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The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1900-03-14
War 10 Over, Except for
Work Of Guerilla Bands.

San Frasoisoo. March 7 Gen Jos
Wheeler aud party. who have been 10
Qusraotihe since their arrival from the
Philippines op the transport Warren
las, Moadsy. ~ers permitted to land
tonight. \ 1855,
Gen Wheeler said that bic health
wss sscsllso,. He speaks enthusiast.
cslIy Of his Impressions Of Guam H.
said no resigned frou the army Nov
90. bu, vas DOT ordered h,me un,il
the middle Of January He dii 10,
care 10 discuss bis reasons fer lcavicg
the army.
IL shall go TO Wsshington," be said
shaving resigned from the army, and
wiih . proper cerii6oa'e OF election
sIp,c, 10 bs s.oru 10. Il will be oo,ed
that my rssigu patton from the army was
handed 10 before congress met"
A TO the si'oa,ion IN the Philippines
and Gusn. be said
"Ali IL very sa,isfs nory 10 bot D
pl.eeg The war L. over exec ps for The
sork OF the guerilla bands that am
busa our troop, aud do . little dan
age.
w,s much pleased y th tbs FIJI
pino people Ttey are ,~eIligca,.
kiod aud o,orrsous tTney ors Dot
de posed 10 revelation and vioiencs.
bu, the false representations made to
sbem regarding Aueriians very oa'u
70 ly aroused 'h,u ,ud led them 10
believe that r,s;s,ssee &, our rule vas
the only possioie escape from impeoe.
iog evil
81 fouod that woeo they learned the
real character sod purposes Of Ameri
esos they seemed Well recoociled to out
goveromsot sod I 6rmly believe that
sfser The establish weot of . good and
else OWL administration Of affairs. 40
era Of great prosperity will bloss The
esople Of TIM srshipslsso"
Mis- Wbseles. dsasbsss OF The goo
essl. Who accompanied her father
denies tbs s,osy Of her reported eossgs'
osot 20 osssv
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1900-03-14
Epidemic of Smallpox.
Making Fearful Ravages in
mississippi.

jackson. Miss, March 7 -Au official
report ga 10 10 the Hinds County board
of supervisors reveals 40 appalling state
Of affairs ia the Jonesviile ueighbor.
hood 10 the southern part OF the
county
The county is literally honeycombsd
with smallpox of the most viruleut
and loatdsome form and, during the
past six weeks. nearly one hundred
deaths have occurred % some days
the death rate has been 80 large that 1t
was impossible 10 secure coffins and
rude caskets were made from rails.
Whole families have been wiped ou. of
existence and of severa' large families
one or two children are left.
Many Of the patients are DOW 10 a
critical ooDdition. are without medical
atteutioa. and dying at the rate of from
three to five per day. The death rate
exceeds 70 per cent and the entire
lower portion Of the county Is demoral.
ICED. The board OF supervisors will
make an effort TO check further spread
and at its N orning session carte blanche
was given to the physician to purchase
supplies and medicines. A bill for 43
cofins used Within the past two weeks
was allowed
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1900-03-14

1t is not generally known that the
United States supports the largest aud
costliest standing army 10 the world,
from which, however, it gets nothing
Ia return except demands for more
members and more money, but such
are the facts. The Boston Post says !:
"N is interesting to compare our
pension army with the standing armies
OF the great military powers OF Europe.
There is not European patton that
maintains q force equal 10 uumber to
our army OF pensioners, ard few of
then reach il when 90 a war footing
Russia. with her standing army Of
949. 1873, comes the nearest; even
Germany has only 6S7. 1888. Yet the
reason assigned by the czar for calling
the peace conference last year was to
seek some means Of relief for industry
from what he styled the crushing
burden of European armaments. When
We further consider the comparative
cost of our pension army to that of the
standing armies Of Europe. the contrast
is yet more vivid. There is uot
European nation whose army budget
rose last year to the 6gore of
$l39, 482 .696. which the United States
paid out 10 pensions. With the addition
OF $3,S54.774 for expenses of disburse.
meot." The sole reason for the
organization aud support of the
enormous establishment, is. of course,
that the money to maintain it is drawn
from both sections Of the country, and
is distributed 10 the one which
was victorious in the war between
them. News and Courier.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1900-03-14
SGROFULh RND ITS hNIFUL HORRORS
Jof1nstor's Sarsaparilla
QUART BOTTLES

QUART BOTTLES,
A MOST WONDERFUL g..rRT

Mrs Thankful Oria
Mich This
the year lSl of the
YORK Michigan in 1910
AL faculties eXceeny
full
early
mara3 people she has and the stirring
worthy attention
disposition terribly
and the
OF he transmitted
found IN neay every family
IN running
OF erpon
catarrh in the head
and often is the prime -' -
speaking her IIurd
win oa skin disease My limbs mass
yellow My
unhty with scrofuous
nhamed
ue NY blood was in very bad
doctor doctor of
die
length of
oaaparlla tried than
as had faith in it,
You can be
steadily improved
up pad symptoms disappeared.
never been troubled with an old Iady
not young
Set eh and firmly believe that JONSTONS
anu as spring medicine This
ok 10 De more than sixty
hie was saved by JOHNSTONS SARSAP4 ~ '
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1900-03-14
Safe Burglars Working the
Upper Towns in the
State

A gentleman who arrived in the
city last night brought the news of
the successful work of safe crackers
at Jonesville during Wednesday
night. He says about two weeks
ago a abort thick set white msu went
TO Switzer on the Charleston and
Western Carolina railroad and
remained there some days, represent
ing himself to DO O mind reader.
The night after he lef, q safe was
blown open. but ouly $40 WAS lost
The fellow then came to Jonesville
Tuesday he left Jonesville for Union
lis had q trunk At Union both
checks were found in the station, but
tho trunk wss gone The next night
i've white men were seen TO leave
Union; the next morning il was
discovered that Mr. Sam LiuleiohD's
safe had been blown open and $50
taken and the came treatment had
been given Mr.. Alman'e safe, $50
being secured An effort was made @
to break into the postoffice. but it
failed. The man then stole o lever
car aud went a. fer 40 Glendale,
where they dumped the Car off the
track aud all trace Of them was lost
Both safes were broken into by means
of . safe jack and dynamite
These lstest safs crsckings point
to an organized gang operating in the
small towns Of the State In the last
few months safes have been blown
open st Lexington. Peaks, Rockton,
Lewis, Blackstock and other points,
the same methods being employed in
each csse. The State March 8.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1900-03-14
Killing in BIackviIIe.
Cause of Trouble a Mystery.

Blackvile, March 8.-B r Carroll!
was fatally shot here at 2 o'clock
today No particulars at present
can be ascertained
II appears that Carroll was on his
way or returning from q blacksmith
shop when d P Johnson emerged
from the store of Biggs, Buist & Go
and fired twice at Carroll with a
shotgun loaded with buckshot at
very close range, the gun wads
entering Carroll's clothing
After Carroll was shot down
johnson emptied the contents of a
revolver into Carrolls head and body,
almost touching him with his pistol
Carroll can live but q short while; his
brains are shot out
No one seems to know about the
shooting through the streets we're
filled with people
Carroll was to have been tried for
his life at the coming session of our
court at Barnwell next week for the
killing of James Bolin last
Christmas.
Carroll has wife and two
children.
Later Carroll died at 5 O'Clock
this afternoon His mother, Mrs w.
w. White, arrived from Charleston
tonight. Coroner Nevis is holding
the inquest.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1900-03-14
LODGE DEFENDS
IMPERIALISM.
He Spoke Ia Favor of Spoon.
er's Philippine Resolutions.

Washington, March Seldom,
iodeed, is il that the senate accords
20 any Of i,s members q greater com
pliment than 10 accorded today to Mr.
Lodge of Massachusetts The an
poupcemeut that ne would deliver q
speech ON the Philippine question
was the magnet which drew to the
senate every senator now in the city
and TO the galleries an unusually
large number Of attentive auditors.
As chairman of the Philippine
oofnmitteo aud . prominent member
Of the committee on foreign relations,
who had studied the Philippine ques
tiou Excessively, he presented q
notable addition to the literature of
the great problem which now con
ffouts congress aud the American
people.
Soon sfter the senate convened Mr.
Sullivan Of Mississippi, offered q res.
olution that the Philippine Islands are
the righsful property. honorsbly ac-
quired, Of the United States, aud that
"while the r'cguidsd Filipinos con
tinue the pressnt war brought on by
them against the riehtfol authority of
the United States. 90 long ss Q single
gun 10 their hands is trained upon
our Gag. no expression of intention
~ TO the future course of the United
Stsscs with respect to them should
be made by the senate"
Mr.. Sullivan asked that the resolu
tiou lie on the table until he should
call 10 up
Mr. Msson Of Illinois then gave
notice that tomorrow be would move
that the committee On foreign rela.
tions be discharged from further con.
siderstion Of his resol lu,iou expressive
Of the seuste's sympathy for the
Beers Az the COMMITTEES clearly
intends not to act upon IL. he wants
10 placed on the calendar
The COMMITTEES oculd give 10 Q
report IL 10 would lf . majority of
the committee 10 opposed to the
resolution let them report IL adverse
y That would be msking some
progress. I an sasisded that 95 per
cent Of tho people Of the country ere
In sympathy with the Beers ia their
var with Great Britain, and I am
just - certain that . majority Of this
body would favor the resolution /
iu,roduoed. IL 10 the meress child's
play for M 10 sit here and not be
able TO get . vote upon il"
Mr Lodge then epoke. His
speech lasted three Aours and was
bssed upon the Spooner resolution
sushorising the president to govern
the Philippines pending Legislation
By congress
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1900-03-14
A Farmer Who Made Mon.
ey.

Orapgeburg, March 3-A state.
mcDt Of the result of the farmin g
operations os Mr. Thomas r. McCauts,
as a subsiansial. leading farmer of the
MitdIepen section Of this county. will
be Interesting to the readers Of The
News and Courier Il shows conolu.
sively that farming pays. when proper
ly managed and 10 the hands of careful.
progressive men The land of Mr.
McCants is not originally of the best
quality, slough it was fairly good land,
but by liberal fertilzing and intelligent
cultivation it bas been brought up 10 a
degree Of fertility Hud produo,iveues ess
than can best be shown by the results.
Two acres in wheat made 40 bushels,
AID at $125 per bushel. was worth
$50; 9 acres in oats made 600 bushels,
a, so cents per busbel. equal $500; 5
acres Of tobacco brought tor him 5000 !;
So sores in cotton made 65 bales.
weighing ip ell 1864 pounds. which
was only recently sold at s 40 cents.
bringing him in cash $2.662 20 !;
cotton seed weighing 65, 900 and was
worth $455 ; 600 bushels of corn at a
low estimate was worth $75 ; syrup,
528 gallons. and worth % cents per
gallon, total SIG 16; $50 bushels Of
peas are worth $3.50 ; rs bushels Of
piuders. worth $85.
10 addition to the above M McCauts
made . supply OF meat for family use.
although be did not have nearly as
many hogs this year as usual. owing to
the cholera having killed . large
portion Of bis porkers. He also made
Q largo quantity Of potatoes. which
were not measured ADD hence are not
included 10 this calculation. lie GIN
ned 900 bales of cotton at bic public
gin, and WIS paid ooe dollar per bale
for 90 doios, and also sawed q quantity
of lumber At his saw mill The total
OF the values above given reaches the
handsome sum Of nearly Eve thousand
dollars. which Was made 90 . Eve. horse
farm.
The diversity Of the crops made BY
this farmer. which will always bring q
fair yield. regardless of the price OF
cotton. is Of especial interest, and it
proves that farming may DO made
profitable even without cotton or With a
small crop OF cotton
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1900-03-14

Major:Joho r. london, president Of
the Victoria cotton mill OF Rock Hill,
was in the city ooe day this week 10
speaking Of the peuitou'iary and its
affairs, be exclaimed that it is a pity
convict labor cannot bo used entirely
for making good roads. aud thus build
ing up the market value Of laud. As
an instance Of the value Of road build.
log, Major London stated that be has
farm about three miles from Rock Hill
which was few years ago almost 10.
accessible 10 the winter on account of
the blackjack mud. But the people of
Rock Hill and the farmers dubbed 10,
the ooe furnishing fuOds TO pay for
labor. the other bsuling rock to the
crushing plant, and now the farms
around Rock Hill are reached by plea.
SAINT drives, and the lands have greatly
increased 10 value State
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1900-03-14

To be bessA hssd ssd foos Zoe ys.n BY the
chains Of dissass 10 sAs vers. form Of slavery
George ID. WILLIAMS. sf Manchester. Mieh.,
tells how sseh . slave vss made free. lie
says; "Ny wife has been so helpless for Ave
PEARS ,hs, shs could aos ,urn over Ia bed alone.
Afssr using tvo bottles Of Eisesrk Bittsrs, she
10 woodssfsiIy iaprovsd aud able to do hsr
own work." This supreme remedy for female
diseases quickly cures nervousness, slssplsss.
ness. mslspehely. headache, backaohs, fainting
and dissy spells. This miracle working medi.
cine 10 . sodsssd 10 weak. sicklJ. run down
psopls. Every bs,tls guaranteed. Oaly soc.
ss,d by J. y. ". DsLssns, Drusyist. Q
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1900-03-14
Mrs Hughes to Have Anoth.
er Trial.

The State supreme court bad ais.
missed the appeal 10 the case OF Mrs
Hughes. the Greeuvills husband slayer.
Her attorneys went to the supreme
court on the prior jeopardy plea, the
woman having had several mistrials.
Now the case must be tried again
Mrs Hughes is uow running store ir
the city of Greenville State
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1900-03-14

1t has cost the Government S27,.
900 to find out how much Senator
elect Clark paid for the votes he got
in the Montana Legislature These
Western Senatorial elections are ex.
pensive.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-11-23
NEW zEAIAND,s UATEsT,

New Zealand and Japan are very
 progressive. New Zealand is about to show her spirit by establishing a sys- tom of universal penny postage on her
 own account. After the first of Janu- ary penny will carry a New Zealand letter to the remotest regions in which postal arrangements exist. She asks for no similar treatment in return, and expects loss of GS0,000 on the first years postage under the new condi- tione. This deficiency, however, the New Zealand government thinks will disap
 pear with the gradual stimulus to cor-
 respondence resulting from the dimin-
 ished rate. It is thought that this &C.,
 ton will almost compel the Australian
 commonwealth to consider the question
 of an intercolonial, an Imperial, and,
 perhaps, even a universal penny post
 age. The New Zealanders are enthu-
 siastic over their own enterprise, and
 have commissioned Sir Edward Poyn-
 ter, R. A., to design the new stamp
 which is to be richly symbolical of the
 blessings of cheap postage which New Zealand is endeavoring to diffuse throughout the world. Philatelists will be on the lookout for the first univer-
 sal penny stamp, and the results of the experiment will be watched with general interest, especially in England, where comments are already made upon the anomalous condition of affairs which permits a letter to go to India for penny, while it costs tWopence halfpenny to send one across the Chan
The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-11-23

Juarez, of the republic, with small army, was still waging war against the empire in Chihuahua. By the vote it was decided that Shelby's men should join the French forces, and they did; but High Bledsoe sold his battery to General Cortina, of the Mexican army. The sum received for the guns of the battery was eight thousand dollars in silver. This amount was divided equal ly among Shelby's men. Then they Joined the French army.
 General Cortina took the battery to Chihuahua, and Juarez' army recruit ed to ten thousand men, started back on the march for the capital City of Mexico. His army gained recruits all the way down on the march, and when he reached the walls of Caretero he was prepared to begin siege against the imperial army inside the walls. The city surrendered after fierce bonn bardment and Emperor Maximillian and the imperial army were prisoners in the hands of General Juarez. Mexi- co became republic, and Old Quinda- TO helped to bring it about by doing well its part. ."-Kansas City Journal.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-11-23
BUSY.

The idler-How would you like to live a hundred years?
 The busy man-Id like to- but I am afraid I couldn't find the time.-Indan- apolis Press.
 He Counted All Right-"You've been in fight said his mother reproving- ly.
 "Oh, not much of a one," answered the boy.
 Did you count 100 as I told you when you felt your angry passions rising?" "Oh, sure" returned the boy. 1T counted 100 all right, but knocked the other boy down first. It's the only safe way. ay."-Chicago Evening Post. | Bit of Romance.-He tentatively What would you say, dear, if I should ask you to marry me?
 She thoughtfully)-Wh would I say? He (hopefully)-Yes dearest
 She--I would say-I would say He (eagerly)-Yes, dear. Go on. Go on.
 She-I would say that Charlie Brown had asked me three weeks ago and I
 
 At this point the incidental husband in the English novel was thrown from his horse while hunting.
 "Is my neck broken?" he asked at once.
 Tt is," replied the doctor, who had arrived meanwhile.
 "Then it is as I suspected!" hissed the. incidental husband. My wife mar ried me to spite some other man, who has now become enormously rich in the Australian mines and is returning to England to claim the hand of his for mer sweetheart"
 It is curious that he, being one of the gentry, should be so unstupid as to guess all this.-Detroit Journal.
 Woful Ignorance.-Fa here, you! You remember putting two light ming rods on my barn last spring, don't you? Well, that barn was struck six weeks after and burned down. Peddler-Struck by lightning? Tt was" Tn the daytime?"
 "No, at night" Must "a been dark night, wasn't | it?"
 "Yes, dark as pitch" Lanterns burnin'?"
 What lanterns?"
 Didn't you run lanterns up 'em on dark niEhts?''
 Never heard O anything like that" Well, if you don't know enough to keep your lightning rods showin' you needn't blame me. G-langn n-New | York Weekly.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-11-23
Longing.

The green road. the clean road; it Is so broad and high It stretches from the happy sea to touch the happy sky. Oh! I laughed once to forsake 1t, but I'm longing now to take It. The green road, the clean road, that is so broad and high. The gray street, the gay street; how sol emnly 1t shines The sun imprints his pleasures, but there's pain between the lines. Oh, l smiled at first to see II. but m eager now to flee it The gray street, the gay street, how sol emnly it shines! The pure love, the sure love, comes over me like raiu The tnsel of my heartless love is turning poor and plain. It's my life I have been giving just to make a decent living, It's my all l have been losing just to get q little gain. The nest song, the best song, is crying swift and sweet; The tunes within my bosom, but the times not in my feet. An! they only sing for pity, do the voices in the city. Did you ever hear q homely song sound happy in the streetf The gray street. the gay Street; for mo it holds no rest. Not even when the summer sun is sailing down the west. And l cannot find my pleasure in Il road my sight can measure From the little room l dwell in with a memory for my guest. The green road, the clean road; it Is so broad and high, It stretches from the happy sea to touch the happy sky. Oh to rise and part with sadness! oh, to move and meet with gladness, On the green road, the clean road, that is so broad and high!
 From Chambers Journal.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-11-23

At the dinner of the Boston Mer- chants club Senator Hoar spoke of John Hancock, George Cabot, James Lloyd and Abbott Lawrence as ''the four great merchants of history" Han cock had his faults, said the senator, but was a glorious patriot notwith- standing Cabot was "the second Washington" for lofty simplicity and probity; he founded the cotton and Wooen industries of Massachusetts. Lloyd had eccentricities of manner, but was master of all business questions and a man whom the commonwealth delighted to honor Lawrence built on Cabots foundations and set noble ex- ample of beneficence. Great as have been the poets of Massachusetts and her lawyers and historians, all" said the senator, must yield the palm for true benefaction to mankind to the great merchants of the city of Boston"
The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-11-23

| were compelled to seek protection be- hind the buildings in Commercial alley. | Captain CahilPs gun squad arrived, | brought her to bear on log house over
 in Harlem, where the squad had hid 1 ing place. One shot from the gun knocked off the chimney; another knocked the clapboard roof to smither- | eens. This was too much for the Clay county boys, and they made rush out of the house and took to the brush. There was no more trouble from the Harlem side for months afterward. But Old Quindaro' had no rest. Tn few days an order came to Colonel Van Horn to march his command to Lexington and reinforce Colonel Mulli- gan, who was about to be attacked by General Sterling Prices army. Two companies of the battalion, A and B, the Irish company under Captain Van Damn, and old Quindaro.' under Lieu tenant Cahill, were ordered to embark on the steamboat Fannie Ogden, They steamed down to Lexington, where they arrived all safe, and were at- tached to General Mulligan's command. They took a part in the siege of Lex ington. The gallant Lieutenant Cahill tried to throw red-hot cannon balls into Lexington for the purpose of burning out the Johnny stronghold, but when the solid shot from the muzzle of Old Quindaro' reached the objective point they were cooled off and would not fire the buildings. They had no bombshells, only solid shot, and these they heated red hot over a fire made from hard- tack boxes. After charging the gun with powder a wad of wet hemp was rammed in the gun and then the hot cannon ball. The gun was immediately fired, but the cannon ball cooled in mo- tion and did no other damage to the houses in Lexington than making a round hole through some of them and knocking down a few chimneys. The battle of Lexington ended after six days, and General Mulligan surren- dered to General Sterling Price. The arms and ammunition of Mulligan's command helped to arm General Prices recruits
 "The old gun, 'Quindaro,' was at- tached to Captain High Bledsoes Con- federate battery, and turned against the Union forces. It was in action at the battle of Pea Ridge Prairie Grove and many other important engage 1 anents. It did splendid service during Prices last raid through Missouri. It belched shot and shell at the battle of ] Westport, where Prices army fought | Generals Curtiss and Pleasanton's | forces, in October, 1864. In this fight | Bledsoe's battery did some hard fight | ing, but the tide of battle turned | against General Prices forces and a re- treat was ordered.
 Prices army was broken and scat tered, Shelby's command and Bledsoe's battery stuck together, and marched from the Arkansas river to Brownsville Tex, where they crossed the Rio .Irande into Old Mexico. They halted at Matamoras and went into camp Here the men voted as to which they would join, the French or the Mexican army The French army under Maxi nillian had established an empire, with as emperor, while General
 I