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rn m m, 4P j*, i H H II Iii jil |T ill t\ BY CLINKSCALES & LANGSTON. 13 m 1 lr ll I I lr 1 . % ;?>;"> Jar ANDERSON. S. C.. WEDNESDAY. J AX l'A RY H>. 1898. VOLUME XXXII -N0. m. BY an interesting turn in trade we secured Twenty-five 'Bozen Hats much below their market value. They consist <of Fedoras, Alpines and Railroad Shapes?colors brown and black. These Hats are considered cheap at $1.25?most Stores ask $1.50 for them?but to close them out quick we have marked them? 98c. Corn? to see these Hats and expect to see the best Hat for the money you have ever bought. Remember, we sell for Cash and Cash only. No Goods charged. Our 25 per Cent Discount Sale Is stiU going on. We wiU save you 25c. on every dollar's woith of Clothing bought of us. $5.00 Suits, 25 per cent off, $3.75. $7.50 Suits, 25 per cent off, $5.63. $10.00 Suits, 25 per eent off, $7.50. m THE SPOT CASH CLOTHIERS. COTTON IS CHEAP AJSTJ SO ARE SRI,!?* LIVE AND LET LIVE IS OUR MOTTO ! WE have a choice and select Stock of? FAMILY and FANCY GROCERIES, Consisting of almost everything you may need to eat. Our Goods are frfsb, we*e bought fur cash, and will be sold as low as the lowest. Please give me a call before purchasing your Groceries. Thanking all for past favors and soliciting a continuance of the same? We are yours to please, GL F. BIGBY. This is Business ! Buy where you can best get your Wants supplied, and that place is Sullivan Hardware Co YJi Tl ESTABLI8HMENT. PLOWS, FARM TOOLS. IMPLEMENTS, All up to date and prices down - way down. The great Oliver Plows, known the world over as the best for turning and terracing. Towers & Sullivan's Popular Steel Plows, made to the very notch?proper Georgia shapes, quality of metal the very best. The Celebrated "Nimrod" Axes?sold and used in Ander son for over six years, now sell here ten times faster than any other make. Ease your mind and protect your pockets by doing busi ness with? SULLIVAN HARDWARE CO. STATE NEWS. ? A uegro has been appointed post master at Georgetown. ? The Lutheran Church at Lcxiog ton was burned last week. This church was built shortly after Sher man had made a bonfire of the previ ous one. ? During the month of January forty-six patients were admitted to the State Lunatic Asylum, and the total population is now !)f)7, the largest in the history of the institution. ? A Greenwood merchant sold an Edgefield man a box of dates for axle grease the other day. The earth trem bled and the air got blue when that man reached home. ? The Laucaster Ledger says that the Rev. W. S. Sutherland, colored, is operating in Lancaster county en rolling ex-slaves upon a promise to get them pensions from the national government. ? The Abbeville Medium is of the opinion that some of the legislators who voted for partisan text books in the public schools know as much about their contents "as a baby docs about heaven." ? Friendship Church, near May field postofficc in Greenville county, was burned last week. It was being used*as a school house, and it caught from a defective flue. George May field, who is the teacher'there, fell off of the roof while trying to extinguish the fire, and broke his leg. ? The Judicial Gallery in the Su preme Court room has been added to by a splendid oil engraving of the late Judge Munro, which was presented by his son, Col. William Munro of Union. Clerk Brooks has hung the picture, and it is quite an addition to the in teresting historical gallery. ? It is announced that the gentle man who haL a million dollar contract to furnish granite for the government has opened up a quarry at Cayce's, in Lexington County, where granite is abundant. This movement will fur nish work at honest ,?agesfor a goodly number of hands. ? B. L. Patton, Jr.. son of Prof. Patton of the South Carolina College, committed suicide in Savannah last week by taking laudanum. He was a stenographer and generally had work to do. He had made an attempt once or twice before to commit the deed. He was buried in Columbia. ? Judge Benet has removed J. K. Blackmail, stenographer for the first circuit since 1877. and appointed F. K. Myers as his successor. The | Nicies and Courier calls on the Judge to give his reasons for removing one of the most efficient stenographers in the State. ? A gentleman from the neighbor hood of Picken s gives the information that with favorable weather and no unforseen accidents, the I'ickens and Easley railroad will be finished by the 1st of March. There was a slight hitch about crossing the track of the Southern at Easley, but this has been satisfactorily arranged, and the work J will now go on unimpeded. j ? A mulatto barber by the name of Ed. Signorgot in a rage after a quarrel with his wife on Wednesday night and threw a piece of iron at her. The missile missed the woman, but struck a child of the couple, fracturing its skull and injuring it so badly that it died on Saturday night. After the deed Signor ran away, but came back and surrendered to the authorities, and is now in jail. It is to be hoped that an example will be made of him. ? OranyeUnry Times. ? A mule belonging to Mr. Frank P. Hush, of Bradley, was killed in a peculiar way last Friday. The mule was one of a team used in hauling I lumber from Verdery to this city, and : it was in coining down the hill be tween the Orphanage and the city the 1 accident occurred. The wagon, heav ily loaded, forced the mules down the ! hill at a fast sait, when one of them made frantic efforts to hold hack, and the wagon tongue got across his hack. The mule's back was broken and he died from his injuries. ? (?revmrtmd Inder. ? Capt. .1. K.Marshall, of Chester, was brutally murdered -<n the 7th inst, lb- was a member "1' the police force. .\ negro went into tin- hank and presented a check, which was t|UCStioned. The bank o?icers called in an officer ami Captain Marshall came ie. The negro said he could show the officer the parly who gave the cheek am' the two started nut to gether. When the two got some dis tance out some uni' called Captain Murshall and when he looked around the negro drew hi- pistol ami shot Marshall in the head, killing him instantly. Captain Marshall was blind in one eye. Blood-hounds iverc start ed after the negro and al ter a chas of six miles he was caught after being shot twice. ON THE HOME STRETCH. The General Assembly Almost Heady to Adjourn. y civs and Courier. Columbia, S. C, February Vi.? The General Assembly of South Caro lina is in its last days. It has been a pleasant and serene session, and in a few days more the lawmakers of Caro lina will be at home telling the good people why they voted for this or against the other proposition. There will not be much to be explained this time; that is, nothing specially now, for there was not what might be ealled radical legislation. No fundamental change was made in any existing laws. The dispensary system remains the same. The County government sys tem remains unchanged, except in three or four Counties until at least the next session. Taxes remain the same. The offices remain the same. The educational system remains the same as for years. The machinery of the Courts remains unchanged, and so the people of the State will witness no disturbance of their present condi tions. The bulk of the legislation this year has been of a local and what might be called imperative character; that is, the usual appropriation, supply and general laws that have to bo re-enacted every session have been passed, and in addition there has been a great deal of local l?gislation! Some of this local law-making has been necessary, but a great deal more of it lias been absolutely useless, but as the Yellow Kid says in Hogan's Alley: ''It comes high, but they had to4 have me." There could be no meeting of the As sembly unless such measures were proposed and adopted, and so it seems almost a loss ?f time and energy to hope for any change in this direction. With the proper effort the (.ieneral Assembly could easily have adjourned yesterday, and if there is no adjourn ment on Wednesday, as fixed by the concurrent resolution, it will be an imposition, and it can only be excused by some unforeseen event or compli cation, or the desire of the members to continue their pay of $4 per day, and it is, of course, presumed that the lawmakers of a great State would not think of a salary grab. With Wed nesday fixed for final adjournment, legislation stands in much better shape towards that end than is usual. It is so unusual and remarkable as to be almost beyond recollection, that the supply and general appropriation bills should be in the hands of com mittees of conference three or four days in advance of adjournment. The House and Senate have both given the supply and appropriation bills their third reading; both of r,hese Houses have indicated their position on amendments, and the points of differ ence have been emphasized. In the supply bill there are only three points of difference to be submitted to the committees; they are relative to the levy and conditions for Charleston and Bamberg Counties, and as to the general provision as to penalties for the non-payment of poll taxes. It is very unusual for two Houses to come so near to absolute agreement upon so I general a bill. There arc also very few points of difference on the appro I priation bill. The chief differences I on any bill of general importance are I on the County government bill, and it I is doubtful if heads or tails can be made out of the matter, although everyone seems to insist upon a radi cal improvement of the existing law. The only thing that is suggested as being in the way of final adjournment on Wednesday is the bill locating the polling precincts of the State. The House began the consideration of this bill last Saturday evening, and as the Senate bill is under consideration there should oc no trouble on this score, and, moreover, if the measure I shoald entirely fail, the present vot I ing places arc about as good as can be j designated in a new Act. and there i need be no occasion to spend thous ands of dollars to arrange for polling I precincts, when the elections in South Carolina arc settled at the primaries and the polling places now in exist- I ' ence arc as satisfactory as any new ad-1 justmcut would be. Reports from conference commit i tees hare been received earlier than ; usual, and practically all of the difl'er I enccs on bills between the two Houses j have been obliterated. Whatever of fighting still remains is I mostly ou the Senate side, where both of the new County propositions arc; whore the separate coach bill is awaiting its fate: where the Verrier dispensary exemption bill is resting on the Calendar, and where quite :i num ber of other important matters arc awaiting consideration, death or adoption. Politics am! liquor have bc< n two of the features of the session's work. Tjic political talk and uns and downs have hooi! prolific, and will not close with the session, but members will in? doubt lake home with them the in spirations and prejudices against ccr tain candidates and measures that have been nur.se?! in Columbia. Most of the politics here has been of a quiet order, except when it broke fort Ii in all of its fury in the election of the Comptroller (Ieneral and on the print ing propositions. These were really the only two occasions on which the political Scheines came to the surface, bnt volumes might bo written of what i.-. and has been, going on beneath the surface. There has been no end of gubernatorial prospecting, and, while there are now several candidates before the public as sclf-avowcd or placed in nomination by their i'ricn .' ii would appear that tin: !i.-t is n complete. By tliai is meant ihat a number of entries have inen an nounced and a number have boon sug gested, but when the start is made at the first campaign meeting the list is likely to be materially changed. Some of those now looked upon as candi dates will for good and sufficient reas ons not be at the starting pole, and others who have not gotten the same degree of prominence as possibilities that others now enjoy, will he at the first meeting to make the race. The present session has emphasized the liquor problem as an issue in the approaching campaign. The issue was clouded during this sessioD. be cause of the lack of combined effort and organization on the part of the opponents of the present system, and the opposite condition on the part of the friends of the system. There has never been such a total and absolute demoralization of forces and lack of purpose as there is with those who arc opposing the existing state of af fairs relative to the liquor question. Had there been the proper effort made to change the conditions, there is no telling what might have hap pened. The House on every proposi tion it has had that did not contem plate the change of the entire law for something that was not matured, has voted against the dispensary. The bill to exempt three Counties from the operations of the law went through the House by a decisive vote. The resolution repudiating the granting of hotel privileges was unanimously passed by the House, and so it went. It was no wonder that the Child's bill was not acceptable, when its author said it was imperfect and did not even suit him. Mr. Meare's rider was impromptu and a sort of feeler. Mr. Pollock's bill was merely intended to reach the "original package'' stores, and meant no serious change of the existing conditions. Mr. Hy drick's bill has not had a fair test, and the "snuffers'' have been put on Mr. Simkin's resolution lookingvto a popular election on the matter. In the Senate they were not ready for a change. It is somewhat remark able that the dispensary advocates have persistently and repeatedly re fused to allow Mr. Simkin's bill to come up on its merits, when it merely proposes to let the people of the State ?not of the counties?say what solu tion of the lifiuor problem they want. The bill has been held down so that it will not now have time to pass, and Mr. Simkins has offered it in the shape of a concurrent resolution, but in the closing hours of a session no measure has a fair showing. A year ago matters stood quite differently, and it is noticeable on all sides. There is again some little talk about the hotel lobbies that Senator Tillinan will come down and take a hand in the next primary, not as the partisan of any of the candidates?he has had about enough of that. The sugges tion is that he will make the race for Governor himself, and do so on the dispensary platform, and spend two years, if need be, in getting that sys tem back into working order according to his view of the way things ought to be run. This, of course, is mere talk, and it would be the unexpected if Senator Tillman should let go in Washington, for even a short while, to worry his head with the troubles his pet is having in Carolina. notes <>f the week. There have been more bills relative to Greenwood County than for any other three counties. There are several prospective candi dates among the members of the As sembly. The temptation among members is to stand for re-election. The usual average of "returns"' is about onc f,hird, unless a cyclone comes along in politics. Four hundred bills have already been passed upon by the House. Judge Mackey's familiar face is now seen about the State House. The |k)licy of leaving the dispensa ry law severely alone has been carried out to the letter. Governor Kllerbe wanted the dis pensary law amended so as to elimi nate the profit feature. The bill placing express and tele graph companies uuder the control of the railroad commission is ready for ratification. There were no anti-football or anti flirting bills in Carolina's General Assembly. The Senate persists in its refusal to appropriate any money for the pur chase of copies of Gen. McCrady's excellent history. The lobby of the Grand Central Hotel this session was something of a Tammany Hall, when the houses were not in session. The two United States Senators kept their distance from the House during the session. The sore arms of the members, who ; waited until they got here? to be vacci : nat '!. are all well, ami the leg of one ' member is convalescent. ; 'I 1m rc will he an abundance of ! legacies in the shape of ideas for : fut ure ( ?encral Assemblies, j Although repeated efforts wer:' ' made to get constitutional amendments : before the people,theConstitution will I remain intact for two years longer. Mis- Addie tVancess Gillette, whose I application for admission to the bur of ! Worcester County, Muss., has created I such :i sensation in that State, is deter - : mini il to persevere in h'-r licht und feels cert tin of success. SI00 Reward. $100. I Ii- reader* of tin's paper will bo pleased to learn ! ili.it there is al least one ?truatleil disease that sei '. cnee has ticcii able i<> ? ure in all Us stages, and liiat is Calarrh. Mall's Catarrh Cure is the only posi : ii\-(> (iure now known i>> ilio medical fraternity. Catarrh Ileitis a constitutional disease ro?|nir?ts"a constitutional treatment. Halt's Catarrh <'iir" is taken internally, aeting directly upon the blond and iYiucou? futiiacos "t 11 - syntem, thereby de Rtroj iris Uio foundation of ? 11 * - disease, and gi? ins .in- [in in ni strength by biiildii .: iin Un-constitu tion and assi.stins nature in Juins its work Hie proprietors have so much fiith in ils etiraltre powers, that thev oiler Une Hundred i ollar* for any case that it fails in c ure. Send lor list les tiinoDiala A Due and Just Exemption. Whatever is to be said foror against the dispensary law. it will be general ly conceded that the House acted properly and justly in exempting Oconce, York and Pickens from its further operations, for the reasons given by the Representatives of those Counties. Mr. Verner stated on behalf of Oconee County, that its people do not want the law because they do not want to buy and sell intoxicating liquors. "They were satisfied with prohibi tion," and in such conditions it was a wrong and an injustice to force the hurtful traffic on them. That it has been hurtful was plainly shown. The County was a prohibition County when the dispensary was forced on it. "Every man and woman in the town where the dispensary' is located peti tioned for its removal.'- The authori ties "had to buy a lot outside of the ! town for its purposes. The enforced i presence of the concern led speedily to the development of its peculiar "business." The first year it sold $200 worth of liquors. The second year it sold $5,000 worth. The third year it sold $10,000 worth. A pro fessedly "moral law" was employed to demoralize the community, or so much of it as could be demoralized, in face of the protests and petitions of the community itself as a whole. It was the same story in the case of York. There is but one dispensary in the County. The people were sat isfied with 'prohibition. The State dispensary officials wanted to estab lish a dispensary at the Court House. Yorkville. The "people" of the town protested against it. 1 The people of Rock Hill did the same. It was es tablished at the little village of Tir zah. "The whole community has been cursed by it," and by the origi nal package store which it made pos sible. A few days ago "the fourteen voters >at Tirzah voted against the dis penser and his clerk alone voted for it." The right and plain view of the mat ter was distinctly presented by the advocates of the proposed exemption, j Mr. McCullough said "it was a burning shame to force the law on Counties that did not want it," mean ing Counties which did not want the liquor traffic which it authorizes. Mr. Stevenson "read the law and said the present status was unjustly forced on these Counties." "It is not a ques tion of politics." he declared, but one of justice." Dr. Wychc took a comprehensive view of the matter. "He thought it better to pass a local option bill," and he was right. It was wrong to force the demoralizing traffic on Counties which had forbidden it. It is just as wrong to continue it in force m Coun ties which would prohibit it if they were allowed to do so. Giving all due i ! weight to the argument that the liquor traffic cannot be suppressed wholly in j any community, and that it is proper and expedient, therefore, for its con-1 duct under sanitary and police regula tions, the counter argument that a community which prohibits the traffic j and s: discourages it, and tries to sup-1 press it, should have the fullest sup port of the State in their commenda ble endeavor, must prevail. Every good and right law should be made "general" in its application. There j cannot be too many exceptions to a { bad one. "Prohibition" should be made practicable and easy of adoption 1 to every County, and every commnni- J ty, and every person, who desires to i adopt it and practice it. A local op- ; tion law would do this. The House came short of the full measure of its duty and opportunity in not extending the exemption so justly and wisely accorded to three Counties, to every other County that should choose to claim it on the same terms.?Netcs and Courier. ? - m mm ? Sine Hundred Patients. The regular monthly meeting of the hospital for the insane was held yes terday. The meeting was an impor tant one. All of the members of t he board were present except Mr. Perry Glenn, who had been called away from the city en account of the death of hi- brother, lion. .i. M. Gleuu, a member of the House of Representa tives from Anderson County. The report of the superintendent showed that during the month of Jan uary 10 patients bad been admitted to the hospital for treatment. This makes the total number who are now undergoing treatment i?00. ami is the largest number which has over been reached since the establishment of t he institution. The affairs were found to be in a prosperous condition, and the man agement is to be congratulated on the good showing made. One ni the most important subjects before the board war- in regard to the number of negro patients, which is unusually large. Steps are to be taken .whereby special attcutiou will in'pan! to the colored department in the future, and the Parker building will be utilized at once for the col ored men. ? The State* Tillman liquor Control Bill Dies a Sudden Death. Washington, Feb. 11.?The house committee judiciary to-day killed the .Senate bill to permit the State of South Carolina to control liquors brought into the State in original packages. The motion to report it favorably was lost on a tie vote. The action of the committee to-day ends a long contest that has attracted national attention. One of the prin cipal objections developed is that it would give the States the power to control inter-State commerce and might lead to the invocation of power in the case of other commodities. Be fore the direct vote was taken to-day an amendment to the bill providing that the States should not discrimi nate against the liquor of any particu lar State was adopted by a vote of 7 to 5. The vote on the motion to favora bly report the bill was then lost on a tie vote, as it requires a majority to report a bill favorably. The Doomed Dispensary. That the Tillman-Latimer bill would pass the House of Representatives we have never believed : but with a speak er from Maine there was a chance that it might receive a favorable report' from the committee to which it was referred. That chance has been lost. Not even the resolutions of the Legis lature of South Carolina, by some in explicable circumstance unanimously adopted, availed to secure its favora ble consideration. The vote in com mittee was a tie, and the measure therefore fails. It cannot get before the house except by unanimous con sent, and that is a possibility quite beyond consideration. I The bill is dead. The effort to cir cumvent the Federal Courts has failed. All the boasts and promises of Till man have eome to naught. The Su preme Court of the United States will, as its past deliverances assure us. confirm Judge Simonton's decis ions. Interstate commerce in liquors will continue unrestrained. The dis pensary is doomed. It is well. The people are getting very tired of it with its hypocrisy, its scandals and its oppressions. The flounderings of a Legislature elected in the dispensary interest is the surest j evidence of this. In the campaign ! this year the sense of the Democratic ; voters will be taken and the next Gen ! eral Assembly, we are assured, will I not force the State traffic in liquor up on any community which protests against it. The dispensary has lasted longer than a great many humbugs, because it has been fortified with offi ces, salaries, spoliation, privilege and prejudice?but like all humbugs it is sure to be exposed and ended.?The I State. The Girls Can Stop ltJ As a rule girls arc not kissed against their wills. The average man may be no better than he may be, but gencral ! ly in the matter of labial privileges he has at least some reason for thinking that One offers him the rosy fruit. Sometimes it is simply his sclf-con I ceit and egotism that suggests it. In I such cases he deserves all the punish I ment he may receive. But if the wo ) man gives to him and he feasts, he may be a very weak and "unworthy" young man, but he would be more or less than human to refuse. From Adam's time to the present he has nearly always succumbed. The reme dy in Atlanta and elsewhere is in the hands of the girls. They ought to re alize, if they don't, that familiarity breeds contempt, and that while the friendliness and good comradeship that characterize the relations of the ' young men and young women of the ; day are all right, a woman is a woman for a' that. ;md though she ride a bi cycle and wear bloomers, she should never permit her male friends to for i get the respect and courtesy that arc due to her as a lady.? Baltimore Sun. mm !*2."> Miles in 4*2<> .Minutes. Buffalo, X. Y.. February 13.? New York to .Buffalo, 425 miles, in minutes actual running time, was the record made over the Krie rail road to-day by a special newspaper train. The train left Jersey City at 3.IS o'clock and reached Buffalo at 10.48 this morning. In stops twenty-four minutes wer.* lost. The train was made up of engine and three baggage cars. The ninety-throe miles between llornellsville and Buffalo were cov ered in eighty-live minutes. Next Sunday an attempt is to be made to improve mi I his fast run. The South Carolina College will graduate more students this session than any other male college ituthc State. The number being twenty nine, fourteen of whom are in the law department and fifteen in the acad? mie.