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Z^t'^IuJ1, \ A F i:V * *P?P*r : For ttw. Promotion of Che FUiiicat, Stx** Agricultural anj Cummer,- LU frtieruU. } TKiaisT$l.5cT a AJ,U aj***0**- > _ ) P?AM.? m Ajdvmwb. tiiTiUiS. _ _ _ !;A Ni'AST; i;, S. <).M FEB.. I 1 {M) FSTft^^h-0~!8F2 B XTS* mn?I\ tn nnmi ivi - - ' gslti REDUCTIONS Our customers wnnt us to luiro v.?w goods with every 6enson, therefore wo find it unwise to "i?u:ry our stock over to ? second -season. PRICES CUT TO PIECES WILL MOVE IT. SO to 25 per cent, Reduction mii viie entire stock, with doner prices to begin with, brings this ilue> array of beautiful good goods \fovrn cheaper tliau ever Cheater >i*.vr them hcfor*. Anticipate your wants and come i early. We mean luistinesa nnd will five cferv customer (IKNL'INK HARGAINS. RBRRXBT, , Th? Jeweler, Ch?iter, 3, O. AUDITOR'S NO I'lCt I IiANiVAHTKR, r>.C., I)qc. ?, IN'jK. NOTM'K i* hereby given thntthi* office will b* open from the 1st lay of Jau. to tlie 20th ?iuy of Feb fiWO for the purpose of receiving the returns of the taxp*>*r* of !,Hm*ft?ter Osuuty. Jk.lt ' -* ' |?ti? nn nsviii^ |?r<>|N3ny in mmr | {*oa*eHMion or control, a* Managers. I Holders, or ttu Husband.Parent,Gnar<11*11, Trustee. Executor. Admi..isfra'frsr, Receiver, Accounting Office/, Accent Attorney or Factor, on the 1st 4ay of Jaiuurv 1S90, are required to (i?t 4 he atme for taxation within the <Oiroe required hy law, or incur the specialty of flfly tier cent winch atC*ehrn in nue of failure /o do so foe Poll Tax of One Dollar is laid hjioii all male irerwons, between the -agr4 of *21 and ftO except p*r iwiih who are maimed ami una'de to aarct a support. t'oofedera's soldiers are exempt rf?x?u? Poll fax at -r>o yeara fag" The \u liior or an aasistarn will ai tattif the following places in ih<- connrty "Oi the dale- la-low for ihe con awrnieiice of tile i uh in. <^ii oia, Til Sday, Jail, 10 1M)9, at 1-2 in. Pi -n-ant Vailoy. Wednesday Jan V? i i m.t\i c ?. I , I -?#. K lair Ttmr.sdiy January 12. 1KHU V* i Wyok, Friday, January 1H I HV9 liiicie \ M , ()wl<lit. 1' M . Moil tiny January 1*1 Istf'J r?a<l?MVille, rimrs'lay January 17. XSW Taxa>*aw, Wednesday Jan is,isyy K*at ''reek f'liuroli, Thursday, Jan. C9. 1S?U. I><. c*. WVIs'i'* Friday, Jnu. 20, Primus, HaturOay. .Ian 21 ls'i'j. Hai f <?< >1 < 1 Mine, Moixlav, J ail 2 5d IK?S Kr'Stiavi', Tuesday and Wednesday, Jan 24 li and 25ih. IhUW H?"?*h Spring, Thursday Jm uaiy -JMt It 1K09. Hill, Friday, January'27th 1?? II .u < armel ('liurcli, Monday, January 30" M. f? ui ill i?e t i I ineresl of ev??ry Taxpayer, to Mink" i<i?i rHurn prompt- i ly >[ * i (n-ixoiiai pmppriy , nl.?o i>f all Tf <?if r or i *! ?<* ?v'"iu tii? on It'-al KMair- mii i save t'i? p?> ally ?' 60 |??*r ?eui which attache* :?f.*?r lite 'J?th -lay of l< ( liru.ii \. IP-pec ful'y, JOHN \ . OOK. * nuiity Auditor. 5 *??; "?, ) Mis. Sour Stomacli ' .in*r was Induced to Cry C'ASICAKL'TN, I will never be without them In the house. My liver was In a very bad shape, and my head artwrt and I had stomach trouble Now since takis? Caacarete. I feel One. My wife has also used Wheat with beneficial results for sour stomach." JOB. It Kin i.i no, 1W1 Congress St.. 8t Units. Mo. CATHARTIC midccweto TSADf MASS SIMTISIO ristNiit. Palatable, Potent. Taste Good. Do Owed, Hewer Sicken, weaken, or Gripe. 10c. Me. We wee CURE CONSTIPATION. ... Ma ?? *? Cwtwy. OlM|?, Mwlr.il, K?w Tel. Ul K-TO-IAC si trWfcTKSM.1T IS 11 mini nil Dr. MUee' Vrrvs PUeteea ntbu r.s bt-LH lii MR. FEATHERS TONE. ! He Prefers Three Fourths of a: Victory to Nothing. : ? ;! n!?: s,\vs lkt run pkoplk f DECIDE. |1 i t Willing for Local Option in the;' Several Counties and Gives 1 Forcible Koasona Why. To the Editor of The Stat? : Will you please allow ?)#toex-|k plain mv poaition on the wbiakey ' t queatioa < What th* roporter | put? in# down as taring doea not ' | do me justice. In fact, what I * | aaid was not intended tor public*- * I tion at all. To start with, lot tn? state thai . I have no desire <?i- authority to . speak for the prohibitionists of ( ; tha State. Any view* that 1 may I ' express are mine.an an individual, j1 and the prohibitionists are Hot rs- 1 I sponsible for them in any shape, 1 I form or fashion. * At the earns time I would not" knowingly take any position that i ' might bs calculated to injure the 1 : cause of the prohibitionist, for I 1 am *h staunch a believer in prohi- ,1 hition, upon principle, as ever, 1 and will do as much for its sakes*,1 any man in the State. My friends tor some of them, may differ with J i me as to the means of accomplish ' I ing our ends, but they will not I question my motives. What is the situation that oonI fronts us? Wo have the dispen* J sary system. ITider the consti tution of '05 we cannot jro back to i the old barroom system. If we 1 , let matters remain is their pres. ; ' est shape what have wo aecom- i plished ? The disponsary system ; 1 can never lead to prohibition. It | has fought us heretofore at every step. It has done more to make the whiskey traflie appear respee- ' ! table than anv system wu haveev- ' ?r had. The longer the srstem i stands tli* more power will it ?cquire and the more influence will ; it influence in political circles. ' The tremendous power it already has c.n only lie known fully by | those who hare cmno in contact with its practical working* in a ; campaign ll??w eagerly are tliel' positions on the hoard of control! sought after. Why ? Partly, ai i' least, because they realize the power of the dispensary in elcc> tiona, and they want its influence exerted in their behalf. If allow. | , cd to stand, n ill its influence ahui^ these lines he decreased ( I r?j eat | the question, what have the pr?> j hihitionists to <^ain l>y allowing 11lie [ircsent system to stand Ah. solutely nothing. If it stands, |thev hare gained nothing, arid their fight of lust year counts for ; nothing. ! ()e the other hand, what would ti.. 1 * ^ iiv mprai or me uispenaary mens to u? 2 With it repealed, and with no other law enacted, we would hare prohibition in every county in the State. The tacain^ on of a local option feature would mean what i That in those coon- | tie* where public sentiment is not autliciently atrone to ^ive prohibition the licenae ayatem, or the county diepeneary ayatem, would he in force. Under either of theae systems we would hare all of the {good features of the present dispensary?for under the conntitution they muet remain. If prohibition were forced upon eaid coun ie*> it could not be enforced, for t s nonsoiiR<? to t*!k about onfor. itig any law that it not supports ><1 by public sentinient The no i nforcrment of ; rohibition * a n those oountie*. would do our ause liann, hecauao w* ivoiiM I j leld responsible for its tioii-ru-1 'nrrsment. True, we might have whisker rings to fight in those( >articular counties in the future,; nit what would they he a? cornered to the great Slats whisker ing now in existence? I believe that at least three* i 'ourth# of the counties in the state would remain under the >perntion of the 'prohibition law. Would that not aire us three-' 'north* of a victorr, which is bet er than no rictorv *t all ( Again hose eouaties would give um a ] I ' - miit-uuou^ itnorii^i' m our future ights. The only sound objection that an l?i* urged against the view that I present ia that the present adniuistration is hostile to prohibition, and that, therefore, the law night be killed by a weak knead \ enforcement thereof. There is! tome force in such an argument, hut, iu my judgment, that objection will be more than offset by the benefits that will accrue. lie number, we get rid of the tremendous influence of the dispell-1 isry in politics. With the dispensary out of our way and with three.fourths of the counties in the State at our back, surely we will be ia a bot+er position to push on to complete victory. The plaa which I advocate, in a nutshell, means to make the moat :>f our present opportunities ? to take three-fourths of a loaf rather than no ioaf at aii ?to lake and oecupy the position from which wo can make the best light in the future. It does eot mean a sacrifice of principle. It means that, is practical ni?a, we are to seir.e what ia best for us when the op portunity offers : it mentis that in our judgment it in better not to have whiskey legally sold in three fourths of the counties than to have it aold in all. To urge that by doing as I ad vocatc we become allied with the whiskey men is ail bosh and >enti ment. Wo do nothing of the hied. (Vi the other hand, if wo are offered prohibition in three fourths of the cunties in the State and full to take it, where iloes the responsibility lie* For my pait, I am willing to tuks sit that we can get and thou keep on lighting until get it ail I repeat that 111 a I'M in no ??i-1 i... I he* of principle involved. Ft in a ipicttina rf apelienov which must he tiled in a pi * lie*! way. Very truly youra, C. C. Feetheretoue tlii.hld.vsoiv k\ WWW It i.-> certainly gratifying to thei public to know of one concern in, the land who are not afraid to be generous to the needy and sutler ing. Tho proprietors of Dr. King's New Discovery for Consumption, Coughs, and Colds, have given away over ton million trial bottles of this great medicine; and have the ?%f knowing it has absolutely cured thousands of hopeless cases. Asthma, Bronchitis, Hoarseness and all diseases of the Throat, Chest and Lungs are surely cured by it. Call on Crawford Bros, Druggist, and get a trial bottle free. Regular size 50c. and I Kvery bottle guaranteed, or price refunded. I I ' * J COTTON MILLS IS A HEALTHY 1 CONDITION. i Danger cf rii.;ang a Large ) Crop the Coming Season. ;1 i 1?K IvSEN V CROP < )V E\iES1' I M Vl'El). Farminp Operations Latu Evarywhere in South. Cause of tlio Riao of Price? for Cotton. ? Special to Tho State. I Haltiinora. .Ian. 'Jti. ? Anions ; the remarkable developments of the financial market in the early part of this week, the south waa interested particularly iu ' marked improvement in cotton. Monday's cotton market an the j strongest that 11a< 1 boon cxperienc | od since lsPf>, and discussing this ) manifestation in the Mauufact- , liter's UrcoI'd under data of Jan. j S3, Col. Alfred It. Sliepperson, , the expert an autboritatiye etatisti- , cian in cotton of New York, save: , "Public sentiment in reaped to , cotton has changed recently. It j has, in my judgment, been rising for moatliH, inasmuch as it has j persistently over estimated the crop or supply, and aaturaliy , overlooked and thus under esti- j mated the increased consumption demand. Recently there has beee a better appreciation of the fact that the crop will fall far short of!, the :>ig estimates, and it ie daily becoming more evident that its quality will be tbe poorest for years. Looking to tbe market for cotton goods we hoe an active demand at higher prices with verv moderate stocks and a firm tone to the market. The produe- p tion of a number of mills has), been sold for some months ahead. , Iu short, the business of our cot- ( ton mills is in a sound healthy | condition. The general business j | a of the country is increasing iu activity in almost every line, sad , it would be strange if cotton maun- j factoring should fall short hi the | genera' expansion. The European ( mills, ami especially the liritiah mills, arc doing as healthy and ^ active a business as our own. | There ie every indication that the ( mills of Europe, India. Japan, indeed every whero, v. ill consume ] thia season more cotton than ever before. Ik 1 <><>k t<> moat if the mills of 1 lie world would consume 10,700,000 bales of Am"rican cotton this season, and it is do"l?t-1 fill if tlioi crop will turn out IVi?.t (j ;antit v of desirable grades of cation. I cannot learn that land has been broken anya litre, not even in Tciar*, for the new crop. Farming opt rations are late everywhere. Salea of fertilizers to date 1 in (ieorgia are only about half as much as for the corresponding ptriod last M as <n, a id the sale* 1 in other States are reported to ha J about on the asm* scale. These 1 unfavorable items touching the new crop add somewhat to the f.trength of the praseut situation. People art asking if the advance has come to stay Cotton has 1 been unduly deprenssd, aad the advance has tieen legitimate and ' logical, aad without the slightest manipulation of this or any other controlling market. Cotton is old below the average prices of 1 any season, and a considerably further and permanent advance would be reasonably assured ' were it not for the fear of a very arge acreaga in cotton this spring, l'his i-? 'tlirt fly in tho ointment.' Prioua may go higher (>u the present favora do tide, and 1 think hey islionld. hut thev nil! melt iw*y iptickly should preparations >e made for a inrge cotton arreiga." CONNORS RESOLUTION. ; DOES GOVERNOR ELLHRHh HOLD TWO OFFICES? And is His Privato Secretary Ralatad to Him Close Enough to Prevent Hie Aappointment? ? Some Knotty t^ucstions for I )flci?ion. Uolumhia Record. "J 7th. Sanator Connor, of ()rangob?rg, ia after legislators and state official* who hold two oflicaa. In the senate today ha introduced a resolution referring to tha judiciary committee and tha coininittne in privileges and elections the pieatiou w hether any state officers tta now holding two offices and whether any )f them have appointed relatives to office who ara within the fifth degree of consanguinity. It in naid that several Isgisla tore are trustees in difTerent state institutions, but the interesting featureabou tthe resolution is ir its relation to (rov Kllerbe. fie is a member of the board of trustees of (Jlemson college and was elected by the legislature^ This is held to be in violation of the law?that he should be a trustee and governor at the same time. Again the resolution effects his private secretary, Mr. \V. Boyd Evans. Mr. Evans is related to the governor, but snys it i* so far uff that he can hardly trace it. He isetns certain that he does not nonis within the prohibition of the law relative to appointing kinsmen to office. The general opinion is that nothing will como of the losolu Lion. It is a small matter at best, but if the constitution is strictly constructed no doubt some legislators and sonio a'ate officials are guilty. But none of the latter have relatives in their respective offices and the main (pisstion is whether tlis governor i.? hoi.ling two offices. A SEN 1'ENCE OF DISMISSAL. Findisgs .it the Court-Martial m tic v "a->? of (loiierai Kagan Executive Clemency Bo c< mi mends. I Washington, ,l*n. 5J">.?(ieusial hagau, commissary general of subsistence, lis* ??e???n found guilty of tin- charges of conduct uebecoming as officer and a gentleman ia 1 of conduct to the prejudice of good ordar, diauipline, and of the specifications thereto ; and lias been soatenced to <li?>iiiis^ai from the I'nitad Stataa army, hut with a recommendation from the court for the exercise of executive clemency. I'nder the regulations, the court having reached the conclusion that the accused was guilty, had no choice in selecting a pen elty, the regulatioas prescribing absolutely the one punishment ? dismissal?for the offense. There* fore, the only hope for General Kagan is in the direction of com* mutation, mitigation or ditapproml. GRL- GRiV S np f rir v p? npn Da.\DLi MAiu-il Deals Death and Destruction to Many. Huston, N?\y V?>rk. Piii'.mK'lj.liin, Washington, IiouisvillwTerror ized *v the Awful Scourjre. All the Great Outer* of Population Allotted. The depressing effect* of the prw??ht epidemic of < i ri p ? re *| par'-nt eviry* were. Te ichar:, cIu'Kh. huinva m?u, mechanic* lainroi, *t-c??i t.?r ?iri\ ers. school children, poii??* officci* and oven the doctors hi. Mirni-di v-ctiins t?v the him tied* No r< iii-dy y< I discovered can >h w r? suits equal to I) r. Mi lea1 Reeloialive Nervine. It quickly nveicnine* ] thn excessive exhaustion, invigorates the appetite ami assists nature io j throw off ttie duality microbes tioiu | the ayt-tem In ti men of epidvni ic 1 i Ue ! the pte-*nt it ehnu'd he u-ken a* a preventive oi disease. | "d i ip hid I j ft n e a physical w reck ; weak, helpleM ami mis* ruble. I c old ! not eat; could not sleep; could not ' gain any stieuKth, and had nervous i prostration of the worst kind Our home physiei m could not help me i and I < otnineiieed using I)r Mile; ' , Nervine. The first night's sleep that j I had had in four months came as the j result ot two ft ?t doses. When I had I taken two bottles I fels better than 1 | had before in years, and continued 'o improve until I was entirely cured.-'' Hi.I W inpARli, Plymouth, Ills. All d' uggist'i ale autiiori/. <1 to sell j Dr. Miles' Nervine on s guarantee ttiat first bottle benefits or money refunded. He sure and get Dr. Miles' Nervine ltookiet on heart und Nerves sent free. Address Dr. Miles' Medical f'o , E'khait. I ml. Not a Reliable Firm. A man brought homo soma rat 'poison ons availing. Mia wife mistook it for something else ami ate a quantity of it. TIiot ha 1 a terrible time of it that nijiht: but tha lady's life was saved. "It w*? a close call," said the doctor the next morning, "shs at* enough of it to kill u dozen parson*; hut fortunately the I poison had heen in the store u long tiina and mostof iU strength had evaporated." Some months afterward ths hii*hand was asked if Messrs. Poultice iNi. (do. were reliable drug "usts to <h'*l with. ' I wouldn't recoiiiinend them," I h< said; "they swindled ine oive on gome rat poison." Itcwiirc ol'Oint incuts lor Catarrh lial Contain .Mfivury, ; IV IIIC'iCiip I . I tl ? i ll *11-' if ; 111 -1 . 11 I lit liM '% 11 I . . i- i )>o j W in ill' S . -t III VV .1 I 11 ! I-1 ' ; , 1 I I Hi 11 I till III licit i| - I ? l? ~l|' .1 I . -t I M11 11 I III!!'!" It . * I 11 C X I I II I - | -i-ri i it- I'rn.ii - |-u-;tl. t p >- *, ' is 111- ll lltlli. I \ Wit <1 i- It !t '(till j it I III' I!i tint \ < It im ii p * 11? ? i' ' . ' Vli fin11 I tn-iii f?:il 's i lis 11 < Ii *?, ; IllUlllllttl'tIIP- lit I*' J ' III It v o., j Toledo i) i* i . i -- ii in . im 11 1 ! i-? taken liit-rinili - id fur il! -i upon lhe iiioit-i a i ' mum .h -uri'ict .-i of j ili?* system I iyi i! ll < i'h .itfirrli Cure -* -u,i- you v'.-i me t; *>>uii)t* i; ' i* taken internally uml i* in n!-- in Tut | h-tio, Ohio, l>y K .1 ? hen - < it. j Testimonials fiee. irtJlu Ji)!il i-y brutrtf ista, |o ice Too i-er ! holtle. Plioiiart of the Illooil unit Nrnei, No one need siilTer with tifiiralxia. 1 his disease is quickly and permanently cured hy Browns' Iron Bitters. Every disea.se of the Mood, nerves and stomach, chronic or otherwise, succumbs to Browns' Iron i mwri. miowii and used for nearly a liiarter of * century, it stands to-dsy loreI moat among our moat valued remedies. Urowna' Iron Hitters is aold by all dealers. Don't Neglect Tonr I.lver. Liver troubles quickly result in serious complications, and the man who neglects his liver has little regard for health. A bottle of Hrowns' Iron Hitters taken now and then will keep the liver in perfect order. If the disease has developed, Hrowns' Iron Ritters will oure it permanently. Strength and vitality will always follow its use. Browns' Iron Bitters is sold by all dealers. VST Subscribe to The Ledger