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Anderson Melligencer. P?3U83SD EYES? WEDNESDAY. J. F, GLnSTjTjSCALES, ? EDITOBS AND O. 0. LANGSTON, ? PBOPBI ETOBS TERMS: ONE YEAH.fl 60 SIS MONTHS _75 WEDNESDAY, OCT. 28, 1896. The now coun&y fever ia now very prev alent in Sooth Carolina. Th? polia will open next Tuesday at 7 o'clock a. m. and close at 4 p. m. It is tho duty of every citizen to go and vote. , - ??.? I mm The latest innovation ls the glass coffin, which can be hermetically sealed, and will last forever. They are said to be less expensive than the ordinary metal cas kets. - mm Tba great battle will be fought at the pella throughout; the United States next Tuesday. Both tho Democrats andRe (publicans are claiming the fight by big . majorities, and it is mere guess work now to tell who will win. The proposed fusion of the Democrats \ and Populists In Georgia on the electoral, j ticket did not succed. Tho Populists have now withdrawn their ticket and some of the leaders of that party have gone to work for McKinley. The Dispensary law of South Carolina was argued befo re the United 8tar.es Su preme Court in Washington last week. Tho State was represented by tho Attor ney General, and Mr. J. P K. Bryan, one of Charleston's ablest lawyers, argued against the law. It is tho general opin ion that the law will be declared uncon stitutional. _ According to a report from the national department of agriculture Iowa is the king corn State of tho Union. Her corn crop for 1895 wau 298,503,000 bushels, lead ing all the Slates in tho Union in the pro duction of this cereal. Illinois comee next with some 43,000,000 bUBhe?s less. Missouri follows after with more than C0.O0O bushels lens. The industria]' progress of Japan has given the South a new customer for its cotton and ono vrhose trade will be very valuable. Thor? are now several agents ia this country buying cotton for mills ID Japan. These agents will make large purchases this year and it is their opinion that Japan will need 500,000 bales of cot ton for its mills in 1S97. The bulk of thu will bo bought in tho 8outh. The Japanese authorities have a pecul iar way of discouraging accidents on their railroads. They don't permit the rail road companies to be mulcted in heavy damages or foros them to provide safe guards against running over people. In stead they fine the relatives ol the killed for permitting' them to trespass on the railroad. A poor mon near Karnak nra recently lost two children, who were ruc down by a train. The railroad company waa not censured and he received no money recompense, bat was fined $10. There or? a good many railroad corpora tions in this country that would like to sse the Japanese method introduced here. Hon. Charles F. Crisp, ex-Speaker of the,51st and 52nd Congresses, died lo At lanta last Friday afternoon. He bad been in feeble health for the past six months, and his physicians attribute his death tu a rupture of the heart, the result of fatty degeneration. Mr. Crisp was jost in the pride of his young manhood, and since his young manhood had served his Statt faith fully in many positions of honor and rssponaibility. He was one of the SoutbV most brilliant statesmen, and had made an enviable record in Congress. In the primary election during the recent cam paign in Georgia he was nominated to succeed Hon. John B. Gordon in the . United States Senate, and had he lived would have represented his State in that body for the next six years. Not on ?j Georgia, but the whole country, mourns the lesa of a great and good man. . Thero ia now a project on foot to girdle the earth with a cable wire. Tnep?an iV to start at Vancouver Island and run first to the Fyi Islands and thence to AUB tralla Within tba memory of man the Fijia have not been a safe place for ? white man who was fat enough to tempt the appetite of Bavages. But the worlo moves at a breakneck pace in these days, and fifty years effect as many changes as a couple of centuries did in the long ago. < .For that matter, if you compare the long ago to the sweet, by and by, yon can't help feeling that the haman race has been acquiring a tremendous momentum which will carry it nobody dare predict where. There are difficulties In laying a cable in the Pacific which ara rather ap palling. As for tho Atlantic, you can reach bottom almost anywhere by going down from twelve to fifteen thousand feet. Ba, when you get to the Pacific you must have a plummet with a line from eighteen to twenty-four thousand feet long. Tho difference is serious, but still Uie project will undoubtedly be success ful. In the sad and terrible death of Prof. W. Ii. McGee, of Clemson College, par ticulars of which are given m another column, that institution loses one of ita most popular and ablest professors, whose place it will be hard to fill. Prof. McGee was born and reared near Durant. Miss., and was in the 35th year of his age. In 18S5 hs graduated from the Agricultu ral and Mechanical College of Mississip pi with distinction. After teaching in other Institutions for a number of years, ho returned to his alma mater and taught for two years in the preparatory depart ment. During this time he also took a post-graduate course in agriculture and received the degree of M. S. Io Febru ary, 1874, ho wa'? elected Associate Pro fessor of Agriculture at Clemson, being highly recommended by his old precep tor and personal friend, Gen. Stephen I). Lee, of the Mississippi Agricultural Col lege. Last February he was made full professor of agriculture, which position ho held at the time of his death. He was perhaps the best posted man on agricul tural pursuits In South Carolina, if not through the entir e South, for he had giv en the sclonce tho very closest study and attention. He possessed a most genial, gentle disposition, and was most highly esteemed by all of his friends, who will ever cherish his memory. The nobility and charm of bis character will never cease to inspire and uplift all those Btu dents who were under his training and teaching at Clemson. Death of W. A. Lee, LI.D. ABBEYIXLE, October 23.-W. A. Lee, LL. D., after a lingering illness, died at his homo in this city at 4 o'clock this af ternoon, in his 76 year. Mr Lee was an accomplished lawyer, a consistent Christian, an honorable gentle man. He served as a lieutenant during the war in the 19th South Carolina volun teers, Lytbgoe's regiment, and was a faithful officer and soldier. He was for a number of years past proprietor and edi tor of tho Independent fresa of Abbeville, and wrote with remarkable clearness and force. Ho was a relative of Gen Stephen D. Lee and came from a distinguished family, eminent in military aud civil life. His tastes were all scholarly and his influence in the community where ho lived his long and useful life was ever exerted on right lines. He was married about twenty years ago to Miss Cade, of "the Savannah side," who, together with several children, survive.-News and Cornier. Harribio Death of Prof. McGee. CLEMSON COLLEGE, October 22.-Prof. W. L. ncGe?- waa fatally Injaree) about 12.30 to-day, and died at 5 thia evening. He was at tho barn showing the Senior I class the working of a now corn-sbrod ding machine, when his coat was caught by tbeuaws of the machine and he waa instantly cut In ;ho side bj the saw teeth. It was soon seen that he was fatally in jured, and he began giving directions aa tn his burial and the disposition of his property. His father was telegraphed to, and ho asked that his old friend and preceptor, Gen. Stephen D. Lee, should be notified also. The latter sent the following reply to President Craighead : "Tell MoGee that 1 am shedding tear* that one so be loved ond promMng should meet such a fate." This, message fitly express the senti meut here, for Prof. McGee enjoyed the respect and friendship of all, and his death ls greatly deplored. Clemson loses one of her best mon. He was 34 yeara old, affablo and quick and of commanding presence. He came to Clemson as assistant professor of agricul ture in March, 1894. and was elected as Professorin 1396. His remains will be sent to bis home at Lexington, Miss., to-morrow, escorted by two members of the facalty. Mr. McGee exhibited remarkable calmness through out, knowing that ne could not live, and died peacefully. Distinguished Georgian Dies Suddenly. ATLANTA, Oct. 23.-Hon. Charles Fred erick Cr'sp, speaker of . the fifty-first and fifty-second Congresses died at Holmes' sanitarium here at 1.45 o'clock this after noon. A paroxysm of pain in tbe heart preceded death, the paroxysm resulting from a rapture of tbe heart as the result of fatty degeneration. Judge Crisp came to Atlanta six weeks ago tor treatment. He was tn en suffer ing from a typical case of malarial lever, which had developed at nis home in AmerlcUB. He spent June, July, anda part of August in the mountains or North Candina and Tennessee. His return to Middle Georgia during the very hottest period of tbesummerdeveloped the fever Atter a week's treatment by Ors. Holmes and Davis, the fever disappeared and tbe Judge Improved slowly. Last week be waa oat driving several times, and he was getting stronger until Sunday night wheu bf was attacked with Hy m pto CUB of bis old trouble, pneumonia. Ur. J. S i odd waa called in' and on Tuesday the congestion of the lungs disappeared, but the patient waa so weak that Mrs. Crisp telegraphed for her children and all came the next day. On Wednesday and yes terday Jadge Crisp's condition improved, bat be received no callers. His family were hopeful until 10 o'clock last night, when he hid a paroxysm, and tbey con tinued at intervals all through the night and forenoon. He suffered intense pain, bat was conscious up to tja very last. At 1:30 his son, Charles F. Crisp, Jr., and ms younger brother und Statur? went across the street to a hotel fur lunch, Mrs. Crisp remaining with ber husband. At 1:40 the pan: reappeared. A messen ger was sent for the children. They came hurriedly,and justin time to get some last glances of recognition. x Judge Crisp did not spf dying with in five minutes of the la. -..ack. all of bis children were with him, and, although tbey had been warned by the physicians that the end might come at any momeut, when it did come, it was tragic in its suddenness. The Ides of Sovimber. WASHINGTON, October 25.-The Pres idential election of Tuesday, November 3, will be held under conditions which bave never before prevailed, and which *ill render tba official coonta matter of difficulty and unusual delay. Since the last Presidential contest almost every State, which bad noe then adopted the Australian ballot system, bas, hy titate enactment, prescribed some form of se cret blanket ballot, either based on the Australian plan or closely resembling lt. The only exceptions are Georgia, Louisi ana, North Carolina and South < arollna. In tho first three States named the old open ballot system prevails and the elec tion machinery is in the bunda of the State authorities. In South Carolina there is what is called a "Reform ballot," the avowed purpose of whiob is to restiict the votes or illiterate negroes. In nearly .ill the otbor States blanket ballots wilt be cast, and in many of them the count "will be complica ed by the fact that State, Legislative aud county nominations are ail printed on the same ballot with the names of Presidential electors. Connec ticut bas an envelope system and New Jersey prints each party ticket upon a separate ballot should the election be in any way close lt ls therefore quite possible that lt may oe twenty-four hours or eve? forty-eight hours after the polls are closed before the result is known with absolute certainty. In States like .Nebraska, for instance, where, according to conservative opinion there may not be a margin of 5,000 v.-ter. either way, it will oa impossible to arrive at correct judgment until all the back counties are heard from The polls in the cities dosa at 4 p. m., those in the coun try districts keep open until 0, and with Governor, a Legislature and county offi cers to elect, all in one ballot, it will take at leant twenty-four boura to c?mplete tbe count. Some idea of the general trend of votes in Ohio can probably be obra'ned from tho result nf the counties in which - incinnatiand Cleveland are respectively situated, and these results will probably oe known comparatively early. The re sult of tbe State, lt ls anticipated, will go pretty mach as it has dono in previous Presidential years. The doubtful points are Hamilton and Cuyahogo Counties. Chicago will control Illinois. There will be no doubt of the oatcomo when the vote of Cook County is recorded. But lu ?thor doubtful States, ll?e Indiana, Mich igan and Kansas where State and legis lative tickets also complicate the ballots, there will probably be no keynote from w-ticb the result can be deflmtely deter mined on Tuesday night, unless the elec tion should prove a landslide. In that case midnight may give a close idea who are the victors aud who are the vanquish ed. Otherwise there may be man> boura of anxious suspense. The last two Presi dential elections have been siogulariy free frum uncertainty. It wan known at 10 p. m. on election day in 18SS 'bat Mr. Harrison had defeated Mr. Cleveland, and tc was known with equal certainty at ll p. m. on election day in 1892 that Mr. Cleveland had defeated Mt. Harrlsou. But in the election of 1SS4, when. Mr. Cleveland defeated Mr. Blaine, tho official result hung In doubt over the vote of New York fur days. The fusion tlokets will add a further element of difficulty in the Presidential count this year. Fusion has been arranged between the Populists and the Democrats on the elec toral ticket in every D- meera tic State but Tenneaaee, Mississippi, Georgia, Ala bama, Florida and Texas. In several of tbo Southern states, while there bas been no formal fusion between tbe Republi cans and Populists on State Leglsluturea and Congressmen, local arrangements have boen made that amount to fusion and will have more or less to do with tho re sult. Murdered his Grandmother. St. Clair Glover, son of the late F. Y. Glover, of Walterboro, 8. C., who went to live with his grandmother at Ciarkavlile, Ga , sometime since, murdered that aged lady Thursday night last. The following paitioularu of the deed appear in Sunday's Issue of the Atlanta Constitution : Mrs. F. ?. Glover was murdered by her grandson, st. Clair Glover, at her homo, about four miles from Clarksville, some time night before last. Mrs Glover, who belonged to one of the most respectable families of South carolina, waa'living on a farm near here with an unmarried daughter and two grandsons, St. clair and his brother, who isa mute. Yesterday morning she was discovered dead in bed. A handkerchief saturated with chloro form was near by and a bottle of chloro form by her pillow to make lt appear as a suicide. Uer face showed signs of bruises and there was evidence of foul play. A coroner's jury was empanelled and an investigation commenced, susplclou seemed to point towards 8c ualr Glover, who is about 18 years of age. A latch he? tween his room and his grandtno.?er's had been broken, and he had mai' j threats owing to the faot that bis grand mother bad lott him out of her will, ne was arrested and sent to jail While the investigation was proceeding this morning young Glover conteased, claiming that owing to a quarrel he wau overbalanced and commuted the deed. He claims to be alone responsiole but the evidence points tuw-rd tbe>ouog brother, the mute, and he, loo, hus been arrested. The coroner's jury has not yet conclu ded Its Investigation. Owing to the brutality and high stand ing of the people, mach es<-itement pre vails. Only last week Mrs. Glover's hus band died. She waa an old lady of 05 years. - Nearly 300,000 bushels ofchostnut9 are sold in New York annually. Winiamston News. A dime reading ann* < y?ter Rupper were lipid Net. Friday . ??\\t bv tho Alumuae A-8i.clatinn of* tim W. F. C. Although rain was com?? g down io torrent", success crowned rhe efforts of the committee in charge. Ddlicbtfai music instrumental and vocal, was furnished Oy Misses Auder finn and newton, the Mitres Mattice and Mesdames Earle and Hutto. Miss Good giou read a selection from "Josiah Allen's Wife," and Miss Bagley one from TnomaB Nelson Page. After the musical and literary treat was over, oysters claimed the attention of all for some time AnlcsBum was realized, a delight fal evening spent, and all felt they were well repaid for coming. C. C Featherstone and family, of lau rena, were In Wllllammon last week. Two meetings have been held for the purpose of securing stook fur the new ho toi. Tne proctors- propose to form a stock company and erect an elegant bo'el on the spot where the big hotel was burned 8omeyear8 ago. Some of our best men are behind the enterprise, and it is boped that a hotel that will do credit to our town will be erected ere a new year rolls around. Superintendent of Education elocfc At ta way is teaching a flourishing Behool at Cedar Grove. The patrons of this Behool are very loth to give up Mr. Attaway and have employed him to teach until ho takes charge of his office Rev. A M. Attaway is in charge of the school at Violo. Charley Gaines bas returned from Ben nettaville, where he has been for icm? time Frank Gaines, who has been quito sick for nome weeks, is again on the street*'. Capt. Frank Nail, contractor on the Air Line Railroad, is visiting Hon. H. M. Prince. Fred Bigby, depot agent at Carlisle. Tja lon County, ls in town. A telephone line is being erected be tween P?lzer and Belton, via Wllliampton R. B. G. Oa Thursday, 22d inst, at ll o'clock, in the parlors of the Springview hotel, oe curred a happy social event and one in wbich very many nf our people are inter ?sted. Mr Kemper D. Sena, ot Newber ry, was married lo Miss Lila Prince, ot this town. The bride ls a leader in Williamston's social life and is a favorite wherever hbo IB known. Her natural endowments are brilliant and \ her accomplishments are varied and extensive. 8oe is the young est daughter ot Mr. W. L. Prince, of this town, was graduated from Dr Lander'. college with highest honors aud has made a brilliant record as a teacher and musi oms since ber graduation Her natural wit and charming grace, coupled with au ever -present kindness of heart makes for hf r a host of friends wherever she may be. Mr. Ssnn la a graduate of vVotford Col lege, class of '91 has taught in the graded schools of the low country for several years and is now principal of the T<ttum Station Graded Behool in Marlboro Couo ty The wedding was a quiet home affair, witnessed by only tbe relatives or the nride and a fow near friends of the groom. Tne parlors were tastily decorated wltn cut flowers and evergreens. The couple came in stepping to the melodious meas ures of Valent i's wedding march and soon were made man and wife, Dr. Samuel Lander, assisted by Rev. A? B. Earle, of delating. Immediately after tho ceremony the partv boarded the southbound Southern tor Newberry, where the bride and groom will visit the groom's parents for a few dayB before their return to Tatum 3<atlon. The whole community unite in present ing hearty good wishes and congratula tiona to the bride and groom. Tue music for the occasion was rendered lp a most happy manner by Mrs. George E. Prince, plano; Muok Lander, violin, and Frank Lander, flato. * <* Toney Creek Items. Everybody is well and hearty. Psople are nearly dono gathering their crops, and nearly everybody is making a Que corn crop. Some folks are still hold ing their cotton, boping the prices will soon be higher. Toe bird bunters are now anxious for the bunting reasou to begin so they ma\ g ? hunting. Some a?"e not wailing, but are already killing them. Oar echool opened at Shady Grove on the -Lat, and we hope all will be pleased erith the new ttacner. She ia Misa Lei; Neltion, of Laurens C. H. The school bouse has just been painted,and nice bond bave beeu udded to tho windows, which Urins verv much tu the attractiveness ol the p ace. Mr Pre?S Shiil-jy has moved to Belton. Our community was well represented at the Houes Path Stock Show on the 20 h and all reported a pleasant lime. Tue<rt was a large crowd present and tbe exhibits were very good. Splendid order prevailed. The only complaint that could bo made wan ibe dust, wo icu waa awful. Mrs J b"1 Mattiaon has added much to the tippuaranca of her home by having ?orrie papering done. Sse also has a nice, new buggy. Mr. w. L Sutherland is ihe happiest mau about here now. He has a hue gin at bin home Mrs. Preston Acker, from near Andor Kiiij, ban been viidting Mr J. 8, Acker'? 'amlly ai d Mrs. H. A. Griffin in B-won. Tis hoped sue -?iii visit sgdin soon in th; co UJ muni ty, as ?-ho is loved by all wno bavri and the ploasure of met-tiug her. Miss A. O Norris accompanied her home and will stay some time with bet ano in Anderson. Mr Ed Acker, now with Mr. W. H Auber, in staying near Anderdon with hi? brother He bus bad au operation per formed by Dra N-irdlu & Orr, and is get ting along nicely and will soon return home. Rev. J. R. Williams has been re elected to Korve the church at Sha< y Grove. Ic i xeported be will not accept Sociables and dances will soon bs the ordpr of the day. We have had a splendid rain, also a front. Every one is op for tbs show on the 18'h Nov. OMEGA. Iola Happenings. Iola has at last succeeded in getting a much needed school. We think from ali appearances it is gniog to be a ?rand sue ceas. Tho patrons will complete the hourn io a few days, doing tbe work themselves to keep tbe public money for their chu dren. Mr Jeptba Harper has also done a very liberal portion ; be having no chil dren to eend, wo think it very kind and generous of him. He will furnish tht floorlng, window sash, blinds and doors ; in fact, be is always interested, and does a great deal for anything that will improve the community. Some of the boca pro ons* to have a debating soddy and elect Mr. Harper for thoir president in hoLor ot what be has dont?. The school will open the first Mond ty In November. Miss Crayton Robinson, daughter of Dr. Rob inson, of Due West, wiil teach the school. She ia a graduate of the Cooper-Limestone Institute Th? church at Welcome hos elected Rev. M. M Gee for their pastor for aoother year. ThlB will ba bia third year at Wei come. Hu is r.nch a good man we think any church does well to secure him as pas , tor. The Sabbath school at Weloome is also doing a good work, with Bro M. C. Smith for their Superintendent. Mr. Smith ls the right man in the right place. A number of Ioliana will picnic at Port man Shoals to-morrow. They will also inspect the electric dam at that place. Mr. C. H. Horton's two story building on Peuoluton street will be completed noon, and will bo a substantial and beauti ful building Mr. Levi J. Burriss, who lives on East Boundary street, bas improved his new u welling by the usa of tbe paint brush Some parties while making beard-, near the old home place of tho noted Manson lolley, (now owned by J H, Hutchinson, Esq ) found a bulletin a larne oak tree, supposed to have been put there by Jolley or a Yankee. * * "IQ I Qi? - A Story of Crisp. Hore is a little story of tho lato Charles Frederick Crisp : In one of the counties of his district there was a little weekly newspaper, to whloh be faithfully sub scribed. When be would come home from Washington he always sought the editor and demanded to know If bid sub scription had not expired. On one of these occasions, meeting with tba editor, he banded him a $5 bill saying: "I have missed three issues of my pa per and I am sure I must be in arrears. Take tbat, and call it square " "but," said tbe editor, "the paper is only one dollar a year, and your subscrip tion won't be out until January!" " That's ail right," replied Crisp, "but you keep the money," and then in a whis per: "I u?-ver saw an editor >et that didn't need lt I"-Atlanta Constitution. - When a dentist in China is pulling a tooth for a patron, au assistant pounds on a goug, to drown the cries of the victim. Why Buffer with Coughs, Colds ?nd La Grippe wheo LAXATIVE BBOMO QUINIHE win care you iu one day. D >es not pro duce the rinding iu the head like Sulpha's of Quinine. Put up lu Ubiets convenient for taking Guaranteed to cure, or money refunded. Price, 25 Cents. For eale by Fyans Pharmacy. Discovered lt in Time. Nisw YORK October 28.-There was to be married lc this city to-dav MISB Maude .turvey and Mr. Joseph Allen, an actor and an actress now piny lng at Frank B. Carr's Tnird Avenue Theatre. For the past six months the couple had been in Sam T. Jack's Bullfighter Company, and had been engaged to each other arter being acquainted for only two woeks. On Sunday last tbov met at tho bou*e of Misa Harvey, 227 East Thirty-second street, and tbero betlan to discuss each other's past lives. To the horror and astonish ment of both they found that they were brotber and elster. Th era wag, before the war, a prosperous merchant living in Buffalo named James Benedict. When the war broke out he enlisted in a Buffalo regiment, and at the battle of Gettysburg was killed After the war Mr?.* Benedict, with her three children-Nellie, Ada and Joaepb-were to journey to Sin Francisco, to live with an node of the children, then a wealthy gold mine owner of that State. But on the way fever broke out among the travellers, and Mrs. Benedict succumbed to the disease. Tho children, of whom tho eldest was six years old, were taken care of by some of the other travellers, to be bunded over to their uncle when San Francisco was reached. But the uncle could not b-found in Calitornia, and the.v were subsequently adopted by the trav ellen? who had agreed to take care of them. A Mr. Wilfred Halton adoptod the boy, and t.t the request of hij protector the boy adopted his name. The girls were taken care of by a family uamed Harvey and Melrose, respectively. Tno two girls kept up a coustant correspondence, but after auout ?ve years loBt Bight of their brother. By some strange coincidence all three of them adopted the stage as their profession. The boy bad changed his name, for professional purposes, to Joe Aller, while the girls retained the names of thoir protectors. . Tho story of the love between Maude and Joe has already been told, but tho surprise which the company received when it heard of their relations has almost upset the whole organization. Of conree all wadding invitations have already been recalled, and word was sent to the Rev. Br. Houghton that his presence won lo not be required to-day c - Baltimore Amerieani Bets Wife en McKinley. LAPORTE, IND., October 22.-William Corbux, of Elkhart County, ie en ardent advocate of the eleotion of Major McKin ley, and is so confident, he will oe elected that be bas made a wager, which, If be loses, will result in Mrs. Corbus becom ing the better half ot George M. Burnell, wno, as the party of the second part, agrees to deed to Corbus a houae and ba valued at $5,000 if McKinley is elected. Tho papers have been legally drafted, Mrs Corbus has agreed to aaorltice home and husband, and the election returns are anxiously awaited to determine the lam chapter c .he unique transaction. Barn ell ls a s ingle man and is poasesseo of con aideriible means. Mrs. I'orbus is tbe mother of a large family of children. By tho terms of the contract Burnell will be obliged to provide for them if he wins the bet. Bot h men are working night and day for ttio success of their respective parties, while Mrs Corbus is typifying the new worn m in the arena of politics by vigor ous electioneering - New York Journal. Uncle Sam's Bi? School. WASHINGTON, October 24.-The Milita ry Auadetny at West Point is In a flour ishing condition, according to the annual report to the war department of Col. Er nest, superintendent, who says it is pass ing through an era of improvement, so far a:i Its equipment and outward physi cal conditions are concerned, due to the greater liberality of Congress in recent yean. The curriculum, both theoretical and practical, ls the result of many year?' experience, and has proved itself well adapted to the objects of the institution. Improvements in that direction are less rapid and leas radical than lu the other, but there also the academy ls advancing, as will appear from a perusal of the ap pendixes already referred to as attached to this repoit. The prof saors und offi cers are accomplished, each In his sphere, aud devoted to their work, and deserve well ul tho Government. Th'j number of cadets this year, 332, including one foreigner receiving instruc tion by special authority of Congress, is the Largest ever belonpi?g to the academy at on ? time. Tho recommendation is re ue wed that Senators be allowed to appoint two cadet? at large from each ??tate, there by increasing the number of cadets. The health ot'thu command during the year was far from BatiBfaotory. There were epi demics of influenza, malarial fevers, measles and whooping cough. There were several cases of appendicitis and other desperate diseases Only one cadet died, -vn abundance of good healthy food in s ifficlent variety was furnished at an av erage cost of 53 cents por mau per day. Clotcmg, books ando her articles secured at lot? rates, except the case of drawing mstrlaments each oadet had to purchase, fheao cost ?23.05, or more than half a month's pay. Col. Erne it says: 'The instruments are imported, none of suita ble quality being made in this country. The duty upon them is 35 per cent. Nel thor the quantity nor the quality should oe reduced, and tue price is os low as it can be made if the custom house dues are paid. Legislation la recommended re mitting the duty. - The farmers in this 8tate and other cotton States, too, aro going to seo the coming winter if a better substitute than wire cannot be lound for the flat tie. Mr. Hitt, a compress man from Amerions, Ga., ?vas I n the oity yesterday to see Col. Dun can ?bout the ties. Ho has Invented a kind of buckle for tho wire tie, but it is not yet all that is required. He said that be was after downing the tie trust and boped that others would try to invent suitable fastenings for the wire, which he s em cd to think the best substitute. If otbets got to work to solve this question of a g-iod tie in the ri.ceof the flattie, then the farmers throughout the south will be in a position to force the trust buck to old prices, or evon lower ones. The Slate. - A curious custom obtains in some portions ol'Spain ID regard to betrothals. A young man who looks with favor upon a handsome senorita, and wishea to gain ber band, calls on the parents three suc cessive days at the same hour of the day. At the last call he leaves his walking stick, and if he is to win the desired bride the cime is handed to him when be calls ag-ila. But it he is not regarded wbh lavor, the cane ls thrown into the street, and in this way the fauns man is made to understand that further calls will be useless. - Marshall Ferguson, who lived In Gwlnnett County, Tennessee, near Stone Mountain, and who died two weeks ago, had reached the age of SC. He'and bis wife lived together for over sixty years. He made forty-two crops with two horseB, having ploughed with one for twenty and tho other for twenty-two years. - ][t is sala that Mr. Bryan occasionally receives contributions from anonymous people to help pay his campaign expon aos, it being understood everywhere that he la too poor to stand the expense of all thia campaigning. When he was last in Wa?hlugton~$100 was handed to him from an unknown source. - Success in lifo ls very apt to make ns forget tho time when no wasn't much. It is just so with a trog on a jump ; be can't remember when ho was n tadpole, but other folks can. - The happy peopls ol the world are th OB?I who love their occupation. It Pays to Buy t BEST Grade Jellico Coi Beat Red Ash Egg Coal, Best Grade Nut Coal, de kigr Prompt attention to all ordei Oct 28.1893 18 IT'S AS GRE Against one's self to pay too li ri ?ht price is the pnce th TTOU will alwayB be sure you pay the : X this weRk Finest New Mackerel, K Mixed Chow t how in medium Bi:>d bottl Preserves lu buik. Heine's B-tkea Beuna and Peaches. Saw Log Salmon, In half po PEaOHES F?R CRbAM 153. per can Goods und put np in extra heavv ?yrup. T Cocoanut Macaroons 25c per pound. ? Wafers, Albert Biscuit, Orange Slices Choi Try Bout's Home-made Ginger Snaps. j?r* Prompt and polite attention guan jgB!ii* The public cordially invited to cal JOHN A. AUS Zarline Zigzags. Mr. Haab Bowen visited Willie ruston ano Gr-enville last week Mr W C. Brauton, nf .rx mea P*tb, ptid a flying visit t" Zirlitie last week Manara. Cowan Ribinson and Walter Clinkacales worshipped at Little River Cr>u ch laat Sunday. R-?v. Mr. Gardner, of Gninsville Ga , filled the pulpit at Little River last Sun day. MIHS Crayton Robinson leaves next week to take charge of a school a few mllss above Anderson. The people of that community have done well In securing the services of Miss Robinson. Mr. Jim Andy Brock is sportlog a new buirgy. Mr. R. C. Pruitt, of Annie, is spending a while i ZaMine Mt?s Lula Bowen leaves in a few weeks for Southwest Georgia, where she goes to spend the winter. The ansel of death visited R*v. "W. W Moore's Friday evening at 4 o'clock and oore away bis beloved mother. She bad been sick for several weeks. "We deeply eympBthij:* with the bereaved family Mr. J. W. Banister is very Bick at this writing. Zarlino was well represented at the H nea Path Stock Show lastTue-day. Mr John T. E-yant bas the floeBt horse of mis community It took the b'ue rib rioo at H -Dea Path and also at Due West Stock Snow. Zarline Academy opened Monday with about about Arty students M-ss Elgin has been elected as assistant teacher BLOSSOM Tho Ideal Panacea James L. Francis. Alderman, Chicago, says: "I regard Dr. KiogsNew Discovery as an Ideal Panacea for Coughs. Colds and Lung Complaints, having used it in my family for the last five years, to the ex clusion of physician's prescriptions or other preparations." Rev. John Burgus, Keokuk, Iowa, writes : "I have been a Minister of the Methodist Episcopal Ot urch for Cl) years or more, and have never found anything so beneficial, cthat save ma such speedy relief as Lr King's New Drscoverv." Try tbl? Ideal Cough Reinedv now. Trial Bottles Free at Hill Orr Drug Co. A Household Treasure. D. W. Fnller. ot Canajoharie, N Y , says that he always keeps Dr King's New Dis covery in the house and his family has al ways found the very best results follow its use; that be would not be without i., it procurable. G. A. Dy kern an. Druggist l'atskill, N. Y., saya that Dr. Kiug's New Discovery is undoubtedly the best Cough remedy; that he has ua?d it in his family for eight years, and it has never failed to do all that ls olaimed for it. Why not try a remedy so long tried and tested. Trial rmttle free at Htll-Orr Drug Co, Regular -ize 60c and $1.00. BUCKWHEAT CAKES. JUnreceived Fresh. Pure Buckwheat Flour For sale low. If jou w?nt a irood breakfast try it. Still headquarters tor Finest Tea and Wall Paper. A B TOWERS. NOTICE. A NDERSON and Greenville Counties ? will lat to the lowest responsible bid der on Monday November 16th, at 12 m , the building of a Steel Bridge over 8alur)a Uiver at Pelzer, 8. C. Plans and specitl cations mad? known on day of letting. Contractor will be required to give bond tor double the amount of contract price. W. P PNELGROVE. Co. Sup'r of Anrierson Co. D. "W. HOLLAND, Co. Sop'r of Greenville Co. PORTRAITS. J. G. HARMISON Hos re turned ?o Andmon and will make life size Portrait? in ? rayon, Seplaond Pastal For corroit likeness, artistic eff.ct and life-like resemblance, his vrorfc has been coom ended In the highest term* by the p opie of Anderson and Co umhla as wen as elsewhere. Now ls the time to place your or ders for christmas. ART LESSONS-In Crayon and Pastel Portraiture Pastel Landscapes, dc. The course Includes a pastel Portrait made from pictcre fur nished by student BOOK-KEEPING-I ?ill teach? class In bcok-ks. plugandge eral commercial branches pro vided s class can be formed at an ?any d.te Let mo kmiw M ouce if you . av such a co rsc Lesso s giren Ita a'iy ot the following branches, froo. which Bpecla courses can be arranged : rayon and Pastel Port ra! ture, Pastol Landscape, Pencil Drawing, Pen Drawing. Pen Lettering. Writing Engrossing Fl ou ri? h in ?j, Book-Keopfng and the Commercial Brandes. T rms reasonable. FlaoM jonr nrdfirs early. Call it residence, McCully Stnet, near Sonth Ua<n. J. G. HABMISON. Oe;. 118, 1696 18 2 The rogue has said in his hear!, "all men are thieves." Don't you be lieve him. Each man is his own ideal of hon esty, morality, conservatism and vir tue. Sa.aa was perfectly conscientious in his estimate of Job's character. That man who says there are no pure Drugs sold now wouldn't do to buy from if he were in the business. Th8 profligate man deplores the fact i.hat virtue has died out of ihe world. He who whines for the good old days bad little to do with making those days good. The man who sees sand in every pound of sugar he buys couldn't sweeten my cu (fee. He who fails, through indifierence or a false notion of economy, to Paint hi's house, or his buggy, or his fence when they need it, saves at the spikot but wastes at the bung. Th 3 man who makes no charge for his advice or opinion generally gets the best of the trade. HILL-ORR DRUG CO. COAL ! he Best ! il, delivered, ?4.50 per Ton. , delivered, ?7.50 per Ton. livered, ?7.50 per Ton. :s and satisfaction guaranteed. J. M. PATRICK _Cm AT A CRIME ittle as to pay too much. The at makes sure of Quality. right price if yon trade with UP. We offer \puer Herring Heinz's Sour Mixed, ?weet I es, Heinz's Apple Butter and Piue Apple I with Tomato Sauce Evaporated Apples und cann, 10o. i. Thean Peaches are choice ripe, selected hey are New Gooda just rece'ved. Ive O'Clock Teas 25c. per pound. Butler :olate Dessert 25c. per pound, All fresh, tn teed. 1 and examine our Stock. TIN & CO,, and The Teapot. --- GKRQCERIEB ! IAll bftt?r prpparpd than ever to perve you in the Grocery line. Receiving new atd frebh Good-daily, bought light, and will EB ! yon if jon will only cou e and look Have just added a Une of Shoes to our Stock, And will sell them as low as anybody. Come nnd examine onr Men's Fine Shoes at $1.00, and our Ladies' Dress Shoes at 75o, Our three specialties are FLOUR, COFFEE, TOBACCO. We are always up to date on these Goods, and carry a large Stock. You may be a loeer if you buy without fiist seeing me. Don't forgot the place-DEPOT STREET, near tba Square. Large lot Tesas Bed Bust Proof Oats and Purple Straw Seed Wheat just arrived. O. D. ANDERSON & BRO. THE LADIES' STO?E Has put the Knife in their entire Stock of Goods, and jumped from the Highest priced Store to the Lowest in Town. SEE Goods at COc , former price $1.00. Goods at 25c , old price 50c. Goods at 13c, former price 2sc Hats nt 25c, former price 50c. Hats at 50c, former price ? 00 Hats at $'.00 former price $2 00 on up to $4 00. Hose 4c. to 75c Hank? vj<\ to 50n Novelty* ar h*lf price. Ribbon lc. to 75o. per jard. Velvet 25c. to ?1.?5. Dreaa Silk l&i to ?1.25. Embroidery lc to 50c. Lace lc to $1.00 Table Linen, Towels, Tidies, Lace Curtains all at half price. Gossa mers at 25c. to 50;. Don't forget the Bargain Counter ! It Is filled with grand bargains. ?ST* AU are invited to come. Wo want each and every one to get a share. Our Stock must be reduced in order to make a grand ch inge in our business. Yours respectfully, MISS LIZZIE WILLIAMS, OLIVER ! The Great and only Genuine Kl. !.. --BEWABE OF IMITATIONS. We are the only wholesale agents for the Oliver Chilled Plows in South Carolina. Come to us for the genuine. Imitations are frauds. Olivers have never been nor can be duplicated. SULLIVAN HARDWARE CO. PRICES TO SUIT THE TIMES.FULL, 1896 SPECIAL TRADE PJRIC?E LlsT : D. C. BROWN & BRO., Dry Goods, Shoes, Hats, Clothing, Heavy and Fancy Groceries, New Store near B. B. Bridge. The cheapest house in Anderson. MEN'S heavy whole stock Shoes 75c a pair. Men's High Cut Creedmore Shoes $1 00 per pair. Ledles' Do^gola Button Tipa $100 per pair A good Cotton ..'launel 5c per yard. A good heavy yard Wide Sheeting 5c per Fard. All wool Red Twill Flannel 12io per yard All-wool 9 oz Jeans 20o per vstd. AU wcnl Men's Undershirts 50c. each. 10 pounds Dwight's Soda 25c. 12 pounds Eio OofiPee |1.00 20 pounds Granulated Sacar $100 Several Cars Flour bongbt before the advance to seU oheap. 1,000 bnsuels Red Rust Proof Oats 48c. per bushel. We gaarantee to have everything we advertise. D. C. BROWN ?& BRO. DC Is extended to one and all to come to our Store and inspect our large and magnificent Stock of. READY-MADE CLOTHING. This is a new feature in our business, and we sincerely believe that, our prices and quality of Goods taken into con sideration, is beyond doubt far ahead of anything in South Carolina. We claim to know how to buy Clothing, and pro pose to tell the truth a^out every garment sold. For exam pie, if a Suit is composed of half wool and half cotton we will say to you, this Suit is half wool. A great many mer chants regard selling Clothing the same as horse-swapping ; in other words, get all you can. We have decided upon a small, legitimate profit, one price to all, and no misrepresen tation. To this end we pledge our word to make it to your interest to buy your Clothing from us. A Watch Free with Every Suit ! In order to introduce to the public our large stock of | Men's Clothing we will present-free of charge-a Nickel Swiss Movement Open Face Watch to every one who purcha ses- a Suit. Let us say here we will guarantee this Watch for ten years. Bemember, our prices are lower than other Store in Anderson, and all we ask is to come and price, and you will then become convinced. WE HAVE r>:FL!r GOO: Too INumeroun to Mention, We have Shoes by the Dray Loads, . We have Men's Hats by the Hundreds, We have Millinery, A.t Prices Beyond Description. Come to see us, and allow us to show you through our Mammoth Establishment. LESSER & CO., UNDER MASONIC TEMPLE. NEW NEW GOODS, NEW PRICES, NEW FORCE,! LARGER STOCK, BETTER VALUES. - . ???3e?fQ3E?3??#0*a er - MORE exclusive Bargains and Drives in all lines of Goods now arriving at the Store of R. S. HILL than were ever be? fore exhibited in Anderson. Our display of rare Novelties in Ladies' Dress Goods, Trimmings and Furnishings, both for style and price, are unequalled. We never had so many at tractions in Millinery, Which has always been our pet department. We were never so strong in MEN'S, BOTS' AND CHILDREN'S otnmg AND ral In this department alone we have a Stock of over Twen ty Thousand Dollars. But our buyer had ai, opportunity of some special bargains, provided he closed out a big lot for prompt cash, so we have the Goods, and will do you great good on a Suit this Fall. And as for Shoes i dil We are Strictly Headquarters. If one would only look at our Shoe Stock, up-staizs they would conclude we were exclusive wholesalers. We make a specialty of Good Honest Shoes, and vnll now sell you. at prices that are unusual hereabouts. If values count for anything we propose to have a larger share of business this season. MISS TERRY, the Artistic Dr?ss-Maker, has returned and has a full corps of able assistants. Yours earnestly, WELL, WELL, Here I am in sweet old Anderson once more. Here I am looking in familiar faces each day as before. Everything rolling on as calmly and serene, just as if C. S. Minor had never been away. WELL, I find that there- han been lots of things turned tops;-turvy tinea I have been gone, and I have not the hoare this morning to tura them right aide un again. I am inclined to let the old thing roll on, jost like the boys started her while I was away. li's lots of fun, if it amt no profit, and I know we don't have to have profit every time. We don't always get profit by a long shot. Well, that's been one of the plans of my business for seven years-not to expect all profit-and it seems the less profit I take the more money I make, co on that plan here we go : We haye got about 8,000 packages of the famous CELLULOID STARCH, which we will seil at 5c. a package. We have got aoout 1,500 sample pack- - ages supposed to bo free, bat which we will sell at a nominal price ba order to Introduce the line of gouds, and yet we sell to be sure th-it only those per- ' sons will get it who will have some Idea of Starch when they try it. The samples will sell at one cent each. If you want to be in the swim and have a stiff shirt front and ooilara and eufl? on like new ones, gee a sample pack age of Celluloid Starch and you will think you have got a new wash-woman and she knows her business. On BROOMS-we are still rolling them ont. \The large two-stilng ct 8"\ and thrba string at 10c. We have got a LAMP for 35c. that I saw selling while away at 753. I I think this is one of cae biggest bargains that we have ever been able to show in a Lamp It's a very large stzs and the pilca is the battom. Wa have a Lamp-a very large Lamp, porcelain fount and shade, decorate! -in very bigbeat art style, wbioh we will sell at 95o. I saw chis Lamp aaliiag North at $150 In one of those so-called cheap Stores where crowds ana crowds of people swarm like bee*. We have got a few dozen 403. and 50a Overalls that we are going to Itt roll tor 25c. per pair, and some OOo Overalls cb.it we will lee go at 40a per pair, and 75c ones at 60c. par p-dr. Jackets to match at the same price. We have got a few dozen of 75iv"Jeans Pants which we will let go at 503, per pair. The biggest value on Jeans Pants that has ever been ottered la tah section. Don't bay Jeans Pants until you see these. We are still selling a two-quart Coffee Pot at 8o. and the No. 0 Wash Pan at 3c., and the No. 1 Dipper at 3c Ia fact, the wind that Caothire raised in the Tinware is still blowing. The Glassware and Crockery are still going like swollen waters leaping from the dizzy precipice. The prices are so '.ow. ft We offer you a one-gallon Glass Oil Gan at 25a., half-gallon Pitchers at 15c. We are giving yon now a 25o Lunch Basket for 153. If yon hive to taite a lunch be sure and dee this basket. When you come to Town ask us to show you our Mammoth Goblet-the biggest in the world. Each Goblet h^lds a half gallon. May ba you don't want a set, and may-be you do. At any rate you will be interested to look on this big show. Well, I have come back with the determination to ran the thing to the ad vantage of ail concerned. We are going to do the biggest do that we llave ever done. We are going to make the figures, or, as the Electrician would say, we will press the button and you will do the re3C Figures will be so at tractive that you can't help It when you once see tbo button premed. We are going to carry tbe largest Stock we have ever carried, and must have your backing bi order to hold it down. Come In to see ns early and ofteo and always. Yours always truly, j AND THE 10c. P \ u. No. 27 South Side Public Square, Anderson, S. C. THE PLEASURE... Of doing business consists chiefly in giving satisfaction to the customer-it is the key to success in all lines of business. WE strive to merit the patronage of the public by making it bolh pleasant and profitable to deal with us-hence mutually satisfactory. A SPECIAL BARGAIN We are now offering is a line of LADIES' OXFORD TIES AT >$125 Per pair. This ia a neat and stylish Slipper, and is worth $1.75 everywhere. If you want a nice Summer Shoe at small cost see thia line. We keep in stock at all times Shoes of every style, quality and price. Our line of DRESS GOODS and SUMMER FABRICS Ii complete, and we are offering them at a very low price. We have Everything yon want in Groceries, And to the Farmers we will say that we will make it to your intereat if will send us your orders. M'CULLY & CATHCART.