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mrThe Press and Banner ABBEVILLE, 8.C. ^"Published every Wednesday at 82 a year In advance. Wednesday, Aug. 8,1900. > Necoml Hand Typo. The Press and Banner has a quantity of second band job type which a purchaser can net at his own price. The type Is good and useful for advertising or job work. We desire to make room for other type, and the type which Is advertised Is too good to be sold as old metal. We would sell It for a trifle, or exchange It for anvtbing that we could use. 1 If you are in the market, come and seee It, or write to The Press and Banner, tf. Abbeville, S. C. I Rnck AffA'uHis many friends In Abbeville last week were glad to greet Mr. W. E. Bell hack In the town where he lived s? long, and which he loves so well. Mr. Bell is now In Manning with one of the best mercantile firms iu the city. While he is pleased In Manning he still loves the old town In which he did business for twenty-seven years. Goinjf to Xew York. Mr. H. Frank McGbee, of the house of Aug. I W. Smith, will leave for New York next Saturday, to assist In buying a big stock of goods for Spartanburg. This means the departure ol Mr. McGhee from Abbeville, He will henceforth make bis home In Spartanburg. Kveryi body in Abbeville regrets that he and Mr. . Smith are going away. More public spirited citizens would be bard to And. Survivor* Orr'H Riflew. The survivors of_ Orrr's Rifles will hold their SDDUai reunion at ociieca lurauny. Gen. R. H. Hemphill, who is president of the Association, will go up MoDctay. Addresses will be made by Gen. C. J. Walker and others. There were two flue companies from this H couuty In that regiment. Home on a Ylalt. Miss Rachel Hemphill, who Is stenographer and tpyewriter for one of the best law firms In Greenville, la spending a week with home folks. Mlis Rachel has many friends In Abbeville, and all wish her a nice time, and that she would make her visits longer. HarMed. Married, In Wllllamston, August 1. 1900, by Rev. J. Lowrle Wilson, D. D.. Mr. G. M. 8. Miller, of Lowndesvllle, and Miss Mattle Lee Floyd, of Wllllamston. : m NlDglng Codventlon. The Abbeville Connty Singing Convention * will meet at Shllob church and continue In session durlDg the lltb and 12(h days of.August. Joseph J. Kllgore, Seo'tyvfs 9 ?J - fiK J Wanted. Ten flrst-claFs bricklayers at the Monagban Mills Apply Flynt Building and Construction Company, Greenville, S. C. t? lee! lee! ', j We will meet all competition and rqepectfully solicit a share of your patronage. Thomson Bros. \t. : i Lost. ' v ' ' A rniiRll pin, star shape, pearls with small diamond centre. Reward If returned to tbls office. '(. fa ?(H The Cold Spring Democratic Club was organised last Saturday and Is composed ofa majority of the Means Cbapel voters, > therefore tbe voting precinct has been changed^ The managers at Means Cbapel are W. B. ' Ulrlch, J. D. Winn and J. B. McCombs. . Njbxt Saturday, August 11th, the camp&iav speaker* will beat Abbeville. Let everybody oome and have a good time. Tillman la expected. * Fob good and sufficient reasons the date of tbe county campaign meeting at Antrevllle has keen changed from August 23d to August 2l?k : . J. A. Boblnaon, Sec. County Dem.Com. Sznatob Tillman has been Incited to speak at Abbeville next Saturday, wbefi all the campaigners are expected to shoot 08 their say. . ,u 1: 1 ; No goods sold at Smith's Dry Goods and Millinery after August 25th. 1 r? A ?o?? i GOOD REASONS. '? Tlie .\ewherry Herald aud New* dives llie Followlug SobNtautlal Rennoun for Supporting McSweeuey. ? Tbe Herald and News Is an open s<lrocat?f In tills election for Miles U. MoSweenfKf for Governor of South Carolina. We aftvo-' cate tbe eleotlon of Mr. MoSweeney? aRfflj Because, his administration tiince be *oe?: ceeded 10 tbe office of Governor has been a plain, honest, business administration; ttyr affairs of government belnK managed to tb? best Interests of all tbe people; Because, as Governor, be has done more to wipe out that oltter factional feeling whlohbas existed In this State for the past eight or. ten years, than any one who bas tilled tbe; office since these feelings were aroused ; Because, since he bas beeu Governor of tbe State, the dispensary law, the law that bw caused more trouble, more enemies and more blood shed than any law that was ever put on tbe statute books, has been more ably y enforced and with less friction, and at a less expense to the State, with half tbe constabulary force, than any of bis predecessors, maklngthe law more popular than it has ever been with all classes of people; Because, In enforcing tbe dispensary law. be has placed some of tbe responsibility for its . enforcement on the officials of tbe towns and cities, and the results. In a great measure, have proven mat id ID is he wan wise ana n has redounded for the good of tbe law; Because, under his administration, in tbe enforcement of tbe dispensary law, no man's blood is laid at tbe State's door; Because, be has shown a disposition to do fairness and justice to all classes and factions and has been the Governor of tbe whole people. ? Because, he ls fully competent to serve tlie people in a non-partisan manner and with the ability of any of bis opponents; Because, tbls paper ha* never been an advocate of prohibition, and high license Is not practicable, and tbe past has sbown that bis enforcement of the dispensary law Is as ?A oa n/.nM nil ? ho na/mln UU i *1 In QonDiniiwi J w no ucai an vuy pvwpiv ??> - - ? the power of any Governor to give; Because, be Is tbe tool of no man or set of men and acts In matters of State on tils good Judgment; Because, long before he entered the politics of this state, be was a strong personal frleud of the editor of this paper, and we have never yet deserted a friend. There are many otber reasons, which we shall give from time to time, why we favor the election of Mr. McSweeney. [ lift' GREENVILLE, S, C. rpHE NEXT SESSION OPENS ON THE 26th of September, lOOlt. Full and thorough Instruction, leading to tbe degrees of B. A. and M. A. is ottered. Boarding In private families moderate; In Mess Hall excellent fare may be bad at less expense. Correspondence solicited. Applications for plnoes in the Mess Hall should not be deferred. For further particulars, apply to tbe President. A, P. Montague, LL. D. July 25,1900. tf Good-Bye Sale at Smith's Dry Goods and Millinery. We have Just received a big lot of tlie American presetvlng fluid, the Speed Drug (Jo. Now Ir the time to take chill and fever toulCH. Get the best at the Spped Drug Co. Young men get some of that tliie Royster's Candy for your girl at the Speed Drug Co. Turoipseed for sale at theSpe?d Co. Crutches all lengths and weights at the speed Drug Co. Go to the Speed Drug Co to get your turnip seed. Huyle's candy can always be had fresh at the Speed Drug Co. See our nice' line of stationery before you buy. Speed Drug Co. .lust received a big line of powdered spice ot all kinds. We guarantee Ibexe spices to be strictly pure or your uioney refunded. -Vllltord a JJruK Store. .Phone 107. I A New With the view to s the Five Cents Count* one Counted at 5 ^ent ' I" &?. GREAT Come and txamine to their interest to bu; We have had a bri: in offering the best go< Come and do your V >V <; \ Tillman': He "Mr. ohalrt^M^^j^aipd fellow-eliizeDH : It U BlX ^ jgEdibe pleasure of adml^wu toear your firm greeting ringing in ooy earn- I will remark in passiDg before 1 forget U, tb&? from the bearing ol this platform tills aaoxBlbg, thare must be something weak and nUky In tbe knees here. I don't know wnetber it is tbe leadership in tbe Democratic party in this county, prohibition or what, bat I do know wbaever it may be, tbe opiniOM, wishes, feelings and courage'of the men who are to lead Greenville in rank are true as steel, and will vote as they please in spite of jurisdiction to tbe contrary. Now they have changed the program for the first time In this canvass. Owing to my absence to speak In Dakota (or Bryan, which I agreed to do before congresft adjourned, I had to miss Kjgood many counties, and when I -returned v?nt fntn ih? state camDalen at Ben netttvilie immediately a great bowl arose lrom some *k>pitf who have uol loved me in tbe past ana don't love me now, that I was meddling, doing what I bad accused Senator Hamptonpf doing In 1890, and tbat I ought! not lo do what 1 objected to, pretending to believe It contrary to the voice of-tbe people of tbe State, and that I bad no right to do It. Tbe idea ?m advanced that because of the toot that I have no opposition as senator, that I ought, to oonumt myself with discussing oational lssnea and leave tbe issues and facts important id tbte State strictly to the State campaigners. Now, tbey have changed tbe prog mm today, having heretofore kept me at the tall, Lhroagb at least six hours of sweat to Iteten to' lot of speeches which I almost kaow by heart. Bat today they have put me Deforetbe candidates for governor. I don't know whether! am limited or not. ' Chairman Austin?No, speak all you want to. Well, fellow citizens, while I am feeling a little under tbe weather, 1 propose to discuss at some length, questions for your interest; but before 1 begin I want to set the matter straight, wny I am here, and what right I have here. Now, In the first place, under tbe constitution of tbe Democratic parly, tbe State Democratic committee is ordered to uppoint a meeting for the State officers and United States senators and congressmen, where they (ball appear and address ihe people* 1 am bere in obedience to the party iawf, because i am a candidate for re-election, 4sdxbe man who undertakes to say I am a eiuidldate and have no rignt lo speak my J/eely I wish to assure tilrn tbat 1 am apeak without fear or lavor to any. XaS^KOlng to hew to the line and let the iBnSk'Sillwbere tbey will, and If some fingers audioes and necks gel cu t otr the lau'.t Is not They say that I should not appear ai me meeting! and If 1 did I should dl?cuso nationaigMOOB; theru is no dispute upon uutioaftl q?H?tlocB. Suppoce I bad nol come wbal would have been tbe accusation ; ttiat Ben Tillman cares no longer lor tbe one gallus and wool bat lellows; be has gotten bis tat office and goes about bis business. Tbey would have charged me with having gotten the swell bead and growing loo big lor my oreecbes. Tben wben I do come into tbe campaign lu obedience to tbe order of tbe executive committee tbey turn around and say he Is meddling in a tlgbt that he has no coucern In. The people of South Carolina have enough ot intelligence lo vote on the question withouthlm. It is nothing new. It is tbe same old cry ot au and 'U2 when I had so many people on my back. It did nol matter what 1 said or did, 11 was 1 would be damned if I did, and be damned if I did not. Tbe first thing I want to point out here and direct your attention to is a matter which 1 think Is absolutely wroug. ll Is thai your Democratic executive commilte has given the candidates a hole to hide in ; has furnisned a dodge, by giving a box lu which you shall decide whether you want probiblilou or not. Instead of having the men line up and discuss the question and nol elect men who will boneyfuggle to tbe interest of the public without discussion along ibe line whether you want prohibition or not. In '92 It was liot whether you wanted prohibition or whether you elected Tillman governor. The ouly Issue, today is whether ihe dispensary law will stay or prohibition take 11m place. Then we will have free whiskey. (Veil lor [ Hoyt). i vn? hu/i hoit?r null that hollering, now, if you get up that old game you will get pretty hot. 1 Hay this business Is greatly ia favor of the candidates and gives them this opportunity to dodge the issue, aud J will say that you will be tools If you don't make every candidate lor tbe legislature in this county come out and say it ne Is not going to vole for the dispensary. If tbe majority have this right to vote lor it you have the right to have our servants to vote lor it. You buve no right to let tbem bring these boxes among you without Knowing how they stand. 11 ihey don't like It let them lump it. Tue question whicu concerus you, my friends, Is one of vital importance. It is one which Involves the iuture welfare and Integrity of our children aud grand-ohlldren. It is a question of vital Importance and therelore is not to be lightly discussed and whisked aside. Another phase of tbe question as lar as I am concerned why I am in this tight, making this issue, is because I have been attacked personally, aud when men undertake to slap me in the lace, call In question my actions as governor, and when I get cowardly enough to Keep silent it will be time to send tue back to Trenton to stay. J don't want to mention Hoyt's name In any other tban in a most friendly way and Just way. 1 did not come here to interfere as among men. I did not come here to say for you to vote for or against him. 1 am here to discuss tbe issue between prohibition aud tbe dispensary and I don't propose to treat Hoyt unfairly. He Is a high toned gentleman, but J warn you now the more you holler that way the less you will like it before you get through. Col. Hoyt declared in a speech that the dispensary law Is a bastard law and the question is how tbe dlspeusary has come Into South Carolina. I am bere now to toil you, aud It Is entirely proper lor me to discuss it from tbe - _ -i_l. K..U lulrun 11 Iin HDfl Kftl". stump, but me puipn u?.> .. inous are being preached Sunday after Hunday ou it arid haying we asked lor an egg and they gave us a seorptlon, we asked for oread and they cave us a stone. What were the tacts in '9l\ after years resulting In county alter county going dry, and turning and going wet until special boxes were provided on one side to let those vote tor it or against It? The Issue was not against prohibition, but it was against 'fill man ism and autism or Shepardlsm. In those boxes were 60,000 votes, :i5,000 of these were lor prohibition. There were 92,000 votes, and there were 82,000 not voting ou It. Prohibition never did have a majority. The legislature came to me to get me to help them down on the winning side, they hud said whatever was voted In these botes we will stuml by. Prohibition had fall tvr Deparl 1 stimulate trade we will and the other as the s and on the other at ! BARG. for yourselves. Our S y their goods from us. sk trade so far and we Dds at the lowest price trading with us, and v jfa* Res KKi rJ?: ?. Wtrj . !. : . v; 5 Speech. ; Red Hot in the in City. :hers, and Holds a Hand PriSixteen to One in Favor of ed but they wanted to save the twenty-live or thirty thousand majority. Well, at that time I had Just been elected governor. In '92,22,000 majority, but In Bpite of that tict. they said, nnd. you can hear It said now, that It wan a great political machine to further my own ambitions. In the name of common sense what more machinery did I want than your votes. I bad the biggest machinery orgaalz eu iu iuih oiaie or nay oiuor ouiie. au overwhelming majority of your ?ote?, and when they say I advanced the dispensary to create a machine, why, how contemptible-it sounds to a man who loves the truth. j When the Issue passed, probIDltlon'failed, mainly and traly through my efforts who bad been elected there and tbe reform era with and without regard to who favored prohibition and wanted to put tbe people In better condltlou, prohibition having lalled and believing from my observation It was an Impossibility. However in view of tbe object lesson given from a Bate that bad It that wblsdey ran riot. I resolved as a public man put In office that it would not be good for South Carolina to have such a law. It would prove a lesson which 1 did not want to see, therefore I went to work to institute something better. I investigated tbe dispensary at Athens, Ga. I found that alter the town was run by prohibition that drunkenness was on the increase. Tbe prohibitionists reported this to tbe legislature and aBked to have a dispensary for Clark county and a man to sell It. I reported It to this State and got tbe Senate to substitute ibe dispensary a8 enacted, and th\en got tbe bouse to accept that. That is tbe straight, plain history of bow I enacted the dispensary. I had a conference with a Methodist minister in the conference wbo bad charge of the prohibition affairs. We made several alterations in tbe bill mainly at my suggestions, some amendments, etc. When be talked to me be said tblB fight In 8outh Carolina was against tbe saloons. I believe It Is an Iniquity and I will go as far as any man to expell them from tbe Slate and destroy that class of 1 lquor selling. When Colonel Hoy t says It Is a bastard law and I bad disowned my baby I want to call bis attention and your assertion to the absurdity of his remark. Here is my version of tbe story. Old Prohibition, who bad been the net, of Sonth Carolina, and an old maid named ' Fanaticism. He" wanted to marry that old maid. He thought he bad her. He actually had the preacher ready when I found a good looking young girl called Common Sonne. I said you want that old maid but you can't have her. But I will marry you to this girl here. After persuading he agreed to marry Common Sense. The dispensary law Is the offspring of Prohibition and Common Sense. Now, the old man repudiates the marriage and says that he bad nothing to do with It, and says bis off spring, the dispensary, is a bastard and be ask you people to help blm to get a divorce so he can go to his first love, fanaticism. Is this a bastard? No, you know It is not. It is the result of a legal marriage. I am the Gob-father of this baby and I propose to make this old man stand up to his contract. I come now to another of the attacks against me. A man who goes into the pulpit to make a political speech and who (Cheers for Gardner.) Tillman?I would have thought as few as you are you would have the decency to keep your mouths shut. (Cheers.) Keep it up, the more you blow that bellows the hotter the fire growB. In this sermon or political speech wblob this reverend gentleman put forth from bis pulpit be takes positions on the several phases of this subject, which I will read to you and discuss as briefly as I can, and explain tbem to you. I will pay that if be bad not taken the liberty among other things to mention me by name in an insulting and ontraueous manner, I would allow him to preach what he pleases and pass It without a word. Here is one olause in bis sermon : "Nothing can alter the fact that in selling liquor ns a beverage to Its citizens for a profit, the State is doing an Immoral act, and no sort of loelcal quibbling, and no sort of dem agogic appeal to tbe prejudice or the cupidity or tbe people can cover up that laot." He bag do autborlty to ask me that.' If It Is Immoral to sell whiskey as a beverage through State officers, tbea it is equally Immoral for tbe State to have whiskey sold under license through these agents who pay for tbe privilege. There is not tbe solntlla of difference between the conditions the ground of this fight is that It is a sinful and Immoral use of wblskey is derived from a passage in tbe Bible upon which 1 never beard any sermon preached but a prohibition sermoD, in my life. "Woe unto him that glvelh his neighbor drink," and right there tbey stop; they don't go on and give you the whole of it. They take the llbertj with this text as tbey do with others. Nobody likes to dispute with a minister about bis sermons, I don't like it. Hut as I say they stop rigbt there, but wbat Is tbe balance ol tbe text. "That puttest thy bottle to him, and makest him drunk," and also "that thou mayest look upon bis nakedness." Tbat you may cheat him or bamboozle him when you make him drunk. I am going to give you another text. Here Is what Solomon says. Here is wbat tbe wisest man tbat ever lived said, (read it.) So If tbe people can quote scripture I can quote them too. There is another text I happened to stumble over, fell on It, and I added it to my others. There Is one thing these men are doing, if nothing j else, they are making me study my Bible. I will show you where tbe prohibitionists cou pie their text and leave off the tall, tbe essential sense. Tbey preacb immorality to drink and sell it as a beverage. I contend, I take It there Is nothing in tbe Bible which forbids tbe use of wblskey. We, believing you bad tbe right to if you had tbe money to pay for it and not abuse it, but to oontrol It the dispensary law was enaoted. I did not want ray fellow citizens forced in order to get whiskey, because they lowed It, to lie and play the hyprocrlte, to get sick every time ibey came to town LS> get a doctor's certificate, so I substituted the dispensary system. I stood by the law lp Columbia for a year and a half at almost the risk of my life. The prohibitionists harp, on the fact tbat th?y bad a majority; I would say they did not have a majority. I will point to tbe fact that In *94 they went dispensary with an overwhelming majority. ] The House'aDd the Senate In 1S95 were in favor of it.. In '96 in favor of It, '98 In favor I of ltexoepia (ew friends of prohibition, and -* ~ "" tw rKfa ooflp of 1Q(X) And ijuw iney noiut- w uo w J swear thfy were obeated. They expect you lo right them, to take the scorpion and braise his head and give them a nice loaf of bread. Well, gentlemen, you recollect In '94 under tbe supreme oourt we had prohibition for three months. You know you got more whiskey then. You know from observation that drunkenness is decreased In G reenwllle under the dispensary, and you know the people have learned to control their appetites, be1 cause they cannot get It to drink as they did. /I'lien you know wheu the dispensary Is closed r'f, lure at % l have in our store for Ten Cents Counter. 1 C\ r>cin +0 ft. V UOll bOi AJNS T Itock of Domestic, Sta] Although the weather mean that business sh s. ie will guarantee you * i; ipectfully, - , ' ? . . . j up It stays shut and yon can't get It out of tbe back door. It bas been charged tbat there la an nnboly alllanoe between tbe wbiakey men and tbe cbnrcb. I charged It, and I charge It here dow again. "Tbat cbarge' la too absolutely raise 10 receive a moment's creaenoe irom any human belnpwho has the slightest lingering regard for troth left In-him. Senator Tillman, who made that charge, knew it to be false when be made It. The charge cannot be Interpreted aa anything else bat a mean and contemptible effort to break the force of the almost unanimous advocacy of prohibition by the preacher*, and served its aathor as a good occasion, also to throw contempt upon a clasa of tnen for which he has In many other ways expressed contempt.'" Henotonlyeharges me with slander in uttering those words, knowing them to be untrue, tint be goes farther and declares I uttered ihem. to express contempt -for men for whom I have contempt. 1 say here In this presence, among the people who listen to Gardner, that Gardner owes It to' himself to prove lb by bringing certificates, or he owes me an apology. I pronounced It a falsehood when my religion was brought Into-question In '90,and '92 and tbey charged me with Infidelity. I said then that I was a poor fallen sinner going from the cradle to the grave, admitting my weaknesses and trying to fbrgst them, but I swear no preacher can say that'I ever treated blm exoept with, respect; but it Is always the bit dog that howls; be always bowls. Is It an alliance with the preachers and barkeepers or not? Is It trae or not? (Voice?Yes,) Very well, I will vote yon on lu All yon who believe it not trae bold up yoar right hapd. Now, all you who believe tbey are In an alliance .written or otherwise, bold op your hand. One more word and I am done,I>*? sorry I had to bring this matter up benb'butjl oqlleve always In coming to a man's Boudnwe to ftpe. teetb to teeth, If I have a controversy to settle, and therefore bad very little to say until I came here and I am sorry be Is n6t here, but bis friends will tell what I have said when be comes, and let him write an apology and publish it. I believe be Is an honorable man and that be will do It. One more phase of the question and I am done. Ad effort Is being made by tbe ministers of the'gospel, but I don't know whether by the majority, to use the pulpit to take charge or tbe politic* of South Carolina. Not preaching tbe word of Ood, as ordered by the divine minister, but preaching politics. In oonolnslon I am going to see tbe sense here as to prohibition or no prohibition, on legislative candidates, Col. Hoyt would take the constables away, he hopes in some way to enforce tbe law, but be oannot do It, but if you send down to the legislature to Columbia you will protect tbe law, the policy of the Htate. Now, as I have not bad any other opportunity 1 wish to aee how you are going to vote on tbe legislature. To repeal the dispensary law and enaot prohibition ? I will ask you to bold your right band in support oi tbe dispensary. Konn.you have beeo fair and Just; you have given us a straight report of tbe meetings, but you have been unjust to suppress things you should report. Now, I a - you to report it as it Is. Give us a straight nortjas to tbe number of people here. I uld say twenty-hundred in all. All you who are going io vote for legislators who will support the dispensary, hold up your right hand. (Crowd for dispensary.) "Le Triomphe" is the best $1.00 Kid Glove on the market. During the good-bye sale at Smith's Dry Goods and Millinery it will be sold at 75 cts. All shades, white and black. greenyIlle all right. Tbe Prohibitionists Painfully In the Minority. Greenville, Auk. 6.?This has perhaps been the largest and liveliest meeting of the present campign. Senator Tillman seemed to have on bis old time steam, and tbe cheers for "Hoy t" and tbe twitting got tbe steam up and be spoke with vehemenoe. Tillman spo'I'e for more ihan an boar and, as he promised, took up tbe sermon of Dr. Gardner of Greenville. Tillman made tbe best speech of tbe campaign today. He bad two primaries, first whether be was justified In charging tbe mlnlsterlal-saloon keepers "alliance" and many approved of bis denomination, and that there was this "alliance." But It was bis prohibition-dispensary band primary noted. He called me up and said tbere were 2,500 present and wanted the vote fully noted. Tbere were not over 20 or 25 who voted on bis call for prohibition ; when tbe dispensary vots was called for the bands hands as of old went up as if out of a Gatllnggnn?folly 25 to I was the rennrd. The dlsnnnsarv had the overwhelming ambers voting, and'Tlllman Bald this would ' be the result in the primary. Tillman today made a conneo'ed speech and was severe on tbe ministers going lntojpolltlcs and talked plainly about Dr. Qardner, who seemed to have many frlendB In tbe audience. REDUCED RATES. Annnal Convention! Colored Odd Fcl* lows, Louisville, Ky., October 2nd7th,1900. Cn account of tbe above accaslon, Southern Railway will sell round trip tickets from all j Its lines to Louisville, Ky., and return, at rate of one first class fare for tbe round trip. Tickets to be sold September 29th, 30tb, and October 1st, with final return limit October 9th, 1900. Persons located at non-coupon stations should notify tloket agents several days In advance of their contemplated de| parture, so that be may supply himself with proper form of tickets. Annual Meeting, Mississippi Valley Medical Association, Ashevllle, S. ., October 9tb-(lth, 1600. On account o( occasion above specified. Southern Hallway, will sell round trip tickets from all stations on Its llneR to Ashevllle, N. C? and return. Tickets will be sold October 6th to 9th inclusive, with final limit October 15ib,1900. An excellent opportunity to visit I the famous "Land of Tbe Sky." i For further and detailed information, call i on or write any agent of the Southern nanway or Its connections. H. II. Hardwlck. A. G. P. A., Atlanta. Ga. HAIL AND WIND. I n ?? The Ball Worked Mr. F. A. Cook'e Cro|>, and tbe WJud Scared the People ol Troy. Ust Friday afternoon a ball storm passed overTroy. Tbe ball storm fitted Mr. P. A. t 'ook'H (arm to a T. Tbe wind In passing tbe town of Troy tore down some trees and flmaahed tbe frame of a new building Into smlthoreeiiH. Things looked a little searey ft"" a while, but nobody was hurt. * m \ ' "T LWl the next SIXTY DAY Til j. -*n "U~ iiiuse tjuujiiers win uo O BE P pie and Fancy Goods i is warm we do not in tail continue good to tl tvill never regret it. L. ) THIS is And We At / f .) . ' * . > MATTING. WINDOW SHADES. MATTING. WINDOW 8HADES. BA MATTING. WINDOW SHADES. BA MATTING. WINDOW SHADES. BA MATTING. WINDOW SHADES. BA MATTING. WINDOW SHADES. BA MATTING. WINDOW SHADES. BA MATTING. WINDOW SHADES. BA MATTING. WINDOW SHADES. BA MATTING. WINDOW SHADES. BA MATTING. WINDOW SHADES. MATTING. WINDOW SHADES. B^ GIVE US We McC SCHEDULE OF CAMPAIGN. Tbe Places find Dates when tbe People Hay See Their Candidate*. The County Democratic Executive Committee met In tbe office or Col. F. B. Gary. Tbe committee arranged a schedule for tbe county campaign meeting as follows : McCormlok, Tuesday. August 14th. Wllllngton, Wednesday, August 15tb. Mt. Carmel, Thursday, August 16th. Lowndesvllle, Friday, August 17th. Antrevllle, Wednesday, Angnat22d. Due West, Thursday, August 23d. Abbeville, Saturday, August 25tb. A committee of tbree, consisting of Messrs. , J. B. Holloway, W. N. Graydon and John E. Bradley, was appointed to pro rata the assessment of twenty dollars, levied by the 8tate Democratic Executive Committee, and not less than twenty-five dollars for county campaign purposes. Capt. J. B. Holloway was elected vice-chairman of the County Executive Committee, with whom the pleoges of the candidates wl 11 be filed on or before August 14th, Candidates for Magistrate will be nominated by primary Election. Resolved that these transactions be published In the oounty papers. John A. Robinson, F. B. Gary, Secretary. Chairman. College of Charleston, CHARLESTON, 8. C. Fonnded In 1785. Next session opens Oct. 1,1900. Board In COLLEGE DORMITORY, Including furnished room and lights, can be obtained at 810 a month. Tuition, StO per session, payable in two instalments. One scholarship giving free tuition is assigned to eaoh oounty of South Carolina, the bolder to be appointed by tbe County superintendent 01 ivuucauuu and the Judge of Probate. All candidates for admission are permitted tooompete for Boyoe Scholarships, wblch pay $150 a year. .Strong faculty; well equipped obemlcal, physical, and biological laboratories; observatory ; library of 14,000 volumes; and the finest museum of natural history In the South. Elective courses leading to tbe degrees of B, A. and M. A. For catalogue, Illustrated circular and Information In full address HARRISON RANDOLPH, Aug. 8,1900. tf* President. Your Wife-^> Would appreciate an Oil Gas Stove for Summer Cooking. W6,r,?. REGULATOR the finest oil stove made. NO SMOKE, NO SMELL, NO SOOT. ABSOLUTELY SAFE. Costs one cent per hour to operate. Abbeville Hardware Co. Everything In House Furnishings. The State of South Carolina, COUNTY OF ABBEVILLE. PBOBATE COURT. In tbe Matter of the Estate of Palmyra T. Cochrane, Deceased. Petition for Settlement and Discharge. JOHN M. COCHRANE as Administrator for said Estate having applied f0r settlement and discharge. It Is ordered, that Wednesday. the 29th day of August next be fixed for granting the relief prayed for. R. E. Hill, Judge Probate. July 29, 1900. Bargain sale colored ploues. 0U Inches wide aal colars, ouly a I-8c, at Haddon's. mmm- ^: br^r S two Counters, one o: filled with goods such IAD. s still complete, and tend that trade shall t Le close of the season N. W1 e Loaded wi ...For You in kBY CARRIAGES. BED ROOM SUITS. lBY CARRIAGES. BED ROOM SUITS. .BY CARRIAGES. BED ROOM SUITS. .BY CARRIAGES. BED ROOM SUITS. .BY CARRIAGES. BED ROOM SUITS. .BY CARRIAGES. BED ROOM 8UITS. BY CARRIAGES. BED ROOM SUITS. lBY CARRIAGES. BED ROOM 8UIT8. .BY CARRIAGES. BED ROOM SUITS. BY CARRIAGES. BED ROOM SUITS; kBY CARRIAGES. BED ROOM SUITS. lBY CARRIAGES." BED ROOM SUITS. A CALLare Right on till & I BIQ BAI I ^ Tinninrf I Al IlttUUUllb 1/UHllg I Fancy Qilks for waists and sur 5 boxes White Indian Linen, 12$, 15 and 20c. This lot is extr A Big Bargain in Colored Now 8 l-3c. Special Values in Printed Lai Pastel Shades in silks and ribl new arrivals lo millinery. All Summer Goods at greatly All Summer goods are now b< Fall business. If you are in sei find them at HA Comfortable, Clean, Size 6 feet 4 inches long by 4 feet 6 inch full stock of Pillows, Bedding and Furr T. D Phone No. -8. ROSENBERG BLO I hereby prom first bale of new c by any one, white ville County fapw plantation, 10 cen< Will be in the Cotton and Cotton W. D. B August 1, 1900. 452 Acres for Sale. THKEE MILES from ABBEVILLE COURT House, oil the Due Wont road. Well Improved. EVANS GORDON. Abbeville, S.C., June80.1900. Smith's Dry Goods and Millinery will close its doors Saturday night, Aug. 25th. My loe customers will remember that I wll j meet all cut prices on Ice. J. L. Perrln. Save your fruits and berries by uhIuk Amerl oan Preserving Powder an?^ Liquid. For mile I at Speed Drng Company. Pretty jardinlers cheep at Mortif's lor 1 tit* j balance oi the season. V ( ... -V. Store! .j f them to be known as i as we will sell on tlie '' ? ' . 'i r , sf ">v. i >' i purchasers will find it lecome dull with us. if there is any virtue 1 -ilTE.I f TIME! j th Bargains > 'v-^i , v M SIDEBOARDS. TABLES. PICTURES. 8IDEB0ARDS. TABLES. PICTURES. MIBEBOARDS. TABLES. PICTURES. SIDEBOARDS. TABLES. PICTURES. SIDEBOARDS. TABLES. PICTURES. SIDEBOARDS. TABLES. PICTURES. SIDEBOARDS. TABLES. PICTURES. SIDEBOARDS. TABLES. PICTURES. SIDEBOARDS. TABLES. PICTURES. '^j SIDEBOARDS. TABLE8. PICTURES. SIDEBOARDS. TABLES. PICTURES. SIDEBOARDS. TABLES. PICTURES. , the Square. i vnn 1 -V -j.a RQAINS :| be Hontb of Augasl. | nmer dresses at reduced prices. j worth 20 and 25c. Now 8, 10, j a wide and beautiful quality. _ $ Piques, worth 10 aud 12 l?2g^*^" "" yns and Dimities. j bona to match very cheap, and reduced prices. iing pushed out preparatory for irch of real bargains you will i DDON'S. I ATTRESS" | Elastic, Economical. I es wide. Sold on thirty days trial. A H liture of all kinds always on band. . KERR, I ?CK. ABBEVILLE, S. C. I ise to pay for the I :rop cotton raised m or colored, Abbe- I er, from any one | ;s per pound. I market for both I Seed this season. B arksdale. I Teacher Wanted. >1 For kdgkwoou school, school im? triot No. 24. Reference required. Apply lo W. E. Leslie, gfl A. U. Cochran, jjj or A. M. Held, fl Abbeville, S. C. July-1,1#w>. 9 Ha<ldou'N WkIm. nj A fancy silk sale. Suitable for dress or waist at greatly reduced prices, at Huddou's Silk glove sate. Have you Keen that Hoe white, black, tans aud gray, driver lipped silk cloves. They are the h?Ht value, ') grades, 5uo, lH 7V) and SI, at Haddou's. Wash goods sale. 2.r> pi sens muslin, dim! H| ties, Ac. Your i-hulee (or theuexi week at 'jt IH