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SUMTER, a city and the county-seat of Sumter county, South Carolina, U.S.A., 42 m. by rail E. by S. of Columbia. Pop. (1900) 5673 (3160 negroes); (1910) 8109. Sumter is served by several divisions of the Atlantic Coast line and by the Southern railways. It is ...

SUMPTER, a pack-horse or mule, a beast for carrying burdens, particularly for military purposes. There were two words once in use, which in sense, if not in form, have coalesced. These are " sommer " or " summer " and " sumpter." The first comes through the Ol

SUMNER, CHARLES (1811-1874), American statesman, was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on the 6th of January 1811. He graduated in 1830 at Harvard College, and in 1834 graduated at the Harvard Law School. Here, in closest intimacy with Joseph Story, he became an

SUTTNER, BERTHA, BARONESS VON (1843- ), Austrian writer, was born at Prague on the 9th of July 1843, the daughter of Count Franz Kinsky, Austrian field marshal, who died shortly after her birth. On her mother's side she was descended from the family of the Ger

SUITE (Suite de pieces; Ordre; Partita), in music, a group of dance tunes, mostly in binary form, of a type which may be described as " decorative " (see SONATA FORMS) ; constituting that classical form of early iSth-century instrumental music which most nearl

SUTRI (anc. Sutrium), a town and episcopal see of Italy, in the province of Rome, 4 m. W.N.W. of the railway station of Capranica, which is 36 m. from Rome; 955 ft. above sea-level. Pop. (1901), 2701. The town is picturesquely situated on a narrow hill, surrou

UMBER, a brown mineral pigment consisting of hydrated iron and manganese oxides. The finely-powdered mineral is known as raw umber; when calcined the beauty of the colour increases and the pigment is known as burnt umber. It was probably first obtained from Um

... , " Materials for the Study of Private Law in Old Japan." by Professor Wigmore. SUMTER, T.— SUN Commerce; W. J. Ashley, Introduction to English Economic History and Theory (1893); W. Denton, England in the Fifteenth Century (1888). One of the best extant treat ...

... the secession leaders in South Carolina. He opposed1 the re-enforcement of Fort Sumter, used his influence to prevent any attack on the fort by South Carolina before the meeting of the state's convention called to consider the question of secession, and became ...

... sitionot mouth of Chesapeake Bay, Fort Pickens at Pensa- tbeRemaincola and Fort Sumter in Charleston harbour. Both log Fort*. the last-named were beleaguered by hostile batteries, but the administration of President Buchanan, intent on maintaining the peace un ...