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THE 4.MERICU8 WEEKLY TIMES-RECORDER: FRIDAY, MAY 3, 1901.
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A LIVELY DUEL IN THE FIELD.
culled at random
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Here and There
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Farmsr and Teachers Shoot It Oat
In Stewart.
A lively shooting aQray, in which
BIRDS OF PASSAGE
COMING AND GOING
COMMITTEE CALLS
PUBLIC MEETING.
a»ivci\ Miooimg uuray, in wntcu at
dozen shots were fired, took place Those Who Came and Went
about 8 o'clock yesterday morning
near Lonvale, a town in Stewart conn-
ty on the Seaboard Railway, creating
a great sensation there. *
The parties engaged in the difficulty
were a Mr. Bnrka on one side and
Away Yesterday.
Of Citizen* of the County and Town
Saturday.
POINTS PUEELYPEESONAL
SOME ACTION MUST BE TAKEN.
wero a Mr. Bnrka on one side and Amarleui Feopla and Their Frl.nds
MosBrs. Bell and J. T. Spivey, school yyho Are doing on Business or Plsas-
Hoyler'e candies. Freeh shipments
Kceirel we ® Onto 8tobe.
^SrdsyBpotoottonie worth
ff ^ cent* here.
Masrs A. 8. Nunn, T. J. Morgan
f 0 A- Fricker, of this oity and
Md «re in Maoon this week, serv-
J"S grand jurors in the United
State* eonrt.
Th, local msrket is'Tong” on oraog-
T “Vhensn*sjust now, the former
^the Florida article. Soon will
ST, pesoh and the Georgia watermelon
upplsnt both.
Americas nimrod, gunning for
.... „ith Mauser rifle, killed six fine
?.Ho*s *1»single shot yesterday. Not
*ne of them was hit, all being killed
bp conclusion.
Tbs Sparta Ishmaelito says Treas
.... psrk would resign bis offloe be
(ore he would occmit the slightest act
inconsistent with his duty *s guardian
of the treasury.
Next week will develop the picnic
industry about Amerieus. Warm
weather is coming back again, and the
woodtick and redbng fairly yearn for
Ibecsy picnicker.
Though the date is still a little re
mote, the average brother-in-black is
already saving his dimes and getting
bi< razor ami gun in shape for "An-
dereouville day.”
Let every farmer and every merchant
and professional man in Sumter at
tend the railroad meeting here next
Saturday morning. They are all alike
deeply interested.
Strawberries are already plentiful in
market, ripe and luscious, and cheap
at l’ cents per quart. The price will
toon strike the two-for-a-quarter basis,
which is even better.
Mr. Edward Harrold is now freight
clerk at the Central depot here, suc
ceeding Clerk Pittman yesterday. Mr.
Pittman will engage in the lumber
buiiness at Ghaunooy.
Amerieus is building towards the
railroads, and the Oontral is building
s lino up town to meet the advance
teachers, on the other.
Burke used a shotgun and the other
men revolvers.
Messrs, Spiyey and Bell camo to
Amerieus ou the noon train to have
Who Are Going on Business nr Plsas-
■r«—Some You Know and lent*
Yon Don't.
Regarding Building of Brunswiok
and Birmingham Bailway-Every
Citizen is Keenly Interested and
Should Attend Meeting.
amerieus ou me uoou train to nave i Miss Sillie Wimbisb, after a visit of
their injuries attended to, and the a few days in Dawson, relnrned home
only report of the affair at hand is yesterday.
statements made by them to Dr. Miss Kate Hollis has gone to Atlanta
George Horine, who attended them. L pon , viait of aom8 len gth to friends
Prof. Spivey was shot in the ftoe and thlt .
neck with small shot, one of which ’ .
penetrated bis eye, producing a wound Misa Stapleton, of FMriou, ‘P®“
whioh may be serious. yesterday very pleasantly with rola
Prof. Bell was only peppered about tlT# ® ,n Americna,
the neck and ears. His wounds are Mr. J. L. Horn came over from
not at all eenons. Preston yesterday to look aftsr matters
These gentlemen stated that they of business hers,
eslled on Borke, a farmer, to eolloot Md „„ D 8 D#rr , ok , aiding
tuition for bis sod, their school bavhiK PUlne, wero among jester-
just closed. Mr. Burke wss working L._..
in his field, and warned the teachers d,y 8 Ti,itor * here> , „ ,
away from him. I Mr. and Mrs, Q. J. Fito left jester
It seems that he was not on friendly I day for Charlotte, N, 0. and.will spend
terms with one of them. severs! dsj s there.
Evidently the tesohere heeded not Mr. and Mrs. T, J. Morgan and Mies
the warning, whereupon Burke picked Bertha Morgan attended the memorial
aphis ehotgnn and emphasized the exero jsesyesterday,
request for them to leave Mr- Floyd Pittman ana family leave
js
and opened up on Burke, each shoot- wl11 reside m ,Qt r •
lng several times. It does not appear, Miss Carrie Shropshire is spending
however, that either of their shots L few days »i’h relatives in Dawson,
struck the human target.
Prof. Spivey was nearly blinded by
the shot in his eye. Dr. Horine
going down yesterday
Mrs. B, L, Wiggiu«, of Buena Vis-
the shot in his oye. Dr. Horine tDi i9 jpendiug a few days with Mrs.
dressed hie wounds, and both men re-1 D T Wilson, on Loo street,
turned to Louvale yesterday.
ABE REPLANTING THE COTTON
Hardly a Farm In Sumter Escaped
Injury.
lnimeuiaioiy iuno"* u s . .
week ago the statement was goner- Mr. T. J. C. Park, formorly of
a ween ago me oibidiuou* -• — •
all? made that all cotton then up had Amerieus but now residing m Macon,
been killed or injured by cold and Uvas here yesterday on business,
wind, and that nearly the entire crop Mjag Mgggie l y er dier, of Tempo,
must be replanted. p| a<> j B here upon a visit to her eister,
Farmers were deoidedly "Dine” at Mrs. Will M. Jones, at her residence
the prospect for a cotton crop. on Kees Fark>
asssar~ Hstfstr-sM-
Beient developments confirm the exorcises here,
first estimates. The tender plaDts, M iss Mary Erwin, of Athens, ia tho
twisted by the winds that blew a sale gaea t 0 f her cousin, Mrs. James Tay
for three days, have sinoe died. Day | or> a t her residence on Leo street, ur-
by day they wilted, and thousands of | t i T j nB yesterday.
acres will havo to be replanted. . Mr e. Allen leaves to-uay ior
Where they have tho seed, farmers Montgomery where he will take a po
re already busy replanting. sition with one of the leading dry-
n n HI., vrntn the Times-Re- ■ lwu “ . , ....
u|i fcuwu »v uswws •->' *— •—- are ^ * —
The locomotive will yet ramble || f# ^ wrote the Times-Re
i oar business streets.
Cspt. W. H. Tondee, a former citi
n of Amerions and gallant Confed'
ite soldier,sent the Times-Becorder
sterday a liberal oash contribution
r the monument fund.
Messrs A, S. Nnnn, 0. A. Fricker
i T. J. Morgan hayo been sum
mod, among others from Sumter
uuty.to servo as jurors in tho United
stes court next Monday.
Mr. 0.0. Olay wrote the houae >ol that oity .
corder from Cobb yesterday that hia I"
cotton was dead, as was that of his . Mrs. Joseph MoElroy, of New York,
neighbors, and replanting would bo j a expeeted here this week upon a vis-
necessary, though at great cost. it 0 f some length to Mr. and Mrs.N. u.
Few farmers havo send, and this, 1 p r i n ce and other relatives,
with the scarcity of labor,. wUIi tend1 to £agene Man i taby , of Fayette-
ereatly roduootneaoreago in thia parti „ riTfld yesterday npon a
ol the state. Much ofthe cotton puents,
od three week, ago has not come n P v sit of several uay ^
Sspt. P. H. Williams and family
to seeured the entire buUding>here
lis Williams now conducts a coffee
d tea store, and will make their
>me there at an early date,
One farmer near Amerions plonghed
i snd replanted 830 acres of ootton
e past week, bis crop having been
lied by the reoent cold. Yet they
II us it didn’t hnrt cotton.
"Those who love exoltement,” says
is Washington Post, should look
it for the date line of Raymond,
liss., is a negro has’jnst been appoint-
1 postmaster of that town.
Inis is an "off week" with Ameri
lawyers, there beiag no canrt in
iy county of this e'reait. Stewart
mtt has just closed, and Lee connty
>mcs next upon the calendar.
This week ushers in the merry
onto of May, and unless we havo
aow tomorrow or on East India ty
coon Tuesday wo will take down the
:o 'o and proceed to clean up.
At one time yesterday more than a
core of men stood in lino at one of
le local banks awaiting their tarn to
‘arrange for a little loan.” And yet
,e are told that times are good.
A Chicago professor is the most re-
sarkable man on record, or the big*
:«st liar. Ho is 87 years old and says
has never need an oath, drank a
Iropof liquor or kissed a woman.
Some modern poet might havo writ
ea "An Elegy upon aConntry Church-
r *td" hero yesterday with Amerions
»the subject of inspiration. There
*»s no "excitement” of any kind.
A solid trainload of vegetables pass
sd through Americas yesterday as a
ipocial, coming over the Seaboard.
It was eighteen carloads of cabbage,
tomatoes and beans from Florida.
and must bo replanted.
This will make the new crop here
the latest, as well as the poorest in sov.
oral years.
GOING AFTER A SUGAR PLANT-
. Mr. Lnelua L. MoOleskey, of Atlan
_ ta B pent yesterday In Americas with
Industry Will Reach Large Propor- d Mrs. H. B. MoOleskey and
. Cura Cold In Hand. ,
D. T. Wilson, cm i.-jc street.
Mrs. E. W. Slewart returned yes
terday to her home in Galveston, Tex.
after a visit to rolativcs here.
Mrs. Aurelius Allen, of Ellaville, is
visiting Miss Hattio Tondee hero at
.... „ii her homo on Jackson Btreet.
Immediately following tho cold spell
Mr Will E. Allen leavos to-day for
Amoricue and Sumter county want
the Brnnawick and Birmingham Rail
way. Like everything else worth hav
ing, it is going to cost some money—
not mnoh—to bring it this way; and
the time ts now at hand for na to make
a show down, if wo want it.
It mean* a great deal for onr town
and county If the railroad cornea here;
and it may mean something else for ns
if ltgoe* to build upsomeothor section.
What will our farmers and business
men hero do abont it?
The oommittee of aix, appointed
from a citizens mooting hold aome
time ainoo, wss called together yester
day morning. The propoiition sub
mitted by tho B. A B. people was die
cussed at eome length. It was regard
ed as a yery fair one.
Not a dollar la wanted until the
whistle of Maohen’s engine ia hoard in
Americns, and even then tho money la
no gift.
Oar people will ogroo to take a cer
tain amount of the road’s mortgage
bonds-no stock, bnt bonds. Thoso
bonds pay tho holder 0 por cent inter
eat; they are equal to tho boat securi
ties, and oan bo converted into money
when it is so desired.
Conid anything, promising a rail
road, bo fairor than this?
Heretofore railroads havo been
built, tho people getting only the
worthless common stock while the
bondholders scooped the property af
ter the crash, whioh always eamo.
In this instanoe, however, tho peo
ple—the builders of the road, are tho
bondholders, and thoy do not pay ouo
dollar until tho whistle blows uulil
tho goods are delivered. Surely we
cannot hesitate to aocept such a prop
osition where so much is at stake.
And this committee of six will urge
its acceptance at a genoral meeting of
oitizens of town and county to bo held
here next Baturday, May 4*h.
At that time the fullest details will
bo submitted. Every farmor, every
merchant and professional man in the
connty is vitally Interested in this en
terprise, and all are invKed to come to
the courthouse Saturday morning at
10 o'olock snd “talk it over"
Come, gentlemen, this Is yonr own
private affair. It is money in yonr
pocket if you oome; out of it If yon
stay away and Sumter county loses
|DR. PARKHURST ON
GOVERNOR CANDLER
|Eeplies to Georgian’s Eecent
Warm Critioism.
I CANDID ADMISSION MAbE
The popular idea expressed in the
ohraae, "the art of self-defense," shows
the opinion that the chief enemies a man
haa to defend himself from are visible
and external. But the real danger of
every man is from minute and often in
visible foe*. In the air we breathe and
the water we drink are countleas minute
organisms leagued against the health of
th Thf&. defense again* they enemies
is to keep the bloof pure. Dr. Pierce’s
Golden Medical Discovery thoroughly
blood la pure there Is no harborage for
the germs of disease which And a lodg
ing only when the blood Is Impure and
la Impure
^^■couiMer your*Golden Medial
S n i^y.t“medlclneton the
eerth* writes Mr. Wm. Ftoeter. j
NARROWLY ESCAPED fiOPE
| tho Brunswiok A Birmingham.
SUSPECT KNOWN IN AMEBICU8
Miss Estelle Walker, of Blakely, Ga.
will arrive here today upon a visit
tohor ooturn, Mrs. A. J. Poole, at
her residence, 006 Lee street.
.Mr. 'and Mr*. H. B. MoOleskey and
tions in Georgia. col. and Mrs. E. A. Hawkins.
Mr. W. L. Glessner, who I«»ks sltof ^ £ ao . Connor , a prominent Sa
new settlors and new indn, J*‘* 1 Lnnahlao, spent yesterday In Ameri-
prises along the Geerg.a Son hern t ^ ^ ^ plaaaantl y entertained
Florida Railway, was in Amenenis. his Ur R E Le#
old home, yesterday, eu route to New wane u
Orleans where he will interest Bugar UrB j, L . Adderton was called to
nlanters m locating a sugar plant aQ d I D a waoo yesterday by the critical 111
refinery at some point on his line °i I UO sa ol her brother, Mr. J. G. Guerry,
road. Mr. Glessner believes that sngar ft woJ | known oitizen ol that town,
making will soon assume jarge proper- McKenzie, of Social Circle
tions in Georg.., the growing of u» ^ ^ # f-w d . y , in Americas,
being second on y devolop- formerly her home, tho guest of Miss
K.,. sis.* »
4L4B4Hi WANT8 COTTON SEED-1 of M,.- O. H
Jordan a Former Employe on Thu
Division
O. R. Jordan, the Maoon man impli
cated byW. F. Chestnut tnthe rob
bery of the Southern Express car just
ontside of Maoon Friday night last, ia
known in Amerions, having boon bag
gage master on this division of the
Central. After his arrest Chestnut told
tbs whole story of tho robbery and Im
plicated Jordan, who was caught ia
Atlanta yesterday. Chestnut la an ex-
poltoeman and
Florida.
MR. M'KINLEY’S NEW DEAL
tn Whitaker for several days at her home
Amerieus i» Shipping Guam | on College street, arriving yesterday.
That State.
Americas is shipping large quantities
of cotton seed to Al.oama,, -h«o
How's This?
has supplied'seyeral farmer, her. with und .ralp2?hiro ^o°wuV
seed for replanting, and i* h ‘, J. Cheney for the fast 15 years, and be-
i I.,** ouantities to farmers beyond " b ,^ pe rfeotiy honorable in all
theChaftahoochco V£2£ ‘^raoUen. .and..financial..
able to carry out an, obligations msdo
bv their firm.
West & Tbuax. Wholesale Druggists,
Toledo, O. Waldino, Kinnah a Mab-
vi», Wholesale Druggists, Toledo. O.
Hall's Ostarrh Cure Is taken Intern
ally noting directly npon the blood and
mucuous aurfacea of the system. Wes
75». per bottle. Bold b, all Druggists,
Testimonials free.
Ha'!’* Family Pills are the best.
Several Amerions attorneys went to
■ Atlanta yesterday on anpremo court
business, among them Solicitor Hoop
er, Judge W. F.Olark and Judge J. A,
Bixon, to be gone several days.
Negroes Were Anxious to Hang
White Man.
BinuiKQHAu, Ala., Mb, 1.—Charles
Bussell, a white man, who conducts a
meat market at Waruor, a small mining
town 7 miles from the city, narrowly
escaped lynchiug at the hands of a mob
composed of GOO uegroes last ovenlng,
md was hurried to jail here for safe
keeping. ..
The causo of tho uprising was the
death of Walter Morchead, a negro of
Warner, who was shot to death while
sloeping under a trestle which span*
Five Mile creek. A white man named
Josse Wllko was said to have done the
killing, ami the uegroos thought that
llnssoll had a hand in it, though the
evidence did not bear oat this supposi*
Coroner Paris when be reached tho
scene found a mob of 500 armed negroes
under great excitement. Negroes bear
ing Winchesters thronged about tho
coroner wherever he went. He told
them to put up their guns and go home,
and many of tnem did sa Russell, sus
pected of the killing, was taken in
charge by the coroner, but later, when
his innocence was established, he was
allowed to go . .
Excitement *»mong the negroes broke
out afresh, and the coroner sent • mes
sage to Sheriff Burdin to hurry deputies
Jo the scone. Bussell was taken Id
charge, but the “«»'<>**,
ilacated, and made all kinds of threats,
t was determined to oonolude the In-
veatlgation tn Birmingham, and aa the
train approaohed the station the ooro-
ner, jury Mdsuspeotedmen were h«-
The Northern Sian Dislikes Negro and
Lies About It, White tho Southern
Men Owns Up to His Dislike of tho
Black Man.
New York, April 29.-The Bov. Dr.
Charles H. Perk hurst preached Sunday
at the Madison Square Presbyterian
church on toploa connected with hi* re
cent trip south. He also made an Inci
dental reply to Governor Candler, who
wo* reported as having denounoed those
northerners who took an Interest In edu
cational matters in the sontb.
Dr. Parkhurst said that the fiarty of
northern people who reoentl, made the
trip referred to did It not because they
bad any special Interest in th# south aa
[a distinct sootton, but because, they
I ware oonsolous of the unity which
Bakes th* north end south members ef
each other. The conference held at
Winiton-Salem, In North Carolina, ha
said, was characterized by the utmost
frankness on both sides, and yet, from
first to last, not au embittering word
was spoken. Referring to Governor
the atmosphere which the conference
exhaled.”
Southerner* Not Hypocrites.
Refer lng to the estimation in which
the people of the south nad those of the
north hold the negro, Dr. Parkhurst
Appolntmeute In Eolith Carotin* Cuu
lng u tiuea.lng Slalcb.
Columbia, S. C., May l.-Tbc nn
nouncement was made tonight that the
attorney general bnd accepted the resig
uatiou of E. Brooks Sltgh end appoint
ed ex-Sheriff George S. McCrary of
Laurens United States deputy marshal
for South Carolina will came surprise
tn this state. People will be puzzled to
figure out just where the adminUtra
ttou is leading ta , .
The appointment of Capers as district
attorney had beuu forecasted, but the
selection of Croft, a Bryan Democrat,
as postmaster at Aiken and now the up
pointmeut of McCrary, another Bryau
democrat, ia puzzling calculators.
nor. jury and suspected mon u “*
ried aboard the cere, and left before tbe
negroea fully realized what had hap
pened.
RESIGNATION CALLED FOR
Western Kentuoky Lunatlo Asylum
Develops a Sensation.
Lexington, Ky., April 80.—On ac
count of • pratt, woman thera U a row
on at the western Kentuok, lnnatio
asylum at Hopkinsville, and as a result
Dr. E. a McOormlok has been asked
for his resignation by Governor Beck
ham, whioh he has met with a demand
for s full investigation. Dr. MoOor-
mickhas th* support of the
asylum commissioners, who have re-
^ that Governor Bsokbam with-
demand for th* resignation of
—■ at the same time da
ta hit good moral char-
■'The southerner does not like the ne
gro any better than the average north-
eruer does, and the two carry them-
selves toward tha negro with just
the same amount of Christian oonsider-
atlou—only of the two .“>* southern
whlto man has perhaps this advantage,
that he doss not make qulfeso flamboy-
ant a pretense of loving thj inegro as
i his northern confrere doe*. T-ho south-
ern white man dislikes th* negro, and
own7up to?t. The white man ta the
north dlklikes the negro and lie* aboul
"Thelu^scrlmlnatlng not by whioh
the negroes had conferred upon them
tho right to vote woe one of those blun
ders that it la not easy to ǥȣ*
after it is once committed, but Whiohtt
SSLraJLfSS‘.3=;»r1S
"sci’K.w «•
and the southern friend# of the negro
are now giving him Is to keep quiet upon
the whole suffrage matter, to keep out
of politios, not to talk about the oonstt-
tutlon, not to insist upon hi* rights, tat
to attend industriously to the work of
getting himself woll ready—whioh he la
not now-for what God and the oonn-
try and the future may hsve la store for
“^ Parkhurst closed by the foUowing
general reference to present oonditlona
among southern people:
Love Nor the Negro.
"The south does not altogether love
ns. tat no one there hates ns nearly aa
much as It would be perfeotiy naturri
for them to hate ns. They are all glad
that atavery la done, they are all glad
that they are ta the Union. They all
glory In the flag, even while in tender
bereavement they tay flowers upon the
graves of th# confederate dead. We
belong to them and the, belong to n»,
and ever, deed of kindness wisely ren
dered. every word of sympnthetto lutf-
est prudently spoken, every new oo
merclal relation and evar, tatarotaha
of hospltaUtlee dlsoreotly arranged wUl
be so muoh contribution to that perfect
readjustment of rotations whioh shall
make forth* enriohment of our com
mon history.”
Dr. McCormick, in a statement, de
clares that there is a conspiracy against
him at the asylum, with a view of get
ting him removed.
The woman in the case was Miss Han
nah York, now Mrs. O. D. Mnaon of
Ciinton, Ind. Dr. McCormick ezptalns
the fact that he was in the same room
with Miss York for a period of 40 min-
utea atriotly on official busines*. by
stating the meeting was made b, re
quest of Miss York, who wished to ra-
main in cliargo of the samo ward in-
,tead of taking charge of one oi the cot
tages. a change which had been con.
templated. , ,
The question wbicli is now foremost
is tbo probable action of the governor
whether ho will withdraw hi* rsquest
for Dr. McCormick’s resignation or will
insist npmi it.
Canto* enow in Chicago.
Obicaqo, Ma, 1.—Tb# annual meet
ing of the bench show of the Mascoutah
Kennel club opened here today, with
more than 1,000 doga entered. The
judges ere Mrs. E. Houghton GUei of
England, James Mortimer of New York,
T S. Bellen of Minneapolis, Dr. J. 8.
Niven of London. Out, T. Donaghueot
LaSalle, Ilia.. John A. Long and J. A.
Graham, both of St taala
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“The Top of
The Evening.’
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