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' ^^^^^ z^^/^^ * ' BY CLINKSCALES & LANGSTON. ANDERSON. S. C.. WEDNESDAY. JULY 3. 1901. VOTJTMR Y*YVTi___i?n ? "At Christina.} play and have good cheer, For Christmas comes but once a year !" . 'I . . ==aa==!aBS!=S5 I ?F YOUR CHRISTMAS GIFTS INCLUDE SOMETHING Suitable for Gentlemen This Store's offerings should interest you. Below you will find a partial list of what we have tc show you for your gentlemen friends. Any article will be an acceptable Gift for man or boy. The Goods are the best, and the prices-well, you can see for yourself. Neckwear. Perhaps you think nothing suitable can be had for half a dollar. That is u mistake. We have SCARFS, BOWS, FOUR-IN-HANDS, PUFFS and IMPERIALS Iimumerable at that price. Then we have an exceptionable line of TIES at 25c. Lawn Ties for evening wear, just the thing for Christmas and New Year parties (two in enameled pasteboard box) 50c. Gloves and Handkerchiefs. These are, perhaps, the most acceptable Gifts-articles that make a good chow for little money. Oar Gloves are priced from 50a. to $2.00. At $1.50 we can give yon as good a pair of Gloves as a man would care to wear. For the same money half dozen Hemstitched Linen Handkerchiefs. Silk Hand kerchiefs in great variety-25c, 50c, 75o and $1.00. Shirts. No more acceptable Gift than Shirts could be thought of. No man ever had too many of these. We have them in all styles, white or colored, laun dried or unlaundried, 50c to $1.50. Hosiery. Christmas wouldn't be Christmas without the Stocking, and Hosiery seems about as appropriate and useful a Gift as one could wish for. Gocd Socks at $1.50 per dozen in bl; < K brown and fancy colors. Something better at 83.00 per dozen in all the fancy abades. At 50c per pair we show a beau tiful assortment of Lisle Thread Half Hose in all new patterns, Prices, like tbs Goods, are right. Collars and Cuffs. We have them in as great variety as scoops-^the price, whatever you like to pay. 2,100 Linen Collars only $1.50 per dozen. 2,100 Linen Cuffs only 25c per pair. Make a note of the size and style, whether standing or turned down Collars, the old style "button," or the more stylish link Cuffs is .desired. Underwear, Night Bobea, Suspenders, Hats, t. Caps, Umbrellas, . Snoes, Suit Gases, Overcoats, Mclntoshes, Odd Trousers, Garters, or a Useful Presents these for father, husband, brother or son, and we have some bargains to show you. Gome in and look at what wa have-then go and look elsewhere. We have confidence in our [Goods and our prices, and we invite the fullest comparison.. Any article purchased here as a Gift can be exchanged after the holidays if desired. B. O. Evans & Go. ANDERSON, S. C. The Spot Cash Clothiers STATE NEWS. t - A now bank will soon be estab lished in Spartanburg with a oapital of $100,000. - Smallpox is giving the State Board of Health some trouble sicco real cold weather set it. - Ex-President Cleveland and a party of friends spent last week down on tho San tee, near Georgetown, shooting duoks. - Tho appointment of Maj. Micah Jenkins to be collector of Internal Revenue for South Carolina has been confirmed by ibo Senate. - Two aged negroes were arrested in Beaufort not long ago for person ating and recoiving the pensions of two deceased negro veterans. - Revenue officers from Greenville made a raid in tho Dark Corner and wasted 45,000 gallons of beer and de stroyed three large distilleries. - Carey Stiles, a white man in tho Greenville jail, charged with murder; attempted to commit suicido by cut ting his throat with a razor. Tho razor was smuggled by a friend. - Tho post?nico at Batesburg was robbed last Friday night. Only a few dollars in change was taken from a drawer. The safe was dynamited, but, although badly oraoked, was not opened. - A man by the name of Robinson, of Gaffney, took twenty-three grains of morphine, but the physicians saved him. He says next time ho will make a sure case of it. Domestic trouble caused it. - The safe of the Bell Company, merohants at Reni?o, Laurens County, was blown open last Friday night by burglars and robbed of $160 in cash and three bank certificates, aggregat ing $1,100.' There is no clue as to the identity of the burglars. ~ The death list of the South Caro lina Conference for the year 1902, or rather between the Conference of 1901 and 1902, known as the "conference year," was a remarkable one. It was tho. largest on the reoord, ten minis ters having died within the year. - They have lost the county line somewhere between Laurens and New berry; the old road that once marked it has gone, and the whole lino must be re-surveyed to locate it exactly. It is possible that the lively town of Whitmires. with its cotton mill and bank, will be found to be in Laurens county, although Newberry now claims it. - Robert Davis, Jr., was aooidently shot Tuesday afternoon by Sam Levi while hunting near the Dixon Annex, a short distance from Easley. A load of bird shot entered the young man's side, penetrating his langs ana caus ing his death that night at 7:40 o'olook, just four hours after the fatal aooi dent. - Major Bea Sloan, who has been acting as president of lue South Caro lina college, has done so most accept ably and is most popular with the students. They have presented to him a strong petition asking him to stand for election to the presidency permanently and a copy has been sent to the governor, who is chairman of the board of trustees. - The annual report of the dispen sary business of the State is not yet at hand, although the fiscal year clos ed on the first day of this month. There are over 100 dispensaries and before even an approximate essimate can be given, it will be necessary to have reports showing the sales and the Btook on hand in each of these dispensaries. . - At Harley's Cross Roads, about five miles from Sumter, the barns and Btables of Dr. R. E. Lee were destroy ed by fire. Four mule?, two horses, about five hundred bushels of corn, besides forage, wagons, etc., were lost. About fifty bales of cotton which were piled near the barn came near being burned, but moved after slight damage. The origin of tho fire is unknown, but all the oiroumstanoes indioate incendiarism. - Thomas E. Miller, president of the colored State college, looated at Orangeburg, has submitted his annual report to the Governor. The report shows that the institution has enjoy ed an unusually prosperous year, 624 students having boen enrolled. Most of these were ia the industrial depart ment, and the report show* that the State is taking care of the colored population in a most creditable way. Tho oollege asks for an appropriation of $10,000 next year and will probably get it. - There was a desperate attempt to break jail in Columbia last Friday morning. Five negro prisoners lump ed on Jailor SHgh and beat him almost into insensibility. Thoy seoured his Eistol but were unable to get tho keys. ' luring the straggle the noise attrac ted the attention of Mr. Sligh's son, Hume, cloves years old. The. little fellow ran up stairs and fired three times A the desperate negroes, who ?hen returned to their cells and Mr. Sligh was enabled to crawl out of tho corridor. His wounds are not dan gerous. - The Supremo Court has rendered a decision dismissing the petition for an injunction ?? ?nst the Lee eounty commissioners, thus bringing to an end tho many obstacles the baby county has met with in ;*a ttght for existence. The deoision was rendered by Justice Jones and was unanimous ly concurred in by the other Justices. The deoision is long and goes into de tailed argument in reference to. the various points raised, but eonoludes, after carefully considering the matter, that the petition should bo dismissed upon the ground that it fails to state a cause of action, the faots not war ranting the injunction. GENERAL NEWS. - Negroes are leaving South Bond, Ind., beoauBe of feeling against thom by tho white people. - Virginia farmers have found by profitable ezperienoe that hogs fed on pumpkins never ha*o cholera. - Great damage has been done in Kentucky, Tennesseo and Arkansas within tho pant week by excessive rains. An Ohio mob reoently pursued a rapist through tho oountry and tried to break down a jail and get him out to lynch him. - Congress has been asked to ap propriate $40,000 for a monument to the Pilgrims to bo located in Wash ington, D. C. - An epidemio of pneumo. ia pre vails in Washington and physicians attributo it to the coal famine, the houses not being sufficiently heated. >- Tho interstate commerce com mission recommends amendment of the interstate commerce law so as to prevent the combination of railroads. - There is a blacksmith in Gardi ner, Me., who has not lost a day's work from sickness sinoe ho began his apprenticeship, nearly a third of a century ago. - Senator Bailey of Tozas has ac cepted the invitation to deliver the annual address at tho celebration of Lincoln's birthday at Galena, 111., on April 27, 1903. - Tho Southern Kail way baa just put seven monster freight engines on the division from Spencer, N. C., to Atlanta, Ga. These engines aro tho largest that the Southern has ever had built. - W. L. Lawrence, of Jonesboro, Ga., was found dead locked in a box car at Camp's saw mill. Lawrence bad been shot twice in the back with a revolver. It is believed that tho young man was shot whilo at work. - Texas has adopted an amendment to its constitution which makes tho payment of poll tas by February 1st a prerequisite to voting. The amount is $1.50, of which $1 goes to the publio sohools and fifty cents to tho general fund. >- In the stomach of a cow butcher ed recently near Montrose, Pa., a good Bized pocketbook with a brass clasp was found. The pocketbook contain ed a roll of bills and 43 cents in change. A shingle nail and a hair pin was also found. - Great Britain is still the greatest tea-drinking country. The consump tion is five pounds per head of the population. In Switzerland it is esti mated at one and a half pounds per head and in the United States about one pound per head. - Eleven oars of a freight train went through a trestle on the Central of Georgia railroad near Crawfish Springs, Tenn., Wednesday afternoon, and the oars and trestle were com pletely destroyed by fire. The orew escaped without injury. Loss $12,000. - Dr. R. Ot. Pearson, the well known evangelist, has acoepted the oh air of English Bible and Evangelical Meth ods in Cumberland University, Leban on, Tenn. Ho had to give up preach ing, afc least for a time, on account of his health. - Three JtHcials and 150 natives,most ly ohildren, were killed by the earth quake which destroyed the town of Audijan, in Central Asia. In addi tion, 300 natives and 17 soldiers were injured, and 9,000 houses of natives and 130 Kassian residences were de stroyed. - Upon Miller, a retired farmer, 70 years old, living at Mount Morris, 111., has made two artioles of inlaid furniture, a bureau anda washstand, the first containing over 8,000 pieces of wood, the other over 5,000 pieces, which he intendsoto exhibit at the World's Fair. - Electricity is to be used in agri culture as a fertilizer as well-as for mechanical power. The novel bat tery just perfected by two Russians is to be buried in the soil, which is thus magnetized, and yields increased and earlier orops, as proven by tests with potatoes, beets, barley, eto. - The treaty between the United States and Great Britain regarding commercial relations between the United State: and New Foundland, has been ma?^ publio. Under its provi sions, raw ootton yarn and cotton seed oil imported from the United States are admitted to New Foundland free of duty. - Col. II. H. Pratt, head of the ?overnment Indian sohool at Carlisle, 'a., reports that the enrollment of Indian students there this year has reached the high water mark of 1,073. The students are encouraged to earn money by hiring out during vacation, and they made nearly $32,000 that way last year. - It seems that in Texas the peo 5le don't stand for bank robberies, 'bree mon attempted to rob a bank at Alvord, Tex., and they soon learn ed they had waked up the wrong cat. Two of them were shot to death while the other surrendered, and now there is one gang of bank robbers less in the West. They seem to have better luek down South in Dixie. - Tbe supreme court of Georgia has just handed down a decision ina case which had been watched with in tense interest by. the advocates of Christian Science, and which they regard as a victory for tho adherents of their seot. The decision of tho supreme oourt holds that parents are not compelled to give medicine to their minor ohildren when they be come ill, and that failuro or refusal to give medicino to these ohildren is not a violation of the laws of the State. A Phenomenon of 1847. There is nothing moro entertaining to both young and old than tho recital of tho happening of incidents which are contrary tc experience and natural law, especially if the incide.it occurred near tho neighborhood whore they were reared, and more especially if the facta can bo authenticated by some of their aged ancestry still living. There happened in this State many ?rears ago an incideat, amounting ch-ar y to a phenomenon, Which has never beeu satisfactorily explained, though it excited a great deal of interest at the time and many columna in tho newspapers were devoted to an ac count of tho incident and toan attempt to explain it by natural causes. Thero was, and perhaps still is, an enormous rock in what was at that time Fairfield District, 7 miles from Monti cello and 0 miles from Winnsboro, on the road between tho two places. Tho rock was known in tho neighborhood as "Sheep Kock. It was 15 feet in cir cumference, 10 feet perpendicular and contained at least 1,000 feet of solid stone. Tho rock was situated on tho sido of a hill having an inl'Uue of not more than 20 degrees. On Friday night, the 12th of March, 1847, this rock moved a distance of 27$ yards, or ex actly 70 feet, cutting a trench or fur row H feet at the upper end, 5 feet deep at tho lower, threw tho earth a distance of 35 feet on either sido and a distance of 00 feet to the front of where tho rock stopped. It was not rolled, for its deep cut furrow showed that it had plowed its way, and that with tho celevity of a cannon hall. Hundred*! ! of people from far and neav went to see and examine tho rock and its surround ings, and many theories as to tho causo were advanced, but noi.e were satisfac tory. Some thought it was tho result of an earthquake, but it could not have been, because other rocks, in a tottering con dition, in tho same vicinity, would have fallen; indeed, every house in the State would havo been prostrate, neither of which was tho case, nor was tho slight est tremor of earth felt. Others thought it thc result of sumo iniiamabio matter under tho rock, which exploded spon taneously or was ignited uv lightning, but had this been tho case tho rook would havo been thrown upward and not horizontal. If the explosion lind been on tho opposite side to tirivo it forward, tho effects could havo been seen on tho rock, but nothing of tho kind could bo found. Besides, tho re Eort of such a concussion could have een heard for many milos, arousing the entire country, which was not tho case. Others thought it was the effect of lightning, but thero was no mark nor sign of lightning on tho rock, and had it been lightning it would havo, in all probability, shattered the rock into thousands or pieces. It had rained a part of two days and nights, but that would not havo made it easier to plow beneath the wet noil and clay, neither could the rock have acquired force un der gravitation to throw the soil 85 and 60 feet to tho Bides and front, as was the case. Why did not the rock move before? The soil had often been as wet and even wetter; the depression of the hill was th J same, gravitation the same. The fact is, this phenomenon was never accounted for to the satisfaction of thinking people, and remains a mys tery to this day. There are doubtless some aged citizens yet living who, when they, read this, will recall this remarkable incident. The above is a synoposis ol articles in old newspapers on file in this office. Inauguration Day. The exact time when a State official begins hie tenn of office ie not definite ly provided for and it is custom ary for them to take the oath of office the same day tho Governor is inaugurated. Even the time cf inauguration, how ever, is not iixod, though the ceremony usually takes place about January 18. The late Governor Ellerbe tried to have the third Tuesday of January fixed as tho timo, but nothing was ever done about it, BO that inauguration day if. usually set to suit tho conven ience o?! tho outgoing nnd incoming Governors. Tho Legislature meets next mon*.h on the 13th, which is Tues day, and Governor Hey ward will come hero on the 10th, and it may bo that Governor Mcsweeney will have finish ed all of his business so as to vacato tho office by tho following Tuesday, which will bo tho 20tb. Thero wilton that day then probably bo a pretty general chango around in tho oflicial family in tho State House, as well aa among tho employees in the building. In the Governor's offico J. E. Norment will occupy E. H. Aull's desk as pri vate secretary. Governor Hoywnrd nos appointed Miss Henderson, of Col leton, ay stenographer, who will suc ceed Miss Niornsee, the present steno grapher. . The affable and accommo dating Sanders, the present porter, will give way to another colored man, selected by Governor Hey ward. Jesse T. Gantt will formally be Sec retary of State, a position he is thor oughly familiar with, as daring Mr. Cooper's illness he has had tho duties of the office pretty much on his shoul ders. It is likely that J. W. McCown will be his chief clerk, though his stall' has not been formally decided upon, though no changes are looked for to any extent. D. H. Means and Mr. Mc Laurin are connected with tho office in the land department. J H. Mitchell ?B a clerk and Miss Walker is tho stenog rapher, and they will likely continuo to hold their respective positions. A. W. Jones becomes Comptroller Genoral. Ho bas offered tho position of chief clerk to David H. Wise, of Aiken County. Ho has been auditor and is considered an expert in book keeping and in the knowledge of tho tax laws of tho State. Mr. Richard son will bo in charge of tho insurance department, and Miss Kate Maher will remain stenographer and clerk in tho pension department. In the Attorney General's office Mr. Gunter will have as his assistant Code Commissioner Townsend, of Barnwell, and Miss Dwight, stenographer. In the Adjutant General's office Col. Frost will have as his assistant Capt. J. M. Patrick, of Anderson. Tho Superintendent of Education will have as his chiof clerk W. H. Bar ton, former county superintendent of education of Greenville County. Thus, whilo there will bo but few new feces in the officr "J, still tho changes in posi tions will be considerable. It may be worthy of note that the people, uncon sciously perhaps, endorsed tho civil service pnnoiplo in selecting sovoral of their officers. Mr. Gantt, Mr. Gunter, Mr. Jones and Mr. Frost were all pro moted from places of assistants to those of chiefs.-Columbia correspon dence of the News and Courier, All for Christmas I I S\| Ct"-Singlo and Double Barrel. A largo assortment of \A \k9 tia v carefully selected Guus at lowest possible prices. RIFLES -Cartridge and Air Ri lies. AMMUNITION^?&.%% DiirtfCT PIITI CDV-Be8t n^lity Pocket Kuives in all lUlmC I bU I LUllI thc latest patterns. CARVING SETS -Beautiful in design and finish. Hardware Co. PRE-CHRISTMAS NEEDS I Upon which you Save if you buy of BOLT. You've got to save if you buy herc, becauso I sell for Cash strictly to everybody, and don't have to put up prices to niako up for bad debt losses, for I have no losses. You're tho gainer thereby. Good Things You'll Need. Candied Orange Peel 20c. lb. ] Wesson's Cooking Oil 75c. gal. 30o. would bo a fair price. Kino p rfeflt 8ubfltitut0 for lard or buWer grade, luscious peel ; fino for mi^o afc smaIlor o08t> Uflo h d . moat making for oakes and tho like. exoopt?onaIly good> w?olesome, coo Seeded Raisins 12 ? c. Package. nomioal, puro. A pound goes twioo Clean, fino flavor, ^hin-skinncd, bost as far as a pound of lard or butter, for baking purposes, worth 15o. Try it and prove it. Cleaned Currants 10c. Celery 10c. Stalk, 3 for 25c. Low price for high quality. New, - . ,, ... , too; not tho year-ol?, kept-in-tho- , Fine for table as it is and superior storage sort, but lusoious Currants, for salads. Fresh, tender, crisp, with fine flavor. wnite. Corsican Citron 20c. lb. Cherries in Maraschino. As olear as orystal, properly pre- Quarts 75o, pints 50c, half pint30o. served and of tho highest quality. Simply superb. C. FRANK BOLT, The Cash Grocer. This Establishment lias been Selling IN ANDERSON for moro than forty years. Daring all that timo competitors have como and gone, but we havo remained right here. Wo have always sold Cheaper than any others, and during those long years wo havo not had ono dis satisfied customer. Mistakes will sometimes ocour, and if at any time we found that a customer was dissatisfied wo did not rest until wo had mado him satisfied. This policy, rigidly adhered to, has mado us friends, truo and last ing, and wo oan say with pride, but without boasting, that we havo the confi dence of the pcoplo of this seotion. Wo havo a larger Stook of Goods this season than wo havo over had, and wo pledge you our word that wo havo ^ever sold Furniture at as oloso a margin of profit as wo aro doing now. This is proven by tho faot that wo aro selling Furnituro not only all over Anderson County but ic* overy Town in tho Piedmont section. Como and seo us. Your parents saved money by buyinft from us, and you and your children can savo money by buying here, too. WO carry EVERYTHING in tho Furnituro lino, G. F. TOLLY & SON, Depot Street. Tho Old Rcliablo Furnituro Dealers. To Ye All Good With many thanks for your very liberal patronage we, your friends, wish you a MERRY CHRISTMAS And a happy and prosperous Moore, Acker& Co