The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1902-05-28
NOTES OF The DAY.

keynote of the new republic.
All the cotton mills in the Au-
gusta district have resumed work, with
full compliments Of hands, who have
lost over $50, 900 in wages as a result
of the strike, which went into effect
on April 7.
Harry New. from the stable of G.
Ellison. won the Latonia Derby IN
easy fashion at Cincinnati, Monday,
before a crowd of 10, 600 peopel. There
was big play on Harry New and all
the books quit losers to the race.
j. Sherwood Case, of Brooklyn,
N. Y, possessor of the identical
theatre program which President Lin
coin held in his hand at the time Of
his assassination, has applied for space
for its exhibition at the st. Louis
Worlds Fair.
The Southern Railway has bought
the Atlantic, Valdosta and Western
railroad, which extends from jackson
vile to Valdosta, where it connects
with the Georgia Southern and Flori
da, which is Southern railway prop
erty. The Southern is thus given val
The General Assembly of the Pres
byterian Church in New York adopted
resolutions on the observance of Sun
day, in which they asked the "cap-
tains of Industry and other employers
to preserve to their employees day of
rest. The General Assembly voted to
send protest to congress against the
printing at public expense of Thomas
Jefferson IS Life Of Christi
The ouadrennial session of the gen
eral conference of the Methodist Epis-
copal Church, South, after being in
session since May Z, adjourned sine
die Monday. An important matter
disposed of was the resembling of part
of the report of the committee on
missions, adopted last Saturday, the
tendency of which was to bring the
northern churches missionary socie-
ties into partnership in a Joint pub
fishing house at Shanghai, China.
Another important matter was the
adoption of a report from the commit
tee on church extension, creating a
church Insurance board.
"A dispatch from Fond du Lac,
Wis, says: A human skin has just
passed through the tanning process IN
the plant of the Rueping Leather Com
pany in this city. Fred L. Rueping,
president of the company, said today
that he received letters from a Chi
cago medical school, some weeks ago,
requesting that human skin be ac-
cepted for tanning. He refused, but a
foreman wishing to experiment with
a human skin received it. The fore
man took the hide successfully through
what is known as the chrome pro
cess. Only the initiated can distinguish
the specimen from dog skin or the
skin of young pig.
= Under ideal conditions for great
running race, the Brooklyn handicap
at Gravesend was won Saturday after
noon by Arthur Featherstone's four
year-old flly Riena in 2.07, at 40 to l,
many thousands of dollars changing
hands on the result.
The General Conference OF the
Methodist Episcopal Church, South,
in session at Dallas, Teaxs, has
created the Order of Deaconess. 1t IS
said by church authorities to DE the
most advanced and radical step ever
taken in the Church policy and dlscip-
line.
The census bureau has issuea
report comprising agricultural STOCKS
OF the countries and Indian nations
in the United States. It shows that
the Chicasaw nation, Indian Terri
tory. leads in the number of farms,
having 1884. The following rank
next: The Cherokee nation, Indian
Territory, Is, 537 farms: Choctaw na-
ton, Indian Territory, 1852; Lancas-
ter County, Pa, 9,937: Orangeburg
Comfy. S. c., S,4OS, and st. Law
renee County, n. Y, s, 353.
"A wealthy woman named Silva re-
Gently died at Lisbon and left her en-
tire property to rooster. Sne was
q fervid spiritualist, a believer In the
transmigration of souls, and imagined
that the soul of her dead husband NAG
entered the rooster. +" She caused g.
special fowl house to be built and Or
dered her servants to pay extra atten-
tion to their masters" wants. Inc
disgust of her relatives over the Will
caused the story to become public and
= lawsuit might have followed had
not one of the heirs adopted the SIM
Dle expedient Of having the wealthy
rooster killed, thus becoming him.
selfsthe next Of kin.
in the Methodist General Confer
ence, on Saturday, the creation OF the
order of Deaconess being under DIS
cussion, DR.. j. A. Clifton, formerly
stationed at Sumter, and famlliarly
known to the conference and visitors
as "the South Carolina 1rishman,
smoke in favor of the proposed legisla,,
ton in a speech full Of sentiment and
humorous piety. A brother, ne
said, ''has spoke of sentiment IN
deprecating terms. Sentiment makes
character, and character makes the
nation His speech was frequently
Interrupted by applause and 1t was
evident that his arguments mace
deep impression favorable to the meas
ure.
The most brilliant sunset ever seen
in San Juan, Porto Rico, was witness
ed there last Friday evening. 1t was
caused by the reflections of the rays OF
the sun through an atmosphere laden
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