descriptive OF
"Dixe,'' was especially fac, and charmed
the entire audience.
The inaocal difficulties under which Mr.
R. P. Monaghan has lahored for several
months psst cumioated Thursday and his
store was closed bv be Sheriff. Mr.. Mona
CHAN has been engaged in the general ner-
chandise business for many years, succeeding
his father who was Que of the old merchants
of Sumter. His business was one of the
larges, in the city, aud was considered one OF
the best paying of all the lien merchants, but
the poor collections of the last few years so
crippled him that the final collap:e WAS in
evitable. TIE failure of Hr Monaghan has
caused sincere regret throughout the COM
munite, for no business man in the city was
more highly esteemed or personally more pop
ular. He has the sympathy Of all his ass5
ciates in his trouble and it is the general hope
that his 6na. cial embarrassment MAJ be but
temporary Mr.. Monaghan has been sick
since about the middle Of December and un-
able to leave his room. and this probably has
bad much to do WITH bringing about the
failure, which otherwise might have been
aver;ed