The Anderson intelligencer. (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, January 31, 1889, Image 3
^B?pDKZdBHE? ?KES? THURSDAY.
?^>C. C.JLANGSTON, . j : iPeopbietobs.
: THURSDAY, JAN. 31, 18?9.
Tne-'DoibAm jCotton Manufacturing
"^CtfmjjshytbfDurham, N. C., has paid 12
_;-per cant for the past year?two semi-an
^^^l|alvidend? of 6 per cent. Cotton
^^^^wturing generally was profitable
. iii the South last year .
;:;TnoAtlanta (^hsi^uiwn says the;lead
^g},JSodthern Republicans are how com
l^^^O froht. There are great droves
t;!ffiem?so many, in fact, that if all
iad-vbte'dforHarrison, it would not bave
an^necessa'ry' "for him to carry New
fork.. - ' ?
^^SA^gnj^a.?? Ghrw?c? says last year
i68?,00tt^re invested in the South
lumg^nd manufacturing enterprises.
o.b?ls; of this vast sum was Northern
oney; The large investments in 1888
^b^more thaja duplicated in. 1889 and
101succeeding.; year.
dtcj^ J.7Takahiihe, the Commissioner of
iicwtu^
I&se$;with the^South Carolina Exhibit
^we-;New v0rleahs;;rExpoaition7' has
^Arrangements to have shipped
"vt?'rock from: South Carolina to
-? .und bring 'in "return -fish' scrap,
" Jis used in manufacturing ammoni
^^Vtijlizera. '
^I'here was ? meeting of theRepublican
^te^Sseeutivei Committee in. Columbia
, few? days ago; : They decided torecom
ren&; ?6 - the proper?:.aathoritieathe.
f?talent of,Gen. .W to the
jjpJjfo&v of TostmaaterfGeneral-' in Mr.
* * }n'a cabinet. Mr. E. M. Brayton
^..t;re<roj^ended:;lbr the position of sec
^l^fetantsecretary of-the treasury;
>y iex-Gov. H. S; Thompson^
lendations were made by the,
ijtteenfor;the appointments to the
ifc^i^r^;nffice8i;.'. ??
^htbony Higgins, the newly elected
^public?n Senator from Delaware, the
S|t|f?'publican'e
jmihatS
by-G^tHarrison, and it is said
p^ilt^ieU mucb infinence with the
j w administration, being a close person
-id of tb3 President elect. He 'is
jwMtempting to v have; Gen.-James
riJson; of Wilmingtqn,. Del., made
lewetiL^y of war; Wilson is said to-be
4ie; cavalry officer who captured Jefferson
3ftVis^abbut the only recommendations |
ifvssenis to have.
^?many;'fav.89id..'.to. be anxious for a
|-,^th thoifnited States'. She regards
iple as.insighificant in. a military
J8i;de.voted to trade and the develop
ijp?f their, unsettled territories, and
heir interference with the German colon?
ial policy in;far off Samoa is considered
jry^impertinent. The officers of the
navy are very willing to have a
(t?e racket with our war ships,' and they
'"-J-not think that the result would be
jriousjy felt, by; their side. . Germany
? some well equipped ships, but .their, j
r^s have not much reputation for sea
iuship^'., A trial ofjatrength between j
;theniayiea of the two countries would be
fl^^fi^'jpi?festing.
i^hosq' nearest the' President-elect, say.
'jafr.he.wiil make a clean sweep of all
?emocrati"'uo'w- holding Federal .offices,
governor Foraker, who-is.well known as
j^s^poi^nian, after a long conference with
jfeaejsl^^nson.- said to 'his friends
^ereris one thing that you may rest
^^i^few^publi?u.V," Gen. Lew
i-who'fcA.coDfiden to
^iiC^^TL.s&js'at the.first Cabinet
^?ng'.the Preadent^will/say: "Gen
:i^eai^ you here not for
^j^sufta?pn^ My in
^'^??njB'.?e^ihafe; you. go .back to your
^ ^^d;Wi^tbin th?ty days'replace all |
ig^momj^;in your departments ? witb
ipublicans.":.
New^ the
snt. coUbnYcrop at.7,500,000 bales.
Ilplgif^Augusta .C?r^icfe^ th^ks the esti
^ih^^o^largq^d In speakingof it says:
^Sugusta ranks as the second'inland.cot
^market inlthe^ and
>tton manufacturing. uT'the .principal
sines3.of :ae; ci^ ' The cotton mer
^ts are as well posted ?s'in any inland
outhern city. A thorongb. canvass
aqng-.thexa yesterday, on-'the:' published
p^eport .that this yearns crop may reach
pswen and a half million bales results in the
f ^unanimoas -opinion that this is an over
^^M^te. -The present crop is now four
^bundrsd .thoM bales7 short in round
in?mbers. Last year's crop" wjis seven
aillion bales, and a continued gain of
yenty-five per cent, will be necessary to
itch ,. up with last year's figures. Au
sta; cotton^ men regard Beyen million
ia 'aa.the outside figure on the*year*s
^Since the meetifig of the Presidential
ra in Washington says a Washing?
ton dispatcb President elect Harrison has
hplished something in the way of for
ng ideas as to the make up of his
?Jabinet;'He has come to the conclusion
that it would be unwise to take any man
^^?a: the Sanate, and points to the fact
that President Cleveland in calling three
Seniors to .Cabinet positions weakened
Jbls^arfy representation in the upper
House of Congress to such an extent that
he labored under great disadvantages
om; the .very outset to the present time.
s:dent Harrison does not want to give
the treasury portfolio to-New York, and
he were inclined to tender a position
his Cabinet to his own State it would
that one to Col. John C. New, who
given , him to understand that he
(either : expects nor desires a Cabinet
ilace. ^ If New York's demands and com?
plications were settled the Cabinet could
; ;-be filled within twenty-four hours at any
time'now/although no man has been se?
lected- or given the slightest intimation
||that ije will be offered a plac6 in the
Cabinet. - There are to be no positions in
the Cabinet tendered, under four or five
\weeks; and then they will all be extended
|$?men desired, and at one time. Mr.
ill be one of the chosen few.
be no doubt now of that, bar
^ng:iac.eldent8, incidents, and unnatural
cbanges . of ; mind. Mr. Wanamaker is
aaotber who will have a position tendered
?&im.';-:' Jn3t at this time neither Platt nor
,Mij]er is on the slate, and, unless there is
::a : consolidation on one or the other,
neither will be chosen. If the: bill ere
ating a department out of the bureau of
agriculture becomes alaw ex Gov. Rusk,of
.Wisconsin, will likely1 be aiked to take
that place. .
TBE SPLENDID SOUTH.
An English Newspaper's Enthusiastic) Ee
vlow.
From the London Telegraplu
This is the time of year when statis?
tics find favor, and there are few quar?
ters ?f the globe in-which the* prospects
of thejuture appear more favorable than
in those 'Southern States of America
Which once seemed so hopelessly beaten
in war and broken in resources. "No
such advance in wealth," writes Mr. G.
W. Curtis, the editor of "Harper's Maga?
zine," "has ever be*- made in any other
part of the American union as that re?
corded by the Sontheim States between
1880. and 1888." In 1880, the fifteen
years which had intervened since 1865,
when the great rebellion under Mr. Jef?
ferson Davis collapsed, had not sufficed
to restore prosperity to one of the most
richly endowed countries on the face of
the globe. It-wasin that year, ho wever,
that the rehabilitation of "Secessia"
began. we may now perceive, in earnest,
asisshown by the remarkable fact that
the Southern railroads covered about
17,000 miles, in.1880, and about"? 86,000
in 1888. Still more notable has been the
growth of iron manufacturer in Alabama,
Georgia, Virginia, Tennessee and -Ken
{facky,'and of their collective products
since i880, in which year they turned,
out 200,000 tons of pig iron, against about
a million in 1888. Last year there was
a decrease in the total yield of the blast
furnaces of thei United/. States, but that
decrease was confined to the North, and
did not extend to the south of the Poto?
mac and Ohio fivers. Alabama and
Tennessee continued to advance while
Pennsylvania fell back; and the prosper?
ity of those two iron-producing States of
the South now is wholly outstripping
their Northern sidiferous rivals, ? More?
over, the iron of the "Warrior Fields" of
Alabama is said tabs not only the best
'but the cheapest in the world. Turning
next to cotton, which many prophets of
woe declared could only. be:?rown, by
slave labor, we 'find, that nearly seven
million bales of that great staple were
produced in 1888) against ?.?OO.OOO in
1880. The, persevering Southerner has
discovered, moreover, that it is. more
profitable to turn his cotton into yarn,
and to export it to Europe, than to Bend
it 'raw and packed in Dales, The result
is that there are now 300 cotton mills in
tie Southern States, against about half
that number in .1880 ;jvjand ^ already the
.looms of Georgia, Alabama, South .Caro?
lina; North Carolina and Virginia are
threatening the New England States' and .
lowering prices in Lawrence and Lowell,
Mass., and Providence, R. I. Fourthly,
the lumber trade es tab Iishments of the
.South'at present employ about" 100,000.
hands, and turned out last year planks.
and sawn timber worth nearly ?20,000,-"
000 sterling. Finally, the value of South?
ern live stock has increased to the extent
of ?40,000,000in the last eight years,
while her agriculture has made a corres?
ponding advance.
These really astonishing figures, and
many more of the same kind, are sum?
med up by aTrans-Atlantic journal, the
New Orleans Democrat, with" the stale
ment that in eight. years the available
capital of the Southern States has in?
creased by ?50,000,000, and their gross
wealth by more than ?200,000,000 ster?
ling, All this has happened in a country
one single State of which?Texas?pos?
sesses an area larger than that of France
and Spain combined?a State which could,
if as thickly populated as Great Britian,
support 70,000,000 human beings. Bear-,
ing these figures in mind, we can easily
estimate the magnificent, prospects of
the Southern States of the American
Union when it is. mentioned that on
the 1st of July last there were fewer
tha5 20,000,000 inhabitants in the whole
of SeceBsia, three-fifths of whom were
whites and two-fifths blacks. Moreover,
the climate is equally delightful and
salubrious, especially to those who in
July and August?the only two incon?
veniently hot months?can afford to
retire to the mountains which overhang
the States of Mississippi, Alabama, Geor?
gia, South and North Carolina, Virginia
and Tennessee. Once, indeed, in twenty
years or so, the yellow fever appears at
some little town, where laws of sanitation
have been outrageously neglected, and
produces fright altogether out of pro?
portion to the mortality which it causes.
Lastsummer and autumn, for instance,
a visitation overtook Jacksonville, in
Florida, and telegrams were scattered
all over the United States and cabled to
Europe, proclaiming the '* ravages" of a
pestilence which in five months pot four
hundred persons to "death?leas than the
number of victims killed by consumption
in this Metropolis every two months.
More than a quarter of a century, ago
the still living Benjamin F. Butler, of
Massachusetts, showed the inhabitants of
New Orleans, whom he ruled with a rod
of iron as Military Governor, that clean?
liness and yellow fever stand to each
other in the relation of alkali and acid.
Last winter the whole area of the North?
ern States was desolated with a worse
scourge than "Yellow Jack"?those
"blizzards" in which hundreds of human
beings perished and hecatombs of hogs
were frozen to death on their road from
the'west to New York, For the greater
portion of the year the climate of the
Southern States is as soft as that of the
Tyrol. When Mr. Cleveland and his
young wife made a brief Southern trip,
after enduring the hardships of an unusu*
ally severe winter in Washington, the
President is said to have expressed aston?
ishment that wealthy American should
think it necessary to - cross the
Atlantic and take up their abode on the
shores of the Mediterranean, when their
own country offers a finer climate, and
the Gulf of Mexico more attractive scen?
ery even than the Bay of Naples.
At this moment Mr. Jefferson Davis is
passing his mild decline in the extreme
South of the State of Mississippi in a
house called Beauvior?bequeathed to
him in 1879 by Mrs. Dorsey?an entire
stranger in blood?which looks out upon
the Gulf of Mexico, and is described by
its fortunate owner as "the most delight?
ful spot on earth." If any Englishman
desires to have the horoscope of the
"New South" and of its prospects drawn
for him by a competent hand, he would
[ do well to follow the example of Lord
: Roseberry, and seek out the ex-President
of the Southern Confederacy in his Mis?
sissippi home.
Lord Dunraven is another traveled
authority who has declared, in a lecture
"On the Making of America," delivered
lately at Walsall, that the future of the
I great republic depends chiefly on those
States which, between 1861 and 1865,
were in rebellion against-the Washington
government. Nothing, indeed, humanly
speaking, can. arrest their progress now
that their inhabitants are released from
the exhaustion of slavery?the costliest
system of labor in the world?and have
found in free and fairly paid toil the
blessing that it always brings. Little
more than twenty years since the South?
erners, with half their adult male popu?
lation wiped out, with their slaves made
their equal, and more than the equals of
those who had formerly owned them, with
corrupt "carpet-baggers" from the North
preying on their vitals: and without
capital of their own, were in the lowest
stage of despair. Strange, indeed, is
the transformation that two brief decades
have brought about. Already the most
enlightened and far sighted manufactur?
ers of New England, Pennsylvania and
New York State are beginning to perceive
that Alabama, Georgia, the Caroli?
nas and Tennessee contain resources of
coal, iron, cotton, lumber, turpentine,
naval stores and a hnndred other products
which even the rich North cannot paral?
lel; and that jthe climate of the North
and Northwestern States can never pos?
sess. All that is now wanting?and it
was clearly pointed out five years since by
the late Mr. Benjamin, Q. 0.?is a good,
deepwater port through which the cotton
States can send their rich products to sea
I in swift and large vessels, such as ply
at present between New York and Liver?
pool.
Was it all a Dream.
From the Manning (& C. ) Times.
I Our readers remember a short notice in
the Times, some weeks ago, where the
sudden and unaccountable disappearance
of Dr. W. H. Reynolds was noted; and a
week or two later another notice that
Dr. Reynolds had returned. We were
unable until last Saturday to get a correct
account of the affair, and as Dr. Reynolds
is widely known throughout the county>
we publish it so that his friends may
have a correct version of the affair.
; Dr. Reynolds for several weeks had
been drinking very hard, until it finally
affected his braiu. On Saturday night,
December 15, while laboring under this
. mental aberration, he left his home, not
conscious of what he was doing. He has
no recollection of when he left home; or
how or When he got to a railroad station,
nor could any of his family, by the moat
diligent search, find out where he had
taken the train. And this is wrapped in
mystery. .He has no recollection of how
much money he had with him when he
.left, but it is thought he had about seven*
enty-five or a hundred dollars. When
he came to himself he was in the city of
Nashville, Tenn. From. this place he
wrote a letter to his family, which was
duly received. He here became ac?
quainted with some gentleman, influential
in a large. Northwestern railroad syndi?
cate, .. who kindly, presented him a free
pass over most of the Northwestern rail?
roads. When he left Nashville he does
not remember, but in this same state of
mind^visited Cincinnati, St. Paul, St.
Louis and other Western cities. .
At Cincinnati he got a severe fall
which resulted in concussion of the spine.
He thinks there, was a heavy sleet at the
time, and that in getting off the train he
slipped, and fell.on a stone. At St.
Louis he was enabled once again to regain
his normal state of mind, probably owing
to the severe pain he was suffering; or
probably because nature would no longer
submit to such a terrible ordeal. He
had frequently, in his wild career, written
to' his family, the letters being duly
received and answered, but the answers
never reached him, as he did not wait for
a reply. At St. Louis he met kind
friends among strangers, who took him in
charge, furnished him with money, put
him on a Pullman palace car, and started
him homeward, where he safely arrived
about two months ago, having been ab?
sent about three weeks. His family and
friends were delighted to welcome him
again; and Dr. Reynolds himself was
probably the most rejoiced of all to be
again safely restored to his loved ones
after so perilous and remarkable a trip.
His suffering is severe, but it is hoped he
will soon be well again, coming and going
among us.
After bis sudden leaving the wildest
and vaguest rumors were repeated for
facts, and it would take the entire six
page edition of the Times to hold the half
of them. Sufficeth for it to be said, and
on the beat< of authority, that excessive
drinking was the sole cause of his going.
Any rumors as to financial embarassment,
or as to unpleasant social and family
troubles, are denied by those who know
best Dr. Reynolds, his wife and children
form, we are reliably told, a most loving
and affectionate family, with not the
shadow of a skeleton lurking in any se?
cret closet
Do such temporary mental aberrations
occur often ? Yes. Whiskey is the
greatest curse on the face of the globe,
and is the fountain head of three- fourths
of all sin, misery, damnation. A few
months ago we met in Laurens a gentle?
man who had jnst returned from Califor?
nia. He related to us his experience,
which was so similar to Dr. Reynold's
that they almost coincide. He had been
drinking a long time, left suddenly, and
came to himself as he was crossing the
Missippi River, at St. Louis. With such
cases whiskey generally has little effect,
on the muscular or nervous system, but
affects the brain. Such men may be, to
use an uncouth expression, fool drunk,
even crazy drunk, and 'yet walk perfectly
straight without the slightest swagger.
Unless one is well acquainted with such
a person, it is difficult to tell when he is
drunk. Dr. Reynolds is thus constitu?
ted.
Senator Vance's Affliction,
Washington, D. C, Jan. 28?Senator
Vance to day had one of his eyes removed.
He commenced to lose the sight of the
eye more than a year ago, and it has
grown worse until recently when he en?
tirely lost the sight of it. The physicians
have never been able to ascertain the
direct cause of the affliction, whick took
the form of a separation of the retina from
the ball of the eye. The operation was
successfully performed at the Senator's
residence in this city, and in answer
to a note from Senator Ransom, Mr.
Vance's son says his father is resting
comfortably and that all danger is
past.
? Over twenty men from Iowa, Ne?
braska and other Northwestern States
arrived in Montgomery, Ala., a few days
ago, having purchased farms in that
State. Tbey will make their homes in
Alabama, having become disgusted with
the blizzards of the Northwest. All are
men of means, and they represent tbsfc
thay are the advance guard of hundreds
of other men from that section who will
purchase homes in the South,
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
Atlanta, Jan. 26.?In Oglethorpe
yesterday, four small children who were
left in a house by Mary Porter, colored,
while she went to work, were burned to
death.
Atlanta, Jan. 23.?This morning
about 10 o'clock, Jim McCool, a railroad
conductor, hung himself at his home, four
miles from Atlanta. He was on the bond
of Tax Collector Wilson, and his mind
was deranged by the loss caused by Wil?
son's shortage.
Aiken, January 25.?Nathan Boddie
shot and killed J. A. Gunter on Boddie's
farm, about six miles northeast from
Aiken, this morning, with a shotgun.'
This was the result of an old quarrel
about a right-of-way over the former's
land. Gunter went to open a road closed
by Boddie, and took a gun with him.
Boddie came to stop him, and also brought
a gun. Boddie came into Aiken immedi?
ately after the shooting and gave himself
up to the sheriff. Gunter leaves a wife
and one child. Both parties are well
known and highly respected in the coun?
ty
Philadelphia, Jan, 23.?Past Assis?
tant Surgeon W. G. G. Wilson was, this
morning, found dead in bed on the re?
cruiting Bhip St. Louis, at League Island
navy yard. Dr. Wilson's body was found
by a servant who went to wake him. On
the dressing case there was a bottle
labelled chloral. He was not known to
have been in the habit of taking the
drug, and whether he took it to quiet his
nerves or with suicidal intent is not
known. He had suffered greatly from
insomnia, and had been taking bromide.
Early last evening he procured a bottle
of chloral, containing 250 grains, from
the ship's store room, and when discov?
ered this morning in his state room the
vial contained about 85 grains of the
drug.
?: Geeenytlle, January 28.?The party
of revenue officers who left here for a raid
into the moonshine section of the moun?
tains on Tuesday morning, returned to?
day, after a stirring trip. They destroy?
ed a large still on Panther Mountain
Tuesday, and afterward, as the posse was
entering another still discovered on Pruitt
Mountain, they were fired on by a large
party of moonshiners in ambuscade. The
fire proved harmless and was not returned.
Later the posse was shot at from ambus?
cade while on the way home this morn?
ing, and officer Hightower wounded in
the knee. The officers charged the ene?
my and captured one man named How?
ard. The Btory brings back visions of
Redmond's palmy days in the moonshine
regions.
; Albany, Ga., January 23.?J. O.
Nelms, who left his wife at Birmingham,
went to Blakely and committed bigamy
by marrying a young country girl there,
Miss Mattie Gurr. He only lived with
her five days, when, tired of the new yoke,
he skipped. He has been arrested in
Alabama and was taken to Calhoun,
Gordon county and turned over to
Sheriff L. E. Black, of Early county.
To day his brother, F. M. NelmB, passed
through Albauy en route to Blakely, to
endeavor to secure his brother's release.
He said to the reporter that his brother
was a handsome, steady young fellow
until he married, and that matrimony
seemed to make him wild. He
says he will try to help him ? out of his
scrape this time, but if he continues mar?
rying he will not assist him again. .
Cincinnati, Jan. 22.?A duel in real
earnest took place on the stage of the
Standard Theatre last night between'
Running Deer, an Indian chief, and'Cap?
tain Jack Crawford, the scoot. The In?
dian was drunk and in the duel scene at?
tempted to kill Crawford. It was a hard
and terrible fight with, knives. Accord?
ing to the play Crawford should have
taken the knife from the redskin, who
is a Oomanche. Ho refused to give it up
and made some vicious lunges. After a
desperatejstruggle the scout got the upper
hand and pricked the Indian two or
three times in the side, with the threat
to kill him if he made any further hostile
demonstrations. After the play the In?
dian escaped, and the police are looking
for him, fearing that he may do some
harm.
Cincinnati, 0., Jan. 23.?The eight
p. m. south-bound express on the Cin?
cinnati Southern road was boarded by
robbers just beyond Ludlow last night.
The train had scarcely got beyond the
lights of Ludlow when a man heavily
masked knocked at the rear door of the
express car, and one of the messengers,
thinking it was the conductor or brake
man, opened the door. The fellow at
once made for the front door where a
vigorous pounding announced the pres?
ence of another person. Messenger
Henry Carroll aud his assistant made a
desperate fight and succeeded in dump?
ing the would-be robber off, and he rolled
down an embankment and disappeared.
The other robber seemed to realize that
something was wrong and his knocking
ceased. At the top of the grade the mes?
senger pulled the bell rope and stopped
the train, but the robber on the front
platform disappeared before he could be
caught. It is not known whether the
man thrown off was hurt or not. There
was a large sum of money on the train.
New Oeleans, January 23.?Samuel
Wakefield, Jr., colored, shot and killed
Jame3 W,. Trainor, his employer, in
New Iberia parish last evening, and
was in turn slain by a mob. During
the morning Trainor had occasion to
reprimand young Wakefield at the sash
factory. Last night the negro met
Trainor on the street and said he had
been insulted. He wanted satisfaction.
Trainor hit at the negro with his hand.
The negro dodged the blow, drew a pistol,
fired and fled. The shot inflicted a mor?
tal wound, Trainor dying in thirty min?
utes. Officers and citizens captured
Wakefield. Deputy Sheriff Mestyer,
with the assistance of Police Officer Patin,
started the prisoner for the jail. They
proceeded down the street and an im?
mense throng of people followed. The
officers fought with drawn weapons to
keep the mob back. Patin was knocked
down and Mestyer was struck down. A
single pistol explosion was heard, and
Wakefield fell dead not five feet from the
jail door..
Are the Jute Mills Doomed I
Columbus, Ga., Jan. 24.?There is a
rumor current among warehousemen that
an important deal has been made by
the Standard Oil Company, by which the
whole jute bagging industry of the coun?
try ia to be affected. It is stated that
stockholders of the Standard Oil Compa?
ny have purchased the patent process for
making pice btraw bagging, that they
will establish factories ail over the coun?
try wherever they have oil mills, and
that their bagging will enable them to
break down the jute mills,
L - An Extinct Yoloano.
,' Biemingham, Ala., Jan. 23.?What
is believed to be the crater of an extinct
. volcano has been discovered in Bed
Mountain, two miles from this city. For
some time the Ely ton land company has
been at work on a new system of water
works. Water will be brought from
Caheba river, twelve miles away, and a
tunnel 2,200 feet in length is being dug
under Bed mountain. Three hundred feet
from the west heading of the tunnel, and
two hundred feet below the surface of the
mountain, the workmen to-day struck an
immense opening, which has every ap?
pearance of being the crater of a long
extinct volcano. The opening is about
15 by 50 feet, and huge pieces of stone
thrown into this hollow, disappear and
cannot be heard to strike any bottom.
On the side of the opening there is a small
spring of hot water, which has a strong
smell- and taste of Bulphur. The en?
gineer in charge of the work says the rock
formation in and around this opening
clearly indicate that a volcano once ex?
isted there. The remarkable discovery
has excited no little interest,
Selling a Mule by the Found.
A sale of a mule by the pound was
made in Montgomery Saturday. Mr. A.
Behr had a fine young mule, 4 years old,
and it was for sale at $100 cash. Mr, N.
J. Bell offered to buy the mule, but he
couldn't see Mr. Behr's figures. Finally
Mr. Bell proposed to give Mr. Behr 12}
cents per pound for the mule, and Mr.
Behr accepted. This put the gentlemen
on a level, and each man was backing his
judgment on the matter of gross weight.
Mr. Behr thought the mule .would weigh
enough to run the figures up to his price,
but Mr. Bell was willing to take the
chances. The trade was closed accord?
ingly, and the mule was led around to
the nearest warehouse to be weighed
It tipped the scales at 670 pounds, and
Mr. Bell, got his mule for $83.75. It is
understood that it was the first time that
anybody ever got away with Mr. Behr in
a mule trade.?Montgomcry [Ala.) Adver?
tiser.
Treasure Trove
Philadelphia, Pa., Jan. 27.-?The
wreck of the famous clipper ship Merri
mac, which went down on the New Jersey
coast twenty-one years ago, has been dis?
covered near Townserid's Inlet by Somers
Paint wreckers, after years of search and
the expenditure of large sums of' money
by many different companies and private
individuals. The Merrimac was one of
the old-time liners, and cleared from
Liverpool in March, 1867, for Philadel?
phia, consigned to Peter Wright & Sons.
The cargo consists mostly of silver bars,
zinc and other metals which water does
not corrode. Its value is placed at $150,
000, and the wreckers will endeavor to
recover the metal next summer.
? An Indiana Court has decided tha'
unless a woman is pleased with her photo?
graphs she need not pay for them, no
matter if a dozen of her friends declare
that they "look just like her." She doesn't
want them to look that way They must
look better than she does.
? A bill has been introduced in the up?
per .house of the Kansas Legislature pro?
viding for a commission to superintend
the boring of four holes three hundred
feet deep, West of the sixth standard me?
ridian, in the central part of the State,
"to see what can be found." The cost is
not to exceed $25,000. The bill- will
probably be passed.
? The Legislature of Maine is deluged
with petitions in favor of granting the
municipal vote to the women of the
State. They are signed by people of
both sexes, many of them prominent citi?
zens, and the agitation on the subject is
vigorously, prosecuted. The advocates
of the new system point proudly to
the facts that women can now vote at
municipal elections in Kansas; that
they have the full right of suffrage in
Wyoming, and that they are entitled to
vote on school questions in fourteen
States. The latest reports from Maine
lead to the opinion that the petitioners for
municipal suffrage for the women of the
State have a good chance of success in
the Legislature.
?St.-Louis Globe-D
the opinion that nothing but his death
can prevent the nomination of Governor
Hill by the Democracy at the next Pres?
idential Convention.
?-The Chinese appear to be fast estab?
lishing themselves in business in many
of our eastern cities, as well as on the
Pacific coast. It is stated that there are
701 Chinese laundries in New York, 248
in Brooklyn aud 50 in Jersey.City?all
within a radius of twenty miles or less?
and that they give employment to nearly
ten thousand Chinamen.
? A special dispatch to the Philadel?
phia Ledger from West Point says:
"The race question has again caused
trouble at West Point. A cadet captain,
in assigning places in the mess hall, gave
a colored student a place at the table of
honor, to which his scholarship entitled
him. This made trouble, some of the
cadets thinking the distinction too great
for a colored student, and he was changed
to a lower table. This made still more
trouble. The lieutenant at whoso table,
the colored student was placed was so
angry over the change that he referred
to the captain's action in such terms that
the captain considered himself insulted,
and a bare fist fight followed, iu which
both the captain and lieutenant received
severe punishment. The West Point
color line is something apparently very
hard to obliterate.
Habitual Constipation
Any kidney and liver ills, depending on a
weak or inactive condition of tho kid neys,
liver, or bowels, are successfully and per?
manently cured only by the use of the
gentle yet effective laxative and diuretic
Syrup of Figs. Its advantages are evi?
dent ; it is easily taken, pleasing to the
taste, acceptable to the stomach, harm?
less to the most delicate ."/stem, and
truly beneficial in effect. For sale by
Simpson, Eeid & Co.
Williaimston High School.
SPRING Term opens Monday, Jan. 28tb.
Instruction by new methods in a thor?
ough and practical manner, Healthful
locality, comfortable buildings, patent desk
seating arrangements, and excellent mine?
ral water, insure good health. Terms low.
For information apply to
V. H. WATSON, Principal.
Jan 31,1889_30_2?
Attention, City Taxpayers I
THE Books of tho City Clerk and Treas?
urer will be open for the collection of
City Taxes, at the office of Breazeale &
Long, on the first day of February, and
close on the first day of March next, at
which time the penalty for non-payment
will be added. -
J. E. BREAZEALE,
City Clerk and Treasurer.
Jan 31, 1889 30 ._1
Fresh Garden Seeds.
JUST received an assortment of Lan
dii et ir & Sons' Garden Seed and Irish
Potatoes. My Seed are fresh, as we burn
all the seed left over from last season. :
Also, D. M. Ferry & Co.'s Garden Seed.
A. B. TOWERS.
Jan 30,1889 30
JOHN SAUL'S
WASHINGTON NURSERIES.
?UR Catalogue of NEW, RARE and
BEAUTIFUL PLANTS, .for 1889,
will bo ready in February. It contains list
of all the most Beautiful and Rare Green?
house and Hothouse Plants in cultivation,
as well as all Novelties of merit, well
grown and at very low prices.- Every
plant lover should have a copy.
ORCHIDS.?A very large stock of choice
East Indian, American, etc. Also, cata?
logues of Roses, Orchids, Seeds, Trees, etc.
All free to applicants.
JOHN 8AUL, Washington, D. C.
Jan 31, 1889_30_
FOR SALE.
TWENTY ACRES OF LAND,
one and three-fourths miles from
Town, on the McDuffic Street road. This
Lot can be divided into two or three Lots,
but would prefer belling it all to some
person.
M. L. SHARPE.
Jan 24,1889_29_2^
STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, .
Andebson County.
By W. F. Cox, Judge of Probate.
WHEREAS, James A. Brown-has ap?
plied to me to grant him letters of Ad?
ministration on the Estate and effects
of Jonas Brown, deceased.
These are therefore to cite and admon
iuh all kindred and creditors of the said
Jonas Brown, deceased, to be and ap
gear before me In Court of Probate to be
eld at Anderson Court House, on the
9th day of February, 1889, after publica?
tion hereof, to shew cause, if any they
have, why tho said administration should
not be granted. Given under my hand,
this 25th day of January, 1889.
W. F. COX, Judge Probato.
Jan 25, 1889 30 2
4 HANDSOME PRIZES 4
JOHN E. PEOPLES & CO'S
Prize R-ebiis.
IN order to afford our friends and patrons in Town and Country a rare
evening's entertainment, we will present to the FIRST LADY CUSTOMER
who will bring to our Store a correct answer to this Rebus, a handsome
BERRY BOWL SET with 13 pieces. To the first GENTLEMAN a Fine
LIBRARY LAMP, with Decorated Shade. To the first MISS of 18 or
under A GOLD DOLLAR. To the first SCHOOL BOY a SILVER
DOLLAR.
The answers to the Rebus must be enclosed in a sealed envelope and
brought to our Store, where they will be numbered as received, and opened on
the 1st day of March, 1889, and prizes awarded. Only one prize to each
family;
it J>TJt ) '\5"^r ' ' 'l^AMi tlj
IfiSPIII E. PEOPLES & U.||H|
^i^^T HAVE TWO CAR LOADS OF fcliJ^^^S
^??STOV^S ON HA^D.^SIS
P^S^S^l And will sell CHRAI'for GA.VH '
r^^^^^^^^ Spticialiies in Glass and Silverware. igl^^^^^^W
UhMTrs-vVrnjAMl? Entered according to Act of Conneu. In tbo yo?r Trril i l J^ttOC
?MJ'rSfi/CFT nVilSP* 187^ b? N?Tt0K*i' AnvERTistHG Co,, In the ofiko of Iba I llJjJkR^^liljfc"
^^SYu?**' * >i?f*>' Librarian of Congroea, Waaliiugtoo, D. C. t t_2^i3r~j?r^5^
LAGE TO BUT.
NEW STORE,
NEW GOODS,
AT ROCK BOTTOM PRICES,
BOTH CASH AND TIME.
Our Two Store Booms are Filled with
PLANTATION SUPPLIES.
Large Supply New Orleans Molasses,
Full stock best and freshest Flour,
Corn, Coffee, Sugar, &c. &c.
STANDARD FERTILIZERS!
CENEROSTEE FERTILIZER,
ATLANTIC FERTILIZER,
No better Grades of Guanos are made than these. Try
them.
PLOW STOCKS AND PLOWS.
Complete line of Plow Implements at Low Prices.
*sr No man can undersell us when quality of goods is
considered. Call and try us before you buy.
33. W. BBOWU & SOIsTS.
YLVESTER BUCKLEY CO.
The New Year finds this enterprising Firm alill on its feet, active and alive, with the
best hopes for its success in the future. The business done by them during the past
four months has been far beyond their most sanguine expectations. Their large Store?
room and Warehouses are now filled with?
GOODS OF EVERY CHARACTER,
Embracing almost everything needed on the Farm in the way of supplies and
implements. Also, a full line of?
DRY GOODS,
From which the Ladles can select the rarest Bargains in anything they want
Several Car Loads FLOUR?all grades?now in stoet.
Several Car Loads MOLASSES?all grades?now in stock.
One hundred Boxes TOBACCO?bought cheap?must go.
- Pure Red Rust Proof and Teias OATS.
NAILS?all sizes.
TENNESSEE WAGONS-the best In the market.
Full assortment Double and Single-foot PLOW STOCKS.
BOY DIXIES at $8.00.
Car Load STEEL PLOWS.
BACON, SUGAR, COFFEE,
RICE, HARNESS, LEATHER,
Everything we have and you want,
At prices that wil buy them!
Bring the Ladles and Children and make our Store your headquarters. We have a
full corps of efficient and accommodating Salesmen to attend your wants.
We will also have for sale thi?pring?
STANDARD BRANDS OF FERTILIZERS.
Thanking our old friends for their continued patronage, and soliciting your trade
for the present year, promising that we will do all we can to save you money, we are
Yours truly,
SYLVESTER BLECKLEY CO.
Jan 10,1889_ 27_
2,000 Bushels Corn,
2,0"0 Bushels Spring Oats for Sale.
Magnolia Hams,
Harvey's Strictly Pure Lard,
Dried Bee?
Irish Potatoes for Seed,
Northei 1 Baldwin Apples at $1.00 per bushel,
Receive Fresh Groceries by every train.
All of which we will sell Cheap.
Give us a call before buying?No. 1 South Main
Street,
B. F. CRAYTOW & SOWS.
THE OLD STORY.
Delicious Qualities will Delight Patrons and pay
Dividends to Consumers.
J. P. SULLIVAN & CO'S.
CONSTANT AIM 18 TO SELL THE
Best Bio Coffee
They Can Find,
PATENT FLOUR,
And all other Choice grades. They keep a close watch >:fter,
and are prepared to give bottom prices, notwith?
standing the advance.
Tlie Clothing Business.
They have a nice stock of MEN'S, YOUTH'S and ROYS' CLOTHING
cheaper than yon can imagine. They have taken time and pains to get up this
stock, and are ready to offer good Bargains.
KENTUCKY AND ATHENS JEANS,
DRY GOODS OF ALL KINDS,
From the cheapest Prints to fine Cashmeres.
BOOTS AJSTD SHOES,
The best stock they have ever had.
EVERYTHING?THEIR STOCK IS GENERAL.
J. P. Sullivan & Co.
READ AND BELIEVE.
WE have succeeded beyond ou r most sanguine expectations, and if close attention
to business and fair dealing counts for any thing, we are determined to "climb
up " We have more than thribbled our Stock, and are getting in new Goods every day.
Heavy and Fancy Groceries, Can Goods, Fruits, Ants, Raisins,
Currants, Ac. Crackers of all kinds, always fresh. Remember, we make a
specialty of Tobacco and Cigars. Our "Bon Ton" Cigar, ??Old Virginia" Cheroots
and "Mexican Pulfs" are the beat in Town, we think, for the money. We soli stack sof
"Log Cabin Soap." Try it. Bib stack of Fireworks for Christmas.
Fran Fluh an4 Oysters every other day.
W. TAYLOR ? OQ?
OF
$25,000.00
WOBTH or
GOODS
ALTHOUGH oar salts this
Fall have been, perhaps, 83 per
cent larger than ever before,
still having anticipated a big
trade we find ourself with stacks
of Goods in all Departments
that mast and shall be sold at
some price.
So from now nntil the 16th of
January we make a?
Sweeping Deduction
IN
PRICES
All along the Hue. We do not
buy Goods to keep?we ^nnot
afford it. Oar trade demands
new, fresh Goods every season, .
and we are bound to keep
abreast with the times. We
promise that whenever we get
so that we cannot keep up with
this progressive age, and sell
reliable Goods at least as low,
if not lower, than other people,
at once will we quit this busi?
ness, and go to ploughing at 25c
a day.
We Mean Business!
And recognize the troth that it
is emphatically to our interest to
give cur customers
Full Value for their Money.
We look not merely to the pres?
ent but to the future.
We would call the especial
attention of the Ladies to our
reduced prices on all Winter
Dress Goods?Woolens, Silks,
Millinery, &c &c. Any rea?
sonable offer on these Goods
will not be refused.
We would say to our Farmer
friends that as the season for
buyisg Provisions is near at
hand, we, as usual, are fully
armed and equipped to eapply
their wants. Large lots of Ba?
con, Salt, Molasses, Sogar, Cof?
fee, and one thousand barrels of
Floor on hand.
Let us insist on every one to
call and give us at least one
showing.
Very respectfully,
IL S?. Hllilf.
p. s.
A few of the Celebrated
White Sewing Machines
For sale at low prices. They
are the kind we use in our Man?
tua Making Department.
N. B.
We give fair notice to every
_ body owing ni, or the old Firm
cf Hill, AdamB & Co., without
a single exception, that they
must pay up in full by January
firai.
B. S. H.
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