The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1898-01-19
i Rev. Ar. Sublet presched in The Baptist
Chnrch last Sunday morping.

Rev. Ar. Sublet presched in the Baptist
Cbnrch last Sunday morpiog.
negro was arrested Thursday marniug
for reckless riding Of cJcle, and wss SEN
teneed BY the Mayor 10 work on the streets
forr dayB orpay two dollars.
e Registration for the approaching city fruu'.
eipal election 10 starting OF very slowly.
Some psreous have an idea that there is q fee
10 he paid for registering, but that 10 q
mistake The city foots the bill. !
There was big chicken eight in the neigh
neshood of Herrios,s Gross Roads last Ttnrs-
dayand The das before. The main vas between
Richaana aid Kershaw on one side and Sum
ter asd Darlington county cooke on che 9th
"a There VAS quite . crowd present eoth
days, Is is said, and the Srmier aod Darling.
ron cocks won the gfeAter number OF fights
Dr. Barsop, Of Aayesyiile, who has been
quite eick for severa. days. is gov much bet
aies and the sppreheosions that his friends feis
ars nou abated. His illness was caused by
saccination. which produced high fever and
Sc eIookPheoacasine 70 reduce his temperature,
nhich depressed the scsion Of bis heart TO such
40 extent that for tune his condition was
very ses,ous Daily Item, Jan Is.
NJ r Allen Nc eQosry, the man who is
travelling ar0upd The world for an Agkansaw
airl, left tbs city las, 'rhnrsdsy after asojonrn
here Of several days. Mr.. AsQuasy Is flrst
class eonpcsiior and worked IN this oface
dnsing his stay in this city. The young
man made many friends by bis perfect con-
duet while amongst u.s.
The house Of detention for prospective
smallpox susoec,s, ordered By the Bcsrd
OF Health, which VAS commenced last
Wednesdav, has been completed The
vosk was done by Messrs W q. Ep-
person and ] W. Atkins. assisted by
Supt OF Streets, Tribbie, aud several OF the
regu]a. stree, hands The house is 20
feet by Is feet and is ceiled INSIDE The
honse is located on high apd dry siie in The
woods about $50 yards from the public road
leading 80 DesChsmps Mill aud is about three
fopr,hs Of nile from the limits Of the city.
There are 20 houses 10 the immediate vicinity.
There are no new Developments, locally, in
the snallpox excitement. There was rnmor
on the streets Thursda, morning that fifteen
pnpils from the cclored college at Orangebrrg
had arrived in the city the oigbt before ln-
qniry from the police force aud the Health
Officer, however, failed to secure aoy ver,hea-
non of The report. Health Officer heerdoD,
SAYS that be knows all the colored students
that belong 10 Sumter, that there are only
four, and be knows where they are. The
police a,tend the arrival OF ell trains, aod cay
that no strange students have stopped here.
The outbreak Of smallpox in Greenrille
and Sparssnbnrg is reported to be under con-
troll. and there have been no new easeH de-
yeloped within the pest week. Well inform
ed men from fhoee places state that every pre-
esrtiop has been taken to prevent spread of
the disease, and vigilani measures will be
continued uo,il all danger has passed. They
spesk hopefully of the situation, as they are
Of the opinion tha: the worst has paesed, and
With fnll Knowledge Of what the bealto au-
thoritiee have to deal with it will be corDpar-
atively easy to suppress the epidemic.