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1 U h LKDGKK. s Th nrlnw S. Oart* ?. K.niTOK A ^ I> MAN AGKR n 1 SATl'ltDAY FKIUU'AUY 24, 1000. d f liI am very much concerned! t jiut at present," said Kepresenta- ' tive Moke.*, of **outh Oirolina, j t "in an effort to extend the free' v t delivery of mail alon<? star routes. ) h i < i i a?l > v lii?il UllU Ui i T* i ? |HA UII.U v ex| eriences whil? trying to promote this branch of postnl service. * An amendment for that kind of v free delivery was parsed by the ? last Congress. In11 through some v error of the committee clerks it * whs given the same rumber as an t anientment that Senator Tillman t had adopted regarding star route f contractors. Mr. Tillman's amend- I ment provided that contractors 1 should live in the State where t thrv contracted to carrv mails. 1 There was very determined oppo- t sition to that in the House, and I < pleaded in vain to have the tangle f s'.rnightened out. ' So my amendment was lost, t hut at the Post office Department t they promised to try an experi~ 1 ment for me in the State of South ' Carolina. They advertised for 1 contracts, with and without pro- t visions that contractors should j i deliver the mail along their routs, f wherever the farmers would erect n boxes and comply with certain ' I lemulations. Quite to my sur- ' prise ana mm oi me department ' ^ oflicials the difference in cost for * the improved her vice was only * $t>uO for the entire State. , "1 felt very "nthusiaatie over ^ the showing, and early in the ses t sion reim reduced a liill that I of - ' fered in tho lust Congress, pro- I riding for this improved service t on all star routes. You can ' imagine that I felt complimented ' ' a few days ago, when i found j < identically the same bill, word ' for word, introduced by a I'enr. M gvlvania Republican. He had j foint'l ?i fwiiw / ??>*' 1-11 ' 1 ? xwl\? Wl inj uni | 1 which ho very apparently regarded ( hs a good thing, and reintroduced ; it." ? Washington Post. I The annual incomes?not the fortunes?of niilloinaii es of this 1 country are estimated by the New York World a* follows: John D Rockefeller $56,000,000 Andrew Carnegie 26,397,500 Senator W A Clark, .Montana 10,000,000 William Waldorf Astor 9.850,000 Cornelius Vanderbilt's estate 6,625,000 William Rockefeller 5,000,000 Marshall Field, Chicago 5,000,000 John Jacob Astor 4,500,000 .1 B llaggins, Montana 4,500,000 P D Armour 3,000,000 Clans Spreckela, San Franciuco 3,000,000 John 11 Flagler 3,000,000 J Pierpont Morgan 3.000,000 II M Flagler 2,500,000 James Hill, St Paul 2 500,000 C P Huntington 1,750,000 George Gould 1,500,000 John D Arch bold 1,250,000 W D Sloan 1,200,000 Russell Sage 1,000,000 DO Mills 1,000,000 The close of the oratory will it is believed find the United States i a two billion dollar century, and it is not improbable that within a i A ! ?*11 l i ir" vc?rs vi inn icji win ci11;ii ner first billionaire. Simplifying the Kentucky Tangle. Louisville, Kv, Feb 21. ? 1'he 1 contest over the State offices are very much simplified by an agree < ment entered into today between the attorneys for the Republicans and the Democrats representing 1 both sides, and straightening out ' tho legal tangle over the miilti- < plicitv of injunction suits for the t governorship. ^ i H>mc Recollections of Sherman's Visit to This State. Last Monday was the 35th anliversary of Sherman's visit to vim-aster, S C. That was, ineed, a aad and exciting time or the women and children and he old men, who the arch barnaimer found in that devoted litlo town. The editor's wife, who t'us a child then, has a vivid recolection of those awful times, l?oauso her mother and her seven hildren were called upon to live or }> days on only the corn that ras picked up at the feed grounds >f Sherman's cavalry, and aftervards parched and eaten. And a till more vivid remembrance i* he fact that her father, who was hen incapacitated for for active icrvice, was hunted down while le and several old men and bovs were at his plantation in thecounry He was handed three timeu >y the cruel monsters, who at empted to extort from him a 'otifession that he had pold and diver hidden in the neighborhood. This banpinp was barbarous treat nent. A rope wa* placed around he poor man's neck, a sapling van bended, and after the rope )a4 been secured to the tree, it vas permitted to straighten with he innocent citizen dandling from t. Ilia cruel persecutors, as we aid, repeated this for three times, ind would have done so again, and perhaps again, had not one soldier vith more heart than the others, vho had come upon the scene, >rdered that the nearly dead man ihould not again be troubled. Ilo vas, however, driven home before 'our cavalrymen marauders, who ook from him his hat, clothing ind shoes and gave them to u Hissing negro, and required hi in :o don the negro's hat, clothing ind shoos instead. In this way lie was taken to his home, where 36 whs unable to speak to his fanul for a week on account of the condition of his thoat. This is a sample of the treats moot the unoffending citizens receirecLat the hands of the ever-tobe despised Sherman, and his home and barn burners. In the party of citizens there were others who received like treatment, nmorg them Mr. A \V Chance, who is now an employee ot the Enterprise office in Lancaster. Rock Hill Herald. THOSE NKAL NOTES. The" Resolution in the Carolina Bank to Sue the State. The State, 22d inst. The legislature passed the hi I authorizing the Carolina National bank to bring suit against the State for the recovery of monoj placed to the credit of the Sla'f penitentiary on two notes endorsed by Neal as superintendent, the said notes having never been paid. The State will loose nothing in the suit. If it bo shown that th bank can hold the State response ble, then the State may go bark on Krai's bondholders. If th< State is not accountable, then the bank and Neal must have it out betAcon them. The recent legis Intion further provides that this suit, will not alFrrt th* ?tntiiu ?vl tho criminal action already brought against Neal. Marlboro Convict* Murderously Assault (iiinrd and Then Escape. Special to Tho State. Bcnnottsvillo, Feb 20. ? Amos barter, infjcharge of tho county haingang, was struck in the head frith an axe by one of Hioconvicts his afternoon and three of the Mght convicts escaped. It is hnuglit Carter will die. Vhat atop* N?ur?l?ar jT MIIm' r*la PIN*. DISPENSARY PROFITS. New Law Will Giro Cities am County More Money. Columbia Record. The new dispensary law will g< into practical operation this wee! when the new hoard of contro takes charge. So far us the npor ation of it is concerned, there wil tie no "visible difference betwcet the old and the new law. Assuming that the buwinesi will bo equal this year to what i i was last, the counties and citiei will derive much more pecuniary benefit from its operations. It i now provided that 10 per cent .o the profits shall go to the stuti ??.i ...T.iiu mi nit- i i iiiiinmtn hi inti coininc and cities. Ninety per cent wil be divided between tho cities him the county. I Last year the county of llich land got about $10,000 out of th profits and Columbia an equa amount. Coder the new law th county will get twice as much air the city's share will be in proper tion. If the business is the same the county will get $20,000, al most enough to run the uount government. Dispensary officials look fo even a bigger business this year The public schools will not gel a much as formerly. This fund ww so divided that counties which ha no dispensaries got the benefit o the fund. There was a I way w oil jections to this, as it was contend ed that these counties vrhick ha the trouble anil expense of pro viding police where dispensarie were established, should have a tho profits. The actual amount of money t be received, however, depend upon the price of liquor and l the calculations it is presumed the the prices will be the same as noi prevail. ! "ga* W For! ~ I j Cheapen L No Shoddy (oil) prices. i 1 lie more nat trade where tlx - We That means \\ 10 are the only people in posi tion to bundle the CASH trude. Time merchants put up prices at this season for credit trude. Wo put down prices for cash trade. We do not have to charge honest people twopriees to pay losses < on had debts. The trade knows and appreciates this fact ami we arc getting the cash business. - Shoe B; m r 1.-^7 liio iaci inui wo *f Our Guaranteed Line of For Barg; ?Kl Gi3 Reese Captured. 1 Yesterday W II Newhold, E* received n letter from officers Cowan, Tenn, who hnvea man lieved to he Keese, the convic murderer who escaped from > ... lork jail three years apo j photograph was enclosed \vh Mr Newhold believes re prose I the right man. Solicitor Hei alto and some one else who kn Keese think they recognize him the photograph. Sheriff Log of York, came down yesterday ? . ; ternoon m response tc? a telepm message. lie agreed with ' others in the opinion that it s Reese's picture, and he left f the Seaboard last night for T a (lessee. s It is noted that the man ? I j made the arrest hears the sn j' name s the one Keese murde ? Williams, we he'ieve.?Che Lantern. ?! ,1 An Iowa publisher ackn< e edges the receipt of an egg wl . 4 was laid on our table by Rev Mr Smith." Mr Sn seems lo be s layman as well -a '? minister. I* A minority report has h ^ made to the lower house of c gress on the hill for the elect r of senators by the people. continues with the principle ,s the t?i 11; but tiroes direct elect i s without waiting legislnt ve ap| j val for a change of system as j posed by the majority. Til tT Tfl a(M(ltl\0 I j II K * O.AC II K d Would quickly leave vou, you used Pr King's New I in Pills. Tin uisands of sutrei II have proved their matchless m f ?r Sick and Nervous Uea<lacl o They make pure blood and str Is nerves and build up your hea n Kasv to take. Try them. C it 25 cents. Money back if iv cure?l Sohl by Crawford H Druggist. NSON C i !leal B a THE d Store: or inferior goo< - Tlif Ini ?} get the hest I s Sell St] -Two .1 omuM ,v Beautiful colorinps in the just hulf, 10 cents. Also hum I in new desirable styles, 7.1 eti ! -liKtAI ML Tho?e who have not yet luck. We are running oil" tin than half price. You should ! chase a nice hat. I I argains ! riie Very Best i 'II more Shoes than all of Li Ladies', Misses and Children's t ains in every I lNSON C Burned to Death While Trying to Save His Money. q-? Ht Thomaston, (Ja, Feb 20. ? Ben be- WH'Uer, mii old negro, wiib burned tod to death near hero last night, in a the peculiar manner. W ulker had \ some money buried under his j I hou>e, and when the building took tire he crawled under it and atu*8 tempted to dig it up When he ir.V wan taken from under the burning iew t?iii111inir in. |(.1(| received burns i in win h proved fatal. CASTOR IA the For Infants and Children. j" The Kind You Have Always Bought 'en- Bears the ~ Signature of C vho inio ? -?..*-? - ??- ? - MORE MULES, BETTER MOLE; j LARGER MULES, 1 FATTER MULES. ! I Il?? I 5??>i t n Keep posted by calling at our Stables on frequently ami see the quality and b ar out prices?We are in ti t? bu*iK>n . , , .... . I - ness to succeed, and 'the way to sue- | *1 c d I* to succeed." and that is what * ! We htc doing. 10',!* Oui Mr Elliott is now in the Wests ; em markets and will return h> the >10- 'jjn.i w ild as line a lot of M I" 1 K*> ami 1 | HOUSE** as has ever tree seen in Lancaster?We bu\ them roaell again, 1 ami if von want a good mule or horse 1 g< ve us a tri ?i, and if we do not sell you we wn| believe you are not in e '!? marsei We uoaraiitee wiiat we L<lfe m* I aid w 111 do every 1 tog reasonable 1 to suit all who hit\ fioiu us. erit . . , . , , v\ e are iiide d natikful for tlie [)0S pat roiinge ami conn leoce of .lie peo" A" pie o* I .a eastei and tejuning COtlll* 't'L ii>s ami t?y stiiet integrity and f ir Inly <11 1 ing.4 hope to nn rit a eoiiiiuiiauee n< >t ot t he s one r,,s 11 TT & mWIHIH. TT T ^ r*-t ASH SIU i r ir a i n > FOIJvS i n South ( uw ^iWiM.'jAw.tuniagiw. ds, but reliable mei Flocks III lis! largains, and we s rictly For ( I <Si ^llillN .1 lift ( 'ollle,! new '20 cent Poplin I'laids, our price b tlier case of t hose-splendid twilled fleece* s, worth double. LUNERY SALE.bought their w inter inillery are in jjreat e balance of our stock at a littlo better avail yourself of Mich a chance to pur Shoes Ths the Jlfarket A fl'on nncaater combined would indicate tha ino K id Shoes cannot be equaled for ine, Come to :ash sto: T. W. SECREST, SURVEYOR, EOLa. k. ?\ Ik fully equipped, and qualified, and aolitiiiH M?ur Hurveyiuv Plioiie h, 30 Or rail at DuflVa M,irk?t u r a Houat -teak or aome good SuuatiKea or a tiiat elaaa Hry ?r Stew of NoiI'olk 0\a eiH and he convinced that ii'a pome hing un d you will net from the Market on the i t ruer of Ma u and I Hiii b?|> at reel a. THE RESTAURANT You will find supplied with the Iha' Nor'- ik Oy-t? ra every Wednea* d?y and Vriday Heaped fully. A. F. DUFFT. ruccTco un&oien MACHINE AND LUM3ER COMPANY. CHESTER, S. O. o The Cheater Machine Co. ami B. M. prati & < o , have consolidated tht two p'ants, and now ready to furnish anything m the Machine and Lumber line", with a well equipped F undrr and Machine i-liop, ami I)oor, Saab and Blind Fac'ory < ur (acilitiea are un-quailed in thi" part of the State. REAPERS MOWERS, THRESHERS. GINS, ENGINES sA W MILLS, HAY AND CO 1 I ON PRESSES, H A RRO A ft. < AS > INGS, K I C. > ALSO SECOND HAND MACHINERY. ttaF~ Mil In complete for Dwelling*. Store Rooms, etc. r>rnd ns liat of your want*, ami we will aiiKWd by return mail Re.-pari full v. Chester Machine & IUMRER COMPANY. RE! ; \Y I ] are Carolinarchandise at botIVotlring could ura I ' People 1 O*! VI ? v IIICIIU )ash Long Faced 1 Mercha nts I Are claiming higher prices. Goods they say 1 nave pone np. Wo ate getting; them cheaper than over. The ready cash always wins, and wo are in the lead with some soft snaps for early trade. it Wear! Is. ' V ,t we nro Headquarters. aod serTieo and low prices. RE. f - - A