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STRONG TALK! ?-BUT iBroT^Tilee & Vandivers Prepared to Proye lit. :';WE ?& &? Ca3h Customers some of the RAREST BARGAINS ever r^offered in Staple DRY GOODS, SHOES, HATS and GROCERIES. We carry a select'and splendid stock of bran New Goods, and can cer ?tainiy sell you if you give. us a chance. ??"You will, do us a favor and save yourself money by seeing us before making your purchases. We want YOU for a Customer. Yours in earnest, . BBOWNLEE & VANDIVE?S. '. S.?New Car of MOLASSES just received, cheaper than you ever B. & V. TO THE PUBLIC. Lend Me Your Ear and Listen. HAVE purchased the Stock of Goods and good will of Humphreys & |fOb.V"who have.been engaged in business in the McCully Block, two doors :?from Hill Bros. Drug Store, and have changed-my place of business to their old stand, where I will be delighted to greet my old patrons. I now have a ^larger Stock of? Fancy and Family Groceries, Confections, Cigars, Tobacco, Etc., ;And am determined to uell them, if low prices be an inducement. Give me a call early and often, and I will guarantee satisfaction. Youra to please, Gr. F. BIGBY. f: FOR NINETY DAYS REGARDLESS OF C?ST I WX/foiJ will find me below Moss <tn. Brown's, on DEPOT STREET, where I am tem JfcpL^rarily located until my aew ?toreroom on Granite Bow is completed. ?. ?hayo on hand a big iine of? W:iZ>ry Qroods, Shoes, Hats, Etc., ' iatl do not care to move again, consequently they must be SOLD REGARDLESS iCOST. If you need ar y thing In this h'ne now is your chance to bay it cheaper A:yon eveniid in all your life. Come and i ee me and 1; wfll show you that I MEAN BUSIN ?SS STRICTLY, ese Goods must be sold by September 1st. f l can giveyon prices on FLOUR, ,MEAT, COFFEE and MOLASSES that will ln? Vybuv. Do not buy until you eee me. Yours truly, ' M-A. DEAN. IAD WHAT ?RR & SLOAN HAVE TO SAY. Jftesults areJCounted our Garden Seed are ahead of all others 1 WE AGAIN OFFER OUR ANNUAL PRIZE OP $5:08 SK00 $5.00 (' the largest Watermelon raised from our Seed?payable the 15th of August ^^fistbe'date. wish also to stimulate the growth of Cantelopes, so we have decided to offer ~k-for the largest Cantelope- We mean those big, round, dft ft' /^|/"\ ' wrinkledj rusty loosing ones, (not Mu-kmelou,) grown *? ?"V/ ?;-.'from our Seed. 'Payable 15th August. Jfrhpin your Melons and their weight is recorded in a book kept for that purpose. rice Water for our Customers?-Froe. Ice Cream and Soda Water 5c. a glass Huyler's Candies are still the rage, ist *au<l Best Drugs and Medicines in .the city. orr & SLOAN, BEH<5S?Mg?<,SB mm and be merry. ^gr'Xou caii find PLENTY to EAT from now on at goxi Their Bill of Fata is as follows: s. fanned Tomato Soup, 1 . Canned Tomato.Stewed, Green 'Dorn Pie, Fresh English Peas; 7 Fresh Roast Beef, - Truffled Chicken Xavers, Nice Prepared Turkey, ingah Reliable and MagnoliaHaras, Cranberry Sauce., Best brand of Pickled Olives, French Prunes, Almonds to be salted, : ^Cream Cheese and Peach Blow Crackers, ' With'Chase &Sanborn's Seal Brand Coffee. "Come and dine with our delicacies. The above prepared with very le cost. Coine and see us. LIGON & LEDBETTER. SIXTY DAYS. lot Stoves, to be Sold at Prices to suit the Times, for SPOT CASH! NO. 7 Stove, with- twenty-seven pieces waie, for $8.00 and $10.00. Just think 1 You used to pay $18.00 for No. 7 that I am offering now for $10.00. Guaranteed to be' first class or money refunded. Your patronage solicited. Yours, &c.? JOHN T. BTJBRISS, PEOPLES' BLOCK. ie Greatest Bargains in Furniture ever offered in South Carolina are offered at F. TOLLY & SON'S, DEPOT STREET. ?y have the Largest, Cheapest and Best Selected Stock in State? and challenge any Furniture House in the State for a comparison of prices. WALNUT and OAS SUITS cheaper than they can be ?probt from any Factory. % BUKE AUS at prices unheard of before. PARLOR SUITS cheaper than any, AND EVERYTHING in the Furniture line. Gone and see for yourselves and be convinced that what we say is true Come and look at oar Stock, whether yon want to bay or not. We will led to show yoa around. Gaskets and Coffins furnished or Day Night. G. F.a* TOLLY & SON, Depot Street, Anderson, S. C, SAUGE PLtJNKETt. The Old Men Meet frith a Great Scientific Gentleman, Atlanta Constitution. Brown says that "chewing the bag is proof of the * pudding"?in away great scientific theories may be proven fallacies by truths right before us. A long haired, study-worn, scientific scholar could never have got us to lis? ten to him, had it not been that we are so worn out with politics that we accept anything for a change. Yes? terday there came along one of these ''scholars," and he had it his own way for about four hours, but when he had | gone we had it our way. The fellow was bristling with literature. The pockets of his seedy Prince Albert was strutting with periodicals, and his arms were filled with treatises upon every subject from the little ant to the mighty elephant, from the minnow to the whale, from the sparrow to the great American eagle. The evolution of man?"how to breed men"?is the pressure which bore upon him through the four hours with us, and he is com? ing back in August to spend a month with us, in order to continue the sub? ject. Me and my old 'oman are always modest upon subjects we have but little experience in, but Brown and his old 'oman looked like they were on nettles just to -get a chance at this what-ever-you-may-call-him scholar. Not a word could they get in, as this fellow went on to oonvince them that it was just as easy?if they had known how?to have their whole thirteen children heroes and heroines as to have them the plain cooks and clodhoppers that they are. At every turn he would fish out a paper to prove what he was saying. The concentration of the mind upon the kind of child one wished was all parents had to do to fill the world with Napoleons, Jennie Linds, George Washingtons and Edi sons. Mrs. Brown shook her head a few times, and Brown wunk at me, but the fellow awed them with his papers on the subject, and even open? ed the lids of our Bible and turned to where Jacob put up the striped poles in the sheep ranch, in proof of his theory. He had his pWn way for four hours, but when he was gone we had it our way, and all of us voted that Brown's experience was better than book learning to judge this sub? ject upon?it is all a fallacy, says Brown; it is all a fallacy, says Mrs. Brown. If ever two people did have their hearts set and their minds con? centrated on having their boy great, it was this couple?thp boy is noth? ing. Of course, we could not pass around in Atlanta without listening to some? thing political. When Mr. Toombs pressed hisjnll into the constitution of the State, forcing the payment of taxes as a right for suffrage, he little dreamed of how many of his own race would be disfranchised by its opera? tions. If the grand old man was liv? ing, he would be too honest to deny but that the bill was aimed at the negro. No defense oan be made for a man not paying his taxes, but it is a fact that it is growing to such propor? tions that it should catch the atten? tion of thoughtful men and a remedy should be Bought after. It might astound some of our "statesmen" to find out the number of men who are disfranchised in Georgia at this time, and the number is still growing. It is not the "bad elements" that is mostly affeoted by this law. A' 'bad'' man can always manage to get his taxes payed, even if he prostitutes the ballot box by making this tax the price of his vote. Some good men? real good men, but poor?are unable to vote on account of this law, and it is a shame as well as impolitic that it should be so. It was never the inten? tion of Robert Toombs to disfranchise a white Georgian?the negro can take care of himself in this matter. I have said it before, but it will bear repeating right at this time, that it is the poor white man who needs some of the attention that is keeping "problem solvers" awake at night and a-howling by day. I have never been in sympathy with the "poor man's friend" idea, as used in politics, and have always been suspicious of candi? dates who use the theme, but I do think that the time has come when the conditions and the future of the poor whites of the South should have attention. The world has been too busy helping the negro to rise for thirty years to give a thought to the poor white man. In his abundance of self-confidence, the poor whites have been blinded to the great strides of the negro, and forgot that wealth has much to do with respectability?they forgot,^ or did not think of many things, but I can tell you again, as I have told you before, that "money makes the mare go." I am well known as being against so much organization, but we have organized a society in our settlement recently that I give my hearty sup? port and sanctionto. The object of this new society is to foster and en? courage the settlement of our own surplus population upon lands in the country, hhe main plank in the plat? form of this sooiety is that the money spent in bringing emigrants from away off shall be spent in unloading the towns of their surplus. I ran for the presidency of this society, but my opponent had such a good record of my past, with evidence to sustain, that I was overwhelmingly defeated! The rascal fooled me into voting against myself. This fellow, in his opening address, said some things that I thought was sensible?if he did beat me. He affirms that "big~men" look too far off to find their material for the improvement of the South. Com? mence right here, and encourage and aid all you can the men who are idle ?after our own capital and labor has profitable employment, it will be time to reach out?make haste at home. In the course of his remarks, the president exclaimed with a great flour? ish that "the State of Georgia donates $25,000 a year to her military encamp? ment?if she would donate this amount to building factories over there on Shoal Creek, there would soon be some excuse for inviting foreigners to come and labor in our vineyard!" I don't see what the military encampment has to do with our society, but the crowd went wild with cheers?all crowds do when you mention the doing away with this encampment. Some fellow will get an office yet on this issue, but it won't be me, for I will never run again. But I am not going to sulk because I got beat for the presidency. The society has some good features, if their president has sense enough to carry them out. Some of their mot? toes read "Charity Begins at Home." "Patronize Home Industry." What I think is the best clause in the society's by-laws reads : "No dues shall be exacted from any member, but if a brother's crop gets in the grass from misfortune, we shall work him out." This clause sounds like old times. It used to be the custom to work & neighbor's crop in cases of misfor? tune. There was no real poverty among country people of the South in. old times. A poor man had no anx? iety about losing his crop if he had sickness. It was a frolic for the neighbors to gather at the sick man's house and work his crop over in one day. the sJcl man was not disturbed in these WbrkingB, even to feed the workers?all carried dinner and feed for stock, and the day passed in cheer and frolio. I will mention one more clause of the by-laws, because I think it grafic: "If any man shall mention politics in this society, the doorkeeper shall mash his mouth with a stick." I am mighty fearful there will be some "mouth mashing," for it is most as hard to keep from talking politics as it used to be for a young man to keep from talking weather to his sweet? heart. Brown is the president of this society?he is the man who beat me. The farmer boys are beginning to lay-by corn, and blackberries are ripening. Chickens are ripe for the fries, and pies and "big meeting" season is nearly here. The wheat threshers are in the land, and the crop is better than was expected. Why should wo not be cheerful and thank? ful, if cotton does still remain where it seated itself two months ago ? There's not a wave of trouble rolls Across my peaceful breast, I fold my hands at lay-by time Trust God for the rest; In everything I feel content? Except one little thing Being beat as Brown beat me Is sure to leave a sting Sarqe Plunkett. The Uninvited Guest. The average westerner loves an ex? cursion, and their frequency docs not in the least diminish popular interest in them. Whether by rail or by water, there is always ready an eager, expec? tant crowd. When the Texas & Pacific Railway was being built westward from Dallas, Tex., some years ago, its managers de? cided to give the newspaper men's convention, then assembled in that city, a free excursion to W-, a frontier town then, quite a little city now. We all Went, and our wives, sweethearts and lady friends went with us. We had two day coaches to ourselves, properly designated in a digified way as "the ladies' coach" and "the smoker" respectively. On our return run we?in the la? dies' car?were somewhat startled, when the engineer stopped for water, by the entrance of a stranger, who seated himself next to the door, facing the rest of us. His clothing was ragged and soiled with mud, his hair dishevelled, his beard unkempt, and his manner nervous and restless. With more naturalness than politeness we stared at him and he returned the gaze with interest. After the train started, one member of our party rose to go to the "smok er. "Sit down !" commanded the intru? der in a voice "as though born to rule the storm," and at the same time lev? eled a villainous looking pistol at our member's head. Down went the member with the alacrity born of self-preservation. Another Faber-pusher rose to get a good look at the new commander. With a rapid motion the pistol cover? ed the man of curiosity. "Sit down !" the stranger shouted. He sat. Of course our interest became unanimdusly centered on our new comer. This, instead of pleas? ing, had quite the contrary effeot, and our self-invited guest became even more nervous under our fixed and steady gaze. There was a sort of mus? cular or mechanical sympathy between his eye and the barrel of his pistol, for wherever one^ looked the other peered at the precise spot, and "the heads of the aggregated wisdom of Texas," as our orator had flatteringly designated us in open convention, were kept moving in various direct? ions. Some went down, others side? ways?in fact, I fear we were undigni? fied enough to be actively engaging in dodging. Presently the member nearest our visitor received the command, "Take your head down." ? She soreamed?as all ladies will, you know?but her head went down as the scream went up, and'she sat down in a heap on the floor between the Beats. The command came with lightning-like repetition to each mem? ber, always emphasized with a glance of that fiery eye and the frown of his pistol barrel. Head after head went down, and the seating room on the floor between the seats was deemed a luxury. There was plenty of room in the aisle, but no one offered to occupy it. Again minutes seemed lengthened into hours as we sat thus amid banana, orange and apple parings, and the re? fuse tidbits from our lunch baskets, each knowing if he peered above the seat in front of him, the same fearful eye and the same murderous weapon would confront him. But all things have an end, and we were destined to be saved, for the monotony of the situation was interrup? ted by Fish?"the gallant Fish,"we oalled him ever afterward?an editor coming from "the smoker." Fish weighed two hundred pounds. He entered whistling a soft ditty of his own composing. At once the self-invi? ted guest thrust his eye and pistol upon him, repeating the command, "sit down!" The whistling ceased. We heard a fearful bumping and thumping inter? mingled with yells for help, and some of our bravest brethren ran to the rescue. Fish had seized the pistol and the intruder had seized Fish. They struggled, they fell, and?hor? rors !?Fish was underneath. That is to say, Fish's body was, but his legs were in the air.' . After a struggle we overpowered the intruder, and cutting a part of the bell cord bound him hand and foot. We then secured his awful weapon, and, on close inspection, found?it had no cylinder. Our intruder was frothing at the mouth and struggling with two officers of the law in search of an escaped lunatic.?Illustrated Amer-ir icon. ? In a case in which.a^man was ac? cused of forgery, a witness for-*he de? fense managed to say : "I know that the prisoner cannot write his own name." "AH that is excluded." said the judge, "the prisoner is nob c&igged with writing his own name, but that of some one else." ? A conceited young country par? son, walking home from church with one of the young ladies of the congre? gation, said, in allusion to his rustic audience : "I preached this morning to a congregation of asses." "I; thought of that," observed the young lady, "when you called them beloved brethren." ? Mary?Don't you dislike to have a man talk "shop" when he comes to see you ? Jennie?Indeed I do. Who's been talking "shop" to you? "Oh, my young man. He's a horse-car con? ductor, you know, and every time he cGi^es to see me he gets off his 'shop' talk." "What does he say?" "Sit close, please." Bnckleus Arnica Halve. The best salve in the world for Cuts Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum, Fever Sores, Tetter, Chapped Hands, Chilblains, Corns, and all Skin Erup tion? and positively cures Piles, or no pay required. It is guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction, or money refund? ed. Prise 25 cents per box. For sale by Hill Bros. Hall's Catarrh Cure for sale by Wilhitc & Wilhite. EARHED $100 IN TWO HOURS. New York Sun. "I earned $100 once in less than two hours working in a mine," said Charles Campbell, a compositor, but I had to kill 126 rattlesnakes to do it. I wouldn't do the job over again for less than $1 per snake. I was in hard luck on the coast and happened to drift into the fine gold districts of San Joaquin, where a company was work? ing the white quartz mine. At the time I dropped in on 'em they found that they had to bring back into ser? vice again a shaft that had been aban? doned several years before. This shaft was eighty feet deep, and there was a tunnel at the bottom of the same length. "Through long disuse the shaft had become choked with debris at the mouth of the tunnel and it had to be cleaned out before the abaft could be used again. "The very day that I got there the company had sent two workmen down the shaft to dig out the debris, but hardly had they landed at the bottom before they signalled frantically to be hauled up. When the bucket got to the top the two men were cowering in the bottom of the bucket pale as ghosts, and so nearly frightened to death that they had to be* help? ed out. It was some time before they were able to give an explonatian. "Rattlesnakes was what ailed them. The shaft, they said, was full of rat? tlesnakes, lying about everywhere, big and ugly. They were so thick, they declared, that the noise of their rattles, in the depths of the shaft, when the men disturbed the colony, almost made them deaf. The men hau not dared step from the tub, but had signalled hastily to be raised to the surface. "A lantern lowered to the bottom of the shaft showed that the men knew what they were talking about. The depths were literally alive with big rattlers, and they writhed and twisted about, furious at the intrusion of light among them. Some of the savage chaps struck their fangs against the glass of the lantern, so that we could hear the sound of the contact where we stood gazing down on the cheerful sight from the mouth of the shaft, and the noise of the fierce chorus of rattles was like the rasping of a field full of Kansas locusts. The sight and sound made me homesick. I had not heard anything lik<~ that for years?not since I left .ay native place in the Big Coon country, Ten? nessee. "That rattlesnake music at the bot? tom of the shaft way out on the Pa? cific coast made me homesick. I be? gan to pine for the Big Ooon country, but I haven't a oent. If I hadn't been so homesick I don't believe I'd have jumped at the offer the su? perintendent of the mine made after he found there, was no other way to get those rattlers out of that shaft. " 'I will give one hundred dollars in gold,' he said, " to any one who will clean out them snakes j' "I stepped to the front. " 'Make it a hundred in gold and a quart of whiskey and I'll go you !' I ?said. "He added the whiskey and we olosed the deal right there. I borrow? ed a pair of buokskin leggings and a pair of buckskin gloves. Arming my? self with a long club and the bottle of whiskey, and taking alantern, I jump? ed into the tub, and they lowered me to the bottom of the shaft. I hadn't intended to be hoisted until I had bagged all the rattlers in sight. But after thrashing away for twenty min? utes at the snakes as they hurried away to hiding places or showed fight, -and killing all that I could get my club in on, the poisonous odor that exudes from those deadly reptiles when they are angered was too much for me. Even the Pacific coast whiskey couldn't counteract it, and I felt myself growing dizzy and faint. "I had thrown into the tub the rat? tlers I had killed and was getting into it myself to signal for a hoist before I succumbed to the noxious rattle? snake air I was breathing when, in a niche in one side of the shaft, even with my shoulder, not a foot and a half away from my throat, I caught sight of a big rattler coiled and ready to strike. "Mechanically I threw my head and shoulders back; just as the snake launched his big, arrow-like head at my throat. That movement cf mine saved me. The rattler's a'im fell short. His fangs were buried in the collar of my coat, an inch from my juglar. I instantly olutched the rep? tile with one hand around its neck, and with the other, as I tumbled un? consciously into the tub, I pulled the rope. y "I did not know when ^SR^1C^ the top, but the superintenuSP^old me when I came to that when the men who were at the windlass saw me, they dropped the crank and ran. But for the fortunate presence of a stal? wart Mexican, a giant miner named Valarez, who caught the crank as it came around and held it, I would have gone plunging back to the bottom of the shaft, and my fate would not have been pleasant. "And I can't say that I blamed the men much who were manning that "windlass. Lying in the bottom of the tub, apparently dead, I was still clutching the big rattler by the throat, his fangs almost in mine, and lying about me were twenty-seven enormous and hideous-looking rattlers, victims of my club. Seems to me I'd have dropped something myself, and ran if I had seen such a sight as that coming up out of the dark depths of a mine shaft. "I revived in a few minutes, and was soon feeling in shape to go down and finish my contract. I don't know how I could have done it, but in the twenty minutes I wa? in the shaft I had drank half of the quart of whis? key. I remained in the bottom forty five minuteB that trip, and I brought out fifty-seven dead rattlers to the surface. I had to chase some of them into the sloping tunnel. I had ab? sorbed the remainder of the whiskey, and when I made my third trip, ten minutes after I came up, I took down another pint. I was down just forty five minutes. I garnered forty-eight rattlers, and finished the third pint of whiskey. "If there was another snake left in the shaft or tunnel I couldn't find it, and the superintendent then hand? ed me over five twenty-dollar gold pieces." ? Scientists believe that Nebraska, Kansas and a part of the Indian Terri? tory arc situated over an underground sea*. ? Last June Dick Crawford brought His twelve-months-old child, suffering from infantile diarrhoea, to me. It had been weaned at four months old and had always been sickly. I gave it the usual treatment in such cases but without benefit. The child kept growing thinner until it weighed but little more than when born, or per? haps ten pounds. I then started the father to giving Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. Be? fore one bottle of the 25 cent size had been used a marked improvement was seen and its continued use oured the child. Its weakness and puny consti? tution disappeared and its father and myself believe the child's life was saved by this Remedy. J. T. Mar low, M. D., Tamaroa, 111. For sale by Hill Bros. All Sorts <)! Paragraphs. ?? Talk about sensational trials ; wait until you hear the recording an? gel's testimony. ? A cynic remarks that it generally puzzles a horse to know what a woman is driving at. ? There is a Hebrew tradition that Eve survived Adam, and was, there? fore, the first widow. ? Robert (1 Winthrop, of Boston, is the oldest living ex-speaker of the house of representatives. ? Germans aro the most prone to suicide j the Irish and Negroes rarely resort to self-destruction. ? It takes one hundred gallons of oil a year to keep a large-sized loco? motive in running order. ?i Venezuela i? said to have 56 au? thorized national holidays each year. Mexico has 13 and Brazil 22. ? The Iowa formers have paid off $600,000 of mortgage indebtedness du? ring the last three months. ? ? A clockmaker is the only one who can wind up his business affairs and have them continue to run. ? The great hardship is not in doing your best, but in convincing others that you are not doing your worst. ? It is a peculiar expression, "The marriage was solemnized." Why not also say, "The funeral was made joy? ous ?" ? The gold production of this coun? try for ten years past has varied but little from thirty-two million dollars annually. ? The fastest shorthand writer in the world is said to be George Bunbary, of Dublin. He c?,n write 250 words in a minute. ? Scientific men have demonstra? ted that a speed of two hundred miles an hour can never be attained by any? thing that moves on wheels. ? Young man, don't be afraid to push your way in the world. Re? member the richest man now living was born without a penny in his pock? et. ? God is a kind Father. He sets us all in the places where he wishes us to be employed; and that employment is only our Father's busi? ness. ? Statistics prove that nearly two thirds of all the letters carried by the postal service of the world are written, sent to and read by English-speaking people. ? If there be no God and no future state, yet even then it is better to be generous than sclfi sh.better to be chaste than licentious, better to be true than false. ? Every one thinks that others around him might make his work eas? ier for him. The thought that he might make the work easier for others never enters his mind. ? The man who talks very much is something like a blunderbuss. He wastes a great deal of ammunition, but he is certain to hit the centre once in a while. ? June was named in honor of Juno, a Roman divinity, who was worshiped as a Queen of the Heavens. It is call? ed the "month of marriage and of sui? cides." ? Every one in the world can teach us something: the greatest men have generally been the most eager learner., and have despised no source which might supply the want. ? It is worthy of note in these times of abusing the men, that there I are more men able to earn potatoes and beefsteak than there are women who know how to cook them. ? W. H. Nelson, who is in the I drug business at Kingsville, Mo., has so much confidence in Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy i that he warrants every bottle and offers to refund the money to any cus? tomer who is not satisfied after using it. Mr. Nelson takes no risk in doing this because the Remedy is a certain cure for the diseases for which it is intended and he knows it. It is for sale by Hill Bros. ? This is the season of the year when the loafer tolls of how many cords of wood he split in the winter. In the winter he tells how many tons of hay he raked in the sum? mer. ? Mr. Moody receives a royalty of 20 per cent, from the publishers of "Gos? pel Hymns," and tiince the first pub? lication of the collection the royalty amounts to $1,260,000. ? In recent legal proceedings in London, regarding the noise and vi? bration caused by a neighboring fac? tory, a phonograph was used to re? cord these noises and reproduce them in court. ? Nelson's old battle ship, the Foudroyant, is being exhibited at va? rious ports in Gceat Britain. It is said that every timber of the old ship is as sound to-day as when she was launched, a hundred years ago. ? When mails are distributed at the postoffice in the City of Mexico the names of receivers oi: letters are posted on a bulletin board. When a person calls for his mail his first act is to con? sult this board. ? Arizona Indians brand cattle by shooting arrows at the beasts, to the points of which are affixed steel brands with a knife edge. When the wound heals it leaves a scar which looks as though burnt with a branding iron. ? A horse kicked H. S. Shafer, of the Freemyer House.' Middleburg, N. Y., on the knee, which laid him up in bea and caused the knee joint to be? come stiff. A friend reoommended him to use Chamberlain's Pain Balm, which he did, and in two days was able to be around. Mr. Shaffer has recommended it to many others and says it is excellent for any kind of a bruise or sprain. This same Remedy is also famous for its cures of rheuma? tism. For sale by Hill Bros. ? An Englishman recently had his life saved by a ?500 wad of greenbacks, which warded off a bullet aimed at him. With such simple means of pre? caution as this at our elbow, every? body should be prepared for an emer? gency. ? "One ob de average man's great cs' mista1 es," said Uncle Eben, "am pay in1 too much 'tention ter dc mis? takes dat comes undah 'is notice in uddah people. Dah ain' no sense in gittin' ober and pullin' up de weeds in anuddah man's gyahden. ? "Beg your pardon, sir, but you seem to be staring at me in a strange fashion. Do you see anything about me that is familiar to you?" said an irate old gentleman in a streetcar. "Yes I do," replied his neighbor, "I see my umbrella that I lost at a restaurant last week." ? Mexico produces any thing that can be raised in any other country. So varied is the climate that in the same State can be raised any product of the tropics and of ihe polar regions. Cotton, wheat, rye, silver, silk, cocoa nuts, bananas, rice, cocoa, vanilla, logwood, mahogany, hides and wine aro the principal products. Rudy's Pile SuprosiTonY is guar? anteed to cure Piles and Constipation, or money refunded. 50 cents per box. Send stamp for circular and Free Sam? ple to Maetin Rudy, Lancaster, Pa. For Sale by Wilhite & Wilhite, drug? gists^ Anderson, S. C. The Armour System. On the pay rolls of the Armour companies of Kansas City and Chi? cago are 11,000 persons. A better civil service system than the govern? ment has yet devised operates in the army of employees. The doors of the Armour Packing Company at Kansas City are open to boys. Every year hundreds are taken in. They are given a trial. If in twelve months they show capacity and ambition they are advanced. If they prove to be mere human machines, drudges or drones, they are promptly turned adrift. This is the principle which runs through the employment of all. It is a rigid application of the rule of survival of the fittest. There is room near the top for every one who enters the Armour service. To what degree the interests of the Armour company have been promoted by this constant weeding out process and steady re? warding of merit, it is difficult to say. Every Armour is known about the es? tablishment by his initials. Here is a story they are telling in "the bot? tom" about "old P. D." Armour. "P. D." was at the midwinter fair, in San Francisco, a few weeks ago. In? cog, he stopped to look at the exhibits from the packing house. The lady at? tendants were giving samples of soup to the crowd. "It can't be very good or you wouldn't be giving it away," said "P. D." "We do that for humanity," re? plied the young lady. "H'm," commented Mr. Armour. "What's that?" he asked, pointing to an enlarged autograph of his own signature over the booth. "That's Mr. Armour's signature," replied the young lady. "Why, I thought old Armour couldn't write," urged "P. D.," in apparent surprise. "Well, he's got brains," retorted the young lady. "If I had his brains I wouldn t care whether I could write or not." "P. D." smiled and passed on. In a few minutes the Rev. Frank Gun saulus, who helps Mr. Armour find good ways to spend his money, came back to the booth and handed the young lady an envelope with a $50 bill and "P. D.'s" compliments.? Globe-Democrat. A Terrible Plague. Tbe reports of tbe frightful ravages of the plague in the seaports of China are alarming. The New York Sun declares that it Is the Black Death which has raged in Europe many times during the past two thousand yearn. It was very destructive in tbe time of Trojan. It kill? ed 61,000,000 people in the fourteenth century. In 1656, when it visited Na? ples, 30 000 people died. In 1665 it turn? ed London into a cbarnel house and kill 69,000 people in a few months. The Sun says: "The symptoms of tbe disease as it ap? pears there are fever, headache, glandu? lar swellings in the neck, armpits and groins, nosebleed and hemorrhaglc spots upon tbe skin. Death takes place in 80 or 90 per cent, of the cases, and usually within forty-eight hours. This is the class? ical description, in fact, of the plaguo, or, as it is variously known, the Black Death, the great death, the bubo-plague. We commented upon its appearance in the autumn of 1892 in Turkestan, where 1,300 people died of the disease in a small town in six days. It is the most frightful of all the contagious diseases, yet one with which our modern civ? ilization is totally unfamiliar. Tbe patbologlsts and bacteriologists have not studied it, because it has been apparently extinct. At least it has not made its ap? pearance in any region where a scientific student has been enabled to study it. Consequently we know almost noth? ing of its cause or manner of propagation. ? * * The Black Death visited Toulon In 1721, destroying one-third of the popu? lation. Its last appearance in Europe was in 1840-41, in Turkey and Dalmatia. European physicians of some skill were enabled to study it in Egypt from 1833-45, but that was before the science of bacteriology was dreamed of. Since then it has occasionally broken out in western Asia, on tbe Euphrates iu 1867-73, in Bagdad in 1876, on the Tigris in 1877, and in some parts of Mesopota? mia in 1884. There was a mild visitation on tbe banks of the Volga in 1878, and several European- governments sent medical commissions there to investigate it, but it bad disappeared before they ar? rived. We have already referred to Its prevalence in one or two villages in Tur? kestan in 1892." . Tbe presence of this .frightful scourge in China is a menace to every country in the world, because in these days com? merce brings all nations in contact with one another. It would not be surprising if tbe pestilence should spread to the Pa? cific coast of North and South America, and it is plainly the duty of our health officials to take every possible precaution to prevent it from entering our ports. The unexpected is always happening, and the fact that tbe Black Death baa never been known in America does not make it certain that it will not visit us some time. ? There is one widow to every 16} of the population of Washington j the whole number of widows, as appears by the recent census report, is 15,000. The excessive proportion is account? ed for by the fact that employment in many branches of the government ser? vice has been found for the widows of soldiers. Fifty Dollars Tieward. Office of County Commissioners, Anderson, S. C, June 21, 1894. WE hereby offer a reward of Fifty Dollars for the apprehension, with proof to convict, of the party or parties who made an attempt to blow up Cooley's Bridge, on Saluda River, with dynamite on Tuesday night. June 19tb. R. E. PARKER, Chm'n. B. T. MARTIN, W. P. SNELGROVE, Board Co. Com. A. C. W. T. McGILL, Clerk. J.one 27, 1894_52_3 A. B. TOWERS Will sell YOU? Buttons, Children's Stockings, Men's White Cotton Gloves, And many other articles, Cheaper than you can buy them anywhere else. A few FINE SHIRTS. No. 16 and lGi, the best fitting Shirts I ever had at less than cost. I am still Headquarters for Wall Paper, FINE TEA, Roasted Coffee, New Orleans Pure Muscovado Molasses, Kerosene Oil, and a few Barrels Flour at prices to sur? prise you. A. B. TOWERS, Insurance Agent, IS Whitner Street. Model 34 Price, $125. A new machine in many important points of design and construction, retain? ing also the best features of previous light Columbias. It is regularly fitted with an easily detachable front wheel brake, rat tn?p pedals, and either single or double jlire as ordered. Weight, 30 pounds with. 129 without brake. Full description iu jColumbia catalogue, which is furnisheii jfrcc. - ALSO, ? Agents for HARTFORD BICYCLES?best medium priced wheels in the world. Bicy? cle Supplies of all kinds?Tires, Spokes, Bells, Cyclometers, Lanterns, Etc. EUGENE F. BATES, GREENVILLE,.?.s. C. June 20 51 8 ? It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves. T? Sarah Bernhadt never owned a pair of corsets, yet she is considered one of the most graceful women in the world. ? During the reign of Solomon the tax? ation of the Hebrews became so heavy that immediately on the accession of his son a demand for a reduction was made, and upon its refusal the chief tax collect? or, Adoram, was stoned to death and a secession of the ten tribes at once follow? ed. ? "Abraham Lincoln," says the American Israelite, "assured the editor of this paper that he was of Jewish de? scent, and pointed to his nose as evidence to say nothing of his being named Abra? ham. There is no doubt but that Lin? coln's nose would have carried him into the most orthodox synagogue in the world." ? The relatives of the late John Ismay French, the great territorial magnate of the south of England, are contesting his will because he bequeathed his vast prop? erty to bis plebeian wife. They claim that he was insane because whenever it became dark he would be convinced that he was an owl; that he could hoot and moult his feathers at appropriate inter? vals, and that he was a bird of ill-omen and bad luck. In other respects he was quite right-minded, and his wife con? tends that, even if he did think himself a bird at times, he was perfectly con? scious of what he was doing when he signed his will. Another person who imagines himself to be a bird is the de? mented King of Bavaria, who fondly im? agines himself to be a stork, builds huge nosts composed of stones and straw in va? rious portions of the Palace of Feuesten reld, in which he is detained, and spends a considerable part of his time standing in the nest on one leg, occasion? ally flapping his arms in guise of wings, while on other occasions he remains crouched down hatching imaginary eggs, being firmly convinced that if he abandoned the nest he would ruin the brood. in 5 minutes dose ^WtfTJfcL Ipro?esitr efficacy ? -wis.-o-tvur.fe'PMAiwM fix ATLANTA'G^ i; PRICE 60 CENTS PER BOTTLE. BOOK OF VALUABLE INFORMATION HUE. ? FOR SALE BY DRUGGISTS. * ??????????????????????fr? For Sale by Todd & Evans. Tyner's Dyspepsia Bemedy for sale by Wilhite & Wllhite. FfiAXK. M. Mdsfiiy. j. Fukmat Evaits. MUEPHY & EVANS, Attorneys at Law, ANDERSON, - - S. O. COLLECTIONS and Commercial Law given special attention. Office?Over Farmers' and Merchants' Bank. June 6,1894_49_6m Winthrop State Normal College, 'COLUMBIA, S. C. OPEN to white girls over 17. Session begins Sept. 26. Graduates secure food positions. Each County given two cholarships?one worth $160.00 a session, and one of free tuition. First Scholarship now vacant in Counties of Abbeville, An? derson, Aiken, Barnwell, Beaufort, Clar? endon, Charleston, Chester, Chesterfield, Florence, Greenville, Georgetown, Hamp? ton, Horry, Kersbaw, Lancaster, Laarens, Lexington, Newberry, Oconee, Orange burg, Pickens, Bichland, Sumter. Spar? tan burs, York. Competitive examination July 17 at Court House of each County. Address D. B. JOHNSON, President, Co-' lumbia, S. C._? VTOTICE FINAL SETTLEMENT. J3I The undersigned. Administrator of the Estate of Mrs. Palmira V. Prevost, de? ceased, hereby gives notice that he will, on the 9th day of July, 1894, apply to the Judge of Probate for Anderson County for a Final Settlement of said Estate, and a discharge from bis office as Administrator, J. C. WATKINS, c c. p., Adm'r, June 6,1894 49 5 A. C.STRICKLAND J. P. ANDERSON Strickland & Anderson, DEUTISTS' OFFICE IN MASONIC TEMPLE. ^sf"One oof the firm will be at their Pendleton nice every Wednesday* COLUMBIA & GREENVILLE RAILROAD. Samuel Spencer, F. W. Hnldekoper and Beaben Foster, Receivers. Condensed Schedule In Effect Jane 17, '94. Trains run by 75th Meridian Time. STATIONS. DaUy. No. 11. Lv. Charleston " Columbia... M Prosperity . Ar. Newberry... I 7.15 am 11.40 am 12.56 pm 1.10 pm Ar. Clinton.. " Laurcns. .(Ex Sun).. .(Ex Sun). .[2.35 pm 13.10 pm " INlnety-Six. " Greenwood.. " Hodges. 2.16pm 2.62 p m 3.15 p m Abbevlllo. 3.55 pm " Belton.... " Anderson., Seneca , " Walhalla. ' Atlanta.... 4.05 p m 4.83 p m 5.40 pm 6.15 pm .110.30 pm STATIONS. Daily. No. 12. Lv. Walhalla. " Seneca... " Anderson. " Belton Ar. Donald's.. 9.35 am 10.00 am 11.15 am 11.45 am 12.16 pm Lv. Abbeville.[1L60 am Hodges. Greenwood.. 1 Ninety-Six. 12.?5 pm 12.55 pm 1.32 pm Laurens (Ex Sun>. Clinton (Ex Sun).. 10.40 am 11.10 urn " Newberry . " Prosperity. Ar. Columbia... " Charleston. 2.3H pm 2.L? pm 4.15 pm 8.45 pm Between Anderson, Belton and Greenville. Daily. No. U. STATIONS. I Daily. I No. 1* 3.08 p. m 4.05 p. m 4.25 p. m 4.31 p. m 5.15 p. m Lv.Anderson. Ar!12. Belton " ....V7illiamston." ".Pelzer." Ar .Greenville.Lv ,07pm U.45am U.09'*m ll.03am 10.15am Blchmond and DanvlUe B. B. (Between Columbia and Ashevlllc.) Dally. No. 13. Dally. No. 16. STATIONS. Daily.i Daily, No. 16.|No. 14. 7.15 a.ml.jLf CharlestonArl.fl-45 pm .T.00 a.m.Lv Jack'ville ArjlO.ISam'. .|ll.45a.m " Savannah "IS.oOaml. li.::o.ira 5 12.10pm 5 1.20pm 1.55 pm 2.13pm 2.25pm 2..r0pm 3.05pm 6.20pm 10 a.r 50 a.r .53 a.i .10 a.i .30 p.i .43 p. I .10 p.l 15 p. 1 Lv.ColumbiaArl l.SOpm ..Alston... "|12.:iGpm ,.Santuc...."*1.30pm ".1 Union."ill." ?' ..Jonesville' " . Pacolet...' ArSpart'b'g'Lv Lv SDart'b'g AnlO.oOpn Ar Asheville Lv 10pm 10.48pm 10.:s3pm 10.or>pm 7.00pp 3.55pm 3.10pm 2.00pm i.40pm 12.40pm 12.2 lpm 11.45am 11.30am 8.4? tarn Nos. 11 and 12 are solid trains between Charles? ton and Walhalla. Trains leave Spartanbunr, A. and C. division, northbound. 4.01 a. m., 4.11 p. m., 6.22p. m., (Ves tibuled Limited]; southbound, 12.67a. m.,2.50p. m., 11.37 a. m., (Vestibuled Limited): west? bound, W. N. C. Division, 8.15 p. m. for Hender Bor-villeand Asheville. Trains leave Greenville, A. and C. Division, northbound, 3a.m.,3.05p.m., and 5,30 pjn.,(Ves> tibuled Limited); southbound, 1.52a. m., 4.10p. m.. 12.28 p. m., (Vestibuled Limited). Trains leave Seneca, A. and C. Division, north? bound, 1.40n.m.and 1.85 p.m.; southbound,3.01 a. m. and 6.45 p. m. PULLMAN SEBV1CE. Pullman Palace Sleeping Cars on Trains 35 and 30,37 and 38, on A. and C. Division. Trains 13 and 16 carry Pullman Sleepers be? tween Jacksonville and Hot Springs. W. H. GREEN, SOL HAAS, Gen'l Mg'r. Traffic Mgr. Washington, D. C. V. E. McBEE. Gen'l Supt., Columbia, S. C. W. A. TUKK, S. H. HAKDWICK, Gen'l Pass. Agt.. Asa't Gen'l Pass. Agt., Washington, D. C, Atlanta, Go. Health Restored ALL BUN DOWN No Strength nor Energy Miserable IK THE EXTREME. Hands COVERED ?with? SORES. CURED BY USING Ayer'sSarsaparilla " Several years ago, my blood was In Oi bad condition, my system all run down, Oa and my general health very much Im- Oj paired. My hands were covered with Oj large sores, discharging all the time. I 0| had no strength norenergy and my feel- Oj ings were miserable In the extreme. At O last. I commenced taking Ayer's Sarsa- 0( par ilia and soon noticed a change for the O better. My appetite returned and with it, renewed strength. Encouraged by these results, I kept on taking the Sar saparilla, till I had used six bottles, and my health was restored."?A. A. 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A card will be punched each time a purchase is made. Call and examine it. ? TODD & EVANS, DRUGGISTS. F OR TWO CENTS (a stamp) any reader of the AN? DERSON INTELLIGENCER can have a sample copy of the THE SOUTHERN MAGAZINE by dropping a line to its publishers at Colombia Building, Louisville, Ky., and can obtain a club rate on - the magazine and this paper by V addressing tbe publishers of the INTELLIGENCER, Anderson, S. C. JOHN K. HOOD, ATTORNEY AT LAW, ANDERSON, - - ft. f\ Port Royal & Western Carolina Railway. J. B. CLEVELAND, Receiver. IN EFFECT APRIL 29. 1894. _(Trains ran by 75 th. Merl dan tlmo. BETWEEN AUGUSTA AND ANDERSON. Eastern Time. No. 8 Sunday, only No. 20 Mixed Daily Ex Son Lv Anderson......... Lv LowndesTille... Lt Calhoun Fallla. Ar ilcCornjick...... Ar Augusta.... 7 50 am 8 51 am 9 18 am 10 25 am 8 85 pm4 9 45am 1117am 1159am 140pm 885pm. i NO. 5 INo.19 Lt Augusta-. Lt McCormick-. Lt Calhoun Falls... Lt Lowndesville-.... Ar Anderson.......... 855 am 2 10 pm 8 17 pm 8 44 pm 4 45 pm 855 am 880 pm 5 15 pm 558 pm 780 pm BETWEEN AUGUSTA, GA, AND SPARTAN _ BURG, 8. O. ? Eastern Time. DaUy Dally except Son Lt Augusta.? Lv McCormlck..._.. Lv Greenwood.?...... Lt Laurens.............. Ar Spartanburg. Ar Greenville.......... Lt Greenville.10 25 am Lt Spartanburg.......... 10 15 am Lv Laurens.1149 am Lv Greenwood. 1 07 pm Lt McCormlck.-. 1 58 pm Ar Augusta.,.,ht 35 pm Ar Savannah...| 6 00 am 8 55 am 10 84 am 1129 am 12 81 pm 2 20 pm 210 pm 5 80 pm 8 18 pm 9 45 pm 7 10 am 9 00 am 1215 pm 400 pm 4 00 pm 7 80 pm 9 20 pm 6 00 am 7 27 a"m 10 15 am 6 00 pm Passengers leaving Anderson at 9.45 a m react Charleston at 8 35 p m. und Savannah at6 00. Close connection made at Calhoun Falls with Seaboard Air Line going: north and south. Through Palace Sleeping Cars on trains Noa.1 and 4 between Augusta and Savannah, Ga. X Close connections at Augusta for all Florida points. For any other information write or call on W. J. CBAIG, Gen. Pass. Agt, B. L. Todd, Trav. Pass. Agt, Augasta, Ga. J. B. FANT, Agent. CEABOARD AIR-LINE 8CHEDULE. ? IN EFFECT APRIL 8, 1893. NORTHBOUND. SOUTHBOUND No. 88. Daily. 8 15pm 10 45pm 1153pm 12 29pm 12 57pm 1 24pm 2 25pm No. 134. Daily. 6 05pm 8 13pm 9 06pm 9S2pm 10 00pm 10 25pra 1112pm Eastern Time, Except Atlanta. No. 127. Daily. 1 v...Atlanta... ar lv...Athens....ar ar...Elbcrton.. It ar.Calhoun F. lv ar. Abbeville. It ar Greenwo'd lv ar...Clin ton ...lv No. 41. Dairy. j 8 0 pin I 7 45pm 187pm I 5 04pm 12 40am 4 02pm 12 40pm I 8 32pm 11 47am I 8 07pm 1117am I 2 34pm 10 25am, 145pm 5 00pm I 8 05pm 12 23am jar. 1 50am ar. ..Chester ..Monroe. ..It l 8 50am i 9 Elm . lv I 7 80amI 5 45am 6 15am 7 89am 9 00am 11 07am 1145am 3 40pm 6 24pm 7 49pm 10 85pm r...Baie!gh... r..Hendcrs'n r...Weldon... r Petersburg r Bichmond r Wasb'gton r Baltimore r Phll'delp'a r New York 2 05am 12 54am 11 22pm 9 83pm 9 00pm 4 52pm 8 33pm 1 30pm 11 00am 8 00am jar. 9 COamlar .Charlotte- It 110 00pm I. Wilmi'gt'nlv! 5 00pm |. 3 30pm 4 18pm 4 34pm 5 55pm 7 25pm 1015pm 1 v...Clinton... ar ar Newberry It ar Prosperity It ar Columbia It ar?8umter....lT arCharjjeston It 180pm 1243pm 1229pm U 15am 950am 7 15am t? 53pm ar Darlington It -t7 00am 9 05am It Weldon ar 5 35pm 1 15am ar Portsm'th ar 3 20pm 1130am ar Norfolk It f> 00pm 1615pm It Norfolk (b)ar 800am f7 00am ar Baltimore It 5 30pm 0 47am ar Philadel'lalT 4 41pm 1120pm i ar New York It f210pm .5 55pm|lTP tsm'th(n)ar| 9 10am 510am ar Philadel'lalT 1116pm 8 00am jar New York 1t| 8 00pm i 6 00pm[It P'm'th(w)ar| 8 00am| i 6 30amiar Washlng'nWl 7 00pmi ?f- Dally exeppt Sunday: (b) Via BaT Line, (n) Via New York, Philadel? phia and Norfolk R. R. (w) Via Norfolk anr" Washington Steamboat Co. Trains Nos. 184 anc* ?117 run wild with Pullman Buffet sleeping cars be? tween Atlanta and Washington, and Pullrran Buf? fet parlor cars between Washington and New York. Parlor car Weldon and Portsmouth : sleep? ing car Hamlet and'Wilmlngton. Trains Nos. 88 and 41 carry through coaches between Atlanta and Charloeton, 8. C. Ticket* at P. R. A W. C. depot S3- No extra charge for riding on tb? Vestibule. T. J. Awdkbsoh, Jo Hit H. Wnrora, G*n Pas. Agent. General Manager. ' w. l O'Dwtkx. D1t. Pasa. Agt^ AMan?*. o?. B. A Newland.Gen.TraT.Pas. Agt. Charlotte, N. C, J. N Wright, Sol. Pas. Agt. Laurens. S. C.