The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1897-03-31

The Sumter Tobacco Warehouse Company
has not yet announced whether the Planters
Warehouse will be rebuilt 10 time 10 han
die this years. crop. The old warehouse will
be open, however. and foil corps of buyers
will be on band when the season opens
Sumter ie in the ring as tobacco market
aod it will take more than Ere TO knock
ber out
Mr M. F. Nixoo, proprietor Of the Nixon
House, last Thursday osed a contract with
Messrs. Lorick l. Lowrance, of Columbia, for
the lease of the Columbia Hotel The hotel
is to be thoroughly mo1eruizad and return
ished in handsome style 1t will he steam
heated and an electric light plant will be put
in to light tie entire bulldog The plans
that have been agreed on by the owners and
Mr. Nixon provide for such extensive im.
provemeut that it is an assured fact that Co.
unbia will have one Ct the handsoDest and
best hotels in the State. Mr Nixon needs
no Recommendation or Introduction, for be is
known to all traveliog men aud none men
ton him or the Nixon E.ouse except in terms
of oiRhest commendation The Nixon House
unde: his management has been model of
exec Ience in service snc comfort and ii is no
idle prediction to say that the Columbia
Hotel will be second to TO hotel in the State
in any respect and that ars por ularity will be
EQUAL TO its merits The Nixon House will
be continued IN this city under Mr Ni1on's
management and the service will be as in the
past, the very best thai care and attention,
guided by experience, can provide for the
comfort Of guests. he does not expect to
open 10 Columbia until uext Fall.
Magistrate Wells had a great time 10 his
court Thursday, aud the crowded conGitit
of the ball of justice wss such the Sign OF
full house and no standing room would have
been appropriate The case was entered on
the docket as Jacksoo VI. Benefit, and Was
concerning an ox-the same one that Consta-
BILE Winn drove from Providence 10 Sumter
in FIVE hours short tim. ago. The attorneys
retained in the case were L. D. Jennings,
ESQ aud |. c. Strauss, E:q ard it goes
without saying that they lahored diligently
10 see their clients r;ahed The ccse came
up first in the forenoon before his Honor
Judge Wells, aud WAS fought. 10 finish, but
the points at issue were found TO be so COR
hictiug and the legal arguments so convioc-
ing, that bis Honor decided tha, be could not
render verdict in fayo- of eth liIigAn1, so
he ordered mistrial an6 summoned
jury aud proceeded without delay to
have re-trlal in the afternoon. TIE contest
was closer and more vigorous as the witnesses
and attorneys warmed to he fray Each
point was brought out in full and then elu-
cidated and aDpl6sd With q wealth of legal
lore, drawn from raauy NASTY tones of ar
cent and modern jnrisis Bat the jury like
the OK in questoa would neither re lead nor
driven, and mistral was the result The
date Of the third trial was rot ade known
bat it sill be held in due season, and sbeo
legal fracas of large Dimensions is Inevitable.
It is related that case concerning an OK was
in the courts for twenty years, aud that t~o
wealthy farmers Impoverished themselves 10
paying costs and attorneys fees. Perhaps
the itgants in this cause may take warning
and not protrsct the OK case 10 such length,
but there is 20 telling, for they are deeply in