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The Pickens Sentinel says:
Our Constitution vests in the people
the. grand and glorious right to petition.
Doubtless the people of Greenville, An?
derson and Abbeville Counties do not
esteem this such a precious right, since
their petitions on the whisky question
were summarily rejected.by the Legisla
\ tnre.
The people of Anderson failed to get
their petition respected, but they may be
perverse enough to decline to allow their
Representatives the privilege of insulting
them at pleasure.
vThe article frvm Prof. Walter W.
Brown, which we publish this week, in
reply to our remarks upon the proposed
dual basis of representation in this State,
^pjotains details from the constitution of
several of the prominent governments of
Europe, which we had and still have
some limited information. We have
cheerfully accorded him space to present
these facts, although they show that Mr.
Brown has not taken into consideration
the proposition which v\e were discussing,
but has gone off on a tangent to present
some facts about systems of government,
which in some form or other, have been
in vogue since the days of Rome, and
perhaps earlier. In all of the countries
which Mr. Brown cites the different in?
terests represented are. protected by
different sources of authority. For in?
stance, where land is the basis of repre?
sentation, laud owners are the electors;
aud where population is the basis of
representation, the mass of voters elect
according to the laws of the government;
and where corporations are represented,
the repreuentatives are chosen by the
corporations. That is not the proposed
plan here. The proposition is to let .the
"same voters who elect representatives on
the basis of population, elect them also
on the basis of property. This is the
system of representation of which we
have never heard. None of the coun?
tries of which Prof. Brown speaks have
an; auch system of representation, and
we repeat that we do not think South
-Garolina will ever have such a system.
. OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
f Washington, D. C., Jan. 23,1886.
The work of Congress daring the past
week has been of a somewhat mixed
character, with comparatively little of
special interest. The Government Print?
ing Office has been deluged with work,
(particularly the printing of new bills,
and is greatly behind, although type?
setters and pressmen are working night
aud day. The call of States is not com?
pleted yet, and every time there is one,
between 500 and 800 new bills are in?
troduced. ;
; The subject most generally discussed
among Senators and Members outside of
te Halls of Congress has been the right
>f the Senate to call for- the "reasons"
werning the removal of office holders.
ie majority of Senators are of the
opinion that the "reasons" cannot be
I called for, but only the information in
the possession of the President or De?
partment. This information usually
consists of only the recommendation on
file in 8uppcit of the new appointment,
as to the fitness of the new appointee,
and is quite different from the "reasons"
which induced the President to make
-the appointment. The President in?
formed a committee of Democratic Sen?
ators, appointed at a caucus, that he had
no objection to submitting the papers in
any.-appointment, but would not give his
^"reasons" for making a selection. The
Democratic Senators will sustain the
position taken by the President.
Heretofore the sessions of the Sec ate
in considering nominations sent to it
: have always been held with closed doors,
so that none but the members of that
body have been permitted to be present.
I have frequently been present when a
motion was made to so "into Executive
'^Session," as it is called, and immediately
l-.when carried the galleries have been
. cleared of all spectators and correspond
ebts, and the doors sealed. Some of the
' Senators are now in favor of dispensing
with this old practice of "Star Chamber"
procedure and of having open Executive
Sessions. If the proposed change is
adopted the people of the country will
get many interesting facts concerning
public servants, now withheld from them.
The House Labor Committee and
Committee on Agriculture have agreed to
report a bill establishing a Department
of Agriculture aud Labor, the head of
which shall be a Cabinet officer. This
Department will be one very near to the
people, and it stands a fair chance of
^TeTbg formed this Season.'
?The people of the District and of the
adjoining State, Maryland, are very
much exercised jusc now as to what the
Senate will do on the nomination of Hon.
William M. Merrick, of Maryland, as an
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court
of the District of Columbia. Judge
_Merrick was on the bench here at the
^beginning of the war, when Congress
legislated the court out of existence be?
cause of supposed sympathy with the
South. Since then the judge has resided
in Maryland, and represented that State
-ftPCongress. He and Senator Gorman
have represented opposing factions in
Maryland politics, and it was supposed
that when Judge Merrick was appointed
last summer as one of the Judges of our
? ourt that Gorman was made happy by
thus getting rid of his political rival.
But Gorman is doing all that he can now
t) defeat Merrick's confirmation. Judge
Merrick is a brother of the late Hon.'
Richard T. Merrick, known all over the
country as an able lawyer and one of the
Democratic counsel before the Electoral
Commission. The members of the bar
are almost unanimous for the confirma?
tion, and the Bar Association has ap?
pointed a committee to urge upon the
Senate to confirm the nomination.
Mr. Maybury, of Mich., has intro?
duced a bill in the House that will touch
a responsive chord in the breasts of those
who love to angle for the sportive black
bass, or hunt the coy duck as it floats on
the water. He proposes to set apart as a
National shooting and fishing resort or
reservation the broad stretch of marsh
and overflowed or shoal water lands in
and bordering upon Lake St. Clair in
the State of Michigan. All navigable
waters within the prescribed limits are
to be deemed public highways and treat?
ed as euch.
STStis&n B. Anthony is here with the
?ame abiding faith in the ultimate tri
umph of woman suffrage that has sus?
tained her through so many years. She
comes to Washington every winter to
watch for any opening to drive the wedge
into Congress. She always puts up at
the Biggs House, Mrs. Spofford, the
wife of its proprietor, being a staunch
friend of the cause. Miss Anthony is
always "wound up" and ready to talk
almost indefinitely on the subject that
has been the absorbing one of her busy
life. She looks beoignautly through her
gold spectacles, and talks cheerily and
hopefully as if she were just entering
upon her mission to this vale of tears.
She has astroiig faith that she wi'l live
to enjoy the full fruition of her hopes.
H.
The Proposed Double Basis or Repre?
sentation.
Editor Ihtellig?ncer : In your
issue of the 21st insl., 'j an editorial on
the proposition to allow representation
in the State Legislature both in propor?
tion to population and in proportion to
taxable property, you say: "We have
never beard of any government in which
such a system has been tried."
Now, without pretending to argue
either in favor of or against the proposed
change in this State, I beg leave to cor?
rect an error into which some might be
led by the above statement. Such a sys?
tem has been tried, and is now in practical
operation in several countries. It is in
operation in Denmark and in quite a
number of the German States, notably,
Prussia, Wurttemburg, Saxony, Hesse,
Brunswick, and Hamburg. In some
there is the dual bads of representation
: mentioned ; in others quite a number of
interests are represented, seeming to
come into accord, to some extent, with
the famous idea of John C. Calhoun, of
a "concurrent majority."
In Denmark the legislative body is
the diet or rigsday. "The rigsday con?
sists of a landttthing, or senate, and a
folkesthing, or house of commons. Of
the 66 Senators, 12 are nominated for
life by the Crown, and the rest chosen
for a term of eight years, by electoral
bodies composed partly of the largest
tax-payers in the country districts, partly
of deputies of the largest tax payers of
the cities,'and partly of deputies repre?
senting the entire voting population.
The folkesthing consists of 102 members
elected directly by universal suffrage, for
a term of three yeans."
In Prussia the legislative body consists
of two chambers?a Herrenhaus, or
house of lords, and au Abgeordneten?
haus, or chamber of deputies. Seven
different interests are represented in the
house of lords, some of the members are
hereditary, some are appointed by the
King, and others are elected ; tbe fifth
interest consists < f "titled noblemen,
elected by resident landowners;" In the
chamber . of deputies, members are
chosen by a rather complicated indirect
method involving a representation of
both population and taxation.
In W?rttemberg the parliament con?
sists of two chambers: "the house of
deputies is composed of the chosen rep?
resentatives of the landowners, of the
clergy, and of the town and rural dis?
tricts."
The parliament of Brunswick has only
one chamber. Of its 46 members, "21
are cbosen by the highest taxed laud
owners, 3 by the clergy, 10 by the towns
and 12 by the rural districts."
In the lower house of the parliament
of Hamburg, "of tbe 192 burgesses, 84
are chosen by the votes of all tax-paying
Citizens; 48 are ch< sen by the chief real
estate owners, aud the remaining 60
members deputed by the various guilds,
corporations, and courts of justice."
I have quoted from Chase's work on
Civil Government. Very much the
same information can be obtained from
the Cyclopaedias. Excuse me for taking
up so much of your space; I thought
some of your readers might be interested
in these facts, and in knowing that the
idea of a double basis of representation
is not entirely new and untried, however
much they might differ as to the advisa?
bility of inaugurating the system iu this
State. B.
THE WAR OF THE METALS.
Senator Morrill Taxes up tho Cudgel for
Gold.
Senator Morrill addressed tho Senate
on the silver question. He began with
the remark that the elaborate speech of
tbe Senator from Kentucky (Beck) seem
ed to throw the burden of rejoinder on
the friends of the Administration.
"I do not mean," he continued, "to en?
croach upon the privileges, which so
many Democratic Senators appear eager
to enjoy, of coming to the rescue of tbe
President and the secretary of the treas?
ury against the rather cruel attack made
upon the cardinal measure of the Ad?
ministration, as I know the fate of those
who venture to interfere with family
quarrels, but this measure, by which
silver might be maintained on a par
with gold, so worthy of all acceptation, I
fear will not have, after tbe hostile de?
monstration of the recognized leader of
his party in the Senate against it, that
unanimous support to which it may be
fairly entitled. In the first place, let me
say that there are no parties, so far as I
know, in the Senate or out of it, that
propose or that have and wish to demone?
tize silver. To charge otherwise is a
baseless assumption and unworthy of the
arena of fair debate. Everybody is
willing, yes, anxious, to keep as much of
silver in circulation as can be done and
keep it at the same time at par with our
gold coinage. Hostility to silver arises
from what seems to be a fixed and pas?
sionate purpose ou the part of some of
its advocates to promote such an excess
of silver coinage as will drive gold coin?
age out of the couutry, and leave our vast
trade and commerce based upon silver
only. In reaching this position of silver
monometallism it is impossible to be
blind to tbe disastrous contraction of tbe
circulating medium of tbe country that
would at once occur, for when the moment
arrives that gold commands a premium
it will all be held a* a commodity for sale,
not for circulation, as small a premium
as 5 per cent, being as productive of
universal hoarding as 25 per cent., and
no possible advantage to our people
could be expected from following the
lame and feeble example of India or
Mexico in utilizing a silver currency
only." Senator Morrill insisted that
there was no war upon silver, but that in
substance and effect a declaration of war
had been made on gold by the leader of j
the Democratic party in tbe Senate, j
From tbe pleasure which the Senator]
from Kentucky had evinced in delivering
in the Senate his nntagonisms to the
President and the secretary of the treas
nry it seemed to Senator Morrill that that
Senator had been for a moment under
the delusion that he was still belaboring
with left-banded compliments some Re?
publican Presidont and Secretary ; but
he could look on with composure, confi?
dent as he was of "the survival of the
fittest."
"His (Morrill's) conviction that the
continued coinage of large amounts of
silver .would drive all gold out of the
country was based on the past experience
of all civilized people thatinferior money
never failed to expel superior, and on the
fact that our own silver mines furnished
more than half the annual silver yield of
the world. Our yield for 1S84 was
$48,000,000. which, added to our imports,
$17,000,000, made $G5,000,000. This was
more than we could practically absorb
and all not used in coinage and the arts
must find a market abroad. Large and
frequent sales of the surplus would es?
tablish the commercial value of silver.
The exodus of gold, however, would not
be likely to appear with much force until
its shipment became frequent or until it
commanded a premium, but the large
return of American securities from
abroad affecting foreign exchange ad?
versely, or any great commercial disaster,
from which the world was never exempt,
might suddenly produce this exodus of
gold."
Senator Morriil denied that there had
been any failure on the part of the treas?
ury officials to comply with the laws
regarding the application of money
received from customs dues. "By the
report of the United States treasurer,"
Senator Morriil continued, "it appears
that there is somewhere in the treasury
165,535,000 of standard silver dollars
which we are struggling to find how and
where to safely store until by some mi?
racle they can find more favor in the
wicked wprld. The percentage of these
dollars in actual circulation outside of
the treasury, "it also appears, has been
constantly growing less since 1881, being
then 30, then 20 per cent., and now only
18. We have coined over 215,000,000
silver dollars, and have only been able
at any time, through much cost and trib?
ulation, to get not quite fifty million into
spasmodic circulation. People do not
like to be compelled by law to carry it.
We do not receive it here ounelves with
any praiseworthy cordiality. Our condi?
tion is somewhat like that of one of our
distinguished humorists, who in our late
war would not enlist himself, but was
very willing that one of-his wife's rela?
tions should enlist. It is often smartly
claimed," bo said, "that ninetv million
dollars of the 165,000,000 of" standard
silver dollars now in the treasury was
represented in the issue of silver certifi?
cates, meaning to convey the inference
that those certificates would ultimately
be paid with silver. But this would Dot
be done as long as silver holders had the
option of tendering them at the custom?
house as an equivalent for gold. The
secretary of the treasury," continued
Senator Morriil, "has already found it
necessary to resort to unusual resources
to avoid the shock to all business interests
of the sudden drop from using both gold
and silver hitherto ever maintained by
our country to a single silver standard.
Whenever the Government from indispo?
sition shall fail to maintain the silver
dollar on a par with gold, all of the
silver certificates as well as all other
paper currency, together with the silver
dollar itself, will fall to the exact com?
mercial value of the bullion contained
in the standard silver dollar. All of
our legal tender must then stand on that
basis. There is no financial or legislative
witchcraft that offers any other fate.
The Democratic treasury officials are held
to be more honest than their predecessor),
and it is not for me to claim tbat tbey
are, but all have been at work from early
morn until evening twilight in pushing
silver at every crossroads of the country,
although esteemed in some quarters as
nothiug less than traitors because they
have not had greater success as accredi?
ted missionaries in persuading mankind
that the silver dollar was worthy of more
obedient faith and greater adoration
among the unconverted. A Senator is
so much of a devotee of the silver dollar,
intrinsically worth loss than eighty cents,
tbat he proposed at once to commence
the payment of the public debt with that
coin and no other, although later he
seemed to have consented to a mixture.
Of course, he expects to carry the Em
Eire State in 1888 on his platform. Not
imself eligible as a candidate for the
Presidency, the distinguished Senator
waves his banner reckless of the clouds
without any silver lining which there
betoken the fate of any Democratic son
of New York who may seek to conquer
under that sign. Of course, the inevita?
ble result of using silver in the payment
of the public debt would be to banish
gold, or two-thirds of all our present
metallic circulation, and leave us with
nothing but silver coinage. Our five or
six hundred millions of gold would soon
command a premium, increasing day by
day. Go where it might it would have
more appreciation and its departure could
not fail to produce a serious monetary
crisis aud a contraction, which Congress
would be promptly asked to cure Ky an
indefinite issue of a new edition of legal
tender greenbacks, or by a revival of
wildcat banks to supply the place of the
departed gold. This or anything, the
Supreme Court has already announced,
Congress may do at its pleasure. Such a
step once taken, however, the experi?
ence of the world shows cannot be easily
retraced."
Senator Morriil characterized the old
time Democratic party as the party of
inflexible hostility to paper money and
devotion to gold, ana asked why the
financial principles of Jefferson and
Jackson were now denounced. It could
not be, he said, that the re was anywhere
any releutance to paying the wages of
laborers or the pensions ol Union soldiers
in a dollar worth one hundred cents.
Senator Morriil denied tbat France offer?
ed an example for us in regard to silver
circulation. Banks were few there, he
said, and people kept more of there
money in the house. Bauks were numer?
ous here and people used them. He also
denied that the suspension of our coinage
would depreciate silver or increase the
value of gold. It had been demonstrated
that the whole service of the Govern?
ment for seven years had failed to in?
crease the value of silver. It was more
worthless to day than it was then. When
the United States in 1803, he said, was
trying to obtain a loan of one billion
dollars, the subscribers to the loan had
been informed that "while the bonds are
twenty year bonds, they may be redeem?
ed in gold at any time after five years."
All the departments oi the Government
so understood the contract. The letter
of the law unquestionably made United
States bonds payable in either gold or
silver coin, but this was done when no
silver dollar was in circulation, when it
was worth more also than the gold dollar,
and when the policy of the Government
had been for a generation to coin little
more of silver than what was required for
ordinary use as change. For mauy years
we had paid both the interest and the
principal of these bonds in gold, and this
inflexible rule had given a pledge of
public faith that they would forever con
tinue to be so paid until their final ex?
tinguishment. It was this trusting faith
of our own people which enabled the
Government to refund its bonds at the
low rate of 3 per cent, interest, aud these
are the bonds which the Senator from
Keutucky 60 sternly advised that the
secretary of the treasury should have
paid at once and paid in silver. Saying
nothing about what would or would not
be condutive to the public honor, it
might be truthfully asserted that it con?
cerned the highest interest of our future
career in tbe'world's history to preserve
the public credit above all criticism and
above all suspicion of the smallest finan?
cial crookedness.
"Our own legislation," said Senator
Morriil, "is hastening a disastrous revo?
lution, as the President and secretary of
the treasury believe, in all the conditions
surroundiug the silver dollar, now in
danger of further depreciation, and the
Question arises, can we with proper
eceney take advantage of our own act
to pay off" the bonds of the United States
at a cost of only seventy-nine cenis or
less ou the dollar? The fact that nearly
all the merchants and trained business
men of the country, whose daily life has
afforded broad information upon the his
tory and practical knowledge of the
subject, are arrayed upon the side favor?
ing at the very least either an increase in
the weight of the silver dollar or a tem?
porary suspension of its coinage, docs not
appear to have the slightest weight, but
! is contemptuously disregarded by those
who theoretically and sentimentally cling
first and last to a dollar of 412'. grains of
silver. The fact that the President and
secretary of the treasury, the treasurer,
the director of the mint, and the comp?
troller of the currency, experienced
treasury officials, no less under the pres?
ent Administration than* under the pre?
ceding, are all agreed in urging Congress
to cease the present coinage of the silver
dollar, goes for nothing with the Senator
from Kentucky and bis obedient follow?
ers."
At the conclusion of Senator Morrill's
speech a running debate followed upon
the silver question, participated in by
Senators Beck and Teller on one side and
Senators McPherson and Morrill on the
other, with occasional remarks by Sena?
tors Maxey and others. The debate,
which was characterized throughout by
great warmth of manner, then came to a
close, when the Senate at 3.40 went into
executive session. At 4.50 the doors
were opened and the Senate adjourned.
Blown up with Dynamite.
CautersVILLE, Ga., January 23.?
The war between the revenue officers
and moonshiners that has been in pro?
gress a long time was this morning the
occasion of one of the most sensational
events in the history of the State. A'
an enrly hour, before daylight this morn?
ing, a terrible explosion shook every
house in the town. People rushed out
of their houses and flocked in the direc?
tion from which the noise bad come. It
was soon ascertained that United States
Commissioner Aaron Collins's residence
was the scene of the explosion. When
the house was reached by the excited
populace it was found to be tottering on
its foundations, and screams could be
heard for yards away. The gathering
crowd rushed into the shattered dwelling
and found Mr. Collins and his wife ter?
ribly frightened, but not fatally injured;
Mrs. Collins was in convulsions and was
carried to a residence near by. Since
the reaction set in both are seriously ill.
The entire town was soon aroused and
an investigation made. It was found
that the Collins' reaideuce had been
blown up with a dynamite cartridge,
which had been placed on the front
porch, four feet from the wall next to the
bead of the bed upon which Mr. and
Mrs. Collins were sleeping. The fuse to
the cartridge was three feet long, giving
the dynamiters ample time to get away
before the explosion occurred. The
house was smashed to atoms, the front
porch blown several feet away from the
main building, And all the shingles were
blown off the roof. A large hole was
blown in the floor. Every lock in the
house was jarred to pieces and the doors
forced open. _
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The undersigned, Executors of
the Estate of B. P. Low, deceased,
hereby give notice thatthev will, on the
2nd day of Marth, 188C. apply lo the
Judge of Probate for Anderem County for
a Final Settlement of said Kstatc. and a
discharge from Kiid Excciitoiship.
lt. 1!. A. ROBINSON j
U. P. LOW. J ijX
Jan 28, 1SS? 2!) 5
FAIR NOTICE.
rpiIOSK knowing ilit'insclwsindebted to
-L J. A. Daniels, cither by Note or
Account, will find it to their interest to
settle with J. C. WJIITFIELD, Esq., AT
ONCE.
.1. A. DANIELS.
Jan 14, 1880 27 _3_
" PARKER'S
HAIR BALSAM
tliu po|H:lar favorlto for drcsrlnf?
tho hair, ReatorltiK color when
urn?, nn?l preventing l>nnclrtitr.
It clCflHKua tin1 fcnlp, nlo|is tho
ludr folJinr. and l.s euro to please,
Utt. raA II ri:?. ot DtnriiU.
COTTON
SEED
MEAL
FERTILIZER.
"THE GENEROSTEE,"
Manufactured by the Anderson Oil and
Fertilizer Co.
Patronize Home Production, es?
pecially when for less money
you can get bettor Goods.
THIS superior highgrudc Amnioniatod
Fertilizer conies to the front this season,
I and modestly, yet confidently, claims to he
the best of all."
It was used last season by a large num?
ber of our farmers, and gave the very
highest satisfaction, as evidonced by the
certificates given below, which we ask you
to read.
This season, by procuring superior in?
gredients, we have raised its standard
abovo what it was last season, and now
offer our farmers a Fertilizer that excels
any they can buy.
TESTIMONIALS.
Anderson, S. C, Sept., 1S35.
The Gcnerostee Fertilizer used by us last
season gave entire satisfaction, and we don't
intend to use any other as long as we can
get it.
JAMES W. ASHLEY.
T. T. WAKEFIELD.
J. W. FERGUSON.
Anderso?.*, S. C, Sept., 1886.
The Gencrostoc Guano used by us give
entire satisfaction, and we think has paid
us better than any Guano we ever used,
and we intend using it hereafter.
R. S. Shaw. T. W. Sciglcr.
Jeptha Harper. H. II. Gray.
J. T. Seiglcr. T. E. Guy ton.
Win. Ransom. P. K. Norris
J. W. Hall. J. H. Little.
W. T. McGregor. E. D. Wakeficld.
J. T. Hanna. C. C. Simpson.
ANnnnsoN, S. C., Jan., 20, 18S0.
We used some Cotton Seed Meal Guano
last season, and were well pleased with it.
JOSHUA JAMISON.
J. A. GRAY.
Anderson, S. C, Jan. 20,18SG.
I used the Generostee Guano, with other
Commercial r-rtilizers last year, and con?
sider it best of them all
D. S. WATSON.
For Sale hy Anderson Dealers.
Jan 28, 188G_29_
INPROVED
PATENT 0H?RN.
THE undersigned having the Right for
Camp Bros'. Enterprise
Churn I'owcr in Anderson and Oconec
Counties, offers the same to the citizens of
these Counties. It is considered by those
who use it the best Churn offered to tno
public. Messrs. J. A. James and W. A.
Bowen are my authorized canvassing
agents. For further particulars call on or
write to the undersigned.
W. T. JAMES,
Richland, S. C.
Jan 28, 1830 20 7
LAW CARD.
HA VING again settled in Anderson, S.
C, for the Practice of Law, I offer my
professional services to the people of this
and surrounding Comities. All business
en (rusted to my care shall receive prompt
attention. Office?Over Book Store, with
School Commissioner.
COLUMBUS WARDLAW,
Attorney at Law.
Jan 7, 1S8G 2G
NOTICE FINAL SETTLEENT.
The undersigned. Administrators of
the Estate of Wylie Mitchell, dee'd, here?
by give notice that they will apply to the
Judge of Probato for Anderson County, on
the 25th of February, 1880, for a Final Set?
tlement of said Estate and discharge from
their office as Administrators.
J. MATT. COOLEY. ] . . ,
MARTHA J. MITCHELL, J Adm n
Jan 21, 188? 28 ?
LIST OF TRUSTEES.
AT a meeting of the Board of Examin?
ers, the following persons were ap?
pointed School Trustees in their respective
Districts:
Pork?W F M Fant, N 0 Farmer, II
11 Vandiver.
rcndleton?W H D Gaillard, W D Gar?
rison, R Burns.
Garvin?J W Rothrock, Mathias Rich?
ardson, J G Duckworth.
Brushy Creek?I W rickeiis-, J \V Rose
mond, John Stone.
Rock Mills?B F Shirley, Harvey Little,
C B Gilmer.
Centerville?J Belton Watson, W T Mc
Gill, Willet Prcvost.
Ilopcwcll-W A Noal, W R Cartec, L
W Gentry.
Williamston-T M Mahon, J W
Cryrues, S T Richardson.
Savannah?J H Raincy, L C Chamblce,
David Sadlor.
Varcnnes?A Hall, J C Haynic, John
Carlisle.
Broadaway?W King, J Shirley, A A
Carpenter.
Belton-J T Rice, J M Geer, J Cox.
Corner?Joseph D Sherard, John McCur
ry, R J Stowart.
Hall -W D Gray, II M Talc, W K Wal?
ters.
Martin?J A Cowan, [tobt. Fennel, W
Wright.
Honca Path?J J Trusscll, Marshal
Gaincs, M McGee.
Anderson?RR Todd, T M White, B F
Wilson.
J. G. CLINKSCALES,
School Commissioner Anderson, Co.
Jan 28, I860 29 1
Mi L. S1IABPE, M. I>. K. C- FRIEttSOK, M D.
MEDICAL CARD.
SHAKPE & FRIERSON.
THE undersigned having formed a part?
nership for the Practice of Medicine,
respectfully eher their professional services
to the people of Anderson and vicinity.
Prompt attention given to all professional
business entrusted to us. OMicc in Mc
Cully Building, on Main Street.
M. L. SHARPE,
E. C. FRIERSON.
Anderson, S. C, Jan. 11, 188(1. 27-3m
DON'T READ THIS.
WE are offering special inducements to
cash buyers just now. If you
need any
Gr oceries,
Confectionaries,
Canned Goods,
Tobacco,
Cigars, &C'
It will pay you to give us a call. Wo sell
honest goods, and guarantee satisfaction
to every customer. Try us one time.
GREEN ?fc W?LLING.
M?THEE/S FRIEND;'
MK& CHILD-BIRTH
The time has conic nt last when
the tcrrihle agony incident to this
very critical period in a woman's
life can be avoided. A distinguish?
ed physician, who passed the
groatest poition of her life (forty
four years) in Ih's branch of prac?
tice, left to child-bearing woman
thl3 priceless legacy and life-sat?
ing appliance, "THE MOTJIEKS'
FRIEND," and to-day there are
thousands of the best women in
our land who, having used this
wonderful rcmody before confine?
ment, rise up und call his name
blessed.
Wo can prov" all we claim for it
by living vcitnrMt*, and anyone in?
terested can call, or have their
husbands do so, at ouroflic, and
sec the original Inters, which wo
cannot publish.
This remedy is not wonderful liniment to be
used after the first two or Ihreo months.
Heud for our treatise on the Health and Happi?
ness of Woman, mailed free, which gives all par
ticulnrs.
The Bkadkiklu Kkuvlator Co.,
Imx '28, Atlanta Ga.
For sale by WILlllTK A WILUITE, Anderson,
ti. C. (-1)
B. F. CRAYTOfM * SONS
NOT OUT OF BUSINESS.
We have made arrangements to sell for this season
THE GENEROSTEE FERTILIZER,
Made by the ANDERSON GIL MILL. It is the same goods as made and sold by
uslast season, only of a higher grade. Also,
B. F. Crayton & Sons Ammoniated Guano,
? AND -
ACID PHOSPHATE.
They need no recommendation.
We keep in Store a first class Stock of
Groceries and Provisions,
Which we will sell for Cash at the lowest prices.
Office at No. I Main St., between the Bank and Post Office.
Jan 28,1885 29
GREAT CLEARING OUT SALE!
W. A.. aBIA.F^IA.Isr.
IN consequence of the lateness of the season, we have determined to rapidly
reduce our large Stock, consisting of?
Dry Goods, Notions, Shoes, Hats and Clothing.
In order to make room for cur immense Stock of
Spring and Summer Goods.
To effect our purpose we have made Large Reductions in our [prices, offering
many Goods?
Regardless of Cost of Production,
And invite the public generally to see the?
GREAT BARGAINS.
W. A. CHAPMAN.
Jan 28, 188G _29_ ly
1 8 ?3 ^3 _
January AN,J Kefoini; try.
ONE more year has rolled hy, and when wo lo>k back mid Hilm up tint tremen?
dous trade bestowed on in by our friend?* mid ciislonier-i hint Mil I, wo feel
grateful, and would like to show our gratitude in some way. So iww is ymi clinnca
to get?
10 Founds Very Best Coffee at 81.00.
Wc have been buying hy the 20 Sacks, now we gel it by the .'>(>, and if our sales
stiil increase, wc will get it in February by the 100 llngH.
Three Car Loads of Flour.
One Car Load of Moat,
One Car Load Corn,
And other Groceries in proportion. Bought in large quantities, enables us to sell j
as low as any.
The Best Brands Guanos and Acid on hand,
And as low as any Standard Guam s can be sold.
Our "Mary Jane Coffee" is still sold under a guarantee if mil the very best,
money cheerfully refunded, with interest on .tame.
TAYLOR & VANWYCK,
DEPOT STREET.
Jan 28, 18SI5 2!)
LOOMINC UP!
AFTER the "Z?roic Blizzard" that has prevailed here for nearly a month, and
with the return of sunshine and thaw, I am reminded by the "lookers
arouud" that there is "life in the old land yet," and with
A Heavy Stock of the Substantials of Life,
Am prepared to compete with the lowest.
250 BBLS. FRESH GROUND FLOUR, all trades,
CAR LOAD N. O. MOLASSES, all grade-?.
LARGE LOT OF BACON SIDES.
LARGE LOT OF MAGNOLIA HAMS,
COFFEE, SUGAR, STEEL PLOWS, &c.
BIG STOCK, STABLE DRY GOODS and NOTIONS,
Complete line MenV, Boys' and Ladies' SHOES.
GKiaiios and A.cicls.
Now don't buy until you price my Goods, for I am bottom when "ghtglc of the j
cash" is heard, no matter if it be Silver, which is now rated at a discount.
J. ?J. BAKEIy, Benson House.
Jan 21,18*rr" 2? I
WHEN YOU HEAR
THE WHISTLE BLOW
Look Out for the Train Loaded with
FLOUR
FOR
BUCKLEY,
BROWN & FRETWELL,
WHO bave udw on the road and arriving a large lot of FLOUR in Sacka and
Barrels, bought from a manufacturer to close out; and having obtained a splendid
bargain in it, wc propose to give you the benefit of it and sell it for?
84.50 per Barrel, worth $5.00.
We know this Flour will go like hot cakes, and we advise you to get your supply
before it is all sold. We keep all other kinds of Flour in stock, and can please the
the most fastidious.
SUGARS, JAVA and RIO COFFEES, grceu and parched ; MACKERELL,
LARD, CANNED FRUITS?in fact, everything kept in a first-class Grocery
Store, at prices that can't be beat.
Our .'15 cent TOBACCO, bright and beautiful goods, is a splendid tough chew,
and dirt cheap for the money.
A large line of PLOWSHARES, bought before the advance per Car load, all
kinds and sizes. Our Single ami Double Foot Iron Plow Stocks, made by Stapler,
deserve special attention. They have given good satisfaction, being light and du?
rable, aud not liable to get out of order. The Double Foot Stock has two parallel
beams, which is much preferred to the pigeon toe beam.
HARDWARE is another specialty with us, and to complete our assortment
we have bought a handsome line of Shelf Goods, which will arrive shortly.
A full line of WAGON and BUGGY HARNESS, SADDLERY and TRACE
CHAINS kept constantly on hand for sale at very reasonable prices.
Our Dry Goods Department.
In our former advertisement we have already advised you of the change made
in this Department, occupying now the Storeroom ue'it to our old stand for this
purpose, having the two largo commodious rooms connected by a wide passage.
Our customer;!, especially the Lidies, find this change very convenient, and we
intend to keep for sale in this Department EVERYTHING a Lady may need in
the way of DRESS GOODS, MILLINERY, FANCY GOODS'and LADIES'
FURNISHING GOODS generally. We employ a competent corps of Salesmen
solely for this Department, who by polite attention, we are sure, will please.
We are overstocked in SHOES, and in order to reduce our stock, offer for the
uext sixty days our $3.00 Custom made Shoe at !?2.50, and similar reductions in
other styles.
Blankets for #2.75, worth $3.50, as we don't want to carry them over to next
season.
We wish to reduce all our lines, so as to make room for our Spring Stock of
Goods, and have now many bargains to offer in every Department.
SHAWLS at your own price.
Wando Fertilizer, Acid and Kainit.
We offer for sale this Celebrated Brand of Guauo for Cash or Cottou Option,
and beg that you will call in and see us before you purchase, as we can and will
make it to your interest to buy your supply of Guano from us. We cannot tell you
what we want to say in this advertisement, but if you call in when you want to buy
we will tell you all about this Guano business. We can also sell you the Andersou
Oil Mill Fertilizers.
Tennessee and StudebakeT Wagons,
Carriages and Buggies.
#3*f ? Agents f jr Coats' Spool Cotton, Hazard Powder Company, Shirtings and
Drilliogs.
BLECKLEY, BKOWN & FRETWELL.
Jan 28,1886_29_
HERE WE ARE!
And we wish you all a Prosperous and Happy New Tear!
Wc Still have the Lur<rcst StoeTt of
CARRIAGES. PHOTS. BUGGIES AND WAGONS,
In the City, which we will bo pleased to Show and Price.
BEFORE you purchase anYthing in our line ask about the OLD RELIABLE REED
it STEPHENS VEHICLE?*?the only work in the State guaranteed for two
years. Call and wo us.
REED & STEPHENS,
Main Street, Between the University and Court House.
Jan .21, ISS i_2S_ly
K. A. MAYFIELD. J. J. STUART. A. W. TODD.
BE SURE AND SEE
ZJVC^^IFIIELXD &c GO.
Before you buy your Building Material,
Decide on your Plans for Building,
Or let out your Contracts.
I rpHEY will furnish you with PLANS and SPECIFICATIONS and guarantee prices
I X and work. Up with the times.
MAYFIELD ?Ste CO. *
?58- Mill and Lumber at Blue Ridge Yard.
Jan 7, 1881? _ ?G 3m.
GAB LOAD
Jan I I, ISStl 27
When You come to Town it will Pay You to Call at
CUillfOAIlfl, FOWLER & COOLEY,
AND seethe LAUGH STOCK OF GOODS in cverv Department, ami he surprised
nl the LOW PRICKS thev ask R?r them. Wchavea liirgu Stock of Goctb, and
intond In sell them.
Look at our hen titifid line of Dress Goods, Dry Go?uls, Jerseys, Shawls, &e. Sec.
Our stock of Ladies' and Gents;' Shoes is complete, and can be bought at prices tint
will astonish you.
We keep it full Stock of Groceries. A car of Flour just in. another to arrive. Can 1
sell you 10 lbs. line Coffee lor $1 00, and anvthing else you want can be bought at a
VERY short profit. If low prices, polite attention and bargains are what you want,
wc can suit you.
We sell 'the best Wagons and Buggies on the market , and in fact you can lind under
some of our roofs anything you may want.
CUNNINGHAM, FOWLER & COOLEY.
N. 11.?Wo say to those who owe us, COME AND PAY US. We are obliged to
push collections, and must have our money. A hint to the wise is sufllcient.
CUNNINGHAM, FOWLER ec COOLEY.
Jan 2t, ISSfi 20
HJ g 2
?EMOVAL.
DAVID DOOLEY bas moved from De?
pot Street to Shops in front of Coun?
ty Jail, where he and Quince Leverett are
conducting a first-class Blacksmith Shop.
David Dooley makes a specialty of Horse
Shoeing. lie 1 is worked eight years un?
der Mr. David White, who recommends
him as the best Shocr in the County.
Quincy Leverett makes a specialty of Re?
pairing, and will give satisfaction.
DAVID DOOLEY,
QUINCY LEVERETT.
Jan 8,1885_26_3m
ORR & SLOAN,
Keep always on hand a
LARGE STOCK
Of the Purest and Best
Drugs,
Medicines,
AND
Fancy Articles.
The Largcat and Freshrst Stock of
FIELD,
GARDEN,
AND
FLOWER SEED,
FOR SALE CHEAP.
Jan 14,18S6 27
DISSOLUTION.
rpiIE Firm of Rico, Geer & Co. is this
X day dissolved by* mutual consent
All parties indebted to said Firm by Note
or Account for Guano or Merchandise are
hereby notified to make payment to J. M.
Geer & Co. on or by February 15, 1886.
All claims not settled or satisfied for by
that time will be placed in the hands of an
Officer for collection. E. B. RICE,
J. M. GEER,
J. T. RICE,
B. D. DEAN.
Jan. 1, 18SG. -
COPARTNERSHIP.
Having purchased the entire Stock of
Rice, Geer <fc Co., we will continue a Gen?
eral Merchandise Business under the Firm
name of J. M. GEER dc CO.
J. M. GEER,
B. D. DEAN,
D. AARON GEER.
Jan 1. l.SSG 28 2*
DON'T READ THIS.
-0
HAVING purchased the Stock of Goods
of M r. M. Kennedy, on Brick Range,
I desire to inform my old friends and cus?
tomers that I am located at his old Stand,
and am prepared to serve them with a
choice stock of?
Family and Fancy Groceries,
Canned Goods, Tobacco,
Cigars, Fruits, &c,
At prices that defy competition. Give me
a trial. Nothing but the best and purest
Goods kept in stock. Satisfaction guaran?
teed in every instance. Respectfully,
E. Li. CATER.
Dec 10, 1835_22_
PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
Snooi, Commissioner's Offick,
Andkhsos, S. C Jan. 20, 1SSG.
THE Superintendent of Education sends
us a copy of an Act passed by the
Legislature authorizing the School Com?
missioners to apportion aaiong the School
Districts the amount reported by the Au?
ditors for the year 1SS4-W
The Public Schools of Anderson County
will therefore open on FEBRUARY 1,
1SSG.
J. G. CLINKSCALES,
School Commissioner.
Jan 21, 18S? as_2_
Notice of Partnership.
T\TE, the undersigned, have this day
YV formed a partnership to transact
the General Merchandise business, also a
Livery, Feed and Sale Stable and Beef
Market, under the Firm name of CUN?
NINGHAM, FOWLER ?. COOLEY, at
the same stand.
All indebtedness to Cunningham & Fow?
ler, by Notes. Accounts, or otherwise, is in
the hands of the new Firm for collection,
and must be paid at once. Come and
make seme arrangements, as the old Books
must be closed.
To the many customers of the old firm,
we say >;ive us* a continuance of your kind
patronage, und we guarantee that you will
be satisfied with our dealings with vou.
J. (i. CUNNINGHAM,
J. S. FOWLER,
BAYLIS COOLEY.
Anderson, S. C, Jan. 1, IS8?. 28-2
MRS. McSMITH
JS now prepared to receive a few more
PAINTING SCHOLARS
In The Rapid Art, which has given
such perfect satisfaction.
PIAIVOS
a.vn
ORGANS
Always o.; band. Term easy?time or
cash?at
MRS. McSMITH'S.
Oct S, 1885 13
TO RENT !
rpiIE HOUSE AND LOT formerly oc
X copied by Capt John E. Allen.
ALSO,
The HOUSE and LOT West of and adjoin?
ing the above. Both on University Hill.
For term-, apply to W. W. Humphreys or
the undersigned.
AMANDA J. ALLEN.
Jan 21,1?SG 28