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BY CLINKSCALES & LANGSTON. ANDEESON, S. C., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 1. 1899. ~ VOLUME XXXIV-NO. 36 e Are Told THAT our competitors consider themselves lucky when they lose no more than from five to fifteen per cent, of theil* lotal sales each year by bad debts. Of course some body must stand this loss. It's not the intention that it shall rest on the credit merchant. The old-fashioned credit Bystem of charging much more than the Goods are worth provides very nicely for even 15 per cent. losses. The men who pay their bills and buy of credit houses stand all these losses, by simply paying much more than we ask for the same Good*, and merely to secure credit-a few weeks credit. It isn't a -question of honesty with us. We credit no one. We keep no books. We give you more value for 75c. cash than oar competitors would for 81.00 on credit. If you are displeased with any purchase you make here, let us know and we will give you-YOUR MONEY LACK IF YOU WANT IT. Those $1.00 Jeans Pants we are selling for 75c. The number we put. on sale was luckily laree, else you late comers wouldn't have the selection to choose from. These Pants are worth $1.00 at any credit house. SHIRTS. Twenty-five dozen NEGLIGEE SHIRTS, with two Collars and one pair separate Cufis to match. Credit ' Stores make a leader of these Goods at 50c. ' EVANS' PRICE IS ONLY 40c. Tell your iriends that 4fc WE SE6L IT FOR LESS." THE? SPOT CASH CLOTHIERS. ARE YOU HUNTING BARGAINS? WE have bought the entire Stock of J. P. SULLIVAN <fc CO. and will continue business at tbe same Stand. Having bought this Stock at a considerable discount, we are in position to give you BARGAINS in And we can sell you GROCERIES, Shoes, Hats, Dry Goods, Notions, Etc., At and below original cost. When you are in Town we want you to make head quarters with ns and feel inst like you are at home, and we will treat you the best we know bow, talk about these things, and have a lively time on the Corner. We know that we can save you money, and all we ask is that you give us a chance. We will carry a complete line of General Merchandise. We will have & lot of New" Goods in a few days of all kinds. MOORE, ACKER & co. ?Sf* My friends and old customers are invited to call on me. I will be glad to serve them in any way I can. Don't forget wbero I am-at J. P. Sullivan & Co's. Stand on the Corner. OSCAR MOORE. TARI?NT. The Cough and Cold that irritates and torments is relieved with TARMINT. 25c. and 50c. Johnsons Headache Powders. Relieve Headache and Neuialgia. 10c and 25c. Infant Talcum Powder, An elegant Toilet Powder. Prevents and relieves chapping and chafing. Sold in bulk, any quanti ty. 60c. per pound. For Rheumatism and Neuralgic Pains rub with our .... Nerve and Bone Liniment. It is the BEST. 25c and 50c. Johnsons Worm And Liver Syrup. Removes Worms, is pala table, safe and sure. 25c. Landreths Seeds. A Just received. Fresh and new. . HILL-ORR DRUG C WILD WORK OF THE WIND. A Tornado Strikes Martisonville, Tenn. ATHENS, TEXX.. March 5.-A terrific tornado passed over a portion of Mnd isonvillc and .Monroe counties last night with disastrous results. Early in thc evening a strong wind arose and several hours Inter a tornado about seventy-live yards wide struck a por tion of Madisonvillc, killing three per sons, wounding ten or twelve others, and completely destroying twelve or "fifteen houses and several barns. The killed are: Mr. and Mrs. Jack Moser, Ed L. Horton. "Wounded: Miss Millie Ervin, Miss Della Mason, Mrs. E. L. Horton, Mrs. L. A. Robinson, Mr. L. A. Robinson. Robert Robinson, Miss Rodgers, Mr. Moser, Prof. diaries Kelly. The Horton and Robinson residences are both complete wrecks, not one timber being left above another on thc foundations. The escape of the inmates of these two houses, eight in the Horton and three in the Robinson,seemsmiraculous, some of them being blown a distance of a hundred yards yet escaping in some cases without a scratch. W. F. Ervin's residence had one end torn away. Dillon Rogers's house is also a wreck, Erskine Lowry's resi dence moved the distance of ten feet and was wrecked. almost out of shape. Telephone and telegraph wires are blown down and all communication shut ott*. - The storm came up with alarming suddenness and swept everything in its path. It was accompanied by the ter rific roar usually attending tornadoes. Frightened inhabitants rushed for their cellars and. places of safety. In the country great damage was done to orchards and crops by the wind and hail. It is reported that further casualties resulted in the rural districts, but no particulars can be obtained. The most frightful feature of the tornado was the manner in which Jack Moser met his death. He was hurled by the wind's force from his house, a distance of TOO yards, until his pro gress was impeded by a wire fence, which completely severed his head from the body. The remains were found in that con dition by the rescuing party, which did faithful work after the storm had sub sided. The 12-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Moser was in their home with them but he was not hurt. Hugh Hicks and Charles Pierce were seriously injured. In addition to the loss of life and the destruction of residence property, barns were swept away and stock vms killed. The wood working and milling plant of J. H. Rurleson was damaged; to gether with costly machinery. The property damaged is not secured by storm insurance and is believed to bc a total loss. It is believed that Miss Rodgers, who is reported as seriously injured, may die, her body having been lacerated by broken panes of glass. She was also badly bruised and injured internall}'. Upper East Tennessee points report heavy wind storms, accompanied by terrific rains. The rains did untold damage to crops in that section, and it is conservatively estimated that this torrent, coupled with the recent freeze and bad weather, will mean a loss of a million dollars to farmers in that sec tion. DECATUR, ALA., March H.-A terrible storm of wind, hail and lightning struck this place last night, doing great dam age and causing the loss of four lives. The huge tower of tire Long Distance Telephone Company, 140 feet high, which carries the wires spanning thc Tennesse River, was snapped like a reed. Several manufacturing plants are suspended on account of damage to buildings and machinery. Capt. Sim McKee, of the steamer Luke Pryor, plying between here and Chattanooga, came in to-night, and reported that he had found a large raft below Whites burg, which had been broken ni?. Tho raft was being brought herc by four white men, who were evidently lost in the storm, as their boat was destroy ed. Searching parties started out to night to lind the bodies. MARIETTA, GA., March ii.-A terrific storm struck this city last night, caus ing general alarm tor some time. The roofs of several buildings were blown elf and considerable damage was done by water. ELIIEKTOX, GA., March 5.-Late last night a severe storm struck Elberton. The Court House was badly damaged, and the new Episcopal Church, which was nearing completion, AVUS totally demolished. Great damage lo country property is reported. WINDER, GA., March 5.-This city was visited last night by a terri flic hail, wind and lightning storm. Considera ble live stock was killed by lightning and some damage done farm proper ty. Lightning entered the house of W? D. Sims, ex-marshal her?', demol ishing a bedstead and (caringa picture from the wall. The. two occupants of the room were unhurt. CAICTERSVILLK, GA.. March .">.-A severe storm struck this j ?lace las!, hight. Large hailstones fell, breaking plate glass windows and damaging hot houses. Several buildings were also damaged. ATLANTA, GA., March A I orri lie wiu\l ami hail storm swop! over this city last night. Hailstones as Large as seven indies iii circumference were l'ouiul. Over two indies of rain fell during the evening. Some damage was done telegraph ?md elective liff ht wires, mid a negro was killed near the union depot hy a live wire falling on him. rive hundred square feet of glass in a hot house on Marietta street was de molished. The oppressive heat of yes terday .trave way immediately after the storm to ii temperature 40 degrees lower. Toco ?A, GA.. Mardi 5.-A heavy storm here, last night blew down thc ware houses of Edwards Brothers and T. A. Capps, and demolished several smaller buildings. Edwards's ware house in falling crushed in the home of Mrs. Mary Miller, an aged widow, kill ing her instantly. Directions for the Board of Pensions. The Legislature did not change the pension law. Amendments were intro duced by Capt. A. H. Dean, of Spartan burg, and by Mr. Laban Mauldin, of Pickens, but neither bill passed the Senate. The State Board of Pensions, through Miss Kate F. Maher, clerk, is sending out instructions to township and Coun ty Boards. The State Board consists of M. R. Cooper, Secretary of State; J. P. Durham, Comptroller General, and G. Duncan Bellinger, Attorney Gen eral. The following arc the instructions to county and township boards and will be of general interest. All new applicants for pensions must appear in person before thc township boards. Said application must hare the approval of the township and county boards before the State board will ap prove them. The township boards may drop from the roll of pensioners the name or names of any party or parties which, in their judgment, are not en titled to a pension under the law. They may add to the roll only such names of new applicants as may hie applications. Those already on the pension roll need not ?il? new applications, but must re port to the board. The board will pre pare a list giving the name of each pensioner who has died since the last distribution of pension funds, and of those who participated in thc distribu tion of 1808 who, in their judgment, are not now entitled to a pension. All new applications not properly and correctly tiled in every particular, although approved by township and county boards, will be disapproved by the State board. The county boards are requested not to forward to the State board the applications of new pensioners disapproved by township and county boards. Township and county boards will no tice that the law provides three classes, 'A," "B," "C," with five sub-divisions of Class C, as follows: Class A.-Those who have lost both hands or both legs, or both eyes, or are totally disabled, and whose income does not exceed $2.">0. This does not include soldiers whose disabilities arise from diseases or causes arising since the wai-. Class B.-Those who have lost one arni or one leg, and whoso income does not exceed $230. Class C. No. 1.-Those soldiers ?ind sailors disabled by wounds, but not sullicient to be placed in Class B, whose income does not exceed $2.">0. Class C, No. 2.-Those who have reached the age of (?0 years, and wlio.se income docs not exceed $100. Class C, Xo. .'?.-Widows of those who have lost their lives while in the ser vice of the State or Confederate States, ami whose income does nor exceed $250. Class C, No. -1-Widows above the age of (?0 years, whose income does not exceed $100. Class C, No..").-Widow s of pension ers. This class is not mentioned in tin* printed ?lets sent out, but by the act approved !)th December, 181)4. Blanks for reports of township and county boards have been prepared and mailed. The board can on each blank i write thc township, and then give the pensioners in that township by classes ' alphabetically. Township boards cannot be too care ful in these matters of "income'' and "physical condition." 11 is a very poor nulli whose gross income from labor, rent, ?ind other sources, does not ex ceed $100, or poor lands, if any, which will not produce this amount gross. Property sufficient to produce $100 in I applicant's or Iiis wile's name debars him or her. Where soldiers or widows dispose of their property by giving or selling to their children they ?ire de barred. Widows of pensioners who re-inarry are not entitled any longer to pensions, pensioners who have moved to another State ?ire no longer entitled to a pen sion. Those who have moved to an other county must have their name transferred and draw their pension from that county. Please note very carefully the fol lowing : Let township and county boards act promptly ami fairly, giving the. State board full information with complete reports by townships for each county, and writing the names alphabetically, full ?mil clear, ainl beginning with (.'hiss A. ami giving reasons for ap proving. Township hoards must li rsl approve in writing each new applica tion, : 11 M I ?hen county boards, ?iud afterwards I he Slate board. In making reports io conniv boards, township hoards' reports should be signed by each mem ber. Severe Hail Storm Ami Cyclone. GIMSON, X. C., March 3.-Tho upper edge of Marlboro county near this ]>lac(! was visited by a terrible hail storm and cyclone between 4 and ~> o'clock this afternoon. The hail stones were of enormous size; the larger ones were by actual measurement found to be ten inches in circumference. Window glasses were shattered, shingles on the houses were split and quite a number of fowls were killed. Thc path of tiie cyclone was ?l) to 73 yards wide, and so far as heard from about three miles long. It destroyed several tenement houses on Mr. J. D. Jones' place., severely damaged his residence, and completely demolished the residence of Mr. Joseph Newton. Mr. Newton himself was bad ly injured. It next struck Mr. C. D. Newton's residence, but no one was injured. Several tenement houses on the plan tation of N. T. and E. G. Fletcher were wrecked. No one was injured there. Owing co interference in telephonic connections I am unable to ascertain further damages. No wind here, but considerable damage from the hail. BEXXETTSV?LLE, March 3.-A violent wind storm or tornado passed through the Brightsville and Adamsville sec tions of our county late this afternoon, doing considerable damage. Several houses were overturned and a child of Mr. E. B. Godkin was seriously hurt. The tornado traveled in an easterly direction.-Special io Thc State. Cuba's Unfortunate Patriots. HAVANA, March 4.-The Cuban As sembly has requested the newspaper men of Havana, "upon their honor as I journalists and good, patriotic Cubans," not to publish anything the}' may learn regarding thc Assembly's secret ses sions, "thinking that public knowledge of what is doing may be used against the Assembly in its subsequent deal ings with the United States." This, it is claimed, shows that no individual member of the Assembly trusts another. Last night there was much mysteri ous cafe whispering. It seems that a considerable portion of the time during the. sessions of the Assembly is spent in insulting Americans and Gen. Go mez, and in personal collisions between the members. They also, it is added, accuse each other of accepting bribes from the United States, which accusa tions were followed by threatened duels on thc adjournment. In addition to this the Cuban As sembly consider that the planting of j General Fitzhugh Lee's flagstaff four j metres deep m the ground is a sure sign of the continuance of the Ameri can occupation of the island. These reports, arising from the prolonged and boisterous secret sessions, have made the doings of the Cuban Assembly the joke of Havana. Any, rumors discreditable to the American military authority assiduous ly reported. No immediate solution of the matter of the payment of the Cuban army is in sight. C?en. Gomez has not submit ted to Governor General Brooke thc details regarding the Cuban army ne cessary to enable the latter to perfect plans for the payment of the soldiers. The Cuban Military Assembly is spend ing its time in a discussion of themyste riousloan of ?12.000,000, for which, it h reported, those lending the money will asksSO,000,000 in payment. Gen. Gomez does not attend the meetings of the Assembly, and apparently ignores that body, which has not yet decided offici ally to accept; the *3,000,000 from the United States. .Meantime, the first in stallment of the American money promised. About 2 per cent, of the canned meat issued to the relief stations for distri bution to the destitute is said to be spoiled, as is also a quantity of canned tish, tomatoes and baking powder. The State's Greatest Curse. So the dispensary stands, like the baleful Upas tree, filling the air with its poisonous exhalations and extend ing its roots deeper and further into thc soil. So it will stand till some up heaval of the earth shall break the hold of its roots and hurl its huge trunk prostrate on the ground. And, sooner or later, that upheaval must come. Thc politicians an* afraid to trust the people with this question, and ere long the people will be afraid to trust them. Then the people will take the matter in their own hands and settle it tinnily and forever.-ijaffney Ledger. STATE OK OHIO, PITY OK TOLEDO, I LCCAS COUNTY, | FRANK .1. CHUNKY makes oath tnat he is the seniar partner of the ii rm of F. J. CHEKKY & Co , iloiug business in the City ol' Toledo, County and State aforesaid and that said firm will pay the mm of ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for each and every case of CATARRH that cannot be cured by the use of HALL'S CATARRH CURE. FRANK .Ti CHENEY. Sworn lo heitre me and subscribed in my pres ence, this Gib day of December, A. D 188(5. [SEAL] A. W GLEASON. Kolan/ Public. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally and acts directly on the blood ?ind mucous surfaces of tlie system Send for testimonials, free. Address, F.J. CHENEY 4 Ct).,Toledo O. Sold by DrneiristH. 75c. Hall's Family Fills are Ihe best. Cheap Printing. Law Uriels at (50 cents a Tagt-Good Work, Good I'aper, Prompt Delivery. Minnies cheaper dian al any other house. Catalogues in (he hos! style. If yon have printing (odo. il will be lo your interest tb write to I he Press and I hunier, Abbeville, S. C. tl'. The l?eligions Press and the Killing. These 151 iiiit and strong words are from the ?.Uijilist Courier: We never Juive admired thc dispen sary law, notwithstanding there arc some good features belonging to ir. Unpopular to start with, occurrences like that in Columbia have brought this law into even greater disrepute. The constabulary will in the end do much towards the repeal of the law. Guns and pistols are put into the hands of irresponsible and unreliable men and they shoot recklessly in the dark ness and kill inoffensive citizens on the highway; they shoot into the door of a man's residence, in the dark, and kill his wife, and might have killed his in nocent children. It is time for some of these killing constables to suffer for their reckless shooting. Some of them ought to have suffered, perhaps the ex treme penalty of the law, for some of the killings already passed. The courts and the governors were entirely too lenient in these cases and that lias led to other and repeated bloodshed on the part of the constables. It is time for this reckless shooting and inexcusable killing in thename of the law to cease. This is a good time to make a change. Some hangings are needed and would be very wholesome. It is time for those in authority to learn that our people will not quietly submit to have their private residences searched by these constables. Very few people will peaceably allow it. Those who are charged with the en forcement of this law might as well recognize this as an established fact and instruct their subordinates accor dingly. That provision of thc law which gives the constables the right to search private residences has made the dispensary law particularly obnoxious, and has caused much trouble and bloodshed, and the general impression prevails that the constables have un dertaken to euforce it without proper discretion and with little discrimina tion. An offensive la w ought never to be enforced in au unwise and offensive manner. It may be difficult to lind the right men to enforce this constabulary feature of the law; if men cannot be found who will enforce it without shooting into the doors of private resi dences and killing the inmates, then by all means let it not be enforced at all. The Constabulary Force. Cor.u.MWA, March 2.-There is just now considerable interest being taken in the matter of thc State constables. The constabulary force now is as large, or larger, than it has ever been. To day's official record shows that there arc sixty-two constables on the pay roll of the State dispensary-counting the three in the Penitentiary under charges of killing Mrs. Stuart. Thc force seems to have been grow ing slowly, but surely, within the last few months. There seems to have been no special demand for the increase, but it has grown day by day because of a request here and there for a constable and the tremendous pressure on the Governor's office for places on the force. There must be fully five hun dred applicants constantly .rapping at the door for places on the force. There is thought to be demand for all of the constables on the force by those having the matter in hand, other wise they would not be appointed. In Charleston and Columbia there is very little ai icntion paid to working up cases through the constables, as it, is ?aid that it does not pay, so little is the prospect of a conviction. In Charleston and Columbia and some other places the constables are used almost entirely for the seizure of liquor at the railroad and express offices, and to make raids. Without any allowance forjexpense accounts, the constabulary must cost at least $125 a Hay.-Special to Xenon and Courier. Miss Lucy Lee Hill's Necklace. Huttons from the uniforms of Gens. Lee, Jackson, Morgan, Johnston, Hill, Beauregard and othcrsjhave been made into a necklace, ornamental comb, ear drops, bracelets, breastpin and cuff buttons, upon the order of an old Con federate veteran, and presented to Miss Lucy Lee Hill, daughter of Gen. A. P. Hill, who will wear them at the Con federate Kennion at Charleston next spring. Each button has been baptized in the blood of its former brave owner. -Columbia Record. - Senator Tillman and Congress man Elliot have been working indus triously to secure tents from the War Department in Washington for the Reunion of Confederate Veterans in Charleston, Their efforts have been successful and thousands of tents will be loaned Charleston for the period of the Keunion. - mm m -- - Wm. Catoc, of Lancaster County, went to Kershaw during the recent freeze and started for his home about nightfall ; hut he became so benumbed by thc cold that he lay down by the roadside, where he was found next morning; in an unconscious condition. On attempting to take oil! one of thc unfortunate man's shoes, a foot broke oil" at the instep as if it had boen a piece of wood. Both feet and one ann had to be amputated. STATE SEWS: - Five convicts escaped recently from the Aiken County chain gang. - The rice crop in the lower part of the State has been seriously injured by the freshets. - The State Epworth League is to hold its annual meeting in Camden, S. C., April 20-23. - Miss Padgett and Mrs. Hiers were accidentally burned to death re cently at Walterboro. - Measles, mumps and whooping cough are going the rounds in various sections r ? the State. - On- day last week 20,000 fine shad wei o shipped from Georgetown to the eastern markets. - The Charleston strawberry crop will be a month or six weeks late, owing to the severe weather. - George W. Wellbrook, a young German of Charleston, committed sui cide in Jacksonville, Fla., last Friday. - W. T. Milford, ex-Superinten dent of Education of Abbeville Coun ty, died at his home in Abbevi?e last Sunday. - Senator Henderson, of Aiken, is spoken of in some quarters as being likely to oppose Tillman for the United States Senate in 1900. - Alonzo D. Webster, a son of the Republican boss in this State, has been nominated by President McKinley to be postmaster at Orangeburg. - Gov. Ellerbe continues so very ill that it has been suggested that he turn the arduous work of his office to Lieutenant-Gcvernor McSweeney till he recovers. - The Columbia State, after thor oughly investigating the figures, an nounces the fact that South Carolina will rank second among the States of the Union in the production of cotton cloth. - The supreme court has held in a Saluda county case that a dispensary indictment must name the parties to whom the alleged sale was made and that "to divers parties'' is not per missable. - Robert Trotter, one of Pickens county's oldest citizens and well-known throughout the up country, died Sat urday night after an illness of three weeks, at his home near Dacusville, in his 84th year. - Ex-Attorney General Barber has decided to locate in New York for the practice of law. He has had the move under c&nsideration for some time, but only recently has he secured offices in that city. - The Greenville mud must be tough. Beattie Howland, a mail car rier, broke his leg while pulling through it. He did not discover that it was broken until he got home. Queer sort of legs Beattie must have. - There was a marriage by telephone in Fairfield County blizzard week. The parson couldn't make the trip to the bride's home because of snow, sleet and bad roads, so he tied the knot by wire, and didn't kiss the bride. - The number of cases of small pox in the country between Sumter and Mayesville is growing larger each week, the negroes disregarding the simplest and most ordinary means of preventing the spread of the disease. - The roof of Gen. Wade Hamp ton's house took lire a few days ago, and the General, with the weight of eighty years resting upon him and a cork leg beneath him, gallantly mount ed the roof and extinguished the flames. - Senator McLaurin says there is no truth in the recently printed story that he is to succeed Judge Simonton as circuit judge. Judge Simonton's health is said to have improved SO much that his retirement is probably far cff. - A miner by the name of Hayden was assaulted and knocked senseless down in Saluda county last week by two men who were acting as guides for him. They robbed him of eighty cents and are now in jail for their crime. - Mr. M. H. Kempson'sgin house, twenty bales of cotton, cotton seed, wagons, thresher and other articles were destroyed by fire at his home ic Saluda County on Sunday morning. The fire is thought to have been of in cendiary origin. - A negro woman il" years old, was burned to death on a farm a few miles from Sumter on Saturday afternoon. She was burning off a field and her dress caught from the burning grass, and she was almost entirely consumed before help could reach ?her. - Mrs; Jane Miller, of York coun-, ty, is more than SO years of age, and during thc past few years has pieced for her grandchildren thirty quilts. Fifteen of the <juilts were made from pieces no larger than the ball of her thumb. The work is done with neat ness and a^?stic taste,5